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Show INDEPENDENT SUGAR HOUSE, UTAH THURSDAY.JUNE 18 1959 PAGE SEVEN World Famous Writer Outlines Need For Fearless Free Press TOF-F-J TALLAHASSEE, FLA. Home town America's newspapers are the last. bulwark against the ever-increasi- ng loss of freedom, j Philip Wylie, internationally famous author, tells Pat and Bill Derus, right, pictured here following a talk at an annual scho- - i lastics award dinner at Florida State University. Derus heads a Chicago news feature syndicate servicing more than 5,000 newspapers. . Ricky, left,, who helped initi-ate an unofficial much-publiciz- ed 1956 world air trip that re- -i suited in a best selling volume "The Innocent Ambassadors" hears her husband outline the steps by which the large daily press is losing its freedom as emphasis increases on money making, and less attention is given to free reporting of the news. Another Wylie book, "Generation of Vipers" published in 1942 was annotated this year and reissued by popular demand because of its amazingly accur-ate predictions of world events and Wylie's uncanny; insight in-to human behavior- - and its in-fluence in shaping the great-est Issues of modern times. It is so thought provoking it is required reading in many col-leges. ! Objective of too many big ! city newspapers is not to give the news, but to peddle the most saleable details of daily events, Wylie said. Press associ-ations all over the world are . busy sending in stories to fill front pages designed mainly to sell issues packed with stories to feed morbid, shock-hungr- y readers. Factual news and edi-torial comment are outweigh-ed ten to one by intimate and Insignificant happenings of questionable value in the enter-tainment world and sports, he added. It thus falls to the smaller newspapers to prevent complete loss of freedom's franchise, which they can lose as a trolley line loses its franchise when it's not used, Wylie continued. By accurate news reporting and elimination of slanting or color-ing, editors of these papers can do the job their metropolitan counterparts are shirking. Every newspaper can be cour-ageous and free, he said, only if its editor or publisher cru-sades for something that en-ables the publication to exer-cise its right to free expression and molds public opinion thru true accounts of actual events. Emphasis on worth of the classroom over the gymnasium or gridiron is a primary need, Wylie asserted. Newspapers playing up to circulation sales demands, have sabotaged the United States by loading up our educational institutions with muscle men, turning our uni-versities into entertainment cen-ters, rather than focal points of learning. i Cheating and dishonesty in class work and tests has been encouraged by the knowledge that an athletic star commands more attention and respect than exceptional scholastic achievement, Wylie complained. This accounts for Russia's pres-ent gains against us in the race in science and research. In Rus-sia, sports are purely profes-sional and have no connection with scholarship. There is no amateur in the Soviet Union. Excellence in athletic ability is completely subsidized. People are constantly screened for what they can do, not what they want to do. Then they are as-signed to work without regard to their feelings, as everything is state ordered. This can be prevented here by an alert press, Wylie concluded. i ' . '.'."'.'. . V . - ! Glen Palmer, Day-N-lte Laundercenter manager presents Pfaff Sewing Machine to Mrs, David L. Campbell, first prize winner In Grand Opening contest. Day Nite Co. Awards Prize Machine A Southeast area housewife whose husband had promised to buy her a sewing machine if she learned to sew was well on her way to keeping her part of the bargain Wednesday, June 3rd and her husband won't have to fulfill his. Mrs. David L. (Carol) Camp-bell, 2281 Atkin Avenue, was awarded a Pfaff Sewing Machine as first prize in a contest spon-sored by the Day-Ni- te Launder-cente- rs in connection with their Grand Opening on May 16. The presentation was made by Mr. Glen Palmer, manager of the Day-Ni- te Laundercenter location at 1952 East 2700 South. "I've never won anything in my life," Mrs. Campbell ex-claimed. "I think it's wonderful." At the rate her two-year-- old son Handy is wearing but and outgrow-ing his clothes, she said learning to sew is practically a necessity. Mr. R. F. Shingleton, Intermoun-tai- n Pfaff Distribjitor, whojupplied the prize machine, has offered to throw in a sewing course for Mrs.. Campbell. As you might expect, young Randy Campbell has a great deal to do with his mother's laundry problems, too, which led the way to her winning the contest. She has been doing her washing and dry-ing at the 24 hour self-servi- ce Laundercenter, which is located just a few blocks from her home, since it opened for business, Dec. 20. She was making one of her regular weekly visits when she , found out about the contest. 100-mi- le segment of the Iron Cur-tain which serves as the gateway to Berlin. Lowry, a track vehicle driver in the battalion's Company B, ent-ered the Army in July 1958, re-ceived basic training at Fort Car-son, Colo., and arrived in Europe The soldier atten-ded Granite High School. Fort Ord, Calif. Army pri-vates Edward N. Fuller, 23, and Gary Farnsworth, 22, of Salt Lake City, completed the 8 --week general supply course May 29 at Fort Ord. The men received instruction in the fundamentals of Army supply procedures and the preparation of supply records and forms. Fuller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noel A. Fuller, 4288 Highland Dr., entered the Army in. January of this year and received basic train-ing at Fort Ord, Calif. He is a 1954 graduate of Olympus High School and attended the University of Utah. Fuller was employed by Albertson's Food Center, Hol-lad- ay, before entering the Army. Farnsworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Farnsworth, 3155 Kaibab Way, entered the Army in January 1959 and received basic training at Fort Ord, Calif. Farn-sworth is a 1955 graduate of Brig-ha- m High School, Provo, and at-tended Brigham Young University. Servicemen's News Bad Tolz, Germany Sgt. John H. Wood, 21, whose wife, Sandra, lives in Warm Springs, Mont., re-cently graduated from the Seventh Army Officer Academy in Bad Tolz, Germany. Sergeant Wood Received four weeks of refresher training in map reading, combat tactics and lead-ership. Wood entered the Army in March 1958, arrived in Europe last Jan-uary and is regularly assigned as a squad leader in Company C of the 24th Division's 3d Engineer Battalion in Munich. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Lile R. Wood, 1256 Gilmer Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah, he is a 1955 graduate of East High School, Salt Lake City, and attended the Uni-versity of Utah. Efelson Air Force base, Alaska, Army PFC Ellis D. Rishton, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis L. Rishton, 1019 Wilson, Salt Lake City, is serving in Alaska with the 2d Missile Battalion, 562d Ar-tillery, which recently was con-verted to a Nike --Hercules unit. The 562d is the last artillery unit in Alaska to change from 120 millimeter antiaircraft cannons to Nike-Hercul- es missiles. Rishton, a radar specialist in the battalion's Battery A, entered the Army in June 1958 and com-pleted basic training at Fort Car-son, Colorado. He is a 1953 graduate of South High School and a 1958 graduate of the University of Utah. FULDA, GERMANY (AHTNC) Army Prvt. Robert C. Lowry, jon of Mr. and MRS. Earl J. Lowry, 225 E. Gregson Ave., Salt Lake City, is performing patrol duty while assigned to the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment's 1st Battalion in Fulda, Germany. The primary mission of the regiment is the constant surveil-lance of NATO's Fulda Gap, a Bad Kreuznach, Germany Jerald M. Taylor, 19 , son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Taylor, 3203 Richards Street, Salt Lake City, recently was promoted to private first class in Bad Kreuznach, Ger-many, where he is a mechanic in the 517th Medical Company. Taylor entered the Army in August 1958 and received basic training at Fort Carson, Colo. He was last stationed at Fort Leon-ard Wood, Mo., and arrived in Eur-ope in February of this year. 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