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Show PAGE TWO SUGAR HOUSE,' UTAH THURSDAY MARCH 3, 1960 INDEPENDENT Affiliate With Security - Mot a Pcrty All residents of Utah should throw off their yolks of apathy this election year and take an active interest in the voting records of their congressmen. There is often a great difference between the voting record and what we hear promised on the campaign platform. This country is in jeopardy as to its financial structure and continued spending will place us in a dangerous position. A good example is the recent House of Representatives vote on the President's veto of the bill "To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase grants for construction of sewage treatment works, ". Representative King voted to override the veto, Repre-sentative Dixon voted to sustain the veto. Had the veto been defeated our spending would have increased 40 million a year or an aggregate of 400 million dollars. Sewage control is not a federal responsibility any more than garbage collection is. Our industries, cities and local recreational areas create our pollution and are therefore our problem. To have our federal government continue to broaden its scope of action and control simply means that our scope of rights and responsibilities are decreased. Every new function assumed by Washington lessens the sovereignty of the state and the independence and freedom of the individual. Instead of encouragement to Washington to enlarge the powers of the Federal Government we must discourage such action or we will someday be living without any freedoms. . Any excuse to vote for additional spending on the basis that such expenditures help and relieve local costs and create jobs is absurd. As has been so often pointed butthe money sent to us by Washington is our own money which we first sent to them. Of course we only receive back about 30f for each dollar sent in. And that's a losing proposition in any language or any flowery speech. It isn't a matter of party affiliation but a matter of what's best for our United States. Increased "spending is a poor affiliation for any political party to take on. Regardless of party all people have a definite desire to affiliate with the dollar. This continuation of spending and give away separates us, the taxpayer, from his'money and it is being used this year as a vote gathering gimmick. Using our money to win our votes. Watch the voting records and not the talk. Sen. Dennett Urges Changes in vvnaernsss Bin Major changes in the proposed wilderness bill were demanded last week by Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, who said that unless the changes were made, the bill would be totally unacceptable to the West. Charging that passage of the bill in its present form would be a serious blow to the western states, Sen. Bennett emphasized that westerners appreciate and want to protect the natural beauty of the nation as much as anyone else, but said that the proposed wilderness bill would make it possible for vast new areas of the West to be made "wilderness" without giving the westerners any voice in such action and without consideration of the effect on cattle and sheep raising, conservation practices, water development, and other important matters. Sen. Bennett emphasized that the present bill would take away from Congress its traditional right to establish wilderness areas and place the decision in the hands of a Federal bureau. The Utah Senator, in his testimony before the Senate In-terior Committee, noted also that passage of the bill would make it impossible ever to develop the water resources of Dinosaur National Monument in order to give Utah the water to which it is legally entitled from the Yampa River. He also pointed out that the bill would prevent many necessary activities in the wilderness area such as fire prevention, disease and insect control, wildlife management, and all mechanical forms of transportation. "If some zealots had their way, the West would be enshrined, embalmed and forever preserved, untrammeled by man," Sen. Bennett said. letter to the Editor Mrs. Katherine H. Notestine Managing Editor South East Independent Knowing of your great interest, and as President of the City Council of Beta Sigma Phi, I wish to state that our organization heartily endorses the recom-mendation of the Salt Lake Council of Women that something be done to correct the situation at the Juvenile Home here in Salt Lake City. We wish to go on record as supporting their proposal. Very sincerely yours, Mrs. Faye.Beazer 4294 Fortuna Way Salt Lake City, Utah Classed Ads GUITAR INSTRUCTION by BURNELL ELLIS FENDER GUITAR SALES INSTRUMENT FURNISHED FREE ITH TRIAL COURSE HU 5-0- 3250 MILLCREEK RP. 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The Foundation study notes that no reserves are being accumulated from present Social Security (OASI) taxes on the covered working force which would help meet the cost of future benefits. On the contrary, total current collections from all present workers ; and their employers during the past few years have not even been sufficient to pay present benefits to those already retired or otherwise eligible for Social Security benefits. Utah Foundation analysts report that the accrued liability of the OASI fund to all individuals covered by the Social Security program (both retired and working) for their past service is some-where between $544 billion and $670 billion, depending on whose estimate is used. Against this liability the total assets in the OASI trust fund on October 31, 1959, amounted to only $20.3 billion. One of the major problems in the OASI program, according to the Foundation "has been the pro-pensity of Congress, especially during election years, to extend coverage and increase benefits without taking proper cognizance of the full effect that such actions will have on future costs." Pl0nlC5 Merle Rlche University of Utah misologists on the phonics panel gave Granite District citizens a perfect display of "learned ignorance" Monday night. From Dr. ' Delia - Piana's boorish detraction o f Mr. Davis' statistical pre-paration, to Dr. Robertson's in-solent attempt to stare down an audience reaction to one of her smug remarks, to Dr. Dykstra's unwarranted attempt to thwart applause due to the "sci-entific" nature of the discussion, it was a perfect eye-open- er to Gran-ite's persevering parents as to where the purge should begin. It is to be hoped Granite parents will not be taken in by the so-call- ed change of the School District's po-sition stated by Dr. Farrer wherein he slyly said Monday night that the district did teach phonics and yet only a few months ago so far as he was concerned in the teaching of reading and spelling he believed ' ' only in incidental phonics ." Mr. Davis dexterously upset the statistical smorgasbord the con-tentious U panel members were about to serve up with the very practical approach that in his dis-trict they were interested not in statistics, but in results and :hey were getting them. Mr. Davis' artless act of cutting down his personal presentation so that the panel might have more time, his unassuming real behavior contrasted sharply with that of the warped scholars. And to be practical ourselves to the Granite District Citizens Committee for Better Schools we say, as they say to the good golfer: 'Keep your eye. on the ball--phonic- s." If you do, your children, as Mr. Davis pointed out, not only will be better readers but better spellers, better speakers, better in their and better in every other field because they can read their lessons. Legals NOTICE TO CREDITORS . Estate of Benjamin H. Fritz, aka Ben H. Fritz, Deceased Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at the office of W. Douglas Allen, 2121 South State, Salt Lake City, Utah on or before the 4th day of May, A.D. 1960. Date of first publication March 3, A.D. 1960. Ben E. Fritz, ad-ministrator of the Estate of Benjamin H. Fritz, aka Ben H. Fritz, Deceased W. Douglas Allen, Attorney for Administrator. The Slow Thinker By Arthur Richardson There are many facets to the art of thinking. However it is only to the fast and slow thinker that I wish to call attention at the moment. It was not many years ago that teachers recognized the slow thinkers for just what they were, slow thinkers. The teachers gave them more time to learn their 'lessons. The present day approach to the slow learner often stigmatizes him as mentally deficient which is wholly unwarranted. Speed of thought has nothing to do with quality of thought. It has only to do with speed. After all, it Is no great gift to be too rapid a thinker for such a person takes all his exercise jumping at conclusions. So it's six of one and a half dozen of the other between the very slow and very fast thinker for it has nothing to do with quality of thought but on just how fast or slowly the conclusion is reached. The slow thinker brings up all the past and relates it to the present. .The fast thinker is more oriented to the future. If he's interested he'll go backi pick up the facts later, but not having them won't deter him from "a decision. On the other hand it gets rathewearisome when one has to wait, semingly forever, before a person can come to a conclusion. But that he is mentally retarded Is not so. , For those parents who may have the slow thinking child make sure that he learns all his basic lessons well. In schools have him get the fundamentals well. If the teacher will cooperate keep him one day ahead of the class in his lesson work and then when ' recitation periods come around he can respond adequately rather than being inhibited by his slow thinking approach: it will not be the first time that he has had contact with the subject being dis-cussed by the teacher. Bleeding Tax Dollars When a government-owne- d power plant is built, it almost always means that the people have let the politicians cut their throats, figuratively speaking, so they can bleed tax dollars. From the day it turns its first generator until the last day it lives as a socialized enterprise, the people will pay for the project in many ways. They will pay in taxes-taxe- s to build and more taxes to make up for taxes which tax-exem- pt public businesses do not pay. Worst of all they have let another link in the chain of officialism be forged to bind them. The Niagara Falls Gazette points out that the people in the town of Lewiston, New York, have learned this lesson well, and found it a bitter one. It. states that:. "If "Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation and four other utilities had been granted a license to redevelop the Niagara River for power, the total assessed valuation of the town of Lewiston probably would have gone up five or six times. The hopes of Lewiston taxpayers that they would some day find themselves on easy street have long since been dashed." Politics favored a public plant. But the story is far different in the village of Buchanan, New York, with a population of 2,117. Consolidated Edison Company is building a $100 million tax-payi- ng atomic power plant there. Total assessed valuation is expected to be $25 million when the plant is ' completed in 1961. By contrast, the total valuation of all the pro-perty in the town was only $3 million last year. Free taxpaying enterprise in any line of endeavor is an asset to the community. Tax-exem- pt political projects are a threat to freedom and a liability. U. Brinkerhoff Speaks to Kiwanis Lt. Phillip Brinkerhoff, Director of the Youth Bureau for the Salt Lake City Police Depart-ment, was the speaker for the luncheon, meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Sugar House, Tuesday, March 1st, at Harman's Cafe. "Juvenile Delinquency in Salt Lake . City, "was the Lieutenant' s subject This informative talk touched on aspects of a problem of extreme interest to our community. Lt. Brinkerhoff is an expert on Youth Activities; he outlined gang methods and activities, accom-panied by slides showing activities of the police department in their efforts to prevent delinquency before it occurs. Chairman of the program was Burt Keddingtori. Invocation was given by Norm Jensen. Inter -- club chairman, Lloyd Davis, reported that seven members of the Sugar House Kiwanis Club attended an inter-clu- b meeting Wednesday, February 17, at the Bonneville Club, which meets at the Newhouse Hotel. Those in attendance were Lt. Governor Joe Sehee, President Dick Keddington, Wally Williams. George Kingdon, Ralph Painter. Lloyd Davis and Norm Jensen. South East Independent The South East Independent is entered as Second Class Matter, March' 1, 1946 in Salt Lake City Sost Office under the act of March 3, 1879. It is published each Thurs-day morning. Tom Notestine Owner and Publisher Katherine H. Notestine Managing Editor HU 5-8- Subscription rates are $3.00 per year or ten cents for the single copy. Send all mail to P.O. Box 136 Sugar House Station. Salt Lake ; City 6. Utah. SUBSCRIBE TO ! 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