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Show The Paper That Dares To Take SALTER SAYS by Bob Salter Bob Salter SALTER SAYS: The list grows larger on Survival. Many questions from people who are getting serious. I'll try to answer some now as we proceed with this column. Where do you go? It's easier to tell you where not to go. Don't go to the mountains, it is too high for crops, too cold in winter and besides, thats where everyone else is going. Stay away from populated areas. Best to get to an area small in population where you can raise food. Be prepared to survive for three or four years. How to go? Better to get a spot in advance if possible, then a truck or trailer to haul pick-u- p your stuff. Some people question and camper is whether a pick-u- p better than a travel trailer. I prefer the trailer. It can be planted more or less permanently, while the car or truck can be used for survival purposes. Motor bikes are great, If the the smaller the better. is for an extended emergency a of time, bicycle with spare period tires is good. How about food? Bottling in mason jars is bad for survival. They freeze, they break and they are heavy. Dehydrated foods are best. They are easy to carry, small in size and are impervious to almost everything. They come in 10 cans or you can buy a good dehydrator in Salt Lake Gty. Clothing? I believe almost anyone can work this out. Protection? Standardization is the keynote here. 22s are is inexpensive, ammo cheap and Heavier stuff for to carry. light defense should consist of units with light recoil so the women could, in an emergency, use it. Perhaps an M 1 or AR 1 5 would do. I prefer an 06 for hunting and a 45 as a side arm. Standardization by calibre for the group is necessary. Now, assuming each group is located and safe for the time being, communication will become essential. Short wave radio is the only answer. Each group, after looking after their own safety, will cooperate in the safety of others in case they should have to make a hasty retreat. Now we have addedNew York and Michigan to our list of states reporting in, besides others from Utah, California. Arizona, Colorado. Wyoming. Idaho, Montana. Oregon and Nevada. There is safety in numbers, better get your group going. THE POOR There are folks who think it's a recession when they cant afford a new car to tow their new boat. -- Gazette, Emporia, Kan. A 3 April 25, 1975 The Utah Independent Page Stand REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE ILLEGAL by Thomas O. Breitling The action of Governor Calvin L. Rampton in setting up regional organizations of local governments is illegal. County Autditor Gerald R. Hansen The quoted charged today. statement is the lead sentence in an article appearing in the DESERET SEWS April 1 1 under the byline Robert Mullins. On the following day the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE carried an article by Jack Fenton stating essentially the same conclusions as had been reported by Robert Mullins. The statement was made because two regional groupings of government, the Wasatch Front Regional Council and Region 12 Law Enforcement Planning Agency. happened to be at odds over whether or not Region 12 should become a part of the Regional Council. According to both news stories. Region 12 Law En- forcement Planning Agency prefers not to become a part of Wasatch Front Regional Council. Readers of THE UTAH INDEPENDENT will remember that last winter a letter was sent from the Attorney Generals office ff of Utah to Senator Douglas with a decision that executive orders by the governor which are essentially legislation are unconstitutional. The reason this is so is because laws must of necessity, under our constitution, be passed by the State Legislature and then signed by the governor. As a standard procedure in solving crimes, the French used to It say look for the woman. in this appears that now, country at least, the expression must be changed to look for the money. Every state in the union now has sold out at least some of its Bis-cho- sovereignty to the federal government in exchange for money. At the same time, practically 100 of the money provided by the federal government has come from the individual state receiving the funds. Mullins article in the DESERET NEWS says, The stated purpose of Rampton in setting up the Regional Organizations was to comply with federal requirements for distribution of federal grants. There can be little doubt that at least Wasatch Front Regional Council is arrogating to itself the power of a jurisdictional body. This must be so, it approved two applications for federal funding. One of these applications was for a grant of $17,400 for Tooele Community Services. Then there was another grant of $277,867 for the Salt Lake County Sheriffs special unit. The Wasatch Front Regional Council is jnade up of elected city and county officials from various parts of Salt Lake County and Tooele, Davis, Weber and Morgan counties. While these individuals are elected to serve as mayor or commissioner or in some other function in the local government or county body, they are not elected by the people to serve in the Wasatch Front Regional Council. There seems to be some confusion regarding the function or purpose of the Regional Councils because the newspaper articles have indicated that they were set up to comply with federal requirements for distribution, of federal grants, while people in the Governor's ON COURSE With ra. Capt. Joe H. Ferguson CREDIT . ALLOCATION, POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF CREDIT ' During a recent interview with Congressman George Hansen of Idaho, this writer was informed of a narrow esCommunity Affairs Department we citizens had during which we were not even aware say that primarily the Regional cape of the extreme danger involved. The danger was entitled Councils are planning groups. At any rate, we now have a the Lower Interest Rate Act of 1975. Well, of course, situation in which two respected at- that sounds innocent enough. Even desirable. But the torneys of Salt Lake County have lower interest was just the bait. The hook came in the both indicated that the Regional form of a provision in the act to allow the Federal Reserve Councils are illegal. One of these Board to determine, at their discretion, who would and attorneys is, of course. County who would not be allowed credit. Now, if a person thinks Auditor Gerald R. Hansen. In ad- this through, he can very soon pick out some very dition to questioning the legality of dangerous and sinister possibilities of such a situation. we can safely regions, that the real purpose of conjecture such regions is to consolidate counties into larger areal units. This type of thing is in perfect compliance with the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) desire to regionalize the entire United States. As presently constituted, every sub-staregion in Utah has hired an executive director. The executive director is a member of the staff but according to the rules, is not supposed to be a voting member of the Regional Council. However, such director works fulltime for the council and essentially directs or does all of the planning that takes place in the council, which is then ratified by the governing board or members of the As mentioned council itself. earlier, the governing board is made up of persons who were elected to city or county positions and who by another means are placed on the Regional Council. Thus, this is an end run attempt to sub-stat- e te bypass federal and state constitutional law regarding the levels of government that should exist in a state and in the nation. The idea that a sub-sta- te regional council is attempting to become another level of government is not an idea that is held solely by myself. At least one county commissioner has said that these bodies are attempting to go beyond the planning function for which they were formed and are trying to take over the running of county activities that properly belong to county commissioners. The question arises what is to be done about these unconstitutional usurpations by state and local government officials. The answer, of course, is the same as it has always been the people must be willing to take the sary political and judicial action in order to stop them. . Salt Lake City Tom Breitling, columnist for THE UTAH INDEPENDENT, spoke as a panelist to the Utah Section of American Institute of Mining Engineers (A1ME) on Thursday. April 17. The subject was professionalism in mineral engineering. CONTROL BY CREDIT ALLOCATION In our industrialized society, credit is an absolute necessity. Only a minute portion of the companies in existence today would be able to operate without credit. Credit is .the lifeblood of industry. Stop credit and industry would die. Considering this, it is easy to realize that if any one person or group were to control all credit, it or they would possess powers over nearly all industry and consequently all of America. The political ramifications of such power is immeasurable. In other words, if the cattlemen of America did not go along with a certain government program, credit to the cattle industry would be curtailed or cut off. The same would apply to the oil industry, construction, and all industry, from the largest corporations to the smallest venture. The political power this would give to the Federal Reserve would be, to say the least, overwhelming. They could just overwhelm everybody. life-or-de- ath CREDIT SOVIET STYLE During a congressional hearing. Dr. Arthur Burns, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, succinctly explained the true nature of the proposed act and the disastrous effect it would have on our nation. In response to questioning by Congressman Hansen, Dr. Burns responded, ...the kind of credit control power that is proposed. ..is found in very few countries of the world...only in socialist countries.. .and by that 1 mean the Soviet Union and the satellite states...it would give the Federal Reserve dictatorial power, not only over the financial system, but over the economy. I hope that the Congress will not pursue this idea seriously. Those are powerful words, and they are true. In other words, the proposed act would have sovietized our banking and our entire credit policy. ONE GOOD MAN MADE THE DIFFERENCE This nefarious scheme was barely defeated in committee with a vote of 19 for and 20 against. We can be thankful that George Hansen of Idaho was on the committee. Had his predecessor been there, the vote might have been reversed and we would have had this communist-style credit system jammed down our throats. Thank you. Congressman George V. Hansen of Idaho. The COLUMNIST SPEAKER The average man lives longer today than he did three decades ago. He has to in order to get his taxes paid. DICTATORIAL mm Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent Is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate Is $10.00 by surface mail In the United States, $15.00 foreign. Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City nd change of address forma and correspondence to ! 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 ' Utah's Largest and Fastest Growing Subscription Weekly |