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Show t t the Utah -- D 2 Governor Calls Eccles n O To Head U.N. Week Governor George D. Clyde versities and colleges, calling Monday named George E. Eccles, their attention to the week and president of the First Security urging them to join in the obBank System, as Utah chairman servance. for United Nations Week, Oct. with the Utah In 20 to 26. Association for the United NaIn accepting the appointment, tions, for years active in proMr. Eccles said he believed firmmoting the U.N. cause and par- A Weekly 'Newspaper Devoted to ion Good Government VoL 11; No. 37 Salt Lake City, Utah ly in the purposes and work of ticularly observance of U.N. the United Nations and recog- Week, Mr. Eccles said he would nized the need for making its seek the aid of churches, civic achievements, as well as its pur- and service clubs in public ob- Friday, September 20, 1957 poses and problems, widely servance the week and known among the citizens of on Unitedduring Nations Day itself, Utah. which is October 24. As Utah chairman for the Mr. Eccles has long been inUnited Nations observance, Mr. acts Eccles said one of his first terested in world economic and would be to ask Governor Clyde political problems. He made two to officially proclaim United Na- trips to Europe in 1949 and 1950 as a consultant to the Economic tions Week in Utah. changes from the program preAdministration and He will also communicate pared by the commission staff. with all mayors and other of- more recently, made extended The tentative program 'had pro- ficials in a position to trips to South America and the vided for $1,200,000 for prelim- such as school superintendents Far East studying economic and and principals, and heads of uni political conditions there. inary engineering and on the interstate system from South Pleasant Grove to South University Ave., in Provo. The commission, deciding that Lehi officials had been motivated by selfish considerations in opposing the highways location near town, agreed to route the freeway north of Lehi, as it had first preWASHINGTON Defense SecNearly $200 Million pared. retary Charles E. Wilson called Military spending, he said, is Washofficials of Tuesday for stem military eco- running nearly 200 millon dollars Objections by to nomies and highest Pentagon a month above the level that in ington, Washington County, a proposed study of a spring flow, leaders expressed fear that the would keep the treasury under caused the commission to strike federal debt ceiling will be pene- the ceiling. $3,100,000 set aside for a nearly trated unless spending is curbed. eight-mil- e section of interstate Assistant Secretary Wilfred J. The Navy order eliminates the a to Defense Department highway from Harrisburg Triton, McNeil, long-ranrobot on which 24 The commission comptroller, said the trend in the Washington. agreed over objections to seek a critical next 10 days will de- million dollars had already been survey of the water flow from the termine whether the limit can be spent. Officials said cancelling natural spring near town. The maintained without drastic econ- the program will save eight million dollars this year. amount of water reserved could omy action. alter the design of the highway. Navy Cancels Missile Last summer, the . Air Force The Navy, meanwhile, cancel- cancelled a much larger program The commission agreed to cut led one of its major guided mis- for a similar missile, the Navaho, $600,000 proposed for a sile projects. More than 10 million at a savings of 150 million dolimprovement of UJS. 89' between Hatch and a forest boundary in dollars had been allocated for lars this year. Although the ramGarfield and Kane counties to the year that began July 1. jets were expected to travel at the out that McNeil trimmed The pointed $250,000 $350,000. 1,700 miles an hour, Pentagon was tentatively scheduled for use Treasury Department is already experts decided that much faster in fiscal 1960 and an additional within $1,900,000,000 of the pres- rockets would soon make them amount available next year for ent 275 billion dollar debt limit, obsolete. work on a highway from Green-dal- and that another billion dollars The Triton was being deDaggett County, toward worth of government bonds is veloped by Johns Hopkins Labnow being floated. Flaming Gorge. oratories with the of the McDonnel and Goodyear Aircraft Companies. Utah Road Commission .A oves ?58 Highway Construction Project The Utah State Road Commission gave its approval this week to a 1958 road construction program costing more than 42 million dollars, an increase of about 10 million dollars from the current schedule. The bulk of the $42,199,000 was earmarked for 11 interstate projects, costing an estimated $30 million. In most cases, the money for the projects will be available next year, although the work programmed Monday may take several years to be completed. The single biggest job, money-wiscalls for expenditure of six million dollars on the Salt Lake Freeway from 5th North to Draper Crossroads. Of the six million, one million is scheduled for preliminary construction work. The balance will be placed with $2,590,000 previously approved for engineering and right of - way e, state system in Box Elder County from West Brigham to Elwood, making it the second largest project. Besides the expected work on the Salt Lake Freeway, the major projects approved for the Salt Lake area and the authorized initial expenditures: North State Street from South Temple to the Capitol, $190,000, preliminary work. Redwood Road from Bingham Junction to Bluffdale, $400,000. Widening bridge over surplus canal on Redwood Road, 120,000. purchased from Simpson Ave. to 27th South on 7th East, $800,000, excluding area near 24th South, where northeast-wes- t freeway is to cross 7th East. of U.S. 50 alternate from Magna to Garfield, $800,000. Highland Drive from 62nd So. to 5th East, 50,000, for Right-of-wa- y Four-lanin- g right-of-wa- costs. y. Redwood Road, Bingham Junc- Five million dollars was pro- tion to Bluffdale, $150,000. Commissioners made, several grammed for work on the inter Russia's. Boast Ex-A- ir Co-operat- ion co-oper- ate, right-of-wa- y Wilson Calls Spending Threat to United States ramjet-powere- d ge . six-mi- le Official Questions Issue Senator Stuart Symington, of the Presidents recent statement Missouri, former Secretary of the following Russias announceAir Force has taken issue with ment of a successful ICBM that US efforts to achieve a similar weapon have highest priority. The Senator challenged both the priority statement and the Eisenhower assurance that this country After 52 years in the same lo- is proceeding on the cation and some 60 years in rocket to the limit of our facilibusiness in Salt Lake City that it would apMeredith Trunk & Leather Goods ties, declaring has been misPresident the pear store this week moved from 106 Rather informed. than stepping South Main to 116 South Main. missile ballistics the program up R. Oliver Meredith, manager after the Russian announcement, for the Meredith family corpora; he the Defense Department tion, said the present structure had said, ordered a reduction of spendwas obtained in a direct trade for their old property with Zions ing on the project. Security Corp. Taylor H. Merrill, Despite the former Air Secreassistant manager of the security tarys assurance that he is not firm, said the old Meredith prop- suggesting that the President is erty was obtained in case First deliberately misleading us, his National Bank of Salt Lake City, further protestation of the highdirectly north of the property, est respect and deepest affection ever wants to buy it for expan- for the President, and a sly and sion. gratuitous reference to playing Orval W. Adams, executive vice golf should be the f that no said of the bank, could Mr. president Symingtons remarks definite commitment has been have been politically inspired. made, but the bank is considering expanding temporarily into But whatever the Senators obthe space formerly occupied by jective, we are forced to agree with him when he says that more Merediths. The leather goods store, found- truth should be given the Amered by Oliver R. Meredith Sr., orig- ican people with respect to Red inally was located at 29 East 1st superiority in planes and submarSouth, moved to 155 South Main ines, our relative standing in the and in 1905 to the 106 South missile race and the present Main address. A manufacturing strength of NATO defenses. Unbuilding formerly was located on til and unless we are given a more comprehensible picture of 1st South. what the President likes to call the founded under Originally name Meredith, Gallagher qnd our posture of strength, the Jones, the firm has been a fam ugly suspicion persists that UjS. Intelligence knows very little ily corporation for many years. of about what is in the Soviet and The policies products the store will remain unchanged. Leather Pioneer Changes Sites trans-ocean- . tip-of- - ic e, Westminster Tells Improvements Schduled for Next Ten Years The board also approved a $502,500 budget for the current fiscal year and learned that this years enrollment may exceed 400, compared with 365 at this time last year. They also heard an auditors report revealing that there is a $21,050 surplus from the budget. A large increase in donations to the inter denominational college from individuals and churches last year helped bring the total gifts to $180,556 for the year. That total is 40 per cent 1958. more than the previous year, the The eight proposed buildings president said. Individuals gave include an auditorium and an arts $118,500 and churches donated building which together will $34,500. make up a fine arts center for The trustees also learned that civic as well as college uses. Also of this faculty, years planned are mens and womens 38 per cent of the full time prodormitories, a science building, a fessors and about 25 per cent of library, a chapel and an admin- the part time personnel hold docistration building. torate degrees. The first building undertaken We intend to remain a small, will be the girls dorm and the highly qualified institution with board has authorized me to go an enrollment of about 1,000 beahead with this as soon as possi ing sought, President Duddy asble, Dr. Duddy said. The dorms, serted. he said, will be An accreditation review com Each of them will be planned to See WESTMINSTER Page 4 house from 100 to 125 students. A four million dollar improvement program, including more than two million dollars worth of buildings, will be begun next year at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. That announcement came Tuesday from the colleges president, Dr. Frank E. Duddy Jr., after a meeting of the Westminster board of trustees. The trustees authorized a survey of. the institutions fund raising potential this fall and authorized the president to go ahead with the campaign early in 10-yea- r, 1956-195- 7 -- -- self-liquidatin- g. Wilson told newsmen that deeconomy efforts inispite all-o- ut tiated in June, the military spending rate is still around 40 billion dollars a year .He is seeking to reduce this to 38 billion before he leaves office Oct. 10. Asked if the inflated outgo means that more bad news (force reductions) are in prospect Wilson replied: Im afraid so. Wilson already has ordered a cut by Jan. 1 in the military forces, which are at a strength of 2,800,000. He is, known to be. considering a further 130.000-ma- n reduction for the first half of 1958. 100.000-ma- n The secretary talked to newsmen at an award ceremony and luncheon he gave to observe the 10th anniversary of military unification, which created the Defense Department in 1947. Incoming. Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy, Treasury Seca retary Robert B. Anderson former deputy defense secretary and former defense secretaries Robert A. Lovett and Louis Johnson were among those attending. The defense secretary said it is difficult to tell whether the military spending rate is 40 or 40.5 billion dollars a year, because both July and August are unusual months. |