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Show Pace Friday, September 20, 1957 THE UTAH STATESMAN 4 County Jail to Get New Uplift S.L. For the first time in 47 years, the Salt Lake County Jail is receiving a remodeling job one that was sorely needed. A sagging ceiling between the first and second floors is being straightened up with new steel, beams. A new concrete floor will be laid. Sheriff George W. Beckstead Measures of laws. This is being studied by WASHINGTON vast importance to business will the Justice, Labor and Commerce be debated by Congress in the shadow of impending national elections, during its next session, beginning on January 7. The danger in any session is that Congress will bow to pressure groups seeking to raid the Treasury, and will listen to demagogues who neither care about nor understand the problems of business. Among the measures of importance to business which will be considered are: . pre-electi- on Departments. STATES RIGHTS Greater efforts are expected for enactment of legislation to curb violence sedition and the like. Congress has before it legislation to prohibit courts from holding that Congress has ousted the states from a legislative field unless Congress says so specifically. Further, President Eisenhowers move to return many federal functions to states will produce either Congressional decisions on a broad front or on many inBUDGET One of the first dividual bills now pending. The to be sent to Congress piessages to reduce big government fight by the President is that contain- will become important. ing the budget for the next fiscal year. President Eisenhowers INFLATION, tight money, Unless inflationary presbudget message of last January etc. sures abate, this will be a major aroused nationwide discussion a revolt by taxpayers and the isisue in the next Congress .The fight to cut the budget domin- Senate Finance Committee invesated the session. tigation of government finances will continue with further asAppropriations are certain to saults expected to be made on be a major issue next winter. The independence of the Federal Renext budget is being prepared serve System. now in the executive departments. PUBLIC POWER The TAXES For the first time advocates of govemment-in-busine- ss in tyears, the House Ways and bring constant presMeans Committee plans to hold sure for expansion of governcomprehensive hearings on tax- ment in the electric power field ation beginning January 7. There hydroelectric, steam and atomic. is growing conviction among political observers that Congress will The issue arises in enact a tax reduction bill. legislation for the Tennessee Valley Authority in proposals The big question then is: Will to build government atomic powit be a bill fair to all individual er reactors numerous other proand corporate income taxpayers? for hydroelectric projects. Will it lower rates in such a posals Many opponents of expansion way as to encourage business ex- of public power regard it as a pansion? Or will it be a purely socialistic movement which is political tax bill? dangerous to all private enterLABOR MEASURES Leaders prise. of the McClellan rackets commit tee say that legislation to cure Push-Button measures to this end along with modification of the Act. Some members who say the Act has been weakened greatly by court and Americas pater labor board interpretations want famillas will be pretty discovering it strengthened. Measures to ex- soon now, whether the Little tend minimum wage coverage Woman considers herself a dinand to provide government reg- ner duchess, a culinary counulation for tess, a or (brace pension and welfare funds have yourself!) a galley-slave- . been introduced. Father will also be told, before Some members of Congress will long, whether he has a finger strongly urge legislation making flicker, a an labor unions subject to anti-tru- st or a in his household and whether or not she is working too hard on left-wi- self-financi- ng ng October 6 to said the work now going on is the jail and replaced with the new-ty- pe toilets and wash bowls, said first phase of a recommended $150,000 remodeling project for Sheriff Beckstead. He said new the jail built in 1910.- - - U.S. to Observe Prevention Week . is matter of evolution. It is not created all at once, with all its buildings and equipment of the same Old quality and old like machinery, buildings, gradually give way to pew, and about the best most farmers can do is to see that replacements and repairs give the utmost in fire We are repairing the east half of the south side of the jail on the first and second floors, said Sheriff Beckstead. Westminster . . . (Continued from Page 1) of the Northwest Associamittee asbestos-cemen- t tion of distance from community fire, building materials, in the form of Schools Secondarya and Higher will make routine visit roofing and siding, to Westminster fighting equipment, but must face 25 The farmer is not only isolated protection. from the water mains and at a For this reason, fire-pro- the hazard of fire from many more causes than the city man. Further, he is in grave danger of losing not only his home but his barns and all his buildings, his livestock, his machinery, his harvest all the means by which he makes his living. And everyone who has ever seen a fire in the country or joined in the battle against the flames is reminded of the fact that farm fires claim three thousand lives a year. Yet, despite these risks, there are mighty few farmers who can afford to do all the things they would like to do in the way of fire prevention. A farmstead is a of board and corrugated sheets, are increasingly popular with thoughtful farmers. An asbestos-cemen- t roof for the house of a barn, if you can go no farther, is probably the best possible protection against the building catching fire from the flaming brands of another. Later on, board or siding unburn-able- , of this same stone-likcan be material impervious new And added. when buildings will are needed, asbestos-cemen- t indestructimake them virtually ble proof against rats and mice, e, even termites! Fire Prevention warning and check-u- p Sept. the home mission board of the Church Congregational-Christiawill visit the college Sept. 24, seeking to become one of the Churches affiliated with the n not a week in which you can accomplish especially on the farm all the corrections and improvements that might or even should be made. But it is the time to start, the time to see what should be done first, the time to Week is a remember that fire is no respecter week. Its of good intentions. BOURBON DRINKERS... When are you going to change to clearly finer chenleq RESERVE Confronts U.S. ent lady-in-waitin- g g wrist-flippe- University Class In Navy Science Available at U. Young men entering the Uni- versity of Utah this fall may enter the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps which leads to a Navy or Marine Corps commission at the completion of college and fulfillment of military service requirements as a commissioned officer. This information was received from Captain D. H. McClintock, U.S.N., Professor of Naval Science at the University, NROTC students take a selected course of studies, similar to studies of Naval Academy midshipmen at Annapolis, Md., in addition to their regular college curriculum of their choosing. elbo- r, w-bender knee-deep- er Mondays. These manifestations will be brought about by one of the most concerted efforts yet made to enlist his loyal helpmeet in the job of making life easier all around. To this end, the electric people will be providing Americas housewives (any day now) with charts for rating themselves as indicated above in terms of their electrical servants. The object all sublime they will achieve in undoubtedly But time. it wont be to make the punishment with the crime. Rather, it is the relatively sublime state in which we shall all Live Better Electrically! Thus, whether you know it or not, you are about to be swallown era of ed up by the dinner (also breakfast and sups per) duchesses and the also employ finger for (who husband - wrapping - around purposes). We felt that the least we could do is to warn you. push-butto- finger-flicker- SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CO- - N. Y. C. through 27, he said. Also, a group from Era union-managem- re- move the inmates to the east side and do the west side. Then we hope to have workmen start on the north side of the buildings interior, Taft-Hart-l- ey long-sufferin- When this work is completed, we will . Taft-Hartl- ey installed being hardware. 12 National Fire Prevention Week, from Oct. 6 to 12, is important to Americans everywhere. It is a time for everyone to consider how and whether he can improve his. own fire protection. But in the country and on the farm, this annual reminder is of the most vital and dramatic significance. plumbing County commissioners approv- throughout the jail. A Salt Lake City construction ed the spending of about $54,000 firm is doing the structural and interior of the for the first phase plumbing work and a St. Louis, improvement program. Rotted iron toilets and flush Mo, firm has the contract for retanks ere being hauled out of the modeling jail doors, tracks and BLENDED WHISKY OF ELEGANCE. 86 PROOF, 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS . |
