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Show THE UTAH Firemen Get Pay Hike LET ME TAKE YOU AWAY FROM ALL THIS STATESMAN Continued from Page 1) fore the City Commlsion can act on pay scales of command level e officers and firemen, officers will be paid $395 without question. The question on validity was raised by Gus P. Backman executive secretary of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce. ( "A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Govenuent" Harry B. Miller, Publisher Gail Feltch, Contributing Editor 421 Church first-grad- Phone Street 49 Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah', under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription 3.00 per year. Single copy 10c Published weekly at 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. "9u Vol. 9; No. 43 University Family November 11, 1955 ( Continued from Page 1) go to the mom and dad Active Member with the most sons and daughters enrolled at the U. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, 1955 U of U officials are providing a special family section for par- ents and families to watch the Utes in action against the Colorado A & M Rams for half price. University athletic manager, Bud e Jack has reported a brisk sale of tickets. Roundup News, Editorial Notes pre-gam- Utahns know how Utahns feel about the present condition of the government. This is how1 the newspapers report reactions from across the country on various questions and observations during the past few weeks. Denver Post Reporter Ezra T. ienson Storv Told in Series The country is at peace and relaxed. The ugly tensions of the early fifties are gone . . . Prosperity is widespread. The Eisenhower cabinet runs a tight ship and has shown greater flexibility in meeting conditions as they arise than at first seemed possible. In a series of editorial page on that as an issue which may rumbling threats to restore high columnist. Fleeson, Dorothy articles entitled Ezra Benson's turn the scales in 1956. and rigid price supports (threats Ordeal the Denver Post recently Critics of the present adminis- that did not materialize). For Mr. printed the full story of the Sec- tration acknowledge that EisenOld hands in Washington were astonished by the efficiency retary of Agriculture. The full hower prosperity is a modern Benson believes that the other and dispatch which the Administration was operating while the Benson story will be reprinted in phenomenon. But, they say, In side of the debate on farm policy, HIS side, will stand the test the Statesman during the next this pleasant sea of well-beinPresident was sick. TIME Magazine. of public scrutiny. three weeks. agriculture is an island of pessiWhat is this other side? What The Post ran the article under mism, hardship, and general disis the whole story? Well disWith the economy in good condition, with the world situation their credo: So The People May content. For farmers, 1955 a year cuss that next week. of real depresion . as well stabilized as it has been at any time in many years and Know. So Mr. Benson and his farm with the broad course of the Administration already chartered, the are the handles on the policies American people may be reasonably confident about the direction ' less - than - vulnerable otherwise Ezra Taft Benson, the secretary of affairs in the Presidents absence from the White House. Eisenhower administration. And Washington Post & Times Herald. of .agriculture and. a man of cour- it is with those handles that the (Defense Secretary Wilson) age and principle, is marked for Democrats disthere arent going to be any may hope says obliteration. they political cuts. not if That is, we have not been Ike lodge Republicans Mr. Benson is being zeroed in Most of the Eisenhower staff in Washington and in Denver then so lesser candidates himself, entranced by Soviet smiles are handling this most delicate of all Constitutional crises with for the attack in 1956.. The Dem- for state and national offices. will that we call off any part of candor and poise, and in the main, with an awareness that the most ocrats and their allies, from the Ezra Benson himself has shown the President Eisenstable public opinion will come from telling the truth, not from National Farmers Union to the no inclination to run, to equivo- howerprogram has been buildinf to give CIO, are mounting; an assault on cate or to trying to cover it up." Roscoe Drummond, columnist. his trim sails. surus He superior military strength. the Eisenhower farm program. The objective will be the presi- vived the elections of 54 amid Washington News. dency, of course. The tactics will g, WILSON NOTES THANKS A LOT, FRIENDS, FOR YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT ) revolve about an appeal to the discontent and fearful noncommercial farmer, who will be described as a human sacrifice to corporate agriculture. The weapons in this campaign against Mr. Benson and his policies will be statistics: Prices received by farmers have dropped 22 per cent since their high point in 51 . . . The net income of farmers has dropped 13 per cent in the past two years. Farmers alone are no better off than they were before World War H. The Republican party, the author of flexible price supports, is forcing farmers into an agricultural depression. Benson's real (though secret) objective is to wipe out ALL price supports, after having obtained Tull flexibility' . . . The secretarys enemies are already charging him with the failure 'of his two-yeexperiment with the sliding scale theory of price supports. They are indicting him for bankruptcies in the dairy industry, for increases in the farm mortgage debt, for incurring unnecessary losses to the government on price support operations. Just this week an advisor to Mr. Benson told a Massachusetts farm audience that the postwar decline in farm income was an emergence from a dream world, and no one expected it would last. A Democratic senator, Joe OMahoney, of Wyoming, seized I Wish To Thank You For The Wonderful Support I Received During My Campaign. It Has Been A Pleasure To Serve You As Mayor For The Past Three Terms. I Wish My Successor The Very Best Of Everything For His Coming Term ar MPMMOi JLmJL AmwhhJ REX L. CHRISTENSEN PAGE TWO November 1 1, 1955 THE UTAH STATESMAN MAYOR GLADE |