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Show : PERIODICAL DIVISION 8? o I I USHERS ITY I.I2RARY . & UNIVESITY OF ITAM 1. !? SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH-FRID- AY, OCTOBER 3, 1958 Demo Chairman Reveals Real I Reason Sherman Adams Quit Although anti-climacti- c, the resignation of Sherman Adams as top assistant to President J Dvight D. Eisenhower has al ready injected new fire into an already "hot" campaign. If the predictions of experts run true both Democrats and Republicans will desert the Adams issue shortly. But the I damage as far as Republicans are concerned will have been I done. According to one observer, Courtney Sheldon, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, the I Adams case likely will subside to a sleeper status its impact on the voters having been made three months ago when these v charges first came tumbling out. 1 "Few in Washington expected j, that Mr. Adams defensive asser-tion that he had been villified wouM be left completely un- - i challenged by the Democrats and i the House Committee on Legis- - I lative Oversight. I "But having successfully let I the voters in Maine mull over the I issue without partisan interfer- - f ence there are some reservations p here on the effectiveness of the f Democrats taking television net-- l work time to answer Mr. Adams. "Corruption issues are double I edged, as the Republicans who I made so much of deep freezers mink coats in 1952 are now (and out. E. Stevenson, Demo cratic Presidential nominee in the past two presidential elec-tions, said shortly after Mr. Adams bowed out: "No political party will ever have a monopoly on virtue. I do not believe in kicking a man when he is down and I wish him (Aams) well. "But front-lin- e Democrats are not taking it quite so philoso-phically. They are somewhat con-cerned that voters may overlook certain contradictions in a wave of sympathy for a man whose career has been shattered by an admitted imprudence." Paul M. Butler told a national television audience that "Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is that Sherman Adams is not leaving the White House as the result of a stern but fair moral judg-ment by his superior, President Eisenhower. "Sherman Adams is leaving the White House because of a de-cision based on political expedi-ency. He was not forced out by men who are out to destroy the Republican party. "It was not the still small voice of conscience which brought the ncparture of Sherman Anams. It departure of Sherman Adams. It was the loud rumble of a Demo-cratic landslide in Maine which served notice that people recog-nized improprieties of conduct which neither President Eisen-hower or Mr. Adams could per-ceive." send Democrats to the state leg-islature to bring back to the state this important source" of revenue. "Correction of the Republican blunder that cost Utah the dam site town is now impossible," he added. j "However, voters must remem-ber that this loss, which will cost the state millions of dollars in tourist revenue for genera-tions to come was due to lack of Utah representation in the ; majority party in Congress. The j GOP lost the townsite for us just as they lost the Echo Park Dam portion of the project." Mr. King said: "The Middle East is slipping away from America at the' time when we need allies most. This has resulted from our State De-partment's inexcusable mishan-dling of our foreign relation-ships. "Illustrative of this 'diplomatic foolishness' is the episode which occurred shortly after the Suez crisis. Egypt urgently needed a large shipment of wheat to stave off famine. Nasser cabled our State Deparmtent to negotiate a purchase. He was told it must be a cash deal. Egypt had cash, but it was frozen in our banks. Nasser then requested that ar-rangements be made to release enough funds to purchase the wheat, but was refused. Protract-ed quibbling and stalling then ensued. In desparation, and in order to prevent starvation, Nas-ser then turned to Russia, and in two days a shipload of wheat was on its way, bearing stamp of the hammer and sickle. Now American lost a friend, Russia gained one." Because of stupidities such as this, America is fast losing the respect and support of the one-thir- d of the world which desires only to remain neutral. The con-sequence of this near sightcdness may yet prove to be incalcuably disastrous," the candidate said. Utah candidates were keeping the campaign trails well worn this week. Candidates ranged over most of the state in quest of votes in ; the coming general elections. Most activity, however, centered in the heavily populated Salt Lake-Ogden-Pro- vo area. Democrats continued to point out weaknesses and mistakes of the Eisenhower administration. In speeches during the week Frank E. Moss, Democratic can-didate for the U. S. Senate and David S. King, Democratic can-didate for Congress from the Second Congressional District, attacked Republicans on a num-ber of fronts. Mr. Moss charged that Utah is being bypassed by the movie in-dustry a million dollar business to Southern Utah because of unwise Republican legislation enacted by the state. In like fashion the state was bypassed in selection of the Glen Canyon Dam townsite becjtuse of GOP ineptness in Congress. "The movie industry must be lured back to this state by a dy-namic public relations job," Mr. Moss stated. "I urge all of you to TODAY'S "f EDITORIAL 'nrr - 111 ' in -- finri j Democrats Push Dollars Drive Through Film and Other Means I Utah Democrats, like those I throughout the nation, are being I asked these days to support the I party through the national "Dol-lars for Democrats" drives. The National Democratic Party has made available a number of. devices including movies and speeches to help in the Dollars for Democrats Drive. One of the' most effective is a movie, "The Pursuit of Happi-ness," which was produced by lhp Pnmmitlen for the Arts of all has too often been sidetracked under this administration by the pursuit of privilege for the few. "The pursuit of peace has been deterred by confusion resulting from Republicans putting mean-ingless slogans ahead of sub-- 1 stance in the field of diplomacy, j "The pursuit of national secur- - j ity has become the pursuit of (Continued on Page 8) Democratic National in Hollywood. The ithe film was first shown at the Democratic convention. new and condensed version j now is available on 16 mm. film. I The film runs 24 minutes and is followed by an epilogue by Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler. In the epilogue Mr. Butler said ' in part: f "In the film you have just seen, there was some speculation as to how Thomas Jefferson would have' felt about things if he had come back to Washington in 1953 when the Democrats handed the White House over to Gen. Eisenhower. But there can be no speculation about how he would feel if he came back today. He would be appalled as .many living Americans are, by what has happened under Eisenhower and Nixon since '53. "The pursuit of happiness for Harry Truman Stops At S. L. Airport Former President Harry Tru-man this week made a brief stop at the Salt Lake Municipal Air-port. While in Salt Lake City Mr. Truman conferred briefly with Democratic leaders. On hand to greet the former president were Calvin Rawlings, Democratic Nalional Committee-man, and David S. King, Demo-cratic candidate for Congress from the Second District. Mr. Truman declined to com-ment on the present crisis in the Formosa Straits on the ground that foreign policy presently was being conducted on a "bipartisan basis." He said he regretted that the play given to the resignation of presidential assistant Sherman Adams had "pushed the real issues off the front pages." A Unique Way fo Save Wafer The West and the world may be on the threshold of another important advance in conservation of its most precious resource, water. Much has been said, and some things have been done, to convert sea and brackish water so it is usable for irrigation, industry and domestic purposes. Clouds have been "seeded" to produce rainfall, with varying results. But one of the most promising possibilities for water conservation has not received the publicity it deserves. Therefore, regrettably, it has not re-ceived the funds and backing necessary for further research. We are speaking of evaporation control, by means of chemical agents, the most promising of which is hexadecanol. In the eleven western states evaporation from water surfaces averages 11.5 million acre feet a year. Studies in Illinois showed that normal evaporation reduced reservoirs by three ieet, and that reduction of evaporation by only one third would be equiva-lent to 17 per cent increase in reservoir storage. In the Colorado River system water lost by evaporation from existing reservoirs averages about one fifth as much as the consumption by irrigated crops. Evaporation from storage units now under construction there will equal more than one third of the replacement storage that they will provide. Eastern Montana ranchers this year saw a doubly bad effect of evaporation. Not only did it reduce the stockwater supply. Evaporation removes the pure wtaer, distills the water in effect, leaving between the white alkali creek or reservoir banks a salty water supply which stock refuse to drink. The evaporation rate in the Southern Great Plains has been estimated at 1.4 million gallons per acre of water surface. This loss from a stock pond is as much water as would be consumed in 'a year by 500 cattle. Evaporation loss also means less kilowatts generated by hydroelectric power. And it means higher taxes for municipali- - ( Continued on Page Four) I News Preview j ! Burma's anti-Re- d Army is j I hoping to bring that country i j into SEATO next year . . .1 Vice President Nixon is back-- ! jing former GOP Chairman j Leonard Hall for a key ad- - j ministration post . . . Nowj I friends say Nelson Rockefeller ! will become Chief Aide andj I heir apparent to Presidential j j Aide General Persons if Mr. 2 Rockefeller loses his bid for S Governor of New York . . . ( I The U. S. may bring Red j j China into the forthcoming 2 j new Geneva atomic talks . . . ! j Congress may investigate re-- 1 ! ported Defense Department j plans to cut back the Air j j Force Titan Missile and B-5- 8 ! f!tJ mm n mmn n n it it mr t t Democrats Name Candidate for Senate Scat The Utah Secretary of State this week recorded Ernest G. Mantes, Tooele, as the Demo-cratic candidate for the Utah State Senate from the 13th Sen-atorial District. This district comprises Tooele and Juab Counties. Mr. Mantes, a business man, will be opposed by J. P. Allen, Republican nominee. The Senate seat was made va-cant by the recent death of State Senator Sol J. Selvin, Democrat. ,Mr. Mantes will vie in the Nov. 4 election for the right to serve out the remaining two years of Sen. Selvin's term. |