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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES Page Four FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1958 . Navy Selects University For Training in Science The Department of the Navy has chosen the University of Utah to help launch its program of advanced scientific education for highly qualified enlisted men in 1958-5- 9, Dr. A. Ray Olpin, University president, disclosed yesterday. Utah joins a select circle of American universities which will accept 180 hand picked Navy students 10 to 20 on each cam-pus in the first year of the program. The Board of Regents has shown favorable interest in the program, and the University is now taking steps to complete a formal contract with the Navy for the 1958-5- 9 program. A letter from Capt. J. R. Leeds of the Bureau of Naval Person-nel, Washington, informing Mr. Olpin of the University's selec-tion for the program, said inter-est in the program was wide-spread throughout the fleet. The Navy has 6,100 applicants for the science program, which has been designated the Navy Enlisted Scientific Educational Program, and the Navy's older program in advanced education, the Navy Enlisted Advanced School Program. Capt. Leeds said the 6,100 applicants are in the nation's upper quartile, aca-demically. Screening examinations, and heavily weighted in mathematics and science, were given the ap-plicants in late March. Candi-dates who earn satisfactory scores in the tests soon will be reviewed by a board of naval officers. Successful candidates will be given nine weeks of refresher training in mathematics, physics and English at the U. S. Naval Training Center at Bainbridge or at San Diego, before fall quarter begins. ? The students' tuition, other fees and book costs will be paid by the Navy. The individual will pay his own room and board. ; 1 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Utah S Combined with The SaU Lake Mining & Legal News Toarlocc Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second Independent class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, Newspaper 711 South West Temple Telephone EM I GLENN BJORNN, Pif&lisher Subscription Price $3.00 per year in advance "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 37 Number 47 1 It's Printing. . . Phone EM 4-84- 64 Standards need protection Beef, wool, lead, zinc, copper, oil and many other products are alike in one respect. World surpluses in any of them force American producers to the wall. We need effective import controls to protect America's high living standard against competition from low-wa- ge foreign countries. With-out controls, Americans can compete only by lowering their standards to the foreign level. UTAH MINING ASSOCIATION "from the earth comes an abundant life for all" In Which We Salute Two Bra ve Democrats We pause to take note of two courageous Utah men. These gentlemen even now are demonstrating a bravery all too lacking in this age of ease. They are attempting what few of their kind have ever be-fore attempted. However, the fact that they had nerve enough to make the attempt justifies our admiration. The gentlemen we seek to commend are R. E. Rolfe of Salt Lake City and George E. Buschman of North Salt Lake. What have they done which merits all the praise? Elsewhere in this issue of The Salt Lake Times there is a story about a busload of 36 Utah Democratic Women leaving on a 16-da- y cross country bus trip to Washington, D.C. Those who read the story closely will see that somehow two men also got aboard. Mr. Rolfe and Mr. Buschman are those men. (And their wives are riding right along with them) . Foundation Reports On Ownership Of Land in Utah Nearly three-fourth- s of the total land area of the state of Utah is owned or controlled by the federal government. This fact was reported in a study just released by Utah Foundation, the private, non-prof- it governmental researcn organization. The Foundation report shows that on June 30, 1957, the fed-eral government owned 36.5 million acres, or 68.2 per cent of the total land area of the state. The only state having a higher percentage of federal ownership was Nevada with 87.7 per cent. In addition to the land owned, the report observes that the gov-ernment holds in trust another 2.3 million acres of land in the state. These are mainly Indian tribal lands. Thus, the U. S. gov-ernment owns or controls 38.8 million acres, or nearly 74 per cent of Utah's total land surface, which consists of 52.7 million acres. Approximately 90 per cent of the land owned by the federal government in the U. S. is lo-cated within the eleven western states. Land under federal own-ership is equal to 48.4 per cent of the total land area of these 11 western states. For the otVV 37 states, federal ownership cyj stitutes about 3.8 per cent of the total land area. Most of the land owned by the federal government in Utah and the other western states is part of the public domain. In Utah the public domain makes up about 99 per cent of the total federal land holdings, with other acqui-sitions being equal to only one per cent of the total. The total cost of federal prop-erty in Utah is $351.1 million, according to the Foundation re-port. This figure, arrived at by the U. S. General Services Ad-ministration, includes the cost of buildings, structures, and other facilities acquired by the federal government in Utah. No value is placed upon in the public domain by the Gl4j eral Service Administration. The listed cost of all federally owned property in the U. S., exclusive of the public domain, is $36.2 billion. The cost of U. S. property in outlying territories, posses-sions, and foreign countries is $6.7 billion, making the total cost of real property owned by the U. S. throughout the world to $42.9 billion. flew inland and picked up the wintering party and some equip-ment, but weather conditions made' the resupplying and land-ing of the new personnel impos-sible. A dispatch to the commanding officer of the Burton Island from the commander of the Naval Sup-ply Forces of Antartica, read in part, "Your 17 day battle to ren-der assistance in the face of heavy ice and gale winds is in the best traditions of the U. S. Navy and an example of the spirit of cooperation between na-tions that is characteristic of the Antarctic IGY program. Well done to all hands and best wishes for a pleasant voyage home." After escorting the Soya Maru to safe waters and away from the ice packs, making as little as two miles in a 12 hour period, the Burton Island proceeded further westward around the Antarctic continent and freed two Norwe-gian ships who had been locked in the ice for 30 days, and then set steam for the U. S. S. L. Man Returns Operation Deep Freeze After Serving In Gert S. Prawitt, seaman ap-prentice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Prawitt of 232 W. 1st North, returned to Seattle, Wash., this month aboard the icebreaker USS Burton Island, after completing "Operation Deepfreeze III" in the Antarctic. Leaving Seattle last November the Burton Island proceeded to the Antarctic loaded with sup-plies for the seven U. S. Inter-national Geophysical Year sta-tions, arriving one month later at Wilkes Station. After unloading the icebreaker made way to the Russian IGY Mirny Station. On Jan. 29, over 200 U. S. Navy men, IGY scientists, and news men were joyfully welcomed the first Americans to visit this main Russian base in Antartica. Greeted with sincere hospital-ity, the men were treated to a dinner and taken on a tour of the laboratories, living facili-ties and airstrip. Later that eve-ning the Russian personnel came aboard the Burton Island for re-freshments, a tour of the ship and were shown an American movie. Scientific information was ex-changed between the American and Russian scientists. Pictures, coins and other souvenirs were exchanged. The Russian personnel showed great interest in American maga-zines and returned to the base with over 400 back dated issues. After leaving the Russian sta- - tion the ice breaker was ordered to the aid of the Japanese ship Soya Maru, which was having trouble getting through the ice packs to resupply a Japanese IGY station. For 17 days the two ships smashed the ice and tried differ-ent routes only to be halted by snow and rough seas. The Bur-ton's helicopter flew continuous ice reconnaissance flights under all weather conditions, trying to find a way through the ice to the base. The ships managed to man-euver within 50 miles of the sta-tion. The Japanese vessel's seaplane let's Find a Way As we have pointed out before in these columns the head-in-the-sa- nd attitude of the State Health Department regarding further development in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons is not going to solve any problems. Few will deny that serious health and sanitation problems exist in these areas today and will continue to exist for some time to come. But the "look-the-other-wa-y" policy of the health officials is not going to solve them. At present the spotlight is on Brighton, where thousands of winter sports lovers go each winter to ski. Facilities both sanitary and otherwise are sadly lacking at this resort. As a result many persons both winter sports people and the summer picnicker are having to find toilet facilities in the great outdoors, the very thing that is most dangerous from a sanitation standpoint. It is difficult to see why health officials are fighting against construction of additional facilities which would in a large degree provide the necessary needed sanitation facilities. It has been pointed out that there is no safe way of trans-porting the sewage from the proposed new facilities (lodges, etc.) to a safe dumping spot. This, of course, is silly.. In this space age, surely ways can be found to solve such a relatively simple problem. All it requires is some positive thinking on the part of those in authority. It has been argued that new facilities would draw more people into the area, thus snowballing the problem. This argu-ment may have some merit. But it will not stand alone. True, a few more people might use the canyon as a result of new facili-ties. But the main point is that the thousands already using the area without proper equipment would be cared for too. Mostly, it would be a matter of taking care of the people who are going up into the canyons already. That this is no individual opinion is shown by the fact that the U. S. Forest Service supports the application for additional expansion in the area. So have some leading daily papers and state offices. Other official groups have opposed it. It appears that the opposition is intent on single purpose development culinary water and the devil take everything else. The health and water people refuse to look at the problem in its overall aspects. They refuse to admit that perhaps a solution can be found which will satisfy everybody. It is certain that such a solution can be found. The only thing lacking is the will to find it. sented to Utah's outstanding county official. Mrs. Chase has held the office of county recorder since 1946. She has long been active in vari-ous civic organizations. Hael T. Chase Seeks Re-electi- on Incumbent Salt Lake County Recorder Hazel Taggart Chase this week announced she would seek reelection on the Republi-can ticket. In her statement of candidacy Mrs. Chase said she felt that women should take a more active role in politics since "52 per cent of the voters are women." Mrs. Chase in 1957 became the second woman to win the Mark Tuttle award. The award is pre- - |