| OCR Text |
Show . f pjgeTwo t FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1959 JHE SALT LAKE TIMES $3eliinci lite leacliineA President Eisenhower's seventh and next to last State of the Union Message to the 86th Con-gress followed the time-honore- d ' custom. The Constitution re-quires that the President deliver a sort of "annual report" on the state of the union in person, the only personal address a Presi-dent is required to make, and that's, all the message is meant to be. He spoke in the expected gen-eralities, with members of the Senate and House, and country at large, really awaiting more specific budget and economic messages and more detailed leg-islative messages the President will have delivered to Congress in the next few weeks ahead. In the meantime, the reaction to the President's State of the Union Message has also followed time-honor- ed custom. Members of the President's own party praised it, for the most part, and the opposition cautiosuly criti-cized it, said it awaited the more specific proposals or went about making plans of its own, ignor-ing the President's proposals. The President's State of the Union message would also ap-pear, a week later, to have been adequately commented on. Yet ironically, one of the most as-tounding, or alarming, points passed over by the President has been barely discussed. This is that the United States is entering a whole new era of astronomical spending, even as President Eisenhower struggles -'- ii bravely, Democrats say unrealis- - tically, to keep present U. S. spending in tow. U. S. Budgets have been sub-- . jected to a series of specific pres-sures in the past two'decades be-ginning in 1939. Without pro-ducing specific figures, since ciphers alone would almost fill this column, U. S. spending eras, regardless of which party has oc-cupied the White House, can be divided into the following: 1939-194- 6 which covered the cost of preparing for and wag-ing World War II and meeting the immediate leftover costs, 1947-194- 9 covering the Mar-shall plan period, during which U.S. economic aid to Western Europe was emphasized, 1950-195- 3 which covered the Korean War period during which military spending to strengthen the Free World became the dom-inating feature of postwar bud-- . gets, 1954-5- 7 during which great new demands for U. S. economic aid to the largely overlooked Afro-Asia- n and underdeveloped nations began and in 1958, the Space Era began after Russia's Sputnik in 1957. President Eisenhower made : several references to the Space ' era in his message. He mentioned that the Soviet achievements in the missiles and rockets field are "indeed brilliant," as he ex-pressed it, and also said reassur-ingly that the U. S. is now mak ing great strides in peaceful and military rocketry. He also had some revealing words to say about the cost of the U.S. missiles program. These were not, for security reasons, detailed completely. U. S. Sen-ators and House members calmly listened as the President said that this year we are investing some $7,000,000,000 in missiles programs alone almost a tenth of the proposed $77,000,000,000 budget! But to a man members of the 86th Congress actually gasped in surprise when the President mentioned that the expense of putting intercontinental Atlas missiles into the armed forces will alone average $35,000,000 a missile! In doing this, the President skillfully brought home the costs of the new U. S. Space Age. There is no reason here to go into all that could be done with the $35,000,000 it costs us for each Air Force Atlas missile we will develop, test, replace, rede-sign and finally use in scientific tests or just poise around the world for possible war in the year ahead. It is even more astounding to realize that as new scientific de-velopments continue, the whole Atlas program on which $35 million is spent for each mis-sile, will itself be outdated. The Air Force has already disclosed that when tested successfully, Its newest biggest ICBM, the Titan, will make the Atlas look like a children's toy. It can also be revealed here for the first time that the Titan, when tested, is. the missile with which the Air Force hopes to send a rocket to the planets Mars and Venus, probably within the next 90 days. The past year, during which most of the U. S. missiles dollars for Space was spent on the now-obsole- te Vanguard program, has seen each hundred miles made in Space cost nearly $200,000,-00- 0 for research, development, production and tests. Now the President has disclosed that the really big missiles under devel-opment are costing forty times as much, or $7 billion, more than a year ago. Best estimates are that it cost about $2 billion to launch our Atlas "talking" satellite to an altitude of 928 miles and our best moon shoot thus far some 70,000 miles. But the plante Venus and Mars or even the sun into whose orbit th Russians have placed their latest satellite, are measured in the tens of millions of miles. If U. S. budgets each year of the new Space Age we are in are to be multiplied by distances like these, or to the basis of costly per-mil-e into Space, the costs as well as the achievements will indeed be astronomical. For our budgets and. State of the Union messages are now "going out of this world!" Citizens Council Call Meeting on Schools A state conference on Utah high schools has been called for January 22 at the Highland high school. This will coincide with the visit of Dr. James Bryant Conant, President Emeritus of Harvard University, who will report on a two-ye- ar study of the American high school which he has completed under auspices of the Carnegie Foundation, and under administration of the Edu-cational Testing Service of Princeton', N. J. Dr. Conant was the creator, if not the actual founder, of today's National Citizens Council for Better Schools. In the State Con-ference the delegates will report on the particular problems of their high schools. They will compare ideas on what can and should be done locally and at other government levels to produce the kind of high school graduates Utahns want. The report of the state and local conferences will endeavor to sum up these findings, ideas and recommendations in a guide for improvement of Utah high schools. Citizens participating in local and state conferences on Utah high schools should bear in mind that they are working for only one person, the high school grad-uate, the council noted. When a program for better-ment of the school might come in conflict with the desires of an individual or with the stated in-terests of a community, the only decision that can be made is the one which would provide the greatest benefit to the school student, the council said. It is the hope of the confer-ence sponsors that all those tak-ing part in the program will adopt this single point of view and . apply it throughout the studies. Ranchers Use Planes To Spread Fertilizer Utah and other western ranch operators are taking to the air to fertilize sparsely grazed west-ern rangeland. Aerial application of nitro-genous fertilizer to obtain addi-tional livestock use of lightly grazed rangeland was highly recommended at a recent West-ern Range Fertilization Confer-ence held at Redding, Calif., by Dr. Dixie Smith, Wyoming Uni-versity Agronomist. "A significant increase in for-afg- e utilization on aerially fer-tilized areas has been shown in experimental studies conducted in the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming in 1956 and 1957." he said. The Big Horn treated areas were fertlized at the rate of 67.5 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Dr. Smith pointed out that one of the most taxing management prablems facing the rancher to-day was the maintenance of the uniform' use of rangeland. "Each year vast amounts of usable for-age remain untouched by graz-ing animals." Increased forage production also results from aerial fertiliza-tion, the agronomist reported. "Forage production on our fer-tilized experimental plots aver-aged 1899 pounds of oven dry forage; that on unfertilized plots only 1419 pounds. This amounts to an increase of almost 800 pounds per acre, a substantial in-crease." Forage production figures quot-ed by Dr. Smith were based on an experiment conducted at Big Horn during the past year. The Big Horn study plots are located at approximately 9000 feet where the average annual precipitation is about 25 inches. "The use of aerial broadcast fertilizers by private ranch op-erators or federally administered lands may wel become as gen-erally established as the spray-ing of big sagebrush, if adequate economic data is supplied." He is now in the process of organizing a controlled grazing study for this purpose. The Western Range Fertiliza- - tion Conference, sponsored by the National Plant Food Institute and the California Fertilizer As-sociation, was attended by some 300 persons directly interested in range improvement and west-ern agriculture. JJHI MORE ON (-MO-RE ! WIN 100 s & 1000 s OF I ON KMUR's DOWN BEAT SHOW It's "Family Fun Time" All the Time on KMUR PLAY "DILLY DOLLARS" "WORD JAZZ" "DOLLARS ON DOWNBEAT" VJBM 100'sand 1000's of new 45s, EP's & LP's Records Every f Month J: on I 'Name It and Win If ? WIN MORE ON j K-MO-RE THE NEW KMUR 1230 i s 58 5gS?2i .TORNADO tS SO POWERFUL, ' &J15?V&r IT CAN LIFT TRAINS FROM ' jVV ''TTt jjr twb tracks and toss - - jiff TT-- V ' TRUCKS AROUND LIKS r r ? : rubber balls thb " -- : " sS--" A WINDS IN THE CENTER O v h 4 , 'X - ' V 'Sl . THE TORNADO ARB Z K - SQ? """ A ' fMffrS I ESTIMATED TO BS WOO MILES 2mR ' '" 1 S&r- - PER HOUR ANOGANORIVS U fir : v JjjMfelftA I 'splinters into boards WHO'S A DONKEY TJfSSS To PROVE THAT MAhTf VOTERS VOTE CARE WMD JgO wSf&PS 1 LES6LY, THE NAME OF A MULE BOSTON S7T yvj. CURTIS-W- AS PUT ON THE BALLOT AS A OrZ 'N THB I CANDIDATE FOR COMMITTEEMAN,' HE WON! L FOR KEEPS pACE 'POWER. TAKES INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY STRENGTH. YOU CAM HELP ACHIEVE THIS STRENGTH' BY BUYING US. SAVINGS BONOS. SOU ARE H EL PINS YOUR CCUNTRY--IN- D YOURSELF BUY NOW AND KEEP ON BUYING f d $ Lack of Money Stalls Project Lengthening of two bridges and a culinary water flume over the Surplus Canal will be de-layed by Salt Lake City because of lack of funds. This was an-nounced this week in discussions ' between City Commissioners and Salt Lake City officials con-cerning the proposed program of the U. S. Army Corps of Engi-neers to widen the Surplus Canal in the interest of flood control. Mayor Adiel F. Stewart said the city was interested in the flood control program planned by the Corps of Engineers in February but that the task of financing the bridge projects would have to be worked out. Bridges at Indiana Ave. and at 5th South will have to be j lengthened to conform with the j canal widening project. In ad-dition, the Brighton Canal flume east of Redwood Road near Cali-fornia Ave. would need length-'enin- g. I |
