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Show i: THE SALT LAKE TIMES ptgj TwQ FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1959 JSeliind the JJeadllned vention was scare subsided and clearer heads prevailed. But the U. S. had also discreet-ly warned the new Cuban re-gime that it would not tolerate any instability that could lead to anti-Americani- sm in which American lives and property in Cuba might be jeopardized. Ironically, it was just 61 years ago this week that Americans were also outraged by the mass slaughter in Cuba that was not brought under control. These executions were committed in a Cuban revolutionary movement seeking an end to Spanish rule. The mounting brutality of that Cecil B. DeMille, the pioneer movie maker famed for his big epics, died at the age of 77 and was laid to rest a few days ago. This could hardly be consid-ered "Washington News," except that this columnist, who knew Mr. De Mille, would like to tell of an ironic and little known turning point in his life, perhaps for the first time, which has an important bearing on the con-tinuing crisis in Cuba. Washington has been amazing-ly Cuba conscious since the vic-torious rebel leader, Fidel Cas-tro, overthrew the dictatorial Batista regime. suppression, the executions and bloodshed and threat to Ameri-can lives and property brought demands, then as now, that the U. S. intervene. Sixty-on- e years ago this week the battleship Maine arrived in Havana harbor to protect U. S. lives and property. When the Maine was blown up on Feb. 15, 1898 with a loss of 260 lives, the U. S. found itself at war with Spain, whose defeat made us a world power. But long before the Spanish-America- n war began, one of the many Americans alarmed by the wide spread executions in Cuba then was a 17 year old cadet at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pa. He was consid-ered one of the most popular, ablest students of military strat-egy and tactics ever to have en-tered that "training school for generals and admirals." He main-tained such an excellent average (95 plus) in everything when that was more difficult then than now that he was quite freely de-scribed as a "future Secretary of War." But he was also revolted by the great brutality with which the Cuban revolt against Spain was suppressed. One day he left the Academy to enlist in the Army "to fight to free the Cubans." The youth fired with such fer-vor was Cecil B. De Mille. He was rejected as under age, however, by a Philadelphia re-cruiting sargeant and went on to study dramatics and win fame in his film making career. Some of the old timers still talk of that most remarkable Cadet No. 67 at Pennsylvania Military College Cecil B. De Mille, who died as the nation's attention turned to-ward Cuba again. Ever since, the United States has moved far closer to another "brink of war" via blunder or accident in its Cuban policies than it ever risked in the more spectacular Berlin crisis. De-mands that the U. S. intervene before it was too late are being heard from normally responsible quarters in the nation's capital. Americans with huge sugar and nickle investments in Cuba have been besieging the State Depart-ment to learn how far Washing-ton would be willing to go, "if necessary" to protect their in-vestments from possible nation-alization. The Pentagon has not helped matters by putting all troops at our huge Guantanamo Bay base on 24 hour alert and dispatching U. S. Marines to the Caribbean on maneuvers. This has had the effect of rattling the sabre in an area already tense and border-ing on anti-Americanis- m over our seeming intervention in Cu-ban , internal affairs. This has all come about as a result of the regel regime's de-cision to try first "thousands," then hundreds of Batista follow-er- g in military courts and "Ro-man Coliseum trials." Quick executions of more than 250 of the accused were denounced by many of the Castro regime's sup-porters in Washington and else-where as a "disgusting blood-bath." There was a greater fear that Americans would be im-periled. Before these trials and execu-tions, the Castro-Urruti- a regime came into power amid enormous good will in the United States. Washington in particular hoped that at last a regime we could respect had come to the island located only a few minutes off the Florida coast. But until we were assured that the rebel "bloodletting" would not let loose a wave of anti-Americanis- m, the Cuban crisis over-shadow- ed everything else in Washington, including Battle of the Budget, the struggle for power within the GOP and Dem-ocratic parties and Mikoyan's departure. Then, just as suddenly, the crisis cleared. The State Depart- -' ment urged Senators and Con-gressmen to refrain from harsh, open criticisms that could be construed as U. S. intervention in Cuban Affairs. Philip Bonsai, State Department career diplo-mat and known foe of dictators, was named U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. The Pentagon apologized to the Cuban rebel regime for seeming to conceal its Caribbean maneuvers with U. S. Marines, which inspired Castro to warn the U. S. against invading Cuba. And, largely under pressure from friends in the U. S., the rebels also scaled down their trials and executions of Batista followers, which led to such bad Cuban-U- . S. relations. The re-mote possbiility of a U. S. inter-- Road Board Names Resident Engineer State road officials have named James F. Vallandingham as resi-dent engineer for the new high-way construction on the Seventh East extension in Salt Lake City. Mr. Vallandingham will be in charge of the project located be-tween 13th South to Simpson Ave., an extension of the present 7th East highway. This work consists of widening the present highway to 6 lanes with parallel parking allowed on either side. The project is 1.3 miles in length. The job has been awarded to Enoch Smith Sons Co. of Salt Lake City. They have 150 work-ing days to complete the con-struction for the Utah State Road Commission. Award was made to the firm as the lowest bidder after the opening of sealed bids on the project. Mr. Vallandingham has been with the Road Commission for 6 years. He will make his head-quarters at District 2 offices, 525 West 13th South. In his assignment here he will be in charge of construction, assisted by his crew of field technicians. They will closely supervise the job and work with the contractor to see that the work is done in accordance with the plans and specifications and with the least inconvenience to residents in the area and the traveling public. If local citizens have problems or want further information on this project they should contact Mr. Vallandingham. i Tickets Available For Youth Concert Tickets for the free Youth Symphony Concert at the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Saturday are now available at local Food Town and A G Food Stores, ac-cording to Herold L. Gregory, Utah Symphony manager. The concert is the second of a series of three which will be presented by Maestro Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Sym-phony orchestra and sponsored by the food stores. Students must have tickets for admission but the tickets are available at the sponsoring food stores without cost or obliga-tion. All students of the fourth grade or over are invited. This is probably the only place in America where students have a chance to hear the music they study in their class room played "live" for them by a full sym-phony orchestra. Included in the program will be excerpts from Porgy and Bess, the Blue Danube Waltz, the Minuet from Mozart's Jupi-ter Symphony, Grieg's Peer Gynt music, Copeland's Bucka-ro- o Holiday from Rodeo and the Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein. TO ! MOM ON K-MO-RE I z I WIN 100 s & 1000 s I 0F I I 0N I KMUR's I DOWN BEAT I I SHOW I I "Family Fun Time" I I All the I I Time on KMUR I I PLAY I I'DILLY DOLLARS"! I "WORD JAZZ" I "DOLLARS I ON I DOWNBEAT" I Wffffl 100s and 1000's I of new I 45s, EP's & LP's I Records Every I Month I on I 'Name It and Win Ifl WIN MORE ON K-MO-RE THE NEW KMUR 1230 On Every Radio Utah Reservists On Pacific Cruise Naval Reservists from the ninth, twelfth and thirteenth na-val district departed Saturday, Jan. 24 for a 16 day training cruise to Hawaii, Twelfth Naval District headquarters disclosed. Led by the destroyer USS Laws the reservists departed from Treasure Island in the USS Wal-ton as well as in the Laws and rendezvous with the USS Hanna at sea for the cruise. The division arrived in Pearl Harbor for a 3-d- ay visit, departing there Feb. 2 and returning to San Fran-cisco Feb. 8. The six officers and 23 enlist-ed men from the Twelfth Naval District were billeted aboard the Walton, with the 115 reservists from other naval districts dis-tributed between the Laws and the Hanna. "We feel this is the best way for naval reservists to get neces-sary training, and this cruise is especially tailored to reserve training in that these men will be 'doing' rather thani just 'ob-serving,' states Commander A. C. Kuntze, USN, Reserve Escort Division 12 commander. Captain H. W. Osterhaus, USNR of Sah Francisco, Com-mander Reserve Escort Squad-ron One, is officer in Tactical Command for the cruise. Those from Salt Lake City on the cruise include: James K. Blanscett, seaman apprentice, of 3651 So. 9th East; Lyle A. Campbell, chief engine-ma- n, 554 Wall St.; Jack Horo-witz, personel seamon, 956 East 6th South; Warren L. Peterson, seaman apprentice, 4 East Oak-land Ave.; Thomas M. Warner, seaman apprentice, 3760 South 5th East. S. L. Girls Win Homemaker Honors The following were named the 1959 Betty Crocker Homemak-er- s of Tomorrow in high schools in Salt Lake City: Katherine L. Dewitz, East high school; Joan M. McKenzie, of Granite high school; Julie Lar-se- n, Highland high school; Bar-bara L. Hooker, Judge Memorial high school; Linda L. Lehner, Olympus high school; Carole M. Hartoch, St. Mary of the Wa-satch Academy; Joan C. Gardner of South high school and Carole M. Williams, West high school. Each received the highest score in a 50 minute written examina-tion on homemaking knowledge and attitudes taken by graduat-ing senior girls in the school. Each will receive a homemaking pin manufactured by Josten's, which represents the slogan, "Home is Where the Heart Is." Her examination paper will be entered in competition with those of other school winners in the state to name the state Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomor-row. The test is designed and also judged by Science Research As-sociates. Each state Homemaker of To-morrow will receive a $1,500 scholarship from General Mills, an educational trip April 4-- 10 with her school advisor to Wash-ington, D.C., colonial Williams-burg, Va., New York City and Minneapolis, and she will be a candidate for the title of Ail-Americ- an Homemaker of To-morrow. The school of each state winner will receive a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Gen-eral Mills will award a $5000 scholarship to each state run-ner up. There are 12,260 participating schools in the nation which have enrolled 349,150 senior girls, the largest number of participants in the five year history of this $106,000 scholarship program. Growth has been steady since 1955 when 187,463 girls in 8040 schols participated. BYU Signs Editor For Monday Talk Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, will address the student body of Brigham Young University at the forum assembly Monday at 10 a.m. in the George Albert Smith Field-hous- e. Mr. Cousins, who recently completed trips to Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East, will discuss the con-ditions of the world today. In conection with his editor-ship of the Saturday Review, Mr. Cousins has been to every cor-ner of America and to every con-tinent in the world. He has made six trips to the Far East since World War II. His 1951 trip was under the sponsorship of the U.S. government and he lectured at universities and public forums in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and Japan on the subject of Ameri-can relationship to the rest of the world. An interpreter or analyst of history in the making, he repre-sented his magazine and two ma jor radio works at such events as Egypt-Israe- li crisis in 1956-5- 7; the Asian-Africa- n conference at Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955; the East-We- st crisis in Germany in 1953; the Korea War in 1951; the Berlin Air Lift in 1948; and the atomic test explosions at Bikini. If It's Printing . . . Call EM 4-84- 64 |