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Show Page Four FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1960 'THE SALT LAKE TIMES Education Leaders Laud Unions For Making Books Available " f 4 i If1 f 11 fFI Mr. Charles BioJetti, director of Western Region No. 6 of United Auto Workers, and Mr. Ormond Konkle, secretary-treasure- r of Utah State AFL-CI- O, present set of union booklets to Miss Afton Forsgren, Assistant Director of Secondary Education of the State Board of Education. Requests are coming in from schools and colleges all over the state for Labor's Bookshelf, a five volume set of books being made available by the Utah AFL-CI- O. Ormond Konkle, secretary-treasure- r of the Utah AFL-CI- O, said requests had been received from more than 90 schools and colleges. A set of the books was pre-sented to the State Board of Edu-cation and received enthusiastic endorsement of the board. Miss Afton Forsgren, assistant director of secondary education for the state board said the vol-umes would prove "exceptional-ly helpful in social studies, de-bate and problems of manage-ment and labor. She expressed appreciation to the AFL-CI- O for making the books available. AFL-CI- O Regional Director Charles Bioletti commended Mr. Konkle for the "outstanding job" he and the Utah AFL-CI- O have done in distributing the books. The books are being purchased by various local unions for pre-sentation to schools. Among re-quests thus far has been one from Brigham Young University. .,. THE SALT LAKE TIMES Uia" Combimd with TJ SJt Ukt Mining & Ugnl Nwt Fearl6SS Publish Ewtry Friday at Salt Lakt City, Utah , Entered tt the postoffice at Slt Lake City at aecood Independent class nutter August 23, 1923 vmder the act of March 8, 1879 Newspaper 711 South West Temple Telephone EM 4-S4- GLENN BJOKNN, Publisher Subscription Price 13-0- 0 per year in adrance This publication is not owmi or tontrollti by My party, cUn, cliqnt, faction I0TtirporationS' Number 49 the-LE- ASED GRAPEVINE Salt Lake City and County Commissions this week named City Engineer Roy W. McLeese as project manager of the pro-posed Salt Lake City-Sa- lt Lake County Public Safety Building construction project. The com-missions directed Mr. McLeese to supervise putting the joint venture together and arranged to have the city and county at-torney work out a preliminary legal agreement. Salt Lake City Commission this week voted to abolish out-of-sta- te convention travel by city employes and themselves. The motion to cut out the expense during this year was made by Mayor J. Bracken Lee and sup-ported unanimously by the com-mission. The mayor said up to $24,000 would be saved by the move. Sale by Salt Lake City of property at 1st South and State for a federal building site was ruled valid Monday in Third District Court and motions to dismiss a lawsuit questioning the suit were granted. But District Judge Stewart M. Hanson said that the sale of Forest Dale Golf Course to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints for a junior college site was questionable and the matter will go to trial. He ruled only the city commission should be a de-fendant, however. Early phases of the yearly fish planting program are now under way from state hatcheries, ac-cording to the Utah Department of fish and game. A limited number of early plants is now being made, mostly in southern Utah, where stock-ing conditions and access to sev-eral waters occur earlier than in other portions of the state. The statewide general planting season will get into full swing about May 1, with an expected 11 million game fish scheduled to be stocked into Utah's lakes and streams during the year. The production of fishes from the 12 department hatcheries will include rainbow, brook, na-tive, brown, walleye and other game species. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints has sold a con-trolling interest in Zions First National Bank to a group of businessmen for an estimated $10,000,000. Purchasers of the 146,542 shares of bank stock were Leland B. Flint, Roy W. Simmons, and other Salt Lake businessmen, and Judson Sayre, Michigan City, Ind., chairman of the Norge Division of Borg-War-n- er Corp. GOP Business as Usual Won't Do (Continued from Page 1) folly. No longer can economizing be put above national security in the belief that nuclear weapons can accomplish all. We are forced to make intelligent accommodation to the two great changes that have occurred on the military scene since 1953. These changes, which have already been recognized, are, first, the technological revolution which has mounted nuclear warheads upon ballistic rockets of intercontinental range; and second, the strategic revolution implicit in Soviet maturity as a nuclear power. Taken together, these changes constitute a chal-lenge to American effort and ingenuity which cannot be met in the spirit of "business as usual." They require fundamental rethinking of our defense prob-lem. They require executive leadership with the energy to grapple with the real issues and to make the necessary decisions. The confusion, bickering and red tape which today beset the Defense Department and our armed services springs more from lack of decision, or from decisions made arbitrarily with no sense of strategic purpose and direction at the top, than from interservice rivalry. Once the basic decisions consist with a coherent strategic approach have been made, organizational changes can follow which will bring organization into closer alignment with the functions to be performed and thus greatly increase the efficiency of our defense effort. In the long run large sums can be saved through more rational organization and a reduction in the present muddle and red tape. Furthermore, the redirection of our effort suggested in this paper may well require the curtailment of even the aban-donment of some current programs of defense production with consequent savings. In sum, however, all the possible savings cannot be expected to offset the increased defense expenditure which is essential to make up for the neglect and blindness of rprpnt vears. Conference at U To Explain New Labor Laws Employers and lawyers will be given an explanation of the Labor - Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 at a conference in the University of Utah Union Saturday, according to Dr. Reed C. Richardson, co-direct- or of the university's In-stitute of Industrial Relations. The conference, which will be-gin with registration at 8 a.m. and continue until 3 p.m. that afternoon, will be sponsored by the Institute of Industrial Rela-tions, the U. of U. College of Law and the Industrial Relations Council. Ross E. Thoreson, manager of the Industrial Relations Council, vill speak on "Reports Required from Employers," at 9 a.m. "Sec-ondary Boycott and Hot Cargo Clauses" will be the subject of Sanford H. Kadish, U. of U. Pro-fessor of law, at 10:30 a.m. At 1:15 p.m., Edmund J. Flynn, in-dustrial relations counsellor for the Western Mining Divisions of Kennecott Copper Corp., - will speak on "Recognition Picketing Federal-Stat- e Jurisdiction." 'Wizard1 of Ooze Impressive Columnist William S. White this week nominated Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen as the GOP's "Legislative Man of the year." White anointed Dirksen as an "abler tactician" than his predecessors Taft and Knowland. --Others might prefer to designate Dirksen as Abuser of the year, or Obstructionist of the Year. Only recently his olea-ginous voice turned sour as he 1) derided the Forand health-insurance-for-the-agi- ng bill, and 2) denounced as "stinking" the heads of two big labor unions who championed the Forand bill at a Senate hearing. The day after White's elevation of Dirksen to the hall of fame, a New York Times dispatch described the Senator as "a one-tim- e isolationist who has never been excessively zealous for too long about anything." The Times man added, concerning the Dirksen organ tones "an echo from the old Chautauqua stump delivered with mock-tragi- c passion" that "It was a fortunate day for the theater when young Everett decided to enter politics." Harper's Magazine a few months ago labeled an article about Dirksen "The Wizard of Ooze." Island family trained by the head of the household in an evacu-ation procedure and an alternate plan for use if fire struck their rambling two-stor- y house. When fire did occur and the primary plan proved unworkable, the alternate procedure was quickly called into operation. All four members of the family escaped. By itself, planning is not enough, for few households con-duct home fire drills. This is folly when one considers a national average of 1,500 residential fires daily. "We have fire drills in school, why not homes." Wharton lists five major steps families should take to pre-pare thoroughly for the day or night when fire strikes: 1. Figure out escape routes, asking your fire department for help if you can't solve this problem yourselves. 2. Test the escape routes to be sure there are no obstructions such as a tight window sash or a forgotten piece of furniture. 3. Hold family fire drills at regular intervals. 4. School yourselves in special techniques such as how to get to the ground from a second story window or how to open a bedroom door to avoid being killed by a blast of smoke or superheated air. 5. Agree on an outside assembly point. There are instances of persons going back into a burning house to rescue someone who has escaped. j Home Drills Can Prevent Many Fire Deaths Pre-planne- d escape measures can prevent 85 percent of the 5600 deaths a third of them children under 14 that occur annually in 550,000 residential fires in the United States, accord-ing to the National Fire Protection Association. The importance of such rudimentary prepartaion is detailed by Don Wharton in a May Readers Digest article, "Is Your Family Safe from Death by Fire?" Among the cases Wharton describes is that of a Long m I News Preview j 1 X Main's delegation has agreed i jto switch to Symington ifj (first choice Senator Kennedy! j fails to win the Democratic! Presidential nomination . . . j Is Washington fears a Khrush-- 1 chev-Ti- to reconciliaton this j fall ... The U. S. Commu-- ! I nist Party is expected to name j I I a presidential candidate this j year k-J |