OCR Text |
Show Page Four FRIDAY, MARCH 11, I960 THE SALT LAKE TIMES G RAPEVI fU E Salt Lake City Board of Edu-cation this week approved a new junior high school in southeast Salt Lake City. A site and finan-cing study was initiated imme-diately. Possibility of an addi-tional tax levy was suggested. Glenn W. Kilpatrick, super-visor of weights and measures and foods and drugs for the Utah Department of Agriculture, has resigned according to George Q. Spencer, department chairman. He is taking a job as an admin-istrative officer in the division of federal-stat- e relations, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Kingsley E. Clawson, 64, Salt Lake purchasing agent, died Monday about 9:45 p. m., of a heart attack. Mr. Clawson was appointed to the purchasing post by Mayor J. Bracken Lee Jan. 29. He had long been active in business and civic affairs. A Third District Court order dismissing an aiitrmnhilf Vmmi cide charge against a former Salt Lake City policeman was re-versed this week by the Utah Supreme Court. But the reversal affects only the law not the facts of the case. The Supreme Court held that LeRoy Iverson could not be tried again because of the constitutional ban to plac-ing a person in doube jeopardy. There were 139 elk illegally killed during the 1959 deer sea-sons, according to the Utah De-partment of Fish and Game. The department said this il-legal kill amounted to more than 11 per cent of total legal harvest during 1959. Spokesmen also noted that the known loss of 139 elk during the deer seasons represents only veri-fied cases, with the probability that this figure would be mucn higher if all illegal kills were reported or found. Archie C. Pace, member of the Summit County Commission and a poultry rancher, has said he will seek the Republican nomi-nation for state auditor. Mrs. David O. McKay, wife of the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, was reported in improved con-dition in a Salt Lake hospital this week. Mrs. McKay entered the hospital for treatment two weeks ago. Rep. King Introduces Small Business Tax Relief Bill Small businessmen could plow as much as 20 per cent of their profits back into their business and deduct this amount from the annual federal tax under a bill introduced recently by Rep. Da-vid S. King of Utah. "Taken as a whole, small busi-ness has not grown as other seg-ments of our economy have in the last six or seven years, be-cause it has been crippled by the tax burden," Rep. King said. "This bill would ease that bur-den and give the small businesses which are badly pinched for capital the opportunity to plow some of their profits into their own expansion," he said. Easing the tax burden would not necessarily reduce the fed-eral revenue from this segment of the economy, the congressman observed. "I am convinced that this leg-islation in the long run would stimulate enough growth in our small businesses to more than offset the immediate slackening in the revenue," Mr. King said. Under Mr. King's bill, income reinvested in the businesses by three ways expansion of de-preciable assets, inventory, and accounts receivable could be counted in the deduction. The deduction on the reinvest-ed income would be limited to cnmn per ecui1. vil m1 e iic 1 :muuiiit;, and could not exceed $30,000, he explained. This plow-bac- k principle has the enthusiastic support of Rep. Tom Steed of Oklahoma, chair-man of the House Select on Small Business, which has been study-ing the problems of small busi-ness intensively for several years Mr. King said. Similar legislation has also been introduced by the Senate Small Business Commit-tee headed by Sen. John Spark-ma- n of Alabama. The rate of small business fail-ures has been rising steadily since 1953. In 1958 it reached 56 per 10,000 the highest since the depression years. In 1958, the Small Business ad-ministration reported 14,964 of the small busines failures, also the highest figure since the de-pression. , THE SALT LAKE TIMES Utah S Combing with The Ut Uk, Mhiot & Ugol Horn Fearless pmUuM etj Prtdy si uk ot vuk Entered At the postoffice at Salt Lake Gty as second IDOependent cIam matter Aujujt 23, 921 under the act of Mrcn 8, 1879 Newspaper 711 South West Temple Telephone EM 64 I GLENN BJOKNN, Publisher 3ubacriptioa Price-- 13.00 per year in advance "This pniUeosion is mot owmed or tontroUU kj any party, dam, diqms, jsctiou or torpowsiou. Volume 39 Number 42 Sen. Moss Proposes National Cemetery At Fort Douglas Sentor Frank E. Moss of Utah has introduced a bill providing for establishment of a National Cemetery on the Fort Douglas Military reservation in Salt Lake City. He said, "One hundred acres at Fort Douglas was surveyed by the Army in 1948 for us as a national cemetery. This bill would put to use a part of that previously surveyed area. There is a post cemetery now in exist-ence at Fort Douglas which will become a part of the proposed new cemetery. "There is at present no national cemetery in the intermountain region. The historic importance of Fort Douglas, founded in 1862 as well as its central location, makes it ideally suited for the 'national cemetery to meet the needs of the intermountain west. In 1862, Colonel Patrick Con-nor established camp for his detachment on the east bench, calling it Camp Douglas, after President Lincoln's famous op-ponent, Senator Stephen Doug-las. Col. Connor encouraged his men to prospect for minerals, and their work was important in developing Utah's mining indus-try. "Fort Douglas was an impor-tant training post during the first World War. Until late 1940, it served as a regimental Dost of command for the 38th Infantry. During World War II the head-quarters of the Ninth Service Command was moved inland from the Presidio to the Fort." Congressman David S. King has introduced a companion bill in the House of Representatives. In other action Senator Moss called to the attention of the Utah State Road Commission the importance to national defense of the improvement of the high-way between Corrine and the Thiokol Chemical Corp. plant. The Air Force has told the Senator that road improvements are needed on the state highway in Box Elder County for move-ment of the Minuteman missile between the plant and Hill Air Force Base. In a letter to C. Taylor Burton, Director of Highways of the state of tUah, Senator Moss wrote: "The portion of the highway from Corinne to Blue Creek is presently an improved highway, but will need to be widened and resurfaced. The road running north from Blue Creek to the plant site is a gravel road and will need to be rebuilt. "The Air Force estimates that the cost for construction to meet their standards will be about $1,800,000. These improvements are necessary to enable move-ment of the Minuteman and re-lated items from the Thiokol plant to Hill Field. "The Department of the Air Force indicates that the problem is of extreme urgency and that construction must get under way. There is an indication that they are so concerned about it that they are willing to contribute rather substantial funds for the project." The first stage engines for the Minuteman are being produced at the plant near Brigham City. Hill Air Force Base near Ogden has been designated for assembly and recycle facilities. Eisenhower Formula: Strong Words and Weak Deeds (Continued from Page 1) outside of Washington. As for action by the very administration which sought their advice these conferences and studies have been earnest exercises in futility. They have served as excuses for postponement and inertia. Seemingly, the Eisenhower Ad-ministration has never been quite able to believe its own words. Even before the first Soviet Sputnik brought about a "re-discovery" of the importance of education, President Eisenhower told an assembly of educators: "Our schools are more important than our Nike batteries, more necessary than our radar warning ets, and more powerful even than the energy of the sun." Yet nearly two years after the first Sputnik, in August of 1959, a member of his Cabinet warned that he would recommend a Presidential veto if Congress passed a modest compromise school construction bill similar to the one the President himself had proposed in 1957. Why Foreigners Mine so Cheaply With foreign mine production cutting into the Utah econ-omy via closing of local mines, an article in a recent national magazine is of particular interest. Natives who toil in South African gold mines return to their villages after a nine month labor tour with less cash than an American coal miner gets in a day, according to two articles in a recent Readers Digest article. The articles, which contrast conditions in American and South African mines, point out that in both countries, mining is highly mechanized. But in the United States, this mechanization has brought miners a higher standard with a union pay scale of $24.68 a day. In South Africa, it has enabled the eight big minging "houses" to continue working low-yiel- d mines which would be unprofitable if the general wage scale went much above 75 cents a day. Most natives wind up with about $20 to show for nine months' work. American mining conditions are described in an interview with former President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Work-ers, condensed in the Digest from U. S. News and World Report. In the interview, titled "More Machines, Fewer Men and a Union That's Happy About It," Mr. Lewis says that improved pay, working conditions and benefits for American miners have not increased the cost of coal appreciably to the purchaser. "In 1958, he paid only one cent more per ton wholesale at the mine than he paid in 1948," Mr. Lewis comments. On the other hand, Wolfgang Langewiesche reports in the artimle "The Great South African Mine Deal," that the entire white economy of South Africa depends on a continuous supply of chec$ native labor, lured trom jungle villages, ine mine boy (an African native is never a "man") is well fed, housed in a clean compound and given the best medical care. But he gets no cash until the company plane returns him to his village. "The mines know that their present system is dangerous. For six to nine months'labor , the Black Man gets only that $20. That plus a new suit, shoes and a hat, is the net result of going to the mines. His head tax alone will swallow it in three years. He has built up nothing in the mines, nothing at home. Mean-while he has seen how the White Man lives and what the gap is. How long can this last?" - religion an ever more important part of their personal, family and community life. While the sponsors in RIAL would be the first to dissclaim full credit, it is significant that during the eleven years the program has been in effect, attendance in churches and syna-gogues has increased 32 per cent. There must be more to this increase than just an ephemeral spiritual revival brought on by the conditions of the times. Religion is a very personal thing, and yet in public worship we find its very essence. When men and women and children kneel together in common prayer for forgiveness and strength and stand together in songs of praise for the Creator, they are expressing a kinship that makes mankind unique. RIAL'S message is "Find the Strength for Your Life . . . Worship Together This Week." In worship, in religion, lies the only strength that mortal man can find to fit him fully for the eternal life which that majesty demonstrates must be his destiny. Religion in American Life Religious and civic leaders the state and nation over are cooperating these days in the annual campaign to emphasize the importance of Religion in American Life. Their purpose is to urge all Americans to workship regularly, and to make their CONSTIPATED? Medical reports show how folks over 35 can establish regularity After 35, irregularity often be-comes a problem. What you need is something that aids nature and helps establish regularity. Such an aid to regularity is the daily use of serutan. Here's medical evidence: A group of men and women took serutan daily under medical supervision. In case after case serutan, taken daily, helped establish regularity. So, for real relief from constipation after 35, try serutan, powder or granular. V--- "Read It Backward" l |