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Show v Page Four FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1960 THE SALT LAKE TIMES - THE SALT LAKE TIMES Uta" S Combintd with Tb Silt Uki Hint & USJ Htws fearleSS PHisbJ iw; FruUy it Salt lAt City, Uub I Entered at the postotfiee at Salt Lake City at second IDdependent claw matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, KeWSpaper yll Wejt Temple Telephone EM 44464 GLENN BJORNN. Publisher Subscription Price 13.00 per year in adrance puhtkstio is not own$d of controllti by any p4rty, dim, fliqM0, fscthm I"7bii 39 Number 39 th-e- LEASED GRAPEVINE r Wilford L. Hansen, a veteran U. S. Forest Service official and native of Utah, this week was named director of the Utah Park and Recreation Commission. He currently is regional forester at Albuquerque, N. M. He will suc-ceed Chester J. Olsen, whose res-ignation becomes effective Mar. 31. William C. Jones, Springville, this week was presented the first Distinguished service award by the Utath Junior Chamber of Commerce during ceremonies at Hotel Utah. . A proposed Salt Lake City or-dinance offering a retirement benefit in addition to social se-curing for city employes age70 who have been employed 10 years or longer was presented this week to the City Commis-sioner for study. Mayor J. Bracken Lee asked the commission to "study it care-fully." Speaker Sheldon R. Brewster oft he Utath House of Represen-tatives this week advised the ex-- ecutive committee of the Na-tional Conference of State Leg-islative Leaders-th- at he opposed extension of the federal phone tax which is scheduled to ex-pire June 30. Construction of a building to provide office space for a num-ber of Salt Lake County divisions in the interest of economy and to better serve the public is be-ing recommended to the Salt Lake County Qommission by J. H. Horne, directory, county zoning and building inspection department. L. L. Bowen, Magna, resigned as a member of the Magna Mo-squito Abatement District. The Salt Lake County Commission accepted the resignation but did not name a replacement. More than 3,800 people visited Utah's Hardware Ranch during a recent Sunday, according to the fish and game department spokesmen. The ranch, wintering area for a portion of the Cache elk herd, is situated in Blacksmith's Fork Canyon some 20 miles east of Hyrum. It has proven more pop-ular each succeeding winter as a winter tourist attraction. Some 300 elk are now on the feed lot near the ranch building where they are fed daily from the hay raised at this department property during the summer. A Further Analsis of the Free World Environment In the free world environment we seek, many other states and peoples than our own play essential, though varying, parts. The very spaciousness of the environment is a significant quality. Furthermore, in the maintenance of it, the factors of military strength, economic vigor and political unity are all necessary to support one or another in accomplishing the end sought. The indispensable center of the economic and military strength of this group of free states is the Western Hemisphere and Western Europe. The survival and development of free nations will rest upon the strength and unity of this central core. This, in turn, means that the freedom of Western Europe from Soviet domination is essential to preservation of this core. Dithout Western Europe as part of it, no strong and free group of nations will exist. On the contrary, should Western European production be available to the Soviet Union, it could extend its hegemony over Asia and Africa, perhaps even over South America. Under these circumstances, this nation could not be preserved in anything like its present form. This conclusion does not deprecate the importance of other areas outside the Western Hemisphere and Western Europe. Obviously the Middle East, with its oil and as the crossroads of East-We- st and North-Sout- h routes, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Far East and Africa and all associated with vital interests of a free world system. It would be disastrous should any of these areas now free be detached from the free and open world and be added to the closed Soviet Communist system. But the prime disaster would be to have this happen to Western Europe if for no other reason that that it would greatly enhance the likelihood of its occurring in the other areas as well. i I Let's All Celebrate (Continued from Page 1) Puerto Rico, today also observe National Guard Muster Day. It is eminently proper that our gallant citizen-soldier- s should celebrate National Guard Muster Day on General George Washington's birthday. As a member of the Virginia Militia, the National Guard of his day; commander in chief of the military forces, most of them militia men, that won freedom for and gave birth to this great nation; and first President of these United States, Mr. Washington easily deserves the accolade as the greatest National Guardsman of them all. We won't quarrel with this designation and neither, we are certain, will our readers. This newspaper believes that every American citizen, all 180,000,000 of them, should join their 470,000 fellow citizens in the National Guard in celebrating and observing National Guard Muster Day. For the National Guard belongs to every American just as it is part of all America. The National Guard is our oldest military organization. As the colonial militia it was defending our incioient nation from the earliest pioneer days. With the Bible for divine guid-ance and support, the plow to tame and civilize the wild frontier land, and the rifle to defend it against marauders and enemies who would destroy it, the National Guardsmen of colonial days started the proud tradition of loyal, patriotic service that has continued to this day and will continue so long, as this nation exists. The National Guard has defended and protected and served this nation in war and peace for over 300 years. Treasury Reveals Bond Sales Total Frank A. Wardlaw Jr., county U. S. savings bonds chairman, announced this week that series E and H savings bond sales for January totaled $759,326 for Salt Lake County . "State sales totaled $1,797,982 for the first month of the new year. "Treasury officials have set a goal of $7,860,000 in E and H bond sales for the county during 1960; $19,60,000 for the state and $4,650 million for the nation. "Special emphasis during the coming months will be made upon increasing the number of employed men and women who purchase bonds regularly with payroll deductions at the place where they work. The new in-creased three and three quarters per cent interes rate, safety fea-tures and other unique advan-tages of bonds will be publicized during the year to encourage those in the agricultural industry and other individual savers to build personal financial security to help themselves and country. "As Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson has pointed out, 'There is more to be saved than money these days. When you buy savings bonds you are protecting your freedom as well as your financial future.' " The Need For Classrooms Good facilities can contribute greatly to good education. American schools and colleges entered the post-wa- r period with a serious physical handicap. The low level of construction during the depressed thirties and during the war had given them a big backlog of building needs at the very time they faced rising enrollments. As a result, despite the greatly increased level of educational building since the war, millions of youngsters have had to spend their days in crowded and often dangerously obsolete classrooms. The widespread inspection of public schools - prompted by the tragic parochial school fire in Chicago last year confirmed that many of the old buildings are physically hazard-ous. We have had to "run fast to stand still" in our school building needs. From 1949 to 1958 a total of 500,000 new classrooms were built, an accomplishment to the credit of local communities and state governments. Yet at the end of that period, according to the Office of Education, there remained a shortage of 140,000 classrooms. Some qualified experts believe this figure is law by at least 60,000. In August, 1959, the Sec-retary of Health, Education and Welfare stated that, conserva-tively, "... the number of pupils whose education is being impaired in varying degrees by the classroom shortage is about 10 million." The physical needs of higher education are no less great. Despite a high level of construction in the last 10 years, par-ticularly in tax supported colleges and universities, a large proportion of existing college structures are obsolete and over-crowded. The new buildings needed by higher education in the next 10 years are equivalent to all of the college structures built in the previous 200 years. The total construction needs of the schools and colleges combined have been conservatively estimated at $4 billion a year for the next 10 years, or $40 billion. This is a large but an entirely manageable requirement for a nation as economically strong as the United States provided we decided that it is important to meet it. 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