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Show i o O I - c;q 2 ; -- .. 'rt ... --J l taj i I PERIODICAL DIVISION I 5-- " ."ill. uNivnisnr LIBRARY I C j UfOVESITY OF UTAH I f cm 12 AC " " J . , I SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH-FRID- AY, JANUARY 20, 1961 President Will Attend Balls at Three Different Sites Tonight " ftift Meyer Davis orchestra the fol-lowing orchestras will play: Count Basie, Howard Devron, and Henry King, Lester Lanin and Sidney. Included in the repertory of ball music are two songs espe-cially written for Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Johnson. "Jacqueline" was written by Mrs. Meyer Da-vis; and "Lady Bird" written by Mrs. Fort. A third special selec-tion will be "New Frontiers." At the National Guard Ar-mory all the walls will be cov-ered with silver gray Egyptian rep cloth. On the wall at each end of the Armory will be a gold American eagle with a fifty foot wing span. On the balcony front will be the fifty state seals with draping of two-inc- h red, white and blue silk roping. The Presidential box will have a canopy of gold satin with four large drapes of royal blue satin at the front top held with gold tasselled ropes. On the face of the box, against royal blue satin, will be affixed the seals of the JOnN F. KENNEDY Fresident cf the United States Distinguished guests attending the Inaugural Ball tonight will be presented to the Presidential and Vice Presidential parties with pomp and ceremony at all three Ball sites the National Guard Armory, Sheraton Park Hotel and the Mayflower Hotel. Immediately following the ar-rival of the official party, the national anthem will be sung by Broadway star Jack Irwin. Then the guests will promenade by a corridor formed of an honor guard in full dress uniform. At each Ball site the United States Marine band and the Army Herald trumpets will play for the arrival and departure of President and Vice Fresident. The circular bandstand, which is being specially constructed for the Ball, will be the world's larg-est revolving stage 40 feet in size. Ther will be a canopy over the bandstand of royal blue and red satin, lined with gold. The face of the canopy will be deco-rated with a large gold eagle. Individual boxes will be lined in silver gray and faced with gold rope. At the Sheraton Hotel, the walls will be lined with silver gray Egyptian rep. The Presi-dential box will be formed by tremendous swags in red, white and blue satin falling from the ceiling of Sheraton Hall. It will be lined with royal blue satin and trimmed with gold ropes. Affixed to the front will be a ten foot seal of the U. S. The balcony will be faced with the fifty state seals and draped with red, white and blue tasseled roping. At the Mayflower Hotel the decorations will be similar to the other two locations with state flags and seals. the Official Presidential and Vice Presidential party. The President will go first to the Mayflower Hotel, then pro-ceed to the Armory, where the activities will be televised for 45 minutes. The Sheraton Park Hotel will be the final stop. Mrs. Hankins Fort, chairman of the music committee of the Ball, announced that besides the Utah State Legislature Steps Up Work As Bills Begin Pouring Into Hopper Referring to a conflict between those who, urge medical care for the aged as an adjunct to public welfare and those who want it attached to Social Security, the majority view at the conference supported the latter method, she said. In the Senate the first bill passed this session outlined pro-visions of a Utah Highway Patrol retirement system. Among other important legis-lation was a bill which would put marriage counseling on a volunteer fee-payi- ng basis under a single administrative author-ity. C. Don Holladay, coordinator of the State Marriage Counseling Service, said the bill also would provide that persons seeking a divorce must prove reasonable efforts have been made for a reconciliation. 9f(r test t .jrSy ' J REP. DELLA LOVERIDGE Reports Better Care for the Aged Utah State Legislature this week got down to hard work as hearings on bills began and new bills continued to pour into the hopper. In the House bills which would accomplish and increase in the state school program were in-troduced. Also in the House a series of measures affecting citizens of more than 65 years were intro-duced and sent on the first lap of their legislative journey. One of the bills for relief of the aged would provide a state personal income tax exemption of $600 for persons over. An-other would create a Coordinat-ing Council on Aging as a per-manent state agency , to guide efforts in support of the aged. One bill would make employ-ment discrimination against the aged illegal, seeking to bar an employer from discharging or refuisng to hire a person because of age. Still another measure would set up permissive machinery for the state to provide medical care for the aged under a federal aid plan. In addressing the House, Rep. Delia Loveridge, Democrat of Salt Lake City, said the need for providing better care for the aged is widely recognized. Rep. Loveridge reported on the re-cent White House Conference on Aging. City Auditor Lou Holley Reports S. L. Ends 1960 With Surplus He said that in view of the fact that "this surplus is but $2000 more than our deficit one year ago, the commission has saved approximately $500,000 during the year 1960. Mr. Holley later explained the commission picked up a 1959 deficit of approximately $257,-00- 0, fell short $300,000 of an an-ticipated sales tax revenue of three million dollars and lost $100,000 on prior year tax col-lections. He said the commission's ap-proval last year of a half mill reduction, bringing the city's mill levy down to 18 mills, re-sulted in another loss of about $125,000 in revenue. Mr. Holley explained that the net surplus of $259,353.88 in-cludes the savings from all reve-nue received by the city in 1960 including the $2J700,000.00 from the half cent sales tax. The city's 1960 budget, including the sales tax, was $14,832,743. The savings were made pos-sible by economies in the de-partments and by deferring some of the capital items until this year, Mr. Holley pointed out. LOUIS E .HOLLEY City Auditor Louis E. Holley this week reported Salt Lake City wound up 1960 with a net surplus of $259,353.88. "In closing our 1960 books it gives me great pleasure to re-port there was an unexpended amount in the departmental bud-gets of $803,864.59," Mr. Holley told the city commission. Official Inauguration Program Now Available by Mail Order One hundred and seventy-tw- o years of history that brought the United States to the New Frontier of 1961 are packed into the official program book of the 1961 inauguration. Just off the press the official inaugural program is available by mail for $1.25 and on sale in Washington for $1, according to Milton Kronheim, chairman of the program committee. The keynote of the new ad-ministration is set by James Mc- Gregor Burns in his autobiogra-phical sketch of John F. Ken-nedy in these words: "As the nation entered the 1960's, two roads diverged on the political scene one, the old land easy road of comfort and complacency, the other the hard and challenging road to the new frontier. Kennedy never hesitat-ed. True to his heritage and his (Continued on page 8) TODAY'S EDITORIAL nMewTPreview j Canadians themselves wills J beat down leftist proposals for ! ! withdrawing their country j (from the joint U.S.-Canadi- an j North American Air Defense! Command .... President! J Eisenhower is seriously weigh-- ! ing an African good will tour j for President Kennedy nextj year . . . President Kennedy J is prevailing on NATO Com-- ! jmander Norstad to delay his I planned resignation . . . A j j strong move is underway inl I Congress to penalize U.S. firms ! fusing plants overseas to un-- j I dersell competitors in the U.S. 1 j itself .... U.S. economic j experts are quietly studying! ! a possible silver crisis, similar I to the gold pricing crisis, ex-- j jpected to hit the U. S. byj 1 1963. J John G. Browning Named to Position Salt Lake County Commission has approved appointment of ji John Gordon Browning, 2850, Nora Dr., as administrative as-sistant to Commissioner C. W.j' (Buck) Brady. The commission also approved appointment of Gary Swenson, 22, 2550 Highland Drive, as per-sonnel director at the Salt Lake! I1 General Hospital. Democrats Take Over From Republicans With the inauguration this week of President John F. Kennedy Democrats succeeded Republicans at the administrative head of government for the first itme in 28 years. Clinton Davidson, a Washington columnist, has been observing the scene in Washington all that time. (Continued on Page Four) |