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Show ' . f Page Eight " , FRIDAY, MARCH 17 1961 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Rep. King Boosts Sdt La Ice City As B.LM. Super Office Site Rep. David S. King Wednesday recommended to Interior Secre-tary Stewart L. Udall that the Bureau of Land Management put a "super regional" office in Salt Lake City, hi the event that the BLM sets up such an office in a reorganization of its field acivi-tie- s. t Interior officials told the con-gressman that no formal pro-posals have been drafted on a reorganization of the BLM, but BLM Director Karl Landstrom disclosed that several possible changes are under "close study." Mr. King said possible changes include: 1. Streamlining the bureau from a four level to a three level operation by abolishing the re-gional offices including the re- - . gional office in Salt Lake City. 2. Establishing a single divi-sional or super regional office to coordinate the work of the 12 state offices. In a letter to the secretary the congressman stated: "In the event that you finally adopt these changes, I strongly urge that you locate the sug-gested office in Salt Lake City. "Salt Lake City is the geo-graphic hub of the public land states. In the region of the 12 western states in which the bureau presently operates indi-vidual state offices, Utah stands at the center. Moreover, the bureau already has in Salt Lake City a regional office which could easily be enlarged to carry the suggested divisional func-tion." The congressman said interior officials have emphasized that bureau activities will not be diminished if any of th echanges are adopted Instead, the bureau is studying the changes with the expectation of strengthening the program as proposed in President Kennedy's message to Congress on natural resources, he' said. Booming Air Freight Cuts Time, Warehousing, Packing, Interest Air freight is saving time and cutting warehousing, packing, and interest costs for companies in many fields, writes Wolfgang Langewiesche. He forecasts that by 1970 the world's cargo fleet will prob-ably equal the passenger fleet and that later freight will dwarf passenger business in the air as it does at sea and on the rails. Air freight rates will be cut, he predicts, by development of a genuine cargo jet airplane and fast loading systems to move the goods into and out of planes without turning corners. It will mean a big expansion of our already enormous aviation in-dustry. California fruit has begun to move to eastern markets by air especially strawberries and to-matoes. Ripe fruit doesn't keep, yet tastes better and is worth a premium. A small company in Michigan makes cheese popular with people from the Ukraine, but it stays good only eight days. Until air freight the cheese sold only in Detroit but now the whole Middle West is a market. Ninety per cent of the spare parts for Renault cars now go from France to America by air freight uncrated. Raytheon, the electronics firm, used to have 2 million dollars' worth of parts in warehouses all over the country. It changed to one warehouse and air freight. The freight bill was doubled but there has been an annual net saving og $360,000 a year on warehousing. Air freight equalizes big city and small town, he says. East and west coast, inland city and har-bor city. Every city is on the air ocean. It changes the structure of trade. It equalizes the distant supplier and the local one. Both can offer overnight delivery. It is dynamite for the middleman." Series Explains Public Notices Public notices, or legal adver-tising appear in this and other newspapers regularly, as pro-vided under the laws of all of the states. These notices are a part of the basic right of the people to know what their gov-ernment does with tax money under the American system. Copyright 1961 By James E. Pollard SPECIAL ELECTION (No. 12 in a Series) The state of Maine made his-tory in September, 1957 when its voters decided to bring that state in line with the others as to the date of its general election. For decades Maine has held its state wide elections earlier than any of the other states. This gave rise to the political saying, some-what disproved in recent years, that "As Maine goes so goes the nation. Since 1958, therefore, Maine has no longer served as a sort of special political barometer. Un-der its constitution, as amended, its general elections, as in most of the other states, are to be held on the "Tuesday following the first Monday in November." The first major step in bring-ing about this change was a reso-lution adopted by the state legis-lature. But this, to be effective, had to be ratified by the voters. This, in turn, was submitted at a special election. Although this particular issue along with four others submitted at the same time, had wide news coverage in the press and other news media, it was carried also in the newspapers as legal ad-vertising or public notice. This was in compliance with a long standing principle of law based on the public's right to know. For this purpose the bona fide newspaper is the principle me-dium specified by law in hun-dreds of public notice situations. Kennecott Appoints Director for PR John H. Klas, former director, Utah Petroleum Council, has been appointed director of pub-ic relations, Utah Copper Divi-sion, Kennecott Copper Corpora-tion, it was announced Saturday by J. P. O'Keefe, general man-ager. The appointment was ef-fective Thursday. A graduate of Iowa State Col-lege, Ames, Iowa, Klas also took advanced work toward a degree in law at the University of Wash-ington. The first executive director of the Utah Petroleum Council, Klas formerly was public relations manager for Safeway Stores from 1956 to 1959. He came to Salt Lake City from San Francisco in 1955 to be branch manager of Braun and Co., a national public relations firm. Active in civic work, he is a past campaign chairman and past vice president of the Salt Lake United Fund. He is the immediate past president of the Intermountain chapter, Public Relations Society of America. Mr. Klas is a vice president of the Salt Lake Rotary Club, mem-ber of the Salt Lake City Cham-ber of Commerce, Citizens Ad-visory Board, Salt Lake County General Hospital, Reserve Offi-cers Association. With his wife and three chil-dren he resides at 1802 Yale Ave. Thiokol Constructing Office Building Construction of a new $520,000 office building is near comple-tion at Thiokol Chemical Corpo-ration's Utah Division at Brigham City. One wing of the new building is already in use. The structure is expected to be ready for full occupany April 1. When completed the building will provide office space for 350 to 400 people. Built in an H shape the facility has two floors in one wing and a single floor in the other wing. The lobby between the two wings opens onto a patio area in front. The 44,000 square feet of floor space is expected to be occupied by personnel of three depart-ments. They are the rocket en-gineering, patents and publica-tions, and development and pro-duction projects. renating room? i shaarinng apartment? don't miss important calls just because the phone you use is listed under another name. Oxder a personalized listing in the new telephone directory. The low cost ' includes your name, address, and the number of the phone you use. 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Call EM 4-84- 64 1 Utah Girl Scouts Observe Week Utah Girl Scouts, 7187 strong, this week joined their national organization in the annual ob-servance of Girl Scout week with special programs and projects scheduled throughout the many troops in the state. The local girls joined some 3 million sister scouts and adult leaders across the nation in the week long observance of the 49th anniversary of the group found-ing on March 12, 1912. Utah's observance followed a national schedule, beginning on March 12 with Girl Scout Fri-day. Each subsequent day of the special week was devoted to one phase of the organization's ac-tivities. Monday was homemak-in- g day, Tuesday was reserved for citizenship, Wednesday for health and safety, Thursday for International friendship, Friday for arts and crafts, and Saturday for out-of-doo- rs. The various troops in the state built their week's activities with this schedule. f i I |