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Show 1 ' . ) . Page Two - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1961 THE SALT LAKE TIMES i, jekind the Jdeadiined ported foodstuffs are a costly plague on the nation conscience.' In this columnist's opinion, it is a national disgrace thta we are unable to find formulas "for moving food into empty stom-achs," as is so often urged. The Chinese famine, it is said, might now give us the opportu-nity, and in addition, we realize might political advantages in "normalizing" relations with Pei-pin- g if we alleviated its famine. Maybe their armies would even pull out of Tibet, halt aggression in Laos and pledge no more Ko-reas "if America could demon-strate its traditional generosity. The U.S. by feeding the starv-ing Chinese, might ease Peiping aggressiveness, or guide it into peaceful cooperation with the U.S. It was argued that a U.S. of-fer to share its food with the Mainland Chinese, could reaf-firm historic U.S. ties with the Chinese people and dramatize who are their real enemies: their own Red masters. Even if Pei-ping chose to ignore or refuse a U.S. offer to share our bounti-ful harvests, the world and history would know we tried to do right. Despite all these and many more arguments that we should share our blessings, there were also strong arguments against it. President Kennedy himself told his first news conference that it is hard to believe China is really in such distress, since it continues to export food for political rpnsnns TTp was nnt euro How many days a week would you, as an American farmer or taxpayer, be willing to work to help make a success of the Red Chinese communes? Ridiculous? It's a fact that whether the American farm should serve, in effect, as an adjunct to the bru-tal Chinese Communist agricul-tural communes, has become one of the hottest issues in Washing-ton and around the world. And ironically, it has been raised as a result of the release of the two American RB-4- 7 weather plane pilots by the Soviet Union. The possibility that American farmers and taxpayers might toil to, in part, help feed the untold millions of starving Chinese, has been raised before. Only this week, when Moscow won wide acclaim for freeing the U.S. airmen it never had a right to jail in the first place, did Red Chinese American agricultural ties become a real issue in the U.S. Immediately, there were de-mands that pressure be exerted upon the Red Chinese by the new Kennedy Administration, either through Great Britain, In-dia, Canada, the U.N., Moscow, or in the "unofficial" Ambassa-dorial talks held with Peiping in Warsaw, to also force release of the five Americans known to be imprisoned in Red Chinese jails. 'Force'" is too harsh a word for many Americans. Instead, they urged the Kennedy admin-istration should make a "new start" toward "mellowing" rela-tions with Peiping, veer U. S. policy toward recognition, U.N. membership and open a new era of "co-existenc- e" with Red China as we appear to be doing again with the USSR. What better way could Amer-ica shoudl traditional good will to people, regardless of ideology than by aiding them during a time of greatest suffering? A great famine, perhaps the greatest in modern times, is now occurring inside Red China and America is being urged to open its bulging warehouses to help relieve it, as, indeed, many of our closest allies, such as Canada and Australia, now are doing. Hundreds of tons of Canadian and Australian wheat now are being shipped to Peiping, via Hong Kong, to relieve famine on the Red Chinese mainland. Can we do less? Only the brutal Red Chinese regime itself can know the full extent of the great starvation now known to be occurring in-side Red China. The famines toll must be great for the secre-tive Peiping regime to have pub-licly admitted that "natural ad-versities without parallel in the past 100 years (drought, flood, hail, frost, pests) are claimmg the lives of millions (!) of Chi-nese." A starving people, with a rec-ord of historic friendship with the U.S., before their Commu-nist oppression, is crying for hlep. Can we shun their appeal? The United States is being urged to come to their aid, forget ideology, and make a dramatic offer, whether accepted or not, to share ioo from our bulging farm surplus warehouses with these oppressed, long-sufferin- g; Chinese. I Washington now holds some; 1,300,000,000 bushels of wheat in its ever bulging storage bins, purchased from farmers to sta-bilize U.S. agricultural prices. Similar gluts of other price-sup- - Peiping would even respond to the offer. Kennedy said he was opposed to the use of food as a political weapon, and agreed to "study the needs." While it may be true that we may be losing a great opportu-nity to cash in on calamity, im-prove ties with the Chinese peo-ple and "normalize relations with Peiping, there were also reasons for moving cautiously. Would relief strengthen or weaken the Red regime in Pei-ping? Why should the U.S. un-derwrite the brutal Red Chinese communal agricultural system, which is a source of much of the woe? Should U.S. food subsi-dize a slave system even Nikita Khrnshrhpv has Hpnrmnnpfl nc frist, and whose need it is as grave as the Red Chinese. Let us do more good with our surplus food. Let us also do more first to heed the hunger pangs of our friends. "extreme" and which Peiping claims is superior to our bounti-ful free agriculture? Should the U.S. share its food with a regime declaring itself a sworn enemy, without insisting on a right to administer relief and being sure the Chinese know its source? Should the U.S. relieve Red China of a burden of feeding its own people when Peiping itself, by easing its self imposed arms burden and foreswearing aggres-sion, could do more to feed its own people itself? Should the U. S. feed China when its best ally Moscow is cutting off aid to Peiping? Would a starving nation really be as dangerous as Red China was be-fore famine struck? Do we really realize the task of feeding 500,000,000 Chinese? Are Americans prepared to com-mit themselves to an inflationary agricultural program of food aid on an unprecedented scale that would continue to keep U.S. food subsidy costs and family grocery budgets at high levels? It strikes this columnist that there are in the world and at home, many, many more hungry millions In India, Indonesia, Africa and Latin America whom we might do well to feed Altamil Corporation, a manu-facturer of aircraft and missile structural components, in El Segundo, Calif. Mr. Murray holds a master's degree in business administra-tion from the Harvard Business School and a B. S. degree in business administration from the Utah State University. He is a native Utahn and is married to the former Beverlee Zollinger, Utah. The couple has three children. Pax Company Names Executive Director The Pax Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Utah Cooperative Association, has an-nounced the appointment of R. B. Murray as executive director of the company's operations. In the newly created position, Mr. Murray will have the com-plete responsibility for all com-pany policies, procedures, and decisions. The position of execu-tive director was created by the company as a result of recent revamping of the company's structure. The new executive director was formerly general manager of the West Coast Division of the Audubon Society Launches Count Of Bald Eagles Field report forms to be used in the continent wide bald eagle survey of the National Audubon Society are now being distribut-ed to cooperators in the United States and Canada. Biologist Alexander Sprunt IV, the So-ciety's research director, will direct the study from headquar-ters in Florida. In a letter mailed this week to the directors of the Conserva-tion Departments of the 50 states Mr. Sprunt has solicited the co-operation of the official state wildlife agencies. "The most pressing need at present is information on the lo-cation of active nests," he wrote state officials. "We are also in-terested in locating wintering concentrations of bald eagles. We earnestly solicit your coopera-tion, and upon hearing from you we shall send enough copies of a questionnaire for distribution to your men in the field." The bald eaele nroiect nlanned to take five years was made public by Carl W. Buchheister, Society President, at the organi-zation's national convention in New York City. The study is prompted, he said, by continu-ing reports of a serious and wide-spread decline in the bald eagle numbers. "Inventory is the essential first step in keeping this great bird that serves as our national em-blem from becoming an endan-gered species," he said. "Once its numbers have been closely estimated, its reproductive suc-cess measured, and its nesting and wintering concentrations and migration patterns mapped, future checks will then disclose population trends." In his letter to cooperators, Mr. Sprunt said a second phase of the project would involve de-tailed investigations of eagle bi-ology, including research into productivity, longevity, move-ments and other aspects. 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To be sold at Sheriff's Sale at the west front door of the County Courthouse in the City and County of Salt Lake, State of Utah, on February 28, 1961, at 12 o'clock noon of said day that certain piece or parcel of real property situate in Salt Lake County, State of Utah, described as follows, to-wi- t: "Lot 2, MEADOWBROOK VALLEY, according to the plat thereof, recorded in the office of the County Re-corder of said County." Purchase price payable in law-ful money of the United States. Dated at Salt Lake City, Utah, this 2nd day of February, 1961. GEORGE BECKSTEAD, Sheriff of Salt Lake County, Utah. By Harry Holley, Deputy Quentin L. R. Alston Attorney for plaintiff Date of first publication Feb-ruary 3, 1961. (2-- 3 2-2- 4) NOTICE OF SALE To be sold on February 17, 1961, at 837 South Main, Salt Lake City, Utah, at 2:30 P.M. to foreclose chat. mtg. dated July 29, 1960, given by Ralph L. Jones and Irene Peterson, as mortgagors to H. A. Company of, Salt Lake City, Utah as mort-gagee and filed with the Tax Commission of Utah upon which there is due on this date the sum of $588.00, the following de-scribed property: 1955 PUlymouth 4 dr sedan Mtr. P26288925 Dated this 3rd day of Febru-ary, 1961. H. A. COMPANY By: Jack Ward (2-- 3 2-1- 0) NOTICE OF SALE To be sold on February 17, 1961, at 837 South Main, Salt Lake City, Utah, at 2:30 P.M. to foreclose chat. mtg. dated April 27, 1960 given by Ted S. Pacheco Jr., as mortgagor to H. A. Company of Salt Lake City, Utah, as mortgagee and filed with the Tax Commission of Utah upon which there is due on this date the sum of $548.76, the following described prop-erty: V 1950 Cadillac Cpe DeVille ID 506207323 Dated this 3rd day of Febru-ary, 1961. H. A. COMPANY By: Jack Ward (2-- 3 2-1- 0) |