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Show Page Eight FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Rep. King Replies to Dawson Charges on Size of Paroll Rep. David S. King Friday said he was "pleased the Republicans continue to publicize the fact that I spend 25 per cent of my payroll in Utah, for an able field staff which works closely and directly with the people I serve." Replying to William A. Dawson's charge that he has a "swollen" field staff, Congressman King said: "As the Republicans stress this point, they simply underscore the weakness of Senator Bennett's field operation, and that of Daw-son's when he was in office. "These men have been weakly staffed in the field because they apparently have never cared about the little man the fellow who cannot affort to fly to Wash-ington to see his congressman," Mr. King declared. "Apparently the Republicans and I differ fundamentally on the purpose of the congressional staff. "I have a staff for the same reason I hold office to serve the people of Utah and I want my '. staff to work as closely with the people as my operation will per-mit. "I handle the Washington of-fice efficiently with five skilled aides, who represent 75 per cent of my payroll. "I have two secretaries, and two part-tim- e assistants in the field, representing approximate-ly 25 per cent of my payroll. "If the Utah public is inter-ested in why I spend approxi-mately $13,000 a year for com-petent help in the field, they should be tenfold interested in why Senator Bennett spends more than $100,000 a year for his help in Washington. "My office, and my office alone, serves 580,000 Utahns almost two-thir- ds of the state's populations in the House, while he needs 15 people to serve the state in the Senate, where the load is so ably shared by Sen. Frank E. Moss," Mr. King said. Congressman King said Ben-nett and Dawson are "trying to sell the Utah people on the fal-lacy that they style of operation, featuring the weak field staff, is more responsible and more acceptable. This is nonsense. "Utahns may support a $110,-00- 0 payroll for the Senator, but they will never be convinced that this money is being most respon-sibly and economically used from Utah's viewpoint when 95 per cent of its is being spent in Wash-ington, as is the case with Ben-nett," Congressman King con-cluded. Udall Announces Program for Acquiring Land A new program was announced today by Secretary of the In-terior Stewart L. Udall to aid states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations in ob-taining public-lan- d sites for pub-lic health projects for $2.50 an acre, according to word received in Salt Lake City by R. D. Niel-so- n, U.S. Bureau of Land Man-agement state director for Utah. Secretary Udall said the action was another step in the depart-ment's program to encourage the transfer of suitable public land to public use under state or local control. Previous action estab-lished similar purchase programs for public recreation and public education. Under the new procedure, states, local governments and nonprofit organizations may ob-tain public-lan- d sites from the department's Bureau of Land Management to aid in the con-struction of public health proj-ects such as hospitals, treatment centers, research facilities and water and sewage, treatment plants. The public health agen-cies may obtain these lands for $2,50 an acre, with a limit on individual agencies of 640 acres in any one year. Secretary Udall pointed out that states, local governments and nonprofit groups seeking public health sites must agree to dedicate the facilities to use without discrimination. In addi-tion, the lands must be forever dedicated to the public use for which they were conveyed or they will revert to the federal government. The program would be coordinated with the Depart-ment of Health, Education, and Welfare to insure high standards and consistent public programs. Secretary Udall said he was hopeful that this action will facilitate transfer of lands to meritorious public health proj-ects. Peterson Requests U.N. Information From Adlai Stevenson Rep. M. Blaine Peterson this week sought pertinent answers to the controversial question of U.S. purchase of $100 million in United Nations bonds from Adlai R. Stevenson, the U.S. Represen-tative to the United Nations. In a letter to Ambassador Stevenson, Peterson asked about the future of the U.N. if we do not purchase these bonds and if a Nation loses its Security Coun-cil andor General Assembly vote through non-payme- nt of this special assessment. On the point of regular finan-cial obligations, Peterson asked: "Under the present prorated assessment arrangement why is it the United States with only one vote in the General Assem-bly is forced to pay 32 per cent of the U.N.'s regular budget while Russia with at least three votes in the Assembly pays less ( than 15 per cent." The Peterson letter raised other questions on the past pay-ment performance of the com-munist nations, including the price tag to the U.N. for emer-gency operations. "How much," he said, "does the Communist Block owe the United Nations for special assess-ments for emergency operations in the Middle East and the Congo operations?" Peterson emphasized the wide-spread interest among this con-stituents on this all-import-problem and requested facts upon which to base "correct and authoritative replies to their in-quiries." A traveling sales man walked into a restaurant ont morning and told the waitress, "Bring me two eggs fried so hard they are edged in black, two slices of burnt toast and a cup of cold coffee. Then sit down and nag me I'm homesick!" Park Commission To Build Shelter At Dead Horse Point Construction of a handsome visitors' shelter will begin next week, the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission an-nounced today. Contract for erection of the $15,047 structure has been let to Jerico Construction Company of Salt Lake City. Completion is expected within 60 days, in time for the heavy traffic expected to visit Dead Horse Point State Park this year, said Aldin O. Hayward, Park Commission di-rector. The new center will be 120 feet long and 95 feet wide, con-structed of native stone and steel beams. Part of it will be open to the sky and part will be en-closed within rock walls. Jointly designed by the Park Commission and the State Build-ingBoar- d, the shelter will be loc-ated on the very tip of Dead Horse Point. Visitors to the Park ( may stay under the shelter and lookout over 5,000 square miles of southeastern Utah. The area which includes the proposed Canyonlands National Park pres-ently under consideration by the U.S. Senate. Design of the new shelter is in a sunburst shape to give viewers a feeling of the vastness in the panorama of canyon; gorges, mountains, rivers, buttes, domes and plateaus, which can be seen from Dead Horse Point. Work completed in the park which will complement the visi-tors' shelter has been the grad-ing of roads, installation of a water system, picnic tables, fire-places and the building of camp-ing sites. A protective rock wall has also been constructed around the edge , . of the actual Point as a safe?', guard for small children, Mr. ' Hayward said. The best place to find a help- - ing hand is at the end of your own arm. j the bill. And Senator Moss concluded: "The Moss bill provides for continued mining exploration and production, subject to gen-eral regulations of the Secretary of the Interior. Destroying or de-facing scenic structures or bull-dozing through magnificent view areas will be prohibited, but if no scenic, recreational or geo-logic values will be destroyed, prospecting and mining may con-tinue. "The Moss bill will not 'lock up' the area, but 'open it up.' Fifteen million dollars worth of access roads will make it pos-sible to see and enjoy an area which is now almost inaccessible. "If Utahns will work together we have a golden opportunity to establish America's thirty-fir- st National Park in our State a Park which could rival, in tourist pulling power and recreational benefits, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone. We have a Presi-dent and a Secretary of the In-terior who are one hundred per cent for the Park. We would be foolish indeed if we got into a political squabble in Utah and lost our big opportunity. We should turn a united face to Washington on the Canyonlands issue." Senator Moss noted that the area he proposed for the Park is approximately 31 miles long by 15 miles wide. Moss Says U. Report Supports His Stand On New Utah Park Senator Frank E. Moss CD-Uta- h) has hailed . a recently issued economic report by the Bureau of Economic and Busi-ness Research of the University of Utah as supporting the Sen-ator's position on the creation of a Canyonlands National Park in Southeastern Utah. Senator Moss said: "The report shows that beyond any doubt the best primary use of this spectacular area is for a National Park. In the first five years the total monetary impact of Canyonlands on the geo-graphic area immediately sur-rounding it will be $5.6 million. During the first 25 years, cumu-lative expenditures of visitors and the Park Service should total $220 million. This should estab-lish the economic potential of the Park as greater than any other." The Senator said that it would be foolish to turn down an as-sured income to Utah in tourist dollars to take a chance that unlimited mineral prospecting and drilling for oil might, on some distant day, turn up a great strike. He said that opponents of the Park have been saying we should look at the facts. Here, the Sen-ator said, are the facts presented by the economic report: 1. The carrying capacity of the range is very limited, sustaining about ten sheep and one cow per 500 acres. But even these meager grazing values are preserved for at least 25 years under the Moss bill. 2. Some mineral deposits may exist within the Park area, but there are presently no known commercial deposits. There may be some potash. The Park area has been thoroughly prospected for uranium. 3. Almost the entire area is under oil and gas lease. Ten dry holes have been drilled; one producing well has just come in on the Park's northern boundary. This can be excluded from the Park or can be produced under SCHENLEY brings UP IN AGE, UP IN QUALITY (Sta SCOTCH BLENDED WHISKY. 86 PROOF IMPORTED BY LONG JOHN IMPORTING CO., N.Y. Alvin Keddington Welcomes a New Grandson County Clerk and Mrs. Alvin Keddington have a new grand-son. The child was born Sunday at Norton Air Force Base Hos-pital, San Bernardino, Calif., to Capt. and Mrs. Neil Keddington. He will be named David Neil. Weight at birth was 7 lbs. 12 oz. Other grandparents are Mr. and Mrs., Claude Parsell, Spo-kane, Wash. Capt. Keddington is stationed at Norton AFB. The family lives in Redlands, Calif. |