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Show Page Six FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Westminster Prexy Defines Beliefs on Federal Education Aid The following is a statement concerning the attitude of the Westminster College Board of Trustees and administration to-ward federal aid to education as presented by Westminster Presi-dent Dr. Frank E. Duddy, Jr. The statement was given at 2 recent meeting on the College campus. The flat, baleful prediction ha? been made that ten years from now there will remain very few if any private colleges. They wil" have ceased to exist, squeezec to death by rising costs, or they will have become public institu tions. It could happen. Just a year ago the Associatior of American Colleges, whose membership includes the vas' majority of private colleges anc universities in our country anc a broad representation of public institutions, sent out a question naire on federal aid. The result' were announced at the annua meeting of the Association al Denver last January. The kej questions were two. Would ar institution accept federal loan? for academic facilities such a: classroom buildings, laboratories and libraries? And would ar institution accept 50 per cenl matching grants for constructior of these same types of facilities? The latter issue is of course the more important, and dangerous of the two; because grants are subsidies, and subsidies invite control. The decision was made tc bring this questionnaire to the attention of our Board of Trus tees rather than answer it al the administrative level. We should be proud that our Board members unanimously refusec to approve grants as the easy way out of our financial prob lems. To use Uncle Sam as e banker for loans at a low rate o' interest is acceptable we are already doing this under the Col lege Housing Loan Program. Tc channel government loans tc needy and deserving students who intend to go into teaching and to account for such funds is equally so. But to take federa grants would be to seize a short term and short-sighte- d advantage and throw principle out the win dow. The larger number of our private colleges has always hac a lean time of it financially, bu they have been very hard to kill Somehow they have survived often enough by miracles. It if clear that too many such college? were founded Westminster if not of this superfluous number fortunately, since she stand? alone for private enterprise in :s this threat of death by starva-tion or reduction to dependence on the federal dole? It depends. It depends on our willingness to dig deep and give generously to keep colleges like Westminster free. It depends on our devotion to free enterprise. It depends on our belief in the importance of the uninhibited quest for truth. small college education in a vast area but they have proven re-markably durable in good times and bad. And now, in the form of gifts from the government, comes a new threat: killing by kindness. This threat was shown as both real and immediate by the AAC poll. Westminster was in a min-ority of 30 per cent in voting against federal grants! This was startling enough, but the impli-cation was given terrible impact when the president of a wealthy private college in the West said. "This kind of federal aid is in-evitable let it come. I'm tired of raising money, anyhow." Thus to succumb is to end the dual system of higher education in this country which has kept all our colleges and universities honest, which has kept us free and strong. The result will be "socialization" of the entire edu-cational process in America. How real is this threat of ex-tinction or conquest? How real Interior Dept. Starts Year Long Observance Of Land Management The Department of Interior and its Bureau of Land Manage-ment began a year-lon- g observ-ance of the 150th anniversary of Public Land Management, ana the 100th anniversaries of the Homestead Act, the Land Grant College Act, and the Land Grant Transcontinental Railroad Act following the recent proclama-tion of President John F. Ken-nedy. All of these Acts were passed by Congress in 1862. Karl S. Landstrom, Directoi jf BLM announced, "This is an .listoric year, and we can note with considerable pride, the im-- ' portant Congressional legislation during the Dast ccntury-and-a- - half that made possible the settle-ment, development, conservation, jnd sound administration of the public lands of the nation." Throughout American history .ands of the public domain have .urnished both natural resources jnd real property for the build-ing and expansion of much oi these United States. More than 270 million acres have been iranted to homesteaders. More than 103 million acres have been granted to states in aid of free public elementary schools, land jjrant colleges, state universities and other institutions. More than 31 million acres were granted 'or the promotion of transconti-nental and other railroads. In Utah, R. D. Nielson, State Director, pointed out that title to 3,610,185 acres has passed to private ownership through the Homestead Act in allowance of 1.6,798 homesteads between the years 1862 to 1962. The Govern-ment has granted to the State 3f Utah for common schools, 5,844,196 acres. In addition 200,-D0- 0 acres were granted to the State land grant college at Lo-gan, and 156,000 acres to the University of Utah, 100.000 acres each for the school of mines, the reform school, normal schools, .nincrs' hospital, mental hospital, ieaf and mute school, and the school for the blind. Also ap-proximately 64.000 acres were iranted for public buildings, naking a total of 6,964.000 acres granted to the State for educa-;ion- al and other public purposes. Transcontinental railroads in Utah (Central Pacific and Union Pacific) were granted a total of 2.230,000 acres. There still remains in Utah approximately 24 million acres n the National Land Reserve. This is exclusive of National for-ests, national parks, national monuments, Indian reservations, and wildlife reservations. Winter Driving Requires Many Special Precautions Many urban area motorists of the snow belt states who are good drivers on a "dry track" oecome nearly helpless in winter itorms because they don't know now to drive on ice and snow, according to Harry Porter, Jr., manager of the Traffic Dept., of the National Safety Council. "The drivers cause thousands of dollars in property damage and many fatal crashes each lime Old Man Winter swoops .nto their communities. They nave become so dependent on iood winter road maintenance oy snow removal and sanding jrews of the city and state and oy transit companies that they ignore their personal responsi-bility to be mentally prepared and to have their vehicles ready for unusually severe winter driv-ing conditions," he said. When such drivers crash into someone or get stalled they just blame the storm, the street or nighway department, or other driver, but seldom themselves. Mr. Porter believes just a little know how about winter driving would keep them out of trouble. "Many drivers don't use good judgment in when to drive and fail to equip their vehicles if they must go out in a severe storm.They get stalled and block removal equipment and add to the tough job of keeping streets cleared. "Inadequate traction and re-duced visibility are two of the six basic hazards of winter driv-ing that cause motorists trouble. The other four are: 1) Effect of temperature, 2) Reduced abil-ity to stop and steer, 3) Unex-pected icy conditions, and 4) Ice and snow made slippery by traf-fic. To help drivers help them-selves in the prevention of acci-dents and costly delays, he has urged all snow belt drivers to consider the following facts and recommendations based on re-search by the Council's Commit-tee of Winter Driving Hazards: Always drive with the ther-mometer in mind. Braking dis-tance about doubles as the tem-Deratu- re rises from 10 to 32 and reinforced tire chains, which the committee recommends every driver carry in his trunk for emergency conditions. 409 per cent better. On loosely packed snow, the snow tires are 51 per cent better than regular tires and reinforced tire chains 313 per cent better in traction ability. the winning hand who wants to It's usually the person with put his cards on the table. degrees. Everyone realizes that the melting ice cube is far more slippery than the very cold cube as it comes from the freezer but many drivers have not asso-ciated this fact with icy road conditions where wet ice at 30 degrees is more slippery and offers about half the traction of ice around 10 degrees above. A car going 20 mph takes 114 feet to stop on glare ice at zero de-grees, but at 32 degrees the same car will take 235 feet to stop. Reinforced tire chains will re-duce it to about 77 feet. Road slush and grime, ice and snow, early hours of darkness, all make it hard to see on winter roads. Drivers must double ef-forts to keep lights, windshields and windows in top lighting and viewing condition. Since drivers must see a hazard to avoid it they should see that windshield wiper blades are in top condi-tion. Wiper arm pressure of one ounce per inch of blade length is needed to sweep snow and sleet off instead of sliding over it. Pulling away from a stand-still, climbing hills, or going in deep snow can all cause more trouble from aggravating de-lays to major tie ups and acci-dents. Consider these test facts at severe conditions: On glare ice, snow tires proved 28 per cent better than regular tires, regular tire chains 231 per cent better, Castro Type Big Explosion Seen For Nicaragua Nicaragua, 275 miles from the Panama Canal, is building up to a "big explosion" like the one which put Fidel Castro into power in Cuba, Lester Velie warns in the January Reader's Digest. There have been 22 uprisings against the iron dictatorship of Luis Somoza and his brother Anastasio in the past 2Vz years, Velie writes in the article "New Time Bomb in the Carribbean." Once, Castro offered planes and pilots to the rebels. The offer was rejected, but one Nicaraguan told Velie, "Sometime we may have to accept help wherever we can." One nation not offering any help, Velie says, is the United States. Although tortures, shoot-ings and jailings are part of everyday life, we remain friendly with the dictator, just as we were with Cuba's pre-Cast- ro ruler, Fulgencio Batista. The Nicaragu-an- s resent it similarly. Our for-mer ambassador, Thomas Whel-a- n, was one of the most detested men in the country; Nicaraguans who have been beaten by steel-helmet- ed national guardsmen remember that 3500 of the 5000 guardsmen received their train-ing from U.S. Fort Gulick, in the Panama Canal Zone. More dangerous, Velie writes, is the Somozas' collaboration with the communists. They sup-plied the campaign money with which Reds won top offices in the nation's labor confederation, the CGT. At the same time, the communists pretend to be split. Half, known as black commu-nists, work with the regime. The other half, called red commu-nists, oppose him, so they can emerge in some future revolution as "fighters for freedom." 1 Salt Lake Woman Named to Post At GOP Conference Mrs. Edward L. Crosby (Ther-ma- ) of 660-4t- h Ave., Salt Lake City, has been named Utah Con-ference Chairman for the Tenth Annual Republican Women's Conference, to be held in Wash-ington. D.C. April 15-1- 7, 1962 at the Statler Hilton Hotel, under the direction of Mrs. Clam B Williams, Assistant Chairman of the Republican National Com-mittee. Mrs. Florence Tucker Davis of Salt Lake City has been named Publicity Chairman. The Conference has been called annually since 1953 to rally organizational effort of GOP Women. Announcement of the appoint-ment of Mrs. Crosby and Mrs. Davis was made by Mrs. Doro-thy T. Stevenson, National Com-mitteewom- an for Utah. Mrs. Crosby will head a large delegation of Republican work-ers and leaders from all part series of political work sessions in the nation's capital. In Washington, Mrs. Williams said, "Women were the back-bone of our vigorous 1962 Re-publican campaign and can take pride in the splendid job. Many first-time- rs are eager to join with women of wide experience to train for further political ac-tivity. We extend a warm invi-tation to all interested Republi-can women." Top party leaders traditionally participate in the Conference. The meetings keep women in the field posted, instruct them in new campaign techniques and inspire the overall party effort. If scientific advances continue to be productive, life expectancy may approach 120 years in the U.S. by the end of this century. More than 20 Civil War veterans passed the century mark, the oldest living to be 117. There is evidence that men in Hunza live to be 120 or even 140. "Inside Passage" To Alaska vifevtjsw--- 1 '. - j VsX jfy Photo Courtesy Canadian National Railwaya Thirteen Alaska cruises of nine days each will be operated In the 1962 season by the modern 5,800-to- n liner, "Prince George," through the sheltered and historic Inside Passage. Originating at Vancouver, B. C, the "Prince George" will make calls at Prince Rupert, Ketchi-ka-n and Juneau northbound to Skagway. Returning, the sleek cruise, ship will stop at Wrangell, cruise the Gardner and Douglas Canals and make a stop at Ocean Falls. The first cruise leaves Vancouver May 21 with the last cruise of the season on September 7. FNS ( HAVSVOU TRtED tr VET?) Gillette Soc-BLU- E BLADE IIADE MACK DOUBLE EDGED DOUBLE ECONOMY 10for69 FITS ALL GILLETTE RAZORS |