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Show Page Four FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Bureau Opens Nonrninera! Filing For Public Lands in West States commented. One easy way for citizens to-day to obtain public lands is to purchase a tract which the gov-ernment has already placed on the market for sale. Those hav-ing special requirements may still choose to locate lands them-selves and file applications for it. Such procedures may not be as fast as purchasing land al-ready classified because of the need to examine the lands be-fore any final action to classify and open them may be taken. Secretary Udall cautioned the people seeking public lands to beware of unethical land loca-tors and promoters, people who in the past have bilked thou-sands of people out of millions of dollars by selling useless serv-ices. It is not necessary for the citizen to obtain the services of the so called land locators for filing services. Non-miner- al applications for public lands in western states, including Utah, may again be filed as a result of the lifting Tuesday by the Department of the Interior of an 18 month moratorium, according to R. D. Nielson. Utah state director of the U. S. Bureau of Land Man-agement. The moratorium was declared by Secretary Stewart L. Udall to give the Department's Bureau of Land Management time to reduce a backlog of some 40,000 non-miner- al applications, some of them three and four years old. The figure is now down to 17,000 cases. In Utah, Mr. Nielson said, BLM has reduced the number of public applications from 368 at the start of the moratorium in February, 1961, to 253 cases currently, which is considered to be a oineline oneration. Some areas in certain states, such as Arizona, California and Nevada, remain closed to small tract filings until the lands are classified and offered for sale by an appropriate order. Ending of the moratorium will not open these lands. Secretary Udall emphasized that ending of the moratorium does not mean that applications would be approved for lands closed under special regulations, and he cautioned persons to find out if the lands are subject to filing making their applica-tions. BLM has taken steps to desig-nate certain areas in Utah where tracts will be offered to the public. As these areas become identified and available they will be publicly publicized. The Bureau's land offices in several states took less than 18 months to eliminate their back-logs and the moratorium has al-ready been lifted in those states. The Billings, Montana, land of-fice was the first to clean up the backlog and began receiving ap-plications for lands in Febru-ary. Offices in Wyoming and Colorado, which also handle ap-plications for the few remaining tracts of the national land re-serve in Kansas and Nebraska, were on a pipeline basis in April and the moratorium was lifted in Alaska in June. The moratorium has affected only non-miner- al applications; oil and gas lease offers and other mineral applications were never affected. The backlog of applications which resulted in the morato-rium was created in part by speculative land locator activi-ties and party by outmoded law, Secretary Udall said. Most of the applications were, in effect, requests for BLM to classify and open the lands a process re-quiring examination of all as-pects of potential land use. "We hope that my more effi-cient procedures and with more favorable action by Congress on certain revisions of the public land laws we will be able to keep the work current in the months and years ahead," he ; 1 THE SALT LAKE TIMES OtabS Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal Hem fiarlltl Published Every Friday at Salt Lake Ctty, Utah ' Entered at the pwtoffice tt Salt Lake Qty as second iBdepeOOCBt diss matter Auguit 23, 1923 under the act of Much 8, 1879 lenSpipir 7U West Temple Telephone EM I GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation", Volume 42 Number 15 the-LE- ASED GRAPEVINE Third District Court this week had a serious backlog of crim-inal cases on its calendar despite extra work during the summer by judges and the office of Third District Attorney. District Attorney Jay E. Banks reported that examination of ac-complishments of his office and the court in Salt Lake County pointed only to the fact that Salt Lake County must have an ad-ditional judge to handle criminal cases," if not right now, within the year." Members of the Utah Associa-tion of Certified Public Accoun-tants have installed Paul G. Tan-ner, Salt Lake City, as new as-sociation president. Salt Lake City Commission meetings, at 5 p.m. on Mondays, which were discontinued during the summer months, are ex-pected to be resumed on Sept. 17, Mayor J. Bracken Lee an-nounced this week. He said the Monday evening meetings are of benefit to citizens who are un-able to appear before the 10 a.m. commission sessions Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Construction of an Elder Citi-zens Center at 237-100- 0 East is expected to start about Oct. 15. The building is scheduled to be opened in May. Construction was assured when the Salt Lake County Rec-reation Department board of directors met and voted for the center. Cost of the building is estimated at $225,000. Hi Fifty-fiv- e officers of the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Depart-ment were instructed in elf infant delivery, modern techniques of artificial respira-tion and how to move injured persons during a session at Salt Lake General Hospital directed by University of Utah Medical School. The Democratic Party is in safe control of a state Senate seat from Wasatch and Duchesne counties, the Utah attorney gen-eral ruled this week. Certifica-tion of a Republican candidate for the seat was mere wheel spinning, Atty. Gen. A. Pratt Kesler ruled. But the attorney general observed that the Demo-crat incumbent is probably vio-lating the Utah Constitution by retaining his membership in the Senate after moving out of the district. But until the incumbent, Ben-ni- e Schmiett, resigns or the Sen-ate declares the seat vacant, ac-cording to the opinion, the seat is not vacant. One stroke of lightning made history when it hit the table of electrical genius Charles Stein-met- z, a four foot dwafr with a giant's brain, on an August after noon in 1920. Deciding that man could make his own lightning, Steinmetz built the first artifi-cial lightning generator. The machine had glass plates, coated with metal foil, where electricity accumulated. When they could hold no more, artificial lightning leaped across the discharge path, accompanied by artificial thun-der. Men give counsel, but they give not the wisdom to profit by it. Eddy. ; Bureau Opens Nonrninera! Filing For Public Lands in West States L (Continued from Page One) Congress has passed bills for area redevelopment, for higher minimum wages, for better housing, for pro-grams to combat crime and delinquency and to curb water pollution. No Congress since the Thirties has done more to combat a Republican recession and restore prosperity than this one. And now we have the highest industrial production in the nation's history. Our working men and women are earning $27 billion more a year. Gross farm income has also increased $2 billion over what it was in the last Republican year. And economic indicators for July point upward. The Executive Branch has also been active and pro-ductive. These efforts are reflected overseas as well as at home. Despite the dire Republican predictions in the cam-paign of 1960, war has not come to the troubled land of Laos. Mr. Khrushchev has not taken over West Berlin. Mr. Castro has not taken over Latin America. The Republicans laughed at the Peace Corps but the people in far off huts and villages have not laughed as J. X they have seen American idealism at work. The Peace! Corps is a success. Republicans jeered at our efforts in space as waste-ful and useless, but the world now hails our striking suc-cesses as symbols of American know-ho- w. We have a long-ter-m foreign program, strengthen-ing those nations willing to help themselves to achieve peace and freedom. Our expanded Food for Peace program is providing school lunches and daily bread for the hungry and needy of many lands. The Kennedy Administration knows that until all arms are abolished, in order to preserve the peace, we must prepare for war the war we must deter. So we have strengthened the missile power and the air power and the manpower of our armed forces. And what do the Republicans say about these ac-complishments? Oon Monday, the say they are socialistic. On Tuesday they say they are dictatorship and regimen-tation of our citizenry. On Wednesday they say they are not enough. On Thursday they say we are going too fast. On Friday they say we lack the will to win the struggle against Communism. On Saturday they say we are spending too much on our space program and on conven-tional defense facilities for brush-fir- e warfare. And on , Sunday Republican Chairman Miller goes on television and says his party may have to look under a rock to find its next Presidential candidate. Boy Scouts Schedule Second Show-an-D- o Scouting's second big SHOW-AN-D- O of 1962 has been set for Saturday, September 22, at Camp Tracy Wigwam, it was reported today by Joe Weidner, general chairman. Mr. Weidner, longtime local Scouter and vice chairman of the Great Salt Lake Council's Leadership Training Committee, reports that the SHOW-AN-D- O is for all Scout-masters and Adult Troop Lead-ers. This council-wid- e event will feature all the basic Boy Scout-ing skills, such as knot-typin- g, first aid, nature and compass. In addition, such special skills as rope-makin- g, flint and steel fire-buildi- ng and back-packi- ng tips will be cvered. The SHOW-AN-D- O trail wil feature a total of 15 such skills. At the conclusion of the trail, the SHOW-AN-D- O rally will give Scouters a chance to try out their newly learned skills in competition. A "worth - trying area will spotlight tips and new items that can help Scouters run better programs in their troops. A big cookout will find partici-pants cooking their own sup-pers, and the entire SHOW-AN-D- O will close with an inspira-tional campfire. Registration will start at 9:00 a.m. Registration fee of $2.00 will pay for a box lunch, the evening cookout and materials needed on the SHOW-AN-D- O trail. Mr. Weidner reminds Scout-masters that the SHOW-AN-D- O is required for completion of the Scouters Key training award. He also invited Explorer ad-visors and post committeemen to the affair. Assisting Mr. Weidner of the SHOW-AN-D- O are the follow-ing: Paul Thompson, SHOW-AN-D- O trail; Jack Lyon, rally; Robert M a t s o n , worth-tryin- g area; Newell Mitchell, cookout. and Phil Garn, campfire. Mark Judy and Charles McCurdy are serving as advisors from the Great Salt Lake Council execu-tive staff. Phantom Playmates If your youngster has an imaginary playmate, don't worry about it. Many children dream up faithful, vivid, imaginary companions and these playmates are a healthy, helpful lot, writes Vivian Cadden in a recent issue of Parents' Magazine. She quotes this opinion of Dr. James M. Toolan of the New York University College of Medi-cine, who recently completed a study of children and their "pretend" playmates. Dr. Toolan found that preschoolers most typically conjure up a companion, usually of the same age, size and sex as his creator. He is often incorporated into the family as a sister or a brother. (Another investigator into r this land of make-believ- e reports that about one-thir- d of children between 3 and 9 years of age have invisible play-mates.) Far from signifying a flight from reality, the imag-inary companion indicates a child's healthy desire to mix and mingle with other children, particularly if he lacks enough real companionship, according to Mrs. Cadden. When real playmates come on the scene, the phantom friend usually disappears. |