Show I Problem in in Tooele e Many 1 do not realize that at least one section of our state is more overloaded overloaded overloaded over over- loaded with defense employment and problems now than it ever evel was in the last war war and and that the situation is destined to get a good deal worse before it gets better bet bet- ter The area is Tooele county with its desert developments at the Tooele Ordnance Ordnance Ord Ord- nance depot the time Deseret Chemical depot and the Dugway proving ground In the last war the peak c civilian ilian employment employment employment em em- at the ordnance depot was 2400 with the average about 1800 The chemical depot had about and the proving ground a mere 69 Today civilian employment in the Tooele area is more than double what it was in the last war The Dugway proving ground is mushrooming mushrooming mushrooming mush mush- rooming far beyond anything which existed existed ex ex- existed isted there before Toda Today's s employment is classified information but there is a construction program scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- and one of Utah's congressmen reported reported reported re re- re- re ported recently civilian employment at Dugway would eventually total 2500 per per- sons There is also the possibility of reactivation reactivation I of the Wendover air base And of course these figures on civilian employment employment employment employ employ- mili- mili military ment do not take into consideration military military mili mili- tary personnel All An told upward of persons willI will willbe I be occupied at these Tooele county military military military mili mili- tary establishments Many of them will have families It is easy to see the problem problem lem that creates in a county which in the 1950 census had a population of oC There isn't nearly enough housing school and other public facilities or local man power to fill the needs of these military military mily mil mil- establishments Difficulties of staffing staffing staff staff- ing these centers and of maintaining reasonably stable conditions are perturbing perturbing perturbing perturb perturb- ing personnel officers and Tooele county leaders Tooele county in fact is discovering that such developments are arc not an unmixed unmixed unmixed un un- un- un mixed blessing that blessing that while creating considerable considerable considerable con con- employment and prosperity they create some mighty serious social problems problems problems lems too All An of which leads to this conclusion That while it is decidedly the responsibility ity of local communities to cooperate in helping vital federal military establishments establishments establishments establish establish- ments to operate smoothly and efficiently it is equally the th responsibility of the federal government to cooperate by not so overloading local community facilities as to create practically insoluble social problems Chaotic social conditions are not good for administrative efficiency any more than they are for community well being |