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Show gt Publisher Attends Special"" State Dept. Press Conference Nation's Leaders Report on U.S. Position in National, World Affairs ( J,.. . - .... k , : i-. r JIM CORNYVELL President, Utah State Press Association series of quotes, not from one individual but gleaned from trie words of all who touched upon the subject, concerning the Cuban fiasco: We miscalculated the amount of aid Cuban citi- j zens would give the invaders. The Cuban government is now a prisioner of the Sino-Soviet bloc. The aims of this nation are entirely incompatible with the Cuban situation, promising a continuing struggle. The administration was armed with intelligence provided by Central Intelligence Agency which purported to be accurate. Yet the abortive effort was a crushing failure. The Eisenhower administration administra-tion was held blameless. Yet it was conceded our country is playing a somewhat sly game in opposing intervention in any country's disputes while we permit revolutionary forces to gather here for an invasion and in fact, encourage such an uprising. up-rising. However, it was expert opinion opin-ion that Russia has not and does not intend to sign a military mili-tary treaty with Castro's government. gov-ernment. Still, we have suffered de-Continued de-Continued on Page Three ,Fditor's note: Utah State Ass'n. delegated Us St president, J.M. Com-, Com-, of the Murray Eagle "attend the Secretary of state's briefing conference on , ' reign policy- He was one of the only 28 weekly newspapermen news-papermen admitted to he To-day briefing, at which daily reporters and column-i,i column-i,i were also enrolled, and "as the only Utahn in attendance. at-tendance. Special to Utah State Press Association Members Washington, D.C. A nation hZt by troubles not of its ;Set making. A country thrust int0 world dominance at the Ze of World War II and woefully unequipped for its r0le A rich, powerful and influential in-fluential land threatened with loss of some of its prestige if t does not act forcefuUy and alertly in many troubled areas of the world. In short, an America represented rep-resented as John F. Kennedy proclaimed it to be throughout his free-swinging Presidential campaign of I960. That's a nutshell digest of a concentrated, two-day briefing session presented journalists from throughout the nation here April 24-25 at the behest be-hest of the Secretary of State. During those two word-filled word-filled days, no less than 19 speakers appeared. Any one of them might be found in the headlines most any day. Each tore a page from his personal notebook and filled in the audience on what he considered con-sidered to be the most serious factors involving American security as seen from his particular vantage point. These men were specialists in virtually every phase of thought from African affairs to intelligence, from the military mili-tary strong and weak points of NATO to the China question. To adequately sum up would require a volume. To break it down in capsule form is to extract ex-tract from it only what seems the most important in a whole, series of significant statements. Reporters were repeatedly reminded re-minded that the information given them was for publication if they saw fit, but no statements state-ments were to be attributed to individuals. Although no earth-shaking statements emerged, it was conceded much of the information infor-mation presented had not been officially disclosed before although al-though speculation had already put a good deal of it in print. Depending upon your point of political view, the conference confer-ence had one implication or another. The Kennedy Administration Admin-istration is either continuing continu-ing to propound its theory that the nation is indeed in troubled waters or these are very real facts .however disturbing they may be to the American public. Speakers on the opening day of the briefing were a heavily-titled heavily-titled group. Dean Rusk, secretary secre-tary of state. Roger Tubby, his public affairs assistant and these other aides: Alfred leS. Jenkins, deputy for Far Eastern East-ern affairs, James E. Webb, National Aeronautics and Space administrator; Carl T. Rowan, deputy for public affairs, i Adlai Stevenson, representative to the UN; Adolf A. Berle, chairman of the Task Force on Latin America; George W. Ball, undersecretary for economic eco-nomic affairs and Charles E. Bohlen, noted member of the diplomatic corps. What may have set the pattern pat-tern of the meeting was a statement at the outset: "This should be an intereseting two days because we have lots of problems. If you leave more confused than you came, you may be in closer touch with reality!" Several thousand words and a great many profound thoughts later, the reporters were in agreement. Our country's problems prob-lems in a strife -torn world seem multitudinous. Viewed in totality, they're frightening, for the vast majority of information infor-mation presented was on the dark side. . For example, a collective w Here's More About Utah Foundation Continued from Fage 0-iie 10,000 population. Stated differently, differ-ently, more than 6.3 percent of Utah's total population was employed by some governmental govern-mental unit, compared with an average rate of 4.3 per cent for the nation as a whole. A major factor accounting for the high rate of government govern-ment emyloyment in Utah, according ac-cording to the report, is the relatively large number of Federal employees in the state. Federal employment in Utah was equal to 297 per 10,000 population, highest rate among the states on the Mainland and third highest rate in the entire j nation. Federal employment throughout the United States was equal to 124 per 10,000 population. Foundation analysts note that Utah also ranks high in the proportion of its population employed by state and local units of government. During October, 1960, full-time equivalent equi-valent state and local employment employ-ment in Utah was equal to 337 per 10,000 population, compared com-pared with an average of 311 per 10,000 population in the entire nation. Utah's state and local public employment percentage per-centage was 14th highest among the 50 states. More than half of Utah's total state and local government govern-ment employment was for education, edu-cation, according to the report. In Utah, there were 194 state and local education employees per 10,000 population, a rate nearly 40 per cent above the U.S. average of 141 education employees per 10,00 population. This is a reflection of Utah's relatively high college and public school enrollment compared com-pared with other states. The report also observes that in addition to education Utah ranks above the national average aver-age in publis 'employment for highfays and natural resources but is below the U.S. average for welfare, health and hospitals, hospi-tals, sanitation, and most other local functions, such as police and fire protection. The study shows that there were 63,147 persons working for some unit of government in Utah during October, I960 Of this number 26,442 were employed by the Federal Government (civilians only), 12,161 were working for the State, and 25,544 were em-Ployed em-Ployed by local units including local schools. 8 |