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Show GIVING CUR WORLD THE O nee Over Progress Repart The campaign steamroller of presidential candiate Eisenhower is running smoothly and at high speed. The parallels between his campaign of 1956 and the one of four years ago are too obvious to be ignored. Every tried and true principle in American politics is being played for all it is worth. The candidate's illness, from which he has recovered remarkably well, though wholly unexpected and unpredictable, un-predictable, has worked to his advantage ad-vantage as no planned publicity stunt could possibly have done. It served two chief purposes. It turned the spotlight on Mr. Eisen hower so brilliantly as to leave all other aspirants in the dark, and it effectively disarmed all opposition in both parties. And the number of minor purposes it served for him is legion. It made him for the second time the great enigma. Be fore it, his second term candidacy was taken for granted. After it, there was some uncertainty. Public interest grows and thrives on uncertainty. un-certainty. This gives the candidate his chance to play it coy, to await the clarion call of duty, to put off any announcement until all his opponents have been destroyed. Dwight Eisenhower is already a close second to Franklin Roosevelt for the title, the world's luckiest politician. A few more fortuitous breaks, and he will grab off that title for the pages of history. The Big Name, popularity, and the feeling of political uncertainty uncertain-ty which made it impossible for would-be opponents to hit him hard, were among the factors that put Eisenhower over in 1952. These same factors are in his favor again. Remember four years ago, when Tom Dewey went to Europe a-midst a-midst much organized fanfare to ask him if he'd carry the banner for the Republican party? He did not say yes, and he didn't say no. Didn't have to. Of course he would not stoop to seek the nomination, or put on a vulgar political campaign cam-paign for election. But. if the people peo-ple needed him if his country needed him he would serve, as a good soldier always must. After a long time he did unbend enough to acknowledge the fact that he was a Republican a confession which backers of the late Senator. Taft neTer quite accepted at par value. And don't yet. Then along came the deadline for the New Hampshire primaries. Would he permit his name to be entered? Again, the Sphinx didn't have to say yes, and didn't have to say no, and didn't. Then one day, somewhere, they Induced a fourteen year old boy to tell some reporters, "I like Ike". That did it. (Or maybe it was only a nine year old boy. I forget." Anyway, Any-way, the younger he was the more influence he held over America's mature voters. He was so cute, saying "I Like Ike".) And so it went, right up until the Chicago convention. Things got a bit rough there. Backers of Senator Taft, who had fought the party's battles when the going was hard didn't like it a hit to see an outsider cop off the honor. But it was too late. Ike had won the preference pre-ference in too many state primaries. prim-aries. He was a shoo-in, all the way. And he will be again. Yes, he's playing it coy now. But that's the way to play it in American Amer-ican politics. The job must seek the man just as it sought Franklin Frank-lin Roosevelt for three encores to the first performance, as he managed man-aged to get himself drafted with the aid of the most sordid gang of big-city political bosses that ever got behind an egomaniac. Poor Adlal Stevenson Even before be-fore Ike got sick, any number of other Democrats were quite willing to throw him to the wolves in 1956. Then, he made the fatal error of placing himself at the mercy of the wolf pack. He came out and said he wanted to be President. Playing it coy is what got HIM the Demo nomination in fifty-two. He must have forgotten that. But he's through now. Every American boy may aspire to become President, but only up to a point. Once he comes right out and says so, he's through. At that moment, any chances he may have had vanish as the morning By Dick Morrison mist. But if he happens first to have acquired a Big Name, and has an ingratiating grin, and doesn't really real-ly want the nomination, but would only accept it as a matter of duty, however painful, and then at the cost of great personal sacrifice by himself and family, strictly as a matter of duty to his country while he doesn't really like the idea of living in the White House and it isn't quite certain whether I he's a candidate or not he's in Ford Stock II Last November 17 this column, which for the Durnose exDanded itself to the size of a whole page or the Chronicle, had a lot to say about the forthcoming public oner ing of Ford stock. In retrospect, the item wasn't too far wrong. In a number of ir formed guesses, in which the writ er pitched his judgment against the best that could be gleaned from a number of authentic sources, sour-ces, he did about as well as the best financial writers in the nation He euessed the offering price pretty close, at about $66.67, where as they actually put it out at S64.50. He surmised that the com pany might authorize dividends of $2.65 per annum, while the first quarterly dividend so far approved turned out to be 60 cents, or at the rate of S2.40. He did guess Ford's earnings rather low. at $212 million. The published figures were exactly double this, or $424 million, indicated in-dicated 1955 earnings are closer to $8.00 per share than the $4.00 guess made here. As to the conclusion made Nov 17 that "for a while, Ford stock may be more a thing to watch than to buy", that turned out Drettv eood. As things happened, the issue didn't set the. world on fire. Brokers are elad the "headache" of ration ing it is over with. The anticipated squeeze on the open market, once thoueht oossible because of heavy demand, didn't materialize. In fact, in a way the big event went off like a damp firecracker. There were two categories ol spectulators in on the opening. One wanted, or thought they wanted, to buv the stock at any price. The other wanted some just for the purpose of unloading it as quickly as possible upon the first kind. The result was a little flurry in over-the-counter markets in Canada Can-ada the opening day Jan. 18. The stock went up to about 71. Those whose idea was to grab it up soon cancelled out the group whose idea was to unload quickly; and after that nothing happened. It started to ease down, and when last heard of was selling at about 66. Ford may be listed on the New York and other exchanges in a few weeks, nnd after that it will, as was predicted here, move up and down in response to all the innumerable innu-merable influences that cause stocks to fluctuate all the time. The extremely heavy demand, which caused brokers' so much, worry, seemed to evaporate as fast as orders for Ford cars, and all other makes of cars, did once before, be-fore, when production started to catch up with war-created shortages. short-ages. People, apparently, ordered several times as much as they expected ex-pected to get, and were happy to receive 5 or 10 as much as they had ordered, which was all they wanted anyway. So now Ford has made the transition tran-sition from a family owned corporation corp-oration to a publicly owned one, and it didn't cause much of a ripple in financial circles after all. From now on. Wall Streeters will appraise it with their characeristic jaundiced eye. A lot of little guys may grow restive as, within a few months, they discover that their few shares haven't made them a few million. Maybe you'll get a chance to buy it for less than $64.50 before too long. Free Rider You don't have to believe this story if you don't want to. It's the sort of thing that only happens once in a life time. ! It was in Salt Lake City, last 1 Tv fl f A v. H v& f.K.,- A I V IK ft m m f J1 A A. i U What- i : n U h 't H s il J! And Oh-h-h! What a beautiful price! Hi SEE YOUR NEAREST OLDSMOBSLE Si! il V t - i DEALER u " 1 . .m Friday, at 1:10 PM. 1 was bored half to death, and hod decided to go to a show. But which one? I decided to walk a little, and see what all the show houses had to offer. One was The Court Martial Of Eilly Mitchell. It might be a r:ood show no doubt it is, but I wasn't in a mood for it. Another was All That Heaven Allows. I didn't want that. So I kept on wraiking, and after while came to the Centre Theatre. The show there was named The Lieutenant Wore Skirts. Feeling that a comedy might relieve boredom, I approached approach-ed the ticket office, prepared to shell out. A very nice lady of in determinate age was standing be side the window. "Did you intend to buy a ticket, sir?" she said. "Yes", said I. "I have a ticket to give away, sir," she said, and she handed me a blue cardboard. Naturally, I wondered what the game was, though I didn't express my puzzlement in those words. She explained that the ticket was intended in-tended for a friend who couldn't come to the show. I asked her who she was. I even said, I'll tell you my name if you'll tell me yours", but she wouldn't for that. She walked in ahead of me and I never saw her again. The ticket proved to be good. It got me in. I read the printing on it. It was a "courtesy" pass. On the bottom it said, "Utah State Association of County Officials." Imagine that. Me, taking a free ride that was intended for some county official, and myself never having been elected to any office since I was put in as president of the DHS Alumni one night when I wasn't there to decline the nomination! nom-ination! The show was just what you'd have expected from the title one of those affairs involving a lady lieutenant in the air force, and the clumsy efforts of her husband to keep up with her. It began and ended in Beverly Hills, with an aerial shot of the residential district dis-trict showing a swimming pool in each back yard. Sheree North and Tom Ewell played the leads. As to the Court Martial Of Billy Mitchell I still haven't seen it, At Harden hih Rn SzitfjzrvlUo Sugarville Garden Club held a business meeting and social on Thursday, Jan. 19, for the purpose of electing new officers. But the old ofiicers were re-mstateu lor another year. They are Stella Shurtz, president; presid-ent; Venice Davis, vice president; Evelyn Shields, secretary and treasurer, trea-surer, and Doris Abbott, reporter. Plans were discussed for the continuing con-tinuing of the landscaping and planting of the chueh grounds. Later pot luck supper was served, and games were played. There were twenty members present. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace W. Holman returned to Delta Thursday from a trip of two weeks, first at New Orleans, at the national cattleman's cattle-man's association convention, and next at Denver, to attend the national nat-ional Western Livestock Show. They made the trip with friends from Salina, and while in New-Orleans New-Orleans visited the family of their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mae Holman. and I'm a little afraid of it. Afraid it will point up the wrong conclusion, conclu-sion, or moral, to the effect that it is, today, everlastingly right for the bosses in the Pentagon to spend this nation into bankruptcy by buying too big an air force. William Mitchell was a man of vision and sense. He might stand as strongly opposed to the excesses exces-ses of American militarism in 1955 as he was to the short-sightedness of the powers that were in his day, were he alive to do so. To me, the real moral of the thing is that entrenched authority, with a vested interest in the status quo, can never be trusted. To me, Joe McCarthy is the Billy Mitchell of our day. The "condemnation" of Senator McCarthy was as unreasonable, unrea-sonable, as unfair, and as great a disgrace to our nation and to Arthur V. Watkins, as was the court martial of Wm. Mitchell. They both got the bum's rush for being right. MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta. Utah. Thvsrs. Jan. 26. 195G. Sheldon Callister, -doing post graduate work at L'SAC, came j home for the weekend, and bro-j ught with him Mrs. Margaret Cal- i lister, from Htber, who celebrated! her 80th birthday . Saturday at a family party at the home of Mr. I and Mrs. Lnlhel Callister. J Mrs. Leah Christensen, from St. 1 Geor;-e, is visiting in Delta with' hor children, Mr. and Mrs. Ned , Church and Mr. and Mrs. Talmadjj C'iristensen. High Councilman Marvil Lovell, of Oak City, and Dean and Chris j Anderson, visited Delta First Ward Sunday evening at Sacrament meeting. The First Ward choir provided pro-vided the music for the program. NOTICE Due to drop in Farm Prices we are LOWERING our Mechanic Labor to $2.50 per hour. WORK CHARGED ON INDIVIDUAL JOBS ONLY No Charge for Coffee or Changing Jobs. i INSPECTION STATION Best Equipped Shop in Delta Front End Alignment Wheel Balancing-Crank Balancing-Crank Shaft Grinding VAN MOTOR & SUPPLY o v. V "Wliercver fine Kentucky wliislcey lie call is for is enjoy e d... .:.:.;.-:.v..vV oco h m t 1 i 'i ram& 3 Sexny Brook BRAND ENTCCKY MflSOT .mi ll fc S my Bwm. tamm BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY THE OLD SUNNY BROOK COMPANY, DIVISION OF NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION LOUISVILLE, KY. BOTH 86 PROOF. KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY CONTAINS 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS if J" vAjc-a.. iv '.)fy. Y" - -i' '.y.-i t -if "VP",! if I I i wo rows oi siSver dollars around cho state . . . Last year, Kennecott's Utah Copper Division produced about 230,000 tons of copper. To accomplish this more than 45,000,000 tons of waste were removed at the mine and more than 27,000,000 tons of ore were mined and processed. The expense of operations was more than $100,000,000 a major factor in Utah's prosperity. More than $34,000,000 was received by Kennecott's 6,300 employees in wages and fringe benefits. More than $39,000,000 was spent for supplies and services, which helped hundreds of Utah businesses. The company's Utah tax bill was $10,750,000, with $7,500,000 going to schools sufficient money to pay for educating 24,000 children for a full year. The remainder was for other expenses, including federal taxes. One hundred million silver dollars placed edge to edge would make a double row around Utah's 1200 mile border. Actually, Kennecott's expenditures spread throughout the state, passing from hand to hand, helping to create better living. There's another side to the influence of Kennecott's copper production on Utah's prosperity. For every job in a basic industry like ours, four additional jobs are needed in the state to meet company and employee needs. So Kennecott's Kenne-cott's 6300 jobs account for 25,200 other jobs a total of 31,500 Utahns employed because of copper production. I' ; " - 7 ' - - ? 'lit) I ' rH'-'-s tv-C i Konnecoii Copper Corporation VI Good XagJibor Helping to Build a BctUr Utah' |