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Show Millard County Chronicle .... Thursday, May 8, 1958 GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over . By Dick Morrison "Man's desire to Ily away to Mars, still warring, still haunted by his own black shadow, is the adolescent escape mechanism of a creature who would prefer to infect in-fect the outer planets with his problems than to master them at home." Loren Eiseley in An Evolutionist Evo-lutionist Looks at Modern Man, In the Satevepost. . Interplanetary Travel There are three questions concerning con-cerning interplanetary travel which have been bothering me. One is that if such travel is possible, pos-sible, why hasn't it been going on for the last million years? Kot that earth men have been prepared to undertake it, but there are older planets than earth, and reason suggests the probability that these must harbor life; that some of the forms of life must be older and more advanced than earth's mankind, man-kind, and that they should have had this project under control foi some time. So why haven't travelers travel-ers from outer space been dropping drop-ping in on us? They didn't need to wait until we got our own space ships ready. The second question is, did they, or could we be their- descendants? The third takes up the question of the beginning of life where Le Comte du Nuoy, in his book, Human Hu-man Destiny, left off. In this work, as you recall, du Nuoy held that that possibility of spontaneous generation of living cells was mathematically so remote as to be practically impossible, from which he went on to conclude that life couldn't have come into being by "accident." But assuming du Niioy's calculations calcu-lations were correct which I will do for the moment for purposes of discussion, even though I think the affinity which certain kinds of atoms show for others it actually knocks his mathematics into a cocked hat could it be that this event, the "accidental", synthesis of living cells, so improbable as to have been all - but impossible-, yet still not quite outside the realm of possibility as even du Nuoy would have to admit, did take place just once in all the universe, here on earth? - If so, then could it be that this fantastically improbable thing called call-ed life did start up naturally, just once, and here on earth, with the result that it exists nowhere else? And that man in forthcoming space travels is destined to carry it to other realms? It is quite an idea for conjecture, and you can toy with it if you like and do with it as you will. BATTERIES for CARS. TRUCKS and TRACTORS Full LAHER Line including Mustang, Exeter, Nonstop 4 Priced from $10.75 Guaranteed from 2 to 4 years ALL ADJUSTMENTS MADE BY US DELTA AUTO. SUPPLY . Delta, Utah I For myself, however, I reject the idea. I think life not the improbable improb-able thing du Nuoy made It out, but a more probable, natural, In fact Inevitable thing. But if It Is, then to get back to the first of these questions, why haven't Intelligent In-telligent being from other, older, planets 'been visiting us already? It seems one of the propositions which take the mind In circles, too much for us to grasp as things stand now. Fight Still On "He was fired for being right, but he didn't just lie down and take it. Instead, he dug in for a long and bitter battle of attrition, and, as things stand now, he seems to have won. That, in brief, is the story of a certain man pretty well known hereahnuts and the fieht he made for his rights against the entrenched forces of bureaucracy in the department of government service in which he was employed, and for the principles of integrity he believed in." The foregoing is the opening paragraph of an item headed Conscience-Speaks Up, which led off this column in the issue of July 25, 1957. It told something of the story of this man, whose name was not given at that time, and will not be given now, who found himself in trouble because ,as an employee in one of the big federal programs having to do with agriculture, he took the stand that this vast program pro-gram which involved large expenditure expen-diture of taxpayers' money, and dealt directly with the day-to-day activities of a class of people numbering num-bering in the millions, should be conducted in a way that would fulfill ful-fill the announced purposes of the program. : Even though his name was not published, several people were able to guess it easily, and many will recognize it now. As this column stated last July, this man spoke out against wasteful practices, and went to some lengths to document his criticisms with photographs and detailed reports. And he was rewarded re-warded with what bureacrats call "separation" from the service on grounds of "unwarranted criticism." In plain words, he got ditched for being right, a not unheard of happening hap-pening in human affairs. After many months of dickering back and forth, he finally won reinstatement reinstate-ment by the Civil Service Commission. Commis-sion. Some months back, a letter by him appeared in one of the big dailies; and last February I received re-ceived a mimeographed paper from him. Both items indicate that the fight is still going on. The bureaucracy bureau-cracy won't take criticism lying down. But let his recent personal letter speak for itself: April 22, 1958 Mr. Richard Morrison Delta, Utah Dear Dick: Thank you very much for your acknowledgement of my "letter" that I mimeographed to you-all. I very much appreciate your approval. ap-proval. You mentioned that you might get some of it published. I should tell you that as I had time, I mailed mail-ed copies to quite a few people in the Delta area, so to a lot of them it will not be news, but will serve to inform those whom I left off my list, because of my poor memory me-mory or thoughtlessness. But herewith here-with is a copy of a letter I composed com-posed to Zhukov that I don't know what to do with. A large newspaper news-paper might not be able to use it without a lengthy telling of the whole situation that went before, but the Delta audience may be able to take it straight. You may note that I had a lot of fun. You will be interested to know sahte to 17AYE3E COUNTY . . . land that refuses to be tamed a Explorers, shutter-bugs and movie-makers in increasing in-creasing numbers are discovering the breathtaking beauty of Wayne County's unexplored natural wonders. won-ders. . The attractions are many: Capitol Reef National Monument, with its massive sandstone temples, natural nat-ural bridges and stupendous gorges . . . Land of the Goblins . . . ancient Indian dwellings hidden away in caves and mountain retreats . . . lovely mountains. Stock raising remains the life blood of Wayne County, where cattle and sheep find excellent range; milk production, garden crops, and timber bring additional income to the residents. Here, as elsewhere in Utah, the United States Brewers Foundation works constantly to assure citizens citi-zens and visitors alike of clean, wholesome gathering spots where beer and ale can be enjoyed. . BEER end ALE . . . Wtf it. t J that the reaction of the Service to my writing is to try to separate me again. It is as though the administrators admin-istrators think the way to stop a noise in the motor Is to hold their hands over their ears. As far as I am concerned, I am almost to where no one can 'bother me any more. They cannot hurt me financially, as I am already broke, they cannot transfer me to an undesirable location as I am already al-ready away from home in "Siberia;" "Siber-ia;" they cannot frighten me as I am too ignorant; and they cannot insult me as my reputation Is already al-ready ruined. Having been through a separation separa-tion and reinstatement once, I have quite a bit of confidence that I might do it again. I have had several favorable responses from different parts of Utah and Arizona to my "letter," and no unfavorable ones at all, except ex-cept the official action from Washington. Wash-ington. But you are the only one who suggested some action in my favor. I want you to be sure to know that I am grateful. I wish you well, Sincerely. That concludes the personal letter. let-ter. I do not have space for all of the "letter to Zhukov," nut wiy give the two concluding paragraphs: para-graphs: "It was illegal for you to criticize. criti-cize. And It is called your trouble when anyone can see that the incumbents in-cumbents were having the trouble, so they moved you out. And the people are having to live with the caprices of government agents that you are damaging to their welfare. wel-fare. "You Russians may claim a lot of things that we have not, but we have bureaus just as arbitrary as yours." So we have the essential data on this case to date. We may each form our own opinion as to the merits of his stand; and as to whether he should have followed the course of expediency exped-iency some friends suggested to him at Delta. My own conclusion, unhappy as it may appear to him and others, is that his real enemy Is not just a few Individual bureaucrats with whom he happened to be placed in association. I think he is fighting fight-ing the very nature of government bureaucracy itself. I doubt that he can reform it. His letter shows that he doubts It, too. As I see It, the thing needed Is a vast demobll- Water Supply Outlook for Southern Utah as of Mav 1. 1958 Good Precipitation over the - Central Sevier Valley was very light during April but was much above normal over the headwaters of the upper Sevier and over the drainages of the Virgin River. The water supply outlook for Southern Utah is one of the most promising for several decades. de-cades. April-September streamflows are xpected to be from 150 to 175 of the 1938-52 average. The amount of water stored in reser vation of the federal bureaucracy, before it strangles all initiative and enterprise, both in and out of government service. Sneak Preview Speed Riding brought over the reels of 8 mm movies he shot while he and Ardella were vacationing in Hawaii, so that I might do a little cutting and splicing for him. I took advantage of the opportunity opportun-ity to preview the pictures, and found them very enjoyable. After all, you can't very well edit something some-thing without looking at it, can you? Speed's shots start with the San Francisco International Airport, with Ardella getting on the plane, and include such subjects as Hawaiian Ha-waiian pineapple fields, the Hawaiian Ha-waiian LDS Temple, the home of TPA Aloha and Hawaiian Airlines, Waimea Canyon, Diamond Head, and the grass hut of Rohert Louis Stevenson. He also devoted considerable con-siderable footage to Hula-Hula girls in action, these being among the best shots. Ardella is shown in a variety of beautiful spots, though she doesn't do any of the Hula dancing, at least not before the camera. Speedball appears from time to time luxuriating amidst tropical splendor. Mr. and Mrs. Riding dreamed Of a trip to Hawaii for thirty-six years. This year the dream came true. The pictures will give them a record of much sentimental value. The Funny Way It was little Duane Callister talking talk-ing to a very close neighbor lady who has known him from the beginning. be-ginning. He said, "When you get your new baby, how are you going to feed it are you going to feed it with a bottle, or the funny way my big sister feeds hers? voirs is much above average with most reservoirs forecast to fill during dur-ing the runoff period. Forecast for the total water available av-ailable in the Central Sevier Valley Val-ley for the period April to June Is for 108,000 acre feet with 45,000 acre-feet above flows of 400 cfs. March-June local inflow from Vermillion Ver-million Dam to Sevier Bridge Reservoir Res-ervoir on the Sevier River Is forecast fore-cast to be 65,000 acre feet. Inflow In-flow to Rockeyford Reservoir for the period April-June is expected to be 35,000 acre-feet under normal nor-mal conditions. High water flows on the upper Sevier and for the Beaver River at Beaver, Utah, should cause minor flooding in local areas. Peak flow on the Beaver Bea-ver is expected to be from 675 to 725 cfs with normal weather conditions. con-ditions. Continued cold weather with above normal precipitation followed by an abnormally warm spell would increase the forecast peaks. Forecasts for the Sevier Basin are prepared in cooperation with W. C. Cole and Keith B. Chistensen water commissioners, and those for the Beaver River with Leland Strong.Beaver River Commissioner. Empire State Building In New York City on 5th Avenue between 33rd and 34th Street stands the Empire State Building . 1,472 feet high. It Is the tallest building in the world. Its height was augmented on 1950 bv the addittion of a 222 foot television tele-vision sending tower. This TV tower is used as a transmitter by all seven of New York's television stations. Completed May 1, 1931 the Empire Em-pire State Building stands on the site of the original Waldorf Astoria As-toria Hotel. It has 102 stories, 75 elevators, 2 basements and can house 25.000 tenants. The observation observ-ation station attracts over 1 million mil-lion visitors annually. In 1956, 4 revolving searchlights were installed at the 90th floor. They can be seen 300 miles from New York by air and 80 miles above the ground. A CHRONICLE CLASSIFIED PAYS BICJ DIVIDENDS , I ' ' ' .... : V, x - r: - J if t 4 y ( : Snr.r.p;;fiil i Farmers1 ' it Agree 66 n " t a Iti 1(1611 m 111 WC I V, l . )) George Sugimoto, a successful Weber County farmer, uses USS Nitrogen Fertilizers on his sugar beets, onions and tomatoes. Does it pay? Here's what Mr. Sugimoto says: "You can see results when you apply nitrogen, and you can add up the increased returns at harvest har-vest time. USS Nitrogen is a fine investment for my farmer." Mr. Sugimoto said he applied 600 pounds of USS Ammonium Nitrate per acre to his onions, and increased his yields by 200 to 300 bags per acre. He harvested more than 1,000 50-pound bags per acre. "I got a much better yield than the previous year. USS Nitrogen Fertilizers also mean more yields on other crops," Mr. Sugimoto reports. Insist on USS Nitrogen Fertilizers for your crops this year and reap the added profits that result from increased yields. Order USS Nitrogen Fertilizers from your dealer now. For information, write United States Steel, 919 Kearns Building, Salt Lake Citv 1, Utah. Nitrogen Fertilizers United Nation" Building Another interesting landmark to be seen on CSU Summer Tour while In New York City Is the United Nations Headquarters. This building occupies 18 acres. Most unusual Is the Secretarial Building which Is 544 feet tall, 299 feet long and only 72 feet wide. The two sides have 5,400 windows, set in aluminum frames; the end walls are of 2,000 tons of Vermont marble. 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