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Show ATTEND ST. ANTHONY Church 11 & I BISHOPS' BOOTHS Thursday, Friday & Saturday, Nov. Power, Complete Re-styli- Mark Chevrolets ng II, 12, 13 the Statehood Enabling Act. Although Utah still has substantial remaining fund balances State Expenditures Increase $9.2 Million Foundation Reports in the State Treasury, the research agency discloses that for the most part their use is restricted by law for designated purposes related in (many cases to the original sources of the in Total state expenditures Utah during the 1954 fiscal year were $96,048,286, it was reported this week by Utah Foundation, tax the private, funds. non-pro- fit ch organization. According to the Foundation study, Utah state expenditures increased $9-million over the preceding year. Approximately $6.8 million, or nearly three fourths of the total state expenditure increase, was for added educational expenditures, including building funds appropriated by the Legislature in earlier years but not allotted until the 1354 fiscal year. 2 A styling advance from any point of view is claimed by the company for 1955 Chevrolet. The latest lineup of 14 models has been completely restyled and in addition incorporates the widest array of chassis improvements ever offered by Chevrolet on a new model. Lower, fleeter lines are by new frames, new suspensions, devices and new power. Willi the optional Powerglide or overdrive and new V8 engines, a customer engine phi two has a choice of six "power packages." The Bel Air sedan is pictured above. accompanied new operating Down From HICKORY GROVE The-Lo- DEER HUNTERS DO FAIRLY WELL DESPITE THE SNOW Heavy snowfall Sunday resulted in a rapid decrease of deer hunter success following an average or better kill Saturday, Octdber 23, opening day of the general deer season. Hunters in the Helper area have been slightly more successful than during the opening days of last year. Opening day fair weather rapidly turned into an unexpected heavy storm over most of the state before noon Sunday. Many popular high country hunting areas had received a foot or more of snow before evening. The kill quickly dropped as hunters oroke camp and headed for home. Numbers were caught without tire chains and other necessary equipment to meet the weather and road conditions. Latest reports indicate all parties were able to move out, many through the assistance of better equipped fellow hunters, Department of Fish and Game employees and personnel of other agencies. As the season continues sportsmen are again advised to go out equipped to meet extreme conditions afield. Side roads are expected to continue wet and muddy throughout November 2 end of the general eleven day season in most sections. Deer herds are expected to begin migrating to lower winter range areas following the present storm period. Predictions are that hunter success should continue high through the balance of the season due to the fact that they are more readily seen' when on the move and where there is snow cover. One large section of the state closes to hunting October 29. It is that portion of Box Elder County west of U. S. Highways 91 and 191, and north of the Today I direct my attention to the alerting and getting off the dime of the grandest group of folks in this land also the larg-er- s of politics or "what is cooking sucker the great and numerous middle Jas.s, you, yourself and your neighbor, most likely. Here is what this big group should do, but don't. It does not delve into how deep are the wat-facA carpented in Cincinnati, under a more Or less calm places like Seattle, in a tanner in Kansas, a hardwre dealer in St. pauj are each so busy with his local problems that hp i eures something choking, politically, in far away Seattle is not his 'baby or worry. Socialism, if it can take root, grow grow sassy in the very technical kilowatt business in places in New York, in places in places in New ork, in places in the South, it can just as easy or easier, in due course, pick up your carpenters hammer, barge or hardware, iboss the ploy-ma- n right there in Kansas or St. paul or where. Now folks, 'busy as you are and nice as you are, you are the guilty c.ulprit. You don't write your Senator, you don't get agitated. It is not your baby, you say. Tis. your baby, I sqy. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA Safety Conferences Begin November 15 For Officials Current state revenue in Utah from all sources during the 1954 fiscal year totaled $89,901,099, or 8 more than was received in the preceding year, the report continues. State expenditures therefore exceeded current revenue by $6.il million during the year. However, the report points out that most of this difference consists of commitments made in previous years for school and institutional buildings that were not expended until the 1954 fiscal year. The primary purpose of the law is the protection of the citizen and the public in his person and property. Traffic accidents can easily be termed Public Ene-jm- y No. I in that respect. They kill more people and cause more economic loss than perhaps any other single human activity. There is good reason to believe that probably more people pass through our traffic courts than any other court. Most of such people gain their principal idea of American justice there. The Foundation states that "the upward trend in Utah State Government revenues and expenditures which began during the late 1930's and early 1940's continued through the 1954 fiscal year. State revenues in Utah since 1950 and have risen 30 212 (more than three times) since 1940." This continual increase in state revenue yields is attributed largely to an expansion in the State's economy rather than to changes in the tax To promote greater traffic safety, the Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Attorney General are calling a series of Traffic Court Conferences, to be held on a re- -; gional basis throughout the State of Utah. They are doing this in cooperation with the Utah Safety Council, the Utah Municipal League, and the County Officials Association of Utah. The confer- ences will 'begin November 15th, and will be held each day of that week, ending November 20. Foundation analysts point out, however, that Utah is "in a more favorable fiscal position than most of, the other states in the nation in that it is one of the few states that have no net state general indebtedness." More than three fourths of the other states rates. People should vote AGATNST abandoning Weber, Snow and Dixie junior colleges and transfering them to the LDS Church. The entire subject should be referred back to the legislature so that there may be made a complete study to lay a good foundation for meeting a much larger problem in higher education which will confront the state and its people within the next several years. HASTY, ILL CONSIDERED ACTION The action taken separating these schools from the public college plant was done hastily and without any consideration of the educational needs of the state. Yet within the next several years Utah will face the problem of increased output from its high schools as a result of the war and increase in birth rate. post-wWithin fourteen years this will .amount to 178 percent of the present number in the state as a whole and in the Weber College area there will be two for every one now moving out of high school into college. By all accepted tests these youth will require education beyond the high school level. These facts raise many questions as to how they can be provided for, not the least of which are costs and ability oi the state to pay, the types of schools to be provided, the number and quality of the teaching staff and the total equipment needed to turn our youth out from school fitted for vocational employment and for successful living in our complex society. No one has given any answers to these questions. The entire subject of closing out these colleges as part of our public plant was decided in less than two hours at a secret caucus. It was a l'earl Harbor type of attack made withNo out any advance warning. chance was Riven for the people to be heard, no thought given to whether these very schools would be required to meet our present ami iuture needs for education. ar best circles . . . ed in fiscal 1954. A law enacted by the last session of Congress provides that Utah will receive title (and revenues) to all remaining surveyed school land sections promised under $677,641 All that a man doe outwardly is but the expression and com- pletion of his inward thought. William Ellery ChanninS only hours deliberation by a small group of people. The twenty-od- d years of money, labor and planning which went into the building of these colleges as part of our public schools justifies more serious study. Utah needs no such dictatorial methods to deal with is educational system. The people are entitled to some vftice in dealing with their public affairs. JUNIOR COLLEGES SOUND What has happened to our state finances? The state found the means of supporting and building these schools during all the depression years. Now with the income of our people eight times as great must we cry provcrty and bankruptcy and close out these colleges? rn Utah we spent 50 times as much for alcoholic beverages and tobacco in 1952 as was spent by the state for operating the lour junior colleges. For maintaining the state prison, juvenile courts, reformatories and correctional institutions, ECONOMICALLY enrich Its great Bourbon flavor OLD For All Your Typewriter Ribbons HICKORY Carbon Papers muuGnBOORBOH51151 SIX YEARS OLD 86 PHOOF 0L0 HICKORY THURSDAY, NOV, 1 n 1, DISTILLING CORPORATION KHLADaPHIA, PA. Account Books Staples and Staplers. JOURNAL OFFICE -- - CONCESSIONS -- - FUN GAMES 3,000 PRIZES OFFERED PATRONS VALUES FROM $450.00 DOWN TO 25c DOORS OPEN EVERY NIGHT AT 7 P.M. The HELPER (Utah) JOURNAL THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1954 PAGE FIVB VOTE "AGAINST" SENATE BILLS 29 AND 39 AG AINST - state-own- titn yaars - REASON BROUGHT FORTH AGAINST THE TRANSFER OF COL-LEGES TO THE L.D.S. CHURCH had outstanding net general obligations totaling more than $4.1 billion at the close of fiscal 1953. This indebtedness in other states is equivalent to $26.26 per capita for the nation as a whole. Utah has devoted a substantial MORE STUDY NEEDED. part of its state expenditures toThis entire question should be These conferences are .design- -i ward capital improvements in ed to examine common problems recent years, the report points given the most serious study by a in traffic law enforcement and out. During the past five years, properly constituted commission in that some blue prints may to clarify various statutory re- the State has expended more order be drawn to handle the educational outmillion for Greater than $70 capital quirements. uniformity problem. Until such plans are made in enforcement policies, as ap- - lay purposes. it is a very dangerous step to The report hits- at the lack of propose that the state cut up and plicable, throughout the state will Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. also be sought. effective review or control by get rid ot so large a part ot its A longer season continues besystem. These conferences will be held either the Legislature or the college These junior colleges with their yond the general November 2 at Cedar Governor over most state expenManti, City, Nephi, emphasis on vocational courses closing in several of the state's Salt Lake ditures. "Only slightly more than short of four years of study, may prime hunting areas. These in- Richfield, Price, Provo, state one of third all well become the keystone of the clude the Daggett, East Anti- City, Ogden, Brigham City, Lo- tures in Utah result fromexpendiapproand Roosevelt. gan plant the state will require to meet East Zion, Gormony, Fillmore, enrollment. The Commission State the Legislalarger by priations Those to invited attend are don Creek, Meadow Kanosh, on Higher Education appointed by to the Foundaaccording ture," Creek - Dog Valley, Mineral Mayors, County Commissioners, tion. the President of the United States in 1947 in which it made a Range, Nebo and San Juan units. Judges, Justices of the Peace, The research agency's report 'held thatreport the junior colleges, or and and City The season continues .County Attorneys, through warns of some difficulties that community colleges or vocational November 7 in most of these sec- ;Law Enforcement officers. be encountered in meeting schools, by whatever name they is It tions. hoped that much good may called, offer the most pro- future expenditure demands. may be means of meeting the postSportsmen should check their may result from these sessions. The Foundation report indicates mising war for ld54 deer hunting proclamation surge expansion of college that the State will have to face education. to determine exact boundaries The devotion of thought to an fiscal problems to the relating and regulations covering any of honest achievement makes the EDUCATION A PUBLIC mounting school enrollments, the the above extended season units achievement possible. RESPONSIBILITY inand needs, possible highway before going afield during the Mary Baker EddT creases in welfare requirements The principle that education is that may develop if any down- a state function operated by the for all the people return were to develop in the gen- people and of race or creed is deeply gardless eral economy. imbedded in our American tradiThe study suggests that "a tions. Our pioneer forbearer and possible offset to the anticipated the great leaders of the L. D. S. rise in educational expenditures Church who foundei our Utah commonwealth wrote into the state is the prospect of receiving ada requirement that edditional revenues from Utah constitution ucation must be an obligation of school lands." During the past the state, free from sectarian conten year, mineral rental receipts trol or domination. This tradition, from lands in Utah this constitutional mandate should be so lightly handled that it multiplied 20 times, reaching not two can be thrown aside after (QWerf in ifie Thi -- Make Reservations NOW! 1 rm OVER V8 BANQUET old age assistance and other forms of relief and social security, the state spent more than 20 times what it spent for these four junior colleges in the same year. For highways the state spends ten to fifteen times as much annually as it does to operate these schools. Surveys consistently have shown that the per capita cost to the state at Weber College are the lowest of any colleges operated by the state and all costs of operatinsr these junior colleges are not out of line when measured by student output with the senior colleges or with colleges of other states. The Utah foundation in a recent report showed that in 1950 state and local suDDort cost onlv $280 Der student for higher education in Utah where as the national average was $437. Utah's costs for higher education are not burdensome. Through education we increase the income of our people, supply help for our growing industry which calls for greater mastery of tools and skills in its manpower. Through educa tion we build manhood and woman hood as our first and major line of defense against revolutionary and destructive ideology, reactionary isms and world conflicts which threaten to destroy our American way of life. Our public school system has made the greatest of contributions to the success of our people, to the building of America and the continuation of our way of life. Education is the producer and not the consumer of wealth. JUNIOR COLLEGES ARE CULTURAL CENTERS These junior colleges have be come cultural centers of large areas and big segments of our population. Weber College serves an area of more than 124,000 or ap. proximately 16 percent of the state. Of these more than 50,000 are not members of the L. D. S Church. In the 1952-5- 3 school year this college enrolled 4,797 people in its various courses of whom more than 2,700 were in evening classes and more than 1,000 were full time day students. Its contributions to the educational advancement and the enjoyment of a richer lite extended to more unnumbered thousands through Weber, Morgan, Davis and Box Elder Counties through community concerts, lectures, community theatres, choir, band and orchestral croups. The educational and cultural level of whole communities has been lifted. property and income to only those! mempeople who are tithe-payibers of the church. Business andj industry, utilities, mines, privately; owned corporations and all the'; property owned by them would; escape paying any part of their, support under such a transfer. As all people benefit from education, so all should help pay the; costs. As all business and industry benefits from the higher skills and advances in technology produced by education, so all business and industry should help pay the costs. It is neither fair nor just that the state should pass these costs on to the more limited ability of the LDS to pay all the costs of these Iieople colleges while the larger part of taxable wealth escapes. ng ' TRANSFER NON-LD- UNFAIR TO PEOPLE S There can be no question but that the LDS Church would maintain a high standard of education in these schools if transferred to them. But it is unfair to the more than 50,000 people living in the Weber college area to force them to send their children to an LDS operated school, or pay the heavy financial penalties in sending their children away to school, or have their children do without an education. It would be equally unfair to expect that our LDS people would receive kindly such an enforced choice were, these schools to be operated by the Catholic Church or some other religious denomination. non-LD- S ' ONE PACKAGE DEAL UNFAIR Lumping the three junior colleges of Weber, Snow and Dixie into one lot to be transferred to the LDS Church is unwise and unfair. Either all three must be abandoned by the state and transferred or none. There may be good and sufficient reason why one or more of these schools should be turned over by the state but there is no possibility for each school to be judged on its own merits. 1 . CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION Grave doubts have been raised by competent legal authority whether the law is constitutional on the grounds that the transfer given preference to one particular religious body. If a majority of the voters next November fail to vote AGAINST the law. the act will probably be tested in the courts. Pending the outcome of JUNIOR COLLEGES ARE that test, serious damage would be VOCATIONAL CENTERS done to these colleges caused by The junior colleges have grown them being left in uncertain status into centers for training of both with neither the state nor the youth and adult in vocational edu- church finally in control. cation. State funds are used to REFER SUBJECT BACK FOR support vocational schools at Provo STUDY and Salt Luke. What those schools are to their areas, Weber College is In the twenty-od- d years these " to its area and to some extent schools have been supported by Dixie and Snow are to the regions the state, they have grown to bethey serve. Hero the great empha- come an accepted part of our pubsis is on training for employment lic school system. They have grown in those jobs, those industries to become the heart centers of the which are established in the com- areas they serve providing educamunities. tion and culture which have lifted levels of large segments of our During the war Weber College the trained thousands of people in people. Utah is emerging into an indusspecial skills for jobs at the war new industries plants in the Ogden area. It made trial state with a big contribution to the war effort locating here, each industry requiras well as to the vocational ad- ing special skills in the manpower vancement of the people. For it employs, each needing some many years it has conducted facility to training of its mantrainpower. We here are developing a special courses for dynamic economy which is placing ing in industries. with its The farmer has his college at the the state in competition We musf neighbors. agriculture college, the business industrialized and professional man has his col keep it that way with our schools and public institutions advancing lege ut the university. The college of the laboring man, the skilled to serve our expanding empire. -These facts, these considerations artisan or tradesman is in the more than a two hour study junior colleges and in the voca justify in a secret caucus behind closed tional schools. doors for deciding the future of JUNIOR COLLEGES REDUCE education. The safe way, the reasonable way is to refer the BARRIERS TO EDUCATION to the legisWithout increasing the costs to whole subject backAGAINST the state, these junior colleges lature by voting the future this of us plan make it possible to avoid heavy law. Let and well financial penalties which would be higher education carefully before taking any such drastic step imposed on parents in sending: chil dren away to school and they bring as planned by this law, two years of college and complete vocational courses within the reach I, LA MONT F. TORONTO, Sec- -, of thousands who would not otherof State of the State of wise be able to afford this educa- Utah' DO HEREBY CERTIFY d tion. Surveys show that nearly that the foregoing is a full, correct more high school graduates and true copy of the argument , attend colleges in those communi- against, the transfer of Weber,'-Snoties where colleges are located and and Dixie Junior Colleges, the difference is largely accounted as filed by the "Junior College families. in for among those poorer Action Committee," as appears of ' Under state control, these colleges record in my office. can have no barriers against any IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I ; race, sect or creed but are held open to all. have hereunto set my hand and ' JUNIOR COLLEGE TRANSFER affixed the Great Seal of the State' Lake this Salt Utah at of UNFAIR TO LDS CHURCH City, If these colleges were to be main 28th day of September, 1954. tained to present standards under LAMONT P. TORONTO j controt of the LDS Church, then would them of . transfer merely Secretary of Stat any transfer the costs from au taxa&ie (SEAL) one-thir- w |