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Show FRIDAY. MAY 24, 1957 " TTTE BTNOITAM BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH pa nr. pour - y rii-E;'- -' ideai from other editor From the Tallassee Tribune, Tallassee. Alabama: "The State Department told us nobody would make a profit. I took the Job at an absolute minimum. It was worth it, because the trip fostered good relations. I was a patriot to do it." Those are the immortal words of , a character named John (Dizzy) -- Gillespie, whom the United States government paid $100,839 to take his troupe of sixteen musicians on good-wi- ll mission to Middle Eastern and Balkpn coun-tries last year. This self-style- d "patriot" picked up $2,150 a week out of the deal, or $227 a week more than the ' President of the United States re-ceives for his services. It was later reported th.it the State Department gave this character a $40,000 sub-sid- y to tour South America. 1 This newspaper enthusiastically supported President Eisenhower in 1052. specifically because we were fed up with Roosevelt and Truman throwing money to the four winds. ,We voted for the President again in 1958, less enthusiastically to be sure, but in the main because we . felt he had done a creditable Job . and because we could not enter-- . tain the thought of having a junior grade George Gobel In the White House. But If the President, with a straight face, can eloquently plead that the nation's schools are In peril unless a huge building pro-gram is started and on the other hand sanction Secretary Dulles throwing our tax money down a rat hole like the Gillespie project, we have had It. And if modern-da- y patriots come at $2,150 a week, we say the price Is too high. Let's give it back to the Indians. From the Granite State News, Wolfe voro, New Hampshire: It Is very fair to ask If the American buying public does not value pow-er and style and color and speed more than safety. The merchandising of automo-biles is the greatest and hardest and most frightening Job in the business world when the final deci-sions are made. An error In Judg-ment and a model does aot sell well and production lags .and mil-lions and millions are lost. ' The men behind automobile de-sign research public opinion as much as is humanly possibla to find out just what the great Amer-ican buying public, North and South, East and West, really wants to purchase J We assume that the men In the wrecking business know as much about crashes as any ont. That is their specialty. And they vote fur belts and paUJeU dashbo-uUi- - COFFEE QUEEN . . . U. 8. Sen. Homer Capebart of Indiana geU cup of coffee from Panama's Analida Alfsro, representing 15 Latin America coffee growing nations. ROYAL ALMS . . . Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip carry traditional flowers and herbs as royal maundy money Is distrib-uted at St. Albans Abbey on Holy Thursday. by LYN CONNELLY MUCH U made of the alleged that Oscar wlnneri are unknown until the slip bearing their names is read from the podi-um . . This may be true, but It seems peculiar that year after year the "guesses" by everyone In Hollywood from a Jan-itor to the top producers are In-variably right . . . How can they guess", for Instance, that "Around the World In 80 Days" will win the best pix jward while George Stevens will be named the best director for "Giant?" Neither of these Oscars was a surprise to anyone In the movie audience or the televiewers who had read all predictions. Katharine Hepburn deserved the Oscar, but Katie is not well liked by her so she lost out In an emotional binge over Ingrid Bergman who made her first American movie In her first years of exile Kirk Douglas, too, deserved it If voting was fair, but Yul Brynner won on the basis of a role he created on Broadway and could play It In his sleep. The same thing happened some years ago with Shirley Booth . . . She created a role on Broadway, played It a thousand or more times, made her first movie based on the same play and promptly won the Oscar for "best actress." Last year an unknown actor won on his por-trayal In a movie seen llrst as an original TV play . . Has Holly-wood no originality left? PLATTER CHATTER CAPITOL: One of the funniest of Stan Freherg's disks is his latest, a superlative satire on Harry Belafonte's terrific rendition of "Banana Boat Song" This one is good for many laughs Flip ide has a Freberg original. " Gene Vin cent works up a storm on B-- Bickey-B- i indica-tion that even infants should dig rock 'n rol' terminology t cov-ered by 'Five Days Five Days " rr'Cfi",a 'deoi from other editor From the Newark, N. Y.: .A foothill town lived In fear of destruction Every summer, when the moun-tain snows melted, flash floods Inundated the town Bridges col-lapsed; houses were swept away; people drowned. The townspeople got together to end this threat They raised money and hired experts to construct a scheme of protection. This con-sisted of a series of dams and channels to trap the flood waters upstream and divert them around the town. Three floodgates con-trolled the system. By turns the townspeople were to watch and work the floodgates For a time they did. Then, one after another, they found excuses. Their Jobs were pressing; they didn't have time; they put It off or forget about It. The gates re-mained unguarded. One night a flash flood swept down the mountainside and wiped out the town. The U. S. polio story Is not un-like the story of this town. For years we lived under the shadow of polio paralysis. We spent time and money to find a preventive. Now that we have It the Salk vaccine we neglect to use It. Only one polio susceptible person in ten Is properly vaccinated The polio season is upon us and we tremble In fear of epidemics If we are to escape them, over 50 million Americans must be vac-cinated. It takes three proper-ly spaced Salk shots to Set up maximum Immunity. If you are under 40, don't wait till disaster strikes. Vaccinate at the earliest opportunity. From the South Pasadena Re-view, South Pasadena, Calif: If a stranger struck up an acquain-tance with you on the street and offered to share a sizeable sum of money he said he had Just found, wouldn't you be more than a lit-tle wary there was a catch to it? What's more, suppose the stranger said that before he hand-ed over the money you must jive him an equal amount temporari-ly. Just to show "good faith". Would you give him the money If you had It? You're probably saying: Nobody would be stupid enough to do that! Well, brother, they do, and they do It every day of the year. This obvious bunco trick has prob-ably been the most successful of all bunco tricks since crooks first started to work the public "pHE Bureau of the Budget Is an important adjunct of the Ex-ecutive Department of the Govern-ment today. As originally set up the Bureau was intended by the Congress to assist the legislative Department keep track of the ex-penditures of the various depart-ments by holding them In line un-der the law setting up the budget system. As it works out, however, how the budget bureau operates large-ly depends upon who Is running the department, and as It is being op-erated today, there is reasons to suspect that the various depart-ments are being shown how much they can spend, under the appro-priations of Congress, rather than how much they can save the tax-payers. A case In point Is the Atomic Energy Commission. This impor-tant agency has spent some $15 billion dollars of the taxpayers money In development of atomic weapons and is now at the head of the civilian and peaceful devel-opment of atomic energy for in-dustry, medicine and agriculture. The chairman of the Commission, Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, is to say the least a man of strong con-victions, many call him arbitrary. He wears two hats, in that he is at once the chairman of a regulative and licensing agency of the gov-ernment, and at the same time official advisor to the President on Atomic Energy. Since the weap-ons divisions of this agency is un-der direct command of the Presi-dent and the Department of De-fense, it cannot operate in the tra-ditional manner as an independent agency of the government engaged in Civilian licensing and regulation, such as the Federal Communica-tions Commission. Chairman Clarence Cannon, of the House Appropriations com-mittee, says that in almost every expenditure it has made in the civilian applications of atomic energy the Commission has vio-lated the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the intent of Congress. Speaking on this point Chairman Cannon said: "The Commission's method of defeating the statutory direction has been to arbitrarily divide the various atomic electric power pro-grams into two fiscal categories." With the approval of the budget bureau, the Commission sets up part of its electric power programs as "operating expense" which un-d- er the Act does not have to be specifically authorized by the Joint . Committee on Atomic Energy. The rest of the same project it sets up under plant acquisition and con-struction, which must be author-ize- d by the Committee. "The result has been," Chair-man Cannon said, "that for fiscal years 1956, 1957 and 1958 the amount appropriated and request-ed for the civilian power reactor program totals $23G.8 million, of which only $40 million was author-ized under authorizing legislation reported out by the joint commit-tee and approved by the Congress. Thus it is readily seen that less than 20 of this program was authorized and more than 80 of this indivisible program was not specifically authorized." Cannon pointed out that although the atomic, energy act contains a specific "no subsidy clause", on the construction of one reactor alone, the Commission in bonus prices for plutonium, waivers of fuel costs and other services had contracted with the private com-pany to pay the company cash subsidies of $58,050,000 million. The century plant blooms once In Its lifetime rather than once in a hundred years. Actually the spiky yellow cluster sometimes appears after only five years. Death invariably follows the blos-soming. BILL WAS A GENTLEMAN I By Virginia Morris Stifling a yawn, Bill Harding forced himself to look at the weirdly lighted stage. He'd enjoy "Marondo's Modern Ballet" If It killed him Bill that is. Marondo was probably good for another twenty years. Bill glanced at the rapt girl be-side him. Janlne's eyes never left the stage; even when she leaned her head on his shoulder, she con-tinued to stare at the performer. "She really loves the arts." Bill thought gloomily. "That's probably why she thinks so much of that educated slob, Tobias." He shifted his body carefully, trying to ease a cramp In his leg. Just because he'd never learned to appreciate the finer things in life . . . he thought longingly of the boxing match he was missing. It was really all Aunt Ellen's fault .... he remembered the first let-ter that had come . . . he'd been stationed in Missouri . . . who was JanLne Lewis? Opening the letter, he'd read: "I honestly can" say I remem-ber you. but Aunt El, who gave me your address, Insists we are back-doo- r cousins. She's certain that we have a great deal in com-mon, and tells me that you are a perfect gentleman. Would you mind if I wrote you once in a while?" Once In a while turned out to be a couple of times a week, and they got to know each other pretty well. Bill learned that Janine liked con-certs, the opera, musical recitals, and the ballet. She also seemed to like a certain Tobias Zediker . . . Bill was interested in the fights, the Dodgers, and an occasional beer party on Saturday night, but he was determined that this girl shouldn't find it out. Fooling her then had been easy for Pfc. Rich-Bo- y had helped Bill write the proper letters home, but fooling her when he got back would be harder. Things had worked out. He found, to his delight, that she was the girl he'd dreamed of. One look Into her soft brown eyes and he knew he'd do almost anything to keep in her good graces. He asked her to get tickets to the things she wanted to see, and ha went along for the ride. Once we're married, Bill planned optimistically, we'll ease Into an-other kind of life. The fights, a ball game He moved uneasily. Why didn't they make these blasted seats larger? Janine seemed comfort-able enough. Guiltily, Bill admitted that his discomfort might not all be the fault of the seat My fool consci-ence, he almost groaned. He re-membered reading somewhere that inside of all men, even gentlemen, there Is a conscience. A nuisance, the writer had explained, but there all the same. Bill was beginning to feel guilty about fooling Janine. How could he even ask her to marry him? "Let's face It, BUI Harding," he told himself sadly, "You hate the finer things of life. You can't fool jher, and you can't fool yourself." There. It was a relief to admit it. Tobias, the gentleman would win. Bill relaxed in his seat and watched the dance. That Morondo wasn't so bad . . . he'd have made a good basket ball player. A sound from Janine caught Bill's attention. He looked down at her sharply. He'd have sworn . . . A suffocating tenderness tightened Bill's chest. He grinned Aunt El-len telling Janine that he was a gentleman! The poor little darling! When the applause thundered around them, Janine sat up straight and clapped like mad. And Bill, a gentleman always, srid not a word. Enthusiastically, he joined in the applause. Bill sighed happily. He had real-ly enjoyed the evening, especially, most especially, had he enjoyed Janine's contribution, a gentle, persistant, lady-lik- e snore. That fool, Tobias, didn't have a chance! There are 444 mosques in Instan-bu- l. Turkey. The largest one In the world Is there and is called Sultan Ahmet Mosque, or sometimes the Blue Mosque because of Its bril-liant blue-tile- d interior. It is also the only mosque In the world with six minarets. The copper-nickel-zin- c alloys known as nickel silvers are the most popular base materials for silver-plate- d tableware. Eyeglasses do not cure eye ail-ments. Glasses serve merely as a vision corrective for those who are nearsighted, farsighted or have an astigmatism. The line of the Minutemen "Stand your ground. f Don't fin unless find upon. But if they mean to have a war, let it begin ben." a Captain Parker Jr On Lexington Green, 182 years ago this month, the first shot of the Revolution was fired. And the men who stood against the organized army of the Redcoats be-came immortal in American history as the Minutemen. For they were the core of the army which gave birth to nation a civilian army in which every man fought first for the security of his home and family and thus tapped incredible reserves of strength and fortitude. The Minuteman was chosen as the symbol of the Sav-ings Bond program of the U. S. Government because he represents the strength that is America the security of each individual American family. And it is this strength of 170,000,000 Americans which is behind every Savings Bond you buy. Your Govern-ment guarantees the principal of your Bonds safe up to any amount guarantees sun the rate of interest you receive. What more fitting way to honor the Minuteman of the Revolution than to build your family's security on the security of America as he did? You do that when you save regularly with U. S. Savings Bonds. Start today either through the Payroll Savings Plan at work or by buying Bond a month where you bank. Safe as America . . . U.S. Savings Bonds Tk V. S. Oovrrnmtnt don not pay tor Ihi advrtifmsnt. Tkt Treasury Ptpartmtnt thank, for thtir patrioti donatio, thm Advtrtuing Council and THE BINGHAM BULLETIN In the Monopoly States Group where people must order by brand name they call for ECHO SPRING more than any other Straight Whiskey ! 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