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Show Spring, 1959 Fulbright Brings Welcome Change to Old Committee The only daily newspaper devoted to the progress and advancement of Central Utah and its people A ,A law passed by the 1959 Utah Legislature gives counties the ausales thority to pass a half-ce- tax for the benefit iOf the municipalities within the respective counties. Whether the tax is placed in effect depends on "local option' with the decision up to the respective county commissions. .County commissions presumably will test cities be 1 the pulse of the various '' fore taking action. The bill was spearheaded in the Legislature by the more populous counties who are caught in a serious financial squeeze as a result of rising costs, heavy .for municipal services, and extra expenses due to rapid growth, without commensurate increase in revenues. ' , -' Provo City has been in favor of the half-cemunicipal sales tax from the first. The other major cities of the county appear to be generally divided on the issue at present.! Most small communities, it is understood, are on the fence or opposed. One thing is certain growing cities must have money to provide the services and facilities which people expect, ' and some means must be found to provide that money. The Legislature apparently felt that the added half --cent sales tax was the best means to give the cities the needed relief. The new law wisely, requires that the new tax must be applied on a county-wid- e basis. Confusion discrimination and would, result if one city had the tax and neighboring cities of the county didn't. From discussion of the new law it is obvious there is much misunderstanding, both as to its need and how it will be administered if passed locally. Thus, tonight's public meeting sponsored by the retail merchants is a fine thing. It should be a means of educating the public and creating a better understanding, of the whole program. It is hoped the people will respond so that the South Courtroom will be filled to capacity for the meeting. ll regular yard duty, he seems geared for any out- door task large or small. Hell bound out of the house to snap nip a wandering bit of paper, or a fragment of glass glinting in the spring-summer-fa- nt - season. An unseen magic wand taps him. He tosses on a light jacket, storms out of the house and strides purposefully; . across the lawn. He picks up a metal lawn chair which a chill wind blew over some three months before. The thaw has begun. The life cycle renews itself. Soon he'll be chasing stray cigarette butts and old candy wrapper with old And him and vigor. get just try to move that chest in the living . i , - i - all-hi- - . s room. . : Assignment: Washington . sun. But all that changes when winter sets in. The man of the house retreats inside, slamming the door and seeking out the comfort of the soft chair.y There heremains,; like a hibernating creature, for interminable months. It just isn't the season for going outdoors, except to get indoors somewhere else. Yet the long withdrawal must end, inevitably. There comes that day when he peers out of the window and sees the bright sun standing at an angle that hints of a new 1 Big Demand for Stones Fijdm " the been-hundred- AD-74- 3, T-22- Despite Bad Neighbors, King Prevails 20 1 for nearly seven years. But in his short life he has probably seen more trouble than most men three times his age. Two years ago, when there was a movement on to bring Jordon Into the Baghdad Pact, it met with such violent' protests from Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt that experts freely predicted the Kingdom of Jordan could not last. The prevailing opinion was that after a mad scramble, Jordan would be -- . - , df-j-vid-ed up among Its surrounding bors Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and that Israel might get a piece of it, too. But Jordan is still intact. YOUNG KING HUSSEIN solved that one day . by kicking his best friend, the British, ' out of " his kingdom. Having no oil or other income after the British withdrew their subsidy, King Hussein got promises of support from other Arab - governments. They never paid. He was broke. The United States came to his aid and saved his skin. Last July King Hussein foiled just In time a plot against his life. That was! when Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem - over- - -threw the government of Iraq and Hussein's cousin King Faisal IJ and his uncle, Prince Abdul Hah. ' King Hussein let British paratroopers come back into Jordan to Tielp preserve order, at the same time the U.S. Marines moved into Lebanon. Saved again. Last November, after a broadcast to hiS people saying that order had been restored, King Hussein announced that he was going to Switzerland for his health and a rest. There were rumors that he was leaving for good. his private Flying out over Syria, r'une was attacked fey .United Arab Peoublic MIG fighters and f ired to return to his capital in Am-- A 14 ' he-wa- s ir an. A-r- il, ll A STAYED THERE three months. I 'his interval he abolished marital 1,' , which had been In effect since 1957. He also announced his desire to settle differences with President K "ser, but he got no response. So then the King left on his world trur going in the other direction and visiting Formosa and Hawaii en route tc .the United States. This Is not considered an official visit. The King and a royal entourage of ..V ! - . , . . J Ruth Millett They Say The late President Franklin D. Roosevelt proved a man can be elected as long as he lives. Harry Truman proved you can elect anybody. Eisenhower proved you don't need a president. Texas State Rep. Tony Fenogilo. . Girls: Don'tlSell Yourselves Short It doesnt pay to sit e ; I don't knpw what a free press is I have never seen one. Harry S. Truman, speaking to world press congress in Columbia, Mo. From Cuba to the Dominican Republic is the same distance as from the Dominican Republic to Cuba ; . If the aggressors (would-b- e liberators) want to see their beards and brains flying about like butterflies then they ought to approach the Dominican coasts in a hostile way. Generalissimo Rafael Leonida Trujillo. " t self-confiden- ce, - ' . on the side- lines wishing some group or other would include you. Have enough to form your own group. Give parties instead of sitting around hoping to be invited to the parties other people give, and lend a helping hand to someone who is .shyer than you are instead of being afraid to be kind. Being proud of your home and your family is important. No one has much respect for a girl who is ashamed of her background, simply t because she doesn't live in as impressive , a house as jornt of her friends, or because her father doesn't earn as much as someone lse's father. Excelling ,at something builds You are bound one's to have some talents you can deget-up-and-- go ., " -- is-jus- , The ' Senator, speaking as a man who' could deliver the votes' to back himself up, declared the American position to be open to 'reasoned Ideas responsible suggestions.". Fulbright then made a proposal which was ' addressed, in-effect, to the Kremlin. He suggested that the risk, of, war might be, reduced r "especially accidental war" if the antagonists In Germany would move even a short distance aoart. ... , foreign policy body. It Is all to tht11 good to find Senator Fulbrleht offering leadership in a post which has been a vacuum since the days ' of Walter' George. ; V Tell Me Why? About Time Zones the world from Greenwich is an imaginary line called the International Date Line. If you cross this line moving west you "lose" a whole day, and if you cross It moving east you "gain" a whole ; day. f By A. LEOKUM Win the Britannica Junior encyclopedia for school and home. Send your questions, name, are. address to "Ten Me Whyr' eare of .this paper. Today's winner is: Christine Wiatt, 10, Knightstown, Ind. ; j , Now that we can travel by jet plane across the lUnited Stales, the differences in time have be--' come even more startling. Ve can leave New York at a certain hour, for example, and arrive in Los x Angeles just a little while lateron the clock. The reason for this is that our country! is divided into time zones. This division was adopted Ja 183$ when the United States was divided into four time belts, of Zones Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. The division was based m meridians, the imaginary lines that run around the earth through the North and South Poles, j The time kept in each belt varies ex--, actly an hour from' the belt next to it. And the time kept every-where within each belt to exact- ; ' What did the general say to bis soldiers? TTtn the r .; : -- self-respe- ct. v velop. ;V; . Anything that you can do well will give you just a little more confidence in yourself as a person. So . quit envying others for what whatt they have they are and-f- or and do the best you can with what you've got to start with. When. you please where you go please, The old expression "you're full of prunes',' fits very nicely with most boarders. , Eng-lan- d, which has 0Legree meridian running through it. As you move east from Greenwich, you add an 15 degrees. As you move west from Creenwich, you subtract an hour from Greenwich time in the same ; way. wich, it is four in the morning in , California, because you have inter-- ; moved west nine vals, and H is 2 in the afternoon ia. Egypt, because you have intermoved east two vals. Exactly on the. opposite aide of H&mtramcK, it's a lot easier to . go where you . 15-degr- ee Jasinski, the switch. 15 15-deg- ree Send A lot of the Juvenile delinquency is due to parents being asleep at The whole world is divided into time zones exactly as the. United So when it is 12 noon m Green- of Events. Barbs the Eastern zone. 'hour to Greenwich time every Yearbook Chester Mich. er peninsula of t Michigan, could all be in the Central time zone, but they include themselves in In Greenwich, Britannica World Atlas your riddles, jokes, tricks to "Tell Me Why!" Today's winner isi straight lines. The reason for this is that some community may be closely linked with an area very near it and wish to keep the same time. For example, Georgia, most of Florida, and the low- It starts A? fCTIHEjEMy.T. As you move from one belt to another, going east, the time advances an hour. If you go west, 'it goes back an hour. But the time belts do not follow, perfectly degrees , as one goes around the world in terms of meridians, there is a new time zone. Where, does the .measuring atart? MESSAGE WE . States is. Every FUN TIME Newsboy: Extra! Extra! Read all about the two men swindled! Passerby: Here boy, HI take one. Say, there's nothing in here about two nfen being swindled. Newsboy: Extra! Extra!Read all about the three men swindled! MYSTERY ly the same. Tip for v n . . . d ' .1 " , .. . . , : S-2- 04. . ii certainly " . v s . . n, v The eye itself requires highly skilled treatment, Including the use of drugs, heat applied locally, rest and protection from ' light. Sometimes a method called foreign protein therapy1 has been found helpful In iritis. This consists in injecting some protein substance (boiled milk is an example) which produces a reaction in the body, usually with fever. This seems to stimulate resistance and often has a able effect on the iritis. As in most other inflammatory diseases of the eye (but not such things as cataracts, simple glau coma, and the like) ACTH ' or cortisone have been used with considerable success in some but ' , not all, When anything goes wrong with the eyes, diagnosis and treatment s h o u Id be prompt since the risk oi permanent damage to these vital organs is great. It is not possible for a patient to tell what kind of eye trouble he has from the symptoms alone. Therefore, expert advice should be obtained promptly because the vision itself may be at stake. 5, 40-to- 1 . pos-sibilit- ies y So , But sometimes no cause what ever can be found. When proper treatment is begun early, the iritis often clears up cdmpletely but complications and chronic inflammation are dangerous . coast-to-coa- st .. ' . ot ; " j radio-televisio- n Prompt Skillful Treatment , the-involve- j . the impression which Fulbright gave in his Senate speech which roughly coincided with President Eisenhower's address to. the nation. While the President repeated the don't4udge-an-Inc- h line, Fulsaid found "no par-he that bright status in virtue ticular quo." $e This Infection of Iris Demands ;1 WASHINGTON ( NEA) Twenty-thr- e King Hussein, ibn Talal ibn Abdullah el Hashim, who will be an unofficial visitor touring the. "United States from now until April 17, has been on the throne of his Kingdom of Jordan ashes., Your Family Doctor V-48- are making this trip at their own expense. The U.S. Air Force is ,furnish-in-g a transport plane for the grand tour. And there will be some entertainment expense, but that'g all. No negotiations are being conducted on this visit. His Majesty will see and exchange views with President Eisenhower, Acting Secretary of State Christian A; Herter and other military and civilian officials. But there will be no new treaties signed, no new loans and no new grants. FOR THOSE LITTLE details have already been taken care of. Total U. S: economic aid to Jordan over the past 10 years has been 121 million dollars. It includes 19 million for technical assistance, four million for surplus foodstuffs, and nearly 98 million for special assistance projects like irrigation canals and other public works. The figures do not include the 15 million dollars a year needed to care for the 900,000 Arab refugees from Palestine; now kept. In United Nations camps in Jordan. The figures also do not Include cost of U.S. military assistance to Jordan, which Is secret. But when the British pulled out of Jordan in 1955, it was .' generally assumed that the United States would have to pick up the tab. U.S. economic aid to Jordan was 32 million in 1958, will be- over 35 million this year. This is more than $200 for each of Jordan's .1,500,000 inhabitants, in a nation about the size of Indiana. , J..-Willia- , - s Capitol The only pieces that will not bt disposed of are the granite treads of the Capitol's front steps. The treads, upon which walked our history's famous personages over the last 137 years, will be returned to their original places. 40-tb- Washington Lowdown By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent U. S. Whoever finally gets , those By ED KOTERBA columns will have a big cleaning WASHINGTON The man jdb on their habds. The pillars wanted a pieceof the U.S. .Capare covered with! 35 coats of paint hunk was all. itoljust a n one coat for levery Inaugural the request And, in a way, year since the Capitol was .rebuilt wasn't out of reason. after its destruction in the War of There have of 1812. Folks like that lately. requests and from all over the country other parts of the world want a stone or two or three, or at least a chip, from our famous landmark on Capitol, Hall. It won't be for several weeks that taxpayers may have the opportunity to cart away a portion of their Capitol. The historic stones about 150 years old are from the East Front, which has been dismantled in a $10.1 By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. million restorat! on project. Written for INEA Service thousands of Those stones Several readers have inquired all in them, shapes, designs and about iritis, particularly its possizes are stored inside a five-fosible causes and treatment. Cergreen board fence in the tainly this serious eye disease front yard of the Capitol. " deserves attenti&h. ' filed there, by They're actually Its name comes from the part code numbers. Each piece is of the" eye affected the iris. It designated with hieroglpyhics in alraost always jcauses pain, wablack paint, like tering of the eyes, sensitivity to 5 and bright light. If it goes on too Eight now, the commision for long it can lead to poor vision or restoring the Capitol's East Front even total loss of sight in is winding up its inventory of eye. those pieces of sandstone. When . When, as often happens, iritis that inventory is completed, a begins suddenly, the symptoms decision will be made on just how are worse than in the chronic to distribute the stones to the ' variety. But Recovery: usually : public. comes more rabidly, perhaps in n The request came from & few weeks. j'Pain' is usually a town official in an Eastern city, and commonly worse at severe name of which is being withheld in jthe d a y t i m e. than night for the time being. Touching or pressing the eyeball . Most of the other inquiries are produces excruciating pain. from museums. Others are from Iritis is sometimes ' associated sentimental individuals who hankwith rheumatism, diabetes,, tuer for a bit of old history in their berculosis, syphilis or injury. It front yard. One fellow wants most important that the cause is several stones for a front walk. the iritis be j discovered' whenof There's a purpose in numbering ever , possible. those stones. As Capitol architect The disease pr 'condition proStewart anyexplained it, George ducing the, inflammation of the body getting a stone will know must be treated as well as iris of the Capitol exactly what part the coreye itself. Thus the search it came from. The numbers for Infection or 'disease elserespond with a master chart a where in the body must be "setting" in his office. out painstakingly and carried new the when Too, replacement wokmen come will thoroughly. in, pieces know just where each goes. Before the old stones were removed .from the Capitol,' every p i e c e was measured to a thousandth of an inch. If you want a hunk of the Capitol, Stewart asks, please, Teen-Ag- e don't write in yet. Wait until the commission determines under which conditions the stones .will be doled out. There isn't a day that a Congressman or Congressional secre- - v Memo, to teen-aggirls:. tary doesn't slip up to the archiA lot of you are miserably untect and whisper, "Don't forget happy when you could be having to save me a stone." Stewart the time of your lives because you figures he has enough, requests don't understand or believe a few to give away the whole Capitol. basic facts. Let's list them. t Biggest prize of all is the set of Your friends land acquaintances 24 Corinthian sandstone pillars, will pretty much accept your own which will be replaced with opinion of yourself. If you think columns of Georgia marble. you're a. complete washout they'll Just what's going to happen to take your word for it. If you them they're al crated .and hidthink you're every bit as good as den under a lov. roof in, the yard anyone else they'll accept that i nobody knows. evaluation.,. v The building commissioii has critical of you as as Nobody is received a slew of suggestions on t you are yourself. So quit worrying where they should go everything because your nose is a little long, from putting them up at the enor your hair plain brown, trance to the Gettysburg Battleor you're" too till or too short, or field to standing them up around too fat or too thin. the Washington Monumeiit. If you'll qudt saying, "I' hate Stewart is sentimental, about this or " that about myself" and these old columns, 30 feet high, make the most of what nature all hand made and erected in gave you you'll look all right. 1825. He'd like to see them set ip The critical iremarks of other somewhere indoors and away girls needn't undermine your f from the ravages of the elements. Teen-ag- e girls are often catty. Mt Lassen sin the Cascade Iheniselvea build up by tryThey to of tear But they is California others 'down. the i range ' only ing down if tear in United the volcano can't active you refuse you to let your feelings be hurt. States. AE-13- 2, -- seasoned freshman the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Futbright Is to the a welcome change bringing scene. While any analogy toTthe English parliamentary system is imprecise and, not very significant,' it is a temptation to say that Fulbright has been serving very much as a British foreign minister 'might. That is, the Arkansas Senator has ' generally been present on the floor when foreign affairs speeches are (made from both sides of the aisle. In every case", I think, he has come to his feet to comment upon major addresses and proposals. He has made himself available to questions by other mem- hers. He has, notably in the mount- Sng tension of the Berlin crisis, stated his position with an authoritative tone, giving the impre ssion, which nobody disputes, that he speaks for the Democratic majority and often for the liberal Republicans as well. Whatever else can be said of Fulbright, he is irrevocably yoked to the principle of flexibility. Early in the session, he became Foreign Relations chairman only Theobecause the his waived seniority dore Green, . rights to the chair. For the past i several years, Fulbright has been walloping Secretary Dulles with accusations which prominently included the charge of being inflexible before the Communist Monster. As the beneficiary of .a seniority system which did flex and as the denouncer of a Secretary of State who allegedly did not, it's logical to expect the Senator Jto be, as they, say in baseball, as loose as then-Chairma- . -- i . vestigating the matter. When the man' of the house is on The Senator's propositi sa, to be sure, was hedged with all the usual qualifications and safety devices to guard against Russian perfidy. He said that we would not act without concerted approval of the Allies, that any agreement with Russia must be "effectively monitored" and that no settlement in Middle Europe would be considered to seal the servile fate of the" .. satellite nations. After all these precautionary conditions have been' stated. It Is;' questionable whether the Senator is any more flexible in practice than' the President or the Secretary cf State. But there's no doubt that .Js theory Fulbright intends to be flexible, and that he intends to advance flexibility as a foreign policy with which to confront the . Russians In Europe. What the Fulbright .theory amounts to, although I amftheoriz-in- g myself,: is that we, force flexIV bility upon the Russians by seeming to practice it. In other words, the Fulbright policy would be to Inform the Russians that they can, v without loss of face, carry out a J phased withdrawal from the heart of Europe. In return, but without any promises in advance, the United States might be willing to pull back a little, too. Thus both sides would be easing out of a deadlock, but neither"' side would feel itself driven out. There are pros and cons to the Fulbright proposition. There is, as he says, some. easement of the risk of accidental war. Besides, the U. S. would be returning in some small part to the only postwar policy, we ever hadBring the. Boys Home. Moreover, any westward movement of American troops might remind the European that they themselves peoples should rightly provide the first line of Western defense against Russia. But against the Fulbright policy is the Communist determination,-ofteexpressed by deed as well as word, to, revolutionize the world. Since the Russians are calling ' al! shots, the chance of war happening by accident Is very improbably. It is much more probable that the Russian power, of Ini-- n tiative will claim a diplomatic victory out of any backwani step which we take. Still the Senate Is striving at this session to fulfil its function as a As the chairman of C. . ' Voice of the Turtle ; . ; de-ma- nd x - The new law becomes effective May 12. Details for administering the tax will be discussed today at a meeting in Salt Lake City between the Utah State Tax Com-- t mission and cities and counties. In Provo, a meeting has been called for tonight at 8 o'clock in the South Courtroom, City and County Building, for explaining the proposed tax and its need to businessmen and others interested. The meeting is being sponsored by the Retail Merchants Council of the Chamber of Commerce. County Commissioner G. Marion Hinckley and Provo City Manager Earl Udall will speak and answer ... tions. " The Utah County Commission has taken no action yet. Mr. Hinckley, commission chairman, has indicated ther county will be in no hurry to make a decision. Meantime, commissioners are nt p. WASHINGTON, The Proposed City Sales Tax A ' By HOLMES ALEXANDER THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1959 i. Foreign Policy Senate-Mod- e Divorce often' results, when people walk to the altar and say "I do'f and then don't. Six new- autos were destroyed in i garage fire in Indiana, and maybe the lives of some careless driven were saved. - A Tennessee man changed his will 10 times, which should teach his relatives to behave. Some dumb waiters are pulled by a rope and others are lucky not to be. A man robbed a bank and then escaped in an airplane. High Caancel |