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Show - "They'll Never Believe Me If This One Gets Away" No Idiot Of A Congress r 86th Congress Remains newspaper devoted to the progress and advancement of Central Utah and its people The., only daily I The Best Shov In Town 1959 JULY ' Paved Road West of U ta h La Ice The proposal for a paved road on the west side-oUtah Lake has bobbed up again. This time it calls route. for a truck-detohad Commission Road The State ' get up a meeting in Provo. last week to explain the newest pros, posal to Utah County commision-ermayors, and chamber of commerce. But the commission called off the presentation for the time being-- apparently wary of opposition in this county. The last time the highway proposal came up a few years ago, Utah jCounty fought it tooth and toenail. It was a different proposition f ur . i i , west-of-the-la-ke th en, however. The location of the interstate freeway hadn't been worked out and certain interests were proposing; that the freeway be "located west of the lake. This entire populated area of Utah County. To have located the freeway west of the lake would have been catastrophic for this county. With Highway 91 as the only thoroughfare east of the lake, and traffic speeding by west of the lake, Utah, County would have suffered tremendous loss both' economically and convenience- with-freewa- wise. v.. State road commissioners heeded the Utah County appeal and on an . acrreed route. Today, the first section of the freeway is under construction, vthrough Or em. Undoubtedly it will be many years before the full Utah Cbunty link is. finished, however. "east-of-the-la- road commissioners have indicated. Under the secondary road system, the cost would be paid 75 per cent by the federal- government and 25 per cent by the state. Utah County citizens definitely should have a say on the matter of the new road. But they should take a careful look at the question, considering the many angles, before making a recommendation. Here are some of the questions which obviously should be considered: 1. ' How much business will Utah actually stand County merchants to lose if a west-sid- e detour, cutto Salt ting the time and distance Lake City for southern Utah people, is available? 2. Assuming that trucks are the main users of the road (which may or may not be the case), would this have extensive bearing on firms which cater heavily to truck business ? 3. Would it actually be a benefit to Utah County to get the big trucks routed away from our cities ? paved route .4. Would a west-sid- e open the door to desirable new scenic and recreational uses ? With the development of Utah Lake as a great recreational paradise, would such a road be a major asset? Many people are already tala paved king; about the need forlake. scenic route around the 5.. With continual agitation for road, how long a can one be forestalled? Would it be better to work for the most favorable location of the road for Utah County interests rather than continue to oppose it? 6. Will the offer of a paved road, at no cost to local taxing- units, always be available or might it be withdrawn if not accepted at this ke With the freeway projected to skirtthe various communities of Utah County, the new proposal for a truckHcTetour paved road west of Utah Lake has quite a different complexionNthan the proposal, of a few years ago. Obviously there are still arguments against the route. On the other hand, (there appear reasons favoring it to be sound ' ' also. As we understand it, the proposed road would be a Nf ederal secondary highway labeled "truck route." It would enable trucks (and other traffic) to move south on Redwood Road, Salt Lake County, and continue along the Camp Williams road and west, of the lake to Elberta and Goshen ; thence upx Goshen Canyon and west of Monax reservoir, functioning with U. S. 91 somewhere between Mona and . Nephi. The route, road commission taches have pointed out, , would offer solution to two problems: (1) Rerouting of heavy trucks during construction of the freeway through Salt Lake, Utah and Juab Counties; and (2) the problem of getting massive trucks through heavy street traffic of metropolitan Wasatcn Front cities. As it now stands, there is a road west of Utah Lake. North from Elberta! it is of dirt status for 23 miles before hitting an oiled section to continue another nine miles to an intersection with" the highway which extends west of Lehi to Tooele. If approved, the truck detour - west-of-tbe-la- - time? Utah County commissioners haven't made up their minds whether they will favor or oppose the detour route. They have indicated they would, like to get a good n of Utah County opin- ion, on the question. In the interest of getting the matter out on the table sp that evervone interested can hear the ' cross-sectio- . various reasons, pro and con, it would seem a wise move to hold vone or more public hearings, with state and local officials leading out in the discussionRepresentatives of all municipalities, chambers of commerce, interested civic groups and private citizens should be present. ; Inasmuch, as the matter of a well-publiciz- ed route has been raised by the road commission, this county certainly shouldxshow anx interest to the extent of letting the commission know howit feels about the project. Maybe all of the county cannot come to a unanimous recommendation, but a public hearing would be one way to f ind out or atleast 'fcn west-sid- e , . tret a cross-sectio- view which n might indicate the majority trend of thinking. n s.) . . ' i Well-intention- ed I idiot. Only AS ONE DISTINGUISHED FSO REMARKED recently. "There are only about 25 career people in the State De- partment to shove around in the top . jobs." It was a startling confession. Quantity is short as well as quality. The United States Foreign Service now career has only two active, $20,0Q0-ayeambassadors.- They are Deputy Undersecretary of State Robert Murphy and Ambassador to Austria H. Freeman just They rank, protocol-wisadmirals and genabove the 27 four-sta- r ar - Mat-thew- s. e, erals. Right through the services, the country personnel-is seen to be better equipped wise war than peace. for 7In rank below the career ambassadors, the Foreign Service has 71 career ministers at $19,250 apiece. They rank just above 86 three-sta- r generals and admi-al- s. t of these career ministers "are serving In foreign countries as ambassadors. The other 26 are "shoved around in top State Department jobs." Ambassador George V. Allen is running the U. S. Information Agency. James W. Riddleberger is running the foreign aid program. Livingston T. Merchant is assistant secretary of state for European Affairs. And so on. ; IN ADDITION TO THE FACT THAT THESE career ministers aren't paid enough so they can afford to be sent to the top diplomatic posts, there aren't enough of them. So, of the 82 U. S. embassies abroad, 26 have political appointees as ambassadors . With the1 exception of men like David K. E. Bruce in Germany any Ellsworth Eunker in India, few of these political ambassadors hava hadr diplomatic Forty-fiv- e ; training or experience, J in the size of funds has begun. A number of other reforms hav been initiated. Same of these passed as foreign aid amendments and some must await future passage, but the thing: to examine is an r picture of what lies within the mind of Congress. There ' was a strong move to abolish grants in favor of loans and to declare that the whole pro--, gram would be gradually reduced. There were other moves to turn the military phase of foreign aid over to the Pentagon, to suspend aid to any country which seized American-owne- d property without' just compensation, to refuse "aid to nations barring American, soldiers of whatever race or creed, to deprive the President of a contingency fund to use at will. here is plain it is ananti-ai- d pattern in the mind of a party that cannot be called isolationist or ungenerous. On the day before the Senate vote, the upper chamber received the utterly unexpected veto of the i ! .; in - Fashionable Money Ways of This Generation ED KOTERBA far "in" that I'm afraid he' (Copyright, by United out ... Feature Syndicate, Inc.) They were By WASHINGTON 1959, i The way they were putting it, either you're in or you're out. There's no And the No. 1 requirement to count yourself "in," it turns out, is to be up to ypur ears in mortgages. These people made it sound so enviable to be in the hole tapped one of them on the shoulder to say that I thought maybe ,1 was "in," too. But they laughed me out of the room when they heard the size of myoutstanding loans. And I found out how small we were when Dotty and I went 'round our suburban Maryland g among county houses for sale,- There was this one comfortable set on four years old home with tall lined grassy slope trees. "What's the asking price?" we said, like innocent babes. The lady realtor didn't blink., a ed '.. window-shoppin- I '$54,000." Then she checked over some fashionable figures. "Now," she said, "there's a first trust which per you could take over at 5 cent. It's $29,000. "The folks who live here," she said, a bit loftily, "are building a larger home in another neighborhood." Man, those people were in. They ride the height of fashion J a $29,000 mortgage, and now they're reaching for greater debt! But that's just one example of this new, strange era, of living on the margin of your income. Outside the perimeter of the District of Columbia, new neigh- bborhoods of fine, expensive houses neighborhoods as large as small towns keep rising .out of yesterday's wooded hills. I remarked casually to a salesman in one of these neighborhoods, "Howxcan folks afford all these new houses?" And he replied: "They can't. They take out first and second mortbig loans 4 gages." He said one fellow was just by, looking over a $30,000 home. The prospect said he had only $3,000 to put down and asked the agent to help work out a loan for the x remainder. His only stipulation: "Keep the payments below $250 a month." The fashionable money ways of -- this generation give me a guilt chill, especially when I recall the words of my wise and careful mother, whose roots are in the Old Country. "Never," she used to say "buy anything from anybody until you have yourself earned the money to . ' pay for, it . ..." There's one fellow in the sub-bur- bs who not long ago bought a $28,000 house with no cash. He took out a first trust in the amount of $9,000 and a second of $12,000 and a third and fourth mortgage on the rest. llis! interest per centj we're living it up these days. I'd say this fellow was "in." In fact, he's so 12 So this is the way Barbs By HAL COCHRAN Folks bitten by mosquitoes immediately develop an itch to get window screens. j i I A lot of modern art. is like the . other aide of the moon-Obscu- x. r .i rrer rne By MRS. MURIEL LAWRENCE unthreatening impression the of Emmy kept falling behind Mommy and the shopping cart. This was because she was wearing her new red sneakers. Not only did they match the cherries in bsr jsunsuit but made her feet look so exotic that she had to walk slowly to savor her pride in them. She had just given a little skip of delight when a huge dog bounded around the corner, barking furiously, and pelted straight at her. She screamed. She ran and, oh, relief! Mommy whirled, grabbed her up and set her safely down on two bunches of carrots in the shopping cart. Then, whale she was still screaming, Mommy turned, seized th? dog and said to' him, "My wha a noisy puppy you are! No, keep away from the shopping cart. Emmy's so afraid of you that she doesn't want to have, anything to do with you. But I'm not. I think you're a good boy Soon Emmy, stopped screaming. Next to Mommy, the dog didn't seem as big as she'd thought he was Instead of rushing at Mommy, he just danced around her. Suddenly conscious that sitting on the carrots was uncomfortable, Emmy wanted to test this new 5 . , ..." By A. LEOKUM Win palate. The two often occur together. These conditions fall in th group of what are called congenital defects. It seems likely that they are the result of some injury before birth rather than being truly hereditary disorders. The studies, which show that German measles in the mother during the first three months of pregnancy predisposes to congenital defects, throw some light on how this kind of thing could work. Also, stress during pregnancy has come under suspicion. is a shock to the Naturally parents to have a child born with a harelip or cleft palate. But they should not be too, discouraged. Surgery can help not only in the appearance, but also in forestalling the speech difficulties which are a serious part of the condition. The nature of the operation needed should be planned early. Some prefer, to operate while thi child is quite young, as this may avoid some of the speech and other difficulties whkh would be encountered by postponing treatment. Y Others favor surgery at about 4 years old. Either way ther art " 5 . -- " 4. me FUN TIME 1 The Chuckle Box Plumber (arriving six hours after call): How are things, Mr. Smith? Mr. Smith: Not bad. While ws-were waiting I taught my wife bow to swim. . . The best rule to follow safe mushrooms from poisonous mushrooms is not to try! .Despite what anyone may tell yoj, despite any "methods" you may know for telling them, apart, you, should never eat or even taste any mushroom that you find growing anywhere. The only safe -- mushrooms are those you buy in a food store I There are a great many false Ideas- - that people have about mushrooms. For example, some think that when poisonous mushrooms are cooked they will black-- u a silver spoon if they are stir--r red with it. This "test" is wrong! It is also untrue that certain mushrooms can.harnj. you if you simply touch them. And there is, no difference between a mushroom and a .toadstool. They are simply two names for one thing! Another false idea about mushrooms is that' those with pink gills are safe to eat. This is based on the fact that the two best known kinds which are safe to eat happen to have pink gills, and that th about-tellin- courage require them to deny their fear develop psychoneurotic disorders: (All rights reserved, NEA Service, Inc.) postoperative care, questions speech training and dental adjustments to mention the two which are probably most important. From the standpoint of appearance as well as that of speech, the best possible correction of harelip or cleft palate is important. Methods of doing this have been greatly improved. For example, three plastic surgeons recently reported thart they were "greatly encouraged" by the results of a operation. Children are even more sensi-- ; ttve about how they look than ' grownups A child with a "different" looking face can develop all sorts of complexes, especially excessive shyness. It Is wise, therefore, to make the lip look as normal as possible early in life. Also the parents should be aware of the psychological difficulties' faced by the child. The youngster should be helped to meet any thoughtless or cruel remarks of playmates by not taking them too seriously and fighting any tendency to become too indrawn or too aggressive. Overprotection spoiling on the part of parents Can be as harmful as neglect! With modern surgery and intelligent understanding, the youngster with a. birth defect of this sort can readily surmount the obstacles he or she faces. Such children need not fear a life which will be "different" from' ' that of others. of , two-sta- the appear which grow and become mushrooms. Britannica Junior encyclopedia for school and home. Send your questions, name, age, address to "Tell Me Why!" care of this paper. Today's winner Is: Brian Bellantuoni, 11, St. Petersburg, FlaL Operation Can Correct Children's Mouth Defects structures at the roof of the mouth. The first condition is called harelip and the latter cleft d Poisonous Mushrooms Your Family Doctor By. EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. Written for NEA Service Many prominent and successful people have been born with a split upper lip or a gap in the . Tell Me Why? feel their fears develop great skill in using their entrenching tools. But soldiers whose notions of . s multi-millio- compare with it. If Mommy had said, "Don't be afraid" and insisted on Emmy patting the dog while she still felt fear, the idea of doing something about the fear herself wouldn't have occurred to Emmy. Just as we have no right to forbid children their anger, jealousy and other emotions that we find disturbing, we have no right to deny them the sensation of their fears. When we do, cither by jeering at their fears or requiring them to act on them before they are ready to, they may not discover their own capacity to do something about them slt's not always fear that, makes us tremble and sweat but our resistance to feeling them In war,, soldiers who allow themselves to : , ." . life-time- " dog. So she asked Mommy to take her out of the cart and ended by patting the dog herself with such a glow of achievement that her joy in the red sneakers couldn't On my way home from the stor ,t sur-pluss- es rock-ribbe- f "veto-proof- But still more astonishing, as I thought in the press gallery, was the reception by the Senate of the President's veto. The Majority Leader responded with honest anger to vent his surprise and disappointment upon the White -House action. He .rejected the pacifying condolences of Republican Senators Kuchei and Javits. But after his vehement and justifiable outburst, the Majority Leader relaxed . into something like sweet reasonableness. He came close to saying" (as did Committeef Chairman Sparkman) that Congress would buckle down in th -summer heat and attempt to write the housing bill to Bee's specifications. Should this happen, as I think it will, the 86th will add another Inning of unexpected moderation to its record. At this point it would be rash to say that' any reasonable action even a good Labor bill or a community-controllecivil rights bill is impossible. . This is the best legislative team that I have seen in my Washington experience. The fools and the nitwits, of course, are always with us. But they have been a sideshow, never the main attraction in this least daffy of all Congresses since World War II. slow-down- screams worries The Glow of Achievement en. thtl r. ht - n' the Democratic leaders had call- - g, tax-boug- Happy Times st rates run up to ; . bantering about the subject of what's fashionable these days and what isn't. This was at onej of those evening affairs where peoeach other j ple try to out-boa- ' , Omnibus Housing bill. The President's rejection was not anticipated because both House and Senate had previously cut great hunks of spending from the bill and had agreed on a compromise which ' Assignment: Washington I . the Admiral Strauss case ' lid the 86th go a little off its rocker, and this instance was provoked by the Ad- - ' miral's strong personality, by his over-eag"lobbyists," by an White House. Aside from inept laffaire Strauss, ;Congress is having the best session of a decade. Consider foreign aid: Who could guess that the Senate, would cut 10 per cent from the. President's request and the House would cut dose to the same figure? Going back to Lend Lease in 1940, this Share America scheme under a variety of aliases, has fastened itself upon us like the dope habit. Threp Presidents in Succession became addicts to the narcotic of although two out of the three got war, anyhow. Congressional members found in foreign aid a way to play at being "world" statesmen and to feed home industries by. pork to taxsupported shipping. 'largesse abroad. Inthe past few years; under Public Law 480, Congress has permitted the big farm in-terests to live out of the public purse by dumping overseas. How to bring all ? this madness to a It was not imaginable last November, with the farm States d going Democratic and even Maine's deserting the GOP, that the.' daft stampede to self- - , destruction could be slowed in our, s. But a few days 'after the July .Fourth recess, the 86th Senate had to be restrained by Majority Leader Johnson from n ripping still larger hunks from the authorization of , foreign aid. This Democratic-heav- y Congress has made the first significant turn in the long road. A real cutback peace-buyin- 1 X-r-ay . The-patter- once er , By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent ( NE A) WASHINGTON The ques-tiois how to develop a U. S. Foreign Service competent to do its job in an increasingly complex, world? It must be truly representative of the beet in America with out being considered an Ivy League clique or caste. The State Department has again turned thumbs down on the idea of creating a National Foreign Service Academy a kind of West Point to train diplomats. Senators Stuart W. Symington Alexander .Wiley and several are this Congressmen year's authors of to a set such bills finishing school.1 up But Loy W. Henderson, depy under- secretary of state for administration and ' . career foreign service officer (FSO) himself says'No.' Department of State still . prefers, to take college graduates just as they come and teach them diplomacy in the school of experience. A RECENT CHECK OF 670 YOUNG PEOPLE recruited into the Foreign Service in sir and a half years showed them to be graduates of 145 U. S. colleges and universities. Harvard led the parade with 68, Yale was second with 56, Princeton third with 46. Then came University of California, ' 32; Chicago, 26; Georgetown, 23;. George" Washington, 21; Columbia, 17; Stanford :r and Wisconsin, 14. This big 10 accounted for 47 per cent of the personnel in training The other 135 schools had one to 10 graduates apiece, in service from 44 states in th Union. as this broad base of selection may be, the system still is not producing enough high caliber foreign "service cLcers to meet the demand. (R-Wi- ; - College or Experience for Diplomats By HOLMES ALEXANDER Even WASHINGTON, D. C. with the Washington Baseball dub's having, a fairly good season, the 86th Congress remains by far the best show in town. Nobody expected Harmon Kille- brew and Jim Allison to hit all those home runs, or Pedro Ramos and Camillo Pasqual to pitch so many low. score games. These feats are gratifying and have put a lot of pep into the American League. But for surprise and satisfaction,- for unfolding and unpredictable drama, for significance and portentousness, this Congress takes the cake. It is the more pleasing because the 86th came here so watered down with Demo- cratic "radicals" that some of us took it for a hydrocephalic - ke Washington Lowdown (D-Mo- .), , ! the would have bypassed virtually would be two lanes wide, built to carry the heavy weight of big truck-trailer- s, ? g amanitas, which are poisonous, have white gills. But the truth li that this difference between the two kinds can't always be detect- ed. Besides, many safe mushrooms have gills that are not pink at ail. Mushrooms are a "fungus. Like other fungi, they don't have "the ge green coloring matter . called a chloicophyl. Without chlorophyl, plant cannot manufacture food City Visitor: Don't you wish yoa were a barefoot boy again? Farmer: Not me, lady. I hav a turkey farm. - WHY we say rr You've heard people say ci someone: "Hewas born with a silver spoon .in his mouth." This refers to the old custom of the godfather or godmother giving a silver spoon to a new baby. But a i child' born of rich parents doesn't have to wait for a gift to hav such a- spoon. That's why the expression "born with a silver spooa in his mouth" means the person was rich from birth. ; - jWin the Britannica World Atlas "or Yearbook of Events. Send your riddles, jokes, tricks to "Tell Me Why!" Today's winner is: Suzanne Stickle, Cincinnati, Ohio. 'or itself. So mushrooms must grow near and depend for food upon plants that have this green color ing matter. That's why you'll often find them in pastures, lawns, and golf courses; where, the grass is; kspt short and the ground enriched by manure. Mushrooms reproduce by means of spores, which are quite from seeds. Because spores are produced in enormous numbers, there is a good chance that the wind will carry some of them to spots favorable for growth, h If a spore, falls in a warm, moirt place where food Is available, the single cell absorbs nourishment. It grows by division until long chains of cells resembling threads develops, and at various points tiny balls no larger than pdnheads dif-jfere- nt . '" V" Q's and A's Where was Francis Scott Key when he wrote the "Star f Spangled Banner"? A Key wrote the words while being held on a British which took part in the SepQ " man-of-w- tember 12, 1814, ar bombardment of Ft. McHenry. Q Haw do fine cultured pearls compare with natural pearls? AThe very finest cultured pearls are often Jtadistinguisb- able from natural ones except cr other by means of y X-ra- . |