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Show Editorial Page Feature Egypt's Oil Industry Makes Swift Recovery By FRED LANKARD United Preii International Dedicated to the Progress And Growth cf Cenfrcl Utah Egypt's petroleum industry, about 80 per cent of it smashed li in last year's conflict, has shown a swift recovery. The Oiland Gas Journal reports present Egyptian crude Arab-Israe- SUNDAY, APRiL 28, 1968 Practicality in Viet Talk Site Remembering son's pledge to meet "anywhere, anytime" with representatives from North Vietnam to seek an end to the war, many see evidence of the old credibility gap in the current diplomatic hagling over a mutu-U- y satisfactory site for preliminary discussions. It is not a matter of credibility buL of responsibility. It is something like the young man who promises his beloved that if only e, she will be his, he will go oft-spok- any-wher- anything, be anything to be. Once he gets him wants she however, practicality takes her, do precedence over promises. Vitamins: Pro and Con "Caution: Vitamin supplements may not be necessary for your health' The Federal Drug Administration, which has been engaged in a running battle with the vitamin manufacturers, apparently would like to see some such label on every bottle of liver extract or Iron pills or whatnot. Vitamins and minerals are abundant i'j commonly available foods, maintains the FDA. Except for people with special medical needs, there is no scientific basis for the routine use of supplements. The drug companies admit that this is technically true, but counter that bottled nutrition is still necessary because a lot of people simply don't eat as well as they should, irrespective of their financial status. They cite a study made by another government agency, the Department of Agriculture, which shows that 50 per cent of the families surveyed had inadequate diets that were below recommended allowances in one or more nutrients. The situation seems to be deteriorating. A similar study a decade earlier found 40 per cert of American families nutritionally deficient. So what's a mother to do? Common sense suggests that the best course is to have regular checkups and to follow the advice of the family physician while the protagonists in the pill controversy fight out the issue among themselves. 4 l It is not that the young man President John- does not mean what he says or peace-lovingne- 120,000 under pre-wlevel. The recovery is based on the rael. El Morgan had just started production when the hostilities broke out in June. The field's 14 wells are now pouring out about 110,000 barrels daily and new wells are expected to lift that figure to nearly 200,000 by the end of the year. Other producum is coming from six fields along the Gulf of Sues and work is underway to put a recent El Alameln discovery on production. Estimates of the new field's initial output range from 30,000 to 50.000 barrel daily. Repair as well as develop ment is playing a big role Processing Co. plant ported up to 80 per cent Oil Rebuilding A Person's Conscience was still in the snow and cold. Worse, I can't call them, due I assume to the telephone strike. No matter where you go, it seems, some vital industry is tied up in a strike. Some day, unless we get some kind of compulsory arbitration we will find the entire nation tied up at the mercy of the labor unions. This is not to say that the unions are solely to blame. I can remember the ten to twelve hour day at pittance wages, and only the unions ended that abnormal situation. I remember passing through Colorado during the great Rockefeller coal strike and seeing the cannon of the state militia trained on the tent cities of the strikers. Had I not possessed a card which the strikers honored I would not have been permitted to leave the train. As it was I got the strikers' side of the dispute as well as the side which the news-per- s company-favore- d gave, and I was all for the striking miners. It was not right I thought, for the state to call out the militia to break the strike. That was a long time ago, and it happened whenever there was labor trouble. The unions were born of desperation and hunger and they did more to enforce a share the profits than all the idealistic talk in the worid could do. I favored the unions, but I have also watched them grow rich and powerful, ready to take advantage of the country's need. There must be a better way to curb the greed of both capital and labor. In the meantime, like the unions, my conscience grows progressively weaker and I take advantage of my friends. Wherever I go I find friends ready and willing to help ort an old has been who if he acted his age would settle down somewhere and bother people no more than necessary. But I still find the world interesting, and I maintain that by serving as a horrible example I am doing more good than I would be by holding myself up as somebody whose example should be followed, and thai bandits' applies to So, one-arm- Is reof its capacity. the two key re production. iz vi 4 Do you realize that today is the beginning of the rest of your e Ever wonder what some of the headlines were 100 years ago? Here are some that were read during the month of May, in the year 1868. ArguMay 8: President receives Japanese Commissioners. ment in United States Supremene Court in the Georgia and Eight hour riots Mississippi injunction (Reconstruction) cases. in Chicago. -2- 0,000 Liberals besiege and bombard the city of Prussia accepts the proposition for the neutralization Mexico. of Luxemburg. MaxiMay 6: Great Reform meeting in Hyde Park, London. milian attempts to cut his way through the Liberal lines at Querataro, and is repulsed. May 8: Meeting of the Peace Conference in London. May 9: General strike movement in the United States tnd abroad. Negro riot at Richmond, Virginia. May 13: Jefferson Davig admittt.i to bail, $100,000, in U. 8. District Court, at Richmond, Virginia. riot at Memphis, Tenn. May 14: A large May 15: Russia ratifies the Alaska cession treaty. number of Insurgents arrested at Madrid. -- Queretaro captured tnd Maximilian taken prisoner. May 18: Napoleon and King William of Prussia, sign the Luxemburg treaty. City of London votes 500 pounds for a statue to George Peabody. May 22: Derby race in England. "Hermit" comes in winner in the middt of a snow storm. May 23: Queen's proclamation declaring the Dominion of Kelly-Radic- al Canada. e By changing a few names, dates and places, one would think they were reading today's headlines. Interesting, isn't it? e e While on the subject of yesteryear, Mrs. Sterling Ercanbrach has come up with some interesting things about some of the first homes in Provo. For instance, the first homes in Provo were log cabins, 18 feet long and 18 feet wide, and cost $18. However, these homes were considered too expensive so they were rejected in favor of adobe from which the same size house could be built for half the price, or $9. Boy, no wonder people long for "the good old days". two-roo- m Today In History By United Press International Today is Sunday, April 28, the 119th day of 1968 with 247 to follow. For Own Sickness of Soul Editor Herald: On Friday after the assassination of Martin Luther King, I heard a young Salt Lake business man say of the events in Dallas, "You can bet your bottom dollar the communists are behind this," and then he added, "and that the Niggers themselves have done this to stir up sympathy and violence. I have ached with it ever since, as I have ached with the reports, recently described by Kenneth Davies in this column, of the reaction in a local barber shop to the killing. And I am aching over the two letters in Wednesday's Mail Bag. Perhaps I just ache too easily. But the whole country - is aching, too, from a sickness that produced the shooting of King and that helps produce the riots. The disease is itself simple enough, though the conditions that nurture it and that it nurtures are unbelievably complex. Let's call it by its real name: HATE, with a strong mixture of fear and mistrust and bigotry and racism. We have heard ourselves described as sick often enough lately. But so long as we can blame the communists and the Niggers, so long as we can blame the Negro's body odor and lack of pride, so long as we can shrug off the Riot Report that puts a large share of the blame on white racism, so long as we can look at all the documentary evidence on TV and photographic magazines of terrible and widespread human suffering in the ghettos and yet weep that our government is bending over backwards "to cater to 12 per cent of the American people" and letting the other 88 per cent 'go hang,' so long Thanks to Mrs. Ercanbrach for that little "gem" tell she's done her "homework" on early history. as we can cry out that Congressman Lloyd's condemning of racial attitudes in Utah "can only harm the civil rights movement in our state" so long as we respond in these ways to the sickness, we are not even looking at the disease at all, to say nothing of diagnosing it correctly. It is comfortable to have neat scapegoats, these neat dodges, so that we don't have to look at the disease. They emove the responsibility from us. We don't have to look deep inside ourselves for the attitudes and emotions that, without our knowing it, are the these disease. The moon is between Us new phase and first quarter. The morning star is Venus. The evening stars are Mars and Jupiter. On this day in history: In 1942 the U.S. government ordered a World War II "dim out" after dusk along the Atlantic Coast. In 1952 the war with Japan was officially ended as a treaty signed the year before by the U.S. and 47 other nations went into effect. In 1965 President ordered 400 marines Johnson into the Dominican Republic after fighting broke out. Eventually some 14,000 U.S. troops were sent there. I fear today that the most damaging of all the weapons of communists in our country is one they didn't even know they had: our capacity to use them and their conspiracy as the scapegct so that we don't even have any sickness. Nothing else could hasten so effectively the decay that they have prophesied as our end, than to have us refuse to look into our own individual souls for the disease because we can always blame it onto them. Marden J. Clark 1695 N. Oak Lane BERRY'S WORLD The "See America First!" folks have come up with some provocative billboards in hopes people will stay at home rather than take their bucks abroad. Here are some of the messages "The Rain In Spain seen: "The Eiffel Tower Has Rusty Bolts" "The Rock of Gibraltar Is An Ugly Stone" Falls Every Day" "Rome Wasn't Built In a Day . . . It Just Looks That Way". - - - Have a nice dayl Paul Harvey Overcharged? Noper Oxertaxed? You Bet cost of living was up last year. Said another way, your dollar bill shrank ZVi cents last year. Government statisticians blame mostly "higher food prices." Hold the The 3.4 phone! Cassius Clay refused to be inducted into the U.S. Army and was stripped of his heavyweight title. A thought for the day: Solon, of Greece, said "I grow old learning something new every It is not the farmer getting rich that causes your food to cost so much. There are a lot of middlemen between him and you. But the fat pickpocket day." Example: leaving the farmer altogether out of the equation, the truck that hauls his grain to the mill and his beef to the market and his processed products to the store that truck had to be bought and paid for by somebody. Its driver is a Teamster who makes more than most any farmer. The purchaser of the truck paid taxes on the purchase, taxes on the gas, taxes on replacement tires and license plates and taxes on the driver's income. The grocer makes a modest profit always less than 8 cents on a loaf of bread but the grocer must immediately pay out more than half of that in taxes: corporate income tax, Social Security lax for In 1967 The opinions and statements expressed by Herald columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news paper. - BY IAMES O. BERRY w?&r if I. who's picking the tax man! your pocket is electric employes, monthly biil plus tax, and so on and on and on. So even while the cost of production is going down, your retail price is going up because the federal and state tax FCRUM RULES take increases every year. I have backtracked on and identified 151 separate taxes fhe Herald MmM letters from readers. PImm nott these rulw: Length limit. 250 word. Signature) nd address required. However, H cootr'btrlor requests, only lnltll - with certain need be published Including letters political It nature or In which accusations or In such cases, made are charges full name and address mut be used letters No unsigned (anonymous) Preference will will be considered. which are short and h" ''ven letters The Herald reserve rewritten. the right to edit or ralect letters which art too long, not In good test, potentially IIImIus, or which contain statements derogatory to any race, religion i on a loaf of bread! "You're not being charged; you're being exceptions, V!LV'W 1 -- ' You can The Almanac Shouldn't Blame Commies Un country's refining capacity, in failure to meet product demand of up to 150,000 barrels per day and presented the problem of what to do with the El Morgan field's crude life? their government credit for sincerely desiring an end to that fighting and dying as quickly as possible but only on terms that will guarantee the ending will be as permanent as possible. The special function of the city is the care and culture of men. The main problems of the city are the problems that have arisen through the neglect of this function for the sake of power, profits, prestige or property. Urban authority Lewis complete recovery. Destruction of the facilities, representing 84 per cent of the Century Old News Items Read Current e So They Say fineries will be a maior Dart of the Egyptian oil industry's in the comeback. The country's two major refineries were shattered in an October artillery attack. Although the larger of the two, El the Nasar OuJeld Co. plant, it not yet back in operation, the Suez Bye Line by Jensen Open Housing war-wearine- ss A ot 4,000 Mor- gan field " the Gulf of Suez that took up the clack when Egypt's Sinai Peninsula fields, which accounted for over 76 per cent of the country's 1966 production, were taken by Is- ss r:7m "0 Wear and lear s. the of some jutt that the President did not mean what he said. But he said it at a time when Hanoi was totally unresponsive. It is not the Communists' or good will that has moved them finally to agree to sit down and talk. It is the performance of America's fighting ;jen and the rising cost to North Vietnam of a war that is going far from as successfully as it would like. It would be most unwise for the United States to let its and eagerness for peace lead it to make preconcessions of any sort, whether they have to do with a minor matter like the location of meetings or a grand scheme for a coalition government in South Vietnam, as urged by Senators McCarthy and Kennedy. gain of getting Any short-rangtalks underway immediately could very well be paid for later in hardened North Vietnamese demands. For in dealing with the Communists, small points are as important as large ones. Negotiations over the placement of ash trays on the conference table can be as frustrating as negotiations over the withdrawal of troops. Concessions have to be made eventually, of course. But nothing can be given away. Everything, down to the most inconsequential-appearin- g detail, must be hammered out in hard bargaining. It is a painful reality that this must be so, even as the fighting continues and men still die. Americans, at least, should give The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON What to do about people who insist on doing too much for me has become quite a problem for me lately. I know they want to do it and It would be bad manners for me to refuse to let them. But my remnant of a conscience tells me I am letting them do too much, however, that remnant is getting pretty tattered so I find it easier not only to accept, but on occasion ask for a favor. I have only to whisper to my cousin Robbie or his wife Ruth in Salt Lake that I would like to get away from things once in a while and they are down here to get me. I made the suggestion last Sunday, so Robbie drove down here and got me. It's getting so that I am as much at heme at their place as in my own house. I stayed all night with them, then the wrt morning Ruth took me to the bus station where I caught the bus for Elko one of my favorite places for losing money. And I lost more than I intended. At eleven dollais per day at the hotel I didn't care to stay too long. Not being a gambler I eschew the usual games and content myself with the slot machines. The first two days I was lucky jack-potand hit thirty-si- x And don'v let anyone tell you that is all profit, yet I made my expenses. However, the day I left at noon and played the same machines diligently and didn't hit a single jack-pThere went the remainder of my winnings, and considerable more. At Wendover I lost some more. I left because ii was snowing and too sloppy to get around, and I tired of staying In niy room watching television. It used to be one could Sit around in the lobby, but all that space has now been given up to the slot machines. The time I spent on my feet in one day would equal the week's exercise my doctor tells me I need, and I developed cramps In my right ami. I had promised Robbie and Ruth to call them when I got back to Salt Lake, but it was too late to disturb them, so I stayed over night in a hotu, and came home the next morning. And I oil production barrels daily, success of the offshore El rrenf to be active again! Only exercise winter is turning th TV dial" 'ye had all overover- taxed. Everybody up and uown the line makes some profit on that loaf of bread, but the tax man takes more han all of them nut together. Hidden taxes double the price of your bread and threaten to Ml double it again. Food costs less. The multiplicity of taxes makes it seem like more. There are 206 separate transactions involved in getting a quart of milk from the pasture to your doorstep and a tax on every transaction. You've been with imaginary shadowboxing villains. The railroad which hauls farm products to market gets a tiny fraction for its services but it has to charge enough more to pay five federal taxes plus state taxes in every state through which the shipment passes. While you have been guarding your wallet pocket, the tax man has been emptying your coin purse. When you buy one loaf of tax d bread, this man picks your pocket for 12 cents! When you buy a new car, there are the usual federal and state sales taxes plus of the purchase price i hidden taxes. Only people pay taxes. Big corporations pay no taxes. All those "costs of operation" they pass on to you. Only people pay taxes. All the rest of those fellows add their taxes onto the prices of what they sell to you and me. We pay their taxes. Only people pay taxes. Gasoline would sell for I cents a gallon except for taxes. Last yeai, while your food prices were going up, the farmers' income declined Food store profits were declining. But the ghost with the big pieces of the action was the federal and state tax taker, skimming in the back room. slight-of-han- one-four- th 7. Fish do not have vocal cords. That's because fishermrn do all the talking for them. |