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Show Editorial Page Feoturo New Ghana Regime Feces Monumental Tasks By PHIL NEWSOM Ghana became black Africa's first independent state. This week it became black Africa's first state to return to civilian rule via free elections after three years of military In Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1969 1957 government. Space Out Moon Missions? The 48 pounds of rocks picked up on the moon's surface by the Apollo 11 astronauts are among the most precious trophies ever brought back by the explorers of a new domain. Certainly they ars the most expensive and rarest. Surprisingly, while some 142 scientists around the world have just begun to study the samples sent them by the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston ranging from microscopic particles to fractions of pounds they are already worried about an impending embarrassment of such riche If the present Apollo schedule of a moon landing every four months is adhered to, scientists fear they will soon be inundated with lunar material, which they simply will not be able to take full advantage of, reports Science Ser- The new premier is Tefi Busia, a Methodist lay preacher who holds a Ph.D. from Oxford. His progress party won 101 of soft-spok- vice. the 140 seats in th Ghanaian in last month's assembly regime of Ghana's first president, Kwame Xkrumah. Xkrumah, the man who erected statues of himself and left his country nearly a billion dollars in debt, now resides in exile in neighboring Guinea. At a time when many African leaders consider democracy old fashioned, Busia made it his platform. Democracy Through Faith "All peoples can achieve and practice democracy if they have enough faith and oc Eviction in its values," he ence wrote. He had served as the leader in of Nkrumah's opposition parliament and then iiad fled in 1959 to carry on his fight in exile. In the August elections, his chief rival, Komla.A. Gbede- - ed and government employees as well as taxpayers'" Just the added paper work alone will surely boost expenses and worries of the already overburdened taxpayer. Six million low income people would be taken off the tax rolls entirely. But one third of the bill's relief would go to less one tenth of the nation's than taxpayers, those with adjusted gross incomes of more than ?15,000. The new lower maximum of 0 per cent on earned incomes gives $100 million in relief to the less than one half of one per cent who have adjusted gross incomes of more than $50,000. There has been little effort to weigh the orcdollary effects of provisions in the act calculated to 1 rrii r r v r iitfii humum so-call-ed niMiiiMimjLw-- i they had received our payment. Double N was told the account was X number of dollars and that her records didn't show any payment received. Sooooo, Double N politely informed them that a check was sent them over a week ago and why wouldn't their records show it. The answer was: "We haven't got it back from the com- In Army With Valor, Courage this flying training. I didn't consider my age an obstacle in any way." A 1945 West Point graduate, Patton's military career is in keeping with a family tradiLon going back generations. Four of his Virginia ancestors were Confederate officers A great grandfather and a great granduncle were killed in action The latter, Tazewell Patton, was a captain in Armistad's battalion of Pickett's division and was slain in the frontal charge at Gettysburg. Two other great granduncles were wounded in other battles. Patton is married to a retired general's daughter and they have several children. FLOP Preliminary intelligence evaluations indkato th? Marxist oriented Students for a Democratic Society didn't get far the past summer with their "work-in- " program to create a "base for a worner-studerevolutionary SDS ... I guess it's considered S.P. (standard procedure) to circumcise all baby boys ncwdays, but years ago it wasn't the case as many of you older mother will remember. A friend of mine was telling ire about the time be asked his mother why she didnt have it done to him and this was her reply: "Well, it seemed a shame to take any away before we kww how much was there." Pretty good philosophy I'd say. Today In History The Almanac Asks Candidates Give Views By United Press International On Center for Cultural Arts Editor Hreald: During the recent bond election there was a good deal of talk about a new center for the cultural arts in Provo. For many of us this issue is a very important one. For this reason, the executive committee of the Arts Council of Central Utah would like to encourage all candidates for the mayor's office and city commission to make public their attitudes and policies about the construction of such a center and about the arts in general. We believe that many of the people of Provo and the surrounding communities have a great deal of interest in the artistic excellence which is coming to be characteristic of our area. If the candidates will express themselves on this issue, it will assist a great many of us in making our decisions at the pells. Merrill Bradshaw President, Arts Council of Central Utah Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 1969 with 87 to follow. The moon is between its last quarter and new phase. The stars are morning Mercury, Venus and Saturn. The evening s!ars are Mars and Jupiter. On this day ki history: In 1917 the U.S. War Department announced it would build 20,000 planes to fight Germany. Many Americans felt was a waste of money. In 1960 an Eastern Airlines Electra crashed into Boston harbor, killing 51 persons. In 1962 President John F. announced a U.S. Kennedy of Cuba. blockade In 1965 Pope Paul made an visit to New historic York to plead for World peace before the United Nations. 'Hypocrisy of Air Pollution' Editor Herald: I lived in Utah Valley three years while attending Brigham Young University. Now I'm in Salt Lake to attend the College I Medicine. Consequently, have had many occasions to leave from and return to Utah Valley. Each time t have returned to of Provo, I have been appalled at n the oppressive smell of the air filling the valley. Cannot anyone see the awful hypocrisy of air pollution? I gray-brow- thought Utah Valley prided herself in her clean towns. Wasn't Springville selected as the cleanest city in the nation? And yet from my mother let me know smelling up the air was not liked. Thankfully I am not living in Utah Valley anymore, although Salt Lake is far from being perfect But for the sake of the people who live there, and because I came to love the valley and its mountains, I wish someone would take upon themselves enough responsibility to spank these people who are thought for the day: Virgil said, "Age carries all things, even the mind away." A Eamon De Valera, born in New York City, was twice prime minister of Eire. lighting poison smoke bombs in your valley. George C. Robinson 2074 E. 900 S. The opinions and state- meets expressed by Sera'd columnists are their own and do net necessarily reflect the views of this news paper. Salt Lake City BY BERRY'S WORLD JAMES O. BERRY nt Cavalry Regimtnt. This was Patton's second tour of duty in Vietnam. Tht first was as a major on the staff of Gen. Paul Harkins, then U. S. commander there. Patton capped his latest Vietnam service in characteristic, manner. Upon returning to th U.S. last spring, he asked for training as a helicopter pilot although 47 years old and a alliance." In three significant respects this factory infiltration scheme was a bust: Far fewer SDS zealots were recruited than hoped for. The goal was 1,000, but not more than several hundred actually took part. Factory and other workers were more interested in sports and similar topics than in talking about politics and issues, particularly of a radical ideological nature. The SDS would-b- e proselyters were so exhausted by the s'renuous work in the factories and hills that they were too tired to engage in agitation at night about this weapon, including operating it, the same as 1 do about running and fighting tanks and other weapons of armored units. That is why I asked for meetings and on weekends. SDS officials are about the results of their radical project. This in itself is noteworthy, because if the plan had made any headway they would be boasting acout it, particularly in their publications. But so far they have been strikingly silent. Congressional investigators, who have kept a close watch on the undertaking, have a number of reports from different Other accounts parts of the are still awaited The reports are based on "informal" talks with the SDSers colonel. His request was granted and he was sent to For! Wolters. Tex., where he completed the regular three months course, soloed and was given his wings a "chopper" pilot. To friends ht expLimed, "The helicopter is now an essential combat weapon. In Vietnam, 1 had more than 50 of them in my command, about half gun ships. As a combat commander, I consider it vital tnat I know everything Yes'r . . . these days of automation are something. Like the time Dick Wiseman and I were getting a cup of coffee from a vending machine. Dick put his dime in the machine and then watched helplessly as the cup failed to appear and one nozzle started pouring coffee down the drain while the other nozzle squirted cream after it. it even Dick's only remark was: "Isn't that something drinks it for you!' er Another Patton Serves Army. He is George IV, son of the illustrious World War II commander who led victorious armies in Africa. Sicily and in blitz sweeps through history-makin- g France and Germany. George IV is 36th on a list of 64 outstanding regular army colonels selected for promotion to brigadier general. He will get his star by the end of the year. Like his father, Patton earned hi- - elevation by exceptional valor and combat leadership. He has three distinguished service crosses the second highest decoration for extraordinary courage and competence under fire The first DSC was won by Patton in Korea as a young captain commanding a tank company Ordered to hold a key hili. he dug his tanks into the gun turrets and for days fought off waves of screaming Communist Chinese and North Korean attackers. The other two DSC were awarded in Vietnam fur equally striking feats as commander of the 11th Armored Good grief! What's the advantage of a damn computer if it takes ten day to record something? Bah! Humbug! I think I prefer it the old fashioned way. One Inside Washington By ROBERT S. ALLEN and JOHN A. GOLDSMITH WASHINGTON There will ioon be another Gen. Georp,e S. Patton in the U.S. puter yet." Along with peace in the world and progress at home, there is no legacy I would rather leave than a permanent conservation program. President Lyndon B. Johnson. with goals governments, understood, responsibilities placed, authorities provided and fiscal resources available. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, tight-mouth- Jensen This is the age of the computers and I'm not so sure I like it. Anyone using a charge card will know what I mean. Like for instance the other day when I received a statement from one of the local shops indicating I owed about three times the amount I thought was due. Well Til have to admit that once in a great while Double N gets carried away with some of those but not very often (the sweet thing her !). charge cards Anyway I checked back in my records and found that I had almost ten days prior. So I had lent them a check in full Double N check the shop to see how much our account was and if The' Sav local million. Automation And A Mother's Philosophy 1 "soak the rich." Some of these also soak the vast majority of taxpayers, sap some analysts. Because so many business and personal planning decisions have been made on the basis of longstanding law, the new proposal would require as many as two computations of tax on the old basis, plus two on the new basis, and there is no way of telling how many cases would have to be decided by the courts before we would know where we stood. There is ample time to improve and reform the tax laws and we ought to take the time to make sure we come closer to fairness, justice and simplicity. of the most alarming manifestations of our times is the helter-skeltgrowth of bureaucracy at every level. Our challenge is to convert this into a partnership of federal, state and turned Ghana's foreign trade from a deficit to a surplus of about $6 million. It had kept its promise to restore democracy and as it turned the governmen. over to civilian rule it could say that not a single political prisoner remained in jail. Among Ghana's assets is its energetic and intelligent population of a little more than seven Bye Line by market? So one-tim- and Once and for All, We Hope! According to Dr. Daniel ri. Anderson, new curator of the LRL, most of the knowledge obtained from the Apollo 11 samples will not be available in time to plan the mission of Apollo 12 in November One scientist thinks that flights spaced a full year apart would not be too long to enable the knowledge gained from one mission to be utilized in planning the next. Who would have thought a few years ago, or even a few months ago, that in 1969 rocks from the moon would be a glut on the Tax Reform Changes Up to Senate Unless the Senate uses a sharp tax reform axe on the bill passed by the House, it might be better if it put off tax legislation for another year. Certainly, no change would be better than chaotic revision as the House measure has been labeled. Largely the product of Rep. Wilbur Mills, powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, the proposal is a stupendous juggling act that has elicited such criticisms as "shotgun legislation at its worst," "the most complicated tax measure in our history," and "it will overwhelm tax lawyers, accountants, e finance minister righthand man to Xkrumah, won only 29 seats. new As the government Nareplaces the military-rule- d tional Liberation Council, it faces monumental tasks. Ia the three years it had held power, the council had done a good job. It had renegotiated payments on the Nkrumah debts of more than $800 million and it had man, the air is usually awful, in my opinion. Is not the pollution of air littering just as much as dumping garbage on the highway? Why doesn't the state fine the major polluters of the air as the signs say will happen to people who litter the people of Utah some group to fluoridate your drinking water without first asking for your vote? I dare say that action would be out of order despite Would you allow medical evidence that fluori-atio- n helps prevent brittle bones in the aged in addition to the proven beneficial effect of pretooth-deca- venting And yet no one seems to mind the fact that industry daily of pours immense quantities medically proven harmful fumes into the air you have to breathe. Did anyone ask If you agreed to polluting of the air you breathe? When I was very young 1 lit a smoke bomb in the basement of my aome. A sood spanking With the snow making its appearance on 01' Timp last Thursday, you know dang well summer is gone. Shucks, I'm just not ready for cold weather. Have a nice day! Paul Harvey Summer Wasn't As Hot as Expected I ses daylight at the fa? end of the tunnel. The long, hot summer so many predicted never materialized. All the "experts" who were so certain many American cities would by now be in ashes were unduly pessimistic. What trouble there was did not begin to measure up to their exaggeration. Comparatively, it was a cool summer During the first seven months of this year there were just seven classified incidents as "riots"; a year ago there had been A Significantly, this year's incidents of violence have been in smaller cities and towns which had not "prepared themselves" as the police departments of big cities now have. Now we are returning to school. Again we are hearing an ominous prognosis for classroom and campus disturbances exceeding in scope and scale any heretofore. I'm bettting against that. ty (E; 19W by NtA, Inc. "Don'tchu young people realize that marijuana VERY BAD ior you?" h Un- Well I thought it was funny! and Collegts universities, caught utterly unprepared for the invasion of outside disrupters and the resultant epidemic of student anarchy, have since quietly "armed" themselves in preparation for this school year. In California, two new laws now provide criminal penalties for anyone who returns without permission after having been ordered off a campus. Also, state financial aid is automatically revoked for students taking part In campus disorders. Last year cost $3 million in destruction of college and This year, property. Notre Dame is offering an undergraduate credit course in highways? Valley "Willie, didn't you go to your lodge meeting last night?" "No sir. We had to have it postponed." "How come?" Invincible Most Supreme "Well, the Grand conquerable Potentate got beatup by his wife " nonviolence. The conservative Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has familiarized iU member ship with ways college students can settle campus disturbances by taking the disrupters to court. The president of City College of New York, Dr. Joseph Cope-lan- d, says college administra- tors have learned that "when criminal acts are committed on a campus, officials college must promptly supply pertinent information to police and sign complaints." He says, "It is totally improper and irresponsible for college administrators to attempt to influence court decisions bj withholding evidence, by requests for clemency or amnesty or by any other actions that tend to prevent or circumvent fair trialr and appropriate judicial punishment." A panel of nine college presidents met in New York last July, discussed how best to deal with d;soraers and pledge themselves to "no negotiation under duress and no amnesty for lawbreakers." President Morris Abram of Brandeis University said it all: "There will oe less campus turmoil this fall because students will not be able to get away with It." So I'm betting that the formula which kept the lid on most Main S'reets vill similarly tend to stifle trouble on most campuses: fairness and firmness. Maybe our imaginative young people will devise some other diversion, but eating goldfish, jamming themselves into telephone booths, panty raids and illegal tgitatien for illegitimate re going out of style. Happy school year! causes-a- The American flag was lowered at Corregidbr In 1947, and the island wa turned over to the year-olPhilippine Republic at that time. |