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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Record The San Juan JUAN. COUNTY. State School Issue Prompts Letters UTAH THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SAN Published Every Thursday at Montieello, Utah Entered ai the Post Office at Montieello. Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1873. LARRY M. ROE. Editor and Publisher Home Phone Blanding 53R6 Office Montieello Phone 4R3 MEMBER OF UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Subscription Rates in San Juan and Adjoining Counties $1.75 Six Months Year One $3.00 Elsewhere Rates Subscription $2.00 Six Months One Year $3.50 PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY Who Xaid the Egg? Because of a recent verbal altercation between this Editor and a Mr. Glenn M. Carlson of the First National Bank, Moab, Uth, in which this editor was accused of not the ediusing fact in a recent editorial, I am torial, and challenge Mr. Carlson to either direct a letter of intentions to the people of San Juan county to be published in this newspaper, or accept the editorial as a basis ng of fact. This fact is predominant: At the time the editorial was issued, there were other interests planning a bank in Montieello, and there are still other interests planning a bank in Montieello. Consequentnow as ly, the editorial was issued then, and is our stand in regard to any bank planning operation in San Juan County. re-issu- ed D FROM THE MAY 20 ISSUE OF THE SAN JUAN RECORD Recent speculation over the possibility of a bank in San Juan County, has left much for cogitation. One thing is certain, San Juan county has too long been an orphan, and if rumor is any forerunner of truth, the tentative plans to bring in little more than a depository, would in my opinion, be adding insult to injury. It is essential that San Juan county have full banking facilities to protect its own interests in the very near future, and I know of no better way to accomplish this than to set up a bank by San Juan county residents, using San Juan county monies, that, at present, are adding much to the total assets of alien counties and states. I'm certain a project of this type would receive the majority of local support and would most certainly tend to increase the real value of the entire county. Added to this is the psychological fact that a bank created and directed by San Juan county residents would better understand the problems of the people. If, on the other hand, an alien bank could guarantee complete and progressive banking and loan facilities to the entire county: and, if an alien bank could appoint fair representation from the county on a local or even distant board of directors; all else being equal, I would certainly endorse a program of this type. In either event, I believe it's time to hatch the eggs that have been nesting so long. With all due respect to the First National Bankof Moab, Utah, who have been of immeasurable assistance to the subscribers of San Juan county, but in view of your attitude, Mr. Carlson, this newspaper does not feel secure, in publishing the verbal policy you submitted on direct questioning. However, let me remind you that on three separate occasions Friday, June 4, 1954, this editor requested that you direct a letter to the people of San Juan county explaining your intentions if your application is approved by the State Comptroller of Currency. This editor also stated that the newspapers deadline was the following Wednesday noon. We have not received the letter, and the deadline has long passed. Again I offer this media as a means of cementing retlationship and firmly believe you at least owe your San Juan County clientel this much courtesy. In conclusion, I will issue this statement; If your bank can guarantee complete and progressive banking and loan facilities to the entire county ; and if your bank will appoint fair representation from the county on a local or even distant board of directors, this newspaper will endorse your program wholeheartedly and will dedicate its entire facilities to your service. bank-subscrib- er FOR YOUR CUSTOM - BUTCHERING AGING PROCESSING years. I am also advised ss that in some parts of the State it was represented that The First Presidency wanted these colleges returned to the Church, whereas ih other parts of the State it was represented that The First Presidency did not want these colleges returned. It was also represented that .the return of these colleges would constitute a gift by the taxpayers of the State of Utah to the Church, of property having substantial value. It was also asserted in some quarters that if the action of the Legislature should be sustained, many members of the faculties of said colleges would be immediately discharged. the salaries of others would be reduced, and that the curriculum of the various institutions would be sharply curtailed and modified. Finally it was aserted in some quarters that as a long-terpolicy the colleges if returned to the Church would be operated essentially as relig-ou- s seminaries. In order that the voters of the State may be fully informed with respect to these and other representations I am taking the liberty of addressing this letter to you and would be greatly obliged if you will be kind enough to answer the following questions: 1. In view of the conflicting representations which have been made as to the desires of the Church, will you please advise as to whether you do or do not want Weber, Snow, and Dixie Colleges returned to the Church? 2. Will the Church be willing to pay a fair and equitable price for the properties at these institutions which have been acquired or built by the State at the expense of the tax payers of the State of Utah, during the time of State ooera-tion- ? It is understood, of course, in accordance with the deeds by which the properties of these institutions were originally conveyed to the State, that the Church will receive back the former Church properties without cost. 3. In the event the voters approve the return of the institutions to the Church in November, would the Church be in a position to carry on the regular school program for the balance of the year? If so, will the Church, as respects the balance of the school year, continue the same faculty and other employees, pay the same salaries as have been agreed upon by the State, recognize Sabbatical leaves which have already been granted, continue the same curricula both as to day and evening schools,1 charge the same tuition, admit the same students and give credit to them for the work they have already done, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the three colleges continued to be operated by the State? .4. As a long-terpolicy, would it be your intention to transform these institutions into what some have termed religious seminaries. or would it be your intention to operate them as accredited junior colleges with a well qualified faculty competent to meet educational needs of ther respective communities? 5. Some of the teachers are concerned as to what their retirement rights will be in the event of return of the three colleges to the Church. Will you kindly inform me as to what retirement rights they will have? 6. It was alleged during the campaign to obtain signatures to the referendum petition that if the three institutions were returned to the Church, veterans would not be able to obtain the same educational advantages and privileges as if the same institutions were maintained by the State. Will you kindly inform me whether this is a correct statement? 7. Would the Church include vocational eduschools. cation in its curriculum for these institutions? I am confident that any information you can sup- - Answer to Question No. 7: in answer to the foregoing questions will be We answer this question in the affirmative. Sly in quieting rumors and providing facts We trust the aforesaid answers will help to on which the people can base their vote in Novgive the voters the facts they need for an inember. telligent decision at the polls, and that in parSincerely yours, ticular they will resolve doubts as to the operaS J. Bracken Lee tion of these colleges, should the voters, who GOVERNOR OF UTAH will exercise their rights to vote as they choose, JBLefw decide, to sustain the action of the legislature. Faithfully yours, The First Presidency O. McKay David The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints L. Richards Stephen Salt Lake City, Utah J. Reuben Clark, .Jr. The First Presidency May 21, 1954 m ss out-com- m high-clas- s, of eiger Cunters O Delivery Service O Wholesale Blue Mountain Meat Packing Co. Montieello, Utah 18. 1SS4, Page Phone 85R 1 Western Mine Supply Co. Filonticello, Utah i The Old Settler By Albert R. Lyman My dear San Juaners: fifteen children My by Walter Chamblin, Jr. The one subject at the Capitol upon which there is practically unanimous agreement is that Congress is not now ready to approve the use of any part of this nations military force in a shooting war in Dont overlook the import of Even those the word now. most emphatic against any intervention by the United States will not hazard a prediction on the not too far future. But, barring an act of aggression, theres no need for present excitement. Washington, as usual is full of rumors. You should check them before becoming disturbed. You'll find in most instances that the alleged Inside Information ha about as much substance as bubble Administration gum. High officials are calm. So are Congressional leaders. Their advice Is to be the same. Meanwhile, there are several guide posts Indo-Chin- a. to watch. The President there will be have taught me more, than I was ever ble to get over to them. They had methods more impressive than any methods I was ever able to employ. Their methods were not labored and conlike ventional mine, but na- tural and o us spon-tan- e and very potent. The thousand or more boys and girls I have had in my schools during the last forty-fiv- e years, have given me a clearer demonstration of humanity, its ways and charms and potentialities than I could have dug out of all the books which were ever written on psychology by all the professional psychologists in the its nature world. Humanity and purpose, and how that purThe pose may be reached is mankind of proper study man. I have become deeply interested in human beings, their potentialities, their susceptibilities, and the way they evolve into butterfrom caterpillars flies. has stated thrJL I recall that about thirty-fiv- e no involvement years ago in one of our school-facult- y without the approval of Conmeetings, that every gress. Keep this constantly in mind. Second, the Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, has indicated clearly that the United States will not move in the Far East unless it is joined by a number of other nations. In other words, some kind of Southeast Asian compact must first be farmed. Such a pact is now Third, Mr. Dulles also has made clear that the French must agree to give independence to the states so that the (like the Koreans) will be wiling to fight for themselves. No such guarantee has been made by the French. Another factor to bear in mind is that the President has no authority to impose price, wage salary or rent controls without legislation by Congress. It is true that plans for such controls have been drafted by the Office of Defense Mobilization, but this was ordered by Congress more than a year ago as a precautionary step and has teacher had a complaint about the dullards and deadheads in his or her department. They wanted to get rid of them they hindered the progress of the class. It was decided to put them in a class by themselves, regard- less of the grade, and they gave me that class. I was to do what I could with them, even if it were nothing more than them and keeping them out of mischief. I didnt realish the job of being responsible for these Gladiantons, as the faculty had called them. We regarded them as outlaws, morons, freaks, with little prospect of their ever being useful to humanity or able to take care of themselves. Time has proved that we didnt know what we were talking about. In spite of me, in spite of the faculty and in spite of their inability, or their lack of inclination to do right then, what the rest of the school was doing, every one of them turned out to be .like the toad that jumped farther than any no direct connection with one imagined he could jump. of them could not write Then, too, the Military Estab- Some it could be read, some of them lishment has not rushed to so could give no intelligent interCapitol Hill to request additia simple printed onal appropriations. This, in it- pretation of page, and one girl cried because self, is significant. of the complicated process in Administration officials point long division. out that the strongest economy Those boys and girls as men is the most normal economy. and women are at least as good None of the top Administratas an average of the rest of that ion men belongs to what might school. This is no sly bid for be described as the "Control glory as their teacher; I blush SchooL" Control8 failed to for the stupidity with which I hold the price or wage line herded them, leaving each in both World War II and the one of them in the years followKorean Conflict. Infl a t i o n ing to prove how much better occurred despite such controls he or she was than I had been and the major accomplishment able to discern. of controls was confusion . . . . I felt able a few days ago to much paper work and.... much excuse my self in small degree when I read in the Readers Diexpense to the taxpayers. To repeat, the chief warning gest that Thomas A. Edisons from official Washington is to teacher sent him home to hi9 be calm and dont get excited. mother with a note saying there The Indo-Chin- a situation could was no sense in sending such a develop quickly or the cold war StPuf children have taught me could drag on for years. In this connection, the Chines to have faith in humanity; its Communist leader, Mao Tset- - possibilities are limitless. Eight ung, apparently has drawn upiTf a? Z tlte Piute andi and Navajo a program of conquest much like ivfj100 couldnt 'hnddfcehn Hitler did in speak any Mein Kampf. When I see them today, What is believed to be a copy I am of Maos program They also helphas been ed us astonished. to cut some in the Congressional placed Some visitors in a home were Record by the Senate Repubspelling words one to another lican leader, Mr. Knowland. so a listening little who Mas envisions a cold would not understand. girl Not very war. He expects to conquer all one of them said, of Asia and Africa without meaning the little to which bloodshed and has set the year she made answer, girl, No not very 1973 as the effective date. but very After that, attention will be devoted directly to the United Nearly two thirds of the naCanada States, and South tions farms do not have runAmerica. ning water. non-existe- Indo-Chine- day-herdi- nt. se Indo-Chine- se Indo-Chin- a. eye-teet- h. 20-ye- ar Dr. Gerald H. Bagley, Optometrist will be in San Juan County Thursday, June 17th to examine eyes and fit glasses. IN BLANDING Thursday mor n i n g 9:00 to 12:00 noon at Blinkenstaffs Motel. Call Mrs. Chauncey Black for appointment IN MONTICELLO Thursday aft e r -noon from 1:00 to 5:30 p. m. at Mrs. Helen Redds home. Call Helen Redd for appointment. PHONE 85R O Custom Butchering : ! I am enclosing copies of the exchange of correspondence that took place between Governor J. Bracken Lee and the First Presidency of the Saints. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y In view of the importance of the issues discussed I thought you might Lke to reproduce these letters in full detail. Sincerely yours, Harold W. Simpson Executive Assistant HvVSefw May 14, 1954 Glentlemen: As you know, the required number of voters of the State, by the filing of a petition, have placed on the ballot for the coming November election the question of whether the action of the last of Weber, Legislature in authorizing the return Snow, and Dixie Junior Colleges to the Church Saints, should or of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y should not be sustained. I am advised that during the campaign to obtain signatures to the refrerendum petition it was represented that the plan to return the Junior Colleges to your Church was requested by you. This I know to be untrue and I take full responsibility for the proposal one I have consistently and publicly made lor a period of four Kon. J. Bracken Lee, Governor State of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Governor Lee: We acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 14, 1954. As you state, the legislation to return Weber, Snow and Dixie Junior Colleges to the Saints was Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y not suggested directly or indirectly by the Church. Over three years ago you addressed a letter to us asking what the Church would do in the event the State discontinued the operation of these three institutions. We replied that under the deeds of conveyance by which these colleges in the 1930s were deeded by the Church to the State, they would revert to and be operated by the Church if the State discontinued their operation. In response to a similar inquiry by you last year we gave you the same answer. In order to obviate any misunderstandings which you report are current, we answer specially the questions set forth in your letter as follows: Answer to Question No. 1: We shall be pleased to have Weber, Snow and Dixie Colleges returned to the Church, which is in a position to operate them in a first-clamanner scholastically and otherwise. Answer to Question No. 2: As to lands which have been acquired and buildings built at the expense of the tax payers of Utah since the three colleges were conveyed to the State, the Church has been legally advised by competent counsel that the acceptance tof the obligation to further operate the three colleges (which amounts to approximately one million dollar? per year) is a sufficient and valid consideration and price for the transfer. Nevertheless, so as to remove any possibility of even doubtful criticism, the Church is willing with respect to such property, to pay, taking into account all the circumstances, whatever price is fair and equitable. Under the pending legislation this amount would, of course, be determined by negotiation between the State Board of Examiners and the Church. Answer to Question No. 3: The answer to all parts of this question is in the affirmative. The Church will be in a position to carry on the regular school program. Because of the fact that the school year will have already begun the Church will consider itself bound by employment contracts which have already been entered into with all members of the teaching and custodial staff. Further, the same curricula including the same course, will becontinued both for day and evening schools; Sabbatical leaves already granted will be recognized; the same tuition will be charged and the same students will be admitted and permitted to continue the courses for which they originally registered, without any interruption, just as though there had been no change of operation of the schools. It may be that in addition to the courses for which the students have already registered, additional courses may be offered so that there would be a better balanced and richer 'curricula, but there would be no diminution of the courses already offered. Answer to Question No. 4: It would be our intention not to transform any of these colleges into what some have termed religious seminaries. It would also be our intention to integrate all three of these institutions into our Church School System, and to accredited Junior operate them as high-claColleges with a well qualified faculty competent to meet educational needs of their respective communities. Our intentions as to competent faculties can best be measured by our past performance when these same schools were f previously operated by the Church. Answer to Question No. 5: We have not, of course, formulated any retirement policy for the three colleges in question nor can we be expected to do so until we know e of the November election. We the would expect, however, to pattern the retirement system for these three institutions along the line of the retirement system now in effect at the Brigham Young University which, we are informed, is the most favorable retirement system of any University in the State. The teachers at that Institutions in addition to having benefits of the Federal Social Security, pay 5 of their annual salary into a teachers retirement fund. This 5 is matched by the Church. The combination of the two provides a very good retirement system for faculty members. Answer to Question No. 6: The statement vou report is not correct Veterans of World War II and of the Korean War have the same educational benefits in Church Schools as in State schools. At the Brigham Young University, for instance, the tuition and fees of veterans of World War II were paid by the Government in the same way as at State institutions. Veterans of the Korean War who desire to pursue higher education are paid certain educational benefits direct to them by the Government, and may us these benefits as they see fit for tuition in either private or State We Now H&ve A Good Supply MOW! f July 28, Dear Editor: 1S54 Thursday. ATTENTION SAN JUAN COUNTY RESIDENTS: Professional Credit Plan now available for eye care and glasses. Ask about the the Prof essio n a 1 Credit Plan! ng |