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Show tff m J 5u-(C- Pnc, Ufk TWsJ, 0 May 21, 1941 Summer Berlins Tlie Might 4lf (Expression rditionn now being circulated by n nil con- a local group of retqkjnsible scientious Utahns are the first step to provide the electorate with a choice of how the states lijuor laws are to be enforced. There is nothing sinister alut the procedure, the method following statutory provisions, anil those who took the initial steps in obtaining the petitions as outlined by law from the secretary of state certainly cannot lx classed as underworld tyjes seek-- I ing to throw the state wide open, and liquor-bRather, the k projxtsal is probably just as offensive to the present element as it is to those who see in the proposed legislation a population of drunkards. Many of those seeking to scare the public with their versions of what will hapjten if the proposed legislation is enacted by petition are the ones who are currently deriving lucrative profits from the illegal sale. Under the present liquor setup they are operating in what might be market. The termed a proixsed legislation would take them out of that category and they would have to compete for the trade as much as do other types of businesses. For a number of years a growing number of Utah residents who arc concerned have been justifibly disturbed over the existing system of liquor control. It is a n fact that the present laws are being circumvented and ignored. The purpose of these initiative petitions is to bring liquor sales and consumption under effective control. y the-drin- law-breaki- ve well-know- Probably no other issue in quite some time has created as much interest among Utahns. Because it is being placed directly before the people in the highest tradition of democratic processes, it just doesnt seem A , Anyone, regardless of age or economic status, can develop a dependence on certain drugs by taking them regularly, particularly if the amount is increased and the interval they are This is only part of a comprehensive overhaul. .Supplemental ujxlut-in- g would vastly strengthen liquor law enforcement, providing funds for that purjsj.M, and other punitive methods for effectively discouraging unlawful sales to minors. Petitionary procedure is not new to Carbon County. It was such a procedure that brought before the entire state the plight of Carbon College now College of Eastern Utah) and other institutions of higher learning back in I'J.V) when an attempt was made to eliminate them. Petition signatures were obtained, the issue was placed on the ballot and the electorate voted overwhelmingly against discontinuance of the schools. Since that time Weber College, which also was under the axe, has expanded into a four-yea- r college and CEU has grown in stature and enrollment and is an invaluable asset to the area it serves. Then, as now, legislatures, because of organized group pressures, were not willing to take the necessary steps to adopt legislation suiting the will of the people so the people spoke through their ballots. We respectfully urge that these petitions be signed according to law, not necessarily as an endorsement but as a legal procedure which will enable every voter to express his opinion by ballot in the democratic way of solving a serious problem. low-co- st taken is shortened. Certain clues that indicate growing dependency on drug3 can be spotted: Lack of muscular coordination, muddled speech and impaired judgment can indicate excessive use of barbiturates. Rapid pulse, restlessness, muscular twitches, heavy sweating, bad breath, talkativeness and are signs of ampheabuse. tamine Marijuana smoking typically leads to increased appetite and a craving for sweets. The abuser of marijuana is often apathetic, listless and careless in his personal habits. Marijuana and LSD also cause the eyes to dilate widely. Dark glasses sometimes are worn, even at night, to hide the effect. Pinpoint pupils signal possible use of heroin or other narcotic drugs, so are needle marks on arms over-activit- y What can you do about drug abuse? The AMA Council on Mental Health suggests: Try to help the victim seek medical treatment. If you are aware of illegal traffic in drugs, notify police or other appropriate ment, on the scale now contemplated, must inevitably lead to either a crushing tax burden or to continuing inflation and depreciating money at a rate that will of itself stimulate the worst kind of disorder. Attempting to buy peace and tranquility by bigger government spending is a dubious course at best. If it is followed by the logical corollary of more inflation, the fallacy of trying to spend our way out of trouble will become all too clearly apparent. Religion may save the human race but it wont be through resolutions passed at mass meetings. VU!' EMtfitD AS I'bW Frrrf Thandvr Sr Tbt SUN ADVOCATE PUBLISHERS. PH ICE, UTAH - 04501 SLuiM) flAS MATTER ROBERT ALEX BENE. JR, tine r L AT THE FINNEY. INC. post OT MLE IN PRICE. I T AH Pbluk e The Ugly Head Of Patronage it would be a step forward if Posmasters Unquestionably, General were responsible only for their department s administracustom of assigning political tion and operation. The and other duties to an incumbent Cabinet official has had its critics from the fx ginning, and rightly so. Even though dictated by exthe P.O.'s work pediency. it never was a good idea. Now that load has increased so many fold, it is unjust to permit its chief to be borrowed more or less continually for political and other time-honore- HOLD AW AY. Sacrty NIWIFAMR grrrmvR U.'M m CHww, aM Emery CowiWww ;mn is the practice of pre- Equally detrimental to the postal service area and of town, postmasters at the sidential appointment city, Much too often this of members of Congress. special pleading of postmasters who just spoils system has led to the appointment them in office. the confronting to been haven't challenges equal STATEHOUSE REPORT Colorado River Bill Passage Brings Hope for Many Benefits By C. SHARP Utahns were happy at the surprisingly easy passage in (he U.S. house of Representatives May 16 of the $1.3 billion Lower Colorado River Project Bill. This bill could be on President Johnsons desk for signature this y year. It would give Utah rights on the river, which might be better than priority rights on lower reaches. Included would be the $15 million Uintah unit of the Cenral Utah Project and $57 million for the Dixie Project in southern Utah. It also provides for regulation of the river flow to prevent draining of Lake Powell and to protect Utah water rights. Rainmaking, Desaling It directs the secretary of interior to make studies for augmenting supplies of water in the basin by desalting, rainmaking or importing. If these studies win approval of Congress as to feasibility, the nation would assume the obligation of providing the augmentation and for supplying Mexico with 1.5 million acre feet of good In deference to the Pacific Northwest States which opposed the bill, no importations of water could be made from a state the approval without of its gov- ernor. Basin states are hopeful that of the fact that about 180 million acre feet of water flows into the Pacific Ocean from the Columbia River annually, a trickle of 2.5 milliion acre feet diversion may be authorized eventually. in view Wyoming Opposes All basin states, with the exception of Wyoming which still wants better guarantees of its future water rights, fought long and hard for the bill. Colorado had a staff of 60 men in Washington Arizona maintained a staff for four years in the national capital. Thirty-- t iuht did California Congressmen much of the House lobbying Daily held. strategy meetings were Rep. Laurence J. Bui ton. led the fight for this stale. Others there for the voting were Doha, Thorpe Waddingham, member of the Upper Colorado River Commission and chairman of the Coordinating Council for Natural Resources; Lawrence Y. Siddoway, Vernal, a director, and Lynn S. Ludlow, that th bdl would lend federal tromn for cons' ruction of a steam genera 'mg plant which would burn Arizona coal This plant would pros id- power to pump wafer to central Arizona. An earlier bill called f r a Hualapi Dam on the river to generate power. Because tV pres, nt b II is a to Sen Cad Havden. i Aig . li .in 'iillVi- m c, - i I tasks. - JF3ME SIAII Subscription: Actually, we have had 59 Postmasters General since President George Washington first appointed Samuel Osgood in 1789, Theodore Roosevelt had 5 during his two terms. Over a similur span Grant had 4. Yet Calvin Cuolidge held on lo a Hardmg aj)pointee through all his own five years in office. Fifty-ninPostmasters Gvneral may seem loo many, but if is about par for the course as far as some of our major government deparnients are concerned. Beginning with Washington s time and carrying down lo the present, there have been 55 Secretaries of State, 58 Secretaries of the Treasury, and 66 Attorneys Generul. some PHONE NATIONAL JMI long-rang- executive director. Central Utah Water Conservancy District, and Daniel F. Lawrence, director, State Water Resources Division. Coal Plant Utahns were disappoint'd 1 WIST Congress. tightly in the grip of a pattonage-hungrLast month's resignation of Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien after a short term in office has focused attention anew on the fact that Postmasters General often have not served long enough to come to full grips with the problems involved, much less pluns and long enough lo bring to a happy fruition reform. and of projects rejuvenation Postmasters General And Politic water. or legs. un-$dvoc- ate 7 lidbvin Paik, Mdv M.iy 2) A the Ihisl Office lApartmenl murks the 50:h anniversary of air mail, II u pursuring with vigor a program lo move more first (lass mail via air. By miiiitiiiiie mat )e:ir, there could be a jiurgif of first clava mail and air mail into a single class of priority mail dispaiihcd by the fastest imnns of transport available. Imffiei-ncSiil! Persist evidences of progress, the P O is in deep trouble. thtse Despite Sharply increased postal rates pul into effect tome months ago art failing to give it the shot in the atm predicted, partly because of rising wages and ether costs and partly txcause the vast, sprawl-in- g be iutked system of more than 32.000 post oflucs continues to liigh-orit- Encouraging Pisordcr Reports now indicate that the latest round of riots in the cities is leading to inexorable pressure for vast new public spending programs on housing, welfare and jobs. All of this is in line with the recommendations of the Presidents Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders, which call for government creation of 2 million jobs in the next three years, gov. ernment provision of 6 million housing units over the next five years, expansion of welfare payments with the recipients able to regard assistance as a right and not as an act of charity, and finally, a government guaranteed annual income. Spending by the federal govern Postal Problems right that every citizen of voting age should not have u right to express an opinion by way of the ballot. Even if the initiative referendum docs become law, the qualified electors of each city or town or of an unincorporated area of a county will have the right, following the enactment of an ordinance to that effect, to prohibit the sale of liquor by the drink within their respective areas. Word (Du Brugs Drug use in the United States has become an increasingly serious problem, not only from the standpoint of the users but by innocent bystanders. No one will ever know the number of innocent lives that have been taken in traffic accidents, for example, as the result of auto drivers operating vehicles while under the influence of drugs. The American Medical Associa. tion Council on Mental Health has issued some facts about drugs. It points out that any drug can be harmful if taken in excess or under the wrong conditions. The Council says the problem of abuse usually involves drugs which can cause dependence. It then names the narcotics such as heroin, morphine, codeine; sedatives, including barbiturates (often called goof balls) ; the hallucinogens, like LSD and marijuana. Babsons Point of View: Senate is believed to be likely. A classified property tax was proposed to the Legislative Council Tax Committee May 15 by the executive committee of the Wasatch Front Tax Study Committee. Bruce Jenkins, Weber County assessor, told the council committee that public utilities now are assessed at an average of 28 per cen of their cash value; residences at 17.98 per cent of their values and farm lands at from 11 to 14 per cent of their values. by legalizing the effects without getting at the roots of the problem. Lewis H. Lloyd, council director, inquired whether the counties group might not consider homestead rather exemptiion than classficd property tax. Homestead Exemption Mr. Hinckley said they were See Revolution If the valuation rates on homes and farm properties were increased to the 30 per cent of cash value specified by law a revolution would result, he de- interested greatly in Presidential commission headed by Frederick R. Kappel, retired chairman of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, study of the P.O. and its operations. has completed an 5 to 10 years as much as $1.5 billion within that Members believe converted could be saved annually if the department were to be to a corporation similar from its present Cabinet status contends that commission The lo the Tennessee Valley Authority. of the P.O.s annual budget is wasted 20 as much as perhaps methods and antiquated buildings, and it because of lo make use of more failure the cites specially A Charles Welch Jr., said he understood had tried classified property tax and found it wanting. He was told that the Gem Sen. Lake, that Idaho The committee headed by G. Marion Hinckley, member of the Utah County Commission, proamendposed a constitutional ment to legalize these assessment levels. J. Leon Sorenseon, research assistant, quoted the following State failed to amend its constitution to permit such a sliding scale tax system. Mr. Lloyd quoted Orville Gunther, former Tax Commission chairman and legislator, as saying the classified property tax does not provide the answers and runs afoul of the U.S. constitution. classified It would erode from the tax base and throw a heavier burden upon industry. Like Objectives Senate President Haven J. and House Barlow, Speaker Franklin W. Gunnell, Only Three States Only three states have such a system: Minnesota and Montana which started it in the 1929s and Arizona which started it this year. Arizona railroads arc suing that state charg expressed sympathy with problems of county assessors and hope that the present differentiation in tax rate might be legitimatized. labor-savin- Marine Mammal HORIZONTAL 1 Depicted marine mammal 7 It lives in the seas 13 Interstice 14 Go to bed 15 Put on 16 Titled Artificial language 5 Forearm bon 6 European Tiver 7 Superficial 4 extent 8 Radicals Court tab ) Current o( th ocean IS Democrat 11 Peaceful (ab I 12 Fasten firmly 19 Owing 17 Written form 20 Tapestry of Mister 21 Compass point 52 Plural ending 25 Short letter 26 Hide 23 Preposition 27 Fly 24 Lairs 27 Denomination 59 All right (ab.) 30 Correlative of 31 32 53 35 3 9 10 either Palm Id While Unclosed Actual Smatle-- t State" (ab) 6 Gaelic 33 Speaker 34 36 37 41 42 43 Sea robber Wear down Eyeglass parts Whirl Otherwise Accomplisher 44 General Issu (ab.) 45 Strays 46 Profound 47 Heroic 52 Hypothetical force 54 Chmesa river Sack Jlao&itty TWENTY THIRTY AGO YEARS The fiery hues accompanying the production of coke will soon be seen against the night sky in East Carbon when the 500 coke ovens swing into full production in the not too distant future. 2-0- er anniversary celebration commemorating the division of the old Price LDS ward into the present four wards was conducted Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Price tabernacle under the direction of George Jorgensen, general chairman. The first Price ward was organized Nov. An 2, 1882. -2- 0- Thc membership of the Columbia union local No. 6089 has voted to meet its quota of 50 cents per member donation to the American Cancer Society. Donations also were given to the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Members of the Carbon County Sheriff's Posse will hold a business meeting Monday night in the city hall to pass on plans to incorporate the posse under state statutes. Duane Frandscn is captain of the group, which includes a total of 36 members. -2- 0A sinking blow was thrust into the Carbon County Chembcr of Commerce recently when the voted to commissioners county withdraw their $900 per year membership in the organization on the basis on an opinion handed down by Attorney General Grover A. Giles. In his opinion, Mr. Giles states that as a corporate body. Carbon County cannot function as a member. However, the county can contribute to the Chamber, which is a nonprofit organization, for the purpose of maintaining exhibits. -2- 0Much speculation has been re- 39 Exist 40 Measures 0 gistered of late as to the possible successor to William Campbell Rimmed Sea eagle Strike lightly French mer B6 Dance step $1 Indolent S3 Live on the board area 42 47 46 49 S5 Tuesday However, the commissioners. E B Miller and Irvin Gerber, evidently d,d not see eve to eye on a successor and the decision was uni! a to be meeurg pothie M ij l7 t jtl d ,.i,i, ,i tit - W Adds resf 1 VERTICAL S fled pos-pone- J Warm 9 of county and almost everyone thought this would be settled at the regular commission meeting Pe-for- m d sp-ci- Vnasrird i , g devices. , hope- The goal is to pul the P.O. on a more businesslike and basis by untying the patronage strings that fully hold back progress and by setting up a more flexible and equitable Prob- structure. When can we expect such reforms? postage-rat- e bruised be would toes ably not soon, for too many congressional we care and in the process. Never? That depends on how much will for reform and our make we and how forcefully persistently felt at the ballot box. economy known in Washington and -2- 0- WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE : non-prof- homestead exemption. clared. arguments against property tax: The Kappel Report ing that the system discriminates against them. the number In Minnesota enof property classifications joying favorable positions has been increased from four to 20. The plan lays a heavy burden on legislators by subjecting them to pressure for favored treatment. It tries to cure the problem several months ago for easy Senate passage, its approval in conference committee and in the ) ! . . , ' : . . . YEARS AGO n Although the 1938 Intermoun-taiMusic Festival was some- what smaller than the contests of former years, Price maintained its position last Thursday, Friday and Saturday as the high school music center of the inter- mountain region. 30 Believed to be the only existing organization of its kind in Utah and possibly the intermountain region, the Eastern Utah Safety Council was estab- lished here last week under sponsorship of Price Post No. 3 of the American Legion. 30 Carbon High The School orchestra under the direction of E. M. Williams received a rating of highly superior for its performance Saturday at the Western Colorado band contest in Grand Junction. Notre Dames band, entered in Class C usually reserved for small senior high school groups, was judged superior in both marching and playing. The Hiawatha band placed superior in marching and good in playing. -3- 0- Final approval was given by the city council Monday evening lo the proposed grading, gravel- ing and asphalting of approximately 33 city blocks under a WPA project. -3- 0- The climax of National Air Mail week, as far as Price is concerned, will be next Thursday when this community is placed for the one day on an air mail route from Albuquerque to Salt Lake City. James Lund, manager of the Carbon County airport, has been officially commissioned to fly the air mail plane from Green River to Salt Lake City. 30 The first of a series of murals depicting early events in the history of Price has been completed by Lvnn Fausett, Price artist. Onp of thp few projects of its kind in the stare, the mura's are to adorn the foyer walls of the new municipal building. 30 A project to enlargp and concrete the O'sen reservoir and provide for sewer lines has been officiary approved by the W P.A . it was announced this Wi.l. 1.) 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