| Show PEARSON OGDEN UTAH SATURDAY EVENING OCTOBER 26 1963 TO RIAL E D I S 4 Valachi Singing Recalls Race Wire Head's Death End of US Business Honeymoon Two unrelated moves by the admin- istration this week took the business community by surprise A federal grand jury in New York opened a broad inquiry into steel pricing which ended the uneasy honeymoon since President Kennedy forced a steel price rollback in April 1962 And the President himself announced that all 6000 products on the tariff list except only a handful protected by law will be subject to major tariff reductions in global negotiations The serving of subpoenas on major steel companies came after a year of improving relations with government The industry had abandoned its old technique of raising prices across the board which had drawn the President's wrath Last spring the industry began selective price increases starting with products such as sheet and strip which accounted for 41 per cent of steel mill products The action drew a remark from the President that selective pricing up or down was not inconsistent with the national interest Prices have since been advanced on uiner sieei pruuucis uueu uy varying amounts by major steel producers There were differences in price on such lines as plates structural shapes bars and pipe Not long ago Roger M Blough chair flat-rolle- d CHICAGO — The recent sing- - FBI report came in I received ing of Joe Valachi regarding a call from Chicago It was re- underworld overlordship mob f Ragen He said called the death of a man for out was d wse to him which indirectly I was respon- sible I dropped in at the morgue to get him He asked for FBI of Chicago's American to re- - protection man of US Steel and David J McDonald president of the steel workers jointly called at the White House to protest f the imports of steel that were depriving thousands of steelworkers of jobs and to ask for fair standards of competition with foreign producers to halt their invasion of the US market The President's formal statement to American industry that for the first time in history the whole tariff list would be thrown on the block for negotiation with foreign nations seemed to forecast more severe competition for all American industry and the loss of more jobs for American industrial workers Coming immediately following t h e meeting of the Business Council at which Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon sought to convert these business industrial and financial leaders to support immediate tax cut reductions to stimulate business the tariff move and the steel inquiry chilled the whole cordial atmosphere that was so long building The last time the steel crackdown was followed by the loss of business confidence Almost it 'seems as if the left hand does not know what the right is moves doing in these new of government anti-busine- i'l "" " j tt i t i iJW ' t' 'i J M 1 "r- -t If Til 1 J v s5i ffe t ! a- I -r fresh my memory There it was in a dusty clip- The account of how James M Ragen head of the press and racing wire died Aug 14 1946 after from a leing machine-gunne- d truck at a Chicago street intersection The clipping brought back memories of other events Uen- tical with what Joe Valachi has James been telling senators died he before had Ragen told me the same thing-o- nly hich was why he more so-w- vi clkd fn'iQiR fnnr vpnrR hfnrp th Kefauver crime probe I saw Ragen in Chicago He gave me the story of Chicago mob rule with Dermission to take it to Attorney General Tom Clark The story was a sordid one tola now tne noteis me ! J 'A Q v - f 'V vfTS v-- -- Ki Prtr' O' 4 ss the majors have withdrawn working agreements that provide the All northern Utah should be encouraged by word from Washington that the Air Force has reinstated its contracts for further development of a Mobile Ballistic Missile The Wasatch Division of Thiokol Chemical Corp is one of the prime research agencies for the MMRBM working on the solid fuel propulsion units Contracts for the development had been suspended until Congress worked out new funding proposals Sen Frank E Moss reports that agreement now is in sight so the Air Force has again turned on the green light for the mid- range missile This means more work for Utah and increased defensive protection for the country Mid-Ran- ge Idaho and Montana club with players If the Pioneer ballparks are dark next year they probably will remain dark for years to come There's just too much competition for the entertainment dollar throughout the nation for a league like the Pioneer loop to keep operating What happened in 1956 when Ogden had to pull out has now been repeated throughout the area It was a whale of a baseball league while it lasted Pioneer League Death The death of the Pioneer Baseball 4Va Mountain States Although Ogden has long been out of the league many sportsmen in our area have still followed the fortunes of the loop and watched with pride the climb to fame of many "alumni" of the circuit as they made good in major leagues Now President Claude Engberg says the Pioneer League cannot operate in j The Social Democrats of West Ger- many have repudiated "economic planning" and strikes as "belonging to the past" in their efforts to win votes from the Christian Democrats Five years ago the Social Democrats scrapped the party's Marxist mannesi Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin and Herbert Wehner dominant personalities in the Socialist party endorsed the ecochanges laid down in a three-da- y nomic conference in Essen It is obvious of that West Germany's long agony with the Socialist Soviet Republic as well as the misery in East Germany had made voters steer clear of a socialism which paves the way to communnsm travail Hintfws 2££nte£d JOSE P H A L SO P havl rj f ' et 2J KSTa 5StSSffo?wiaw SHSS?5ate? nakivSert Thoro ic nnp nnsnlntinn TTT MOM nnnt WASHINGTON— For the long believed that 1963 would again another slow rise in farm main- - taA TtSatthl output n s oiraind Wo m-o- la e maybe not to her boy but to some other mother's child I think someone should help re- store Mrs Vigil's faith in law and justice The Juvenile uourt certainly isn't helping Mrs J R Magdiel 2132 Fillmore Ave in the dispute over city charter government should employes be their status under the charter nnH thpir nnssihle status under cmlsiionnayor government Ogden city charter provides that every employe not spe- cificaHy excepted shall come under city civil service protec- tion and classification This means each employe knows he is being paid an equal amount of salary with every otherempioye of similar classification comparable to prevailing rates to the commun- - We ° t bu " mwum SireeiS OI A " UnicagO hght dehvery truck with lt made pulled up cArates of tarpaulin was pulled aside a macnine gun was thrust out andrt a fusillade was directed at "Sr" The and the and gray sedan light changed fruit truck sped on Ragen was taken to the chael Reese Hospital He was still alive and philosophical "Well I guess if they want you they're going to get you" he said : This however was not the end of the story Ragen began to recover from the mob's rain of bullets Three Chicago cops sat in shifts outside his hospital room to make sure the mob did not come in and finish the job it had started Ragen tinued to improve Mi-ingt- on con-So- me But finally on Aug 14 he died An autopsy showed that a tube of mercury had been placed inside his stomach— enough to kill three men Nobody has yet discovered how the mercury got inside Ragen's abdomen The coroner J L Brodie ruled that he could not charge murder since he could not say whether Ragen had died of gunshot wounds or of mercury poisoning are almost embarrassed would feel like a fool calling one lL! i preoccupied with politics in- ternational affairs and football games but what ever happened t0 ladders? The subiect worried us a little until y we looked up ladders in the newspaper library Then it worried us a lot Nobody has been keeping an c 1S Haven't seen a ladder in years" the man said He sug- gested a buildersV supply house We called there The man would be glad to order a ladder but to look us he advised into some interlock- modern ing scaffolding instead °" the ladder situation for "Just to get a Frisbee off the ee lnnff to wto light-weig- ht )ss tt a $54000 j a consnicuouslv" Samely: "Why does the council are insist thP thrpfl mill tax fnr nav- ignored ment of Weber Basin water is IGNORE WAR not a' nronertv tax''" Indeed the actual war in Viet 'The council 'decided to put this consn cu- N ni cf thn age bf adulthood and then and factorily his or her work The on thesubjedonly then wiU he ever be m?de civil service comn?issi0 lits of Uncle Ray's Corner dated dously sensing that hehad got nilfrn£rA! 0a nX!t wu tn" Aeterm hp iqaa u oo?h "Mih nf ih he rniM i jt iu xi as nauueiieu uic ucieuscicss rearded Vigil boy display utter disregard for the uniform of the nolice and in many other society They can ways Push their faces up to an offi- cer oi me law ana aare mm to stnke mm 311(1 the officer is powerless because the "do- gooders' would shout that he abused the poor juvenile if he -— — 'T w ? 11 i —l or oiner superipi This is provided for under the charter and only a revison of the charter approved by the electorate can change this be done Should the a cuy tummiiMuu away wun could discard civil service for all but firemen and policemen Their civil service status is pro- vided by state law kjZ £aa uu vt FT1' are disappearing Not many years ago up We want to be fair—we may when have been cut off A neighbor (who would have you needed to get a Ball or a roof could off the nwnerf you a Mr ?n glider Borrow a ladder next door or days It individual VenSiiitT) across the stree Now there suggested a rental establish- are wn0ie neignoornoous in ment The ladder there was which there is not one resident engaged and we could get on a ladder Uncle are Rapaid use in 1944 "We ladders list BITl"ugoBATafter? the hun- - own way tying baseball bat to a clothesline and hurling This caused some in concern the one neighborknow where to borrow hood especially when we REAL LADDERS launched the bat with a sn?n- NOW YOU KNOW We are talking about real ning hammer-throdelivery not little hut the ladders nrnWtilA did 1a sWo' United Press International —— v vw The worst mine disaster in and not those kitchen stools that and beyond the Frisbee a couple ers turn uk wm i aim gumg lanonoiaers win pay tneir snare ronticauy tne new iaci of rather well even though the as their property increases in hide behind the cloak of anony- -the means that government the difference Qiinerficiallv Dupciiiw c Man ran no lonJ?er be government Of President NgO value rnnnril r n ii 1 d have nut mitv and the laxity of the JuCourt sooner or later SStJ Siinese Communist grain regarded as stable and secure Dinh Diem has probably ceased entire five mills on property but venile will commit g r eater as a viable to 182 to be they Item was on the order of held it to three mills It is irrational permanently suppose that — x crunes uuiik mai uuvi a uuy crisis Furthermore :a property tax fifmntons This year's may bea any group of national leaders result ottne uuaanist mUilon the law or ffirl has violated i i (A i t Thus Mii nnm AiftintiHiao havD ' d Un ve?al have Stes to havelS wVwhen Ihey when 6 least 1907 at on Dec expect it you Monongah andor his name published The - difference flirted a iriffantie catastronhe ic colors They exist They are k not were munvii firemen nousepdimei thtoa nt onnthor rea should receive Dsvchiatric treat-- WVa when m nersons io nH airearfv ceriouc Hiffimlties and Thi' no rvrer o Mcdowell r: AS "l CHARLES of particular interest to city Hr and thic will ho sn continue His life was in dan-fru- it said and I knew he was ? he tne truth: tellinS Finally Ragen hired two bodyguards on his own-W- alter Pelletier a retireu policeman and Mty Va!?ii a truck Uuver sh fclthf 24 two months about ?n iune after Ragen had first talked to nie he was driving hoaae about 5:50 pm when a gray sedan with an Indiana license stopped at Pershin? l" fJont J°L J03? tnduStJatf StretVnThe-tw- tfaf" pc light had turned waiwi anu ree- tler were following him They and Attorney General Clark authorized a dozen or so FBI men to check on Ragen's facts A couple of weeks later they reported that they were true They also reported that control of the underworld reached into very high places Some of the rulers of the under- world had be ome supposedly iespected businessmen and pt-- i ticians whose names were household words in Chicago of them it was stated had reformed Yet they still controlled the mo) In this respect Ragen's infor-mation was much more im- portant than that of Joe Valachi However the Justice Depart- ment in Washington had no jurisdiction It raised the ques- tion of states rights The city of Chicago and the state of Illinois were responsible not the FBI or the Justice Department A couple of weeks after the Emoloyes' Status ndard-Examine- tal - 1 ffitSfiSS acS ofStotlS ber Bhi °r vear and Jnile ' on l"oL? SSJ S wel- Standard-Examine- r Why the three mill tax for a water utility operation in Ogden? Or just what are the Echo Dam water rights? The story: 1926 — US government Dro T poses construction of Echo Dam the fact this is a juvenile s water conservation Ogden City Commission agrees to pay world Let them do what they $10000 a year for 40 years or mayf but protect them at all of $400000 for 10000 acre-feacrewater a year Cost— $1 per The policemen in Ogden are fOOt tht finp:t nnvwherp Thpv are 1931-E- cho Dam completed "for the abuse Congress declares a three-yea- r nd danger they must face morotonum on payments They are ready willing and abIe to attempt toenforce the SlT7 but what g0uOd does ifc d0' They make out their necessary reports and then when a juven- ne is concerned t is turned rt£ lh£ do Court over to the ta a offender the where receives rilhts XSUSr Echo 804 turned sta ve Dlm eo to WeSSvfa loose again U) bv default hnw- - rK2f SSfodbv gr Z Siemr J?r Commie Chinese Harvest Important in Long Pull K"The f EDITOR comes letters from its readers They must be in the public interest must not exceed 300 words and must be signed with the writer's name and address Standard-Examine- r: Our own difficulties have at could have had from Echo Dam " the A 1 The Water Costs Editor m TO THE LETTERS Shift From Left mis-silem- en pun wis auiuuui rdficant news may well concern n Fifteen miles from Panama City deep in the jungle of Panama one can view the remains of a symbol of man's faith It is a chapel almost completely hidden it by thick tropical vegetation Discovered by an anthropologist two years agocan one had been lost in the jungle almost 300 years Its history is vague and deonly surmise its beginning and ruin IV has been suggested that it was1650 Panama City in stroyed by the pirate Henry Morgan on his way to sack must have been a man It is a small chapel of Spanish architecture Its founder of great faith It had carried him into a new land to serve not only his fellow countrymen there but also the natives of this uncivilized area The broken baptismal font near the chapel attests to his love and compassion The altar of the to ruin it chapel is still partially intact However the shrine might have itcome over the censeems significant that God's covering of green has orotected turies so that it still serves as a poignant symbol of the faith that know no death 1964 because Missile prob-Continen- tnnrnntQ wprp Hnminntprf hv tho mob To hire a bartender you had to talk to the mob To buy ice Cubes to launder roller tow- els to buy beer you had to do business with the mob The mob ruled a very large part ot um- cag0 " FACTS WERE TRUE Jr took the story back to Wash- - j" te-viV- g: " TsA r- THE POWER OF FAITH 'Mid-Ran- ge For a time the FBI gave eventu-pinRfgen protection But ally they said that manpower short they had other lems to handle m Chicago The anguished cal s from Ragen than last year s Tse-tun- w SteD-ladde- rS wlMuf KSi -- S fr° beed Syemp then is nine million aeiwua wiut In the context ot me crisis in any way out oi tne appauing- wm giuw uwie of In the time catasthe in the situation created this passage drop by China however exan is trophe the crucial grato crop uicui sMrtrt a great nation luce unina ui aeni puwciuiuueuMay dramatic aeveiopceedin Ely MVm mo 9 i i3 ai Umth riinh j j Chithe and misfor- - even try to make the deal with into is that deeper misery per The point i i o5i u m tk MrtfVi ViofniiTiflco rnmmii i f Jornmunist leauers uicm- lune ' wui surely iinu us uwu uic mwm ntuwiuwe nee u selves nave placed their whole way out in the end even if it nists for which the French on ii3nn on an increase in azri- - is neressarv to find new leaders the spot have been intriguing cultural productivity as the And as China's descending spi-- On the other hand our diffi- -View Nam are downonly way out of their' troubles - ral has not been halted despite culties in subordiall the drastic by right trifling compared to the Everything has been funated to securing this increase Mao and his colleagues the - difficulties which now confront Industrv has been allowed to ture of Mao's regime is now in the Chinese Communist regime not to mention the regime in Pnhlir? in- - Honht t Q haif-haNorth Viet Nam where condi-course of not This mean does been vestment has suspended are even worse than in Every kind of concession has that a great change is to be tions China to does This and to concilate made been immediately expected we spur on the Chinese peasantry not mean either that if and- If we hang on therefore the when when there is a general up- can reasonably hope that Last year moreover 'a but signifi- - heaval or a great leadership other side's difficulties will end there was slight will by weighing heaviest in the cant rise in farm output these crisis the successor-regim- e the balance And if we give up we retain not Communist label workmeasures seemed to be this 'But quite certainly means can miss what increasingly ing Only a few weeks ago when that US policy in Asia must be looks like a major chance of a g in the course of this reporter was in Hong Kong based on a balance sheet which great of troubles the the other shows there still the history i ' ij - y?' self-revers- als it zig-za- China-watche- rs jjikt te nea in cuy management Ogden's city recorder certifies a heuM t-h- r W slapping" C by the fan Ju- - w ji t o i oimmssiuii n remrdwas rnimht niiite with f tha j city recorder show these state-- stealing The police were cal ed mnnfn antf the man who caught the bov wuc lucma ai c tma was avised to come down and R M Hoggan 2881 Wheelock Ave sign a comolaint He refused because he said he knew nothing wnuM rome of it He a1 so Not Helninn 'be would handle Md the neipmg r: btandard-bxammeif it haDnened Hv'wav things bditor I like many of my neighbors again He was advised by the was incensed over what hao- - police that he couidnt do that pened to Mrs Eva Vigil's boy as he would be arrested He toldWe can ask ourselves over and nonce it would be worth spendover again why the Juvenile ing a little time in jail for the Court doesn't do something satisfaction of seeing that the about it I wouldn't know where bov was punished The Vigil bov is a juvenile to go for help to see that this boy who committed this act of He needs protection as well as perversion is either brought to e bov who pernetrated the justice or given psychiatric help mistreatment against him Must we face up to the fact that know the anguish that Mrs Vigil the Juvenile Court is to protect must suffer as a mother know- hoodlums not to protect the in- - ing that it can happen again oi me ugaen rmirt uy u w-u- Sfa t0 thc World & I I nr'ur VKz J Pf coax it down the incline of the miu root ? SLT SWSerK JL2TSXhSSS W XAil i&A scheme ff 1 I VWJ T'll 1 no-lice orf7a mUe? feTtto Sinon " tne: man came t° fix UP the gutter they could fetch the Frisbee The wind brought down the Frisbee and it turned out that the gutter didn't absolutely require repair but we can't continue to count on this kind of luck There must be a renaissance of ladders if this country is to remain strong and self-relia- "How many times do we have to tell you George it's not polite to hootenanny' at the tablet' nt The need has not diminished Kites still hang in high branches Swings still must be swung Gutters still need cleango ing and patching Cats still base-hall- s Frisbees trees Cats un footballs dodge balls gliders parachutes hats and somehow even sweaters and occasional small boys still have to be retrieved from high places |
