Show Y EDITORIALS CA OGDEN UTAH MONDAY EVENING No Conference Without a We are told in the news from Washington that the United States will not engage in an international conference' on Laos until the shooting has stopped in that r country And Americans will do well to restrain any optimism about the Laos issue until the cease-fir- e is in effect If shooting should continue while the United States and its friends confer with the Soviet Union the Russians could wind up with all of Laos while the conference wended its weary way The Kennedy administration is right of course in refusing to compromise about To fail to be stubborn a Laos cease-fir- e on the point could place the US in a position to be tricked Sen Hubert Humphrey told a news program Sunday that the Unit f -- 'National Parks Problem ' "There is no doubt as Interior Secretary Udall reminds that the Interior Department and its National Park Service are confronted with a problem arising from increasing numbers of visitors at parks and As visitors increase new monuments areas must be transformed from natural to setting to roads and camps and lodges accommodate the men women and children attracted to the parks The people must be served however To set aside a park or wilderness and put a tall fence around it with “keep away” The signs would be a foolish procedure places with such distinctive appeal they have been set aside as national parks and monuments deserve to be visited Americans have been invited to do so down through the years It is a happy circumstance that larger numbers now find it possible to become tourists Our national parks should offer ample facilities to please the American people and make them feel welcome In this connection it is well that the great recreational resources of the reservoir area behind Glen Canyon Dam are already under development They will be in sharp demand before they win be completed unless appropriations are generous and work is Oil From Shale Utah Wyoming and Colorado people generally are informed about the potential wealth locked up in the shale beds located in the region where the three states come together Government geologists estimate that more than IV2 trillion barrels of oil repose in the mountains of shale The size of the reserve can be appreciated by the estimate that only 80 billion barrels of oil have been discovered and used in all history Sadly our people also know that the cost of extracting oil from shale through the best methods now known is too high to permit oil from shale to compete in price with oil from wells However the cost should not be too high in a vast country which has spent 300 million dollars in a vain search for enough oil wells to make the country This country is Brazil which has oil shale resources second pnly to those in the United States and is turning to the shale for desperately needed domestic oil supplies told his Sen Gordon L Allott colleagues that one of his abiding interests is development of oil shale resources so self-sufficie- nt R-Co- lo epPfc1 APRIL 3 1961 ed States will not be tricked in a Laos conference because the administrtaion is alert to possible Soviet trickery It is pleasing to know that the United States is profiting from its painful experience in the Korean cease-fir- e negotiations The Russians make a point that the two factions in the Laos civil war must be the ones to negotiate an armistice but this should impose no difficulty The United States can say the word to the faction the US supports and the Russians can do the same to the Reds and follow this up by ending arms delivery The fighting we believe would soon end to pave way for the conference in which the United States Britain the Soviet Union and others would join to establish a neutral and independent status for Laos oil-from-sh- ale SURE GOOD TO SEE YOU" an oboe but was never invited to DREW Navy Gained Upper Hand in Laos Maneuvers Over Air Force Army WASHINGTON— The Army-Navfootball season is long over but the old military rivalry boiled up around the Laos conflict This time the Navy gained the upper hand Army and Air Force generals are grumbling privately that Adm Harry Felt the Pacific commander turned the Laos crisis into a Navy exercise He didn’t even bother to Force units in the alert Army-Ai- r Pacific but rushed the Marines into neighboring Thailand to handle any ground action and put the Seventh Fleet in charge erf air-se- a operations Except for Air Force cargo planes which are needed to ferry in supplies Adm Felt squeezed the Army and Air Force out of the Thailand staging area Marines set up a helicopter base across the border from Vientiane y Sen- I A J Ogden F comments of a Pavement Plato: What age in life is really best? If you could relive all or any part of life in any way you chose Where would you begin? What would you like to be? These questions are sophomorie of course as no one yet has found a way to turn back the calendar g — and ' fairy godmothers are few anr far between But probably no one alive hasn’t at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life It is perhaps mankind’s ’ favorite daydream wish-grantin- SURPRISING go-arou- nd er S er h WHAT THEY'RE SAYING : Joe Jordan 83 Kinver England who married Alice Jornot 1953 dan in been able but has to persuade her to move from her home to his home: “We're darned sight happier this way than lots of couples I know who get on each other’s nerves being together every minute of the day” Former Mayor Mike Fitzgerald on the govern- ment's plan to move the Benicia arsenal which employs about 2400 of the town’s 6000 residents: “Thirteen years ago the government announced the arsenal would be transferred But we fought it then and the order was changed We’ll fight it again” CHOICES The subject came up recently at a cocktail party I attended Most of those present were in the middle-age bracor upper middle-ag- e ket Some of their lives if offered a chance at a second were surprising Childhood is usually regarded as the golden time of life but none of those present expressed a desire to begin again as an infant None wanted to be a teen-ageither Not even the ladies wanted to be “sweet 16” again One woman whose family is reared said she’d give anything to go back to the time when her children were young and dependent on me and we were all under one roof “Those seemed like hard and trying years then but I realize they were the most rewarding I’ll ever know” she said “I’d liked to be anywhere between 39 and 40 Those are the best years for a women” a career woman said Sanitary inspector Moroni Poul-t-er said there were 10 cases of smallpox in Ogden Mr' and Mrs William Peterson erf Ogden were visiting in Box Elder with Mr and Mrs William Fors-gree- n of Brigham City and others Calif the Army and Air Philippines and Okinawa Grumbles Gen “Rosie” O’Donnell Air Force commander-in-chie- f in the Pacific “X feel like the oboe player who had more troubles than he does This By Hal Boyle NEW YORK (AP) — Curbstone can’t help but make him feel more Broadbent of Provo was a local of Benicia Meanwhile Force sat on the sidelines in the What Age in Life Is Best? Well Now I'd Say Pier Herrick was in charge of workers was classified as a defense ' project by Fred M Nye chairman the queen contest featured by the Weber Wildlife Federation for their of City Board of Education and W indoor jollification at the White Karl Hopkins superintendent erf City April 24 Ida Anderson was schools the first to enroll Lionel W Thatcher professor Dr Alvin Barker one of the outof economics at Marquette Universtanding amateur flyweights of the sity in Milwaukee had been of- nation had decided to turn profesfered a position by the quartersional Barker was runner-u- p in the master general’s department in national finals and had won amaWashington as manager of indus- teur titles in Utah Montana Wyotrial traffic according to Mr and Colorado and ming Oregon over Mrs Gilbert Thatcher of Ogden four seasons Walter ‘F Grossenbach and John 50 YEARS AGO A Southern Pacific Railroad Co Lundquist had opened a new venture in Weber County cattle busi- official said that work was to start ness with the arrival of 22 head of shortly on the double track beregistered Shorthorn cattle at their tween Ogden and Little Mountain ranch in Pleasant View M S and J M Browning had Junior class officers in charge of won a victory with the Browning Weber County High School annual Bros automatic gun with an prom include Junior Blair presi- initial order for 30000 of the weapdent Melva Campbell vice presi- ons placed with the Colts Firearms dent and June Hadley secretary Co of Harford Conn The government was to require 100000 of the The Legion’s Forty and Eight automatics for the Army members had staged their annual Browning The Fourth Ward Juniors had despring “wreck” with a boxcar similar to the one used near French feated the First Ward Juniors in an battlefields during World War I exciting game of basketball in the heading the parade Among the Fourth Ward hall 56 to 12 Lineup leaders were: Harold Tribe Elmer included: T Summerill V Belnap Buckner James Kallas Milton W Fife R Goddard and R Ruby Boyle Ross C Glassman Russell victors vs S Stone R Tanner G Rockwell Royal J Douglas David Wright R Wright and A Brown CAPITOL CLOAKROOMS CURBSTONE PLATO Brewscore-keep- the Laotian capital Navy and Marine officers prepared other air strips in Thailand for possible combat use Marine Gen Donald Weller was to command Joint Task Force 116 on the ground in case American forces were ordered into Laos and Vice Adm Charles Griffin was to command the attack carriers off shore Both reported directly to Adm Felt who had already started sending dramatic MacArthur-lik- e eomuniques to the Pentagon ng Lindsay’s one lone vote would have switched the final result in favor of the Democrats As a result Secretary of Labor Goldberg has tipped off Liberal Party leaders in New York to veto Lindsay for fusion candidate for mayor erf New York They are now looking for another candidate Another Demo- cratic vote which would have switched the final result was that of Tammany Leader dairies Buckley Buckley failed to come to Kennedy’s rescue on this crucial vote which the President had led when he was a senator from Massachusetts Buckley just wasn’t around Ever since the battle for control of New York’s Democratic political machine Tammany chieftains have been sulking in their wigwam Buckley is now further washed up But Kennedy was most furious of all with his friend from Massachusetts Edward Boland who naively explained that he had been signing letters in his office and didn’t realize it was time to vote The White House doesn’t believe him ' 186-to-1- Willard and wife of Park P Stevens and City was visiting in The public seldom knows what goes on behind the scenes when the representatives of the people vote Th public sees the final result but doesn’t know about the frantic telephone calls the promises of jobs the that influence the vote The backstage maneuvering when the House of Representatives voted on the minimum wage act the other day influenced the pocketbooks of several million people Some political futures were also ruined by that vote Here is what happened Charlie Halle ck the GOP leader from Indiana performed a near miracle when he kept all but three liberal Republicans from going through the teller line They were Fino of New York Cahill of New Jersey and Halpern of New York Even such GOP liberals as John Lindsay of New York ducked out rather than cross Hal-lec- k table-poundi- ate confirmation of the nomination of Ralphael M Palewonsky to be governor of the Virgin Islands senators expressed concern over the welfare and future of the islands which the United States purchased from Denmark in 1917 The islands have the status of an organized but unincorporated territory with a total of 133 square miles and a population of 32000 The islands lie 40 miles east of Puerto Rico Some of the senators expressed dismay over the fact the United States had sent 50 million dollars to the islands in 10 years without much progress being made toward economic stability Some feared the possibility the islands would become a tourist center with honky-ton- k overtones of gambling and vice with Negro population reduced to a menial status of serving the visitors There is no doubt that the territory has the elements to become a tourist paradise Tourism has now passed rum making as the principal industry on the island of St Thomas Income from tourists in the fiscal year 1960 reached 25 million dollars which is the sum the US paid for the islands Mr Palewonsky the territory’s leading businessman assured the senators he was interested in promoting the people’s welfare and so was opposed to opening the islands to gambling and associated evils He felt that his business experience would be of value in efforts to improve the island finances and economy He now has full opportunity to do so as a governor who is a citizen of the Virgin Islands and a leader who enjoys wide respect among the Virgin Islanders -- play” PEARSON Our Virgin Islands In the discussion which preceded The most unusual juridical action starts on April 11 in Israel when Adolf Eichmann is brought to trial He committed no crime in Israel but is charged with organizing the murder of 6 million Jews in Germany Poland and other territory that Hitler conqueerd If convicted he will turn out to be the most efficient murderer in history if that' reputation is worth anything Murder was Eichmann’s business He was in charge of genocide an unusual occupation for any man He did not give his victims a trial they were guilty by birth It was not necessary to indict them to gather evidence against them to try them They were guilty because their grandparents were guilty They were guilty because they were Jews Even if through or intermarriage they were Christians it' did not matter Eichmann employed the grandmother test Whoever had a Jewish grandmother was ipso facto a Jew even if the grandmother were a Nordic ' straight out of the sagas TRIED ON 2 COUNTS ' So Eichmann is to be tried for genocide and murder Israel got hold of Eichmann by a most dramatic kidnaping-- ' Eichmann was in hiding in the Argentine He was traced seized and kidnaped The kidaping wds beyond doubt illegal but as the Argentine showed no disposition to go to war with Israel over' Eichmann and limited itself to a protest the matter became a fait accompli which in diplomacy is often acknowledge as inevitable and unavoidable It is now unbelievable that Eichmann will be returned to the Argentine which does not want him There can be no question but that Eichmann will get an absolutely fair trial Less than that would be harmful to Israel However he will not be on trial What will be investigated and judged is history — the history of a period which has outraged every moral development of the human race Eichman was the instrument of that historical indecency He was an instrument of maniacal brutality Whether he was more than a tool the trial will show Whether he is the originator of the genocide the trial will show In many respects the Eichmann trial can disclose the history of the period in its blackest and ugliest hues For while this vast murder plot was unfolding the restfcof humanity sat by and pondered the possibilities of Hitler’s greatness Soviet Russia which pretends to be so humane actually entered into an alliance with Hitler and to please his genocidal concepts dismissed the elderly Maxim Litvinoff and appointed Molotov to negotiate with p Ribbentrop The agreement was one of the most outrageous documents in history Subsequent to it Stalin entered upon an period which has continued to this day in all the vast territory of Soviet Russia In fact if Eichmann is found guilty why not try his Russian counterMolotov-Ribbentro- anti-Semet-ic part? MAY AVOID DEATH There can be little doubt but that Eichmann will evade capital punishment Such a verdict is antagonistic to Jewish law and the religious spirit of Judaism Eichmann is being provided with a law-yer at the expense of the state and any witnesses he chooses to bring to Israel will be brought at the expense of the state The Eichmann trial is obviously and definitely political The Israeli are attempting to establish by a trial the irrefutable evidence of genocide It is a frightful idea to wipe out an entire people the innocent along with the guilty It is not justice to destroy those who have committed no crime because they were born tothe wrong parents Nazism was a moral wrong The economics of’ national socialism were not dissimilar to other forms of socialistic economics the political organization of Germany under Hitler was not different from other monolithic- - states some of which are on our side Hitler’s crime was neither economic nor political it was moral He presented to the world the posture of an of a human who regarded himself as a God and who murdered at will Such a man ordered the genocide of the Jews because those who believe in God cannot believe in the supremacy of an individual man In Hitler’s struggle against God the Jews were on the side of God— and he murdered 6 million of them However Hitler is dead and the spirit of God prevails This in essence is the Eichmann - con-versi- on he is watching Brazil which will use techniques developed by the Bureau of Mines in Colorado and Wyoming for extracting oil from shale Brazil will also use technicians trained by the mines bureau The Colorado lawmaker says the United States should help Brazil launch the industry on the grounds that significant information will flow from the operations that will be helpful for the potential US industry Sen Allott is one of many who remain hopeful that a shale oil Industry will arise to increase the wealth of Utah Colorado and Wyoming They are overlooking no bets and will work on Congress to grant to shale oil the 275 per cent tax relief now enjoyed by the petroleum industry This is further evidence that oil shale boosters never give up er timekeeper and I Fife A Scott William YEARS AGO The new Quincy School being Lou Bass erected at 30th and Quincy by NYA Eichmann Faces Trial in Israel For Genocide fAurdcr April 11 Cease-Fir- e T Reese was umpire and H 20 GEORGE SOKQLSKY OLD ENOUGH “She is old enough to have gained experience and confidence in her work and she is still young enough to be attractive And her worst wrinkles still lie ahead of her” Most of the men on the other hand agreed that for them the ideal age was 25 a period when they recalled they were largely free of major debts ulcers and paunches still had most of their hair and felt strong enough to whip the world One harried executive-typ- e wry- ly remarked he didn’t care about being any particular age — just so he could be a bartender “A bartender has this big advantage — no matter what his own private worries may be everybody ha serves- - seems to have content with his lot That’s why bartenders are so smug” he said “I’d like te be a bachelor with $2000009” a mousy little man broke in i eagerly “Life today runs backward for the average man He starts poor and works hard- until he is 65 When he retires even if he has saved any money he is too worn out to enjoy it “With that two million bucks I could have a tax-fre- e income of $30000 a year On that I could travel everywhere do everything in life I haven’t been able too — really live it up “Maybe at about 75 I’d get tired of being a playboy so I’d settle down and marry a pretty young nurse and let her take care of me in my old age But I’d still have that original two million bucks in the bank” He looked coyly over at his middle-aged wife and asked “What would you like to be dear” “Me?” said the wife grimly “I’d like to be that pretty young long'-marrie- - RAYBURN LED WAY Loyal to Kennedy— speaker Sam Rayburn loyal elder statesman got down from the rostrum and led the Democrats through the teller line for Kennedy and the minimum wage act But very few of his fellow Texans followed him Only loyalists Wright Patman of Texarkana Jack Brooks of Beaumont Homer Thoraberry of Austin and Walter E Rogers of Pampa stood with Sam The rest of the Texans who come around to Sam’s birthday parties and pat him on the back as a great statesmn ducked Among the Texans who ducked were Paul Kilday of San Antonio and Joe Kilgore of McAllen One backstage phenomenon was the operation of new White House liaison officer Henry Wilson of North Carolina He pulled five North Carolina congressmen over to Kennurse’ nedy’s side of the minimum wage showdown even though North Carolina isn’t a pro-labstate Most of all was interesting Loyalist THREE venerable Carl Vinson of Georgia who one day before the vote came THE over to the Kennedy side An influential solon Vinson kept several Southerners from bolting What most people didn’t know was that BOSWELL the White House had just promised to place a vitally important conHtr ii lom arfvic on how fa havt frltnd without being "eaten up" by your tract for military transport planes awn hospitality Tht adviea is Or Sam-eat Marietta Ga The contract could Johnson's in the biography of him have gone to various ether comby James Boswell (1740-95- ) I talked of living in the coun- panies or other states such as the try Johnson: “Don’t set up for depressed Hagerstown Md area what is called hospitality It But it went to Vinson’s home state is a waste of time and a waste and the grateful Vinson voted with of money You are eaten up and Kennedy not the more respected for your' Two auto cabinet members— Minliberality If your house be like imum wage supporters had hoped to an inn nobody cares for you A get some quiet support from Secreman who stays a week with an- tary of Defense McNamara through other makes him a slave for a Ford dealers McNamara was once week president of Ford But he kept “I would not however be a hands off Since he was obligated stranger in my own county I by oath not to favor Ford in his would visit my neighbors and redefense dealings he took the underceive their visits but I would not standable position that he couldn’t be in haste to return visits If a use Ford connections for political gentleman comes to see me I tell purposes In contrast another him he does me a great deal of auto man member Arhonor I do not go to see him thur Summerfield rented an office perhaps for 10 weeks then we In the congressional hotel just are very complaisant to each across from the House of Repreother sentatives and brought pressure on “No sir you will have much congressmen through auto dealers more influence by giving or lend- to defeat the minimum wage act ing money where it is wanted Ike’s Postmaster General is the bigthan by hospitality’ gest Chevrolet dealer in tbs world anti-Chri- st trial NOV YOU KNOW United Press International The Working Men’s Club in Mild-ur- a Australia possesses the world’s longest bar — 285 feet with 32 serving taps HY GARDNER CALLING Uncle Sam is about ready to announce that the Internal Revenue Service has softened the tax bite on Ingo Johansson and that he’ll be free to return home to Sweden within five or six days Young Democrats in tune with the tempo of the times are urging Jim Farley Jr 33 to toss his h£t into the New York mayoralty ring Jim currently doubles as president of the Brooklyn the-horse- 1 er 5V2-year-b- out-of-to- - The violin ensemble at the Viennese Lantern sure knew the right table to fiddle around the other night — that of Mrs Huntington Hartford who recently won a divorce settlement from the A & P heir and not in green Hal Wallis and stamps either Lana Turner are among those competing for the film rights to Joyce ‘ ‘ $2-500- - Maclver’s hot book “The Frog Pond” Harpo Marx who made millions laugh for 40 years without uttering one word makes up for lost time in his autobiography “Harpo Speaks” It runs almost twice as long as the average book — 475 pages Which reminds us Movies are so lengthy these days even if they close after only one screening they’ve had a long run David Wise’s exclusive story about the Secret Service considering adding a horse-ridin- g agent to keep an eye on Pljsidaat and Mrs Kennedy recalls the Herbert Hoover' succeeded Czl Coolidge as president As an Onomy miasure he ordered the Wbfte House tables re-- 1 moved to the cavalry pool at Fort Meyer “I guess” Cal laconically commented “that he thinks will eat less hay at Fort Meyer than in Washington” Gary Crosby will legally adopt his wife’s son this week While Castro is shouting the praise of Cuba’s puppet President Dorticos the rumor in Miami is that the latter is being held under hacienda arrest Cass Hough the first flier to break the sound barrier must be having more fun than any boy we know He’s president of the Daisy (BB Gun) ManuThe TIP-OF- F facturing Company “John Wayne has scouts look ing into Alaskan real estate as a new form of investment” The ‘ Central Industrial Bank and as a member of the NY State Athletic Commission Pentagon insiders to hope successfully shoot a man into space timed with US Armed ? Forces Day May 20 r The film version of Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s best-sell“The Enemy Within” will be scripted by Budd Sehulberg who originally came into national prominence when he authored ’ “What Makes Sammy Run” Suzanne Nicole overheard a sweet young thing dining down at Teddy’s with an buyer discuss the recession “Gosh” she sighed “it came at such a bad time j— just when so many people are" out of work” or ld “Dear Hy” the CHECK-UP- : “Duke” writes ” ‘New Frontiers’ is a very popular slogan at the moment And real estate would be nice to have even in Alaska But no fellows with any fur caps have talked to me lately Regards” LAFF -A- DAY MINUTES WITH GREAT BOOKS el ex-cabin- ‘ et I 0 156L Kmg ?eturej Syiidi!telnu Woud right rewycj' i era I fa3 tfa tfa farIitT s |