Show t9rwwi S The Weather f Tejcnperatures UTAH — Continued cloudy with occasional light snow low 15-25 high OGDEN — Cloudy with light snow and strong canyon winds colder low 26 high 32 82nd Yair Max Osden 25-3- 5 32 BiUings Boise 35 Chicago Las Vegas 46 Butte No 365 OGDEN UTAH TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 12 Mlnl 3® 23 22 14 Paget 1954 Max Min i 15 Los Angeles 12 Minneapolis 28 New York 10 Portland 0 Salt Lake 33 San Fran 5 59 23 48 9 17 19 46 31 38 28 55 47 CENTS' oners Editorial Utah Pioneers Anticipated Junior College Crisis Drive for 33000 Signatures Gets Into High Gear Republican Plans for Labor Members of the Junior College Action Committee today set up 12 additional No Utah citizen if he considers the matter even for a referendum petition signing moment should refuse to fsign a petition for a state refer- places as the drive for nearly 33000 signatures went into endum on the junior college issue A voter who signs the petition merely says he believes full swing Petitions accompanied by nothe issue is so broad and fundamental it should be acted taries public will be available at the following locations: upon by the people at a general election First Security Bank Bank of In signing a petition the voter doesn’t approve or dis- Utah Commercial Security Bank approve of the action taken by the Legislature in special Browning Chevrolet Co Ogden session All hsays is that he feels the action takenliy the Buick Sales Co' Aultorest Mortuary (between 1 and 5 pm daily) Legislature should be submitted to the people Orpheum Theater Egyptian Theater Our Utah founding fathers who drafted the Constitu Theater Paramount C Anderson Co J C Penney C tion of Utah knew there would be times when the Legis Co and Sears Roebuck & Co lature would act with seemingly too much haste Or oc In addition to these new locations persons may still: sign at casions would arise when the Legislature would seem to be i -- -- two-thir- ds J Names in The News Princess Smiles on New Love? -- Pretty Princes Margaret has per editor that gay happy look again and escort t - the "London gossips wonder if she’s shaken off an old heartbeat — RAF Group Capt Peter Townsend — for someone new Reports from Brussels say Capt Townsend rumored No 1 in the princess’ affection last year has found a new romantic interest in Dutch Countess Van Limburg Stirum The countess however says she and the handsome wartime air hero “are just good friends” Townsend was transferred from London to Brussels last summer and persistent specula- tion that Princess Margaret wanted to marry him Some church and government officials were reportedly worried over a possible marriage be-cause Towrisend 34 has been Al-wi- na " divorced sister of The II Elizabeth Queen recently has been buzzing around London with not one but three highly eligible young males: ld tall and Lord Plunket handsome captain in the Irish Guardsto and a temporary Queen Mother equerry Elizabeth 30 ‘ Mark Bonham-Carte- r pub- lisher’s assistant and son of Sir Maurice and Lady Violet Bonham-Carte- r And Billy Wallace stepson of Herbert Agar former Louisville Ky newspa polo-playin- g He’s a longtime Retired Adm William H P Blandy whose atomic-bomtests against warships revamped the whole Nav) died today in b a New York'" Naval Hospital He was 63 He suffered a stroke Sunday and was taken to the hospital in critical con- dition By a tie vote the Supreme Court yesterday upheld a decision permitting wealthy Serge Rubinstein to remain free on bail while he fighti an order for his deportation as a draft 4-- 4 dodger Reports reaching foreign lomats dip- in Berlin say Soviet Premier Georg! Malenkov isn’t taking the same Kremlin-ey- e view of the vast Soviet domain that they think limited Joseph - Stalin’s horizon Stalin’s 52successor is traveling widely thrpdgh the Soviet Union seeing conditions for year-ol- d himself Actress Suzan Ball 21 underwent surgery today for amputation of her right log above the knee The actress recently broke the leg in a fall only a short time after it had been treated for a malignancy Doctors said she has made preparations for an artificial leg WASHINGTON (AP — Republican plans to speed consideraTOKYO (UP)— The United y tion of President Eisehhowjer’s proposals for revising the States agreed today to dis-culabor law today drew Democratic cries of “dictatorial and with the Communists steam-rolleTaft-Hartle- r 'Mommie I'm Still Hungry' set up later Representatives of the Junior College Actioa and Save Carbon Committees yesterday decided the areas to be canvassed for signatures by the two groups i Counties to be worked by Webep College supporters are: Weber Morgan Box Elder Rich Davis Cache Wasatch and Summit CaTbon will canvass 13 cen tral Utah counties It was decided the group will concentrate on 15 counties where signatures from 10 per cent of the registered voters must be obtainedi A central office will be set up in Salt Lake City Once a week representatives from both com mittees will get together to “compare notes” Meanwhile in Salt Lake City yesterday Atty Gen E R Cal-listquestioned the validity of the hurry-u- p methods in obtaining signatures on referendum peer titions to prevent the state abandonment of Weber and Car- bon colleges The attorney general said the law requires each petition circulator to be a notary public and that in his opinion this requirement cannot be circumvented Opinion Asked Callister’s on the opinion referendum petitions was asked for by Secretary of State Lamont F Toronto He said it had been suggested that the oath form be changed so that anyone could cir- Buckaroo Gets Stuck In Hideout By BERT STRAND George Wright the toughest cowboy on his block got caught in his hideout yes- terday The desperado does not like to admit it but he wasn’t pinned in by bullets from the guns of avenging lawmen or trapped by the cleverness of the hero No it wasn’t anything like that In fact there was not much glory attached-trillstrapment and George would just as soon forget it You see George jumped into the family garbage can to make his getaway and he was stuck fast! Even when the - other cowboys caught up with hitn they couldn’t flush two-gu- n ’" pint-size- d him from his den Even when the steel barrel tipped over outlaw George stayed inside And about that time a lot of the outlaw spirit went out ' of George and the holler he 7set up penetrated his real home culate the petitions and then Mother Comes to Rescue make a notarized oath that he His mother Mrs Ead Wright had seen the signature made of 835 21st St dashed out to The attorney general empha- the rescue But it was no good sized that his opinion is not bindwas wedged in Little George ing and the referendum sponsors the bottom of his hideout as if may proceed as they wish aware to stay of the risk they are taking the OgHe said that any resident citi- denThen someone called Of course fire department zen of Utah over 21 may become firewas see to the George glad a notary public with little red men didn’t but he admit it tape The cost for fee"' seal and He was feeling mighty low bond adds up to $1750 Firemen used their bolt cutApproximately 32700 signa- ters to break open the heavy tures must be obtained before Feb 19 effective date of the rim ofa the former grease can Then neighbor Mark Petertransfer laws In regard to Callister’s state- son of 843 21st St loaned tin snips to the firemen and they ment manager-secretarBernard cut down the sides of the can R Diamond of the Ogden Chamand bent them out and freed ber of Commerce said no signathe cowboy tures have been obtained except This George shed morning By notary public so no petitions his guns and went to school are endangered ' Mr Diamond said the Workers He was feeling none the worse have been very careful because for his harrowing experience maybe his pride was they realized the situation was except a little hurt touchy Of course George is nursing Donations were still coming in a cut lip he got when the 'can today from persons who want to inside help finance the fight The totals tipped over with himcomment the only received up until this morning About George has on the incident is: was about $850 Of this amount “It was just as bad as an opabout $250 was collected by “Minute Men” in downtown Ogden Sat- eration!” Mr Wright said his son’s urday Several contributions have been received from Salt Lake legs got twisted in the' bottom of the can as he sank down City and Provo out of sight The weight of his body wedged him down tighter 2 and tighter andxthat was it y pint-size- d Utah Inmates Still In! Hiding POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN Avalanches Kill Utah (UP) — The search for two inmates believed hiding somewhere in the Utah prison com- 100 continued today and pound Warden Marcell Graham said it VIENNA Austria (UP) — would be just a matter of time “White death” staiked the mounbefore they are found The convicts John tains of Europe today burying W Hamilton of Louisville Ky at least 100 persons under snow and James Draper of of thunderous avalanches in three Moroni were missing from an countries afternoon work check Farmhouses and a railway staThey were present at a midday count but failed to report for tion were swept away or buried work in the prison industrial by th£ icy slides The center of shop one village was gouged out and an express train was broken in French Navy Joins Fight two and partly buried by another HANOI Indochina (AP) — avalanche Bearcat fighters from the French As much as five feet of snow aircraft carrier Arromanches piled up on the mountaintops French fighters during the past week’s storms joined and bombers today in the 19th and thousands of tons began straight day of bombing and straf- thundering into the valleys of ing Vietminh forces clustered Switzerland Germany and Ausaround the fortified plain of Dien tria yesterday when thawing temBien Phu in ’Northwest Indo- peratures at ' the lower levels china pulled the plug” In Europe ld ld land-base- d V tactics” i- r f JU Mrs Marjorie Resch is shown carrying her son Jimmy from a Burbank Calif hospital after an emergency stomach pumping At a drive-i-n theater Jimmy showed his mother an empty bottle of nitroglycerine pills which she had in her purse and said “Look Mommie all gone” She called an ambulance and rushed Jimmy to the hospital for treatment Jimmy said “Mommie I’m still hungry” f— heart-stimula- ss The Republican majority of the Senate Labor Committee headed by H Alexander Smith of New Jersey moved to dispense with hearings and to bring the Eisenhower program to an early vote in the committee n Smith who introduced legisla- - lations Board supervision after a tion to carry out the pro-apstrike had begun-Undeafter it reached gram right Smith’s bill a majority tol Hill yesterday said lengthy of all eligible workers not just — would to apthose have voting last covered hearings 'year fully cases walkout the In where prove the issues involved But committee Democrats1 led a walkout failed to get the remajority support workby Sen Murray of Montana quired who ers failed to return to work Republican spee-ift- j charged could be fired strategy amounted to “dictatorial This provision of Smith’s bill and steamroller tactics” surprised the secreMurray senior Democrat on apparently who told newsmen of labor tary the committee said that Secrehe had Smith’s legislation read tary of Labor Mitchell should die earlier and had not understood called to explain thq to was that the be held after poll If the Republicans refuse to do this Murray con- a strikp began — Murray termed this “a striketended it would mean “they are weapon” He called it trying to ram this down our breaking to try and show “another attempt throats” leaders union that don’t have the Murray also demanded that top the backing ofjj membership” laborl and officials management be invited to discuss the pro- Some other senators said it woulc( strengthen democracy in unions posals in public session On the other side of the Capi- and help guarantee control tol Rep McConnell ) Most of the Eisenhower prochairman of the House Labor could be said to have had posals Committee called the Eisenhower at least some support in past recommendations a “moderate apfrom the late Sen Taft of years proach” to the problem but he Ohio former Labor Committee did not immediately introduce and chairman of the legislation to carry them out La “Needs More Revision” The President also told ConMurray and other Senkte Dem- gress yesterday the law should ocrats said the Eisenhower labor tye changed to “make dear that proposals contained “some good the several states and territories and some bad” Sen 'Lehman when confronted with emergenY) a committee cies endangering the health or member said the controversial safety of their citizens are not law needs!‘Iar more revision” through any Conflict with the fedthan suggested by the President eral law deprived of the right A major point in the Eisen- to deal with such emergencies” hower “program was a recomTwo southern Democrats— Sen mendation that Congress require Lyndon Johnson of Texas the a government-sponsore- d election Senate Democratic leader and — hailed among workers to determine Sen Russell (D-Gwhether they approve of a strike this “states rights” recommendaThe President’s proposal was tion ' couched in general ternri and did Russell said he was "gratified not specify when such a secret to see the President recognize the ballot should be taken rights of states irt the laor field” However when Smith intro- Johnson said he was “particularly duced implementing legislation interested in having assurances he proposed that such a” vote be that the proper jurisdiction of taken under National Lbor Re- - the states is fully recognized 14-poi- nt the county clerk’s office in the Municipal Building Chamber of Commerce office and committee headquarters in Room 406 of the Hotel Ben Lomond k Others to Be Set Un Committee said ' $rcveral other booth stations would probably be 1 Meet Democratic Opposition Y laggard in taking action which seemed desirable So the founding fathers wrote into the Utah Constitution the authorization for an initiative and referendum law-- a law which has been a part of our Utah statutes for many many years We can almost hear the pioneer statesmen saying of the present issue: “A great many Utah people feel that the Legislature acted too hastily in voting to end state support of the Utah junior colleges So here is an opportunity to make use of the referendum principle we f placed in our Utah Constitution Let us put tlje matter up to the voters Let them say whether they like what the Legislature did or whether they don’t like it Let us settle the matter as pro vided by the Constitution and Utah law and prevent the growth of ill feeling in parts of our state” To read Article 6 Section 1 of the Utah Constitution is to know that the authors of the Constitution did indeed have in mind just such an issue as has arisen over the Legislative action taken with reference toWeber College and other junior colleges The Constitution says that the legal voters “may initiate any desired legislation and cause the same to be submitted to a vote of the people for approval or rejection or may REQUIRE ANY LAW PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE (except those laws passed by vote of the members elected to each house of the Legislature) to be submitted to the voters of the State before such law shall take effect” It was under the authority of this part of the Utah Constitution that the Legislature many years ago adopted the liberal and democratic Utah initiative and referendum procedure There Have been two interesting uses of the law in recent years In one instance Utahns felt the Legislature acted unwisely in passing a law to penalize chain stores Through referendum action ?the case was taken to the people The people rejected the Legislature’s action In another case a more recent case many Utahns felt the Legislature was negligent in refusing to abandon the lien provision in old age assistance The issue was taken to the people in a referendum In this case the voters upheld the Legislature The ytah Constitution proclaims that the legislative power of the state shall be vested “in the people of the State of Utah” as well as in a Senate and a House of Represen tatives A voter who signs the petition for a referendum is thus helping to bring into operation the legislative power of the people of Utah to solve a controversial matter in a way our Pioneer founders who wrote the Constitution felt such controversies should be solved Neutral Group Rejects Plan To Free 22000 nt recoml-mendatio- Cancer Gives Time To Prepare To Die -- Priest rank-and-fil- e (R-Pa- PARSONS Kan (AP) — “I consider it a privilege to die of cancer” The Rev Julius Busse uttered these words from his bed at Mercy Hospital here and added: “You see with cancer you have time to prepare death With something like a heart attack you go too quickly to make your final preparations” y Smiling but speaking the J6ear:pld Catholic matter-oMactl- pnestsaidyesteraay: “1 welcome death” Death is no stranger to the priest an Army chaplain for five years He served with the Seventh Division in World War II “It isn’t the certainty of death that men fear” he said “It is the uncertainty of death- The soldiers I saw die weren’t frightened any longer after they knew for sure they were going to die” After hisservice in the Army he was a rector at Louisville Ky and Detroit co-auth- or Taft-Hartle- y (D-Lib-- ’ ' - ti The forthcoming farm battle apparently will revolve largely around this point since Eisenhower’s other principal recommendation — the “insulation” of existing crop surpluses from the regular markets — gained rather widespread backing Mindful of November’s elections to determine control of Con‘ gress some Democrats made it clear they believe they have an issue on which they can blast the Republicans in the nation’s farm areas Sen Humphrey who is up for said Eisenhower had “broken faith” with the farmers by a program likely to prove little more than “an ex(D-Min- n) pensive dud” Never Tried “It is now apparent that Congress will have to take info its own hands the formulation pf an improved farm program” Humphrey declared “All the President is now proposing is the same old disastrous sliding scale which farmers idea of 1948-4have overwhelmingly disavowed” That was a reference to the fact that Congress once put a flexible support system on the books but has delayed permitting it to go into effect Instead it has maintained the program of rigid price supports for basic crops Among the Republicans'4 Sen Mundt of South Dakota a Senate Agriculture Committee rpem- - 9 war-bor- n In a second major development the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission rejected a Swedish proposal to release 22000 anti Red Communist civilians at 12:01 a m Jan 23 as provided by the armistice India voted with the Commu-- 1 nists against the Swedish proposal But i tis expected that the' Indians will announce Thursday' a plan of their own under which and now in neuprisoners tral custody will be handed back ' on Jan 23 to the side which captured them Perfidy Charge The United States representing the United Nations broke off negotiations for the peace conference Dec 12 at Panmunjom because the Communists accused the Americans of perfidy in connection with the release of 27 000 prisoners by South Korea last year both “ anti-Communi- st ist anti-Communi- st State Department expert Kenneth Young who is handling the conference situation sent a noto to The Communists agreeing to the meeting of liaison officers Whether the United States will still insist on withdrawal of the perfidy charge was undisclosed H Atomic Blasts N Demos to Try to Rewrite Flexible Farm Price Support Plan With Some GOP Aid ports Korean peace conference Didn't Kill Utah Sheep-A- ber said he was dissatisfied with in all agricultural history of this the flexible price support provisions urged by the President theory working” Brannan ’s Republican sucMundt said: cessor Secretary Benson said on “I do not believe the flexible the other hand there fire a dozen price support provisions suggest- reasons why the existing system ed in the President’s message are be changed In a broada workable device for maintain- should cast speech Benson said coning the present price levels of 90 per cent for basic products” sumers are denied benefits of production yet farmers the abundant Rep Rayburn a stable income are denied House minority leader said bluntAs new program Benthe for ly “I do not think Congress will son said it consumers give up ihe 90 per cent of parity “an abundancepromises of food for basic farm products’ Parity at reasonable orices andandat fibre less is a calculated price said by law cost to taxpayers” to be fair to fanners in relation The theory advanced in supto prices they pay for needed port of flexible price props is ' items ' it will help to maintain nor-mthat' Eisenhower- - evidently avoided supplies by keeping supports some Democratic opposition by at in time of scarcity levels high recommending that the present and lowering them thus discourhigh level supports on tobacco aging production when surpluses be left intact a proposal likely to be popular in Kentucky where pile up Critic? counter that it thus reone of the major battle's for a duces financial help to farmers Senate seat is shaping rip at the time they need it most — There were indications that wool growers in such states as when prices are low Under Eisenhower’s proposal Wyoming Montana Idaho and Colorado —where there are Sen- price supports for major crops ate battles this year — would be other than tobacco would vary between 75 and 90 per cent- -f pleased with the President’s proThe of Agriparity posal to make direct treasury culture could Secretary to 90 them keep payments to give them an average if he found the national up welfare return of 90 per cent of parity Sen Sparkman called required such action this a “Brannan plan” which he ‘Faced the Facts said discriminates against cotSen Lyndon B- - Johnson of ton Texas the Democratic leader t Tfce reference was to the pro- said he fears the President’s slidgram once put’ forward by ing scale proposals “provide the Charles F Brannan who served farmer less protection nd less as Secretary of Agriculture in money” the Truman administration for - Sen Knowland of California direct government subsidies to the Republican leader said the producers of perishables if their program holds promise it would products did not bring a prede- “actually improve the economic termined fair return in the mar- position of the farmer in coming ket place Congress "rejected the years” Knowland’s attitude reflected plan also in statements from other Brannan Is Critical GOP leaders was that the PresBrannan now an attorney in ident had faced the facts “that Denver termed the Eisenhower we cannot continue pricing farm program “the most' indefensible products out of domestic and s means of dealing with xagricul-ture’-while markets building alleged problems anyone foreign enormous surpluses of those can think of” and he added: “The theory of flexible sup- same products without a day of The reckoning” ports has two objectives first is to lower the level of farm Sees Compromise ' Sen Young Senate prices all the way down the line The second is to control of the 90 per cent parity production through price manipu- law said it might be possible to lation There is not one example compromise (D-Te- x) a! (D-Al- a) ' (R-N- co-auth- or 4 j -- EC CEDAR CITY (AP) — a) - By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) — Balky congressional Democrats threatened today — with some Republican help — to rewrite President Eisenhower’s program of flexible farm price supports The program which went to Congress yesterday was backed staunchly by Republican leaders There was some GOP opposition however and some suggestions for changes If Democrats could muster most of their members as seemed likely they would need only a few GOP votes in the closely divided Congress to retain the rigid high-leve- l price props Eisenhower proposed to abandon in favor of a flexible scale of sup- Thursday the possibility of resuming negotiations for a Exten-siv- e tests have shown that radio- activity from atomic explosions in Nevada was not the cause of death and illness among sheep in southern Utah and Nevada last spring : This report was mad today by the Atomic Energy Commission at a meeting of sheep owners in the Cedar City area The AEC said --its conclusions reached after extensive research studies were concurred in by the U S Public Health Service and the Bureau of Animal Industry of the U S Department of Agriculture The report also was reviewed by the Utah State Health Department but the AEC did not say the Utah agency concurred While the AEC report denied that radioactivity was the cause of the sheep malady it did not say what had caused the sheep losses Northeast Storm i 6 Is Fatal io 60 NEW YORK (AP) — The Northeast dug out of its worst snowstorm in five years today Clearing skies brought a forecast of increasingly cold weather The storm which started Sunday afternoon caused at least 6CT deaths and deposited up to a foot of snow in some sections The Weather Bureau here said the storm was in its final stages and was moving in a northeaster- ly direction along the New England coast and out to sea However the bureau warned that a wave of freezing air was waiting to move in on the area from the Northwest' and Canada as soon as the snowstorm is gone Sleet extended as far south as North Carolina yesterday with snow being registered in Georgia North of Washington D C the sleet coated heavy drifts of snow with a treacherous icy surface crippled traffic and brought accidents on roads streets and side' walks f INDEX Stewart Alsop Bruce Biossat Comics Dr Crane Dr E P Jordan Beulah France I S 5 5 9 4 Obituaries Drew Pearson Radio-T- V Programs Sports and 50 Years Ago Theater Vital Statistics4 Al Warden Women’s Page 4 4 9 6 9 7 4 11 9 6 5 I i |