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UTAH EDITORIALS USU's 'Festival of the American West Utah State University in Logan this week is doing a tremendous service to th£ state in presenting its entertaining educational “Festival of the American -- YVest” Jt’s combining a “crafts fair” on the campus “quad” from 6 to 8 pm with a historical pageant - double-barrele- d called “The West: America’s Odyssey” beginning at 8 pm in the Spectrum Both events opened Monday evening and will means of focusing on the vision courage and industry of those who came to tame the western wilderness and who in the process gave the nation one of its most inspiring episodes” “The YVest was born of human needs” President Taggart added “It was nutured by faith and dedication and sustained by people’s capacity for endurance bj their remarkable ability to survive in the face of hardships Those who came to settle gave form to the American dream and it is this legacy that we reaffirm in of the festival” The “crafts fair” features a score of men and women skilled in western arts including leatherwork sand painting jewelry manufacture and basket weaving Several of the visiting craftsmen are Navajos whose products have a special beautiful touch The historical pageant is different in of form from anything its multi-medi- a ' this nature we’ve seen in Utah Dr Lucybeth Rampton Utah It was appropriate that State University should this week award an honorary doctor of humanities degree to Mrs Lucybeth Cardon Rampton wife of Utah Gov Calvin L Rampton Dr Rampton was presented with the doctorate Monday night at the opening of the USU “Festival of the American West” She received the degree for her dedicated service in behalf of preservation of the heritage of Utah and its neighboring states Actually Dr Rampton — raised in Cache Valley and a 1926 graduate of Utah State— has already earned a mas- ter’s degree in anthropology from the University of Utah and lacks only a few work of receiving her doctorate in this field In addition to raising the Rampton family and filling the exacting duties that fall upon Utah’s first lady Lucybeth Rampton has been a driving force in the Utah Historical Foundation and the Governor’s Committee on Historic and Cultural Sites She doesn’t just lend her name to these important activities She goes all the way in generously sharing her time and talent so Utah’s future may benefit from our heritage of the past Russia's Domestic Airlines Suffer From Growing Pains A huge set has been erected on the Spectrum’s basketball floor On both sides beneath giant portraints of a Mountain Man and an Indian are platforms ern history On the big center stage the artists of the Americana Dance Theater from Pasadena and the Towne Singers Chorus from Cache Valley stage their two-lev- el on te et aircraft Nate Buhrley qf Pleasant View is fortunate When he fell into an open septic tank Sunday he made enough noise that a neighbor Richard George heard him and pulled the boy out before he suffered serious injury There have been other times in our area when the story ended differently — and tragically — when youngsters fell into such tanks and lost their lives The lesson from the weekend’s incin-deis obvious: Any hole dry or wet that is made in a populated area should be kept covered or guarded at all times Falling into a septic tank where the cover had not been fully replaced is not only most unpleasant but terribly danger-hours- ’ nations Documents By JACK ANDERSON foreign WASHINGTON — Despite the reveal that in fiscal years 1971 gasoline shortage and President and 1972 the Defense Depart- Nixon’s foreign nations $30 millionSin fuelPconsumption 1 grants to ' feveTper Ten? cZt XbeggSSrS SSml ?he program is continuTnt The General Services Ad- The government is also ministration has admitted to continuing to give away gasoline Rep Ben Rosenthal that government by the millions of barrels to meanwhile D-N- j Standard-Examine- crews a chance to clean up It’s about time these drivers were r: All these people who think living on welfare is such a ball let them try living on it a while Oh welfare is a god- - And boy were you needed it They sent me to school and j finallyNowlanded a job atto Hill be I am going AFB laid off Sept 5 because I am not high enough on the regis- ter even though I can do the job Now where am I going to be again? Right back on wel- fare! Oh please God don’t let Keep your head held high ana you II walk into an open manhole Big Shot On the coasts and the inland wateris the only fellow who ways a big-shcan bring his launch to work ot 1 are leaping out of reach the beef industry is pressuring the administration to be let in on this good thing unfrozen Y r Back to Welfare Editor and overdue reason the rest of are what make our economic attitude toward the go round The fanner American farmer is un- - system the vdll add that it is only just dergoing a historic shift government than ever in the year ahead ous America's Attitude Changes on Farmers er st nt ERNEST B FURGURSON is con-righ- ts d about yesterday right! You ef Keep Tanks Covered Thirty-months-ol- — in-Th- major production numbers In one act two covered wagons — with horses hitched to the first and oxen to the second — form a unique background for the singing and dancing When the Golden Spike is driven at Promontory two replica locomotives are wheeled onto the stage All of this takes place in front of five screens where photographs and drawings are projected to give realism to the pageant and to actor Chill Wills’ narra-th- e tion The show is written and directed by Gerald R Sheratt with Robert Peterson and Peter Strauss as visiting stars - A gift from Mr and Mrs Ernest tier of Logan and a grant from the Na-tional Endowment for the Arts provided the financial support needed to prepare and stage the festival If all goes well this year — and it should — the “Festival of the American West” will be presented each summer at Utah State University It is indeed wel- come by Utahns and visitors who enjoy the show and learn much in the process about the history of the West Stet-presentati- buy must sell their planes in the your ticket at the airport join export market and compete for the throng at the gate and race world traffic against US and across the tarmac to the loading other international airlines ramp If lucky you may get a Passenger safety for Aeroflot become bothersome seat or find standing room has before the door is slammed Crashes have hitherto been shut If unlucky you find unreported and acknowledged yourself on the ground clut- but the news gets out when torto get eigners are killed and when ching your ticket hoping aboard the next crammed flight foreigners are witnesses at is how it goes at many of temational terminals Accidents by Aeroflot remain the nine Russian cities with and million a over a suppressed but significant populations the 34 with more than a half- - statistic in the USSR’s game of Russian roulette million My friend Bob Hotz economic editor-in-chiof Aviation Week Harvard Professor Abram & Space Technology back from Bergson recently pointed out a business trip to the Soviet this recklessness to the Joint Union writes and talks about Economic Committee He said the frantic expansion of civil that the growth of the Soviet aviation It is an aspect of the Gross National Product (55 per seams-bustin- g growth of the cent in the 1960s) is not as entire Soviet economy noteworthy as the Soviet annual increase of capital investment Sovietof It is also an aspect in Overlooked (87 per cent) American trade This is unmatched by other and sales the hubbub of grain nations Bergson calls industrial the is petroleum prospects “high-cos- t it g plane-makingrowth” with “a in commerce modest return” If air for bids very Rockwell International as a salesis service regarded Western Hemisphere Russian travelers item sumer YAK-40 feederline on the as as are would be underprivileged aircraft These planes Russian supermarket shoppers shipped to America with only their airframes and engines MISS GOALS Rockwell would install the Goais are set but are not avionics and all interior fur- h d Th last FiveYear a very profitable mshings colled for Acroflot to pass plan transaction the mark of 100 million BOEING DEAL passengers by 1971 and it didn’t Brezhnevof the As a fallout happen The next dictated figure is for 115 million passengers House White Nixon meeting the deal during 1975 the prognosis is not is dickering for a package between the Boeing Company favorable Only three large Russian and the Russian ministries have modern traffic cities according to Hotz’s magazine autos were allowed to use 34 Big sales of the big Boeing 747s control systems at the airports million more gallons of gasoline and US technical assistance Elsewhere the equipment is for the certification problems of more than 20 years old per-jin iqrt than in 1972 Aeroflot carriers including the age vintage Pilot training and GSA projects an increase of 30 maintenance are one of which supersonic tU-14- 4 million gallons for fiscal year crashed at the recent Paris primitive by US standards 1974 Since fiscal year 1971 airshow — all this East-WeThey are below the of the In- federal vehicles have increased trading is in the picture requirements ° their consumption of gas 40 per Soviet planners a far sufficient ar in providing cent elstinS clties but wor! serv!ce j°r FALC0N FOOLISHNESS Air transport is only one 0e they’re designing a new plane Earlier this year the pilot of a the YAK-42 for Siberian cities the Soviet industries which are over Georgia that haven’t yet materialized fami shing for American deek Lear of To get the needed revenue they financial credits and technology a floe cowbirds dead ahead We don t bebeve we re gonna make it he shouted to the tower In-- PAUL HARVEY ftants later the jet dove into the roof of an apartment house killing the plane’s seven occupants To prevent such disasters the Federal Aviation Administration uses such things as carbide cannons for frightening birds There is work for everybody except themselves A Louis Harris Survey inaway But the birds sit non- in the United States a take that among the top chalantly on the cannon of jobs dicates are There plenty few lazy flaps when they hear ree peeves of most nation’s our in g available highest Americans is “the the activator buzz then settle back down on the gun barrel paying profession salesman” after the boom While 5 per cent of America’s Herbert Greenberg The FAA’s safety experts workers say they can’t find jobs of “The Successful Salesman” know the cannon doesn’t work and welfare rolls continue to says every profession has its Nor does anything else Now almost every talkers”: charlatans they’re studying a novel new metropolitan newspaper bulges among physicians plagiarists scheme drawn up by one of with column after column of among scholars shysters — — to be those America’s leading falconers for yet people among lawyers jobs begging He is retired Air Force Lt salesmen professions continue to attract Col of Graham Richard Ask any campus job recruiter adequate recruits who any employment agency any Colorado Springs Colo Does selling because of the through a Spanish colleague has personnel office there are more excesses of some wear a already tested his ideas on the than enough job openings — permanent black eye? Perhaps US Air Force field outside some lucrative ones — for But from the inside out I’ve direct-sellin- g Madrid Spain a salesmen studied Survey and organization which enjoys the BIRDS PANIC Marketing “one in enthusiastic allegiance of 200000 that finds Research n WASHINGTON where smaller groups present their musical numbers illustrating phases of west- out-of-sta- - HOLMES ALEXANDER WEDNESDAY EVENING AUGUST 8 1973 0 m - 2rhlch America's Salesmen Fail to Sell Selves fast-talkin- Urahns Neva(a co-auth- or All of us in Utah especially those of us who consume food The Utah Travel Council and the Utah Chamber of Com- - should commend the merce Utah Retail Grocers Associa- tion on the choice of the site for their 69th annual conven- tion On Sept 23 24 and 25 they will gather at the Frontier Ho- tel in Las Vegas Nev Lately during the boycotts and gripes about high prices these guys have been ducking increase without waiting another five Ignorant Drivers weeks and the Congress is Editor Standard-Examine- r: nearing completion of a new This letter is concerning the “fast wondering “dearth of salesmen” isn’t simply a reflection of laziness ists durin2 the biU’s progress I 5 about wreckers leaving de- - 2 If it’s someone else who is Conservationists like the idea two reasons It would budd found no estimate of its overall bris on the highways making all the money how can for the dwindling numbers of the up cost it had too many parts We own and operate a wreck- - they afford to go And talcons the beautiful sliding scales and unsettled er service and we always try especially to a state where out-of-sta- te In selling you can’t possibly This survey also confirms that profjt from a production line of America s siowc?own 20 per cent salesmen account for 80 per PAID FOR RESULTS cent of all sales The salesman succeeds or But most of those on the When frontier heroes w a gave “the embattled farmers” prices credit for firing the shot heard comparable to what citizens of to tie support payments for ‘round the world at Concord in other countries have been farmers to the such 1775 and there they have stood paying for their vitamins and index — not whether would made all be at payments in our folklore ever since proteins all along Of how and the details but Such a plea may have But the Revolutionary farmer just n with hoe and plow momentary appeal to the sense when no longer exists except in of fair play of the average PROVIDES FLOOR remote hollows Farmers are housewife and wage earner — vra hn P only about 6 per cent of our until they recall that a sizable woric force today And rather share of their weekly income for mass is con' elimination of tractedby3 thegJvemment To" the P3 them aresomeP to tode? tinuing provide a floor under build an artificial fl operator the farmers’ income when crops businessman and welfare client! the farmers’ income surplus but is being In the popular mind today s HAZY KNOWLEDGE victimized by absence of price Even farm experts have controls when the balance yeomaJi of cost-of-livi- ng horse-draw- LSI “LSiSS heavv-eauiDme- nt SXn the-boots- 16 H the vaeuentitv rinonsihlP for the nrices f VfK? fhteriSv on chons to eet the tern?!? rff D6i prices now “PAY OUR PRICES” He is the fellow who has shown up on television grinning repeatedly lately smugly saying now we’ve got the goods and the consumer wants them and to get them he’s going to have to pay our prices saying now the Japanese are willing to pay more for our meat than Americans are so the Japanese can have first call on it saying in so many to hell with the words American consumer Which is all very legitimate will any classic capitalist trouble understanding every paragraph of farm legislation The everyday grocerv shopper has only the hiest knowledge of it He can be overwhelmed by the farm lobbyists’ arguments that this commodity is sub- sidized and this one is not that quotas and subsidies and target prices are as different as hogs and kumquats that by some kind of abracadabra the price supports the taxpayer has been putting out really benefited him more than they did the farmers Whether it is abracadabra or honest complicated economics however it does not alter the nonfarmers’ basic belief that any fairness doctrine should work in both directions That belief is particularly compelling in a week when simultaneously the food prices that have been shifts His obvious question is why such a system should exist why those farmers who are so smug about charging what the traffic will bear today should be mailed government checks tomorrow if their in- comes should slump It is fairly astonishing that in view of this apparent un-tfairness the legislators who the consuming not did rebel against majority another farm subsidy advancing bill at this of all times The answer may turn out to be that the rest of the country’s new attitude toward the farmer solidified a little late or this session of Congress But the change is there and during the congressional recess testimony on it can be taken at the nearest supermarket- - - os represent — — the blinking lights they won’t the location of their conven- - airport satety men " even slow down enough to let tion? on Crawford E or a car hook George up pull you to the highway As soon as they Roy see blinking lights they speed up to see all they can see but 'Get Your Facts' 20 YEARS £L'22!SZ lLTZgemy up AGO cigar-chewin- Editor Dr Henry Aldous Dixon 62 0Ull1ka t?nreSvCd noSr president of Weber College ’ was Butthere is another side of pertain this also 7 Aug 2 on food stamps and how unanimously drafted to become “Ll Irln dreewayallsThey with the Patrol and Standard-Examine- r: -- people on welfare misuse them 1 would like to state that Highway people who use food stamps are sheriff or the Highway Patrol not always welfare clients wnrkinjr nart chpriff are from social security Some or Slow are parents who are low- other thing? so they they working come and others who qualify for will get the calls no matter how the Programs sloppy they pick up an accident Everyday I hear and read much of a mess they ' fchose PeoPle on wel‘ about Jeave Ladies I wish you would we have been in the wrecker fare” contact 'the Division of Family business over two years and we Services or Income Maintenance are eauipned with porta-poweall kinds of air cutting equip- - (payments) here in Ogden andment torches and even asbes— Jearn the truth about the pro-blankets in case we- have grams and what qualifies a perto cover people to cut them son to be eligible for food out of a wreck plus many more stamps medical help etc But we People are being checked and emergency devices followed UP on- - Lke ah busi- have never had a call from the are a few who get ness there sheriff or Highway Patrol so I not as many as there’s but wonder if they really care about by or thinks Yes it s feels peoples’ lives and cleaning of society to take a look at things the streets or just whats in it time in But get your facts Utah for them So I can’t speak for here the cleaning of these highways before you condemn someone But I also believe the ignor- - who needs help One day you ant drivers should accept half may need welfare too Ruth L Watkins of the responsibility for this " as they won’t give emergency Ogden w rs the new president of Utah State Agricultural College in Logan Dr Dixon said he was reluctant to leave °dQn bu aft growth and survival m a fight with Gov Ji Bracken Lee he said he felt “Weber doesn’t need me so much now” the Interior Douglas McKay said Frank Edward Kalbaugh of Ogden has baea appointed general manager of the government- - Secretary iouuu a year of Badroad at “Operation Big Switch” a prisoner excjlange opened in Korea and one of the first POWs through “Freedom Gate” was Capt Jerry L Carter 23 son of an(j Carter jerrv gr Qgden Miss selling everything under the sun for results Is this why only 2 per cent of this year’s graduating seniors any interest in expressed as a career? “selling” I can’t buy that old “image” 50 YEARS AGO g foot- excuse The un- The new President of the browbeating morai itinerant was a always United States Calvin CMlidge caricature anyway former President Woodrow The fact is aad General of the Armies Pershing ‘Ted ‘mourners professional salesman has “the at Washington D C funeral highest income rate and one of rites for the late President the lowest of all divorce rates and one' of the lowest rates of Warren turaa8t mental breakdown” I suspect Hundreds of visitors from job satisfaction explains those and statistics The man or woman Nevada Utah Idaho m Pocatello who chooses opportunity over Wyoming gathered the citys first annual security enjoys fringe benefits ?ayS cel®bratl0Tn comprehensible to a parasite So if sales jobs are going Ogden Becker was featured in the begging it s not because there’s afternoon s atheltic events with anything wrong 'J?aut’s Is a profess?n attorney David J which spoiled timid generation at as far as he and wKisonsajj sPineess prefem a pension the Ogden was concerne(j American Legion could continue with the sale of dance tickets and give chances on an auto as part of a campaign to raise funds for a soldiers’ home Some officials had said the Earth fractures from the raffle was illegal cut across Ridge IceIand- - The spreading ridge James H DeVine told the jj an ini ‘° year Ogden ftotary Club that the life the island's7 width of President Harding “offers The United States humanity a lesson the like of Mint which is the privilege of few system has coined money for more than 20 foreign countries men to offer” l Mary Sanders was named executive secretary of the Children’s Aid Society of Mrs succeeding Ogden Keller Margaret resigned u E?neer Mid-Atlant- ic |
