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Show e tjjwiiiiiiiiitfffr-giHir- aintfTp iyi LAKE CITY, ti8WWW8S8i m iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiii UTAH Give Us Our Home As Having Been Divinely Inspired WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1968 Why Oil Shale Plan Needs Careful Study The newly revised oil shale development plan released the other day by the U.S. Department of Interior is hard to criticize, even though it is extremely cautious. For one thing, the plan represents a step in the right toward development of shale lands in Utah, Colodirection with its proposal and rado, Wyoming by private enterprise that test leases be offered and its call for close cooperation between govcrment and industry. For another, tne new plan eliminates three major points which prompted oil men to resist earlier Interior Department policy: Tying development leases to completion of successful research projects, a sliding scale of royalty payments, and provisions. tough Moreover, although oil shale development has been subjected to study after study, the more that is learned about it, the more complexities and difficulties are discovered. Among other things, wastes from the processing of oil shale would be disposed on a watershed that drains four states. If the Colorado River isnt to be badly polluted, careful controls will have to be imposed. If federally - held shale lands, constituting 80 percent of known deposits, were opened to competitive bidding, small oil firms would have little chance. But if the government permitted simultaneous filing by which anyone with a filing fee could submit a bid and the small firms entering award would go for a specified price successful bids might merely turn around and sell their awards to bigger producers for higher prices. Moreover, Utah could suffer if oil shale development is pushed too far and too fast. Thats because the richest and most accessible oil shale deposits are located not in Utah but in Colorado. If Colorado walked away with early development of oil shale, development of conventional oil sources in Utah could suffer at a cdst to the state of millions of dollars. By using pipelines that already exist, Colorado could supply Utah refineries with oil from Colorado shale deposits. Private enterprise is still the most efficient way of developing oil shale lands containing an estimated 2 trillion barrels of oil compared to 40 billion barrels of known conventional oil reserves. Even so, there clearly are problems that need to be worked out before oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming can or should proceed full speed ahead. patent-sharin- g This Is Building Ships? In 1947, the American merchant fleet carried 70 per cent U.S. of foreign trade. Today it is 7.3 per cent The U.S., in 1967, stood 14th in merchant ship tonnage launched behind Japan, Sweden, Great Britain, West Ger- many, France, Norway, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Poland, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia and East Germany. The Soviet Union currently has 526 ships under construction, compared with only 45 for the U.S. Now, try to reconcile those facts with the testimony of Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd before the Senate Merchant Marine Subcommittee. Boyd, speaking for the Johnson Administration, called for extensive merchant ship conoverseas struction and the immediate phase-ou- t of American passenger liners. No wonder congressional leaders were shocked. This is not the way, said Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, to build up the American Merchant Marine although they (the Administration) piously suggest it is. The sad fact that this countrys sea transportation forces have been stretched to the limit by military operations in Vietnam should be enough to convince all but the blind of the need to modernize the merchant fleet. And the deficit in Americas international balance of payments should demonstrate the need to build new ships at home, not abroad. once-prou- d Safety, Not Heroics k I In a given year 6 to 10 mountain climbers along the Wasatch Front become lost, stranded, or hurt and need to call on experienced rescuers for help. There are private groups of experienced mountain climbers in Provo and Ogden whom law enforcement officers can call on for assistance in rescue work if their sendees are needed. But a similar group in Salt Lake City has been disbanded. So its good news that 25 Salt Lake area mountain climbers have formed a new rescue group to offer assistance to local law enforcement agencies. Organized by Larnont Heaps, the new group not only will contribute its time, skill, and energies in this risky work, but also plans to educate Utahns to the fact that mountain climbing is different from ordinary hiking and demands extra precautions if it is to be done safely. Since mountain climbing requires considerable endurance, physical fitness is a must. Most mountain climbing accidents happen during the descent, and good climbers will climb down instead of rappelling down on a rope. Also, never climb in one to go for help, and one to stay groups of less than three behind and give assistance in case the other gets in trouble. Mountain climbing is a difficult, adventurous sport that is never without decided dangers. But with the volunteer rescue and educational services of the rew Salt Lake Region Alpine Group, with its emphasis on safety, not heroics, those dangers can be reduced. Afterthoughts it is we . .. the right quesalready know much of the answer; To ask tion, necessary that and those who do not know are perpetually condemned to be asking the wrong questions and getting no satisfactory replies. One can always tell when a criticism strikes home, for the person criticized promptly gets angry and counterattacks; when it misses its mark, the person merely shrugs or smiles or calmly ignores it. ; "t V LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We Stand For The Constitution Of The United States 14 A EDITORIAL PAGE T1-ii- f BIIII!llllllllll!ll!llll!lllltlltlinil!lli:imiltl!lilllllillllli:!!lll!l!ir'ltM!'P:illl"l"!r' Peace Talk , Talk , Talk DESERET NEWS SALT - "imiiH'iwwrwrif" lpiiriMlnfw LBJ Faces Tough New Decision By ROWLAND EVANS will blossom into three offensives as soon as the rain season starts in July: in the far norih, just below the Demilitarized INSIDE REPORT and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON The absence of any sign that North Vietnam wants to negotiate in good faith is confronting President Johnson with perhaps the roughest political decision he has yet had to make on the war. Top figures in the Johnson Administration believe the President may now be on the forced to do an abrupt about-facwhoie question of talks and e That is, Mr. Johnson is under rising pressure not only to lift the bombing embargo (north of the 20th parallel) but also to reconsider U S. troop levels and war expenditures. With casualties rising to their highest peaks and the North Vietnamese flooding the South with its highest infiltration, Mr. Johnson is being told he must do something soon to impede Hanois use of the bombing embargo and the Paris talks as a cover for ever more fierce combat. What deeply worries these Presidential advisers is the national mood of euphoria that followed Mr. Johnson's bid for talks last March 31, coupled with his withdrawal from the 1968 presidential race. Although the President did not intend to imply the war was almost over, he did create a euphoric mood that has etfectively removed the war as an issue in todays political debate. Mr. Johnson has done nothing consciously to stimulate this new mood. But high officials wish he had emphasized the negative and pessimistic always in-- herent in the Paris talks rather than the hopeful. The point should have been made more starkly that there was little basis for hope that the other side would negotiate in good faith. If the negotiations probe had been couched in more sombe- - terms, the awful choice of reversing field would be easier. Consider what North Vietnam is now w doing. Potent eapons, spotted by the same aerial photography that first discovered the presence of Soviet tanks, have been located near the Demilitarized Zone. Military experts also suspect that North Vietnam is planning to move some of ifs MIG aircraft south of their present bases. Hanoi is suspected of planning a sudden air attack on one of the U.S. carriers that patrol the Tonkin Gulf. ft But more important is the Norths apparent decision to strip its home army to the minimum in a crash program to move troops south. The troop buildup is taking place in the face of exorbitant Northern casualties, and recalls the Communist offensives in Korea to prepare for the truce talks that summer. The North Koreans and Chinese took more than 100,000 casualties in less than one month, in the spring of 1951, in an effort to soften up the U.S. and its allies. The current troop movement south, military experts in Washington believe, A Smile , A Bow Zone; in die Central Highlands, with supplies coming across the Laotian border; and in the Saigon area, supplied from Cambodia. Finally, adding a last much to the gloomy scenario, was the absolute failure of British Foreign Minister Michael Stewart to get help from Moscow on his recent mission. British reports to Washington stated that Stewart ran into a hard Russian no. Thus, President Johnson is caught in a crunch that some key advisers are certain will require a major change in U.S. and soon. policy The most obvious change would be to end the bombing suspension until Hanoi begins to negotiate seriously. The critical point, however, is that changes in present policy now being seriously proposed go far beyond that. They contemplate a reversal of the decision reached in March that the upper limit of U.S. troops had been reached. and money If that, indeed, is the result of the failure of the Paris talks thus far, the President will soon begin to prepare the country for it. Any change of that magnitude would not only cause an immediate outbreak of anti-wa- r sentiment, in a more virulent form than before. It could also transform the entire landscape of Democratic presidential politics, raising grave new obstacles to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, an uncompromising backer of Mr. Johnson war policies thus far. And An Opinion By SYDNEY J. HARRIS When people ask me for my opinion about the student revolts on campuses all over the country, I simply smile and bow and refer them to a speech I wrote almost 10 years ago, and have given regularly to colleges ever since. In this speech, I predicted what would be hapiienmg today. It seemed obvious to me that the nations colleges were doing everything but educating their students, and that the students would some day Wreak their revenge. Everybody close to the academic scene could see it coming except college presidents, deans, heads of departments, professors and (least of all) trustees. The Important People were oblivious of this threatening revolution, because Important People always believe what they want to believe, until it is far too late. Students were not getting educated, in any meaningful sense of the word. The college in America has been a huge and expensive custodial institution, devoted to everything but the main purpose of to develop an intellectual education appetite and to lead the search for human values. And these are what students are crying out for, in their wrong-heade- d d but way. in at the undergraAmerica, College duate level, has been a farce and a as Robert Maynard Hutchings shame has been complaining for some three decades, while nobody listened to him. He has been labeled the Cassandra of modern education by people who forgot (or never knew) that Cassandra was doubly fated always to be right and never to be believed. The American university has been a place where young people are kept quiescent until they are ready to go to work. right-hearte- They are not encouraged to know anything, but rather to take tests and pass them, which requires only diligence. They are given all kinds of absurd diversuch as fraternities and football sions to camouflage the fact that they are actually being treated like babies. Colleges are run for the sakes of departments, and research, and grants, and administrative ease, and publicity, and keeping the chiland dren pure in body, if not in mind. But their only excuse for existence is none of it is, instead, the ability and these willingness to transform children into adults by training the mind and informing the sensibility. They have, with few exceptions, failed The students are painfully dismally. but they have aware of this failure been so badly educated that they have no values but violence to oppose it with. fund-raisin- Racket Probers Need Funds - Who says WASHINGTON, D.C. good news is no news? The upbeat word from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is the manithat cured Mafia dons no longer are untouchable. Despite its billions of dollars, always handy in an election year, the Cosa Nostra is creaking and cracking a little at its top seams. For the moment, its national (killer) commission is under a caretaker government. In Chicago it had to draw two elder statesmen out of retirement to run a twin regency over what was once its happiest marauding grounds. In New Yoik the silently crusading U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau has smashed three syndicate commands. Chilo Bambino, toughest of the labor racket tycoons, has been forced into by FBI pressure. Big money on the front will be harder to come by if Congress gets off the money bags and appropriates enough funds for an additional 24 lawyers in the Justice Dept.s Organized Crime and Racketeering section. This would tost some $330,600 annualabout what it takes to count whooply nt ing cinnes. Twenty of tho.se attorneys for which Criminal Division hief Fred Vinson has been pleading would be placed in the new count them Task Forces. Only two two would go into the Crime and Racketeering Sections Special Labor VICTOR RIESEL Unit, unchronicled except by this correspondent. It's been operating since early last with just eight lawyers. Yet in year fiscal year 1967, it received 1,113 reports of violations of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act and the YV'elfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act, 351 violations of the violaHobbs Act, and 3S5 tions. Those confidential records reveal tliat the organized crime syndicates have terrorized thousands of union officials, hundreds of businesses, and have mishandled hundreds of millions of dollars in pension and welfare funds. Few realize that some $14 billion is dispersed . annually by these welfare funds. While most of them are carefully managed, the public soon will hear of disclosures of the meanest kind of chiseling of old and young alike on the health n Taft-Hartle- y front Just watch for the indictments of the shakedown syndicates who put their Mafioso into the funds managements. Watch especially for the exposure of Cosa Nostra infiltration into a network of eontruction locals. Look for the infiltration into some service trade locals. Those who have tried to stop the mob's methodical takeover have been beaten in cellars, threatened with mayhem, and at least one man has been killed. The major functions of the (Labor) Unit, says Fred Vinson, arc to regu-lailassess racketeer involvement in y ions and to initiate appropriate Investigations, as well as assisting the (Organized Crime and Racketeering Section) area coordinators. Headed by young Jim Featherstone, the Labor Unit is trying to head off mob control of locals, which in turn give the syndicates a stranglehold on the labor supply in some areas of construction, the trucking. waterfront, Energetically, Featherstone has opened an uninvestigated territory, New England, especially Providence, R.I., and bloody Boston. The Labor Unit wants 10 lawyers this an increase of two for a coming year cost running about $25,000. Yet Congress much to the satisfaction hasnt moved of the handful of solons who burn up the wires to protect hoodlums in some of our major cities. These Labor Unit attorneys work with the 21 area offices of the Labor Depts Ofice of and -Pension Reports. These tui n in quarterly intelligence reports on violations and mob movements. Only recently, the National Labor Relations Board has been forced to set up small criminal information divisions in its field headquarters to alert the Labor Unit on organized looting of locals. Without the Labor Unit's assistance, national labor chiefs could not guard the s 60,000 locals. Yet it must plan on only 10 if that attorneys for the coming fiscal year. Yet, with its infinitesimal st.itf, the Labor Unit, with FBI agents in attendance, has indicted and convicted scores of syndicate crooks and terrorists. So when J. Edgar Hoover reports good news, it is solid news, upbeat news lor we the people." To the people of the U.S. Government and ? people of Sevier and Wayne Counties who say the' - the own die Fishlake Country and Wayne County mountains, the water, and the va!!es in which u were born. We. the Paiute people of Richfield, the children of John Timacin, Crockett Knosh, Kaiborna, the Peawich Family, George Timacin Tom Pete; Jn Pete, and many others now dead and even moie we are asking you to give us who are forgotten some of our ancestral lands back. We lost our land a little ai a time through treaties, by people fencing us out, by the goen-men- t just taking it. Today we have no land, ro place to camp except on land that people say is theirs and not ours. We do not own the houses v lie in. the land we live on, or no water to even raise a garden with. We have received no money from the govern ment or anyone else for the loss of our land. A in' of our children have been taken away by weil.t'c and we see them no more. Our mothers have rnnl many tears lor their children are gone. Even it w rereived money from the government, maybe we couldnt get our children back. Most of us drink too much but maybe you would too if you were one of as. Please do not judge us too harshly for our lives are not easy. When we walk downtown we are looking for help. We dc not like to beg, but we have so little to live on. Every little bit counts. We are strangers in our own land. We are grateful for what help we have been given, but soon we will all be gone unless something different happens to u. We want to live like everyone else and see our children healthy and happy. Jn the name of SHINAALV, The name w use when we pray to our God, please help u. Please give us some of our land back, enough to dignify our lives. -W- OODROW PETE, et al Richfield ft's No 'Sewer' As a reply to Mr. Lee V. Giles letter to the Editor in the May 19 Deseret News, may we openly refute his reference to that ditch (starting at Whitlock Ave. and Chatham St.) as a sewage ditch. Samples of that ditch water have been taken by the County Health Department and laboratory analysis shows a coliform count well within the normal limits of the average open ditch or surface water. The laboratory count of 2,400 per 100 milliliters does not indicate any presence of sewage. May we now express our sincere best wishes to Mr. Giles in making his own model city? JAMES R. WARNER S. L. County Assistant Sanitorian, Health Dept. That's Efficiency? Just recently California, at the suggestion of Governor Ronald Reagan, received from a committee The Governors Survey on Efficiency and Cost e Control, a copyrighted report This was a study of 23 weeks duration by 250 top executives from private industry. This study cost California nothing. All salary travel, etc., was borne by the companies loaning the men to the state. They went into every department of government and found the workings of each departmental unit and then summarized their findings. How different from our Rosenblatt report which was predetermined before it was written. An outside group was hired for $150,000 to make the study and write into the report what the Gover150-pag- ' nor himself wanted. Much criticism has been made of the 37th Legislature. But after working under four governors Maw, Lee, Clyde and Rampton I can say without fear of contradiction that the last session, both Democrats and Republicans did more effective work as a whole than any I have had the pleasure of working with. The Governors office, the Secretary of State and the Attorney Generals office were the least efficient and least cooperative of any I ' hae worked with over a period of 25 years. The reorganization has created much overlapping and duplication that has seldom been matched in modern government. I challenge Governor Rampton to show to the citizens of Utah where he has produced any more efficiency than with the old commission type of government instituted under Governor Maw in 1941. -Q- UAYLE CANNON, JR. Secretary to the Senate ' Liquor By " Wealth' I have always been in favor of liquor oy the drink, but not the present liquor by the wealthy under the petitions now being circulated. , I have had two beer licenses in the state of-- Utah and if the small beer operators will read the qualifications of licensee of this present attempt to get liquor by the drink, I am sure they would agree with me. This bill will only be for the select wealthy clubs and will aid to put the little operator out of business. This proposed law is not a fair bill for the small tavern operators. KENNETH L. ENGLISH Moab GUEST CARTOON Welfare- AFL-CIO- The Eyes of the World h'ew-uii- s |
