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Show Editorial Page Feature U. S. Hoping for ‘Miracle of Rice’ in Laos Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah SUNDAY, A UST 27, 1967 BIE Day TraditionIn Provo The 1967 Provo BIE (Business- Provo's Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of BIE Day, has been cited nationally for the success of the program, which has hit similar high water marks in only a few cities actoss the nation. There's no doubt aboutit, business and education must work to“gether as a partnership if the American economic system is to Mes reee and perpetuated, and if education is to achieve its highest aspation 5 BIE Day is a fine event — a nice breakfast program and an informative visit to the plants. But it is a lot. more than that. It is hoped that every participating teacher caught the spirit of the American system and will be prepared to impart it to the students this year. The opportunity certainly'is there. And in a few months, in the second half of the program, the educators will have their turn to host the businessmen at the schools in what is known as EBI Day. In this phase, the business leaders learn more about the schools and their needs and accomplishments. It's indeed a fine arrangement building a partnership which must endure for the benefit of all concerned, Industry-Education) Day perpetuated-what.now amounts to quite a tradition in Provo. About 375 school teachers and administrators were guests of 2 Provo area business and industrial institutions at’ (1) a breakfast meeting; and (2) visits to the various plants. Objectives, in a nutshell, were: To breathe the spirit and tradition of the American system of competitive free enterprise into the teachers to assist them in presenting facets of vocational education to the youth. The free enterprise system was portrayed for what it is — the greatest. program for productive mightin the world... the genius system that has made this coun- try the globe’s economic leader and raised the standard of living to fantastic heights. Said Arch L. Madsen, the break- fast speaker: “How wonderful it would be if this same thing — a meeting of the business and educational interests — could be held in every community in the world ‘and under such favorable circumstances |” Last year’s speaker, Royden C. Derrick, made a similar statement. i VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI)— The United States is betting nation instead of a rice importer with a deficit millions in Laos on a miracle. The miracle is a newly discovered variety of rice—-1R.8 —which will produce more than seven tons of grain on plots now said a large part of the $5718 million Laotian aid budget this year is going into the new rice- producing two tons. By introducing “Philippine growing project. “At present,” Mendenhall miracle rice” into this sparselypopulated Southeast Asia king- explained, “the U.S. spends dom, the Americans hope to between $6 million and $8 make Laos a balanced budget _million a year importing rice to Laos. We've just completed a pilot program and proved Laos cah grow two crops a year instead of one and, using .R.8, the become an eventual rice expor- against the Communist-supported Pathet Lao has drained the treasury and put midi of the farm labor into the army. Mendenhall believes the introduction of I.R.8 can restore the balance. : “Laos at present,” he said, “has an imports ratio of % per ter.” If successful, the thanks will come’ mostly from the American taxpayers who have tossed more than half a billion dollars 528.9 million—in aid to. -this land-locked country of two and a half million souls. ‘The Man Who Comes to Dinner 05, FOS, The House voted'415-3 to kick thisbill is the fact that the House tacked onto it some tough restric- by the U.S. government. The main aims of these are to nudge a lot of able-bodied persons off relief and onto private payrolls, and to clamp down on aid for dependent children. The latter all too often encourages ladies on relief to have more and more babies, legitimate or otherwise, to keep that old relief check swelling. “We are rough in this bill,” says House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur D.Mills (D-Ark.), “but we do-not intend to be inhuman.” We with these parts of thebill Taxes on employers and emPloyes to help finance the raise would go up, too—from 4.4% on the first $6,600 of yearly earnings to 4.4% on thefirst $7,600, and eventually to 5.2% on $7,600. (There can be no guarantee, of course, that the $7,600 ceiling ‘won't go up and up.) If the Senate and the President go along with the House, the fatter Social Security checks will start rolling two months there- r. the best of luck. (Guest editorial, see cartoon below.) Whatinterests us chiefly about Chopping Block By PRANK €. ROBERTSON By FRANK C, ROBERTSON America faces graver problem at the moment than the anarchy in the eities. It is not, as President Johnson said,to be tolerated. Every part of every American, city should be safe for any Jaw-abiding person to come and go, but it is not, and the condition cannot be endured, In Detroit, for instance, Governor Romney was justified in asking federal help and President Johnson in granting you notice how many Republican politicians turned upon President Johnson when he called out the troops 40 help a Republican governor, with the cry that the federal government was infringing upon states’ rights? Anything that will help them win an élection is okay.Is it any wonder that the Negroes have lost faith in political promises? What-a white hoodlum can get away with’a Negro hoodlum thinks he should who think the” the war way to educate the farmers and induce them to try the new methods. ——__—_ By-Line 1. Never come hometo. dinner at the same time every night. The considerate husband, who doesn't want to bore his wife, will arrive an hour early on one day and stand around in the kitchen making suggestions. On another day he will * arrive an hour late and complain about the cold food. On still another day he will arrive home late with three convivial friends, and ask his wife to set three moreplates. 2. Don’t be finicky about keeping social dates. Once in a while if you plan to go to a party, go to it. But moreoften, after the wife has dressed, plead a ‘headache andcallit off. Better yet, call up from the clubfifteen minutes after you were supposed to have left the house and inform the wife you can’t makeit because an old friend came to town. If you do go to the party, make a lot of passes at the prettiest blonde. 3. Be a buddy with your kids, If the wife makes John go to his room because he has been naughty,tell him to come out and forget about it, assuring him women don’t understand men, Always impress the children with the fact that their mother is a wonderful woman but they shouldn’t pay too much attention to her bacause she lacks a sense of humor. 4, Women like to gossip, so gossip with your wife. Say te her, “How come Mrs. Delaney always looks so neat and beau- TodayIn Holmes Alexander Currie Won't EnhanceU.S. Relations Nort h of Border when asked by the Un-American WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eye- brows are up around town over “Activities Committee about his damaging connections. He did not appear in 1964 to explain his trusteeship in IPR which the Internal Security subcommittee found to be “‘considered by the American Communist Party and by Soviet officials as an instrument of communist policy.” Currie took off for Columbia and a job with the International Bank. He did not return in 1953 strange characters, who are when Attorney General Brownresidents at the nearby cam- ell listed him as a courier for pus of British Columbia Uni- the Soviet apparatus, nor return versity. One is William Holland, in 1955 to revalidate his U. S. once executive vice president of citizenship. He received a great the Senate-condemned Institute deal of money from Colombia of Pacific Relations (IPR). The for obtaining U.S. Treasury second is Shigeto Tsuru, an funds, He established a dairy anti-American Japanese, who farm and country residence was questioned by the Internal some 30 miles out of Bogota, Security subcommittee on his and busied himself with mapping a “planned society” for communist connections. The presence of these three that country, of which he has in the same Cariadian province becomea citizen. In ag big an engagement as won't beautify our relationships north ofthe border, Canada is the Cold War, the whereabouts -abig trader with Red Cuba and of CGurria ic a minor item of in~Red-China,- and. is-being, used telligence, But you never kngw “whiere such pieces fit into the jous Revolutionary Action Move- jigsaw puzile, the appointment of Lauchlin Currie, a shadowy figure of the Cold War smog,to be “visiting scholar” during 1967-68 at the Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Currie, whom the FBI listed fn 1953as a supplier of documents to a communist spy ring atid who gave uphis U.Scitizen“ ship in 1955, will join two other ment (RAM), headed in Castro- ° fae but Most of the psychiatrists who write for newspapers about how to keep the marriage successful, emphasize that the woman should take pains to keep married life from being monotonous. They suggest that wives changetheir hair-dos, vary their style of dress, alter the color scheme of the house, and so on. All this, it seems, is aimed at making marriage less monotonous for the husband. On behalf of the wives, here is some things a husband can do to make married life less monotonous for the wife: tions on welfare financed in part About 23 million Americans would be affected. economy, cent to five per cent over exports, and about60,000 metric tons of these imports are rice.” The big problem of the Americans is to get the miracle rice program underway. Tons of fertilizer are being brought in and distributed to farmers along with the new seed, and an educational program is under- By B. E. (Bye) JENSEN House-Passed Social Security Hikes up Social Security benefits by 1214%, and to a minimum of $50 a@ month from the present $44. Eighty-five per cent of the people in Laos are farmers, and agriculture is the backbone of land by Robert Williams, the Negro communist. ‘ ‘ History By United Press International Today, is Sunday, Aug. 27, the tiful.and she has been married longer than we have?” or say, “T can’t understand it, Mrs. Jones has been married as long as you have and she’ hasn’t gained a pound Why don’t you find out how she doesit?” 5. Womenlike to participate in things with their husbands. So have her help shovel the snow, mow the lawn, wash the car and move the piano to a different spot each week. 6. Women love the une: presents husbands bring home which prove that their love is still alive. So bring her home some thread and suggest she sew some buttons on your coat. Brin galong a can of paint and suggest she do over the bathroom. Or show up at the door with a dozen roses and ask herto take them over to your mother for her birthday. + + 8 If the above six steps are carried out, it’s almost a sure-fire guarantee that your marriage will not suffer from monotony. Course, on the other hand, it doesn’t guarantee there will be a marriage either, 239th day of 1967 with 126 to * follow. “Middle age is when yourwife tells you to pull in your stomach The moon is in’ its last and you already have.” quarter. The morning. star is Saturn, The evening star is Mars. Born_on this day in 1908 was President Lyndon B. Johnson. On this day in history: In 1660, the published books of John Milton were burned, because of the attacks on King When they were evicied by Some good has come out of Charles I. Vietnam; our international the landlord, county welfare ofIn 1859, the first oil well in lambsarereturning to the fold. ficials relocated the family in the United States was drilled The Fulbrights and the Mans- a nine room house — remodelnear Titusville, Pa. fields and the Kennedys, who ing the house to makeit “more In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand strayed far into foreign fields comfortable.”” pact to outlaw war was signed with your money, are coming Congress is voting three billion-dollars more as “an emerby 15 nations in Paris. home. In 1963, miners David Fellin Senator Robert Kennedy says gency program to provide jobs” and Throne were rescued the welfare of our home folks when every metropolitan newspaper is bulging with job opporafter being trapped 14 days in a is more important. . . tunities. mine at Sheppton, Pa. Sen. Fulbright says we The Senate Poverty Subcomcan't afford all that foreign aid mittee has approved for the A thought for the day— “Office of Economic OpportunAmerican frontiersman Dave Senator Mansfield says we ity” 148- million dollars more ett once said: “I leave have intervened in too many than the President requested! this rule for others when I am things in the world. dead. “Beuiways~sure~you're- ~“Now theseformer “discipiesof In:year's past a-question whic! right, then go ahead.” the _spoon-feed-everybody _phil- I could-always expect followin, osophy are turning their atten- a _persoifal appearance anytion homeward — but they have where was, “Would you do away with all foreign aid?” learned little! My answer was and is, “If Overseas spending boomeranged, Where we spent the most the alternative to foreign aid as money we bought resentment. it is presently administered is In the UN our adopted neighbors none at all, I vote for none at. vote against us. We supported all.” Now the worldwide spenders the economies of Western Eurare coming around to that view. Eventually they will re-exam. ine our wasteful homefront wel. Paul Harvey THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER Ist oT | eet It will happen when the vot- Fi _ too lazy even to vote. places,” which was fervility. But di In Yonkers, New York, they found a family of nine living on relief in a $600 a month motel &. Britain has lost a quarter of the world’s surface, so what’s another 225 square miles? —Jack Irving, a leader of a movement on Isle of Man advocating inde- Es football. The Demothe party of states’ enabled them to ‘keep 3 nh have become some- ‘ | e at any wage. “t z aE ais § i 1 things too easy for those who don’t want to work.” He finds farmers unable to employ farm labor because “‘too many people who can get by on welfare becometoo lazy to work |