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Show 2 The Herald Journal Ball FI and the Grounder Thoughts and Things Logon, Utah, Sunday, October 20, 1957 Benefits For Both OCCASIONALLY WE FIND some of the products of the University on the hill not to our liking. Sometimes they are annoying; sometimes simply damaging. In the rapid development of mind, ego and outlook that is the underlying principle of education, our youth will wander from the conventional path humanity must sometimes deviate from conformity if there is to be any change, any progress. But rather than picking out the relative few incidents on the negative end of their activity, let us just consider a few of the advantages of being host to our University. Economy is alwrays of prime importance, and few people will argue that Utah State does not bolster their financial welln being, directly or indirectly. If the is not a merchant, selling food, clothing or other articles to the students and faculty, or if he is not a landlord to a towns-perso- student-occupie- d apartment, he at least benefits by the increased facilities the additional number of people, and their varied of needs, demand. More than stueither are entire population Logans dents or directly affiliated with the University. Art is an ethereal item which would nevertheless leave a highly apparent void in the lives of Cache residents if not provided by the institution. The USU Lyceum, by adding its weight to the Cache Civic Music Assn., enables us to have more and greater artists perform for us during the year. The Fine Arts department itself brings displays of the finest art exhibits in the world to Logan, and develops the talent of students. In service, education is the institutions mainstay. Through night classes and extension courses we improve ourselves, and in their main studies our youth particularly are developed. Students are active in such civic organizations as the Jaycees. one-four- ENTERTAINMENT, th PROBABLY the most obvious of the Universitys contributions, is available to us constantly. Musical groups on campus stage concerts annually, to which the public may flock. The drama department produces a dozen varied performances, from comedy to classical, every year. And it was Homecoming at Utah State University this weekend. As we recall watching the parade, with floats fash- ioned through thousands of student-hour- s of work; visited the social groups homes, decorated to the U Debut theme; and joined in the Homecoming crowds at the Montana game, we might reflect on the ways our lives are enchanced by having the University here and having it grow. U-Sta- te Primary Election Day NEXT TUESDAY IS AN Important day for the citizens of Logan. From 7 in the morning until 8 that night they will have a chance to nominate candidates for each of the positions of mayor and city commissioner. It will be the 1957 municipal primary election. Each eligible voter will have before him a ballot bearing five names for each office. He will place a cross opposite the name he favors for each. The Logan voter already has had one important decision to make at the polls this fall. We refer to the sewer bond election; the proposed bond issue was defeated. Selection of candidates for municipal office is vital duty of the electorate. The two persons receiving the highest number of votes will then be candidates in the final election, which comes Nov. 5. From those two in the race for mayor, and the two in competition for commissioner, will come city officials who serve for the coming four years. Not for many years has such a large field of capable candidates sought Logan City nominations. This reflects a wholesome situation-conside- rable and solid interest in the muniaffairs. of state cipal And certainly it indicates that whoever wins the nod next Tuesday, Logan in the City will have worthy nominees November finals. We do not seek to tell you how to vote in the primary election October 22, but we do urge you to exercise your privilege of the ballot. Vote for the person you think will extend the greatest and the most intelligent service to our city. A The Hearty Welcome! AMERICA TRADITIONALLY has been happy to welcome the British royal family to its shores even though Americans usually scoff at the idea supporting & monarchy that, for all practical purposes, i3 quite useless. During the current visit of Elizabeth and Philip, our citizens have been especially vigorous in their cheers and welcomes. The charming and pretty Queen haa completely captivated our nation with her natural grace and charm, with her sincerity and regal demeanor. Her Philip is a handsome Prince downright dashing, if you please. Americans have a warm place in their hearts for Elizabeth, even though they may look upon royalty as an extravagant whim. She is soberly capable, possessed of a high Bense of duty. Her bearing is symbolic of royal dignity. Yet withal there is really no stiffness Coming Of Natural Gas in her makeup. Critics at home who talked of her school girl priggishness seemed to many of us Americans unduly harsh, and without understanding of the monarchys symbolic stature. Elizabeths empire is not the vast array of rich and scattered territories it once was. It has shrunk as emerging peoples in Asia and Africa have lifted their heads in independence. Nor is her homeland the powerful military and political force it was up to the years of World War I. Yet the British, with their remarkable heritage, their sturdy character and their talent for politics and diplomacy, still stand as a great factor for freedom. We rejoice to have the Queen and her handsome Prince among us. We greet her as a cherished friend whom it is always a delight to see. And although we may go about, year after year, kidding the royalty as a useless and quite expensive hobby for a democratic county, still well always be tickled pink to see the smiling and gracious Elizabeth A Recalls Events Of The Past SOME OF YOU MAY 'm Valuable Resource WASHINGTON Br DOUGLAS LARSEN and JERRY BENNLTT ELIZABETH'S visit QUEEN has everyone in a gay party mood for the coming winter social season. But social insiders report that this season is in for an early social bust. Everybodys broke and nobody plans to do any entertaining to amount to a thing, says a leading caterer, crying in his bottled Martinis. "With prices of everything so high, youre lucky to be able to afford to have one cocktail party a month, where you used to have one a week, says a young hostess who is the wife of a top government official. The hard corps of isnt preparing to take the cure, however, because Embassy Row will be lively as usual. "As long as the diplomats can e booze at $12 a case, get we wont be completely dry, claims a veteran F-- behind his desk of tons of pictures, models and ash trays which he had collected as souvenirs on the Job. His successor, Neil McElroy, has decided to use the table for the same purpose. He already has his first souvenir on the table. It is a small silver model 8 bomber of the supersonic which is being made by Convalr. They offered me a ride in it at twice the speed of sound, McElroy admitted, but I said Id just settle for the model. WHEN CANADAS new SecEarle of State Sidney retary Smith and three other new Canadian ministers arrived here the other day for trade talks with was U.S. officials, the airport being drenched by a violent downpour. No airline employe was bringing a ramp out to the plane in the rain and Smith cracked: Four ministers at the start of C1LARLEY WILSON their first International conferWHEN left his pentagon office, ha ence unable to get their feet on cleared the large antique taole the ground. free-loade- rs tax-fre- L. View - Larger The Challenge Of A Sputnik history aklnd, IT SEEMS BUT YESTERAY that Lampo, Box Elder County, was a major g spur in vestem Box Elder County. There were huge elevators there, and a railroad siding, and each fall farmers would converge, with their wagon loads of golden wheat, from areas many miles grain-loadin- away. Adjacent to Lampo is the north shore of Great Salt Lake. Hundreds of sportsmen, down through the years, have passed the place as they went to the marshes for ducks and geese. Then, at the tip of Little Mountain are some mineral springs. In the past there have been some rather humble facilities and others who felt for arthritis-sufferer- s that bathing in the warm, tangy water had medical value. So much for Lampo and the past. Today, and in the future, there is a n dollar plant at zprawling Box Elder County. It was built Lampo, for a company named Thiokol Corporation. This vast facility manufactures a revolutionary new solid fuel for rocket engines. Thiokol held open house this week to about 1000 Utah and Idaho officials and newspapermen, and offered a demonstration in static firing. Roars of the rocket engine climaxed a tour of 28 buildings that Thiokol has constructed on the desertlands at Lampo. Who can tell what was once a dusty little spur may be giving us a boost to the moon in the not too distmulti-millio- ultra-moder- n grain-loadin- g ant future! .... Inflation Blues; And First Souvenir How America Might Meet Lampo Scenery Shift THE REMOVAL OF THE OLD board walks from Main street and the pouring of concrete sidewalks. No more would we boys rim along the street clicking our stick horses in the cracks between the boards. No more would we bewail the lost penny or nickle that we had saved so zealously for that coveted ice cream soda. NEWS NOTEBOOK g. ealth-givin- As the brilliant golden ball of flame leaped skyward amid the applause of .... diversions no longer can be considered luxuries. Rather we rate them as essential to our physical and mental It would be unbalanced if we listed the total costs of hunting and fishing every year rovide over half a billion man-day-s of g relaxation. With shorter work weeks realized in recent years, more people have more time BY M. L. NIELSEN to spend in the great outdoors which we in this area are fortunate to have in such SPUTNIK HAS BEEN with us for two weeks now, spinning uncluttered quantity and quality. smoothly through space with a Considering this fact, along with the silvery eye cocked on the tiny undeniable truth that our population is earth below and a beeping voice mushrooming at the net rate of one new sending laconic messages to Its creators back person ever 11 seconds, it is easy to see h in Russia. that we have a deep responsibility to proThe successtect our natural resources to the utmost. ful launching of It is essential to the general wellthis earth satelbeing of the country that facilities for enlite, which may be one of the joyable hunting and fishing continue to most significant be available in some quantity to those events in the kind of recreation. desiring this of man- well-bein- ve awed bystanders, my thoughts went back in memory to the early years of this century when, as a mere wisp of a lad, I first set foot in the city of Logan. The advent of gas, October 18, 1957 though marking another important milestone in the progress of our city, Ray Nelson faded into the background of years when first I witnessed the inauguration of electric trolley service between the A.C. and the Oregon Short Line depot. The steel rails, so sturdy and secure on the wooden ties, fascinated me, and I used to walk on them to and from school, counting so carefully the number of ties in each block. It was a thrill to ride the trolley, too, and no doubt many a boy imagined himself in the great city of New York or Chicago, or perhaps San Francisco. ! THE FEVERISH PREPARATIONS for the deer hunting season that were much in evidence throughout Cache Valley Friday afternoon gave first hand proof of the tremendous popularity that the sport of hunting has attained. This popularity was evident not only among local residents but also among the hundreds of friends, relatives and others from outside the Valley and state who came here for the first shots of the season. Comparative figures collected over the years illustrate just how far the fine outdoor sports of hunting and fishing have gone in catching the public fancy. Every year hunters and fishermen in the United States spend three billion dollars on these particular pleasures. These costs include equipment, costs directly associated with the sports, license fees and trip expenditures such as gas, oil, tires and related fees. This three billion takes on comparative meaning when you find that the total electricity bill for homes of the nation amounted to 3.2 billion in 1955, our total expenditure for telephone and telegraph is 3.1 billion and our bills for doctors services during one year is 3.1 billion. You get a little better idea of how hunting and fishing compare with other sports when you consider that the world series in baseball, generally thought of as the greatest week in any sport, grosses about 3y2 to 4 million dollars. However, this becomes rather a paltry sum when you compare it with the 58 million dollars which is the average weekly expenditure for all spectator amusements amount to 1.7 billion dollars per year, only slightly more than half the big business of hunting and fishing. We do not point to these costs as beor unnecessary. Under toexorbitant ing and tomorrows tension, leisurely days HAVE ATTENDED the ceremonies Friday night that celebrated the coining of natural gas service to Logan. A great flame leapt skyward as Mayor William W. Owens opened a valve, and the light was reflected in the bank windows, making pretty scenes reminiscent of Christmas cards. It was so cheery and bright and festive for the minutes that the crowd was exulting. The occasion prompted some reminiscing by Lyle L. Wood of River Heights, and we are pleased to use his thoughts today as a guest column. Here they are. caused a in Amer-Man- y a Dr. Nielses midnight lamp has been burning, many a secret conference held, many a genius called upon to. don his thinking cap and come up with an answer to the Russian challenge. Nowhere has this been so apparent as in the English trade, which apparently was caught when the completely word Sputnik entered the American vocabulary. Santa's assembly lines were busy turning out d tommy guns, tanks, atomic cannon, wing-swejet bombers, and toy replicas of the new Edsel. Then, with little more than two months to go before Christmas, Sputnik streaks into outer space. The reaction in the Christmas trade was one of consternation, confusion, and a sense of impending doom. As one story out of New York headlined Sputnik Puts Santa In Dizzy Tizzy. it: THERE WERE very strong feelings of resentment against the Russians. As one department This is store executive put it: typical of the underhanded methods employed by the Russians. Their work was done in complete secrecy. There was no previous announcement of the launching. Time and again they ignored our offers to exchange vital scientific information. We have good reason to believe that tfley purposely chose a launching date so late in the fall that it would be impossible for us to adjust our plans and get a Sputnik into volume production for the Christmas trade. --O- IT APPEARS at this writing, however, that the Russians have again underestimated America's productive capacity and the American genius for organization. Toy manufacturers and department store executives, working around the clock, have organized a crash program. The country's resources have been hastily mobilized in an all-oeffort to beat the deadline. A spokesman of industry has assured the retail trade that Sputnlka will be available for Christmas shopping, at least in our larger cities, if we have to go into overtime production to do it. Macys of New York and other large department stores are also facing the crisis with steel nerve and calm determination. Outer The Herald Journal Space rooms in the toy departments are being hastily equipped swirr. Pubiirtiaf phitjp e.every first-han- d look Published evening. Monday to give shoppers a throuxh Friday, and Sunday morn-in- s at Sputnik earth. the Toy circling by Cache alley Newapaper Com. launching platforms, pany, ?5 Wear Center. Lojran, Utah, Sputniks, Entered aa aecond data matter at and moon ships will be available the post office at Logan. Utah. at prices ranging from Si.69 to $69.00 (only one dollar down and MEMBER one dollar a week). Audit Bureau of Circulation flat-foote- d radio-controlle- AFTERNOON THE OTHER top government officials gathered at the old State Department building with officials of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to inaugurate telephone service to Hawaii via a new cable. When Frederick R. Kappel, AT&T president, was about to get the first message from Honolulu, Postmaster General Arthur Hold on, Summerfield said, Fred. Are they going to reverse the charges or do they pay? This first call is on us, Kappel replied. SALLY IS THE small daughter of a U.S. government official and plays with Shau Ping, the next-doneighbor, who is the daughter of a Chinese embassy official. The two youngsters liked to play in the mud in Shau Ping's back yard, to the irritation of both mothers. Sally, her mother shouted to the gals, busy at their favorite pastime, are you and Shau Ping making mud pies again? No, mother, Sally yelled back, were making egg rolls. the great fire that destroyed the old Thatcher Opera House and bank. Vividly it all came back the thunder of the horses hooves as they dashed madly up dragging the lire wagon behind them the hoarse shouts of the firemen, warning the spectators to stand back. And when the last brick wall crashed to the street, we returned sadly home, realizing another landmark in the city had faded into oblivion. . , . the laying of concrete on the streets of Logan. No more would be choke in the dust of the Fourth of July parade that seemed endless in the still, hot days of summer. The horse-draw- n water wagons tried vailantly to settle the dust; but the pounding of hundreds of feet would soon send it whirling up to the sky, and we were only too glad to seek the cool interior of the Tabernacle, or romp under the trees on the square. o . .... ARMISTICE DAY! A magic moment in history, when the great World War I ended. Parading up and down the main streets at 1 A. M., the celebration continued on, madly whirling into the late hours of th night. the return of the victorious 145th Field Artiltheir band blaring patriotic airs, such as Over lery, There, Long Way to Tipperary, and Stars and Stripes Forever. The long line of spectators stretching from the depot to the Tabernacle square, with flu masks hiding their radiant faces. the beginning of electric train service between FIRST LORD of the British Lake Salt City, Logan and Preston. We thrilled to tha Admiralty Rt. Hon. the Earl of of steel Selkirk recent Washington visiring against steel surely this was the age of tor is tall, lean and hard as a engineering marvels! And when the first electric cars rock from regular cricket sesrumbled up Main Street, the onlookers cheered. Gradusions. ally rail traffic diminished over the Oregon Short Line, And he proved to the top brass and business truly was firmly established on Main of the U.S. Pacific fleet that hes just as good a man in the water Street. as he is aboard one of Her Maclosing of the old Brigham Young College. The tears of hundreds of old grad3, to whom the school jestys ships. On a tour of U.S. naval bases, had endeared itself, mingled with those of the latest he got a Pearl Harbor where graduates, flowed unashamed as the Crimson Banner the U.S. admirals took him surfboard riding off Waikiki Beach. wras viled for the last time. Another institution had vanIt was the first time ha bad tried ished into the memory of years. blood stirring strains of John Phillip Sousas riding the waves in that fashion, but he astonished everyone by band that echoed through the Capital Theamagnificient being an expert at it. tre, and carried out into the street where many gait changed swiftly to a quickstep. The deafening applause d master as each selection that greeted the So They Say was finished. or ... .... .... .... white-glove- It is my prayer that the splitting of the atom under the wise administration of the International Atomic Energy Agency may some day unify a divided world. President Eisenhower. I never felt as cut off from tha as I did in the weeks I spent in the Soviet Union. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. world All is now well with the small businessman. Sen. George Smathera is the West which is destroying the West. Saudi Arabia V. N. Delegate Ahmad Shukairy. What tha best of government programs can do for farmers is of little or no Importance compared with what farmers can do for themselves. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. We need a moral equivalent for the atomic bomba which our scientist have developed. Dr. John C. Baker, president of Ohio Universltv, . I never thought Id find an Arkansas picnic on tha Rhln River (aboard U.S. Navy patrol boat In Germany). Sen. Homer Capehart on fried chicken served on boat. ). AT THIS WRITING it looks as Every word in my book (The if the Russians have miscalculatNew Class. which denounces National Advertising Representative! ed in choosing an October launch- communism) la the truth. Gilman. Klcoll & Ruthmen Mllovan Dplies, former vice ing date. Apparently they still dont know how much can be done president of Yugoslavia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES On month carrier I 1.50 In a short time by a highly inJS.OO One year,, carrier dustrialized country opera The Democratic party will One year mall (In Cache Valley) 14 00 under the free enterprise system sweep the country In 1958 and One year mall (outalda Cache 18 00 Valley) and accustomed to the challenge 1960. One year, servicemen and i g 00 of ruthless competition. tionafies Harry S. Truman. ting A. WHITE WAY, asphalt roadway, moving of the U.I.C. topping tracks, as well as the discontinuance of trolley service a greater White Way when vapor lamps were installed ... ... . . . and now gas! What dreams of the future will we witness come true? The same dreams that passed into review before me, as I wandered slowly into the shadows covering the Tabernacle square, and the fitful glare of the torch on the sturdy gray walls. . .). It United Press NEA Service FIRST ....on LOGANS the cement Non-Sto- p Flight, Texas To Rome, Ends In Atlantic Ocean AmLA CORUNA, Spain (U) erican pilot Bill Wyatt, attempting a nonstop flight from Galveston, Tex., to Rome in a small plane crashed In the Atlantic Saturday and was rescued Immediately by a Spanish fishing boat. He was unhurt. The boat, the Vlrgen de Buen Cornejo, brought Wyatt to La Coruna, a fishing port on the northwest tip of the Spanish Coast some 400 miles west of the French City of Bordeaux, where he had been expected to land because his plane was running out of gas. First reports said Wyatts plane a small Mooney Mark 20. was forced Into a storm-tosse- d Atlantic off the coast when snow piled up on the wings. Radios Position He radioed his position before four-seat- going down. The reports said Wyatt broke out of his plane by smashing a window. He was hauled aboard the vessel and brought here. American Consul Samuel Young in Vigo, to the south, said he talked with Wyatt by telephone and that Wyatt was unhurt and undeterred by his accident. He told me he had been picked up by a fishing boat 30 miles northwest of Coruna, where be landed in the sea due to icing. He said he varied his course south because of storms, Young told the United Press. French aviation officials earlier had declared a state of emergency to expedite the search for the Texan and asked all available commercial ships and planes in the general area to join a search for the missing plane. Wyatt, 25, left Galveston Thursday in an attempt to fly 5,600 miles nonstop to Rome and better the 4,973-mil- e record set by Bill Odom on a nonstop flight in a light plane from Honolulu ta The message was received at Santiago de Compostela and by the fishing boat that rescued him. The boat went quickly to his rescue. N.J. , Teterboro Airport, |