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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1968 Utah Writers to Compete For Several Cash Prizes Selective Service Answers Questions To encourage and promote the creation of original scripts by Utah writers, the state of Utah Institute of Fine Arts sponsors a writing contest annually. Wilburn C. West, State Director of Fine Arts, announced that entries are now being accepted for the tenth annual competition. Cash prizes vary from $100 to $700 for 1st prize in the novel writing category. The contest is open to all legal residents of the state of Utah of any age. However, strict rules have been published by the Literary Arts Committee in order to regulate the competition. The copies of the rules 'may be obtained upon request from the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts at 609 East First South Temple. The contest closing date is Mar. 20 and all manuscripts must be postmarked by midnight on that date in order to be eligible. The rules specify a number of categories for writers to enter. Novels, biographies, autobiogra- About U.S. Draft Q. Will you The rules specify the length lim- in- entering manuscripts. The Institute rquests that contestants not enter manuscripts until they have studied the published rules. Any number of improper methods of submitting a manuscript could disqualify a contestant. One such example, specifies that the name of the author should not appear on the manuscript since the contest is to be judged anonymously, but a separate sealed envelope should contain the title of the work and the name and address of the author. Also, according to published rules, authors of winning entries will retain all rights of publication and production. It is anticipated that winners will be notified and prizes announced in June 1968. This contest differs from the play writing contest announced recently by the Department of novof collections Development Services in that it poetry,, phies, a number of categories but are has books elettes and juvenile not include a playwriting does four in all acceptable entries division. separate classes of competition. rule No. which necessary employment 6, ah occupational deferment? Ans.: A registrants employment shall be considered to be necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest only when all of the following conditions exist: 1. The registrant is, or but for a seasonal or temporary interruption would be, engaged in such activity. 2. The registrant cannot be replaced because of a shortage of persons with his qualification or skill in such activity. 3. The removal of the registrant would cause a material loss of effectiveness in such an activity. Q.: How long may a person retain his 11-occupational deferment? deferAns.: All Class II-ments shall be for one year or less. If there is a change in the registrants status during this period, his classification shall be reopened and considered anew. The registrant may be continued in Class IIA for a further period of one year or less if such classification is warranted, however, the local board is not required to retain any registrant in Class I11A when the reason for his the basic Slavery Convention of occupational classification has 1926 and a 1953 protocol of ceased to exist. amendment. The United States did not sign the Supplemental Q.: I have an opportunity to Convention on the Abolition of visit Europe for several months. Slavery, the Slave Trade, and What should I do as far as SeInstitutions and Practices Simi- lective Service is concerned? lar to Slavery, done at Geneva Ans.: Contact the local board. Sept. 7, 1956. At the United Na- If your absence is not likely to tions Conference which formu- interfere with the performance lated the Supplemetnarl Conven- of your obligations under the tion, the United States repre- Military Selective Service Act sentative noted that slavery in of 1967, your local board may all forms had been outlawed in grant such permission. If they the United States by the 13th do, they will complete and supAmendment to the Constitution ply you with a "Permit for Regand expressed a preference for istrant to Depart from the U.S. educational and economic measures, rather than a further conRadio Operators vention, for promoting the A A . DIPLOMATIC POUCH The following letters were recently answered by the Depart- ment of State. I have heard that when President Kennedy forced Russia to withdraw its missiles from Cuba Russia required, and the President granted, certain reciprocal assurances from our government. If this is true, I would be grateful for your description of these agreements. I have heard that they amounted to our promise to refrain from any unfriendly attitude or action against the present government of Cuba. B.H.C. Cape Girardeau, Mo. Dear Mr. C.: The Soviet Union, in an exchange of letters with the U.S. on October 27 and 28, 1962, ' agreed to remove from Cuba all weapons systems capable of offensive use and to halt the further introduction of such weapons into Cuba. The Soviet Union also agreed to permit appropriate United States observation of thes ecommitments. The United States agreed that once thes adequate arrangements for , verification' .had been established, the United States would remove its naval quarantine and give assurances against an inva- sion 'of Cuba. The Cuban regime refused to permit adequate arrangements for international inspection and continuing safeguards against the reintroduction of offensive weapons. Therefore, the U.S. has given no assurances against an invasion of Cuba. It satisfied itself by other means that the offensive weapons were withdrawn from Cuba and maintains a surveillance against the reintroduction of such weapons. Industry, Computer Demand Math Not Yet Developed Mathematics and the computer Also requiring extensions of is used by a local board when have permitted the solution of knowledge is the field of probis considering the granting of industrial problems with tremen- ability and statistics which inas it such methods of itations and other pertinent formation define the term Page Three abo-diti- on of slavery in those parts of the world where it still exists. In the summer of 1963, however, President Kennedy submitted the Supplementary Slavery Convention to the Senate with a request for advice and consent to United States accession. The Supplementary Convention was referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which held hearings in February, March and September 1967. The Committee has not yet taken definitive action. Regarding your query about the entrance into the United States of officals of the Russian Orthodox Church, we can assure you that affiliation with the Russian Orthodox Church has not been a ground for exclusion from the United States of any Russian who qualifies under the procedure applicable to Russian nationals in general. Resist Bargains In Insecticides Ladies, if a door to door peddler rings your bell and offers to sell you the insecticide para-thioat a bargain rate, resist the bargain. Parathion is a poison so deadly one pinch of it, if swallowed, can kill. Insecticides, warns the Health Department, should be bought in Could you answer a couple of questions for me? Why hasnt the United States signed the Slavery Convention? Does the United States still forbid officials or the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia to enter the United States? Thank you. legitimate stores where products R.R. are labeled as to content. No matter where purchased, Irvington, N. J. V Wl AOI they must be kept out of the to reach of children. The United States is a party n - Set Hamvention Carroll Soper, state RACES officer and secretary of the Utah Amateur Radio Club, announces the Hamvention for 1968 will be held Saturday, Feb. 17 at the Utah Technical College, Provo, Utah. All radio amateurs aqd their wives are invited to attend. The event is sponsored by the Utah Council of Amateur Radio Clubs, consisting of the officers of all amateur radio groups in the state. Dennis, .Utley, president and convention chairman, said that the program will be of a social as well as a technical nature, and will be of interest to all interested in citizens band and amateur radio. Those attending will have an emergency to learn more about the amateurs role in Civil Defense and emergency communications. Also included in the program are special interest group meetings with timely presentations of interest to all amateur radio operators. A fine ladies program is planned, including a jewelry demonstra-toi- n and a presentation of home decorating and furnishings. Main speaker for the one day affair will be Carl- Smith of Denver, Radio Rocky Mountain Division Director for the American Radio Relay League. Registration will begin at 9:00 a.m. and the program will conclude at 5:00 p.m. - dous economic significance to all of us. Industry and its operations and management researchers are now asking mathematicians and engineers for the solution to still more complex operational problems and the answers are not coming back. The reason is that the required mathematics does not exist. In the paper by Franklin P. Frederick and Monte G. Smith of Bonner and Moore Associates of Houston, demands of electronic computers upon mathematics are traced. In the 1940s and early 1950s much of mathematical theory was immediately applicable, requiring little or no extension to theory. But computers have so steadily gobbled up existing theory that operations researchers and management scientists find themselves with sophisticated computers which hunger for a sophisticated mathematics that does not always exist. Most recent theoretical developments are being applied immediately to industrial problems whose solutions depend upon combinatorial mathematics, one branch of the science that deals with arrangements, operations and selections. Linear programming, dynamic programming, netprogramming, work and graph theory and optimum control theory are all examples of combinatorial non-line- ar cludes Monte Carlo methods, a basian theory, queing theory, information theory, decision and value theory, and the theory of stocastic processes. Tantalizing unsolved combinatorial problems include the famous traveling salesman problem involving a tour of cities, minimzing the total 20-5- 0 distance traveled. Similar to this problem is setting up orders for a single machine to minimize a total amount of changeover time between orders. Problems in the area are still largely unsolved. These are problems of minimizing inventory changeover time and meeting delivering dates of all orders. Absolute minimizing overall cost of operations is a combination of all such aims, a complex blend of goals. Because requisite theory is lagging, operations researchers are going more aiid more to mathematical models which are used to simulate operations. But this is basically trial and error. The authors believe that mathematics for the solution of some difficult combinatorial problem will be developed in the next 10 years. The increasing use of comput- ers in universities for information systems and educational purposes should help reduce the lag time normally required for idustry to convey its problems to the academicians. |