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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1968 Page Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal Newt Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake Gty as second class matter August 23, 1923 under the act of March 8, 1879 711 South West Temple Telephone 364-846- 4 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher Williams for Senator Campaign Moves in to Southern Utah candidate J. D. Williams brought his America is worth saving campaign into owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, or corporation" GRAPEVINE jaction V A proposal to place Utah colleges and universities under one Utah 'Natives1 Take Scenery for single governing board cleared a major hurdle this week when Utah Attorney General Phil L. Hansen ruled the creation of such a board would not violate Granted out-of-sta- J. D. Williams Our goals must be streets safe enough for any citizen day or night in America and equality of opportunity for decent jobs and housing every where in the United States. Turning to economic issues, he spoke of a crying need to balance the federal budget as a necessary first step to fighting inflation. We are paying twice for our profligacy, once in taxes and twice in the four to five percent price increases that hit us annually. The dollar' is worth saving at home and abroad and it can be saved by belt tightening now. It is ironic to Utahns tliat their state, still thought to be a vast desert by many eastern Americans, lias 10 Spring Mail Requests boating state parks, and 15 where swimming is permitted. Travel Council Water skiing, rapidly gaining in popularity with Utahns, Stagger A tidal wave of mail inquiries i sa chief attraction at nearly half the state parks in the engulfed the Utah Travel Coun- Utah system. Sixteen of the state parks are historic in nature, eight are geologic attractions, 21 parks have camping facilities, 24 are scenic and seven have museums. Only seven of the 35 parks are undeveloped, a situation to be remedied as the Utah Park & Recreation Commission budget expands. Finally, Utah is liberally sprinkled widi scenic areas tliat, if they were to be located in nearly any other state, probably would have been included in the state or national park systems. Such areas include the San llafael Swell in Central Utah, or Fisher Towers, Valley of the Gods, Muley Point and Rehind the Rocks, all in southeastern Utah, or the Escalante canyons of southern Utah. i Let's All Get in Shape Vice President Humphrey recently cited facts and figures which should send every, American running to the nearest sports club of YMCA, or at least jolt him out of his easy chair in front of his television set. Speaking to the new Presidents Council of Physical Fitness and Sports, of which he is chairman, "Mr. Humph- LEASSD U. S. Senate Southern Utah Wednesday. The occasion was a town and gown "This publication meeting in Cedar City sponsored Number 50 by the CSU Young Democrats. Volume 47 Williams told his audience that the country is now experiencing the severest test of its basic principles and ideals since the Civil War. The principles which he thought were particularly in jeepardy included majority rule (threatened by student riots at seme from universities), freedom of (Continued Page One) speech to change laws not to te break them, commitment to law visitors. smugness by as the first ingredient and It is true that Utah has three national parks, tying of a order civilized society and equalCalifornia for first place in tliat category. Its also true ity of opportunity for Americans that Utah is second in number of national monuments to enjoy those inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit with eight, and fourth in the number of national forests, of happiness. with six. . Turning to the pillaging of American cities, Williams said Then there are two national recreation areas, a na- that a double sword is tional historic site, and a vast, unspoiled area protected needed, one bladeedged being effective under the National Wilderness Act. police action to contain the riots and other being effective soThe state park system likewise has expanded gready cial the action to remove the cause. Daduring the past three years. During the short period of Instead of Chicago Mayor to or main of shoot leys policy time, more than a dozen state parks have been added, shoot to Williams kill, suggested bringing the total to 35. a combination of curfews to Of the state parks, the newest is Wasatch Mountain clear the streets, enough, police paddy wagons to arrest the State Park, just west of Heber City, the 22,000 acre and looters and arsonists and then flagship of the system. Witli an 18 hole championship try and punish them for larceny arson. The police must not golf course, modern visitor center, electrical, sewage and and looting and burning nor water system, it ranks as one of the most modern in the tolerate act as judge, jury and execuwestern states. tioner on the spot, he said. is not th-e- cil during the month of April and the early days of May, overwhelming a mailroom staff which had previously been enlarged for such an occasion. April inquiries totaled 41,547, a 39.3 percent increase over April, 1967. Visitors to Council Hall, the agencys Capitol Hill headquarters, increased 70 percent, from 978 in April, 1967, to 1,672 for the past April. The months of April and May are the two busiest for the travel council in terms of mail inquiries, according to director John David Rose. May usually is the busier of the two months, with the incoming mail reaching a crest about May 15. That 1968 interest in Utah has dramatically Increased over past years is shown in the comparison of current figures with ihose of 1967, Rose explained. Aprils mail requests for travel literature and information was nearly a third more than the peak month of May, 1967, when a heavy 33,209 inquiries weie received. Hardly had the travel council announced a one-da- y record for mail inquiries 4,969 on April 22 to the press when it was broken five days later by a mail delivery of 5,903 requests. Dur ing the April 29-Ma- y transitional week of 3, the travel coun- cil had opened 15,594 pieces of mail, itself a record, with no relief in sight. Rose said the travel council had anticipated a heavy spring mail, but nothing like what is Weve added being received. several volunteer workers, Rose explained, but we dont seem to have near enough help. Some half dozen of the volunteers are on welfare rolls, and donate their time at the rate of one hour for each dollar they receive of state assistance. Another dozen volunteers, secretarial students at the Utah Technical College, began working two hour shifts between classes. The director lauded the volunteer programs, but in the throes of the current mail crush, asked his staff to seek elsewhere for additional mailroom volunteers. Several business colleges indicated they would supply volunteers. Meanwhile, of necessity, a portion of the mail is being handled by local firms under contract to the travel council. Rcse attributed the current mail crush in part to the states recent Invite a Friend to Utah campaign, and concluded, as hectic as the mail crush may be, we like it. It means that Utah citizens have really worked hard at this program, and that our advertising is paying off well. the state constitution. The opinion was requested by Peter W. Billings, chairman of the Utah Coordinating Council of Higher Education which is currently studying the feasibility of such streamlining legislation. If adopted the plan would place the government and control of the various institutions under a single governing board. A Chicago urban designer was approved this week by the Salt Lake City Commission to make plans for a $1.5 million project of revitaliznig the downtown area of Salt Lake City! The firm of Barton Aschman Associates, Inc., was unanimously approved by the commission to prepare preliminary plans for Main Street to Fourth South and on Third South from Main to State. George W. Doxey this week was named chairman of the Salt Lake County Planning Commission. He succeeds Truman Clawson. The group chooses a new chairman each year, according to Douglas Campbell, director of the County Planning Department. Plans for widening 33rd South from 2700 East to the proposed Belt Route were aired at a public hearing this week in City Commission chambers. The hearing was conducted by Blaine J. Kay, Utah State Department of Highways engineer. Travel expenses of $3,640 to send 12 Salt Lake County officials and assistants to the same five day San Francisco conven- tion authorized by the county commission were paid by the county auditor but stamped as without approval by his office. The federal government is expected to pay 95 per cent of an estimated $300,000 which will be required to clear the leg of Interstate Highway 80 above Echo Junction. The highway was blocked by a massive rock slide Sunday. east-boun- d Donald A. Berryman, son of. Archie Berryman of 1633 Indiana Ave., has been promoted to rey reported thta: master sergeant in the U.S. Air 1 of 2 American adults is acevery Force. overweight, to estimates the Sgt. Berryman is first sergeant American Medical Assn. ; cording by of the 343rd Consolidated Air50 per cent of Americas college students young craft Maintenance Squadron at men and women in their late teens or early twenties fail Duluth International Airport. He a member of the Aerospace to meet accepted physical fitness standards; and To us, Mr. Humphreys request makes excellent isDefense Command. He is a 1952 The average American youngster spends 10 hours sense. America has billion its invested in nearly $100 graduate of East High School. watching TV for every hour he spends in supervised sports of physical activity. As a way of getting Americans of all ages to be more active and fit, the Vice President has suggested that we convert our schools into neighborhood recreation centers. Specifically, he is asking all communities to keep open their school sports facilities the gymnasiums, swimming pools, tennis courts, tracks and playing fields this summer. schools, yet most communities operate them at capacity only 8 hours a day, 180 days a year. Communities which already employ the approach recommended by the Vice President report that it costs only a few dollars per capita to cover the cost of staff, equipment, maintenance and other operating expenses. Thats cheap compared to the cost of duplicating the trained leadership and extensive facilities which schools employ only part time. Army Captain Francis Hickman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Hickman, 3006 So. 3380 East, recently completed a Vetnamese course at the Defense Language Institutes Branch at Ft. Bliss, Texas. During the eight week course he received instruction in the Vietnamese language, culture, and history. |