OCR Text |
Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1976 Page Fbur Teens are Invited to Enter Miss USA Pageant Adventure, new friendships, scholarships, and awards are all offered in the Miss Utah Internationale Teen State Finals in association with the Miss Internationale Teen-S A Pageant. Teenagers between the ages of 14 through 18 who have not reaced their 19th birthday on or before December 31, 1977 are invited to enter the Official State Finals in Salt Lake City on June 24, 25 and 26, announced this week by the National Headquarters in Anaheim, California. The primary purpose of the nationwide teen pageant is to recognize and honor the Nation's outstanding teenagers for their Scholastic Achievement, School and Community Leadership through wholesome competition, and to promote patriotism and develop inter- SsaDunte to AnflMrikai . Singular tributes to the land ... the people ... . the . U HONOR . national understanding through participation in the Pageant's Es- say competition and International Education Scholarship Program. QContestants are judge on Scholarship, Leadership, Personality and Appearance. There is no swimsuit competition. All the Finalists are required to delivery a 100 word essay on the Pageants patriotic essay theme, "Our American Heritage of Freedom", the essay winners will receive recognition and cash awards at the State and National Finals. It is the only Teen Pageant that invites Foreign. Exchange Students to participate as an Essay Finalist and the State and National Winners of the Paeants essay competition, How My Year of Living in Amer-ica-Enchanc- My My Learning-Broadene- Life-Increas- ed ed My Hor- d izons, will be honored guests of the Pageants receiving recognition and Cash Awards. Each State Winner received an all expense paid trip to the National Finals in the Washington, D.C. area in August, 1977 where she will spend 5 . fun-fille- days competing with d other contestants from throughout the Nation for Scholarships and Awards. All State Winners will be awarded a nine day spring Foreign Study League, Inc. Travel Study Tour Scholarship to the European Capitals of and ill be the Pageants Official Teen Diplimettes while traveling and studying abroad. Any Teenager interested in entering as a State Finalist in the Miss Internationale Teen- - USA Pageant may write for more information to the National HeadquarLongon-Amsterdam-Par- is ters: Miss Internationale Teen-- U S A AMERICA . ' Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West: You are all dependent one on another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation: be Americans, and be true to yourselves. George Washington Tributes to America, Invocation, Rev. Billy Graham Bicentennial message. President Gerald R. Ford The Land, Telly Savalas The People, The Government, Annette Funicello The Spirit, 0. J. Simpson Distinguished personalities point out torical and educational significance American-style- his-- of . Joseph G. OKeefe As the nations Bicentennial year draws to a close, a retrospective glance at one the seasons most significant patriotic programs might help to preserve and the themes and ideas of the per- formance which contributed to a bright of a more unified America. Throughout the country, the outpour-ing of patriotic fervor on the 200th birth- of the United States reflected solemn . dedication. Dissident voices had described patriotism as dormant or if not dor- mant, anachronistic, pointless and corny, A convincing rebuttal emerged during the Bicentennial tributes. Citizens re- sponded to appropriate leadership and motivation, areas in which the American Historic and Cultural Society believes it played a meaningful role. Hundreds of mayors and dozens of governors complied with the suggestion of the societys Honor America commit- tee to issue proclamations inviting their constituents to join in saluting the na- tions ideals and aspirations. Buoyed by this moral support, the committee staged an extraordinary pro- gram entitled Let Freedom Ring Again in the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., which examined the foundations of patriotic beliefs and found them rooted in a bedrock of faith and respect and unshaken confidence in the Ameri- can future. President and Mrs Ford, and other national figures, coupled with the talents entertainers and singers, contributed to shaping an forgettable July 3 evening of theater which conveyed a purposeful message, often costumed in terms of comedy. The President sounded the keynote for much of the content of Let Freedom Ring Again" with his comment, Laugh-o- f ter and liberty go well together." And he enlarged on this thought, ing The United States is probably the only country on earth that put die suit of happiness right after life and rights of liberty among the God-give- n being.-dahuman every Here we are on the eve of our 200th, the greatest Fourth of July any of us will ever live to see, he continued. We are happy people because we are free people, and while we have our faults and our failures, tonight is not the time to parade them. Rather, lets look to the third century as the century in which freedom finds fulfillment in even greater creativity and individuality. And its pursuit of happiness, the audi ence of some 2,500 heard Bob Hope warn of the many hazards of playing golf with Mr. Ford and the Rev. Billy Graham, because when a storm comes up, the rain doesnt fall on anyone but of other pre-emine- nt add-illumin- ate pur-promi- se you. Digging a quick rib into the economy, Bob said, I ordered a $10 steak and the air conditioning blew it off the plate. Three of my stocks went from the finan-ou- r cial pages into the help wanted columns. After an introduction by Art Linkletter, formal welcome to the program to honor America was extended by J. Willard Mar-riott, chairman of the society since it was founded seven years ago. Pageant Scholarship Foundation National Headquarters, P. 0. Box 2423, Anaheim, California, 92804. In an earlier Bicentennial message, Mr. Marriott had commented, This is certainly a momentous occasion which beckons every citizen to turn his efforts toward appropriately saluting the Founding Fathers and other major figures whose character and wisdom and physical exertions contributed toward establishing the viability of the Republic. On this night he expressed his thanks for the performance of the great Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and his words probably echoed the sentiments of everyone in the theater. In a spiritual vein. Dr. Graham noted there was not an atheist nor an agnostic among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Because they signed that compact, some of these men were captured and hanged, he said; some were stripped of their possessions, some were jailed. And in a prayer, Dr. Graham added: Again we thank Thee for the vision, courage and faith not only of those Americans in 1776, but for those in succeeding generations that sought to eliminate injustice. We thank Thee for those who were willing to die for these freedoms we enjoy tonight on the many battlefields and seas of the world. . . . Give us the supernatural wisdom and courage to face the future and make the dreams, hopes and ideals of those 56 men in Philadelphia 200 years ago find fulfillment for all Americans . . . As the central character of a narrative entitled The Land of America, Telly Savalas philosophized over the coming of the first settlers to North America. Well, I guess right about then, he commented, & Fragmented Petroleum Industry Would Increase Prices Four leading professors of economics and business believe that efforts to fragment the U.S. petroleum industry would increase the price of gasoline, heating oil and other petroleum products. The professors Edward W. North Carolina State Erickson, William A. Johnson, University; George Washington University; Richard B. Mancke, Tufts University; and Edward J. Mitchell, Uniare quoted versity of Michigan in an article in the current edition of Petroleum Today. The responses of the professors are from testimony they gave earlier this year at Congressional hearings on proposed divestiture" legislation which would prevent oil companies from operating in all phases of the petroleum industry. Instead, they would be permitted to operate in only one phase: or transexplorationproduction; or portation; refiningmarketing. Discussing the effect of divesti ture on the prices of petroleum products, the professors said: is no need to chop the oil companies into smaller, less efficient units. Erickson: Divestiture will not As Mancke put it: The key fact deserving emphasimprove the competitive performance of the U.S. petroleum indus- is is that this industry is far less try. But divestiture would increase concentrated than most other the general level of costs at which American manufacturing or mining this competition occurs. industries that contain one or more Johnson: There would have to giant firms. The economic strucbe substantial price increases to tures of the key stages of the oil allow the less efficient members of business are such that the successful exercise of monopoly power is each segment to survive." Mancke: If adopted, divestiture virtually impossible unless the oil is likely to result in higher (rather companies receive direct governthan lower) fuel prices since oil ment assistance." Erickson said: companies will have higher costs The most significant competieliminates because divestiture tors of any one of the major oil and some real integration financing, economies. companies are the other majors. What consumers And that competition is vigorous, Mitchell: would lose in higher prices, no one effective and socially beneficial. It would gain. Vertical divestiture of does Americans a disservice to lead the petroleum industry would be a them to believe that there are some easy panaceas. . .to our energy deadweight loss to society. The professors agree that the policy problems." In another article, Petroleum U.S. petroleum industry is a competitive industry, and hence there Today points out that if the oil companies are required to chop themselves into smaller, singlefunction companies, the new, untried companies would have problems attracting enough investment capital, especially at the exploration and drilling level. Petroleum Today notes that exploration is both risky and expensive because only one exploratory hole out of every 50 drilled in a new field finds commercial deposits of oil and natural gas. The magazine points out that under the present where companies are system able to operate in all phases of the od industry the companies are big enough to average out the higher risk parts of the business, Gam Pledges Constituent Services Senator Jake Gam said this week that he wants to assure the people of his state that, regardless of their political party affiliation, he is a Senator for all of Utah and all Utahns. The STate has just come through a hotly contested Senate race in which the seat changed hands," said Senator Gam. This, of course, means that both Senate seats will be held by Senators from the same political party. I want all Utahns to know that, regardless of their political persusasions, I am here to serve them. During the past two years when a constituent has sought help from one of my a like exploratory drilling, with offices, there has never been s and constituent steady unspectacular earners, inquiry about that such as refining and political preference, nor will there marketing." be as long as I am in office. The Veterans Administration The Utah Senate campaign was sends compensation and pension heated but it need not be devisive checks totaling $8 billion a to' as far as service to the people of some five million recipients. year the State is concerned. |