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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1976 Page Five Moss Addresses Box Elder sqs TTDnnirdl (Ceirnttumry KD&wnns Farmers government reflect patriotic spirit of 1976 Senator Frank E. Moss told a gathering of members of the Farmers Union that farming today is one of the biggest business gambles in the country due, in major part, to the shakey and wavering economy. Moss met with some 50 members of the organization in the Community Center in Brigham City and Art Linkletter Another Century, Bob Hope told them that farmers always seem to suffer the most during times of economic "boom and bust." "It doesnt seem to matter, he noted, "whether the country's economy is on the rise or taking another nosedive. If the economic trend improves, farmers never seem to benefit quite as much, proportionately, as other business; and when the economy slides, farmers are usually the first to suffer the impact." He also emphasized his position on balancing the budget and said he places first priority on getting people back to work. If the unemployment rate were less than five percent, our budget would be balanced," he said. The federal bureauracy must do much more to support the free enterprize system so jobs can come fromthe private sector through expanding small business. The federal government should only be the employer of last resort; and then only through public works programs designed to improve and benefit local municipalities, he said. In responding to questions from the audience. Senator Moss cited the growing bureaucracy, the need for welfare programs to be administered locally, and predicted a favorable economic impact on the immediate Box Elder County area THE MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR, Oakley S. Evans, President George Kennedy is when the land first felt the promise of what it might some day be. Those brawny, restless pioneers like Daniel Boone changed the American wilderness into an American frontier that stretched from the Mississippi River across the Great Plains clear to the Rocky Mountains. The land of America, he noted. Always the hope and the promise. And yet in 1890, some census taker counted heads as best he could and declared there was no more free land no more frontier. That was in 1890, mind you, nearly a hundred years ago. And yet, today, there is still plenty of wilderness left Beautiful, untouched wilderness. Young hearts, young leaves, flowers, animals, the winds and the streams all rejoicing together. Thats how John Muir described it Sometimes, though, when we feel the beat of too many axes or the flow stilled in too many rivers, we worry and we wonder." In conclusion, Savalas said: God must have meant this land to be the last one found because I think its His most beautiful work, or there wouldnt be so many words written about it, or the poems and songs. America is our home. The place we remember when so lets take care we are far away . of each other . . always and always." O. J. Simpson , the swift and elusive football star, tried to make the American spirit hold still for scrutiny. No two of you would describe the American spirit the same way, yet most of you hold the conviction it must be preserved at all cost," he observed. The same spirit that inspired the men the very at Lexington and Concord ... ... ... same spirit that drove the likes of Henry Ford and the Wright brothers. Liberty, thats the spirit of America," Simpson declaimed . . . So then, to everybody a chance to everybody re- of their birth, an opportunity to everybody the right to live, to work, to be themselves and to become whatever vision and their liberty can combine to make them. This is the spirit of America. Annette Funicello voiced a reminder that we rest upon government by the of the governed. And our politi- cal order is the expression of a patriotic idea which welds together all the ele-ments of our national energy promoting individual initiative," said the Walt Dis- Studio star. In his introduction to the We, .the People" segment, Art Linkletter pointed out that the Declaration of Independence only twelve words along when the word people" appears. This provided a vehicle for George Kennedy, the Blue Knight celebrity, to delineate the extraordinary events of July 4, 1776, in these words: . . . on that quiet summer day, Americans along that shining seaboard made a change; they changed from being colonials, scorned subjects of a to we, the people, reliant on our- selves and liege to none. And expounding on this idea, Kennedy continued: God knows we are not faultless. God knows we fell so far from that more per-feet union we, the people, sought, it took the blood of brothers to restore us. American perfection, or as close to it as anyone can ever come, is in the State to Seek Higher Assessments From Banks W. Smoot Brimhall, commissioner of financial institutions, told a group of state bank supervisors this week that increased costs brought on by inflation will force the state Department of Financial Institutions to seek higher asess-menfrom banks, savings and loan associations and other organizations it regulates. Brimhall said that his department is operating at a deficit and will have to ask the Legislature to increase the assessments. Mr. Brimhall was a panelist in the opening session of the District Dive meeting of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. The meeting, attended by representatives from several western states was held at the Hotel Utah. He explained that the funds for the operation of the department come from direct assessments against the various financial organizations against the various finan ts - seeking of our imperfections and the tending to them. Our names are fixed to that, and they are good names. Good names tested in the grand retorts of time and circum-gardlestance." And the night shall be filled with music," Longfellow wrote, and his fan-the- ir tasy was converted to reality on July 3, 1976. The music was memorable, the entertainment was festive and thoughtful and both elements contributed toward adding new relevance and meaningful-conseness to patriotism, The accomplishments of the society since its founding were recapitulated by Vice Chairman Leonard H. Marks. In a tribute to Mr. Marriott, the speaker ac-nclaimed the charter chairman as a patri-ot of 1976 a man in whom the fires of loyalty to country bum brightly. Mr. Marks also voiced thanks to all who con-i- s tributed to the program. In addition, he sounded a salute to John Warner, head of the nations Bicentennial celebration. With the Bicentennial milestone passed, the directors of the program to Honor America turned their thoughts toward new horizons; Recalling that the infant United States experienced rough sailing interval between the Dec-thcin the laration of Independence and the ratifi-crow- n, cation of the Constitution, the leadership decided to focus continuing efforts on the historical and educational significance of those years by disseminating informa- tion on American art, music, history and culture for the ensuing thirteen years. ss nt ey - . 13-ye- ar gram. "We need consolidation and Internal consistency in the present Administrtion where the bureaucracy is growing like topsy," he said. "Every time we turn around, another agency is added by the Executive branch. There is already tremendous overlap of bureaus and agencies and this tactic takes away appropriated funds from the end recipients." He agreed that there should be federal support for welfare program but emphasized that such programs should be administered at the local level. "Absentee administrtion of programs affecting people's lives is bad, he said. y, Mr. OKeefe is a Washington editor and feature writer. . Moss also expressed his belief that, with the coming of the new space shuttle program at Thiokol west of Brigham City, the general economy and employment index of Box Elder County and environs would be better stabilized. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Senator Moss said he felt that the new at Thiokol would be whole family of mankind by sharing ". . .aprogram tremendous boost to the with those who have so little." economy and, jobs for the entire Known around the world for its state but, specifically, for northern feeding and self-hel- p programs, Utah." CARE, the international relief and development agency, depends on the continuing generosity of Americans and Canadians to assist the Children Need More Than Love To Stay Alive cial organizations it regulates. The This holiday season millions of assessments are based on the size children need more than love if of the institutions and on services they are to stay alive. Half of all renedered to the firms by the the worlds children lack the proper nourishment they need to live and department. grow. They die each day by uncosts of counted thousands in the alleys and the operating Currently, the department exceed the assess- byways of Asia, Africa and Latin ment income, Brimhall noted. Since America. For these children, unlike the department depends soley on most of our own who enjoy the the assessment funds and receives abundance and sharing of good no money from the states general things, there is no holiday season. fund, the deficit operation has Its merely another day in the lives of the nalnourished children resulted. another day, with little overseas food or hope", Miss Molly Fannin, The departments fiscal 1976-7- 7 Western Regional CARE Director, budget totals $541,500. reminded areas residents. William Riley, director of the "As families gather together Nebraska Department of Banking around Thanksgiving and Christand Finance, in the same session mas tables laden with food, it said the momentum of the electron- seems she said, "to appropriate", ic funds transfer system (EFTS) not count our only blessings for our has slowed down pending a study' and but to share fortune, good joys by a federal commission on the our love and abundance with the matter. through expanding space pro- private, nonprofit organization Gold is Exhibit of The Month overseas. Its programs are how as "Gold!" is the current exhibit of varied as the needs of humanity. In the month at the Utah Museum of addition to the more than 16,000,-00- 0 Natural History at the University children that CARE helps feed of Utah. It will be on display in the daily, programs in agricultural demain lobby throughout November. educavelopment, Californias "gold rush" was famtion and nutrition assist needy families to become independent of ous, but Utah's has been more productive, according to museum CARE. of the Holidays officials. The U exhibit describes The blessings of in Utah may be shared in a meaningful the finding the first gold of and the shows type most samples manner by sending found state. in the contributions to CARE, 690 Market usually The museum is open daily during Street, Room 210, San Francisco, November (except Thanksgiving Calif., 94104. Day) from 9:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. food-for-wor- k, le |