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Show A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government iiiiiiiltiiiit-tiii- Vol. 11; No. 27 Salt Lake City, Utah Friday, July 12, 1957 Utah CAP Cadets Win Offv Count; Foreign Lands Trip r Civil Air Patrol training paid off in a big way for two members of the Utah Wing Monday. The pair, Paul Frank Eastman, 18, Tooele, and Parley Hansen, 19, Centerville, were to leave Salt Lake City at 2 p.m. for Switzerland and Canada, re- spectively. The two cadet leaders were picked as outstanding members of the Utah group to participate in the seven year old International Cadet Exchange Program. To Tour Europe The boys will stay in the foreign countries for about one month studying culture and living conditions. They will tour various parts of the countries staying with families of foreign cadets who have come to United States on the same exchange program. Mr. Eastman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Eastman, 35 Glen-woAve., Tooele, says he is looking forward to two special .events on the Swiss agenda. 11r Our schedule calls for moun tain climbing in the Alps and also some glider 'flying training which Im sure Ill enjoy terrifically. he said. . od . . Tackle roblems Dr. Evan A. Iverson, an expert on city and county government, has been hired as full time research director and legislative consultant for the Utah Municipal League and the Utah Association of County Officials. To Meet In Capitol Four other cadets from the Uuited States, accompanied by an Air Force escort officer and a Civil Air Patrol senior escort, will join the Tooele youth in The appointment was announcWashington D.C., foF the trip to ed Monday by Thomas McCoy, Switzerland. executive secretary of the MuniWe will stay in Washington cipal League, and C.A. Grant, four or five days for orientation executive secretary of the County and general breifing on the Officials Assn. countries we are to visit before Dr. Iversons first job will be Mr. Eastman explainleaving, to tackle local government probed. Im just hoping at least one as they relate to highway lems of our group speaks a little Gerprograms in Utah. man. . . I dont, he added. Parley Hansen has been a memDr. Iverson was hired by the ber of the CAP four years and organizations to compile data and houds many important positions draft local legislation concerning His rank is cadet major, he is government and supply technical coftimanding fficer of the Bounti- advisory service concerning local ful Squardron and chairman of government administrative probthe cadet advisory council on lems in Utah. the Wing level Both organizations have rec-r- e He will be one of 25 going to search program for a number Canada from U.S. His group will the need for a better visit the Hudson Bay area, Mon- ognized of .years, Mr. McCoy said. Dr. treal, many state parks and sever- Iverson was hired to more - adeal Royal Air Force installations. quately deal with. the complexiParley is the son of Mr. and ties facing modern 'local gov Mrs. Parley Hansen, 15 S. 400 vemment. East, Centerville. He is a gradDr. Iverson began work Monuate of Davis High School. day. His office was set up in the Newhouse Hotel in the Municipal League and County Officials Assn, headquarters. He was hired following a joint meeting of the boards of directors of both organizations. Dr. Iverson directed the local government survey conducted here between 1955 and 1957. He recently completed a study for the city and county of Los An. - geles. He is a native of Tremonton and graduated from Utah State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Utah. He is the author of sevLocal eral books, including Government in. Utah, County Government in Tennessee. He of County Govis the ernment in California. . . co-aut- hor Ccngmtmofi William A. Dawian, canter, gwldti Utah-ldodelegates te Ike Inter notienal Key Club conventlen areund U.S. Capitol. Accompanying Key Chib ropre ontativec, a high school organisation wore Mr. and Mrs. Km noth Olson, lountlfwl, and Mr, and Mrs. Charles Sessions, Praye, with daoghteSfc he Klwanif-sponier- od Average U.S. Home Buyer Shows Increase in Payment on Home The Federal bought their new, home, WASHINGTON . Reserve Board reports the Last. Years . home buyer also age home buyer last year had an had; a substantially larger . Inannual-incomof $5,040. come than his counterpart in the In General, the purchaser paid immediate postwar period. At around $12,000 for his house that time, only one out of every or about $2,000 more than in three purchesers made an annual 1955. wage of $5,000 or more. Now the Four out of every five home proportion is three out of five. But accompanying rounds of buyers went into mortgage debt to finance their new home, and price increases, have brought by early 1957 their usual debt marketed boosts in the sale prices was $8,500. of houses) the board found. The board 'said that through In the postwar period years, ld War II only one out of every four purmost of the period the housing demand has chases were houses of $10,000 been steady. or mfre. Lately three out of One factor underscoring the every five sales were in that demand was the backlog carried Over from the depression and the war years, it said. The Housing pinch was further Old-Age aggravated by the nations rising population, coupled with an accelerated rate of family formation, the movement to larger better equiped homes, and liberal Salt Lake Washington, D.C. credit terms. now has 16,459 persons In its ,1957 survey of housing, County Social Security benereceiving the board pointed out that about fits under the Old-Aand Survfive per cent of the non-farivors Insurance program, Sen heads of families bought houses Wallace Bennett announced this for their own occupancy last year. week. of these purchases Total monthly payments within were existing houses. And the the county now total $902,714, same number of buyers disposed Sen Bennett said. of another house at the time they The figures were compiled by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as of December aver- - : : post-Wor- . Benefits To Show Gain . ge m Home Furnishers Plan Meet Aug. 3 The seventh annual Rocky Mountain Home Furnishings Market will open in Denver, Aug. 3 and continue through the 5th. The market is the regions largest one and about 1,600 retailers are expected to attend. ; Two-thir- ds New Air Service K To Open July 15 A 'new joint air-trufreight was effective 15, service, July S. L. Sales Increase officials announced Tuesday, by of United Air lines and Consolistore the sales in dated Freightways, operators of .Department endSalt Lake area for the week two of the nations largest transing June 29 were up 6 per cent port systems. Under the arrangeck r Senator .Wallace F. Bennett of Utah examines model of U. S. space satellite which will be launched soon. The "artificial moon" will travel 18,000 miles an hour, and will provide information about conditions beyond earth's atmosphere. over corresponding period a year ago, and for the week ending June 22 they were up 8 per cent. The Aederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, also noted that for the period from Jan. 1 to June 29 sales were up 2 per cent over the same period in 1956. - ment, freight shipments orginat-e- d by United will be flown to the airport city nearest destination then transferred for 'final delivery by Consolidater. Consolidated also will pick up freight in cities without air service for trans shipment by United. 31, 1956. - . Sen. Bennett, who is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which handles. Social Security legislation, said the figure will increase every year for the foreseeable future . The Social Secutity system is now a recognized part of our way of life, Sen Bennett said. The increasing number of persons Old Age and Survivors Insurance focuses attention on the need for preservig the purchasing power of the money these people reveive. This problem, now under study by the Finance Committee, is one of the most important matters now facing our national . re-cei- vig - : |