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Show Page Friday, March TIIE UTAH STATESMAN .4 7. 1958 v Reports From Washington 4 Hoover Commission Progress Many letters I receive ask why Congress isnt doing anything about enacting the recommendations of the Hoover Commission. Actually, we have done a great deal as has the Executive Branch but the public seems to know little about it. So here is the latest box score on theu 497 recommendations: 210 Accepted wholly Accepted partially ...... 173 Total Accepted 383 It wa sto have been the temporary Acting Director Harold S. famous True Life Adventure stone Crane into and Jay R. Udy will rep- nature movies is national honothe the ITO, stepping International Trade Organization, resent Utah and the department rary chairman for this event. which contained a long and intri- o ffish and game during the forthMain goal of the week long cate list of dos and donts for coming North American Wildlife campaign in Utah, it was said, member countries This organization was found to contain a number of questionable features and after long and painstaking hearings by the Senate Finance Committee, it was abandoned. The OTC (Organization of Trade Cooperation) has been proposed as a substitute for the now defunct ITO. It is much simpler, but its critics point to the fact that it is a substitute, and that is adopion would be antamount to of congressional GATT. The State Department has consistently refused to send GATT and its many intricacies to Congress for study and possible ratification. An analysis of the pros and cont of GATT would require a large volume. Whether it should be continued and strengthened, abandoned or patched up, will be decided when all the facts are in and the votes counted. Opposition to GATT is considerably more vocal than it has been in the past, and many small American enterprisers who have been injured as a result of excessive imports following drastic tariff cuts are organized and for the first time present a solid front. One of the weaknesses in GATT is that it is not truly reciprocal some industries have had one tariff cut after another while tariff rates on other products have been kept high literally for decades waiting for the time a proper arrangement could be worked out. Another problem is the possibility that the United States, with but one vote in GATT, might have its international policies dictated of lesser by a countries. The State Department has denied this vehemently, but it remains a very real problem. These are but a few of the arguments that must be met if GATT is to survive and the Trade Agreements Program perpetuated. This is not the year for generalities or broad claims that lack support from either side. The need for peace, fear of communism, loss of foreign trade, these are the broad generalities that must be made more specific. - 79 Not accepted Decisions pending TOTAL ; 35 497 An acceptance of 383 out of the total of 497 recommendations gives us a batting average of 77 per cent. A number of Hoover Commission recommendations are still under study in Congressional Committees. Among these are my bill to abolish the outmoddd postal savings system, and the bill which I setting up an accrued expenditure accounting system for the federal government. The latter bill has passed the Senate and is now awaiting action in the House. ed THE MILDER BOURBON Forest Highways Bill Last week I a bill with Senator Barrett which would increase the funds for forest highThis is particuways by for Utah, because important larly these funds will be needed for improvement of State Highway 44 from Vernal to Flaming Gorge and State Highway 150 between Kansas and Evanston. one-thir- IF YOU CAN FIND A BETTER B0URB0N...BUY IT! 6 Yrs. Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 86 Proof CAwienl Age list. Co., Frankfort, Ky. d. Post Office Outlook Improves For more than a year, I have been attempting to get the Post Office to do something about the extremely overcrowded conditions at two Utah post offices Provo and Ogden. In both cases the Postmaster General agreed that the situation was serious, but was unable to get funds for more than minor alterations. Now that the President has announced his new program for post office modernization and improvement we have real hope, for the first, time, of getting new post offices for these two cities. The Post Office in Provo was actually too small when it was when it built, back in 1938 mail handled for only 15,500 persons. Today it serves a population of 36,000. Postal receipts in Provo have increased from $73,000 in 1938 to about $350,000 today! Yet there has been no increase in building space. The situation in Ogden is just about as bad. When the Ogden Federal Building was built, the Post Office here handled about 2 million pieces of mail a year. Now its almost 20 million. ' Of course, there are still a number of hurdles. Congress must act first; then comes the problem of getting these two cities a high priority on the list of urgently needed post offices. I am confident that we will be successful. Reciprocal Trade The Senate soon will take up the reciprocal trade agreements program, often referred to. as GATT (General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade). This legislation is important to the West, since it may have a great influence on a number of our important industries, including mining, wool, steel, and cattle. In answer to a number of questions I have received about this program, here are some background facts: GATT is an international agreement for lowering of trade barriers between countries. The United States is a member in fact was the sponsoring country in 1947 when it was first agreed to. ratification supra-organizatio- n Wallace F. Bennett do you know THE FACTS OF WIFE It's time you did! Last yter chimed the Bra ef 850000 AMrlcamt WOO at weir thus lost their lira walk liuly beet ate they dldat toair fba Mi ad Bft aback , 800,000 Aaarleaaa are alfvt today 2-- ng - state-own- ed -- 1958-19- mid-Ap- about concert aacr. Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. will be to better acquaint people with the important stake they Meetings are scheduled for hoi in lands which are held in March 5 for this 23rd Confer- trust for them by the various ence, which is considered one of governmental agencies. the most important gatherings of This program should be of conservationists held each year. special interest to Utahns, it was pointed out, since sime 70 percent Atending and taking part in of the land areas of the Beehive-Statthe three day program will be are held in such trust. natural resource administrators, Pubic lands play a vital roal fish and game technicians, sportsliving men and outdoor writers from the in supplying the every-da- y needs of Watersheads our people. United States, Canada, Alaska are th life blood of many of the and Mixico. western states, and also, our vast The following is quoted from holdings of public lands include a lecture given at the Confersome of the finest outdoor recence if the Conservation of reation and scenic areas in the Natural Resources, 1908, by Theo- nation.; areas which provide our dore Roosevelt. hunting and fishing and areas that tell the historical developWe have become rich because ment of this land of ours, of the lavish use of our natural hto obtain the use and enjoyment resources and we have just reason form this great public estitate, it to be proud of our growth. But was stid that each person owes the time has come to inquire it to himself to make certain that seriously what will happen when it is carefully protected. our forests are gone, when the Only in this way can we hope coal, the iron, the oil, and the to prepetutate for future generagas are exhausted, when the soil tions the that we ourhas been further impoverished selves havepleasures come to know and enand washed into the streams, joy so much, and only in this way polluting the rivers denuding the can we continue to meet the ever fields, and obstructing navagation. demands for recreation These questions do not relate increasing us put upon by our growing only to the next generation. It nation. is time for us now as a nation to A beaver heleased in the Mill exercise the same reasonable Creek, Cache County, area during foresight in dealing with our September was cought 30 miles great natural resources that away in the Logan River by a would be shown by any prudent licensed trapper some 111 days man is conserving and wisely later. using the property which contains The animal had been trapped, the assurance of well-beifor itakked and planted into Mill himself and his children. Creek stuy area by the departSuperintendents of Utahs 12 ment of fish and game. Purpose of fish hatcheries met these plants in this and three early last week in a two day ses- other drainages is primarily to sion with other division personnel determine emmects of beaver at department of fish and game upon stream flow. headquarters. vxSpokesmen said it is a well esPurpose of the meetings, de- tablished fact that beaver do partment spokesmen said, was to travey, sometimes for long disdiscuss and correlate hatchery tances. However, for the puryose operating procedures for the of the study it is hoped that the coming year as they may relate to other beaver in the four planted the state fisheries program. areas will choose to stay closer Among items listed on the to home. agenda for consideration of the The states project to vegetate group of fish culturalists was the lands is continuing in the range determination of the egg requireMillard ar a, the departments for the year. ment of County fish and game noted. Other items discussed were possible future imporvements and Approximately 800 pounds of expansion of the state hatchery browse and gross seed hace been system, fish diseases and treat- sown inareas that have been ments and the use and results of cleared of juniper and pinyon modem dry fish feeds. trees. District game managers rePurpose of the project isto incently met at department of fish and game offices in Salt Lake City crease range carrying capacity to schedule the spring activaties in critical game fintering areas. The areas of heavy pinyon-junip- er program of the state. rides were set for stands do not supply sufRange survey all big gabe herd wintering areas. ficient forage in themselves and in Now under way, these rides will turn preclude growth of mohe continue into as game necessary and palatable feeds. herd use of the available forage xAfter an area is cleared of trees on these ranges is examined and through the use of both cable and tabulated. hula dozer, it is reseeded to Discussions were held covering plants and grasses that will susmanagement programs for game tain greater numbers of animals. animals and game birds throughThe department noted that this out the state, along with the reproject is being carried forward lated problems in each area. to date on a limited and experiManagers from each of the six districts are in direct charge of mental scale. Pilot plantings have Inicated success in the work, game resources in each area. which will be carried forward Plans for Utahs annual the in future to the extent availaof National Wildlife Week were announced today by ble monies will permit. spokesmen for the Utah Wildlife The work is being done as a Federation, state sponsoring or- federal aid program under which ganization for the Week. the state is returned three-fourtSportsmans organizations, civic An expehiment, eslgned to reclubs and youth groups will take educational duce the winter loss of trout part in the March campaign, which this year will through suffocation, is contining stress the need for providing at Navajo Lake, the Utah Department of Fish and Game said, bettercare of our public lands. Walt Disney, maker of the of each dollar expended. eoedcf 59 ril ob-sedve- nce - Mr Men i Mm, They bar that a health ehetp to wee c year la tbabaat Bwnfr net agatat caaear. 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