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Show Pace X THE UTAH STATESMAN Friday, Aufuat 1, 1958 Millions More for Ufah Schools By Rep. William A. Dawson , During the remainder of the current Congres- sional session, I am focusing my efforts on obtaining House approval of a measure that will in all prob- ability mean millions of dollars in additional revenue for Utahs schools. The bill would permit the state to select valuable federal mineral lands to replace school lands lost to the federal government through- the creation of federal reservations such as national and Now the State is restricted to lands to place these lost school 'choosing W. non-miner- al that when oil, gas, coal, etc. are discovered on school lands our schools get a set percentage of their value. LARGE AMOUNT It is estimated that the federal government owes the state more than half a million acres of land. This represents school lands that have been absorbed by Indian reservations, national forests and national parks and monuments. Passage of the legislation I am sponsoring this session will oermit the state te ml. this debt by WIuAle foril shale, coal or other minerals instead of waste, non mineral lands. After more than 60 years of waiting. Utahs public schools will begin receiving the revenue Congress promised them when it granted statehood, takingWs The approval of this legislation will be the final NEAR RECORD U.8. WHEAT CROP A mountain of new-crowheat from niinois and Missouri starts step in my fight to obtain for Utahs public schools to journey Europe. the revenue from the lands given to them when Utah became a state. Congress at that time deeded h of the public domain to the state with the proviso that all revenue from rents, royalties and sales should be used for the support of public schools. Failure of the government to survey the state pro- By Henry Aldous Dixon in this period was the highest on record. vented Utah from taking over these lands and getting While having a brief luncheon conference Thurs-thl- e revenue from them. This defect is rapidly0n dav rf. was corrected by a greatly accelerated survey n fourteen pertinent facts on the nations farm program. perecent higher than in 1956, ana the 'highest since UTAH FORTUNATE picture that further convinced me that the farmer 1951 during the Korean War. And this average may The delay in surveying school lands was fortunate occupies the best economic that he has well set a new record in 1958. today position for Utah. Other western states obtained their school enjoyed in recent years. 3. Although Ithe e squeeze still exists lands in a hurry and not realizing their mineral value 1. Realized net income of farm operators in the as a basic problem, spiraling inflation has been almost --sold them off and spent the proceeds. Later when first half of 1958 was at an annual rate of approxi-minfera- ls halted. During the period from 1940 to 1952, the were discovered on these school lands it mately $13.3 bfflion-- 22 percent higher than in the index of prices paid by farmers, including interest, was too late for schools to benefit This will not be first half of 1957. The increase froin a year earlier taxes and wage rates, increased more than 100 perthe case in Utah. .The Utah legislature long ago re-- was the greatest since the end of World War II when cent. From January 1953 to June 1958, this index served all mineral rights in school lands. This means price controls were eliminated. Gross farm income rose only 7 percent. 4. Farm assets are at an e bilhigh-$1- 88 lion as of January 1, 1958. 5. Farmers have less (than $11 in debts for each $100 of assets. In 1940, the ration was $19 for each p one-nint- NATION: Farm Outlook is Excellent cost-pric- all-tim- : Mins' Statement on Education Senator Arthur V. Watkins , this week , issued the following statement concerning Secretary Folsoms statement on educational legislation. I believe that parents, school teachers and administrators should pay careful heed to Secretary Folsoms remarks of Sunday relative to educational legislation. During the next few days and weeks it is evident that the House will consider a general education bill; depending on that action Senate action may follow. Last Fall when the Russian sputnik satellite created a furor in America, it caused many to reassess our educational goals, our teachers and school administrators. They came in for much criticism, a great deal of it totally unwarranted I believe. However, discussions of improvements in education are generally healthy and meaningful. Since then, despite scores of bills introduced on the subject, this Session of Congress has witnessed very little by way of new educational legislation. DEFENSE vs. STUDIES President Eisenhower in his State of the Union message to us last January made a particular point of this: That our military defense and security genuinely require men and women trained in scientific studies, as well as men trained in our Federally-sponsore- d military service academies such as West Point, Annapolis and now the Air Force in Colorado. This is a point that requires careful consideration. Warfare now depends as much or even more upon science and scientists as upon military men and military weapons. WORLD PEACE Thus purely in the interests of national survival and world peace the Federal Government has a legitimate reason to fully consider programs providing financial and other aid to asure that young men and women can receive scientific and e train-m- g in higher education. Others have also stressed the idea that thousands f our youth, able though they may be scholastically, have been unable to continue in college or because they lacked the financial means university to do so. Their talents for the future thus have been blunted and a national loss of ability must seemingly follow. alHed-derens- PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE Meanwhile, we must be aware that despite the public acceptance now of other satellite developments, almost as a part of the routine Russian education as a daily force continues if anything more spectacularly. And in the Soviet Union, we know, toe State is the sponsoring and financial agent that makes it possible to all satisfactory students to news-of-the-da- y, continue studies dictated by national Communistic $100. Owner equities rose 7 percent during 1957 to a peak of $168.4 billion. 7. Farm ownership is also at a record high. Two of out every three farms are free of mortgage debt 8. The postwar downtrend in prices which started in 1951 has been stopped. Prices received by farmers in the first half of 1958 were 8 percent above a year ago and 10 percent above two years ago. 9. The family farm continues to dominate agriculture. Ninety-si- x perecent of our farms and ranches are family operations, about the same percentage 30 6. as years ago. Farm exports in fiscal 1957 set a new record of $4.7 billion--68 percent higher than in fiscal 1953 and remained high in fiscal 1958. II 'Fbe surplus production of American farms is being made available for hungry people at home and abroad. 12. The build-u- p of surpluses has been reversed. Government investment in farm ducts owned and under loan has surplusabout prodropped in the past year and a half . 13. The inventory value of livestock on farms for January 1, 1958, was $14.2 billion-high- er by $3 billion than a year ago. 14. The level of living on farms is the highest in 'history, based on the percentage of farms with electricity, telephones, automobiles, and the purchasing power of the average value of farm products sold or traded. 10. one-eigh- th RAILROAD BILL COMPLETED approving slightly different versions of a bill designed to aid the railroads in their critical plight, representatives of the House present and Senate met to compromise the differences. They reached agreement Wednesday and reported that the final bill would authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission to guarantee $500 million in emergency railroad loans to finance capital improvements, equipment and maintenance. Some of the eastern railroads testified in hearings they would be forced into brankruptcy before the year s end un-Ircould financial they aid. The measure furget ther authorizes the ICC to discontinue certain interstate rail service. The bill further reduces the burden of proof imposed on the rail carriers in seeking rate changes in mtra-stat- e rates and brings added agricultural items under ICC regulations. The compromise will also provide the rails with morefieedom in cutting rates to meet competition. The finished bill now returns to the floor of the House and Senate for what is expected to be speedy approval and then will go to the President who is expected to approve it as |