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Show Friday, March 27, 1959 THE UTAH STATESMAN Page 2 NATION: Congressman in Washington By Henry Aldous Dixon When the Federal Airport Act was considered on the floor of the House last week, I supported the amendment proposed by Rep. James C. Davis of Georgia which would have appropriated $200 million rather than the $297 million requested by the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. My reasons for standing behind the $200 million figure are. General Quesada of the new Federal Aviation Agency stoutly maintains that $200 million is ample, and he is the best authority I know to state, the needs of the Agency. (1) (2) $200 million will take care of runways, con- trol towers and necessary safety factors for air transportation in this jet age. Construction of some of the luxurious terminal buildings can wait without much hurt. The Committee bill called for 80 more employees at $10,000 a year each. Yet the Committee did not ask for a report from the Manpower Commission which it should do under Public Law 801 before enacting such legislation. (3) The Committee is unanimously on record stating that the federal airport construction program is a temporary one and should become entirely a ocal responsibility. This same Committee recommended $97 million more than the Aviation Agency (4) says it needed. The Committee recommendation is alarming at a time when U.S. bonds are going begging, when the country's credit is already impaired by the threat of rampant inflation and by a constantly rising national debt. There has got to be a day of reckoning. What are we going to do when we can't sell government bonds except for exhorbitant interest rates. said thate beRep. William M. Colmer fore talking with the Secretary of the Treasury about 3ome of the nation's financial problems that he was worried about his grandchildren, but after talking with the Secretary he told us, "Now I am worried about myself." What worries me is that many congressmen are now stating openly that since they won the last election by a large majority they consider this a mandate from the people to spend as much as the traffic will bear. At the time Rep. Davis submitted the amendment scaling the appropriation for airports down to the $200 million figure, it passed by a teller vote of 169 to 154. That showed that the majority on the floor favored the conservative figure, but on the roll call vote (when individual votes of congressmen are recorded) the amendment lost 214 to 194. The Utah delegation has introduced bills which would assist our public land states in conserving and developing long neglected state park and recreation areas. Our bills would permit the conveyance of public lands to a state for public park purposes without any limitation as to acreage. At the present time a state or other political subdivision may acquire only 640 acres yearly. This liberalization in the law would be especially beneficial to Utah, which is more than 70 percent federally owned and where most of our potential park and recreation areas are on federal lands and many areas are of large size. As it is now, the Bureau of Land Management has neither the men nor the money to protect the (5) acres of public lands under its jurisdiction from vandalism and dissipation and would probably welcome the transfer of some of this land to state 24 million control. Utah is prepared to take advantage of our "proposed change in the law. Two years ago the State Legislature created a park and recreation commission and just this year approved $1 million for the new commission to continue its activities and to buy federal and other lands for park and recreation puiposes. A trip to the Pentagon with its 17 and one-hamiles of corridors and 32,000 employees can be a harrowing experience for even the most experienced politician who is used to finding his way in and out after three months in Washington and several trips to the Pentagon, has not only found it difficult to work his way through the building but through what he calls their "Red Tape Gobbledygook." He recently compiled a glossary of this "gobbledygook" he has lf encountered at the Pentagon an dsent it home to constituents. You may be interested in some of his definitions: "It's in process" So wrapped up in red tape that the situation is almost hopeless. "We'll look into it" By the time the wheel makes a full turn, we'll assume you'll have forgotten about it, too. "Program" Any assignment that cannot be completed by one phone call. "We are making a survey" We need more time to think of an answer. Have You Made Sure In Case of Attack? you have made plans and preparations for your family's survival in the event of a nuclear attack on your city, you are probably a curiosity of your neighborhood. If you, or others in your block, have made plans to organize rescue and survival efforts on a community or neighborhood basis, you live in a rather remarkable place. But if this country should be subjected to an all-onuclear attack the threat of which is the spur to our tremendous defense effort the ability of neighborhoods to take planned and organized rescue and survival steps probably will determine the fate, of this society. Military retaliation will be pointless if the people such action is designed to protect are unable to carry out the self-hel-p steps necessary to If ut survive. Isolated community attack and resist conquest or destruction. For such a plan to be effective, there must be trained men, or units, in every locality who know what to do, and which will constitute the nucleus of the total organization, made up of every survivor, which must function purposefully and with direction in rescue and recovery efforts. The solution of how to survive is not simple ,or easy. It involves many elements. One of these a basic one is manpower. Who will be trained and organized to take the lead and to give direction to civilian efforts to survive? Just you, Just you. and-organize- . DOWN AROUND BARDSTOWN, Kentucky. April (D-Mis- s.) TRUE LIMESTONE BOURBON THE UTAH STATESMAN A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government HARRY B. MILLER, Publisher H. V. 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