Show 41 t t b t- jt Virn Thie sa — ‘i — fr i Legal Utah Sunday Febniay S -- -- and "'orks of great writers and thinkers floating is the favorite sport of some 40 million it is estimated and the number of licenses bought by hunters jund fisher- men has doubled hi the last ten years as has the number of campers in national Bowling is the fastest growing indoor This increase in active ‘participation is cutting into the attendance at purely spectator sports such as baseball boxing footbalL For business and investors in business all of these changes have great significance Companies who can keep ahead of shifts in consumer desires and buying are the ones who will make the money But not everyone can John Q Public and so we are all caught in a transition period that apparently one' would had planned and no one could out-gue- ss Long Way To Go - -- JUST AS WE ARE beginning to believe all the talk that the world haa ahrunk that the apiea in the sky make it impossible to find a hiding place down here a big luxury liner manages to “hide” on the open seas The hijacked Santa Maria has showed us that man atill has a long way to go before he is the being he some- times thinks he is future choking to death The last of these certainly is not the least important Salute To Minuteman Who The Jobless Are THIS HAS BEEN an eventful week for US space exploration and missiles testing It has been especially satisfying - for Northern Utah and the folks of UNSKILLED WORKERS are most numerious on the lists of unemployed with semiskilled next highest and almost half of the 45 million out of work according to U S Department of Labor figures for live in six States: New Ohio California York Pennsylvania Thiokol Chemical Corp Ham the chimpanzee came back healthy and happy following a ride down the Atlantic missile range He rode a Redstone rocket 155 miles up and 420 miles long dropped gracefully into the water and later was fished out to shake hands with his veterinarian From the west coast a camera-carryin-g satellite was fired into orbit Samos II weighs two tons and is a forerunner of a US system of watchdog satellites Top secret and photographic equipment is aboard the satellite which circles the earth once every 95 minutes in an orbit that carries it from 300 to 350 miles into space And finally the graceful Minuteman intercontinental missile streaked 4200 miles down the Atlantic range and landed “on target” is a highly successful test of the solid propellant weapon The performance was of course witnessed with elation by officials and workers at Thiokol Here was magnificent compensation Tor their dreams their planning their work Their faith in solid propellants had been justified The advantages of the Minuteman-arimportant and boil down to cost tune mobility The Air Force grateful that the Minuteman passed its first major firing test in spectacular fashion—foresees missile will be the that the new solid-fumost important weapon in Uncle Sam's 5000-mile-an-ho- ur mid-Decem- cut-bac- ks fs coal-mini- super-sensitiv- e -- e el His Observations WHEN REQUESTED recently to explain remedies to our national dangers (of which there seems to be an oversupply) Herbert Hoover said: “There are many reasons for niy not doing that chore I was not elected to that job Mat November But I can make three observations: “First I am sure that the American people earnestly wish for the success of the new Administration It is faced with one of the greatest challenges of our Whole history “Second our country has met and Solved equally great crises in the past 185 : ytkra ' - th i “Third this nation founded in strong will not decline or faH if we remedy the slump in morals with its trail of crime softness and corruption” 'Jr r t V' uJaVJi k"r W V ' “ p J'l v " arsenal Estimated costs per item for the major missiles show the Minuteman advantage: $400000 for each Minuteman $1900000 each for Atlas and Titan and $1100000 for each Polaris We give a hearty salute to Thiokol and its “family” of workers for the role it has played and is playing in the development and production of the Minuteman We are proud also that hundreds of Cache Valley men and women are identified with this premier defense project - White House 111 v : 1 - - 1 n f w n of his presence Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4 ten days after his strange arrive in Washington He had not exaggerated when he said in Springfield: “1 now leave not knowing when or whether ever' I may return” —again the sense of and implication of doom -' i The country lawyer ship had one real ally definable entity bound in his humanity and his THE PUBLIC PULSE at lhe helm ofa careening “That ally was the people' that in-to him by un almost mystics) eith goodness” Mm Thompson believes sitting ' q mr " THE SPECTACULAR SUCCESS of the Minuteman firing at CPe Canaveral brought pride tb the' entire country and especially to Northern Utah where the big first stage 'rocket engine is made We wondered what share Cache VaBey had in the project A call to Don P Christiansen former Logan man who is now manager of public relations for Thiokol Chemical Corporation brought this response: of the em“NEARLY ployes at Thiokol make their homes in Cache County Of the more than 4200 workers 1060 live in the valley about 700 of these in Logan They bring home a payroll that last year totaled more than five and a half milium dollars “In addition several hundred employes of the Air Force construction equipment and operations contractors are also residents of the finest place on earth ' “A large number of Utah State University students and student wives work as engineering aids secretaries clerks range operators Many students make arrangements to work the night or swing shifts and attend school during the day “The attractiveness of the Cache com- munities is considered by Thiokol officials as an asset in aiding prospective technical people from other parts of the country to choose Northern Utah as a future home The availability of good universities is most important for families looking ahead for their children “Utah SUte University since the early establishment of Thiokol operations in Utah has been closely allied to the aerospace industry University officials have been active in supporting the company with economic and professional studies Cooperative research efforts have been quite common and in one case the University had a contract to actually produce a 'rocket age vehicle’ unlike any other ever made for transportation of the giant first stage Minute Man “Each year a number of graduates not onlv in engineering end sciences but also in business and other fields launch their ONE-FOURT- H nt careers at Thiokol --O- - IN DECEMBER 1960 purchases in Utah alone amounted to $1178000 a sizeable portion of this Went to commercial enterprises with their headquarters in Cache County “With the ground breaking in November for a new 30 million dollar Thiokol-Ai- r Force Plant 78 for the production of the Minuteman first stage an entirely new phase of activity is rapidly getting under wav “The initial contracts for 811800000 opened up new jobs for construction and equipment workers and a great number of contracts for earth moving utility systems construction of roads and buildings for office and factory equipment are and will continue to be bid for by local firms The beginning of the training program for operators of the new Wasatch Division has started These people will learn their jobs in the Utah Division and then go into the Wasatch Division without delaying production there with the usual extended train- - ing period As many as be created In the new 78 1600 new jobs will Forte Thiokol-Ai- r v establishment SINCE ITUS is located north of the earlier Thiokol facilities access to and from Cache County will be shorter gad easier particularly with the expected Improvement of a route directly through the mmmtaiM westof Tremonton — the Faust Valley route “Cache Chamber of Commerce Is also encouraging Improvement of an additional route north of Cutler Dim into Box Elder County which would shorten commuting' time for residents in the northern parts nf ' Cache County and Southern Idaho Utah and of the in the management High Wasatch Divisions is Lawrence C Taylor a graduate of Utah State University Mr Taylor manager of contract relations will before 1961 is 'ended 'be responsible for administration of commitments probably averaging more than one million dollars a day “Dr Wynn Fife responsible for the standards laboratory is another USU graduate ’ “AS LONG AGO AS 1947 Thiokol officials were convinced of the feasibility of solid propellants for space travel boosters and intermediate range and intercontinental d ballistic missiles Since then propulsion systems developed and produced by Thiokol have powered many of the nation’s most reliable weapons “Faith in the future of large solid-fuengines led Corporation leaders to commit millions of dollars of corporate funds to solid-fuele- el start construction of the Utah Division - “Success of the Minuteman in a spectacular way at Cape Canaveral has lei many military and space exploration planners to turn with even greater confidence to 'made in Utah’ solid propellent rocket engines Many believe this will be reflected in shortening the time when construction of even larger boosters for this country’s space exploration and may also enlarge the scope of the military related activities “There is a brave new opportunity fnr men and women with the faith and confidence of their pioneer forebears in tW newest of all new ventures” BECAUSE OF THE reliability record of rockets Dr Harold W Ritchey vice president in charge of Thio-kol- ’s rocket operations commented recently in a Saturday Evening Post article “It makes no difference how far they want to shoot or how high they want to fly We can build the engine that will put them there” Dr Ritchey also exoressed confidence that Thiokol could build a solid rocket that would develop pouhds of thrust and put a space platform into orbit solid-propell- 30-to- n PRESIDENT KENNEDY said Fridav the e successful firing of the Air Force Minuteman missile last Wednesday “marks a significant advance in missile technology and in national defense” In a wire to Eugene M Zuckers secretary of thd Air Force the President expressed his congratulations to all those associated with (he Air Force Minuteman program three-stag- - ‘THEN THE DOOM HE had anticipated on leaving Spring-fie- ld struck Again irony! The flamboyant actor who shot him while he was relaxing in Ford’s Theater-alwayunbalanced' and definitely crazed when drunk as he usually was—bad done nothing whateyer for the South He seems to have appeared out of uowwhere having cast himself for a leading ride on the world stage in a melodrama of his own design somehow ' ’f as cheap as it was dreadfuL” J ' ' 4 ’ v 3 i- -o- Then concluding she writes: “America simply burst into tears Intimate personal tears the teaij of’ those who have lost a father a dose'Bfotiqto friend ' “Even in the South men wept and rightly so knowing or feeling that the broken and ravaged South had lost the ono Northerner who would have rushed to bind up her wounds the man of Infinite compassion with malice toward none with charity for all!” i ’ A NEW PROCESS OF FOOD preservation developed In Scotland and called “accelerated freeze drying” will have great Impact en the food industry predicts James Stewart-Gordo- n in a current article Unlike World War II dehydration methods R does hoi turn food into gray powder The food'retains $3 to'iOO pferoent its original flavor and when dunked in water resumes itf ' original shape ( t Dried foods can be shipped and sjored at Jess' cost than either fresh or frozen foods The mew process makes tt pos- sible to store fresh food in' any climate without refrigeration and for a virtually unlimited length of time- of ' - Such companies as General Foods and Armour are constructing or converting factories to use the new process or variations of it in the United States Armour already preparing steaks and chops for US Army field rations ' is getting ready to market freeze-drie- d hamburger and other' ineat proi h ' ducts for the housewife g liana Foods of Texas a company has been selling its dehydrated shrimp to hospitals' restaurants : and schools and will shortly put it in supermarkets ‘ Wilson Is now marketing dehydrated jbeef and chicken which packed in polyethylene bags are sold to sportsmen and hunters for complete instant-meal- shrimp-processin- L s Guess before long we’ll have “instant everything” in foods IN AUGUST OF 1948 Ardeshir Zahedi gave us a beautiful volume of “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" Since then- he graduated from Utah State University returned to his home- land Iran achieved success in public administration and today is Iranian ambassador to the United States Omar Khayyam’s best known verse perhaps is: : ' “The Moving Finger writes and having writ Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit ' ’ Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it" - - Another often quoted: “Oh threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain— this life flies ‘ " One thing is certain and the rest is lies— The flower that once was blown forever dies!” HERE AND THERE— Dr - Wemher Von Braun developer of missiles does not fear that iuture since explorers on this heaven-stormin- g journeys Will lose their ' humility “The heavens will surround them as an eternal reminder that there is a force greater than the thrust of their rocket ships a spirit greater than the cold logic of their compuicrs a power greater than that of their own nation”' he bays Then continuing soberly Dr Von Braun explains: vHe who believes in God need have no concern lest the space trav- elers may force God out of his own universe Indeed they Will accomplish something far more exciting They will demonstrate that our God is a vastly huger God than most-ous world-renowne- d “ f have ever thought” : own bills and II House bills chalked on it far this When asked: “What is America?” Dr Frederick Brown Harris on wantweek chaplain of the US Senate replied:-- ' said special plus eight they representatives “America Is not a thing of the earth but of the heart It The pro- order The house has 10 calened to further study gram calls for community dared Buried toward the bot- Is bounded not by oceans rivers or degrees of latitude bqt rek treatment centers with a $200-00- 0 tom are the by principles and ideals more precious than life itself C “America is a stairway of opportunity open for all to c'mb pealer and th4 trading stomp appropriation The bill to permit collective bill from the first step to the top It is a vast melting pot in which is being produced a richer and (nore varied culture than the bargaining for state employes is expected to pass when it world has ever known”' 0 ' comes up late Monday or Tuesday P- - — An VIENTIANE Quoting frotp a young student’s “Spcratys war a It was killed once 2 with American official who spent! He gave advice lie was poisoned” philosopher four absent but Democrats sucseveral davs with an army cessfully had it brought back column driving northward oq A New England farmer: "Yh I prey for Urn harvest-b- ut for feconslder a 1 1 o n with a the Vlentiasft-LuanPrahang I keep on hoeing too!” vote Friday The highway party-lin- e government Senate still must act on it even claim of the capture of the Social tact: Making people feel at home when you wish if the House passes it road junction of Sala Phou The Senate calendar has 72 houn were premature- - they were of its Democrats Seek Education Boost (Continued from Page 1) other week the Senate will vote on some kind of juvenile detention program Tuesday A compromise bill has been asked for by the Senate and meetings have been held to try to hammer one out In its essence the problem of getting some sort of meeting of the minds between those favoring county-stat- e For The Day control county control with some regulation by the then then’s the citizen state or entirely stats control of A city who decides to move to A less The House has a package crowded suburban area where the natives mental health program which suddenly become aware they need two it discussed angrily Friday and then dropped because many or three more schools tax-burden- ed T was THE LONELIEST MAN in the White House-i-hat Abraham Lincoln according to the noted columnist Dontiqr Thompson who (tied just this week of a heart attack7 Miss Home Journal Writing is the February Ladies never will loneliest man the be continues: “But Thompson lonely in history He will live as long as America wlU live not like Washington-fi- rst in war nor first in peace wnfch' he could not make from his grave— but first in the heart of his countrymen” We believe that such a fine tribute is appropriate' Mr Lincoln’s birthday is just one week hence T-- Today no president-elec- t could do what Lincoln did 100 yeax ago on Feb 23 in 861 He slipped unreported and unidentified into Washington on his return from Springfield 111 after his election With no attempt- at disquise (he was wearing his accustomed shabby crumpled black broadcloth suit)- he ‘went alone and: unrecognized to the Willard Hotel where there was a delay in giving him a suited His lonely arrival in Washington seemed symbolic of his whole tortured administration Miss Thompson comments £ 0 f t On Sunday Feb 24 Mr Lincoln attended services v St John’s Episcopal Church in Washington where he was so?d in pew No l near the altar Again nobody except the 'ufter' recognized him nor was the rector Dr: Smith Pyne aware r Thought V Thoughts and Things' -- in America sport ‘ - out-of-wo- rk l parks nd lay-off- ' ' -- federal-state-loc- al Michigan and Illinois in production but Not only technological improvements are causing in steel production centers raillay-oftowns and in lumroad and of men by machin- bering Replacement is a problem continuing ery The rote of unemployment is still fairly low among professional technical clcri- cal and sales workers but here too it is higher than a year ago While young men under 24 are the first to lose their jobs because of their lack s nave reachof seniority recently 45 Among men over of ed into the group women more under 45 than over are looking for work While the heavy concentration of is in a few states there are few areas in the country that have not felt the problem It is to be hoped that the resolution of the new administration to find a cure for the present economic ills will succeed and that lines before the unemployment insurance Windows will once more dwindle f Accelerated Freeze Drvinij THOSE WHO LOOK for reasons behind 'the recession have come up with some interesting observation on one of the factors: the changing pattern of money spending in the United States Au over the country there are more large ‘young families than ever before We now have almost 55 million people between the ages of 5 and 21 38 per cent more than we had ten years ago Household budgets in families with gitoing children have been revamped to take care of the heavy expenses for food clothing medical and dental care Then too families are taking seriously the idea that education is vital in the welfare of their children and ate putting more money into college training or sav- ing for college than they are in new can and household appliances Recreation and equipment for outdoor activities such as camping hunting and fishing is taking a larger share of earnings than ever before And a new quest for culture has resulted in the past five years in increasing sums being spent for phonographs re- ' cords books theatre and concerts It is estimated that more than 80 million dpi-- ’ lars were spent last year by amateur artists for supplies Sales of paperback books amounted to almost a million a day and about ten million people belong to book clubs which specialize in the serious ' types such as biography history science The Senate select committee proposed cooperation in specific action 'areas to assure some program These areas include: ' Preparation and continual updating of development plans for all major river basins by 1970' Federal grants to the states of $50 milium hi the next 10 years for state water resource planning Expansion of federal basic research in water concentrating on weather modi- fication underground reservoirs desalin-isatio- n pollution abatement and evaporation reduction Biennial assessment of water supply-demaforecasts for each region And flood plain soiling The report said that without proper use and planning five regions of the United States could run out of water by 1980: Upper Rio Grande and Pecos the Southern CaliColorado River basins fornia and the great basin between tha Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada That last one includes among other sectors Utah 'and Idaho Well then Americans are faced with such monumental problems as space exploration maintaining international peace and good will preventing stark recessions and striving for economic strength building vast highways solving racial problems building more schools and training more teachers meeting the challenges of population explosion —and avoiding a JJT-J- tW Loneliest Man NOW COMES MORE emphasis on the resources —and importance of our water Americana to property how vital it la for - fTF 5rr7y7rr"jrerrjr:j’-vT- V 1941 'Spending Patterns Change lack-of-wat- er Trr f't ' Sniff Sniff Water Water Water! disasters to prevent Not for many years have residents of the Intermountain area been so conscious of water shortages and possibilities of ' worse shortages The not is local the But problem House Science Committee warned that the US probably will face a “critical water shortage” by 1970 stating that we must start new steppcd-u- p research programs on converting salt water to resh water if the country is to meet its water needs of the next decade with confidence ‘The entire nation is confronted by critical and complex water problems” the report continued Soaring needs aggravated by spreading pollution demand1 immediate action to insure wise use of every drop of water The price tag for progress in the next 20 years is estimated- to be $12 billion for new dams and reservoirs and $42 billion for new municipal and in- dustrial sewage works” i : i Herald develop and conserve them The National Water Resources Committee this week warned that the econounderminninurill-h- a thwarted security ed and health plagues untearthe-aatio- n ’ immediately launches a “massive effort "— in this direction The word “immediate'’ was underscored The recommendation was that Ameri-- a spend $54 billion in the next 20 years - 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