Show '0zet$f voar41141vw" WW-I- —– HA eat 5nit falit Ztibunt Friday Morning June T: 20 1958 Police Expansion Proposal Is Unrealistic Last March in a report to the Local - t' national averages This is particularly true he says relative to crimes against property such as burglary and theft The chief further expresses concern lest national crime syndicates be tempted because of inadequate police protection to "take over" in Salt Lake City 4' BE WORICIN' TH5 VEIN ! 4 Despite innumerable warnings— educational pictures and catch phrases such as "leaflets three let it be" thousands of vacationists will suffer poison ivy poisoning this summer s toxic Fortunately science is making progress remedies and serums for ivy poisoning Although vaccines are not yet widely merchandised some laboratories claim development of an extract which injected into indi viduals gives them a degree of immunization Pills are being designed on the same with principle variety of ointmentswashes and are on the market A notable one containing zirconium and an antihistamine A salves 'The American Civil Liberties Union reports a Seattle radio station is using subliminal perception against a business rival a television station 'ACLU's weekly bulletin says: '"Whi le hit tunes are being played the station runs these comments not audible to a listener but supposedly capable of penetrating his subconscious: 'TV is a crashing' bore': 'Goodness isn't TV dull?' and 'Those TV westerns are all the same'" We had thought of the new subliminal gimmicks in terms of a visual image—the ''hidden sell"—to promote the merchandis- 'Idt 14 '' a product Can the technique be turned around and used negatively and the ear made the means of a sneak attack on the brain? If so this offers an exciting prospect for the Madison Avenue persuaders On the other hand it could be that the cruel facts of teevee have been dawning on some watchers and program arrangers and only natural perception is involved not one created in the radio station ing of - A Real Bell Ringer The human nose is only human A machine developed by a British researcher working for an American company is reported to do a much better job of sniffing out odors This device is expected to be of great help to the odor counteracting industries which try to keep everything smelling nice Heretofore such industries haVe had to rely on the human proboscis which suffers from fatigue and isn't standardized We haven't seen a picture of the machine but we like to imagine it as being Very complicated with gauges dials and a big gong that sounds when the odoriferous jackpot is hit And what a racket that 'gong would make if the mechanical smeller were ever hooked up with Chairman Oren Harris investigation in Washington! Senator Sparkman of Alabama complains because there is no popcorn at the American exhibit at the Brussels Fair And since the emphasis is supposed to be on each nation's cultural achievements how about bubble gum? Toys are getting too elaborate and expensive for children but they can still have I lot of fun playing with the box and wrap ping paper - ‘ v itl v- 1:'7 V 1 1 - t lit 4 4 I): -- r 0 k I - 3' 4 '—)e e'v1 J r''::' : 0dec!:1i trif- - e ' 1210f ' -- " t '' uz 1( t "' --- - - tr- ! - -- I 1 " 3 ik 4 4 2:: ! 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Lennie Mae Davis says Nixon is a great and accomplished politician disPolitician: Prudent creet sagacious wise Sagacious: Discern See shrewd Shrewd: Acute judgment cunning artful wily Wily: Full of tricks crafty Insidious tricky sly subtle delusive designing foxy diplomatic To me Nixon is the embodiment of all the evil ever born of rabid partisan politics Politics is evil in its very nature It is a disease of the heart mind and soul It hardens the heart destroys decency and perception and turns off the light of intellect Nixon has run the gamut of political intrigue lie admits it: "I am sorry and ashamed of my campaign tactics of the past My only excuse is that I was young and ambitious" And now at the ripe old age of 46 he is a tired old man with no ambition The very fact that Tricky Dick's supporters feel con strained to offer the people a "new Nixon" is prima facie evidence that there was some-thing wrong with the old Nixon DEVERS C OWENS Garland Utah e e 1 ' II: ' :i -- it ' 40'' t"gillk - xA '4 ''4''''' ' r--- f'k-f:1 ' William S White -- Twos Bit Issues Dominate Our Politics 'WASHINGTON—The Sher man Adams affair is unfolding on two levels that are a world rOne is dramat- Atec4' : apart obvious ic — t d comparatively inconse-1tri'Qquential The other is large- ly unnoticed— and deeply siga n The story thus has the added zest of the case of the deacon who is found making eyes even if harmless elderly eyes at the blonde thoir singer So much for the headlines 4 itv many policemen could encour age mere citizen harassment rather than citizen protection It A nificant As to the surface level several points that too ) ik r ak President Eisenhower has become a heavy liability to the Republicans in a congressional election year There insistent congressional Republican for his dismissal by the President A rough justice is at work For superficially at least Adams now so harried for accepting favors from wealthy friends was one of the most righteous denouncers of the is pies-sur- e "influence of what really matters is the melancholy light thrown by this business upon the degree of political maturity of this country t It indicates anew that two-bi- Mr White are now generally accepted among politicians of both parties: Adams the assistant to d HOWEVER 11 71 peddling" the Truman years issues—a politics of puerility —have a dominant place in our national life It is the adult equivalent of the (Western) cops and robbers that enthrall the children on television The wheel is turning a full circle But it is not throwing up the grand and urgent questions about the conduct of our pub lie affairs Instead it is turning up hotel bills and vicuna coats where in the Truman administration it turned up hotel bills and mink coats All this is not to say that propriety or taste were served by Adams in Eisenhower's Senator From Sandpit tiam Park - By Your face is a book where men may read strange mat- ters—Shakespeare On Having a Mournful Mug The appearance of my pie lure at the head of my column is comparatively recent For many t here years was photograph line t nor by and I enjoyed 17) a certain degree anonymity of that if t'' ' ) rt we 4 ''' '''''' ' '14t- - x It has been said and truth- fully I think It 0 --- t - t 4 Ham Park could see ourselves as others see us we wouldn't believe Well the following letter shows how I look to one our eyes reader: "Dear Senator: I have just returned to Salt Lake after an absence of 25 years I used to listen to your radio programs and I read your column but I hadn't the faintest idea of what you looked like until I saw your picture in The Tribune a few mornings ago "Frankly Senator I was not prepared to seer such a " Of individual course you cannot help the kind of a face they handed you but you could take some of the curse off if you would remove your alleged mustache or at least turn the ends of it up instead of letting it follow downward the sour-lookin- lines of your sorrowful-lookin- face "I am signing my name to this but prefer that you don't print it—I don't want your numerous feminine fans after my zled "Why I don't puz- recall - t i to marry" The chairman looked seeing that in history" she ' 'neither At a study club a member was giving a summary of the reign of Diocletian She de scribed it vividly and added "They couldn't get the people scalp" Notes on the Cult Department Cal Graham says that usually the busiest man you come across In the One who Is trying to make a living without working for it said "Well it says so right here" replied the other And she read: "But in the reign of Diocletian husbandry was greatly decreased" Sometime humor crops out In the headlines like for ex- ample the story about a just tice of the peace being aroused from bed about 2 am to marry a young couple It seems that his honor didn't take time to dress but turned on the light stepped out on the porch in his night clothes and made a quick hitch of it The headline stated: 'TIES KNOT IN HIS NIGHT SHIRT" Carol (Mrs Joseph W) Gunn our a ttractive young Ipldlady is in the hospital and may have to undergo surWe her tenants the gery the Logsdens the McKay Funkhousers and the Parks are all pulling for her complete recovery and speedy return home for we miss her greatly Dancing Class $ee the pretty hollyhocks In their ballerina frocks Reaching for the trees They can scarcely hold quite still Lined up in wanton will of a calling breeze! I would be their dancing mas ter— Make them flutter faster faster On their dainty toes! Then I'd call for all of you To come and see my gay revue While the wind Atilt blows! —Lois Strachan Wendo er Utah - White House—or by some of Truman's people In Tr Oman's White House It is not to say that real or alleged cronyism is desirable or unimportant—except in relation to the real issues of this terrible time WHAT IS TO be said is that the country is again showing a most peculiar standard of weighing an administration In Truman's time such tri-- fling matters as the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization could not be usefully examined pro or con Nearly everybody was too engrossed with the immense disclosure that some White House stenographer had she had not bought and Mai Gen Harry H Vaughan had a freezer without sales They must engage themselves with such vast issues as to whether Adams did something for Bernard Gold-line'- s clothing business A political writer need not veiw of a adopt the ivied-hal- l professor of political science to suggest some odd disproportion in all this A of the lar surge against the right caus 't there ellik i - Editor Tribune: Right now the time to make it a felony to give or receive a gilt for anyone in high position In our government What can we expect with the leadership we have had? President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon are the only moral ones we have had for a long time RUSSELL DRAPER Archaic Mentality Editor Tribune: Tuesday night at Derks Field the crowd greeted with boos in announcement that sale of beer in the stands is now pro- - hibited This is the same archaic 1NA mentality that the industrial and business growth of Utah What in heaven's name is Immoral in the drinking of a cold bottle of beer with a hot dog at a baseball game? As a newly arrived executive of a major firm I marvel at the temerity of a group of zealots who impose their intolerant views on the narrow-minde- d retards long-sufferin- g citizenry For obvious business reasons I cannot sign this letter but like thousands of others must remain— DISGUSTED only to lose the election to Go0 Merriam by 260000 in November In making such a compd son it should be noted that the population of the state In 1958 is two and a half times what it was in 1934 The registration now is more than twice what it was then although the Democratic ad vantage in registration now is greater than in 1934 The task before flowland is to gain relativcly as well as Merriam did 21 years ago If he makes a comparative gain Know land would win in November with a considerable margin since the 350000 gain In 1934 would be 700000 this year y ' ' ui- I p- ' :::' 1 1 My answer was that the was primary hardly a test - - I te 4 A- - Mr Moley of the Lssue since no real campaign was made on that point at all However the Democratic candidate and his union supporters had campaigned against months for right-to-wor- BUT IN domestic foreign policy—evokes little constructive alarm and less constructive defense For we must all make absolutely certain that If Bernard Goldfine also tipped the bellboy for Sherman Adams this 'vital datum is not lost to his- tory oaper Says A If that'Algerian Junta isn't careful De Gaulle may re woke its junting license that businessmen and others were much more frightened by the Sinclair plan than they are by Brown The EPIC plan was so utterly fantastic that four months of reflection and plenty of counterpropaganda awakened the state On the other side there is the fact that 1934 saw the utmost flowering of t h e Roosevelt popularity The Democrats swept the country that fall almost obliterating the Republican Party Despite this Merriam won THE atmosphere of reversal Of these enters the Amer- d - ! PERHAPS such a reversal possible this year But it cannot come without enormous efforts an drastic changes in Knowland manage ment Nor can it be brought about by an abject surrender to the Democratic - union coalition Since Knowland has taken a stand he should stick to it and give the California voters a genuine choice between two philosophies of Aovernmehts Is pro That was in 1934 whhir Upton Sinclair with his revolutionary EPIC plan ran ahead Ia the primaries by 90000 b r ' portions ha n taken plaee in California within the 1111q111 ory of most of us ican market with A tiny ear The price seernA reasonable unless the key to wind it up is optional egutpment ' A shrewd California observPr told me since the primary California politics nothing is certain until the votes are counted Speculation is in order as to the possibility of Know land's reversing a primary vote against him amounting to a sizable 600000 In pursuing such speculation I am proceeding on the assumption that there is no use in trying to win over the Democratic vote for Brown The best hope is to bestir a sufficient number of Republicans to vote who were absent at the primary and to win back some of the Republicans who voted for Brown t - There are factors now however which argue for and against such a reversal There were to be sure many other factors in the Knowland defeat and there will be many deficiencies to be corrected in the next four months Eisenhower admin Japan now e ' t and elsewhere Istration—its refusal là panic in the face of the recession— is not being debated The great weakness of that administration — its confused half-truculen- - Is primary would indicate a great popu- - administration that Was too kind to communism Was at the same time denounced for persisting in killing Communists in Korea ODDEST OF all 'ion really was done by thenothing oppo-sitto an area of true and meaningful vulnerability This was the area of Truman's domestic legislative policy which was an almost total failure Today there is a rough parallel—rough indeed in every sense The most important and act ' Bad Leadership - I was asked last week whether the defeat of Sen Knowland 'In the California the adultly controversial " Knowland Still Has Chance Truman's—was repudiated in considerable part upon a public finding that the "mess in Washington" intolerably endangered this republic It is true of course that graver charges were made— "softness" on communism But the separate counts of this heated indictment 'plainly canceled each other out For - " Raymond Mo ley administration— past There are two ways to everything the right or the wrong and we are sure holding on to the wrong one To you fathers and mothers: You're the doctor! Do you want the right medicine? It is up to all of us JOHN srIGARELLT Lark Utah Editor Tribune: I read and hear over the radio about juvenile delinquency I wonder how anybody solve the problem when they don't know what it is It is a shame for this generation to get In such a mess but we are In It winning or losing the cold war - God You're the Doctor Today: few are prepared to ponder whether the Eisenhower administration ig 4 getting smarter and smarter and yet were traveling like a chicken with its head cut off Common sense would solve the problem but we have too many who don't have that much We've got to stop kidding ourselves and get on the right road If the people ww:Ict spend more time doing good for one another and quit telling things they don't know then we could start to go right But today we have too many people who want to get their names or pictures In the papers The way people apply edu- cation today I'm ashamed of it The day will come when they will be ashamed of it too for when the curtain comes down and we all will be wondering what part we will take back with us back to Embodiment of Evil S: A w10(3ING15 ' - 4c li rVtG4VIANNINC9711---- -' A1 1 ' ck4r1 111061 - '" t AN1 X COLDrINE 4'1'11011rOfelS '44414 —Irtti4447"cA -) ' $ ok ): r t)LRN (fT ' ' 74L To ok ""1- - - 'z — 1 ioN: - I 4 -- i t t (- oic- : v 00 4 t - s e !' ::i 4114e 1 ft i- 4 4'p - et I 0 - ' 4 41 tg: t dr t iy' i' I ' 41'i 0 '44 It 0 's it l' tilt $ ' ‘ 41:i 'et' - 7- i ajl il - '41 e d t I t 3' 4 t' 4 k t -- ‘ Detroit amaze high-flyin- A ys - i- 'I ' J'' - :- s i !i t m if - 7 It -: !! y: I 4 A- i: — -- 1 "' 1 ''1lib— - - 14 to A For one thing there Is always danger d ' ' ''rfst A- ''''''''4 - '61' 1 - ) 'il - would with the results of your poll There is nothing the matter with Detroit that a car such as you describe wouldn't cure Detroit's engineers have lost sight of the forest for the trees and have sold their ideas to the pow ers that be Do you suppose the powers would listen to a voice in the wilderness and try your ideas for a season? RUTII MARBLE Yellowstone Park Wyo Mthillq MINE I A -N- both of these recommendations And personnel is scheduled on the basis of Chief Skousen's own figures to rise to 350 by the end of this year The Tribune approves this expansion It approves Chief Skousen's work in reorganizing the department improving morale and increasing efficiency But there are limits to how far we can or should go corn-mende- '''':''' ? 'k' te4pteks ' ACTUALLY Salt Lake City with 330 employes as of today has already exceeded : - 11 r ( I At that time Mr Smith recommended 35 additional persons which he said would be "sufficient to provide a good distribution of patrol activity" 25-ac- re -''' "' A You FAMOLS ''-- '' I::111' ‘' 411 :' ): nel Salt Lake City'a jet age airport should be ready for use within two or at the most three years This appears assured as the result of successful negotiation of a long term contract for rental of space in the new airport building to the four air lines which will use it—United Western Frontier and Bonanza Annual lees guaranteed to the city under the contract total $22780709 According to City Attorney E Ray Christensen this is ample to retire a pro-I- I posed issue of $2500000 in revenue bonds and should bring favorable bids on these bonds Plans for the $4000000 airport structure are complete Once financing is assured by sale of the revenue bonds and there is final federal approval of the plans a contract can be let It is hoped that construction can begin this summer This is the final step in a program of airport modernization which has been under way for several years A new 8300-foo- t runway capable of handling jet airliners was completed more than two years ago at a cost of $2500000 Another $2000000 has been spent to drain fill and prepare a site for the new administration building with its extensive taxi strips loading ramps and other service facilities A half million dollar project foTome further grading and installation of water lines and a sewage system will begin this month When finished the Salt Lake City air- port should be the equal of any serving a a city of its size with amount of air traffic Best thing about the w hole project is that it will not cost the city's taxpayers anything The City Commission and particularly Commissioner Romnsey in charge of city property OW has long worked on the project are to be 4 ‘ ' : t r ' i ''':c - ' '''''- Nitb n More Airport Progress i '' p fs it' ' i'' 4 I- e I ‘ ' N 226-ma- n THERE IS ONE further point Chief Skousen's plan does not take into account salary adjustments—yet comparisons show Salt Lake City's police pay scales below the median of 56 cities surveyed by the Municipal Yearbook in 1957 and second from the bottom among nine cities of somewhat comparable size surveyed by The Tribune Fewer officers than Chief Skousen proposes paid better salaries might do a far better job of protection without risking either Salt Lake City fiscal bankruptcy or a "police state" atmosphere I t : 4i:!1$:-- drug has been found effective oi some perBeyond that there is real reason to quessons when applied before or soon'after extion Salt Lake City's need to "keep up pesure to the toxic oil with the Joneses" on police personnel The best way to deal with poison ivy Salt Lake City is populated basically is to get rid of it Weed-killin- g compounds by stable citizens ready and such as 24-are available for a spray to support fair and honest law en— willing Spraying a large area may be impractical forcement however and the alternative then is to recThat support is invaluable to a police ognize the plant and avoid it can double the value of 10' departLnent It every DIE lice officer making the need for manpower substantially less The Hidden Unsell? -- - n and no one has come up with the right answer Yet as I hear of all those places to be built and things to be done it makes me think of a doctor How can he give the right medicine when he doesn't know what makes you sick? We claim that we are Editor Tribune: H u r r a h or your 'editorial "Why Not a Little Less?" - 'i t believe—that the city's quite correctly force then was inadequate Ile sugincrease gested a Two and a halt years ago when Bruce Smith made his survey of the department there were 235 Police Department person- law-abidi- 1 '714r '' we D !t ca-DG- FOR YEARS! Beyond this the chiefs personnel recommendations are at considerable variance with previous experience and proposals For instance four years ago the then chief of police Clark Sanford said—and 100-ma- Poison Ivy grows as a vine or a freestanding bush and some forms are called poison oak All can be identified by leaves grouped in threes Species of the despised weed are found in practically every state You may scrupulously avoid coming in contact with poison Ivy and then break out with severe skin itching and burning by petting an animal that has brushed the plant Handling clothing that a year earlier has picked up the oil from the plant's small leaves smooth white fruit yellowish-gree- n or bark and roots may cause inflammation Smoke of burning 'plants can be extremely - Voice in Wilderness- r ' -- 1 EXPECT'TO 1I 1 to A i tt Vacation Spoiler ri 1 o By Our Readers - - - 47- The Public Forum Bonanza - '11 hard-presse- - -- - :' ki$ Government Finance Advisory Committee of the Legislative Council Chief of Police Skousen outlined his plans for Salt Lake City Police Department expansion in the next five years " The chief proposed an increase in total expenditures frOm a budgeted $1760654 for THE TRIBUNE believes firmly in the the current year to $2535619 for 1962 maintenance of an efficient well paid and- Ile recommended an increase in departadequately staffed Police Department It ment personnel from 350 to 472 The latter has in Many ways editorially supported con figure would give the city a ratio of two per structive moves in' this direction in the 1000 populativ past including increhses in personnel and pay Chief Skousen supports his program But we find it difficult to accept Chief on several grounds Skousena proposals as realistic First he says the ratio of two police emFor one thing from a practical financial d ployes per 1000 population is the standard standpoint there seems no likelihood recommended by the International AssociaSalt Lake City can find the money tion of Chiefs of Police It is also the to pay for such an expansion in the Police average police ratio for the nation as a Department—let alone the expansion of whole according to Federal Bureau of Inother departments for which this would set a precedent vestigation figures Mr Skousen further believes that such —We simply have to face the facts of a department expansion is essential to keep fiscal life and cut the suit to fit the city Salt Lake City's crime rate at or below cloth - - - 1 4 - I - ' ) I ' " ! 414 okaoet000lk 004 ow 1'4 4'64""'""""'-- 4 i'Ll 4 Akk 4k d R' 11 40- - 411441"o 0 A 04 |