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Show Your Congressman by Henry Aldous Dixon , RED TAPE: One of the features that has always disturbed me about government gov-ernment operations is the maze of paperwork that has grown up in government circles. According to the commission on organization organiza-tion of the Executive Branch of the government this red tape is forcing private business to produce pro-duce more than a trillion words and figures annually and is costing cost-ing executive agencies and industry in-dustry hundreds of dollars more than would be necessary under an efficient and simplified system. sys-tem. The Hoover Commission and its task force on paperwork management, man-agement, in a report to Congress on July 18, show the way to large savings through a reduction in the wordload now Imposed upon individuals and corporations in the form of a "wilderness of 4,-700 4,-700 different reports, forms and questionnaires." I am all for their suggestions, and will back it wholeheartedly. DISPERSAL OF INDUSTRY: In a drive to encourage industrial indus-trial plant dispersal the Defense Department and the Office of Defense Mobilization are using procurement contracts and fast tax write-offs. In order to receive these inducements at least 40 of a production program must be placed outside of critical target areas. This move could mean that fewer Important new contracts' con-tracts' will be let to coastal producers, pro-ducers, unjess they disperse their production to inland plants. Both departments are classifying all new contracts with their relationship rela-tionship to the latest data on atomic fall-out in the hope that this will encourage many industries indus-tries to locate in less vulnerable areas. We are all keeping an eye on this development and constantly point out that Utah is a "natural" in many ways for certain Industries. V ft 3 |