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Show MILLARD COUNT1 CHRONICLE Delta. Utah, Thurs., Nov. 20, 1952 Mr. and Mrs. James Works from Monrovia, Cal., arrived in Delta during the week and are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Muxine Bish-op, and family. They will also visit in Salt, Lake City with their daugh ter, Mrs. Ford Whicker. Mr. Works, who was in the hoospital earlier this year for treatment for a heart uilment, is now much improved in health. Blaine Christensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Christensen of Oak City, returned home a week ago after 18 months service in Korea. He was a private first class in the 3rd Transportation Military Railway Service. On Monday of last week Mr. ajid Mrs. Melvin Mitchell received word that their brother, Ellis Mit-chell, of Salt Lake City, was at St. Mark's hospital seriously injured. He is a railroad employe, and was hurt in a fall from a box car. His chest was crushed and his shoul-der broken. Wednesday they received word that their son Vernon had been hurt at the smelter in Tooele, when a cable broke and injured his eye. At present he is doing well. Thursday they took their younger son, Delbert, 13 years old, to the hospital at Fillmore, where he is still seriously ill with an acute kidney attack. world instead of the money world." That's what a lot of economists need to see the real world as something apart from the "money world." That, and to realize that even with "free convertibility" we never really were on the gold standard, but actually on a bank credit standard, under which the volume of "check book money," rather than gold, set the value of the dollar. Everyone who lived through the depression would find Eccles' chapter, "The Pit," intriguing.. It is la review of the dark days when, because of defects in the Federal Reserve System, America's banks were going broke in a chain re-action. Other chapters deal with Eccles" search for the reason for good technical Information, but it seems to me the problem here is television to get, first. Perhaps the telecasters will get the lead out, also the bugs, and start deliver-ing the goods here before much longer. It all makes me think back to the first TV I ever saw. It was in the summer of 1949, one night in a bar in East St. Louis, of all places. The bars got TV before: anyone else, figuring it would draw trade, but some say it only drew free riders. However, that bartender got some business out of me simply by asking what I'd have. All I wanted was television, but rather than admit it, I said the first word that came to mind, namely, beer. So he sold a quar-ter's worth because he had a TV. The program wasn't muuch good, so I soon left without buying any-thing more, and I've never been back to Bast St. Louis again to this day. Wingovei, All the news that's fit to print from the Delta Airport by Dick Morrison Changes . . . Two noteworthy changes occur-red at the airport during the week. In personnel, Maurice Walters was officially transferred from Ce- - dar City to serve as chief at Delta starting last Sunday, while Lloyd ' Byars was transferred from Delta to Salt Lake City at the same time, thus terminating his tenure! of duty at Delta only a few weeks after he moved here from the CAA station at Hanksville. The other change was of a me-teorological nature. Winter set in. The first snow fell Friday night, and was continuing Sunday night. The overcast was thick and deep. A jet pilot reporting over Delta Sunday evening said he was flyl-in-g in soup lait 25,000 feet. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Nichols have moved from Delta to the Harold Morris home one mile east of Hinckley. Fatal Crash .... Sunday's Tribune brought the news of a light plane crash in which Garth Ernest Blackburn was killed at 4:01 p.m. Saturday when his light plane spun into the ground just after take-o- fi from Salt Lake Airport Uo. 1 Cause of te accident is not known, but Carl Interview And Boole Review . . . It isn't very often that a gas station philosopher gets a chance to pour the coals to such a dis-tinguished figure as Marriner S. Eccles, so when the opportunity presented itself, last September 5, at a little meeting at the bank, to which Ot Wialch had invited some two dozen assorted Delta citizens, myself includled, why, na-turally, I made the most of it. Why did I do it? Because I have been interested in Eccles' "unor-thodox" theories of money for some years, and there were a cou-ple of questions I wanted ito ask him, and, after I heard him tallk, there were also a couple of things I wanted to tell him. He was cam-paigning as a Republican for the nomination for TJ. S. Senator, and he submitted to my inquisition with good grace, possibly because he had no polite means of escape. What manner of Republican was this, I wanted to know, whose ideas were so at variance with tra ditional Republicanism, and whose intellectual companions for years had been the high priests of the new deal Acheson, Tugwell, Chase, Wallace, Ickes, Hopkins, Morgenthau and others? I got part of the answer at the meeting land part of it 'from Mr. Eccles' book, Beckoning Frontiers." And I concluded that Mr. Eccles could be rated 50 new dealer in domestic matters, and nearly 100 in foreign affairs. Averaging things up, this would make him about 25 Republican and 75 new dealer. that disaster, and his conclusion that the system, not the people, were wrong, and why, and what should be done to make it better. Another chapter deals with the "Second Pit," of the "recession" of 1937 and 38, which resulted from premature attempts to balance the federal budget, and which, proper-ly analyzed, wouldl have revealed why a return to the old system of private credit 'for money can never be safely made again. "We all face the lure of a beckoning frontier where, In a world at peace, we can use human and material resources for the well being of all men," wrote Eccles. But, "the economic and social problems that are glossed over during a period of defense pro-duction or war will come to the fore with increasing severity if at last we attain the sought-fo- r world at peace. Now fully to produce and distribute our abundance un-der conditions of full employment within the framework of our free enterprise system will continue to be the great challenge for 'future generations." And it was to help solve and clarfiy this problem that Mr. Eccles wrote Beckoning Frontiers. Video Madness .... Last Saturday, the day KSL-TV- 's new mountain top transmitter started to broadcast on full power, and then conked out after a few minutes because of some bug in the works, Delta seemed television mad. Stores were full of people, nearly all of whom were disap-pointed as the programs came in no clearer than the test patterns which had been on only 10 of rated power. As our little Pamela said, "it was snowing in Salt Lake and the snow spoiled the picture." Glen Swalberg handed me a paper he wrote, full of good ad-vice for television buyers. Glen called his paper, "Television To Have and To Hold," it gives some In saying this, I am not saying I consider him 75 wrong. Far from it. On the money question, his new dealish ideas come far closer to everlasting truth than those of old- - line Republicans and I can say this as a long time Republican who revised his own Ideas when it became clear that certain classical theories of the gold standard 'and traditional bank ing system proved absurd as the feredal "debt" mounted. This goes a long ways toward redeeming Mr. Eccles for his new dealshness in other lines, 'for mon-ey management is his profession, and it was in this line that he rendered valuable service to the nation under Roosevelt and Tru-man, as chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve. My opposition to Mr. Eccles can didacy for Senator was based on his views on foreign affairs, prin-cipally: his use of the old propa-ganda word "isolationism" against Watkins; his published statement favoring recognition of Red China, which I felt would tend to ratify rather than rectify the grave mis-take in Asia; and his use of en- - Hellberg of Thompson Flying Ser-vice was quoted ias saying, "It is possible, , tout not at all certain, that the plane may have received some damage while parked out-doors in high winds at the airport Friday night." Blackburn took off at. 4:00 p.m., and radioed the tow-er at Salt Lake a moment later that the plane was out of control. He 'had about 500 feet laltitude, and, seemingly, when he banked for a turn ot- - "break traffic," he did not recover to level flyling po-sition. Mr. Blackburn was a native of Delta; born here Dec. 12, 1919, a son of Ernest and Melba Turner Blackburn. He is survived by his widow, Eileen Davis Blackburn, and ' three ehilren of Logan, and numerous relatives of Delta and vicinity. Among surviving relatives now living here are his aunts, Mrs. Melba Crafts and Mrs. Then-elda Claridge; four members of his mother's family, Mrs. Nora S. Knight, Mrs. Viola Law, and Rube arid Orvil Turner. His parents now live at Great Falls, Mont.., hav-ing moved there from Delta many years ago. Merritt Floyd, local flyer, tells me he knew Mr. Blackburn very well when both taught flyling sub jects at the USAC during World War II. dorsement Dy Henry Luce tor nim-sel- f, and of an-'- ' endorsement by McCormick against Watkins: I felt Eccles was being endorsed by the wrong publishers. Still, in domestic matters, he is no socialist. As he told me at the bank, "the individual must not be submerged in the mass." Individ-ual freedom must be preserved, and free markets maintained with-out "controls" of the OPS sort, which he had publicly opposed. Eccles was sound in his stand for American individualism and free enterprise, and also in his advoca-cy of a managed credit system to prevent extremes of boom and de-pression. Yet somehow, he failed to see that once the Communists gain full controrof Asia, they are almost sure to take Europe and then America. That is their master plan, and his willingness to recog-nize Red China would help it and, were it to succeed, it would leave no vestige of 'freedom in America. Is it fair to attribute this "blind spot" in his thinking to his long association with Ach-eson, Tugwell and the Test? - Read Beckioning Frontiers, and form your own answer to this and other questions concerning the conroversial Mr. Eccles. The book is worth anybody's time partic-larl- y that of die-har- d conserva-tives who are afflicted with the traditional conservative notion that we shouldl all have accepted bankruptry in 1932 rather than de-flate the currency. The book itself is a combination family history, treatise on money, and history of the new deal. The Eccles family history is of interest to Utah people; it is necessary, also as background for an under-standing of this man and his views. The inside stories of peo-ple and policies under Roosevelt and Truman will be of value to historians. Mr. Eccles'' theories of money and credit strike me as very sound, though "unorthodox," although my own view is that what is needed is not managed credit but managed currency the dif-ference being that the 'former means a system of unending debt, because it uses bank credit for money, while the latter would be a debt-fre- e system. However, I'll refrain from pressing the point for the moment. Certainly we can't go back to the old fraudulent con-tingent f und gold standard. Many economists chronically mistake cause for effect. As the late Henry oFrd, Sr., once said, we get our economics backwards. Mr. Eccles avoids this error pretty well. 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