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Show PAGE TWO SUGAR HOUSE, UTAH; THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1959 INDEPENDENT Something Is Wrong On July 3d, the day before we celebrated our Independence, the local newspaper headline and stories told of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads rejecting all belt route proposals because the cit-izens of the South East Area objected to the location of that quadrant, the same paper carried a story of a U. S. Civil Service Commis-sioner recommending that three Utah State Read Employees be removed from office for alleged improper political activities. THIS IS INDEPENDENCE? When a large representative group of citizens of a state ob-ject to having their neighborhoods marred by the slashing of a road through it; their property value decreased, and the beauty and quietness of the area jeopardized and then told by the Federal Government to either accept it or else-somethi- ng is wrong. When the activities of State employees are examined by a Fed-eral Employee-somethi- ng is wrong. When this power to intervene by the Federal Bovernment in State affairs is created by the threat to withhold OUR tax money-somethi- ng is wroeg When our Tax money is returned to us it has been so massacred and depleted that a citizen can barely recognize it. When it s used to control our State and our neighborhood -T-HEN SOMETHING IS WRONG...T. N. four cities outside that area. The moral is certainly plain. Other amendments to the amend-ments could authorize TVA to move into 40 or 400 or any number of cities and communities. And, if past experience with socialized business tells us anything, that ultimately would happen. There's no safe way to con-tain or limit state 'socialism. The . only workable tactic, if free en-terprise and representative gov-ernment are to be preserved, is to blot it out. Socialized Business When the proposal to permit the Tennessee Valley Authority to issue revenue bonds to finance fut-ure electric power development first came into the limelight, it was met with a wave of protest. Great numbers of people in and out of the government feared that it would amount to freeing TVA of all effective controls and turning it loose to do as it wished. To meet these objections, cer-tain limiting amendments were ad-ded to the bill. One of the most important confined TVA's power operations to its service areas as of July 1, 1957. But see what happened. A House Committee then amended the am-endment. TVA was given authority to enter the power business in adjust periodically to meet rising costs. It is not until income ac-quires "fixed status through soc-ial security, pensions or insurance annuities that a private citizen finds himself destitute due to an inflating dollar. Inflation can and must be stop-ped, the NAM contends, if Am-erica's position of leadership in the economic world is to be maintained and if today's working people are to sensibly provide for their old age. Inflation can be halted through reduction of wasteful government costs and services, by employment of a balanced Federal budget and, as government economies take ef-fect, through reduced taxation, the NAM said. Utah Is Losing Millions Utah residents have lost mil-lions and millions of dollars in personal purchasing power due to currency inflation evidenced since World War II, according to a study released this week by the western division of the National Associat-ion of Manufacturers. The "missing" millions, reports the NAM, would have meant more powerful paychecks for every Utahn, furnishing the wherewithal for new homes, new cars, new household goods and recreational services; money that could have been used for retirement savings, education and medical care. Just how much money has act-ually been lost to inflation is, says the NAM study, impossible to determine as statistics for re-cent years are not available. It is known, however, that from 1947 to 1955 the personal purchasing power loss in Utah came to $855,800,000. The eight hundred million dol-lar figure represents 4.9 times the amount spent for public schools in Utah over the past twelve years. It is 21.7 times the total worth of all the hospitals (except those owned and operated by the Federal government) in the state and 2.5 times Utah's share of the costs allocated for the President's huge interstate and defense highway system. Inflation is likened to cancer in the NAM report in that its debilitating effects on the individ-ual's budget are rarely felt by working people whose pavchecks Do You Need Sales Tax Schedules We Have Them 10c each 12 for $1.00 One. 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Let us send you 52 iscies of The South East Independent for just tCQ Nome - Address Mail to The Independent, Box 136 Sugar House Lake StationjSalt dry, Utah. Legals NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of W. H. Coltharp, Jr. Deceased. Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned at 721 Continental Bank Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah on or before the 12th day of November, A. D. 1959. Date of first publication, July 9, A. D. 1959. Fawn Coltharp Executrix of the estate of W. H. Clotharp, Jr., deceased. Pugsley, Hayes, & Rampton Attorneys for Executrix. Freedom Forever? MERLE RICHE Summer is a busy time fox Utahns. July in particular. Two great holidays are celebrated, one of national orig- - were alive today and could follow current events they would be as-tonished at how far afield the nation has gone from their concepts. In spite of the sensational buildup given present day leaders they come woefully short of the stature of those whose faith inspired the greatest churches, the gravest deed's the monuments and" motives of earlier Americans. It is of paramount importance that every American become in-formed as to the true nature of this republic. This is requisite of citizenship. We only are Am-erican who are willing to so do and then stand for the government-al concepts developed by the Founding Fathers and then, also, apply that truth to the spiritual, cultural, economic and political life of each American. in and the other state: the fourth and the twenty -- fourth. Both of these days honor those who thought freedom was one of the most precious oossessions on x r earth. On these days we see Am-ericans and Utahns at their re-lax- ed best. The parks are full. Paraders parade and streets are lined with parade lovers. Fanci-ful fireworks fill the night skies, Watermelons, hot dogs, ham-burgers, soda pop, band concerts, motoring an endless melange of trappings unthought of by those whose deeds hallowed the day keep the mind not too closely attuned to the serious purposes which gave rise to the celebration. Indeed, it's a light hearted obeisance we offer those whose lives, fortunes and sacred honor made possible all that we have and are. Would we have it otherwise? Perhaps not. The Joyousness of such victories is long lived and justly so for have we not preserv-ed our political" institutions for nigh Sn'to two centuries andwHy nor for many centuries longer 7 Yet to conclude that there is no present or future danger to the Republic and that none may ever arise would in itself be dan-gerous. Great men of the past whose names have added luster to the Flag have long since gone. Great men of the present are with us. The future will give us others. To conclude that each of them will be satisfied with maintaining the status quo is folly. Among them will be the ambitious whose only hope for immortality will be to tear down that which we have that they might erect a new structure on the ruins. For them to walk in the footsteps of others is not enough. Without naming names or dis-cussing issues at this moment it can be truthfully said, and mil-io- ns have said it, the tearing down process has begun. It continues, perhaps, because never in history have Americans been more ignor-ant of the meaning of our basic documents and the thinking behind them. If the Founding Fathers Leak Scoops Beat Generation But what about what the news-papermen say? Nobody exposes them because nobody else has access to a newspaper. On the as-sumption that it takes a news-paperman to expose one, the fol-lowing glossary of newspaper terms is offered: A leak-- a newspaper story someone else got. A beat --a newspaper story he got. A scoop-newspaperm- en rarely use the word but when they do they refer to any various shovel -- like instruments. Some blabbermouth underling has been talking-anothernewsp- ap-erman got a story from a source unknown to him. It came from informed sources --he got to the same source first. The preponderance of opinion, indicates --he believes it anyway. 1 This piece is loaded with hum- - j an interest-use- d on deskman by , reporters and means "If you don't give this a byline, you're tone J deaf, you deskman, you. There's not much inthisstory-b- y reporters to deskman, indicat-ing they don't want to write it. The lid of secrecy clamped down-hi- s sources aren't speaking to him. An air of mystery surrounded the killing-h- e got there too late. Police said an air of mystery surrounded the killing-h- e didn't get there at all. The body of a beautiful blonde-the- y found a dead woman. A rather plain, chestnut --haired elderly woman --he got beaten on the story by the reporter who wrote about the beautiful blonde. South East Independent The South East Independent is entered as Second Class Matter, March 1, 1946, in Salt Lake City Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. It is published each Thurs-day morning. TOM NOTESTINE Owner and Publisher HU 5-8- 261 EMERSON S. SMITH Managing Editor OA 2-1- 881 Subscription rates are $3.00 per year or ten cents for the single copy. Send all mail to box 136, Sugar House Station, zone 6. People today expect too much for too little. Too many people today want security for the rest of their lives through a minimum of effort and a maxi-mum of pay. Charles H. Kellstadt, Sears Roebuck & Co. President |
