The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 4

4A OGDEN UTAH FRIDAY EVENING MAY 1671975 Has Egg Hit Fan Through Order i Reopening Canal? a Ik EDITORIALS Ford Scores Clear Win on Farm Bill vessel far back in the line-fiqt within six years Disraeli bought from Ismael ($13 million) £he controlling sharesJ 1 The aropugthe bottom of Africa frcxCKfhe Persian Gulf to Sea is about 11300 mildsVia the Canal it is about And BLsmark calie1ytbis waterway cord in tKt 'befk of the British Empirq connects the spine wifi the Egypt has blocked theJCgnal twice first during Israel-British French Sues cdsis By HENRY TAYLOR Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat gained a great diplomatic coup by announcing after the breakdown in Secretary Mideast negotiations that Egypt would nevertheless still reopen the Suez Canal But has the egg hit the fan? the Canal "was a terrible blow to President Sadat told me Cairo to cotton it was always our biggest hard-currency earner -nearly $250 million a reopening pledge has proved a Herculean task Egypt has had in place the largest fleet of dredges in the world Sadat mentioned that their capacity was an astounding nine million meters a year But it has taken nearly a year just to clear out some 750000 mines bombs trucks amphibious vehicles etc And president expressed great gratitude for our assistance US Rear Adm Kent Carrol commanding our naval detachment helping the Egyptians brought demolition crews Navy divers and US technicians British and French detatchments followed President Ford Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and the American Farm Bureau Federation have scored a clear victory in an important test of strength on a major farm bill The House of Representatives failed by 40 votes late Tuesday to over-ride the veto of a cne-year emergency proposal that critics charged would increase food prices to consumers Mr Ford in his May 1 veto message said the bill would be costly to taxpayers and would damage international market positions so essential to American long-term interest The President also felt that enactment of the measure would increase the 1976 federal deficit far above the $60 billion ceiling he is trying to maintain Supporters of the proposal including the Utah-Idaho Farmers Union said the failure of Congress to over-ride the veto would hasten the demise of the family farmer Tie supporters also included the AFL-CIO Consumer Federation of America and the National Milk Producers Federation They had engaged in an all-out and expensive lobbying effort to secure its passage but failed The legislation would have raised both price support production loan rates and target prices on wheat corn and cotton for this year only It would also have set up a 12-month loan program for soybeans and required readjustments every three months of price supports on dairy products now set at 30 per cent The victory in the House does put Mr Ford Secretary Butz and their supporters on the spot If farm prices drop suddenly they will be pressured again into action under existing laws to maintain a fair rate of return for the vital agricultural industry As President William Kuhfuss of the American Farm Bureau Federation said wnen the American food machine is running at near capacity can efficient production assure reasonable food The Farm Bureau head contended successfully that enactment of the so-called emergency farm act "would seriously hampered this high-tuned and efficient and again in the 1367 Israel war It had been elosedveix years before the 1973 Israel war and for eight years by nqw 1 In the year before Egypt closed the Car-al the second time 21250 ships through Three-quarters otv -Jhis traffic was oil The UahaJ's depth is 38 feet limiting it" to vessels drawing less than' 34 feet In terms cf tankers E0B0G- ton carriers But warned! and frightened by the dosing the shipping tiworlj plunged into giant and even 400 000-ton 10 times the 1 Suez maximum for the PIRACY 30-MILE BRANCH tolls up The Canal would have 'ipl be dredged to 67 feet and widened at incredible expense and this would take about six years' even to accommodate 150000 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Swift Collapse of South Vietnam Caught President Ford by Surprise Anderson ehief-of-state put two men in charge in whom he has complete confidence: Minister of Reconstruction Osman Ahmed Osman and Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Ahmed Mashour They plan a new 30-mile branch from Port Said south permitting two way traffic Inaugurated Nov 16 1869 after 10 years under the Canal section 102 miles it is nearly 106 years old Ismail Pasha hereditary khedive under the Ottoman sultan grew determined that Egvpt develop free from Turkish and European domination France to dismay supplied the money and put engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps at disposal Ismail commissioned Giuseppi Verdi to compose for the opening And French Empress Eugenie anc De Lesseps led a 50-mile parade of 68 vessels of various nationalities aboard the glittering vacht The French contrived a slap at the British Egpt placed the British flag-draped ton vessels But now U'eNex-planation about how the egg has hit the fan It costs only $220 pert ton to transport supertanker olf'from the Persian Gulf around-Africa to Rotterdam or Marseilles Using a 60000 ton vessel Jirpited by the Canal this $220' would be $450 The Canal tolls would be on top of this This toll before the lS67jvar was 90 cents a ton Today -it is forecast at $2 a ton ThairJL' recognizes only the impact eight inflation and allows nothing for the immense canalclearing costs Z'Z'l- Additionally 1 dy's in London has now notified -fihe shipping world that still considers this a war zone and the insurance will be highly Egypt's profits must cqmc from the tep number of canal -using vessels And if fe-fnd the Canal economical Egypt's gain vanishes immediately ou the June 5 reopening if The beleagured Central Intelligence Agency was the first say our sources to warn that a 1st victory was imminent The CIA recommended that the United States use its leverage to persuade the Saigon leaders to form a vv i could negotiate a truce FINAL STRUGGLE This would have given the United States more time to arrange an orderly and dignified evacuation The CIA was overruled however upon the advice of US Ambassador Graham Martin who called upon President Nguyen Van Thieu instead to form a war cabinet By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON The swift collapse of South Vietnam badly surprised President Ford who w7as misled according to White House sources by the national intelligence estimates These estimates are supposed to provide the President with the best possible analysis of what is likely to happen He wras assured tor example that the South Vietnamese army would be able to hold off the advancing Communists for several months Even after the Saigon defenses began to crack the national iiteiUgence estimate predicted that Hanoi would negotiate with Saigon and form a coalition government earned the private swimming pool now7 being built for him at the White House Mr Ford loves to swim even more than he likes to ski He had a pool at his own Washington home when he was Rep Ford and Vice President Ford But when he moved to'the White House he had none The old pool there has been turned into an expanded press room Construction on a new pool has now been started to be ready later this summer It will cost more than $60000 But no federal funds are involved being paid for by friends With the pressures he has President Ford is entitled to relax every chance he has Providing him with a pool is the least we can do Smoking Penalty To smoke or not to smoke in public a burning question in Utah these days And this newspaper has the letters to the editor to prove it a major issue now in South Korea too But in a different way To protect the domestic industry the Seoul government has made the selling or smoking of foreign-made cigarettes a major crime If convicted the penalty is 10 years in prison or $10400 in fines Suit Dismissed District Judge VeNoy Christoffcr-sen acted in the best interests of the state when he dismissed the conflict of interest suit that had been filed against former State Sen LaMar Buckner Mr Buckner defeated for reelection last fall in a close election served as a court-appointed inheritance tax appraiser while he was a member of the senate This the suit charged was a conflict of interest Judge Christoff ersen said the question became moot when Mr Buckner returned to the senate So he dismissed the action An opposite decision would have meant chaos because other members of the Utah Legislature hold similar assignments Jf a conflict had been proven to be a violation of law7 there would have been a disruptive cloud on dozens of items of legislation in which these lawmakers were involved At the same time the suit should serve as a warning for those still in the Legislature Especially in the wake of Watergate the nation is in no mood to tolerate conflicts how-eer small President's Pool President Gerald Ford has well LETTERS TO THE EDITOR supposedly to stiffen the resistence Although the Joint Chiefs correctly predicted more than two years ago that President Thieu would rot survive and that the Communists would win the final struggle for Vietnam tne Pentagon badly misjudged the South Vietnamese ability to hold the line The Pentagon estimate was that the South Vietnamese would battle the Communists to a standstiil along the approaches to Saigon The only exception was the Air Force intelligence chief Maj Gen George Keegan who warned that the defenses would collapse 1 1 was the assessment that the South Vietnamese infantry divisions on the line were as good as any US division Then why did they buckle? From the secret cables here is a thumbnail analysis: President Thieu was shaken by the capture of Ban Me Thout in the Central Highlands last March He concluded that his troops were spread too thin and ordered a strategic withdrawal COULDN'T DECIDE But Thieu w7as indecisive He would issue orders then cancel them He decide where to make a stand Finally the commander of the Second Military Region after a meeting with Thieu returned to his men and announced: pulling out They not only abandoned their heavy equipment but left the First Military Region outflanked What was supposed to be an orderly withdrawal therafter turned into a pellmell rush for the coat Panic spread with every man for himself until the hasty retreat became a total rout Cheap Vacations Out in Europe Buckle RULES FOR LETTERS Tf Standard Examiner welcomes let fers trom its readers on topics of current interest Letters should be addre Editor Standard-Examiner Box 951 Ogden Utah 84402 Letters should not exceed 300 words and all letters are subiect lo condensation No more than one letter per month will be printed from any individual Lexers violating rules of good taste and laws of libel will be 'ejected All must be signed and Include for verification writer's address and telephone number both meets enjoyable without putting a burden on the competitors or the spectators I wish to congratulate Weber State for holding these tw7o events separately I sincerely hope that the Utah High School Activities Association will follow your example and keep the girls and boys meets separate Mrs Elaine Russell Ogden Countless Americans Prefer Paid Loafing to Working i lA' 41 Harvey cheaper than in Europe Our gasoline is half as expeiBivc Our typical motel rooms-are haif as high Except fancy spots in the our cuisine is 1 would gufess about three quarters as Inflation as Lord Keynes reminded us is a mosfeiil disease not least because its consequences are so subHeAo pernicious so difficult ack down The United State! lhas gravely mismanaged jts economic affairs but it isfcnly lately that we begin to realize that all that scope we thought we had by virtue of our dizzying psr capita wealth is verJiprge-ly illusory Everyone knows of fbdurae that the richest per capifahlte is one of those pJaces-hsthe Persian Gulf where there Is 'an oil pool per this is specifically' of Kuwait which has a pen capita gross national prodtfetj of $11000 But surely we are tie xt and well ahead even -cfC the Europeans? No The second ndhst country (I use per income of course) is Switzqplg'jd By WILLIAM BUCKLEY JR The frightening stories you hear about prices in Europe are largely true It will require a major change in the American mind to revise the fiction that Europe is where you go to have a cheap vacation A generation's experience with a dollar swaggering down the European marketplace taking a little of this a bunch of that and filling up the basket to overflowing is now as remote as the Paris of Ernest Hemingway A few7 concrete examples I and my six bags and briefcases needed the other afternoon to get from Geneva to Montreux which is superhighway all the way about 60 miles Price? Three hundred francs The easiest way to translate Swiss francs into what we used to call Real Money is to multiply by four It comes to for an car ride (I wTite these words on the train) Two weeks ago I was one night at the Bolder Grand in Zurich a lovely hotel I have known since childhood I asked for the smallest suite Tne bill was $160 A few months ago driving by night to the mountains and having gagged at the food proffered on the airplane by BEA my wife and I for a country inn found one! ordered two sandwiches each and a bottle of the local wine Twenty dollars Lost Sheop Editor Standard-Examiner: I am writing about school system The students attend nine months a year and get three months summer vacation During those three summer months they have off which is soon starting for them again the students are free with so much time on their hands they wander around like lost sheep and most of them tind jobs Others get into trouble and look for hassles which cause problems to the peace loving citizens and older people In Colorado they now7 have a school schedule for students all year around For wording parents this is great because they know their children out getting into trouble and especially for single parents who can save money by not having to put their youngsters in day care centers The teachers are being well paid now Why they work a full year around schedule like everybody else does? If our lawmakers can enforce no smoking in public places I suggest they slait stressing and making a law for better education for our children now coming up My little girl who will be in the third grade next fall said ste would love to attend school full time and no summer vacations Joyce Slemp Ogden Set Example Editor Standard-Examiner: I have been enjoying high school track as a spectator for the last three years since my son has been a participant Saturday May 3 I went to the BYU Invitational Meet in Provo The meet started at 8 am and ended at 7 pm This made a very long day for participants and spectators I feel that one of the contributing factors for the long exhausting day was that the girls meet was held in conjunction with the boys Weber State College hosted the girls region 1 and 11 track meet on Thursday May 8 and the boys region 11 meet on Friday May 9 Weber State was farsighted enough to have these meets on separate days making at $7270 After Switzerland are going to have to go or otherwise protest Workers in our country7 outnumber the nonworkers nine-to-one They have to sit still for this Unions should be protesting this subsidized malingering Union workers individually respect work they respect goof-offs Look at the way heavy labor areas of industrial cities rallied to Wallace in the primaries Most politicians however are not leaders They are forever playing catch-up with their own constituents They yet know how disgusted working Americans are getting with their government taking up to one-third of their taxes to pay for One in three New Yorkers now lives off the taxes of the other two CAN COLLECT $118 In New York a nonworker can collect up to $35 a week for not working In Illinois he can collect up to 118 tax-free dollars a week! an unfair temptation to anybody And with most elections decided by a few hundred thousand votes hardly any politician has the courage to turn his back on that parasitic army of millions However many municipalities allow onlv taxpayers to vote on tax referendum If on all issues only taxpayers were allowed to vote it would get this burden of goldbricks off the backs of the politicians If this sounds un-American be reminded that in our virile beginnings only taxpayers weie allowed to vote If this sounds uncharitable the Apostle Paul was tougher yet He said who does not work let him not By PAUL HARVEY Lois our so-called have to be you know Maybe most of them Unemployment pays so well these days that countless Americans are refusing jobs choosing to loaf These are the new You Marne them They have a government permit to pick your pocket You have to blame the system And the only way the system is going to be corrected is for taxpayers to revolt all take the summer off! Greenville SC: The vending-machine company has been advertising for pay you while we train three months and cannot fill the available jobs Greenville has a 123 per cent rate of unemployment! How come? GOING FISHING Ask Jim White why doesn't he take one of those or one of many others offered by the local textile and admit rather spend the summer fishing Working he makes $125 a week After deductions his take-home pay is $30 a eek Unemployed he collects $33 a week and r-n deductions! This plus food stamps plus odd jobs wiuen he doesn't bother to mention and Jim makes more money fishing than working Again we blame him And we can't expect elected politicians to pull the featherbed out from under the Jim Whites 3o somewhere down the line taxpayers HIGH INFLATION IT HAPPENED 20 50 YEARS AGO MAY 16 1925 Isaacson Ogden contractor was the low bidder for the new addition to the Ogden home when the bids w7ere opened by Hodgson and Mc-Clsnahan architects Mr bid was $50881 More than 400 persons gathered to hear the public speaking and male quartet singing contests arranged by the Weber Stake Miss Fern Jude was awarded first place in the senior speaking contest and Rulon Beus of Hooper won first in the contest The six students who attained the highest scholastic ranking of the 1925 graduating class of Ogden High School were Jake Reynolds Erica Berne Alice Tanner Eleanor Kidder Edith Pack and Therrna Scoville Graduates of the Dee Memorial Hospital training school for nurses were to receive their diplomas and pins at ceremonies in the Weber College auditorium Among the gradual is -were Leona Wright Emma Reid Doris Taylor and Leola Denson MAY IS 1955 Seminary commencemert exercises for 141 graduating students were held in the Bear River Stake Tabernacle at Garland with Elaine Cowley and Ralph Cullimore as student speakers Dennis Richards was student bishop of the seminary Floyd Perry scoutmaster cf Sunset Troop 157 was awarded the Eagle badge at a Court of Honor in the Sunset Ward Holder of an Arrowhead and 55 merit badges Scoutmaster Perry had been active in Boy Scout work since 1944 Practicing their roles for an operetta Princess of to be presented by fifth and sixth grades cf Lorin Farr School were Leon Rip-plinger Patsy Fox Dorothy Pally John Giles Nolan Gomm and Don Hansen Some of the finest dairy arimals of the state were put on exhibition by FFA and 4-H Club members during the junior division show of Plain City Dairy Days Jane Chugg daughter of Mr and Mrs John Chugg Farr West was one of the smallest showmen there comes Sweden with 80 Then Denmark only after that the -United States with $6595 We are inly a little way ahead dfest Germany ($6215) and Pirgnee ($5390) We are ahead of Canada jpfich comes Norway Australia-Xiel-gium the NetheriandsXLlba Austria and Japan T'C- The big dip comes nthis point with Great EriMat $3385 Recently Denis ey the chancellor of thp'vEx-chequer proudly that the government is spiriting $2400 per year on'eety member of the IwSiilng population He very far to go before he "sc! ads more on Englishmen Englishmen eVrn But not to stray from- the point: the United Stqlfl -is massively rich because huge capital plant to produce for two hundred JntlMon people The Swiss will tell you quite politely and quite cogently that really it their fault Only two and a half years ago you could take a ten dollar bill to a bank and get 43 francs for it At that rate the hotels taxis and ham sandwiches in Switzerland have risen only by that almost universal ten per cent per year that everybody seems to get used to But when you add to that ten per cent two devaluations of the dollar you get a polarization that makes travel in and France and terribly expensive It is I think not an exaggeration to say that travel within America is substantially.