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Show f I Reno To Host Western The Utah Republican Conference The biennial meeting of the Republican Western Conference will be held this year in Reno, Nevada, on November 14, 15 and 16. Guest at the conference will be Meade Alcorn, National Chairman of the Republican Party. Mr. Alcorn will address the group at a banquet the night of the 14th. A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government VoL 11; No. 41 Salt Lake City, Utah Participating States Included in the participating areas of the meeting are California, Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Friday, October Wyoming, Colorado, Washington, Montana, Arizona, Utah Alaska and Hawaii. Cedar City Meeting Put v.. To Nov. 2; Water Project Price Turnout ieesned 'Enthusiastic' Requests The Region Five conference in the schedule of Republican Regional Meetings has been changed from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2, it was announced Wednesday by Thomas G. Judd, Republican State Chairman. The change was necessitated by a legislative council meeting in Salt Lake on Oct. 26. Federal Aid be the second in a series of six . One other change has been anwas nounced in the tentative schedule Regional Meetings. The first held at Price on Saturday, Oct. 12. published last week. The Region Sen. Arthur V. Watkins said At the Price meeting there was Two conference will be held in Saturday that Bountiful Water Mr. Salt Lake at the Hotel Newhouse an enthusiastic turnout, Districts appliJudd said, and for a first attempt Crystal Ballroom. The date will cation for a loan under the Small remain the same, Nov. 23. was very promising. Reclamation Projects Act will be presented to Congress next session, possibly in January. Assurance of such action was given Sen. Watkins this morning Four Counties by Reclamation Commissioner The Cedar City meeting, which W. A. Dexheimer, from WashWashington, Iron, will includeMillard ington . Beaver and counties, will Mr. Dexheimer remarked, We draw, a slate of top ranking Redo everything possible to will publicans on the panel and speakexpedite the consideration of ers platform, according to Mr. this application and hope to have Judd. it ready to transmit to the ConJaren L. Jones, national commitgress by the start of the next teeman; Mr. Judd; Nicholas G. session, assuming, of course, that Morgan, finance chairman of the the proposal is acceptable. Dale State Republican Plans for a $4.5 million District chairman, and Peak, publicity the of chairman C. Mann, project are being prepared in Stanley the Ogden office of the Bureau Utah Young Republican League, mens the of Reclamation. portion will comprise Sub-conservan- party; of the panel. ' politics'" f r o m the womens angle will be Mrs. LaRue Discussing Jex, national committeewoman; Mrs. D. Clark Williams, Presidentelect of the Utah Federation of Womens Republican Clubs; and Madge H. Fairbanks, of the Utah Young Republican League. vice-chairma- The panel discussions will occuprogram with dis- py the morning cussion from the floor following vice-chairma-n, and hear national and regional Republican leaders. The Mapes, Holiday and Riverside hotels have been engaged to handle the convention visitors. Utah Bar Assn Admits 43 Forty-thre- e Utah Bar new members of the Association will be sworn in Monday, Oct. 21. The swearing in will take place in the Supreme Court chambers. The oath will be administered Chief Justice Roger McDonApplication for a $550,000 loan by with, the other Justices in ough, under the Small Projects Pro- attendance. new Of the forty-thre- e gram from the South Davis attorneys, thirty-siare graduates County Water Improvement Dis- of the University of Utah College trict of Bountiful is being con- of Law. Forty nine candidates sidered in the Bureaus engineer- took the examination. ing headquarters at Denver. Sen. Watkins also recalled that notices of intent to apply for Womens Meet loans under the Small Projects Program have been filed by the Nov. Centerville Irrigation Company, the Haights Creek Irrigation The next meeting of the ExecuCompany at Kaysville, and that tive Board of the Utah Federation the New Survey Irrigation Com- of Womens Republican Clubs will pany at Kaysville has made in- be held Nov. 2 at .10:00 a.m., it was announced today by Federaquiry. Golden W. Stewart is President tion President Mrs. Hazel Taggart of the Bountiful Water SubconChase. District. District The servancy According to Mrs. Chase the submitted its application for a Board meeting will be at the Reloan last August 22nd, Sen. Wat- publican State Headquarters, Hokins recalled. tel Newhouse, in Salt Lake City. Board Bennett Hits Inflation Debates Fiscal Policy Set For high-rankin- To Speak To Utah Y.R.L. Reno, Nevada. The conference will commence with the banquet at 6 p.m. the 14th. Business to be conducted includes the election of officers for the next two years; the exchange of ideas and information relative to the 1958 election; and to meet -- the remarks of the individual The national administrations checked by limiting the money speakers. Highlighting the after- policy was defended by Senator supply, the Senator said. This is noon session will be an address Walace A. Bennett this week in a the purpose of the current tight member of debate with Oklahoma Sen. Rob- money g from a policy of the administra the state administration, accord- ert S. Kerr at the National Con- tion. ing to Mr. Judd. ference of Editorial writers in Elements of the economy causThe Cedar City conference; will Oklahoma City, Okla. ing the most trouble in this re--( monecurrent that the Continued on Page 4) Seating tary policy is simply aimed at bringing the rate of growth in the money supply back to normal, Sen. Bennett pointed out that had not the supply of funds for investment been restricted most competent economic observers agreed that prices would have gone sky high. An aid in inflation John Ashbrook, national chair- under control, keeping Plans by the Utah State Road according to the man of the Young Republicans, efforts of been the has Commission for a multi-milliSenator, and Jerry Kent, national in administration the producing dollar office building were will visit Utah Oct. 28 a and termed not important enough to advocating surplus budget Stanand 29 it was announced by tax to stimulate proprograms the justify calling a special session of ley C. Mann, chairman of of duction output. the legislature by Gov. George Young Republican League Much more can be done than Dewey Clyde. Utah, Monday night. A state-wid- e membership drive has been in these sectors, but he If the Road Commission prowill be held in conjunction with said the balance of the federal ceeds with its plans some legisthe visit. The first meeting in the governments contribution has, lators have indicated a special drive will be held in Provo on the been on the side of price sta- session might be necessary. The BYU campus on the 28th. Mr. bility and not on the side of in- Governors statement, however, Mann said that a nationally flation. rules out a special session at least known speaker will address the In a speech to the group prior for the present. gathering. to the debate, Sen. Bennett chalAccording to Ellis L. ArmOn the 29th the group will to editorial the writers strong commission director, commove to Salt Lake City, where lenged some inflaon the throw ments were invited from legislight Mr. Ashbrook will speak at a tion now the nation's threatening lators, but none received. He said meeting in the Governors Board current prosperity. The necessity that bids to build an office buildroom at the Capitol. counto for the the commission to lease communicating for ing The Young Republican officers citizens cause the and pre15 trys for years will be asked for in are participating in the panel disof vention was inflation stressed a few days. The commission cussions of the Regional Conferin talk. the clause favors an option-to-bu- y ences being conducted by the Reso the could lease in the can be in Utah. building Steadily rising prices publican party Natl Leaders on the attendance of the national committeemen and women the state chairman, vice chairman, treasurer, finance chairman, chairman of the Young Republican League, President of the Womens Federation and the state central committee. All party leaders and group chairmen should plan on attending the conference. Hotel Reservations Mrs. Kay Johnson, chairman of the arrangements committee, pointed out the necessity of making early hotel reservations. Such reservations may be made directly with the Housing Committee chairman, Miss Myrtle Isbell may be reached at P.O. Box 2351, x n Morning Session All interested Republicans are urged to attend and. all the meetings will be open to visitors. Special emphasis is being placed 2 Special Session Not Necessary In Road Comm5 n Building Plan on be purchased if approval from the legislature was forthcoming. Purpose of the new building would be to consolidate the offices of the commission now housed in five separate offices scattered throughout Salt Lake. In addition the highway construction plan, to be carried out in the next fifteen years, will require an additional 300 to 350 technical and administrative employees-trip- le the present number. The estimated cost of the building is two million dollars. The proposed size is 125,000 square feet Further developments occurred in Salt Lake this week when House Speaker Jaren L. Jones reported that Utah legislators generally oppose the Road Commission's plan. The House Speaker wrote the state legislators with respect to the problem and his replies clearly indicate opposition to the new He predicted the expenditure. next legislature would put controls on the power of state agencies to follow the example of the Road Commission. Temporary arrangements of some nature should be made by the Commission was the general view expressed by the Utah lawmakers. Ellis L. Armstrong, commission director, said a special session seems unlikely, since his group wishes to cooperate with the legislature. The Utah attorney general recently ruled that the commission could enter into a long-terlease agreement without legislative approval, but that an option to buy would have to be approved by the Legislature to be exercised. m |