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Show SB - THE CITIZEN Visit M Oxford ornians Calif Politically Speaking 19, 1969 June at the Fisher home Saturday; ;A. were Mr. and Mrs. Elden Fisher and family of Brea, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hawkes of Salt Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Claire Fisher and fam- ily of Ogden. They also visit-- , ed with Mr. and Mrs. Doug-- 1 las Fisher while in Oxford. Mrs. Annie Hatch, Mrs. Virgil Geddes, Mrs. Lavona Hatch drove to Richmond Friday to attend the open house honoring Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Bell on their 50th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Baker OXFORD-Visit-ors L. Before the law was changed to create the By JOHN CORLETT Idaho Statesman Political Editor In Our Opinion pre-prima- ry Idaho's Democratic party professionals are faced with a sticky problem of trying to change state law in election of delegates to the national1 convention to conform with1 rules of the national party, The problem realiy concerns election of delegates to the Democratic State Assembly, which elects delegates to the Democratic State Assembly. which elects delegates to the national convention. j Rules And The University Of Idaho A noted educator reported in Preston last week that he had been asked to give assistance in combating a plan by Pres. Ernest Hartung of the University of Idaho to lift visiting restrictions at the girls dormitory on that campus. The appeal came from a member of the board of regents of the University. The University of Idaho has had the reputation in the past of being a conservative and well behaved school. One reputable person said that the University of Idaho was far more disciplined than Utah State University. We found it hard to' believe that the President of the school would request that boys will be able to visit in the girl's dormitories at any time without restrictions. We sincerely hope that by the time the story got to us, that it was just a little out of proportion. The member of the board of regents was outraged by the suggestion of dropping the visiting restrictions. According to the educator, it has been shown that youth wants some restrictions. They want to know where the line is, what the policy is. And parents want to know what responsibility universities and colleges are taking in putting up protective restrictions. Giving in and letting the bars down will not in the long run solve campus disorder, make a better student, nor will it foster faith and confidence in that school. Somewhere along the line, the parents should have some say about what is going on in the schools if for no other reason than they are footing much of the bill. If Pres. Hartung is proposing such a measure, he should reconsider. It could effect the whole reputation of a great University. Ths Human Overflow assemblies, whose major function Is the endorsement of candidates for placement on the primary election ballot, delegates to the state conventions, usually held in April on presidential election years were selected at county conventions. They were selected In the same years of the nation ; j ; I ...t Mrs. Marie Hatch, Mrs. Bessie Olson and Mrs. Lavona Hatch of the Cedar Tree DUp camp attended the county convention at Fairview Thursday and received a gift for having the highest percentage of registered members attend their meetings. Mr. and Mrs. Cluff Kendall Mrs. LaVerl Kendall and daughter, Tamara Pitcher, Mrs Susan Fisher, Mr. and Mrs Rays Ilorsley, Mr. and Mrs Merl Kendall attended the wedding reception for Mr. and Mrs. Brett Duane Conlin at Roy on June 6. al conventions. have argued that if con are to be retained,! delegates to the state conventions should be selected from a broader base. Utah has conventions and delegates to them are elected t mass caucuses of the respective parties in each county of that state. And on the same The simplest method would year, of course, as the nationbe to authorize the popular al convention. election of delegates to naOtherwise, in the interest of tional conventions, thereby a democratic selection of placing Idaho among the candidates for office and delestates with a presidential pri- gates to the national convenmary. tions, the open primary should Neighboring Oregon has a be returned. If the second session of the presidential preferential primary simply because dele- 40th Idaho Legislature does gates to the national conven not grant relief to the Idaho tions of each party are elected Democratic party, then I beat that state's nominating el lieve the Democratic State ection in May of presidential Central Committee can adopt election years. It wiU be re its own rules and regulations called that in 1968, Sen. Eu- for selection of delegates to gene J. McCarthy won the conform to the rule of the delegates to the Democratic: 1968 national convention. national convention at Chica-- i OXFORD BRIEFS Richard M. Nixon won! go. the Republican delegates, Jerry Olson and friend, Sam This column has pointed out: Olson visof several times mat Idaho law ited his Lewiston, Idaho, Mr. and grandparents, excludes any popular partici-- : Mrs. Ernest Olson, and other pation in the state jsemblies relatives over the Memorial of each party, and that the; weekend. assemblies are controlled by; Mrs. Eva Harmon of Poca-tcll- o g cliques1 small, visited her sister, Mrs. within each party. FurtherCecil of Fisher, Friday. the. more, the majority Mr. and Mrs. Keith Hatch delegates to the state assem blies are elected nearly two and family of Logan visited years before the assemblies his mother, Mrs. Marie Hatch, are held, and they control the election of the relatively few and Mr. and Mrs. Henry delegates selected the year Hatch Saturday. the assemblies are held. Selection of delegates, thereThe 1968 Democratic fore, is by a very narrow base of party professionals. And national convention adopt ed a rule that delegate this applies to both parties. to the 1972 national convention must be selected by state convention delegates elected in 1972. The 17 presidential preferential primary states elect their national convention delegates by direct popular election. TOsvtrnl l?.VAll'tf'Vra I The Democrats have logic and reason on their side, but it is doubtful if they can convince the Republican majority In the legislature to change the law governing selection of delegates to the state assemblies. i i and Marion Baker "drove to Salt Lake City Saturday and visited Wayne Baker at the veterans hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hatch and Mrs. Annie Hatch visitedMrs. Sharon Hatch and daughter Michelle, and Mrs. Myrtle Anderson and family Sunday in Preston. ' Mr. and Mrs. Duane Hatch and son Richard of Ogden Tiiaeriav IV 01 1 find Wcd-nesday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hatch. Mrs. Annie Hatch, Mrs. Lucy Allen, Mrs. Clara Olson, ventions 1JJ pre-prima- ry Gil JJAVUlJL Inn JLAHJELl SALT LAKE CITY'S FINEST j If rural America can hold out long enough, there is bound to be growth and development . . . there is no other place for the people to go. Though it is true you can crowd millions of people into Just a few square miles, such as Tokyo, Japan, not all of us like that. In a recent publication of the Mountain States Telephone company, it was reported that in 1 A.D. there were six persons per square mile. But by the year there will be 125 persons per square mile. This has been labeled by sociologists as the population explosion. And, as the publication said, this is only average, for only 10 percent of the world's land can be cultivated. Coupled with this fantastic increase in 2000 the world's numbers there is an equally fantastic improvement in transportation fiat brings the big cities so much clos-rWhen we were kids and we visited "iir country cousins, we just couldn't "iderstand how they could get along 14 miles from town. "Just think." Tn just the past few years the travel lime from this section to Boise has decreased by an hour and more is yet to cine. The time to Salt Lake will take a sli"e if thev ever open the Brigham City to Ogden freeway. Maybe the predictions of the early pioneer leaders will become realities far quicker than we anticipate. These valleys could become filled with thousands and thousands of people, much of it due just to the overflow of the human tide. r. VANGAS SA YS THINK CLEAN! Buy A New: and CALORIC RANGE with Oven Self-Cleani- ng ...receive FREE: A.O. SMITH 30 GALLON WATER SATES I face Jaw 1 I: Completely automatically cleans oven and broiler. It's two hours fast. 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Some 88 were popuchairman larly elected of the 35 legislative districts at the primary election, and 47 Democratic legislators, elected at the at ths general election. Ths remaining 132 are chairman, state committee n man and state committeewo-mafrom each of the 44 coun ties, who are automatically delegates under the law. Next May, each county central committee will select two additional delegates for a total of 88. Each or Uie 35 legislative districts is entitled to one additional delegate for each 2,000 or major fraction of votes cast for II. S. representative in the preceding pri mary election. These dele gates arc selected by the legislative district committees. Democrats are entitled to on ly 18 additional delegates un der this process. 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