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Show Sen. Moss, Rep. King Take Oath in Capital Sen. Frank B. Moss was sworn in by Vice President Richard M. Nixon this week at ceremonies at the beginning of the 86th Congress. Con-gress. Sen. Moss was sworn in along with three other Democrats, Sen. Gale McGee of Wyoming, Edmund Ed-mund Muskie of Maine and John O. Pastore of Rhode Island. Sen. Moss was escorted down the Senate's center aisle by the state's new senior senator, Wallace Wal-lace F. Bennett. The brief swearing in ceremonies cere-monies were conducted before packed galleries. Among those witnessing the event were Sen. Moss wife, his father, James E. Moss, and sister Dr. Bernice Moss of the University Univer-sity of Utah faculty. After the ceremony a reception took place inthe Senate Interior Committee room which was attended at-tended by some 200 Utah friends and other well wishers. Standing in the reception line with the new senator and his wife were the state's new Democratic Representative, Rep-resentative, David S. King. Rep. King had been sworn in earlier at ceremonies in the House of Representatives. Among those noted in the receiving re-ceiving line were Former Utah Democratic Senator Abe Mur-dock Mur-dock and his brother Ray Mur-dock, Mur-dock, a prominent Washington attorney; Paul Badger, a Washington Wash-ington attorney, who served as administrative assistant to the late Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas; Edgar Brossard of the U. S. Tariff Commission, majority major-ity leader Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming. |