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Show Sen. Kennedy Blasts GOP Brass In FDR Birthday Ball Address Sen. Kennedy listed five crises which he said will have to be met by the next president. They were: 1. To prepare, in terms of economic eco-nomic development and public programs, for a decade of rapidly expanding population. 2. To solve the already serious and growing farm problem in a way to make surpluses a blessing bless-ing rather than a curse. 3. To meet the crisis of automation auto-mation by preparing to retain and place in employment the rlisnlaeed workers. More than 3,000 Utah Democrats Demo-crats attending the Franklin D. Roosevelt Birthday Ball in the Terrace Ballroom, heard Sen. John F. Kennedy claim that the next four years will be ones of crisis which can be met only by the firm and dynamic leadership which the Democratic party offers. of-fers. Sen. Kennedy, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, appealed for election of a Democratic president. Sen. Kennedy was introduced by Sen. Frank E. Moss. Earlier in the day the candidate candi-date met with party officials and supporters in an attempt to line up convention support for his candidacy. In his major talk he described the Republican Party arici Administration Ad-ministration as one "frozen in the ice of its own indifference" and added that the offering of "an easy peace and prosperity is not enough for the decade of the sixties. "We will need a forceful and creative president; a president who will be a vital center of action in our entire political system; sys-tem; a president in the Democratic Demo-cratic tradition of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman." 4. To close the gap between our national wealth and the poverty pov-erty of too many citizens. 5. To assist underdeveloped countries in reaching a secure and stable society under Democratic Demo-cratic governments. In a press conference earlier Sen. Kennedy emphasized that this nation must put more effort into its defense program, particularly partic-ularly to maintain an effective deterrant power during the so-called so-called missile gap between next year and 1964. During his stay in Salt Lake City the senator paid a courtesy call on President David O. McKay Mc-Kay of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |