Show Radicals Radicals' Gain Top Offices in Boys st State te Libya State is I nn l I institution where boys can tt learn rn government procedures by doing and acting the part pact of ot a n citizen who takes An tin active Interest In n his government t l Assignments Made 1 The first day at nt State Gary Williams Glen Wilde and Layne Dearden were were Assigned to the Nationalist t. t Party They were each to a n different dif dlf- ferent terent city and county county The governments were governmentS Here i ere organized organ organ- Clen Brown Drown served Served as ns a 3 state representative oi his co county nty Glenn Wilde s f. f a n county commissioner and and t f t Gary Williams Williams Wil wn liams IIams was waG n candidate t for county sheriff J The third day nominating conventions conventions con con- for state offices cs were held After ih the convention a Q group of ot 15 a radical radical rad rad- ical Icat party and c called ll themselves s Constitutionalists Layne Dearden Dearden Dear Dear- den and Glenn were among the fifteen n. n For the s secand sec second ond and time In history a n minority candidate became governor of Boys nOYs State Th The C Constitution Constitutionalists gained the toi top three state stale offices On News Staff Two local boys on th the Staff of the official Bo Boys State Stale newspaper the Stateman Glenn Wilde was city editor and Layne Dearden was a staff artist A mock legislature legislative le was held and bills were passed and sent from one house t to tho other under under un un- der del the bf f Utah legislatures leg Jeg- un-I un Z y t l Some of the speakers were I i Otto A A. Wisely tile the founder founder of or or Boys Doys' State Dr Edwin L. L Petterson Petterson Pet Pet- terson of the Utah State University University University Uni Uni- several foreign exchange students a W zest est I o nt Cadet and e some government officials I T The The- bo boys ere r given n an examination ex examination ex- ex j ex-j on the different aspects aspects aspects as as- of government at the beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning and end of or the ex experience exper- exper per per- perI I lence to see how much the boys learned The week was clo closed ed by graduation graduation graduation grad grad- exercises and a Governors Ball DaU The boys would like to fo o thank their sponsors for showing an Interest in the future citizens of their state and country I |