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Show The Utah Benson Plans for Salt Lake Address; Dinner Highlights Annual Confab Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson will arrive in Salt Lake City Tuesday to prepare for his address at the annual Lincolns Day Dinner Feb. 12. Secretary Benson will be introduced by Senator Arthur V. Watkins. Both the introduction and the major address will be broadcast. According to Richard C. Andrew, general chairman for the dinner, the observence will be held in the Hotel Utah beginning at 7 pm. Tickets are on sale at $6.00 per person. Nearly 100 persons attended last years banquet, said Mr. Andrew, and it is expected that this years banquet attendance will surpass previous records. Tickets for the banquet are available from any Republican leader in the county or any of the committee members for the dinner. Committee members are: Richard C. Andrew, general chairman; Robert E. Freed, tickets; Hazel Taggart Chase and Madge Fairbanks, arrangefents committee nd Dalt Peak, pub- A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government Vol. 12; No. 6 Salt Lake City, Utah Friday, February 7, Mass Meetings Initiate Political Activity Monday Citizens of Salt Lake County, Manday night, will initiate congressional election activity in Utah which will culminate in a general election Nov. 4. The activity towards that election will start Monday night at 8 pjn. with voting district mass meetings in each of the voting districts in the cfbnty. The meetings will be held by both political parties. Mass Meeting Purpose Mass meetings are being held Utah National Guard Plans Observance Of Muster Dy Feb. 12 Plans for observence, in every Utah National Guard community, Muster Day Feb. of a nation-wid- e 22 were announced in Salt Lake City this week. More, than 60 Utah National Guard officers from 06 cities throughout the state heard Muster Day plans at the regular commanders meeting Feb. 1, of Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adjutant General. The participants were commanding officers and key staff personnel from Guard units throughout Utah. Gen. Rich conducted the meeting in Salt Lake City Armory No. 1. The adjutant general advised participating officers of plans for the Muster Day observence in Salt Lake City and presented a proposed schedule fori observances in all National Guard communities in Utah. Highlight of the local celebrations will be parades and formation during which National Guardsmen will take an oath their patriotism and loyalty to the National Guard and its purpose. The muster formations will be conducted in much the same manner followed in the Colonial Days when the countrys early militias held roll call and inspection. The 1958 Muster Day will honor the nations first president, George Washington, on his birthday. In Salt Lake City the occasion will be marked by a parade through the downtown area of 2,000 Army and Air National Guard troops. A Muster Day formation will be conducted on the citys main street. re-affer- Other Nation-wid- e observences of the event will include an open house in every Utah armory, several military balls and other events. for two specific purposes. First voting district officers will be elected to organize the district into a functioning political unit. . Second, delegates will be elected to state and county nominating conventions and state and county organizational conventions. In the nominating convention the delegates will select the candidates whose names will appear on the ballot. Congressional Election This year citizens of Utah will vote to elect a U. S. senator, a U.S. Representative, a Supreme Court Justice, a District Court Judge, ten county officials, three members of the Utah State Senate and 21 members of the Utah House of Representatives. Mass meetings are currently being scheduled throughout the state, according to Thomas G. Judd, Republican State Chairman. He also reminded Republicans that they have but one objective victory for our partys candidates and for the principal of individual freedom which is synonymous with Republicanism. Mr. Judd also stated that the Republican Party of Utah would bevunerable unless we face up to the most significant political reality of 1958 that is: to win Republicans must unite and double the efforts that have been good enough to win in the past. Mass meetings are being held throughout the State of Utah during the following weeks. It has also been asked that immediately after the mass meeting that county delegates card and Mass meeting reports be mailed to the county chairmen as soon as possible. It is also reminded that under the law no proxie, alternate or fractional votes are permitted. Panic-Butto- n Science Store; Killian Reviews U. S. Strength The United States today is technologically strong and growing stronger I do not believe that we have lost our technological leadership nor that we are predestined to lose it in the future provided we increase our technological zest and audacity and do not fail to remedy our weaknesses. In many fields of technology and pure science, the U.S. is outstandingly strong. This is licity. In to a Utah Statescertainly true in nuclear physics, man speaking representative last Thursday, from the purest scientific aspects to military and economic impli- Secretary Benson stated that he was looking forward to his visit cations. to Utah and was anxious to see . . . What Sputnik has shown his friends and neighbors. is not that leadership has passed Secretary Benson also said that from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R., but was very happy to be able to he that we must expect in the future address the people of Utah at this more instances of Russian chalevent. annual The nature of the lenge to our scientific leader address, at this time, was noi Dr. James R. Killian, Jr, ship. known. Special Assistant to the President The observence is for Science and Technology. Jan. by the Utah Republican- Club, 7, 1958. Sherm Lloyd president, and the Utah Central Committee, Sherm BYU Starts Fund Drive B. Lowe, chairman. Mr. Benson is married to the e A develformer Flora Smlith Amlussen. opment plan, aimed at raising a They have two sons: Reed A. huge fund before the 1975 Benson and Mark A. Benson and year, was unfolded today four daughters: Mrs. Robert Harby Brigham Young University. Walker, Beverly Benson, BonFirst plateau in the plan calls ris nie Benson and Flora Beth for raising of $5,000,000 in 40 Benson. months, it was explained by PresActive in politics Mr. Benson ident Ernest L. Wilkinson. There-has served as an executive com . . . ... co-chair- - . long-rang- e, wlde-scop- cen-teni- al mittee member of the American Institute of Cooperation; director of the Farm Foundation; United States delegate to the first International Conference on Farm Organizations in London; chairman, and Board of Trustees of American Institute of Cooperation. A leader in national youth activities he has also served as a member of the National Execu-o- f Agriculture on Jan. 21, 1953. Mr. Benson became Secretary tive Board of Boy Scouts of America. Five GOP Years Unparalled Says Magazine The first five years of the Eisenhower Administration have been marked by unparalled progress and prosperity for virtually every segment of the Nations economy according to the Feb- ruary Editor of Straight From the Shoulder, a national journal of political fact. Whether measured in terms of gross national product, personnal income, employment or tatal new construction, there is no other five-yeperiod in our history as a Nation which even comes close to matching the record highs established in all of these categories under this Republican Administration according to the publication. The year 1957 was the most prosperous ever, despite a doder-at- e decline in the final quarter. For example: More than 65 million people were employed in 1957 four million more than in 1952. The gross national product total output of good s and services hit a record high of $434 billion in 1957 25 per cent above ar 1952. Personal income in 1957 also set a new high of $343 billion 26 per cent above 1952. Total new construction reached a record of $47 billion in 1957 36 per cent higher than 1952. Pushers Soothed By Twining (It would be an unnecessary tragedy if our national policy, or the will of our Allies to say nothing of the confidence of our people in there civilian and military leaders were weakened because of the mistaken impression that the Soviets had achieved military ascendancy over the free world. Such a misapprehension could lead to fatal compromises in connection with disarmament negotiations and could lead to other retreats in the foreign policy field world-wid- e which would eventually distroy our security. General Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jan 17, 1958. Ezra Taft Benson will address the annual Utah Lincoln SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Day Observance to be held Feb. 12 at the Hotel Utah. (Photo Courtesy Deseret News). |