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Show lor; Hrs. Ruth F. Gulbransen, oa Milul, recently served as ,rf si s representative at a m ison lor Congressmen in v(r Rayburn Building in it-, shmgion, D.C. 2'-. E EVENT was hosted by oh : national Pro-Family, bis Mle Coalition to present urc fratures ot more than a ill; iillion Americans who PP( ratification of the Rights Amendment related matters being r, xred by Congress. raids ol Mrs. Gulbransen ted the necessary funds -f -w to attend this impor-1 impor-1 1 -si function so that she 1 1 " report locally on a Jl ''"id basis as to what 'iuppened to the many Winds of Pro-Family, 'We resolutions that ; signed and sent to the Wimily Conference held ; Asf-Arena in Hous--m. on Nov. 19, 1977. V ."'IJ?nj 30, 1978 a half-- half-- ,-- ol the resolutions had I j;-" received at the , pmersiii Texas," Mrs. Gulbransen reported. 'These were packed into a special truck to be driven on a ten-day ten-day trek through several south and southeastern states to the nation's Capitol. "The husband-wife team who drove the truck were accompanied ac-companied by a caravan of cars filled with supporters of the resolutions. This caravan left Ft. Worth, Tex. on Jan. 30 after a preparation rally there attended by some 2,000 people. AT THE rally they were lauded for their efforts by Congressman Walur K. Dor-nan Dor-nan of California and Mrs. Lottie Beth Hobbs, a Texas author; president of Women Who Want to be Women; and chairman of the Pro-Family Coalition movement. "During the ten days on the road, they stopped in many states to hold rallies and pick up more resolutions so that by the time they reached Washington they were carrying carry-ing a total of more than 600,000 signed resolutions. "PART of the rally was a display of the literature from the National International Women's Year Conference held in Houston on Nov. 19, 1977, also. This display took several hours to set up at each stop because of its vastness and its segregation into specific subjects. "Some of the states where rallies were held included Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi and in Alabama, Governor George Wallace adjourned ad-journed the state legislature so that all legislators could attend the rally there. "ALL United States Congressmen were invited to the luncheon in Washington, D.C. There were also many family representatives from most of the states. A total of 500 attended with nearly 300 Congressmen or their legislative legisla-tive aids in attendance. "Four objectives were accomplished ac-complished at this luncheon: first, the 600,000 resolutions were presented to Congress as an alternate (and obviously a more popular) view (of the ERA and related matters) by men and women all across the United States; second, a minority report that the National Na-tional IWY Committee would not accept (contrary to its own by-laws) was presented to Congress. This was presented at the luncheon by Mrs. Guggins, a state legislator legisla-tor from Indiana. It was titled "...To Establish Justice." "THE third objective accomplished ac-complished at the luncheon was that the same display that had been set up at the various state rallies, was also set up to be viewed by those attending the luncheon and Washington, D.C. residents. And the fourth accomplishment accomplish-ment was that an individual packet was presented to every Congressman (whether or not he attended the luncheon) with the IWY Resolutions printed on one side and the Pro-Family views on the other side." |
