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Show President Veto Denies Federal Bldg. in S. L. Although Utah's "supposedly-in-the-know" Republican Congressional Con-gressional delegation had confidently confi-dently predicted presidential approval, ap-proval, President Dwight Eisenhower Eisen-hower this week denied Salt Lake City a new federal building. build-ing. The president vetoed the in- dependent offices bill which would have appropriated $10,-775,000 $10,-775,000 for the new Salt Lake City federal office building. Only a few days before the veto Sen. Arthur V. Watkins had confidently predicted that the President would sign the bill. Watkins' remarks had also been echoed by other members of the solid Republican Congressional delegation. The action left many observers wondering if Sen. Watkins still maintains his much vaunted "close relationship" with the White House. His source of information in-formation has apparently dried up. Leaders of the Democratic-controlled Democratic-controlled Congress hoped to salvage the measure by 'repassing 'repass-ing it without a civil service retirement re-tirement fund measure which the President said he was against. There appeared slight hope the measure would clear Congress before adjournment. |