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Show ' "' "" . - ""'. . LIBRARY ' ' UNIVERSITY of UTAH , I ' ' - .. PERIODICAL DIVISICII uoi iu iaaa . -- Ill uNivrasm library . ( UNIVESI1Y OF ITAII ' SALT LAKE CITY cm 12 ,A c SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1959 - - "' Demo Women To!d Importance Of Getting Members Registered r Salt Lake County Democratic Women's Executive Committee, meeting in Democratic head-quarters in Newhouse Hotel, stressed the importance of Demo-crats registering for the forth-- ! coming Salt Lake City primary and general election. Legislative and senatorial dis-trict vice chairmen present were asked to maket sure all party members in their districts were registered. Mrs. Sunday Anderson told the gathering of the success of a tele-phone plan in Hawaii in which five women called five other women, who called five others and so on, urging them to regis-ter and get their friends regis-tered. She pointed out the plan was successful though it imposed no hardship on anyone. Naomi Woolley, vice chairman of legislative district 18 and chairman of Democratic Worn en's Day in Utah urged all vice chairmen to collect and turn in the $3 requested of each district for the National Committee. In making the request Mrs. Woolley noted that the state and county organization reap benefits far in excess of their contribu-tions. Ethel Spillsbury of Legislatvie -- District 8 reported the money had been collected in her dis- - trict. Districts planning meetings in the immediate future and the vice chairman of each include: 1, Maude Kimball; 8,JEthel Spills-bur- y; 9, Anne Erickson; 13, Mrs. John Harter; 14, Rena Loomis; 20, Ivy Mitchell; and 15, Deltha Christensen assisted by Lavinia Chettle. Mrs. Dorothy Henderson, county vice chairman, who con-- . ducted the meeting said the next i j gathreing would be held Nov. 5 - at 5 p.m. in party headquarters. Candidates for Mayor, Commission Step Up Activity As Vote Wears. With Salt Lake City's primary election less .than two weeks away, candidates were stepping up campaign activity this week in an effort to gain a place on the Nov. 3 ballot. The large field of candidates, six for the mayor post, and eleven for the two city commis-sion openings,-- will be trimmed to four for the commission and 'two for mayor. There were reports that one of the six mayor candidates might withdraw and . throw his support to Mayor Adiel F. Stew-art who decided at the last min-ute to seek re-electi- on after an-nouncing earlier he . would not run again. However, none of the six mayor candidates would confirm the report. Seeking the position of mayor are Joseph L. Chandler, Bruce S. Jenkins, J. Bracken Lee, Sher-man J. Preece, Adiel F. Stewart and Halie C. Wood. In the race for commissioner are Robert R. Badertscher, Grant M. Burbidge (incumbent), Paul Hendry, Orson F. - Hottinger, Orin Towler (Bud) Miller, Wal-lace A. Peterson, J. K. Piercey, L. C. Romney (incumbent), Ben H. Smith, Barney G. Turner aad Rodney S. . Williams. Voters will mark their ballots for one candidate for mayor and two for commissioner. The two candidates receiving the highest vote for mayor' will face each other in the Nov. 3 election as will the four receiving the high-est vote for the commission post. The two incumbent commis-sioners, L. C. Romney and Grant M. Burbidge were given an edge over the other nine candidates in pre-electi- on odds making. The other nine include several persons well known in city af-fairs and several relative new-comers. The same, is true in the mayor-- ' ality contest. Mayor Adiel F. Stewart is regarded as a good bet to survive the primary. His best known opponents would be former governor J. Bracken Lee, State Treasurer Sherman J. Preece and State Sen. Bruce S. Jenkins. Los Angeles Promises Fast-Pace- d Convention The 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles will be a television-pace- d one. This is the promise of the con-vention's Los Angeles hosts. Advance billing is calling it the most compact convention ever held. There won't be a dull moment. - According to a report in the Christian Science Monitor there will be a single session every day, beginning at 5 p.m. on July 11 and proceeding by dramatic daily stages to the moment some-body makes a dramatic accept--' ance speech. The Los Angeles planners in-sist the convention will hardly seem partisan at all. Instead it will seem like the biggest local promotion program Los Angeles has ever offered. Party officials in Los Angeles, under chairmanship of former secretary of the Navy, Dan Kim-ball, are busy raising the more than four-hundre-d thousand dol-lars needed to finance the con-vention. Any excess raised will go, not to the Democratic Na-tional Committee, but to the Los Angeles Community Chest. TODAYS .... EDITORIAL Rep. King Calls For Improvement In Food Distribution To Strikers V particularly the addition of cracked wheat. 3. Arrange, in Salt Lake Coun-ty, to process the applications for surpluses and to release the sur-plus commodities from a single office. 4. Extend, at the Utah County office, the period in each month in which the office releases the surpluses to qualified applicants. Mr. King said he has wir.ed Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson to ask that cracked wheat be added to the list of commodities available to the states. "The cracked wheat, used either in cereal or' in bread, would be a welcome addition for many needy Utah families," the congressman said. "And since the nation has enormous wheat sur-pluses, the government should welcome such a request." Rep. David S. King (D-Uta- h) has called upon the public wel-fare department of the state to implement a four-poi- nt program to improve the distribution of food surpluses in strike-boun- d areas. ' The congressman urged that the personnel handling the sur-pluses in Salt Lake, Utah and Davis counties "spare no reason-able effort to meet the growing ' and distressing need for food-stuffs among the families of the strike-boun- d communities." The distribution of surpluses to the families of men idled by the strikes "should be divorced entirely from the issues of the strikes themselves," Mr. King ob-served. --"Where need exists, the welfare department and its per-sonnel have a duty to recognize and serve that need." a. Freedom from want, he said, is one of the fundamental guaran-tees of the American system. - In a letter to Garth A. Young-ber- g, who, as director of the department's Bureau of Accounts and Research, supervises the dis-tribution of surpluses, Mr. King . urged that the department: 1. Double the monthly rations of the two surpluses in greatest demand, powdered milk and flour. "The current rations on these commodities are wholly in-adequate for the average family," Mr. King said. 2. Urge the addition of other commodities to the list of. food surpluses abailable to the states Your Candidate Can't Win Unless He Gets Your Vote With the large field of candidates entered in the forth-coming Salt. Lake City primary election it becomes more impor-tant than ever that every resident cast his vote. The primary will pare the field to four candidates for com-mission posts and two for mayor. This means that some of the more able candidates could easily be eliminated by the margin of a few votes if their sup-porters take their election for granted and fail to vote in the primary. A number of factors aie expected to build interest in the primary and general election on Nov. 3. This indicates a better than usual turnout at the polls. But numbers alone are not important. Backers of experienced, capable candidates must be sure they are registered and at the ballot box on Oct. 20. Otherwise we may see less qualified persons elected. Demo Women Await Campaign Seminar Gerry Sohle, assistant to Katie Lockheim, national director for women's activities of the Demo-cratic Party will be in Salt Lake City Saturday and a good turn-out of Utah Democrats is expect-ed to be on hand to greet her. She will conduct a seminar and demonstration for party workers at a luncheon at New-hous-e Hotel. All Utah Demo-cratic women are invited to at-tend the 1 p.m. event. Tickets are $2.25 per plate. Mrs. Roxey Romney, Demo-cratic national committeewoman, said Mrs. Sohle had conducted similar seminars in other states and that they had been highly successful affairs. "Your Newspaper Freedoms Textbook" This year's National Newspaper Week, Oct. 15-2- 1, has adopted the theme, "Your .Newspaper Freedom's Textbook." In today's fast pace of living it seems as though we must tie a catchy title to everything we promote. This year's theme is a real strong statement but how many people are going to sit down and meditate on the full meaning and import of this slogan? Let's break it down. "Your Newspaper." How many people consider it in that light? It really is "your newspaper" because it is published for your edification and information. Newspapers t are, in reality, serhi-publi- c operations, published by private inter-ests for a profit but aimed at providing the public with the news I (Continued on Page Four) Hawaii Missionaries Ready Reunion The reunion of the Hawaii Missionary Society will be held in the 13th Ward Chapel, corner 1st South and 4th East, Salt Lake City, at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 9. All former missionaries of the Hawaiian, Central Pacific or Hawaii Missions are urged to at-tend and enjoy an unusually fine program. Wives, husbands and other relatives of the missionar- - ies are also invited. News Preview I It was inevitable: Several I congressmen urge an investi-- ! jgation of the International! Longshoremen's strike. . . . j I The State Department is being j j urged to protest large sales ! ! of Cuban sugar to Russia at I bargain rates. . . . The Senate I j Juvenile Delinquency - probe jwill urge youth work camps! ! to curb teen crime. j |