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Show LIBRARY UNIVERSITY of UTAH periodical division :' i UNtVrRSHY LIBRARY MAV.Y 1950 UNIVESITY OF LTAH CITY 12 AC BALE LAKE CIY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, MAY 6, I960 Democratic Platform Panel Maps June Hearings in Salt Lake City A June session in Salt Lake City will be held by a study panel of the Platform Committee of the Democratic National Con-vention. The meeting will be held to explore grass roots re-action to issues. Democratic National Commit-teeman Calvin W. Rawlings said he had invited the national com-mittee some time ago to send a panel to Salt Lake iCty to obtain views of western interests on what they want in the platform. Mr. Rawlings, who also is chairman of the Western Demo-cratic Conference, said he had been notified by Paul M. Butler, Democratic National Chairman, that the invitation had been ac-cepted. Mr. Rawlings said a specific date would be announced later. The Salt Lake City session will be one of several to be held by the panel throughout the coun-try to obtain rank and file guid-ance on the platform. Mr. Rawlings said individuals and heads of organizations will be given a chance to appear be-fore the panel. In sending the panel out, the national committee is following the pattern of the Western Con-ference in drafting a series of proposals for submission to the national platform committee. Mr. Rawlings announced he will meet with members of the Western Conference in Los An-geles May 13 to draft and ap-prove planks to present to the Platform Committee. Governor Candidates Swell Ranks As New Hopefuls Enter Race support of candidates. All have active organizations and indica-tions are for an interesting con-test right down to the final con-vention vote. On the national scene observers were awaiting the second head on primary clash of Democratic Presidential hopefuls, Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. They will meet in the West Virginia primary on Tuesday. Sen. Humphrey has received the support of a number of unions in West Virginia and is expected to make a strong showing in the state. Sen. Kennedy bested the Minnesotan in the recent Wis-consin primary. Both Democrat and Republican parties had four candidates for nomination for governor this week and there were indications that the number would increase before the July deadline. Latest to announce their in-tentions of seeking the state's highest office were incumbent Gov. George D. Clyde and for-mer Salt Lake Police Chief W. Cleon Skousen. Both are seeking the Republican nomination. Four Democrats in a race for the nomination are State Sen. Alonzo F. Hopkin, Attorney Ira F. Huggins, Mayor William A. Barlocker of St. George, and House Speaker Sheldon Brew-ster. The two other Republican candidates are Lewis H. (Dude) Larsen and Lamont Gundersen, Salt Lake City Commissioner. The entry of Mr. Skousen in the Republican contest was ex-pected to bring out more candi-dates in that party with the pos-sibility that State Sen. Sherman P. Lloyd, now seeking the GOP nomination for representative from the Second District, might switch to the governor race. There was speculation that for-mer Congressman William Daw-son, also seeking the GOP nod in the Second District, might run for governor instead. Meanwhile, Democratic can-didates were busy making pub-lic appearances and talks during the week. It was difficult to tell from the the recent state organization con-vention which of the governor candidates commanded the most TODAY'S EDITORIAL v f m LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Recently Mayor J. Bracken Lee exoriated the city's former chief of police for having used his time on the public payroll for giving 400 speeches in one year. May one ask both the mayor and the retired chief, wasn't this an ex-aggeration? I can understand one giving about 100 speeches a year but not 400 in that time, unless one does nothing else. Then shortly after using the fact of speech making as a tech-nique to discredit another per-son, the mayor goes east, gives several speeches and is gone three working days. Was he still on the payroll during his ab-sence? Did he represent the city on his trip east? If so, for what? The press accounts stated that he only played his old, worn-ou- t and scratchy recordings of pet peeves. Yet, this man has the nerve to make insinuating remarks about another person on the same grounds. Still, some persons are totally blind to their apparent inconsitencies. One would wel-come an explanation either from the mayor or from one who jumps to his defense in any event. FRANK JONAS Rep. King Asks House To Approve 'Mother Exchange Rep. David S. King of Utah has again urged the House to approve his proposed exchange of mothers between this country and the Soviet Union and said that both Mrs. Nikita Khrush-chev and Philippine Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo support such an exchange. The Congressman called upon the Congress to take the lead in launching a "new peace offen-sive led by women and mothers before the Russians beat us to the punch by officially proposing the exchange." Both on the floor and by letter, Mr. King also called upon. Rep. Thomas - E. Morgan (D-Pa- .) of the Foreign Affairs Committee, to schedule early hearings or his resolution which expresses the sense of the House in support of a mothers' exchange. Two of the foremost citizens of the world have urged such an exchange, he said, in the year since he introduced his resolu-lutio- n. Mme. Nina Krushchev sug-gested her country and the U.S. excange visits between delega-tions of women when she and Premier Khrushchev visited this country last year. Gen. Romulo, who headed the Philippine dele-gation to the UN and served as president of the Fourth General Assembly of UN before he be-came ambassador to the U. S., enthusiastically endorsed Mrs. Khrushchev's proposal in a fea-ture article in the May issue of a national women's magazine, Mr. King observed. The idea of a mothers exchange originated 10 years ago, he said, with one of Utah's prominent mothers and a former member of the House, Mrs. Reva Beck Bosone. "In speaking out a year ago to urge this exchange, I voiced the opinion that the Soviet Union would agree to it. Mrs. Khrush-chev's pronouncement of last fall convinces me that this is true," he said. "My conception of such ex-change differs from Gen. Romu-lo'- s on only one respect. I do feel that it should be a genuine grassroot people-to-peop- le ex-change, among the typical home maker citizens of the two coun-tries. The Philippine Ambassa-dor has suggested that the Amer-ican delegation comprise such distinguished women as Eleanor Roosevelt, Anne Morrow Lind-ber- g, Marian Anderson, and Helen Hayes." . Mr. King's resolution calls for an annual exchange with the American delegation comprising 100 mothers, two from each of the 50 states. The County Role in Government In these days of "big government" people don't pay too much attention to some of the lesser governmental units. Perhaps the most overlooked of all is the county. Its officials go about their business day in and day out without much publicity. The city gets ample attention and so does the state. Yet the state's 29 counties are vital and are performing an important function in self-governme-nt. Utah counties were first established by the General Assem-bly of the State of Deseret in January 1850. There were six counties originally created. Today there are twenty-nin- e ranging in population (1950 Census) from 364 persons in Daggett County to 274,000 in Salt Lake and in area from 268 square miles in Davis County to 7,884 square miles in San Juan County. More than one-hal- f of the twenty-nin- e counties in Utah do not contain a town of more than 2,500 people. At the same time, 77 of the people of the state as a whole live in in-corporated municipalities. Forty per cent of the people reside in the metropolitan area of Salt Lake City. The over-al- l popula-tion density of Utah is 9.2 persons per square mile. The density by counties varies from 0.56 per square mile in Grand and Daggett Counties to 368 persons per square mile for Salt Lake County. The assessed valuation of taxable property in Utah for 1959 was as follows: $1,316, 292,887. Property valuations in Salt Lake County totaled $610,847,384. Three counties, Salt Lake, Utah, and Weber, have combined valuations of $828,-100,00- 0. Counties are created by the state to carry out certain activi-ties within the boundaries of the county that the Legislature believes can best be carried out under local administration. For example, counties in Utah must care for the poor and the sick; they must build roads with the aid of the county surveyor; they must provide law enforcement through the sheriff's office; the recording of deeds and certain other documents through the recorder's office; and judicial administration through the office (Continued on Page Four) Former Police Chief W. Cleon Skousen To Run for Governor W. Cleon Skousen, educator, lawyer, author and public ad-ministrator, declared his candi-dacy for the Republican nomina-tion for governor at the state organization convention. In an expanded statement of candidacy subsequent to his short announcement at the con-vention, Mr. Skousen said: "I believe there is a great new spirit of enthusiasm and growth blossoming in Utah. In recent weeks many groups from all over the state have asked me to become a candidate for governor so that a strong team could be built to lead out during this period of expansion. "As events have developed it became tremendously impressive to see the ground swell of pres-sure for such a program. Some of the finest people in the state, professionals in many different fields, have stepped forward to offer their assistance and sup-port if I would lead out. That is what finally persuaded me to enter my name as a candidate for governor. News Preview j I Despite strained relations I j with Russia, West Germany is I ! stepping up trade with the So-- j j viet Union . . . Congress isl studying standardization of U. j j S. time zones . . . Congress j will soon pass a bill authoriz-- 1 j ing a medal marking the 100 J j anniversary of the Civil War I j . . . The first volume ship-- j ! ment of Russian built autos 1 j arrives in New York this J |