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Show ? . - - l t ,.,y PERIODICAL DIVISION :!! " , : UNIVERSITY LIBRARY i XJ$1VERS1?Y uhivesity of ctah ,1 ' k HJ ' - CITY 12 AC i SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, APRIL 29, I960 Sen. Johnson Cites Methods For Demo Victory in November I Senate Majority Leader Lyn- -' don B. Johnson, Democrat of Texas, gave Utah Democrats a 3 multi-poi- nt formula for victory I in the forthcoming November j elections in talks in Salt Lake City last week end. I The Texan spoke at the annual Jefferson-Jackso- n banquet at the Terrace and at a luncheon and s press conference. In brief he said that Democrats v can win by doing "what is best ' for the country." Specifically he said: He does not intend to make a formal announcement as to his presidential candidacy because ; his immediate job as Senate Ma-- i jority Leader is to "help write a record in Congress on which Democrat can be elected in Iany is interested in votes this and in states other than He does not believe that reli-gion, race, region or class are proper issues in the campaign. I He believes that the Demo- - I I cratic Party this year will in- - , crease its majority in Congress and win the presidency because y it is the only party equipped to ."i lead the nation forward in a ' crucial period and because it has ! served the nation better and : more faithfully than the oppo-- ! sition. In his speech before the Jefferson-Ja-ckson banquet the senator stressed the two main themes ' ; that the Democratic party is par-- " ticularly attuned to the needs of j the west and that it has imagina-- i tive leadership to do what must be done to discharge the nation's responsibility as leader of the free world. He said: "Beyond the great constructive tasks we can do at home we should be taking new and imaginative steps on the world scene. The time has come for us to invite other nations to join in mutual self-hel- p projects j through which the underdevel- - J oped lands may lift themselves j up, feed their hungry and clothe 1 SEN. LYNDON B. JOHNSON their naked, give faith and new hope to the lives of their multi- - tudes who have none, help the new nations which have won in-- . dependence and now face chal-lenges which freedom and self government create to achieve human aspirations of their peo-ple. "And let us not shut out the nations beyond the iron curtain in that joint effort," he added. The senator directed his most caustic remarks at those who, in order to win elections, strike at the unity of the country. He said that all men should be working for unity, that political parties and political institutions should, like churches, schools, press and unions, seek to erase diversions instead of create them. He declared that he did not want his party to win any elec-tions by pitting religion against religion, race against race region against region or class against class. He cited with pride the recently enacted civil rights legislation as another step toward closing another division that has existed since reconstruction tomes fol-lowing the Civil War. Democrats Elect New Party Officials At State Organization Convention "x w - , - 'A'W jj ' WAV1 "K - 4 1-- X CALVIN W. RAWLINGS National Committeeman LUCY REDD National Committeewoman , Utah Democrats this week had a new state chairman, national committeewoman and a slate of national convention delegates which reflect wide interest in a number of leading presidential candidates. The party's state organization convention retained Democratic National Committeeman Calvin W. Rawlings and State Vice Chairwoman Kathleen Meikle. Miss Lucy Redd was named national committeewoman, and William T. Thurman was named state chairman. Mr. Thurman won out for the state post over Ray Pruett of Tooele by a count of 482 to 370. Miss Redd won by a one-vot- e margin over Mrs. Allgie Ballif of Provo, 358 to 358 in a four-candida- te contest. Other candi-dates, Mrs. Sunday C. Anderson polled 132 votes and Mrs. Sam-- i uel D. Wynn, 13. In the national committeeman election incumbent Mr. Rawlings received 457 votes to 396 for Calvin L. Rampton, his only op-position. Mrs. Meikle received 471 votes to 314 for Mrs. Delia Loveridge and, 68 for Mrs. Naomi Woolley. Mrs. Roxey Romney was not a candidate for re-electi- on as national committeewoman. Backers of all the party's can-didates for the governor nomi-ntaio- n were out in force distrib-uting badges and campaign liter-ature. Candidates for a number of other nominations also were working the convention. f " ' ' rlV Hmmr""1 ' WILLIAM T. THURMAN State Chairman KATHLEEN MEIKLE State Vice Chairman One resolution adopted by the convention demanded that Gov. George D. Clyde and the Repub-lican Party make restitution of $43,000 withheld from highway allocations to the state for al-leged violation of the Hatch Act. Another resolution called for a party loyalty oath that candi-dates for party nomination pub-licly declare their support of the party platform or publicly de-clare which parts they cannot support and the reasons why. Chief speaker at the conven-tion at The Terrace was Rep. David S. King, who told the dele-gates he was thrilled by the turnout and enthusiastic spirit evidenced. He launched a counter attack on prospective Republican op-ponents and others who have accused him of being a 'spender.' The convention was called to order by retiring chairman Rich-ard C. Howe, who did not seek re-electi- and presided over by convention chairman Wendell Anderson of Logan. Kennedy Appears to Have Won Most Utah Delegation Support Sen. John F. Kennedy of Mas-sachusetts seemed to have come out of the Utah State Democratic Organizing convention with the greatest support among the state delegation to the forthcoming national convention in Los An-geles. But virtually every announced and some unannounced candi-dates gained some delegates. Ballots for 20 of Utah's dele-gates were cast Saturday at the convention. Six other delegates with one-ha- lf vote each were named by virtue of their party positions. In a tie vote between Warwick C. Lamoreaux and Mrs. Fawn Poulson the latter won on the flip of a coin. Those chosen from the Second Congressional District in Salt Lake County were Mrs. C. L. Jack, L. C. Romney, Bruce S. Jenkins, A. Wally Sandack, Ste-phen P. Smoot, David P. Jones, Oscar W. McConkie and Calvin L. Rampton. Other delegates from the Sec-ond District were J. W. Gillman, Orem; David Greenwood, Ameri-can Fork; Stanley Roberts of Springville, and Kenneth Gard-ner, Layton. Alternates were Milton Weilen-man- n, Mrs. Helen E. Leavitt, J. E. Faust and Ethel M. Spils-bur- y, all Salt Lake City; Thomas H. Reece, Utah County, and Dallas H. Young and P. B. Eg-bert, both of Provo, tied; Ray Pruett, Tooele, and Milton Hess, (Continued on page 8) TODAY'S EDITORIAL GOP Business as Usual Won't Do It should be perfectly clear that while the Administration's "new look" has been disastrous, a return to some "old look" would be equally so. The national defense would have been farther advanced today if it had evolved taking full account of the Korean war experience. The aimless detour through "massive retaliation" resulted in ever-increasi- ng dependence upon the strategic nuclear advantage, which passed almost as it was claimed. The task now is to retrieve the consequences of that (Continued on Page Four) |