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Show ' 7 , : . PERIODICAL DITISIOn y:;r: yJJL J ; :f inilTESIT? OF UTAH ..u" ru If)) ClffB &C6:4&Sl SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH-FRID- AY, APRIL 14, 1961 Senate, House Leaders Name Legislative Council Members mmihiijii 1. 1. in. i linn in L.l IT lt ' "tij ! REP. ERNEST II. DEAN I House Speaker Ernest H. Dean and Senate President Thorpe Waddingham this week an-nounced appointments to the State Legislative Council. Senate members named in-clude Senators Bruce S. Jenkins, Salt Lake City, and R. LaVaun Cox, both Democrats, and Kleon Kerr of Tremonton and Charles R. Hunter, Cedar City, Republi-cans. Appointed by Rep. Dean were Rep. Carl H. Taylor, Weber, Democratic majority leader, and Rep. Franklin W. Gunnell, Cache Republican minority leader; Rep. SEN. THORPE WADDINGHAM W. Hughes Brockbank, Salt Lake City, Republican, and Rep. Delia L. Loveridge, Democrat, Salt Lake City. Citizen appointee announced by the Senate leader is John D. Rice, Salt Lake attorney, and from the House, Richard Lay ton, Clearfield, a school teacher and chairman of the Davis County Democratic Committee. Gov. George D. Clyde, who appoints one citizen member, has already announced his selection of B. II, Stringham, Vernal, a former member of both House and Senate. William T. Thurman Takes Oath As U.S. Attorney for Utah District m f ' V ' William T. Thurman. former State Democratic" chairman, this week was appointed and sworn in as United States attorney for Utah. The appointment, long expect-ed, was officially announced on Sunday. The swearing in cere-mony took place Monday before some 400 friends in the U. S. District Court of Utah. Mr. Thurman's appointment is on an interim basis. Mr. Thurman, who resigned earlier in the day as state Demo-cratic chairman, was appointed to the post by U.S. District Judge Willis W. Ritter, acting upon the request of U.S. Attorney Gen-eral Robert F. Kennedy and U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss. ; - Sen. Moss' nomination of Mr. Thurman is awaiting final ap-proval in Washington. The new attorney succeeded to the post which carries an an-nual salary of $16,000 after A. Pratt Kesler resigned. Mr. Kes-le- r now is deputy attorney gen-eral for the state of Utah. William J. Adams, who has en-tered private law practice with the firm of Fabian and Clen-deni- n. The formal oath was admin-istered by Wayne Christopher-son- , clerk of the court. Mr. Thurman served on the legal staff of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. from 1937 to 1941 while attending George Wash-ington Law School. He also served as coordinator of Inter-Americ- an Affairs for the state department from 1941 to 1945, and was an assistant gen-eral counsel for several other State Department agencies from 1945 to 1949. He was chief dep-uty in the Salt Lake County at-torney's office and later in pri-vate practice. ' A successor to Mr. Thurman will be elected by the State Democratic Central Committee in the near future. A public reception for Mr. Thurman, his family and friends was held in Judge Ritter's cham-bers after the swearing-i- n cere-mony. WILLIAM T. THURMAN Mr. Thurman said he expected to make an appointment soon to fill a vacancy in the attorney's office created by resignation of Four Candidates Come Forth To Fill State Chairman Post t'yZ&SK. ml ' ' D. F. WILKINS In announcing his intention to seek the top state party office Mr. Wilkins said, "An active, vibrant and informed party or-ganization from the voting dis-trict level through the national level is, in my opinion, the best insurance for good government." . Mr. Wilkins was endorsed for the chairmanship in a resolution released Wednesday by the board of directors of the Young Demo-crats of Salt Lake County. Mr. Lamoreaux is credited with having strong support with veteran party members but there were indications this week he (Continued on page 4) WILLIAM BRUHN At least four candidates were actively seeking the chairman- - I ship of the Utah Democratic I Party this week. I Making bids to fill the spot I vacated by William T. Thurman j when he became United States I Attorney for Utah, are D. F. I Wilkins and Warwick C. Lamo- - 1 j reaux, Salt Lake City; Ray L. 1 Pruett, Tooele, and William L. I Bruhn, Panguitch. I Both Mr. Wilkins and Mr. I Lamoreaux are Salt Lake attor-- I neys. All four candidates have 1 been active in affairs of the I Democratic party. Mr. Bruhn t , WARWICK C. LAMOREAUX recently sought the nomination for Congress from the First Dis-trict. Election of a new state chair-man is anticipated when the Democratic State Committee meets in Salt Lake City July 29. Mr. Wilkins is a native of Tooele County but has made his home in Salt Lake City for the past six years. Mr. Lamoreaux is a long time resident of Salt Lake City. TODAY'S EDITORIAL . Demos View Water Resources The Democratic water resource program is based upon comprehensive development of entire river systems for many-purposes- . A comprehensive, national water resources policy should be established by Congress to guide the program of all federal agencies which affect water use and development. , Water requirements for the next 50 years for all purposes in each region should be estimated at regular periods by the federal government. Comprehensive, coordinated, multiple-purpos- e plans for each major river basin should be formulated and revised periodic-ally- . The federal government should assume leadership to imple- - (Continued on Page Four) ) |