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Show Rep. King Praises Peace Corps, Seeks Utahn's Appointment Rep. David S. King Thursday praised President John F. Kennedy's Ken-nedy's peace corps program as "potentially the greatest instrument instru-ment for promoting peace and freedom which any Free World leader his devised since the cold war began." Congressman King disclosed that he has wired the President to urge that he choose Elbert R. Curtis, former superintedent of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Im-provement Association, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to head the peace corps. The congressman described Mr. Curtis, who was chairman of the Utah Citzens for Kennedy-Johnson Kennedy-Johnson Committee in the recent campaign, as "eminently fitted by his long experience in youth work and administration for this assignment." As President Kennedy had announced an-nounced to Congress that he has, by executive order, established the peace corps on a pilot basis within the mutual security program, pro-gram, Congressman King gave his unswerving support to early Congressional approval of the corps as a permanent and integral inte-gral instrument of American foreign policy. Mr. King, himself a former member of the YMMIA general superintendency, observed: "The peace corps plan caught the imagination of people around the world and in every state. Since the election I have had a dozen letters from young Utah adults who wanted to volunteer for the corps. "This program will demonstrate demon-strate to every nation which needs and accepts this assistance that Americans are willing to give something of themselves, besides their dollars to improve ' the world; that we are motivated as much by a Christian desire to help less fortunate neighbors as by a selfish desire to check the spread of communism and bolster bol-ster our own security." Congressman King cited two key advantages in a corps composed com-posed chiefly of young college graduates, as proposed by the president." "First, it would give underdeveloped under-developed countries the benefit of our finest product our well educated young adults. Such a corps would be the best advertising advertis-ing imagineable for our democratic demo-cratic way of life. "Second, it would set up a matchless network of person-to-person communication, and give to the young adults who participated parti-cipated a long , span of life in which to use this experience to promote global good will." |