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Show Utah Democratic Women Leave For Conference in Washington A busload of Utah Democratic women left Salt Lake Thursday morning on a two-week junket that will take them to the Democratic Demo-cratic Women's Campaign Conference Con-ference in Washington, D.C. May 20-22. The trip, under chairmanship of Mrs. Sunday Anderson and Democratic National Congress-woman Congress-woman Lucy Redd will take in a number of points of interest along the route. Mrs. Sevilla Reese, state vice chairman, will attend the meet. She will leave Salt Lake City by plane May 18. Because of the press of business at state headquarters head-quarters she was unable to make the bus trip. Democratic party leaders and workers from across the country attending the conference will hear first hand reports on the administration policies and programs pro-grams from the men and women in government who help make the decisions. Oneration Support briefin? sessions, one of the highlights of the three day conference, will feature Cabinet members, high administration officials, and members of Congress in briefing sessions following the pattern set by President Kennedy. Cabinet members who have (Continued on page 8) Utah Democratic Women Leave For Conference in Washington (Continued from page 1) accepted the invitation of National Na-tional Vice Chairman Margaret Price to address the sessions include in-clude Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, who will report on farm policies and programs; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall on conservation and development de-velopment of natural resources; and Secretary of Health, Education Educa-tion and Welfare Abraham Ribi-coff Ribi-coff on social legislation. Leading Democratic women in government who will participate in the briefing sessions include Assistant Secretary of Labor Esther Peterson, who will discuss youth needs; Sen. Maurine Neu-berger, Neu-berger, Oregon, consumer problems, prob-lems, and Rep. Edith Green of Oregon, federal aid to education. Other events of the three day conference include a special tour of the White House and a personal per-sonal visit with President Kennedy; Ken-nedy; a gala dinner with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson as speaker; a luncheon with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as speaker and women appointees of the Kennedy Ken-nedy administration as honored guests and a reception for all Democratic members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Represen-tatives. Cabinet wives, Congressional wives, wives of administration leaders and agency heads are participating in the planning and in the program to make it a lively, informative and pleasant three days for all attending. |