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Show Page Eight ; FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Utah Democratic Women Leave For Conference in Washington (Continued from page 1) accepted the invitation of Na-tional Vice Chairman Margaret Price to address the sessions in-clude Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, who will report on farm policies and programs; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall on conservation and de-velopment of natural resources; and Secretary of Health, Educa-tion and Welfare Abraham Ribi-co- ff 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-berge- r, Oregon, consumer 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 per-sonal visit with President 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 Ken-nedy administration as honored guests and a reception for all Democratic members of the U.S. Senate and House of 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. New Jobs For Women Found In Democratic Administration (Continued from page 1) about the comparative opportu-nity for women and for men in hiring, training, advancement, rate for the job and other con-ditions of employment under contracts. 6. In an examination of em-ployment policies and practices of the federal government, the Commission will report on the reasons for a relatively small percentage of women in profes-sional positions in federal agen-cies. "We have by no means done enough to strengthen family life," the President said, "and at the same time encourage women to make the contribution as citi-zens. If our nation is to be suc-cessful in the critical period ahead we must rely upon skills and devotion of all our people." Te enjoined the new Commis-sion to determine what remains to be done to "demolish preju-dices and outmoded customs that act as barriers to the full part-nership of women in our society. The President's action fol-lowed a recommendation of Sec-retary of Labor Goldberg, who pointed out that the government, as part of its concern with the general welfare, has a respon-sibilt- y for dealing with prob-lems involving the status of the women. : : The Commission's chairman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, in her remarks to members of the Com-mission on February 12, pointed to the new challenge for women in a society that seizes imme-diately the forces and opportu-nities for change. "We live in a world of rapid economic and social change. Women have much to gain from tremendous new productive possibilities. Their burdens may be further light-ened, their lives enriched, and their skills utilized as homemak-er- s or if they wish, as women outside the family circle." Lorenzo E. Elggren To Head Utah Medicare Group A former Utah State Senator and long time champion of leg-islation to benefit senior citizens, Lorenzo E. Elggren, will head the Senior Citizens for Medicare Committee, it was announced Thursday. Mr. Elggren, a Salt Lake City businessman and active outstand-ing senior citizen, will spearhead President John F. Kennedy's Medicare program in Utah. As chairman of the non-partis- an committee, he will carry com-plete responsibility for conduct-ing an extensive education cam-paign and for organizing support for the proposed legislation. Mr. Elggren served an eight-yea- r term in the Utah State Sen-ate from 1943 to 1951. He was graduated from the University of Utah with a major in political economy. I Local Students Win National Writing Award Salt Lake City students have won five awards in America's largest creative writing compe-tition for high school pupils. The local writing champions captured a first award and four commendations in the Scholastic Magazines Writing Awards spon-sored by the Sheaffer Pen Co. First place winner is Bonnie Vendig of Highland High, in the short story division. Commendations winners are Miss Vendig in dramatic script division; Richard D. Randall of Olympus High, poetry; Peter F. Kaiser, East High, poetry; and Steven Walker, East High, short story. Approximately 160,000 entries competed for the total, of 424 awadrs. Represented were stu-dents in all 50 states, District of Columbia, Canada and 15 foreign nations. 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