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Show Rep. King Offers to Help Bennett If GOP Solon Gets Space Post Rep. David S. King said Monday Mon-day that he would be happy to give Utah's senior senator, Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, some information infor-mation and advice on space matters, mat-ters, in the event that the senator succeeds in getting a seat on the Senate Space committee. Congressman King, a member of the House space committee since it was formed three years ago, said, "I am glad the senior senator now appreciates the importance im-portance of space and missile work to our state." activities were going to become Utah's biggest industry. They now are, by a substantial margin, Utah's biggest industry. Within a decade, they could become the nation's biggest industry," Mr. King siad. The rapid growth of this industry indus-try has affirmed the wisdom of my committee choice, and I have been able to render important services to my state through my work with the space committee. commit-tee. "Since I am a pioneer member of this committee, I would be happy to share my experience and knowledge with my Utah colleague, Senator Bennett, should he succeed in promoting Reports on Capitol win indicate indi-cate that Senator Bennett is trying try-ing to get a seat on the Senate space committee, and would give up his place on the Joint Committee Com-mittee on Atomic Energy to get it. A minority vacancy is now open on the Senate space committee. com-mittee. "I went all out to get my seat on the House space committee three years ago because I could see then that missile and space i a seat for himself with our counterpart coun-terpart in the Senate," Mr. King said. Congressman King is an original orig-inal member of the House space committee, which has been the first standing committee added to the House in this century. |