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Show Democrats Schedule Hearings on 1962 Stare Platform State Chairman Stephen P. Smoot this week announced that a series of public hearings will be conducted this month to help formulate the 1962 Democratic state platform. Mr. Smoot said the-hearings are patterned after the 1960 public pub-lic hearings conducted by the National Democratic Party. It will be th first time the procedure proce-dure has been used at the state level, he said. At the same time Mr. Smoot announced the appointment of Glen M. Hatch, former state senator sen-ator and Heber City attorney, as platform committee chairman to replace Lyman F. Smart, Provo, who will be out of the state part of the summer. Hearings are scheduled as follows: fol-lows: Education, June 23 at 10 a.m. in Salt Lake County Commission Com-mission Chambers civil rights, June 23 at 2 p.m. in Salt Lake County Commission Chambers; county and city government, June 27 ta 7:30 p.m. in Salt Lake County Commission Chambers. Hearings on state government were held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Provo in the courthouse. Hearings on health and welfare wel-fare and on natural resources have been tentatively scheduled in Provo and Prive at dates to be announced later. |