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Show Rep. King Challenges Bennett To Three Hour-Long Debates Rep. David S. King Wednesday Wednes-day fired a challenge at Senator Wallace F. Bennett to meet him in at least three hour-long television tele-vision debates on Salt Lake's major TV stations. At the same time, the Congressman Con-gressman asked the three commercial com-mercial stations KSL-TV, KUTV and KCPX-TV each to make an hour available in October Oc-tober for the proposed debates. In his letter challenging the senator, Congressman King asserted: as-serted: "The moment of these times demands that our contest be settled set-tled squarely on the issues. Utah voters should have the best opportunity we can give them to compare the candidates, and compare their records. Other campaigns have clearly shown that this opportunity can be best provided by television debate. "I see a sharp contest in our records and in our projected programs as I think you do. It is my understanding that we already will meet in two debates, de-bates, Sept. 27 and Nov. 1, on the educational television station. sta-tion. , "However, a series of October debates on the commercial channels chan-nels would reach a much bigger big-ger audience. Certainly it would stimulate voter interest, and would, I believe, ensure the most enlightened result possible on November 6." |