Show II 0 i Your Congressman W by ty I HENRY ALDOUS DIXON January 16 1957 Dear Friends Con Congress has now been In session ses sea i I sion slon for two weeks and already we have many Items of Interest to report to you back home TilE THE DROUGHT A recent tour through 19 of ot Utah's stricken drought-stricken counties convinced me that our people in those areas are arc now in a desperate desper ate ale condition This dry creeping paralysis is not as dramatic or sensational as an earthquake fire or flood but its effects on human beings is Ju Just t as devastating devastating deva deva- stating and just as tragic Livestock Livestock Live Live- stock on Southern Utah's public winter range has been Cut ut 50 per percent percent cent simply because there is not enough forage to support normal grazing Many of our Utah livestock livestock livestock live live- stock people are arc being forced force to sell their entire foundation herds herd If this situation is allowed to continue con conn It will likely da irro irreparable arable damage to Utah's farm economy After the House of ut fit fit- had been in session only five days I t was able to gain gallt the floor to call the attention of tho the Congress to the seriousness of the Utah situation and to three needed much-needed legislative measures which I t have introduced in the thel th c House Senator Watkins has Introduced intro Intro- dated identical bills In the Sen Sen- ate I f am enclosing a reprint of the e speech and I will be happy t to u send copies of the bills upon re request re- re quest I would your comments on these measures In an effort elfort to speed up the I legislative process I have also I joined with three other Western members of the House Agricultural tural rural Committee to request Immediate immediate im lm mediate hearings on the livestock problem in the drought areas of the West I UTAHN OPENS ORLD'S LARGEST MOTOR HOTEL The Washington Post last Sunday Sun Sun- I day dedicated an extraordinary page fourteen section to Willard J J. J Marriatt's work in Washing Washing- ton on his Hot and his new unit Motor This enterprise enterprise enter- enter prise irise was recently completed after four years of construction of-construction construction and an expenditure of five million dollars The former Weber College stu stu- stu- stu dent body president started a root Meer eer stand in Washington in 1927 and multiplied this humble beginning beginning be be- beginning ginning into a thirty-five thirty million dollar investment involving more than nan 60 Hot restaurants and drvie inns The sales in the Marriott restaurants il is now so great that only the Army buys more steaks than do the Hot Willard Is Vice chairman of the Presidential Inauguration Commission Cornn Com Com- mission and also Is Stake President dent of the Washington Stake of the Latter-day Latter Saint Church Since Bill was a student of mine at Weber College I have always followed his activities and Progress with considerable perl personal per per- pride I the above information will be of interest to all of his Utah friends and as- as LOW INTEREST LOAN FOR During my first week In m Wash Wash- Ington I worked with Dee Broadbent Broadbent Broad Broad- bent Treasurer of Utah State Agricultural Ag Ae- College to lol- lol secure low low- a n t Wrest Iti In l loan n of or ff M n ff n Wrest Iti loan n of or ff M n ff for or men mens men's s dormitory construction We met net with officials or of the Housing fu and Home Finance Agency I think hink approval will be forthcomIng ing In the near future COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT Representative Samuel McConnell McConnell McCon- McCon nell ranking minority ity member ember of the House Committee on Education tion lion and Labor petitioned the Committee on Committees that I I be placed on the Education and Labor Committee In addition tomy to tomy tomy my present committee assignment on Agriculture I think the possibility possibility possibility pos pos- of my receiving this appointment ap ap- is remote as there are extremely few GOP members of the house of Representatives who have two major committee posts Nevertheless I was honored to I ave my silt services l requested on this additional lm etsY of whether or ot not th the appointment should be made t 1 tI intend to continue to work closely I with wan the committee to advance intelligent education and labor eg SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION The tact fact that the House officials listed a measure for Federal aid for school construction as House Resolution No 1 I Indicates the i House Houe Is anxious to pass a school construction aid bill this session This initial measure Is entitled the School Construction Act of 1957 and In the last session was known as all the Kelley Dill fill The Presidents President's education program Is forthcoming and many of us In the House louse are i vitally Interested In what his program pro program gram will fee Ibe as It pertains to education CONGRESSIONAL FELLOWSHIP This session for a few months I 1 will have ha Rulon R. R R Garfield working in my office Rulon Ruton Is In Washington under the of the American Political Science Association Each year this As As- Association selects five political scientists and five journalists from front the entire nation and brings them to Washington for practical experience experience ex ex- In Congress Rulon was the first person to be selected from Utah In this program It is an excellent experience and it Is my any hope trope that others from Utah will apply I t have the Information relative to application and will supply It U upon request to Interested parties Briefly to be eligible one must between the ages of 25 and 32 a college graduate with one year of teaching experience and tw two years of post graduate work pre pre- Two vo years of practical ex If a Journalist Is desir desir- able It seems that Mrs Dixon an and d I had hardly settled In our resi rest dente dence at 2828 Connecticut b before fole I 1 was deluged with the 1 lush ush incident inci inci- dent to the opening of another session of Congress I wish that each of you could be here with t us to observe and participate 1 In Inthe Inthe n the Impressive and historic In Inaugural Inaugural Inaugural In- In augural Ceremonies that ar are e taking place this week Those of you whom I can assist with any legislative problems can write to me at House Office Building Washington 25 25 D D. D C. C Faithfully yours H H. A. A Dixon Member of |