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Show O - rr A 1 1 Vol. 36 No. 54 Weber State College May 18, 1976 1 V r- r f- r p tr J r Fare at the Fair : Many students and local residents enjoyed food and crafts at WSC's Renaissance Fair, held this past Saturday. Art Linkletter to give WSC commencement address The 1976 Commencement Address will be delivered June 5th by Art Linkletter, veteran television performer, businessman, and drug crusader. Remembered by many for his long-lived television series, "People Are Funny," which ran for 19 years on NBC, and "House Party," a 25 year veteran for CBS radio and TV, Mr. Linkletter is currently involved in business ventures and anti-drug abuse education. Born in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, Art was orphaned early in his life, and was adopted by a traveling Baptist evangelist. The family eventually settled in Southern California where Linkletter was educated and began his career. Long career Though he originally intended to become a college professor, Linkletter was offered a job at a local radio station in San Diego during his senior year, and the English-Psych major stayed on for a career that has spanned over a third of a century. In addition to the one dozen radio and television shows Linkletter has generated, he has - iw 'SWA-' I J4 is? written nine books, one of which, "Kids Say The Darndest Things," was number one on the best-selling non-fiction list for over two years. Entrepreneur Recently Mr. Linkletter's successful business ventures have come to the attention of his TV fans. Besides his holdings in oil, land, manufacturing and public relations, Linkletter's pioneering work in sheep and cattle ranching in Australia is well-known. Following the death of his daughter Diane during an LSD flashback, Linkletter became a national crusader against drug-abuse, appearing in and on all the media and working with many rehab programs across the country. He currently serves as President of the National Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse Education and Information."People are my business ..." sums ud Linkletter. Co-hosting the daily NBC-TV series, "Life With, Linkletter," with his son, Jack, Mr. Linkletter still broadcasts to an audience of millions. A ? TO SPEAK HERE: Linkletter Art Thumbs down Vet by Bruce Tracy A bill restoring $1.1 billion to the Veterans Administration budget for fiscal year 1977 has been tabled by the Senate Budget Committee. The bill, if brought back, would raise the FY-77 budget from $19.3 billion to $20.4 billion, enabling many vets to complete their education. The tabling of this bill means no money will be available for pending or future legislation favoring vets. Both Senators from Utah voted against the vets. Senator Jake Garn said he was trying to hold down spending while still trying to do the job with the reduced allocation. Senator Frank E. "Ted" Moss has historically voted for vets but now that the "Viet Nam war is over the vets are already being forgotten," said WSC Veterans Paul Dunn at WSC Services Delivering the Baccalaureate address as a part of Weber State College's commencement, June 4, will be Paul H. Dunn, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' First Council of Seventy. According to reports from the Focus, the Latter Day Saints Student Association publication, Dunn told students in Horizons that everyone should act as a missionary because "People want what you have ..." and described church members as "honest, sincere and spiritual." Dunn gave his testimony April 16, at a three-day convention for college coaches and other sports people at the WSC college campus community. At that meeting he relayed how he talked to entertainer Ted Williams and taught him the gospel in one night. Dunn iterated and reiterated the importance of obligations of each church member. "First," said Dunn, "we must convert ourselves and our families, and second, to extend opportunities to others." Elder Dunn earned his bachelor degree in religion from Chapman College in 1953 and received his master's degree in education administration from the University of Southern California in 1954 while employed s cut back Association President Ray Gibbons. He also said, "there are 17,000 Viet Nam Era vets in Utah who are largely under-employed or unemployed and need a extension of the delimiting date and an extension of nine months training to complete college degrees." At press time the Senate Budget Committee was still considering Senator Alan Cranston's (D-Calif) concurrent resolution to restore funds to the Veterans Administration budget. The Senate Budget Committee tabled Senator Cranston's ad-mendment. ,An effort is being made to reconsider the resolution and bring it to the floor of the Senate for a vote. "At the same time they are cutting the Veterans budget they are increasing the defense budget," Gibbons said. BACCALAUREATE : Paul H.Dunn in the LDS Church education system. He went on to earn his doctorate in education administration from USC in 1959. Dunn is the author of nine books, a church educator and author, and was named to tne First Council of the Seventy April 6, 1964, during the 134th Annual Conference in Salt Lake City. Dunn served as the coordinator of LDS Institutes of Religion in California for two years prior to his call to the First Council of Seventy. He began his association with the Church's educational system in 1952 as a seminary teacher in Los Angeles. Dunn will speak to graduates June 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center auditorium. t |