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Show Joyce DcCol, Joan Arritola, Doris Abplanalp, Mary Kampros, Beverly Bev-erly Ray, Jackie Dahlstrom, Rena Joy Coleman, Gay Armitstead, Joyce Jackson, Ruby Mae Ser-assio, Ser-assio, Diana Ugarte, Shirley Smith and two friends from Salt Lake City. Games were played for entertainment and a lovely luncheon was served. The hon-oree hon-oree received many nice gifts. "pHE American people are being ' spoon-fed on diet of propa- ganda only slightly tinged with the pale color of fact concerning their government here In Washington. Washing-ton. This propaganda diet Is being screened through a tight censorship censor-ship divulged to the people only through the medium of the press conference, speeches by public officials and the mimeographed press hand-out. This dangerous pattern, which has beet) developing over the past few years Is due partly, in some government agencies, to hold-over war time censorship practices; partly to hysteria ever security consciousness which ran rampant during Communist probes and investigations; in-vestigations; partly by just plain cover-up tactics by bungling government gov-ernment officials for fear of criticism, crit-icism, and partly because of the ' crack-pot and fallacious theory , that what the people don't know won't hurt em. That this is true is borne out every day in debates on the floor of the congress, debates which seldom see the light of dissemination dissemina-tion through news media; in ev-ery-day discussions by veteran news reporters at the National Press Club; by resolution adopted by Newspaper Associations and various press organizations all seeking to rip off the lid of unnecessary un-necessary and arbitrary censorship censor-ship which is withholding essential essen-tial facts, or disseminating half- truths which confuse the people and prevent them from arriving at any informed opinion relative to their government and the issues confronting it. " It is further borne out and spread of record through thou sands of pages of testimony by at least two congressional investi- , gating committees, one which has been In session for months a subcommittee of the House Committee Com-mittee on Government Operations, under chairmanship of Rep. John E. Moss, of California. This Committee has just Issued another progress report under date of Feb. 22. Here is a passage from this report: "The maze of Federal restrictions restric-tions on the people's right to know is becoming a little less complicated as clear policies are developed to spell out this basic right. Recent activities of the Special subcommittee on Government Govern-ment Information have bolstered an earlier conclusion that a major maj-or cause of the restrictive maze is the attitude of the Federal Executive agencies. .The 25th Intermediate In-termediate Report of the House Committee on Government Operations Opera-tions defined this attitude as one 'which says that we, the officials, not you, the people, will determine how much you are to be told about your own government.' Here is an example of misinformation misin-formation from somebody The news media for many months has been reporting on the need for new schools; more and better bet-ter teachers and more classrooms. On February 22. 1957 the United States Chamber of Commerce, through its published Washington Report, said: "No classroom emergency exists. The emergency need for the Administration's school construction aid plan Is disproved by the Administration's own studies. No critical national shortage in class rooms has been or can be demonstrated to exist. Saturday evening visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ray were Mr. and Mrs. Stanley DeLeshe and friends from Sandy. Mr. and Mrs. Keith DeCol and family of Kearns were visitors at the Louis DeCol home Friday afternoon. . Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Stoddart and daughters, Sherri and Char-maine, Char-maine, and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Huntsman of Salt Lake City were dinner guests Saturday afternoon of Mr. and Mrs. Don Stoddart and son, Jimmy. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cowdell attended a family dinner held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cowdell of Sandy Sunday, March 24th. Last Tuesday, March 19th, Mrs. Phoebe Johnson had the misfortune mis-fortune of breaking her foot. Callers at her home during the past week have been Inez Goff, Anna Moore, Sadie armitstead, Doris Moore, Melba Sadler, Vivian Viv-ian Ray, Leona Butt, Pat Hatch, Fawn Price, Betty Mae Winn, JoAnn Pasquali, Hazel Anderson, Ander-son, Grace Olsen, Irene Christ-ensen, Christ-ensen, Irene Throckmorton, Lu-cinda Lu-cinda Olsen, "Lois Pullan, Carrie Diederich, Sherryl Farley, De-Lilly De-Lilly Pratt . and Bishop Dean Malan. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Poulson were Sunday afternoon dinner guests at the home of Mr. . and Mrs. Don Poulson and family of Holladay. Mrs. Joe Arata and daughter, DeLilly, spent Saturday afternoon after-noon visiting with Mrs. Arata's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alexander of Provo. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Long and daughters, Linda and Claudia, Clau-dia, and Mr., and Mrs. Albert Pollock visited with Mr. and Mrs. George Mang and son, Geo-rgie, Geo-rgie, at their home in Salt Lake City Saturday evening. Dinner guests Sunday evening of Mr. and Mrs. George Bolman were Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pelhan. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Long and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pollock visited Saturday in Midvale with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Pollock and daughters, Michele and Stephanie. Steph-anie. Friends will be interested to know that Mrs. Frank Peterson who has 'been in St. Mark's hospital hos-pital for the past two weeks with a broken leg, came home from the hospital Wednesday night. Visitors and dinner guests Sunday Sun-day of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Wright and family were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fellows of Salt Lake City. . Mr. and Mrs. John E. Greene entertained at a family birthday party at their home for their daughter, Suzanne, in honor of her 11th birthday on Wednesday evening, March 20. Besides the above mentioned, those attending- were Mrs. Ray Taylor and daughter, Lori Jean, Mrs. W. D. Kidd and daughter, Ruth Claire, Mrs. A. J. Ablett, Mandell Wilson Wil-son and Leland Kidd. Another birthday celebration, a show party, was held last Saturday afternoon af-ternoon for Suzanne when ten young guests were invited for the special occasion. Guests were Suzie Longfellow, Carolyn Peay and Leslie Goff of Magna, Margie Mar-gie Kay Susaeta, Margie Winn, Kathy Crellin, Christie Osoro, Ann Stocks, Ruth Claire Kidd and 'Norma Jean Boulton. Lovely Love-ly refreshments were served and a delightful time was had by all. Miss Beverly Wright and Miss Ann Houghton were co-hostesses Monday evening at a lovely miscellaneous mis-cellaneous bridal shower, complimenting com-plimenting Mrs. Walter Settgast, nee Miss Connie Smith. The party was held at the Houghton home. Besides the honor guest and hostesses, those present were |