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Show u:r I SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH m UTAH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1965 Thanksgiving Day Should Recall Nation's Role in World Supply This Thanksgiving Day some million Americans will sit down to eat one of their most abundant tables to eat a Thanksgiving dinner that will have cost them less effort than ever be195 News Preview be-jeo- me Carl Albert Majority Leader' of the United States (D-Okla- .), House of Representatives. Visiting Utah in tribute to Congressman David S. King, the fund-rais- er ; fund-rais- er s of the last three Congresses. As both Majority Leader am platform chairman of the 1964 Democratic National Convention, he has played a pivota role in shaping the programs of the Johnson Administration. The Majority Leader will also make two appearances at the University of Utah. He will address a politics science seminar at 11 a.m. in the College of Law on The Congressional Role in the Great Society. Panelists from five campus Young Democrats, groups Young Republicans, Americans (Continued on page 5) ut approximately three billion people in the world today, and about lalf of them suffer from malnutrition and undernourishment. fore in history. President Johnson recently Moreover, the population is indeclared that the American con- creasing much faster than the sumer now spends a record low food supply. Senator Dirksen stressed that of about 18 percent of his disfood income for posable today (Continued on page 8) compared with 27 percent in the late 1940s. Proclaiming National Farm-Cit- y Week, from November 19 through November 25, President Johnson pointed out: the American consumer now enjoys such Japan seems certain to a great abundance of farm prothe site for ducts, manufactured goods, and of the new Asian headquarters services that his standard of liv- Bank. . . . West Developmentis Germany ing is the highest in the world stepping up its economic aid Amplifying this, Senator Ever to Iran and Afghanistan. . . ett M. Dirksen (Rep. of Illinois), Despite resignation denials, the Senate Minority Leader, the White House is quietly! said: shopping around for a succes- Our marvelous agricultural sor to Robert McNamara who efficiency must be used more wants to resign soon as Secre-jtar- y and more to deal with the world of Defense. . . . Several A of food. modern scarcity congressmen plan a probe of! agriculture without pesticides, the Federal Power Commis-Isio- n including the persistent pestifollowing the Northeast is cides, impossible. electrical failure. The worlds biggest problem, REP. CARL ALBERT to address meeting The Great Society will be extolled in a series of Salt Lake appearances November 23 by one of its chief architects Rep Majority Leaders stay will be his first official visit to the state, It will be climaxed by a gala Cinema Preview theater party at which the Utah Voter Education Committee, headed by George C. Hatch, will show Kirk Douglas, Michael Redgrave and Richard Harris in the Columbia The Pictures color thriller Heroes of Telemark. will be held The at 8 p.m., November 23, at the Capitol Theater. Governor Calvin L. Rampton will be the master of ceremonies. Majority Leader Albert wil opne his November 23 visit a at 7:45 another a.m. breakfast among Salt Lake business and civic leaders at Hotel Utah. His subject will be The 89th Congress: Partner in American Business Expansion. widely Congressman Albert tabbed as the man virtually certain to some day succeed Speaker John M. McCormack-habeen the Majority Leader aside perhaps from the threat of all-onuclear war, is fam-n- e, he explained. There are ... TODAYS U.S. top brass turn attentive ears as Congressman David S. King speaks up during closed talks on Vietnam. The picture comes from President Johnsons private collection. Sen. Moss Lauds . Congress, President In U. of U. Address Never before in our history have the Congress and the President worked more harmoniously to deliver the promises of their platform than they have this year, observed Senator Frank E. Moss in a talk this week on the University of Utah campus. The Senator discounted as rubridiculous the ber stamp sloganizing of the political foes of the current Congress and administration. Almost every major bill adopted in this Congress stems from a plank in the 1964 Democratic platform, he said. Most of the measures, he observed, represent ideas that have been taking shape in Congress SEN. FRANK E. MOSS over a period of years. A strong Democratic majority, sized, in a talk to political science working in concert with a vigor- students, under Prof. Frank ous President, was responsible for their enactment, he empha- - Jonas. so-call- ed EDITORIAL Words Can't Measure Congress' Feats Words, alone, cannot properly measure the feats of the 196G session of the 89th Congress. .Yet its Majority Leader, Rep. Carl Albert, who makes his first visit to Utah next week, capped its orations and its debates with a stirring summation that we think is well worth sharing in full. His message, as follows, was delivered to the House October 22 : Mr. Speaker, it is said that there is a tide that runs in the affairs of men. Viewed in these terms, it may well be said tliat the Eighty-nint- h Congress of the United States surging to a higher crest of achievement than any other in its 17G years has left a mark upon the shores of time not to be erased easily or soon equalled. 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