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Show November 1974 Utah Farm Bureau News VIEWPOINT By Booth Wa lien tine UFBF Executive Vice President Too much free time? But Mr. Ford had the courage t0 do it. And 1 he did it before a live ( audience of farm '1 c .S' youth, many of whom from farms come tt where income has dropped sharply While the opposition party should always have the opportunity to respond, Senator Mike Mansfields performance as a spokesman for the opposition was a bit shabby. Mansfield accuses the Ford administration of lacking the capacity to deal with the economic emergency. Now Senator Mansfield knows as well as anyone in the But the incident surrounding the October 15 speech to the Future Farmers of America in Kansas City surely doesnt help the TV networks case. The networks had an advance look at Mr. Fords speech and decided it wasnt even newsworthy. Only a direct appeal from the President garnered the e for the broadcast. As it turns out, the FFA speech -might well be one of Mr. Fords greatest. It is not a popular thing to ask affluent Americans to tighten belts and sacrifice. And it was difficult for Mr. Ford to criticize his friends in Congress for their inaction. fa . air-tim- The national television networks deserve public support for their contention that several presidents have abused the privilege of free broadcast time. The President should go easy in bypassing Congress for a direct appeal for some program he has in mind. Page 3 country that the basic cause of infia- -' tion is deficit government spending. Hes said it many times. Congress wields the club And the Senator knows full well that only Congress has the power to balance the budget and put and end to deficit spending. Congress should stop grumbling about the Presidents inability to manage the economy while they themselves continue to vote $7 billion in taxpayer subsidies for the defunct railroad pension fund. Belt tightening is needed all across America. But the biggest need is in Washington. AFBF session to draw large crowd Attendance at the 56th annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation January 9 in New Orleans is expected to be one of the largest on record. This estimate is based on the number of charter flights and special convention tours planned by state Farm Bureaus. n dollar Port The new New exhibition Orleans of center, the Rivergate, on the Mississippi river will be the hub of convention activities. The center is convenient to leading hotels and the city's famous and historic French Quarter with its ink shops. teresting antique and In the French Quarter, convention goers will find the charm and grace of another age, preserved in architecture from the time of French and Spanish, rule. Farm Bureau members will also be able to visit the colorful French market and the. elegant garden district. World-famorestaurants can be found in many parts of the city. The annual meeting will find Farm Bureau reaching a new high in membership prepared to meet the challenges and problems of 1975. Voting delegates from state Farm Bureaus will conduct the main business of the convention, the drafting of policies to guide the organization in the year ahead. Format for the meeting will follow patterns of former years. Vesper services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, January 5, in the Rivergate center. General sessions of. the convention will open at 9 a.m. Monday, January 6 and again on Tuesday morning,. January 7. Business sessions will be held Wednesday, January 8, and conclude Thursday noon, January 9. conferences will inSpecial-intereclude dairy, poultry, Farm Bureau women, beef cattle, swine, organization, marketing, horticultural crops, insurance, wheat and feed grains, and natural resources. These conferences will be held Monday and Tuesday afternoons, January 6 and 7. There will be a talent program Monday night, January 5, in which the Utah senior division winner will appear. A recognition and awards program will take place Tuesday night, 5-- multi-millio- rare-boo- old-wor- ld us I st January 7. A chartered flight will carry an ex- pected group, of about 100 Utahns to New Orleans Sunday, January 5. The group will stay at the beautiful Marriott Hotel near convention headquarters. Of that number, 74 will travel to Central America for an agricultural study tour dt the end of the meeting. NTER MOU NiTAI NIF AR M EPS QpSSB'SEP QSBISPflBD tom iyEiUm 8fe n S IIiRfcfilirilil.l (f&ti TiP.liTO wi eH?a tiro 40- - V efw 41 qgtxgi |