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Show Page 2 Friday. October 26. 1956 THE UTAH STATESMAN Governor Lee Again Blasts Forced Contributions not THE UTAH STATESMAN A Weekly Newipapei Devoted to Good GoveruoatM Don Ware, Editor . Edwin W. Kain, Advertising Manager 421 Church Street Entered Phone EM 4-3- 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. at Subscription rate $1.00 per year NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, 1956 October 26, 1956 11 Tol: 10; No. 42 sup In a television broadcast this with party hacks. I do week Governor J. Bracken Lee re- port or condone either of these iterated his opposition to forcing cornerstone principles of a politipublic office employes to make cal machine, n my opinion it is a political contributions. terrible thing when employes of In this connection he read a let- government have to pay tribute to ter he had sent state department their bosses as a means of holding heads with respect to political con- their jobs. The system is unfair tributions: both to the employes, who must I am writing to reiterate a divide their earnings with the ma policy of mine con- chine, and the taxpayers who cerning the solicitation of em- who must foot the bill. ployes for political or other contributions. As you know, I have During the course of his address never condoned any solicitation Governor Lee cited a recent cirfor any purpose in which collec- cumstance to confirm his charge tion is made by threat or coercion, that the Republican candidate is direct or implied. Therefore, no not a true Republican. one is authorized to make any From no less an authority than solicitation or collection among the architect of the Eair Deal himstate employes if threats or coercion is used to force collection. self, former President Harry S. In other word3, all contributions Truman, comes the confirmation made by employes no matter what of what I have said repeatedly the cause should be voluntary in about the political background of nature. Please bring the forego- the Republican nominee for to governor, George D. Clyde, nformiation the employes in ng Governor contended. Lee your department at your earliest opportunity. Continuing, the Governor Governor Lee recalled that durcharged: Clyde is or was a Demoing the time Maw administra- crat. Harry Truman says so and tion was the affairs he should know. Mr. Truman furof state, the employes of the state nished the proof in Salt Lake City government were being forced to when he told newsmen contribute two per cent of their recently he knew George Clyde and resalaries to the Maw machine. This him as a Democrat when forced contribution was extended garded Worked for Charley Brannan. he even to include those employes whose jobs were obtained through We have known this all along. merit examination and whose You may have heard me recall to status, under law, was to have you that George Clyde was an the Governor appointee of former Governor been asserted. Herbert B. Maw and later served in the Truman Administration Stops Shakedown System As soon as I took office, the under Secretary of Agriculture chief executive continued, I abol- Charles Brannan. Incidentally this ished this shakedown system in all is the same Charley Brannan, who Brannan departments of government under fathered the state I control. to slashed also farmers subsidies my plan pay high payrolls, which were overloaded the same plan which Secretary long-standin- Published weekly at 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Knowland Sparks GOP Campaign; Says Adali Plays Into Soviet Hands g so-call- ed The Republican campaign in Utah was considerably strengthvisit of ened through the one-daSenator William F. Knowland, GOP leader in the senate and probably the most powerful senator in that body. Beginning at Provo, where he addressed an assembly of the B.Y. University in the George Albert Smith Field House, Senator Knowland came to Salt Lake City for a press conference, television broadcast and Thursday evening addressed a large group of Weber county Republicans at y Ogden. Both in his Ogden address and broadcast. Senator television Knowland in unmistakable language stamped the opposition as the War Party, recalling that in his limited lifetime of 48 years we have had five Republican administrations and three Democrats have occupied the White House, he declared. Under the Republicans the country was and is at peace. In each of the Democratic administrations we were at war World War I, under Wood-roWilson World War II under Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Korean War under Harry Truw man. The Years Ahead In this year of 1956, it becomes supremely important for ourselves and our children to ask what is best for America in the next four years, he said. The Republican Party presents outstanding candidates, a constructive administrative record and principles of government worthy of support of the American people, he declared. I have a deep conviction that if we will show the same courage and common sense that motivated the men who sat at Philadelphia and gave us our first Declaration of Independence and later our Constitution, there are no domestic problems we cannot solve and no foreign foe we need ever fear, he concluded. Rips Into Stevenson Ripping into Adlai Stevenson, Democratic standard bearer, Senator Knowland declared that proposed ban on the was playing directly into the hands of the Soviet Union. Candidate Stevenson misses the point, Senator Knowland asserted. The issue is not whether the United States and the Soviet Union could agree on the termination of atomic and nuclear weapon testing. The issue is that agreement Stev-.enso- ns H-bo- We Like Ike with the Soviet Union without the adequate inspection" proposed by President Eisenhower is meaningless and could jeopardize the safety of our republic, our citizens and the maintenance of a free world of free men, he said. Cites Red Violations During the past quarter of a century, the Soviet Union has vio- lated every major international obligation with nondommunist nations . . . with Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, the Republic of China, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, the Californian declared. As charter members of the United Nations, the Soviet Union openly violated its obligations by giving material and moral support to the Chinese Communist aggressors in Korea, he said. If candidate Stevenson does not know this, he is too naive to be president of the United States and commander-in-chie- f of our armer forces,'! the burly Cali fornia solon added. CAA STAMPS OK ON AIRPORT WORK mis-managi- non-politica- ng l, so-call- . RE-ELE- CT an expenditure of new terminal and building site at City Airport, has by the Civil Aeronautics Commission, it is announced by City Commissioner L. C.. Romney, in charge of parks and public property department. City Engineer Roy W. McLeese said he would call soon for bids on the project, which is a continuation of the grading and drainage work that has been going on at the airport for the past several months. Approval of $527,423 on a administration the Salt Lake been approved GOP Women Sign County Chairman Sherman Lloyd, Salt Lake will county Republican chairman, ' schedare discuss issues, which uled to come before the 1957 legislature at a meeting of Republican women November 5 at 2 pm. The session is being sponsored by the Republican Womens Club of Salt Lake City, of which Mrs. Hazel G. Bertagnole is president. - of Agriculture Benson has con- demned as socialistic and unworkable. I am not so cuch concerned with 'Mr. Clydes politics as I am with the deception that has been practiced by Senator Watkins and others who make up the Clyde clique in the Republican party. They foisted Mr. Clyde upon the Republican party as its nominee for Governor, fully knowing that he had no record of service to the party whatsoever, but on the contrary had been in the service of the opposition party and, presumably, reflected that partys viewpoint and philosophy. UTAH'S CONGRESSIONAL TEAM Tough Slate Ahead For Ute Players Dejection, rejection and selection are three words that both the football coaching staff and players of the University of Utah are well aware of in preparing for this Saturdays. Homecoming fray against the Idaho Vandals at Ute Stadium. Game time is 2 p.m. Dejection is apparent after last weeks loss to Wyoming and its no secret that the Ute ball players are suffering from a bad case of disappointment. Coach Jack Curtice will have to bring his boys back to a peak for the Vandals or his club could be in trouble. Rejection is the order, of the day in that the coaching staff wants to do away with any thoughts that the years schedule is now that Wyoming is in the past. The Utes have the tough part of their slate remaining and this could still be one of Utahs greatest seasons if they could post wins over Rice, Colorado and Utah State in the remaining frays. Selection is a real problem in that Curtice must find some additional strength at center with the definite loss of Roger Butler and the injury to Don Bonvicino. Also some additional depth must be f found at where the top speedster on the squad Stuart Vaughan is out for three weeks with a rib injury. anti-climati- c left-hal- CONGRESSMAN CONGRESSMAN William A. Dawson Henry Aldous Dixon IB mn smam mibiliicaki (Paid Political Adv.) L W. We Build What You Want 1107 East 33rd South Phone HU 5-51- 41 . |