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Show An The Utah UNJ Ui' A WeeklyVoL 13; - Qlj NewspaperDevoted To Good Government No. 17 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Friday, May 8, 1959 W Nixon To Address Aggressive Plans For Action Launched Utah GOPs At State Meet YR By Conference 11th Biennial Confab Slated For Denver Vice President Richard M. Nixon Committee; Mrs. Clare B. Williams, will be invited to address the 11th Assistant Chairman of the Repub- lican National Committee; Senator ChairBarry Goldwater, Senatorial man of the Republican Committee; Rep. Richard Simpson .) Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee; and Mrs. Peter Gibson, President of the National Federation of Republican Women. Members of the Presidents Cabinet will participate in a panel under the Chairmanship of Robert K. Robert K. Gray, Secretary to the Cabinet. A Republican Governors panel will be headed by the youngest Republican State Legislator in the Nation, Tom R. Van Sickle, a 21 year-ol- d member of the House of Representatives of the Kansas State Legislature. Mr. Ashbrook, aged thirty, is Edidom. The following Party leaders will tor and Publisher of the Johnsaddress the delegates: Senator town, Ohio Independent, and a ), Chair- member of the Ohio House of Thruston B. Morton man of the Republican National Biennial Young Republican National in Denver, Convention, June 17-2-1 Colorado. Senator Gordon Allott (R. Colo) and Mr. John M. Ashbrook, Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, will call on the Vice President in his formal office at the Capitol at 11:30 a.m., Friday May 1st to extend this invitation. Senator Allott, a former National Chairman of the YRs, is honorary Chairman of the Convention which is expected to draw over 1,500 youthful delegates to Denver to elect new national officers, adopt a national platform and hear top Party officials. Theme of the Convention will be Young Republicans, a Force for Progress Through Individual Free- (R-Ariz- .), (R-Pa- - (R-Ky- County Roundup by Janet Schoenhals Salt Lake County held a Young Republican" rally Thursday eveing at the Murray B. Allen Center for the Blind. It was a rewarding evening for those who attended. Chairman of the Young Republicans, Don Jensen, announced that the county has planned a vigorous battle to bring new life into the party and a campaign for better and a more' informed Young Republican group. In this way citizens will become aware of the grave problems facing the county today. Mr. Jensen also announced that on May 27 (this date is not definite) the YRs will hold a debate type program with the Democratic Party. Keep this meeting in mind and plan to attend. Any Young Republican can obtain the folder that was circulated at the May 7 meeting. This is an excellent program for our organization and every Young Republican should read it. Ron Jensen has a surplus supply. The state central committee of the YRs held its first meeting of the year Thursday at the Capitol Building. Those officers include, Don E. Jensen, chairman; Norma Chaffos, state Ron Romney, Evan Evans, Ford Poulson, Miss Joan Nelson, secretary; Mrs. Marge Wahlquist, treasurer; national committeeman, Frank Mathison, and national committeewoman, Mrs. Bonnie Portwood. vice-chairwoma- vice-chairma- n; vice-chairma- n; n; vice-chairma- n; Prof Warns of Red Threat (Courtesy of Daily Utah Chronicle) The real Communist threat is not military, but economic, according to University political science professor Franz B. Schick. Dr. Schick spoke at a social science session of the Utah Academy Friday in Logan. The main theme of his talk was the political implications of the economic development seven-yea- r plan adopted at the recent meeting of the Communist party in Moscow. in the ambitious seven-yea- r plan. The reasoning of the Communist leaders is that at least one-thir-d of the still uncommitted people of the world will automatically turn to Communism if the plan could achieved. Its success would show, that socialism and communism are more effective than capitalistic systems, and that they can achieve in much shorter time a living standard higher thn that now prevailing in the United States. Dr. Schick appealed to the audDr. Schick said that the USSR and the Communist world hope to ience, warning of the tremendous establish definite political suprem- communist peril, to discontinue the acy of the Communist system by attitude in our country of what he achieving the target figures set called business as usual. Major steps in the rebuilding program of the Utah Republican Party meetwere evidenced at a day-lon- g of the Committee State Centra) ing at Hotel Newhouse on Saturday, May 2. A general morning meeting in the Gold Ball Room featured reports on finance, national committee news, national convention plans, national womes activity, and Utahs readiness for 1960. Following luncheon remarks by Governor George D. Clyde and Don State ChairJensen, newly-electe- d man of the Young Republican League, the group separated for an afternoon of project committee meetings. Sid H. Eliason, finance committee chairman, outlined a new program of plegde monthly subscription contributions, to be raised in a series of meetings and by door-to-doworkers, following roll call Jack Swenson, state secretary by A report of the National Com or mittee meeting in Washington, was given by Jaren L. April national committeeman, inJones, of Sen. Thruston election cluding B. Morton as national chairman. National Committeewoman LaRue B. Jex reported the work of the special committee which selected Chicago as the site for the Republican national convention this summer. Helen H. Brown, Utahs chairman of Republican Women, reported the activities of the national womens conference in Washington, April The dedication of the Robert Taft Memorial in Washington, D.C., on April 14 was descirbed by Vernon Romney S., a trustee of the Taft Memorial Foundation. The mornings concluding speaker was Clifton G. M. Kerr, the Utahs new Executive Director, speaking on Are We up to the Challenge of 1960? Chairman of the luncheon meet 9-1- 1, 12-1- 4. ing was Carl C. Gaskill, state treasurer. Luncheon was in the Royal Dining Room. A pledge of increased activity and support came from Don Jensen of Provo, was was elected Chairman of the Young Republican League of Utah during a convention held in Provo Saturday, April 18. Each of the projects in the Plan of Action, except finances, was the subject of the committee meetings at 2 p.m. State Chairman Thomas G. Judd conducted meetings of the PatronRecruit for 60 and Get age, Ready Survey comimttees. The To The People committee session was directed by Mrs. Helen Brown. Mrs. LaRue B. Jex was in charge of Fun and Forum" and Apprentice committees. The Citizenship Service and Regional Training Conference committee discussions were headed by Jaren L. Jones. Attendance at the meetings was good, despite bad weather. int Congressman in Washington by Henry Aldous Dixon It is surprising how inconsistent we can occuiie wn&i vtt ujr tc repeal the law of supply and demand. . House Agriculture Com. In the mittee last week we had representatives of the tobacco industry begging us to lower price supports on tobacco and the majority of the committee voting for higher support prices for feed grains. The tobacco bill to lower supports, for which I voted, is a classical example of the failure of high rigid supports. Leaders of the industry told us that these high rigid price supports and the parity concept is pricing our tobacco out of the world world market. They asked to be exempted from the new parity formula which includes wages, interest, taxes and cost of production and to be put back on. the old parity formula which does not have so many escalator factors. If they remain on the high rigid d tobacco support plan, will definitely go up one cent a pound this year and possibly higher making competition for the world market even more difficult. I voted against the bill designed to place ry, rice, barley, grain, sorghum and feed grains on the same price support level as con (which would raise their government price supports about six percent of parity). The idea of placing all feed grains on the same level as corn has some merit and is attractive at first glance, but in my opinion the move to increase price supports on all feed grain is is a step in the wrong direction. Feed grains are already going into government storage at a terrific rate. We can get more than we need without offering more incentives to produce them. In 1958 the government was forced to buy 43.8 percent of the grain sorghum crop, 19.6 percent of all the barley crop, 32.4 percent of all the rye crop, 5.6 percent of the oat crop and 6:1 percent of the corn crop. flue-ctire- The bill, which passed the House Agriculture Committee with only one Democrat- - voting against it, would greatiy increase guveiiuKenl surpluses, would raise food and tax costs, would boost the price of feed grains to our poultry and livestock people and would ultimately result in placing feed grains in the same sorry plight as- other basic crops that are now under high support prices. The majority of the committee voted to raise price supports on feed grains when at the same time we are holding hearings for the poultry people who say they are going broke because feed grains have risen from about $50 to $70 a ton while they are receiving only 18 to 28 cents per dozen for their eggs. Congressional Report Railroad Retirement: Railroad retirees will fare well if the bill voted by the House last week is enacted into law. It provides for a 10 percent increase in retirement benefits, an increase in the payroll tax and employees contribution to cover this, liberalizes unemployment compensation as well as pro - vides many health benefits. Colorado Riven I testified Friday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee in favor of the Pres- idents budget request for $75 million for the Colorado River Storage Project contsruction and in favor of his request for $5,385,000 for the Weber Basin Project Coal Research: A bill I to establish a coal research ganecy to aid our sagging coal industry has been favorably reported by a House Interior subcommittee. Rural Eelectrification: I voted against overriding 'President Eisenhowers veto of the bill to remove Secretary Bensons authority over REA loans. This bill was strictly a political dagger aimed at Secretary Benson without any justification being presented for it. Not one single instance was cited where he had interferred with any REA loan. Hydraulics Laboratory: Senator Bennett and I have asked the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in testimony last week to give the hydraulics laboratory at Logan first priority in their consideration of new laboratories. Statement of Policy During the past seven years the publishers of this paper made its columns available to the Republican Party for news stories and other editorial material. Speaking for the many Republicans throughout Utah who have been the benefactors of this policy, we wish to take this means to thank publicly all those who have contributed time and money towards making the Statesman a voice for good government. Next Friday, this paper passes to other hands. As of that date the Republican Party servers all association with this paper and will cease all participation in the publishing of news and editorial comment in the paper. . Thomas G. Judd State-Chairma- n Helen Vice-Chairma- H. Brown n Jack H. Swenson Secretary Carl C. Gaskill Treasurer Jaren L. Jones National Committeeman LaRue B. Jex National Committeewoman Sid H. Eliason Finance Chairman Clifton G. M. Director Ken-Executiv- e |