Show Observing f with Cliff ON OUR WAY When you leaders scan this week's the Thirty-Fifth Utah Legislature will be on road Since T and my fellow Gordon Mare part of that a but rather sure sign has been manifest that it just to be a picnic the next m pew or about March Bt ANTICIPATING Since this column was written before the m ig took place on Jan I'm able to relate just where Gordon and I will fit in committee but I predict we'll be in the middle of a lot of complicated I was honored by the new Speaker of the Charles by being assigned to the joint Senate-House Rules Committee a rather powerful committee which offers a great challenge during the days Other assignments will follow the opening day's ceremony WEEKLY COLUMN I shall try to keep my constituency Informed weekly of the progress the 1963 Session of the Utah and will on those things j that have particular and local Gordon luis promised to make some contributions a time goes which will See CASUALLY Page 8 Casually be most helpful and will give a much broader view of what Ih happening on Capitol ONE FINAL WORD And this is something I have repeated in this and orally to people locally forget to write us your views on the Issues as they come to the Your opinion and mine will make me a better and forget I'm your Duchesne County elected me not some other county and only to you am I There will be many powerful lobby pressures brought to Influence every legislator to vote with but if it won't benefit Duchesne County and the along with the rest of the people of then I should not support here in my county and area who know can keep me thinking Please don't forget c-o is a sign used to believe yon know more than you c-o CHURCH STAND T was glad to read and hear ia radio and TV a recent statement from the first presidency f the Church of Jesus Christ if Latter-day Saints relating to Birch and politics in general Not because I'm a but because the air needed to again be cleared as to the stand of the church on matters of NO PRESSURE in my has the church leadership dictated voting procedure involving candidates on either Too often a statement of some individual holding a high-ranking position in the has been taken as a directive as for whom the communicants of Mormon-ism should But was a speaking and not as a spokesman for the WILL REPEAT In the event some might have missed the statement of the First Presidency relating to the attitude of the church regarding the made as to the so-called Birch I am using their statement as a part of this column this week THE STATEMENT Church recognizes and protects the rights of its mem bers to express their personal political but it reserves to itself the right to formulate and proclaim its own BELIEVE IN a two-parly and all our members are perfectly free to support the party of their deplore the presumption of some especially and members of the John Birch who undertake to align the Church and its leadership with their partisan ENCOURAGE our members to exercise their right of to vote according to their own but no one should seek or pretend to have our approval of their DENOUNCE communism as being and the enemy of but we think they who pretend to fight it by casting aspersions on our elected officers or other fellow citizens do the anti-Communist cause a great AGAIN URGE our stake and other officers of the Church to refuse all applications for the use of our cultural or other places for political money-raising or to promote any person's political THE STATEMENT WAS signed by President David O. Henry D. Moyle and Hugh B. counselors in the First Presidency of the THE LAST WORD Meet the first look to the budding mischief before it has time to ripen to Shakespeare 30 |