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Show Mrs. Lee Defends governor's Education Stand Defending Governor Lee's education ed-ucation program, Mrs. J. Bracken Brack-en Lee, who spoke to 15U Duchesne Du-chesne County women i'riday evening said that more money has been spent on education i.i U.ah in the past two years than ever before and that more new buildings have been constructed. "Governor Lee," she said, vetoed ve-toed Senate BUI 75, which was introduced to provide more funds for education because it was inadequate and would not solve the school financing problem prob-lem for any length of time. He appointed a 60-man commission representing every county in the state, to make a survey ana study education needs in the state.' Their findings will be submitted in the near future after which better and more effective ef-fective legislation can be passed." Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Henry Henriod were honored guests ai a reception given Friday evening eve-ning at the R. S. Jordan home in Roosevelt by officers of the Roosevelt-Neola-Myton Republican Republi-can Women's Club. This was the first event sponsored by the group to carry out the slogan, "Friday Night Is Republican Night." In charge of arrangements for the affair were: Mrs. Horace Allred. Mrs. Ted Thomas, Mrs Thad Wilkerson, Mrs. Howard Harrison, Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. J. V. McLea, and Mrs. Wilford McConkie. They were assisted in serving and receiving guests by Mrs. Fred Ferron, Mrs. Ford Gardner. Mrs. Homer P. Edwards,, Ed-wards,, Mrs. George Stewart, Mrs. Kenneth Aycock, Mrs. Clair Larsen, Mrs. Robert Ferron, Fer-ron, Mrs. Farrell Wilkins. Mrs. Grant Killian, Mrs. Varney McLea, Mc-Lea, Mrs. Keith Luke, Mrs. Dick Bastian and Mrs. Kent Johan-sen, Johan-sen, Mrs. Paul Stringham, Mrs. Wayne Malin and Mrs. Sam Weiss. Musical numbers for the af-; af-; fair were provided by Mrs. Lor : en Alexander, Mrs. Garth Gard- ner and Miss Esther Wogec. |