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Show Legislative Clinics Produce Answers To Many Questions; Senator Vatkins Urges GOP Organize Senator Arthur V. Watkins declared his two clinics held in Duchesne County as very successful suc-cessful following his appearance in Roosevelt at a noon luncheon called by the County Republican Committee in his honor. He met a roup Monday night at Duchesne, where he discussed many pertinent problems that face the people of the Uintah Basin, Utah and the nation as a whole. Earlier in the afternoon, after-noon, he addressed the student body of Duchesne High School. The night meeting was held at the L D S Chapel. About 25 joined the senator at the American Legion barracks bar-racks at 9:30 a. m. in Roosevelt, Roos-evelt, where he answered various var-ious questions. A Myton delegation dele-gation presented a problem concerning con-cerning a road that has its bridges destroyed by the Indian Service when they clean their canals. He assured them this would be handled to the satisfaction satis-faction of all concerned. ! Bennie Schmiett, city councilman, council-man, asked the senator about a federal building for Roosevelt and received the answer that i "Roosevelt is no nearer a federal building now than it was five 'years ago. "We can't compete Iwith foreign spending, and you know what I mean by that," Senator Watkins said to the group. Louis Reese, superintendent of the Moon Lake Electric Co., headed a delegation from th! Altamont area and asked the Senator's assistance in having i the Mt. Emmons Post - Office moved to Altamont. The group was urged to petition the postmaster post-master general and send copies of the petition to him and to : Senator Wallace Bennett. It I (Continued On Back Page) Senator Watkins , . ! (Continued from Dage 1) I looks favorable that this will be done. Another delegation, headed by Fred Bearden, operator of the Wolf Creek Stage Lines, asked help in securing a mail service from Salt Lake to Roosevelt. He offered very little encouragement, encour-agement, but asked the iroup to meet his staff in Salt Lake City next week. At Union High the senator was subjected to a series of questions by an alert student body, which wanted to know, "What's being done to reduce the national debt;" requested him to "Please clarify phases of the selective service act calling call-ing reserves into active duty." These and various other problems prob-lems were discussed by Wat-kins. Wat-kins. At the luncheon, which, unlike un-like the clinics, digressed from the non-political course, Senator Watkins lashed out at the "Truman "Tru-man War in Korea," as "the most unnecessary slaughter of thousands of human beings that history has any record of." He was strong in his denunciation of the present administration's foreign policy as it refers to the Korean situation. Asked about additional taxes on the already staggering nation, Senator Watkins Wat-kins said, "I will never vote for another tax increase bill as long as I'm in Congress, unless we get into an all-out war, and I don't thing the Congress will either." He called on the Republican leaders to begin planning for 1952 and assured them that if full cooperation is engendered in the ranks of the party, the GOP will be the victors in the national election. |
