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Show Michaelson Named Chairman of Crusade For Freedom C. D. Michaelson, general manager man-ager of the Western Mining Di-poration, Di-poration, yesterday was named Utah State Charman of the 1957 Crusade for Freedom, succeeding William A. Lang, Vice President of The Lang Company. The appointment was announced announc-ed by Eugene Holman, National Chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, Free-dom, and Chairman of the Board, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Objective of the drive, which will be conducted in February, Feb-ruary, is to raise funds for continued con-tinued operation of Radio Free Europe and the Free Europe Press, twin agencies which penetrate the Iron Curtain with messages of truth for more than 70,000,000 captive peoples of the Communist-dominated Communist-dominated countries of Central Europe. Having spent many years in South America and in Latin America, Mr, Michaelson has often been at a vantage point to observe the constant pressure of the Communist Com-munist to infiltrate free governments. govern-ments. "The Communist threat is no myth. It is real and dangerous. danger-ous. It feeds on subterfuge and distortions of the truth," he warns. "Our greatest weapon is the Truth as broadcast daily by Radio Free Europe, and carried by Freedom Balloons in the form of miniature newspapers into the captive countries," coun-tries," he said. Presenty director of Kennecott operations in Utah, Nevada, Arizona Ari-zona and New Mexico, Mr. Michaelson is a national committeeman com-mitteeman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an active member of the Sat Lake Rotary Club. Im-mediatey Im-mediatey prior to coming to Utah last November, he was Vice President Presi-dent and Director of Braden Copper Cop-per Company in Chile, Kennecott's |