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Show I ,' ? if a Glen M. Hatch Glen M. Hatch Is Candidate for Congress State Senator Glen M. Hatch (Dem., Heber City), this week announced an-nounced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the U. S. House of Representatives from Utah's First Congressional district. Now completing four years service serv-ice in the Utah State Senate, Hatch was minority whip last session and has served on the Legislative Council during the last two interim periods. He is identified as a strong supporter of school finance equalization, the Water and Power Board, modernization of the laws governing cities and counties, and the act governing leasing of State-owned State-owned oil lands. federal income tax and social security se-curity systems, to find a less expensive ex-pensive and more effective farm program, and to curtail rather than encourage rising interest rates. He feels particularly strongly strong-ly about the way we are drifting into a society of great monopolies, and hopes to dedicate his efforts toward strengthening the economy of Utah, but, at the same time, preserving pre-serving a maximum of individual opportunity and independence. He deplores the perilous situation situa-tion of parts of our mining and livestock industry and feels that the same federal power which has put their competitors in business now be used to protect them from extinction. Hatch is an artillery veteran of World War II and Korea. Now Heber City attorney, he has been active in Lions Club, Red Cross, Chamber of Commerce, and Utah Water Users Association affairs. He is married to the former Nellie Nel-lie Smith and they have two children, chil-dren, i iiatcn asserts mat utan s greatest great-est need now is and will continue to be water. He feels the Congressman Con-gressman from this 25-county district dis-trict must exert every possible effort ef-fort toward the completion of the various federal reclamation projects proj-ects which are absolutely essential for the expanding water needs of our cities, industries, and farms. Commenting on the split rural-urban rural-urban nature of the district, he stressed the fact that he was raised in Salt Lake City, and is just as vitally concerned with the growing urban problems of Ogden, Brig-ham Brig-ham City, Logan, Price, and the other cities as with the farm area problems of the remainder of the district. He feels that we must use restraint re-straint in looking to the federal government for solutions to our problems, that a 290-billion dollar dol-lar debt is a horrible thing to contemplate con-template at the same time that we face pressure for rising defense expenditures. Hatch said he felt much could be done to provide more equitable |