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Show Bracken Lee Urges Changes In Welfare, Liquor, Fish and Game Administration PROMISES STRICT ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT; RAYS HIWAY WASTE IN ADDRESS TO MILFORD AUDIENCE i y . renovation, with many changes in operation of the state control system made mandatory by revelations rev-elations of the past few months. Mr. Lee did not advocate sale-by-the-drink, and gave no indication indi-cation that he favored such a system. Rather, he s'eemed to hold to the opinion that the presr ent method of liquor control could be made satisfactory to all factions if properly administered. Mr. Lee spoke at length on Utah's road situation. He referred re-ferred to unlimited waste in expenditure of state road funds, flayed the administration administra-tion of the highway department depart-ment and the handling of the taxpayers money. He also expressed dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion with the present Welfare Act, urging that those not needing need-ing assistance be stricken from the relief roles, so that needy persons could be given "worth-1 J. Bracken Lee, Republican i candidate for Governor, paid a brief visit to Milford last Saturday morning and addressed ad-dressed an informal gathering of voters in the lobby of the Horn Silver Hotel, and from the rear bumpier of Ab Jenkins Jenk-ins "Republican" station wagon. Up-staters in the governor's party, besides Mr. Jenkins, included in-cluded E. E. Greenwood, candidate can-didate for state superintendent of public instruction; Eldon Elia-son Elia-son of Delta, candidate for district dis-trict attorney, and George Mur-dock Mur-dock of Beaver. Mr. Greenwood made a brief talk in the hotel lobby, giving his views on changes needed in the state education set-up. Mr. Jenkins, former mayor of Salt Lake City and holder of more automobile speed records than any other man in the world, expressed dissatisfaction with j "the present state set-up" and endorsed Brack Lee as the man who could best and most efficiently effi-ciently bring about a change for the better. Mr. Lee, in his two informal chats with the group, stressed economy in state government as his first aim. He advocated doing do-ing away with a lot of "dead timber" in the administration of state affairs, and putting the operation op-eration of the state on a sound financial basis. Concerning the liquor control in Utah, Mr. Lee said it was "very apparent" that the entire liquor set-up needed a thorough while and adequate" welfare assistance with no additional cost to the taxpayers. Touching on the fish and game set-up, a question close to the hearts of Beaver County sportsmen, sports-men, Mr. Lee advocated "equal representation" on the big game board of stockmen, sportsmen and individual citizens. He inferred that the present method of holding meetings by the big game board was designed to exclude ex-clude the ordinary citizens from a voice in the affairs of the game department. "The meetings turn out to be more or less a one-sided 1 affair, because the general public pub-lic has insufficent notice of the time and place they are to be held. Following the Milford meeting, meet-ing, Mr. Lee and his party appeared ap-peared in Minersville, and had a luncheon meeting in Beaver. |