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Show GRANGER TO SEEK SIXTH TERM IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Representative W a 1 ter K. Granger has announced that he will seek renomination on the Democratic ticket for Congress from the First Congressional District, as he neared the completion com-pletion of five terms. During the .past 10 years he has established estab-lished himself as the fourth Walter K. Granger ranking member of the powerful power-ful Agriculture Com mittee, which is one of the three major committees of -the House of Representatives. He is chairman chair-man of the House Agriculture Subcommittee No. 3, which directs di-rects legislation having to do with wool, sugar, grazing and forest matters all of vital importance im-portance to the State of Utah. During the 81st Congress Granger was sponsor or co-sponsor co-sponsor of 16 bills that have become be-come public laws. This is an unusually high number out of Continued on Back Page Here's More About GRANGER Continued from Paae One the 1009 bills that were passed, in view of the fact that there are 596 members in the House and Senate. Public laws are customarily known by number only. It is seldom that national laws become be-come officially known by their author's name, but such an honor hon-or was recently conferred on Mr. Granger. The Chief of the Forest Service directed that the omnibus forest bill shall be known as the Granger-Thye act. In addition to working for various reclamation projects of vital interest to Utah, Mr. Granger Gran-ger is one of the recognized leaders in congress who has been fighting- for legislation to help the small mines of the West in their struggle for survival. sur-vival. Mr. Granger, a native of St. George, was educated in the Iron county public schools, and the B A C. He served three terms as mayor of Cedar City, was a member of the Utah State Legislature from 1933 to 1937, serving as Speaker of the House during his second term. |