Iron County Record | 1960-01-28 | Page 11 | State Senator Hatch Seeks Congress Office

State Senator Hatch Seeks Congress Office (' - ! f 1 - I A I LAiLJ Glen M. Hatch State Senator Glen M. Hatch (Dem.. Heber), announced this week ihat he would seek the Democratic nomination for the U. S. House of Representatives from Utah's First Conca ksional District I Now completing four years service ser-vice in the Utah Senate, Haich was minority whip last session and has served on the Legislative Council during the last two interim in-terim periods. He is Identified as a strong suport of school finance equalization, the Water and Power Pow-er Board, modernization of the laws governing cities and counties coun-ties an the act governing leas-1 ing of State owned oil lands. Hatch asserts that Utah's greatest need now is, and will continue to be, water. He feels the congressman from this 25 county district must exert every possible effort toward the completion com-pletion of the various Federal Reclamation projects which are absolutely essential for the expanding ex-panding water needs of our cities, cit-ies, industries and farms. He feels that we must use restraint re-straint In looking to the Federal government for solution to our problems, that a 290 billion dollar dol-lar debt is a horrible thing to contemplate at the same time we face pressure for rising defense expenditures. Hatch said he felt r.iuch could be done to provide more equitable 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 about the way we are drifting into a society of great monopolies, and hopes to dedicate dedi-cate -his efforts toward strengthening strength-ening the economy of Utah but at the same time preserving a maximum of individual opportunity opportu-nity and independence. He deplores the, perilous situation situa-tion of parts of our mining and livestock industry and feeds that the same Federal power which has put their competitors in business bus-iness should now be used to protect pro-tect them from extinction.