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Show Vernal Mayor Files for Congress In First District B. H. "Bry" Stringham B. H. "Bry" Stringham, former 'Mayor of Vernal and presently chairman of the Colorado River Development Committee of 21 Utah Ut-ah counties, filed today as a .candidate .can-didate for the Republican Nomination Nomin-ation for Congress in the First Utah district. Stringham's announcement for Congress came as the climax to many years of public service to the people of Utah, by petition of the citizens of Uintah and Duchesne Duch-esne counties. He was born on a farm in the Ashley Valley of Uintah County and attended grade school and I Uintah Academy in Vernal. He at- tended the BYU and graduated as . president of his class. After his ' graduation he became principal of Spring Canyon school in Carbon county. In 1926 he returned to Vernal where he entered the farming and ' livestock field and is today one of Utah's most successful sheep -men. He was selected by the citizens of Uintah coupnty to serve two i terms as their State Representat- j ive and was the author of the school lunch bill and the Utah ! bounty law. ' He became Mayor of Vernal City in 1942 and continued in that office of-fice for four consecutive terms and was reelected twice without any opposition. While Mayor of Vernal, Stringham successfully guided his city through a boom which saw the population double while the tax levy remained unchanged. His civic activities have included includ-ed president of the Vernal Lions club, Zone Chairman, and District Governor of District 28A of Lions, president Utah Municipal League, Member of Taylor Grazing Board, since 1935 and chairman for Six years, Vice President of the State Advisory Board, member of the National Advisory Council representing repres-enting al the sheepmen of Utah, director of the Utah Livestock Pro duction Credit Corporation, President Presi-dent Hotel Vernal Corporation, Director Di-rector of Basin Loan Company and chairman of the Uintah County Bond Drives for many years. Stringham, a leader in Reclamat ion is chairman of the 21 county committee for the development of water resources in Utah and has aggressively led the campaign to preserve Utah's greatest natural re source. "Bry" married Catherine Chip -man of American Fork and they have 6 children. |