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Show Salt Laker Would Become Governor ' ' I f I ' 1 . j r f v I w i V if'- i i f A y 4 ' t -f 1 if ; j 'Jyj JJ STANLEY N. CHILD Stanley N. Child, prominent State Senator and an outstanding Intermountain businessman and contractor has "tossed his hat in the ring" as a Democratic candi. date for Governor of Utah. Mr. Child formally filed his declaration dec-laration of petition and acceptance last Wednesday afternoon m the secretary of state's office. Dozens of petitions, containing hundreds of signatures, including 10 State Senators, legislators and numerous city and county officials, demonstrates demon-strates the popularity Mr. Child enjoys among Utah voters. The Salt Lake City press lauded Mr. Child's speech last Saturday when the bi-annual State Democratic Demo-cratic convention was held, terming term-ing his remarks as "constructive." Meanwhile, up and down the state, enthusiastic groups are forming to campaign for Mr. Child. General headquarters were opened last week in the Newhouse hotel, Salt Lake City. Mr. Child was born in Salt Lake City in 1889 of pioner parentage par-entage and was educated in local public schools and the University of Utah. In the first World war he served for 22 months, six of them overseas as a non-commissioned officer. His eldest son, Stanley Jr. is now serving in the armed forces, the childs have two other children, and have resided in Salt Lake for nearly a quarter of a century. He is a member of the L. D. S. church, and Salt Lake Post No. 2, American Legion. For more than twenty years Mr. Child has' activly participated in numerous numer-ous civic, patriotic, religious and community events. His hobby ' is people. Since 1935 Mr. Child has built an empressive list of achievements in public service. He served that year in the State House of Representatives, Rep-resentatives, and has been since 1939, a state Senator, his work in Utah's two legislative bodies has been "intelligent", ''sincere" and "effective." He has served on the aiore important committees of the Senate and lower house. Mr. Child's platform centers on absolute integrity in office, strict adherence to our Constitutional Constitut-ional safeguards and cooperation with other officials of the state. - ... , ( As a mason contractor, Mr. . Child's firm participated in the i construction of the Union Build- ( ing, Thomas Library and Field ( House at the University of Utah; the Ogden high school and Ogden J City and County Building; the . Municipal auditorium in (Price; Bushnell General Hospital in Brig-ham Brig-ham City, the Toole hospital and Public school, and many L. D. S. chapels, including the world renowned re-nowned temple in Washington, D. C. "If elected," Mr. Child said,"I intend to seek councel and advice from those who have a complete understanding of a particular problem for the general welfare of the entire state." Mr. Child has evolved a comprehensive compre-hensive post-war plan for Utah end a program to assist in the adjustment ad-justment period of Utah service men and women. |