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Show WASHINGTON NEWS . ; FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Grange: Announces Candidacy "I appreciate and am honored by the efforts of my friends in circulating and filing a petition of nomination in my behalf, and I am glad to assume the responsibility respon-sibility that this nomination entails. en-tails. I will do everything possible pos-sible to justify their confidence in me as their representative," said Congressman Walter ' K. Granger in announcing his candidacy can-didacy for renomination as Representative Rep-resentative of the First Congressional Congres-sional District of Utah. His anouncement climaxed six years of service in Congress, during dur-ing which time he has won for himself a place on the Agriculture Agricul-ture Committee, which is one of the three major committees of the House of Representatives. He is also chairman of the Wool Sub-Committee, both of which are concerned with the problems of production and marketing of these important Utah products. He is the author of "The Wool Act of 1946," which is now under consideration in the House of Representatives. Few men have made greater progress, in spite of the rules of seniority which play such an important part in Congress. Mr. Granger has given a good deal of his time to citv. state and national problems prior to his election to Congress, having served for three terms as mayor of Cedar City, and as a member of the Utah State Legislature from 1933 to 1937 during one term he was speaker of the House. During the 1933 session, he sponsored legislation which became known as the "Granger Act," and is the only piece of legislation on the Statute books of Utah which is commonly called by the name of its author. He was appointed a member of the Public Service Commission and acted from 1937 to 1941 when he left for Washington to begin his first term as Congressman. Nor has his experience been entirely political, for he has given giv-en generously of his time to his church, serving as an L. D. S. missionary, as well as a bishop. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Utah State Agricultural College. With all this public service, he took time out to serve his country coun-try in time of need as a volunteer in the Marine Corps, and spent most of his time overseas in the first World War. He has been r member of The American Legion continuously since its inception and is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. So he knows the veterans' problems from firsthand first-hand knowledge and states he "fully realizes there are still many adjustments to be made to insure veterans of their rights and to give them the assistance so vital to their welfare." Mr. Granger was born in St. George, and was educated in the Iron County Public Schools and the Branch Agricultural College. Having been instrumental in bringing numerous permanet and temporary war installations to Utah, Mr. Granger knows how much these projects have meant economically to the various localities lo-calities in which they have been built. Everyone knows the heroic fight he has made to save Bush-nell, Bush-nell, and the success of his efforts ef-forts to keep Hillfield as a going concern. Likewise, he has been active in the preservation of Geneva, because, he says, "Every installation is a source of revenue and employment for thousands of people in Utah, who in turn create the markets for our agricultural agri-cultural products." Mr. Granger said, "Of paramount para-mount concern for the immediate future is, first, the exercise of every effort to effectuate world peace and to get our own country back on a peace time basis. Wc canot afford to make the mistakes mis-takes of the last war when wc won the fight and lost the peace; we cannot afford to make the same blunders we made after the last war as a result of which our nation suffered its most severe economic collapse. Having failed last time, we gained some bitter experience by which we must now profit." Mr. Granger has always beer, considered a progressive Democrat. Demo-crat. On several occasions he has violently clashed with ultra-conservative members of his own party on the floor of the House when progressive Administration, measures were under attack. He is always in attendance when the House is in session and the leaders have come to depend upon him to ficht for Administration Adminis-tration measures and for the things that are of special inierest to his District and State. His voting rertird is well known and is an indication of what can be expected from him in the future. In announcing his candidacy. Granger staled he would conduct con-duct a vigorous campaign both in the Primary and General cleg- tion. "Many friends, from every part of the District, have oiU-jci j their assistance in the organization organiza-tion of mv campaign, and since it will be" necessary for me to per.d some time in WaMiinffton. l am glad to accent their offers. Tlans are underway for the establishment es-tablishment of an organization in every locality in the District." Mr. Granger stated. |
