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Show JONES OUTLINES ISSUES OF !IIS CAMPAIGN As Utah's 1950 political contest con-test rounded into its final month Dr. Preston L. Jones, Republican Republi-can candidate for congress in the first district, this week appraised ap-praised the issues that evolved from the campaign and announced an-nounced his stand on each. In a report to the people of Duchesne county, he said, "I am committed to a vigorous program pro-gram for the development of Utah's vast untapped reclamation reclama-tion possibilities. Utah has for too long been at the bottom of the list of western states reclamation-wise.. I stand pledged to fight and that's what it takes for Utah's water and power rights in the Colorado river." "I believe the development of our reclamation possibilities is urgent because I stand for encouraging industry to come to Utah. Industry cannot come to Utah in any great force until we can supply industry with plentiful power and water. Dr. Jones stated he supports a farm program which will heln the farmers to work out their j own problems instead of "making "mak-ing them wards of an all-powerful government as the Brannan plan would do." "I am wholeheartedly behind a program Which will brin& the livestock raisers and woolgrow-1 ers of this state a decent break on the range. Government agencies agen-cies actually fight the livestock and sheen men instead of at tempting to work out a cooperative cooper-ative relationship." The Republican candidate said that Utah can develop a $200,000,000 tourist industry i without tapping a single resource. re-source. A project which would bring tourist dollars to all parts of Utah is the proposed inter-park inter-park highway connecting the state's southwestern and southeastern south-eastern scenic attractions, he said. "Finally," said Dr. Jones, "I ; call for immediate measures to stabilize the American dollar which in the past 10 years has been bled of 50 per cent of its purchasing power by the spend-thriftism spend-thriftism of the Fair Dealers. There isn't a government bureau j or department that couldn't cut its costs by a fourth, at least, by doing without non-essential personnel and adopting the efficiency ef-ficiency methods which have made our free enterprise system pay its own way," he declared. t |