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Show George D. Clyde Is OOP Candidate For Utah Governor George Dewey Clyde, director of the Utah Water and Power Board, has announced his candidacy candid-acy for Republican nomination for governor said: "I sincerely believe . this is the way I can best serve the State of Utah." Mr. Clyde played a leading role in the successful fight to obtain authorization of the Upper Colorado Color-ado River Pdoject and has a lifetime life-time background in irrigation, agriculture, ag-riculture, engineering, research and education that has made him thoroughly familiar with Utah problems from one end of the state to the other. "My major objective is and will always be to build a sound economy econ-omy for the entire state," Mr. Clyde said. "For some time past I have been strongly urged to i enter my candidacy for governor. Aft giving it much thought and analysis, I decided to do so be- ' cause I honestly feel I am in a position to carry out this basic objective. "I have never before sought a political office and I have no ambition to make a career of politics but neither do I have any political strings or obligations," obliga-tions," he continued. "I have been a Republican all my life and I am in harmony with the policies and principles of the Eisenhower adminstration and the Republican ; Party. Strong For Education "I realize the need for a strong educational system to meet the needs of Utah's growing population popula-tion and to maintain the high educational ed-ucational standards for which Utah has been renowned. As a former dean of the school of engineering at Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College, I feel I have a sound knowledge of the problems prob-lems and needs of education. (Continued on Back Page) GEORGE D. CLYDE . . . (Continued from Page 1) "I believe in economy in government, gov-ernment, but I think it should come from an efficient and businesslike busi-nesslike operation and not from depriving citizens of the services that government should perform "I stand for an adequate system sys-tem of state highways, to be ex-, panded to meet growing needs and at all times to be efficiently maintained. "I favor an equitable system of taxation that will not put an undue burden on any segment of our economy." Born In Springeville Mr. Clyde was born in Spring-vilJe Spring-vilJe in 1898, a member of a Pioneer Utah family. He attended Utah schools and obtained a degree de-gree in engineering at Utah State Agricultural College, following it with post graduate work and a master's degree at the University of California. He was a member of the faculty at USAC for 23 years, and from 1935 to 1945 was dean of the school of engineering and for most of that time served as director of the Utah State Engineering Experiment Station. Nationally Known Mr.. Clyde is nationally known for his work in agriculture, engineering, en-gineering, irrigation and water development de-velopment and he has served on numerous state, regional and national na-tional committees in these fields. He has been a special advisor to governors and secretaries of agriculture agri-culture on the development and utilization of water. For 20 years he was water commissioner for the Logan River and for the past three years he has been director of the Utah Water and Power Board as well as commissioner of interstate streams for Utah, the state's' representative on the Upper Up-per Colorado River Commission, the Bear River Commission, Columbia Co-lumbia River Commision and the Pacific - Southwest Inter - Agency Commission. He is a member of the Kiawnis Club, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Soil Conservation Con-servation Society of America, Western Snow Conference and the Chamber of Commerce. He is married and has five children. |