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Show j ' -"" . I v r j t$ ';' " ,, t I j Stringfellow Opens j Campaign I Douglas R. Stringfellow, 29, candidate for the Republican nomination nom-ination for congress in the First ! Utah Congressional District, today I declared his vigorous support of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican Re-publican presidential standard bearer. ! In a campaign statement, String-fellow, String-fellow, a public speaker of national na-tional reputation, stated that he is "behind Gen. Eisenhower 100." "This year," he explained, "the Republican party must be the means through which millions of Americans, many of whom never voted the Republican ticket before, can make a momentous national' j decision. The decision is to change the personnel and the policies of the Federal Executive Department. The Republican Party affords the onlv channel through which such a decision can be directed. "General Eisenhower is certainly certain-ly part of the answer, not part of the problem. He represents the thinking of progressive-minded Americans." Stringfellow, program director j at Radio Station KLO in Ogden, I added in his statement that a I definite need exists . for "an ac- tive program of restoring, pro-i pro-i tecting, and managing our renew-; renew-; able natural resources. There is i ample justification for the fed-j fed-j era! government to assist in flood ! control, irrigation, electrification . and other reclamation projects, I providing all projects include re-i re-i payment provisions so designed j that said projects become the property prop-erty of the people concerned." 1 "I also favor legislation," the statement concluded, "to clarify and stabilize the rights of sheepmen sheep-men and cattlemen to public lands for grazing." Stringfellow, a disabled hero of World War II, saw action behind the German lines as a member of the Office of Strategic Services. Captured by the Nazis, he was incarcerated and tortured in the infamous Belsen Prison camp. Following his escape from the camp, he was severely injured when he stepped on a land mine planted by a retreating enemy. His injuries resulted in paralysis j from the neck down. When he ' was discharged from Bushnell . General Hospital in Brigham City, i Utah, after the war, he was para-lyzed para-lyzed from the waist down. 1 Since leaving the hospital, he has gained numerous honors for outstnding achievement. In 1950, the Public Address Division of Freedom Foundation awarded him third place among Americans who had done most to promote the Democratic way of life. First and second place honors,- respectively, went to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisen-hower and Herbert Hoover. In 1951, he placed second nationally na-tionally in the American Legion's search for veterans of all wars who had consummated the greatest great-est physical, economic, social and spiritual . comeback after being wounded. I |