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Show PRICE MAN BIDS FOR GOVERNORSHIP I s v T X L ( A ; J ; ' "t 1 ' s ,W : i , t t . I ! " ft i ' " - ' i I " " 'ij store government to its proper status as the servant, not the 'master, of the people. We must curb the colossal waste and extravagance ex-travagance of government which is equaled only by the insatiable greed of the party in power for more power." Mayor Lee scores the New Deal's cheap political trickery in fostering class hatred, especially at a time when state and national unity on the home front are so essential to victory on the bat-tlefront. bat-tlefront. Hitting at the dicta- tion government has assumed over tile private lives of the people, peo-ple, the outspoken official asserted. assert-ed. J. Bracken Lee was born in Price, January 7, 1899. He is an independent businessman with a long record of civic service in the state. A veteran of World War I, and is a member of the American Legion, has served two terms as president of the Municipal Muni-cipal League of Utah three terms as president of the Carbon County Coun-ty Associated Industries, and four terms as chairman of the Carbon Water Conservancy District. Dis-trict. Earlier this year, he directed direct-ed southeastern Utah's participation participa-tion in the Fourth War Loan campaign as one of the regional directors of the U. S. Treasury War Finance Committee A des-cendent des-cendent of Utah pioneers, Mayor Lee is married and is the father of four children. J. Bracken Lee, dynamic mayor of Price, formally launched hisj candidacy for the Republican nom ination for governor this week on a platform pledging the restora- j tion of honest, efficient, waste-free waste-free government in Utah. I The Price business and civic leader, who is currently serving his fifth consecutive term as i mayor of his home town, outlined . an eight-point platform providing I for a streamlined state admins-tration admins-tration with direct benefits to the people in the form of tax reduction reduc-tion and repeal and the elimination elimina-tion of nonessential, wasteful state bureaus and commissions. Backing up his promise to fight for repeal of unnecessary taxes fall heaviest on those least able to pay, the crusading mayor point ed to his five-term record as mayor may-or of Price. One of Utah's highest high-est taxed cities when Mayor Lee first took office. Price Is now entirely tax free. "Government in Utah has too long been operated for a favored few." Mayor Lee asserted, "I pledge an adminstration that will govern impartially for the benefit of the people. irrjsi;e?tive of their political aff'.lations or economic status. We must throw out the profes-ional profes-ional politicians and the humbling bureaucrats and return, government govern-ment to the peopie. We must re- |