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Show I. f ' 'A Governor 3. Bracken Lee George Dewey Clyde GOP Name Incumbent J. Bracken Lee And George Dewey Clyde At Convention ricultural and civil engineer. In a special to Sugar House News -Bulletin, he said: "Utah has great opportimities yet unrealized. Development of water and "'power resources will remove the barriers to establishment establish-ment of new local industries and a more sound agriculture. Only by the creation of new taxable wealth in this manner can tax rates be kept from going higher. "Youth is the state's greatest resource a human resource and by careful planning and development de-velopment programs we can provide pro-vide for education within our means. We look to the day young people will find abundant career opportunities within the state as a result of action now looking to the future." Top vote getter at the Republican Republi-can convention last Saturday was incumbent Governor J. Bracken Lee. Speaking to the News-Bulletin he said: "My platform when I was first elected Governor was to restore honesty, efficiency, and economy to government. The record will show that I kept this pledge and have maintained the type of government gov-ernment I promised." "My record in office is well established es-tablished and it is one of which I am proud. It is a record of honest and efficient administration with out breath of scandal; of debt-free years of balanced budgets ' and solvent operation; of tremendous construction and building activity unparalleled in Utah's history; of record support for education, welfare, wel-fare, and other essentials without burdensome tax increases; of cooperative co-operative effort in building a better bet-ter State; of, to use old-fashioned words, 'government of the people, by the people and for the people, with liberty, equality, and justice for all.' It is a record that any Republican should be proud to support "I sought support for renomina-tion renomina-tion on this record and my pledge to continue to administer the affairs af-fairs of State in the same honest, efficient and economical manner that has characterized my administration admin-istration in the past. I seek your support on this same platform. It is not my practice to make promises for the sake of votes, but it is my record to fulfill the promises I make. "The election campaign this year will be a rugged one because of the determined and bitter fight the Democrats obviously intend to make to wrest the governorship from the Republican party. If I am chosen to lead our State ticket, you are assured I will wage my usual vigorous campaign to win Republican success in November. Novem-ber. I hope that my record as Governor and my experience as a campaigner will merit your confidence confi-dence and support." George Dewey Clyde, 2nd high man in the Republican nominating convention, is on leave as director of the Utah Water and Power Board. He was formerly chief engineer of the U.S. Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service, chief of the De-parment De-parment of Agriculture's western irrigation research unit, dean of the school of engineering at Utah State Agricultural college, wartime war-time director of World War H training at USAC, consulting ag- |
