Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 21, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 April 1944 — HIESTAND TO RUN FOR RE-ELECTION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HIESTAND TO RUN FOR RE-ELECTION

Held Important Posts In Legislative Sessions In . 1941 And 1943. Howard R. Hiestand, veteran member of the State Legislature, has announced his candidacy for re-election as representative from Jasper and Newton counties. A highly respected and able legislator throughout his period of service in the State Assembly, Representative Hiestand was especially effective in the deliberations and decisions of the 1943 sessions.

For the second time he was selected Caucus Chairman by the Republican members of the House, and for the third consecutive session, he was made a member of the all important Steering Committee which passed upon measures to be sponsored hy the party leadership in fullfillment of platform pledges. In addition to these assignments, Mr. Hiestand was a member of eleven of the important committees to which was sent, or consideration given to, practically all of the legislation introduced during the session. He w r as chairman of the Railroads Committee; ranking majority member of the Federal Relations, Statistics, and Immigration Committee; and served as a member of the Committee on Insurance, Judiciary “A”* Roads, Rules, Interstate Cooperation, Legislative Apportionment, Affairs of Lake County and Calumet District, Congressional Apportionment, and Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills. Representative Hiestand, as a member of these committees, was especially effetive in assisting the large group of new members of the house to weed out undesirable bills and to report others for passage. Mr. Hiestand was also named as a member of the Committee on Interstate Cooperation, and in this capacity has attended several Midwest conferences of the Council of State Governments, held for the purpose of considering Past War Problems. - Well known for his strong opposition to Bureaucratic domination, either by the State or National Government, Representative Hiestand has consistently fought for more local control over purely local affairs. In this connection, he has successfully led in the fight to secure the return to local units of their rightful share of tax money collected by the State. Through conservation and judicial handling of appropriations, Hiestand, along with other Republicans, has enabled the State Finance Board to levy the lowest State property tax in history. Mr. Hiestand expresses the belief that the next few years will see Indiana faced with some of the most perplexing problems ever to present themselves. He is asking re-election on the basis of his record, believing that his experience will prove of value when a solution of these problems must be provided by suitable legislative action.

HOWARD R. HIESTAND