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Show Candida? oo file in mayor, council raeos It was like pulling teeth, but before the deadline Friday, Fri-day, October 9, Beaver City came up with a fair contingent contin-gent of candidates for mayor and city council. Up for grabs are the Mayor's Ma-yor's seat, and two four-year four-year council seats, and for a while it looked as if they might go wanting, as incumbents in-cumbents declined to commit com-mit themselves, and few residents showed an interest. in-terest. The suspense arose because be-cause Beaver adopted an ordinance or-dinance eliminating the primary pri-mary election, but did not adopt an ordinance setting up conventions, forcing all candidates to run non-partisan. Filing for Mayor is incumbent in-cumbent Robert O. Christiansen, Chris-tiansen, and George Richard Rich-ard Webster. Those filing for council are incumbent Michael T. Robinson, Robert Rob-ert A. Morgan, Val L.Smith, D. Alfred Marshall, John Lookermans and Cary Havens. Ha-vens. Mayor Christiansen has served a full term In the office, and has become very knowledgeable about city affairs, af-fairs, particularly municipal electricity. A native of Beaver, he is married to Helen Christiansen, who is acting County Clerk. Robert Rob-ert is a former dairyman and farmer. Webster moved to Beaver eight years ago with his wife, Gail, and four children. chil-dren. He teaches school In Beaver and Is the branch manager for United Farm Agency. A member of the national guard and serves on the Beaver Stake High Council. Cary Havens is an accountant accoun-tant and managed the Cache Valley Dairy for a period of time. He has been in Beaver three years. D. Alfred Marshall Is the principal of Beaver High School, active in many civic civ-ic organizations, and the most successful coach In Utah 1-A football history. Michael T. Robinson, the incumbent was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Kenneth Yardley and is running run-ning for a full term. Val L. Smith Is a teacher teach-er at Belknap Elementary School, and Is active in many organizations. John Lookermans was the first to announce his candidacy candi-dacy and Robert A. Mor-gon Mor-gon wraps up the slate of candidates. In the non-partisan election elec-tion the top vote getter between be-tween the two mayor candidates will be elected, and the two top vote getters get-ters In the six man council coun-cil race will be elected. Candidates will be listed on the ballot In alphabetical order. |
