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Show REPUBLICANS MAKE GAINS IN ELECTION Mortensen, Hall, Fuhri-man Fuhri-man and Reese win County Offices Cache Will have GOP Commission. Ballot-scratching Cache-county Cache-county voters Tuesday elected elect-ed Cache county's first Republican Re-publican commission since 1930 while retaining all but two democratic incumbents in other county offices and naming by a close margin a solid democratic delegation to the state legislature. Unofficial returns Wednesday Wednes-day from all precincts g'ave A. J. Fuhriman of Logan and Parley G. Hall of Wells-ville Wells-ville victories over Parley A. Reese of Benson and Louis P. Maughan of Hyrum in the most hotly contested race of the election. Fuhriman polled 4799 votes compared to Reese's 4470, a majority of 329 votes. . Both Maughan and Hall conceded con-ceded victory to each other numerous num-erous times before it was determined determ-ined that the Wellsville man was victorious. Mr. Hall polled 4655 to .Mr. Maughan 's 4539, giving him n majority of 84 votes. REPLACE N1EISEN-WORLET They will take the seats of William Wil-liam Worley of Logan and 10 C. Nielsen of Hyrum, both of whom were elected in 1932. It gives Cache county the first Republican commission since 1930 when W. W. Hall of Logan and Alban T. Claw-son Claw-son of Hyrum were the officials. A full democratic slate of state legislators, headed by Senator James A. McMurrin, were victorious. victor-ious. However, Adrian W. Hatch, new first district representative, defeated de-feated P. C. Felsted, county Republican Re-publican chairman by only 110 votes while George S. Noble of Smithfield, holds a 13-vote unofficial unof-ficial margin over Harold G. Wood of Lewiston. There is a slight possibility pos-sibility that the official canvass will change this picture. John H. Schenk of College, dem- , ocratic third district Incumbent de-1 de-1 feated Herman Theurer by 146 votes. The GOP party also were successful suc-cessful in moving two other candidates can-didates Into county offices which formerly were democratically controlled. con-trolled. An upset, but not altogether unexpected un-expected victory was that of Mrs. Lula Roskelley Mortensen, present Smithfield city recorder and treas-(Continued treas-(Continued on Page Three) 4470, A. J. Fuhriman (R) 4799;! Clerk, N. J. Crookston (D) 5469, Willard H. Chugg (R) 3743; Treasurer, H. T. Beck (D) 4759, John A. Israelsen (R) 4479; Assessor, As-sessor, R. A. Stewart (D) 5052, Parley Savage (R) 4080; Recorder, Record-er, Elinor B. Hodgson (D) 5283, Lula Roskelley Mortensen (R) 4838; Attorney, L. E. Nelson (D) 4191, L. Tom , Perry (R) 5004; For the twenty-fourth year since its inception, the Ogden Livestock show will offer to intermountain stockmen .an overe-all picture of the past year's progress in livestock live-stock growing ; during the four eventful days of the show, November No-vember 8 to 11. With wartime adding an additional addi-tional touch of practical usefulness useful-ness to " the show, officials . are expecting the 1942 exhibition to be "all , businsss," but a splendid sports ' . card; the annual stock, men's ball and stockmen's banquet ban-quet are scheduled to add zest to the program. Advance inquiries for premium lists and catalogs are greater than ever before and are taken as an indication that interest in the show is more widespread than at any other time in its; history. The closing date for all entries Vvas November 2 and .everything is ready for the show. Special emphasis has been placed plac-ed this year on the carlot and feeder divisions and on the junior jun-ior departments of the show, with premiums doubled , in these departments. Commercial and range ; classes are receiving greater consideration this year, in line with a r request of the government officials that all shows be given as strong a local color as possible. The Ogden Livestock show is offering $15,000 in prizes, and a number of commercial and extra prizes offered swells the total of premiums to a very attractive figure. The show premiums include in-clude $3,000 in prizes for the Hereford section, $2,100 in the Shorthorn and $2,203 in-the Aberdeen-Angus. The hog and sheep divisions are attracting wide . attention among growers and promise to constitute an important part of the annual exposition. Three auction sales are planned for the show. The purebred Hereford Here-ford I sale will be held Tuesday, November 10 at 10 a.m. under direction, of the Intermountain Hereford association. The prize-winning prize-winning cattle, sheep and hogs will go under the hammer Wednesday Wed-nesday morning, Nov. 11, at 10 a.m., and the carlot feeder cattle cat-tle will be sold at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Republicans Make Gains in Election (Continued from page One) urer, over incumbent Mrs. Elinor B. Hodgson of Logan. Mrs. Roskelley Roskel-ley polled 4,823 votes to Mrs. Hodgson's 4,283 for a 555 vote majority. ma-jority. L. Tom Perry will take over the office of county attorney on January Jan-uary 1, 1943, by virtue of his vic- almost two to one against the proposed chain store tax, rejecting re-jecting the measure 4420 to 2221. LIGHTER VOTE A total of 9244 votes were cast in the county, far less than the 13,106 cast in the 1940 presidential presiden-tial election, but more than most observers predicted. Unofficial complete returns from the county's 44 precincts gave: U. S. Representative Granger (D) 4888, Lee (R) 4356; Supreme court justice, Moffat (D) 5263, Wooley (R) 3889; State Senator, James. A. McMurrin (D) 4936; Oliver Nilson (R) 4249; First District Representative, Adrian W. Hatch (D) 1920, P. C. Felsted (R) 1810; Second district Representative, Represen-tative, George S. Noble (D) 1539, Harold G. Wood (R) 1526; Third district Representative, John H Schenk (D) 1259, Herman Theur-er Theur-er (R) 1113. Four year Commissioner, Louis P. Maughan (D) 4569, Parley G Hall (R) 4655; two year Com-missioner, Com-missioner, Parley A. Reese (D) tory over incumbent L. E. Nelson, the other democrat who was moved from office by voter's choice. Perry Per-ry polled 5,004 votes to Nelson's 4,191813 majority. Two other Republicans, both incumbents, in-cumbents, were returned to office. Surveyor Eugene Schaub, who was unopposed, garnered 4681 votes and Judge Jesse P. Rich had little difficulty dif-ficulty in defeating his democratic opponent Leon C. Fonnesbeck by a substantial margin. The vote was Rich 3,471; Fonnesbeck, 1282. Newell J. Crookston proved he-is he-is still the most popular man on the Democratic ticket when he led the field to defeat Willard H. Chugg. Mr. Crookston had 5469 votes compared to Chugg's 3743. Sheriff Jeff Stowell defeated Roy N. Davis 5117 to 4130; Roy A. Stewart was successful in his campaign over Parley Savage for assessor, 5052 to 4080, and M. T. Beck retained his treasurer's treas-urer's post over John A. Israel-sen Israel-sen of Hyrum, 4759 to 4479. In state contests, Cache ballots bal-lots contributed needed support cvut; ui lots contributed needed support for Representative Walter -K. Granger, as county voters cast 4888 votes for the Democratic incumbent and 4356 for Republican Republi-can J. Bracken Lee. The county gave David W. Moffat 5236 votes and Dilworth Wooley 3889 in the contest for state justice of the' supreme court. I Returns were reported from only 36 precincts on the two1 referendum measures. Helping 1 defeat the proposal to increase1 legislators allowances Cache vot- ers balloted 2761 to 1714 against1 the No. 1 amendment. They voted |