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Show Utah County GOP Parley Set for Provo This Friday Congressman Laurance J. Burton will keynote the Utah County Republican Convention scheduled for Friday, June 19 at Provo High beginning at 7:30 p.m. according to Glen C. Shaw, chairman of the County Central Committee. Also scheduled to address the county delegates is Bryan Rampton of Bountiful, a Repub-. lican candidate for the U. S. Senate, and Richard Richards, of Ogden, who seeks the congressional con-gressional seat being vacated by Mr. Burton. Some 460 delegates will hear nominating, seconding and acceptance ac-ceptance speeches by candidates candid-ates for county offices and their supporters. Provisions have also been made to introduce in-troduce candidates for Utah State Senate District 16, and Utah State Representative Districts Dis-tricts 39 and 42 to the delegates dele-gates from those districts. Delegate Voting Voting will take place and Republicans competing for the same job will be hoping to capture cap-ture 70 per cent of the delegate vote. Should a candidate do so, he would be designated as the party's nominee. However, failing fail-ing to do so would cause the the Republican voters in the Primary election in September. All county offices except holdover hold-over commission chairman Stanley Roberts will be contested contest-ed this fall. The following Republicans Re-publicans will be seeking nomination nom-ination at the convention, for a four year term on the county commission: Paul A. Thorn, Orem, and for a two year commission com-mission term, Verl D. Stone, Spanish Fork. For assessor, Harrison Con-over, Con-over, Springville; for attorney, M. Dayle Jeffs, and Gary D. Stott, both of Provo; for auditor, audi-tor, Elwood L. Sundberg of Orem; for clerk, William M. Huish, Orem and Jerry M. Young, Provo; for recorder, Mrs. Nina B. Reid, Springville ; for sheriff, Ralph Chappie, Pay-son Pay-son and LeGrande J. Baker, Provo and for surveyor, Kenneth Ken-neth M. Warren, Spanish Fork. |