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Show BOX 2603 5 81103. CITY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Commission Candidates Cut From Ballot Field of Sixteen FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1971 Delegation from Utah Attends National Meet City Commissioners Make Primary; Seek Vote for Mayor Fay E. Williams A delegation of Utah women legislators left for the national convention slated in Mobile. Alabama. The group, Order of Women Legislators, consists of present and former women legislators. The group will travel by air to New Orleans and then by bus to Mobile. Many of the present women legislators will attend. They are the Honorable Nellie Jack, Beatrice Marchant, Georgia Peterson, Becky Nalder, Beverly Whiet, Vee Carlisle. The past women legislators who plan to attend are Ivy Mitchell, Sunday Anderson and Faye Williams. Mrs. Williams is president of the Utah group. Transit Authority Cains Relief Voters in Salt Lake City narrowed down one of the bulkiest list of candidates seeking the two seats on the Salt Lake City Commission by placing in the finals two older and established persons vs. two young and aggressive candidates and relatively newcomers to the game of poli- Beck. Mr. Beck sought the post once before and is the fiscal and budgetary officer for the State Department of Community In response to the victories many expressions were given as to the outcome of the primary election. Mr. Andrew said, Im tics. indebted to a lot of fine people The men who made the finals and friends for my strong showin the commission race are: Rich- ing. My main objective is more ard C. Andrew, a real estate and responsible, accountable and restock broker, and Jennings Phil- sponsive government regardless ips Jr., the city treasurer. The of the form. other two commission hopefuls Mr. Jdnnings commented, Im are Stephen M. Harmsen, a city somewhat surprised by my strong prosecutor and Stephen Hol- showing and absolutely delighted brook, an activist considered an to be in the finals for a commiscandidate. sion seat. Total of the leading four canMr. Harmsen said. Im exwere Mr. Andrew topped tremely gratified with the results didates all candidates with 14,325, Mr. and appreciate everyone who has Philips second with 12,534, Mr. worked for me so far. I think my Harmsen third with 8,231 and vote has surprised many people. Mr. Holbrook with 7,597. It only shows that a younger percanThe most contested of the son is qualified and can reach didates was the race for fourth the majority of voters. And the finals spot, tied down spot on the final ballot between and P. Christian Mr. Holbrook (Continued on page 8) anti-establishm- ent The financially troubled Utah Transit Authority has met with some help from Salt Lake City and the federal government. The Transit Authority now has $160,-00- 0 to complete purchase of the Salt Lake City Lines, purchase new equipment and complete construction of the new terminal building. City commissioners directed the city auditor to give the authority $88,649 as set up in the capital improvemetns fund to assist in buying new buses. In Washington, D.C. the Transportation Department conditionally awarded an additional $80,-00- 0 to the authority bringing to $907,419 the federal funds made available to complete purchase of the line and finance terminal construction. The city action came after the city auditor, Lawrence A. Jones, reported that the bus line is still running at a loss. Revenue for the fiscal year totaled $30,378 less than was collected in the year ending June 30, 1970. Conrad B. Harrison The two city commissioners seeking the job of mayor for Salt Lake City were the victorious candidates in the past primary election. The two commissioners led the field of seven candidates by almost two to one vote. City Commissioner E. J. Jake Garn lead all vote getters with an overwhelming vote of 22,884 votes. This represented almost 59 percent of the total votes cast in the election. The other successful candidate through the primary is City Commissioner Conrad B. Harrison, who ran behind Mr. Garn in the election. Mr. Harrison polled 9,428 votes in his bid. Close to 40 percent of the number of registered voters, just under 39,000, went to the polls to cut down the number of candidates. With the two city commissioners together they garnered more than 80 percent of esti-mae- td Jake E. J. Garn the mayoral vote. In response to the victories, E. J. Garn said, I am extremely pleased at the outcome of the primary election and it is obvi- ously due to some 2,000 Neighbors For Gam who have been working in the neighborhood. I would like to thank them most sincerely for all their help but also caution them that we cannot and must become redouble our efforts during the next two weeks. Commissioner Harrison said, While I didnt run particularly strong I am very pleased to qualify for the finals. I have a great many friends to thank for getting to this point and I know they will be 100 per cent behind us in th'e campaign during the next two weeks. Weve got our work cut out for us. Im confident with the kind of campaign were capable of launching we will come out as victors on Nov. 2. over-confide- nt TODAYS EDITORIAL 4 V To Kill or Not to Kill ltesults of :i national survey on the attitudes of American males toward violence indicate that there is a substantial agreement that disturbances should be controlled using no more force than billy clubs most of the time. However, results also showed that 48 to 64 percent of Americans felt that disturbances should he handled by shooting not to kill almost always or sometimes. A total of 1,374 American men between the ages of (Continued on page four) |