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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Plenty of Candidates in Salt Lake But Still Not Record Filings Salt Lake City voters will have many names to choose from in the next three weeks of the persons to whom they want elected to the posts of City mayor and city commissioners. With the last filing in, there are seven candidates for the office of mayor and 16 candidates for the two available positions of commission seats. The present city mayor, J. Bracken Lee, 72, has announced that he is stepping down from the position because of the work he has done has gone unheeded and that the federal government is taking over too much power. Thus the city mayor has now become a lame duck mayor, leaving the post open to a field of candidates including two city commissioners and five others from outside government. The major chalengers for the mayors seat are Water Commissioner E. J. (Jake) Gam and Parks Commissioner Conrad B. Harrison. Four candidates filed on the final day for the mayoralty race. They includes Carole Richman, a housewife; Jerry L. Wheeler, a volunteer worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital; John Williams, a former NAACP youth leader, and Robert Wood-serestaurant operator. The latter two are the first Negros to run for mayor in Salt Lake City. Along with the reasons of the of federal government take-ovLee the running of cities, Mayor said, This apparently is a different day and age of politics. Government is being run from Washington. You dont need a mayor or city commissioners any more. I feel now theyre almost sitting around drawing their pay for doing nothing. The state is n, er National Convention Of the Order of Women Legislators The national convention of the Order of Women Legislators will be held in Mobile, Alabama, on 1971. October President of the National Order of Women Legislators is the Honorable Clara Stone of Mobile, Alabama. Any present or former woman legislator is eligible for membership in the organization. The Admiral Semmes Hotel will be the setting for the convention. The OWLS, which is the designation given members of this group, will be entertained at breakfast aboard the Battleship USS Alabama, which has been permanently anchored in Mobile since 1965. Also attending the breakfast will be Governor and Mrs. George C. Wallace. A good delegation of Utah 17-2- 0, getting the same. I feel Id rather outside joining the think I can do more good. Conditions in politics in some areas are getting so bad I dont want to be associated with some of the politicians of today. The two city commission seats are open to new persons with Commissioner Garn at the end of his first term seeking the seat of mayor and Streets Commissioner George B. Catmull declining to run for Commissioner Harrison is. runof his four year ning in mid-terterm won two years ago. The Salt Lakers who have filed for the Commission seats are: Robert Sherwood, a machinist; Robert Madsen, a general contractor; Clair Turner, an elementary school teacher; William G. Albiston, a coordintaor for the Governors Youth Advisory council; Iola Brewer, a state government secretary; Stephen Harm-sea city prosecutor; Charles Artman, a self styled priest in the Native American Church; Charles Akerlow, former director of the Model Cities Agency; Stephen Holbrook, activist in demonstrations and projects involving civil rights and movements; K. K. Sheehan, retired railroad employee and restaurant operator; Richard Andrew, real estate; Christian Beck, budget and fiscal officer for the State Department of Community Affairs; Larry an inspector for Salt Lake County Building and Zoning; Farrell Sorensen, a deputy city auditor; Jennings Phillips, Jr., city treasurer; Meredith Poulson, division manager for a commercial and industrial lighting firm. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1971 County Clerk's Office Swells with New Registrations re-electi- on. m n, anti-polluti- on Schi-evin- g, W. Sterling Evans Salt Lake County Clerk W. Sterling Evans reminded persons living in all areas with election coming up this year to get out and register to vote. The registration dates for the Salt Lake City and Murray areas are October 5, 12 and 26. The dates in the other areas of Midvale, West Jordan, Sandy, etc., are the 12th and 26th of October only. Although the clerk reminded persons that they register in the Clerks office at the Metropolitan Hall of Justice, 240 East 4th South any day except those registration days and holidays and 10 days prior to election day. The Primary election for the Salt Lake City area is October 19th, with no primary elections set in Murray, Midvale and the other surrounding towns. This year is the first time reported in a period of 31 years that Midvale has not had a primary elec- tion. With the younger voters regwomen, present and former legis increasing the voters islators, are planning to attend istering and the hopes of more generated the convention led by the state interest in the political process. president, Mrs. Fay Williams of W. Sterling Evans has reportMorgan and Mrs. Della Love-ridg- e, newest of a former representative who is now serving as the Western States Area representative of the national organization. ed that over 3,000 the voters have registered so far and more are expected in the final weeks. Area radio stations are helping in the drive to gain the youthful voter to register by picking them up and returning those eligible Through the cooperation of to their schools. The drive is takthe Utah Congress of Parents and ing place at seven schools in the Teachers, the Junior League and Salt Lake area. the League of Women Voters of Salt Lake, candidate meetings will again be held in Salt Lake candidates, Midvale Elementary County. This is a unique oppor- School, 385 East Center St., 7:30 tunity for you to meet the candi- p.m. Oct. 14, Riverton and South dates for the municipal elections - Riverton Elementary Jordan and question them concerning These School, 12830 South 1700 West, your particular interests. 7:30 p.m. meetings will be as follows: canOct. 14, South Salt Lake and Lake 14 Salt Oct. City 745 West Jordan - Woodrow Wilson didates, Bryant Junior High, Elementary, 2825 South 2nd E.. East 1st South, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14 - Sandy and Midvale 7:30 p.m. Hear Your Local Candidates Speak Federation of Rock Mountain States to Feature Rogers Morton Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton announced that the Honorable C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior, will be the principal speaker at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Federation of Rocky Mountain States, Inc., which will be held at the Hotel Utah Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 5 and 6. One hundred fifty business and government leaders from six Rocky Mountain States are expected for the two day meeting. Sec. Morton will address the group at the Wednesday evening banquet. He will be introduced by the Honorable Stanley K. Hathaway, Governor of Wyoming, a member of the Federations board of directors. The opening day of the conference will be given to Council and committee meeting included in the list of subjects to be discussed are: Regional Planning, Air Carriers, Transportation, Economic Development, Energy Resources, Science, Shipping, Industrial Development, Tele Communication, and Human Resources. The Honorable Henry Jackson United States Senator from Washington, will address Thursday mornnig meeting. He will speak on National Land Use Policy. Senator Jackson is the chairman of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. He also serves on the Senate Committee for Government Armed Services and a on Atomic En Committee Joint Op-ertio- ns, ergy. His National Land Use policy, introduced in January of 1970 is described as one of the most far reaching measures in this session of Congress. The Honorable Forrest H. Anderson, Governor of Montana, will introduce Senator Jackson. Utahs Governor Calvin L. Rampton is host for the annual meeting. Federation President Jack M. Campbell will report on the Federation activities during 1970-7- 1. The Federation is an organization to which six states of the Rocky Mountains Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming work toto gether effectively solve the regional problems. Members of the Federation, including representatives from the private sectors in governments, concern themselves with programs and commercial, scientific and technological economics, cultural and educational areas. Permanent councils within the Federation include: Regional Planning, Economic Development. Natural Resources, Transportation and the Arts and Humanities. Committees are assigned to special projects within the Council. The Federation is governed by a board of directors consisting of the governors and representatives from business and industries and the government with the six states. The permanent office of the Federation is in Denver, Colo. Tele-communicatio- ns, EDITORIAL Never on Weekends Never on Weekends might be a motto worth observing, according to The Travelers Insurance Company s highway met hood entitled Voice Behind The Wheel. The reason is simple. Nearly half the auto deaths and injuries occurred on weekends in 1970. During 1970, 55,200 people lost their lives in traffic accidents and another 5,100,000 were injured, according to the booklet. Even thbugh these figures are tragic, the number of those killed on our highways decreased by 1,000 from 1969. Although there are many reasons why so many people are killed or injured on our highways every year, the fact that most deaths and injuries occur on weekends, and on weekdays between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. suggests again that alcohol may be a serious contributor to the overall prob- ( Continued on page four) i |