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Show Six In Race For Juvenile Judge Appointment Sought by Four Attorneys and Two Deputy Sheriffs; Indications ( Point to Joseph Nelson. also from business men of this section. sec-tion. His long service both as the principle and as a deputy in the county clerk's office as well as his experience as a deputy in the sheriff's sher-iff's office has made him well qual-fied qual-fied for the position, his friends declare in1 v support of his appointment. appoint-ment. . Andrus And Nelson Mr. Andris has taken an activo part in the! political activities of the Republican party in Utah county coun-ty for a number of years. Mr. Nelsotn has also played an important pVrt in the county Republican Re-publican rariks for the past few years. At the county Republican, convention tvo years ago he was temporary ch.iirman and delivered the keynote acftdress of the meeting. He is a polish'ed and influential speaker. Although he passed the bar examination several years ago, he has been engaged in school work in Sevier ounty for several years. Mr. Morgan is ;a graduate of the Young university and Stanford and has been working,') for a short, time in the office of Morgan and Coleman. Cole-man. ( Although the majority of the juvenile court commission have refused re-fused to intimate wJiom they favor, those in close proxiiivity to the commission com-mission are 0 the cipinion that the appointment will go to Mr. Nelson, from the fact that liis experience in the schools, has- made him especially well-qualiied in the handling of children. It is expected the i appointment will be made some timte within the next two weeks. ', No opposition 3eems: to exist to the re-appointment of I E. O. By-lund By-lund as .chief probation' officer, in which capacity he hasi served for many years. I Four attorneys and two deputy sheriffs are in the race for the appointment as judge of the juvenile juven-ile court of Utah, Wasatch and Juab counties to succeed Judge George W. Worthen, who is now one of the judges of the third district dis-trict court. Many Applicants 1 Those who are aspiring for tne appointment arc W. S. Dunford, who was the Democratic candidate for city judge in the last election; Rulon Morgan, Provo; Henry. Andrus An-drus city attorney of Spanish Fork; Joseph E. Nelson, an attorney attor-ney of Spanish Fork; B. F. Roper, chief criminal deputy sheriff, and Elias A. Gee, chief civil deputy sheriff, both of Provo. Friends of the six candidates are working hard in their interest and the appointment by the juvenile court commission, consisting of the governor, attorney general- and state superintendent of public instruction, in-struction, is awaited with keen anticipation an-ticipation throughout the entire county. Since two of the members of the juvenile court commission, Attorney Attor-ney General George P. Parker and Dr. C. N. Jensen, are Republicans it is expected that the appointment appoint-ment will go to one of the candidates candi-dates with that particular political complexion. It is understood that Governor George H. Dern favors the appointment appoint-ment of Mr. Dunford. Friends of Mr. Roper point to the fact that for many years, he served as probation officer when the juvenile court system was first introduced Ihere years ago. . ( Mr. Gee has secured a large number num-ber of endorsements for the. position, posi-tion, not only from leading Republicans Re-publicans of the three counties but citizens' natural rights,! education, development of highway systems, control of disease, establishment of police and fire departments, building build-ing of water works, control of demoralizing de-moralizing influences and'i agencies, establishment of public uti' ics and municipal improvements, control of crime, regulation of labors development develop-ment of agriculture, industrial con-corns con-corns and mining, and construction of .highways to open up natural resources re-sources of a scenic nature. 1 |