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Show J. Edgar Hoover Describes Communist Campus Groups (See Pages 4 and 5) .vf J ititit it it it it itit it itititititititititit it itititititititit bit it it ititititititit itititit it brft it it The it it it it Q Independent it it Dedicated and it it ICtNIVt To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, Volume 1, No. 7 SI'S Truth 250 Salt Lake City, Utah 84105 June 25, 1970 uirwe Hazel T. Chase, Salt Lake County Recorder, addresses Republican convention at Terrace Ballroom. Delegates and spectators listen to speaker at American Independent Party convention. Conservatives Survive Political Conventions Hoopla, buttons, stickers, banners, speeches and was buttonholes--tha- t the flavor of politics in Salt Lake County last Saturday as three political parties held county conventions. Conservative Wayne L. Carlson squeaked through the Democrat ' convention at Hotel Newhouse and will face Fred Deman in a primary runoff for the four-yea- r county commission seat; REPUBLICAN CONVENTION ! ' Democrat leaders at convention in Hotel Newhouse. Conservative Republican Leon H. Savage did exceptionally well in his bid for reelection to the state house of representatives. In the GOP convention at the Terrace, he received 20 votes of 23 cast, and will not have to run in the primary election. Other Republican conservatives in the running for the state house of representatives are Mark E. Anderson (District 1), Don Choquette (District 6), and Jack Lambson Doctor J. Reese Hunter, a conservative Republican in Senate District 5, faces a primary runoff against incumbent Sen. Warren E. Pugh, a liberal. Conservative Edith Elswood in District 6 lost her race for the state senate. AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY The American Independent Party convention was held in the Salt Lake City commission chambers. Thomas E. Fairbourn Jr. was nominated to run for the state senate in District 8. Young and conservative Brent C. Richards was elected county chairman. PARTICIPATION 70 University of Utah students were conspicuously present and active in the Republican and Democrat conventions in Salt Lake County. Caucuses for student delegates were sponsored by Participation 70, an administration-approved political program at the U of U. There were about 100 student delegates at the Democrat convention, and about 96 at the Republican convention. Students who were delegates at the Democrat convention held a caucus and decided to vote as a block for a write-i- n county commission candidate. The student caucus at the Republican convention decided against block voting. J.D. WILLIAMS Dr. J. D. Williams, a liberal Democrat and professor of politi-- . cal science, is in charge of the n Hinckley Institute at the U of U. Through the non-Partisa- Institute he sponsored Participation 70. The Hinckley Institute was established by a grant from Robot H. Hinckley, a Democrat who held appointive offices in several of FDR's New Deal agencies. When the institute was founded nearly six years ago, Hinckley said, "The most important thing in our lives is participation in politics |