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Show Meet Your County Democratic Leaders Edward Sheya is now serving his third term as chairman of the Carbon County Democratic Demo-cratic Central Committee. Mr. Sheya has been active in the Democratic Merlene F. Alger of Price was elected in April of 1958 as vice chairman chair-man of Carbon County Democrats. Demo-crats. She served as president of the East Carbon M. Alger Lady Democrats, Demo-crats, as vice chairman of the North Dragerton district, and j presently is occupied as vice chairman of the North Price district. She is active in the Young Democrat organization, serving as county and state delegate, dele-gate, and is area chairman for the Democratic Digest. She reports that Democratic strength in Carbon County has been growing along with the growth of unemployment, and that hard work for Democratic success is planned "by all Democrats Demo-crats of the area." Active in civic clubs and projects, proj-ects, she has worked on charity drives, is past president of Beta! Sigma Phi, Alpha Xi Chapter, and is a member of the Literary League. Her hobbie are swimming, writing writ-ing and acting, and is program director for the Price television state, with her own show each E. Sheya Party of Carbon Car-bon County and the state for more than 20 years. He was instrumental in-strumental in organizing the Young Democrats in Carbon County in 1939, and affiliated the organization with the state and national organizations. He served as president of the Young Democrats of Carbon County for several years, and in 1941,- Mr. Sheya was elected national committeeman com-mitteeman of the Utah Chapter and attended the National convention con-vention in Louisville, Kentucky, in August, 1941. Mr. Sheya served as County Attorney of Carbon County for four successive terms, 1939-47, and thereafter served one term as juvenile judge of the Fifth District. He has also served as' a delegate to the national convention con-vention of the Democratic Party, having been a delegate to the so-called "Third Term Convention" Conven-tion" in 1940. This was the con- Eugene Newton Davie, Beaver County Democratic chairman, was born Oct. 16, 1916, in Stillwater, Still-water, Okla. A physician by profession, his parents were Clyde Vance and Ruth Coleman Claypool Davie. He graduated from Butler High School in 1933, as valedictorian, valedic-torian, and was a student at Southwestern State Teachers College in. 1933-34. He attended the University of Oklahoma from 1934 to 1936, later receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oklahoma medical school in 1938, and his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1940. A member of AKK Medical Fraternity, he served his internship intern-ship at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Calif., from 1940-41, 1940-41, and from 1941 to 1947 was Lt. (jg) to Comdr (MC) USN. After his discharge from the Navy he practiced medicine at Farmington, N. M., from 1947 to 1950, coming to Milford, Utah, in 1950, where he has practiced I until the present. Dr. Davie has been Beaver County Democratic Chairman since 1956, and is State Senator from Beaver and Millard counties. coun-ties. He is a director of the Beaver County Civil Defense organiza-I organiza-I tion, a member of the Milford Junior Chamber of Commerce and Lions Club; the Southern Utah Medical Society, the Utah State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Methodist Church, the American Legion, and the Milford Flying Club. He married Rosemary George June 4, 1949 and has four children: chil-dren: Craig, 7; Jeorgann, 5, Marc, 2; and Gina Petrice, six months. A director of the Sylvan Life Insurance Company, Dr. Davie's hobbies include ranching and mining. Friday at 8 p.m., called "Viewpoint." "View-point." She interviews local personalities per-sonalities on points of local interest. in-terest. For Democratic Party success in November, she feels members should "work on the grass roots level for increased registration and voting, together with candidates candi-dates who can conduct vigorous person-to-person campaigns. She is the wife of James P. Alger, Carbon County Attorney, and is the mother of two boys, James, Jr., and Jack M. She was born in Salt Lake City Dec. 19, 1931. vention which nominated Franklin Frank-lin D. Roosevelt for a third term. The present chairman is now engaged in the private practice of law at Price. He has been a residen! of Price and Carbon County for approximately 33 years. He is a past Lieutenant-Governor Lieutenant-Governor of the Utah-Idaho District Dis-trict of Kiwanis and belongs to other civic and fraternal organizations. organi-zations. He is a member of the Utah State Bar and the American Ameri-can Bar association. Mr. Sheya has campaigned actively ac-tively in each election for the past 20 years and takes wholesome whole-some pride in the voting record of his county. Carbon County can nearly always be depended upon to bring in large majorities for the local, state and national tickets of the Democratic Party, and Mr. Sheya states that he is very optimistic about the situation situa-tion this year. He believes that very large majorities will be received by all Democratic candidates can-didates this year, but is not going to let down in" his efforts to turn out the largest majorities possible. pos-sible. The campaign in Carbon County this fall will be well organized and very good results are anticipated as far as the Democrats are concerned. Mr. Sheya is married to the former Anna Zupan and they have one child, Donald. |