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Show Oolitical Tempo Picks Up; 400 Offices Go On Block tricts. Of the 11 state Senate seats to be filled seven are currently held by Republicans and four by Democrats. Republicans have eight holdover senators compared com-pared to six for the Democrats. (Continued on Page 8) More than 400 state, district and county offices go on the block in Utah elections this November No-vember and candidates this week were warming up to get into the race. i Main attention, of course, is centered on th race for United States senator and races for the two seats in the House of Representatives. Rep-resentatives. Experts agree that incumbent Senator Arthur V. Watkins is in for a tough battle. A number of potential Democratic candidates aware of the senior senator's weak position, are awaiting the "right moment" to announce their candidacy for the party's nomination for the senate. The partisan positions to be filled in this year's election include in-clude 11 in the state senate and 64 in the state House of Representatives. Repre-sentatives. Also to be named is a full slate of elective county officials of-ficials except for one commissioner commis-sioner and one district attorney s (appointed.) In addition there are the nonpartisan non-partisan offices, which include one State Supreme Court Justice, Jus-tice, three district judges, six State Board of Education members mem-bers and from one to six local , board of education members in each of the state's 40 school dis- t Political Tempo Picks Up; 400 Offices Go On Block (Continued from Page 1) Democratic State Senators whose terms expire this year include in-clude the veteran Alonzo Hop-kin, Hop-kin, the party's candidate for the U. S. Senate in 1956; J. Francis Fowles, Eugene N. Davie, and Donald T. Adams. Republicans include Reed Bullen, Merrill K. Davis, Elias L. Day, Sherman P. Lloyd, Luke Clegg, Grant S. Thorn and R. Clair Anderson. The entire House membership of 64 is elected every two years, which eliminates any holdover advantage of either party. In 1957 the party division was 15 Republicans to 10 Democrats in the Senate and 39 Republicans to 24 Democrats and one independent inde-pendent in the House. In the Supreme Court vote the seat now held by Chief Justice Roger I. McDonough is to be filled. District Judges whose terms expire include Judge Parley E. Norseth in the Second; Judge Aldon J. Anderson in the Third; and Judge Joseph Nelson in the Fourth. Party mass meetings will get under way in several weeks and are expected to give some indication indi-cation of the relative strength of various possible candidates. While none have announced publicly for the Senate or House jobs it is assumed that all incumbents in-cumbents will seek reelection. A number of well known Democrats Demo-crats are reportedly considering making the race against Senator Watkins. Only a handful have indicated they would be interested interest-ed in the two House openings. n |