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Show ' - -- ' . CITY G 10- - 53 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH-FRID- AY, APRIL 11, 1958 S. C. (Cliff) Cockayne Announces for County Assessor S. C. COCKAYNE S. C. (Cliff) Cockayne, former Salt Lake County Democratic chairman, this week announced his candidacy for nomination and election as county assessor on the Democratic ticket. A salesman for General Imple-ment Distributors, Inc., he has been active in the Democratic party for a number of years. He is a former president of the Young Democrats of Salt Lake City and for several years served as voting district chairman. In his announcement Mr. Cock-ayne said, "The office of county assessor requires the utmost in fidelity, fairness, courtesy and impartiality. If elected I will strive to furnish these require-ments to the best of my ability." A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints Mr. Cockayne is married to the former Gertrude Greenwood and has three children. He resides at 2214 E. 3025 South. AMn Keddington Announces Candidacy lor County Clerk 5) fl- 8 ALVIN KEDDINGTON during the past two years. The program, which has modernized the county's voting district set-up and brought it into line with present population distribution, was carried out by Mr. Kedding-to- n largely on his own time. In another move to make the county's voting setup more effi-cient and less expensive he was instrumental in implementing a new type loose-lea- f official vot-ing register whereby one register replaces three registers and elim-inates considerable copying, con-fusion and errors. The new registers are ready to go into use with the coming elec-tions and Mr. Keddington has prepared instruction booklets to inform various election officials in their use. These improvements in opera-tion were given careful study and approved by the Salt Lake County Commission both from administrative and legal stand-points. Prior to becoming county clerk Mr. Keddington was chief dep-uty in the clerk's office. He has been active in the Dem-ocratic party for 35 years. He is a member of numerous civic and musical organizations. He is a member of the Salt Lake Optimists Club, Sons of Utah Pioneers, Utah Chapter of Pub-lic Administrators, the Bonne-ville Knife and Fork Club and the. Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir. He is married and has a family of six. Mr. Keddington resides at 1022 E. Lowell Ave. Salt Lake County Clerk Alvin Keddington this week announced he would be a candidate for and reelection on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Keddington has served in the office for the past 16 years. He was the first candidate to file for the office from either party. In his announcement Mr. Ked-dington pointed out he would base his campaign for reelection on the record of his administra-tion. He noted that the vast pro-- On of renumbering and redis- -' the Salt Lake City and County voting districts had been completed under his direction Utah Democrats Plan For Jefferson-Jackso- n Dinner illH, Serving as secretary will be Amy M. Jackson of Smithfield, Cache County. Tyler R. Vincent, Midvale, is treasurer and D. R. Mitchell is handling publicity. Decorations are under direction of Mrs. John E. Roe and enter-tainment is being provided by the Young Democratic Clubs of Utah. A speaker of national impor-tance is being contacted by Cal-vin Rawlings, Democratic Na-tional Committeeman for Utah. In announcing preparations for the banquet Mr. Larsen pointed out that Democrats throughout the state are invited. He said the party hoped to raise some $20,000 through the banquet. Tickets, now on sale, are selling for $25 per couple and $12.50 for a single. Tickets are being sold by vot-ing district officers and at ban-quet headquarters in suite 319 of the Newhouse Hotel. The banquet is scheduled for the night of the state Democratic convention. Mr. Larsen has served for three years in his present position with the Farmers Union. Prior to that he served four years as a field man for the Utah Cooperative Association. He is married and resides at 2365 Bryan Ave. He has three children. CARL A. LARSEN i Utah Democrats this week week were making plans to at-tend the party's annual fund raising dinner the Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner May 10 at 6 p.m. in Newhouse Hotel. Plans for the dinner were well under way this week with ap-pointment of Carl A. Larsen, executive secretary of the Utah Farmers Union, as the general chairman of the dinner. Mrs. Ross C. (Billie) Clay will serve as TODAY'S EDITORIALS.L County Level Activity 4 Holds Political Spotlight County level activity held the political spotlight in Salt Lake County this week with two Dem-ocrats announcing their candi-dacy for county posts. On the state and national level the political status quo was main-tained with no new candidates coming forth. Salt Lake County Attorney Frank E. Moss remained the only candidate for the'U. S. Senate nomination and David Welling of Ogden the only Democratic can-didate thus far for the U. S. Representative in Congress from the First District. No candidates have announced from the Second District. With the State Democratic convention less than a month away it is expected that anyone hoping to line up a nomination will be making his intentions known within the next few days. Still considered as likely can-didates for the senate nomina-tion are retiring state Democratic chairman Milton L. Weilenmann; former Governor Herbert Maw, and former State Senator War-wick C. Lamoreaux. The three Republican incum- - (Continued on Page 8) Utah Democratic Women Chart Capital Excursion Utah Democratic women will participate in a "work shop" in Washington D.C. April 20-21-- 22 planned by the National Demo-cratic vice chairman, Mrs. Katie Louchheim, vice chairman of the Democratic national commit-tee and director of women's ac-tivities. The project of taking represen tations from each state is the re sponsibility of the national com-mitteewom- an from each state. Mrs. Kathleen Meikle is canvas-sing the six northern counties for women. Others assisting Mrs. Romney with this project are Mrs. Freda Pruitt of Tooele, Lucille Green-wood of Sevier, Eva Conover of Emery, Larue Neilson of San-pete, Madge Litle of Kane, Mrs. Algie Ballif of the State Central (Continued on Page 8) What About Red China? The question of our recognizing Red China has been crop-ping up from time to time for the past dozen years. But every time it appears someone in the administration, usually the secretary of state, says "not yet." It would seem that the time has come for this country to face the facts no matter how unpleasant they may be. Let's admit that recognition of Communist China is a bitter pill. But let's show the world we are big enough to take it without making a face. So far our policy of refusing to recognize this government has not brought any great shower of blessings. It's difficult to see how the mere act of recognition could make our relationship any worse. It might even improve them. Whether we like it or not the Communists are in the saddle in China and have been for a good many years. Our head in the sand attitude is not doing us any good. And it doesn't seem to be bothering the Chinese too much either. We recognize Red Russia which came into being in much the same way as Red China. Let's stop shutting our eyes and hoping that the bad buga-boo of Communist powers will go away. It looks as though we are going to have to live with them for a good many years. We might as well make the best of it. And with smart leadership in the State Department (some-continue- d on Page Four) News Preview j I Vice President Nixon's top supporters now fear Harold! Stassen will win the GOP J j nomination for Governor of J Pennsylvania May 20 . . A It comes as a new poll shows j I Stassen aide Bernard Shanley j j still is ahead in the race for j i the GOP U. S. Senate nomina- - j I tion in New Jersey . . . . j ! Don't be surprised if Vice j President Nixon announces a j I surprise tour of Russia this r winter . . . Egypt's Nasser is ! ! expected to renew bids for a ! visit to the U.S. after visiting j Russia . . . the Philippines j j are encountering unexpected I ! opposition in bids for a big I inewJU. S. loan. ' j |