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Show - , mmMMtmmmsmKimm mttimmmimmmmmm m imam imu wrtrrrr" RATLINS B. YOUTJG , 2X35 SO. 19 EAST 1 CITY G 20 53 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH-FRID- AY, JANUARY 10, 1958 CITY OFFICIALS TAKE THEIR OFFICE OATHS LOUIS E. HOLLEY JOE L. CIIRISTENSEN Before a large crowd in Salt Lake City Commission chambers two city commissioners, four city judges and a city auditor took their oaths of office this week. JShe group included two new-clw.j- rs City Commissioner Theo-dfif- e (Ted) Geurts, slated to take over duties of finance commis-sioner; and City Judge James L. Barker Jr., named to fill the term of the late Judge Leland G. Larsen. City Recorder Herman J. Ho-gens- en administered the oaths. Other officials sworn in were City Commissioner Joe L. Chris-tense- n beginning his third term; (Continued on Page 8) i THEODORE GEURTS in County Clerk Completes Vast Renumbering of County Voting Districts election. Under the new setup there will be 356 active voting districts in the county, an increase of 26 active districts over the 1956 total of 330. Under the new system all num-bered lettered districts have been eliminated. There has been con-solidation of districts where pop-ulation has diminished voting ac-tivity and there has been division of heavily populated districts to provide as many as four new dis-tricts in areas where one district functioned previously. Another feature of the project is renumbering of districts to provide consecutive numbering for adjacent districts. Under the previously existing plan, num-bers were scattered over the county as new districts arose. Under Mr. Keddington's new plan numbers have been re-served in areas where growth is expected. Numbers have been reserved to take care of expected popula- - tion increases for at least 20 years, without again using let-tered designation, Mr. Kedding-to- n explained. "Folders and maps have been prepared to hswo the new voting district numbers by representa-tive and senatorial areas and s soon as the general public forgets the old and learns the new voting district numbers in which they reside the election procedures should become easier of opera-tion," he said. Mr. Keddington recalled that (Continued on Page 8) ALVIN KEDDINGTON A vast project wherein all vot-ing districts in Salt Lake County were renumbered to bring them into line with current conditions has been completed by Salt Lake County Clerk Alvin Keddington. The project, carried out during the past year and a half at no cost to the taxpayers, has been a "labor of love" for the veteran county clerk. Mr. Keddington spent countless off duty hours making personal inspections of most of the coun-ty's more than 300 voting dis-tricts. The result is a more sensible, more easily handled voting dis-- 1 trict setup which will be put to use for the first time county-- : wide during the coming Novem- - ber elections. Salt Lake City vot- - j ers used it during the recent city Democrat Magazine Shows High Cost Of McCarthyism Era The January issue of the Demo-cratic Digest, being mailed to subscribers this week, asks if the most dangerous security risk in the nation have not been the men who created the climate of opinion which helped demoralize our scientific community. The Digest feels the answer is yes, and in support of its con-clusion cites the administrtaion handling of Dr. Robert Oppen-heim- er and Dr. Edward Condon, former chief of the U. S. Bureau of Standards, as well as the as-sault on Fort Monmouth by the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy as examples of how the security mania of Vice President Nixon, Senator McCarthy and others de-stroyed the morale in the na-tion's scientific community. The Digest, in an article "Nixon and Pals vs. the Scientists," re-calls for instance how Vice Pres-ident Nixon in the campaign of 1954, boasted of having caused the denial of security clearance to Dr. Edward Condon, the man who organized work at Bureau of Standards, which according to Edward Teller, hastened the de-velopment of the H Bomb by at least a year. The Digest, quoting from a study of the Fort Monmouth in-vestigation made by the Provi-dence Journal, also points out the great price the American people paid for McCarthy's Fort Monmouth investigation and he sums up the results: "Eight men were discharged as security risk. None of them was charged with disloyalty or espionage. All had previously investigated on the same informationa nd cleared." The nation is paying today for the "terrifying, unreasoning, anti intellectual climate of fear and suspicion which was created and perfected by the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, refined by Richard Nixon and expertly mass pro-duced by the Republican party in the years 1952-195- 4 to gain political victories." In another article, "Sputnik Crisis Spotlights GOP Anti-Scho- ol Record," the Digest re-views the Eisenhower adminis-tration's record on aid to educa-tion from its first "study" of the sitution in early 1953 to the re-cent failure of the Eisenhower school , program because of Ike's refusal to fight for it. "For five years, the Eisenhower adminis-tration has deliberately post-poned any major federal action in the field of education." In a Fact sheet, entitled "Re-publican Missile Fallacies vs. Demcoratic Facts," the Digest re-futes the Republican charge that the missile lag in our Defense program should be blamed on the Democrats. The Fact Sheet documents the fact that, in truth, it "was the foresight and aware-ness of former President Truman and his missile advisers who pro-duced the 11 operational missiles that are in use today." TODAY'S Confident Demos Seek VEDITORIALf Senatorial Candidate Utah Democrats this week were reported launched on a search to find a candidate who has ob-tained prominence in some non-politic- al pursuit but who carries no scars of intra-part- y conflict between ilberal and conservative elements. Who this candidate might be was subject for wide speculation this week as tempo of political activity was being stepped up. The thinking behind such a search is that such an individual could best minimize party mal-contents and also could win over a lot of dissatisfied Republicans. Democrats are hoping that 1958 will be similar to the 1946 off-ye- ar elections which saw Repub licans sweep to victory after a long series of setbacks. It was during the 1946 elections that incumbent Senator Arthur V. Watkins sneaked into office. He is seeking re-electi- on this year under circumstances far less fa-vorable. Although the search for the messiah is under way, old stand-by- s in the party's candidate stable are also being groomed for a try at the nomination. Among these one hears the names of State Senator Alonzo Hopkin, who ran a strong race against Senator Wallace F. Ben-nett during the presidential elec-tion in 1956; former State Sena- - (Continued on Page 5) A Fine Year For Democrats Utah now is launched on what promises to be one of its most lively political years. A United States Senator, Arthur V. Watkins, self styled confident of the president, is up for And two lesser Republicans, William A. Dawson and Henry Aldous Nixon, representatives in Congress from the First and Second districts, likewise will have to face voters in November. Of all recent years, 1958 seems to offer Democrats the best opportunity of victory in all three races. In addition to the national scene, most of the Utah legis-lature also will be elected in 1958. Here again, the Democratic outlook is goocl Here again, the record of the incumbent Republican administration will favor the opposition. (Continued on Page 4) |