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Show Democrats Elect New Party Officials At State Organization Convention "x w - , - 'A' W jj ' WAV1 "K - 4 1- X CALVIN W. RAWLINGS National Committeeman LUCY REDD National Committeewoman , Utah Democrats this week had a new state chairman, national committeewoman and a slate of national convention delegates which reflect wide interest in a number of leading presidential candidates. The party's state organization convention retained Democratic National Committeeman Calvin W. Rawlings and State Vice Chairwoman Kathleen Meikle. Miss Lucy Redd was named national committeewoman, and William T. Thurman was named state chairman. Mr. Thurman won out for the state post over Ray Pruett of Tooele by a count of 482 to 370. Miss Redd won by a one-vote margin over Mrs. Allgie Ballif of Provo, 358 to 358 in a four-candidate four-candidate contest. Other candidates, candi-dates, Mrs. Sunday C. Anderson ? polled 132 votes and Mrs. Sam-i Sam-i uel D. Wynn, 13. In the national committeeman election incumbent Mr. Rawlings received 457 votes to 396 for Calvin L. Rampton, his only opposition. op-position. Mrs. Meikle received 471 votes to 314 for Mrs. Delia Loveridge and, 68 for Mrs. Naomi Woolley. Mrs. Roxey Romney was not a candidate for re-election as national committeewoman. Backers of all the party's candidates can-didates for the governor nomi-ntaion nomi-ntaion were out in force distributing distrib-uting badges and campaign literature. liter-ature. Candidates for a number of other nominations also were working the convention. f " ' ' i rlV Hmmr""1 ' WILLIAM T. THURMAN State Chairman KATHLEEN MEIKLE State Vice Chairman One resolution adopted by the convention demanded that Gov. George D. Clyde and the Republican Repub-lican Party make restitution of $43,000 withheld from highway allocations to the state for alleged al-leged violation of the Hatch Act. Another resolution called for a party loyalty oath that candidates candi-dates for party nomination publicly pub-licly declare their support of the party platform or publicly declare de-clare which parts they cannot support and the reasons why. Chief speaker at the convention conven-tion at The Terrace was Rep. David S. King, who told the delegates dele-gates he was thrilled by the turnout and enthusiastic spirit evidenced. He launched a counter attack on prospective Republican opponents op-ponents and others who have accused him of being a 'spender.' The convention was called to order by retiring chairman Richard Rich-ard C. Howe, who did not seek re-election, and presided over by convention chairman Wendell Anderson of Logan. |