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Show County Clerk Notes Population Rise Reflected In New Voting Districts i J- t J 1. ,4 , I: St L" '4 '4 v7fv that the proposed super highways high-ways in the county have influenced influ-enced the boundary lines of the new districts. He said boundaries were planned to be center lines of the new south and east-west freeways. In Salt Lake City eight new districts were created. They are 1, 74, 86, 87A, 99, 112, 149, and 269. The new districts involved the following districts: 2, 3, 5. 6, 7, 8, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 82, 85, 87, 98, 111, 131, 132, 134, 135, 138, 148, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 178, 180, 214, 227, 230, 253, 254, 260. Mr. Keddington said he had inspected some 87 sub-divisions in the county in recent months in working out the expected needs for districts and other elec- , tion details for 1962.' He said all Kearns districts had been rebounded to equalize voter population. In addition to the listed districts dis-tricts there are eight inactive districts in the county and one in the city. ALVIN KEDDINGTON New evidence of Salt Lake County's "exploding population" is shown in an announcement this week by Salt Lake County Clerk Alvin Keddington that 28 new voting districts have been created for the 1962 elections. Of this number,' 20 are in the county outside of Salt Lake City and eight are in Salt Lake City. Mr. Keddington noted that since 1937, when he first began keeping maps of voting districts, the county total has grown from 214 to 408 for 1962. In the city the growth has been less, spectacular, spectac-ular, from 201 in 1952 to 205 in 1962. Mr. Keddington estimated that on the basis of voting districts now in existence population in the county outside Salt Lake City is greater than that of Salt Lake City. Voting districts created in the county include the following: 282A, 286A, 287A, 305A, 305B, 314, 368, 376A, 421A, 426A, 430, 493, 506, 507, 515, and 519. These new districts involve changes in the following districts, dis-tricts, 282, 286, 287, 288, 297, 289, 300, 301, 302, 305, 307, 303, 310, 311, 313, 314, 332, 361, 367, 369, 376, 377, 378, 387, 421, 423, 429, 481, 500, 501, 502, 503, 513, 514, 518. Mr. Keddington pointed out |