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Show Mayor Ed W. Johnson Leads Entire Non-Partisan Ticket To Reelection As City Heads Labor Ticket Shows Surprising Amount Of Strength. Large Vote Cast Including absentee ballots, over 1000 votes were cast in the municipal election Tuesday which swept the entire Non-Partisan Non-Partisan ticket into office and gave Mayor Ed W. Johnson his third term in office. With exception, of City Recorder Eugene Morris, unopposed, unop-posed, Mayor Johnson received highest number of votes given any individual candidate, 5G3. When announcement was made of the election returns Mayor Johnson said: "I appreciate the confidence the people of Bingham Canyon have shown in me and I will do my best for them as mayor again." Biggest surprise of the election, which terminated a quiet campaign characterized by the contrast in activity of candidates and the lack of interest of the general public, was the number of votes cast. I Tn thp miinirinnl plectinn of In the municipal election of 1937. last in which two parties contested, a bitter fight brought out 1157 votes: A presidential e-lection, e-lection, traditionally bringing out a heavy local vote, in 1940 brought 1352 ballots. Although it was generally remarked re-marked Tuesday that no one was excited but the candidates, Mr. and Mrs. Bingham Voter had considered the campaign issues and had enough interest to take time for a visit to the polls. The Labor ticket candidates made a clean fight and gave a good account of themselves as political novices. Harvey W. Wolfe, candidate for the four-year four-year council post, led his ticket in number of votes received and was but 11 votes behind his opponent, op-ponent, Francis J. Quiinn, in district dis-trict 334. Mr. Quinn gained on Wolfe in district 335, to lead in . total votes by 67. Another Labor party contestant contest-ant receiving good support in his home district was Frank R. Beg-ley, Beg-ley, who trailed A. J. Ablett by only 17 votes in district 334. Ralph A. Murano, Labor ticket tic-ket mayoralty candidate, drew about the same percentage of support from both districts with 228 votes in lower Bingham and 207 votes in upper Bingham as compared to Mayor Johnson's 275 votes in 334 and 288 in 335. Election officials reported many scratched ballots. Politically Politi-cally astute observers considered that the Labor ticket made a good showing against a ticket of experienced city officials and veteran campaigners. Of the winners, surprising strength was shown by Chris T. Praggastis, newcomer to the local lo-cal political arena, who led the ticket in his home district, 334, with 277 votes to the mayor's 275, and followed only the mayor and city treasurer, Alvin Hall, in total number of votes, the figures fig-ures being 563 for Johnson, 55S for Hall and 554 for Praggastis. |