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Show ; USPA Survey Shows Springville Area, State Favor Republican Candidates i . - completely dominated the GOP preference picture with 32 per cent, while the Democratic choices were scattered more widely among Glade, Heber Bennion, Jr., Rulon White and others. Nineteen per cent of those interviewed inter-viewed were undecided on a choice for governor. Following are governor preferences prefer-ences for the state and the Spring-ville-Mapleton area dn percentage of .votes cast: Republican State Local J. Bracken Lee 92 85 Rendell Mabey 8 15 Democrat Earl J. Glade 56 ........ 70 Heber Bennion, Jr. .. 29 22 Rulon White 12 . 2 J. W. Gillman 2 6 Others ...4. 1 0 Some striking differences between be-tween the candidate preferences of men and ' women voters were revealed re-vealed in the survey. In all four contests concerned . the men's choices were more evenly spread among the leading candidates while the women plumped for Ike, Kefauver, Lee and Glade respectively respect-ively by considerably wider margins mar-gins over their various rivals. Women also differed from the men in the matter of making up their minds. Nearly 28 percent of the distaff voters were undecided on a presidential favorite as compared com-pared with 16 percent of'the men, and 22 per cent of the ladies were undecided about .governor candidates candi-dates as compared with 15 per cent of the men. Comparative voting by men and women on leading candidates follows fol-lows : Voting by Men and Women Presidential Men Vomen Eisenhower 43 52 Taft 36 31 Kefauver 69 74 Harriman 12 4 (Continued on page , Two) Xlie following report on the 1 political picture in Utah cit-J cit-J ics niul towns is particularly I interesting in as much as the j survey for Utah county area was made in Springville and MapU'ton. In connection with the percent of state voters listwl in favor of the various candidates the percentage of I Springville area voters for the . various candidates, is also shown. It is interesting to note also that while public opinion in Utah areas seemed to favor Eisenhower according to the survey, tho Republican delegates dele-gates to the national convention conven-tion from Utah have pledged to vote for Taft. Also the ! Democrats have indicated 'J their votes will be for Kerr 1 at the national convention, 1 although Kefauver seems to 1 be the people's choice, according accord-ing to the survey. Voters in the smaller cities and ' towns of Utah favor Dwight Eisen. hower and Estes Kefauver as can-. can-. didates for the Republican and - Democratic presidential nominations, nomina-tions, according to findings of a "grassroots" opinion survey spon-sored spon-sored by the Utah State Press Association. In response to questions on the J Utah governor contest the poll !i found overwhelming GOP support . for J. Bracken Lee, Republican in-cumbent, in-cumbent, and strong backing for Earl J. Glade, mayor of Salt Lake City, on the Democratic side, i Conducted under direction of - Dr. Oliver Smith, head of the v journalism department' at Brig--. ham Young University, the survey sur-vey covered representative rural r and urban sections of Box Elder county, Wasatch, Utah and Se- - vier counties. In Utah county, the Springville-Mapleton area was selected se-lected for the surve'. In these areas, a total of 1982 interviews were made in the latter part of May by 54 advertising and journ-alism journ-alism students of BYU. Among Republican presidential aspirants named by Utah adults, Eisenhower led with 47 per cent, ' followed by Senator Taft with 34, . Governor Warren with 12, Douglas Doug-las MacArthur with 5 and Harold ".; Stassen with 2 percent. With a .' wider margin between rivals on the Democratic side, Kefauver ; was picked by 71 per cent of those ; making a choice, while six can-j can-j didates divided the preferences of t the remaining 29 per cent. , Among the Democrats receiving receiv-ing votes were Pres. Harry Tnx-man Tnx-man and Governor Adlai Stevenson, Steven-son, both of whom have said they are not candidates for the nomination. nomin-ation. A total of 256 voters, representing represent-ing 22 per cent of those interviewed inter-viewed expressed no choice of either a Republican or Democratic candidate for president. The presidential preferences in both parties are listed as follows, the state percent first and followed follow-ed by the percentage for each candidate in the Springville- Map-leton Map-leton area: Republican Utah Local Eisenhower 47 53 Taft 34 28 Warren .' 12 11 , MacArthur 5 8 Stassen 2 1 Democrat Utah Local Kefauver 71 67 Harriman 9 4 Kerr 7 5 Russell 5 6 Truman 4 12 McMahon 3 6 Stevenson 1 0 In preferences expressed for gubernatorial candidates the mar-gin mar-gin situation was reversed. Lee USPA Survey Shows j People Prefer Republican Candidates (Continued from page One) ! Governor Lee 88 97 j Mabey . 12 3 Glade 49 65 Bennion 35 23 Analysis of candidate preferences prefer-ences by voters' age groups under 26, 36 to 50, and over 50 shows some marked contrasts between be-tween younger and older persons in presidential choices. Persons over 50 favored Taft over Eisenhower Eisen-hower by a margin of about, 5 to 4, while those between 21 and 35 picked Eisenhower over Taft by more than 3 to 1. On the Democratic Demo-cratic side there was only moderate mod-erate differences among age groups in preference for Kefauver, but nearly all of the choices for Harriman came from persons" 36 or older. "Inferences drawn from the poll should be limited in aplication to the 'small town' areas of Utah," Dr. Smith pointed out in the sur- |