OCR Text |
Show Mew Voter' Interest Promises Hesy Vote est Prinwy Electa Stat Week A heavy turnout of new voters to get their names on registration rolls would indicate in-dicate that interest is good in the upcoming Primary Election, El-ection, scheduled for next Tuesday. County Clerk Barbara Bar-bara Dome-nick stated late hist week that a large number num-ber of new voters had signed sign-ed up on the last day for registering prior to the Primary-Polls will open at 7 a.m. Tuesday, and will close at 8 p.m. Results in Grand County should be known shortly after that. Three local com est s, two on the Democratic Ticket and one on Die Republican, give local lo-cal interest in the election. On the Republican Ticket, George H. (Hub) Newell and Bob Robertson are competing for nomination to iTie Gener. al Election ballot for the post of four year county commissioner! com-missioner! Competing for the same nomination on the Democratic De-mocratic Ticket are Dwain C. Barker and J. C. Beeson, Jr. Competing for nomination nomina-tion as two year county com- missioner on the Democratic Ticket are William H. (Bill) 1 lance and Marvin J. Som-crville. Som-crville. Statewide interest has been building in the Republican race fr U. S. Congress. Ro-b Ro-b rt Wolthuis, former administrative admin-istrative assistant to Senator Sena-tor Wallace F. Bennett, is being hotly contested for the s;at by Frontier Airlines pilot pi-lot Joe Ferguson. The winner win-ner in that race will face incumbent Congressman K. Gunn McKay in November. In the race for Secretary of Stale, A. F. (Fred) Becker is running a close race with Salt I-ake County Commission Commis-sion Chairman William E. Dunn, recording to statewide polls. Bo-h are Republicans. O'h'.r Republican Primary contests, stalewde, are for the office of S:ate Auditor (Gerald R. Hansen vs. David Smith Monsonl; and State Treasurer (Sid Lamboume vs. Sherman J. Preece). On the Democratic ballot, Linn J. Baker and Joseph F. Elder are competing for nomination to run for State Auditor. O unty Clerk Barbara Do-meiu-k stated that absentee ballots are available at her office for persons who might be out of town next Tuesday. Tues-day. Voters in Utah must make a decision as to whether to vote Republican or Democrat. Demo-crat. They do not, however, have to state that preference to election judges. They must discard one half of the ballot bal-lot and vote the other when they enter the voting booth. Election expert Vernon Carr of Bountiful will be Si Moab Friday evening to meet with all election judges judg-es to answer questions pertaining per-taining to the upcoming election el-ection or to changes in election elec-tion laws, Mrs. Domenick stated. Persons, other than judges, who would like to attend at-tend the open session may do so by calling her for information. in-formation. Grand County's voters traditionally tra-ditionally turn out in small numbers in Primary elections. elec-tions. Ordinarily only about 50 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots. This year, however, how-ever, indications are that the vote will be much heavier. . - c.- - i m i F 4':T'i---',V'..'l v k ' t e'-'-" i I I ' . '-.''I - V;'V I ' ; M . . 'S County Clerk Barbara Domenick prepares voting booth in the Courthouse for use by persons who wish to cast absentee ballots in the upcoming Primary Elec tion. Similar voting booths will be erected next week in the polling places around town. |