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Show HAROLD JACOBS There was an excellent voter turnout for a municipal election elec-tion in Moab Nov. 4, with a record estimated 49 per cent of registered voters in the city going to the polls to cast their ballots for 3 City Council . .... ' I I sn DIXIE BARKER positions. Harold Jacobs, incumbent Councilman, was top vote getter with a total of 941. Two of the three women candidates were elected to the remaining council positions. Dixie Barker f sr. : . 1 - . - w - MARJORIE TOMSIC Moab Voters Name Winners For City Council Seats received 683 votes and Mar-jorie Mar-jorie Tomsic received 534 votes to be elected to the City Council. Tallies for the trailing candidates were: Tom Stocks, 458; Bruce Kehiet, 379; Nellie Beyeler, 253 and Fred Lath-rop, Lath-rop, 186. With about 2300 registered voters in Moab City, there were 3434 votes cast for candidates, and each voter was allowed to vote for 3 different candidates. Even allowing for some voters who may have cast ballots for only 1 or 2 candidates, the figures show that nearly half of the voters went to the polls to make choices for City Council. An official canvass of votes, to be held Nov. 10, will verify candidates elected and exact totals of votes. Of special interest in San Juan County balloting Nov. 4, a bond election of $7 million was before the voters to build 2 new high schools in the southern part of the county, in 2 different geographic locations loca-tions to serve mainly Navajo students. The vote was 3 to 2 in favor of the bond issue, guaranteeing a method of financing the school construction, construc-tion, which has been mandated man-dated by the courts. Said San Juan County Commission Chairman Cal Black Wednesday morning, "We are very pleased to see that the voters were in favor of the bond issue. The question to be decided in this ballot was not whether we would build these schools, because we are already required to do so, but how we would pay for them. |