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Show GOP Beats Bushes for Candidate Who Can Win Third Term Issue . . By C. Sharp Republicans are scurrying hard . to obtain a candidate for governor who will be able to wage a' creditable campaign cam-paign against Gov. Calvin L. Rampton. Unless extraordinary circumstances circum-stances arise, Rampton is believed be-lieved to have the inside track for election to a third term. GOP adherents cite tjie vai- ue of a change of slate, periodically period-ically and claim that a good Republican candidate ' will have good chances for election. elec-tion. This issue of demanding a. change of administration after eight years under Rmpton will be pressed vigorously. Names Four Kent Shearer, . Republican state chairman, meanwhile, has been meeting with -his committee and possible candidates. can-didates. These, he said, inclufled Nicholas Strike, Salt Lake business executive and former form-er president of the Utah Mah-facturer's Mah-facturer's Association; Ren-dell Ren-dell N. Mabey, former House speaker and former state senator Mayor Olaf Zundell of Brigham City, and William E. Dunn, Salt Lake County Commission chairman. He said the party will have to have a "self-starter" candidate can-didate who can win against a large field in the State Convention. These meeting should not discorage other candidates from running, he said, ' emphasizing em-phasizing that his committee is not engaged in "king making". Romney Announces Vernon B. Romney, formerly form-erly a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, announced April 14 that he would seek reelection reelect-ion as the state's chief legal officer. Romney, a staunch foe of federal intrusion " into state legal fields by reviewing state sta-te criminal case decisions, could become a candidate for governor four years from now. Sen. Thorpe Waddingham, 48, Delta attorney and past president of the State Senate, kept the scene fluid April 9 by announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination nomina-tion for attorney general. Waddingham, a veteran legislator leg-islator and authority on legal phases of water, could wage a close, election battle against Romney. ' Secretary of State . State Treasurer Golden L. Allen on Monday formally announced an-nounced his candidacy for the Republican nomination ' for secretary of state. D.-James Cannon, now a development consultant and loser in 1967 of a' close election battle with J. Bracken Lee for maoY ol4 Salt Lake City, previously had announced his intention to seek the nomination. Clyde L. Miller will seek reelection as secretary of state in coalition with Rampton Ramp-ton on the Democratic ticket. Kennecott Decision Utah's Supreme Court April 14 declined to rehear the multi-million dollar tax case won by State Tax Commission against Kennecott Copper Corp. last January. This give Kennecott the choice of paying deficiencies assessed by the Tax Commission Commis-sion against it - plus interest -or- appealing to the U. S. Supreme Su-preme Court. In its petition for rehearing rehear-ing Kennecott charged that the Utah court decision violates vio-lates the equal protection and due process clauses of the U. S. Constitution' and the Commerce Com-merce Clause. Appeal Likely ' Appeal to- the U. S. Supreme Su-preme Court, therefore looks likely. Justice R. L. Tuckett who wrote the state's decision held that the Tax Commission Commis-sion was justified in rejecting reject-ing Kennecott's computation of the taxes due and prescribing prescrib-ing a different method. " ' A $22,000 contract for developing de-veloping a master plan for an . area vocational school at Price to serve four counties was approved last week b"y the State Board of Examiners. Examin-ers. Under this contract Capson Ed-Visors, Salt Lake City, will develop the master plan for the State Board of Vocational Voca-tional Education The Four Corners Regional Cm-mission funded the project pro-ject last year. Walter E. Ulrich Jr., administrator ad-ministrator of the State Division Di-vision of Vocational - Tech-' nical Education, explained the contract to the examin- ers consisting of Rampton, Miller and Romney. |