Show j Ekes Eks Ek s Victory Jn In I Record Vote Election I Progressives Declare Illegal And Consider Contest The full Citizens Party ticket was swept into office Tuesday as a result of the largest vote ever recorded in a Vernal City mp U municipal election Astounding fact of the elect elect- election elect elect- election ion was that there were votes cast out of a total registration registration tion of 1094 r or 67 per cent This is 13 In startling contrast to the 1945 municipal election at which only 86 persons voted At this time there was only one unO unopposed o posed ticket listed on the ballot Briant Brunt H incumbent Incumbent bent mayor and one of the two opposed Citizens Ticket candi- candi candidates candidates j dates eked out a 50 vote margin to defeat Ralph W Milburn Jo- Jo io cal attorney and year one-year Resi resi- resident resident dent of Vernal Each of the two candidates carried his own precinct Mayor won in North N orth Vernal Precinct No 4 and Mr Millburn in South Vernal Precinct No 3 Mayor re re- re received received 53 per cent of the total votes cast for fr Mayor Orlan L Johnson the other 9 opposed Citizens Ticket candi candi- candidate candi- candi candidate date won the city treasurer post with a vote majority over Wilson Murray incumbent Citizens Ticket candidates for two and four years councilmen and city recorder posts who were unopposed won by no con test majorities ranging from 1542 to A bombshell was dropped inthe in inthe the Progressive Camp on the ther r eve of the election when Leslie Continued on Page 8 S ham Wins Win ey tiN 0 II l v 1 dr And Anderson t Progressive Pro Ve candidate candidate for tor year four councilmen councilman an an- an anno flounced no his hII withdrawal from the race with the statement that his bis name had bad been placed on the ballot without his Clyde S 8 Johnson spokesman for the Progressive Party de de- de declared dared Wednesday morning that the Progressives were consider consider- I considering lug big contesting the election on the grounds that the registration re conducted City Office ice on Tuesday of last week week at which at J which place 83 85 persons Were registered was Illegal because it had not been officially designated by the Board of County Commissioners as provided by law also that the I registration agents of the two Vernal precincts had Included the registered names of the persons regis regis- at the city office in their respective registry books with with- without without out according to Mr Johnson any legal right to do so Mr Johnson also stated that he had prior to the election placed for for- formal formal mal challenges with the registration registration tion agents of both precincts ob to the right of these 85 persons prisons to vote and that his challenges had been disregarded and the disputed registrants per- per to vote Thus climaxes one of the most unusual and bitterly fought elec elec- elections elec- elec elections in the history of Vernal City One of the oddest features of the contest was the fact that prior to the nominations Rich Rich- Richard ard D Rust and William year two councilmen and Bruce Watkins Watkins city recorder candi candi- candi candidates dates were listed as possible Progressive Party candidates However at the Citizens Ticket nominating convention these I three candidates won their places on the ticket by defeating candidates proposed by the Citizens Party Detail vote by candidates and precincts is as follows Mayor North South B H c Ralph W Millburn p 4 Year 4 Year Councilman Clair R R Hopkins c 2 Year 2 Year Councilman Paul M Batty c Richard D Rust c William c Recorder Bruce Treasurer Watkins c Orlan L Johnson c Wilson Murray P p |