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Show Utah Parties Ready For Race Utah Republicans will have a hot convention battle between gubernatorial candidates and will thus have more incentive to attend their party's mass meetings. meet-ings. Both parties will hold these grass roots conclaves April 27. All eligible voters or those who will be eligible by election time are urged to attend the meeting in their district. It is from these meetings that district officers are elected and delegates to county conventions -are chosen. At the county conventions con-ventions representauves will be picked to attend the state con ventions and from the state conventions delegates will be sent to the national conventions in San Francisco and Atlantic City. Republicans will have to narrow nar-row the field of five gubernatorial gubernator-ial candidates to two before the August primary elections. Mayor J. Bracken Lee, Mitchell Melich, Secretary of State Lamont Toronto, Tor-onto, Kleen Kerr and D. James Cannon have all announced their candidacy. The Democrats have a ready made primary slate with only Ernest Dean and Calvin Ramp-ton Ramp-ton seeking the office. But the Democrats will have to eliminate one candidate for Secretary of State. Clyde L. Miller, Wayne L. Carlson and Harvard R. Hinton are all hoping to survive the convention contest. Below the state level the Republicans Re-publicans will have 29 three candidate contests and the Democrats Dem-ocrats 16. Students interested in attending attend-ing their district mass meeting can find the location in either of the two downtown papers or by contacting their party headquarters. |