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Show THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 1963 'Cf Utaih' County,' "DiaJi 1 1 7-- DAILY HERALD 7A 7 ET"3 I f L-- 3E.. Jl YOU SAVE MORE . . . YOU SAVE MORE... GOLD STRIKE STAMPS WITH EVERY PURCHASE. MODERN BAKERIES. IN-STO- RE i TV IT) 'i i i ij vs i ; Whole Fryers . . . arown. nmee exclusively by Albertson's. Guaranteed to bo lasty Tender or your money completely refund- - DECISION TIME -t- - Dominican citizens listen to paijBier over loudspeaker in a small iiowii. "0. a cam-- J ) j Dominican Elections penidcracOri "trial 4f 'S-X-, i i ft A.4.V j By WARD CANNEL Newspaper Enterprise Assn. SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. (NEA) Eighteen months after the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Tru-jill- o ended in a burst of machine gun fire, the Dominican Republic is preparing for its first democratic election since Columbus Day, .. i I y i- - 149- 2- I And as the Dec. 20 election approaches, this reporter finds himself just about the only man here not campaigning for office. As ( of this writing, there are: Seven candidates for the preseach convinced beyond idency doubt that he will win. Twenty-eigpolitical parties whose claimed membership totals 9 million people roughly 6 million more than the Dominican population. PEOPLE'S CHOICE List of Three more parties on the parties scrawled on a wooden . . fence indicate the confusion of yerg$ jof formation. But if it appears" like a confuthe Dominican elections. , ; sion, it is only because a nation lr does not wake to 20th Century de- vidual responsibility, in building the r, mocracy after a sleep country. : j without stretching all its muscles. Except for the minorities of both In a taxi, five people going to' extreme left", and- - right, all the ,work find themselves disagreeing candidates and parties are pretty on tneir cnoice ox candidates. The much agreed on goals: agrarian re- first passenger to off pauses drop form, adult education, schools, in- with the door open and asks ten- ' dustrialization, .higher wages, pub- tatively: i lic health. In short, a continuing "We'are? till friends, nb7 revolution against everything Tru-jill-o "Of everybody says, and his predecessors stood for. and the course,? drives on. , par Spokesmen for the three leading But whether, more than 800,000 parties admit that the country people will go o the polls is wont lose if any of the three major tlonable. And they contenders is elected, as long as resist political to wrest the elections are clean. their votes is also questionable. The right to vote is determined The real fear is that the people, offi- a the sdula by with a tradition of intimidation, cial identity card carried by Dowon't vote at all. Or worse, will minicans under Trujillo law. Fal sell their ballots out of fear, misrumors that se-lowing persistent trust and, hunger. dulas were "being bought away by And the United States is vitally in doubtful areas, the gov-parties concerned with this country's in- ernment pas taxen tne douar zee itiation into the democratic pro- off Until election ; day. j cess. The fear is that if the nation fails its test, 'another totalitarian government may gain a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. Soj four official mobile units are .14 traveling the dusty countryside .;-PRICE tUPD A Dragerton teen- -. spreading the word that "elections are free and your vote is secret." ager has been charged with as- Posters with the same message saultVwitl a deadly weapon with are tacked to the doors of country intent to do bodily harm and! bound stores and displayed in shop win- over to seventh District uourt. ' dows; V The cqmplaint against 'the 16- s, too, are trying year old puth- - was signed by Mrsj ; The to educate the Dominicans. Every Isabel Ross, a teacher at East plaza bench, monument and wall Carbon High School. The complaint is a fury of painted party Initials. alleged the youth-hacommitted The many offices of one faction or assault with a knife. another are crammed to the balconies with busy workers and mute, Edwards Assigned To J disbelieving visitors. On a middle class suburban pa- Mountain Home AFB tio an intense political discussion Air-SHEPPARD AFB, Tex. halts suddenly while a housewife man Class Frank First E, Ed- -. surprises herself into saying: "We're not whispering about pol- wards, Sjpaniah Fork, is being re-assigned: to Mountain Home AFB, itics. It's a miracle." Air Force , f from thet United States In an open field a half-hou- r by ' his foUowing graduation jeep from the nearest road, farm- Ida.,! ers on mule, horse and foot con- technical training course for air- propeller technicians here. gregate on a Sunday morning to craft The airman, son of VLr. and '.' candisee their own miracle a of 51 Sv . date asking them for their vote. Mrs. Frank E. Edwards la! ferad- -, 3rd is Springville, In a small village two hours from uate W., of School. Fork ' Spanish High Santo Domingo, where 18 months tils He and the wife, former Bev-vago there was only the official 191 W. 1st F. ISnowjof government radio to hear, resi- erly chilhave three Fork; Spanish ' dents stand transfixed before a l .i-- j dren, . i i.4 loudspeaker that palls for indi- Powerf peeded to produce elec; tricity used in the U. S. 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