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Show The San Juan Record HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH Vol 81 50 cents No 7 SINCE 1915 November 13, 1996 Incumbents win local races Few surprises in election Nearly two-third- s of reg- istered San Juan County voters participated in the November 5 General Elec- tion. ate. Keele Johnson returns for third term in the Utah State House. Johnson was unopposed, as was San Juan County Commissioner Ty Lewis. Three open seats on the San Juan County School District Board of Trustees generated local interest. Incumbents won all three a challenger Republican Chris Cannon narrowly defeated Democrat incumbent Bill Orton for the Third District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. With Cannon's victory, the Third District, which touts itself as the most Republican district in the United States, will have a Republi- can congressman as its representative. Utah Governor Mike Leavitt and Lt. Governor Oleen Walker were reelected by one of the largest margins in state history. Incumbent Attorney General Jan Graham was the only Democrat to win a statewide election. Austin Johnson and Ed Alter return as State Auditor and Treasurer, respectively. Incumbent Mike Dmitrich defeated Republi- can Davies to represent District 27 in the Utah State Sen- challenger Julie races. Paul Mantz defeated the write-icandidacy of Ed 1. Scherick in District Preston Nielson returns for another term in District 2, narrowly defeating challenger Harold Lyman, Pete Black, President of the school board, was also n 459-42- reelected. All of the judges were retained in judicial retention elections, including Seventh District judges Bruce Halliday, Lyle Anderson and Scott Johansen. Six ballot propositions passed. San Juan County General Election Results V names and dates long ago worn away. Staff photo Feds may seek truce in land - use battles The increasingly bitter fight in the West over recent federal land use actions may result in the US Department of Interior considering greater local involvement in federal-lan- d management in southern Utah. We want to adopt a pro- gram that is the opposite from the War on the West, something Im calling Working with the West, said George Frampton, assistant interior secretary of fish, wildlife, and parks. In spite of - or because of -the hostility toward the new national monument, I feel that southern Utah is ripe for developing a cooperative planning process. Local government officials have been fired up since the surprise declara tion of the 1.7 million acre Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, a concurrent reinventory of the wilderness characteristics of 3.2 million acres of BLM land (including 600,000 acres in San Juan County), and the nullification by the BLM of a agreement which clarified the status of road maintenance on BLM ld lands in San Juan County. The actions have precipitated a flurry of legal action against the Department of the Interior. San Juan County joined with other counties and the state in challenging the legality of the wilderness reinventory, arguing that there is no public process in Wilderness the action. teams are finishing their survey of the sites. The Western States Coalition recently filed a law suit seeking to overturn the national monument, arguing that 1.4 million acres of the monument fail to meet the standards of the 1906 Antiquities Act. The Coalition states that 300,000 acres in the Escalante Canyon should receive protection via National Monument designation. Framptons remarks may signal an attempt to tone down the rhetoric in the increasingly hostile interaction between local and federal officials. The large turnover in the Clinton administration is not likely to reach Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, according to Frampton. 0. |