Show Volume 71 Number 5 Utah State University Logan Utah October 3 1973 16 Pages Seven enter Logan mayoral race Seven prospective candidates had filed for the office of Logan City mayor when time expired at 5 pm Monday These seven will be placed on the ballet at election time in November The election will determine a new mayor to replace Ernest G Earl who is an interim mayor serving the unexpired term of Ted Perry Perry took over midway through the term of Richard Chambers The seven candidates who filed for the office of mayor are: William Dursteler retired' Air Force officer Norman Wahlstrom USU official Darwin W Larsen Logan business man Theral Bishop Logan insurance agent Thomas J Donahue Desmond Anderson retired state department employee who is currently a businessman and real estate agent Fjeldsted and Herald Journal photo DARWIN W LARSEN: Larsen is the owner and manager of Al’s Trophies and Awards store in downtown Logan He also holds distributorship for Intermountain Radar Sentry the Alarms in Logan He is Larsen urges a “local Choice” for mayor and states that he would use all the powers of influence available to the mayor to instigate a get tough policy in local courts j candidate The tries for earlier admits that public office have been less than rewarding In two previous tries once for the Cache County Board of Commissioners and once for a position on the Logan City Commission he has been unsuccessful He feels that the reason for his lack of success is his openess in airing his views ' While most of 'the candidates applaud the financial success the city has had in the past (being able to accumulate a large surplus of funds through the management of city owned utilities) Larsen argues that the city should concern itself with maintaining a balanced budget and avoid the accumulation of a large surplus out-spok- I ’i hearings William S Dursteler political effort Russell Logan business man and the only current commissioner not facing court A i list of people who like lists reveals a few things about each of the candidates: WILLIAM S DURSTELER: Dursteler is a retired career officer of the US Air Force The Idaho Whitney with three is married native children Dursteler has run for public office only once previously He ran for sheriff in Idaho Falls in 1950 but lost Dursteler will work to get a e city planner if he wins the election The planner would become a department head and not a bureacratic subordinate according to Dursteler Darwin W Larsen Kara Id Journal photo - V full-tim- Also high Jn the list of f city “I think one of the duties of the mayor is to listen personally to complaints concerning the city” Wahlstrom Herald Journal photo Thomas James Donohue Horald Journal photo Laketown native head of the USU Graduation and Veteran’s Affairs office is a retired Air Force career officer also He served in the Pacific during World War II and flew in the Berlin Airlift after the war Wahlstom is married with five children This candidate also believes that public officers should be candid in reporting their acand tivities as in the states that at times past some officials have not been thus THERAL V BISHOP: Theral Bishop certainly realizes the demands of the Logan mayoral office having served as mayor He states that he for brings experience and integrity office-holde- NORMAN 0 WAHLSTROM: A 0 en ob- jectives Dursteler lists year-roun- d recreational needs of the Norman Wahlstrom’s major goals if elected would be to unite the different offices of government so that the functions of each will work for the common good of all He aims for coordination in all aspects of government In order to accomplish this Wahlstrom plans weekly meetings with the various department heads This is Wahlstrom’s first ' X X 1962-196- t :: 'f v x ! Theral Ho raid V v v Bishop rs 5 to the office Bishop claims that he is runof renewing ning for-aiiwrrp- Journal photo L Anderson Herald Journal photo Desmond confidence Logan City government Born in Preston Idaho Bishop is a veteran of World War II and also Korea He is married with two children In continuing the programs of his earlier administration more cooperation Bishop urg Duofa accepts more teachers to a uniform policy opted by the Utah Board of gher Education more students i now eligible to graduate in icher education in the next two ars than was expected last ar rHE new ruling makes it sier for juniors and seniors to excluded from the quota they had intentions of enrolling in teacher education ”We want everyone who can to said complete this form” Steel Carolyn Professor Associate Dean of Education She explained that this would also allow more students who are subject to the quota to obtain certification tudents who do not wish to be luded in the quota system e until December 21 to turn a m of Intent” form to sr Education Office udents are those who led in Utah institutions ducation or in normal or :hools such as Ricks were ipril 25 1972 andto the ir admission iucation program by i in use then Students be able to show that teacher education an departments have instituted admissions and evaluation down the system to help cut who might number of students the way through otherwise get all the program only to be denied certification by the quota Admission to the teacher education a 235 program now requires Due The USU GPA to determine whether a student will stay in the after about a year in Evaluations program teacher education In Elementary Education students are evaluated after taking the sophomore bloc in Special Education between basic and and in methods courses Secondary Education between the methods courses and student between the cityand the county “We need to think of the valley as a whole not a series of com- munities” Bishop also feels' that the city needs to improve the amount of its fire protection RUSSELL F FJELDSTED: Like Bishop Fjeldsted brings experience to his candidacy Fjeldsted is currently serving a four-yea- r term as city com- teaching Last year USU graduated only about the same number of teachers they will be allowed by the quota in the future Dean Steel suggested that perhaps students are weeding themselves out of the program if they aren’t ”We no seriously interested kind of the longer anticipate we were afraid of” competition one said that Dean Steel good result of the quota system has been that the teacher education program has become more organized and more ordered in sequence in missioner Fjeldsted is the only member of the city commission who has not been effected by the investigation which was conducted during the summer Perry who was serving as mayor resigned when he Russell F Fjelsted Harold Journal photo (continued on page 4) |