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Show Wednesday. November 4, 1981, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 3 Provo Winners Look Forward to Transition By DAVE HEYLEN Herald Staff Writer Provo’s new c > be comprised of convincing margins andseveral only a crystal bal! could have predicted In twoextremely close races, under. dogs Arland “Cory” Olsen and Gary Golightly scored upsets over their op: ponents to win positions on Provo's city council Olsen inched past his opponent Royden Shurtz aan by a ee 27 problems that I think are serious and must be taken care of before develop- ing certain areas. Golightly attributes his win to hard work and good help from his staff I was considered an underdog by MERRILL MARTIN KEITH ROOS STANLEY BROWN GARY GOLIGHTLY votes. He had trailed Shurtz for most the media but felt a lot of momentum of the evening. The two men were swinging my way thelast few days seeking the two-year District 4 position on the council Golightly’s margin of victory was one-tenth of a percentage pointbetter than Olsen. The underdog defeated his opponent, L. Flake Rogers, by 262 votes to win one of three at-large Seats. In other races, incumbent Anagene Meecham easily outdistanced her challenger, Howard Hatch, 6,467 to 2,956; Merrill Martin defeated Dennis Weirin District I, 1,054 to 712; Keith Roos downed John Olsen, 2,138 to 1,593; Stanley Brown defeated Charles Hensen 943 to 852 to win in District 3. and Craig Call easily outdistanced Margaret Firmage, 6,096 to 3,314 to win one of the at-large seats. “This has been a cliff-hanger all night,” a jubilant CoryOlsensaid after the final district reported. A strong finish in District's 29-30 pushed Olsen past his challenger Shurtz. Olsen had trailed Shurtz by two percentage points most of the night “‘Treally felt it would be very close,” he said. “It’s a thrill to win. Ihave enjoyed the campaign, especially the fact that there has been no mudslinging. Of course there wasno reason for it. Royden and I have beenfriends for manyyears.”’ Olsen sees his first goal to meet Cedar Fort MayorLoses CEDAR FORT — Richard L. Cook defeated incumbent mayor Raymond Welcker by 43 votes to Welcker's 37 in Tuesday’s balloting The single announced candidate for city council, Arthur Cook, received 72 votes. The second seat open was won by Harry Draper, a write-in candidate, who received 34 votes Runner-up write-in candidate, Glen Ashley, received 27. Election judges said there were four write-in candidates for mayor, and 16 for the city council. he said with a large grin on his face t then prepare a budget for next There has beena lotof footwork done these past few days istrict 2, Keith Roos easily out: Golightly and Rogers faced a see- distanced his challenger, John Olsen saw battle as early returns jumped the by about 600 votes. Roossaid after the lead from each candidate. With11 dis. election his staff was confident of his tricts reporting, Rogers took a small victory but he was “nervous.” four percentage point lead which he Now, hesays, the council will have maintained almost to the end. With 39 to meet to prepare for work come districts in, the lead switched and January Golightly never trailed from that “There will be a lot of studying, a lot point. of documents tolock at, many reports The new councilman seesgetting the to read so that we understand issues council organized as being his first better priority. He considers selecting the mayors, “Oneofthe first issues of the council Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) as will be adopting the resolutions made a major concern. He is also concerned by the transition team,”’ he said. ‘We about the budget and preparing next need to get those thingsinline so that year's budget the legislative body will be ready. We In District 3, former Provo Fire need to organize as a body.” Chief Brown held off a last-minute In District 1, Martin who was the top charge by challenger Hensen to be winner in the primary, managed to elected to the two-year post. Brown en maintain a 59 percent lead through joyed a 63 to 37 percent lead with 11 most of the evening. His lead in- districts reporting but saw his edge creased to 65 percent with 32 districts slip as the night progressed. and maintained that edge to the end ‘I appreciate the support the people Martin won1,054 votes to Weir's 712 have given me and the people who have “T'm just tickled to death to win,” gone out and worked for me," Brown Martin said Tuesday. ‘I couldn't be said. ‘All the way through, I felt the happier. I've been nervous but not race between Mr. Hensen and I would worried. I worked hard.”” be one of the closest onesin thecity.’” Martin sees reviewing the budget as Brownbelieves the council will have the council's first major project. ‘We to start work immediately on the ANAGENE MEECHAM CORY OLSEN governmenttransition “Of course wearea legislative body and are going to have to get togeth professionalism and responsibility that and work thoroughly. CRAIG CALL council must develop a trust level with each other He sees the downtown residential “Maybe we won't always agree, but district as a major concern the council we will have to work and learn will need to address together in order to assure it doesn’t “IT have had a much stronger become counter-productive for the awareness of the need for some good citizens of Provo.” strong creative ideas for the downtown neighborhoods. I think if we don’t do She believes the first council will something in a hurry we are going to make or break the new government have a ‘central city’ Salt Lake or a and calls her newrole “frightening.” ‘westside’ Ogden. We don’t need to “It frightens me becauseif we don’t have that.”’ Mrs. Meecham, whois on Provo's work well together, it will be very present commission, says the new costly to the citizens."” the city deserves We must get in the habit of discussing and keeping people informed.” Call, who easily won oneof three atlarge seats, hopes the city’s governmenttransition is smooth “T thinkit is importantthat the transition is orderly and that people feel comfortable with the change,” he said. “We are not going to turn the world upside-down overnight. It’s going to be orderly and done with the kind of Farnworth Turnbow Re-Elected Retains CEDAR HILLS — Incumbent Richard Turnbow survived a late surge by write-in candidate Margaret Hurley to win the mayoral race bya vote of65 to 48. In the city council race, Don McPhersonand Milt Hanks were victorious. McPherson had 85 votes, Hanks had 33 and write-in incumbent David Kirkpatrick had 28 Council Seat In the Orem City Council race for the three at-large seats, H. Earl Farnworth, a real estate agent, and S. Blaine Willes, personnel director for Deseret Federal Savings and Loan, took early leads and wenton to easily wina place on the council For the third coujicil seat, a neckand-neckbattle raged between Glen R. Zimmerman and Duane B. Herbert. Although Zimmerman continued to edge out Herbert throughoutthe evening, it wasn’t until the last district reported in that Zimmerman was declared the winner. Zimmerman, a retired junior high school principal, received 3,661 votes to Herbert's 3,604. Herbert did not say he would ask for a recount but supporters encouraged him to do so. If Herbert asks for a recount, it won't be the first time Oremelection officials would have to Goshen EARL FARNWORTH go over the ballots again. In the last election, Zimmerman lost to Stella Welsh — on a recount vote. Election returns continuedto roll in past 10 last night. At one point, only 29 votes separated Herbert from Zimmerman. Then, all districts had reported except District 20, which took extra time to conduct a recount. Zimmermanfinally won by 57 votes Willes garnered the most council votesfor a total of 5,099. Districts 5, 13, 20, 26, 27, and 44 voted especially heavy BLAINE WILLES GLENN ZIMMERMAN in Willes’ favor. Willes said he hopes to bring financial expertise and his experienceas a personneldirectorto the council. Farnworth, an incumbent councilman, easily won re-election with 4,182 votes. Hesaid his election shows that people know he is doing a good job. Douglas R. Collins, Duane B Herbert and HankSavagelostin their bids for a four-year council seat. Mayor Collins received 2,790 votes, Herbert got 3,604 and Savage received 3,172 Voter turnout was 33.4 percent for GOSHEN — W. Leon the mayoral and three council seat Jensen, incumbent races, District 31 had the highest voter mayor of Goshen, won percentage turnout with a whopping 74 re-election with 121 percent. votes, over Eddie Davis The district is located east of State whopolled 70. James Beck, with 121, Street and south of 600 S. Districts 9, and Phyllis Finch, with 11, 23 and 44 also had high voter tur- 1 18, are the new city nouts with percentages in the 58 council members, percentile range defeating Fred Jensen Victorious Bud Ellison To Be New Mayorin Lehi MALCOLM BECK R. KENT EVANS LEHI— A. E. ‘Bud’ Ellison emerged as winner in a mayor's race whichhadsix candidates seeking the positon. The incumbent,Blaine Singleton, did not seek re-election Ellison polled 632 to top the next highest votegetter, JoAnn Brown, by 80 votes. Mrs. Brown received 552. New city councilmen in a race that had seven hopefuls, will be Chris ind, who received 1,003 votes, and Wayne Carltc" with 784. Runners-up in the tmayor’s race were Gil Van Wagoner, 434; Julian Mercer,226; L. Richard Smith, 141, and Michael Elkins,41. Runners-up in the council contest were Craig Berry, 689; incumbent Arnold Pope, 483; Carl Harris, 443; Frank Comer, 426, and Sherman Webb, 129. Herald Want Ads Get Results ! Thanksfor your support COMPUTER WORKSHOP Dave Dahiberg Software vs. Hardware The most commonlyused computer term is software. Let’s talk about A software and how it re- lates to hardware a» WAYNE CARLTON CHRIS LIND BUD ELLISON Hardwareis any tangible part of the computer: the keyboard, printer, viewing screen, even the powerplug. 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