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Show Wednesday, November DESERET NEWS, 10 A 5, 1969 -- V 12 UVkW Prove SD&ssAs lead Incumbent Mayor Yerl G Dixon and cumbent City Ray Muruoc k were returned to office by a numrecord ber of voters Tuesday. Mayor Dixhis on won third term and Murdock was re - elected t o h i s second Mr. Murdock term. Murdock beat LaVom G. Sparks, Provo builder and in- - Tbe Tuesday night results reversed the outcome of the Verl G. Dixon . . . wins third term By MRS. REEVE BROWN Deseret News Correspondent y'if Wayne A. Jensen and Claudius Olsen also won second terms as they rather handily turned back challenges by Pack and Dwight Doyle Reeves, both Brigham City natives. Jensen collected and Olsen 1,574, 1.775 votes compared mayor-commissi- ACTIVE MAYOR "xv I ft hA 1 Democratic lake a pair of council positions. Olof Mayor Z u ndel was on unopposed the ballot and collected 2,303 votes to lead all candidates for a second term in office. council-manage- eight years. A kr i The voter turnout Tuesday probably set a new record for a municipal election. The recorder said it topped 8,803 votes in 1961 when citizens r rejected the form of government and returned to the present type. Dixon has been mayor since January 1962. Before that, he served as Utah County clerk for four years and as Utah for commissioner County by jzjjr votes. in the by POSSIBLE RECORD Brigham Vote Favors GOP new-- x 185 no runoff Provo City Recorder R. Glenn Olsen said that 8 852 ballots were cast Tuesday out of Provo's 21.0CO registered voters. He said he doubted, that there were however, mere than 17.000 eligible roistered voteis on the active roll beeaue many of tt r e registered were students w.iO had since moved away. vestor, 4.965 to 3.834. and held the lead throughout the tally. comers to He has been activr in Boy Scouts work, serving a a field executive. He is a former president of the Utah State Association of County Officials and also served as manager of the Provo Metropolitan Water District. Another position he has held is a board member of both the American Red Cross and the Utah National Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America. Active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSains, he was a member of the bishopric and later bishop cf Provo Third Ward y Mr. Jensen with 1.167 Mr. Olsen for Packer and 1.020 for Reeves. a businessman, Zundel, served as city councilman from 1960 to 1964 before winning the mayoralty race on his first try in 1965. Jensen is a building contractor and an executive of the Box Elder County Bank. Olsen is an employe of Thio-ko- l Chemical Corp. and a church leader. Both men are lifelong residents of Brigham City. Both have also been active in civic groups and as leaders of youth organizations. By REED MADSEN Deseret News Staff Writer America and was appointed by the governor to the ComHealth Planning prehensive Utah Committee, Advisory Department of Health. Richfield Third of Jesus Christ Saints, and a the Sevier Stake Duane Wilson by nearly 200 votes. Rees ran on Indepen- I 45 Mr. Poulsen Mr. Jorgensen defeated Max who garnered 524 votes, and Richard Bell, with They 329. years. Both council candidates on Jorgensen and PouKen will the Citizens ticket won. with replace Norman J. Fuellen-bac- h Phi! Jorgensen leading the and Jay Thompson race with 970 votes and EverRees, who retired from the ett Poulsen w inning the ot'er seat with 834. teaching ptofession in 1968 Ward. Church of Latter-daa member of High CounciL y Jorgensen is a prominent Richfield businessman. He is owner of the Richfield Coal Co. and has served as a member of the bishopric in the Richfield First Ward and a counselor in the Yoomeen-choopeeIndian Branch presidency. Poulsen will soon retire years of service with Mountain States' Telephone Co. He l service 'ore man of the Richfield exchange. Poulsen has alo chairmaned the after 40 Richfield sion. Planning Commis- Karl O. Incumoent Bart OGDEN Wolthuis paced the field as nearly 40 per cent of Ogden city voters se seven lected council-me- n city to con- clude a quiet municipal elec-- t i o n and campaign, controfree Macfclans Vern Wilcox versy. C o ousted two incumbent mpared the Oct. Judge 21 Ziegler p r imary election, more than twice the number of voters turned out and balloted in favor of an amendment to the city charter providing for direct election of the mayor, elected a city judge, and surprisingly, with Incumbents Win In Voters GEORGE stuck with the quo Tuesday, reelecting the in- cumbent mavST. or and two incumbent councilmen. H. Marion Bowler, term, re- 39.6 33,165 per of the registeied voters went to the polls in the municipal election. Councilr.ien George T. Frost and Karl O. Macfarlane and newcomer John B. Arrington field to win led the seats on the city council. They polled votes of 6.892, 7,089 and cent respectively. The other three candidates were Joseph F. McCune, Alton W. Parker and incumbent councilman Bemie Diamond, who finished behind Arrington by only 87 votes. Fourth Municipal Councilman Wesley G. Harline, a local surgeon, was the other incumbent to be unseated m the election. He lost to Her- - 2 Utah Towns Had No Voting St. George -status here ning ond council-me- n. Complete but unofficial turns show 6,247, of wan- his sec- four-yea- r turned aside the close of challenge f c rmer city councilman Neal M. Lundberg by a margin of 809 to 718. Lundberg. president of the Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, was also Bowlers opponent in St. George's last municipal elec- Utah-Idah- He also is serving his second term as a board member of the Utah Municipal League. T. Frost By BUDD BURNETT Deseret News Staff Writer Presently he is oiganization and extension chairman of the Provo District Boy Scouts of years of service. Is a former city councilman. He has served as a bishop of the - dent ticket, and will re Mayor place Elmo R. Herring, who has served eight o A councilman at the time, Lundberg was defeated by Bowler in that election too, but by a considerably larger margin of 424 votes. In Tuesdays city council races, incumbent Bernard H. Seegmiller, with 873 votes, and Eldon McArthur, with 912. won easily over H. Calvin C o 1 1 a m, 597, and Bill Maggard, 666. All of the winners are Republicans. Bowler has been a member of the St. George Lions Club for 25 years. Owner of an appliance sales and service firm, he also served in the Army during World War II. 54, graduated Seegmiller. from Dixie College. He served in the Air Force, previously on the city council, and was Washington County asessor for 10 years. Seegmiller is a cattleman, businessman and member of the Lions Club. McArthur, 49, was elected to his second commission term. He is a World War II veteran, chaplain of the Ci'il Air Patrol and owns his own industrial welding business. Only two of Utahs 214 cities and tewns had no election at aJ Tuesday. Residents of Howell, Box Elder County, had no chance to vote for city officials. The reason? Incumbent officials said the town has no money to spend on an election! In Hinckley, Millard County, only one party met to nominate candidates. These candidates for office were approved by acclamation. So say the city fathers there is no need for an election. Hence, no vote! elected By JOSEPH T. LIDDELL Deseret News Staff V, rter 3 Elections In Family In the little town of Fayette, Sanpete County, local government seems to be a family affair the Mellor family, to be exact. On election day, Norval H. Mellor ran for town board president and Max Mellor and Roer Mellor for the two board seats. All three were unopposed. In Honeyville. Box Elder County, four of the six candidates were named Hunsaker, but not all of them were in the same party. Byron E. Hunsaker, Alton Hunsaker and Ursel Hunsaker sought the three city posts under the banner of the Citizens Party. Somehow, Norman Hunsaker found himself on the Peoples Party ballot with a couple of strangers with the names of Wight and Orme. The family trend also was apparent in Loa, Wayne County. where Derrell Albrecht and Leonard Albrecht were for town board unopposed and board member. outsider named William K. Nelson also was unopposed on the same ballot. president An a mayor and two councilmen. the votapproved a proposition which will result in a primary or runoff election two years the hence, thus narrowing field down to two candidates for each ofttce. (XU er The lack of a primary election va considered to be a major defect in tne home rule charter The vote for the change was 2.766 io 647. The otner winrers m Tuesday's votirg were irrurrbent Counciiuoman Frances L. Mr. Mantes Mrs. Mavo Mayo and E. G. Mantes Jr. They each surmounted fields cf four cardidates. With uch a plethora of candidates for both mayor and counc.lrren. nore of the winners was able to poll a maor-itvote. t" 4 , V x A three a mater of the 12 of fact or-citv eft.cers The two 714: 641; Mr. mured candidates of eighr with 1,524 Mavo won ditrict.. candi- p p . . Robert Swan . soars to victory McKellar, 623; and 320. 10 of the 14 Mantes took one district hut was only in 12 others. Prince runner-uwon three district, but dropped far down sn the Tooele Majo. council cha.r-ma- r durirg her first term. r Charles Robert Pratt, Bernice O. Cerreni, 2."-- vote-gette- runner-u- date were Dor.ald J. Prince, 960; and Clarence O. Hansen, 894. Other city council candidates were Wendell P. Drou-ba- Other contender for mayor were F. Dens Porter, 773, winning two districts; William T Gochi. 667. winring ore district. a: d Jim G. Buzianis, vote high total of the vote-pow- Cox won two. Wrf. H. Botf H. othfrs. accountant, 6.676 to 6.332. Two businessmen battled it out in the First Municipal Ward, with Mark H. Bott receiving 7,850 votes to defeat Joe Profatzer, who managed 5,150 tallies. Mayor Wolthuis, a local dentist, topped the vote count with an unofficial total of 8.994. He led from the start end was the high man in a great majority of the citys 110 voting districts. He defeated Dovie J. Goodwho win, & schoolteacher, managed only 3,980 votes. Incumbent Vern Wilcox nearly doubled the votes on his opponent by grabbing 8.079 ballots, compared with DeLyle Jensen, a high school teacher who received 4,732 votes. E. Frederick Ziegler bested In J. Corke th' was judge B. Arrington Ogden Ronald O. Hyde in the race for the one city judge post up for election year. Ziegler polled 6.937, compared with 6.246 for Hvde. Ziegler John Jr. of the First District Juvenile Court for 14 years and was not reappointed by Gov. Calvin L. Rampton last July. His win over Hyde was interpreted by some as sympathy vote because he was replaced in the Juvenile Cc,rt by Roland Anderson. not The lone Incumbent seeking a new term was First Municipal Ward Councilman Harm DeBoer. Voters heavily favored an amendment to the city charter which provide for direct election of the mayor and which requires that he be an announced candidate for the position. The vote was 9.968 for. and 2.018 against. The mayor has been chosen by vole of the city council members from among their number, according to the city charter, before Tuesday's change. for The new procedure direct election of the mayor will go into effect two years from now when the first mayoralty race will be held with the new system. between The lead Harline and Corky throughout the evening. In the primary election. Corky was a narrow winner over Harlme. Both of the defeated incumbent, Harline and Diamond, pledged their support to the new council and stated they would never regret their experience in serving with the city council. d Crawford, Gill man, Carroll Win In Orem OREM Incumbent Mayor Winston M. Crawford and two new councilmen, Roscoe D. C a rroll and H a r ey M. won Gillman, 1 Orems ipal municgovern- ment in Tuesdays election. Craw ford won his second term as mayor when defeated he Clyde E. Weeks turned out for the election. A total of 4.235 cast ballots out of 11.562 on registrars books. Tabulators said that the People's party candidates jumped to an early lead m the citys 26 voting districts and maintained their majority throughout against the Cit- S.i. izens party. FORMER Jr., Orem 3,182 to 1,005. COUNCILMAN Crawford served on the city council four years before being elected mayor at the last municipal election. He is a former Orem Chamber of Commerce Gillman, who had served two previous terms on the council but was not an incumbent, bested Dr. John M. Peterson, faculty member at Young University, Brigham 2,915 to 1,235. Only about 40 per cent of the registered voters in the city president and helped organize the Utah County United Fund and the Utah Valley Industrial Development Association. He presently is on the board of directors for both. He served six years with the Utah State Department of Public Instruction as training specialist and for the past 24 years has been general supervisor of training at the Geneva Works. who has been Carroil, employed by Utah Power and Light for 18 years, is a member of the board of directors of the Orem cf Chamber Mr. CsrroD Mr. Gillmaa Commerce and served as president for two years. He is vice chairman of the local Industrial Development Committee and a board member Indusof the trial Development Corp. Gillman for two served terms on the Orem City Council and presently is a member of the Orem Adjustment Board. He was a member of the Utah House of Representatives during the 37th LegisOrem-Gene- lature. He presently is serving as chairman of the Utah County Merit Commission. He has been employed for the past 22 years at Geneva Works. He also owns a fruit farm in OiClli. ELECTION NEWS BRIEFS Polls Went To The Polls, One Returned Victorious - In this SOUTH WEBER small community voters not only went to the polls on election day. but the Pons aiso went to the voters. Two candidates named Poll sought election, and one of them made it. LeRoy H. Poll won the post as town board president. Marlow Poll, running for a seat on the board, was defeated, but only by one vote. defeated in his campaign for a councilman's seat. Brothers On Ballot CEDAR CITY In Cedar City today, you couldn't see the Forrest for the Haze. Of the two Hunter brothers running for office here, only Haze Hunter, incumbent city councilman, was left in the once the votes foreground were counted. He won, while brother ForHunter, candidate for mayor, faded out of contention during vote tabulations in the final three districts. Up to that point, he was actually ahead in the mayoralty race, but he finally lost to incumbent Loren Whetten, 1.251 to rest 1,177. The brothers ran on opposHaze as a Reing tickets publican and Forrest as an independent. Early Returns borMantes apparently rowed some of the of his father. State Sen. Ernest G. Mantes, polling 36.4 per cent of the 1,363 total. councilSwan, a man. easily outdistanced his nearest competitor. Jack L. Cox. 1 2C4 to 845. Swan got 32.1 per cent of the vote. He carried nine of 14 districts, while Mrs per cent bert J. Corky Jr., an Ogden BEATS PROF vo'e. The vote total Tuesday of 3.737 was 63.3 per cent of the 5.899 registered voters. free-for-al- l" as electing have achieved this distinction. TOOELE Robert Swan was elected Tooele mayor Tuesday in what was the iast typ? municipal elec-to- n in this citv. Mark Carroll, who is district manager for the Orem District, Utah Power and Light Co., won over Laird D. Billing, an official at the Geneva Works, U.S. Steel, 2.645 to 1,590. Were All 40 6 under Tooele's charter Sort Wolthuis postmaster, Swan Elected Mayor Of Tooele As well ? Wolthuis Elected Easily Murdock is past president of the Provo School Board and of the Rotary Club and past vice president of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. after RICH HELD C. A. Rees, retired Sexier County educator. won Richfield's mayoralty race Tuesday, defeating George COMMUNITY SERVED Rees, Citizens Candidates Win in Richfield Election the A, ' primary for mayor, however, since there were only two defeated Marion G. former Provo Hinckley, mayor and former Utah Counto 4,597 ty commissioner, 4 255, in a tight mayoralty race. Hinckley ran slightly ahead for a few districts, but Dixon's strength began to tell and his lead mounted steadily to a 342 majority I political M ? ' A Dixon There was Dixon f ff"' w primary election In the mayor race, which saw Hinckley PROVO attempts A'-rC- ' AAeveir Bv LEO PERKY Deseret News Staff Writer BRIGHAM CITY Republican incumbents held on to the mayors post and two city ? council seats T u esday as they defeated L&.fr A The fastest vote return in Utah was chalked up by Soldier Summit in Wasatch County, which reported its election results at 6:36 p.m., hours nearly before polls normally closed. All of the 21 regltered voters went to the polls early to. enable the polling place to shut down early and get the results to the Ufah Election Service. 1 Wins, 2 Lose SOUTH JORDAN' - Al- though three of the six candidate on the South Jordan ballot Tuesday had the last name of N'ewbold. a popular name in the South Jordan area, only one gained a victory. S. Orion Newbold as elected to the South Jordan City Council as a councilman. Howard Newbold faded in hi bid for the mayor's post, and Dennis Newbold was 4 Towns Had Write-i- n Vote cast a vote Tueday. Utahns simply put an in the proper spot on x but voters had tneir ballots to write muen more than that To mot in four Utah communities. It happened because thoe communities had no candidates on the baliot. j. So the voters of New Washington Cour.'y; Genola, Utah County: Scofield, Carbon County; and Laketown, Rich County had to write in their votes for town council president ard councilmen. Har-mon- Scofield residents named Roff Van Wagonen mayor and eleted Frank Atwood and Ivy Prease to the town council. In Laketown. Howard Lam-bor- n won the mayor's post, h and Weston and Sid Irwin were elected to the council. Morn.. Smith will be Ge s mayor, and Fluyd Nelson ar.d Seymore Isaacson will be on the round! At New Harmony, the voters named Cannon Huntsman mayor and elected Viola Kelsey and Vi' lan prime io tne council. Jo-ep- no-la- |
