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Show ; Holman, Tebbs, Middieion Take t i General Election Victories - . . f The election is over, the re- suits are well known. The will of the people has clearly bcien shown and so on and on-f-. But, any election story In Garfield County must start with a compliment to the judges and counters of election whose speed and accuracy had ire-turns 'coming into the Couaty .Clerk's office within ten n'ln-utcs after the polls closed, j Two closely .contested county races made the awaiting, of the election returns a real cliff-hanger at. the- County Clerk's office.. An Interested group of-candidates and backers jumped with every tinkle of theitelephone bell as re-. turns on the Clifford S. LeFevre Dan.A Tebbs -county representative, race, and on the Bob Mlddleton - Kqnroy Hen-rle county commissioner race saw the lead, change with every precinct reporting. Finally there was only Hen-rlevllle to hear from, with Mlddleton trailing Henrleby 21 votes, ut, Henrieville (Mid-dleton's old home town) went heavily in his favor," 54 Middle-ton to 16 Henrie.; Mlddleton won the'cohlesby, 739 to 722. The race for couhtyf representative was.jusfaff";; close as it could get .without being the tie. it was' first. reported- to be. Dan Tebbs Received 322 votes In Panguitch' to Clifford" S. Le-Fevre's321. With,returns ban- - died-, about fifteen- different times while awaiting, final return from Henrieville, it was iirst, wr'epprtetCthat. ,LeFeYre was' trailing by-8 votes eight which he gained in Henrieville . to make it an apparent 704 to 704 tie; however it was found the actual margin was 13 votes Tebbs won that one by 734 to 729. In the .school board election Paul Steed won in precinct 4 with 195 votes to Lorell Mun-.-.son's 94, Randal W. Lyman got 29; In precinct 5rG. E. Riddle , gotit.by,32 .votes to L. Soren-sen's .30. . In the state senate race Vernon L. Holman pulled extra-heavy county strength, receiving almost two-to-one over Royal T. Harward, 955 to 505. The 450 majority here pulled him over the top in the five-county district 10 (Emery, Piute, Kane, Garfield, Wayne). Final tally was Holman 3269, Harward 3186. .Ability to pull votes from where you are from, as well as from .where .you are at proved successful for Bob Mlddleton .county-wise In'.the commission-race, but- was not successful for Bill Bruhn who lost to Burton in" the race for congress from Utah's 1st district, 59,497 to 75,909. "Garfield County go-lng-8 to 6 Bruhn was the only southern .Utah county giving him favorite son treatment. |