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Show Third Party May Enter Municipal Election Contest The coming municipal election at which Cedar City voters must select a Mayor, four Councilmen. a treasurer trea-surer and recorder for the next two years, Is creating very little excitement, excite-ment, although party leaders are beginning to give a little thought to the mutter of candldutes and the process of placing nominees on the tickets for the election to be held on Tuesday, November 4. Party organizations will be completed com-pleted during the coining week, it Is understood, after which primary dates will be set. After this is done considerably more activity can be expected and candidates for the various positions will undoubtedly be singled out by party .workers. There has been some talk around town during the past couple of weeks of the possibility of the selection of an independent ticket, a move that would, If it gained any momentum at all, undoubtedly stimulate much more interest in the election than has been shown to date. Ths men suggesting such a procedure pro-cedure are not doing so, they claim, because of uny particular dissatisfaction dissatis-faction with either of tfhe major political parties, but rattier because they feel that the selection of city officials should be determined by the qualifications of the Indlclduul for any particular office, rather thun by his affllations with a political polit-ical party. The supporters of this move have not yet come out publicly In favor of an Independent ticket, but they are quietly contacting individuals in-dividuals who might support such a proposal. No new candidates have , been mentioned for any of the offices, In so far as we have been able to learn. Mayor Myron F. Hlgbee has reiterated that he would prefer to withdraw from the race, but has not definitely refused to be considered consid-ered and City Councilman Morris C. Roberts seems to be the most likely like-ly choice of the Republican party If Higbee does withdraw. Democratic party leaders have made no statement as to their preference pre-ference for a candidate for the position po-sition of Mayor, but Warren Bulloch, Bul-loch, president of the Chamber of Commerce and former Chairman of the Board of Iron County Commissioners, Com-missioners, seems to be the most frequently mentioned by the rank and file of the party. Clarence E. Miller, former city councilman, Is also mentioned frequently. |