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Show SIX CONTESTED OFFICES County Election Interest Mounts As Voters Prepare to Cast Votes Although 12 offices are to be filled, five county and one congressional district office, voters going to the poles in Iron County next Tuesday will cast their ballots to decide de-cide only six contests. This situation is the result of the failure of the Democratic party to name candidates for the other offices. The Republicans named candidates for all offices, and since no opposition was named the Republican Repub-lican candidates for state representative, county clerk, auditor, assessor, surveyor, and attorney will actually be elected unless, of course, there should be some write-in opposition develop. The candidates for these offices are Heber M. Sevy, incumbent state representative; W. Clair Rowley, incum- I i bent clerk and auditor; Hillman Dalley, incumbent assessor and surveyor, and A. M. "Jim" Mars-den, Mars-den, who defeated Incumbent Durham Morris in the Primary election for the nomination for j county attorney. The fact that six of the 12 po-1 'sit ions are to be filled with competition com-petition does not mean, however, that there is no interest in the coming election. Quite the contrary. con-trary. At least three of the congests con-gests have created considerable t . I ,1 1 r.ui v.nMr iniureai aiiu ueuaie. huh aiuung these of course is the battle for representative to Congress from the First Congressional District. The importance of this position at any time, and particularly with the Republicans striving to maintain strong support in Congress Con-gress for the administration, makes the race for the congressional congres-sional seat tremendously important. import-ant. Addition Interest has been thrown Into the campaign by the Congressman Stringfellow hoax situation and the thrusting of Dr. Aldous Dixon into the race only two weeks before election, also because of former Congressman Walter K. Granger's attempt to . 1 . 1 . 1 I 9 regain nis seai in ine nuune representatives. Granger was defeated de-feated by Sen. Arthur V. Watklns for a seat In the senate at last election, and this year accepted the nomination for Congressman upon the Insistence of a We&er County delegation of leading Democrats. This race, of course, overshadows all others In the election In Iron County. Three-way Sheriff Race v A three-way race for county sheriff has also created consid erable interest, with KepuDilcan incumbent "Arthur Nelson seeking re election; Haldow E. Christen-sen, Christen-sen, a former Iron County sheriff, seeking election on the Democratic Democra-tic ticket, and William "Bill" Hills, former Cedar City policeman police-man and former deputy sheriff, opposing them as an independent candidate. Next in line from an interest standpoint seems to be the race for two-year term county commissioner, com-missioner, with Jess Guymon, Republican Re-publican Incumbent, opposed by Charles F. Burton, Democrat. Of . course the interest in the race seems to be generated in the Parowan area, since both are Parowan residents. The campaigning for the remaining re-maining three positions seems to be very quiet and what might be termed "friendly." Lyrjan Sevy, Republican Incumbent, Is opposed by Theron Ashcroft, Demcrat, for four-year term county commissioner; Mrs. Georgia Geor-gia B. Mitchell, Republican in cumbent is opposed by Florence S. "Frostee" Benson, Democat, for county recorder, and Clair Hu-' let, Republican Incumbent, Is opposed op-posed by J. C. (Carl) Rummler, Democrat, for county treasurer. Supreme Court Justice Voters will also cast their bal-lots bal-lots for a Justice of theState Supreme Su-preme Court, on a separate Judicial Judi-cial selection ballot, with George W. Worthen, incumbent seeking re-election to the position, with Delbert M. Draper, seeking to gain the position. . Two precinct Justices of the Peace will be elected, but neither has opposition on the ballot. Da vid A. Smith is seeking re-election in the Cedar precinct, and (Continued to Page Four) ELECTION DEADLINE HEARS (Continued from Page One) John W. Bentley is seeking re- j election in Parowan. Both are , Republicans. , The voters will also be called upon to decide on two referen- j 'dum propositions on the perplexing perplex-ing Junior college issue, and on a constitutional amendment pro-1 viding for re apportionment for' representation in the state legis-; j lature. The constitutional amend-ment amend-ment would give each county inl l the state one senator with rep-. 'resentation in the house of representatives rep-resentatives determined on a population basis. Junior College Issue The two junior college issues in-jvolve in-jvolve four schools. One deals with Carbon College at Price and will determine whether or not the state will withdraw financial support, which of course, tfould result in the closing of the jun- j ior college. The other issue is I whether or not to transfer Weber, I 'Snow and Dixie junior colleges to the L D S church. While it! deals with the three schools it' is trictly a "package" deal. Eith-1 er all three will be turned to the; church or nome of them will. Much has been said and published pub-lished on these issues, and much more will be before the polls open next Tuesday. The junior college issues are especially perplexing per-plexing and there has been, and perhaps still is. much confusion in the minds of the people of the state. School Board Member Voters of Parowan will have still another ballot on which to make i selection, since a member of the Iron County School Board is to be elected from that district dis-trict and recent legislation has provided for holding the school board election at the same time as the regular election rather than in a separate election. Three candidates have been placed in I nomination for the position, including in-cluding Herman E. Bayles, incumbent, in-cumbent, who is president of the board this year; Ed H. King and John H. Pendleton, j There may be considerable confusion con-fusion on the part of voters as to where they must cast their ballots, bal-lots, because the city has been divided Into 14 voting districts instead of the previous five. In order to assist voters to determine deter-mine their districts and polling places we are publishing this week as a public service a map of the voting districts together with a list of the polling places. It may be found on another page of this issue of the Iron County Record. Since the number of voters in each of the Cedar City districts is naturally much smaller than previously, the board of county commissioners has provided only one set of judges this year, which may result in some delay in de- termining the final results of the , election. This will be especially i true in Parowan and Paragonah because no changes in the districts dis-tricts have been made there, and there are no fewer voters this year than at previous elections. |
