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Show Myron Higbee, John Beal Win Nod From Republicans For County Commission Post Republicans of Iron County, meeting in convention Saturday, named Dr. John Beal and Myron F. Higbee, botli of Cedar City, as Primary candidates for the position of four-year term county commissioner. The party nominee for the election in November will be determined in the Primary Election on Sept. 11. Dr. Beal and Mr. Higbee won the primary designation in the nominating convention in competition with four other candidates for the office. Seeking the office besides Beal and Higbee wene Kenneth Ken-neth Clark, Walter Lunt, Clarence Lamoreaux and Morgan Mor-gan Slack, all of Cedar City. Beal drew considerable sup- MYRON HIGBEE ( -TV' DR. JOHN BEAL j port from the delegates to the convention, receiving 21 of the 62 votes cast, while the remaining votes were divided rather equally equal-ly about the other five candidates candi-dates with Higbee receiving 12 votes, Clark nine, Lunt and Lamoreaux Lam-oreaux seven each and Slack six. Solid Background Both Beal and Higbee have long been active in political and civic circles. Beal has served as state senator, president of the Iron County School Board, president presi-dent of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, manager of the Southern Utah Livestock Show and vice president of the Utah Sheep Breeders and Show Association. Associ-ation. Higbee, a former mayor of Cedar City, served as a city councilman coun-cilman for six years before becoming be-coming mayor in 1945. He has served as vice president of the Utah State Municipal League, president and board member of the Cedar City Livestock Association Asso-ciation and vice president of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. Republicans of the county will have one more local contest In the Primary Election on Sept 11, choosing between Charles R. Hunter .and Heber M. Sevy for the party's nominee for state . senator from Iron County. Hunter, Hunt-er, former mayor of Cedar City, former county commissioner and currently serving as a member of the board of trustees of the Utah State Agricultural College, and Sevy, representative In the State Legislature from Iron County, will seek the nomination for Senator Sen-ator to the State Legislature from Iron County. Sevy Is a former for-mer member of the Iron County School Board and has been very active In lovestock association ar-falrs. ar-falrs. Until re-apportlonment legislation was adopted at the" last session of the .state legislature, legisla-ture, Iron and Washington counties coun-ties were In one senatorial district, dis-trict, and this Is the flrest time that Iron County has elected a senator from this county alone. There will be io other contests con-tests In the Primary Election, only one candidate for each office of-fice having been designated for all other positions. Stat Level Contests Of course there will be three contests on the state level with the Republicans to select a nominee nom-inee for Governor, between J. Bracken Lee and George W. , , Clyde, and the Democrats also having a contest on for the nomination nom-ination for governor and for United States Senator from Utah. Democrats will choose between John S. Boyden and L. C Rom-ney Rom-ney for governor, and former Utah governor Herbert B. Maw and Alonzo Hopkin for United States Senator. Democrats in Iron County had no contests In their convention held Monday night, having only one candidate for each local office, of-fice, Including M. J. Urie for state Senator, Haldow E. Chrlstensen for state representative, Warren H. Bulloch for four year term county commissioner, and F. Van Buren for two-year county commissioner. com-missioner. Republican candidates for offices of-fices In which there are no primary pri-mary competitions are J. Harold Mitchell for state representative, and Jesse Guymon for two-year county commissioner. One other semi-local office, that of district attorney, will be filled with only one candidate from each party entering the race, Patrick H. Fenton, Republican, Republi-can, and Milton Melville, Demo. , crat, the latter of Fillmore. |