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Show Contests loom in area polikal battles as filing daedline nears by Graham D. MaoDonald, also al-so of Cedar City. At 1 p.m. Wednesday Mac-Donald's Mac-Donald's application to file had not arrived at the Secretary Secre-tary of State office. It had been placed on Hugh's Air West Wednesday morning, was scheduled to be picked up in Salt Lake City and delivered de-livered before the filing date. Baring any unforeseen difficulty diffi-culty MaCDonald would appear ap-pear to also be a candidate at this time. However, should his application arrive too late he would be declared ineligi- Wednesday was the dead-1 line for political filings for positions in the November election and reports from the Iron County Clerk and the office of-fice of the Secretary of State indicate that contests are evident evi-dent in all but the race for the Utah Senate for District 29. Only Dixie Leavitt, Cedar City, an encumbent member of the Utah Senate has filed for the' newly created senatorial senator-ial district 29 which encompasses encom-passes the five county area of ; Iron, Washington, Kane, Garfield and Beaver. Check was made with the office of the secretary of State at 1 p.m. Wednesday and four hours still remained to the filing dateline, it should be noted. : On the other hand three . publicans and one Democrat have filed for the Utah Huse of Representatives for District 74, the newly created multi-county multi-county district which includes both Iron and Kane County. Encumbent J. Harold Mitchell Mitch-ell of Parowan filed for reelection. re-election. He will be opposed on the Republican ticket by '. Garth Jones of Cedar City and ble. ., On the Democratic side of the ledger, only McRay Clow-ard Clow-ard of Cedar City has filed for the position. On a county level there ap- pe irs to be a strong race go , ing on for the two-year coun . tj commission post currently held ' by D Robinson. Three Republicans and one Democrat Demo-crat have filed for the posit ion. The Republicans include incumbent Robinson, Kenneth M. Joseph and Glen L. Hal-terman, Hal-terman, all of Parowan. Orj the Democratic side of the tic- , ket they will be opposed by Ralph Orton, also of Parowan. Opponents for the four-year county commission post cari 1 begin squaring off at any time. Ivan Matheson, Republican Repub-lican has filed for re-election to the position and as of this writing at 1 p.m. Wednesday; only Delias Imlay, Democrat, has filed to oppose him. , Four hours still remained for any last minute filing, but Indications are that the slates have pretty well been set for what could now develop Into primary contests as well as for the final election In No yemlber. |