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Show General Election November 2 attracts voters, campaigns end However, two other candidates are also seeking the Governorship. Gover-norship. They are L. S. Brown, a candidate on the American Part and Betty Bates a member of tht Concerned Citizens Party. Other state offices are beinj, challenged only by the two major parties. Voters will select a Secretary of State-Lt. Governor with David S. Monsen, Republican and David L. Duncan, Democrat, challenging for the position. Vieing for Attorney General will be Robert B. Hansen, Republican and D. Gilbert Athay, Democrat while Richard Jensen, a Republican and Robert H. Swain, a Democrat will seek the office of State Auditor. The other state-wide post will be for the office of treasurer with Stanford P. Darger Republican, vieing against Linn Baker, Democrat. Seeking the vacancy in the Utah Senate for District No. 29, which includes the five county area of Beaver, Iron, Washington, Kane and Garfield will be Republican Ivan M. Matheson of Enoch. Matheson is unopposed in his bid to succeed Senator Dixie Leavitt, who vacated the post to seek the Republican nomination for Governor. , A three-way race will challenge for the State Representative Post for District 74 including Iron and Kane Counties. S. Garth Jones, a Republican incumbent, is being challenged by Vivian H. Little on the Democratic ticket and Bert G. Eastman an American Party candidate. In Iron County there are two races for the County Commission and are being contested by the two major parties. In neither case is an incumbent on the ticket, therefore, regardless regar-dless of outcome come January 1, 1977 Iron County will have two new commissioners. Challenging for the four-year seat are Republican James L. Clark and Democrat Ross C. Hilton. The seat is being vacated by Ivan M. Matheson, who is a -candidate this year for the Utah Senate. Two-year commission candidates can-didates are H. Grant Seaman, Republican, and Ivan S. Robb, Democrat. The two-year post is being vacated by G. D. Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, who lost in the Primary for a bid for the four-year commission post. A sample ballot and a listing of voting places throughout Iron County can be found on Page Five of this issue of the Iron County Record. Voters are invited in-vited and encouraged to study the ballot in preparation for Tuesday's general election. ruesday, Nov. 2 is general election day throughout the United States and political campaigns of the past year will come to an end as voters go to the polls to make their selections in national, stat e and county levels elections. Voters in Utah will have the additional opportunity to participate par-ticipate in proposition to change the Utah Constitution and three Initiative Proposals. Although heavy campaigns have been waged by the two major political parties many residents will be surporised when they obtain their ballots to find tha they will have eight alternatives alter-natives for president and vice president candidates. The Republican tickets is headed by President Gerald R. Ford and his running mate Robert Dole while they are primarily opposed by Democratic hopefuls Jimmy Carter and Walter F. Mondale. Other candidates for the top elective position in these United States are: American Party, Thomas J. Anderson and Rufus Shackelford as presidential and Vice presidential candidates; Roger L. MacBride and David P. Bergland as the representatives of the Libertarian Party and Lester Maddox and William D. Dyke representing the Concerned Con-cerned Citizens Party. Three sets of Independent candidates are also on the ballot seeking support for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States. The tandum teams include Peter Camejo and Willie Maue Reid; Gus Hall and T&.rtrvis Tyner and Eugene McCarthy Mc-Carthy and John H. Stouffer. Additionally the ballot has a column available for write-in candidates. Other offices do not offer such wide choices. In Utah one of the major races is that for the United States Senate where Democratic incumbent in-cumbent Frank E. Moss is being challenged by three contendors. Top contendor is Orrin G. Hatch, Republican, who at this writing, is running a neck and neck campaign with the incumbent Moss. Other challengers are George Merl Batchelor of the American Party and Steve Trotter, a Libertarian. The list grows even smaller in the race for Utah's Second Congressional Seat. Incumbent Allen T. Howe, Democrat, is being challenged by Dan Marriott, who from all indications, holds a strong lead in the campaign to unseat the incumbent. in-cumbent. Howe and Marriott are the only two on the ballot although Daryl McCarty, a Democrat, has staged a write-in campaign that could have an effect on the final outcome. On the state level the big race is for the Governorship where Calvin Rampton is stepping down after three successful terms in that prestigeous office. Challenging to assume the role of Utah's Governor are former Attorney General Vernon B. Romney, Republican and Scott M. Matheson, an Attorney, on the Democratic ticket. They appear to be in a neck and neck battle for the top spot. |