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Show Two Beaver Men, Cousins and Senatorial j Candidates, Top Tickets In Primary Voting j A " e'k Mi "--'J ABE MURDOCK candidate in the 1940 election went down to defeat, losing out by 35 votes to the incumbent county attorney, George C. Miller of Beaver. Bea-ver. The only other county contests were for the two-year commis-sionership, commis-sionership, which this year is conceded con-ceded to TMinersville by longes-tabhshed longes-tabhshed precedent. For this nomination Truman Bradfield won over J. S. Murdock, incumbent, by the small margin of five votes; while Lester W. Roberts won the Republican nomination by 2 7 votes over Daniel Rollins. Wlith no previous opposition to the filings for state representative representa-tive and four-year commissioner-ships commissioner-ships on either ticket, also for county attorney on the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket, and the other county nominations now decided, the run-off primary on October 1 will involve only state offices; but there promises to be enough hot contests in both parties to keep Democrats and Republicans in their own camps. I --4 - 1 t j i r S j .' - '' if'.: V, L $ I, -' -; s j If . . , ) 1 I ' . ' s I PHILO T. FARNSWORTH j : One of the unusual developments develop-ments of Tuesday's primary election elec-tion was the exceptionally strong showing made by two Beaver native na-tive sons, candidates of their respective re-spective parties for nomination as United States senator. Almost complete . figures for Tuesday's primary list both these men as topping the voting in their respective re-spective parties, Murdock with 50,-212 50,-212 votes and Farnsworth 17,415. 1 Abe Murdock, representative in congress from the first Utah dis- 1 trict for four successive terms, was made the nominee of the i Democrats for United States sena- I tor by almost a two-to-i-one vote over the combined vote of his two opponents, ' the veteran United ! States senator, William H. King, and Delbert M. Draper, Salt Lake ' attorney and former Democratic state chairman. ! Philo T. Farnsworth jr., now a I prominent Salt Lake attorney with 1 an intermountain reputation, is I the other Beaver-born candidate I to run up a big score in the pri,- mary vote, though his margin over j his three opponents, Oscar W.l Carlson, George W. Worthen and ! John Urie Webster, was not sufficient suf-ficient to give him the nomination without going into the run-off, I which he stands a very good . chance of winning without much effort. Thus, with Farnsworth securing the nomination in the run-off, a : Beaver county man is sure to oc-' cupy a seat in the United States) senate for at least six years. Wil-1 Ham H. King, present senator, is a native of Mallard county, our neighboring county to the north, i |
