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Show I Spirited Contests ! For Higher Offices AreNowIndicated Wednesday .was the closing date I fob filing as "candidates for office I under the Utah direct primary i laws, and there were enough last-minute last-minute filings to insure some fire-I fire-I works in the primary election July' II as well as the general election in November. Also, it is almost an assured fact that there will be a run-off primary election August j 15, but with only Republieansrjpar-ticipating Republieansrjpar-ticipating and that concerning not to exceed two; offices: United States senator and representative ITwo years ago the Democrats I monopolized the run-off primary with a supreme court justice-ship as the issue to be decided. ! With only single filings for 'county offices to be voted on in November, there will be no county offices voted on in either primary', and two of the county nominees Ernest G. Joseph, for two-year ! commissioner and George C. Miller, Mil-ler, for county attorney, virtually stand elected. Both are incumbent : Republican office-holders and, will ihave no opposition on the November Novem-ber ballots, only a successful write-in campaign at that time j standing between them and re-, re-, election to office. I The two remaining county of-ifices of-ifices to fee filled in the November election have brought two new ; figures into the political limelight. lime-light. Hyrum Lee, Beaver mer-j mer-j chant, has filed as Democratic candidate to oppose George C. Murdock, Republican incumbent as representative to the state legislature; and W. G. White well-known Union Pacific engineer i has filed as Democratic candidate jfor four-year commissioner, and will thus oppose Ivan McKnight I incumbent, also of Milf ord, who 'was first elected in 1938. j There will be no primary congests con-gests for several state and district ! offices, but the heat that is likely to develop over the few that are contested promise to make up for the lack in quantity. One of the hottest contests promises to be that for the gubernatorial nomination on the Democratic ticket. Herbert B. Maw, incumbent, is a candidate for re-nomination but Stanley N. Child, Salt Lake contractor, is opposing him and from the way Child is starting his campaign, it promises to get plenty exciting. Also there are two Republicans who will vie with each other for this office: J. Bracken Lee, five times mayor of Price and the man who came "very near defeating Congressman Granger in November, Novem-ber, 1942; and Reed Vetterli, Salt Lake chief of police. There are four Republican candidates can-didates for the right to oppose Elbert D. Thomas in his race for reelection as United States sena-) tor: Adam S. Bennion, Oscar W. Carlson and George H. Crow, all of Salt Lake City, and David J. Wilson, former Republican state chairman, of Ogden. Likewise there are four in the race for the Republican nomination as representative repre-sentative in congress from the first district. They are Stephen Abbott of Randlett, William Peterson Peter-son of Logan, B. H. Stringham of Vernal and D. C. Watson of St. George. The office of state superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction seems to be quite desirable to both parties for there are two candidates for I the nomination on each ticket: E. Allen Bateman of Logan and David Gourley of Salt Lake City Democrats; and Burton K. Faris-worth Faris-worth of Salt Lake City, and E. Kenneth Mills of Ogden, Republicans. |