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Show Smith Reelected To School Board By Huge Vote Joseph C. Smith, president of the board of education for the Beaver county school district, was over-! over-! whelmingly reelected to membership member-ship on the board for a term of five years Wednesday by action of the voters within school representative represen-tative precinct number 4, the boundaries boun-daries of which coincide with the boundaries 0f the Milford munic-pal munic-pal unit. Featured by the largest vote in a school election recorded in recent years if ever Mr. Smith was given 340 of the 345 votes cast. Four of the remaining ballots carried car-ried the written-in names of Mrs. Margaret Rohn and one the name of Roy Cottrell. James Patterson, Patter-son, E. H. Bird and Mrs. Earl Stonehocker acted as election judges for precinct 4. J. Albert Muir, incumbent board member from school precinct 2, was reelected to office for a term of three years by a vote of 175 to 66 for Wallace Yardley. This precinct pre-cinct consists of the Beaver west district anu the names oi iviuir ana Yardley both appeared printed on the ballots as regularly filed candidates. candi-dates. The huge vote for Mr. Smith is a fitting tribute to the record he has made during the four years he has been a member of the board, and also to him as citizen, educator, educat-or, financier and deep student of j all things that are for the best interest in-terest of the children of Beaver county. His long experience as assistant as-sistant cashier, and later as cashier and director, of the Milford State bank, one of the few banks of Utah to weather the recent crisis, has given him a grasp of financial matters that has made him a most valuable man on the board, especially especi-ally when combined with the study he has made of the educational picture. pic-ture. Without fear of contradiction, contradic-tion, it may be said that he is one of the outstanding education-minded men of southern Utah with ' that reputation increasing in scope j every year. j o |