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Show "election reveals republican gain Close Races Predicted For Final Contest The primary election Tuesday, somewhat lighter than in 1940 but heaver than most observers predicted, was featured by the strong gain of the Republican party and the final election will be- approached with greater uncertainty un-certainty as to the outcome than has any other general election in this county in the past 12 years. County Clerk N. J. Crookston reported today that slightly more than 4000 votes were cast, 2349 Democratic and 1468 Republican, or about a two-to-one majority. DEMOCRATS For Governor Stanley N. Child .. ......1198 Herbert B. Maw. 1151 For Auditor: TT1 n TT A J inni rciicu Xi. 1A1LI& ..... Oliver G. Ellis 1015 For Trearurer: J. E. Holmes 659 Reese M. Reese 1479 For State Superintendent of Public Instruction: E. Allen Bateman........ 1767 David Gourley 407 For First District Attorney: Lewis E. Nelson 1160 Harvey A. Sjostrom 976 For Representative, South District: Sylvester Anderson '. 172 John H. Schenk 234 For Commissioner, 4-Year: Parley A. Reese...... 788 L. Ray Robinson. 768 Joseph Watkins Jr 704 REPUBLICANS For IT. S. Senate: Adam S. Bennion-. 1255 Ostar W. Carlson 68 . George H. Crow.. , 21 David J. Wilson 348 For CongTess, First District: Stephen Abbot. 158 William Peterson 1052 B. H. Stringham .-. 359 Daniel C. Watson........ 94 For Governor: J. Bracken Lee.. ....1102 Reed E. Vetterli 582 For State Superintendent of Public Instruction: Burton K. Farnsworth 1402 .Kenneth Mills 238 For Commissioner, 4-Year: Henry Aebischer. 759 A. J. Fuhriman. 977 Four years ago the Democratic candidates polled 4089 votes to 1714 for the GOP candidates, or a four-to-one majority. Attracting the most local interest inter-est were the county commissioner races. A. J. Fuhriman, incumbent, incum-bent, was nominated on the Republican Re-publican ticket, but a run-off will be necessary to determine his Democratic opponent. Mr. Fuhriman, who is completing complet-ing his first two-year term, polled 977 votes to 759' for Henry K. Aebischer. Mr. Aebischer, who was making his bow into local politics, pulled a heavy vote for a new candidate, carrying all Lo-(Continued Lo-(Continued on page Eight) ELECTION REVEALS REPUBLICAN GAIN (Continued from page One) gan districts but two, one of the two being Mr. Fuhriman's district. In the Democratic commission race, Parley A. Reese of Benson, who was candidate two years ago, and L. Ray Robinson of Logan, will enter the runoff. Mr. Reese received 788 votes and Mr. Robinson Rob-inson 768. Joseph H. Watkins Jr., the other candiate,- received 704 votes. ., John H. Schenk-of College, incumbent, in-cumbent, defeated Sylvester Anderson, An-derson, Millville educator, for representative to "the state legislature legis-lature from the south district. The "heavier than expected" vote, was attributed mainly to the fact that two of Cache county's "favorite sons" were seeking offices of-fices on state tickets. Dr. E., Allen Al-len Bateman, Logan superintendent superintend-ent of schools, won the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination ifor state superintendent super-intendent of public instruction. He received 21,166 votes to 14,765 for his opponent, David Gourley. William Peterson, longtime director di-rector of the Utah Extension service, ser-vice, will enter the runoff election elec-tion to be held August 15 against Mayor B.H. Stringham of Vernal, for the Republican nomination as First District congressman. ' L. E. Nelson, Logan attorney, won the Democratic nomination for First District attorney, defeating incumbent H. A. Sjostrom of Logan Lo-gan in a close race. As was to be expected, Cache county favored Stanley N. Child for governor over Herbert B. Maw, but only by a 50 vote majority, ma-jority, while the Republicans went overboard for J. Bracken Lee for governor. |