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Show tJ!?L'.?ft &. f a! lit Ii .r-r'"" " .V, 5 rv..- : . - j ... .c f V i ' .IK. i, f o ri ; ..! j 1 1 1 . ! If .4 rt 'l '. ) The Lindon Progressive Party were all elected at the Tuesday elections, according to city treasurer Elvie Erickson. Tyler Rogers, Mayor, received 452 of the total votes to 146 for his Citizen Party opponent Darrell Frampton. Theodore "Tad" Norman received 455 votes and Orvil Mecham was just behind with 452 in the city council race. Their Citizen Party opponents op-ponents R. J. Hone and Merlyn Tomlinson got 157 and 131 respectively. Jay Roundy and Nyle Harris each got 1 vote. The new slate of officers will go in on January 1 or as soon thereafter as they can be sworn in. However you can bet that they will be attending council meetings between now and then in order to get their feet on the ground and be able to start their term with some Councilman Tad Norman Good luck, new mayor and councilmen, you will certainly need it to solve all the problems facing you. Councilman Orvil Mecham knowledge of what is going on in city government. Right now Lindon is growing, just starting their Mayor Tyler Rodgers sewer operation (see another article in the paper) and the problems are many, and the dollars are short. by Mark Johnson The voters of Pleasant Grove voted to retain Cornell Haynie as Mayor and Frank Mills as a city councilman, and chose Stephen Peterson as a new councilman at the elections held Tuesday. All of these men ran on the People's Party, so the party was also victorious. It is noted that the carryover councilmen, Ford West, John Huntsman and Grant Atwood had all ran on the Peoples Party so if party loyalty means anything, there should be a general agreement among the city council. Mayor Haynie captured 69 of the votes cast Tuesday, which would indicate in-dicate that a majority of the citizens have been pleased with his last four years in office. of-fice. Councilman Mills received 1397 votes, 56 more votes than Mayor Haynie, which would also indicate citizen satisfaction of his actions for the last four years. Stephen Peterson, a newcomer to local politics, made a very good showing with 1159 votes, 476 votes more than the next challenger. Total tabulation of votes by district for each of the candidates can-didates is shown elsewhere in the newspaper. The percentage of turnout has been computed two different dif-ferent ways. Total registered voters was 3798 and total number of people who turned out to vote was 1962 or 52, which was a little higher than for previous elections. This year it was decided to obtain an accurate percentage of voting participation by determining those registered voters in the various districts Councilman Frank Mills published and that the city uses the local newspaper, the Pleasant Grove Review to publish these notices and all olher legal notices. The Review also publishes the happenings of the council meetings the following Thursday Thur-sday after the Tuesday meetings. Councilman Steve Peterson by deleting those people who had moved from the district, and therefore were really not there to vote. The county requires that even though a person has moved from a voting district that his name remain on the registration book for four years. After the non-eligible people were deducted, a total of 3305 persons would have been the maximum turnout for the election. This raised the percentage voting to 59 which is a very respectable turnout. District No. 7 showed a 75 turnout and District No. 10 followed closely with 74. All districts had over 50 turnout except No. 9 which only reached 49. The interest in the election was also shown by the number num-ber of people availing themselves them-selves of the use of the absent ab-sent voter ballot. This year there were 26 residents who obtained this ballot which is triple any other local election year. Mayor Cornell Haynie Campaign is Vigorous The campaign was vigorous and competitive and thanks should be expressed, especially to E. Mark Bez-zant, Bez-zant, Donald Frazier and Roland Robinson for taking an interest in the community and desiring to serve the citizens of Pleasant Grove. Much time and resources go into a campaign and all the losers come out of it with is thanks for their willingness to serve. Now that the election is over, much has been said about obtaining citizen input, and the city council members would like all citizens to know that the city council meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of every month and anyone is invited to attend. If you want to bring something before the council, and get your name placed on the agenda to be heard, you should contact the city recorder recor-der at the city hall. Citizens are also reminded that public-notices public-notices are required to be |