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Show Wanda Scott challenges Huish for Utah County Clerk post William F. Huish, incumbent Republican County clerk, and Democrat Wanda Scott are vying for one of the few county offices being contested in the November election -that of County Clerk. Mr. Huish is completing his third term as Utah County Clerk, and says during that time he and his staff have increased computerization of county records (there was nothing on computer when he took office), and he plans to completely computerize the records if re-elected. Total voter registration tabulations are now on the computer, along with marriage licenses and some aspects of court records. The office is now in the process of bringing into being a complete information in-formation system for the courts. It is hoped this will be completed by the first of the year, Mr. Huish said. During his terms in office, they have also increased the use of microfilm and now do some of the microfilming themselves. Many other processes have changed during the past few years to keep up with growth in the county. "We have handled more court cases in the past 12 years than we handled up to that time," Mr. Huish commented. com-mented. Active in professional organizations, he is past president of the Utah Association of Counties, and a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Counties. He is also the only Utahn to have a seat on the advisory panel of the Federal Election Clearing House. He is also a member of other organizations involved in the election process. Born and raised in Provo, he attended at-tended BYU. He is a retired Lt. Col. from the U.S. Air Force where he served as commander of squadrons out of Hill Field. He is past president of the Orem Kiwanis Club and a member of the Kiwanis Club siix'e 1961 . Act ive in his church, he is currently first counselor in a bishopric of a BYU Ward. He and his wife, Ixiuise, are the parents of three children and have six grandchildren. grand-children. Mr. Huish says, if re-elected, he intends to work closely with the public and to give the best service to the public he can. He intends to corn-put corn-put erize more of t he records and t o go more into word procesing, bring the office out of the "horse and buggy days." His opponent, Democrat Wanda Scott, also intends to computerize more of the county records if elected. She cites her experience in office management and office organization in aiding her in doing this. A teacher at Provo High School in Business Eujcation, Miss Scott also worked in Washington D.C. from 1973-1979 as oifice manager and personal secretary to Congressman Wayne Oweas and Gunn McKay, she was also Mr. McKay's representative in the southern part of his district. She worked in Frankfurt, Germany, Ger-many, for the financial department of the I J)S Church for one year, and has had her own business printing and typing dissertations and thesis' for university students. She says she has been a secretary to many different groups in the community, com-munity, and in education associations. She has been president of the Business and Professional Women's Clubs, president of Delta Kappa Gamma; and was named Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Women's Club in 1981 , one of three to be so honored. On the fourth of July, she was one of several women in the community to be honored as one of the outstanding women in this community. "I feel I can organize the office of county clerk in a better way than it is present ly organi zed - and I woul d like a chance to prove it," she says. Born in Charleston, she resided in Provo at 731 East Center since she was 8 years old. She says she is single and is very close U her nieces and nephews. She has traveled to Europe five times, to Russia, Israel and to Egypt, and has worked as a secretary many times but "most of the time has taught business education and worked in Washington." |