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Show Tl Tl o Local elective showed few siararises JX Here's how area voted, district by district iii 1 1 I I I I I l il g 1 1 1 I ill 1 1 II a: esse 18 a m 4 is? a 1 1 g a I 1 lis Isi 81 ill e.-m CoUTo.a,s 35-01516.7S7 3'14821,970 3'",,7S3 7'"3 7.633 22-65630.546 "'"V, a,., OITl By MARC HADDOCK ere were few surprises locally . iaSt week's general election -Republicans won big in north Utah CDonyLeBaron captured 67 percent , 0,e vote to retain his seat in the ?jtah House over Democrat hallenger and Pleasant Grove Lident Lynn Ray Davis. James Moss, who ran for the other House Lt that represents the Pleasant Grove area, was not challenged for his position. Moss has recently been named State Superintedent of Education, and a new represented will be appointed ap-pointed in his place by Gov. Norm Bangerter. . In other local races, Pleasant grove-area voters joined the rest of Utah County in electing Malcolm Beck and Brent Morris to the Utah County Commission. Beck, an American Fork resident, captured 69 percent of the county vote to win by a wide margin. Area voters also followed the county in re-electing Republican Nina Reid as Utah County Recorder . the only other contested county office. County officials who won uncontested un-contested partisan races were ! Ronald Smith, county assessor; Steven Killpack, county attorney; Elwood Sundberg, county auditor; William Huish, county clerk; Dave Bateman, county sheriff; Clyde Naylor, county surveyor; and Stanley Walker, county treasurer. Utah County voters joined the other state voters in giving U.S. Sen. Jake Gam 77 percent of their vote. Gam won by a 73 percent margin throughout the state. Local voters gave similar support to U.S. Rep. Howard Nielson, as he captured 70 percent of the Utah County vote, and 67 percent of the vote in District 3, to win re-election. However, while the partisan races were predictable, non-partisan races provided some of the closest results last week. In the local Alpine School Board race involving part of American Fork, Highland, Alpine and most of Lehi, Dr. Blake Evans unseated current board chairman Richard Sudweeks. Evans won 60 percent of the vote, with Sudweeks only winning win-ning a majority in his home community com-munity of Highland. Another board member, Linda N. Campbell, was elected from Orem. The closest local race involved candidates for Justice of the Peace, precinct 1, where Lehi resident Keith Jenkins edged American Fork resident Vergil Peterson by 100 votes. Although Peterson captured a majority of American Fork-area votes, Lehi voters threw their support behind Jenkins - as did voters in Orem and Pleasant Grove, although not to the same extent. . Jenkins will be the first to hold this full-time justice post, which covers Orem and north Utah County. Local voters joined the county and state in approving Propositions 2 and 3 to change the Utah Constitution. Con-stitution. Proposition 2 exempts farmers from paying property taxes on farm equipment and Proposition 3 rewrites the constitution's education article so it conforms with current practice. Local voters also followed the state and county in rejecting Proposition 1, which would have defined by statute the non-profit status for hospitals. With the proposal defeated, American Fork Hospital will now have to prove to the Utah County Commission that is a charitable institution or pay property taxes. And Pleasant Grove-area voters joined the county in rejecting Proposition A, which would have set up a committee to study reorganizing county government. |