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Show PROGRESSIVES NAME TICKET; LOOK TOWARD FALL ELECTION Party Pledges Progress In City Government; Names H. P. Edwards Mayoralty Candidate AN enthusiastic but serious Progressive Party nominated Homer P. Edwards its candidate for mayor, and pledged support of a progressive administration for Roosevelt at the party's three hour nominating convention conven-tion Monday evening. Edwards won the nomination over Lester Mullins, following the elimination elimina-tion of Fred H. Gagon and Louis Laris on the first ballot. Candidates for the city council, coun-cil, one 4-year member and' three 2-vear membprs. who will hp Ed wards' running mates in. the November municipal election were named as follows: 4-year councilman, Steve Bellon; 2-year 2-year councilmen, J. D. Harrison, Norman Murphy and Elmer "Bumps" Eldredge. One carryover carry-over councilman will complete the poster when a new council is sworn in during the first week in January. For other elective offices George Hacking received the Progressive Party's nod for recorder, re-corder, and Arnold Reef, veteran veter-an city treasurer, was unanimously unani-mously approved as candidate to suroppd himsplf. i INTOLERANCE of the time worn practice of nominating by acclamation was very much in evidence as the Progressives swung into action Monday night. The sole attempt to nominate a candidate for mayor or councilman coun-cilman by acclamation was hammered ham-mered flat and remained flat throughout the session. The field was wide open all the way, and every successful candidate, attained at-tained his success only because a majority of the convention decreed de-creed it. The only acception to the obviously ob-viously detested "nomination by acclamation procedure" was Arnold Ar-nold Reef. The placing of his name before the 85 assembled Roosevelt Progressives brought about his unopposed candidacy aw roficn par 4hS J V, LATVIA By-passing criticism of previous pre-vious city administrations, Keynoter Key-noter George Stewart, Roosevelt j attorney, placed the issues of the forthcoming city election squarely square-ly before the party electors. "Progress," said Stewart, "is the foundation of all government. Had a v progressive city government govern-ment existed in Roosevelt during dur-ing its short history we would not now be faced with a culinary culi-nary water problem, unkempt streets or financial difficulties. "We grant that a city council, regardless of its pledges, cannot accomplish the needs of Roosevelt Roose-velt on the town's present revenue. reve-nue. But avenues can be explored ex-plored for possible means of increasing in-creasing our revenue, and so long as those avenues offer a chance, they should be explored," the keynoter pointed out. j Reminding his listeners that a progressive atmosphere based on long range planning is the only means a town has of holding its people, Mr. Stewart outlined the platform of the Progressive Party, Par-ty, adopted at its organizational meeting on September 9. The platform includes: 1 Licensing of all business on an equalized basis; 2 A recreational program designed to improve juvenile conditions in Roosevelt; 3 A street improvement program stemming from immediate and long range planning; 4 A culinary culi-nary water system growing out of a planned program, and designed de-signed to meet the growing needs of Roosevelt. i IN his discussion of the proposed pro-posed water system, being extended ex-tended by a $40,000 bond issue, Mr. Stewart said: "We must plan on a sure thing. The present system sys-tem with the proposed extension may be alright if there is enough water to supply the present and future demands but our thought here should be let's be sure, let's not spend money on a guess. No particular individual is at fault for this culinary water headache; the condition merely reflects a lack of planning." Mr. Stewart concluded. The last plank in the platform to be discussed was that of the proposed revision of the city ordinances or-dinances which it was generally agreed are still tied to a hitching post along Main Street. All doubt of the absence of community spirit was dispelled Monday night as a representative group swarmed into the American Ameri-can Legion barracks. They nominated nom-inated their candidates, had a few arguments, softened by a laugh or two then went away firmly resolving to stand solidly behind the selections the majority major-ity had made. It was an awakening awaken-ing of community spirit in Roosevelt. |