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Show Lee Faces Maw in Race For Governor WiSson And Granger To FSgSit Jt Out Again For Congress; Earl DilBman Tops County Vote PUZZLED Utahns scanned the outcome of the state primary election Thursday and political leaders applied all the known colors in an effort to bring about a recognizable picture of the November general election. In a contest that carried J. Bracken Brack-en Lee, former Price mayor and the Republican 1944 gubernatorial guberna-torial standard-bearer to a return match with Democratic Governor Gover-nor Herbert B. Maw. Utah voters wer,e up against a "hard to savvy" sav-vy" primary. The Lee sweep, occasioned by an unexpected voter shift to the Republican ranks, was the outstanding out-standing feature of the primary. Lee outdistanced his Republican primary oponent, Rendell N. Ma-bey, Ma-bey, for the nomination by 17,822 votes and added insult to injury when he topped the Democratic vote for Bourbon Winner Herbert Her-bert B. Maw by .10,769 votes. Defeated by Governor Maw four years ago in an election which still carries a stigma, Lee's smashing victory in Tuesday's primary gave Republicans some real hope that here was a can- didate who could restore GOP power in the slate after 24 years. Charles R. Mabcy, father of House Speaker and recent primary pri-mary 'candidate Rendell N. Ma-bey, Ma-bey, was Utah's last Republican Governor. With J. Bracken Lee as Republican Re-publican gubernatorial candidate candi-date the November election will feature his return match with Maw and David J. Wilson's return re-turn match with Congressman Walter K. Granger. Wilson 1946 GOP Congressional candidate from the first district was defeated de-feated by Democratic incumbent Walter K. Granger in a vote that was later contested and which a Congressional committee declared, declar-ed, after reviewing the findings, as full of discrepancies. Mr. Wilson, Ogden attorney and former Republican State Chairman, defeated State Senator Sena-tor Mitchel Melich, of Moab, for the nomination by 4154 votes. The total Lee vote was 42,822; for Mabcy, 24,960. Governor Maw's vote was 31,053; John S. ' Boyden's, 23,399. 111 DUCHESNE county was no exception to the state-wide shift to the Republican side. The stand out in the local election was R. Earl Dillman topping the county vote in either party. Running against Dr. F. G. Es-kelson, Es-kelson, of Vernal, for the Repub- , lican nomination for State Senator, Sena-tor, from tfvf5tb Legislative district, dis-trict, Dillmaii was the only"hnan on either ticket who received over 600 votes. His margin of . victory over Eskelson however, amounted to a hundred some-odd ballots. Dillman will oppose Lynn Or-ser, Or-ser, Democratic senatorial nom- , inee who was not contested in ' the primary. William Brotherson, of Boneta defeated incumbent H. L. Allred for the Republican nomination . for State Representative and J. -.. P. Madsen, bested William Linck for the Democratic nod. In the race for County Commissioner Com-missioner A. B, Madsen defeated incumbent L. J. Gilbert in the GOP race while Marvin Michie took the Democratic nomination from Clarence White, This was in the 4-year commissioner contest. con-test. For 2-ycar commissioner A. M. Burton defeated Ray Labrum , and William Fieldstead beat Chester Lyman for the Democratic Demo-cratic and Republican nominations, nomina-tions, respectively. A complete tabulation of the Duchesne county vote by districts dis-tricts is shown on page 12. |