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Show Ten Elopaiuls file During Week For County Posts There has been a sudden upswing up-swing in political activity in' Duchesne County the past week as ten candidates have filed their, declaration of candidacy for office with the county clerk. Of those filing are seven Democrats Demo-crats and three" Republicans. Among those filing are two incumbent Democrats, Floyd Case of Mt. Emmons, is a candidate can-didate to succeed himself as county assessor. Others to file 'on the Bourbon ticket are Rudy Krissman and Jack McArthur, both of Roosevelt, for sheriff; Leland Wright, Utahn, for treasurer; trea-surer; and Clarence White for justice of the peace for the Tab-iona-Hanna precinct. The three filing under the Republican banner are Wayne Bastian", Neola, for sheriff; Mrs. Maxine W. Burdick, Duchesne, for recorder, and John Baum-gaertel, Baum-gaertel, justice of peace for Roosevelt. An interesting sidelight on the sheriff filings is the fact that Wayne Bastian is Rudy Kriss-man's Kriss-man's brother-in-law. All of which will make for complications complica-tions in the Bastian family as to who'll get whose's vote. Mr. Bastian is a distributor for a candy company, and Krissman is employed as a mechanic at Labrum and Adams Motor Co. A Former Marshall Newest Democrat to file for sheriff, Jack McArthur, is a former city marshall for Roosevelt Roose-velt City, and served as deputy county sheriff at the same time. A native of St. Anthony, Idaho, Mr. McArthur came to the Uintah Uin-tah Basin in 1946, at which time he purchased a ranch in Altonah. Al-tonah. He moved to Roosevelt in 1948 and became a marshall shortly after. The past couple of years McArthur Mc-Arthur has been engaged in the furniture and used car business in Roosevelt. |