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Show White, Young, frlcConkie, Win Places On November ioilof hi Primary Vote DEMOCRAT Slate Representative Sara Yancy White 489 Elmer B. Yergensen 469 County Commissioner, 4-Year Lyle Young 540 Floyd Case 434 County Commissioner, 2-Year Edwin Carman 562 Bennie Schmiett 386 County Sheriff Lorin Stevenson 697 Rudy Krissman 230 Jack McArhur ' 1 (write-in) County Treasurer Leland Wright 596 Wrennetta Granger 335 REPUBLICAN County Commissioner, 4-Year Lyrad McConkie 354 J. F. Ross 296 County Commissioner, 2-Year Clinton J. Mickelson 382 Steve Bellon . 275 County Recorder Maxine Burdick 500 Laura May Timothy 180 County Attorney R. Earl Dillman 339 Merril H. Larsen 322 County Sheriff - Harold B. White 465 Wayne Bastian 207 County Assessor J. Alma Smith 344 Claude Iorg 314 Democrats Out-Vote Republicans, Sixty Per Cent Vote Is Reported Approximately sixty per cent of the voters in Duchesne Du-chesne County went to the polls last Tuesday to select nominees on both major parties whose names will appear ap-pear on the general election ballot next Nov. 2. In some instances the voting was very close and other contests were run-aways for the victorious candidates. I X - J r , I f I " - I SARA YANCY WHITE . . . Won Democratic nomin-lion nomin-lion for Slate Representative f In the Democratic race for state representative, Mrs. Sara Yanlcy White of Tabiona, squeezed past Elmer Yergensen, Myton, by 20 votes to get the ' nomination, and the right to meet incumbent William Broth-erson. Broth-erson. Boneta (R), who will be seeking his fourth term in the legislative halls of Utah. The vote was, White 489; Yergensen Yergen-sen 469. A former county commissioner, commission-er, Lyle Young of Mt. Emmons, ijpset the incumbent Floyd Case, also of Mt. Emmons, 540 to 434, for the four-year commission com-mission post on the Democratic ticket. While on the Republican side of the ballot, Lyrad McConkie Mc-Conkie with 354 votes, won over J. F. Ross, Arcadia, who polled 296 GOP votes for the 4-year commission post. Carman vs Mickelson Edwin Carman (D), and Incumbent In-cumbent Clinton Mickelson (R), both of Duchesne, will square off at each other for the 2-vear commission post in November. Carman beat out Bennie Schmiett of Roosevelt, and Steve Bellon, Roosevelt cafe operator, lost to Mickelson. In the sheriff race Lorin Stevenson, Steven-son, from Mt. Home, out-scored Rudy Krissman of Roosevelt, on the Democratic ticket, 697-230, and will meet Harold B. White, Roosevelt, who won over Wayne Bastian of Neola, 465 to 207, to become the GOP candidate. Jack McArthur received one vote for sheriff as a write-in. The other contest on the Democratic Dem-ocratic ballot was between Wrenetta Granger, Duchesne, and Leland Wright, Utahn, for county treasurer, with Mr. Wright polling 596, and Mrs. Granger, 335. Mrs. Maxine Burdick Bur-dick piled up 500 votes to win the Republican nomination for county recorder over her fellow fel-low Duchesne neighbor, Mrs. Laura May Timothy, who' polled 180. It will be Earl Dillman vs James Hall for county attorney again next November, as the former, running on the Republican Repub-lican ticket, collected 339 votes; to beat Merril H. Larsen, of Duchesne, who received 322 (Continued on Back Page) Primary Election . - (Continued from page one) votes. Dillman is from Roosevelt. Roose-velt. In the other GOP contest Alma J. Smith of Bridgeland, defeated Claude Iorg, of Upalco, 344-314 for the county assessor spot on the ticket. He will meet Incumbent G. B. Workman, who was unopposed unop-posed for the assessor position on the Democratic ticket. Porter Por-ter L. Merrell, also unopposed for clerk, will meet Evan Per-cival Per-cival of Ioka, who is the candidate can-didate for clerk on the Republican Repub-lican slate. George Wilcken, incumbent justice of the peace at Duchesne piled up 131 votes as compared with W. L. Robbins, who collected col-lected 20 votes for the GOP nomination. According to County Clerk j Porter Merrell there were 14 votes cast in Nine Mile and all were for the Republican candidates. It was also pointed out by Mr. Merrell that there were between 2600 and 2700 registered voters in the county, with 2500 being the normal average av-erage who vote in a general election. 1 The board of county commissioners commis-sioners will meet on Sept. 24 j to canvass the votes of the 23 voting districts, all of which I were reported early Wednesday ' morning. |
