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Show To Finrne Candidates .... Progressive Party Sets City Election Convention Friday If you are wondering who some of the candidates will be Jor the three city offices in "Roosevelt, that will expire next December ,31, then that question will be answered, at least partially, next Friday night, Oct. 2, when the Progressive Progres-sive party will meet to select new officers and party candidates. candi-dates. According to V. S. (Bill) Nelson, Nel-son, chairman of the Progressive Progres-sive party, following the selection selec-tion of new officers, the convention con-vention will nominate a candidate can-didate for mayor and two coun-cilmen, coun-cilmen, each for the term of four years. Those whose terms of office will expire at the end of this year will be Mayor J. V. McLea, and Councilmen Ben-nie Ben-nie Schmiett and Paul Murphy. Mayor McLea, who was appointed ap-pointed early in 1952 to fill the unexpired term of the late Horn, er P. Edwards, has indicated he will not be a candidate to succeed suc-ceed himself, and both the retiring re-tiring councilmen have also' said they do not desire to seek another an-other term. However, Schmiett and Murphy, along with an incumbent in-cumbent councilman, Merlin Sullivan, are being mentioned as mayor candidates, along with several others. I |