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Show IKE, KEFAUVER FIRST CHOICES UTAH PRESS SURVEY SHOWS Voters in the smaller cities and towns of Utah favor Dwight Eisenhower Eisen-hower and Estes Kefauver as candidates for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations, nomina-tions, according to findings of a "grassroots" opinion survey sponsored spon-sored by the Utah State Press association. In response to questions on the Utah governor contest, the poll found overwhelming GOP support for J. Bracken Lee, Republican incumbent, and strong backing for Earl J. Glade, mayor of Salt Lake City, on the Democratic side. Conducted under direction of Dr. Oliver Smith, head of the journalism jour-nalism department of Brigham aspirants named by Utah adults Eisenhower led with 47 per cent, followed by Senator Taft with 34, Governor Warren with 12, Douglas MacArthur with 5 and Harold Stassen with 2 per cent. With a wider margin between rivals on the Democratic side, Ke fauver was picked by 71 per cent of those making a choice, while six candidates divided the preferences prefer-ences of the remaining 29 per cent. Among the Democrats receiving votes were President Harry Truman Tru-man and Governor Adlai Stevenson, Steven-son, both of whom have said they are not candidates for the nomination. Young university, the survey covered cov-ered representative rural and urban ur-ban sections of Box Elder, Wasatch, Wa-satch, Utah and Sevier counties. In these areas a total of 1082 interviews in-terviews were made in the latter part of May by 54 advertising and journalism students of BYU. Among Republican presidential |