With the filing deadline less than 3’/: weeks away, not a single person has announced candidacy for either of the Provo City offices to be filled in the municipal election Nov. 6. What’s more, there seems to be very little talk as to who might be planning to run for city commissioner or cit auditor. In other words, the political pot has scarcly begun to simmer. lt’s anticipated that City Commissioner J. Earl Wignall expects to run for re-election for a second four-year term. Likewise, City Auditor H. Blaine Hall is reported giving strong consideration to seeking a fourth term. But neither has made a definite announcement. Mayor Jim Ferguson and Commissioner Anagene Meecham are holdovers, having been elected in 1977, with two years to go. City judgeships are not involved. Thus, the full focus will be on the commissioner and auditor races – unless a possible move to revive the mass transit issue materializes in time to go on the ballot. An official of Mountainland Association of Governments says he had been requested by the chairman of the Timpanogos Transit Authority board to inquire about deadlines for getting a proposition on the ballot. The city attorney has indicated that 60 days would be considered “reasonable notice” for such an eventuality. Back to the commissioner and auditor positions. Both have been upgraded subtantiallkv through the years salary-wise. he commissioner’s job pays $30,017 annually; the auditor’s, $29,432. The position of mayor, not involved in the election this year, pays $30,602. r How can a Provo citizen become a candidate? Formerly a petition bearing a token 100 signatures of qualified voters was necessary. The procedure is even simpler now. All you have to do is fill out and sign a notarized application at the city recorder’s office and you’re in the race. If two or more candidates file for either office, a primary election will be required. This is scheduled Oct. 9. Provo citizens can register in their individual voting districts from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 6, 16, and 30. Registration assistants will set up occasionally at convenient locations such as shopping centers and malls. We’re deep into the period when the Provo citizenry ought to be thinking of good men and women to run for office. Sometimes a little encouragement from the right parties can influence a glualified person to decide to enter e race. Our urging of a representative candidate list isn’t intended, in any way, to reflect on the record nor ability of either of the incumbents. We are rather concerned that there be a lively interest in the election in keeping with the American way and the privilege granted to the people through the system of municipal elections. To run for office and to have choices at the polls are traditional privileges and opportunities that should be cherished in every city and town. Wm the Bottle, Lose the Wu r? President Carter’s multibilliondollar synthetic fuel program is running into heavy flack here at home and it hasn’t yet charged the congressional front trenches. But it gets a vote of confidence from a foreign authority, no less than Albert Speer, the production genius who kept Nazi Germany’s industry going until the plants were overrun by Allied armies. Speer, in a recent German press report, recalled that when Hitler ordered the German economy to go on a wartime footing in August of 1936, the development of a synthetic gasoline industry was the most important project. In the light of the German experience, he doesn’t’think the Carter goal of 2.5 million barrels of synthetic oil per day by 1990 is out of line.