{"id":949,"date":"2011-12-24T18:08:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=949"},"modified":"2011-12-24T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:08:31","slug":"provo-filing-deadline-neur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Provo Filing Deadline Neur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/scans\/Editorials_1977\/Editorial_085.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 12px\" src=\"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/default_thm.jpg\" alt=\"Click to see original image\" align=\"right\"><\/a>If you&#8217;re thinking of running for mayor or city commissioner in Provo, you&#8217;d better act quickly the deadline for filing candidacy is next Monday, Sept. 19. Prospective candidates &#8211; who must be bonafide citizens in the community &#8211; may pick up nominating petitions at the city rec0rder&#8217;s office. These, signed by at least a hundred qualified voters, must be filed with the recorder by the deadline. As of Tuesday there was only one candidate for mayor &#8211; Russell D. Grange, the incumbent. For commissioner, five persons have announced they&#8217;ll be in the race &#8211; Stan Brown, Charles Henson, Anagene Meecham, Fred Podlesny, and Richard Valgardson. The incumbent city commissioner whose term will expire is E. Odell Miner, He withdrew from the race to accept a position with the Utah League of Cities and Towns, after first announcing candidacy for re-election. City Commissioner J. Earl Wignal , the other commissioner, will be in the holdover role, with two years yet to serve. The position of mayor in Provo pays $23,868, while commissioners receive $23,413. Provo, the only city of the second class in Utah County, will hold its primary election Oct. 11. Third class cities and the towns conduct party nominating conventions in lieu of a primary. All municipalities participate in the Nov. B municipal election when the electorate decides who the new officers will be. The nearness of Provo&#8217;s filing deadline should have meaning to the citizenry in general as well as prospective candidates. If you&#8217;re thinking of an especially wellqualified person who hasn&#8217;t yet tossed his hat in the ring, there may still be time to make your appeal. Good government depends not only on the voters&#8217; decisions at the polls, but on the willingness of citizens to run for office in the first place. Sneaky Pool Sometimes the govemment&#8217;s left hand really does know what its right hand doeth. A certain county in California, we&#8217;re told, recently received a federal grant of $7 million in drought relief aid. The money must have done the job, because not long after that the same county applied to an agency of t.he Commerce Department for $1 million in public works fimds to build a swimming pool. The department threw cold water on the second request.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re thinking of running for mayor or city commissioner in Provo, you&#8217;d better act quickly the deadline for filing candidacy is next Monday, Sept. 19. Prospective candidates &#8211; who must be bonafide citizens in the community &#8211; may pick up nominating petitions at the city rec0rder&#8217;s office. These, signed by at least a hundred&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Provo Filing Deadline Neur<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}