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Less than five months after he scored an astonishing political comeback, Salt Lake City's peppery Mayor J. Bracken Lee was beyond doubt the most unpopular man in town last week. University of Utah students hanged him in effigy, crowds booed and hissed him at city commission meetings, both Salt Lake City newspapers rapped him, and irate citizens set up in front of his house a burning cross inscribed, LEE, YOU ARE A FOOL. Reason for the outbursts: Lee had highhandedly fired respected Police Chief...
...tossed around vague charges that Skousen had been "insubordinate," but Skousen's real offense seemed to be that he had failed to show enough enthusiasm for Lee's determination to slash the police-department budget. Any interference with his nickel-nipping crusades stirs J. Bracken Lee, 61, to fuming anger. Sometime Republican Governor of Utah (1949-57), Lee ranks high among the obsessive budget-cutters of U.S. politics, keeps on his desk a paperweight inscribed G-D-TAXES. Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has, among other things: ¶ Refused to pay a $29,000 bill...
...rather goofed, but the news is good news all the same. J. Bracken Lee was six times mayor of Price, Utah [pop. 6,000] and not Salt Lake City, as reported in issue...
Salt Lake City. Left for dead last November when he ran third in the three-man race for the U.S. Senate, Dinosaurian Sometime Republican J. (for Joseph) Bracken Lee, 60, twice Utah's Governor and six times Salt Lake City's mayor, roared back to political life by blasting corruption, unions, the U.N., federal taxes and foreign aid, defeated Democratic State Senator Bruce Jenkins, 32. To Jenkins' warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy...
With only 23 per cent of the vote reported, Democrat Frank E. Moss has a slight lead in the Senatorial race against incumbent Arthur Watkins and former Governor J. Bracken...