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...With popular Democratic Governor Scott Matheson stepping down after two terms, the established f front runner in the race to succeed him is Norman Bangerter, speaker of the Utah house, who is campaigning on a promise to make state "government more efficient. A poll two weeks ago by the Deseret News showed him leading his Democratic opponent, former Congressman Wayne Owens, 51% to 39%, with the remainder undecided. Owens is seeking to close the gap by making a five-week walk across the state...
...Kimball had not received the revelation during his tenure? Under the strict seniority system among Apostles, the next president in line is Ezra Taft Benson, 78, Ike's Agriculture Secretary. After him would come Mark E. Petersen, 77, former editor of the church-owned daily, Salt Lake's Deseret News. Both are considered much too conservative to have acted as Kimball did in lifting the barrier for blacks...
...most lugubrious request was a petition by the Salt Lake City Tribune and television station KUTV that the federal court should break the state's 82-year-old ban on press attendance at executions and let them, the Deseret News and two other TV stations cover Gilmore's death. There was a precedent for the claim since a Texas court ruled three weeks ago that a Dallas television station had the right to film an execution at the state prison. The judge in Utah ruled, however, that the Tribune and KUTV had no particular right to cover...
...Lucius W. Nieman Fellows for 1976-77 will be: Robert J. Azzi, photojournalist with Magnum, Incorporated; Tony Castro Jr., a reporter for The Houston Post; Rodney W. Decker, a columnist and editorial writer for The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah; Melvin M.S. Goo, editorial writer for the Honolulu Advertiser; Kathryn Johnson, news reporter for the Associated Press in Atlanta...
MIDGLEY, Leslie, 54, CBS executive producer. Born in Salt Lake City, attended University of Utah. City editor, Salt Lake City Deseret News, 1935-40; night editor, New York Herald-Tribune Paris edition, 1944-49; associate editor, Collier's, 1949; managing editor, Look, 1952-54; producer, CBS News from 1954. Married (to Betty Furness), three children. Registered Democrat...