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Filing Deadline For City Council Seats Is Today

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28
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December
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1970
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With only a few hours to gö before the deadline for filing nominating petitions for City Council races, there were still some 11 potential candidates who had not presented the city clerk with the required documents this forenoon. The deadline for filing petitions is 5 p.m. today. If all candidates who have taken out petitions file, there will be primary elections in four wards and for the mayor's post in February. Having filed for the top elective post by noon today were Jack Garrís and Lewis Ernst, seeking the Republican nomination, and Mayor Robert J. Harris, seeking re-election on the Democratie ticket. Republican Louis D. Belcher currently city GOP chairman, was expected to file prior to the 5 p.m. deadline. No petitions had been filed in the First Ward where a primary race looms between Democrats Paul L. Spann and Norris J. Thomas. The-only Republican having taken out petitions in the First Ward is Edward P. Rutka of 3022 Lexington. The Second Ward has the potential for primary races in both major parties although the only person to have filed by noon was Don W. Robinson, seeking the GOP nomination. William J. Christley has taken out petitions seeking the Republican nod while incumbent Democrat Robert G. Faber and David Bloom have ciixulated ixtitïónsiörmDêm(v cratic nomination. The Third. Ward is the only one in which there are only two candidates and in which both have filed their petitions. Republican Peter Wright will be opposing Democrat Nelson K. Meade in the April election. The Fourth Ward has the potential for a Republican primary as both Richard A. Hadley and Ronald T. West have taken out petitions for that party's nomination, while Gilbert E. Lee remains the only Democrat to have taken out petitions in that ward. Both a Republican and Democrat have filed in the Fifth Ward with John D. McCormick seeking the GOP nomination and Donald I. Warren the Democratie nod. Dan M. Slee has also taken out petitions for the Democratie party's nomination in the Fifth Ward. Faber is the only incumbent ward representative seeking re-election. Choosing not to run again are Democrat j H. C. Curry in the First Ward, who served three terms; Democrat Nicholas D. Kazarinoff in the Third Ward, who will be moving to Buffalo, N. Y., next fall; Republiean Roy E. Weber, who served one term in the Fourth Ward, and I Democrat Henry L. Stadier, who served I one term in the Fifth Ward.