The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-08-06
County Officers
All FilefOr j..
Reelection
Harry Cochran is only
candidate from this
end of county

end OF county
nbe one proud boast that Benton
..r,tv was 100 percent republican as
a,ds it's officers hasn't been
80. for the past eight or ten years.
- for another four year term the
a,.socina will be strangely lacking,
80 m,tstwo republicans out of eigh-
~ filed for county office are on
s ticket. Prosser seems to be the
sa,ttical town, too, for but one lone
pondidate is registered from Kenne-
Ssck Two candidates for commits
toner are filed from Benton City,
,,,,t otherwise every candidate but
We is from Prosser-none from
p,rbland, Hover, Finley or White
pl,tfs Saturday of this week is the
Id day for filing, and there may
h others on the ballot yet. e.. *
xannewick,s lone candidate is
Hairy Cochran, who has filed for
.ne office of sheriff on the democrat
= ticket. Sheriff Bud Richter has
o,ready served two terms and he is
nrohibited from filing this term.
willis J. Kinmel of Prosser has
o,so filed for sheriff on the demo-
cratic ticket. Clifford Rolph of
prosser had filed for the office on
the republican ticket, but has with
drawn his name. He has served four
wears as city policeman at Prosser.
Ben Knox, present county assessor,
has filed for reelection. He will
have dor his opponent in the pri-
maries. Harry Forsyth, who has fill
ed.on the republican ticket. Forsyth
aerved two terms as county treasur-
.er. b." q, ....''>' .
Harley Chapman, has fled for re-
election as county auditor. He has
already served two terms in the Of
flee, one as auditor-clerk, but the
recent change in the last legisla-
ture which separated the offices of
clerk and auditor, gave him another
chance for serving in the same Of
flee. Etta J. Hillman. present
county clerk, has also filed for re-
election. She is from Prosser and is
democrat. So s.
C. w. Nessley, who was appointed
to ill out the uneXpired term of
Ray Gilcrest, who resigned to take
a Job with the Bonneville admins
tration, has filed for reelection. He
also is from Prosser and is a demo-
GRAFT.
The job of county superintendent
Of schools is supposed to be non
partisan office. Ruth Carmichael,
present deputy, Prosser, has filed for
the office, as Mrs. Van Syckle has
completed her second term. Olaf
SHandwold, who formerly held the
office for two terms, has also filed
for the office.
In our commissioner district, No.
8, Jay Perry is the holdover. so there
is no election for that office In the
first district, the Benton City White
Bluffs district, there are three cand-
idateS. ]. NJ. Hartman, incumbent,
republican, has filed for reelection.
He will be opposed in the primary
by Joshua w. Evett of Hartford, who
has filed on the republican ticket
also. In the general election, j. w.
DeFfeh will be the democratic cand-
idate against the republican winner
IN the primaries.
Three democrats have filed for
commissioner in the Prosser district.
Fred Kemp and Robert Evans, both
OF whom have served before, have
filed as has also William Guernsey.
Kenneth Serier, Incumbent prose
cutor, has filed for reelection. He
IS the only candidate for the office
on either ticket.
registration books for the pri--
maries will close on August %, with
ne primary election being held on
the 9th OF September. Then the
BOOKS will be open again for the gen.
Gal election until October IT., with
election day on November 8. Term
ol office for county officials begins
on the Nth OF January, on which day
Ne 9th biennial session of the state
iegisiature also convenes for a sixty
day period.
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