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The Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, Mandan, Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota
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North Dakota's June primary election will feature three short ballots: state officers including governor and congressional candidates; non-partisan supreme court justice and public instruction superintendent; and referred/initiated measures on game commissioner, guaranty fund closure, gas tax increase, Sunday movies, and Volstead Act amendment petition.
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TO REQUIRE THIRD
SHORT JUNE BALLOT
Closing Out of Guaranty Fund,
Game Commissioner, and
4-Cent Gas Tax Up
SUNDAY PICTURES LOOM
Petition for Opening
Movie
Shows on Religious Day
Now in Circulation
Most North Dakota voters will face
only a short ballot—or rather three
short ballots—when they go to the
polls at the primary election next
June, according to a preliminary survey
by Secretary of State Robert
Byrne.
The longest ballot will be that listing
state officers, on which will appear candidates for nominations for
governor, lieutenant governor, secretary
of state, attorney general, commissioner of agriculture and labor,
state auditor, state treasurer, insurance
commissioner and one member
of the state railroad board. Congressional
candidates also will appear on
this ballot.
On the no-party ballot will appear
candidates for justice of the supreme
court and for superintendent of public
instruction. The term of only one
of the five supreme court judges expires this year.
The third state ballot will be that
carrying referred and initiated measures and present plans are to place
all of these issues on one sheet.
The only two certain to appear are
the measures referred to the people
by petition after their passage by the
last legislature and their approval by
the governor. This action prevented
them from becoming effective until
30 days after the next election, and
then only in the event they are approved by the voters.
One of these measures would substitute for the present three-man part-
time game and fish commission a
single game and fish commissioner
who would be required to have an
office at Bismarck.
The other would provide for closing up the affairs of the state guaranty
fund commission and elimination of the assessments now made upon
deposits of state banks to support
the guaranty fund
Initiated measures now reported to
be in circulation but not yet presented to the secretary of state would
provide for a four-cent gasoline tax to
supplant the three-cent tax now effective; would permit operation of
moving picture houses on Sunday and
would memorialize congress to amend
the Volstead act to permit the sale
of wine and beer.
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North Dakota
Event Date
Next June
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Most North Dakota voters will face only a short ballot—or rather three short ballots—when they go to the polls at the primary election next June, according to a preliminary survey by Secretary of State Robert Byrne. The longest ballot will be that listing state officers, on which will appear candidates for nominations for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, commissioner of agriculture and labor, state auditor, state treasurer, insurance commissioner and one member of the state railroad board. Congressional candidates also will appear on this ballot. On the no-party ballot will appear candidates for justice of the supreme court and for superintendent of public instruction. The term of only one of the five supreme court judges expires this year. The third state ballot will be that carrying referred and initiated measures and present plans are to place all of these issues on one sheet. The only two certain to appear are the measures referred to the people by petition after their passage by the last legislature and their approval by the governor. This action prevented them from becoming effective until 30 days after the next election, and then only in the event they are approved by the voters. One of these measures would substitute for the present three-man part-time game and fish commission a single game and fish commissioner who would be required to have an office at Bismarck. The other would provide for closing up the affairs of the state guaranty fund commission and elimination of the assessments now made upon deposits of state banks to support the guaranty fund. Initiated measures now reported to be in circulation but not yet presented to the secretary of state would provide for a four-cent gasoline tax to supplant the three-cent tax now effective; would permit operation of moving picture houses on Sunday and would memorialize congress to amend the Volstead act to permit the sale of wine and beer.