Call Number 328-3
Date 1906-1957
Contents 1 v.
Description The vast majority of this scrapbook is devoted to the elections of 1955 and 1956., This is a Boulder Daily Camera scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to local elections, including (in the order they appear in the volume) 1 Oct. 1956 map of municipal election precinct voting places, legal notices describing ballot issues, information regarding voter's rights, the city election on 2 Oct. 1956 over charter amendment changes electing council men by district and fire dept. and airport bonds, the state primary on 11 Sept. 1956, national election on 6 Nov. 1956, and a 26 Oct. 1954 city election on the ward system and water fluoridation. The last few pages of the scrapbook contain articles about local political issues including prohibition in 1906-1907., The October 1956 special election pertained to three proposed amendments to the city charter, and two proposed bond issues. City Charter issues were:, (1) reduce the residence qualifications from 5 years to 3 years for City Council candidates, (2) to provide for the election of five councilmen for every two years, for 2-year and 4-year terms continuing the present system of electing councilmen from the city at large, (3) to provide for the election of nine councilmen every two years, for 2-year terms, with one councilman elected by the voters of each of nine districts. The two bond issues were for $50,000 for improvements of the municipal airport and $250,000 for construction of two fire stations and purchase of two new fire trucks and other equipment.
