n-*,id:di_.a-rs11,dr*;i-msfcill[ninMYRLE C. KEAim For County'AuditorMrs; Myrlc C.-Krantz is making her first hid for public office inIf. L. LOXENSGARD For Justice ef the PeacerII. L. JLokensgard was bom near Granite Falls, Minn.* and wasseeking the Republican nomination (graduated from the Normal School as Flathead County auditor. Sat Madison, Minn., in 1900. After . Born'in Bisbee, Ariz^-she slail-|ttfaclung school in North Dakota ed school tliere and then moved lotf«r :t few years, he was graduated Kalispcll where she attended local |frum the‘Scientific department ofgrade schools and later was gradu- Valparaiso College, ated. from Flathead County High ^926 ^ie move School. She has also attended Kal-ispell .Business College and tool; a night banking, course in Portland, where she was in charge of 35 girls while working at the national bank‘there, ’v During World War II she served in the-WAVES-for .14-months i . „ „ ,,before returning to Kalispell. Her ^__5 iVi-jSi ^ eoffice work experience indud.es more than 11. years.. .Her husband; Herman Kranlz, was killed June 1 of this .year in an accident at the : Hungry Horse Dam project.ed In Kalispell and acquired part interest in an insurance and real estate agency, lie was also engaged as auditor in the CWA offices at Helena for a short time and also as auditor in the FEU A offices at Whitefish.He was appointed by the city council to fill the unfinished termhhjudge in December, 1339. Lokens-gard held this office for approximately 30 years during which time he was also elected as justice of Uic peace.He ran for the office of city treasurer in 1947 as a Republican, [but was defeated. He then worked as a bookkeeper in the city water department until April, 3950, when he became the night clerk at the Kalispell Hotel.On April 1, 1052, lie was appointed to fill tlie unexpired term of William H. Martin by the county commissioners.Lokensgard is a past master o£ .Columbia Falls Lodge of the AF : AM No. 89; a past patron of Es-fclla Pomeroy Chapter OES No. 68; a past president ot the Scandinavian Fraternity; a high priest of. the Kalispell Chapter of the JRoyal Arch Masons, and chaplain !of the KalispeU Elks Lod^e No. 725.11m is vtrtrw.