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...sent to a reformatory at 14 after breaking a school window. He has been behind bars during 18 of the 21 years since then for, among other things, auto theft, armed robbery and assault. Paroled last April, Gilmore was settling into a job in Provo and living with his Mormon uncle, Vern Damico; then, says Damico, "he met a girl this summer who was a hard type...
...hour with Howe and his wife and then implied to reporters that he had asked Howe to withdraw from his congressional race before the state's Democratic nominating convention so his name could be replaced on the November ballot. Salt Lake's evening paper, owned by the Mormon Church, called for Howe's immediate resignation. The editorial said Utahns hold their officials to higher standards than the rest of the country, adding that if Wayne Hayes had been from Utah he would have long ago been forced to resign...
Still, Howe kept his counsel, though his poll ratings dropped steadily. Mormon Church leaders issued a statement regretting the "embarassment" caused the church by the whole incident. And the rumors started flowing...
...story said that Howe had been called home from a mission and excommunicated from the Mormon Church because he had been playing around with a woman in violation of the church's strict rules about missionary behavior. Howe's secretary in his Salt Lake congressional office said Monday that he was in fact excommunicated "a long time ago," but termed the idea that he had been called back from a mission "ridiculous." She refused to detail Howe's offense, but emphasized that he has since been reinstated in the church and holds several church offices...
...alternatives, but none was well-known enough to win a write-in campaign in the general election. Wayne Owens, who gave up the seat now held by Howe when he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1974, was unavailable for the job: he is running a mission for the Mormon Church...