| Show heaton FOU rag at both N 0 eg cl 13 the election returns in blanding in i rather surprised some of us while there was not enough interest in the convention or mass meeting for the citizenry to come out to nominate the men or women 0 their choice to fill the city offices they turned out to the polls in sufficient numbers to upset the nicely arranged progressive ticket there were only five people attended the nominating convention all but one of whom were incumbent city officers the outcome of the convention was nomination cf c f leland W redd as mayor la ra ray alexander and kline black as two year councilmen douglas galbraith and vernon vemon C rowley as four year councilmen writh with harvey J kartchner as recorder four Y year ear term and as treasurer foia two year term apparently some of the townspeople did not ake this arrangement because there were write in names and cne of the write in names vincent redd beat his opponent douglas galbraith by a one vote margin grant L bayles and lloyd adams are the only two retiring councilmen municipal election elec fiort met with more enthusiasm than was anticipated there were vot votes es cast of a possible which is the mh highest M est percentage for r a a similar election that the county lias has seen in years the following men were elected ralph A bailey for president of the board of trustees with a total vote of demar perkins and wyman redd for 4 year trustees with wah and 96 votes respectively donald T adams and marion hazelton for 2 year trustees adams had 95 votes and hazelton relieved reci eved there were only two write in names one for president ard and ar d one for trustee the eleo election tion goring going ki in an orderly fashion with the voters coming in a steady stream during the day the votes cast for the losin losing candidates were john lewis 60 den ben hess 46 VV L black 45 melvin lelvin A frost 77 |
