The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-29

second place as the returns are to- taled this first day. Each has 2,500 votes.
 James Dillon
 First, there's James Sunny" Dil- lon, the boy with the smile that goes all the way across. He's three years old and the son of MT. and Mrs. Bernard Dillon of 994h South Main street. Nice going, Jimmy.
 Then, another girl entry, Ester Russo, the baby with some of the curliest hair in the contest.
 Ester is fourteen months old and lives at 286 Oak street. When in- teryiewed this morning she said: T am running on platform call- ing for more crackers with my milk and lollypops after afternoon maps. If elected shall submit a proposal for more, sunlight at the parks dur ing the summer and air-condition- ing for all heat waves. Thank you"
 We hope you are high up among the winners when the final votes are counted, Ester.
 And, third entry tied for second place with the same 2,500 votes is George Rizk, three and one-half, son of MT. and Mrs. Naim Rizk of 575 North Main street.
 George hasn't decided what his platform will be but admitted that he is giving serious consideration to campaign based on free ice cream cones for all Waterbury babies He hasn't given a thought to how many ice cream cones the $100 first prize would buy. Oh, no?
 Constant Changing
 If you've never counted votes in an election where it's nip and tuck, touch and and go, you should come up and see me sometime, the Con- test Manager said today. He's hav- ing his difficulties. Reason IS, as soon as one contestant takes the lead, more votes come in and he has to change all of his tables.
 He's hoping that some of the lead- CTS tomorrow will be so far in front that this will be changed. But that is unlikely. You see, every subscrip- tion to The Democrat counts for votes and that's why, with more than 100 candidates in the Most Popular Baby Contest, the returns are bound to vary from day to day The subscriptions have to be check ed and the votes totaled. In some cases there are deductions to be made, few.
 Here are some of the other lead CTS, as their votes showed early to- day:
 Frederick Barrows .2,000 votes
 Leon F. Saunders 1880 votes
 Royal c. Saunders ..1,70o votes
 George A. Lane .... 1870 votes
 Carmen Yannielli .. 1,500 votes
 Laura Ann Del Negro 1920 votes
 Raymond B. Packard 1900 votes
 Remember that every baby has an equal chance to win. You don't have to write anything, solve any thing, buy anything. Every vote will be counted so that you can check yourself on the totals when they are complete.
 Subscriptions Count
 All you have to do is obtaln sub. scriptions to The Democrat, as out. lined in the rules, and for every subscription the baby for whom you vote receives a quota of votes.
 Space will not allow printing pic. lures of all of the leaders from day to day. But the first few leader. will have their pictures in The Dem ocrat throughout the Contest.
 Save your copy of yesterday! Democrat in which pictures of nor, than 100 entries appeared. Ther you can identify the leaders iron day to day.
 Keep in touch with the Contes Manager. You'll want to keep thu subscriptions coming along SO that your candidate can take the leae and-maybe-hold 1t. The Contest is bound to be close. Every baby has an equal chance.
 It's up to you to see that the votes are kept bling up,