Evening star., 1947-08-13
BEnfer ConfesI
For Arlington
School. Board
Lost-Minute Entries
Shape BoIIot for
General Election

WI
General Election
Last-minute filing of candidates
for public Office in Arlington before
the deadline last midnight today
had shaped up the ballot for the
November 4 general election.
Thirteen persons, including four
incumbents, have entered the race
to fill the five seats on the first
elected School Board in county his
tory while nine contenders, includ-
Ing the two now in Office, seek to
fill the two available seats on the
County Board.
The House Of Delegates race, until
yesterday a contest between Repub-
hcans and Democrats for the two
available seats, became a fve-way
race with the filing of an inde-
pendent candidate.
Both the County Board and the
School Board contests are to be
conducted on a "non-partisan"
basis by agreement of the executive
committees of both major parties
but already the names and affilia-
tions Of some of the candidates give
evidence of reviving the strong lines
OF factionalism that characterized a
special school referendum in May
and the more recent Democratic
primary August S.
Referendum Held in May.
In May the voters carried a ref
erendum to change the method of
electing the School Board which
heretofore has been appointed by a
School Trustee. Electoral Board
which, in turn, is named by the
judge of the Circuit Court. Thus,
the board that takes Office January
will be the first in Virginia to have
been selected by popular vote.
Purpose of both major parties re-
framing from formally nominating
candidates for the county and
school boards, is to permit Federal
employees, otherwise prevented by
the Hatch Act from doing so to con-
duct active campaigns for those Of
fees.
That politics" of a sort, has not
been kept out of the school contest
was demonstrated during the pre-
referendum issues that developed
prior to the vote last May. A group
named the Greater Arlington As
ISOLATION, revived after many years,
unsuccessfully fought to retain the
present method of appointing the
School Board. Voters sustained the
GAA on three of four bond issue
questions at that time but approved
another bond issue which the GAA
fought.
Similarly in the County Board
race two incumbents, F. Freeland
Chew and Harry w. Cuppett, are
Democrats. Mr.. Chew is veteran
member Of the board and has held
the Office since 1885,
Mr.. Cuppett was appointed
this year to fill vacancy created
BY the resignation of Mrs. Elizabeth
3. Magruder. The Democratic
Committee has withheld formal in
dorsement of these two.
Run Tor school Board.
The 13 candidates for the School
Board are Mrs. Edmund D. Camp
bell, Colin C. Macpherson, Bernard
Joy, o. Glenn Stahl and c. E. Tut
hill, all selected by County School
Nominating Convention last week at
which representatives of about 40
civic groups named them after
eliminating ballots.
The following School Board mem
bers have entered the race:
Mrs. Lucy G.. Bussey, present
member of the board; John M.
Stewart, senior member of the pres
ent board; William Montgomery
Smith, the present chairman; Ernest
C. Belts, jr., the newest member Of
the board who was appointed to serve
the rest of this year when the term
of Jackson w. Ross expired.
Harry w. Porter, attorney, the
fifth member of the present board,
previously announced he would not
seek election on the new board.
Other new entries in the field are
DR.. Charles P. Cake, physician and
former president of the Arlington
tuberculosis Association; Roger B.
Sprigg, certified public accountant;
Ernest T. Gearheart, jr., of 2207
North Twentieth road, a member of
the law Iirm of Jesse, Phillips, King
g. Kendrick, and Ralph M. Kimble,
secretary of the Arlington Repub-
lican Committee.
Others Run for County Board.
Other County Board candidates
beside Mr.. Chew and Mr.. Cuppett
are T. Oscar Smith and Mrs. Flor
ence Cannon, nominated last week
by the Arlington Better Govern
ment League; Lincoln Mackey, for
mer county engineer; Robert w.
Gaines, real estate operator; Jacob
C. Bechtel of Glen Carlyn; Lawson
Wimberly, 2814 South Arlington
Ridge road, member of the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee from
Virginia Highlands precinct, and
Millard P. Divine, 4015 North
Washington boulevard, chief of the
land section of the Federal Power
Commission.
Latest entry in the House of Del
egates contest is Eugene N. Beard,
independent, of 3010 Columbia pike,
publisher of the weekly newspaper,
Virginia News" He will seek one
of the two seats for which the Dem ,
ocrats have nominated j. Maynard
Magruder and George Damn, both ;
incumbents, and the Republicans
have named Frederic Dawson and =,
Mrs. @. Ethel Clair.
/ Only One to Be Picked.
u Only one candidate will be selected
for the remainder of the Offices to-
be filled, all on political basis. The !
offices and candidates are as follows: !
State Senate-Charles r. Fen
wick, Democrat, and Talmage Will
cher, Republican, S