Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-15
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In B|adensburg
And GreenbeIt
Registration at Record
For Town Elections
Today and Tomorrow
By ChorIes A. McAIeer

By chorIes A. MeAIeer
= A record number of votes-more
than 2,OO0-may be cast today and
tomorrow in municipal elections in
Bladensburg and Greenbelt.
Bladensburg, which will be holding
its first mayoralty election since the
town voted August Is to change from
of five-man Board of Commission
ers to a Mayor and Town Council
form of government, will go to the
polls today.
Residents of Greenbelt will have
10 candidates to consider for five
Town Council posts when they vote
tomorrow.
Three candidates are seeking the
mayoralty post in Bladensburg, in
Guiding Andrew F. Gasch, now
president of the flve-man board.
The others are James A. Hayes,
resident of the Sunnybrook subdi-
vision annexed at the same time
the town approved the new form of
government, and Walter L. Hodkin
son, also OF SunnyprOOK.
COuncilmen to Be Chosen.
A town treasurer and two Coun-
cilmen from each Of the two wards
also will be elected. OF these, one
Councilman from each ward will be
elected to serve a four-year term
and one two-year term. In 1949
the system will be amended to have
a single Councilman elected BIZ
annually for four-year term from
each ward.
In the race for treasurer, william
C. Morrison, incumbent, will face
Mrs. Clara E. Stanley and Mrs.
Gladys H. Mckenzie.
Contestants for the four-year
term from the community's first
ward, include H. Edwin Heckrotte,
tr, and Leonard Simpson, both
present town commissioners. An
other commissioner, Vincent Nc
Carron, is unopposed for the same
wards two-year term.
Luther j. Farris and Carroll F.
Palmer are the candidates for the
lone four-year post in the End
ward, with Robert E. Harris and
Otis L. Stevens opposing each other
for the shorter term.
A total of 405 voters are regis
tered in the district for Bladens-
burg or LIST ward and 289 in the
Sunnybrook sector, End ward, &C
cording to F. Headley Gasch, super
visor of elections. Polls will be open
from am. to 7 pm. at the Blad
ensburg firehouse, 4810 Annapolis
road, for LIST ward residents and at
ALT Fifty-sixth avenue, Sunny
brook, for the End ward.
1903 Registered in Greenbelt.
The largest town election in its
10-year history is In prospect for
Greenbelt tomorrow with official
registration figures listed at 1908.
Many of these, according to Mrs.
Winfield Clark, town clerk, are 81
year-olds who have signed up for
The first time.
OF the 10 candidates, are in
cumbents seeking reelection. A
fifth incumbent, originally listed as
a candidate, is withdrawing from
the race because of injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident.
He is Councilman John A. Cain
who suffered skull fracture and
other head injuries when his car
and trailer truck collided August
% on the Observation-Disclosures
boulevard, near Elkridge.
TyroIlYrohn0fc Uhn Tl1nn1np
again are George F. Bauer, pres
ent Mayor and three-term coun-
Gilman; Allen D. Morrison, Paul
Dunbar and Joseph T.. Rogers.
Other candidates are Thomas j..
Sanning, Abraham Chasanow, Sher-
rod East, George M. Eshbaugh,
Vernon T Fox, David M. Grana-
: han, Benjamin P Goldfaden, Mrs.
Elisabeth S. Harrington, Herbert
Hertz, Frank j. Lastner, Allen M.
Lawrence, Adelbert c. Long, Frank
j. Mcconnell, Albert j. Schaffer
and James C. Smith.
Group Supports Candidates.
Five of the candidates, Mr.. Bauer,
-. Mr.. Goldfaden, Mr.. Eshbaugh, Mr..
MCSOllllcll dIlu ml. oCllo1C1s otS
being supported on slate of the
Greenbelt Improvement Associa-
ton, reorganized last week after a
years inactivity. The others are
reported running as independents.
A prediction rally will be spon-
sored tonight by the Greenbelt
Citizens Association, with all candi-
dates invited to present their plat
forms.
The major issue confronting the
Greenbelt residents is whether the
town will continue to be served only
by the Greenbelt Consumer Serv-
ices, Inc, of if competitive enter
prises should be permitted to operate
there also.
Another issue indirectly confront
ing the voters is whether James F.
Gobbel, present town manager,
should be reappointed by the new
council when his term expires
September 80. Some members of
the present council already have ex-
pressed disapproval of Mr.. Gobbel's
administration.