Evening star., 1950-06-14
NegroAttorney
Loses Richmond
Seat on Council
Most Incumbents
Returned to Office
In Virginia Voting
BY the Assoeiated Press

Virginia's first Negro council
man since the Reconstruction era
was defeated yesterday in Rich
mond, but municipal elections
throughout the Old Dominion in
general found the incumbents on
the winning side.
& Oliver w. Hill, colored attorney,
was the lone casualty of a nine
man slate backed in Richmond s
field of % candidates by the Rich
Anond Citizens Association. Seven
sfnembers of the slate are incum-
Nbents.
Mr.. Hill finished tenth, missing
xre-election by only As votes. The
candidate not on the slate who
won was former Councilman Rob-
ert Throckmorton, who ran sew
enth, with 1880 votes.
Results Are Listed.
!, The order of finish for the win
ners:
Edward e. Wiley, incumbent,
#l7,825; T. Nelson Parker, new,
X17,794; F. Henry CARRIER, incum-
Sbent, 16.480; Edward I. Hardy,
new. 1866; Mayor w. Stirling
King, incumbent, 14,723; Wade
McCargo, incumbent, 13,416; Mr..
Throckmorton; j. Randolph
Ruf1in. incumbent, 13,020, and
Robert A. Wilson, incumbent, 12.-
534. Mr.. Hills total of 12,488 was
more than 5000 ahead of the 11th
man in the race.
A proposed Richmond express
way-which had at least the tacit
approval of the winning slate
went down to defeat by vote of
1902 against the expressway and
1871 in favor.
Bond Issues Approved.
Two school bond issues else
where were approved. Voters in
Waynesboro approved a $3.50, ,00o
bond issue by vote of 915 to 95.
Another $350,000 bond issue was
authorized in Norton by a vote OF
457 to 1870.
At Colonial Beach, L. C. Costen-
bader, an incumbent councilman,
was elected mayor in balloting
which gave Carl H. Weber, a ma
tive of Washington. one of the
six seats on the Town Council.
Another native Washingtonian,
Elwood Graham, lost a bid for a
council post.
Mr., Costenbader. who has sew
eral business. enterprises la Co
lonial Beach, received 327 ssyotes
in gaining an S5-vote margin over
VIII II. ejones, ~ truck OPERATOR
and former mayor. The new mayer
has been a councilman for the
last IL years.
A total of ASS ballots were cast
for e. H. Gouldman, incumbent
town treasurer, who was unop-
posed.
Other Winners Named.
Others of the field of 10 who
will begin two-year terms as
councilmen on September / and
their votes are: George E. Ricks,
388; E. w. Beckwith, 374; Ber-
nard F. benson. 1862: John F.
Ware, 361: Stanley G. Adams,
351.
Danville voters gave a city
manager ticket six of the nine
seats in the first councilmanic
election held since the city adopt
ed the council-manager form of
government early this year.
The so-called harmony ticket
was victorious in Norfolk's bitter
eight-man fight for three council
manic seats. Elected were w. F.
Duckworth with 1876 votes; w.
B. Etheridge with 1859, and Law
renee A. Page with $500.
Incumbents ELECTED.
& Fredericksburg reelected four
incumbents to its six Council seats
in a 15-man field. Two incum-
bents did not seek reelection.
Those elected: Francis B.
Gouldman. incumbent. 1893; DR..
Richard N. Lanier. newcomer
1851; Arthur r. Smith, incum-
bent, 1,095; Samuel E. Perry. in
cumbent, 1,079; M. Percy Embrey
incumbent, 900, and John B
Young, newcomer, $50.
Councilman A. M. Monfalcone
and newcomer Thomas Crandol
polled 2,210 and 1881 votes, re-
spectively, to win election in New