Evening star., 1950-08-02
Primary Ballots
In Montgomery
LIST 14Contests
Charter Group
Files Slate for
County Council

Wnen montgomery county VOL
ers go to the polls September 1S
they will find contests for l
local Offices in the Democratic
primary and for three in tn
Republican primary.
In addition, they will be ballot
ing for members of State Centra
Committees and for delegates tt
the respective State conventions
In a late development before
last midnight's deadline, a slatt
of Charter Committee candidates
was announced for the County
Council.
Applications of the nine Char.
terites were filed by the Charter
groups special committee or
council candidates, which stated
it would ask Endorsement of the
slate by the full Charter Com
mittee.
VIII IndOrse Others.
The Charter slate contains five
Democrats and four Republicans
The Charter group said:
1T may seem strange that the
Charter Committee should sup.
port two persons for the same
council Office, one for the Demo
cratic primary and the other fol-
the Republican primary. But
since the Lindsay Act prohibits
the voters in Montgomery County
from nominating and electing its
council under an unrestricted-pri-
mary-no-party label law. and
since the Charter Committee is
made up of Democrats and Re-
publicans who see eye to eye at
the local level. there will be no
practical alternative to this BIZ
partisan procedure until the law
is changed" The Charter group
had sought non-partisan council
elections.
The committee added that 1t
planned to recommend other can
didates who already have filed fol-
council seats that are not on the
Charter Committee slate.
The nine candidates on the
Charter slate are:
Democrats-Malcolm H. White
Brookeville, 1st District; John c
Pugh, Poolesville. Sd District;
George Lynn Woodruff, Silver
Spring, 5th District; Rear Ad.
miral William Brent Young. Chevy
Chase and John c. Post. Takoms
Park. for councilmen at large.
Republicans-George F. Nesbitt
Sandy Spring, 1st District: Lath-
rop E. Smith, Trayilah. Sd Dis
trict; Harold F. Hammond. Silver
Spring. 5th District. and J. Louis
Monarch, Silver Spring, for coun-
cilmen at large. "
Democratic council candidates
who filed before announcement
of the Charter slate are: Stella
B. Werner and Basil L. Carr. both
seeking election from the 4th Dis
trict; Preston C. King, jr., and
Joseph Marshall Matthias, COM
peting for the party's at-large
council nomination; Jerry T. Will
liams, 1st District; Grover Walker
I'd District; G. Lamar Kelly. jr..
Sd District and Robert T. Snure
5th District.
Republican candidates in addi-
ton to the Charter slate are
Kathryn ]. LaWlor and Wesley M
Morris, seeking election at large
and John C. Reid, 4th District
candidate.
The council is composed Of five
district representatives and two
at large.
Democratic Offices Fight.
Other Offices contested in th'
Democratic primary include Stat
Senate, Joseph B. Simpson, jr, ant
Robert w. Beall.
House of Delegates. Einar B
Christensen, James C. Christopher
Frank L. Hewitt. jr., Edward
S. Northrop, Margaret Collin
Schweinhaut, Jerome H. Simonds
Charles D. Sanger, jr., Donald
Ayres DeLashmutt. R. Shirle.
Hays, and R. Edwin Brown.
Register of Wills, Frank !
Davis and Thomas E. Plumber
Judges of the Orphans Court
Coleman L. Diamond, Eugene E
Rupert. Genevieve H. Wells
James H. Benner, George w. Mo
riarty and Walter G. M. Fields;
States Attorney, Alger Y. Bar
bee and John NJ. McInerny;
Sheriff, Charles H. Jamison
Leslie E. Sanders, ST., Henry w
Becraft. Donald w. Dunningtol
and Millard E. Peake, sr.
Some n-contested Democrat
Offices are Clerk of the Circui
Court, Clayton K. Watkins; Count
Surveyor, Robert K. Maddox.
Republican Contests.
Republican contests will be il
the race for House of Delegates
with Donald H. Dalton, Leona M
Rush, J. PAUL Marshall, j. Doug
las Bradshaw, Robert A. Wallace
Julian P. King, Louise L. Dixor
Anders r. Lofstrand, jr., an
Frank R. Long, and States At
torney, Walter H. Moorman an
Walter w. Dawson.
Uncontested on the COP lis
are the following:
State Senator, Dewitt S. Hyde
REGISTER of Wills, Walter C. Clarke
Judges of the Orphans Court
William Tyler Page, jr., Charlie
H. Squire and Millward C. Taft
Clerk of the Circuit Court, Jane
B. Parkhill; Sheriff, Charles s
Lawrenson; County Surveyor
Thomas B. McNeill.
Committee Candidates.
Candidates for the Democratic Sta
Central Committee are Camilla o. Bov
man. Warren Browning Ward W. Cat
dington. Mary Helen Gingery. Alice v
Hostetler. J. Ingram Medley. j. Fore
Walker. John R. Foley, Leo I. Donova
E. austin Carlin. John E. oxley, Charl
!. cratic State Convention are Elizabet
Asay, William Lloyd Burnett Nathani
j. Ely, Blair Lee, Ill James j. Lyme