Evening star., 1950-05-28

- -
Also Ineligible Due
To Poll Tox Ruling
Three candidates for the Fair
fax Town Council. including one
incumbent, have been declared
ineligible TO run for ONCE because
they failed to pay their poll tax
in time.
Disqualification Of Philip Tall
bot. the incumbent councilman,
and George R. Weaver and NJ.
Thatcher Paris was announced
yesterday by Town Treasurer
Walter T. Oliver.
Mr.. Oliver revealed that ne dis
qualified the three council aSpi-
rants after receiving an opinion
from Attorney General J. Lindsay
Almond. Mr.. Almond ruled that
persons TO be eligible to partici-
pate or vote in the elections must
have paid their poll taxes on or
before last December Is.
Balloting in Fairfax. Vienna,
and several other municipalities
in Virginia will take place June Is.
3 Still in Running.
Elimination of the three Fairfax
candidates still leaves nine aspi-
rants for the six council seats.
They are A. r. Sherwood. S. Gail
Landon, jr., Fred M. Everly and
Ashby Graham, incumbents, and
Charles A. Munday, Mrs. Priscilla
T. NcCandlish. F. Tyler Swetman,
John F. Keyes and Ernest w.
Seay. jr.
The sixth councilman, Robert
B. Walker. is unoppoSed as a can
didate to succeed Mayor Robert
d. Graham. who declined to seek
reelection.
Mr.. Talbot has served on the
council for about a year. having
been appointed to complete the
uneXpired term of Councilman
John Alexander. who resigned.
Vienna to Vote.
A mayor and five coucilman will
be picked in nearby Vienna. Fill
ing deadline will be Friday So
far. Mayor Jack j. Nichols is un-
opposed for reelection and there
are eight candidates. including
only one incumbent. running for
the Town Council. One OF these
is colored. If elected, he would be
the first colored man to have
been picked as Vienna town Of
fetal.
Council candidates are Dewitt
Crickenberger, the lone incum-
bent; Willard r. Memler, William
G. Warner, David Cushnie, War.
lner r. Cockervil1e; Noah Dove:
John Vorous, and William West,
colored civic leader.
An almost complete lack of is-
sues and a scarcity of candidates
with a few exceptions-will
mark councilmanic elections in
many other Virginia municipal
tiles.
Democratic candidates are un-
opposed in at least four commu-
mites and only one city-Rich-
mond-haS any sort of a contest
involving any issues.
% Run in Richmond.
Voters in the Old Dominion's
capital city will have their choice
OF nine councilmen from a field
OF % candidates.
The major issue-from which
most OF the candidates have SHE'D
away-iS the proposed construc-
ton OF an eXpreSsway to handle
north-South and eaSt-west trafic
through the city.
Seven incumbent members of
the council. including one Negro,
are candidates for reelection in
the non-partisan election. One
other Negro is included in the
field Of IA would-be councilmen.
Two cities-Danville mad Fred
erickSburg-have 15-man races for
council posts. There are nine va
cancies in Danville and only six
in Fredericksburg.
Fredericksburg's field is the
largest in the city's history since
it adopted a city-wide election
system. The list includes four in
cumbents seeking reelection and
seven World War II veterans.
Staunton Also Voting.
Residents of Staunton will
choose from among three new
comers for two seats on the coun-
ell being vacated by incumbents
Fred S. Baylor and J. Ralston
Silling. The would-be council
men are Wayt B. Timberlake, jr.:
Charles r. Bryan and j. J. Xiv
lighan.
Localities where the Democrats
will have no opposition include
Newport News. Hampton, Roanoke
and Harrisonburg.
The unopposed candidates in
clude Richard Suter. S. S. Sin
cidiver. Talmade Cooley and Clar-
ence Wenger in HarriSonburg.
For the first time in many years.
there will be no Republicans on
the ballot in Harrisonburg. It's
a technical reason-the two Re-
publicans who circulated petitions
did not get the required SO quail
'ified names and were ruled incl