The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-05-07
pAPY WINS 10TH


three times as many votes
as he did in 1850. State
Rep. Papy received 4,127
votes while Porter trailed
with 1850.
Absentee votes were being
counted by the Board of Can
vassers this morning.
Incumbent Tax Assessor
Claude A. GandoIfo and Tax
Collector Howard Wilson defeat
ed opponents Fred j. Dion and
George B. Gomez by large mar
gins.
County Judge Raymond r.
Lords victory over Hilary AL
bury was conceded by Albury at
1886 pm.
State Attorney J. Lancelot
Lester defeated Hello Gomez
who conceded the election to
Lester at 8 pm.
The three County Commission
ers, Joe Allen, Clarence Higgs
and Harry Harris were all re-
! turned to office.
Criminal Court Clerk Harry
Dongo defeated C.. Sam B. Cur
ry.
Duncan, sole winning candi-
date against an incumbent, de-
feated Cabanas by 2,643 vote
to Cabanas' 2,499, subject to the
absentee ballots.
In all other races the office
holders remain in office.
Constable Harry Johnson edg-
ed out Harry Lee Baker for the
First District.
Peace Justice Roy Hamlin de-
feated James Lightbourn Fort in
the Second District. Smokey Joe
Espinosa (defeated) Joe A. john
son and Charles B. Papy in the
constable race of the second dis
trict.
r. Zetterower defeated Claude
Lowe in the third district JP
race. D. M. Andrew defeated
Manuel Arsua for constable In
that district.
Senator Estes Kstanyar
came out on top in the Prssi-
Dental preference race. fol-
low by Sen. Richard Russell
D. Ca. Charles Compton and
Carroll Shaw.
Senator Spessard H olla n d
overwhelmingly defeated VIII
liam A. CASTOR. Tom Bailey SUI
perintendent of Public Instruc-
ton knocked out Ray Van Due
sen. Railroad and Public Utilities
Commissioner Thomas Ferguson
won out in the county over
Richard Mack, E. r. Dansby. and
7. c. Streets.
National Committeeman ]. B,
Hodges led the race for that post
over Richard Barker, S. Travis
Phillips, and Pat Whitaker.
Louise Afford defeated Mrs,
Polly Rose Balfe as national
committeewoman.
The unusually quiet day at the
polls yesterday was an anticli-
max after one of the hottest
election campaigns in history.
Though the number OF voters
was large. it was smaller than
indicated by all time high regis
tration of 1881 that took place
Supervisor Of Registration
Sam Pinder and Mrs. Edna
Mae pullman his deputy.
worked until midnight along
with County Judge Raymond
Lord and Assistant Custodian
of the Polls Alfred Jones to
get in the precinct count.
BY II o'clock all precincts had
reported except the 18th. 1t was
| brought down the Keys arriving
at 1905.
Precinct 2 was the last city
| district to report. As fast as the
ballot boxes and envelopes with
voting tallies were brought in
Mrs. pullman and Judge Lords
assistants began counting them
up.
Al $50. while County Judge
! Lord was totting up some of the
/ election results on huge card
board ms opponent Hilary Al
| bury walked into the hot, crowd
ed office of registration.
| Albury came over held out his
hand and Judge Lord stood up
AlhurY said: IT'S . fitting
tribute Judge to your is years
in office that you have been
reelected. am very glad wa
kept the race clean. ] tried to.
Congratulations"
The tao men smiled. the loser