Evening star., 1953-05-20
Stanley Tours
.NearbyAreain in
Bid for Votes
Candidate Speaks
At Public Meeting
In Leesburg Tonight
By Alex R. Preston

By Alex R. Preston
Thomas B. Stanley today was
seeking more Northern Virginia
votes in his bid for the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nomination
after making a one-day stand in
the Arlington-Fairfax area.
He met Delegate Stilson Hall
of LeeSburg to begin a tour of
Loudoun County where his pri-
mary opponent, State Senator
Charles r. Fenwick of Arlington,
had stumped two weeks ago.
Mr.. Stanley will speak at a
public meeting sponsored by the
Lions Club at 8 o'clock tonight
in the Courthouse at LeeSburg.
His visit in the Washington
area was climaxed last night by
the formal opening of his Arling-
ton campaign headquarters at
ITO North Glebe road. Despite
a drizzle of rain, a sizeable crowd
showed up.
Dine With Son.
A high point in the day for
the candidate was when he and
Mrs. Stanley returned to their
hotel in Alexandria to be joined
at dinner by their son, John
David, 20, who will commence
classes Monday in Officers Can
didate School at Fort Belvoir
where he has just completed
basic training with the Army
Engineers.
After addressing a luncheon
meeting of the Democratic Wom-
ems Club of Arlington. Mr..
Stanley was escorted on an alb
breviated tour of the county by
Calvin Haley, administrative as
sistant to Representative Smith,
Democrat, of the 9th district,
and Caldwell c. Kendrick, his
campaign manager in Arlington.
Before the luncheon, Edward
K. Uhler of Annandale. former
Fairfax County Democratic
chairman, took Mr.. Stanley on a
hurried circuit of a portion of
that county. They spoke to a
half dozen persons in AMMAN
dale and went on to the Fairfax
Courthouse to be joined by Rob-
ert j. McCandlish, jr.. who, with
Mr.. Uhler, is Fairfax County CO.
chairman of the campaign.
Among those seen were Common
wealth's Attorney Hugh Marsh.
Walter Oliver and James Keith.
Visit With Publisher.
The party then circled back
through Mclean and among the
persons visited there was Richard
Smith, publisher of the Provi-
dence Journal. who is supporting
Mr.. Stanley.
Former State Senator Frank
L. Ball, ST., introduced Mr.. STAN
ley and his State campaign man
ager, Sidney Kellam, at the Dem
ocratic Women'S Club luncheon.
Mr.. Haley was busy handing
out campaign buttons but an
undetermined number refused to
wear them. Some staunch Fen
wick supporters, including Mrs.
Fenwick, were present.
The first stop after the lunch
con was an after-hours visit at
the Old Dominion Bank on Co.
lumbia pike, where Mr.. Kendrick
is director and general counsel.
An officers meeting was tempo
rarily suspended and E. T. Hol-
land, president. introduced the
candidate to the bookkeepers,
cashiers and other employees.
To one small group of workers,
Mr.. Holland said, Its not often
that we're honored to have the
future Governor of Virginia and
I hope it's not the last"
Stops at BauSerman'S.
Down the street Mr.. Stanley
stopped in at the automobile
agency of Homer Bauserman,
former county sheriff who has
been mentioned as a possible
successor to William c. Cloth
on the Commission of Game and
Inland Fisheries. Asked if he
had any comment on Mr.. Bau-
serman's reported appointment,
Mr.. Stanley replied:
mo. That's a matter for the
present Governor.
When the candidates party
alighted from a car in front of
the Arlington Courthouse, the
first man encountered was Edgar
w. Pumphrey. former Republi-
can chairman. An hour was
spent in a half dozen law firms
around the courthouse square
and then a hurry-up tour was
made of some of the courthouse
offices.
Commissioner Of Revenue e
George Fischer, Democrat, and
Treasurer Colin c. Macpherson,
Republican, introduced the can
didate to the employees in their
departments. H. Bruce Green,
clerk of the court. who has been
taking the stump for Mr.. Fen
wick. exchanged greetings but
left the candidate on his own to
get around the clerks Offices.
Misses John Locke Green.
Mr.. Stanley went across the
street to see Attorney John Locke
Green but missed him. Mr..
Green's law partner, Alfred
Treuax, introduced the candi-
date to all comers as "the next
Governor of Virginia"
Among those who showed up
at the headquarters opening last
night were Mrs. Lucy Bussey and
Thomas j. Broyhill, both candi-
dates for the Democratic NOM
ination to the House of Dele
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