Evening star., 1954-05-04
Big Vote Puts
Slate
In at Rockville
Good Government
Candidates Win
Four Council Seats

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Four Council Seats
The slate that helped enroll
the most new voters in Rock
vile, Md, also has walked off
with the most votes in the city's
biennial municipal elections.
This is the slate put up by
the Citizens for Good Govern
ment and headed by Dickran
Y. Hovsepian. the city's new
Mayor.
The Good Government slate
scored an overwhelming victory
yesterday in the race for Mayor
and four City Council seats. It
won out over the two other full
states to climax one of the bit
tereSt election campaigns in
Rockville history.
Mr.. Hovsepian received 1,479
votes. compared to 610 for Ed
ward H. Hit and BAT for j. War
rem Milor.
1,64O for Oxley.
The winning councilmen. all
on the Hovsepian slate, were
John E. Oxley, who polled 1,64O
votes to head the list; Wendell
r. Turner, 1859: Alexander j.
Greene, 1.409. and James B.
Robertson, 1921.
Candidates on the Hit slate
and the votes they received were:
M. w. Bradshaw. tit; Walter
M. Baker. 708; Robert w.
Bridges, SAT. and Mrs. Elizabeth
Talon, 507.
Mr.. Milor's running mates
and their votes were: Lowry
Riggs, 405: Oscar T. Fraley, 374;
Alec Lazor, 322, and Hamilton
w. Wells, 212.
City election officials esti-
mated that more than 80 per
cent of the municipalities 3,10O
voters cast ballots.
3 in u. s. Employ.
One Of the issues had been
the fact that three of the Good
Government slate are Federal
employees, and it was charged
they were violating the Hatch
Act Mr.. Hovsepian, an Army
Map Service employe, and the
others had discussed the matter
with the law officer of the Civil
Service Commission. The new
Mayor also received clearance
from his employer.
Results in other MONTGOMERY
County elections were as fol-
lows:
GARRETT PARK.
Councilman Samuel I. Powell.
jr.. won the race for Mayor, de-
feating Thomas r. Wilson, 81
to 80. He will succeed Mayor
Francis j. Short, who declined
to seek reelection.
In the race for two vacancies
on the Town Council James j.
Murray. with 113 votes, and Ed
ward D. Friedman, with 1O4,
defeated an incumbent, Dudley
D. Hill. who had served for over
four years and who polled 95
votes.
Mr.. Powell lives at 4700 Clyde
avenue.
GAITHERSBURG.
Voters rejected a town coun-
cilman's bid for Mayor and oust-
ed two other incumbent council
men.
Elected Mayor to succeed
Harry G. Perry, who was not a
candidate for reelection, was
Merton F. Duvall, with 243 votes.
He defeated Councilman G.
Sprigg Ward, who received 174
votes and who has two more
years to serve on the council.
John w. Griffith, with 292
votes, and E. Russell Gloyd, with
232, won over George w. Mar
shall, l54 votes, and Charles p.
Fox. 145, the two incumbentS, in
the Town Council race. One
other councilman, Samuel B.
Briggs, like Mr.. Ward. also has
two more years in Office.
GAINESVILLE.
Three incumbent members of
the Town Council were re-
elected without opposition, via
the write-in. method. They
were Chairman Spencer Fisher,
a retired farmer who received
16 votes; Mark p. Jeffers, an
electrician who likewise got 16,
and Mrs. Cecilia Hersberger, a
housewife. with Is. The elec-
ton drew 10 of the towns 40
registered voters.
BROOKEvILLE.
Three incumbentS who had in
dicated a willingness to serve
again were reelected here in a
write-in vote over three other
candidates. Chairman Howard
T. Craver. with "a votes. and
Charles r. Hawkins and C. Will
lard Harvey, each with 18.
were the winners. Alexander
CaSanges, James Jordon and
Clyde UnpleShee each drew eight