Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-06
Interest Runs High
In 10Th District Voting
Crowds Throne
Polls in Norfolk,
Richmond Also
By ALEX r. PRESTON

! Some stood in line for at least
an hour and a half. Long lines
were in evidence almost every
where for the first five hours. at
! the end Of which time some pre-
cinctS already had recorded the
choices of more than half their
tregistered voters.
Polls close at 6 pm.
A record vote SURPRISING the
100000 of four years ago was in
, dictated in the State at large as
! Virginians decided how their IL
! electoral votes will be cast in
the presidential election.
Active in Richmond, Norfolk
A telephone check by The Star
Showed excessive balloting in
the Richmond area and at Nor
folk. In the latter city double
sets of judges and clerks were
installed at 10 of the A precincts
land voters still waited As min
: lutes in line.
In Richmond the News Leader
predicted that on the basis Of
1.-The turnout at midmorning q
new record of $4,000 would cast
ballots there.
Interest in Washington's Sub
,Iurbs was heightened by spirited
! campaigning for a seat in Con-
gress, place on the Arlington
> County Board and controversial
local referendum issues.
Predictions "Out window"
The size of the turnout led one
seasoned Fairfax County politi-
: clan to observe:
/, You can throw all predic-
: tons out the window. I've never
known so many to stand in line"
A reporter for The Star who
stod for an hour and a half to
vote at Parkfairfax. Alexandria,
said many persons left for work
promising to come back this
afternoon.
e The Hunter precinct at Nc
e Lean was among those that had
voted more than so per cent Of
q its registered total in the first
q five hours. Sleepy Hollow pre-
: cinct in Fairfax had reached
nearly so per cent while West
t Annandale and Mclean, also in
n Fairfax, had voted as per cent.
In Alexandria more persons
: voted in the first two hours than
q voted there all day in the July
10 Democratic primary.
Heavy In Arlington
At the Robert e. Lee School,
S polling place for Arlington's
4 Lexington precinct, 278 had
voted in the first 80 minutes.
e One of the women election
: judges was serving as a hostess, I"
e directing the steady stream Of
: voters into the four voting ma
chimes set up there.
= Mrs. j. H. Gilligan, a Judge at
Lexington. was asked If the
crowd was normal"
TITS so abnormal" she replied.
S as she waved to a vacuum bottle
e on a nearby table, Il haven't
even had chance to have my
e coffee. / had to have a voter
S pour a cup for me and there it
a is, getting cold"
In Arlington County voters
:, were using machines. There IL
was taking anywhere from 30
seconds to a minute for each
voter to cast his ballot.
!; Three Ballots Used
In Alexandria and Fairfax
: voters were being handed three
separate paper ballots-one for
President, one for Congress and
, one with three Statewide ref.
! erenduin questions on it.
, approximately 125.O0O persons
are registered to vote in the 10th
: District--an increase OF 10000
over two years ago, when $4,000
. votes were cast. In the last
presidential election four years
ago the 10th District produced
$4,000 votes. with President Eli
senhower getting 60.3 per cent
of them.
The congressional contest Is
between Republican Represents
alive Joel T. Broyhill, seeking
his third term, and Democrat
' Warren d. Quenstedt. The name
Of Richard o. Reed, an indie.
pendent, also appears on the
= ballot. but he has waged no
: campaign. Richard L. Field
I man, another independent, is
running as a write-in candidate.
Eight other House seats are
being contested in the State.
County Board Race
Arlington County has been the
' battlefield Of nearby Virginia s
hottest campaign in the county
I board race between DR.. L. II.
Bleyins. candidate Of the Arling-
ton Independent Movement, and
Curtis Tuthill, nominee Of the
Arlingtonians for a Better
I County.
$ At stake Is control Of the
: school board. because in the fu-
: ture Arlington school board
: members win be appointed BY
: the county board.
In Falls Church. voters are de-
{ Gliding three proposed bond is
: sues: $3.50 900 for a new city
hall $685. 900 for street and
storm sewer improvements and
$4,000 for q new city library