Milford chronicle., 1958-08-22
Spirited Primaries
Held By Both Parties
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Downstate Democrats were the
direct opposite of the Republicans
as they had contests galore in both
counties.
In Sussex County, the greatest
interest was in the senatorial fight
in which Senator Steen culled 1,248
votes to defeat w. Harrison Phil
lips of Laurel, who got 429 votes in
his first venture into a nomination
fight and State Rep. Charles P.
West got 413.
In the one Democratic contest
for state representative the incum-
bent, Rep. Edgar T. English beat
John Cannon of Bridgeville, 154 to
92.
There were three countrywide
contests in Sussex. Recorder of
Deeds Charles s. Calhoun defeated
G. Edward Veasey 1921 to 1872 to
win denomination. Similarly, Clerk
of the Peace Edwin Roach defeated
/. Robert Wiley, 2,165 to 1,090 for
the nomination for that office. In
the contest for nomination for
sheriff, Deputy Sheriff Frank T..
Dickerson of Lewes garnered l.
957 votes to beat out Harris w.
Mills of Laurel, who got 1888.
The only delegate contest in Sus-
sex was in the Sixth Representa-
tive district, where Deputy Atty.
Gen. Meyer Ableman, with 260
votes, and C. Ramona Pepper, with
254, were elected and c. Robert
Godfrey lost out with 80.
In Kent County voting the Demo-
cratic contest for state senator
from the First District showed a
majority of 447 in favor of Henry
T. Price, of Smyrna, who opposed
the incumbent State Senator Will
liam B. Behen, of Dover.
The total vote was Price 879 and
Behen 432. This heavy vote for
Price was cast by approximately
54 per cent of the registered Dem
ocratic voters in the Senatorial
District.
Senator Behen failed to carry a
single one of the six election dis
tricts which make up the Senatori-
al District
In the two election districts of
the First Representative District,
Behen's vote was 278 and Prices
vote ran to All, while In the four
election districts of the Second
Election District, Behen received
154 and Price 458..
In the most heated contest in the
Fourth Representative District,
comprising only one district, Will
liam w. Opdyke, Jr., HartIy, who
had organization Democratic sup
port, won over John w. Pearson,
of Hartly. 339 to ESQ in the race
for nomination as state represen-
tative.
A Levy Court Commission con-
test for the nomination of Commits
sioner from the Second Levy Court
District, resulted in victory for j.
Noble Carroll, of near FELTON,, the
Democratic candidate
over Harold Dawson Shulties, of
near Wyoming, by the vote of 726
to 369, or a majority of 357 for
Carroll. The Levy Court District
comprises the Third, Fourth, Sixth,
and Ninth representative districts
The incumbent, State Represen-
tative Charles .. King of Smyrna,
was nominated by the Democrats
for candidacy to the post he now
holds, over George ID. Whaley, of
Smyrna. King received 36S votes
and Whaley 326. The contest ran
extremely close between the two
fellow townsmen in the 1st Elec-
tion District where the vote was in
favor of Whaley by 133 over 13l
for King, The End Election Dis
trict went to King by 237 over
Whaley's 1913.
Edward Long, Jr., of near Dover,
defeated Mrs. Claudia G. Jenkins,
Little Greek, for the Democratic
nomination for State Representa-
tive from the Second Representa-
tive District.
The vote for Long was 436 and
for Mrs. Jenkins 148. An approxit
mate 81 per cent of the registered
Democratic voters exercised their.
right of franchise in the First Rep
resentative District and AZ and a
half per cent in the Second Repre-
sentative District, while in the
Fourth, 70 and a half per cent of
those registered Democratic cast
ballots.
The Democrats also had delegate
contests in the Second Election
District of the First Representa-
tive District.
In the Fourth Representative
District the winning candidates for
delegates and their votes were:
James Craig, 296; Elmer Luton,
80; James McCrystal, 80; ].
Melvin, S08; Harold Pow
ell, 302 and George Sapp, 2S6. The
losing slate was as follows: Good
en- Darling. ESQ; Charles Hansen,
1876; Paul Janeka, 1S1; Kelly Mel
ton, 206; John Vatick, 135 and
Evelyn Webb, $50.
In the Second Election District
of the First Representative Dis
trict, with three delegates to be
Bulah S. Blendt, received
BOZ votes; Arthur Dickerson, 1872;
and Charles W. Haas, 245. The los
ing candidate was w. Donald
Poore, who received 210ivotes. Both
Of the delegate contests were also
victories for the party organiza-
tion.