The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter., 1962-06-01
ELECTION
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ward L. Owens of Plymouth ran
third with 6,055 votes. Dare
County returns gave Gurganus
814; Owens 613, and Midget a
convincing 1926 votes, the lar
gest vote amassed by any candi-
date in the primary.
Two races previously pro-
phesied as close contests turned
into relative "walk-aways." "
James Vannote, coroner, won a
clear majority over incumbent
w. F. Baum, Daniel L. Can
nady and John Lawrence to win
the nomination for Judge of
Recorders Court. Vannote re-
ceived 1895 votes: Baum 707;
Cannady 281 and Lawrence 100.
Judge Baum had been on the
Recorders bench for 80 years.
The candidates age, "a, and a
reported previous announcement
that he "would not run" are
believed to have contributed to
his defeat.
Melvin Daniels, the incum-
bent Register of Deeds, also
won handily by defeating Willett
Tillett with a 566 vote majority.
Daniels received 1888 votes to
832 for Tillett. The close race
for the Register of Deeds spot
failed to develop and the in
cumbent carried every precinct
except Kitty Hawk in a sur
prisingly easy victory.
Frank Cahoon scored a
humping victory in the Sher-
iff's race, as the incumbent
amassed 1919 votes to $40 for
his opponent, Robert Balance,
a member of the Dare School
Board. Cahoon received the
greatest number of votes award
ed to a Dare County candidate
and carried every precinct in a
sensational victory.
Lawrence Swain, Fred Gray,
Stanford White, George Fuller
and Pennel Tillett were nominat-
ed for the Dare County Board
of Commissioners. Stanf f o r d
White and Pennel Tillett were
the only new faces to join the
group. White, the East Lake
Croatan nominee will fill the
vacancy created when Horace
Hooper present commissioner
failed to run.
Tillett, of Kitty Hawk, will
replace David Stick, present
commissioner from Atlantic
Township.
Swain polled $50 votes against
5S2 for Dewey L. Hayman; 61S
for Reuben E. Payne and Ill
for Andrew Clark, in winning
the Nags Head Commissioner
seat. In Kinnekeet Township,
Fred Gray was renominated with
1,1O5 votes against 538 for Frs
kin Hooper. In Hatteras Town
ship, another incumbent, George
Fuller, polled 1905 votes against
954 for Ivey Batten and 458 for
Daniel Leary. q
Tillett, a former tax su-
pervisor won the overwhelming
approval of voters for the Allan
tic Township seat, as he rolled
to an easy victory over Mrs.
Thomas H. Briggs, a member
of the Board of Education.
The only contest for the
board of education occurred in
Atlantic Township where Mrs.
Milton Perry polled 1858 votes
to defeat Mrs. Troy Beasley who
gained TAO.
Only 27 votes were cast in the
official Dare Republican Pri-
mary for United States Senator.
Claude L. Greene, Jr., with IL
votes defeated Charles H. Bah
cock, Jr., for senator from the
eastern district of North Caro-
lima.
The legislative race will be
the only contest featured in the
second primary on June 26. In
dications are that the run-off
will be as close as the returns
from the May primary for the
two candidates. Wallace Gray,
third man in the contest, who
was eliminated last Saturday,
stated this week that he "has
not made a decision" as to
whether he will lend his support
to either Fearing or Daniels.
A total of four members OF
the Dare County Education were
without opposition.
They are: Floyd L. Hooper, Bill
Dillon, Jack Cahoon and Charles
T. Williams.
G. s. Meekins, Clerk of Court
also faced no opposition as did
NJ. C. Mitchell, County Coroner.