and with hit left hand insert
a bunch of ballot* under the
Thomas ballots. Then he forced
all of the ballots Into the open
ing of the box. He had to knock
thftm through the bole like
this," motioned Thomas. Again
the court room echoed with
laughter. i. !
The folded bundle was de
scribed by Thomas as baing ap
proximately one and one-half
inches thick.
PHiever, unlike Mast's testi
mony, Thomas said that he did
not notice a "bunch of ballots"
imS+Z '-it&m (hat were emptied
from the boxes that night.
Prank Thomas was next to be
called to the stand. He had acted
as Republican judge at the Cove
Creek voting area May 26 and
wa? one of the officials who
waa to have signed the official
returns fer the precinct but had
refused t? do so "because the
at
Thomas, chin retting
in hand, testified.
flight Williams, nephew of I
the dccuaed. Allowed Frank |
Thomas to the stand and in
rapidly spoken sentences said
that he had signed the official
returns o! the election the mom
o I M#y 26? "even though all
the ballots had not been cart
and the figures were not in.
Such a practice, he explained,
is not uncommon in that pre
einct.
"i srw nothing irregular dur
ing the day," the deeply tanned
witness slated.
He then explained that he had
op the seated box of
from Stacy C. Eggers
the proceeding Wednesday (May
23) and bad had the box in his
possession until Saturday morn
ing He and two other officials
examined the box Saturday be
fore the polls opened and, Wil
liams related, saw that the awl
had not been broken.
Lee Thomas was then called
to the stand and estimated hla
time for voting aa being be
tween 8:30 and #:00 a m. that
Saturday. He related the pro
cedure as follows:
, "When we (he and his wife)
went back to vote, we were the
only ones In the voting area
except the officials. After we
had marked our ballots, my wife
handed me her ballot and start
ed towards the door (exit). I
handed our (two) ballots to
(Claude) Williams who Put
them and some others, which I
saw .him take from his pocket,
into the bo*."
Thomas testified that he had
made no mention of the inci
flent ttt <W?ams when the al
leged stuffing occurred. He,
rather, left the arena, pauaing
briefly outride the building to
talk with a sister of his. Shortly
afterwards, Thonaa aald, he
told his wife what he had seen
at the balloting box.
The board thon offered A. C.
Williams the right to take the
stand. "The board la not re
questing that you do or do not
takV'the stand." Brown explain
ed. "It only wanta you to know
that you hare the opportunity
to make comments on your be
half if you so desire."
Attorney McElwee, speaking
for Williams, said that he saw
no need for Williams to take
the stand. Williams, thus, did
not appear before the board.
The man who waa door keeper
at the Cove Creek polls May 26
was the sixth witness called to
the stand. He Is Charlie Mit
chell , ? 1
Mitchell remarked that In line
to vote while the Thomases
Thomas ?.< leaving and Mr.
Thomas was back at the ballot
box, apparently having dropped
bis ballots In the box.
Hike Dishman took the itand
and explained that as folder of
the ballot* he wu about tea
feet away frota the box In
The Board then called for
other witnesaes. Isaac Lewis, sit
ting three rows from the front
ward. He testified that he had
voted about 7:00 a. m. Saturday
and had been in and about the
building most of the day.
"That night," Lewis told the
board, 'I helped unfold the bal
lot*." I paid no attention to the
m m
were marked."
the I
of the bundle as being one-half |
inch, unfolded.
the stand Lewis wai called back
to answer an additional ques
tion. Asked if he knew who had
chosen which box for the Demo
cratic ballots and which for the
Republican ballots, Lewis re
plied nkgatively.
Tho hearing then taitM to an
end at 1:44 p.m., two hours and
thirty*** minutes after begin
ning.
Despite the deluge of mail
Government officials and con
gressmen are receiving front the
people concerning President
Keanedy's proposals for health
care for the aged, it is not pos
sible to spot a definite trend at
this time.
Blood Group Meet
P. I. material and announced
the new material that would
aeon be available to the local
The eitlmated Mood quota
for 1962-63, js released at the
Boone meeting, is set at 73.000
pinta. The total Red Cro?? ex
penditure, calls for *374,545.
The group discussed the quo
ta and all agreed that better
planning on the parts of each
local chapter were needed in
order to meet the challenge
placed before them in the in
terest of their participating
hospitals, local doctor#, tnd i
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