lywood Democrats Poll 2790 Majority
[RA THE WAYNESYILLE MOUNTAINEER EXTRA
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67th ykak NO. 88.A 8 PAGES "Associated Press w ayNESV1lleTnTc~V/edNESi)ay MORNINgT NOV. 5, 1952 R00 In Ad^nce In Haywood and Jackson Countiea
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ters broke all ree
ls they polled more
e. This was about
| the total registra
nt).
ats took a lead of
inofficial tabulation
rtial race. In the
te races, the Detno
ihead by a two to
tavy vote was 4.200
na-t in the general
B, when 10.200 votes
pi ninths also dis
re voted in the presi
pn any of the others.
R of the county and
were much slower,
leer ballot, and the
p of the tickets,
an ideal day for an
laywood voters fol
id of the nation by
the largest numbers
of the county,
was quiet through
it r the county, with
5') Intent upon vot
IR the polls,
i was brisk right up
oment, with many
B in a full day from
the polls closed 12
k are the unofficial
^e presidential race
M county:
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433 310
376 406
b 2 373 275
?? 3 467 377
"? 4 465 455
256 334
0 6 606 512
31 18
7 0
55 117
651 444
290 77
173 230
258 82
,0-2 65 2
482 254
188 33
338 253
:ek 217 190
ta 253 149
412 392
176 173
184 67
Wil'e 519 217
427 188
'(;ll|p 567 294
" 316 157
79 14
8763 6032
tluli Favors
^ Flection
*'"1 ''rofpsslonal
of Wavnesville
l,h si* other civic
?onP ?n record as
* of ihP issuance
' r "oprnvemenl of
*?ter system.
? ** action at its
U^favor of the
Cataloochee
Voters Get
Recognition
Nationaal recognition came to
Haywood county yesterday after
noon when newspapers all over
the country carried the photo
graph of the Cataloochee voters
casting their ballots yesterday
morning.
The Associated Press picture
was taken at 6:30 a.m. when the
polls opened and showed the
seven registered voters of the
precinct at the ballot boxes. It
was wirephotocd throughout the
V. S. to afternoon papers.
SOMETHING ALMOST NEW
Ken Browning, Democratic
candidate for Cecil Township
Constable, polled exactly 46 votes
for the office. His name was on
the ballot,
i Rut Grover Warren, whose
name wasn't on the ballot, polled
98 votes to insure the election of
a Republican to the office.
Warren's write-in vote was con
sidered to be one of the biggest
upsets recorded in the county.
No wonder . . . mavbc it pays
to keen your name off Ihe ballot.
water bond issue are Rotary, j
Kiwanis. Lions. Junior Cham- j
ber of Commrrrr, American I/e
ginn, and American la-gion Aux
l iliary.
The Choice Of The Majority Of The Nation's Voters
RICHARD NIXON
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Sidelights
Of The
News
D ?
One middle-aged man, saunter
ing down the steps at the Saunook
school house, was heard to remark,
just after he had cast his ballot:
"Well, that's one vote no one will
ever know about. Wasn't anybody'
business but my own."
There was a steady stream of
cars pulling up in front of the
Court House all morning, and
manv in the afternoon, disgorg
ing voters in large numbers. Just
as soon as all the occupants had
cast their vote, they were quick
to get back in the ears and be
returned to their business.
Still many buttons, stickers and i
posters in evidence all day. Most |
of the cars were bare of stickers;
! but those of them that did have
'them, had at least two, and surae
stimes three.
The weather was porffct for
voting?not too warfn, not too
cold, not windy, and very dry.
As a result of the perfect weath
er, many people who had been
in bed sick were able to get out
in the halmv mid-dav sun and go
to the polls and vote.
Some election officials found
that trying to keep five difTerenl
ballots straight was a rather hard
task. Many voters wanted to put
their ballots in the boxes them
selves, and often got the county
and state tickets mixed, because ol
similarity. On the other hand, the
township and presidential tickets
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
[ were of the same size, and caused
some confusion.
One oiHcial suggested a different
color of paper for each ballot, in
the hones that the people would go
by colors in putting their ballots
, in the proper boxes.
Clarence "Poxey" Edwards.
I candidate for Waynesville Town
ship Constable, was one of the
II most consistent campaigners ever
seen in this county, lie was at
the Court House bright and early
passing out cards and urging the
voters to cast their vote for the
man Edwards thought best qiial
1 ified for the job. That man was,
incidentally Edwards himself.
"
One good joke making the
rounds all day went something
| like this: The teller would bet
j that Stevenson (or Eisenhower, dc
: pending on who he was hetting)
was elected that every hank in the
country would he closed "eight
months from today." He was giv
I ing 10 Jo 1 odds. loo. The catcli j
[ was. and he got a tremendous bang
out of tilling ,\ou. was that the day
that that would fall eight months
from November 4 was July 4. He
couldn't lose. He didn't take any
of the hets . . . Just thought he'd
have a hit ol fun.
(ilrnn IV. Brown, chairman of
the Board of Flections, relates
this mne concerning the absentee '
ballot of one llaywood service- '
man ... in th space on the bal- |
lot provided for "party affilia- (
tion," the serviceman didn't mark
either Democrat or ICepuhlican.
lie said, simply. Stevenson. i
In the crowd that was milling,
around the main floor of the Court
House late Tur day night awaiting
returns, a farmer said lie knew a j
lot of people wljo hgd been pray-1
ing that their particular candidate
would win. "If all those people:
would Just join in a prayer for
rain. . . '? lie -aid
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Returns Given
^untaineer News Staff
I
"aI returns for
, "me ?n Mrly. as
ntRht. as Xhc
I J Jl|la'T' to8ether
Elections, tabu
1' " came in about
,f Polls closed at
exception of Cata
. reposed about
* ns,T?ng the first
"on to report.
The first returns of the county
hallot, as well as the state hallot.
showed a trend of about two to one
for the Democratic candidates.
This trend held up in the early
returns, with onl yabout half the
precincts being reported.
As the votes were tabulated, they
were given over WHCC which had
installed equipment in the news
room for the coverage of the elec
tion.
Gathering Election Returns Is A Major Task
It takes a lot of hard work to compile election returns, as is evidenced by this picture, which
shows "an action picture" of the news staff of The Mountaineer, and board ot elections at work. Seat
ed at the table, left to right, is Frank Medford. Glenn W. Brown, and Charles Hawkins, members of
the board of election, with W. Curtis Russ. editor of The Mountaineer at the adding machine Stand
ing left to right. Vance Derby, on the telephone. Sheriff Fied Campbell, watching the proceedings,
and Martlon T. Bridges broadcasting the results. Staff photographer Bill I^inbach made the photo.
Unofficial Returns
Prrrlnr.t
Aliens Creek
| Beaverdam No. I
Beaverdam No. 2
j Beaverdam No. 3
| Beaverdam No. 4
| Beave/dam No. 5
Beaverdam No.
Big Creek
Calaloochee
Cert I
Clyde
Crabtree
East Fork
Fines Creek No. I
Fines Creek No. 2
Hazclwood
Iron Duff
Iv> Hilt ...
Jonathans Creek
Lake Junaluska
Pigeon
Center Pigeon
Saunook
Center Waynesville
West Waynesville
South Waynesville
East Waynesville
White Oak
I TOTALS
Ntrftf Hfi.ur T>*
Sfnalc Krp. Colin tor
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395 399 220 392 339 401 233
518 524 36:: ..14 :>:>o 390
305 308 263 302 270 311 263
37 37 10 39 10 38 11
7 7 0 7 0 7 0
58 54 1)0 91 1T9 00 112
628 638 379 621 507 644 404
299 300 39 329 38 321 44
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244 216 62 2 2 68 2.2 73
62 62 2 62-4 62 4
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195 195 23 199 29 202 21
223 223 162 226 165 220 162
311 315 290 116 310 102
185 190 148 182 152 194 146
188 195 150 186 155 198 148 |
174 174 53 162 72 186 52
441 456 131 438 160 434 172
344 357 86 329 138 344 124
76 79 11 79 11 82 10
3619 3674 1874 3506 1950 3702 2Q09
Republicans
Pile Up Big
Lead To Win
Election
In what appeared t<> 1> du
plet* landslide. General I)\ ? ' D.
Eisenhower and Senator Richard
Nixon ushered a Republic. r \d,
ministration into the White >
early this morning for the fir time
in 20 years.
Stevenson conceded the clot'; ton
at 1:45 a.m. <KST?.
Complete returns front over th?
nation were not ava|lah:e thi;
morning hut the Republican P:
dentiul ticket wtis leadin t:.
states with 432 electoral to . The
Democrats were leadin : in ' t
nine states with a total of fi'J elec
toral votes.
The early morning eotlt i on
came at the end of a lot;
ter campaign which saw bt.lh ai
Vies throwing verbal bcickha . and.'
injecting more than a of
major issues into th' < <? " .
Some observers said it w.- the hil
terest campaign and ? l<' :u
their memory.
Stevenson conceded from hi;
headquarters at (he I.( lam! . :< ? I
in Springfield. Illinois, hrfmy a
throng of well-wishers who
sad but nonetheless still Inn .mt
in their support of the S! n
Sparkman candidacy. lietio a
battery of television cant fa > >.
tographers, newsmen, .n-'l . I
plain onlookers. Governor St i
son told his listeners 1ltr<ni: hont
the country that the Am* n
people had "made their cho.* . ..rid
that choice I gladly accept
He said that it was t >.i<!111 i* i ill
American to fight hard h'Tore att
election hut to "close tank alter
the people have spoken."
He urged the citizen of the
country to give Eisenhov their
full support because "he ,vi!: n d
it to carry out the great ta I. he
fore him."
Minutes later, at 2:04. is n'm v
er, accompanied iiy In * e.
Mamie, spoke to a iam-pavt *<i
room at his headquarter tit th"
Commodore Hotel in New Y k
City. He said: "I am a tiuinhio
as I am proud of this die t >n if
the people. I fully reto tn t l te
weight of the respon .ihilii i of
the tremendous task licfoi, u all.
Let us all unite tit the coin n. mi
cause which faces the < niiitrv in
the difficult days that lie ,.!n id
Senator John Sparkman th de
feated Democratic ca,cj-lah i ?r
the Vice-Presidency, ra ke ( > a
nation-wide radio audience from
his home in Alabama. Hi
cd full cooperation with Itc
ptthlican Administration ai I i *11 d
on the people of the main1 i*>
present a united front Hi tl < ifli
(Continued on i> ? <?
BUNCOMBE GOES FOR
EISENHOWER
Buncombe county gave ( il
Eisenhower a majori!\ oi a'ctit
2,000. according to early return;.
Highway jj
Record For
1952 * I
In Haywood
(To Date)
Injured.... 43 J
Killed .... 5 |
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(This information com
piled from Records of
State Highway Patrol.) 9
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