SEC. 1, PAGE 2 THE NEWS—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1960
with winners in state, nation
An extraordinary record tbtal of 12,515 Orange County voters went to polls in j
the general elections Tuesday as Democrat ic nominees swept all contests.
The majority totals in the County went with the winners of all races in the na
tional and state elections. According to pr eliminary figures from the Board of Elec-,
tions, which will meet today to
canvass the returns, the turn-out
- represented 74 per cent of the 16,
837 registered voters.
President-elect John F. Ken
nedy won in 15 of the 21 precincts
by gaining a majority of 1,949
votes over Nixon. The totals—
Kennedy 7,1^0, Nixon, 5,231. By
contrast, in 1956, Democratic
nominee Adlai Stevenson ended
up only 350 votes ahead of Eisen
hower—4,743 to 4,396.
Kennedy three to one
Kennedy’s proportionate lead in
the various Orange County boxes
was as high as three-to-one in the
tobacco-growing precincts of north
ern Orange, and even surpassed
two-to-one in Chapel Hill No. One.
. The precincts won by Nixon were
Caldwell, Cameron Park, Rock
Springs, St. Mary’s (which gave
a majority to almost all Republi
candidates), and White Cross.
The total voter 'turnout in the
county of 12,515 was more than
! 25 per cent above the 9,100 who
1 cast ballots in the 1956 general
election., Within Orange County
I : it's'Interesting -to note that the
i : nix Chapel Hill precincts (in
] eluding Carrboro) cast 7,211
votes, representing 57 per cent
I of the total. And the proportion
that voted in Chapel Hill was a
bit higher than that for the
Comity as a whole. Of the 9,432
registrants in these six precincts,
slightly more than 76 per cent
went to the polls.
Governor-Elect Terry Sanford
fared even better than his pres
idential counter-part in Orange
County. Sanford received 7,443
votes to Gavin’s 4,836. And San
ford " captured 14 precincts, while
tying Gavin in Cameron Park,
where each had 252. Despite pre
vious predictions, thus, Sanford
received more votes than Ken
nedy in all but nine precincts,
though the margin of difference
in all precincts was small.
Komcgay two-tcrone
In the Congressional contest De
mocratic nominee Horace Korne
gay of Greensboro led County Re
publican Chairman Col. Holland
Robb roughly two to one, Robb
led only in St. Mary’s and Cald
well precincts. Kornegay received
6,902, and Robb 3,402.
The margin was still wider for
Senator Everett Joran who re
ceived 7,147 to Kyle Hayes’ 3,
040. Ralph Scott of Alamance
Cour.'iy will go the State Senate
from the 16th District comprising
r Alamance and Orange, He was
'aided in his successful r^ce by
7,745 Orange County votes, as
compared to 2,601 for GOP con
tender Forrest HalL
The two Democratic nominees
for County commissioner were al
most three-tc-one winners over the
Republicans. Harvey Bennett led;
with 7.822. Incumbent Dona'd
Stanford was next with 7,727. Re
publican Louis Sparrow received
2,749 and M. Jack Walker, 2,805.
The two Republicans won only in
St. Mary’s precinct.
Uinstead un-opposcd
In most precincts John Umstead
un-opposed for his 13th bid to
serve in the General Assembly, 1
was the top vote getter. Charles j
Walker and Charles Stanford, De- ;
mocrats un-opposed for re-nomin-1
ation to the County School Board, ;
were also rd-elected, of course.
The biggest voter turnout in the j
county was in Chapel Hill No. i
Three, where student registrations
swelled the total and 1,500 per
sons cast ballots. All other Chap
el Hill Precincts have over 1,000
votes, too: Others than topped 1,
000 were Carrboro. with. 1,344,
Chapel Hill No. Five with 1,235.
Chapel Hill No. Two, 1,078. and
No. One, 1,033.
Precinct Circuit...
(... Strictly unofficial—County political trends
and gossip . . •)
1 County Democratic Chairman Jim Phipps and his pre
cinct workers were good prophets, if a bit conservative.
In compiled predictions from all 21 precincts on Nov. 1, the
Democrats forecast a vote of 6,425 for Kennedy to 4,440
for Nixon. The actual total was 7,180 for Kennedy to 5,
231 for Nixon. For Governor they saw 6,320 for Sanford,
and 3,930 for Gavin. The turn-out: 7,443 for Sanford, and
4,836 for Gavin. Actually the margins were predicted very
ciosely, but the total vote was higher than expected.
Hillsboro Democratic precinct committeeman Wayne
Me Dade, an ardent Democratfor-Gavin received a write
in vote on the Republican side of the ballot against Rep.
John Umatead, who had no GOP opposition.
At the end of his day of hand-shaking in ChapeL.Hill
last Thursday Congressional nominee Horace Kornegay op
timistically told the Jaycees fat whose meeting he spoke)
that -a businessman had told him he wouldn’t vote for him
for. anythmgr “I marked him down as doubtful,” joked
Korneayg.
G. S. Baldwin a Democratic election Judge at Precinct
Two in Chanel Hill took his lunch Tuesday in the Estes
Hills School Cafeteria. As he walked out an aw-struck first
grader, reeognmng him as one of the poll holders, asked
her teacher if that was President Eisenhower. Teacher had
to admit that the hald-headed man with the rimless specs
did bear a slight resemblance to Ike.
And un in Caldwell Precinct veteran registrar Odie
Mincev was drivinq to ooen the polls at the Caldwell
School in the oredawn of Tuesday mornlnq when he
blacked out at the wheel of his car. The vehicle ran onto
a bank, and his denture was knocked out. A substitute
had to assume his duties for the day.
Why the write-in ballots for Justice of the Peace in
Chapel Hill and Hillsboro Townships? This (was a regular
township ballot. A township has two elective officials—a
constable, and justices of the peace. There were write-inj
candidates for constable, but not for JP. Still, the top, five
vote recipients in each township, even if they got only a
vote apiece, will be. entitled to qualify and be sworn in to
serve as justices of the peace. - ,
Orange County Voting Record
1.
PRECINCT
CALDWELL
ft CAMERON PARK
^ CARR
CARRBORO
ft CEDAR GROVE
U CHAPEL HILL 1
k CHAPEL HILL 2
CHAPEL HILL 3
CHAPa HILL 4
CHAPEL HILL 5
CHEEKS
1 qc*e store
* EFLAND
HILLSBORO
patterson
ROCK SPRINGS
ST. MARY'S
TOLAR'S
UNIVERSITY
WHILLSBORO
WHITE CROSS
TOTAL
REGISTERED
KORNEGAY
WALKER
432 I 245
563 j 503
249 | ; 192
2091 | 1344
513 h 256
1415 1033
1369 | 1076
1662 j 1500
1357 j 1023
1538 J 1235
796 ! 499
10/ j
249 |
|| 149 ’
1 685|
H 189
4) 683
|i 645
|f 925
|| 602
688 |
239 f
138
254
43
636
67
340
394
-4
II
565
403
545
260
V8 |
11 252 1
137 i
724 j
189' ;
ft* 741 |
714 |
1010 |
!! 676- |
| 720 !
it 219
146 4|
252 f|
45 j|
590 I!
65 |
269 Ilf
343' |
408 j
333 j}
510 I
276 |;
I 10
298
138
734
197
679
694
1022
673
721
244
I 1/
176
33
475
43
265
325
369
301
467
205
274 | 184
698 j 444
606 ! 527
362 | 225
360 | 258
220 | 157
327 I 203
515 | ,398
1078 j 906
412 j 307
II
71
191
239
97
112 j
253 |
}| 288 j
Iij21 ; -v ^
II 102 I 154
if 62 1 95
153 50
■4 ;,v . 7 ■
212 | 186
II
It 588 ,1 328
^ 1-2814173
|«,*S7:12,5T5 7,180 ' 5,231
)[' .-116 |
II 25V !
il 307. j .
|j 118 I
II 116 |
!l 57 1
ir~;w-1
t| 194
I 518 i
— .... ...
141
61
185
218
101
141
100
54
196
384
163
■I!
!l
118
247
354
131
123
ft . 67
II 143
I! 213
| 560
II W'
-f! I 1/
II 335 |
II 130 \
■If 888
lr *198 !
ii 765
819:
11173 I
| 779
H 852 !
H 285 7
122
318
136
829
199
755
815
1153
772
868
„28B_
109 119
138 | 160
29 | - 30
381 | 372
36 j 45
194 ! 187
200 | 191
295 | 284
208 ! 203
343 | 328
m
180
50
147
104
66
113
71
40
153
245
112
i
|| 128
If' 270
j! 392
146
139
69
142
249
It 627'
It' 207
124
272
378
4^
■f!
J
il
146
126
64
150
244
620
II
I!
II
I!
48 |
131 :
106 |
64 f
104 |
83 I
47
132
126
64
114
"87
42 J 44
139 r 141
207 I 228
177 ||
93
95
7,443 4,838 6,902 3,402 7,822 7,727 2,749 2,805
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