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11 Seek 7 Offices
In Dumfries Voting
By Staff Reporter
DUMFRIES - Two candidates
for mayor and nine for the six
council seats are filed in the June
12 town election here.
Mayor Edward W. Fraley is opposed
for re-election by Council
man James A. Bishop in the little
township's second annual vote
since it revived a year ago.
Five other incumbents - or one-
time incumbents - are also vieing
with four newcomers in the council
race.
The newcomers include Nick
Katserelis, an automobile dealer;
John Wilmer Porter, colored garage
owner, and two employees at
Fort Belvoir, cabinet maker Jesse
W. Mountjoy and painter Guy R.
Reynolds.
The incumbents are Randolph
S. Brawner, Cecil W. Garrison,
Ruel F. Waters and George I.
Schlegel.
In addition, Fred A. Parsels,
who lost his Council seat to
Schlegel last fall on a qualifying
technicality, has also filed in the
coming election.
Mayor Fraley, a furniture dealer,
was the ticket leader with 41
votes in last year's election. Bishop,
who opposes him, is a Quantico
employe and town treasurer.
Brawner and Garrison, both retired,
were also front-runners in
last year's race with 40 and 37
votes. Waters, a gas station oper-
won a seat when Schlegel was
won a seat whe nSchlegel was
barred by a poll tax technicality
until Parsels was unseated.
Missing from the slate of candidates
is one other council incumbent,
retired Marine Alvin H.
Kettlebar.
Council Seat
Still Disputed
At Dumfries
By Staff Reporter
DUMFRIES - It may take a court
case to decide officially who is
the sixth member of the new Town
Council here.
No official ruling has been
made whether it is temorary
councilman George Schlegel, who
got 17 votes on Tuesday, or write-
in candidate Ruel F. Waters, who
got 13.
Schlegel was barred from voting
himself in the town election
because he did not pay his poll
tax six months ahead. But it
could be another question whether
the poll tax be paid in April
qualifies him for the seat when
the new Cuncil formally takes
office in September.
Schlegel, who believes he does
qualify, has retained attorney F.
Caldwell Bagley to carry into
court any challenge to his seating
in September.
Waters said he thought it was
up to officials at Manassas to decide,
but it didn't look to him
that Schlege was qualified.
Meanwhile, Schlegel continues
on the temporary six-man council
appointed by court order last
month to serve until September.Transcriber
Adam KitchenLanguage
English