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Complete News Coverage Eastern Prince William
The Journal Messenger
Manassas, VA., Thursday, April 19, 1962
Eastern Prince William News Bureau - 805 Occoquan rd., Woodbridge, Va.
Jim A. McKay, Manager GYpsy 4-6091
Eleven Candidates File
In Dumfries Election
Eleven residents of Dumfries
have filed for the six council
seats and for mayor in the June
12 town election.
In the second annual vote since
the town was revived a year ago,
James A. Bishop, a member of
the present council, has filed for
mayor against Mayor Edward W.
Fraley.
The council race finds five
other incumbents, or one-time
incumbents, competing with four
newcomers in the council race.
Incumbents are Randolph S.
Brawner, Cecil W. Garrison, Ruel
F. Waters and George I. Schlegel.
Fred A. Parsels, who lost his
council seat to Schlegel last fall
on a qualifying technicality, has
also filed.
Newcomers in the race are
Nick Katsarelis, president of
Quantico Auto Sales, John Wilmer
Porter, garage owner, and
two employees at Fort Belvoir,
Jesse W. Mountjoy, and Guy R.
Reynolds.
Fraley, owner of Dumfries Discount
Furniture, lead last year's
ticket with 41 votes. Bishop, is
employed at the Marine Corp
Schools at Quantico and presently
is town treasurer.
Brawner and Garrison, both
retired, had 40 and 37 votes respectively
in last year's race.
Waters, a gas station operator,
won a seat on the council last
year when Schlegel was barred
by a poll tax technicality until
Parsels was unseated.
Retired Marine Alvin Kettlebar,
another council incumbent,
is missing from the slate of candidates.
[?er?] committee that resulted in
the formation of the Dumfries
Sanitary District and his blistering
verbal assult on lax health
requirements in the county have
led to a general upgrading of
sanitary conditions in the community.
On the site of the old Courthouse
mounting the hill on Route
1 at the Route 234 intersection,
Bishop has dedicated to the public
use a portion of his land
there for a marker denoting the
location of the Courthouse.
In World War II, Bishop, who
has occupationally and socially
risen above the blow of his early
and permanent injury, was not
military material.
But he served as he found
his opportunities. He helped
build the aircraft observation
tower near his home and was
a member of the group commended
for consistent twenty-four
hour service. He helped
plan the original firehouse at
Dumfries which as since been
replaced in the endless march
of progress.
Bishop came to the carpenter
shop at the Marine base in 1939
and is now superintendent of the
shop. Mrs. Bishop has been an
employee of the Dumfries Post
Office for the past 10 years.
Bishop was recently honored
by beign selected to represent
his toastmaster's club in interstate
competition as a result of
his self developed orratorical
prowess.
As for the mayor's office,
Bishop sees it as the climax
of a long and tender attachment
to the Town of Dumfries.Transcriber
Adam KitchenLanguage
English