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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 lownship'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 the 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 when Schlegel 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 temporary 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 ne 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.Language
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