Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 17

'I 'I I wave ypl ta 1 ta-ta" tarta" BIRMINGHAM POST-HMALD Wednesday May 6 1970 PAGE 17 Many legislators appear in trouble Ton Jackson 5646 Leo Brazil 2707 Place Richard McBride 9545 Hugh Wages 5730 John Golden 5575 George Spencer 5000 (runoff probable) Place 17-7 Earl Jones 8076 Wilson Fallin 6148 Reese 4993 Ray Parmer 2284 Joe McCorvey 2066 Lewis Thomas 1509 Henry Dozier 1230 (runoff likely) Place Rep Ben Chern-er 18279 Clyde Blackmon 3862 Ed Ward 2879 (no runoff) Place Rep Tom Gloor unopposed Place Chris McNair 9961 Hugh Boles 6986 Rep Coatimicd from Page 1 Curtio Belcher Jr 2363 (run off ponible) Place John Hawkins unopposed Place Sen Richard Dominick 14843 Jack Harrison 10801 Bob Watters 1141 (runoff unlikely) Place Sen George Lewis Bailes Jr 15135 Don Watts 9695' Rev Parker 3308 (runoff unlikely) Place Sen Eddie Hubert Gilmore unopposed Place Rep Doug Cook 17413 Louis Moore 6607 Sam Chesnut 3298 (no runoff) In reelection bids Mrs Chris Houseal 4819 (runoff possible) Place Rep Bob Adwell 14872 Mason Davis 10726 Place Rep Raymond Weeks 13173 Jack Biddle 12310 Place 9 Chriss Doss 12814 Rep Tommy Watkins 9009 Wiggins 3159 I Pearce Graves 1790 (runoff possible) Place Malcoln Wheeler 13364 Rep Bob Gafford 12127 Place Travis Tidwell 9276 Mrs Rudene Bailes 8551 Wade Wallace 8383 (runoff probable) Place Drake Boutwell 13103 Jim Patmon 4775 Don Adams 3665 Mrs Bobbie Lacey Lowery 3210 Morris Schiffman 1363 Place Francis Falken-burg 14372 Rep Bob Holman 10789 Place Bedford Seale 9332 Horace Parker 7322 Gayle Henry Goodwin 5323 Ren Verbon Crane 4470 Place 15 Rep Quinton Bowers unopposed Green and Bailey are easy winners No peeking The view from above which enabled balcony kibbitzers at the Jefferson County Courthouse to watch voters make their selections wos spoiled by- buildnig maintenance men who finally put plywood sheets over the top of the machines The booth at the left already had been covered and the workman was putting the on the other booth as this picture was snapped from the second floor (Photo by Jane Aldridge) Jefferson heavy for vote Brewer plants and trunk line sewers comnleted over the last four years The other member of the commission team Commissioners Thomas Pinson and Gilmore did not have opposition Sheriff Bailey campaigned on his record as a profession- al lawman calling special attention to the growth and development of the sheriffs operations including extensive training programs expanded personnel newly established i substations now dotting the county A ROSE FOR MOTHER'S DAY It wont make up for all the things she's done for you all these years But it's a nice start Mother's Day is May 10th $350 JOBE tit? 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Famous for over 60 years DeWitt'a Pilla contain an analgetic to reduce pain and a mild diuretic to help eliminate retained fluids thus flushing out bladder waitet which can cause such paina DeWitt'a Pilla often succeed where others fail II pain persists always consult your doctor but first try Pills-1 BIRMINGHAM'S OLDEST AND LARGEST HEALTH SPA SYSTEM COMER TODAY In'House races: Place Rep Paul Meeks Jr unopposed Place Rep Jabo Waggoner Jr 14322 Felton Collier 12371 Place Rep Bob Ellis 10334 Ed Randall 9488 Taft Epstein 3408 Lonnie Clark 2535: Vaughan 2081 (runoff likely) Place Ben Erdreich 14445 Rep Hubert Kilgore 11298 Place 3-Rep Dick Dill 13056 Frank Bonds 12236 Place Bobby Timmons 12163 Harold Ackerman 5792 Dick Gurley 2629 Green was ahead with a count of 23731 to King's 4010 Sheriff Bailey was opposed by two candidates Pleasant Grove police chief Tom McCay arid a Negro minister Victor Leonard v'oods like Green he kept a commanding lead over his onoositinn from the start of the counting With the 153 boxes in the score in that race stood Bailey 24628: McCay 2581 and Woods 1009 Green had conducted a low-pitched campaign based on the record of the commission as a whole and pointing to the accomplishments of the last four years including construction of Mercy Hosnital the charity hospital for which Green has waged a long campaign and other county public works programs including the miles of paved roads new bridges sewer treatment 5 Highland Baptist sets festival South Highland Baptist Church will hold a revival May 11-17 Services win be at 11:30 am and 7 pm Monday through Friday and at 7 pm Saturday Sunday Services will be at 10:30 am and 7 pm The Rev WUliam Williamson pastor of the Bend Baptist Church Madi- son Tenn will be the guest preacher Mr Williamson a native of Bessemer is the son of Mrs Nelson Hicks He was graduated from Bessemer High School Bessemer Sam-ford University and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville Ky He has served as president of the Nashville Ministerial Association Larry Adkins minister of music and youth at South Highland Baptist Church will be the singer He is a Junior at the University of Monte-vallo Nursery facilities will be available for all services Judiciary group OKs Blackman WASHINGTON (UPI) By a 17-0 vote the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday recommended that Judge Harry A Blackmun be confirmed as the ninth member of the Supreme Court Full Senate confirmation could come as early as Thursday The rare display of unanimity signalled certain smooth sailing for President nominee when his name comes up on the Senate floor Financing Arranged Ml Easy Terms AlWiHiGMiinltN Jefferson County Commission President Cooner Green and Sheriff Melvin Bailey both were easy winners Tuesday in their bids for reelection Commissioner Green a former Birmingham Mayor and one-time Birmingham postmaster kept approximately a 10-to-one lead over his lone challenger Fairfield Mayor Joe King throughout most ot the evening With 153 boxes reporting 2 children overcome by smoke Two children were overcome by smoke Tuesday after the apartment where they lived caught fire from an electric hot plate turned on by the mother to take the chiU from the room Deputy Fire Marshal EL Berry said Mrs Sandra Tate 2105 25th-st told the fire inspector she left the children in bed with the hot plate on a chair beside it When she returned a short time later she said both children were on the floor Keith 2 had stopped breathing and Latana 3 was unconscious A neighbor drove them to Carraway Methodist Hospital where they were given first aid and the baby started breathing again Both were admitted for observation Meanwhile another neighbor called the Fire Department which arrived to find the room in flames They said the woman left so hurriedly with the children she failed to close the door giving the fire more air They said other rooms in the garden-type apartments were fined with smoke and heat but the fire was confined to the one where the children lived County employes to get holiday Jefferson County employes will get a Memorial Day holiday this year It was approved Tuesday by the Jefferson County Commission But since Memorial Day falls on Saturday which is a regular day off for employes the commissioners agreed they could have May 29 as their holiday The request for a holiday was presented to the commissioners a couple of months ago by a delegation bom the County Employes Association who reminded the county officials that city and state employes regularly get a day-off in observance of Memorial Day but that the county employes in the past have had to work Secret ballot not secret for while Tty secret ballot so seCrtt for about five hours at the Jefferson County Courthouse Tuesday The inside of five or six votiig booths in the courthouse lobby were clearly visible from the second floor balcaiy and it was possible fromj that vantage point for persons armed with a ballot to observe exactly how the vot inside the curtained bootl was voting A number of persons in-cludi ig several politicians and varii is courthouse officials tobk advantage of the opportune 1 to sample returns from thos machines until voting offic ils finally realized what ping on Co nty maintenance men hnrriidly rounded up pieces of pywood to put over the ops of the machines so at afeou 2 pm the at voting was blacked ut Yines Atkin's runoff is Tty race for deputy circuit £ierk for the Bessemer Division! of Jefferson County probably will be required between (Buzz) Vines and (pharlie) Atkins forerunners in tne seven-man race Vises a bailiff in the court for he last 16 years had a sizeable lead over Atkins a Bessemer businessman in the unofficial tallies -but did not have a sufficient lead to give him the nomination without a runoff Vises son of Mrs Violet Vines and the late Gurley' Vines Deputy Probate Judge at the time of his death led the field with a vote of 1489 in the unofficial returns late Tuesday Atkins vote was 585 Other tallies were: Janice Johnson Daniel 413 John Dillard 126 Fred (Jaybird) House 475 and Frances Shell 227 Demos draw crowd Trim Off Those Unwanted Inches IE ta la ia a IS IS! 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IS! ia IB 13 IB IB IB IB i IB IB IB IB IB 0 ONLY THE SUM-TRIM EUROPEAN HEALTH SPA CAN SAY EACH VISIT INCLUDES COMPLETE FACILITIES AT NO EXTRA COST Jefferson County voters were giving Gov Albert Brewer an overpowering lead as local returns mounted in the race Tuesday night 1 His Democratic primary Parham guilty gets 10 years Cleveland Parham IQ was convicted of robbery in Circuit Judge Joseph court Tuesday and sentenced to 10 years in prison on a charge of snatching a diaper bag which contained in addition to the normal infant needs (20 in cash The defendant and his mother both testified he and his girl friend spent the evening of the robbery at home with her Mrs Dorothy King however said Parham was the man who held a knife at her throat and robbed her She said she got a clear look at him when he had tried to strike up a conversation offering to help her carry her year-old son before the robbery The woman said she was cut slightly on the throat when she screamed despite his warning not to call for helo She said the incident occurred at the intersection of 15-th-st and 10th-ct as she was starting home from her house about 7 pm the id April 21 1968 -The Jury Tuesday deliberated about 45 minutes before bringing in the guilty verdict Parham 4 lias three 'prior convictions for grand larceny Deputy DisL A tty A1 Bowen was prosecutin' for the state and had argued for a heavier sentence telling Jurors that in many states the sentence is automatically life imprisonment in cases where there have been three prior convictions days as as was expected in the face ot an attention-getting Democratic primary County GOP Chairman Earl Hall said late Tuesday that some 3000 voters may have cast Republican ballots The issue at stake however a showdown between conservative and moderate factions of the party was still undecided late in the night Republicans chose delegates to this state convention in Birmingham and also elected members of the County Executive Committee There were two slates on the ballot The one headed by John Grenier "was considered an attempt to place moderates in control of party macM-nery now headed by Hall a conservative GOP primaries were also held in Madison Chilton and Winston Counties 4 A planned primary in Mobile was called off because -an candidates were vote out-totaled that of all six opponents combined including former Gov George Wallace who trailed as a pom- second With 107 of 781 boxes tabulated it stood at: Brewer 16248 Wallace 7563 Charles Woods 2982 Asa Carter 149 Ralph Price 120 Coleman Brown 87 Jim Folsom 44 Long lines were reported in almost all metropolitan Birmingham precincts pushing tin total expected turnout close to 200000 Complete unofficial returns were not expected until 4:30 or 5 ajn today McClain Edington winners BT PHIL ORAMOUS Two members of the Alabama House were nominated to move up to State Senate slots in Democratic primary" Rep Gene McClain smashed Rep Harry Pennington by a vote of 22448 to 14600 with all but one Madison County box reporting In the 3rd District race Both men live in Huntsville Rep Robert Edington amassed 31J43 votes to 24118 for fellow Mobillan Bassie Smith tor the nomination to Place 3 in the 24th District with 350 of the 387 reported- Veteran State Sen Pierce of Montgomery apparently was picked to defend Ms seat against possible Republican opposition in the November general election 1 Republicans will hold their statewide nominating convention in July GOP leaders have said the party would concentrate on trying for seats in Congress and the legislature Pierce compiled 19902 votes in the race for Place No 1 in the 21st Snowden had 12092 end James Sauna Jr 3233 with an 198 Montgo County boxes reporting In House contests two Negroes were leading in the 31st District which takes in the Black Belt counties of Barbour Bullock and Macon Thomas Reed of Tuskegee held a 3887 to 1998 margin over incumbent James Paulk of Union Springs for Place 1 Fred Gray of Tuskegee was leading Sidney Bledsoe of Armstrong and incumbent BUI Neville Jr of Eufaula in Place 1 Gray had 4066 votes Bledsoe 1243 and Neville 1047 Twenty-eight of the district's 99 boxes had reputed in the balloting for both places Eleven other Negroes were seeking legislative posts but results were inconclusive Rep Billy Laxson was nominated for his post in the 3rd District Place 5 Laxson had 16536 votes to Baker's 15145 with 59 of 88 of Madison County's products calling Other dost but' tacondusivo 1st GOP primary turnout is light UPHOLSTERY SPECIAL 3 DAYS ONLY Wednesday-Thursday-Fridoy FACUTES FOR WOMEN 7DAYSAWEEK FACUTESFORMEN 7 DAYS A WEEK APPROVED BY AHA In Business Since 1951 OPENDAlTlIAJLTOlIPJt SATDUAYt SUNDAY 18 AJL TO fiPJL-CAllM Jefferson County's first RepiMcan primary drew a I turnout of voters Tues- 11 Indiana congressmen ijenomfcated Indianapolis ind (UPi) All 11 members of the Indiana delegation in Congress were- renominated in Tuesday's primary including Rep Ray Madden the dean of the Hoosiers 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