The Conshohocken Recorder, May 23, 1963

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Citizens' Ticket Triumphs in Whitemarsh Twp
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GOP Regulars Sweep County
Parkhouse,
Vogel Beat
Fred Peters
The Montgomery County Repub-lican
Organization nominated its
entiie slate Tuesday In handy fash-ton
and demolished the Fred Pet-ers'
myth in the process.
In a strong showing at the prim-ary
election, the GOP Regulars'
County commissioner team of A.
Russell Parkhouse and William W.
Vogel dealt Peters his first defeat
In 37 years of politics.
The endorsed slate of 13 piled up
Comfortable margins.
Meanwhile, the two Democratic
Organization Commissioners choices
defeated a single challenger in the
only contest In its ranks.
Coiratp. Republicans produced
some 65.000 ballots or more than SS
per cent of registered strength
There were contests in six races.
Democrats voted 11,000 or less than
20 per cent of registered strength.
The OOP primary ticket of the
regulars was the product of County
Chairman James E. Staudinger,
County Commission Chairman El-kins
Wetherill and Congressman
Richard S. Schweiker.
The slate captured the two com-missioner
nominations and nomin-ations
for county Judge, controller,
prothonotary, district attorney, reg-ister
of wills, recorder of deeds,
clerk of courts, treasurer, sheriff,
coroner and surveyor
Political observers were watch-ing
the OOP County commission-ers'
race with close Interest.
Peters, former county commis-sioner
and onetime OOP strong-mar,
lost by almost 15,000 votes in
the County's 271 voting districts in
his attempted comeback. The Lower
Merion treasurer carried on an ex-
Family Aided by Red Cross Branch
WELCOME HELP—The William McGuire family, 805 Ford St., West Consho-hocken,
shares happy moment with A. Thomas Clarke Jr. (r.), disaster chairman for
Central Montgomery Countly Branch, American Red Cross. The McGuires were
aided by Red Cross after house was damaged and contents were destroyed by fire.
(1 to r) Mr. and Mrs. McGuire and their daughters, Susan, 2; Ann, 7, and Mar-garet,
6. The family is back in home after spending time in a Conshohocken apart-ment
waiting for house to be repaired and refurnished.
pensive campaign which included
county-wide mailings of a tabloid
newspaper.
The bitterest blow came to the 80-
year-old Peters when Vogel, a Low-1 outpoll Parkhous? in Lower Merion.
er Merion commissioner, defeated In Abington. Parkhouse's home
rum In his own township by almost community, Peters took a lacing.
800 votes. Peters did manage to| (Continued on Pago Fifteen)
Burns Wins
Nomination
In 7th Ward
Joseph P. Burns, incumbent pres-ident
of Conshohocken Borough
Council, seeking a four-year term
from the newly-formed Seventh
Ward on the Democratic ticket, had
a mildly close call in Tuesday's
primary.
His opponent, Councilman Fran-cis
J. Roop, whose term expires
with Burns' the end of the year,
campaigned vigorously.
But the vote was: Burns. 132;
Roop, 73. Roop had rapped Burns
aad Maycs Jwaa, :. 7 - r* ,
Another interesting contest in the
Republican ranks concerned the
fight between incumbent Anthony
Baranowski and Alan (Shillo)
Campbell, a newcomer to the office-seeking
arena.
Baranowski, Second Ward resi-dent
and one of the youngest men
to serve Borough Council, polled
122 votes to Campbell's 79 to win
the nod.
'Old' Rival Opposes Him
Baranowski will be confronted
with an "old" rival in November,
former councilman John O'Connor,
one of the oldest campaigners in
the borough, who was unopposed on
the Democrat ticket for the Second
Ward nomination.
Prank Zadroga, Republican cor- -
ciiman from the Third Ward, sec -
ing re-nomination to his post after
eipht years in the seat, won by a
comfortable margin.
He was opposed by former coun-cilman
Henry J. Firestone.
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4 Students Awarded Alan Wood Scholarships
The Alan Wood Steel Co. Foun-dation,
Conshohocken, has awarded
college scholarships carrying a total
value of $16,000 to four high school
seniors.
These awards, made under the
provisions of the Foundation Schol-arship
Program established in 1960,
go to three girls and one boy, chil-dren
of Alan Wood Steel employes.
M. HORAN j MARY C. IIANNIGAN
Three of the recipients are chil-dren
of employees at the Consho-hocken
mill; the fourth is a daugh-tei
of a hoist engineer employed at
the Alan Wood Steel Co. Scrub Oaks
Mine, in Dover, N. J. Each of the
1963 winners participated in a var-iety
of high school extra curricularj
activities and stood high in his'
class scholastically.
The winners, selected by a panel
of six leading Montgomery County
educators, professional and busi-ness
leaders are: Robert W. Behr-man,
a senior at Plymouth-White-marsh
High School; Honone M.
Koran, a senior at A. D. Eisenhower
High School, Norrlstown; Mary C.
Hannigan, a senior at Bishop Mc-
Devltt High School, Wyndcotc. and
Judith A. Hastie, a senior at Dover
High School. Dover, N. J.
Both Robert Behrman and Miss
Horan will receive a maximum of
$6,000 in scholarship assistance (a
maximum of $1,500 during each of
lour years of college studies). Miss
Hannigan and Miss Hastie will eachi
receive a maximum of $2,000 ( a
maximum of $500 for each of fou:
years)
Behrman is tl*e son of J. Robert
Behrman, 3027 Mathers Mill Rd..
Lafayette Hill, manager operations
research. Robert plans to matricu-late
at DePauw University, Green-castle.
Ind., to prepare for a career
in law.
Miss Horan is the daughter of
Gerald E. Horan, 2772 Egypt Rd.,
Audubon. Horan is a general fore-man
m the open hearth. Honore,
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JUDITH A. HASTIE ROBERT W. IHHIfclMAW