Earp, Roy

Three Picher Oklahoma officeholders, all Republicans, entered campaigns to succeed themselves today. Mayor J. H. Klinefelter; Councilman E. E. Burkholder of Ward 2, and C. H. Jennings, city clerk, filed on the Republican ticket this morning at the office of H. J. Butcher, election board secretary. Roy Earp, Democrat, will seek the nomination for police chief at Picher Oklahoma.

Primary Voting Will be Held in County Tuesday. Following are the office nominations at stake and contestants in the Tuesday voting: Picher Democrat Mayor' O. B. Cantrell, Jack Thompson, A. E. Breedlove and Fred Gary. Police Chief Stanley Winters, Frank McWethy, Harley Jennings; Roy Earp, Ray Bond, J. E. Best, Jack Crabtree and J. H. Rogers. City Clerk Lena M. Dodd, Bertha McAuley and J. R. Wisby. Ward 1 Council Homer McBride and Kern Byrd, Ware 2 Council Earl Black and Carter'Speck' Windham; Ward 3 Council E. A.'Tink' Tinkler and J. D. Smith; Ward 4 Council Fred Arbs, Riley Clark and W. D. Laswell. Ward 1 Board of Education William'Bill Edwards and Cleve Horner. Ward 2 Board of Education B. B. Brumfield and Alma Williams.

Unofficial tabulation of the vote for democratics, chief of police at Picher was: Stanley Winters, 350; Harley Jennings, 252; Frank McWethy 288; ...Roy Earp 18; J. H. Rogers, 22; Jack Crabtree, 14.