Decatur Mayor Race Focuses on Comeback Effort
Incumbent Charles Guntharth seeks to erase a 1 000 vote lead held by Russell Bolding from the Aug 8 primary. Bolding led 3 467 to 2 471. Guntharp carried key precincts poorly in southeast and southwest districts. The runoff campaign remains active though less intense than the initial race.
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Decatur
Charles Gunthorp
Russell Bolding
Bolding
Guntharp
Decatur mayoral letters defend Guntharp and blast opponent
Readers respond to a Sept 1972 Decatur Daily opinion page with letters praising Charles E. Guntharp for Decatur improvements and criticizing challenger Russell Bolding, detailing projects, budgets, and local politics in Morgan County Alabama.
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Decatur Daily
Jerome C. Ard, Jr
Virgil Blake
Decatur
Charles E. Guntharp
Charles Guntharp
George C. Wallace
Blake
Meadus Rd
Ala
The
State of
Alabama
Lurleen B. Wallace
Five Parties Will Be On State Ballot
Alabama ballots in November will include five party columns the Conservative Democratic Prohibition NDPA and Republican. Each party lists nine presidential electors a Public Service Commission candidate and a U.S. Senate candidate. The NDPA and Democratic slates pledge to McGovern-Shriver creating cross competition.
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U.S
6Th
Birmingham
McGovern-Shriver
George C. Wallace
Mabel Amos
National Democratic Party of
Us- Senate
Herbert W. Stone
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