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...lower-middle-class whites-consider Stokes to have been too energetic in behalf of blacks. Two of his civil service commissioners have been indicted on charges of favoring Negro applicants to the police department. The Fraternal Order of Police took full-page newspaper ads to denounce the mayor. Ralph Perk, the Republican county auditor, seemed a candidate well equipped to benefit from Stokes' color and the old-country orientation of Cleveland's working-class population. Of Czech background. Perk is married to an Italian-American and has a daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent. He did not openly...
With nearly all the votes counted. Stokes led county auditor Ralph Perk by only 1600 votes out of more than 230,000 ballots cast. In Detroit, Wayne County sheriff Roman Gribbs held a small, steady lead over black Richard Austin through last night's counting...
...with truly marvelous excuses, but sometimes the vestiges of civility in our culture soften them up enough that they listen past the "is she in?" Sometimes they listen far enough to hear that they can get a set of Collier's Encyclopedia for free, and then, sometimes, their cars perk...
Thus it would be no surprise if Cleveland elected its first Republican mayor since 1941. The G.O.P. has fielded a strong candidate in Ralph J. Perk, 55, auditor of Cuyahoga County and, like Pittsburgh's Tabor, a man of Czech descent. That helps in Cleveland, where identification with the old countries of Central and Eastern Europe is still close...
...Perk stresses strict law enforcement and attacks what he claims are the declining levels of most city services. When re-elected as auditor, he became the first Republican in 25 years to carry the city. And as the G.O.P. grows stronger, black registration has dropped by near ly 10,000 this year...