Adlai Stevenson, Democratic presidential candidate, will defeat "Ike" and Pogo on November 4, according to Grady students in a recent straw ballot election.
Stevenson nosed out General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican candidate, in a close race of 713 to 605. Student and faculty votes collected separately, both elected Stevenson. The Democratic nominee carried the eighth, ninth, eleventh and twelfth grades.
The tenth grade chose to support "Ike." The band which presented both candidates in the Grady-North Fulton half time show voted Republican. The chorus majority went to the Democrats.
Stevenson carried 37 homerooms, "Ike" 15. In six home rooms, among them Student Council, the candidates tied.
"I go Pogo" or " 'Ike' for president, Pogo for 'veep'," said some voters. Dick Russell, Georgia senator and Norman Thomas, socialist leader, received one write-in vote each. Combinations of Stevenson and Nixon, Eisenhower and Sparkman, and Eisenhower and Stevenson were marked. "Long live the South, solid South," appeared on one ballot.
In connection with the Grady voting, speakers from the Republican and Democratic parties recently spoke to the social studies department.
Mr. Woodrow Wilson Tucker, named for the late president Wilson, spoke for the Democratic ticket. He used as his theme "Let's go forward with Stevenson and Sparkman." Mr. Henry Grady Black, grandson of the late Southern statesman Henry Grady, represented the Republicans. He quoted Eisenhower as saying, "Young people are the hope of not only the country but the world."