Herbert Watt Profile (Forecast) December 1968HERBERT WATT
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Watt A Member
NORTH PALM BEACH
Herbert Watt, vice chairman of
the village recreation commit-
tee, will be sworn in as a
councilman at the town Coun-
cil's regular meeting at 8 p.m.
Tuesday.
An engineer, he retired
from the plant department of
the New York Bell Telephone
Co. and has lived at 720
Lighthouse drive for three
years. He is active in the
Senior Citizens' CIub of North
Palm Beach, president of the
North :Palm Beach Shuffle-
board Club and is an ardent
boating fan.
He will serve the unexpired
term of Herbert Gibson who
recently moved away from
North Palm Beach. Councilmen
at a recent executive meeting'
agreed to appoint Watt to serve I
until the next regular election,
:March, 1965.
FORECAST DECEMBER 1968
Herbert A. Watt, a retired New Jersey
communications engineer has by no means
retired since his move to North Palm Beach
7 years ago. During his third term as Vil-
lage Councilman he has willingly served as
tax assessor, tax collector, treasurer and
acting village manager.
Herb and his wife Eleanor (December
Artist of the Month) live at 720 Lighthouse
Drive and are particularly proud of their
three children and seven grand children.
Watt Acting
NPB Manager
NORTH PALM BEACH --
Councilman Herbert Watt was
named acting village manager
here Tuesday by the Village
Council until a new manager
is appointed.
The manager for the past!
year, Joe J. Essa Jr., has sub-
mitted his resignation, effective
June 6, to take a position as
senior vice-president of West
Palm Beach's Central Bank of
Palm Beach County.
Watt, a retired employe of the
New York Telephone Co., has
been a councilman for three
years.
Mrs. Charles McCraney, Les-
lie Harrell and Miss Jo Deay
were appointed to the Recrea-
tion Advisory Board by the
Council.
Charles E. Tucker, electrical
m e m. b e r, and R.M. Bishop,
plumbing member, were. appoint-
ed to the Contractor's Examin-
ing Board.
Watt JVins Runojff
a c
sate
council in 1964. In 1965 and
1967, he successfuly kept the;
seat and served the village as
chairman of the Recreation
Advisory Board, tax assessor,
tax collector, treasurer and
interim village manager.
AtA r orth Palm
NORTH PALM BEACH --
Incumbent village Councilman
Herbert Watt, 66, of 720 Light-
house Drive, captured his
council seat for the fourth
term Tuesday, defeating
James Taylor in a runoff elec-
tion.
Watt, a retired employe of
the New York Telephone Co.,
had 431 votes to Taylor's 267.
Sixteen absentee ballots,
which would not affect Watt's
victory, were to be canvassed
by village officials late Tues-
day night.
The turnout of 698 voters
was 15.8 per cent of the vil-
lage's 4,404 registered voters.
On March 18, Watt received
the greatest number of votes
on the group against three oth-
er candidates. His margin,
however, was not the majority
needed to beat Taylor, 38, a
junior project engineer at
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in
the first round.
A resident of North Palm
Beach since 1961, Watt was
first appointed to a seal c .",