Rural District Council
On 15 April 1952, the sitting councillor for Dunbreen on Omagh Rural district Council, Joseph Patterson, told a meeting of Unionist electors at Dunmullan Orange Hall that he wished to retire from the council at the forthcoming elections. He nominated Beattie to succeed him, a motion that was passed. Beattie was returned unopposed for Dunbreen District Electoral Division on 6 June 1952. He was not a notably active councillor, but on 4 March 1954 he handed in a petition from farmers in Cappagh, Dunbreen and neighbouring districts, calling for mains electricity supplies.
The next month he defended the achievements of the Ulster Farmers' Union when the closure of Fintona centre for fat stock was announced; Beattie pointed out that there were 28 such centres in Northern Ireland when in an equivalent area in England there were only 8. He was reselected as a candidate for Omagh Rural District Council in April 1955, and was again returned unopposed on 24 May 1955.
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