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By DIANNE GARYANTES . Consumer Party candidate Ray Boyle had 515 votes, support it. That will ruin representative democracy. Voter turnout was light in the municipality, with about 16
and. KAREN KONSKI. Democrat Grove Spearly had 405 votes and Chris Hall, a "If Wiser and Dombroski win, it will be a setback. Control percent of the eligible people voting.
Daily Collegian Staff Writers Consumer Party member, who withdrew from the race in of the council would serve the Republicans." If a Democrat wins the third council seat, three
Republican John Dombroski and incumbent Democratic August, had 170 votes. Consumer Party chairman Tom Ortenberg said Hall's • Democrats and four Republicans will serve on council. If a
candidate Felicia Lewis led the race for two of the three Wiser said the race was too close to call and he had no name was still on the ballot even though he withdrew from Republican takes the seat, however, two Democrats and
- open seats on the State College Municipal Council, with comment because the major precincts, including his' home the race because he withdrew after the deadline. He also five Republicans will serve on the council.
incumbent Democratic candidate James Deeslie and district were not yet in. said the fact that Hall got so many votes was a positive sign The three Republican candidates ran as a team, backed
Republican candidate Gary Wiser in a close race for the But Democratic council member Daniel Chaffee said if a for the Consumer Party. by Mayor Arnold Addison, who ran unopposed in the
third seat with 12 of the 19 precincts reporting. Republican took the third open seat on council, it would be a This is the Consumer Party's first election as a registered election. They stressed fiscal responsibility throughout the
As of 2:20 this morning, Dombroski and Lewis were tied disaster for the council. party in Centre County. It sued the county commissioners campaign.
with 804 votes, and Wiser was in third place with 691 votes. "For a councilman you need a sense of balance," Chaffee for ballot status and won the decision in the Centre County Deeslie, Lewis, and Dombroski were unavailable for
Deeslie had 661 votes, Republican Ralph Way had 641 votes, said. "You cannot go in with opinion and feel everyone will Court of Common Pleas in September. ' comment.
Kean leading Florio in
New Jersey election;
Robb wins in Virginia
By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
AP. Political Writer
Democrat Charles S. Robb ended 12 years of Republican
rule in Virginia yesterday and the GOP and Democratic
candidates in New Jersey fought indecisively into the
morning in governor's races watched as ballot-box
barometers of how Americans feel about President
Reagan's economic program.
,The Virginia contest between Robb, son-in-law of the late
President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Republican Attorney
General Marshall Coleman was a battle of conservatives
that provided no clear choice on Reagan's policies.
But the Reagan program was a major issue in New
Jersey, where late returns gave Republican Thomas H.
Kean a 3,000-vote lead over Democratic Rep. James J.
Florio, with just 1 percent of the ballots still to be counted.
Florio had called on voters to "send the nation a message"
expressing their dissatisfaction with the administration.
The White House and the two national party
organizations had large investments in money and
prestige in the two races. But as the campaigns ended, the
outcomes appeared as dependent on local issues as voter
feelings about the Reagan presidency.
With 5,628 of New Jersey's 5,647 precincts reporting,
unofficial totals gave Kean 1,127,770 votes and Florio
1,124,468 a virtual 50-50 split. Kean led most of the night,
but Florio briefly took the lead as late returns came in
from his home base in Camden and Gloucester counties.
It was New Jersey's tightest gubernatorial election in
two decades, and Democratic State Chairman James J.
Maloney said, "It's increasingly apparent that this•
election will not be decided tonight (Tuesday)."
Reagan campaigned for Republicans in both New Jersey
and Virginia.
In Virginia, he appealed to voters: "Don't let me down."
But Robb, lieutenant governor the past four years, won
handily.
"It's ours," he told supporters at a victory rally in
Richmond.
"Our cause will continue despite this sudden setback,"
Coleman said in his concession speech.
With 1,875 of the state's 1,909 precincts reporting, the
unofficial vote was Robb 753,637 53.8 percent and
Coleman 648,226 46.2 percent.
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• Students want certain hours extended at Pattee
Library, especially during final exams and on weekends,
according to the preliminary analysis of a Library Opinion
Poll Page 6
• The Downtown Business Association has submitted
several suggestions in an effort to establish a sign
ordinance which is satisfactory to State College Munici
pal Council officials and members of the business com
munity Page 7
• Penn State fell to sixth in this week's Associated
Press college football poll as Pitt becomes the new No. 1
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weather
Mostly sunny and pleasant today after some morning
haze, with high temperatures near 66 degrees. Clear early
tonight, but cloudiness should gradually increase later.
Low temperatures will be near 45 degrees. Becoming
mostly cloudy tomorrow with the chance of afternoon
showers. High temperatures around 58 degrees.
—by Mark Stunder
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Nix wins second term on state Supreme Court
By RICH KIRKPATRICK
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Supreme Court Justice Robert
N.C. Nix Jr. won retention to a second 10-year term
yesterday as Republican candidates led for two other seats
on the high court.
Nix's win puts him in line to become the state's first black
chief justice in 1984.
A Democrat, he won endorsements from both parties as
well as the state Bar Association.
Among candidates for the state Supreme Court,
Republicans James T. McDermott, a Philadelphia Common
Pleas Court judge, and William Hutchinson, a House
member from Schuylkill County, were ahead of Common
Pleas Court Judge S.L. Farino and District Attorney Robert
Colville, both of Allegheny County.
With 60 percent of the vote counted, McDermott had
670,369 or 28.2 percent; Hutchinson, 610,780 or 25.5 percent;
Colville, 559,506, 23.3 percent; and Farino, 557,608 or 23.3
percent.
Farino had raised more than double the funds of the other
three candidates. His committee collected more than
Space shuttle set for 2nd launch today
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Columbia's
astronauts, optimistic to the last, went to bed last night
night not knowing if the skies would clear enough for a
sunrise launch of the shuttle's first return trip to space.
The forecast predicted a 30-40 percent chance of
overnight showers right through Columbia's 7:30 a.m.
EST launch target.
At 1(..10 last night, the countdown resumed as planned
after the expiration of a built-in "hold" period that had
lasted most of the day.
The decision whether to go, scrub or wait was to be
made in a conference of top shuttle officials after
midnight when they would have more information about
the weather.
Shortly before retiring for the night, both Joe Engle
and Richard Truly told a meeting of top space officials
that if a laiinch opportunity exists, they want to take it
even if it means sitting until noon in the cockpit
waiting for a break in the weather.
"They don't want to miss a chance to go at their first
opportunity," said astronaut coordinator Bill Jones.
"They're ready and they want to go.
"I think they're confident we can go, and we're sure
going to give it a try and hope for the best," said Jones,
one of a small group who gathered in the crew's
quarters to wish them luck because there is no time for
that on launch morning. "We are proceeding as though
they are going to launch at 7:30 in the morning —that's
the whole psychological attitude."
Their goal is to take Columbia into orbit; the ship
would become the first to make a repeat trip into space,
ushering an era where travel and work in space would
become almost routine.
On the launch pad, all was well.
Norm Carlson, a launch manager, said: "We
absolutely have no problems," summing up one of the
smoothest space launch countdowns on record.
"The countdown is so smooth; it's making us a little
nervous," said Jones. "The only problem is the
weather." • e
If there isn't a launch by noon -12:10 p.m. to be exact
liftoff will be scrubbed for the day, or longer, said
Donald K. Slayton, shuttle test manager.
"It's going to go," he said.
$196,000 by mid-October.
McDermott earned a tough reputation in 16 years on the
bench and campaigned extensively around the state last
month.
Meanwhile, eight candidates for Superior Court were
locked in a tight battle for four seats on the expanded
appeals court.
With 49 percent of the vote counted, less than 2 percentage
points separated the contenders in a race characterized by
shifting leads and party line voting.
Incumbent Democrat Donald Wieand was leading the
crowded field with 13.4 percent of the vote, based on
unofficial returns. His closest rival, Montgomery County
Judge Vincent Cirillo, a Republican, was 12,000 votes behind
with 13.1 percent.
Two Democrats were competing for the third and fourth
positions. Incumbent Richard DiSalle and Luzerne County
Judge Peter Paul Olszewski each had about 12.6 percent of
the tabulated vote, with DiSalle holding a slight edge.
Scranton lawyer John McLane, a Democrat, was slightly
ahead of Republican incumbent Stephen McEwen, each
with about 12.3 percent of the vote. Trailing were two
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Turnout low in
student precincts
Voting averages
By PHIL GUTIS
and CHRISTOPHER COONEY
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Students did anything but vote
yesterday as turnout figures in the
student-dominated precincts
showed.
With 10 of 11 student-dominated
precincts reporting at 2:15 a.m.
today, voter turnout was running at
11.63 percent ranging from 20.9
percent in South Central 1 to 3.9
percent in East 4.
Registration figures, however,
were not up to date at the Centre
County Courthouse. During last
year's presidential election, campus
and area political groups held
registration drives.
Most likely, at least one quarter of
these students who were registered
in last fall's drive have left the State
College area, said Jeffrey Bower,
chairman of the Centre County
Board of Elections.
The county Board of Elections can
only purge a name if it receives a
notice from another district that a
person has registerd somewhere
else, he said.
The low turnout is "a combination
of apathy and students graduating
and moving elswhere," Bower said.
"However, even with that, it is not
going to increase your three percent
to a much higher figure."
Bower agreed that the students
register and vote with much higher
frequency in years of presidential
and gubernatorial elections.
Daniel Chaffee, chairman of the
Centre County Democratic Party,
Republicans Beaver County Judge James Rowley with 12
percent and incumbent Perry Shertz with 11.7 percent.
In the Commonwealth Court race, Democrat Joseph
"Ted" Doyle and Republican incumbent Madeline
Palladino traded leads through the night.
Judge Palladino, seeking her first full 10-year term, took
an early lead, lost it and then regained it as votes came in
through the. night.
With 47 percent of the vote counted, Doyle had 460,333 or
50.1 percent, and Judge Palladino, 458,124 or 49.9 percent.
Officials of both parties had expected a 40 to 50 percent
voter turnout in the western counties, which in past
elections have solidly supported their favorite son
candidates.
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McDermott's chances hinged on the showing in
Philadelphia, where the off-year judicial and municipal
contest drew only about 20 percent of the voters in the May
primary.
In Pittsburgh, incumbent Democrat Richard Caliguiri
defeated Republican Fred Goehringer.
Pennsylvania has 5.7 million registered voters, with
Democrats holding a 53-42 percent edge.
Air Force Capt. Don Greene, a shuttle weather
officer, said, "our job is to pinpoint" breaks in the cloud
cover. He expressed confidence that the shuttle would
take off some time this morning.
At the midnight weather conference, top space
officials decided that the weather would permit loading
of the ship's volatile liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen
fuels.
That operation began about six hours before
scheduled launch. If the launch is scrubbed, the fuels
have to be unloaded and the tank purged of
contaminants a process that delays another launch
by at least two days.
That happened last April when computer problems
stopped the shuttle's first launch attempt 16 minutes
before ignition.
The trip turned out to be a spectacular success, and
officials here hoped not to stretch Columbia's 6 1 / 2 -month
turnaround.
It was possible that overnight rain would not delay the
launch if ice accumulation is less than 1-16th of an inch
on the fuel tank.
1 1 .63 percent
said the Democrats purged the
county registration list in East 1 by
comparing it.with what the
University residence hall lists show.
In East 1, Chaffee said the Young
Democrats reduced the 1,184
registered to "a couple of hundred
students."
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Using the registration figures
provided by the county, the four
districts with polling places on
campus East 1, East 2, East 4 and
West Central 1 showed low
student turnout
In East 1, the polling place is in
Findlay Union Building. With 1,144
voters registered, only 50 people or
4.9 percent voted.
East 2, centered in Stevens Hall in
South Halls, however, had a voter
turnout of 15.4 percent with 145 of 939
registered people voting.
East 4, with polling in Pollock
Union Building, show returns with
the the same pattern as in East 1,
with only 3.8 percent or 53 of the
1,384 voters registered.
West Central 1, with a polling in
Waring Union Building, was the first
state district to report its totals. Of
859 registered voters, 60 people or 6.9
percent voted.
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