24—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 11, 1984 election results State bond issue gets voters' okay Centre County voters last night resoundingly approved a referen dum proposal for a $l9O million state bond issue to fund economic development programs. With all 85 precincts reporting, 66 percent of the more than 19,000 area voters approved the proposal. Statewide, voters approved the measure by an almost 2-1 margin. With 41 percent of the state's pre Herman wins 77th District primary Incumbent Rep. Lynn Herman, R-Centre County, last night soundly defeated Norman Domblisky in the Republican primary for the 77th Legislative District seat. About 44 percent of Centre Coun ty's registered voters turned out for the primary. Herman received 90.58 percent of the vote with 3,157 votes. Domblisky garnered 9.41 percent with 328 votes. Early morning election results from Clearfield County were not available. Witmer wins race for 171st district Charles Witmer last night defeat ed Dennis Sciabica in the Republi can primary race for the 171st district. In the only contested race in the district, Witmer received 58.67 per cent of the vote with 2,512 votes. Sciabica received 41.32 percent of the vote with 1,769 votes. THE INTERNATIONAL CULTURES . INTEREST HOUSE presents Professor Richard Eaton speaking on Political Geography Wednesday April 11 at 8:00 PM 3rd floor Leete Hall Study Lounge R 334 cincts reporting, 212,733 voters fa vored the proposal to 124,346 who opposed it. The programs that would be funded through the sale of the bonds include a $5O million pro gram to provide loans .or grants to local economic development agen cies. The money would be used for projects such as access roads or railroad sidings short railroad Herman called the margin "very significant," although he was not surprised at the victory, he said. "I'm glad that voters in the dis trict selected me as their Republi can candidate for the race," he said. Herman said he expects to win the general election in November. "I'm fairly confident that I'll be returned to office," Herman said. Herman's opponents in the No vember general election will be Democrat Ira Smades and Consum- With 55 precincts ' reporting, Witmer said he was "very nervous and very excited.", However, he was unavailable for comment when final results were tabulated. Witmer will face Rep. Ruth Rudy, D-Centre County, in the No vember general election. Rudy said she was not surprised at Witmer's tracks connected with the main track, which would accommodate private businesses opening new fa cilities. Also tentatively included are $2O million for encouragement of small business programs development through incubator center programs and a $l5 million program to pro vide jobs for unemployed youths. —By Beverly Ivens er Party candidate Tom Ortenberg. Philipsburg Mayor Ira Smades, running unopposed in the Demo cratic primary, received 2,438 votes. Tom Ortenberg, running unopposed in the Consumer party primary, received 16 votes. Ortenberg said he is in a good position now because he will face a Republican who is "not overly pop ular," and a Democrat "who has a real severe credibility problem." —by Beverly Ivens victory and said she would run, "a vigorous campaign" for the house seat. She is confident she will be re elected, she said. About 42 percent of Centre Coun ty Republican voters turned out for the primary race. Witmer said he would have liked a higher turn out. —by Beverly Ivens PEOPLE ARE STUNNED BY • HOW MUCH ESSEX MEWS HAS TO OFFER. IT'S A VERY HUMAN REACTION. It is human nature to assume that one must pay for life's niceties. This is, after all, the 1980's. So it's with pleasure that we present a contradiction to that assumption...ESSEX MEWS. 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No deaths or injuries were reported and the fires were extinguished by late evening, but evacuees were kept away from their homes because the threat of fire flare-ups remained, authorities said. Seven cars caught fire, including four containing 281,000 gallons of methanol, said Mark Sullivan, a spokesman for Seaboard Systems in Jacksonville, Fla. Another car con tained plastics and two were loaded with pulpwood. The fire blazed in the town square in the early evening, but by 8:55 p.m. all of the tank cars fires were out and the possibility of explosion, which had forced the evacuations earlier, had been reduced, said Union County Fire Marshal Kevin Stewart. By 10:30 p.m., he said, the fire had been . put out "for all practical pur poses." "Now it's just a matter of recovery (moving) the methanol onto tanker trucks. We're out of the doghouse," Stewart said. Moving the remaining methanol will begin this morning, he said. 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