Republicans sweep Council race
By KRISTINE SORCHILLA
Collegian Staff Writer
Republicans John Dombroski, Fre
mont Dan Winand and Ruth K. Lavin
swept the three open spots on the
State College Municipal Council last
night in a race that came down to a
37-vote difference between Lavin and
Democrat John George for the final
council position.
The three also defeated Democrats
Jacqueline Melander and Rita Fode
raro.
The votes were: Dombroski, 2,574;
Winand, 2,198; Lavin, 1,892; George,
1,855; Foderaro, 1,722; and Melander,
1,638.
Both Dombroski, the only incum
bent candidate, and Winand led
throughout the entire race.
"An 'awful lot of people helped in
Volunteers helped stack ballot boxes from the 85 Centre County precincts as extremely light throughout the county. Rainy weather played a part as only 38
they came in to the Bellefonte County Court House last night. Voter turnout was percent of registered county voters turned out at the polls.
Weather a factor in low voter turnout
By JEANETTE KREBS
Collegian Staff Writer
Rainy weather may have detered some Centre
County voters from casting their ballots during
elections yesterday, but two county commission
ers said the 38 percent voter turnout was still
puzzling.
Last November's presidential election brought
out 79 percent of county-registered voters.
University student voter turnout was also low,
but Undergraduate Student Government Voter
Registration Drive Chairman Devin Malone said
he was pleased with the results..
Malone said despite the rain, he was satisfied
with student turnout and the election results.
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winning this campaign students,
townspeople, businesspeople," Dom
broski said. "I'm going to do my best
to keep good relationships with these
people and work during the next four
years to do that."
Winand said he had mixed feelings
about his victory.
"I am pleased that the voters lis
tened to me and. heard what I said,"
Winand said. "But I have feelings
toward the people who were disap
pointed in the elections. I think every
one ran a quality race."
Lavin, who trailed George for most
of the race, said that although most
people in State College are registered
Republican, many students crossed
parties to vote for Democratic candi
dates.
"I lost most of the student vote to
the Democrats, but I won on the town
Close county DA race
ends with Gricar victory
By JEANETTE KREBS
Collegian Staff Writer
Wearing a baseball jersey with
"Ray" on the front and "Gricar
/ Number 1" on the back, Republi
can Ray Gricar was greeted with a
round of applause as the results for
Centre County district attorney came
in.
Gricar, 40, and his wife Barbara
Gray waited for the election results at
the Centre County Court House in
Bellefonte last night. When the re
sults were tabulated, he said the race
was close but he was glad he was
chosen to serve as district attorney.
The final voter tally showed Gricar
with 10,287 votes and Democrat Amos
Goodall, 39, with 9,689 votes.
Gricar, now the first assistant dis
trict attorney under outgoing incum
bent Robert Mix, said his experience
as a prosecutor was his major qualifi
cation to become district attorney.
The race for district attorney prom
ised to be a close one and for the
duration of election returns that
promise was fulfilled.
Heidi Sonen
Gricar said the race was close
the
daily
ty Council endorsed won their races, he said the
student voters were educated and, unified.
"This shows how well educated students' views
are," Malone said.
Centre County Commissioner John T. Saylor
said the county turnout was extremely low even
for a year with no gubenatorial or presidential
elections.
"This is the lowest percentage I remember ever
seeing for a general election year," Saylor said.
The 38 percent was estimated with 84 of the 85
precincts tabulated.
Commissioner Chairman Jeffrey Bower said he
attributes the weather as one factor for the low
turnout, but added that despite the rain, he does
not know why more people did not go to the polls.
The four polling places on campus East Halls,
South Hall, Pollock Dining Hall and West Halls
olle • lan
residents," Lavin said. "And it feels
great."
George- was ahead of Lavin by
almost 60 percent when the first five
State College borough precincts
primarily student precincts were
counted around 9:30 p.m. However,
his lead gradually narrowed until
Lavin pulled ahead with 17 of the 19
State College borough precincts
counted around 11:20 last night.
George said it was disappointing to
begin to hope for a victory and watch
his lead gradually dwindle, but he
was pleased that so many students
crossed parties to vote for Democrat
ic candidates.
The heavy Republican registration
in the area and the rainy weather
probably harmed the Democrats,
Melander said. But all candidates
gave their best to the campaign and
because of the money Goodall used
for his campaign. -
"I felt the margin would be slim
mer, but my opponent put a lot more
money into his campaign than me,"
Gricar said.
Goodall, reading from a written
statement, congratulated Gricar and
thanked everyone who helped with
his campaign.
"I respect the Centre County vot
ers' decision," said Goodall, a lawyer
at the Bellefonte law firm of Miller,
Kistler and Campbell. He added that
he will continue to serve the county as
an attorney.
Throughout the night, it was appar
ent the winner would only take victo
ry by a narrow margin:
• At 10:15 p.m., with 38 of 85 pre
cincts tabulated, Gricar had 4,432,
Goodall 3,352 votes.
• At 11 p.m., with 60 precincts
from the county in, Gricar still held a
slim lead with 6,956 votes, but Goodall
was only 485 votes away with 6,471
votes.
• At 12:45 a.m., with 74 precincts
tabulated, Gricar had 8,847 and Good
all had 8,370 votes.
should not be too disappointed in
themselves, she said.
Foderaro said she was glad she ran
and believes she gave her best to the
campaign, but she said the voters
have made their choice.
In other local elections, State Col
lege Mayor Arnold Addison was re
elected by 3,416 votes. Addison ran
unopposed under both parties for a
third term.
Lloyd A. Niemann and John A.
Barosque, who also ran on both the
Republican and Democratic tickets,
were elected to the College Township
Council. Barosque received 832 votes
and Niemann 960 votes. They ran as a
team and were unopposed for the two
council positions.
"I am happy that people have confi
dence in me and I will, do whatever
the job calls for," Niemann said.
showed an 8.7 percent, 6.0 percent, 7.8 percent and
8.6 percent voter turnout respectively.
He said one reason may have been because there
was only one county-wide contested race was for
district attorney.
"With the amount of local races, you would think
they would attract more voters," Saylor said.
- "I have no idea what the reason (for the low
turnout) would, be, but I hope it wasn't disinter
est," he added.
Saylor said he thought the weather was only a
minor factor in the low turnout.
Bower said he will be interested in comparing
the final results for student voting this year after
such a high turnout in last year's presidential
election, which followed an extensive voter regis
tration drive.
Malone said he visited some of the polling places
and all were being well run and there were no
lines.
election roundup
GOP wins big in N.J.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Republi
can Gov. Thomas H. Kean won re
election by a landslide yesterday in a
dramatic reversal of his razor-thin
victory four years ago, and his popu
larity swept the GOP into control of
the state Assembly.
With 84 percent of the 5,763 pre
cincts reporting, Kean had 1,128,777
votes, or 70 percent, to 480,552, or 30
percent, for Democrat Peter Shapiro,
the 33-year-old Essex County exec
utive who had sought to become the
nation's youngest governor.
All 80 seats in the state Assembly
also were contested, and the GOP's
hopes to take control of the house for
the first time since 1971 were realized
as the party added at least nine seats
to the 36 it held previously. At least 10
Democratic incumbents were ousted,
while one GOP incumbent lost her
seat.
Democrats sweep
in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Gerald L.
Baliles was elected governor yester
day, leading a Democratic sweep of
Virginia that also saw its first
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Storm kills 26;
West Pa. now
a disaster area
By CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN
Associated Press Writer
Storm-swollen rivers roared out
of their banks in Pennsylvania and
across the mid-Atlantic region
yesterday, killing 26 people, forc
ing thousands to evacuate their
homes and leaving others missing.
Some looting was reported in
areas cut off by the floods.
Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thorn
burgh declared Allegheny,
Fayette, Greene, Washington and
Somerset counties state disaster
areas and freed $1 million in emer
gency flood relief aid for the Penn
sylvania Emergency
Management Agency. Flood warn
ings were also in effect for Erie,
Crawford, Warren, Venango, and
Mercer counties.
The governor called out ,600 Na-
tional Guardsmen to assist rescue
( workers in flood-stricken areas,
said gubernatorial aide David
Runkel.
Up to three inches of rain fell on
parts of western Pennsylvania in a
24-hour period ending yesterday
morning, the National Weather
Service said. Nearly 4 1 / 2 inches of
rain fell on Erie in a.36-hour period
beginning Monday morning.
RHAB to
meetings
By GREGG BORTZ
Collegian Staff Writer
The director of the Residence
Hall Advisory Board announced
Moriday night that RHAB meet
ings will now be closed to the
public because he said he does not
believe the organization can effec
tively and openly discuss matters
in the presence of a reporter.
Bob Taylor said, "I don't feel I
have the freedom at my meetings
to really discuss some matters
because I'm not sure what will be
printed."
He said he has not had problems
with any reporter concerning
material printed, but he is "no
longer sure" that will continue. •
Taylor said he is upset with
journalistic policies concerning
"off-the-record" material in that
he cannot discuss anything "off
the-record" at a meeting.
"We discuss a lot of future poli
cy," Taylor said, "and I can't take
a chance at being misquoted or
saying something that isn't fi
nalized and have it printed."
RHAB is a department of the
Association of Residence Hall Stu
dents and makes recommenda
tions to the University concerning
housing and food services.
Taylor said he has not yet expe
rienced a problem with anything
being printed from the meetings
statewide victories by a black and a
woman. With 98 percent of the vote
counted, Baliles had 724,283 votes, or
55 percent.
The election of veteran state Sen. L.
Douglas Wilder was the first time a
black candidate in the South had won
a state executive office since the
Reconstruction. Wilder defeated Re
publican colleague John H. Chiches
ter 52 percent to 48 percent.
Mary Sue Terry, a six-year veteran
of the House of Delegates, defeated
Republican Del. W.R. "Buster"
O'Brien, to become the first woman
to be elected attorney general in
Virginia. She had 794,584 votes, or 61
percent, to O'Brien's 499,102 votes, or
39 percent.
Landslide win for
Koch in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) Mayor Ed
ward I. Koch, whose black-ink bud
gets and unrestrained personality
have struck a responsive chord in
many New Yorkers, yesterday rolled
to a landslide re-election victory in
the nation's largest city.
Koch, 60, the third mayor in New
York's modern history to win three
The Ohio River was expected to
crest in Pittsburgh at 26 feet, a
foot above flood stage, at 5 this
morning. The state estimated at
least 3,000 residents were forced
from their homes by the water.
Flooding forced officials in
Washington and Fayette counties
in Pennsylvania to postpone gen
eral election voting in 15 precincts,
delaying the outcome of at least
one political race.
Up to 60 barges ripped loose
from moorings on the Monongahe
la River, which starts in West
Virginia and flows past Pittsburgh
to the Ohio River. Evening rush
hour traffic in Pittsburgh was tied
up as police closed bridges while
some of the barges swept past.
The Monongahela crested at 40
feet, 16 above flood stage, at Point
Marion, where police rescue work
er Danny Rhodes said: "The old
people in town say this is the
highest they've ever seen it."
No injuries were reported, but in
Erie County, 160 miles to the
north, volunteers searched Walnut
Creek for Lawrence Kalisewski,
28, of Edinboro, a salmon fisher
man swept away by the current.
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close all
to public
this year because he "has not let it
happen."
"I've been holding back at the
meetings," he said. "I can't be
effective if I'm afraid to talk."
Taylor also said he is closing the
meetings because he believes he
does not now have a working
relationship with The Daily Colle
gian.
Taylor, who has been with
RHAB for three years and director
for this semester, said he is exper
imenting with closed meetings to
see if there is an improvement in
the discussions and effectiveness
of the meetings. He said the meet
ings will be closed indefinitely.
He said he had been discussing
the closing with the other mem
bers of RHAB outside of the meet
ings for about three weeks.
"It was basically a unanimous
decision," Taylor said.
Patty Martin, president of
ARHS, said she agreed with Tay
lor's decision.
"There are subjects that RHAB
discusses that are very sensitive,"
she said, "and they can't take a
chance at having something print
ed before it should be."
Taylor said he is not cutting off
information from the press and
that RHAB's actions will still be
accounted during his regular re
port at the weekly ARHS meet
ings.
terms, has said he wants to be mayor
"forever."
His principal opponents were Diane
McGrath, who ran on the Republican
and Conservative party tickets, and
Carol Bellamy, running on the Liber
al Party line. Six minor party candi
dates also were on the ballot.
With 83 percent of the city's 5,129
precincts reporting, Koch had 716,200
votes, or 77 percent, to Bellamy's
110,060, or 12 percent, and McGrath's
90,400, or 10 percent.
Caliguiri wins third
term in Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (AP) Democrat
Richard S. Caliguiri won his third
four-year term as Pittsburgh's may
or yesterday in a landslide victory
over a weak field of opponents led by
a young Republican attorney.
With 405 of the city's 410 precincts
reporting, Caliguiri had 61,831 votes,
or 76.2 percent. Republican Henry
Sneath, 27, a civil litigation attorney
and Caliguiri's only serious opponent,
had 17,769 votes, or 21.9 percent.
Mark Weddleton, 25, a factory
worker representing the Socialist
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