16—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1985
election roundup
Continued from Page 1.
Workers Party, and Priscilla Thom
as, 36, a community worker rep
resenting the Consumer Party,
received a handful of votes.
Lemmond wins state
Senate seat
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Republi
can Charles Lemmond Jr. won the
Senate seat vacated by Republican
Frank O'Connell in northeastern
Pennsylvania Tuesday.
With all or most of Luzerne, Pike
and Wayne counties and some of
Wyoming and Monroe counties tal
lied, Lemmond had 20,313 to 11,667 for
Joseph Bilbow, a Luzerne County
Democrat.
Republicans hold a registration
edge of 17,000 in the district, which
includes parts of Monroe and Luzerne
counties and all of Pike, Wayne,
Susquehanna and Wyoming counties.
The district hasn't elected a Demo
crat to the state senate in at least 40
years.
Superior Court
seats decided
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Pro
pelled by their double party nomi
nations, incumbent Democrat Justin
Johnson and Republican challenger
John Kelly won seats on state Superi
or Court Tuesday night, leaving two
others scrambling for the remaining
seat.
Johnson and Kelly both appeared
on the Republican and Democratic
ballots and counted on straight-party
voters to insure their victories.
In the contest for the third seat on
the 15-member court, incumbent Re-
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Allegheny County was ahead of Re
publican attorney Jon LaFaver of
New Cumberland.
With 5,296 of 9,565 precincts, or 55
percent reporting, Kelly had 1,177,356
votes or 39 percent; Johnson 839,573,
or 28 percent; Popovich, 544,313, or 18
percent; and LaFaver, 480,044 or 16
percent.
In nearly every county, Kelly ran
first followed by Johnson, according
to early unofficial returns, following
what has happened in past judicial
elections where candidates ran with
both party nominations.
A squeaker for
Scranton mayor
SCRANTON (AP) Republican
David J. Wenzel, who pledged to work
for downtown development, defeated
Mayor James Barrett McNulty's bid
for re-election yesterday by less than
200 votes.
With all 94 precincts in, Wenzel had
16,050 votes to 15,878 for Democrat
McNulty. An independent candidate,
Robert Bolus, who had pulled out of
the Democratic primary race last
spring, pulled 637 votes more than
the winning margin for Wenzel.
Wenzel has served two terms as
city tax collector.
At Wenzel's request, Lackawanna
County Court ordered official election
material impounded.
Reed re-elected in
Harrisburg race
HARRISBURG (AP) Mayor Ste
phen Reed won a second term yester
day night, defeating Republican John
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Dead tax collector
wins re-election
SAEGERTOWN (AP) A dead
man was re-elected tax collector of
rural Hayfield Township yesterday.
Thomas Eckart, a longtime incum
bent who died Oct. 28, won re-election
over Democratic challenger Charles
Ketcham, a local businessman.
Eckart, a Republican, received 460
votes and Ketcham, a Democrat,
received 208 votes, according to offi
cials in this Crawford County commu
nity.
Election officials said Eckart died
too late for his name to be removed
Centre countians support
both ballot referendums
(AP) Voters approved two
constitutional questions yester
day on changing the procedures
for absentee balloting and ex
tending a tax break for surviving
spouses of some disabled veter
ans.
With 85 percent of the precincts
reporting, there were 871,884
votes to extend the tax deduction
benefits and 316,401 against the
measure. Centre County voters
overwhelmingly supported" the
question with 13,321 voters favor
ing the referendum and 3,926
opposing it.
There were 743,392 votes in
favor of the absentee ballot ques
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from the ballot. They said township
supervisors will meet soon to appoint
a successor to Eckert, who was de
clared the winner.
Eckart died in Meadville City Hos
pital after a long illness at the age of
45.
Erie
and
mayor wins sixth
'last' term
ERIE (AP) Louis Tullio was re
elected to a sixth four-year term as
mayor of Pennsylvania's third-larg
est city yesterday, easily defeating
another Republican challenge to his
20-year administration.
Tullio, a Democrat who has not
revealed his age, said this term will
be his last.
tion and 352,029 against it. Centre
County voters favored the mea
sure by a 2 to 1 margin of 11,611
for the referendum and 5,369
against it.
The referendum on veterans
allows the tax exemption avail-
able to financially distressed vet
erans fully disabled from service
related injuries to be transferred
to a surviving spouse.
The second referendum would
allow residents to vote by absen
tee ballot if religious holidays
conflict with election days. The
referendum also would allow
county employees working on
Election Day to vote absentee.
Guatemalan labor leader to
discuss working conditions
Miguel Cifuentes, a Guatemalan
labor leader, will discuss government
repression and right-wing violence
against Guatemalan workers at 7:30
tonight in 158 Willard.
Cifuentes' appearance is part of an
effort to get North American labor to
advocate change in U.S. policy in
Latin America.
Cifuentes' visit will be sponsored by
the Labor Studies Student ilub,
Friends of Latin America, Central
Pennsylvania Citizens for Survival
and the Pennsylvania Public Interest
Coalition. •
Jack Stollsteimer, regional direc
tor of Penn PIC, said the public
should be made aware that the U.S.
government supports the Guatema
lan government financially and politi
cally.
The conditions under which people
worked in the early 1900 s in the Unit
ed States are similiar to those Guate
Mormon leader dies at age 90
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Spencer
W. Kimball, the president and proph
et of the Mormon Church since 1973
and. Tie of its most energetic leaders Kimball, the 12th "prophet, seer
until age and infirmity curtailed his and revelator" of the 5.8 million
ministry, died late last night. He was member Church of Jesus Christ of
90 • Latter-day Saints, had been in a
Kimball died at 10:03 p.m. MST at weakened state since surgery Sept. 5,
his Westin Hotel Utah apartment of 1981 his third operation in two
causes incident to age, said church . years to drain blood and fluid from
spokesman Don LeFevre. He said between his skull and brain and
Kimball's wife, Camilla, and a nurse was mostly confined to his apart
were with him at the time. ment.
•
LeFevre said he had no other de-
tails on the death and funeral ar- Still, he attended most semi-annual
rangements were• pending. He said church conferences in recent years.
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malan workers now face.
Guatemalan workers have no protec
tion against physical harm, receive
substandard wages and have no right
to raise grievances or unionize,
according to a Penn PIC news re
lease.
Sandra McArthur, Philadelphia di
rector of Penn PIC, said Americans
get a tainted view of the situation
because Reagan wants to be support
ive.
"Miguel Cifuentes is giving a per
spective directly from the people,"
she said. "If we become aware of the
reality, we can bring pressure to our
government."
Cifuentes, who was a tobacco work
er until he was fired because of his
union association, serves as the inter
national representative of the Nation
al Committee for Trade Union Unity,
which represents most organized
workers.
—Lisa Nurnberger
Gordon B. Hinckley, Kimball's sec
ond counselor in the governing First
Presidency, had been notified.