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TTTT-r TTVTTTT- Sunday, November 3, 1974 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 3-C tvf "ft ti rik fVH'a 1 i Gilligan, Rhodes Race One Where Choice Is Clear Glenn Favored In Senate Race Since Primaries Statewide clockwise, from top left: Candidates Rhodes, Gilligan, Glenn, Perk white-collar workers and businessmen. On the eve of election there was no clear Indication of a strong tide for either. Political analysts are still venturing only timid predictions. Turnout at the polls who votes, who doesn't appears to be the whole story. A third candidate in the race, Nancy Brown Lazar, 23, Cleveland, is not expected to have impact on the results.

A member of the Socialist Workers Party, she is running as an independent. Gilligan began working his way toward the statehouse when he was first elected to Cincinnati City Council In 1953, the year he gave up his english literature teaching Job at Xavier University. He was re-elected to five consecutive terms on council before winning a two-year hitch in the U. S. House of Representatives from the First District (Hamilton County).

An unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. senate in 1968, Gilligan was elected governor in 1970. Rhodes' political career began while he was at Ohio State University when he was elected Republican committeeman in one of Columbus' city wards. He went from there to the Columbus Board of Education, and was elected Mayor in 1943 after serving as city auditor.

He was state auditor 10 years before winning as governor in 1962, his second try for the office. 1 I lp By WARREN D. WHEAT Columbus Bureau Chief COLUMBUS It has been a classic confrontation. Doctrinaire Democrat John J. Gilligan and practical politician James A.

Rhodes, Republican. Ohio voters will choose Tuesday Rhodes, 65, who ran state government eight years from 1963 to 1971, and his successor Gilligan, 53 the incumbent. The hustings are splattered wherever the two have carried their campaigns for control of state government, and not incidentally for domination of their state party machinery. Voters have not had an opportunity to compare the two candidates slde-by-slde, but both have been exposed to public scrutiny by virtue of the governorship. Differences distlneuishing one from the other are apparent.

This is one race where the voters have a clear choice. Rhodes and Gilligan are permitted to spend as much as $1.1 million on their re-election efforts. Most of what they do spend will go for hard-' hitting radio and television ads and printed brochures. GOVERNOR GILLIGAN has bored In on questions of Rhodes' personal integrity, linking him to the political era that produced Watergate and challenging his claims of fiscal responsibility. Gilligan has argued Ohio citizens paid a high price in sacrifices for Rhodes' fiscal policies.

Although most of Rhodes campaign has sounded a familiar refrain, he is the reigning master at putting his finger on political pressure points. He literally dismantled Gilli-gan's four year record as governor, accusing him of waste and mismanagement of income tax revenue, harrassing businesses until they fled the state (taking with them Jobs), causing welfare rolls to multiply. The two have attempted to raid each other's political bases, Rhodes appealing to the working family's fears of economic Insecurity, Gilligan wooing seml-sophistlcated Luken, Gradison Main Event House Races Stir Interest Enquirer Columbus Bureau COLUMBUS Not if, but how much? That seemed to be the only question awaiting an answer Tuesday as Ohio voters choose a U. S. Senator to take his place along side Sen.

Robert Taft Jr. to represent them In Washington, D.C. As soon as former astronaut John H. Glenn 52, defeated appointed Incumbent Sen. Howard M.

Metzen-baum in the Democratic primary last May, he became the rontrunner. From the outset the role of challenger befell Cleveland Mayor Ralph More Election News On Next Four Pdges: Statewide Ohio Issues Page 10-G Ohio State Offices Page 8-G Indiana Elections Page 9-G Kentucky Elections Page 7-G Suburban Issues Page 9-G Sample Ballots Page 4-G House Contenders Gradison, top, and Luken mmm -icnrii imiiiimiiiiiiiiwiffiiittihiiiiiiii'1 Election To Decide Control Of Senate By ROBERT WEBB Washington Bureau Chief Former Cincinnati Mayor Willis D. Gradison rematch with Rep. Thomas A. Luken (D-Ohio) Is the leading attraction of the four congressional races In southwest Ohio.

Republican Gradison's bid to unseat the man who beat him in the First District's March 5 special election will be watched closely for clues to whether the voters Watergate rebellion has ended. But if the Luken-Gradison contest draws the most national interest, the Eighth District is three-way race for a successor to retiring Rep. Walter E. Powell (R-Ohlo) could be close and could determine whether Ohio Republicans hold or increase their 15-8 seat edge In the U.S. House.

DEMOCRATS, made T. Edward Strinko, 32, Middletown, one of the three contestants In the Eighth Congressional District. He faces State Rep. Thomas N. Kindness (R-Hamil-ton), 42, former mayor of Hamilton, and Don R.

Glngerlch, 48, Middle-town, president of Broadcast School In Dayton. Strinko is a former foreign service officer who quit his government post a year ago to bid for the congressional seat. Glngerlch, who managed campaigns for Powell and his predecessor, Donald E. (Buz) Lukens, now a state senator from Middletown, Is running as an independent. Contests in the other two districts the Second and Sixth pit seasoned Republican incumbents against Democratic challengers.

Rep. Donald D. Clancy (R-Ohlo), 53, faces Edward W. Wolterman of Groesbeck, former social worker, in the Second J. Perk, 60.

With 22 years' service in local government, he has respectable credentials of his own. Perk, a Republican in a Democrat-dominated county, was accustomed to being the underdog. Two other candidates, both former Republicans running as independents, are Kathleen G. Harroff, 43, Bedford, and Richard Kay, 56, Cleveland. Harroff now Is a Libertarian, Kay was the unsuccessful American Independent Party candl-" date for the U.

S. Senate in 1970. ALL FOUR SEEK the seat vacated this year by William B. Saxbe, who was appointed U. S.

Attorney General by former president Richard M. Nixon. Metzenbaum, appointed to the vacancy by Gov. John J. Gilligan, give up the seat in January.

Convinced that, with the advan- tages of incumbency and backing of state Democratic Party chieftains, Metzenbaum would win the primary against Glenn as he had In 1970. Ohio GOP chiefs drafted Perk as their candidate to take on Metzenbaum in the general election. The idea was that Perk, with a record of running strong In Cleveland's traditionally Democratic eth- nlc neighborhoods, would beat Metzenbaum by cutting his strength in Cuyahoga County and smothering him in downstate Republican coun- ties. Those plans were thwarted, however, when Glenn refused to bow to demands of Governor Gilligan and state party bosses that he by-pass the Senate race and run for lieutenant governor Instead. When Glenn dumped Metzenbaum, Perk's benefactors scurried bark to their Ouija boards and began concentrating their political cunning on other matters, leaving the Cleveland mayor up the proverbial creek.

Glenn, a hero in his own right who (as no Democrat since former governor and senator Frank J. Lausche), managed to bridge party lines, put together a powerful, well- financed campaign. Perk never really got to his feet for the race. A few party faithful, notably U.S. Sen.

Robert Taft attempted to help Perk, but too late. Glenn was on the pad, poised for Washington. The Cleveland mayor was forced to spend much of his time shooting down rumors that he was dropping out of the race for various reasons (Including his health) or to campaign for passage of a tax levy in Cleveland. He took on Glenn in a series of debates which, under different circumstances, might have provided voters an opportunity to compare the candidates. The personal integrity of both was beyond valid criticism.

They presented contrasting views on many issues, Including their backgrounds. Glenn owed his popularity to-being the first American to orbit the. Earth, a Mr. Clean Image, and expo- sure acquired in two previous bids for the U. S.

Senate, In 1964 and 1968. He argued he was better qualified for the Job because with his background as a test pilot and astronaut -he would be the only U.S. Senator with experience In engineering, science, research or technology. That would enable him to analyze and Judge complicated defense systems and energy proposals, he said. On the other hand, Perk based his appeal on the knowledge and experience he acquired as Cleveland councilman, Cuyahoga County auditor and as mayor, best qualifying him to deal with government problems at all levels.

He emphasized his record of converting a budget deficit he inherited from former mayor Carl B. Stokes to a balanced budget. Judge William S. Mathews, a former Municipal Court Judge, faces Democrat attorney John J. Nolan.

Judge William R. Matthews, former Judge of Hamilton County Court, faces Gary L. Schneider, a Democrat Judge Frank M. Gusweller's ballot opponent, S. Wayne Wright, has withdrawn from the race.

For the new Judgeship on Common Pleas Court, Democrat Antoinette J. Navarra faces Municipal Court Judge Thomas D. Heekln, a Republican. Democrat Frank G. Davla faces Republican David E.

Grossman for the Judgeship of Juvenile Court. Judge Paul J. George of Domestic Relations Court faces Municipal Court Judge Rupert A. Doan, a Republican, In his bid for re-election. Hamilton County voters, along with voters In Butler, Clermont.

Warren and Clinton Counties, will also decide the outcome of a race for the First District Court of Appeals. In. that race, Democrat John Keefe, a former Judge on the appellate court and now sitting In Common Pleas Court In Hamilton County, faces Republican Louis J. Schneider who from 1964 until 1972 served as a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Both are residents of Cincinnati.

Voter Information The polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. To be eligible to vote, a person must be at least 18, a resident of the county and voting precinct for 30 days and be registered. Voter information will be available from the Hamilton County Board of Elections, 622 Sycamore on election day by calling 621-9801.

22ND DISTRICT Chester T. Cruze, 36, a Republican attorney, is opposed by Democrat Joseph Phillips, 33, a teacher and Information director in the Princeton School District, In his bid for a fourth term. 23RD DISTRICT State Rep. William L. Mallory (D-Clnclnnati) Is unopposed in his bid for re-election this year.

24TH DISTRICT Democrat union official James T. Luken, 52, faces Republican attorney Victor S. Paola, 30, in his bid for a second term in the House. 25TH DISTRICT State Rep. James W.

Rankin, 48, a Cincinnati Democrat, faces Republican Larry J. Williams, 27, a health and beauty aid wholesaler, in his bid for a third term. 26TH DISTRICT Two nonincumbents, Democrat James E. Cebula and Republican Helen Fix, are trying to capture the seat now held by State Rep. John A.

Bechtold, a Republican. Cebula, 32, Is assistant professor of history at the Raymond Walters College of the University of Cincinnati. Mrs. Fix, 51, is a former newspaper woman and serves as a member of the Amberley Village Council. 57TH DISTRICT Incumbent Republican William W.

Donham, 56, Middletown, will face Democrat David E. Armbruster, 57, Middletown, who served in the House in 1971-72 from the old 39th District. Donham served 15 years on the Middletown City Commission and four years on the Butler County Commission. Armbruster is president-' treasurer of Armburster Florist Inc. 58TH DISTRICT Republican Michael A.

Fox, 25, a special assistant to Sen. Robert Taft Jr. (R-Ohio), and Democrat Richard G. Love, 30, an employee of the Southwestern Ohio Steel are opposing each other in the southern1 Butler County district. The post is now held by Republican Thomas Kindness.

Both candidates are residents of Hamilton. 65TH DISTRICT Republican Frank H. Mayf ield, 35, a marine insurance broker In Cincinnati, faces Democrat Robert J. Herk-lng, a 29-year-old real estate broker, in his attempt for a fifth term in the Ohio House. 73RD DISTRICT Lebanon Republican Cor win Nixon, a Warren County businessman, faces Democrat Stanley Kolb, 42, a Franklin attorney, In his bid for a seventh term.

87TH DISTRICT Harry C. Malott, 57, a Mt Orab Democrat and owner of a Brown County restaurant, faces Batavla Republican Phillip R. Carson, 28, owner of an insurance agency, In bis bid for re-election. District, while Rep. William H.

Haf-sha (R-Ohlo), 53, confronts Dr. Lloyd Allan Wood, 59, Chlllicothe, former official of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in the Sixth. ALL SIGNS SUGGEST the Gradison-Luken race will be close. Both are former mayors, both well known In what traditionally Is a Republican district (but with decisive pockets of independents.) Gradison has fought to portray Luken as a "big spender," while Luken has tried to capitalize on what he contends to be the "same atmosphere" today as when he won the special election in March. Gradison called the previous vote a referendum on the Nixon presidency.

The Eighth District, where Butler Countlans comprise 43 of the vote and suburban Montgomery Countlans 23, was mapped by a GOP legislature to be one of the safest for Republicans. But Powell was able to get only 52 of the vote in both his races and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has concentrated abundant effort and resources on the district. Kindness, meantime, has hit hard what he calls excessive federal spending. Glngerlch has hit what he calls wasteful government spending and portrayed himself as the only candidate without heavy lobby backing. Clancy has emphasized his fiscal conservativism while Wolterman tried to persuade voters of his ability to bring change and activity to the seat.

Harsha's low-profile campaign has stressed his fight against federal waste while Wood tried to promote his fitness to develop new energy resources In urging voters to "send a scientist to Congress." million aside as a 4 inflation factor to cover increased costs of the programs following the first year. 1 The proposed mental retardation levy, If approved, will raise $6 million a year for the next five years. Proponents of the levy claim It will end dependence on annual county appropriations and will also produce a total of $12 million In matching state funds. The proceeds will be used to pay for two new schools to serve the eastern and western seefcons of the county, new workshops for less severely retarded adults and upgrading of five group homes. The Hamilton County Board of Mental Retardation says there are about 4500 mentally retarded persons in the county, only about 1000 of whom are being assisted.

Hamilton County Is one of only four counties in Ohio -and the only metropolitan county-wlthout a specific mental retardation levy. Property owners In the Cincinnati School District are currently assessed 49.36 mills ($49.36 per $1000 assessed property valuation) for all city, county and school purposes. The school board currently levies 28.84 mills ($28.84 per $1000 assessed property valuation) property tax for school expenses. Hamilton Co. Voters To Decide Key School, Mental Health Levies A political struggle for control of the Ohio Senate comes to a climax Tuesday as Republicans try to hang on to their slim one-vote majority and Democrats try to take it away from them.

The Senate is now split, 17 Republicans and 16 Democrats. Seventeen of the seats are up for new four-year terms this year and one seat will be on the ballot for the remaining two years of a term involved in a disputed election. Of the seats up for election this year, 10 are now held by Republicans and eight are held by Democrats. All 99 House seats are up for election this year. At present, Democrats outnumber Republicans 58 to 41 In the House.

There are 10 races in Hamilton County this year, two for the Senate and eight for House seats. In the 23rd District, State Rep. William L. Mallo-ry (D-Clnclnnatl) is unopposed on the ballot. Another four House races will be settled Tuesday in Southwestern Ohio areas surrounding Hamilton County.

Ten incumbents seek re-election In Hamilton County, six Republicans and four Democrats. Two nonincum-bents are seeking the 26th District House seat now held by State Rep. John A. Bechtold (R-Cincinnatl). Senate districts and candidates are: SEVENTH DISTRICT State Sen.

Michael J. Maloney, 45, assistant president pro tern of the Senate, is seeking his third full term to the legislature. A' Republican, Maloney is vice president of an advertising and public relations firm In Cincinnati. The challenger is Democrat Donald H. Swain, 45, an attorney.

NINTH DISTRICT Democrat William F. Bowen, 45, an Insurance broker and real estate salesman, is seeking his second term in the Senate after serving two terms In the Ohio House. His opponent is Republican Jacquelson (Jack) A. Jennewein, a 49-year-old attorney. House districts and candidates are: 19TH DISTRICT Attorney Richard H.

Finan, 40, a Republican, is seeking his second term In the House. He is opposed by Democrat Terry Donnellon, 20, a student at the University of Cincinnati 20TH DISTRICT Voters in the 20th District will have a choice between Republican John Brandenburg, 29, an attorney seeking his second term, and Democrat Tom Anderson, 49, a western Hamilton County businessman. 21ST DISTRICT Assistant House Minority Leader Norman A. Murdock, 42, an attorney, Is looking for his fifth term in the western Hamilton County district. He Is challenged by Democrat Thomas A.

Meyung, 39, a real estate broker and general contractor. Voters Must Choose 8 For County Posts Voters In Hamilton County will decide two major tax levy requests when they go to the polls In Tuesday's general election. Voters in the Cincinnati School District will be presented with a 3.9 mill ($3.90 per $1000 assessed property valuation) tax levy request by the Cincinnati Board of Education. All voters in the county will decide the fate of a 1.5 mill ($1.50 per $1000 assessed property valuation) tax levy placed on the ballot by the Hamilton County Commissioners to provide funds for programs to aid the mentally retarded. The proposed school levy will be for a continuing period of time and would raise approximately $7.4 million a year.

If the levy is approved, the school board will use $12.8 million of the additional funds during the next two years to Implement basic education programs. Of that figure, $1.9 million will be spent for an improved reading instruction program; $900,000 for a student safety, security and discipline program; $3.4 million to increase secondary level Instructional hours from 120 to 160 and $1.1 million for a comprehensive athletic program for both sexes. Also, the board will spend $2.4 million for badly needed facility maintenance and repair and set $2.4 Voters in Hamilton County will elect an auditor, one of three county commissioners and six Judges In Tuesday's general election. Incumbent Republicans face challenges for the two administrative offices to be decided this year. In the county commissioner's race, Robert F.

Reckman, now completing his first four-year term, Is opposed by Democrat Judith B. Green. Reckman, an attorney, Is a former member of the Ohio Legislature where he served as majority floor leader and speaker of the House. Mrs. Green, a housewife, Is seeking her first elective office.

County Auditor Joseph L. DeCou-rcy a Republican, faces Democrat James J. Carroll In his bid for a second term. A real estate broker, DeCourcy Is a former vice mayor of Cincinnati and served two four-year terms as a county commissioner. Carroll, a certified public acountant, Is making his first attempt at political office.

IN THE JUDICIAL RACES, three incumbent Republicans are seeking re-election to the Courts of Common Pleas and two non-Incumbents are pitted against one another for the newly-created court.