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A-4 Pittsburgh Press, May 16, 1979 I 1 I I fix "XJ MARY JANE JACOBS. JAKE MILLIONES HELEN MISC1MARRA DAVID ENGEL FRANCES VITTI SOLOMON ABRAMS Winners of nominations in city school board races. Only Mrs. Vitti and Engel are not incumbents. County GOP Totals County Dem Totals Mrs.

Vitti Wins School Board Race For Commissioner Here is how Allegheny County municipalities voted in the county commissioner race: I For Commissioner Here is how Allegheny County municipalities voted in the Demo-J cratic county commissioner race: By CAREN MARCUS Press Education Writer Frances Vitti, president of the citywide PTA, is the only assured newcomer to the city school board, but the primary also pitted Mary Jane Jacobs, board president, against the Rev. James Robinson in what promises to be a tight race for the District 8 seat in November. Robinson, a black pastor at Bidwell Street United Presbyterian Church, edged Mrs. Jacobs, a white North Side resident, by a mere 14 votes to gain the Democratic nomination, according to unofficial returns. Mrs.

Jacobs, however, got the Republican Domination by a 225 vote margin. The general election will be a heated battle between those two candidates with Jacobs advocating voluntary school Returns Unofficial All election returns are unofficial pending final verification by the Elections Department. Municipality Peirce Hunt McManus Jacob Aleppo 51 33 35 29 Aspinwall 207 213 136 223 Avalon 239 275 155 218 Baldwin Boro 483 503 429 250 Baldwin Twp. 124 134 131 74 Bell Acres 104 46 73 38 Bellevue 395 398 279 334 Ben Avon 204 147 135 130 Ben Avon Hgts. 42 62 31 46 Bethel Park 1,575 1,659 1,342 909 Blawnox 52 53 27 46 Brackenridge 95 133 42 70 Braddock 42 47 21 15 Braddock Hills 44 43 27 21 Bradford Woods 91 91 60 106 Brentwood 498 593 442 285 Bridgeville 128 155 94 88 Carnegie 214 194 160 193 Castle Shannon 239 265 183 174 Chalfant 10 25 5 15 Cheswick 68 88 36 62 Churchill 459 357 302 293 Clairton 138 239 64 99 Collier 67 76 55 62 Coraopolis 154 139 98 80 Crafton 316 295 296 262 Crescent 76 72 52 30 Dormont 440 401 410 223 Dravosburg 102 165 51 60 Duquesne 177 433 97 181 East Deer 13 20 3 11 E.

McKeesport 71 118 42 48 E. Pittsburgh 32 18 18 9 Edgewood 356 377 214 265 Edgeworth 290 91 179 114 Elizabeth Boro 73 100 48 27 Elizabeth Twp. 432 791 256 279 Emsworth 102 149 71 137 Etna 125 130 69 137 Fawn 78 114 33 46 Findlay 124 102 75 36 Forest Hills 553 486 386 330 Forward 68 101 30 22 Fox Chapel 527 466 257 612 Franklin Park 264 259 172 256 Frazer 33 47 17 31 Glassport 44 75 21 26 Glenfield 9 12 5 7 Green Tree 385 214 518 211 Hampton 472 523 320 525 Harmar 38 41 19 23 Harrison 256 442 163 317 Haysville 9 3 4 3 Heidelberg 15 15 15 25 Homestead 29 28 17 9 Indiana 124 133 69 156 Ingram 132 161 128 212 Jefferson 207 250 112 124 Kennedy 139 136 88 106 Kilbuck 53 62 48 54 Leet 88 38 55 41 Leetsdale 64 32 41 19 Liberty 110 162 50 38 Lincoln 24 26 16 6 Marshall 118 102 121 59 McCandless 1,100 1,070 697 1,265 McDonald 8 4 6 1 McKeesport 488 941 259 327 McKees Rocks 74 118 54 88 Millvale 142 90 49 77 Monroeville 933 814 668 466 Moon 638 460 432 283 Mt. Lebanon 2,187 2,035 1,602 2,331 Mount Oliver 66 85 49 46 Munhall 338 401 222 148 Neville 52 33 36 22 N. Braddock 76 73 59 34 N.

Fayette 101 122 74 69 N. Versailles 212 267 130 100 Oakdale 60 45- 51 15 Oakmont 374 409 236 279 O'Hara 454 438 311 578 Ohio 86 67 60 54 Osborne 71 42 44 27 Penn Hills 2,184 2,221 1,368 1,271 Pine 251 274 164 194 Pitcairn 92 96 52 44 Pittsburgh 5,610 6,126 3,998 3,776 Pleasant Hills 515 550 405 296 Plum 422 390 274 260 Port Vue 67 112 46 55 Rankin 24 22 12 7 Reserve 77 128 59 96 Richland 313 343 189 304 Robinson 186 157 144 98 Ross 1,339 1,695 974 1,439 Rosslyn Farms 96 63 75 53 Scott 470 458 489 423 Sewickley 936 214 202 156 Sewickley Hgts 124 51 54 0 Sewickley Hills 14 24 10 18 Shaler 1,016 1,112 732 1.091 Sharpsburg 24 37 16 2d S. Fayette 130 105 84 62 South Park 173 190 165 89 S. Versailles 11 22 9 3 Springdale Boro 81 95 41 79 Springdale Twp. 22 33 6 20 Stowe 76 82 54 59 Swissvale 462 578 276 245 Tarentum 108 175 61 109 Thornburg 131 64 122 73 Trafford 0 2 10 Turtle Creek 100 111 65 55 Upper St Clair 1,349 849 1,105 1,010 Verona 39 59 24 36 Versailles 27 46 9 13 Wall 2,0 2 0 West Deer 133 152 83 90 W.

Elizabeth 14 23 7 6 W. Homestead 29 25 20 9 West Mifflin 323 477 193 220 West View 235 294 150 225 Whitaker 10 17 8 15 Whitehall 998 1,034 778 600 White Oak 304 698 204 215 Wilkins 332 317 203 182 Wilkinsburg 867 826 562 478 Wilmerding 55 81 33 34 Totals 38.982 41,104 27,515 28,681 Municipality Forrester Duffy Coon Early Wecht Focrster J' Aleppo 10 11 20 24 22 31 Aspinwall 56 103 86 102 150 134 i AvaloA 59 73 147 297 258 334 Baldwin Boro 370 714 1,201 971 1,551 1,846 Baldwin Twp. 36 76 92 80 143 166 Bell Acres 5 13 20 18 38 36 Bcllcvue 112 132 221 435 415 583 Bcn Avon 14 30 35 66 42 68 Ben Avon Hgts. 1 4 5 7 6 3 Bethel Park 301 682 1,023 883 1,255 1,487 Blawnox 46 94 141 133 172 199 lJ Brackenridgc 69 99 90 92 230 251 160 151 313 178 549 623 Braddock Hills 30 44 112 59 152 167 t' Bradford Wds 14 18 24 41 43 55 Brentwood 153 268 498 381 705 811 Dridgcville 61 83 140 114 329 367 7 Carnegie 205 221 520 292 738 914 I Castle Shannon 165 251 450 312 687 819 Chalfant 18 25 50 45 81 79 Chcswick 32 113 77 85 149 173 Churchill 44 104 107 113 236 235 Clairton 281 299 918 357 1,104 1,085 Collier 86 130 180 147 347 397 I Coraopolis 129 126 359 173 501 500 Crafton 77 166 223 173 401 468 Crescent 48 51 148 76 164 166 Dormont 197 292 460 332 846 948 I Dravosburg 74 73 121 58 275 261 I Duqucsne 371 321 716 405 1,133 1,244 East Doer 44 89 86 68 192 206 i E. McKccsport 41 84 ill 79 162 171 E.

Pittsburgh 106 99 251 116 361 406 Edgcwood 61 105 132 96 179 195 Edgeworth 11 17 19 26 21 30 Elizabeth Boro 23 47 68 29 92 89 i Elizabeth Twp. 199 326 529 281 864 843 i Emsworth 27 30 52 118 132 163 Etna 95 117 142 279 390 482 Fawn 25 37 44 64 83 97 i Findlay 51 79 299 247 236 250 Forest Hills 111 187 272 204 '394 438 Forward 62 81 110 75 314 339 Fox Chapel 16 61 58 68 81 85 Franklin Park 20 42 49 109 91 124 Frazcr 31 55 8 81 91 85 Glassport 201 209 415 188 781 655 Glcnficld 8 1 1 7 12 11 Green Tree 52 143 167 175 246 323 1 Hampton 161 333 372 878 751 905 Harmar 115 256 244 184 363 373 Harrison 175 300 251 411 578 715 Haysville 2 3 2 5 4 5 Heidelberg 45 42 66 38 143 160 Homestead 183 172 391 198 663 744 Indiana 55 172 117 192 201 269 Ingram 61 119 132 114 217 232 117 204 396 244 594 550 Kennedy 267 297 654 520 1,088 1,130 Kilbuck 10 16 11 25 24 35 -vLeet 20 33 45 33 53 53 2" Leetsdale 38 26 47 37 84 102 Liberty 85 116 161 95 314 274 Lincoln 16 62 56 32 60 69 Marshall 20 36 71 108 94 McCandless 164 320 323 854 647 946 V- McDonald 5 9 26 11 23 23 822 1,118 1,680 718 3,000 2,755 Rocks 248 259 742 419 775 917 Millvale 119 104 150 352 357 552 Monroevillc 395 721 1,082 909 1,793 1,895 Moon -135 302 468 367 764 687 Ml. Lebanon 218 615 647 572 1,261 1,333 i- Mount Oliver 64 96 185 155 290 372 Munhall 405 649 1,207 760 1.372 1,623 Neville 57 111 185 104 216 223 I N. Rraddock 296 329 736 394 952 1,023 N. Fayette 146 167 309 251 592 620 N.

Versailles 251 400 575 445 1,183 1,237 Oakdalc 36 55 105 80 265 248 Oakmont 57 563 157 134 195 221 O'llara 116 216 298 332 429 512 Ohio 9 28 37 102 63 92 Osborne 6 7 12 14 8 18 Penn Hills 740 1,824 2,100 1,481 2,944 3,298 Pme 33 59 70 141 141 198 Pitcairn 50 77 109 73 221 227 Pittsburgh 7,558 9,537 16,481 9,028 35,711 40,968 Pleasant Hills 70 205 318 183 380 422 I-Plum 270 715 783 560 1,333 1,350 Port Vue 131 240 297 169 525 526 Rankin 62 61 210 66 388 438 Reserve 100 94 160 364 330 471 I Richland 60 101 121 221 269 320 Robinson 157 168 509 328 654 699 "Ross 373 501 716 1,951 1.227 2,061 Rosslyn Farms 1 7 9 11 19 23 Scott 301 546 635 540 1,383 1.541 Scwicklev 27 43 56 59 119 120 Sewickley Hgts 0 2 2 3 3 0 Scwicklev Hills 4 5 5 14 10 8 Shaler 374 606 994 1,608 1,319 1,911 Sharpsburg 185 141 342 236 643 702 S. Fayette 166 217 425 251 549 617 South Park 134 318 510 248 698 664 S. Versailles 7 9 25 6 31 23 Springdale B. 101 244 160 164 309 345 Springdale T. 36 80 37 47 133 130 StoweTwp.

386 394 1.159 393 1,545 1,647 Swissvale 184 234 524 315 639 756 Tarentum 54 133 105 125 279 305 Thornburg 19 40 68 46 70 89 Trafford 1 7 5 5 11 13 Turtle Creek 168 256 416 266 565 608 Upper St. Clair 105 241 287 185 532 569 Verona 37 182 165 58 117 135 Versailles 54 54 106 59 192 195 Wall 31 14 59 12 95 117 West Deer 143 222 311 444 527 638 W. Elizabeth 11 20 15 12 59 57 W. Homestead 118 181 361 187 432 486 West Mifflin 658 1.165 2,017 1,140 2,450 2,706 West View 109 124 263 564 328 542 Whitaker 59 107 183 127 134 181 Whitehall 128 267 488 375 642 781 White Oak 145 258 405 205 699 613 Wilkms 109 212 323 211 604 613 Wilkinsburg 254 314 417 313 799 758 Wilmerding 85 107 196 113 298 333 Totals 23,125 .33,164 56,269 41.753 97,216 ,109,680 a A lit REV. JAMES ROBINSON Wins primary by small margin.

feminist, who lost to Abrams in the last election. The Democratic ballot count was: 2,440 Eflc ((i 1 (821 Evans-Gardner ....1,092 Holland 538 The Republican tally was: Engel 608 Abrams 490 Evans-Gardner 421 Holland 306 The Democractic vote for Mrs. Jacobs, who was running neck-and-neck with Robinson, was: Robinson 2,176 Jacobs 2,162 The Republican tally in the district, which includes the North Side, Downtown, Beltzhoover and part of Mount Washington, was: Jacobs 442 Robinson 227 Mrs. Jacobs said she sees the primary vote as a black-white vote. "The whites voted for me and the blacks voted for my opponent.

But I hope I received votes from the black wards too. I would be grateful for them," she said. In District 6, Mrs. Miscimarra, who has served on both the appointed and elected boards for the past decade, won an easy victory. In her district, which represents Brookline, Beechview, Mount Washinton and part of the West End, she ran against James Marshall an 18-year-old South Hills High School senior, and Richard Macom, 40, a former airlines supervisor.

The Democratic vote count was: Miscimarra 5,112 Marshall .....1,444 Macom 512 The Republican ballot showed: Miscimarra 920 Marshall 406 Macom 95 In District 3, which extends from East Liberty to the Hill District, Jake Milliones ran unopposed to win the seat for two years to fill the unexpired term of his late wife, Margaret. The other candidates were contending for nominations for four-year terms to be decided in the November general election. Registration A Possibility, Marines Say COLUMBIA. SC. (LTD Lt.

Gen. Lawrence F. Snowden, recently appointed commandant of the Marine Corps, says 18-year-olds may be re-, quired to register with the Defense Department in the future. National registration would make it easier to mobilize troops in an emergency, he said yesterday. But Snowden told students at Irmo High School that registration would not be the same as the draft.

'The facts are that nobody in Washington is now talking about the return of the draft the way it was when it ended in the 70s," he said. "The consensus now is that we don't have to have it right away." President Carter recently appointed Snowden to be the new commandant of the Marine Corps. Admissions Halted HARTFORD. Conn. (LTD Admissions were halted last night at Connecticut's public hospitals, homes for the retarded and children's facilities because of a threat of a job action perhaps even a strike by 6,500 staff workers.

integration and perservation of neighborhoods. Robinson urges some mandatory means to desegregate the system. Mrs. Vitti, a Stanton Heights mother, who also favors some forced integration beat anti-busing incumbent Frank Widina by winning both ballots in a close race in District 2. She was joined in a virtually assured victory in November by incumbents Jake Milliones in District 3 and Helen Miscimarra in District 6, who also got both nominations.

The only other race hich will be contested in the fall will be in District 4, which had four candidates battling for the school board seat. Incumbent Solomon Abrams won the Democratic nomination and will face David Engel, a Pitt education professor, who took the Republican votes. Almost all of the 14 candidates running in the five districts up for election cross-filed in the primary. Abrams, known as the swing vote on the split board, will have a good chance of winning the general election because he represents a heavily Democratic district. It includes Sbadyside, Oakland, Greenfield and the western portion of Squirrel Hill.

Mrs. Vitti's victory promises to have a significant impact on city school policy because the current board's 5-4 vote on the most crucial issues will probably swing the other way when she takes her seat. Widina usually joined Abrams, Mrs. Miscimarra, Mrs. Jacobs and member Jean Fink to vote as the majority.

Their block squeezed out most of the mandatory recommendations for desegregating the schools, leaving the city struggling to make voluntary magnet schools work to integrate the system this fall. Many observers, including Mrs. Vitti, maintain that the courts and the state Human Relations Commission, which is about to review the plan, will never accept the magnet schools because they have failed to draw enough students in other cities. Mrs. Vitti, who has four children in public schools, said during the campaign that she favors some forced measures, such as redisricting school attendance zones and pairing black and white schools.

These proposals would desegregate but also keep children near their neighborhoods, she said. She attributed her claim on both tickets to hard campaigning since March. She said that Widina lost because he didn't campaign. Widina acknowledged he did little campaigning and said he would run against Mrs. Vitti on an independent ticket in November.

Such action is illegal, according to election rules. Mrs. Vitti narrowly defeated Widina by 240 votes on the Democratic ballot and by only 65 votes on the Republican side in District 2, which covers Morningside, Stanton Heights, Lawrenceville, Bloomiield, Troy Hill and Spring Hill. She easily swept votes away from two other challengers: Gerson Golden, a retired city schoolteacher, and Charles Stutler, a forklift operator, who also lost in the last school board race three years ago. The Democratic tally was: Vitti 2,750 Widina Golden 650 Stutler MHt(MM(tM394 On the Republican side, the votes were: Widina 260 Stutler 190 In the hotly contested District 4 race, Abrams, who is executive director of Hebrew Institute in Squirrel Hill, faced Engel and opponents Frances Holland, a trustee of Community College of Allegheny County, and Jo Ann Evans-Gardner, a Shadyside psychologist and active.

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