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1982 18A ELECTIONS 1982 Wednesday, November 3, Gazette-Journal Blacks increase House numbers 4'-T I I I i -r A i -i i in n-n i mi rf -Tjr WASHINGTON (AP) Blacks increased their numbers in the House of Representatives as incumbents held on to their seats in the midterm elections and newcomers won in New York, Indiana and Missouri. It appeared likely that the number of black congressmen would jump from 18 to 21. In addition, Hispanics seemed almost certain to increase their representation in Congress from six to eight by adding members from California and Texas. New Mexico also elected the nation's only Hispanic governor, Democrat Toney Anaya, who once was the state's attorney general. But in California, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was narrowly defeated in his effort to become the nation's first black governor in modern times, losing to state Attorney General George Deukmejian, the Republican.

The 17 black incumbents who sought re-election to the House had either won their races or were leading early today. The tightest contest involved Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, who was seeking his seventh term. Reps.

Julian Dixon, Augustus Hawkins, and Gus Savage, all put down challenges easily. Four black newcomers were elected to Congress. One of them, Major R. Owens, will replace Rep. Shirley Chisholm, who did not seek re-election.

The others are Edolphus Towns, also a New York Democrat, who will succeed Frederick Richmond. Richmond resigned his seat in September after he was indicted on criminal charges. Alan Wheat, a 32-year-old Democratic state legislator from Missouri, will replace Rep. Richard Boiling, a Democrat who is retiring. And Indiana state Sen.

Katie Hall won a race to fill the seat left vacant on the death in September of Rep. Adam Benjamin, D-Ind. But Robert Clark, a black candidate who was viewed as the frontrunner in a newly redrawn district in Mississippi, lost to Republican Webb Franklin, a former circuit judge. Clark is a Democratic state representative. The district's population is about 53 percent black, but only about 35 percent of its registered voters are black, according to one study.

The six Hispanic incumbents in Congress won or were leading in their districts. In addition, the House will have two new Hispanic members. In Texas, Democrat Solomon Ortiz, the sheriff of Nueces County, beat former Corpus Christi Mayor Jason Luby in a bid to represent a new district. Esteban Torres, a Democratic businessman from La Puente, won against Republican Paul Jackson, a superior court referee, in a contest for an open seat in California. In a match where two incumbents were pitted against one another, Rep.

Matthew Martinez, ousted Republican Rep. John Rousselot. Reps. Edward Roybal, Robert Garcia, Eligio de la Garza, D-Texas and Henry B. Gonzalez, D-Texas, won re-election by overwhelming margins.

Rep. Manuel Lujan had a slightly more difficult time but also was re-elected with about 53 percent of the vote. The black incumbents who were re-elected are Walter Fauntroy, the non-voting delegate from District of Columbia, and Reps. Mervyn Dymally, Harold Washington, Cardiss Collins, Parren J. Mitchell, John Conyers, George Crockett, William Clay, Charles Rangel, Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, William Gray, Harold Ford, and Mickey Leland, D-Texas.

New superintendent vows school reform "It shouldn't be up to local school districts to decide not to teach science, English and history," he said. "We got into trouble when too many school districts dismantled their basic program. To try to assume that 13-14-15-year-olds are mature enough to make these kinds of (curriculum) decisions is criminal." Honig said there would be some replacements among managers in the state Department of Education, and he said Riles had allowed that office to become too politicized over the last 12 years. Honig said he received no congratulations from the California Teacher Association but promised to keep the lines of communication open. "They (teachers) can read the election returns as well as anybody else, and the message is clear they (voters) want to tie financing to quality," he said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) California's new state superintendent of public instruction, Louis "Bill" Honig, said Wednesday he'll transform the coalition that swept him into office into a new statewide advisory group that will help him achieve the reforms he's promised. Honig, who captured a 55-44 percent majority to defeat three-term incument Wilson Riles, said his Citizens for Quality Education in California already has about 6,000 members and is expected to grow to 30,000. He described it as one of three fronts on which he begins plans to begin resurrecting traditional education. The other fronts are asking the Legislature for a 6 percent cost-of-living increase for schools, as well as statewide graduation requirements that would include two years of science and math, three of English and history and one of fine arts. -1 PHOTO BY MARK CROSSE in the playground at Mount Rose Elementary School The playground is half a story above the library, which THE EYES HAVE IT: Children watch Jinx Olson vote Tuesday, contained the polls.

orado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Kansas, South Carolina and Wyoming as well. Republican incumbents won in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, South Dakota and Vermont. Another Democratic incumbent was in trouble in addition to Gallen: Idaho Gov. John Evans was trailing GOP Lt. Gov.

Philip Batt. The wheelchair-bound Wallace, who won his first term as Alabama's governor with the battle cry "Segregation forever!" two decades ago, had 61 percent of the vote to 39 percent for Emory Folmar. Wallace sought his fourth term as a moderate, but Folmar, the GOP mayor of Montgomery who was known for packing a pistol, asked blacks not to forget his opponent's past views about racial separation. In Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis turned back GOP challenger John Sears with ease, by a 63-33 edge. Reagan-style economics figured prominently in New York, where Lehrman had promised to apply "supply side" medicine to the Empire State.

A drug store millionaire, Lehrman spent $13.5 million on the campaign, but Cuomo, a liberal and currently lieutenant governor, won by a margin of less than 1 percent. Reaganomics was also an issue in the depressed Midwest, but the voting pattern on that score was not all that clear. In Ohio, Richard Celeste recaptured the governorship for the Democrats, easily defeating GOP Rep. Clarence Brown in the fight to succeed longtime Gov. James Rhodes.

But in Michigan, which suffers the highest jobless rate in the nation, Republican Richard Headlee and Rep. James Blanchard were in a unexpectedly tight race. Democratic incumbents won easily in Arizona, Col- nesota regained the keys once held to executive mansions. Democrats took Republican seats in Arkansas, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Nevada as well as Texas, and d.lther was leading in Alaska over a GOP incumbent. Meanwhile, they protected 12 incumbents of their own.

Republicans retained office in six states and picked up a new one when John Sununu defated Democratic incumbent Hugh Gallen in New Hampshire. Voters in Vermont and Iowa rejected opportunities to break up the all-male governors' club this year. New Mexico elected an Hispanic in Democrat Toney Anaya. In Texas, attorney general White beat Clements by a 54-46 edge, despite Clements's spending, estimated as high as $14 million more than twice White's treasury. That outlay, if confirmed, would be an all-time record for a statewide campaign.

Governors From page 10A early lead of Attorney General George Deukmejian over Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley in the fight to succeed Edmund G. Brown Jr. as governor of California. But Bradley, bidding to become the first black ever elected governor in any state, had narrowed an 8-point gap to just 4 as the tally passed the one-third mark. In Illinois, former Sen.

Adlai Stevenson III was holding a healthy lead over Gov. James Thompson, as Democrats looked to possibly knocking off another GOP incumbent in a big state. Four former Democratic governors George Wallace of Alabama, Bill Clinton in Arkansas, Michael Dukakis in Massachusetts and Rudy Perpich in Min- Vociferous Reagan critic loses congressional bid MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) The GOP candidate who was told by President Reagan to "shut up" said today his maverick campaign filled a "void in America" even though it failed to send him to Congress. Gary Richard Arnold went down to resounding defeat at the polls, with 24,068 votes to incumbent Democrat Leon Panetta's 140,602, according to unofficial results with all votes counted.

Write-in candidate Ann Nixon Ball garnered 3,791 votes. The victory sends Panetta, of Carmel Valley, to his fourth term as representative for California's 16th District. Arnold, reached in Los Angeles where he was attending victory parties for both Republicans and Democrats, said his rout was "too bad." But he insisted his campaign was "a success (because) our victory wasn't predicated on filling a seat in Congress but in filling a void in America we will replace fiction with fact." Arnold, a marketing consultant from Santa Cruz, caught the nation's attention in October when Reagan told him to "shut up" after being repeatedly interrupted during a White House pep talk for GOP hopefuls. He had accused Reagan of betraying conservative causes. He said Wednesday he was forming an organization called IMPAC Independent Majority Political Action Committee to support candidates "willing to take off their gloves and go round for round in the fight for freedom." -fug" fc.

Tsi itv Professor sees pattern in gains by Democrats By WAYNE MELTON The gain Tuesday by Democrats of more than 25 seats in Congress seems to guarantee "a pattern that will continue," said Richard Siegel, a professor of political science at the University of Nevada-Reno. The professor said he agrees with those who say that this summer President Reagan's ability to push his policies through Congress "was severely reduced when he lost his veto override. "What this election does is guarantee a pattern that will continue," the same trend "that already began this summer not one that will start this January" when the next congressional session begins. "This seems to indicate a trend that the Democrats could sweep ahead in 1984 and again in '86," the professor said, adding that the new pattern could eventually result in an unsuccessful re-election bid for Reagan. He noted that since 1900 in all general elections two years after new presidents are first elected, chief executives always have lost an average of 12 of their own party members from the House.

"But, from that test, this year the Democrats will have at least doubled that average." Siegel said that even if the unemployment rate goes down within the next year "and it is not likely to do that" Reagan will have more difficulty sweeping his policies through the legislative process. The professor also noted that although the Republicans at last word would hold their majority in the Senate, Democrats probably had picked up at least two seats. "Even a single vote increase in the Senate in this race would be a good Democratic showing because of the number of vulnerable Democrats and the expectations people had" from Republicans as little as six months ago, Siegel said. William Eubank, another UNR political science professor, said he has "no way of knowing" how the Tuesday's changes will affect the administration. "My guess is that they will go along normally.

he is comparatively unaffected by legislative changes," Eubank said, adding that it probably "would take a certain number of moderates or liberals to override any Reagan veto." Tahoe measure triumphs LOS ANGELES (AP) A California bond issue to offer compensation for Lake Tahoe landowners who can't build because of environmental regulations won by a slim margin. With 99.4 percent of the precincts counted today, 3,678,544 voters 53 percent had cast yes ballots on the measure, with 3,259,057 46.9 percent casting no votes. The measure, Proposition 4 on Tuesday's ballot, would use $85 million in tax-exempt state bonds to buy undeveloped property for public lakeshore recreational areas or wildlife habitat. Environmental restrictions have severely hampered development of the Lake Tahoe Basin. The bond act would allow the government to buy the land from private owners, with the price based on the owners' purchase price and subsequent assessments, among other factors.

PHOTO BY MARK CROSSE A LITTLE SUPPORT: Mary Gojack gets some support from friends as she watches election returns at her campaign headquarters Tuesday night. Tom Simco watches at right. Reaction with it and help them with their problems," Mondale said. Rep. Jack Kemp, interviewed in Buffalo by CBS-TV, said: "The idea of just 'staying the course' when interest rates are at double-digit levels and auto sales and steel and many other parts of our country, particularly in farming, are at a disadvantage clearly the American people wanted to get the economy moving again." Kemp, an apostle of supply-side economics and architect of Reagan's 25 percent, three-year tax-cut, said some Republicans who promised to cut taxes and create jobs ran well.

He said Lewis Lehrman's close gubernatorial race in New York "proves at least that the whole supply-side economics and political model is very much alive in this country, particularly in the Northeast." crats had prevailed "against all the king's men and all the king's horses and all of their money." "This was a referendum on Reaganomics. said Manatt. "I don't think the voters will sit still for a continuation of voodoo economics." Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale said on CBS-TV that Reagan should "take this advice in good spirit and start working together. (The people) want us all, Democrats and Republicans, to get to work, and I think they want this president and the Congress to work together to get jobs again, to protect Social Security, and many, many other things.

"People were sick and tired of negative campaigning, and I think they want this whole system to get From page 10A disastrous defeat for the president." In a separate statement, the Massachusetts Democrat said: "For months I and other Democrats have hammered away at two issues: Social Security and the need to create jobs. Today's exit polls show that the America people responded to both these appeals. I and others have said repeatedly that the Reagan economic program is not fair not fair to the senior citizen, not fair to the unemployed. Today, the American people sent a message: set a fair course." Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles T. Manatt told cheering supporters that the Demo Voters wary of Reaganomics, nationwide poll finds was a success or failure, only 6 percent said success and 37 percent called it a failure; 48 percent, however, said they believe the program needs more time to succeed.

Asked for whom they voted for in their congressional races, 52 percent said they voted for a Democrat and 42 percent said they voted for a Republican. Among those who said Reagan's economic program has hurt the country, 8 of 10 said they voted for a Democrat. NEW YORK (AP) Two years after Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency, his economic programs appear to have driven many of his Democratic supporters back to their own party, an Associated Press-NBC News voter poll said Tuesday. The survey said voters were about evenly split on whether Reaganomics is helping the country. Nearly half those polled seemed willing, in the words of the Republican slogan, to "stay the course." But the poll also found a return to the Democratic party among groups like blue-collar workers who voted heavily for Reagan two years ago.

The poll included responses from more than 10,000 voters after they cast their ballots at 400 polling places around the country. The poll results, which were weighted to more accurately reflect actual turnout around the country, said respondents evenly split on whether Reagan's economic program has helped or hurt the country. And asked if they felt Reagan's economic program.