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Massive Turnout Keeps Mayor Sanders in Office 8 vf! pi in the city's Hill section near the UVM Redstone campus, Burlington's wealthiest neighborhood. Former state Sen. Esther Sorrell's bid for alderman fell victim to the Sanders landslide. She lost her race to Alderman Terrill Bouricius, Citizens-Ward 2, Sanders' staunchest backer on the board. "What happened today is that people got involved who in the past were never involved," Sanders said.

Sanders said his supporters are a beacon for others across the nation and called his election a signal for people to "organize so we can have the quality of life in this country that all Americans are entitled to." the Vermont House, conceded shortly after 9 p.m. in a telephone call to Sanders at City Hall. "I don't think it surprised me one way or another," said Stephany, 38. "I would assume a late entry" was part of the reason for her defeat, she said. "He won it fair and square," Gilson said.

Sanders ran on his record of seeking alternatives to the unpopular property tax, financial reforms at City Hall and his new programs for the poor, the elderly and youths. The vaunted Sanders coalition held together Tuesday. The poor, unions, elderly and college professors and students from the University of Vermont all turned out to vote for Sanders. Toward the end of the campaign, Gilson and a group of business leaders tried to paint Sanders as a dangerous radical out to chase business from the city. It was a strategy that did not work, as Sanders won in Ward 6, Free Press Photo by JYM WILSON Democrat Judy Stephany blamed her defeat on Republican her late entry in the race for mayor.

he was not Free Press Photo by JYM WILSON James Gilson, with wife Lynne, said as well-known as Mayor Sanders. Waterbury Wants No Part of Juvenile Center Eldredge said he thinks the town has enough support in the Legislature to defeat the Morse measure. "They've listened to us for two years and I don't helieve they would change their minds now," Eldredge said. He said he plans to introduce the same resolution at the village's annual meeting bury, she wants to see an eight-bed center for emotionally disturbed youths created and establishment of foster home programs for emotionally disturbed youths emerging from institutions. She said it would cost $300,000 to renovate the Waterbury complex for the detention program and for emotionally disturbed youths.

The entire program would be aimed at about 34 youths at a time. Spurring the movement against the Waterbury site were town residents John Bramblett committee has a bill calling for reducing the size of the center from 30 to 20 beds. She is reluctant to let the bill out of committee for fear Waterbury will be substituted for Essex. However, she said Tuesday she plans to hold another hearing on it, but did not indicate when. She described the Morse initiative "a warmed-over proposal with just a few more elements." Morse said Monday that in addition to the 10-bed addition to the eight-bed center in Water 2 From Page 1 A ate Institutions Committee, said she thinks the latest move by Morse came because the state faces a deficit this year.

She disagreed with a claim by opponents of the Essex site that support for putting the center in Waterbury is proved because the bill has 66 co-sponsors. "Very few people are talking about Waterbury for a juvenile jail site. We're not talking about it in the Senate," Skinner said. Her GRAND OPENING! SATURDAY, MARCH 5th Discounts Galore! WATCH SATURDAY'S PAPER FOR DETAILS) We were able shipment of Cartridges 19.99! 372 Dorset So. Burlington 6S8-9336 1 Wednesday Door Busters come early! quantities limited! Granville Voters Deal With Buffet of Issues From Page 1 A More than 300 cheering supporters yelled "Bernie, Bernie, Bernie" as he strode through the doors of a downtown restaurant where a noisy victory party was in progress.

"I'm very grateful to the people of Burlington," Sanders said. "There is a lot of popular support for what we are trying to do." Under Burlington's weak mayor system of government, there is little Sanders can accomplish without support from the 13-member Board of Aldermen. The new board will allow Sanders veto power, but he will have to compromise with Republicans and Democrats if he wants to get his programs. The new board will look much like the current board, with five Sanders supporters, three Democrats and five Republicans. Stephany, who gave up her position as Democratic leader in and Edward Eldredge, Waterbury Village president.

Bramblett moved the town approve the same resolution approved at last year's town meeting, urging Waterbury not be the site for a permanent center for juveniles. "Our opposition has been very consistent the last three years," Bramblett said. He and Steele said they do not want to see disturbed juveniles placed in custody near mentally ill residents of the State Hospital. grades 1 through 6. Among those elected Tuesday were: Veronica Parrish, town clerk, treasurer and trustee of public funds; John Furman, selectman; Edward Eramo, road com-' missioner; David Bagley, lister; Steve Mishkit, first constable; Eleanor Norton, school director; and Merry Waite and Sylvia Kennedy, auditors.

The town budget was approved, after deletion of the appropriation for painting the Town Hall, and funds were allocated for tax mapping and reappraisal. Voters approved a ban on the mining or transportation of "nuclear arms and nuclear power-related materials" in their town, but rejected a broadly worded call for a halt to "all deployment, production and development of all nuclear weapons" by the federal government. Tornado home were evacuated after after 3 inches of rain fell during the morning. A fire department unit was dispatched to the Ramirez Canyon in the Malibu area where a number of "really big" homes were threatened by mudslides," said Dick Friend of the county fire department. One of the homes, belonging to actress-singer Barbra Streisand, was not believed in immediate danger.

In the Santa Clarita Valley about 35 miles north of Los Angeles several homes in the Lost Canyon area were slipping into the rampaging Santa Clara River, Friend said. Repeat of a sellout to purchase another Intellivision Special Price From Page 1 A placed prominently in the front of the hall, where in colder weather it would have competed even more frequently with the speeches of the citizenry. The finish has been worn off the wide-board floor for some time. On one side of the room, next to the south windows, members ol the Granville School Club worked throughout the late morning to prepare the luncheon feast. Political discussions were punctuated by the clicking and clattering of casserole dishes, each bearing a small label with the name of the donor.

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County Sheriff Ron Koenig said 500 to 800 people were evacuated along the Sacramento River, including the entire town of Tehama, and at least 300 homes were flooded in Red Bluff. "We were rescuing people off roofs," said Red Bluff police dispatcher Susan Myers. About 500 residents of Santa Ana in Southern California, including occupants of city hall, the YMCA, and a small retirement Quartz Heater Storm Batters Los Angeles With Sale 24.99! Quite SL wruii? i remaining stock I I 15.991 Sale 2 From Page 1 A readings indicated the quake at 12:18 p.m. PST measured 3.5 on the Richter scale and was centered "essentially in the same place" as Monday night's tremor in Inglewood. Meanwhile, storms in the Gulf of Mexico drenched the Southeastern coastal states with heavy rains, but March came in like a lamb over most of the central part of the country.

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With some confusion, the process of selecting an auditor was halted and restarted after it was discovered that one of the incumbents, Ellen Christie, was not a legal voter. After a bit of chuckling and head scratching, an extra auditor was selected to take her place. She had been appointed last September to fill a vacancy, and everyone seemed to agree her failure Torrential downpours forced the closing of the famed San Diego Zoo on Tuesday for only the second time in its history. "We can hardly see out there, it's coming down so hard," said zoo spokesman Jeff Jouett. In Chino, 15 students were rescued from the top of a school bus that ran off a road, and in the Mojave area about 80 miles north of Los Angeles, seven students were retrieved from another bus stranded in floodwaters.

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