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Commonwealth. Greenwood. Thursday, June 7, 1984 Page 3 I00I00IPP1 State voter turnout hits record low Turnout in all those races was very light too. In the 1st District only about 5 percent of the registered voters went to the polls. Molpus said he plans to name a 20-member panel later this month to look into the state's elections laws and make recommendations to the 1985 Returns showed Clark with 27,380 votes, attorney Richard Barrett with 9,550 or 21.7 percent, Shelby Mayor Robert Gray with 4,113 or 9.4 percent and Claiborne County Tax Assessor-Collector Evan Doss with 2,922 or 6.7 percent.

IN THE OTHER CONTESTED primary races, former Gov. William Winter won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate with 69.6 percent of the vote in a four-candidate race, Rep. Jamie Whit ten, easily won in the 1st District and Supreme Court Justice James Robertson defeated W.W. "Bill" Brown.

Club Calendar Legislature. "One of the things they will be looking out will be voter participation and how we can get more people interested in going to the polls," he said. Molpus said he had some ideas on the subject but didn't one to make them public until the panel had made its tl people's lives are the ones that generate big turnouts." EXCEPT FOR SOME isolated special elections, there were few local races on ballots Tuesday and only in two of the state's five congressional districts were their contested primaries. And even in the 2nd District where black state Rep. Robert Clark won the Democratic nomination to oppose Rep.

Webb Franklin, was turnout above 10 percent. "An 8 percent turnout is dismally poor for a state election," said Molpus. "We had hoped it would be much better, but there just wasn't the interest." The 2nd District Democratic race where Clark defeated two blacks and an arch-segregationist, by getting 62.2 percent of the vote, didn't even generate much interest at the polls. In the sprawling district which runs from the outskirts of Jackson through the Mississippi Delta to the Tennessee border, complete but unofficial results from all 345 polling units showed only a 8.7 percent turnout. JACKSON (AP) Mississippi's primary election was one that will go into the history books for a lo wpoint.

It may be remembered as the election where less than one in 10 registered voters bothered to go to the polls. Based on a total vote of about 130,000 in the Democratic senatorial primary, turnout was 8.1 percent. "We checked back to 1950, and couldn't find any lower turnout. Historically, this is the lowest we could find," Secretary of State Dick Molpus said Wednesaday after a check of records in his office. He said the next comparable low turnout was in 1964 when Sen.

John Stennis defeated Victoria Jackson Gray in the Democratic primary and 178,000 persons voted statewide. "Historically, unless there is a very hotly contested race, Mississippians don't turn out big for statewide races," said Molpus. "Local elections races for supervisors, DAs (district attorneys, sheriffs jobs that have a day-to-day impact on i '7' i civiimiciiuauiriia. WEDNESDAY 9:30 a.m. The executive board of the Greenwood Woman's Club will meet at the Confederate Memorial Building.

7:30 p.m. The Delta Duplicate Bridge SATURDAY 7:30 p.m. The DOES, ladies auxiliary of Elks Lodge No. 854. will meet in the Antler Room of the Elks Lodge.

Following the business meeting, hostesses for dinner will be Elizabeth Taylor, Joyce Rodgers and Blondine Jordan. Call 453-0319 tor reservations. TUESDAY noon The Greenwood Woman's Club will meet at the Confederate Memorial Building for a catered luncheon and business meeting. Association will meet at the Elks Club. inieresreo piayers are inviTeo to anena.

THURSDAY 4 p.m. The Progressive Woman's Club will meet in the home of Mrs. Neva B. Jackson, Noble says he knows more facts about Cates "broken the chain of communication between me and Ed." That link, he claimed, would have resulted in more knowledge about the crime. Cates, a former lawyer, was arrested in Georgia after failing in an attempt to fake his own death.

His burned-out car was found on a Madison County Road May 14, 1983, with the charred body of a still-unidentified man inside. In the statement, distributed to sheriffs and the media, Noble said he refused to turn Cates over to Parchman because he wanted to go to court to disprove accusations that Cates had received special treatment while in the jail. If the attorney general had phoned instead of making accusations in a lawsuit, Noble said, he would have gladly surrendered Cates. Greene County official to head nuclear office RICHTON (AP) Former Greene County Chancery Clerk Bob Freeman has been chosen to head the Richton nuclear information office by federal energy officials. Freeman was named Wednesday to operate the office that is being established as the U.S.

Department of Energy seeks a site for permanent disposal of high-level nuclear waste from atomic power plants. Two of nine sites in six states that are under federal scrutiny lie in Perry County. They are the Richton and Cypress Creek salt domes. The Richton dome is seen by state officials as a likely choice for the waste repository. Freeman was hired by the Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, DOE's contractor on nuclear waste studies in salt formations.

Response from critics of the repository was harsh. "I feel like he's prostituting himself to DOE's ends," said Carolyn Black-man, a member of Perry Countians Against Nuclear Disposal. This is just another attempt by DOE to try to show there's grassroots support for their nuclear waste program." Battelle will oversee the nuclear waste information office in Richton. Freeman, a native of Sand Hill, taught science at Sand Hill High Schol for 22 years before he became chancery clerk in 1979. He has subsequently served as a block grants specialist for the county board of supervisors.

Freeman has two bachelor's degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi and a master's degree from Mississippi State University. A Battelle spokesman, Bill Merriman, also said Freeman has a broad background in geology, biology and chemistry. Similar waste site information offices arelocated in Utah, with a Louisiana site scheduled to open June IS. AP Larry Eubanks of Jackson takes a break as he fills his rental truck with gas at a Jackson gas station. Eubanks said he has just returned from Houston, Texas, where he had moved his sister and was tried of driving.

Police still seeking escaped murderer following break from Hattiesburg jail HATTIESBURG (AP) The last of three escapees from the Regional Jail is still at large as police continue their manhunt. Police said 19-year-old Dillard Wayne Lewis a convicted murderer, is considered dangerous, although it is not known if he is armed. Lewis was sentenced in March to life for the August, 1983, stabbing death of 16-year-old Billy Pace. Authorities said Pace was stabbed 25 to 30 times in an argument over a girlfriend. Dillard was one of three men, including James David Logan, 27, who escaped from the jail Wednesday.

Logan, however, broke both heels during a jump from a second floor roof and was immediately captured. Randolph Smith was captured several hours later. Logan is serving a 23-year sentence for armed robbery, and Smith is awaiting trial for burglary. Sheriff Gene Walters said the real problem is that the state will not pick up its prisoners. "We've got over 100 state prisoners in this jail.

With the small number of people I've got, it's impossible to watch each cell all the time." Officials baffled by Jackson murder JACKSON (AP) More tests will be made on the body of a Jackson woman found on a suburban road before Hinds County authorities decide what cause her death. Officers said the body of Theresa McRevy, 24, was found south of the city about 2 p.m. Tuesday and two hours later her boyfriend called to report that she was missing. Undersheriff J.W. Stevens said her body, discovered by a telephone repair man, apparently had been in the area two or three days.

Stevens said the body was fully clothed and all her jewelry appeared to be intact. Hinds County Coroner Robert Martin said the woman could have died from a drug overdose, but the body appeared to have been dumped. BILOXI (AP) Madison County Sheriff Billy Noble says he knows more about the Ed Cates' story than anyone else, and he says Cates' transfer to the state penitentiary has cut off a valuable communications link. Noble brought his gripes about the handling of the case and the accompanying news coverage at a to a Mississippi Sheriff's Association meeting Wednesday in an apparent attempt to vindicate himself among his peers. In a three-page, single-spaced statement entitled "Correct Facts Concerning the Ed Cates Case," Noble blamed the incident on false accusations by the news media and Attorney General Ed Pittman.

Noble said he knew more about the murder scheme that brought Cates his prison sentence, than anyone else. Cates, a former attorney and Jackson city commissioner, faked his death using another man's body. "He doesn't know who the man is," Noble said, adding that the killing occurred on the Madison County road where the body was found. While he refused to comment further about the death, Noble said Cates'. transfer from Madison County Jail to the State Penitentiary at Parchman had C.E.

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