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P9t 10 Commonwealth, Greenwood, Wednetdiy, August 3, Senate power Ellis Bodron defeated in primary Mississippi Delta district But he was forced into a runoff with Indianola businessman Turner Arant. Black candidate Elijah Wilson finished third. Harper said Bodron's actions in the education special session was a factor in the voting. "I think the people feel that a lot of legislators have not been responsive to the needs of education and I am not just singling out anyone," Harper said. He said there was a general feeling among the voters that the Legislature should not have waited so long in tackling education problems.

As Finance chairman, Bodron has Rhodes also opposed the education reform legislation. Two other Senate pillars, Judiciary Chairman Martin Smith of Poplarville and Fees and Salaries Chairman Robert Crook of Ruleville, were forced into runoffs in their bids for renomination. Smith, a chief supporter of Winter's education package, led a three-candidate race but failed to get a majority vote and will meet Larry L. Albritton of Picayune in the Aug. 23 runoff.

Crook, a persistent critic of the state Corrections Department and the utilities, also led a three-candidate race for the Democratic nomination in his played one of the dominant roles in shaping tax and other revenue legislation over a career that made him one of the most powerful men in state government. He objected to Winter's education program on grounds that the governor should have waited for the 1983 regular session before presenting his proposals. He said that delaying In tackling the program would give the state a better idea on whether it would have the money to pay for the package, which includes state-funded kindergartens. But the Legisature, acting under intense pressure, approved the program, along with an increase in income and sales taxes to pay for it. In the fight, Bodron became a symbol of the opposition although he has maintained his support of kindergarten and other education measures.

Harper, who ran unsuccessfully for district attorney eight years ago, said he campaigned against Bodron on the claim that "government has lost touch with the people in so many instances." "The people who were elected have lost touch and do not pay enough attention to what people are thinking," Harper said. "The people in our state are ready for those in the Legislature to start working with the educators instead of fighting them all the time." Harper said Bodron's position during the campaign "was his standing in the Senate and his power and influence." "My position was the people's interest hadn't been properly represented by that power and Influence," Harper said. "The people had been left aside by that power and influence." Sen. Con Maloney of Jackson, a friend of Bodron, said he spoke with Bodron Tuesday night "He certainly was not bitter," Maloney said. Bodron, 59, served a term in the Mississippi House before moving to the Senate.

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Bodron, 59, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a senator since 1952, was one of the obstacles to Gov. William Winter's education reform program enacted in last December's special legislative session. Sen. W.C. Son Rhodes of Vancleave, Bodron's friend and political ally, also went down to defeat, losing to freshman state Rep.

Stephen Hale of Moss Point Hale had 4,074 votes and Rhodes 3,720 in the unofficial tabulation. Ross wins nomination with 60 JACKSON AP) Jim Buck Ross has brushed aside his first opposition in 16 years as Mississippi's agriculture commissioner to capture Democratic re-nomination. With almost 60 percent of the votes counted from Tuesday's three-candidate primary, the 65-year-old Ross had 245.264 votes or 59.6 percent of the total ballots cast. Clinton veterinarian Troy Majure had 92,127 votes or 22.4 percent and Alcorn State University researcher Charles Tillman had 73,868 votes or 18 percent. Ross, a former state senator who once served as mayor of Pelahatchie, was forced into his first campaign since he unseated former Commissioner Si Corley in the 1967 primary.

He faces no Republican opposition. "I'm going to devote myself to returning profitability to agriculture," Ross said after being told of his primary victory. Ross said other goals during the next four years would include efforts to improve the fairgrounds and the Agriculture and Forest Museum, both in Jackson. Majure, 38, who has worked in a family cattle operation, sold his veterinary practice before entering the race. "As a veterinarian and businessman with a strong farm background, I feel' that Mississippi's economic future is still tied to agriculture," he had told campaign audiences.

Tillman, the only black to seek statewide office in the primary, had promised to concentrate on developing profitable new crops for small farmers as "we have a lot of farmers who have under 500 acres." Treasurer appears headed for full term JACKSON AP) -State Treasurer Bill Cole has won the Democratic nomination to serve a full term raising the unusual possibility that he might succeed himself despite a constitutional ban against treasurers being re-elected. The repeat could come because Cole was appointed to the post. The state constitution forbids the treasurer like the governor from being elected to successive terms. In Tuesday's Democratic primary, Cole, 35, easily outdistanced his only opposition, William L. Gilbert, a 51-year-old Jackson businessman.

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