The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 18

FOURTH THE MORNING CALL. Allentown, Wednesday. Nov. 9. 1977 29 districts and municipalities 0) Townships Boroughs A promise fulfilled in Alburtis The election in Alburtis promised to hold surprises since races for mayor, auditor and two-year council seats lacked candidates.

The promises were fulfilled yesterday. Philip A. Hartranft Jr. was re-elected to a four-year council seat, but the Republican also won the write-in vote for mayor. Presumably, Hartranft, who received 18 write-ins for the office, will be able to choose which office he wants, and council will have to appoint a borough resident to fill whatever vacancies occur.

Contacted at his home last night, Hartranft said, "At this point, I'd say I still will be a councilman, and I'll have to weigh the decision of accepting mayor at a later time." He also noted that he had previously volunteered to some borough residents to be a write-in candidate for mayor. Hartrnaft received 135 votes for council. The two other winners in that race were incumbent Republican Allen A. Oswald, who 'received 190 votes, and Ken Hartman, also a Republican, who polled 99. They outdistanced Democrats John Gaughan with 93 votes and Nathan B.

Schoch with 96. Apparent winner of a two-year council seat was Roberta E. Jacomen, who received 47 write-in votes. Tied for auditor are Wayne Grant and Jacqueline Hartranft, wife of Philip, both of whom received two write-in votes. Ernest A.

Reichert, a Democrat, received 168 votes for re-election to tax collector. He was unopposed. Upper Miiford Voters in Upper Miiford Township yesterday participated in what was little more than a formality since the three candidates running for office were unopposed. Democrat Paul D. Christman was re-elected supervisor.

Richard P. Malberg, a Republican, was re-elected tax collector, and Republican William Langler Jr. was re-elected auditor. Upper Macungie Incumbent Republican Harry K. Johnson easily won a fourth term as Upper Macungie Township supervisor over Democratic challenger Forrest F.

Hausman. Johnson garnered about 60 per cent of the vote, receiving 877 votes to Hausman's 592. In other township races, Democrat Edwin C. Marsteller won the tax collector's job, defeating Republican Leonard Ohlinger 759-678. Harry Kobasiuk received 718 votes in an uncontested race for township auditor.

Johnson, currently chairman of supervisors, takes 18 years of experience as a township supervisor into his fourth six-year term. Johnson, 58, defeated Hausman, chief of the Trexlertown Fire in both township voting districts. South Whitehall Republicans swept both seats on the South Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners, ousting Democratic incumbent Robert E. Beam after one four-year term on the board. William T.

Ott, who won re-election to the board, and Donald W. Snyder were the top vote-getters in the four-way race for commissioner. Ott garnered 2,364 votes and Snyder 2.304 votes in besting Beam with 1,840 votes and Raymond M. Hite with 1.175 votes for the two board openings. Snyder, chairman of the township's planning commission, said he hasn't decided whether he willrelinquish that post after assuming his new office in January.

Ott won his third four-year term on the board. In the only other township race, incumbent Treasurer Albert Haines received 1,592 Democratic votes and 2.231 Republican votes to win re-election to that post. Hanover No one familiar with the political status of the Hanover Township (Lehigh County) councilmanic race expected a contest yesterday. And, there was none. The three candidates who had won nominations during the primary contest on both the Democratic and Re publican tickets, were elected to the three open council seats uncontested.

There were no write-ins. Randall C. Atkinson, a Republican, led in the balloting with 123 votes on the Democratic ticket and 100 on the Republican. "It wasn't much of a race. We took care of things in the primary.

I'm just glad people came out and showed port for the new type of government," Atkinson said. The other winners were Scott D. Miller and Thomas H. Lamb, both Democrats. The three winners will join current township supervisors Dale Wyker and Richard Irving as council members when the township begins its new form of home rule government in January.

The council consist of five members. Atkinson reiterated last night that the two top vote getters will serve four-year terms and the low vote getter will serve a two-year term. Atkinson, the top vote getter, will serve a four-year term with Miller, who received 119 votes on the Democratic ticket and 104 on the Republican. Lamb will serve a two-year term. He received 115 votes on the Democratic ticket and 98 on the Republican.

Wyker has two years remaining in his term and Irving has four. "The winning of council is just the beginning," Atkinson said. "The real work lies ahead. We now have to deal with the problems of the township." He cited some of the problems as water runoff, rapid growth and recreational considerations. A council president is expected to be elected in January.

Lower Macungie It was a day for Republicans in Lower Macungie Township. Democrats went down in defeat in three races. Lewis Hunsicker Jr. of Fish Hatchery Road received 1.376 votes to defeat his Democratic opponent for supervisor, Ruth I. Knepper of Macungie R.2; who polled 1,012 votes.

In the race for tax collector, Dennis J. Hinkle of East Texas received 1,460 votes. His defeated opponent was Democrat Robert L. Kunkel, who polled 945 votes. Lower Macungie Auditor Gerald Dean of Macungie won with 1,388 votes.

He defeated LaVerne S. Barndt of Macungie, who received 878 votes. Lynn Democrat John D. Bailey fell 40 votes short yesterday of unseating in-cumbent Republican- Ray W. Schellhamer for Lynn Township supervisor.

Schellhamer, 61, of New Tfipoli, handed Bailey his second defeat in as many tries for a seat on the board. The incumbent polled 392 votes while Bailey, 33, of Kempton R.2 received 353. There were 1.068 registered voters in the township 492 Democrats, 516 Republicans, 53 independents and seven others. Incumbent Republican Tax Collector George O. Weida, who was unopposed, received 503 votes while Robert C.

Hamm Jr. of New Tripoli R.2 received 490 votes in another uncontested race for auditor. Upper Saucon Republicans Donald S. Clum and Kenneth W. Ashman defeated Democrat Joseph Marcin in the race for two seats on the Upper Saucon Township Board of Supervisors.

Ashman led the candidates with 989 votes and Clum. president of the Southern Lehigh Republican Club, followed with 974. Marcin got 791 votes in his losing effort. Ashman's and Gum's terms are for two years. They will replace' Supervisors Berkley Zionts and Girard Cozzolino, appointed members of the board who did not seek election.

Incumbent Democrat Charles V. Ruppert, also an appointed member of the board, got 919 votes to win a six-year term. He was unopposed. Republican Ralph A. Hooks defeated Democrat Paul E.

Gaghen 989-628 in the race for auditor. Incumbent Democrat Dorothy M. Erney, unopposed candidate for tax collector, won with 1,177 votes. Weisenberg Ralph V. Bittner of New Tripoli R.2, a Weisenberg Township supervisor for the past 18 years, defeated Sterling S.

Snyder of Kempton R.l. Bittner, a Democrat, received 398 votes to Snyder's 244. Snyder had won the Republican nomination with 17 write-in votes in the May primary. Meanwile, in a rare contest for tax collector, Carl L. Fenstermaker of Breinigsville R.l outpolled Marion M.E.

Kunkel by a 2-1 margin. Fenstermaker polled 463 votes and Kunkel 178. Forrest D. Kistler of Kutztown R.2 was unopposed for auditor and received 408 votes. There were 877 registered voters in Weisenberg.

Heidelberg Rodney Schlauch 45, of Slat-ington R.2. unopposed for Heidelberg supervisor, was returned to office with 387 votes. Schlauch, a Republican, defeated Stanley Hunsicker 63-4 to gain the party's nomination in the May primary. Other Heidelberg officials returned to office without opposition are Charles F. Fink of Germansville, incumbent tax collector, 369 and Robert B.

Geieer Walnutport Republican Charles Seiler upset Democratic incumbent Willard J. Meinhart to win the race for mayor of Walnutport. Seiler had 175 votes to 143 for Meinhart, who sought a second term. Republicans David Edwards, 206 votes, Paul D. Heffelfinger 164 and Elaine H.

Newhart 145 won the three available seats on borough council. Defeated in the council race were Democrats Darryl J. Stubits, 144 votes, and Joseph L. Kraynik 131. Democrat Arthur A.

Bachert beat Republican Herman J. Heatter 176-122 to become tax collector. Catasauqua Republican Richard E. Dornblaser out-distanced his Democratic rival yesterday in a neck-and-neck race to win the Catasauqua mayoral contest. Dornblaser received 713 votes and his opponent, Ernest L.

Rabenold, received 507. Dornblaser will replace Leonard G. Witt, who has been mayor for the last 15 years. In the Borough Council race, Republican William P. Woodring received 602 votes to lead the race for a four-year council term.

Other winners for a four-year term were Republican John E. Beitelman, 589 votes, and Democrat Alfred Regits, with 579 votes. The losers were Democrats Walter A. Zellers. 535 votes.

Eugene J. Huttie 406 votes, and Republican James C. Edmonds. 568 votes. For two-year terms.

Democrats Lawrence Rodgers won his bid with 647 votes, and Harold A. Butz won with 634 votes, and Republican Elizabeth H. Grischott won with 613 votes. The loser was Democrat Richard G. Silvoy, who netted 547 votes.

For tax collector, incumbent Clarence C. Kurtz, a Republican, easily defeated his Democratic opponent, Stephen C. Evans, with 732 votes to 456. Macungie Macungie Mayor Mildred D. Eck, a Democrat, was elected to her first four-year term last, night.

She was elected to council six years ago, but was later appointed mayor to fill an unexpired term. After she defeated her Democratic opposition in the primary, Mrs. Eck successfully petitioned Lehigh County Court to have her name placed on both ballots for the general election because of the write-ins she received from Republicans in the spring. A write-in campaign that some anticipated never materialized. Democrats gave her 206 votes.

Republicans 160. In a close council race, incumbents from both parties beat newcomer rivals. Harold H. Herb, with 203 votes, and Wilbur P. Rems, 243 votes, both Democrats, and Republicans Jean Ann Nelson, with 252, and Donald W.

Hamm, with 284, squeaked ahead of Democrats Richard L. Braim, 205, and Candace L. Gross, 163. Notary Public Richard J. Buchin, a Republican, was elected tax collector.

He defeated Democrat Katherine D. Eck. Slatington Democrat David B. Altrichter has defeated Republican Stanley J. Shoemaker in the race for mayor of Slatington.

In the borough's only other contest. Republican Paul A. Kistler defeated Madeliene Farber for a 1st Ward seat on Borough Council. Altrichter, a write-in candidate in last May's primary election, received 420 votes while Shoemaker received 337 votes. Altrichter won in each of Slatington's three wards, but the tightest race was in the 1st Ward where both candidates reside.

Altrichter received 128 votes in the 1st Ward; 144 votes in the 2nd Ward and 148 votes in the 3rd Ward. Shoemaker totaled 116 votes in the 1st Ward 106 votes in the 2nd Ward and 115 3rd Ward votes. Kistler received 165 votes, while Mrs. Farber tallied 76 votes. Slatington women will have representation on the Borough Council for the first time in the borough's 113-year history when Jane E.

Rex, a 21-year-old nurse, takes her council seat in January. Miss Rex and Vincent W. Blose, both Republicans, ran unopposed for two council seats from the 2nd Ward and tabulated 186 and 197 votes, respectively. Republicans William C. Wentz and Walter A.

Griffith, the only incumbent, ran unopposed for two council seats from the 3rd Ward. Wentz received 187 votes and Griffith received 175. Republican Harold C. Hughes ran unopposed for tax collector receiving 583 votes. Coplay With a slate of unopposed Democratic candidates for mayor, Borough Council and tax collector, election in Coplay held no surprises.

Frank J. Stranzl, mayoral candidate, was high man with 456 votes. Stranzl will replace outgoing Mayor Alfred Mondschein who did not seek reelection. Council President Leonard P. Kl-ingler Jr.

won re-election with 432 votes. Among the three newcomers to council. Forrest E. Laubach polled 419 votes; Gerald M. Deutsch had 415 and Joseph J.

Polzer Jr. had 378. Joseph F. Mondschein. who has been tax collector since 1962, won reelection with 443 votes.

North Catasauqua Incumbent Mayor William J. Molchany retained his office in North Catasauqua. winning over Republican opponent Roy K. Hodes 380-362. Democrats ran unopposed for three available council seats.

Richard J. Longenhagen and David Jim Hodes received 177 and 187 votes, respectively, to win the council seats in the 1st Ward and Charles J. Gillespie had 357 votes in the 2nd Ward. Fountain Hill Democrat Thomcs J. Redding Jr.

picked up 335 votes to defeat Republican Jack Sell in the race for Fountain Hill Borough Council in the 2nd Ward. Sell took 199 votes. Incumbent John F. Ferry ran as a' candidate on both tickets for the 2nd Ward's other seat after gaining both parties' nominations. He received 551 votes.

Incumbent Democrat George A. Laughlin also was unopposed- and received 675 votes to remain as mayor. In the 1st Ward, incumbent Robert F. Barnes Jr. received 192 votes for a four-year term on council Fellow Democrat Don C.

Cerrato, also unopposed, picked up 193 in his bid for a two-year term. T.M. Another original and exclusive Table Treats Pleaser in your grocer's freezer. GAGLIARDI INC. look homemade taste homemade 100 beef thick fluffy tender AND INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED lipJ of Germansville R.l, auditor, 413 votes.

Lowhill Lowhill Township's Clayton B. Werley was returned to office. Werley, 64, of Orefield R.2 received 242. Ronald K. Werley received 256 votes to retain his uncontested seat as tax collector.

Stanley C. Drabick received 222 votes for auditor. Washington In the only contest in Washington Township I Lehigh County), Republican Jean R. Hoffman defeated Democrat Gerald A. Lear for tax collector.

Miss Hoffman, a 27-year-old truck driver, received 518 votes while Lear received 317. Republican William J. Jones ran unopposed for township supervisor, receiving 506. votes. Salisbury The Salisbury Township race for commissioner from the 4th Ward has produced an upset in the unseating of 15-year incumbent Henry C.

Timms, commission chairman, by Democrat Janet B. Keim. In the only other contest, incumbent commissioner Mike Hanuschak was reelected handily. Mrs. Keim, running what she charactized as a "grass roots" campaign of door-to-door vote soliciting, received 57 peT cent of the 954 votes cast.

Although Mrs. Keim handily won the first district of the 4th Ward 318-176 she narrowly lost the second district, 229-231. The first district, an area that includes the Emmaus address of Mrs. Keim and the Grace Street residence of Timms, was described by Mrs. Keim as "about split between Democrat and Republican registered voters." A vice president of the South Mountain Preservation Association, Mrs.

Keim has served on the Little Lehigh Watershed Association and as an associate director of the Lehigh County Soil Conservation District. 1 the uncontested race for township treasurer, incumbent Harry W. Faust, Jr. tallied 1,339 votes on the Democratic line and 1,213 in the Republican column. LEHIGH COUNTY Unofficial results for 144 out of 144 districts Statewide DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN Justice of the Supreme Court Rolf Larsen 29.212 Frank J.

Montemuro Jr. 27,023 Judge of the Superior Court John P. Hester 26,757 Robert I. Shadle 26,888 Judicial Retention James S. Bowman Yes 26,822 No 11,278 James C.

Crumlish Jr. Yes 25,816 No 11.615 Veterans' Relief Amendment Yes 30,267 No 9,912 Disaster Relief Amendment Yes 26,519 No 11,941 Lehigh County DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN County Executive Wagner 25,266 Bausch 34,462 County Controller Brobst 23,282 Snyder 33,388 County Council (At large) Thomas 26,145 Chambers 28,855 (District 1) Trively 4.998 Raber 5,629 (District 2) Diehl 6,603 Stoneback 8.303 (District 3) Eisenhard 5,882 Snyder 4,048 (District 4) Biggs 5,981 Kuhnsman 5,425 (District 5) Signes 4,701 Albee 5,453 Build Trexler Dam? Yes 13.411 No 39,341 Allentown Mayor Daddona 13,307 Fischl 13,446 Allentown City Council Kercher 11.662 Kratzer 13.779 Howells Jr. 11.959 Smith Jr. 12,580 Hontz 11.706 Tomanik Sr. 10.361 Rosenfeld 12.429 Groves 9,702 Allentown School Board Klein 11,593 Klein 10,010 Skinner 12,283 Deibert 10,979 Williams Jr.

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