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merit scholars again d(o fSox lose I'-Time I for trees thTimes Home Newspaper of the Calumet Region 4 sections 48 pages 25 cents total completed N. Vote By PETRA LUKE and DAN WHEAT Times Staff Writers CROWN POINT Some of Lake County's most powerful Democrats went down to defeat in Tuesday's primary election. Final vote totals were printed at 4:11 a.m. today after numerous problems with the computer system caused the delay in tallying the votes cast Tuesday. pleting his third term in office, was defeated by Lake County Recorder Rudolph Clay of Gary.

Final totals were Clay, 13,952 and Spann, 10,870. Other candidates' totals were Reginald DuBose, Gary City Councilman Gerald Hayes, Antonia Garner, 898; and Harry L. Short, 552. Republican Fredrick Congress, who was unopposed in the primary, drew 891 votes. Clay, who is known to be a tough cam- .:1 JfT INDIANA Copyright, I9M.

The Times Thursday May 8, 1986 What's right in the Region GARY Through the efforts of B. Juanita Harris, two in-school 4-H programs will been organized in the Gary schools. Harris, a youth agent with the Lake County Cooperative Extensive Service, recently spoke to about 177 youngsters in the schools during two presentations about 4-H activities. Weather-Warm Near picture perfect weather is forecast for the next few days for the Calumet Region. Tonight should be partly cloudy with a low in the lower 50s.

East winds of 8 to 15 miles an hour are expected. Friday should be partly sunny with a high in the middle or upper 70s. Through Monday, highs should be in the 70s and lows in the 50s under partly cloudy skies. More temperatures and the national weather map are on Page A-16. Index Advice Business Classified Comics Editorial B- 5 D- 7 C- 1 B- 6 Obituaries Sports Theater C- 2 D- 1 B- 7 B- 1 B- 7 A- 2 Today A-14 TV Our phone numbers Automotive Repair Does your car need a tune-up? Or transmission work? Or brake repair? Check out our new Automotive Service Repair Directory for the fast, easy way to get help for your car today! See today's Classified advertising section.

Loser's city officials in Rehoboth Beach, they are embroiled in a dispute over the placement of portajohns on the beach at the seaside resort. Eyesore or necessity? That's the issue as officials defend the presence of mobile toilets set up in trailers on the beach and a motel owner presses for their removal. "We're not going to move them. With 50,000 visitors, we have to provide facilities," says city manager Greg Ferrese. On the other side, pressing for removal, is Walter A.

Brett, owner of the Admiral Motel, overlooking the public portable toilets. The trailers represent a compromise for city reached after Brett sued to prevent construction of a two-story Victorian style building for the toilets, a first-aid station and lifeguard quarters. It would have replaced a structure razed last fall. Brett objected because the planned 26-foot-high building would obstruct the view from his motel. (o(oM Times photot by John J.

Wotkina Coffee and rolls didn't last long enough for the long vote count in the government center 1 sure thing: Exhaustion paigner, said it was his door-to-door appeal which carried the vote. "We were out knocking on doors election day," Clay said. Lake County Assessor Michael Jankovich, who is completing his 18th year in office, lost by a landslide to Merrillville attorney Peter Benjamin. Benjamin racked up 38,619 votes to See VOTE, Back Page This Section Research center promoted Times Staff Report MERRILLVILLE A multi-million dollar materials research center is expected to open in Northwest Indiana by the end of 1986, says a leading Calumet Region business promoter. Richard Griebel, executive director of the Northwest Indiana Forum, said Wednesday that an agreement has been reached among Dupont Amoco Corp.

and the State of Indiana to create an $8 million center at an area college campus. But Lt. Gov. John Mutz said from Japan through a spokesman that the center is in the "idea" stage and no proposal for funding has been submitted. The state's Corporation for Science and Technology is interested in helping fund such a center if the companies and the universities in the area can get together on a cooperative effort, said Guy Johnson, the spokesman.

A spokesman for Amoco Corp. said he was unable to find anyone in the corporation who knew anything about such a center. An official at DuPont, contacted today about the proposal, said he was checking with their executives on the report. The purpose of the center would to design a whole new industry for the Calumet Region and to train young people for what will happen in industry for the next 10 to 15 years, Griebel said. The new industry will involve polymer plastics and similar products, he said.

Griebel said Purdue University-Calumet is the leading candidate at this moment because it has the needed spce and personnel to respond quicker than the other schools. Griebel said people from other universities will be involved in the center and that he expects the center to have a product to manufacture by mid-1987. Richard Combs, chancellor of PUC, said he first learned of the center in a meeting with Griebel two days ago. He is seeking details from Griebel on what type of research the firms might be interested in and their expectations for the center. The school is "very interested" in the center, he said.

Griebel also said in a speech to the Merrillville Rotary Club meeting that the privately-backed Forum has additionally proposed to Amoco that it build one or two plastics-oriented plants in the Region. One plant would be at Amoco's Whiting refinery and the other would be at an as-yet-undetermined site in Northwest Indiana. Each of the plants would employ 80-100 people. Griebel said he expects a response from Amoco by August or September. See RESEARCH, Back Page This Section director forward to working with the commissioners in her new position.

Her priorities as new director will be to continue programs aimed at beautification and upgrading housing authority property. Finishing several tot lots and a general clean-up head her list of things to be done this spring, she said. Her other short-term goals include, "getting the housing authority office back in shape and running smoothly" after a seven-month absence of a permanent director, she said, and also hiring two additional people to fill staff vacancies. "The jury has spoken. They didn't want me to serve any more, so I won't serve any more.

We were associated with guys who are no longer here," Lake County Auditor Leslie Pruitt, who was lost the nomination for county clerk said today. "Even the leaders of this great (Democratic) party couldn't believe the figures when they saw them," he added. Lake County Commissioner N. Atterson Spann D-East Chicago, who's com prevailed between the mix of Republicans and Democrats working towards producing a final count. Lake County Clerk Kenneth Peterson changed the time for the final results more More on election: A-6, A-10 often than a new mother changes diapers on a baby.

Peterson had first predicted a final county total at 1 a.m. It was then 3 a.m. By noon Wednesday, Peterson was promising results within the hour. Later, it was changed to 3 p.m., then by the close of the normal working day at 4:30 p.m. He had added a new "we-don't-believe- Lake County Clerk Kenneth Peterson made the decision to tally his first county election with computers instead of the old-fashioned way with humans and adding machines.

Peterson believed he had anticipated every possible problem with the new system. But that turned out to be wrong. For one thing, he hadn't counted on Mother Nature. She struck with her first lightning bolt Tuesday night, knocking out the computer system. See LAKE, Back Page This Section of the five commissioners.

Chairman John McClain abstained from voting saying although he thought Bailey was well qualified for the position, he would rather see a Hammond resident get the job. Bailey lives in St. John. McClain said he had discussed his preference for a Hammond resident with McDermott before, but that his wishes were ignored. Commissioner Carla Matus said most board members weren't concerned about whether Bailey is a Hammond resident.

"This was not strictly the mayor's deci -H By THOMAS INKLEY Times Staff Writer CROWN POINT By noon Wednesday the Lake County Clerk's office was filled with tired vote counters and reporters. A radio reporter slept with his face down on a desk in the voter registration office on the first floor of the Lake County Complex awaiting his next newscast. As the sun passed directly over the complex, it marked a minimum of 12 hours on the job for most workers in the clerk's office. Some had been without any sleep for two days because they'd been out working for their favorite candidates the day and night before. It was almost a slap-happy mood that Lake vote count crawls into the computer age you" phrase to the language any minute now.

It was finally completed shortly after 3 a.m. this morning. The coffee pot had run dry by noon. No one bothered to refill it because they apparently believed the process would be over shortly. The remaining donuts were getting stale.

A fan had been brought in to drive out some of the human and computer heat from the office. The men sporting day-old beard stubble started to look a little like the star of the popular "Miami Vice" television show. See 1 SURE, Back Page This Section KENNETH PETERSON sion," she said. "We (the commissioners) have given it a lot of thought, and we think Joy Bailey is the best qualified." McClain's disapproval is likely to have Related story, A-11 little effect on Bailey since, he said, he plans to step down from the commission when his term expires at the end of the month. In any case, Bailey said she is looking "sis-sd I 4 i ly By THOMAS INKLEY Times Staff Writer CROWN POINT Lake County vote counting crawled into the computer age Wednesday.

It was Murphy's law not Indiana law that controlled the count of the state's second most populous county. And everything did go wrong. It took nearly 48 hours to finally tabulate the vote count even though all precincts had delivered their counts to the clerk's office within eight hours of closing the polls Tuesday at 6 p.m. Hammond housing unit names By JEAN N1KRUTO Times Correspondent HAMMOND The Hammond Housing Authority Board of Commissioners named Joy Bailey as its new executive director Wednesday. Bailey, who has served as HHA program coordinator for the last two years, fills the post left vacant since October when Wanda Funk resigned the post.

Mayor Thomas McDermott had recommended Bailey for the post last week. Bailey received the approval of four out.