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25 CENTS Kovjq Digest- Troim yinry, 1 il M- I "-rr Tt-irrMflriiM'ir I riMi 1 1 "rk mmu(mmmn mi I i 'jlf-ifM''' in mmmmitiudm mej By Don Walton Star Staff Writer Emerging from nowhere politically in three months, Bob Kerrey, Lincoln businessman and Congressional Medal of Honor winner, swept into position late Tuesday to challenge Gov. Charles Thone's four-year hold on the governorship. Kerrey sailed past state Sen, George "Bill" Burrows of Adams in impressive fashion, gathering more than 70 percent of the votes, to win the Democratic nomination. Thone won renomination to a second term, dispatching the agriculture-oriented challenge of Stan DeBoer of Smithfield and a nominal bid by Barton Chandler of Lincoln. But the governor was losing more than one-third' of the Republican votes early Wednesday, a clear sign of danger for an incumbent running in his own party's primary.

Kerrey faced some potential pitfalls of his own in attempting to consolidate traditional Democratic support including organized labor behind his candidacy. He will begin that effort in Omaha Wednesday, he said. Burrows, who had strong support from labor unions, said in Lincoln early Wednesday he wants to meet with Kerrey soon, but he is not yet prepared to endorse him. "I need to know a whole lot more about Bob Kerrey before I would be willing to do that," Burrows said "I have a lot of concerns about his economic philosophy and about his tax philosophy." The Thone-Kerrey match in November has taken on the luster of a major showdown in the wake of newspaper polls which show the Democratic challenger already within striking distance of the governor. Not long ago, Thone was considered a virtual shoo-in for re-election.

But recessionary economic conditions and a series of state tax rate increases have combined with the developing momentum of Kerrey's first political bid to blow the race wide open. Thone, 58, a Lincoln attorney and a figure in Nebraska politics for 30 years, won the governorship in 1978 after four terms in the House of Representatives. The governor-conducted a laid-back primary campaign, but has promised to walk the main streets of communities all over the state "from Mitchell Pass to the Missouri River" before the general election in an effort to win what he says will be his last political hurrah. Thone has stressed the fiscal record of his stewardship of state government, pointing to "tight-fisted" budgeting and a sharp reduction in the number of state employees. In sharp contrast to the governor, Kerrey, 38, whose business enterprises include restaurants and sports facilities, was a political unknown when he announced his candidacy in February.

Kerrey has promised to spur economic growth with a lean state government which "turns itself outward" to aid local communities, and which emphasizes assistance and opportunity for "people who are hurting." A Navy officer in Vietnam, Kerrey suffered Thone will seek second term. Kerrey easily wins nomination. DeBoer, 43, best-known as a founder of the American Agriculture Movement, pointed to agriculture's economic woes and challenged Thone's support for Reagan administration farm and economic policies. combat injuries which cost him part of a leg in 1969. Burrows, 51, an Adams farmer who had gained widespread union endorsement for his populist record during eight years in the Legislature, had championed tax reform tied to increased corporate income taxes and a progressive individual income tax rate.

Chandler, 44, a candidate for mayor of in 1979, was essentially along for the ride. Voters reject gay rights Search for girl off GALLATIN, Mo. (AP) The search for 9-year-old Jennifer R. Barden abducted in front of her home 10 days ago has been "more or less called off," Daviess County Sheriff Kenneth Calvin said Tuesday. Judge retains seat LANCASTER, Wis.

(UPI) A judge haunted by five ill-chosen words about a 5-year-old victim of a sexual assault staved off an attempt to remove him from the bench Tuesday. William L. Reinecke, 52, a law-and-order judge in trouble with conservative constituents for calling the girl an "unusually sexually promiscuous young garned 51 percent of the vote in a three-way recall election. Policy shift seen (c) New York Times WASHINGTON A shift in the foreign policy of the Reagan administration from conservative Republicanism toward the traditional center of the party has occurred over 16 months, according of officials in the White House and other departments. They characterize the new phase as less stridency toward Moscow and more attention toward European concerns.

Profit $436 million (c) New York Times ATLANTA A $436 million Postal Service profit was disclosed by Postmaster General William F. Bolger. He said the agency would do even better in coming months. Jersey mayor re-elected TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) Union City Mayor William V.

Musto, facing a prison term for racketeering, won re-election Tuesday, while Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson, indicted on misconduct charges, was ahead of his closest rival. Budget suffers setback WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan's revised budget received a major setback Tuesday when House Republican Leader Bob Michel declared there is "just no way" Congress will vote to cut spending this year by Social Security changes. In the GOP-controlled Senate, the proposal to use $40 billion in Social Security savings to trim deficits over three years survived a Democratic attempt to throw it out. A near-party line vote of 51-44 tabled the attempt. Storm kills 2 persons ALTUS, Okla.

(AP) A thunderstorm churning with at least 30 tornadoes slammed into southwestern Oklahoma late Tuesday, killing two people, damaging buildings and causing an estimated $1 million damage at Altus Air Force Base. The storm left Altus without power and knocked out radar service at the air base. Robbers kill three MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas (UPI) Two men and a woman were shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a robbery at the Pizza Hut restaurant where they worked, and police sought three people believed to have robbed a family a day earlier, police said Tuesday. Democratic Congress First District 286 precincts of 698 Donajdson 7,090 Sather 4,384 Pals ...2,582 State Offices of 1,960 Governor 18.133 Kerrey 47,251 Lt. Governor McGinley 35,553 Conradt 18,426 Public Service Commissioner Pearson 5,267 Johnson 5,884 Gay Rights Amendment All precincts For 10,419 Against 37,249 Jail Bond Yes 21,136 No 37,249 Republican U.S.

Senate UWpreclnctsof 1,960 Keck 52.151 Cameron 26,030 State Offices 806 precincts of 1,960 Governor Thone 57,652 De Boer 27.844 Chandler 6,192 Lt. Governor Luedtke 45,667 Lamb 28,172 Smith 10,614 Auditor Johnson. 33,097 Patteson 20,657 Treasurer Orr 40,424 Marsh 28,058 Rasmussen 8,390 Swanson 10,166 Public Service Commissioner Simpson 5,226 Meyer .....3,828 Larson 4,105 heavily attended public hearing, the commission unanimously determined that discrimination did in fact exist and it recommended in early December that the human rights law be amended to protect homosexuals. An immediate struggle began over whether the City Council should pass the measure outright, or put it to -a public vote. The matter was settled when the council accepted a contro-.

versial city attorney's opinion that it lacked authority to alone approve the amendment. In March, after a public hearing interrupted by a bomb threat, the council called for a May 11 vote. Councilmen Mike Steinman and Eric Youngberg, along with Mayor Helen Boosalis, actively endorsed the amendment along with several state senators. Other city officials maintained a carefully neutral public stance. The ensuing campaign, carried out by speakers' bureaus, television pro-', gramming and by a variety of advertising, often became heated.

Supporters were generally low-. key, arguing civil rights. Opponents were often louder, as-; setting that the issue was whether to equate homosexuality with hetero- -sexuality. A blizzard of statistics was used: by opponents in an effort to prove that homosexuals were abnormal, by supporters to counter the opposition statistics. Thoughout the campaign, it was conceded by opposition leaders that discrimination does exist They argued that it was just suppression.

"I think there are a number of Lincoln citizens who see this as a vote for or against homosexuality, which we do not think is the way it should be presented," said Scott Stebelman, co-chair of the Lincoln Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights, which began the fight to protect homosexuals from discrimination under the city's human rights law. "I think the moral issue was a big thing," Thierstein said. Stebelman said he was uncertain if the vote would have a major impact "We hope this is not a green light for increased harassment and hostility towards gay people," he said. Asked if the issue would be raised again, Stebelman said, "If we feel that in a couple of years, the climate is right and the public is ready to address this issue again, we will take that up." Thierstein said the impact will be, "That we can get back to keeping Lincoln an AU-American city. This was something we really didnt need." He said, "I suppose things will be like they were a month ago, a month, a year, a day ago." Stebelman said early in the evening, "We regret nothing.

There is a feeling of gladness and triumph here tonight regardless of the outcome." He stood by that statement as the magnitude of the defeat became apparent. "We're sorry the vote isn't higher, but we still have no regrets about the campaign." The issue of discrimination was taken up by the Lincoln Commission on Human Rights last year on request of the coalition. Following a By George Hendrix Star Staff Writer Lincolnites resoundingly rejected the gay rights amendment by a 4-1 margin refused to outlaw discrimination against homosexuals. The outcome, ending months of emotion-charged campaign activity, was no surprise. And perhaps because of the gay rights amendment, cr a combination of it and the Sunday liquor issue, only less controversial by degree, voters came out in near record numbers for a primary election.

Beatty Brasch, deputy Lancaster election commissioner, said it appeared that at least 53 percent of Lincoln's registered voters went to the polls, higher than in any primary since 1950. The normal turnout is about 40 percent, she said. Bill Thierstein of the Committee to Oppose Special Rights for Homosexuals, said the group had felt relatively secure about the outcome of the public vote. "I don't know whether I'm surprised," he said, "I'm tickled to death with it," he said Thierstein said, "I don't think it was a constitutional issue or a civil rights issue. Most of it was a moral issue." ilis remarks highlighted a wide philosophical gap that has separated the two sides throughout the tumultous campaign.

Supporters have argued the amendment as purely a civil rights issue, the opposition has tagged it a moral issue. Ray Johnson Page 1 1 1 Donaldson leads Page 1 7 Orr defeats Marsh in treasurer's race Keck victorious; to face Zorinsky Jm Keck wins with ease. Thunderstorms, windy LINCOLN: Thunderstorms Wednesday. High mid to upper 60s with with east winds 10 to 20 mph. Cloudy Wednesday night with a low in the mid 50s.

Cloudy Thursday with a high in the lower to mid 60s. (Weather digest, Page 48) Todav's Vnat 9063 up must come down unless Chuckle it orbits. The White House has assured him that the president will campaign in Nebraska in his behalf this autumn, Keck has said. At stake, he says, is the mandate for change which swept Reagan Into office in 1980 and gave him a Repub-lican Senate. This year, Keck says, voters will decide whether to ratify that mandate, or reject it Zorinsky, who has maintained a fiercely independent stance during his six years In the Senate, broke from the Republican Party In 1976 to seek the Democratic nomination.

His election was constructed on? the foundation of an astonishing romp past then-Omaha Congressman John McCollister in Douglas County. McCollister won the rest of the state by 6,500 votes. Keck has all but conceded Omaha to Zorinsky this November, and will, pin his hopes on Lincoln and the vast Republican stretches of central and western Nebraska. Also In the race, having bypassed, the primaries with a petition can- didacy, is Virginia Walsh, 53, also of Omaha, a lobbyist for the Nebraska' Coalition for Women. By Mark Kay Roth Star Staff Writer Incumbent state Treasurer Kay Orr has accomplished what was believed to be the impossible Tuesday, defeating the famous Marsh name in the Nebraska primary election and slipping onto the Republican slate for treasurer in a surprisingly easy victory over state Sen.

Shirley Marsh. "It's terrific but It's unbelieveable," Mrs. Orr said Tuesday night, speaking from a quiet celebration at her campaign headquarters In northeast Lincoln. "I took the message to the conservative people of Nebraska that I was a conservative who had saved them a lot of money. It must have worked." With 828 precincts reporting Tuesday evening, unofficial vote counts showed Mrs.

Orr capturing about 48.4 percent of the vote; Mrs. Marsh, with 30 percent; Wayne R. Swanson, a 67-year-old retired Lincoln businessman, with 11.5 percent, and Kurt Rasmussen, a 43-year-old Blair resident, with 17 percent In the November general election Mrs. Orr will face Democrat Oval A. Keyes, 1 68-year-old Springfield farmer and former state senator who ran unopposed It's tough to overcome the Marsh name, Omaha advertising executive Jim Keck, the former vice commander of the Strategic Air Command, soared late Tuesday Into a general election shootout with Democratic Sen.

Edward Zorinsky. Keck, 60, who began his Senate race 10 months ago, zapped flamboyant Ken Cameron, a 57-year-old Blair plumbing and well supply salesman, winning nearly 70 percent of the vote en route to the Republican nomination. Zorinsky, 53, who In 1976 parlayed a highly popular stint as mayor of Omaha into the first Democratic senatorial victory In Nebraska In four decades, won renomination to a second six-year term without opposition. The November clash of the two Omahans will find Keck attempting to reverse a recent political phenomenon of two straight Democratic Senate triumphs in the state. Zorinsky has built a record as a fiscal conservative, but Keck has aligned himself more closely with President Reagan's economic program, including full Implementation of scheduled tax cuts.

9 Mrs. Orr admitted Tuesday night. She was appointed to the treasurer's post last year by Gov. Charles Thone when Mrs. Marsh's husband, Frank, resigned to assume the state directorship of the Farmers Home Admnlstration.

But Mrs. Orr, a 43-year-old Lincoln woman, has been campaigning across the state over the past few months, stressing her 10 months as treasurer and inauguration of money-management practices. "I worked very hard trying to get the message out to the people, but one doesnt ever know," she said Tuesday evening. "The polls said one thing, but my instincts said another thing. I really didn't expect to win by such a large margin." The election was a real heart-breaker for Mrs.

Marsh, 58. She has been hoping to run for treasurer ever since she knew her husband could not run again. "I think the time and the money were both factors," Mrs. Marsh said from her home Tuesday night "I was very Involved In the Legislature while Mrs. Orr was out campaigning across the state of Nebraska.

And money does certainly talk." Rasmussen unsuccessfully sought the state treasurer's post on the Democratic ticket in 1974; Swanson served two terms as state treasurer from 1967-75. 41 Record Book 41 Sport JM1 Action Line 4 44 Dear Abby 4 State, tl-H TV Program 41 Wo" 44,45 41 World 2,1 Paper Carrier Route Get lined up for a newspaper route opening. Apply now at Circulation Deptrh.473-7341-Adv Sen. Edward Zorinsky faces fall test..