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Wednesday, November 9, 1988 A-16 HE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS victory is tidal wave in Hamilton County I'll Ji SJL Ml Mid LhJ la George Stevens Sharon Clark John Holmes Peggy Hlatt Polly Pearce Steven Holt Donald Foulke for a constitutional amendment permitting lotteries and drew the interest of 42,976 voters. Of that number, 25.745. or 59.9 percent, favored the proposed change. Hamilton County voters also endorsed Proposition 2. which would amend the state Constitution to route criminal appeals with sentences of 50 years or less through the Indiana Court of Appeals to the State Supreme Court.

The vote was 21.868 for and 16,312 against. The voters rejected Proposition 3, however. The proposition would amend the state Constitution to allow elected county officials to be re-elected Indefinitely. The Proposition 3 vote was 14,250 for and 25.841 against. Surveyor Kent Ward and Judge Donald E.

Foulke of Hamilton Superior Court 1 were re-elected without opposition. Likewise, Steven C. Dillinger was elected to the 2nd District commissioner seat without opposition and Steven A. Holt won the 3rd District commissioner seat by default. Both won three-way contests in the Republicam primary last spring.

By JOHN FLORA The Indianapolis News NOBLESVILLE, Ind. More than 80 percent of Hamilton County's 55,000 registered voters trooped to the polls Tuesday to elect a full slate of Republican candidates. 1 Heavy voting started early and continued throughout the day. At Christ the Savior Lutheran Church. 1 1965 Allisonvillc Road, voters in the Delaware Central precinct were still casting ballots at 9 p.m., the same time the polls were closing in California.

Under voting laws, persons who are in line to vote at the 6 p.m. closing time must be permitted to cast their ballots. Consequently, it was after 9 p.m. by the time a long line of voters queued up at the church had passed through the voting booth. The precinct is in the burgeoning Fishers area and 1,396 of its 1.868 registered voters went to the polling place Tuesday.

Delaware Central was the last of Hamilton County's 85 precincts to be tallied and it was 2 a.m. today before the unofficial totals were tabulated. The three Democratic candidates for courthouse-level office were inundated by a tidal wave of GOP votes. However, the numbers showed many voters In this traditionally Republican stronghold are learning to split their tickets. Of the contested offices, Republican County Councilman John Holmes led the county ticket as he, Councilwoman Sharon Clark and former commissioner George Stevens won the three at-large council seats.

Holmes received an unofficial 33,922 votes, followed by Clark with 33.348 and Stevens with 33.317. S. Shep Cutler, who some thought had a chance of being the first Democrat elected to county office in recent history, finished a distant fourth and out of contention with 10,073. term over a challenge from Democrat Harry T. Taylor.

Pearce won the support of 32.892 voters, compared with 8,978 votes for Taylor. While their Hoosier neighbors were electing Evan Bayh to be the next governor, Hamilton County voters expressed a preference for Republican John Mutz. The unofficial total gave 31,456 votes to Mutz and 13,315 to Bayh. Bayh received more than 4,400 more votes in Hamilton County than did Dukakis. Behind the presidential and gubernatorial races, the most popular issue on Tuesday's ballot in Hamilton County was Proposition 1.

The measure calls Cutler did, however, have the distinction of receiving more votes than Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. The Democratic national standard-bearer received 8.853 votes, to 36.654 for President-elect George Bush. Deputy County Treasurer Peggy Lou Hiatt. fresh from a three-way victory In the Republican primary last spring, easily defeated V. Loretta Stout.

She will succeed Frances Montgomery, who is completing her second term and cannot run again. Hiatt received 33.313 votes to Stout's 8,707. Auditor Polly Pearce won a second emocrats win Republicans have easy MEM ey office in organ County hm in p-p She bv County 03T F1P UftX' vs )f) L4 1 James Brenda Carmella Bill i-iti Harris Adams Hacker Gray rn gr 5-member 'si. ILllatffc ifmiiirifoHtiTt board OK'd Is? 0 I By BILL PITTMAN The Indianapolis News MARTINSVILLE, Ind. Morgan County Republicans steam-rolled through county elections Tuesday, winning all four offices in which they were opposed.

Norman Voyles, first time Republican candidate for a Morgan County Council seat said. "I thought it would be closer than it turned out to be. I thought some of the last minute issues they raised in other races might filter into the council race." He won with a total of 3, 132. The best that Democrat Norman Rushton could do was 6,636 votes. Thought it was close Kenneth "Butch" Albertson, Democratic candidate for county treasurer, said.

"It appeared like a close race, but I was wiped out in my own precinct 400 to 200. "I am not sorry about it. I think I did well in my first attempt. Now we have to get out tomorrow and start working, and not wait until three months before the elections." Albertson was defeated by incumbent Carmella Hacker by about a 2 to 1 margin. An elated Bob Watkins, county Republican chairman, said he had never been concerned about the county.

However, the tandem campaigning of Democrats Terry Maxwell and Robert Haymaker against incumbent County Commissioner Bill Gray and candi- The Indianapolis News SHELBYVILLE. Ind. Democrats took control of the Shelby County commissioners' office by winning one of the two seats up for election Tuesday. Both commissioner posts on the ballot this year had been held by Republicans. The term of the third commissioner.

Democrat Marlin Ever-hart. doesn't expire until 1990. However, Republicans strengthened their hold on the Shelby County Council by claiming all three at-large seats. Maurice Leap, a Democratic member of the council, defeated Republican Kevin Siebert. a former Shelby ville auto dealer, by 7,941 to 6,988 in the contest for commissioner from the South District.

Republican incumbent Kenneth Nigh won the commissioner race in Center District over Democrat Stanley Walton by 7,987 to 7,151. Control of the commissioners' office is important because they appoint some department heads, including the county highway superintendent. Also, the two Democratic commissioners will make decisions on hirings for some departments. Republicans Glenn Perry, Phil Kaster and Gael Coulston. though, swept the three at-large seats on the County Council.

Perry was the lone incumbent seeking re-election Their Democratic opponents were Phil Gorrell, James Hana- Paul Mason Norman Voyles Big Bush vote Kenneth Nigh Maurice Leap nan and Charles Smith. The vote was Perry. 8.769; Kaster, Coulston. Gorrell, Hanahan, 6.338. and Charles Smith, 5,678.

As a result. Republicans hold six of the seven council seats, having won three of four district races two years ago. Republican Jean Leising of Oldenburg received 9,281 votes in Shelby County in her quest to succeed Thomas Hession as state senator from the 42nd District. The Democratic challenger, R. Jeffrey McDaniel.

garnered 5,823 votes. Republican Stephen Moberly of Shelbyville, was unchallenged in his bid for another term as state representative from the 57th District. He had 10,824 votes. Judge Charles O'Connor of Shelby Circuit Court was also without opposition as he sought another six-year term. He received 10,311 votes.

The Indianapolis News BROWNSBURG. Ind. Brownsburg voters approved by a nearly 5-to-l margin a referendum to expand the Town Board from three members to five. Voters preferred the dum 2,088 to 481 in the unofficial count. Proponents of the referendum, including the three current trustees, had argued additional members were needed to give the growing town more continuity in local government.

The town intends to create -staggered terms with the two additional seats, beginning and ending two years after the three existing members' terms. The plan is designed to prevent a loss of memory by the board of the town's important business in the event that all trustees are defeated in a given election. Roger Chester Davee Bastin date Roger Davee presented a new Democratic strategy. Nevertheless, the Republicans swept with Gray winning over Maxwell 11.623 to 7.097. Davee, who defeated Gene Marsh in the primary, won the 3rd District commissioners's seat over Haymaker 12.254 to 6,667.

Democrat Robert Rushton's candidacy as councilman-at-large also represented a kind of divide and conquer Democratic strategy but to no avail as incumbent Republican Chester Bastin was returned along with Voyles and former sheriff and clerk Paul Mason. In the presidential race gan County demonstrated its Re- publicanism with an overwhelming vote for George Bush of 11.742 against 5,410 for Michael Dukakis. The county approved a state lottery 8.137 to 6,639. Returned to county offices without opposition were James Harris, judge of the Morgan Circuit Court; incumbent Treasurer Brenda Adams and Surveyor Reginald McCracken. Elected without opposition was Thomas Neal, who returned to the office of coroner.

Voters select school boards in 6 Johnson districts Phil Carney, 1.517: David Pollard, 1,296. and Kenneth E. Tearman, 1,180. 9r Tar Edinburgh large winners have to be from different townships. Unofficials totals are: Young, Smith, 944; Joyce Ann McLin, 712; David Spurgeon, 533; Stephen Scott, 576; Patricia Graphman.

587; Dee Owens, 411, and Joseph Rodenbeck, 112. Voters in all three townships decided the winners of the two at-large seats. The Indianapolis News FRANKLIN. Ind. Seven of nine incumbents in Johnson County school board races retained their seats in Tuesday's election.

There were 14 seats on the ballots in the six school districts. Three incumbents did not seek re-election, and voters in Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson Schools added two new members when the board expanded from three to five. Greenwood One of the closest races was at Greenwood where David Mitchell barely held onto his 1st District seat by edging Joyce Tellstrom. 2.248 to 2,205 in official returns. Evelyn Crawford had an easier time as she outdistanced chal- at-large seat on the Clark-Pleasant School Board with 1,499 votes to 1,160 for Edward O'Connor, 559 for Mark Fogel-song, 506 for Reve Porter and 418 for Harold Erickson.

William Harbert, appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of Otto Lewis, didn't run. Franklin Dr. Douglas Bullington won another term to represent Franklin Township on the Franklin School Board with 3,387 votes to 2,440 for James Jeffrey Pinnick. Incumbent Janet Schafstall retained her seat on the Franklin board. Joining her in representing Franklin will be Mary Ellen Jump.

Totals were Schafstall. 3.767; Jump. 2.872: John Emry, 2,384. and Joe 1,684. Two were elected.

The other incumbent, Noel Baker, didn't seek another term. Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson Donald Young retained his seat on the Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson School Board, defeating Brian Westerfeld by 518 to 343. He represents Nineveh Township. Only voters in this township decided the outcome of the contest. In the race for the two new at-large N-H-J board seats.

Stephen Young, of Jackson Township, and Mark Smith, of Nineveh Township, were victorious. Residency was important as the board stipulated when it voted to expand that there could be no more than two board members from a township. Since one member already represents each township the regulation means the two at- There will be two new faces on the Edinburgh School Board. Betty Newman didn't run again, and Lewis Jacob was defeated. Winning the two seats were Ronald Seals, 812 votes: and Jeffrey Simpson.

605. Jacob was third with 594 and John Coff-man fourth with 507. Clark-Pleasant John Maudlin unseated James Black in the race for the Pleasant Township seat on the Clark-Pleasant School Board. The totals were: Maudlin, 1,708: Black. 1.508; and Kenneth Robinson, 948.

William Wendt captured an lenger Kristen Anne Spate by 2,514 to 1,934 in Greenwood's 3rd District. Center Grove Incumbents Joyce Hall and Paul Reed withstood challenges from six other candidates for two seats on the Center Grove School Board. Totals were: Hall. 3.671; Reed. 3.232; Millard Sutton.

2,553: Stephen Vlcan, Eastal Leroy Burdine. 1.722; Incumbent loses Southern Hancock school seat Westfield school tax levy loses The Indianapolis News WESTFIELD.lnd. Despite weeks of preparation and a massive public relations effort, the Westfield Washington School referendum was defeated Tuesday The measure which would have added $825,000 to the 1989 General Fund tax levy carried only one of the seven precincts in Washington Township. Of the 3,573 votes cast In the referendum, 56.25 percent opposed the tax hike. The referendum was defeated by a vote of 2,010 against and 1,563 votes in favor of the measure.

The bulk of the additional funds $425,000 was to be used for increased staff for proposed and existing aca-. demic programs. Greenfield-Central's only incumbent trying to stay on the school board handily won over her challenger. Rosalie Richardson, 49, was elected to a second term over William Robert "Bob" Lee, 40. Incumbents Janet J.

Hedrick in District 1 and Paul F. Kleiman in District 4 were unopposed. Hedrick. 45. is completing her first term.

She received 3,192 votes. Kleiman, 51. a farmer, is finishing his second term on the board. He had 3,199 votes. Bond placed third in the balloting in the four-way race.

Clark, who is a mathematics supervisor for kindergarten through grade 12 in the Indianapolis Public Schools, received 1,291 votes. Parker drew 1,102. Bond had 763 and Montgomery dianapolis schools math supervisor. Bond's husband. Dewey Bond, was to have been transferred.

When their house went up for sale, three candidates filed bids for the District 2 school board post. Besides Clark, Marcia Hen-dryx Parker, 41, vice president of the New Palestine Community Library Board, and C. O. Montgomery. 43.

a teacher at Tech High School at Indianapolis, ran for Bond's chair. But the transfer didn't materialize, so Bond ran for a second term. The Indianapolis News A last-minute change in moving plans may have cost an incumbent her seat on the Southern Hancock School Board at New Palestine. Two other incumbents seek-' ing re-election were unopposed in Tuesday's nonpartisan balloting. Meanwhile, the lone incumbent trying to retain a seat on the Greenfield-Central School Board out-polled her challenger.

At New Palestine, Linda Sue Miller Bond. 45. was unseated by Thomas E. Clark, 44. an In A tight race developed for the District 4 seat being vacated by McQueeney.

Marsha G. Byrd, 39, a toxicology information assistant at Eli Lilly Greenfield Laboratories, narrowly beat Larry J. Breese, 38, a sales consultant for Indianapolis Office Supply. Byrd received 2.930 votes to Breese's 2,881. Candidate Paul N.

Nobbe was unopposed for the District 1 seat. He received 4,858 votes. School board elections for Mount Vernon and Eastern Hancock were in May. president of Cloverleaf Healthcare Services at Indianapolis, In District 5. Richardson had 3.424 votes to Lee's 2.482.

Incumbents Robert Erwin in District 1 and Jack McQueeney in District 4 did not seek reelection. received 406..