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House, MORSE-Democrat WYATT Republican Salem Fire Dept. and Marion County Fire Dist. 1 trucks were called to assist. Keizer Fire Chief Duane Sanford said the blaze was brought under control in about half an hour. Sanford said the fire began fn the teachers' lounge.

He said the cause of the blaze is unknown, and the incident is under investigation. State police confirmed that arson investigators JL JL about a year ago was considered to be in strong disfavor with some conservative Republicans in the state, tallied abouf 61 per cent of the Republican vote. His closest rival and the one who campaigned the hardest against him was Lynn Engdahl, a Pacific University speech professor. Engdahl managed to get only about 23 per cent of the vote. Engdahl had used the slogan of "vote for a man who will be a working He had said many times that he was displeased with Hatfield's outside speaking engagements I I 84th Year No.

123 it.ir. Oregon, Wednesday, May 24, 1972 George McGovern won a double, transcontinental victory Tuesday with presidential primary wins in both Rhode Island and Oregon. McGovern won big in Oregon with 50 per cejt of the vote in a field of 11 Democratic candidates, picking up momentum for hisclassic political showdown with Hubert Humphrey in California. The California primary could decide the Democratic will 76 'Pages (8 Sections) Price 10 Cents I imiFiroz from Milwaukee have been called in to assist. There were no injuries.

With the end of the school year near, Salem School District officials said Cummings students can forget about returning to classes until next fall. Related story, picture, Page 17 throughout the country and said if he were elected he would devote full time to Oregon and Oregon problems. jThe third best Republican senatorial vote-getter on the GOP side was ultra-conservative Gervais farmer Kenneth Brown. He received abput 11 per cent of the vote. He campaigned not only against Hatfield and his "liberal" via a but also against President Richard Nixon's "laxness with the communists." Tn fourth place was Lake Oswego machinery manufacturer John Smets, who received only a trickle of the vote.

Rep. Al Ullman has been virtually re-elected 'to another term. He faced no opposition from any Democrat in Tuesday's primary -and no Republican challenger came forth to meet him in November. Rep. Edith Green also ran unopposed in the primary for her seat in the third congressional district.

She will be opposed in November by Mike Walsh, a Portland Republican who was not challenged in the primary. Rep. John Dellenback easily won the Republican nomination in Oregon's fourth congressional district by outdistancing Medford's mayor William Singler. On the Democratic side in that district, former congressman Charles Porter held a narrow edge over James Weaver. The differences were less than 300 votes.

Matfieldl 9 2 I BERKMAN Republican CORBETT I Democrat ge(Cmi a nappy, smuing Mcoovern said "not Daa for one day's work" as the returns gave him top-heavy victories in Rhode Island and Oregon and 56 more delegate votes. In addition to his 34 votes in Oregon and 22 in Rhode Island, McGovern up 11 delegates in congressional district elections in Missouri. Another 44 uncommitted delegates were selected and the final 18 of a total of 73 will be chosen at the state convention. Far out front, McGovern now has 506 dele-j gate votes, more than one-third of the 1,509 needed to win the nomination. Bunched behind him are George C.

Wallace, 312, Humphrey, 291.85, and Edmund S. Muskie, 166.6? But the big prize is California where the winner gets all the state's 271 delegate votes. "I expect us to win in California after a hard effort," McGovern told his supporters in More election neics, Pages 11, 17, 18, 19 a Portland hotel ballroom. "We don't take that state for granted." McGovern, who now has won five primaries (Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Oregon, Rhode Island) added "I would think that by midnight0 on June 6, we'd have a pretty good indication of whether we're going to win the nomination or not." Humphrey, who did not campaign in either Oregon or Rhode Island, shrugged off pointing finishes third in each state. "I think you have to consider whether you've tried," Humphrey said campaigning in California when the results became clear.

With all of Rhode Island's precincts report-' ed, the returns showed McGovern 41 per Muskie 21 per cent; Humphrey, 20 per cen; Wallace, 15 per cent. The rest were scattered among four minor candidates and uncommit-teds. In Oregon, with 99 per cent of the precincts in McGovern had 50 per cent; Wallace 20 per cent; Humphrey 13 per cent; Henry Jackson 5" per cent; Edward M. Kennedy 3 per cent; Muskie 3 per cent; Patsy Mink 2 per Shirley Chisholm 1 per cent. Wallace, bedridden and still partially paralyzed by a would-be assassin, finished a solid second in Oregon, comfortably ahead of Humphrey.

Wallace was awakened today in his hospital room in Silver Spring, to be told of his showing in the Oregon primary. "Oh, that's great!" he enthused. Later this morning Wallace talked to reporters for the first time since he was shot at political rally May 15 and said he was "sorry it has to end this way." His remark apparently was in reference tohis active speech-making campaigning for thejbemocratic presidential nomination. A spokesman for Mrs. Mink said she is withdrawing as a presidential candidate because of her poor showing in the Oregon primary.

Her name appeared in other primaries, but Oregon was the only state in which she actively campaigned. 1 Oregon voters also heeded Kennedy's admonition that he is. not a candidate for the nomination. They took him at his word and Kennedy received only scattered votes in the only primary in which his name was on the ballot. President Nixon inched closer to locking up the Republican nomination by adding 26 delegate votes with in Oregon and Rhode Island for a total of 633 He needs 674 for the nomination.

Nixon, Brezhnev agree on 2-nation space flight MOSCOW (UPI) President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev agreed at the Moscow summit today to send American and Soviet spacemen on a historic joint earth orbital flight in 1975. Preliminary plans for the joint space flight call for a three-man Apollo spacecraft and a three-man Soviet space station td dock together to test space rescue techniques. 4 More summit details, Page CD -7T7) 7 umch. to jice Fire- swept through the midsection of Cummings" Elementary School in Keizer early today causing an estimated damage. Keizer firemen were alerted to the blaze shortly after a.m.

when someone pulled the fire alarm at the station. When fire equipment arrived at the school, the central area of the building was filled with flames and smoke. Oregon Democrats decided Tuesday to give former U.S. Sen. Wayne Morse another chance.

i By a 44 per cent margin, they nominated him as their candidate to face Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, who won the Republican nod to seek re-election in November. Two-thirds of the precincts in the state have reported. Throughout the campaign, Morse, 71, told his audiences that he was running after his U.S.

Senate defeat in 1968 "because I've had a lot of people tell me they wanted to make up for their mistake four years ago." I That was the time Morse was edged from the senate seat he had held for 24 years. Sen. Bob Pack wood, beat the veteran senator from Eugene in that election. In Tuesday's primary election results, Morse led two other major challengers former Congressman Bob Duncan and State Sen. Don Willner.

In late returns Duncan had about 33 per cent of the over all vote and Willner had about 19 per cent. Another candidate, Portland businessman Ralph Wiser, made a poor fourth showing with about four per cent of the 'vote. Many had predicted that Morse would be defeated because of his age and the question of his ability to regain any seniority status for Oregon in the Senate. However, that issue was pretty well played down throughout the campaign. Although two outspoken opponents of the war in Vietnam will be battling each other in November, Morse maintains that heand Hatfield have divergent opinions when it comes tp such things as the economy.

Hatfield easily won the Republican bid for Jiis nomination. The incumbent senator, who. No real winner Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with continued cool. Low tonight 38, high Thursday 67. Chances of measurable precipitation less than 10 per dent tonight and Thursday.

Sunset today sunrise tomorrow 4:34. Maximum yesterday 59; minimum today 45. Total, 24-hour precipitation for month 2.40; mormal Seasonal precipitation 4541; normal 39.07; report by National Weather Service. Field at Democrat R. P.

(Joe) Smith and Republican, Craig Berkman squeaked out narrow victories in their respective races for attorney general and state treasurer. Smith, the controversial Umatilla County district attorney, will face Atty. Gen. Lee Johnson, a Republican, in the general election. Berkman will be pitted against Alice Cor-bett, who won the Democratic nomination for state treasurer.

Smith defeated State SenT Betty Browne, 0-Oakridge, for the Democratic nomination for attorney general. The outcome of that face was not decided until late this morning when Smith moved out to a lead of six percentage points over Mrs. Browne. With all but 115 of the state's 2,339 reported. Smith had 173,551 votes compared with Mrs.

Browne's 151,880. It had been a see-saw contest through the night and into this morning. There was really not much of a primary campaign contest between Smith and Mrs. Browne. They spent most of their time criticizing Atty.

Gen. Lee Johnson for the amount of money he spent getting elected in 1SC3. Smith will be remembered for his fight against the U.S. Army in 1970 to keep shipments of nerve gas out of Umatilla County. He also made some of his Pendleton constituents unhappy when he told the Happy Canyon presidential candidate.

(Capital Journal Photo by Gerry Lewin) GEORGE McGOVERN A big winner representative, an easy victory over engineer William Ringnalda and Francis Rothauge, a landscape foreman. No run-off will be necessary. Benson polled 1,678, Ringnalda 1,054 and Rothauge 357. Incumbent councilmen Warren Carkih and Walter Heine won uncontested elections. ipS; incumi.ents Marion County Republicans have given George Jones the necessary boost to assure his re-election to a third term in Position 4 of the Marion County Circuit Court.

In the unofficial finals results from the primary election Tuesday, Jones, 53, captured 23,536 votes to 19,600 for his challenger, Salem Jason Lee, 56. In Polk County, incumbent Judge' Walter Foster was victorious over Dallas Municipal Judge Mark Bliven for Polk County District Judge. In unofficial final returns Foster, 51, claimed 5,251 votes to 4,083 for his 38-year-old challenger. Democrats in Marion County gave Lee a narrow margin over Jones on their half of the, ballot, but Jones was a 3-2 victor among publicans. Several unopposed candidates did not appear on ballots in the two counties.

All are incumbents and will be listed in the November final election. 1 They include Marion County circuit judges Val Sloper and Jena Schlegel, Marion County Dist. Atty. Gary Gortmaker, Polk County Circuit Judge Darrell Williams and Pck. County Dist.

Atty. John JSnyder. go i sweeps city may of vote A strong critic of President Nixon's handling of the Vietnam War soundly won the Democratic nomination to face Rep. Wendell Wyatt, in November's general election. Ralph Bunch, associate professor of political science at Portland State University, won the Democratic nod with nearly 70 per cent of the total vote.

The other challenger, Thomas Baggs, had about 30 per cent. Baggs, a Portland businessman, ran for the same seat in 1968 and was defeated by the incumbent Wyatt. Baggs was tagged as a conservative Democrat. Wyatt ran unopposed in the primary election so he automatically will be facing Bunch in November. In Oregon's other congressional races, Lin City Councilman Robert Lindsey outpolled truck driver Frank Hills Tuesday to win the mayoral election for the City of Salem.

Lindsey had 12,031. votes to Hills 6,123 in unofficial tabulations. In a three-way City Council race in Ward 1, Cyril Jarvis, a public affairs representative from Portland General Electric and realtor people they would have to refrain from their gambling activities during Pendleton's Hound Up. Berkman, a 31-year-old Portland businessman, moved ahead of State Rep. Don Stathos, R-Jacksonville, late this morning after trailing Cash measures lose Oregon voters have given the message that they don't want new taxes or bond issues.

Three money and bond measures on Tuesday's primary ballot, including the motor vehicle tax increase, were rejected. Also defeated was a housekeeping measure which would have made the state constitution conform to the U.S. constitution cn minimum voting age. The voters did remove a constitutional provision requiring the state to count its population every 19 years. See story, Page 17 well into the night in the Republican race for state treasurer.

With only 67 more precincts to be reported in the state, Berkman had 90,978 votes and Stathos had 88,317. dey JOT Donald Cushing will face each other in a runoff election in November. Jarvis received 986 votes to Cushing's 946, but; the GE representative failed to poll a. majority. Sharon Fatland, a houswife, finished third with 677.

Another three-way council contest in Ward 7 gave Gary Benson, a 31 year-old insurance 0JJJLCSS Berkman was politically unknown in the 'state a few months ago. Stathos, an insurance man, had tried to win the state treasurer's nomination on the strength of his authorship of the new law to spend gas tax money for bicycle trails. Stathos, in an attempt to gain name familiarity, pedalled a bicycle on a campaign trip through Oregon. On the Democratic side, Mrs. Corbett of Portland, ended up with about 34 per cent of the vote.

She is the Democratic national committeewoman Her closest opponent was Phil McAlmond, a Portland businessman, who had 21per cent of the vote. Corvallis economist Jeanne Dost was third and State Sen. William H. Holms-trom, Gearhart, was fourth. None of the candidates but McAlmond conducted much of a campaign for the Democratic state treasurer nomination.

Neither Secretary of State Clay Myers nor his general election opponent, Democrat Beu-lah Hand faced opposition in Tuesday's primary." They will square off against each other in November. Mrs. Hand, of Milwaukie, is a former state legislator. Myers, who has been secretary of state since 1SS7, is seeking reelection to his second term. i -ft-.