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Election results Wisconsin State Journal, Wednesday, February 17, 1S88 Section 2, Page 3 Verona mayor: Incumbent Salkin, Cresson to meet Incumbent Verona Mayor Philip Salkin and Aid. Arthur Cresson will face off in the April 5 mayor's race as a result of Tuesday's three-way primary election. Cresson, a Verona letter carrier who chairs the City Council's finance and personnel committee, and Salkin, an archaeologist who was first elected Verona mayor two years ago, topped Leo E. Dunn, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1984 and for county supervisor in 1986. The city recorded an unusually large turnout in the primary, with about 42 percent of the registered voters casting ballots.

The vote was: Arthur Cres son-Philip Salkin Leo Dunn .564 .422 .34 Verona School Board (at large): Schroeder, Simmons, Stemper, Bigler Schroeder played a key role in the negotiated resignation of Wayne Diekrager as school superintendent in December. The Verona Area School District includes the towns of Springdale, Montrose, and Middleton, as well as the city of Verona, and parts of the cities of Fitchburg and Madison. The vote was: 7S: 1 Two incumbent school board members and two newcomers emerged from a crowded six-way primary Tuesday as April candidates for two at-large seats on the Verona Area School Board. Aided by an unusually heavy voter turnout, incumbent school board president James C. Schroeder, town of Verona, and newcomer Kenneth R.

Simmons, city of Verona, led the voting, with Linda C. Stemper, city of Verona, and incumbent board member Dale R. Bigler, town of Verona, trailing in third and fourth places. Joseph A. Anderson, Verona, and Jon D.

Baker, Fitchburg, were 1 -t' Dane County executive candidate Dennis DeNure, center, awaits returns from Tuesday's primary election with friends at the Grace Epis- copal Church Drop-In Shelter. They are, from left, Chester Kuehn Steinbach, DeNure, Christine Zapata and Gleda Kalker, State Journal photo by Joseph W. Jackson III Verona School Board (Fitchburg): Kilpatrick, Sweeney to compete Candid aiGS stylo; a rriauBf Incumbent school board member Mary Jo Kilpatrick and Patrick Sweeney will compete in the April general election for one seat representing the city of Fitchburg on the Verona Area School Board. The two outpdlled Stig L. Rahm for the one-year term in Tuesday's primary, Kilpatrick was appointed to the James C.

Schroeder .776 Kenneth R. Simmons. .691 .673 .609 .334 Linda C. Stemper. Dale R.

Bigler. Joseph A. Anderson. Jon D. Baker.

159 board last year to fill an unexpired term. The district includes the towns of Montrose, Middleton and Spring-dale, the city of Verona and parts of the cities of Fitchburg and Madison. The vote was: Mary Jo .1,086 Patrick Sweeney. Stig L. Rahm .454 .162 in the April 5 general election.

Wexler, 36, is chairman of the Middleton Transportation Commission and is on the Middleton Parks, Recreation and Forestry Commission. The vote was: George Reinke. .83 .79 James Wexler. Jerome .15 Middleton 4th District alderman: Reinke, Wexler meet in April 1 1 George Reinke, who was Dane County executive from 1973 to 1981, led two other candidates in the Tuesday primary for the 4th District alderman seat in Middleton. Reinke, 73, who is president of the Middleton Historical Society and active in a variety of community organizations, will face James Wexler, an aide to Rep.

Calvin Potter, D-Kohler, Church. DeNure, temporarily out of a job and short on money, has been spending his nights there lately. At about 8:30 p.m., DeNure was enjoying an election-night supper of chicken soup, two pieces of toast and jelly and a cup of black coffee. He would finish his supper, he said, and go to bed early, probably without even checking on the returns. DeNure, who designs T-shirts and specializes in cow T-shirts, ruminated about the campaign and the loss.

His were among the more unique campaign promises a greyhound racing park and a "museum mile" on the Capitol Square. He was, more or less, philosophical about his loss. "I still like the idea of a greyhound racing park," he said. "Don't you?" DeNure did want to clear up one misconception that seems to have arisen during the campaign. He no longer shines shoes for a living.

He used to, he said, but not now. Other candidates chose more conventional places to spend election night. Several, including Connie Fer- ris, William Howard and Edward Durkin spent the evening in their living rooms, gathered around the television set with family, friends and campaign workers. Dennis Domack awaited returns af the Sheraton. Richard Phelps campaign supporters filled the stone-walled basement room at the Fess Hotel where they nervously awaited returns.

But, of all the candidates, none seemed more comfortable Tuesday night than seventh-place finisher Thomas Olshanski. A Madison firefighter and paramedic, Olshanski sat by himself in the darkened lobby of Fire Station Number Four watching television. He was working his normal 24-hour shift and was enjoying a quiet evening even though the day had been rather hectic. By Ron Seely Of The State Journal From the gleam of the Fess Hotel to the smoky confines of a homeless shelter, the places county executive candidates chose to spend election night reflected their diversity and the general strangeness of this campaign. All one had to do to find the victorious Joesph Wineke on Tuesday night was follow the television trucks.

By 9 p.m. they had already homed in on the winner and were beached like whales on the curb outside Kostas Restaurant on State Street. Inside, Wineke wandered through the crowd of well-wishers, red-cheeked and smiling. Glasses clinked. A television blared results.

And in a corner, Jim Gammeter, a mechanic for the Dane County Highway Department, explained the art of putting up yard signs. By Tuesday morning, Gammeter said, he had stapled together more than 1,000 yard signs. "I won't be able to squeeze my hand for a week," he lamented. Although the upstairs room at Kostas was full of political pundits Tuesday night, volunteer Gammeter may have hit upon the most pertinent reason for Wineke's political victory. "I grew up with Joe," Gammeter said.

"He was the youngest child in a big family. He had to learn a lot of give and take over the years. And that's politics give and take." Just a couple of blocks away from Kostas, the candidate at the other end of Tuesday's results sat in a smoke-filled room and talked about his campaign. This was eighth-place finisher Dennis DeNure and the smoke-filled room was in the Drop-In Shelter in the basement of the Grace Episcopal Richard Phelps thanks his supporters at the Fess Hotel. State Journal photo by Chris Corsmeier Majors talc lumps First, there was the matter of having to switch fire stations for the day.

Number Four was in use as a polling place so, not wanting to risk charges of impropriety, he worked for the day out of Fire Station Number One. It had been a busy day with more than 10 runs, many for people who had fallen and hurt themselves on the ice. But by 10:30 p.m. things had quieted down and he was able to think about the election. He decided to become a candidate, he said, mainly for the experience.

He had worked on many campaigns and wanted to see what it was like to experience one as a candidate. Also, Olshanski said, he felt he could be a voice for the city's volunteer services. He never expected to win. "This was a totally insane act right from the start," he said. "I would have been ecstatic just to get four; votes.

That would have meant at least' that my family didn't turn against me." As it was, he got more than 1,200 votes. Tuesday night, alone there in the quiet of the fire station with no televi-' sion lights and only a lone reporter to listen, Olshanski thanked all the people who had helped him in his $300 campaign and all of the people who voted for him. And he said he's happy that he'll be able to just go back to being a firefighter. Politics, he has discovered, is a strange business. "Now," he said, "I can go back to being normal again." Schreiber Norquist from Milwaukee in 1962 and served as lieutenant governor from 1970 until 1977 when Gov.

Patrick Lucey resigned to become U.S. ambassador to Schreiber took over as acting governor but lost to Republican Lee Dreyfus in the 1978 election for governor, lost again when he sought the' Democratic nomination for governor in 1982 and has worked in private-business since then. The 6-foot-7 Norquist, 38, served in' the state Assembly from 1974-80 and was elected in 1982 to the Senate, where he has served as assistant Democratic majority leader. Thaddeus Stawicki, executive secretary of the City Election Commission, estimated turnout at 25 percent. The turnouts during the mayoral primaries in 1984 and 1980 were about 31 percent and 28 percent respectively, Stawicki said.

Milwaukee mayor: Schreiber, Norquist Voters were hard on incumbent mayors and school district referen-dums in Tuesday's area primary races. Mayors in Brodhead and Elroy placed second but will get another shot in the general election at the opponents who outdistanced them. School bond referendums were defeated in Adams-Friendship and the Dodgeland School District in Juneau. Beaver Dam mayor: Former mayor Robert Kachelski, 60, led three other candidates to succeed Mayor John Omen, who is retiring for health reasons. Kachelski will face Lyle Raymond, 67, a two-term alderman, in the general election.

The April 5 ballot will also contain a referendum initiated by Raymond to replace the mayor with a city manager. If the referendum passes, a new mayor will be elected and deposed on the same day. Brodhead mayor: Kennetha Edwards, 60, a council member for three years, outpolled Mayor Bruce Timm, 56. The two will face each other in the April election. Timm, mayor for six years, finished 52 votes behind Edwards, the owner of Sunflare Garden Center who also opposed Timm in 1986.

Elroy mayor: Incumbent Joyce Hart finished two votes shy of Edward Brown III, who owns a school bus company, as the top finishers in a three-way race. Hart is seeking her third term. Brown is a former alderman who has run unsuccessfully for mayor. Monroe mayor: Milo Friedrichs, 58, and Victor Schiller, 65, were the top vote-getters Tuesday to replace retiring Mayor Patrick Thorpe. Friedrichs, a former alderman, is building maintenance and construction manager at Swiss Colony in Monroe.

Schiller, 65, a former mayor, is making his eighth try for a return to office. Waupun mayor: Donald Dykstra, 58, an alderman for three years, overwhelmed three other candidates. He faces George Bille on April 5. Dykstra was an agricultural loan officer at Dairyman's State Bank of Cambria when he retired in January. Bille retired after 35 years with the Wisconsin Division of Corrections.

Adams-Friendship school bond: A bond referendum was defeated that would have paid for construction of a junior high school in Ni 4. I Robert Kachelski Adams and an elementary school in Grand Marsh. Dodgeland school bond: School district voters turned down by 32 votes a bond referendum that would have paid for a new kindergarten through 12th grade school in Juneau. It was the eighth time since 1971 that district voters rejected a bond referendum. Richland Center city clerk: Jude Elliott and Mary Shireman were the survivors Tuesday in a hard-fought, five-way race to replace City Clerk Raymond Lawton, who is retiring after 28 years.

Elliott is owner of the True Value Hardware store in Richland Center. Shireman works for the Richland County Department of Emergency Government. Rock County judge: Michael J. Byron, Beloit, and James Welker, Janesville, will vie for the newly created Beloit judgeship in the general election. Byron is a former Rock County assistant district attorney and Welker has been active in committees of the State Bar of Wisconsin.

The two edged Robert Ruth, another veteran Beloit attorney. Green County judge: Court Commissioner John Callahan and former district attorney Robert Duxstad defeated Sheriff Steve Elmer. The winner of the general election will replace retiring Judge Franz Br.and. Elmer hoped to win the seat once held by his father. Duxstad and Callahan are both Monroe lawyers in private practice.

MILWAUKEE (AP) Former Acting Gov. Martin Schreiber and state Sea John Norquist topped a field of seven candidates Tuesday and will meet in an April 5 runoff to succeed Henry Maier, the nation's longest-serving big-city mayor. Maier, 70, who has been mayor for 28 years, announced last year he was retiring because he felt too old to seek another two-year term. Complete, unofficial returns, with all 324 wards reporting, were: Martin .44,984 .40,575 John Norquist Lee E. Hollo way .7,885 Donna Richards 5,983 Trailing with less than 1 percent of the vote each were: Willie Lovelace, Kevin Robinson and Sandra Sherman.

Schreiber, who had expected to show a larger advantage over Norquist, told supporters at a victory party at Serb Hall that his campaign had been outspent but would counteract it by winning support "the old-fashioned way we're going to earn it." The latest polls had shown Schreiber and Norquist dominating the field, with Schreiber leading and Norquist second but continuing to close the gap. "We've come a long way in this campaign," Norquist said. "We were 30 percent down and nobody thought we had a chance Schreiber, 48, joined the Wisconsin Senate as a 23-year-old Democrat 14. Waiting for voters LaVerne Scott, left, and Maiden Blossom, poll workers at the South Madison Neighborhood Center, had time on their hands Tuesday. Scott takes some of that time to number voter tickets.

State Journal photo by Carolyn Pflasterer.