The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • 1

THE IOLA REGISTER VOLUME 81, NO. 242 IOLA, KANSAS 66749 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1978 TWELVE PAGES-FIFTEEN CENTS Democrats here go for Dunnick Loft to right, Nancy Landon Kastabaum, Republican, and Don Allegrucci, Democrat, will face Republican Bob Whit- Bill Roy, Democrat, will vie for a teat in the U.S. Senate. taker for U.S. Congrettman from the 5th District.

Winners results Kassebaum to face Roy printer, had 267 and the Rev. Harold Knight, Chanute, 152. On the Democrat side John Carlin, who will carry his partys banner in November, had 485, votes for the gubernatorial nomination while Bert Chaney had 125 and Harry Wiles 120. Dr. Bill Roy, who had been considered a shoo-in, received the lions share of the votes cast in the Democrat senatorial nomination race.

He had 638 while Dorothy White received 74, James Maher 35 and Roland Preboth 22. In the Republican State Board of Education, District 9, nomination race Denise Apt, longtime member of the Unified District 257 board here, collected 1,441 votes in Allen County. Ruth Lyons had 142 and Sidney Trimmell 122. Both Lyons and Trimmell are from Independence. In the only other contested race, John Barnes edged Betty Paxson 364-349 locally for the Democrat Secretary of State nomination.

Richard Williamson had 69 votes. In other races, vote totals were: Republican Secretary of State: Jack Brier, 1,419. Attorney General: Bob Stephan, 1,269. State Treasurer: Jim Ungerer, Commissioner of Insurance: Fletcher Bell, 1,470. State Representative, 10th District: George Works, 1,579.

County Commissioner, 1st District: Paul Hibbs, 436. Democratic Attorney General: Curt Schneider, 659. State Treasurer: Joan Finney, 637. State Board of Education, 9th District: Geoffry Griffith, 299; Kevin Neuer, 335. County Commissioner, 1st District: Keith Hobart, 398.

Republican voting in the primary election in Allen County yesterday followed statewide trends, handing Nancy Landon Kassebaum a wide margin over Wayne Angell in the U.S. Senate nomination race, and giving Dr. Robert Whittaker an 754-662 edge over Don Johnston in the Fifth District Representative race. Democrats bucked the Fifth District voting, however, and handed Frankie Dunnick, Moran resident, an overwhelming margin in his race with Don Allegrucci, Pittsburg attorney who won the nomination. Dunnick collected 582 votes while Allegrucci got just 104.

Virgil Leon Olson, Chanute land surveyor who was the Democrat nominee for Fifth District Representative two years ago, faltered badly in Allen County and throughout the district. In Allen County he gathered just 65 votes. Tom Boone had 22, James Francisco 17 and Ed Phillips 4. Mrs. Kassebaum received 838 votes in Allen County in her drive for the senatorial nomination.

Angell, Ottawa banker, college professor and farmer, had 412. Following, in order, were Sam Hardage 144, Jan Meyers 137, Deryl Schuster 99, Norman Gaar 69, John Fitzjarrell 17, Bill Gibbs 14, Ken Henderson 14. Whittaker, who said before the election that he had personally contacted every Republican household in the Iola area, received 754 votes. Johnston, Pittsburg industrialist, had 662 and Pete McGill, longtime Republican member of the Kansas Legislature, had 219. Chuck Pike, who was an aide to Joe Skubitz, the Fifth District incumbent who retired, had 112 votes and Roy Perkins 26.

In the race for the Republican nomination for governor, Robert Bennett, the incumbent, easily turned back two challengers here, gathering 1,287 votes. Bob Sanders, former state State Pittsburg and Republican Bob Whittaker of Augusta in the 5th District. Jeffries will try to unseat incumbent Democrat Martha Keys, while Allegrucci and Whittaker will fight for the seat being vacated by Rep. Joe Skubitz retirement. In the only other state office race, Mrs.

Betty Paxson of Topeka won the Democratic nomination for secretary of state, and will oppose Republican incumbent Jack Brier in the fall campaign. Mrs. Kassebaum, 45, rolled to a solid victory in the nine-person field bidding for the GOP nomination to succeed retiring Sen. James B. Pearson, for whom she once worked in Washington.

Mrs. Kassebaum, mother of four who is legally separated from her husband, Wichita attorney Phil Kassehaum, beat runnerup Wayne Bennett dismissed Sanders vote total as expectable for someone who had been on the ballot six times in the past. Still, it meant nearly one-third of those voting in the Republican primary voted against their incumbent governor. Carlin, on the other hand, scored a smashing victory over his two opponents state Sen. Bert Chaney of Hutchinson and Topekan Harry Wiles.

The House speaker, who turns 38 Thursday, doubled the vote on Chaney and tripled it on Wiles, piling up 55 percent of the vote in a race Chaney had insisted would be close. Chaney got just 26 percent. I think, in general, people are concerned about the poor administration of the incumbent governor, Carlin said. Local sales tax rejected in many areas of state Angell of Ottawa in the metropolitan areas and in the rural areas. She doubled the vote total of her Wichita rival, Sam Hardage She finished with 31 percent of the GOP vote.

Roy, 52, bowled over three political neophytes to win his second chance at a U.S. Senate seat a bid Kansas Democrats think will land them their first senator in four decades. Roy rolled up 76 percent of the vote, but acknowledged the task ahead in winning in Republican-dominated Kansas. Bennett. 51, rolled up 139,000 votes with virtually complete returns tabulated, yet some Republicans saw reason for concern in the 65,000 votes polled by his two primary foes former state Printer Bob Sanders of Salma, who got 40,000, and the Rev.

Harold Knight of Chanute, who got 25,000 voted to raise the mill levy by $3 on every $1. TOO assessed valuation. The half-cent sales tax proposal in that western Kansas community failed 2,157 to 1,152, prompting City Manager Ed Daley to remark: This tells us that if the people here want anything, they want it with the property tax With a record number of cities and counties facing sales tax propositions Tuesday, only four cities and one county approved the levies. Among them was Spivey, a city of only 106 persons which approved the half-cent city sales tax 16-12 the largest city, Hutchinson, which was already paying a half-cent sales tax to the county, turned back the proposal 5, 171 to 1,914 And the state's largest county, Sedgwick, which includes Wichita, rebuked its half cent proposal, 25,217 to 11,301, with 93 percent of the returns tabulated Mosher was one of those surprised by the sales taxs poor showing. "In most of these instances, it was a clear choice with a commitment on the part of the city for substantial property tax reductions," he said.

Most of the cities and counties had prepared two budgets one based on Recreation levy hike is rejected in USD 258 Voters Unified School District 258, which is made up of Humboldt and the area surrounding it, recorded an emphatic No yesterday in a referendum on a one-mill levy addition for the districts recreation commission. Funds which would have been generated from the levy were earmarked for operation of a senior citizens center in Humboldt. The final vote was 504 no, 208 yes. The recreation commission had included the one-mill increase in its budget, which was approved by the District 258 board of education. But a petition was circulated in the district and sufficient signatures were obtained to force the referendum on the issue.

The negative response means that the District 258 recreation will continue to operate on a budget funded by a levy of about one mill. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Nancy Landon Kassebaum rode the name of her famous father, former Kansas Gov. Alf M. Landon, a pleasing personality and a middle-of-the road political philosophy to victory Tuesday in the race for Republican nomination to the U.S.

Senate. Former U.S. Rep. Bill Roy captured the Democratic nomination for another shot at the Senate seat which eluded him four years ago, when he came close to unseating Sen. Bob Dole.

Their victories highlighted a Kansas primary which also saw Republican Gov. Robert F. Bennett and Democratic House Speaker John Carlin easily win their parties gubernatorial nominations for the November general election. Winning congressional nomination were Republican Jim Jeffries of Atchison in the 2nd District, along with Democrat Don Allegrucci of who compiled 3,114. Only 2,184 persons cast votes for Smith.

There is no Republican candidate for the 1st District post on the board, so Groneman will be the next board member for that district. In other board races Tuesday, 7th District incumbent Will T. Billingsley of Hutchinson, defeated Perry Schuckman of Hutchinson. Billingsley had 6,678 votes against Schuckmans 4,717. The winner of that race will face Republican John Bergner of Pratt, who was unopposed in the GOP primary.

The 7th District encompasses portions of 13 counties in south central Kansas. In the boards 3rd District, only the Republicans mustered a primary contest, which proved to be close. George J. Frey of Topeka closed a vote lead which had developed early for one of his opponents, Floyd J. Grimes of Paola.

With all the votes counted, Frey ended up with a 1,428 vote victory, out polling Grimes 9,248 to 7,820. A third GOP hopeful, Carl K. Nall of Topeka, trailed with 4,848. N.H. The figuro following the and idate 1 name is the total cast in Allen County for the candidate.

This tabulation is of the leading candidates only in the races that were most hotlv lontested or of greatest interest. The election story accompaning reports all of the totals for each of the candidates. Apt's margin close for state board spot revenues anticipated if the sales tax passed and the other for use if it failed. "But youll see some property tax increases in most of these areas. All local sales taxes approved will be added to the 3 percent sales tax already levied statewide.

Geary County increased its sales tax levy from a half cent to a penny by nearly a 2-to-l margin. With 25 of 26 precincts reporting, the vote in favor of the proposal was 2,010 to 1,2319 One-cent sales tax propositions were defeated in Bourbon and Pratt counties. Unofficial returns in Pratt County indicated the measure was defeated by only 13 votes, 1,167 to 1,154 Bourbon Countys tally, with only two of 23 precincts out, was against the proposal Besides Sedgwick, the counties of Barton, Cowley and Dickinson defeated half-cent sales tax proposals. Barton voted and Dickinson voters defeated the measure Cowley County defeated the proposal. The half-cent sales tax found favor with voters in Prairie Village, where the vote was 3,366 to 1,140.

Arkansas City approved it 1,863 to 1,387 In Atchison, the sales tax was ahead 1,201 to 1,029, with the measure leading in the only precinct not yet tabulated Other cities defeating a halfcent sales tax, followed by the tallies, were: Chanute, with 23 of 24 reporting; Erie, 348-83; Fort Scott. Girard, 720-74; Ottawa, Shawnee, Wellington, 878-753, and Winfield, Workman killed near Colony Rex McCullough, 19, of Chanute was killed Tuesday, Aug 1 at approximately 11 a m. in an industrial accident east of Colony. McCullough fell from the rear of a bulldozer and was run over before the driver was aware he had fallen. McCullough was taken to the Garnett hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

He was working with a crew installing a gas pipeline east of Colony. Survivors and funeral services will be announced later. By SCOTT KRAFT Associated Press Writer Local officials across Kansas anxiously scanned their budgets today after 10 cities and six counties Tuesday defeated sales tax proposals, most of which were aimed at eventually trimming property taxes. The choice has been made, said Ernie Mosher of the League of Kansas Municipalities "The voters are not so concerned about property taxes as weve been led to believe by the effects of the California proposition. After a half-cent sales tax proposal was defeated in Dodge City, the City Commission met late Tuesday and Police lack leads on three escapees The three escapees from the Allen County Jail had not been apprehended by noon today.

The three are Dennis Caldwell, 19. Iola; Robert Wilper, 20, Garnett, and Harry Buckles, 51, Omaha. They escaped early Monday morning after Caldwell allegedly faked a seizure, causing the jailer. Vernon Myrick, to open his cell Myrick was then locked in a cell by the three and they fled with his keys Sheriff Glen Cooper said intensive searches by local and other law enforcement officers have turned up no clues as to the whereabouts of the trio We thought that Buckles would go to Kansas City, where he has a close friend, Cooper said. We also thought that the other two would stay in the area, but now we think maybe theyve left.

Cooper also said that Myrick has been relieved of his duties as a jailer. County workman injured in accident at landfill Joe F. Caldwell, 512 South Kentucky, suffered shoulder and chest pains yesterday afternoon near the Allen County landfill when a county truck he was driving turned over. Sheriff Glen Cooper said Caldwell had backed up (o unload gravel where it was being stockpiled and his truck rolled off the edge of the incline and turned over. He was taken to the Allen County Hospital for treatment.

Temperature High yesterday 94 Low last night 74 High a year ago today 92 Low a year ago today 68 Precipitation 24 hours ending 8a.m. .02 This month date .02 Normal for this month 3.58 Total this year to date 18.03 Deficiency since Jan. 1 4.54 AREA FORECAST Partly cloudy with periods of showers and thundershowers likely tonight. Lows tonight 60s. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers Thursday.

Highs upper 70s to lower 80s. Winds becoming east to northeast 10-15 mph tonight. Chance of rain 40 percent tonight, and 20 percent Thursday. Coming events in our town 4-H Style Show and Best Groomed Boy revues Wednesday, 8 p.m., Bowlus Fine Arts Building. TOPEKA, Kan.

(AP) A tight race for Republican nomination to the state Board of Education for the 9th District, which covers the southeast corner of the state, developed in the Tuesday primary election voting. Denise C. Apt of Iola had a 507 vote margin over Ruth M. Lyon of Ind-pendence. Apt tallied 7,171 votes and Lyon received 6,664.

A third Republican contender in that race, Sidney E. Trimmell of Independence trailed with 5,854. The Democratic opponent in November in that district will be Kevin L. Neuer of Pittsburg, who defeated Geoffrey Griffith of Galena, for the party nod. Wallace Smith of Kansas City, Democratic incumbent on the board's 1st District, which comprises Wyandotte and portions of Leavenworth counties, came in a weak third in the tabulations.

Smith was seeking renomination to the boards 1st District which comprises Wyandotte and portions of Leavenworth counties. Smith lost to Kay M. Groneman of Kansas City, who polled 6,308 votes, and Terry J. Clark of Kansas City,.