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WACO TRIBUNE HIRALD. WACO, TEXAS. SUNDAY. APRIL 3, 1977 -PAGE SC I Sigh Voter interest Marks Centex School Selections voter interest UP a of Saturday's Central lexas school board elections Voters many cities were faced with ig fields of candidates Eight entered the race at Hillsboro for three places on the school board, and at Hamilton, there were nine hopefuls seeking two vacancies as trustees An 18-year-old Clifton High School senior, Charles Hill, lost his bid for a seat on the board He had promised in his election platform to try to bridge the communications gap between students, parents and school board Hill polled 129 votes against 475 votes received by Tom Parks, and 462 collected by Mrs Donald Gloff Both incumbents. Parks and Mrs Gloff were re-elected to the board On the ballot at Rockdale for a second year running was a referendum on air conditioning the Rockdale High School.

Last year a similar referendum was defeated 518471 A total of 723 votes was cast on the issue in election, but the outcome was not available at press time The Hillsboro race for three places on the school board resulted in wins for Paul Dickson, Newman Lloyd and Robin Crow At Hamilton, Lonnie Jones and Tom Venable beat off competition from seven other challengers for places on the board Here are the results of other school elections over Central Texas; Abbott Five candidates battled it out for three places on Abbott School Board Voters elected three incumbents to fill the vacancies. Elected were Joe Smkule Jr 106 votes. Robert Tufts, 103 votes, and Louis Janda Jr who received 102 votes The other two candidates were Robert Skidmore. 49 votes, and Harry Gene Nors, 29 votes Total votes cast numbered 139 Brcinoml Vqtiilh Ronnie Whalen and Vernon two places on the Aquilla as a result of AQUILLA Tyra will fill school board election Whalen polled 68 votes, while write-in candidate Tyra got 51 Also on the ballot were June Horton, 47, and Mattie Carpenter, 31 Receiving write-in votes were Lloyd Nichols, 46. Ralph Murphy, 4, and Wayne Gibson.

1 Belton BELTON Reelected were I) Sanderford. 624 votes, and Cowan III, 678 Clark Potter was elected with 577 votes Other candidates were Bill Stanford, 511; Harold Whitfield, 403; Harlan Fuller, 361; Sam Teas, 358, and Chuck Kelly Boyle, 178 RREMOND Two newcomers and an incumbent were elected to the Bremond school board Saturday David Kasowski votes) and Bill Johnson Jr (333 votes) won their way on the board Incumbent Kie Csajowski got 360 ballots to return to his seat Incumbent Sam Btelamowici failed to hold his seat with 326 votes laitirroit CAMERON Calvin Cobb and Reeky Magre were elected to the Cameron school board Saturday Cobb, an incumbent, polled 340 votes Mrs Magre got 272, while incumbent Mrs Betsy Brown failed in her bid for re-election with 218 votes hoard Voting went as follows Parks. 475. Mrs Gloff. 462.

Hill, 129, and Ron Dorsev, 110 hilt oil Bin CHILTON Mrs Wesley Schrader was elected to Place 6 on the Chilton School Board Saturday Benton Dickey got 55 votes for the position, John Dee Dugat Jr received 30, and Ennis Degrate got 5 write-in votes For Place 7 Roger Collins, incumbent and unopposed, received 176 votes ill BLl'M Four Candidates battled for two places on the Blum School Board The two incumbents were easily re-elected John Kennedy received 105 votes and Grady Simmons. 95 Citizens cast 83 votes for Chester (Tooten Moseley Jr and 68 for Mac McMillan (lift oil CLIFTON Two incumbents were returned to their seats on the Clifton School Board in Saturday's election Tom Parks and Mrs iXmald Gloff won re-election Charles Hill, an 18-year-old Clifton High School senior, lost his bid for a seat on the Non-Candidate Re-Klee ted Mayor In Crawford; Hunton, Lunds Win In city elections around the county Saturday, Doyle Hunton defeated three others for another term as mayor of Robinson, retiring Crawford Mayor Frank Golson was re-elected although he was not a candidate and Marvin Lands became mayor of Hewitt in the largest voter turnout ever there. Incumbent Northerest councilman Marshall Moran lost his seat on the council Miss Ben Evelyn Chester was elected with write-in votes to the Leroy council Only one candidate. Richard Kusler, had filed for two positions on the council In Mart. Dave Henry defeated Bill Boatman for mayor Jim Wiley had served as mayor since last July when the mayor and two council members resigned during a disagreement on the city golf course Wiley was elected to the council, along with Henry Breitkreutz who had served with him since last summer William Mitchell, who joined the council with them, lost his seat Beverly Hills Mayor Lawrence Watkins was narrowly re-elected to another term by a margin of two votes out of 410 cast.

Bellmead Miller, Dickerson and George White were elected to the Bellmead city council Miller, an incumbent, got 108 votes. White, also an incumbent, received 110. Dickerson got 110, also A fourth candidate, Jack Bush, received 54 vores, BevcrK Hills A recount of results of the Beverly Hills mayor race may be in the making Incumbent Mayor Lawrence Watkins received 206 votes Saturday and his opponent. Morgan, got 204 Martha Byrd and Roy Spivey were elected to two places on the city council Byrd got 158 votes and Spivey got 198 Other council candidates were Parsons, 86; Margaret Hamilton. 74; Mike Sanchez.

136; Frank Holder, 140 Bru eevi lie-Eddy Bruceville-Eddy voters elected three candidates from a field of five. Elected were Mrs. Yolanda Davis, 102 votes; Cecil Pace, 93; and James Swor. who received 81 votes. Mrs.

Davis and Pace will serve a two-year term, and Swor was elected for a one-year term Other candidates were Matt Cast, 51 votes; and William Timm, 46 votes. A total of 131 votes were cast. Richard Relyea, running unopposed for a two-year term as mayor, received 109 votes. Crawford CRAWFORD Frank Golson, incumbent mayor of Crawford, was re-elected as a write-in candidate in the city election Saturday. No one filed for the mayoral position and 76 voters chose Golson to return to office No other write-in candidates came near total.

Incumbent city councilman Larry Meyer was re-elected for his second, two-year term with 99 votes. Write-in candidate Gary Gohlke will fill the other vacant council position by polling 70 votes. Golinda GOL1NDA Little interest was stirred by the city council election here None of the three candidates faced opposition, and all were incumbents Re-elected with 17 votes each were Guderian, Bowers, and Jack Anderson There were no write-in votes. Councilmen were elected to two-year terms. two incumbents were re-elected to fill the two seats on the city council Wesley Sommerfield received 22 votes and Mrs Pearl Felton, 19 votes Both will serve two-year terms Hewitt Marvin Lands won the mayor's race in a city election Saturday bringing the largest voter turnout ever in Hewitt.

Lands, who was mayor pro tem, got 220 votes against Bob votes Lawrence runs a barbecue restaurant in Hewitt. In the city council race, A Gruelzner won a third term with 227 votes and Hollis Riggins, a Department of Public Safety officer, will serve his first term after garnering 204 votes Also running for the two at-large two-year term places were Tom Lucenay, who is in the hearing aid business, and Donald Whatley, who works in mobile home sales and repairs. Lucenay got 179 votes and Whatley 189 Gary Pirkle received 1 write-in vote. I D. Pearson Jr was re-elected mayor of Lacy-Lakeview Elected to the city council were Elmo Mimms and Lucas.

Pearson got 133 votes E. Chapman got 19 votes and James Teele got 91 votes. Mimms, an incumbent, got 152 votes. Lucas got 105 votes. Clyde Fowler got 26 votes and Lewis Nowicki got 82 votes Robi 118011 Hallsbur" HALLSBURG In a very light turnout, Leroy had two vacancies on the city council but only one candidate on the ballot.

Richard Kusler. an incumbent, was re-elected with 42 votes. Miss Ben Evelyn Chester led write-in candidates for the other place with 31 votes Mart MART In a than voter turnout. Dave Henry soundly defeated Bill Boatman for mayor Jim Wiley, the present mayor, was one of two elected to a city council position In the mayoral race, Henry received 460 votes to 400 votes for Boatman. Henry will serve a two-year term.

Henry Breitkreutz and Wiley were elected aldermen William Mitchell, incumbent, and Marilyn Landfried were defeated Breitkreutz received 339 votes, and Wiley. 310 votes. Mitchell collected 266 votes, and Miss Landfried, a McLennan County Community College student, received 88 votes. Breitkreutz, Mitchell and Wiley served on the city council since last July when several council members resigned over a disagreement about the use of a municipal golf course Moody Three incumbents were returned to Moody City Council in an uncontested election. Total votes cast.

312, was described by a spokesman as good Ray Donaldson, who already has served two, two-year terms on the council, received 254 votes; Benny Hargrove, also with four years council work behind him, collected 227 votes; and Lee Brown, who has served two years, tallied 185 Mount Calm MOUNT CALM (SPL) Mount Cairn voters elected Dwain Smith mayor, Beryl Haught and Jimmy S. Jones aldermen and R. McKinney city secretary in Saturday elections. Smith got 22 votes and Joe Good received 1 write-in vote for mayor. 088 'oolidge C0OLIDGE In a moderate turnout, two incumbents and a newcomer were elected to the three vacancies on the school board Robert Spencer and Marvin Harrison were re elected to the board Spencer received 80 votes, and Harrison, 79 votes Newcomer Fred Sain won a seat by collecting 119 votes Losers included Kenneth Erwin, 48.

Me Reynolds. 60; and Ed Daniel. 56 Jerry Redding, Homer Copely, Joe Compton and Frazier Sr received write-in votes CORSICAN Corsicana School District voters Saturday elected three trustees They are Charles Biltz. 1.809 votes, Ed Blackburn, 1.455; and Dr James Price. 1,508 Blackburn and Price are incumbents Other candidates are Gus Gappelberg.

1,037, James Kirk. 243; Albert Sanders, incumbent, John Kaati. 715. Dale Perkins was re-elected to the school board with 111 votes Melissa Pruitt unseated incumbent Raymond Donham 76 to 73 for the second vacancy. Haught and Jones, both running for at-large positions on the board of aldermen, each polled 22 votes.

McKinney was elected city secretary with 23 votes Voter turnout was light McGREGOR McGregor voters elected George Long, Bobby Jackson and Carl Spitzer to the city council Saturday Incumbent Long got 361 votes, Jackson received 290 and Spitzer got 407. Other candidates were I) (Moe) Spradley, 285, Gene Taylor, 280 Northerest NORTHCREST An incumbent and two newcomers were elected to the three at-large city council positions One incumbent lost his bid for re-election He was Marshall Moran, who previously had served a two-year term He collected 100 votes Winners were Robert Gentry, incumbent, with 117 votes; Donald Thomas, a carpenter, with 134 votes; and Billy Wade, an electrician, led with 156 votes. Losers, besides Moran, were A Brown, 90; and Ramsey, who got 108 votes. The winners will serve two-year terms on the city council Receiving write-in votes were Vernon Barbee, Robert Collins, and Garon Salter. 2.

Doyle Hunton was returned to his job with 242 votes. He defeated Dorothy Thompson, who received 234 votes; Bill Robertson, 149; and Billy R. Hall. 146. Elected to the city council were Don Thompson, 632 votes; Robert Gordon, 426, A Staas, 412.

Other candidates were James Lee Vestal, 341 votes, and Harold C. Wooten, 323. candidates to fill three vacancies on the school board Elected were Curtis McClintOfi. 366 votes, Brenard Nunnelly 359 votes, and Billy Howard. 329 votes Not elected were Bobby Brustrom, 295 votes, Morris incumbent, 289 votes, and Douglas Chambers, who received 230 votes Officials described the turnout as Itasca ITASCA In a light voter turnout, three incumbents were re elected to places on the school board Winners were Alton Cordell with 140 votes, Wayne Cole, 114 votes, and Kenneth Stufflebeme 142 votes Mrs Janice Cordell was defeated She received 72 votes A write-in vote was cast for Monica Crouch A total of 166 votes were cast Jonesboro JONESBORO (SPL) Dick Wallace.

Jackie Terrell and John Carpenter were elected to the Jonesboro School Board Wallace got 61 votes Terrell got 84 and Carpenter got 52 Other candidates received the following Otis Helms, 48, Bob Rhudy 27. Mrs James iEdith) Barron, 25, and Nichols, 34 Write in candidates and their votes are Harold Watson, 41. Earle Wolske, 2, Madeline Wilhelm, 2, and Maurice Young, 1 Cranfdls Cap CR AN FILLS GAP Harold Wiese, Bobby Lee Watson and Niemeier were elected Saturday to the Cranfills Gap School Board Wiese polled 104 votes, Watson, 92; Niemeier, 66, Lucille Thomas, 45; and Jim York, 49 Copperas Cove ROSS (SPL) Bill Long was re-elected mayor of Ross. He headed a list of incumbents re-elected Saturday oodwav Elected without opposition were incumbents Jerry Hering, 170 votes; James Wood, 169; A (Alan) Horton, 165 It will be third term and the second for Wood and Horton. West WEST A.

J. Muska, who ran unopposed, was re-elected to a two-year term as mayor, lie collected 329 votes. A total of 379 persons voted in the election, a moderate turnout according to voting officials. An incumbent and a newcomer were elected to the two seats on the city council. Aldin C.

Karlik, incumbent, and Larry Charles Lichnovsky each polled 244 votes. Loser Sue Peschaia received 208 votes. Karlik and Lichnovsky will serve twoyear terms. Grocery Loses Mono To Burglar The Phil-A-Sack Grocery Store at 312 Hillsboro was burglarized sometime after 11 p.m. Friday and S230 in cash was taken The vent pipe was taken from the roof of the building.

Police said the main portion of the building was entered through the storeroom. Taken from the two cash registers in the store were $200 in bills and S30 in pennies. IVneb PENELOPE All three candidates on the ballot won re-election in the Penelope school board race Saturday Incumbents Henry Beseda and Harold Wricht drew 39 votes each and Mary Ann Dvorak received 34 votes Hoekdal ROCKDALE Four candidates engaged in a struggle for three places on the Rockdale School Board The three incumbents managed to squash the Challenge of Jerry Kirk, but he still received 411 votes The winners votes. Emory (. Tom Hormuth opposition to a Glaser, who received 53 Dr imp.

481 Killecu COPPERAS COVE Three unopposed, incumbent trustees were re-elected to the Copperas Cove school board Saturday They were Linda Ledger, 606 votes; Mikki Simpson. 580. and Henderson, 561 1 )awson DAWSON An incumbent and a newcomer were elected to places on the school board. The voter turnout was described as heavy. James Minatra, incumbent, received 114 votes followed closely by Larry Murray, who got 113 votes Don Whitten was defeated He received 84 votes Eva nt EVANT Voters of Evant School District returned three incumbents to office Saturday They were William Wolf, 113 votes; David Straley, 99; and Gerald Cummings.

96. Other candidates were John Hitt, 90, and Betty Simmerman, 37. Eran Ivlin FRANKLIN (SPL) Franklin voted for trustees in three school board positions but only one was contested The race was in Position 2, where incumbent John Hicks was re-elected with 183 votes His rival, Raymond Jett, polled 43 votes. In Position 1, another incumbent. Tommy Autry, ran unopposed and collected 207 votes Johnny Starkey, incumbent, also was unopposed in Position 3 and received 209 votes.

Fairfield FAIRFIELD (SPL) Incumbent Kitchens, Carl J. Robertson III and Burt Richards won places in a heated election Saturday for the Fairfield School Board. Nine persons ran for three school board places in campaigns heated by controversy over the school's athletic department and coaching staff Kitchens received the most votes, polling 427 Richards received 406 votes and Robertson 335 votes Incumbent Hill Jr got 298 votes. Also running were Billy Dotson, John R. Perona, Johnny Mullen and Dorothy Jean Priest Dotson received 183 votes, Perona 97 votes, Mullen 92 votes and Mrs Priest 65 votes.

Voter turnout was heavy with 565 ballots cast. Hamilton HAMILTON (SPL) Lonnie Jones and Tom Venable won places to the Hamilton School Board Saturday, running in a field of nine candidates. Venable got 153 votes and Jones got 214 Other candidates were Robert Sills, 33; Sharon Benton, 23; Wanda Dalson, 117, Don Haile, 125; Clark Bottlmger, 33, John Shearin, 81; Don Plaeens. 148 Hillsboro HILLSBORO Eight candidates were entered in the race for three places on the Hillsboro School Board Winners were Paul Dickson with 609, Newman Lloyd with 449, and Robin Crow with 441 votes. Other candidates were Jim Riggins, who received 335 votes; Charles Hamilton, 315; Clemmie Smith, 228; Duane Seay, 196; and Tom Ander- son, 165 Hubbard HUBBARD Hubbard school district voters were faced with a choice of six KILLEEN Mrs Sidney Young, with 671 votes, won Place 1 over Bill Willis, 554.

Frederick A (Ted) Wermuth, 138, and El wood Ware 41 Incumbent Armstrong, unopposed, received votes in Place 2 Robert Stubblefield was re elected in Place 3 with 819 votes over Ronny Wells. 363. and Austin Christian, 259 kopperl KOPPERL (SPL) Leroy Riven, Joe Phillips and Mark Norton Jr were elected to three at large positions Saturday in the Kopperl school board election Biven was re-elected to a second term with 100 votes, Phillips and Norton each got 93 votes Also running in the field of six were Charles Newman Jr Bill Areher and Elton Waller Newman got 63 votes. Archer 61 and Waller 54 Voter turnout was heavy with 157 ballots cast in all 1 Richard Williams, 568 votes, defeated incumbent Mark Nash Jr. 392, for Place on the school board Jewel Milligan polled 163 votes Pat Cavness won the Place 5 with 754 votes over Vernon Brooks, 356 votes Malone MALONE (SPL) Leon Little and Clement IXidik were elected to the Malone School Board.

Little, an incumbent, got 82 votes Dudik got 79 votes Dennis Monthei got 66 votes and Bob Degner gut 64 votes Marlin MARLIN (SPL) Incumbents Max Atkins and Gary Skrabanek won re-election to th" Marlin School Board Atkins got 948 votes and his opponent, Mrs. Fay A Dorsey, got 650 votes Skrabanek got 978 votes and his opponent, Robert McGruder Sr got 613 votes Meridian Meridian school board voters elected two trustees from a field of throe hopefuls Elected were Edna Sellers, 223 votes; and John Ferguson, 192 votes Not elected was Clark 1) Purcell, who received 116 votes Total votes cast was 276, Selden, 585 Camp, 431 votes and 4 77 Elected without term was Carroll votes Also on the ballot was a referendum on conditioning Rockdale High School A total of 7'23 votes was cast on the but the outcome was not available to the Tribune Herald at press time HoM'bud-Cott ROSFBUIVLOTT Marshall Jenkins. incumbent, and Eugene Radle were elected to fill the two positions on the school board A total of 344 persons voted, which was considered a moderate turnout Jenkins received 247 votes and Radle, 271 votes The other candidate, Charles Engel. collected 1 11 votes temple TEMPLE Two incumbents were re-elected to vacancies on Temple School Board Ed Hinkle received votes, and Jack Morris got 937 votes Not elected was Mrs Mattie Duckens Browne, who tallied 632 total of 1,494 votes were cast about 12 per cent of the electorate Walnut Springs WALNUT SPRINGS Three incumbents will return as trustees on the Walnut Springs School Board Jay McCarthy, Thomas and Jesse Jones won re-election Saturday McCarthy drew 85 votes; Thomas, 65, Jones, 75, and Jerry Don Towery, 35. exia Whit WHITNEY (SPL) Dr Morris Wilkins and Billy Sawyer won spots on the Whitney School Board in the Saturday election Dr Wilkins, an incumbent, got 324 votes and Sawyer received 304 votes.

William Van Winkle polled 83 votes. Bob Bonner received 102 votes and 0. A "Swede" Larson got 93 votes Voter turnout was light, Joe Blakeney, judge, said Arlrrss Aids MEXIA (SPL) Mexia School District voters elected three members to the board of trustees Mrs Willis (Sherry) Bugg was elected to Place 1 with 542 votes She defeated Mickey Stubbs, who got 354, and Mrs Tommy (Sharon) Johnson, who received 148 For Place 2, Henry Jackson, the incumbent, was winner with 736 votes He defeated Mrs Jimmy (Pat) Fisher, who received 283. Pete Hughes won the race for Place 3 with 373 votes. Other candidates were Mrs.

Joe (Alice Jean) Cannon, 278 votes; Seth Wilson, 89, James, 245; and Tom Parker, 34 Milano MILANO (SPL) John Yoakum, Ben Lagrone and Kent Thurman Jr. were voted spots as trustees Saturday on the Milano school board. Yoakum received 121 votes, lagrone 108 votes and Thurman 117 votes in uncontested elections. (Mesbv OGLESBY O. Brinkley and I) Mooneyham were elected to the Oglesby School Board Brinkley, an incumbent, received 95 votes Mooneyham got 81 Other candidates were A Hamilton, 25; Harold Shirley, 52; and Larry Ross, a write-in candidate, 19 fn Funding Cliurcli LLANO, Tex (AP) Starting with the gift of a ruby ring from actress Sophia Loren, Holy Trinity Catholic Church has raised $50,000, enough to build a new sanctuary Groundbreaking ceremonies are scheduled for Sunday afternoon Miss sent the ring 17 months ago to Father Anthony Goosens, pastor of the small church She and the priest had been friends for a decade The ring was raffled off in February 1976, raising $25,000 for the building fund Publicity about the gift and the plight of the small congregation whose tumbledown church was built in 1906, brought in donations from around the country Miss Loren told reporters in Dallas a year ago that she just wanted to do something in a small to help the Holy Trinity congregation An Austin architect, Ed Werland, donated his services The new church ill have granite faced exterior walls and windows of colored glass.

Charged In Shooting Death HUNTSVILLE. Tex 1 AP 1 A Houston man was charged with capital murder Saturday in the March 24 shooting death of Robert Trent Thomas of Dallas, officials said Police said Stephen Ray Gaddis, 19. was ordered held without bond in the Walker County jail by Justice of the Peace W. Beeler Investigators said Gaddis led them to a secluded spot on FM where body was found covered with pine needles. Police said Thomas, 22, had been shot three times with a small caliber pistol.

Gaddis was arrested near La Place, La Thursday on a traffic violation. Walker County Sheriff Darrell White said Gaddis told police he was hitchhiking along Interstate 45 when Thomas picked him up The sheriff quoted Gaddis as saying he ordered Thomas to pull off on the farm road where he planned to steal the car after tying him up However White said Thomas apparently 'made a run for it" and then was shot Gaddis took the car, changed license plates and drove to Louisiana where he was stopped by a state trooper for speeding.