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ballot THE CITY OF dDAKLMNHD- CHANGES ITS IMAGE Page A5 Fullback comes to the rescue Page B2 7 127th Year No. 257 Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1982 Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 24 Pages 25 cents Vfrer: pnd Din modecoH1 on yon be ir; res airline captain Richard Ogg of Aptos so he could vote in his precinct in Sacramento, where he is registered. Voter registration in the county is down to 111,494 from 112,456 in the presidential election two years ago.

Coun-: tywide, Democrats hold a 51 to 31 percent advantage over 1 Republicans. Election returns will be broadcast by Santa Cruz radio station KSCO (AM and FM) live from the County Center starting at 9 p.m. Station Manager Vernon Berlin says national returns will be broadcast on the hour and at 20 and 40 minutes past the hour. State returns will be broadcast at three minutes before the hour and at 27 minutes past the hour. Since County Elections Officer Frances Giardina says final tabulation will not be until about 3 a.m., those unable to stay awake can tune in for election summaries at 6 and 6:30 Wednesday morning.

Subscribers to Sonic Cable TV in the Capitola area can view the election night scene at the County Center from 8 o'clock to midnight on community channel 8. The Sentinel will publish complete election results in its Wednesday afternoon edition. message to the federal government to re-direct military spending to peaceful employment and Measure proposes a two-cent tax on gasoline to repair roads damaged in last winter's storm. Voters in the unincorporated areas also will vote on Measures and which propose an 8 percent visitor tax on time-sharing units and at campgrounds. Davenport voters are being asked to approve a water bond, and voters in the Scptts Valley and Freedom fire districts are being asked to approve special fees to make up for revenue lost since passage of Proposition 13.

Both districts failed to win the necessary two-thirds' majority on their fee proposals in the June election. Voter turnout in the county has been predicted at about 66 percent, slightly below the statewide prediction of 69 percent. If one-third of the voters in the county are expected to stay away from the polls, consider that a Salinas man flew from Sky Park Airport this morning to Sacramento so he could cast his ballot. The voter, Jim Clay, an account representative for KDON radio, received his absentee ballot in the mail too late to vote so he hitched a flight this morning with retired U.S. Rep.

Leon Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, is seeking his fourth term in Congress. He is challenged by Gary Richard Arnold, Republican primary winner, who, in turn, is challenged by write-in Republican candidate Anne Nixon Ball. Arnold has angered many Republican leaders in the 16th Congressional District by his outspoken criticism of President Ronald Reagan and of the Republican Central Committees in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Arnold defeated Ball in the June primary. She announced a write-in candidacy last month in response to party denouncement of Arnold, who drew national atten-tion when he was told to "shut up" by Reagan during meeting with Republican candidates at the White House.

Democrat Sam Farr of Monterey is seeking a second' term in the state Assembly. He is opposed by Republican James Peter Cost of Pebble Beach. The only other "local" names on the ballot are those of Dave Weiss, a San Lorenzo Valley High School teacher, and Frank Cooper, a Pajaro Valley district administrator, who are in a runoff election for county superintendent of schools. Countywide Measure A is a proposed advisory By MARK BERGSTROM Sentinel Staff Writer Local voters went to the polls in "moderate" numbers this morning to cast ballots in an election dominated by state races and issues. A survey by The Sentinel showed 8,090 of 39,176 registered voters at sample polls had cast their ballots by 11 a.m.

That is a 20.6 percent turnout, which is considered moderate, and projects to an ultimate turnout of up to 70 percent. The polls close at 8 p.m. Local issues this election are overshadowed by hotly-contested races for governor and U.S. senator and a number of controversial citizen-sponsored measures, including the nuclear freeze, gun control and beverage can and bottle deposits. County voters face none of the controversial issues such as rent and growth control which have spiced past elections.

Major issues this time include races for Congress and state Assembly, county superintendent of schools and two countywide ballot measures. ighf million vote Jill 0 1 v- iiiit! w-v i- rid predicted in state of other races as well 100 seats in the state Legislature, 45 seats in Congress, six other statewide offices such as attorney! general and lieutenant governor, confirmation of four Supreme Court justices, and a controversy-filled package of 15 statewide ballot propositions. The races between Bradley and Republican George Deukmejian for governor, and between Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Pete Wilson for the U.S. Senate, were too close to call. But Democrats were favored in all other statewide races.

Bradley, the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, has led Deukmejian, the Republican attorney general, in polls all SEE BACK PAGE LOS ANGELES (AP) An estimated 8 million voters were expected to write the final chapter today in what could be one of California's closest elections in decades. A 69.3 percent turnout of the state's 11.5 million voters was predicted by state officials, slightly lower than average. But fair weather and mild temperatures throughout the state were a favorable sign for Democrats, who usually benefit from a higher turnout. By 10 a.m., California's largest counties, reported turnouts between 10.5 and 14.6 percent, which is just slightly higher than the average turnout for a gubernatorial election. Polls are open until 8 p.m.

statewide. Most national attention focused on only three California races Tom Bradley's bid to become the nation's first elected black governor, Jerry Brown's underdog struggle for a U.S. Senate seat, and Tom Hayden's campaign for a seat in the state Legislature. But Californians are deciding hundreds i i Jl t-- IBHIiWlBlff' i Pete Amoi Sentinel a "Yes on 72" vote this morning at River obstructing the sidewalk and had to leave. Proposition 12 is Matt Stein promoted 7 before a police officer told him he was the nuclear freeze initiative.

Street and Highway index BusinessStocks B4 Classified Ads B6 B10 Comics A8 Mostly About People A4 Opinion All Public Non'ces BJ0-BM Sports 81-63 Spotlight A9 Television log A9 Tree 'n Sea Living A6 Vital Statistics A 10 Heavy turnout in other parts of the nation Weather The campaign closed with Democrats contending the Republican administration has a secret plan to try to cut Social Security benefits and the president replying that "there's no truth in what they're saying." The economy particularly, the 10.1 percent unemployment rate and Social Security were the national issues. But many contests could be decided by local concerns and voter reaction to the personalities of the candidates. At stake were 425 House seats and 33 in the Senate. Louisiana's eight House seats have already SEE BACK PAGE WASHINGTON (AP) Bombarded for months by appeals to their hopes and fears, Americans went to the polls today to shape a new Congress and signal whether they are willing to stay the course with President Reagan's economic program. Polls opened at dawn and within hours state and county elections officials in the East, South and Midwest cited unseasonably warm weather and said voters were turning out in high numbers, frequently heavier than had been anticipated.

New York City officials said that, if the early high turnout persisted through the day, the tally could exceed the 1978 off-year total by more than 500,000 votes. all registered voters. Despite the initial indications of heavy turnout, actual, complete tallies will not be available before early Wednesday. In advance of the voting, there were varying estimates of whether this election would reverse the downward trend of the last two decades. Conflicting economic signs rising unemployment, declining interest rates and soaring stock prices prompted Richard Wirthlin, the White House pollster, to call the election a referendum on "whether people are going to vote their present fears or whether they are going to vote their hopes as to how the (Reagan) program will work." In Baltimore County, one official said the early turnout was "the heaviest I've seen in 15 years." Officials in Lycoming County, said people were waiting in line when the polls opened, which the officials said they had not seen before.

Lines were also reported at some Virginia precincts before the polls opened and one West Virginia official said of the early morning lines in his county: "We seldom see that so early in the day." Reports of heavy early morning turnouts also came from officials in Connecticut, Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee and Illinois. While some observers reported light or moderate turnouts, others said turnouts could easily reach 60 percent to 70 percent of Tonight: Fair except patchy fog developing after midnight, lows from the mid-40s to midSOs. Wednesday: Sunny and mild. Highs in the upper 60s to mid-70s. Monterey 66 49.

See page 2 De Loreon's dreams of empire eclipsed carmoking put up a $110 million loan package for a plant in Northern Ireland, he "basically forgot about the project," Brown was quoted as saying. Brown told the paper De Lorean pressed to speed up car production despite dim sales projections and that profits were eaten up by unanticipated expenses to correct safety problems with the car and pay huge bills run up by its New York office. "During the last two months I was there, (the company's Irvine, office) received almost daily requests for sums of money that ranged from $50,000 to $500,000," Brown said. "It exhausted our funds and yet we could never get an accounting from the New York office of where the money was going and what for." Brown said De Lorean wanted to diversify, to buy a snow-grooming machine business in Utah, a bus company from Chrysler or a maritime firm that owned seagoing vessels and thus build a corporate empire. In February, when Britain declared the company insolvent, Brown still felt there was a chance to salvage and even expand it.

But he told the paper he sensed the futility of his optimism when De Lorean allegedly took 1,075 of the sports cars and refused to pay the British receiver. Under terms of a $1.25 million settlement reached Monday, a Columbus, Ohio, company, Consolidated International acquired 649 cars that were the subject of a lawsuit as well as the right to distribute 1,094 of the cars still in Northern Ireland. Consolidated International also acquired the entire supply of U.S. parts, said Sol A. Shenk, president of the Ohio firm.

De Lorean attorney Lawrence Snider said the settlement will allow De Lorean's company to begin paying back its creditors. Brown told the paper his own dream ended March 3, when armed men showed up at the gate of a company Quality Assurance Center in Santa Ana, Calif. Police stopped the seizure, but Brown was allegedly threatened by Roy Sigurd Nesseth, De Lorean's "personal business representative," the newspaper said. Brown told the paper that Nesseth telephoned him and told him that if he wanted to stay alive and keep his family healthy he would cooperate. Brown said he asked if that was a threat and was told he could call it whatever he liked.

After De Lorean's personal attorney, Tom Kimmerely, allegedly fired Brown the day of the armed confrontation in Santa Ana, the executive said he settled his contract for one-third the money owed him, the paper said. LOS ANGELES (AP) John De Lorean, indicted on federal drug charges, was driven by a dream of corporate empire and personal fortune that led him away from the modest goal of building cars, says former De Lorean president Dick Brown. Brown, former head of Mazda of America who followed De Lorean to Northern Ireland in an effort to build a "dream car," said real life soon supplanted the dream for many of De Lorean 's colleagues. In an interview today with the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Brown told of being forced to resign amid death threats as president of the De Lorean Motor Co. operation in America after 6Va years.

He told the paper De Lorean had spent only "maybe 30 minutes" of his own time and none of his own money in designing the car that bears his name. "Sometimes it seemed as if John thought things would happen simply because he wanted them to happen," Brown said. "I think he had come to believe in his own image. The press had built De Lorean's name up into something unreal and John bought his own "And the simple truth is we all wanted to believe that John De Lorean was who he said he was." De Lorean, a onetime General Motors engineering whiz kid, remained ensconced today in the posh Beverly Wilshire Hotel after being released on $10 million bail from federal prison in Los Angeles on Friday. The 57-year-old automaker was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on charges of drug trafficking and rackateering in a $24 million cocaine deal.

Brown joined De Lorean as a consultant in 1975, when De Lorean was using seed money from an insurance company to finance creation of a prototype for a "safety car." De Lorean's famous name and vision for a car built of "indestructible materials" helped him find enough investors to launch the De Lorean Motor including celebrities Johnny Carson and Sammy Davis Jr. Before a factory even existed to manufacture De Lorean's gull-winged, stainless steel showpieces, the automaker collected $35 million from U.S. investors, the paper said, adding that ultimately De Lorean amassed a $78 million personal fortune. But he was arrested Oct. 19, allegedly trying to buy cocaine that he hoped would yield the millions of dollars needed to save his failing company.

After De Lorean persuaded the British Government to I.