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Eastern Illinois University The Keep April 1981 4-8-1981 Daily Eastern News: April 08, 1981 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1981_apr Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: April 08, 1981" (1981). April. 3. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1981_apr/3 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1981 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in April by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Dally Wednesday, April 8, 1981 will be partly sunny and warm with a chance of showers or thunderstorms in the afternoon or Eastern News evening. Highs in the mid to upper 70s. Cooler Wednesday night, Eastern Illinois University I Charleston, Ill./ Vol. 66, No.133 /Two Sections, 20 Pages with lows in the lower 40s. ight turnout, no surprises in local election ownship seats . Low percentage eclaimed !�:!��:<���;��." There were no big surprises in the (:a.u�11w� township election results Tuesday received JOO percent of the vote in his night. unopposed race for mayor, on.iy 21 �!), . Tom Morgan, running unopposed, C percent of the voters who participated was re-elected as township supervisor, in Tuesday's elections cast ballots in 1'C� � gathering a 2,036 unofficial vote total 'f()ll�ll1'11;il� the mayoral election. countywide. Bl Hickman received only 1, 730 votes For township road commissioner, out of 8, 130 ballots cast for the Elmer Lee, who was also unopposed, elections. was re-elected with 2,013 votes. The mayoral race received more By a slim margin of 405 votes, Town attention from the predominant Clerk Bill Hall was re-elected with student precincts, 15, 16 and 17, as 68 1,584 votes, over opponent Mike percent of the voters participating in Weaver, an Eastern faculty member, the election from those precincts voted with I, 179 votes. for mayor. Jn the race for township trustee, four Hickman, whose mayoral duties candidates were chosen from a ballot include overseeing the Police and of eight. Liquor License Commissions, Irma Justice was the top .vote-getter, presiding over city council meetings gathering 1,600 countywide, while. and preparing the city budget, will now. part-time Eastern student Jerry begin his third term in the part-time Myerscough was second with 1, 502 office. votes. Overall, 33 percent of the registered Jim Hill was third in the race with voters participated in the combined 1,347, and Jack Mcclanahan "as city-township elections. · fourth with 1,336. However, only 5 percent of the Justice and Hill- we.re both registered voters in the student incumbents for the office of trustee. precincts participatt;d in the elections. In the assessor race, James Spence Only 165 voters of a total 3 ,496 was re-elected with 1,738 votes. His registered voters in the student opponent, Mike Toothman, drC\\ precincts participated. 1,135 votes. Besides the mayoral race, the four Confusion surrounded the counting incumbent Charleston city councilmen of final election totals in the to'hnship were easily re-elected in Tuesday's races. elections. Judge Bill Paris said the con fusion The unofficial election results at 9:30 resulted from the election computer's p.m. showed Wayne Lanman as the failure to distinguish between straight Mike Weaver (left) checks out vote totals in the Charleston township election. front-runner, polling 24 percent of the and split-ticket ballots. However, the Weaver, a member of Eastern's management and marketing department, was vote. final election totals were presumed to defeated in his bid for the office of Charleston town clerk. Incumbent Bill Hall Other winners in the council race be correct. was re-elected with 57 percent of the votes. (News photo by Wendell Gamble) were Clancy Pfeiffer, polling 22 percent of the vote, John Beusch with Large c,rowdattends 21 percent of the vote and Olga Durham polling 19 percent. From the student precincts, Lanman received 21 percent of the vote, Debate· ends as informal session Pfeiffer received-- 20 percent, Beusch polled 22 percent, Durham polled 22 by Crystal Schrof and Cathy Crist In a .less controversial race for collective bargaining, percent and Winnett gathered 15 Although publicized as a debate for student government representative, candidates Marilyn Kludas _smd Tony percent of the total vote. executive officer candidates, Tuesday's forum resulted in an Parascandola stressed the challenge of representing the Lanman will now begin serving his informal presentation to a "large audience," Student students in faculty contract negotiations. fifth term on the city council, while Awareness Committee Chairman Joel Storm, said. "In order to maintain the quality of education we have to Pfeiffer, Beusch and Durham will start Storm said he was surprised and pleased with the student work for the faculty as well as the students," Kludas said. their second terms. turn out, since past forums were not as well attended. Parascandola said he wants to represent the students' Newly re-elected Town Clerk Bill Student body presidential candidate Jeff Francione, the concerns and said -he can accomplfsh this through the Hall said the voting totals for the only candidate not running on a slate, received a number of contract negotiations: council race wijl be official when the questions regarding his ·qualifications for the position. Although Cindy Rozmin, executive vice presidential Democratic and Republican county "Obviously the most experienced candidate for president candidate, said she hopes to get more students on student chairmen sign the winner's names to a is Bob Glover, but I feel we need a more responsible student faculty boards, opponent Natalie Scott said higher quality voting canvas, which will take place in government that knows how to get things done,'' Francione student members are needed. a few days. said. Rozmin said projects such as changing the grade �ppeals Hall also said the top vote-getter in -.-1;,..." "lro "l.mnno hPr nn�lc Student body president Bob Glover, runn-ing fe>r re l-'Vll\..] a.1 '- u.111v115 '"''"' 0'-'"4'"" the council race will be able to ('boo�� election, said the numerous duties of the position require an In addition to changing the grade appeals policy, Scott which council position he wishe, to experienced and knowledgeable leader. said she also wants to develop a foreign studies program and hold. The third presidential candidate, Terry Teele, emphasized improve new student orientation. Co uncil posi tions includ e a number of goals and projects he said he would work on if While Dan Hunnicutt, Board of Governors representative commissioner of Public Property. elected. He said an escort service, a student-tenant union candidate, was unable to attend, opponent Russ Robb said Public Health and Safety, Account' and class syllabus file in the library are some of his proposed his foremost goal if elected is to make the student and Finances and Streets and Public undertakings. representative a voting member of the BOG. Improvements. In the financial vice president race, experience as opposed Upon questioning from the audience, Robb said he favors ·Jn the past, Lanman has ser\'ed a' to "getting along with people" was an emphasized issue. the Students Coordinating Optional Referendum Efforts Streets and Public lmprO\emenh Mike Nowak said his involvement on various boards, because the university president should be forced to commissioner, Pfeiffer has headed the including the Apportionment Board, is invaluable to the represent the students' views. department of Accounts and Finances. financial vice president position. Due to an unexpected number of questions from the Durham has been in charge of Public However, Ed "Whitey" Marsch, said he can learn the audience, Storm said he decided to close the open question Health and Safety and Beusch has hcen responsibilities involved in the position and said his session and instead allow audience members to talk Public Property Commissioner. willingness to help people is more important than individually with the candidates. experience. 2 Wednesday, April 8, 1 981 The Dally Eastern News ·future "hold" in the countdown-a period when no U.S. breathes easier �ednesday's activity is scheduled-and added to the planned eight hour hold on Tuesday. This would provide a total 14 after signs of Soviet restraint hours to clear the back-up and put the countdown back on schedule. WASHINGTON-Four days after warning that a {AP) News shorts To get accustomed to an early wake-up on launch Soviet invasion of Poland might be imminent, day, astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen Reagan administration officials breathed easier M. Haig Jr. on Tuesday that "Israeli agression" have been gradually adjusting their sleeping cycles Tuesday following signs that the Kremlin was poses the prime danger in the region. and will be getting up earlier each day. Last prepared to let Poland work out its problems on its Haig, who U.S. officials said hoped to build a Saturday, wakeup was 4:45 a.m. On Sunday it was own. "strategic consensus" in the area against Soviet 4:45 a.m. On Monday 3:45. On Thursday and launch Responding to a speech in Czecholslovakia by intentions, was expected to hear the same strong anti day the call will come at 2:05 a.m. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, under secretary of Isreali message from officials from Saudi Arabia. The Columbia is the first spaceship designed to. state for political affairs Walter Stoessel said the The secretary of state flew here on the last leg of a make repeated trips into space, using replenishable Poles now '"'have some more time to put their house four-nation Mideast tour after a 24-hour stop in · booster rockets and an expendable external fuel tank.