Hoag & Sons Book Bindey Ino Spr-lnsport^ MI 4928^ maintains GOP trad [ While the rest of the nation was Clinton County voters J cast 13,454 Margaret Wright and her Dr. B,en- Esch (With 12,200 votes. Democrat District, Republican Elford A. electing Jimmy Carter president and votes for Gerald Ford and Robert Dole jamin Spock running mate on the Riegle received 8174 votes in the Democratic opponent Burton Stencel Cederberg had little trouble remaining took 6280 votes. ' Michigan voters were choosing while president and vice-president elect Human Rights Party banner took 17 county. in office against Democratic challenger Democrat Don Riegle for the U.S. Carter and Mondale polled 7,508 votes. Clinton County votes. The Socialist As in the presidential election, the Don Albosta. STATE PROPOSALS' Senate, Clinton County voters, main­ Interestingly, the minority parties Worker, Party ticket of Peter Camejo 1 U.S. Senate minority party candidates Clinton County voters chose Clinton County voters joined other tained their Republican tradition, were not ignored in Tuesday's voting by and Willie Mae Reid received seven were not ignored. Cederberg over the challenger 6285- Michigan residents to throw away the The Gerald Ford-Robert Dole ticket county residents. votes, the Socialist Labor Party of Libertarian Party candidate Bette 3583. throw-aways. almost doubled the votes received by The independent ticket of Eugene J. Julius Levin.and Constance Blomen Jane Erwin polled 66 votes, Socialist Clinton backed Proposal 1 14,305 to '\ the Carter-Mondale team. McCarthy and Patricia P. Weymouth polled 6 votes and the U.S. Labor Party Human Rights Party Theodore Albert STATE HOUSE 6,056 to , prohibit the use of non- The only area carried by Carter- received 231 votes. ticket of Lyndon H. LaRouche and 31, Socialist Worker Paula Reimers 13. On the state level, Republican returnable bottles and cans. Mondale and Riegle in Clinton County Second highest minority party vote Ronald Wayne Evans received 1 vote. U.S. Labor Party candidate Peter Stanley Powell received his usual GOP .County voters overwhelmingly ex­ was Precinct 2 in DeWitt Township. getter was the Libertarian Party, SENATE RACE Signorelli 11 and Socialist Labor Party support in Clinton County in his bid for pressed their opposition to Proposal B, Carter received 316 votes while Ford whose candidates Robert L.MacBride In the race for the U.S. Senate, candidate Frank Girard 7, re-election to the 88th District in the which would have allowed 18-year-olds received 243 and Riegle outpolled Esch and running-mate David Bergland Clinton County backed the unsuccessful U.S. CONGRESS House of Representatives. to run for the state Senate and House. A 1 received 31 votes. 316-242. , ^ Republican candidacy of Marvin L., In the race for the 10th Congressional Powell received 9674 votes while his . i total of 16,122 residents voted against the proposal with 3,437 voting approval. While voters in the rest of Michigan were saying "no" to Proposal C, Clinton County voters said, by a narrow margin, they were in favor of the proposal. Clinton said "yes" with 10,218 votes, while 9,653 voted against • it. County News Proposal C was the limit on state taxes. ( County voters left little doubt how they felt about, the proposed graduated S&wwq-ihfL CUniofL Qhsux, SUVJL 1856 income tax (Proposal D). They joined NOVEMBER 3, 1976 18 PAGES ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN 48879 the rest of the state to defeat the proposal. Iq Clinton County, it went down to defeat 14,956-4685. Six new faces on County Board Board now all Republican By Sue Kiley District No. 11 saw an upset when Richard Hawks. The vote in that Staff Writer incumbent Democrat Charles Gutzki ' District was Guzki, 953 votes and lost his seat on the Board to Republican Hawks, 1,050 votes. I This crowded voter scene at Rodney B. Wilson Junior High School in St. Johns was typical of The Clinton County Board of Com­ missioners will see six new faces in the heavy turnout in Clinton County which joined many parts of the nation in sending an January with Republicans sweeping all unexpected large number of voters to the polls Tuesday. , the contested seats. Incumbents Harry Harden, (R), and Alto Reed wins Gerald Shepard, (R) retained their positions as drain commissioner and ice pact passes 3-2 county treasurer respectively. Harden received 11,504 votes, compared ' to ST. JOHNSTFollowing an earlier Ebert, opposing the "contract, said, "we're not to high and we're np-Uow"^ DeWitt Twp. post - challenger, Charles Volk (D) with 7,600. tf table of the agreementbetween the City "Well, once again, I'll have to sound in comparison with other areas?- ''' •Shepard received 11,310 votes while of St. Johns and the Fraternal Order of like a lone voice in the wilderness." Commr. Gerald Wilcox said he felt it Allen Rosekrans only received 8,262. Police, the City Commission has voted Commr. John Arehart disagreed with was unfair to other employees and Alta Reed has become DeWitt Incumbent Nancy Cheney (D) was commented, "They have no recourse In the races for County Board seats Township's new Supervisor as she beat to adopt the agreement by a 3-2 vote. Ebert, saying "I think it's a good two newcomers battled for the District defeated by Republican Enid White for contract. I hesitate to see us penalize or except to quit." Bruce Angell, II in the contest. Reed the post of township treasurer. Cheny Mayor Roy Ebert continued his attack them because they belong to an No. l position vacated by LeRoy Vin­ took 2,689 of the township 'votes while disagreement with the contract cent. Glenn Webster,.(R) of Elsie took received' 1,771 votes while White got association that gives them the right to Angell took 1,279 of the votes..Incum­ 1,983 votes, opposing the nine percent salary 978 votes while Michael Howard (D), bent Dale Emerson was defeated in the bargain. ' When it came to vote on the Motion by Trustees Jack Kzeski and 'Eileen increase, saying other city employees "I don't think we'll be getting any Commr. John Hannah to adopt the took 584 of the Elsie votes. August prirnary. received six percent increases which he District No. 2 was no contest as in­ Corr, both Republicans retained their place attacking them all the time." contract, Hannah, Arehart and Roesner, In the race for township clerk in­ seats on the Township Board. The only described as a "pretty darned good Commr. Donald Roesner also said he voted in favor and Ebert and Wilcox cumbent Walter .Nobis (R), ran cumbent Donna Syverson, (R) kept her increase in any line of work." , unopposed. other contender was Democratic felt the contract was fair, saying voted no. seat from challenger Democratic Joan challenger C."Richard Herrold. Kzeski In District No. 3 incumbent Harold Calder. Syverson received 2,135 and Martin, (R), walked away with the received 2375 votes, Corr, 2,231 votes, Calder received 1,736 of the township and Herrold 1,698 votes. commission seat as he beat Democrat votes. Elaine Miller by a 1,245 to 419 vote margin. ool vote loses District No. 4 saw Robert Wood, (R), win the county board seat over Cecil DeWitt voters Smith (p), Wood carried the primary in "Let's put it down one more time," reading, fourth grade swimming, and set," Hixson said. August when he defeated present board voters in the Bath School District must freshman and sophomore sponsors There has not been an increase in the operating millage for five years. member Maurice Gove. The Clinton have said. A request for two additional were made. County vote for that district was Wood, down proposals mills by the school district was turned The school,board also voted to lower- A deficit of $82,000 has also been recorded for this school year. 1161 and Smith, 761. down for the second time. its salary to help eliviate some of the In the city of DeWitt voters defeated ' More voters in the district got out to financial pressures. "Millage is always a serious District No. 5 was a tight race bet­ Cross was one vote behind with 329 the polls, however than in the August "We are just going to have to watch problem," Hixson said. "But it is more ween Democrat Elaine Brockmyre, proposals l and 2 asking that non- votes, James Johnson, received 249 of primary election. The vote was 739 no the budget more closely and operate so an important matter now," he present board member, and property owners be able to seek and the votes. and468yes. This time the proposal was within the guidelines that have been concluded. Republican Earl Lancaster. Lancaster hold elected and appointed city offices. defeated'by 71. In August it was only took the District with 937 votes, while DeWitt voters also defeated Proposal 3 defeated by 29 votes. Mrs. Brockmyre received 705 votes. asking for an increase in millage for Fixed "We knew it was going to be an uphill Funeral rites held Incumbent Republican Duane street improvement and local drains. battle," Superintendent James i Chamberlain ran unopposed in District In the race for mayor, William Hixson said. "The people in the No. 6. Drouin beat Leilani Mallard by 359 millage district have had a lot of things put on Roger Overway, incumbent votes. Drouin received 567 votes while them, like the new assessments, and for Marshall Hicks Republican took District No. 7 with Mallard received 208 vbtes. Incumbent sewer problems. People are just fed up / 1,282 votes, while Democratic ^hiayor Murl Eastman decided not to passes j.