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rt VV J- WV Reno Evening Gazette Wednesday, Nov, 6, 1974 -5 Rural county election results Tpmrtrntc tiffuAn i storm IT- im An7f election in Mineral County County Commissoner C-J by a thumping 5-1 margin, of Nevada's Legislature By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Democrat control of the Nevada Legislature soared in balloting Tuesday, with unofficial figures showing the party with a 17-3 voting edge in the Senate and a 31-9 margin in the Assembly. That compares to a 14-6 Senate edge and 25-15 Assembly margin during the 1973 Legislative session. The new figures promise smooth going for legislation Democrat Gov. Mike O'Callaghan will be seeking when the session opens in January. Bumped from the upper house was incumbent Sen.

Chic Hecht, R-Las Vegas, who had been mentioned as a possible gundernatorial candidate this year. He was squeezed out by former Democrat Assemblyman Ty Hilbrecht who snagged third place in a Clark County Senate district where three senators are elected. Hilbrecht got 33,226 votes and Hecht trailed with 33,076 votes. Assembly Republicans who were dumped included Reno incumbent Leslie Mack Fry, who lost to Democrat newcomer Steve Coulter. Also beat was incumbent R.

Hal Smith, R-Henderson, who was not going to run this year in order to concentrate on business activities. Democrat John Jeffrey beat him 2,600 to 2,590 just 10 votes. Darrell Huff, Republican Assemblyman and Las Vegas lawman, was beat by Democrat newcomer Lloyd Mann GOP Assemblymen Randy Capurro of Reno and Richard McNeel of Las Vegas lost bids to move up to the Senate, while Democrats Jack Schofield of Las Vegas, Mary Gojack of Reno and Margie Foote of Sparks succeeded in making the step. The wins by Miss Foote and Mrs. Gojack brings the total of women in the Senate to a record of three.

Five women were either re-elected or elected in the Assembly, topping the previous high of four women in the lower house in 1973. Among Republicans who successfully made their way back into the legislature was Lawrence Jacobsen of Min-den, Assembly minority leader. Maher 671 Milich(inc 563 County Assessor Sheeran (inc.) 737 Stephens 474 County Recorder and Auditor Jeanney 540 Laca 702 County Sheriff Arrascada 489 Ellsworth 742 Public Administrator Caldwell 653 Haas 500 Hospital Trustee at Large (elect 2) Jones 209 Peterson (inc.) 674 Rose 716 Turrillas 645 School Board Trustee Dist. A Belander 754 Fundis 455 School Board Trustee Dist. Hamilton 642 Souza (inc.) 521 Justice of the Peace Bottomley 547 Wesner 657 Incumbent Humboldt County Sheriff Leonard Clausen, a Democrat, won a close race over Republican Challenger Frank Weston.

Races for positions on the school board were close with one incumbent being upset. Unofficial final results in contested races showed: County Commission Kinney 1445 Hammond 779 County Sheriff Clausen (inc.) 1284 Weston 1013 In other races, the vote returns at mid-evening showed: Hospital Trustee Miller 1396 Risi 632 School Trustee District A Fettic 913 Lasa 938 School Trustee District Bell 1214 Wilier (inc.) 918 School Trustee District Hooft (inc.) 1255 Austin 896 ana Democrat Allen Conelly was elected to succeed him. Incumbent Democratic Sheriff Hayden Combs also appered to be the loser in his bid for re-election against fellow Democrat and land developer E. T. "Hefty" Sanderson.

Unofficial final results showed: County Commission Conelly 2,223 Hammond (inc.) 450 County Assessor Wagner (inc.) 1,802 Phillips 889 District Atrorney Bettis 1,787 Waterman 900 Public Administrator Gertrude Norcutt. 1,330 William 1,269 Hospital Trustee (4-year term; elects) Barcellos 1847 Fairfield 1,113 Harrington 1,998 Lininger 1,445 Hospital Trustee unexpired term elect I Duval 541 Verling 1,979 Mineral TV District Trustees (elect 2) Everett (inc.) 1,595 Ridley 483 Valdez 904 Werner 567 Wheeler 615 County Sheriff Combs (inc.) 1,229 Sanderson 1,485 Justice of the Peace Hawthorne Rupracht 1,193 White 1,106 Justice of the Peace Mina Gates 128 Reynolds 72 Nevada Senate, Assembly winners Lyon Elko mere were no upsets in Storey County where most races were won by a wide margin and all incumbents were returned to office except in one school board race. The exception was the county school board election in District A where only 14 votes separated both candidates. Unofficial final election totals were: County Commission (B) Del Carlo 438 Jacobsen 151 County Sheriff Del Carlo (inc.) 434 Reed 167 School Board (A) Cole 291 Pecoraro (inc.) 277 Churchill Churchill County had no final results on vote totals in uncontested races this morning, but there was an upset in the justice of the peace race as incumbent Ed Clayton was defeated by Lawrence Thompson. Unofficial final results in the contested races were: Assembly District 37 Getto 1999 Miller 1093 Proter 529 University Regents, District 3 Ross 2142 Walsh 1724 County Assessor Barkley (inc.) 2868 Miller 1308 Recorder-Auditor Hanks (inc.) 2762 Robinson 1103 County Sheriff Banovich 2875 Ostrander 1138 County Commissioner Cann 2591 Washburn 1319 Public Administrator Shannon 1254 Springer 2404 Justice of the Peace Clayton (inc.) 1754 Thompson 2159 School Trustee Cornu (inc.) 3013 Daniels 1747 Goings 1860 Lauf 2084 Maffi (inc.) 1981 Mussi 2441 Woodford 1545 RURAL AREAS Dist.

33-Elko-Roy Young, R-Inc; Dist. 34-Humboldt-Eureka Bode Howard, Rlnc; Dist. 35- Lincoln White Pine-John Polish, Dist. 36- Esmeralda-MineralNye-Don Moody, Dist. 37-Pershing-part Churchill-Virgil Getto, R-Inc; Disty.

38-Lyon-Storey-Joe Dini, D-Inc; Dist. 39-Carson-Douglas Lawrence Jacobsen, R-Inc; Dist. 40--Carson Alan Glover, D-Inc. Here's a list of Nevada Assembly and Senate winners in Tuesday's general election: ASSEMBLY CLARK COUNTY Dist. 1-Danny Demers, D-Inc; Dist.

2-Lloyd Mann, Dist. 3-Roger Bremner, D-Inc; Dist. 4-Robert Robinson, D-Inc; Dist. 5Zel Lowman, R-Inc; Dist. 6-- Marion Bennett, D-Inc; Dist.

7- Lonie Chaney, Dist. 8 Keith Ashworth, Dine; Dist. 9- Eileen Brookman, D-Inc; Dist. 10-John Vergiels, D-Inc; Dist. 11- James Banner, D-Inc; 12- Jim Schofield, Dist.

13- Karen Hayes, Dist. 14--Darrell Dreyer, D-Inc; Dist. 15-Jean Ford, R-Inc; Dist. 16Harley Harmon, Dist. 17- Bob Price, Dist.

18- Tom Hickey, D-Inc; Dist. 19-Paul May, D-Inc; Dist. 20- Bob Craddock, Dine; Dist. 21-Nash Sena, Dist. 22John Jeffrey, D.

WASHOE COUNTY Dist. 23-Robert Weise, Dist. 24-A1 Wittenberg, D-Inc; Dist. 25-Sue Wagner, Dist. 26- Robert Heaney, Dist.

27- Steve Coulter, Dist. 28- Pat Murphy, Dist. 29 -Bob Barengo, D-Inc; Dist. 30-Don Mello, D-Inc; Dist. 31- Chester Christensen, Dist.

32- Robert Benkovich, R. Vote returns in Lyon County were incomplete this morning, but there were upsets in one school board race, and Mason Valley Justice of the Peace Arthur L. Merriwether was narrowly beaten. Unofficial partial returns showed: County Commissioner Fraser 784 Lewis (inc.) 1,159 District Attorney Alian 738 Banta(inc) 1,246 County Sheriff Allen (inc.) 1,360 O'Neill 702 School Board Dist. McCormick 898 Minor (inc.) 797 Mason Valley Justice of the Peace Merriwether 547 Rupracht 592 County Qestion No.

1 Yes 817 No 797 STATE SENATE CLARK COUNTY Dist. 1- Henderson Jim Gibson, D.Inc; Diist. 2--Las Vegas-Mel Close, DInc. Jack Schofield, D. Ty Hilbrecht, WASHOE COUNTY Dist.

1-Thomas Wilson, D-Inc. Mary Gojack, D. Dist. 2-Margie Foote, D. RURAL AREAS Western (Churchill-Storey-Lyon-Pershing) Carl Dodge, R-Inc; Capitol (Carson-Douglas) Gary Sheerin, Nye In Eko County, the closest major race of the night was between incumbent Democratic Dist.

Atty. Robert Manley who won reelection and his Democratic opponent Gregory D. Corn. Unofficial final vote totals for the county showed: District Attorney Robert Manley (inc.) 2,894 Gregory Corn 2,100 County Sheriff Borjas 2,853 J.O. Harmonson 342 Corner 1,884 Recorder-Auditor Jerry Reynolds 2,204 W.O.Miller 1,619 Lillian McMahen 1,173 School Board District 1 Emerson 1,560 Jevas 3,187 County Clerk Bob Kane (inc.) 3,359 Gil Hernandez 1,627 Hospital Trustee Dist.

3A Gallagher 2,850 Urriola 1,837 School Board Dist. 7 Scissons 1,610 Thompson 2,729 Justice of the Peace Morrison 319 Thurston 482 In the other justice of the peace race: Forguson 101 Robey 167 Nye County vote tallies were still incomplete this morning with the Duck-water precinct still unreported. Rasner unseats Humphrey Eureka in Larson sheritt rarp Eureka County Sheriff Thomas Cunningham, a Democrat, appeared to be an easy victor over Republican opponent A.J. Unofficial final results in county races showed: District Attorney Lloyd Goicoechea 220 Gazette Carson City Bureau Carson Sheriff-elect Pete Rasner said today he planned no departmental housecleaning when he takes over on the first of the year, but there are indications that several deputies will leave on their own initiative. Undersheriff William Furlong, a staunch supporter of Sheriff Robert White Pine Lander Humphrey who Rasner defeated by Sheriff Cunningham 288 a narrow 261 vote margin said he 0 U7iilii roetfTn rr I lust Am Kak 41 would resign by December 31.

Two upsets appeared in the making as incumbent Democratic Sheriff Don A. Tomany was trailing his Democratic challenger C.J. Howard. Republican Assessor Leo Funk also appeared to be going down to defeat against Bernie Merlino. Unofficial returns with 14 of 15 precincts reporting showed: County Commissioner Cornell (inc.) 1,414 Larson 690 County Assessor Funk (inc.) 964 Merlino 1,207 County Clerk Logan 956 Metscher (inc.) 1,123 County Sheriff Howard 1,142 Tomany (inc.) 1,032 County Treasurer Bailey (inc.) 1,605 Smith 551 Tonopah Justice of the Peace Spicer 226 Terrell (inc.) 750 Lincoln In Lincoln County, most of the races were uncontested, and there were no surprises in the contests which weren't.

Unofficial final election Forholus 201 Humphrey expressed disappointment at his loss to Rasner, who was his former deputy, and said he was sure "there would be some turnover in the department because "there have been a number of (personnel) who have indicated they wouldn't work for him (Rasner). School Board Area A Bardsley ....199 Bisoni 256 School Board Area Parman 328 Wallace 130 School Board Area Corsentino 254 Slagowski 201 Justice of the Peace There were a number of upsets in Lander County where the county auditor-recorder, a school board member and the Battle Mountain justice of the peace were turned out of office. Unofficial final results showed: District Attorney Forgeron 340 Holden 354 County Sheriff Schwin (inc.) 371 Perman 320 County Commission Coon 161 Gandolfo 563 In the other commission race: Harding 167 Lemaire (inc.) 506 "I am hoping they change their mind," Humphrey added, "because In other races, former City Councilman Thelma Calhoun and Regional Planning Commissioner Joe Ben-singer were elected to fill the two vacancies created on the Board of Supervisors by the defeat of Supervisor Richard Peterson in the September primary and by the retirement of George Criteser. They defeated Preston Peterson and H.H. "Hap" Snelling.

Democrat Alan Glover was returned to a second term as Carson assemblyman from District 40 Receiving 59.98 per cent of the vote compared with 26.33 per cent for former Carsor Republican central committee chairman A.E. (Bud) Miller with 26.21 per cent and Independent American Party (IAP) hopeful Jack Fowler's 13.77 per cent. First Judicial District Judge Frank Gregory continued as Nevada's longest-sitting (21 years) district judge by far outdistancing Douglas County Public Defender Jack Christensen by more than 2,000 votes. In other local races, Justice of the Peace Tom Davis had no difficulty gaining a third term, topping Sam Wattles by a 86.07 per cent to 13.92. Carson-Tahoe Hospital Board Chairman William E.

Schultz was reelected to a seat he has held for the past 12 years, defeating neighbor John Nulty, and opthamologist William Spector bested Roger Laird for the seat now held by Dr. William E. King, who did not seek reelection. Three present school board members chairman William Van Patten, Harold Rupert and William Furlong were reelected as well as first-timer Rudolfo (Rudy) Moreno. Losers were James A.

Williams, Harold Saylor and Robert Ertel. Carsonites also gave John Tom Ross a 124 vote local edge in his six-county race against fellow Carson attorney Daniel Walsh for the District 3-B seat on the University Board of Regents, with Douglas, Storey, Lyon, Churchill and Pershing counties still to be heard from. In the state Assembly District 39 vote, which also encompasses both Carson and Douglas, Carson voters put Republican Lawrence Jacobsen 978 votes ahead of IAP hopeful Merritt (Ike) Yochum, with Jacobsen's home turf still to be heard from Running unopposed in Carson local races were Assessor Homer Rodriguez, District Attorney Mike Fondi, Recorder-Auditor Pete Supera, and Clerk-Treasurer Vaughn Smith. In a purely local ballot proposition, Carson voters rejected a change under which supervisors would be elected solely by voters of their particular wards rather than as is currently the case on an at-large (city-wide) basis. Carson voters also turned down all of the state ballot questions, except for the one which would permit the state's bonded indebtedness to be increased from one to three per cent which they heartily endorsed.

(Beowawe) Adams 83 this town needs good, capable people." "If a man doesn't want to work for me it's strictly up to him," said Rasner. "But I hope that none of them quit. We've got a fine bunch of men out there they just need a little bit of training." Thompson 39 Beowawe Constable Deeson 28 Keefer 122 Justice of the Peace (Eureka) Hammond ..241 Schiefelbein 87 Saralegui 387 results showed: Rasner said Carson City residents can look forward to "a good, changed department real professional law enforcement." County Sheriff White Pine voters produced two major upsets with the unseating of incumbent County Commissioner N.K. "Sunny" Sundrud, a Republican, and Dist. Atty.

Gregory J. Chachas, also a Republican. Unofficial final vote counts showed: County Commission Dist. 3 Sundrud (inc.) 1,319 Brunson 2,548 Regents, District 3-A Knudtsen 2,021 Puccinelli 1,531 State Assembly 35th District Polish 2,318 Swallow 1,599 County Clerk Jensen (inc.) 2,914 Pavlakis 976 County Sheriff Cunningham 1,404 Robison (inc.) 2,505 County Treasurer Llewellyn (inc.) 3,063 McGrath 840 Hospital Trustees, District 3 Bautista (inc.) 2,485 Wolford 1,257 School Board, District A Wood (inc.) 1,494 Kirkeby 2,243 School Board District Lani(inc) 2,180 Meecham 1,554 School Board District Gibson 1,212 Londos (inc.) 2,436 School Board District Anderson 1,845 Lindley ...1,662 Television District Basso 1,449 Fondi(inc) 2,094 Kissel (inc.) 1,101 Johnson 791 Harris 1,232 Sillasen (inc.) 300 Esmeralda He said he would initiate a civil service procedure, including written examinations, for the hiring of departmental personnel. Humphrey said he wasn't sure what he will be doing after the first of the year.

"I've got several irons in the tire," he said. In Esmeralda County, election results showed no major surprises in five local races. Unofficial final election results in the local races showed: County Commissioner Allen 115 Dahlstrom 273 County Assessor Cozart 264 Richardson 129 District Attorney Carter 182 Harter 201 Arnoldus 587 Woodworth 666 Meadow Valley Constable Garrison 538 Mathews 409 School Board Trustee (elect 4) Aicher 785 Banks 762 Bruend 789 Swallow 809 Pershing The Pershing County races provided one upset as incumbent County Commissioner Daniel "Bill" Milich, a Republican, was apparently ousted by former Democratic commissioner Robert Maher. Unofficial final results in the county showed: Returns in the race for school board were: AreaB Ancho (inc.) 243 Lani 442 AreaC Simmons 347 Wilson 256 Area Blossom 230 Chisum 392 AreaE McMullen (inc.) 622 Ramsdell 419 Argenta (Battle Mountain) Justice of the Peace Gondolfo 250 Lemaire 200 Mineral Incumbent Republican County Commissioner Fred Hammond lost his bid for re- Sheerin elected Swackhamer, Mirabelli, McGowan re-elected to state positions RoarkcTty.sher,.ff...i2o to Senate Sin 276 Esmeralda Constable Grogan 128 Poffinbarger 229 O'Callaghan's pilot wins Douglas sheriff race In the Senate and Assembly races, Douglas voters came Gazette Carson City Bureau Former State Public Defender Gary Sheerin defeated Harold Jacobsen Tuesday to become the first Democrat to hold the Carson-Douglas State Senate seat since 1943. The final vote was Sheerin 5,412, Jacobsen, a Republican, 5,211, and Independent American party candidate Jack Heller, a Carson businessman, 2,259.

In the Assembly District 39 race, which also encompasses Carson City and Douglas County, Republican Lawrence Jacobsen swept by Independent American Merritt (Ike) Yochum by 4,908 to 1,794 votes en route to a seventh legislative term. McGowan garnered 74,700 votes to Kruse's 69,327 votes, according to complete but unofficial returns. "Along about 12 o'clock last night it was getting pretty tight, but things look good this morning," McGowan, 65, said today. McGowan attributed the close race to a national trend of disillusion among voters with the Republican administration. "This year in particular," he said, "and I think it cut the margin down considerably." Both McGowan and Kruse also said hard campaigning was responsible for the tight race.

"I think it all boils down to quite a lot of hard work on our part," Kruse said of his tough challenge. Kruse also credited McGowan with being a powerful opponent. "But I love people and I love the State of Nevada, so I can't help but think I'll be back in politics again," Kruse, 28, said. Three incumbents, Secretary of State William Swackhamer, Treasurer Mike Mirabelli and Controller Wilson McGowan were re-elected Tuesday. Swackhamer and Mirabelli, both Democrats, scored easy wins, according to complete, but unofficial returns.

Swackhamer trounced his opponent Stanley Paher, a Nevada historian, with 106,611 votes, more than double Paher's 42,380 votes. This was Swackhamer's first election to the post after being appointed two years ago by Gov. Mike O'Callaghan. Mirabelli took an early lead Tuesday over Las Vegan James C. Kennedy.

Returns dhow 98,142 votes for Mirabelli and 50,327 votes for Kennedy. A much closer race was waged by McGowan, a Republican, who won his third term as controller over Tom Kruse. Gazette Carson City Bureau Dick Canatsey who is Gov. Mike O'Callaghan's pilot narrowly defeated Democrat John Meckes to become Douglas County sheriff, 2,276 to 2,154 Canatsey, a Highway Patrol pilot, will replace Sheriff Dave McCreary, who filed for the office, then withdrew. In other races, Douglas voters retained Republican incumbent Harry Winkelman as county assessor, a post he has held for the past 24 years.

The losing Democrat was Charles A. Zinke, 2,977 to 1,363. Matt Bernard, who upset long-time clerk-treasurer Earnhart Thran in the September primary, defeated Democrat Gerry Barone by 3,308 votes to 1 ,045. Incumbent Auditor-Recorder Pat Stanley got more votes than fellow Republican Bruce Reavis, 2,496 to 1,651, to win a second term, and Republican Garry Stone topped Hap Haight, 2,640 to 1,665, to take over the county commission seat now held by Roy Godecke, who did not seek re-election Voters also approved a local ballot question which would expand the county commission from three to five mem-bers They rejected another question which would have permitted the county to issue bonds of up to $2 million in value to pay for existing park and airport improvements and to construct a park at Lake Tahoe. out on the losing side by favoring KepuDiican Haroia Jacobsen over Democrat Gary Sheerin for the joint Carson-Douglas State Senate seat, 2,023 to 1 ,752.

Sheerin won, based largely on his majority from Carson voters. Both Carson and Douglas voters came out decisively for the re-election to a seventh term of Republican Assemblyman Lawrence Jacobsen, who was opposed by Merritt (Ike) Yochum of the Independent American Party, 3,190 to 1,054. In other local races, David Biggs was elected constable of the East Fork township over James A. Finch, and Glen E. Anderson bested Max L.

Jones for the job of justice of the peace from that township. Howard McKibben, seeking re-election as district attorney, was unopposed, as was Ninth Judicial District Judge Noel Manoukian. Clayton Johnson, Barbara Dowty, Timothy Heydon, and Nancy Gardner were elected to school board posts, with George Palmatier, Diane Strube, Doris Johnson and Fred McNeil coming out losers. In the District 3-B race for University Board of Regents, John Tom Ross was favored by 2,262 Douglas voters, compared to only 1,721 for Daniel Walsh. The race is being decided by voters of six counties, including Carson which gave Ross a 193-vote edge.

Prostitution passes in Churchill Citizens earlier had tried to put the proposal on the ballot via an initiative petition. Some observers consider Tuesday's vote to be a referendum, in part, on Commissioner John Hanifan, who refused to accept the petition. Legalized prostitution, the most controversial question on Tuesday's ballot in Churchill County, was approved by a 573-vote margin. Complete but unofficial returns showed the vote to be 2,367 in favor and 1,794 opposed to legalizing prostitution in the cow county..