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Show Coimoiress grots win coimfr Resurgent Democrats, riding a tide of Southern and Farm Belt votes to control of the Senate, confronted President Reagan today with an opposition 100th Congress and served notice that "if there was a Reagan revolution, it's House 55-4- The bright spot for Republicans in Tuesday's midterm elections was in the races for governor, where the GOP picked up eight 253-18- 0 By midday today, the Democrats had won 257 races and were leading in three; the Republicans had won 173 and were ahead in two. new-Senat- over." majority, controlling the 73-se- statehouses. including those in Texas. Honda. Maine and Wisconsin. The Democrats claimed nine 5 seats to give them control over the Senate. The Republicans picked up only .me seat vacated by a Democrat, that in Missouri. The GOP held its own in the House, with Democrats looking to a maximum gain of seven seats. Entering the election, they had a The voters were kind to three men who were Cabinet officers under Jimmy Carter. Former Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus was elected governor of Idaho, and two former transportation secretaries. Neil Goldschmidt and Brock Adams, also won. Goldschmidt was elected governor of Oregon and Adams deieated Sen. Slade Gorton. Gov. Christopher lVnd defeated Lt Gov. Harnett Woods in the race to In some cases the losers were freshmen swept into office when the GOP look control of the Senate in Reagan's 1980 landslide. of the 12 Senate By contrast, seats the Democrats defended. Republicans could claim only Missouri, where former Republican succeed retiring Democrat Thomas Kagleton House races included Joseph Kennedy 11 easily winning the seat being acated by O'Neill while Ins sister. Kathleen Townsend. lost to Republican Rep Helen Rentley of Maryland Mike Kspy, is now the first black congressman trom that stale since Reconstruction Republicans picked up governorships in 11 states previously held by Democrats. The Democrats took three Pennsylvania, Oregon from the GOP. and Tennessee Democrats held onto another state, Alaska. The election saw a strange shift the Democrats in the South winning back Senate seats they lost six years ago. but losing governorships in Alabama. Florida, South Carolina and Texas. Election results REPUBLICAN DEMOCRAT U.S. SENATE Jake Gam 314,423 Craig Oliver 115.993 U.S. HOUSE DIST. 1 James Hansen Gurin McKay 77,109 82.146 U.S. HOUSE DIST. 2 Tom Shimizu 60,924 Wayne Owens 76,875 113TH YEAR. NO. 84 U.S. HOUSE DIST. 3 Howard Nielson 86,310 Dale Gardiner 42,312 STATE SENATE DIST. Karl Swan 1,662 . Unopposed STATE SENATE DIST. 15 Le Ray McAllister . . Unopposed STATE REP. DIST 57 Merrill Fox Wayne Winters 2.777 ' V , Herald Staff Writer i" 3 , While the Republican Party took a thrashing nationwide, the Grand Old Party cleaned up in Utah County. Utah County Republicans easily defeated the the Democratic Party managed to muster this year. Only three county races were contested: Four-yea- r county commission seat, two-yecounty commission seat and county recorder. About 55 percent of registered voters in Utah County voted. 3.071 STATE REP. DIST 58 Don Le Baron 3.630 Lynn Ray Davis 1,763 STATE REP. DIST. 59 .James STATE REP. DIST. Helen Bunnell Weeks 1,187 Moss 4,485 60 .Pat Nix 3.191 STATE REP. DIST. 61 R. Lee Ellertson 4,087 Unopposed STATE REP. DIST 62 Jeril Unopposed STATE REP. DIST Craig Call 1 .218 vvv STATE REP. DIST. 64 Byron Lee Harward 2,190 Unopposed m& STATE REP. DIST 65 Glenn Bird 2.376 ....Don Strong 2,306 STATE REP. DIST. 66 Tim Moran 3,518 Lavinia Kanig 1,973 STATE REP. DIST. 67 Drew Daniels 3,071 Bob Phelps 2,646 COUNTY COMM. (4 YEAR) David Greenwood 16,693 . ... .Malcolm Beck 34,823 Marie COUNTY COMM. (2 YEAR ) Van Wagenen 21,945 .Brent Morris 30,011 . COUNTY ASSESSOR ...Ronald Smith Unopposed 38.986 COUNTY ATTORNEY Unopposed Steven Killpack 39,066 Unopposed COUNTY AUDITOR ....... . ... .Elwood Sundberg 38,888 . COUNTY CLERK William Huish 38,880 Unopposed I t'rilser I'hulo Bv tax status Herald Managing Editor 35,617 J.J. JACKSON Herald Staff Writer Incumbent Tim Moran and school teachers Glenn V. Bird and Drew Daniels were among Utah County Democrats who won races for the Utah House in south Utah County Tuesday. But Republicans kept their grip in every other county race for the state legislature, including the Fork as incumbent house seat from Merrill C. Fox garnered 52.5 percent of the vote to escape a strong challenge from Wayne S. Winters. Statewide, Utah Democrats boasted a comeback after near political extinction, picking up 13 House seats and bringing their total to 27 in the body. The resurgence ends eight years of steadily f declining power and breaks the GOP's majority. In addition, a Democrat in one of the House races was within 1 percent of victory and a recount was likely. Democrats also picked up two new members in me state Senate, giving the party eight of the 29 n ...... ......Dave Unopposed .. Bateman 38,947 COUNTY SURVEYOR ... , Unopposed . . ,. . ..Clyde Naylor 38,867 COUNTY TREASURER Stanley Walker 38,885 Unopposed CONSTABLE PR EC. 1 .Jim Phelps Unopposed ZIMMERMAN Herald Staff Writer The defeat of Proposition 1, means Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Orem Community Hospital, and American Fork Hospital now face a $580,000 property tax bill. To avoid paying the tax. hospital administrators will now have to prove to the Utah County Commission they are charitable institutions. According to County Assessor Ron Smith, the hospitals filed an appeal by the Aug. 29 deadline. The state tax commission then ordered that a hearing on the matter be delayed until the results of the election on hospital taxes were in. And JOSEPHINE COUNTY SHERIFF 6,497 Unopposed CONSTABLE PREC. 2 Daryl Tucker 6.899 Unopposed CONSTABLE OREM PREC. ,: Anthony Fernland 10,516 CONSTABLE PROVO PREC. Unopposed --. Jerry Miller 9,762 CONSTABLE SP. FORK PREC. 2,132 Unopposed Elaine Bradford JUVENILE COURT JUDGE, DIST. 3 No 3,517 Leslie Brown: Yes 24,716 RACES STATE SCHOOL BOARD DIST. 7 Donald Christensen 18,670 . .Walter Talbot N STATE SCHOOL BOARD DIST. 9 Harold Jensen Valerie Kelson 19,200 15,924 14.345 ALPINE SCHOOL BOARD PREC. 4 Linda Campbell 1,747 H. Gill Hilton 1,246 ALPINE SCHOOL BOARD PREC. 5 Richard Sudweeks 1,762 ... .J. Blake Evans 2.706 NEBO SCHOOL BOARD PREC. 4 Dean Bristow 1,728 Unopposed NEBO SCHOOL BOARD PREC. 5 Marlin Boyer718 Bonnie Palmer 1,145 PROVO SCHOOL BOARD PREC. 1 Ronald Bingham 1,007 Unopposed PROVO SCHOOL BOARD PREC. 5 David Weight 1,726 Unopposed JUSTICE OF PEACE PREC. 1 Keith Jenkins 7,726 Vergil Peterson 7,629 JUSTICE OF PEACE PREC 2. Lamar Horrocks 7,180 7,249 Jay Peterson Utah County turned down the proposition state, recording enough negative votes to guarantee defeat of the constitutional amendment that would have permanently exempted hospitals from property taxes. Voters in by the widest margin in the The defeat means officials of any hospital wanting a property tax exemption will have to prove each year to the county they are in, that they are charitable institutions according to a complicated formula spelled out by the Utah Supreme Court. T don't know what our next move will be." said Utah Vallev spokesman Jerry Sorenson. who also said he couldn't account for the heavy turndown of the proposal in Utah County. The three Intermountain Health Care hospitals in Utah County have been battling millions in property tax assesments in courts ever since Utah County initiated the move to put the hospitals on the tax rolls. (See HOSPITALS, page 121 PROPOSITION PROPOSITION For 250.731 PROPOSITION 7.161 211.931 2 Against For 237.814 For 1 Against 163.494 3 Against 159,966 PROVO ROAD BOND Against 4,596 UTAH CO. GOV. REORGANIZATION For 20.885 Against 28,533 MONTH - PRICE 30 CENTS Morris said his priorities are to ensure county government is administered efficiently and that he would continue to support the auditor's performance audit program. He wants to assure that duplication of services is ended "We need to prioritize what the county needs, keeping in mind that the taxpayers just can't afford tax increases," Morris said. lb s;iid the county also needs to look into zoning changes which have been ignored too long. Morris said the competition from the Democratic Party was good for his race and that he felt good about how the campaign went. "The challenge from the Democrats was good and it makes the Republican healthy for the county Party stronger, the Democratic Party stronger and our system stronger from electing good people to office." VanWagenen said she felt good about the campaign, but added that it cost an awful lot of money. She said she didn't think she would run again. T feel I got out the issues and concerns to people." VanWagenen said. "I think the people are going to have to watch that commission closely for a while." In the four-yea- r county commission race. Malcolm H. Beck (R) defeated David L. Greenwood by a margin of 67 percent to 32 percent. Beck said he thought the issues of too many administrative assistants in the commission office and his statements of having an open door policy carried him to victory. (See GOP, Page 12) veto-proo- seats. The Democratic headway in Utah County came from Bird, who won by 70 votes against Don R. Strong in District 65, and Daniels, who defeated W. Bob" Phelps in District 67. Daniels will Robert become one of the youngest people in the Utah Legislature. He is 28. Bird Strong "Around here Don Strong is pretty much an institution, so I didn't go into the race overconfident." Bird said this morning. In fact, tired from grading papers from his social studies classes at Springville High, Bird went to bed about 11 p.m. thinking he had lost the election. He said at that time Strong had a narrow lead with about 30 percent of the returns in. Then a student woke him with a phone call about 1 a.m. "He thought I was awake and he was right alter he called." Bird said. The student congratulated Bird, Bird went back to (See DEMOS, Page 12) Vofers in Pr ovo drive bond issue for roads fo victory Bv LISA MOTE Herald Staff Writer Pessimists who warned Provo officials not to ask taxpayers to fund road improvements through a general obligation bond referendum were proved wrong Tuesday when 60.91 percent of the voters supported the bonds. "People told us up front we were stupid to go with a general obligation bond." said Mayor Joseph Jenkins. "They told us the citizens won't support a bond they haven't in the past. it's been a long, long time since voters in this area have supported a bond election." he said. "It's quite a job to get a general obligation bond through.'' This time, however, citizens spoke clearly saying they want Provo's roads repaired and are willing to pay for the job, Jenkins said. The general obligation road bond will provide $8 million for street repairs in the city. Work on the roads will begin in the spring and continue until 1992. The bonds will be paid off during the next 12 years of through a property tax increase and Provo's share of the state gasoline tax. Property taxes on a $75,000 home will not go up the first year, will increase by $2.94 the second year and continue increasing until reaching a maximum increase of $38.71 in 1992. Alter that, the amount will again decrease until reaching the level. Provo City engineer Nick Jones said the city has a computer program organized from a study of Provo's (See ROADS, page 12) one-thir- pre-bon- d d of Democrats Gam overcomes resurgence - SALT LAKE CITY AP) Republican Sen. Jake Garn, riding high above the apparent resurgence ol Utah Democrats, coasted past token opposition but returns to Washington stripped ot the powertul committee chairmanships he held for six years. Garn. a conservative who used his rock-ribbe- d Senate clout to hitch a ride aboard the space shuttle, buried political newcomer Craig Oliver 73 percent to 27 percent with 100 percent of the precincts reporting, or 314.423 votes to 115,993, to win a third term in Tuesday's general election. "I promise you six years of the same, even it I'm back in the minority." Garn said. "Those Democrats in the Senate know I'm no shy. shrinking violet and I will be heard from." (iarn's easy victory was a high point for Utah (See STATE, page 12) Daily Herald readers may For 210,543 A Trio of Democrats county lose Hospitals elected to state H ouse battle over By ROBERT McDOUGALL ..Nina Reid 16,118 .am- Brent Morris and his wife watch returns. COUNTY RECORDER Charlotte Mecham Interestingly, about 14,000 more people voted in contested elections than voted in those that had no opposition. r For example, in county commission race between Marie VanWagenen (Dl and Brent Morris (R) nearly 52,000 people voted. In uncontested county races only about 38,000 people voted. The closest thing to a race for Utah County government was between Morris and VanWagenen. Morris received 57 percent of the vote to VanWage-nen'- s 42 percent. Alter the results were in, Morris, who has been Commissioner Gary J. Anderson's administrative assistant, said he is eager to get started. "I hope to work with some of the departments with the permission of the department heads." Morris said. He wants to learn more about the areas that were not in his portfolio while he worked under Anderson. two-yea- Wilson 4,177 63 Unopposed $6.75 Bv BRUCE SOI.BERG 9,532 . Unopposed UTAH. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1986 GOP again impressive in county 13 .. PROVO. caii-i- n tonight Six of The Daily Herald's top management personnel will be working late toright to provide readers with an opportunity to expiess their views about the newspaper. Publisher Kirk Parkinson, managing editor Robert McDougall, city editor Dick Harmon, sports editor Marion Dunn, advertising director Don Rowley and circulation manager Scott Murray will be at Irom 6 to 8 p.m. "We are concerned with our readers." said Parkinson. "Tonight's call-inight is designed to allow them to talk to us directly and tell us what's good and bad about our product." Ol course, those at the phones itonight would also like to hear Irom readers who believe we are doing a good job. n 373-505- Wednesday: NBA: Bucks win The Atlanta Hawks proved Tuesday night they can win and win big against a top division opponent without star Dominique Wilkins as they toppled the Milwaukee Bucks. In other NBA action, the Lakers collected a victory and the Utah Jazz host the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight. See NBA roundup on Page 13. No dry lake here They thought the Great Salt Lake was doomed to dry up. But it was only a my til one of many found in a book by Steve Warren entitled "Drat! Mythed Second Thoughts on Again Utah." For more on the subject, Page 23. see Where fo find it Amusements Classified Ads 20 26-3- Comics Crossword International-Nationa- 2 .. 35 35 l 2,20 Obituaries Opinions Sports Todav Weather 4 7 . 13-1- 8 23-2- 6 6 |