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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday novembers 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 3 election briefs texans vote to legalize gambling at race tracks Austin Texas api Job hungry texans have wagered on dogs and panics As an economic a not voting strongly 10 legalize a Iri Mutual gambling breaking a so Carlr Silion the jobs Issue was insurmountable no matter How hard we tried to say these would be Low paying sea tonal jobs Gary Mcneil spokesman for the anti gambling Campaign said tuesday. In lilies of eco nomic deprivation ii s hard to combat something that seems to offer immediate  with 92 percent of the precinct reporting Early wednesday the so Alewife referendum was Patina with i 126,065, or 57 percent in favor and 349.302, or 43 percent opposed. The a the largest sonic that still banned gambling in the track now joins 40 other Stales allowing it. Baseball team owner vows winners loser s Goode Wilkinson Flynn Reform demos win in ky., miss. To get out of sir Francisco Philadelphia s Goodfe beefs Rizzo san Fafian risen api Sun fun him Hants Francisco Al j san Francisco giants owner Bob Luric vowed to move his baseball team to another City after voters rejected a proposed downtown stadium but the club probably won t be going to newer Sci. An advisory measure calling for an $80 million downtown san Francisco baseball stadium for the National league West champions was Defeated tuesday night losing 5x2 percent to 46.8 percent. New Jersey voters Defeated a Public referendum that would have authorized 135 million in Bonds for a base Ball sodium in the Meadowlands West of new York City we will be going someplace else Lurie said at the Campaign Headquarters of the forces backing the san Francisco ballot measure. He repeatedly has said the team would move when ill lease expires in 1994 unless it gels a replacement for often criticized candlestick Park located on the shores of Windy san Francisco Bay. Anti smoking proposition rejected by Del mar voters Del mar Calif. A supporters of a strict anti smoking initiative they hoped would set a healthy example for the nation saw their dream go up in smoke As Voten rejected proposition n. Do mar should have been the first City to come for Ward Richard Roc a former mayor and sponsor of the initiative said tuesday. If it in t this time it will be next time. I m going to come Back and raise the  the Del mar health initiative would have banned a smoking pens. Violators would have received at least one warning followed by fines of up to $200. San deegans vote to erase King s name from Street san Diego Calif. A voters approved a measure stripping Martin Luther King or s name off a City to Tibet despite officials worry that the City would be branded As racist. Meanwhile police warned store owners along the 6h-Mie Street to remove Campaign signs supporting the proposition from their windows police it. Connie Van Pullen said. She called the action preventive but would t say if threats had been received. There were no reports of violence Early wednesday. According to final unofficial results from tuesday s election 107,292 voters or 60 percent favored Restor ing the name Market Street to Martin Luther King or. Way. About 71,000 opposed the change. The election returns disappointed Community groups and City officials who feared the City s reputation and tourism coffers would suffer. 3 libertarians elected to Utah town s Council big water Utah a residents of this tax free town ejected three libertarian candidates to the town Council and rejected a property tax that polygamist libertarian mayor Alex Joseph said he would t have imposed in any event. It s an endorsement of Alex Joseph s administration and that s Good news for big water said Eliza Beth Joseph City attorney and one of Joseph s ii  a turnout of 91 percent of the registered voters tuesday the non binding property tax Issue was rejected 91 to 12, she said. By the associated press voters chose Reform minded democrats Wallace Wilkinson and Ray my thus As new governors of Ken Tucky and mail nipple and narrowly gave Philadelphia mayor w. Wilson Goode a second term Over an sex mayor who bitterly refused to concede. I m sure that there was fraud Frank Hoo told supporters Early wednesday after returns from All bin seven of 1,739 precincts showed Goode winning with 332,196 votes or is percent to his 318,516 or 49 percent. I will never concede to him insisted Rizzo a former Democrat who became a Republican to Chal Lenge Goode the first Black mayor of the nation s fifth largest City. This election s not Over  whatever the outcome of Rizzo s Challenge two big City mayor s races definitely weren t Over yet. In san Francisco a crowded contest was sent into a dec. S Runoff Early wednesday As the leading Candi Date stale assemblyman Art a nos fell just Short of a majority. With All precincts reporting Agnos had 88,275 Voles or 48.2 percent followed by City super visor John Monari 52, with 45,566 Voles or 24.9 percent. Hie Winner will succeed Dianne Feinstein who was required by statute to leave office after two terms. And Miami mayor Xavier Suarez was forced into a nov. 10 Runoff against Maurice Ferre the Man he ousted two years ago. With All precincts reporting Sua rez Ted with 19,330 votes or 42.6 percent Fern had 14,692 votes or 32.4 percent and Black lawyer Arthur Teele or. Had 10,415, or 22.9 percent. In other mayoral elections tuesday most big City  had an easier Lime winning new terms including Raymond Flynn of Boston Kilby Wilb Nore of Houston William to dirt of Indianapolis and Palmer de panels of Salt Lake City. But in Charlotte. , Harvey Galt a Democrat and la City s first Black mayor was upset in his bid for a third term by Republican sue Myrick a former City councilor. Baltimore got its first elected Black mayor Kurt l. Schmock the City prosecutor who swamped Republican Samuel Colon. Schmoke earlier won the demo cratic primary Over another Black Clarence do Barm who had inherited the mayor s Job in january when William Donald Schaefer became governor. And in Hartford Conn Democrat Carrie Saxon Petty became the first Black woman elected mayor of a major northeastern City handily defeating Republican Philip a sleek. Scores of propositions were on ballots around the nation. Virginia voters made their state the 28th to authorize a lottery Washington do voters turned Down a plan to require a Deposit on beverage containers. Mains voters rejected for the third Lime in seven years a proposal to Force the shutdown of the state s Only nuclear Power Plant and voters in Mesils suppl amended their Constitution to remove an archaic ban on interracial marriage. The victories by state auditor Mabus in Mississippi and millionaire businessman Wilkinson in Kentucky extended Long established democratic statehouse dynasties but both men promised to make big changes. I think this is a new Day for Mississippi said Mabus who campaigned As a crusader after a term As auditor spent investigating irregularities by county supervisors around the state. I think change has come to Mississippi and this says we will no longer Settle for status quo with 95 percent of precincts reporting Mabus had 362,012 Voles or 53 percent to 315,212 votes or 47 percent for Republican businessman Jack Reed. Mabus will succeed nov. Bill Aluin who declined to seek a second term. Wilkinson whose millions Are self made had asked voters fora mandate to impress on the general Assem Bly the Public support for his Campaign platform opposing higher taxes supporting a state lottery and advocating change in stale government. He won by the largest margin in state history. I think the people of Kentucky tonight have spoken loudly and spoken clearly that hey want change. And i m going to fight every Day for them to give them that Wilkinson said As he thanked supporters. Unofficial returns from All of 3,236 precincts gave Wilkinson 504,367 votes or 64.9 percent to Republican state rep John Harper 273,035 votes or 35.1 percent. The current governor Martha Laynce Collum was barred by Law from succeeding herself. Goode who was scarred by the handling of the Radi Cal group move in 1985, when 11 people died and 61 Homes were destroyed after police dropped a bomb from a helicopter struck a conciliatory note in claim ing Victory. The Lime is now for everyone to join with us he said. We be had a Good Victory and now we re going to build and unify this City. We will continue to build a new Prosperity for the 1990s and beyond 10 bring business to bring jobs to bring Hope and eco nomic Opportunity to All the people of our  vote May peril battleship Basing plan san Francisco a voters joined at least 130 other communities nationwide in declaring a nuclear free zone which could jeopardize a plan to base the battleship Missouri in san Francisco. But voters in nearby Palo Alto soundly Defeated a similar measure. In san Francisco final unofficial returns tuesday showed the nuclear free measure winning 89,114 Voles or 54.9 percent compared to 73,346 votes or 45.1 percent cast against it. The Palo Alto measure lost with 12,3 4 Voles against 71.4 percent and 4,927 Voles in favor or 28.6 percent. San Francisco s measure also sets a City policy against the storage or transportation of radioactive waste and nuclear weapons in the City. The debate about nuclear weapons has raged for years in san Francisco but it was brought into focus when the Navy announced plans to base the Missouri in the Bay. Opponents of proposition u complained that the anti nuclear measure was a thinly veiled attempt to stall the Missouri and that the Basing plan would bring needed jobs to the City s lagging shipbuilding Industry. The nuclear free measure in Palo Alto became the City s most expensive ballot Campaign. The proposition was fought by nuclear defense contractors in the Sili con Valley City where defense is a mainstay of the Economy. Critics contended it would have Cost the City 30,000 jobs and ended a lucrative Utility contract with the Federal government that provides residents with cheap Power and the City Treasury with millions in profits. The measure would have Given Palo Alto based companies involved in nuclear Winons work four years to get out of town  
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