European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 4, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 candidate fails to vote loses election by 1 Newton mass. A next time Herbert Connolly probably won Twait till the last minute to Vole. The democratic candidate for the Massachusetts governor s Council arrived too late at the polls and lost the elec Tion by one vote. A recount last week showed that Connolly lost he democratic Nomi nation in the sept. Is election. The re count showed Connolly with 14,715 Voles. His opponent got 14,716. The 67-year-old car dealer said he had been campaigning on election Day and i waited until the last minute to race Over to vote. The result gives new meaning to the phrase one Man one Vole " said Connolly s attorney William Calvin. Connolly a member of the Council since 1969, is protesting the election claiming that some ballots Are missing and others Are invalid. The eight member governor s coun cil which dates from the colonial Era lost Many of its Powers in the 1960s, its chief remaining duties Are to approve criminal pardons and confirm judges nominated by the governor. Calvin said he would go to court to request that the primary be invalidated and a special election be held to decide the nomination. The lawyer also suggested the close vote might have been the result of the last name of Connolly s opponent Robert b. Kennedy. Also an the ballot were sen. Edward m. Kennedy and rep. Joseph Kennedy both a mass. Although Lowell City councilor Robert b. Kennedy is not a member of the famous Massachusetts political clan Galvin said he May have benefited from uncertainty on that Point. Robert Kennedy opposes another election. All another election would do at this Point would be to give my oppo nent an Opportunity to vote he said. Bush increasing Lead Over Dukakis poll finds new York. A Republican George Bush leads Democrat Michael Dukakis 48 percent to 41 percent in the race for the presidency according to a time Magazine opinion poll released sunday. Bush increased his Lead by one percentage Point since August in the latest Survey. However a majority of those polled believe that inc Blacks the Young the elderly Tow income families and the Middle class Are worse Oft under Ronald Reagan. And is percent of those polled said Bush is avoid ing the real issues of the  Only 41 percent said the same of Dukakis. The vice president is leading partly because most of forty seven percent of the respondents believe the Ose surveyed Are pleased with the state of the coun Choice of Dan i Gayle As a running mate reflects Una Vor ably on Bush s ability to make important presiden tial decisions. With regard to the recent debate Between the Candi Dales voters found Dukakis More believable by 40 percent to 39 percent and also gave Dukakis credit for having a better command of the facts by 44 percent to 35 percent. But Bush was judged As being More presidential by 44 percent to 34 percent of those polled and More likable by 44 percent to 38 percent. The poll conducted by Yankelovich Clancy shul Man surveyed t,10t Likely voters by Telephone sept.27-28. The sampling error was estimated at plus or minus 3 percent. Furloughed convict charged with assault in mass. Springfield mass. A a Man free on a 24-hour furlough broke into a Springfield apartment Early Sun Day and assaulted a woman police said. Isaac Aycox 37, of Boston was scheduled to be arraigned monday in Springfield District court on charges of assault an Battery armed breaking and entering malicious damage and threat to murder police it. Edward Mccovey said. Mcgovern said Aycox and the victim were acquainted. Aycox was released about 7 30 . Saturday from Brooke House Halfway House a pre re Locasc Center. Police and a Brooke House employee refused to say what Aycox had been incarcerated for. About 1 30 . Sunday police said Aycox broke Down the door of the Wom an s apartment struck her and threat ened to kill her. He later went downstairs and broke a car s Windshield and dam aged one door. Police captured Aycox after a Brief Chase on foot. Vice president George Bush has criticized the furlough program in Massachusetts which until it was amended ear Lier this year could allow first degree murderers out of prison on weekend passes. Bush says his opponent for the presi Dency gov. Michael s. Dukakis was reluctant to change the program even aftera Maryland couple was kidnapped and assaulted by a Massachusetts inmate who escaped while on furlough. Dukakis counters that Federal prisoners also receive furloughs. Mormon meeting ends with Call to defeat evil Salt Lake City a mor Mon Church president Ezra Taft Ben son said sunday that he believes evil forces arc growing in influence world wide but the forces of Good ultimately will prevail. Benson concluding the 158th semiannual general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints said that not Many years hence Jesus Christ will return to vanquish All evil. "1 testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is More highly organized More cleverly disguised and More powerfully promoted than Ever be fore Benson 89, said in remarks prepared for the concluding session of the two Day conference. The former . Agriculture Secre tary borrowed the term secret combinations from the Book of mormon to characterize the evil forces threat ening the world. Secret combinations in mormon scripture Are any set up to acquire Power and influence through murder and other unlawful Means. Secret combinations lusting for Power. Gain and glory Are flourish ing Benson said. A secret Combina Tion that seeks to overthrow the free Dom of All lands nations and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control Over America and the entire  considered the Keystone of the mormon Faith the Book of mormon was published by Church founder Joseph Smith in 1830. Smith said he translated the work from Gold plates Given him by an Angel named Moroni. Benson did not further describe the network to which he referred but the conservative Church Leader for dec Ades has been an ardent foe of communism and has characterized it As a godless conspiracy Bent on the Over throw of free nations. Broken roller coaster traps riders in mid Loop Bloomsburg a. A a Bro Ken coupling on a roller coaster made the ride screech to a halt in the Middle of Loop and trapped 20 people upside Down for More than an hour less than a week after it passed an inspection an official said sunday they were up there upside Down waving their arms just hanging there said a witness Vince Vangroski of Haz Telon. They started to panic a Little bit. Being upside Down for that period of time is  officials originally said 45 people were trapped but revised the figure to 20. At least 12 people were treated at hospitals for dizziness and other minor injuries and released after saturday s mishap at the Bloomsburg fair authorities said. The super loops ride had been passed by stale inspectors tuesday after a worn out wheel discovered by the ride owner s inspectors was replaced said Neil Cashman director of the stale s Bureau of amusement rides. The ride is owned by Florida based Reithoffer rides which had 35 of the 45 rides at the fair. The ride s cars ride inside a single Large vertical Loop and Are attached to and pulled along by a flexible inner Loop Cashman said. The broken coupling attached a car to the inner Loop. Passengers Are held in their seats by Lap and safety bars and a safety Cage runs the entire length of the rain. Cashman said Rescue workers had to move the train from More than so feet off the ground slowly to the Bottom of the Loop to remove the passengers. He said his office would Contact the ride manufacturer monday to find out whether Simitar problems had been re ported elsewhere. Cashman said he has not heard of any prior problems with the super loops ride manufactured by Lac inc. Of Texas. A state police spokesman said about 100,000 attended the fair saturday the last night of the agricultural exhibition and car Nival. The loops ride was dismantled Early sunday after the scheduled closing. The ride was inspected sept. 26 by stale certified Reithoffer inspectors according to Cashman. 1,000 evicted from Philadelphia shelters As talks end Philadelphia a about 20 private shelters evicted at least f ,000 homeless people when contract negotiations with the City ended without an agreement officials said sunday. Jane Malone director of homeless programs for the City s department of human services said All those evicted saturday had been relocated by sunday afternoon. She said the City would sever lies with the shelter operators who evicted the men women and children. People had a place to sleep and dinner last night Malone said. Whatever happens Here in the negotiations no one will go without a place to sleep or some thing to  the City contracts with private shelter operators to provide services for the homeless. Negotiations ended late Friday without a new contract. Operators of about 20 shelters had told their Resi dents Friday that they would have to leave the next morning. A lot of people did t want to go said Michael Mclaughlin director of the Hare Krishna food for life program which houses about 150 people in two shelters. We re very upset that we had to Deal like this to use these people As a bargaining Chip. It s a disgrace. We did t want to but we were forced  Malone said More than 30 shelters involved in the contract dispute remained open. Those evicted rep resent about one fifth of the people living in Phila Delphia shelters she said. Under the expired contract the City paid shelters s13 Aday with a Cap of s2s4 a month for each homeless per son. The contract expired june 30, but both sides agreed to a 90-Day Extension which expired saturday