Carter, Reagan winners
Ronald Reagan, the front-runner for the
Republican presidential nomination, and Jimmy
Carter, the Democrats’ front-runner, scored
personal firsts in Oregon’s presidential primary
Tuesday.
Reagan and Carter lost in Oregon in 1976,
Reagan to Ford and Carter to Sen. Frank
Church of Idaho, but Tuesday both candidates
won their first victories in the state’s primary.
And, by not campaigning in the state, Carter
shattered the belief that to win in Oregon a
presidential candidate must make a personal
appearance.
With 98 percent of the Oregon vote count
ed, Reagan was trouncing George Bush by 54
percent to 34 percent of the vote, or 164,228 to
104,897 ballots, apparently taking 18 delegates
to Bush’s 11. John Anderson, R-lll., is now an
Independent candidate although he was still on
the Republican ballot for the primary. With 88
percent of the Republican vote counted,
Anderson took in a substantial 10 percent of the
Republican vote or 27,309 votes, but not en
ough to enable him to pick up any delegates.
Figures on Democratic or Anderson write-in
votes weren’t available at press time.
Carter swamped Kennedy statewide, hav
ing 58 percent to Kennedy’s 32 percent, or
197,625 ballots to 109,193, with 98 percent of
the vote in. In the delegate count, Carter totaled
about 26 to the Massachusetts senator’s 13.
Gov. Jerry Brown of California, who has with
drawn from the race, still managed to attract 10
percent of the vote or 29,416 votes, with 88
percent of the Democratic vote counted.
With all the votes tabulated in Lane County
and 54.6 percent of the registered voters going
to the polls, Bush and Anderson took 36 and
11.8 percent of the votes respectively, or 11,321
and 3,716 votes. Reagan had 48 percent, or
15,043 votes. Carter claimed 49.4 percent, or
21,738 votes, and Kennedy had 13,876 votes, or
31.5 percent of the county’s vote. Brown
received 3,663 votes, or 8 percent. More than 10
percent of the people voting Democratic in Lane
County did not cast a ballot in the presidential
race when they voted. In a 1976 write-in effort.
Brown won the county.
Reagan lost in Michigan on Tuesday, but
because of his huge delegate total lead com
bined with his Oregon win and a Monday-night
landslide in the Republican Utah caucuses, he
nevertheless appeared to have his party’s
nomination just about wrapped up. Carter was
close to taking the Democratic nomination. No
Democratic primary was held in Michigan
because Kennedy has already won party
caucuses there.
Bush pulled down 57 percent of the Mi
chigan vote to Reagan’s 31 percent, or 321,010
ballots cast to 177,891 for Reagan. In the
delegate count, Bush scooped up 53 to
Reagan's 29, but his victory didn’t really slow
the Reagan bandwagon.
Both ABC and NBC network projections
credited Reagan with more than the^number of
delegates needed for nomination. The As
sociated Press, however, had Reagan holding
888 delegates, 110 short of the magic number of
998. Also by the AP’s reckoning, Carter now has
a firm grasp on 1,391 delegates, which leaves
him 275 short of the necessary 1,666.
Ronald Reagan
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Vol. 81, No. 149
Eugene, Oregon. 97403
Wednesday, May 21, 1980
Local races bring very few surprises
Those who have followed
Lane County’s and Eugene’s
primary campaigns closely
probably found little in Tues
day's election results to call a
surprise or an upset.
All incumbent city and county
office holders, with the excep
tion of one Eugene Water and
Electric Board member, re
tained their positions. The area
tax base measures, as expect
Chancellor names Olum
as temporary president
Paul Olum, vice president for
academic affairs, will become
acting University president July
1.
Roy Lieuallen, chancellor of
the State System of Higher
Education, announced the ap
pointment Tuesday after a
Monday meeting with the
Faculty Advisory Council. Olum,
61, will serve for about a year
until a new president is select
ed.
One of the biggest problems
facing the University next year is
financial restraints, Olum says.
“There’ll be lot of cases when
we ll have to say no (to depart
ment requests), but I think the
people in the University under
stand."
Olum says financial pressures
on the University may ease a
little with increased enrollment
and funding from the 1981
Legislature. Olum says he will
"spend as much time as possi
ble” in Salem next year lobbying
for higher education funds.
Olum says he "tentatively”
plans to apply for the presiden
tial position when the committee
begins its search. “A final deci
sion depends on how the job
goes. It's all kind of new to me
now."
Olum replaces University
Pres. William Boyd, who is leav
ing June 30 to become pre
sident of the Johnson
Foundation in Racine, Wis.
Olum came to the University
in 1976. He was a dean at the
University of Texas at Austin
from 1974-76 and was a profes
sor at Cornell University from
1949 to 1974. As acting pre
sident, Olum will receive a
yearly salary of $59,580 plus
$4,068 for incidental expenses.
ed, met with mixed success —
the city’s passed and the coun
ty’s failed.
Incumbent Gus Keller will
serve another term as Eugene
mayor, after results showed him
with a wide victory over his
challenger, Catherine Lauris.
Keller received about 63 per
cent of the vote.
Incumbent Eugene City
Council members Betty Smith,
in Ward 2, and Brian Obie, in
Ward 8, defeated their oppon
ents Sharon Posner and Bill
Groesz, respectively. Unlike
Obie, Smith’s victory was close.
Unofficially, Smith received only
55 more votes than Posner,
from about 3,000 total votes.
Obie won with almost 80 per
cent of his ward’s votes.
The remaining two city coun
cil contests found first-time
council candidates, Mark Lind
berg and Cynthia Wooten, vic
torious over two other first-time
candidates. In Ward 3, Lindberg
won over his opponent David
Jennings as voters awarded him
67 percent of the tally. John
Perry opposed Wooten in Ward
7, but came away with only 43
percent of the vote.
Incumbents John Tiffany of
Wards 1 and 8 and Camilla Pratt
of Wards 2 and 3 retained their
EWEB seats, with wide-margin
victories over John Silvermoon
and John Stewart, respectively.
Richard Freeman, EWEB
commissioner of Wards 6 and 8,
became the only city or county
incumbent to lose a bid for re
election, with his defeat by Sa
rah Hendrickson. Hendrickson
received a 53 percent majority
over Freeman and James How
lett.
A November general election
run-off will be held in both the
North and the South Eugene
County Commissioner races,
because no candidate in either
race received a majority of the
vote.
In the crowded North Eugene
race, Scott Lieuallen emerged
from the pack of eight can
didates with about 30 percent of
the vote, followed by Jim Hale’s
14 percent. Incumbent South
Eugene Commissioner Jerry
Rust will face Mel Jackson in
November. He received 47 per
cent of the vote to Jackson’s 42
percent.
The Lane County District
Attorney’s race was no surprise
as voters elected Pat Horton to
his third consecutive four-year
term over his challenger, Doug
Melevin. This race saw chal
lenger Horton piling up almost
64 percent of the vote.
The Lane County Sheriff’s
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Carl Hosticka
race was a similar story, with
incumbent Sheriff David Burks
coming away with 74 percent of
the vote.
Almost 65 percent of the
county’s voters rejected a
proposed $13.1-million county
tax base measure, while Eugene
voters approved by only about
700 votes a new $21.25-million
city tax base.
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Incumbent Bob Packwood and
Ted Kulongoski will face each
other in next fall's general elections
for senator. Both easily won their
races. See page 4A.
City Council races were up and j
down affairs. Brian Obie and Mark
Lindberg had no problems; Betty
Smith and Cynthia Wooten were
hard-pressed. See page 7A.