Wednesday, november 8, 1978
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Schwartzkopf, Hansen will
retain seats as NU regents
Daily Nebraskan Photo
Edward Schwartzkopf acknowledges
early victory and felt 'just great."
Incumbents Edwrd S liwartzkopf and
Kermit Hansen seem t Live retained their
seats on the NU Board ol Regents.
At 1 2 : 00 a .m . , Schwartzkopf led the race
for the district 1 seat by 3,816 over Leo
Hill, chairman of the board of Northwest
ern Metal, with 54 percent of the precinct
reporting.
Hansen was leading in district 2 over
Harland Nelson, an associate of Sapp Leas
ing by 1 7,844 votes with 54 percent of the
votes in.
Acknowledging the victory which
entitles him to a third six-year term,
Schwartzkopf said he felt "just great."
"I pledge to continue to strive for this
university's excellence, efficiency and
productivity .
"Our (Nebraska's) future will be no
better and no worse than our youth."
Schwartzkopf said that education of the
state's youth is its "best investment."
He also said that academic excellence
should be achieved without costly dupli
cation of services among institutions.
Hill, who at midnight said he neither
conceded or claimed the race said "It's
been a very close race and I've run against
an incumbent.
"Maybe the closeness will make him
(Schwartzkopf) a better regent."
Hill, who has never before run for
public office, said "It's been a great exper
ience. I'm not unhappy."
Hansen, who will now serve his second
term said "1 am very happy and very
pleased."
Hansen said the vote showed "the voters
have a high regard for the university.
"Fortunately I'm going to interpret that
for the university and the taxpayer."
Conceding his loss, Nelson said "I think
that's the will of the people...! wish
the incumbent well."
Nelson said he was not bothered by the
loss and has no future plans to run for
public office.
"I'm sure the university will be alright
whether or not I'm on the board."
Although Nelson did not say whether
he predicted winning, he said, "one always
goes into a race hoping to win."
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Daily Nebraskan Photo
Concerning early election results,
Kermit Hansen said his win showed
that people have high regard for NU.
Broman defeats Meyer; Lahners, Adams also winners
By Val Swinton
A UNL administrative assistant has
successfully defeated a 12-year veteran to
become the new Lancaster County Assess
or. Carol Broman, an administrative assist
ant in the Department of Life Sciences at
UNL, trounced Fritz Meyer by a nine
thousand vote margin, 30,316 to 21,318.
"I think the people felt the job was not
being handled to the public's benefit,"
Broman said, in annalyzing her victory.
"They responded to that fact, the evidence
was there that it was time for a change."
Broman also credited the press with
aiding in her victory. Both the Lincoln
Journal and Star endorsed her. Broman
added that in order for a challenger to
defeat an incumbent, a lot of information
had to be dispensed concerning the camp
aign. The new county assessor said one of her
primary goals to finish the reappraisal that
Meyer had started, by April 1st. She con
ceded that to make the deadline would be
an "awesome task," but promised to
"work like anything," to make the dead
line. Meyer was seeking his fourth term in
office.
In other county races, Republican W.
Richard Baker defeated Kenneth Sherwood
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Incumbent County Attorney Ron
Lahners successfully held off a challenge
by Democrat Stan Wilson and gained re
election. Lahners rarely led by more than
10 percentage points, until the last votes
were counted, when he pulled ahead to win
with a six and a half thousand vote margin.
Lancaster County's new sheriff is
Republican Dale Adams, who defeated
Democrat Vern O'Neal by a resounding
31,635 to 19,850.
Kenneth Ferguson defeated Deon
Wunderlich, with 60 percent of the vote,
for Register of Deeds.
Kandra Hahn, a Democrat, beat
Republican Jack Willhoft, 32,465 to
14,115 for Clerk of District Court, and
Dennis Keefe, a Democrat, was elected
Public Defender over David John Thomas.
Lincoln voters left little doubt as to
their preference when they voted 27,231
to 14,773 to change the system of electing
city councilmen from the current at-large
method to district selection. Lincoln will
be divided into four districts next year, for
cing many of the present councilmen to
run against each other. Currently, four of
the seven councilmen live east of 70th
street. The new method of selection
approved by Lincoln voters will allow three
of the seven councilmen to still be chosen
at-large. Five of the seven present council
men opposed the measure.
Voters in Lincoln also approved the
other five amendments to the city's
charter, by wide margins.. They include
giving the city council power to repave
streets without approval of 5 1 percent of
the property owners; increase from $5,000
to $15,000 the minimum required for
letting bids for goods and services. Another
allows property owners to be assessed for
costs of snow removal after legal notice has
been published. The last two would remove
outdated language concerning horses,
mules and cattle and bring the charter into
conformance with state law concerning
publication of claims against the city.
County voters did not feel the need to
increase the number of county commis
sioners. County residents voted 27,276 to
20,743 to leave the number of
commissioners at three.
Six of seven amendments
meet with voters' approval
Six of the seven proposed amendment
changes in the state constitution met with
voter approval in last night's elections.
An amendment allowing cities and
villages to issue bonds in order to buy and
develop blighted land was approved
129,541 to 99,062.
The voters approved 109,792 to
108,841 a similar amendment allowing cit
ies and villages to finance with bonds to
develop personal property and lease it to
private industry.
An amendment to allow tax exemptions
to industries and home using alternative
energy systems such as solar heating, was
approved 108,298 to 108,295.
They also approved by 116,894 to
104,427 an amendment to allow surviving
spouses of retired public employees to re
ceive retrospective retirement benefits.
By an overwhelming 80 percent the
voters passed an amendment by 1 89,099 to
44,247 to make sexual assault crimes non
bailable at the judge's discrimination. Pre
viously murder and treason were the only
nonbailable crimes.
An amendment calling for the re
appraisal of land that lies in two or more
political sub -divisions within two years
was also approved 113394 to 86,608.
The only proposed amendment that was
not approved was one allowing state
senators a per diem expense allowance,
120,091 to 105,895. Senators will still
receive a $400 per month salary.
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