Waterloo Courier Cedar Falls (Newspaper) - November 8, 1989, Waterloo, Iowa representative of Cedar Falls Education tion is concerned about over- crowding in some B1 FEATURES All In the to their country has been a way of life for the family of Waterloo Cout let Cedar Falls towa Save money with home delivery i iJ i i i i McKinley wins in Waterloo runoff needed Planning under way for third term By PAT KINNEY Courier Staff Writer We are going to hit the ground running That's what Waterloo Mayor Bernie McKinley said Tuesday night after the voters of Waterloo awarded him a third term in office over three challengers The mayor who unofficially 69 percent of the vote said new mayoral task forces would meet today to begin tackling three major Rehabilitating the ing inner city housing stock Controlling vegetation and improving the city's appearance Developing an incubator facility for new businesses McKinley wants to bring together representatives from the business and financial communities to address some of those problems we have to work on is economic development It is still the main concern We need more Wilder claims historic win By DONALD M AP Political Writer Douglas Wilder of Virginia an Democratic surge claimed a through today as the nation's first elected black governor David ins was elected New York City's first black mayor and said voters had responded with the voice of hope here and in Virginia The volatile politics of abortion him Republicans throughout the campaign and powered an day nightmare that extended to New Jersey where Democratic James Florio reclaimed the for his party and the Democrats also regained control of the Assembly Just as significant as the choice political turnout was the extension of black political success in America's large city halls Led by Dinkins blacks also succeeded white mayors in Seattle Cleveland New Haven Conn and Durham The main event of the day was in Virginia where Republican J shall Coleman trailed Wilder by votes of more than 1.7 lion cast in the unofficial final vote count With all precincts counted Wilder had votes or 50 cent and Coleman had votes or 50 percent Wilder claimed victory telling jubilant supporters in the capital of the old Confederacy The people of Virginia have Coleman did not concede saying The race is not yet and he would await a final official count Both the Virginia and New York races were far closer than tion polls had indicated in keeping with previous campaigns in which black politicians drew fewer votes than predicted by traditional polling methods Dinkins like Wilder waged a L We need to do something with the Rath site We need to do something with the ployable the ones that are not currently enjoying our prosperity which in many cases are young black McKinley mates We want to do what we can Obviously the drug problem is a problem for every city and we're going to have to work on he added McKinley improved his age of the vote from 1987 even though voter turnout plummeted to less than half of the 87 level All seven incumbent McKinley Team council members Bob Brown Sammie Dell Dave Buck Joe Fox Rose Angel Willie Mae Wright and Tony Budak were unopposed Brown McKinley's mayor pro tern was the top in Waterloo notching more than votes Dell was second with almost votes McKinley said the low vote turnout isn't less of a mandate for his administration and council It's more of a he said People that don't vote are usually happy That's just telling me they're happy with the present tion The three challengers tried to tell the citizens they weren't happy and it didn't McKinley said The three challengers Al ning Ernie Klatt and Norris Sisk received about 31 percent of the vote combined While McKinley's vote total was halved from his 1987 showing so was the total combined vote of his WATERLOO Continued on page A2 Crews Miller to square off again By SUZANNE CARTER Courier Staff Writer CEDAR FALLS Fighting for the lead incumbent Mayor Jon Crews edged out challenger Lee Miller by a nose Tuesday night but the race is not over yet Because Crews did hot capture more than 50 percent of the Cedar Falls vote there will be a run-off election between Miller and Crews on Dec 5 Crews collected votes or 44 percent by the time the polls closed at 8 p.m Miller who surged ahead at times during the tabulation of the 20 precincts finished close on Crews heels with votes or 43 percent Challenger Dick Robert finished with 881 votes or 13 percent an important tion of votes for the upcoming showdown between the two ing candidates Of course I'm disappointed in the way things turned said Robert who had to forfeit his Third Crews Miller Ward City Council seat to run for mayor But I appreciate the support I did get He will continue to run his real estate business and said he is ful for the opportunity he had to serve the city as a council member for six years Robert said he will support Miller in the run-off election Robert was by far the most vocal candidate in the campaign taking aim at things he felt were wrong with the Crews But both Crews and Robert were in agreement on one issue that the streets could not be repaired without some kind of ing or assessment He ran a very strong campaign He has a lot of energy and ideas for Cedar Falls and he has had the interest of the city at Crews said of his opponent Robert Both Crews and Miller said they expect things will also heat up between them now since they'll be able to debate one-on-one about the issues facing the city primarily their differences on how to solve the street repair problem There are already plans in the works to schedule a formal debate or two Crews said Tuesday night at his campaign headquarters on Fourth Street Crews said he thought the main issue of the run-off campaign will CEDAR FALLS Continued on page A2 Evansdale defeats blamed on AIDS hospice issue AP PHOTO Democratic candidate David Dinkins and his wife Joyce give thumbs up to after he won the mayoral race in New York City Tuesday soft-spoken campaign that dwelled not at all on race He replaces the often acerbic Ed Koch and will surely bring a new style of ship to Gracie Mansion This year the calls of fear and voted with the voice of hope here and in Dinkins said in victory We passed another milestone on freedom's road With 99 percent of precincts counted Dinkins had votes or 50 percent Giuliani had votes or 48 percent and two minor party candidates divided the remainder Republican Party chairman Lee Atwater offered the opposition a grudging tip of his hat These were local contests in which the Democrats us and ran better said Atwater My hat's off to them but I don't think it makes much difference at alt with regards to the 1990 campaign Democratic Party chairman Ronald H Brown saw things ently He called the results a dously positive sign for us as we move into the 90s It gives us tremendous momentum heading into when 36 governorships 34 Senate seats and all 435 seats in the House are at stake A sweep of the governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey would give the Democrats 29 of the 50 governorships The contest to fill the U.S House seat made vacant by the death of Rep Mickey Leland in a plane crash in Ethiopia last summer was headed for a runoff between two Democrats state Sen Craig Washington and Houston City Councilman Anthony Hall Most of Tuesday's action was in the nation's cities Coleman Young 71 won an unprecedented fifth as mayor of Detroit defeating Tom Barrow Other mayors re-elected included Xavier Suarez of Miami who won a third term and Kathy Whitmire who coasted to a fourth in Houston Democrat John Daniels was ed mayor of New Haven becoming the first black mayor of his city while in Seattle City Councilman Norm Rice defeated busing foe Doug Jewett to gain a similar distinction Ohio state Sen Michael R White defeated his old mentor City cil President George Forbes in a bitter contest between two black Democrats to succeed retiring Republican Mayor George Voinovich The nasty tone in Cleveland was all too typical of the year's Giuliani a former U.S attorney was unrelenting in his attacks on Dinkins calling the ELECTION Continued on page A6 By JOY POWELL Courier Staff Writer EVANSDALE Fred Saul was soundly beaten in his bid for a fourth mayoral term and he and other incumbents in the Action Party blamed their loss on the emo- charged issue of the AIDS hospice Charles Chuck Vondracek won over Saul who joined four other council members in losing their seats in a surprisingly strong turnout of 44 percent of the eligible voters We feel it was primarily the AIDS issue a Saul said after the totals came in with Vondracek capturing 65 cent of the vote Joan Thompson another losing incumbent said party members learned while campaigning that zens blamed Saul for their ness with the location in a River Forest Road neighborhood In the upset William Marvels grabbed 62 percent of the vote to beat out Phil Muehl in the second ward Mark Atkins barely beat Thompson with 119 votes to her 105 in the 4th Ward In two vacancies Ken Loftus garnered 616 votes to John Mardis 407 and Jim Glaze drew 595 votes to Willard Dale's 424 votes The Action party candidates agreed that the controversial siting process for the county's hospice was at the root of voter tion But Vondracek downplayed the hospice issue saying it shouldn't have helped the Citizen's party win As he left a victory party at a local tavern owned by Loftus Saul Reformers fill posts after East German Politburo resignations BERLIN AP East ruling Politburo resigned today and the Communist Party replaced the aging leaders with reformers in a dramatic bid to gain control of a country convulsed by protests and the exodus of sands of its people The action followed Tuesday's resignation of the entire Cabinet and another round of street involving more than people in four cities who demanded the right to choose their own government East Germans skeptical about the government's promises of reforms continued to flee their homeland today with more than ple reaching West Germany since Saturday The entire Politburo resigned in a major leadership reshuffle which opposition leaders and party members alike had been urging for days It was new leader Egon boldest move yet to get a grip on power The party's Central Committee then reaffirmed Krenz as party leader and voted in four new to the Politburo including Dresden party chief Hans Modrow who have backed style reforms Krenz and six other members who support his were re- elected to the ruling body Modrow also was nominated for the post of premier the news agency ADN said The buro is the country's most powerful decision-making body The Central Committee approves leadership and major policy changes Today's action reduces the ber of Politburo members from 21 to 11 In addition to Krenz and Modrow the Central Committee re- elected to a Politburo seat Guenter Schabowski who has also become a leading reform advocate The Central Committee also voted to appoint Johannes nitzer as a non-voting member of the Politburo Chemnitzer was the first high-ranking East German politician to suggest discussing the need for the Berlin Wall In a brief dispatch the official ADN news agency said Krenz gested the Politburo resign so that the responsibility for the current en be made clear Many members of the outgoing Politburo are in their 60s and 70s and are closely associated with mentor former hard-line leader Erich Honecker The aging leadership had increasingly lost credibility especially in the face of massive defections to the West Krenz in office just three weeks faces great difficulties as he tries to assert authority in a country that exploded in unrest a month ago as it marked the 40th anniversary of its founding as a Communist state Krenz has indicated no intention of releasing the Communists grip on power He is under growing pressure at home and abroad to low the lead of discredited nist rulers in Poland and Hungary and share power dracek declined comment except to say that the AIDS issue is long past He and other members of the Party said early in their that they did not unite because of the AIDS hospice and it was not an issue But their solid opposition to the location of the home for four dying patients countered council bers sentiments The council after consulting with the city attorney said they could not deny the county's request without facing lawsuits and the possibility of losing federal funds Vondracek and four others on the Citizen's Party ticket had begun attending City Council meetings after news that the county planned to buy at duplex on River Forest Road for the hospice They spoke out adamantly against the county's plans and accused Saul of ately keeping news of the plans from his department heads The duplex is located next to the home of George and Loraine Atkins the parents of Mark Atkins who narrowly beat incumbent EVANSDALE Continued on page A2 INSIDE Celebrity Daily a
