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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1981
Page
11
Eastern Iowa results compiled late Tuesday night list unofficial winners in bold with county canvass pending. The Gazette notes results are provisional until certification by county boards of supervisors.
Walther Provin 106 leads the mayoral race as candidates Pawlak Van Waus Cole Erwin Iburg Gwin Dietrich Rhinehart DeCoster compete for five council votes. Van Waus Cole Erwin Iburg Gwin Dietrich face a runoff on November 24 to fill four council seats.
Keokuk County results show multiple mayoral and council races with varied vote totals. Notable outcomes include write in winner Francis Fye after Emmack’s death and a three way tie for fifth in Webster council, triggering a runoff on Nov 24.
Election tallies list mayoral and council results for Dubuque County towns including Luxemburg Farley Holy Cross New Vienna and Dyersville with totals for mayor, council and other posts. Notable notes include write in winner Edward Errthum in Holy Cross and vacancies to be filled by appointment.
Runoff elections are scheduled in about a dozen Eastern Iowa communities for November 24 to finalize races where no candidate reached 50 percent. Tama and Oelwein elect mayors. Delaware uses write ins for a mayoral race. several towns decide council seats. Elkport Clayton St Olaf ties to be settled by coin flip.
Sumner voters soundly defeated a proposition to issue 325000 dollars in bonds to finance a city owned cable system. The measure failed 566 to 234 as the 60 percent threshold for approval was not reached.
Brent Boeckholt, 20, of rural Crystal Lake and an employee of the Farmers Co op Elevator, was killed in a grain elevator accident. Fellow workers saw him on top of a cement silo around 6 a.m. and he was missing 15 minutes later. His body was found at the bin bottom about two hours afterward. An autopsy is planned.
Delaware County vote tally shows mayor Thomas D. Kramer 62 votes and Stephen Richter 91. For five council seats, Robert W. Halfhill leads with 142 votes followed by Ray Bley 96, Howard Woods 68, Frank Hunt 45, and Mary Ridgely 39.
Muscatine County Nichols elected Warren W. Roth mayor for a two-year term. Five council members for Nichols earned votes: Dennis H. Albrecht, Nancy Lou Fulcher, David L. Gregg, Victor F. Mills, Leo R. Truesdale. Stockton elected Loretta M. Clark mayor for two years. Stockton council winners: Rex W. Berkhoff, Raymond L. Chase, James M. Crossen, Robert L. Dewey, Virgil W. Latimer, Neil F. Wolf.
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