City election results show five winners in Roswell race
Voter turnout near 5 868 with five council seats decided among 18 hopefuls. By 8 15 p m unofficial results name Strand Boehms Ashcraft Licon and Stiles as ward winners with canvass pending within three days.
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City Hall
Robert H
Bob’ Strand
United Roswell
Ralph W. Boehms
Harold W. Ashcraft
Concerned Citizens For Responsive Government
Gilbert R. Licon
L.C. Stiles
Foster
Second Street
Sunset Avenue
Deming Street
Common Sense
CCRG
Roswell Inn
Robert
Bob” (Madlyn) Wattul
Henderson
Stephens
Wattul
Jackson Scores Win Turns Attention South
Sen. Henry M. Jackson won the Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary and shifts focus to Florida where he faces George Wallace and Jimmy Carter. Rep. Morris Udall ran second in Massachusetts while Birch Bayh weighs an exit. Ford praised Massachusetts and Vermont results as Reagan trails. Carter led Vermont prelims with nearly half the vote. Final Massachusetts and Vermont tallies show Jackson with 23 percent and 30 delegates, Udall 18 percent, Wallace 17 percent, and Carter 14 percent in Massachusetts. Carter leads Vermont with 46 percent.
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Boston
Henry M. Jackson
Massachusetts
Florida
Morris Udall
Arizona
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Bayh
Washington
Jackson
California
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Vermont
Ford
Carter
New Hampshire
Udall
Wallace
Fred Harris
Sargent Shriver
Ellen McCormack
Pennsylvania
Milton J. Shapp
Shriver
Harris
McCormack
New Mexico Preprimary Nomination Slate Faces 21 Candidates
Twenty one filed for seven statewide and congressional posts for the March 27 preprimary conventions in Albuquerque. Democrats lead with fourteen filings including incumbent Senator Joseph Montoya and Judge Ramon Lopez set for posts on the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, while Republicans list seven with Jack Schmitt among the Senate contenders and no candidates for several courts. Incumbent Rep Harold Runnels faces no opposition in his district.
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Joseph Montoya
Robert R
Rich” Sims
Harrison
Jack’ Schmitt
Eugene W. Peirce Jr
Arthur Alfred Lavine
New Mexico Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Dan Sosa Jr
Bernalillo County
Harry Stowers
John Donnell
Fred M. Yandley
District Court
Vern Payne
Court of Appeals
Appeals Court
Ramon Lopez
State Corporation Commission
John Abraham
Leo Catanach
John Elliott
Joe Barela
Jimmie Glenn
Harold Runnels
D-N.m
Don Trubey
Rubey
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales
Runnels
United States
Moriarty
Jack Stahl
Albuquerque
Lavine
Roswell City Election Yields Mixed Results in Ward Races
Roswell voters chose multiple winners in a varied city council contest with Ward 1 through Ward 5 results listed. Incumbent candidates faced rival campaigns as Jane Clarke missed a seat while Ashcraft and Strand led in their wards. Boehms and Stiles secured votes in Ward 2 and 4 respectively, with overall turnout around 5,600 to 5,900 across wards.
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United Roswell
Roswell Inn
Strand
Jane
Stanley
Ashcraft
Stiles
Boehms
Mack Thomas
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Senate
Jane Clarke
Tandy L. Hunt
Tim W. Daniel
Barbara L. Bowen
Paul Taylor
Lloyd Rubio
Kenneth J. Cox
Murray Bush
Miss Clarke
Licon
Evelyn Siegfried
Carl A. Meale
William J. DeBenedictis
James R. Perkowski
Stanley Santheson
Roswell City
Ward Robert H. Strand
Evelyn Siegfreid Ee
Tandy L
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Steve Henderson
Tom P. Stephens
Robert “Bob” Wafful
Jerry N. Smith
Marian McQuiddy
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