County Elections Decided
With 49 percent of registered
voters voting, incumbent Jimmy Strube won the Republican primary for county
commissioner, Precinct 1, with 77 votes to James Schwartz’ 35. In Precinct 3,
Marck Schafer defeated incumbent Hugh Schafer, 53 to 36. In the county
constable’s primary, Mark Frysak beat incumbent LeRoy Hoelscher by a vote of 230
to 130, and Sheriff Royce Pruit (unopposed) garnered 266 votes to become the
Republican candidate for that position. There were no Democrat candidates for
any of these positions in the primary.
Some other county results were: for President, Bush 331, Uncommitted, 24;
for U.S. Representative, District 11, Conaway 213, Lester, 76; State Senator,
Dist. 31: Sparks, 24, Gibson, 3, Seliger, 167, Barnes 13, Edwards, 114.