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KENTUCKY EDITION 25c Louisville, Wedn morning. May 25, 1983 30 Pages Vol. 256. No. 145 Copyright 1983, The Courier-Journal esaay' Governor's race remains contest till last day Early count has top three struggling i i Pi for supremacy By BOB JOHNSON Cwirtor-JaurMl Palltkal Wrltar As they were in the closing days of the campaign, Lt Gov.

Martha Layne Collins, Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane and former Human Resources Secretary Grady Stumbo were locked in a close race last night in scattered early returns in the Democratic primary for governor. A breakdown of an Associated Press computer in Louisville slowed tabulation of the statewide vote. With about 75 percent of the Jefferson County precincts reporting, Sloane had about 51 percent of the Election Day stories and photos. Pages A 2, A3, hi. 4 jr.

J- vy -w- iiMtBrTiiMiMitrr Murr" A ry- A--rrtii StaH mtt by Bill Letter Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane shook hands with Charles Reams in the Park-DuValle neighborhood of Louisville early yesterday. mm 1 mail' i f.s- A f.af. vote; Stumbo, 25 percent; and Collins, 19 percent Three minor candidates shared the balance. In Central Kentucky, Collins produced narrow leads in Franklin and Fayette counties, according to unofficial tabulations. In a tabulation conducted by WKYT TV-27 in Lexington, Collins was getting, 40 percent; Sloane, 35 percent; and Stumbo, 25 percent In Northern Kentucky, Kenton County Clerk Al Wood said Collins would carry Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties by a small margin, with Sloane in second place.

"It's a tossup," state Sen. Joe Prather of Vine Grove, the Collins co-chairman, said about two hours after the polls closed in the Eastern Time Zone. Sloane's state chairman. House Speaker Bobby Richardson of Glasgow, said, "It's going to be a long night" John Wells, Stumbo's campaign manager, said Stumbo's strong showing in Jefferson County put him on target in Sloane's back yard. Stumbo benefited from a strong effort by organized labor in Jefferson County.

Stumbo carried Bullitt County with its heavy blue-collar vote, according to unofficial returns. Sloane, who carried the county in 1979, finished third. Stumbo also broke through in Western Kentucky, carrying McCracken and Graves counties, apparently on the strength of the union vote in those areas. However, Sloane reportedly carried Daviess County narrowly in unofficial returns, with Stumbo finishing second. Sloane also was reported leading in Henderson and Hopkins counties.

The vote in the Eastern Kentucky mountains Stumbo's stronghold was not tallied in the early returns. In the Republican primary, state Sen. Jim Bunning of Fort Thomas, running with the support of the state party leadership, easily won over a field of political novices for the GOP nomination. Bunning was getting 70 percent of the Jefferson County vote in early returns. The early returns were drawn primarily from Jefferson, Fayette, Kenton and Campbell counties.

With about 50 of the state's 120 counties, including most of Jeffer- See CONTEST PAGE 2, coL 3, this section I i 1 1 1 ...4 Utffrr Illllli ililt: SillPI Slip WillM House approves millions for MX By MIKE SHANAHAN Auaclatad Prat WASHINGTON The Democratic-controlled House voted 239-186 yesterday to spend $625 million to develop and flight-test the MX missile, handing President Reagan a major victory. A congressional resolution gives at least a temporary go-ahead to the $17 billion, 10-warhead strategic weapon. The plan now goes to the Senate, which is expected to vote its approval today. In a test of MX sentiment yesterday, the Senate rejected 59-35 an effort by a Democratic critic of the missile, Alan J. Dixon of Illinois, to delay the final vote until Reagan agrees to a design under which the missile could be hidden from the Russians or transported from place to place.

Reagan, in a statement thanked the Republicans and Democrats in the House who took "a wise, courageous step forward for America" by voting for the measure. He said the vote "sends an important signal to the world: Americans are uniting in a common search to protect our security, reduce the level of nuclear weapons and strengthen the peace." "We now look to the Senate to send this same message," he said. In debate before the House vote, critics said the MX to be based in underground Minuteman silos would be a "sitting duck" for Soviet missiles. "According to all the experts, this weapon will not work because it is highly vulnerable," said Rep. Leon E.

Panetta, D-Calif. Supporters said the MX is essential to counter a new generation of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, which they said would upset the balance of nuclear power. "We are sitting here with 15-year-old missiles in the ground that need more accuracy and need more yield," said Rep. Jack Edwards, R-Ala. MX backers also argued that the 100 missiles, to be installed in silos in Wyoming and Nebraska, are See HOUSE Back page, coL 1, this section High court backs IRS on biased schools By JAMES H.

RUBIN Associated Press WASHINGTON The Supreme Court, overwhelmingly repudiating the Reagan administration, said yesterday that the federal government rightly denied tax breaks to racially discriminatory schools. By an 8-1 vote, the justices said the Reagan administration was mistaken in its view that the Internal Revenue Service lacked authority to withhold tax-exempt status for such private schools. "There can no longer be any doubt that racial discrimination in education violates deeply and widely accepted views of elementary justice (and) a most fundamental national public policy," Chief Justice Warren E. Burger wrote for the court. "The government has a fundamental, overriding interest in eradicating racial discrimination in education discrimination that prevailed with official approval for the first 165 years of this nation's history," Burger said.

President Reagan, asked at a White House ceremony about the ruling, said: "We will obey the law." Reagan previously had said his aim was to try and rein in a federal bureaucracy the IRS and not to condone racial bias. The nation's highest court noted that racially discriminatory practices at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., and at the Golds-boro (N.C.) Christian Schools stem from sincerely held religious beliefs. But the court ruled that denying tax breaks to those schools did not violate their religious freedom. Bob Jones University bars interracial dating and marriage for its students, and the Goldsboro schools refuse to admit blacks. Bob Jones III, president of the university, noted at a news conference that the flags on the campus were at half-staff and added: "We're mourning the death of freedom, religious freedom.

It's been murdered by the Supreme Court today." He added, "I think God has made See DENIAL Back rage, coL 3, this section Xjs I A A.mvnJ Staff Photei by Sttwart Bowman, abavt. Bill Klght, right After voting near Versailles in Woodford County. Martha Layne Collins stood with her husband, Bill, and her son. Steve, 20. At right, although Grady Stumbo is well known around Mallie in Knott County, he still waited his turn to vote.

Early returns mixed in lieutenant governor's race By ED RYAN Couriar-Journal staff Wrltar Attorney General Steven Be-shear showed strength in early unofficial returns last night in the unpredictable Democratic race for lieutenant governor. The Democratic race appeared to be narrowing between Beshear and George Atkins, a former state auditor. In heavily populated Jefferson County, for example, Beshear trailed former Jefferson County Judge Todd Hollenbach by about 7 percentage points with 73 percent of the vote counted. In Fayette County, Beshear's home base, the attorney general captured more than 50 percent of the vote with 91 percent counted, according to unofficial tabulations by WKYT-TV in Lexington. The statewide vote count, which was conducted by The Associated Press, was slowed significantly by computer problems.

Beshear carried Franklin County by about 2,500 votes, according to County Clerk Donald C. Hulette. Kenton County Clerk Al Wood said Hollenbach was carrying that Northern Kentucky county, where the Louisvillian had been expected to do well. Atkins was running third in the returns in Jefferson County, with about 21 percent of vote, and sec ond in Fayette and Franklin counties. Agriculture Commissioner Alben W.

Barkley II, the fourth major candidate in the race, was trailing badly in Jefferson County. But much of the heavily Democratic returns from Western Kentucky, Barkley's home territory, hadn't been reported. According to both Beshear's and Atkins' camps, Atkins carried his native Christian County byHSout 3,500. But the Beshear campaign claimed the attorney general won his native Hopkins County by a 5,000 vote margin. In Eastern Kentucky, Atkins won Harlan County by a 700-vote 64 of the state's 120 counties, including most of Fayette and Jefferson, tabulated by The Associated Press, the unofficial totals in the Democratic primary were: George Atkins 68,779 Alben W.

Barkley II 25,463 Steven Beshear 83,131 Todd Hollenbach-. 58,687 George Herman KendalL 2,461 Guy W. Rockefeller 2,018 Bill Spivey 2,688 The unofficial totals in the Re-See EARLY PAGE 2, col. 3, this section spread over Beshear, who ran fourth among the major candidates. The minor Democratic candidates were George Herman Kendall and Bill Spivey, both of Guy W.

Rockefeller of Covington. In the Republican primary for lieutenant governor, state Sen. Eugene P. Stuart of Prospect was carrying his home county of Jefferson with about 73 percent of the vote. He was expected to win the GOP nomination easily over minor candidates Tommy Klein of Louisville and Nicholas D.

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