Page 2-Wednesday, April 4, 1979-The Michigan Daily CHICAGO'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR: Byrne w CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) - Democrat Jane Byrne, the gutsy party worker who toppled the party's machine after it spurned her, received an over- whelming mandate from Chicago voters yesterday to become the city's first elected woman mayor. With about one-third of the city's 3,100 precincts reported, Byrne had 232,454 votes to Republican Wallace Johnson's 51,179. Andrew Pulley of the Socialist Workers Party received 3,825. Byrne, 44, with a transition team already at work and plans under way for her inauguration, had been favored to become the next mayor of Chicago, a city which has turned away Republican mayoral hopefuls since 1927. JOHNSON, an investment banker, had never held elective office. In the last four mayoral elections, the GOP candidate has lost by margins of at least 7-to-2. Byrne's aides had said they hoped she rms race would win by a wider margin than did the late Mayor Richard Daley in 1975, when he got a record 77.67 per cent of the vote. Meanwhile, in California's San Mateo County, a former political aide and a real estate millionaire fought tb fill the term of Rep. Leo Ryan, slain last year in the Guyana airport ambush that set off the Peoples Temple bloodbath. PITTED AGAINST each other in a special runoff election were Democrat Joe Holsinger, 57, once Ryan's chief assistant, and Republican Bill Royer, 58, who has two decades' experience in local politics. And in Wisconsin, the unexpired term of the late Republican Rep. William Steiger was at stake as two state senators sought to preserve - or shat- ter - an almost unbroken 40-year GOP legacy. The candidates are Republican Thomas Petri, 38, and Gary Goyke, a 31-year-old Democrat. Today is last day to vote in MSA election By JULIE ENGEBRECHT Although turnout was lower than ex- pected Monday on the first day of Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) elections, the sunshine and an increase in candidates soliciting votes brought many more students to the polls yester- day. Today is the last day for students currently enrolled in the University to vote for the next president and vice president of MSA, and Assembly representatives from each school and college. STUDENTS CAN also vote on six dif- ferent ballot proposals. One would con- tinue a mandatoryt student assessment of $2.92 per term, $1.74 of which goes to Student Legal Services, six cents to the Tenants' Union, 15 cents to a course evaluation project, and 97 cents to all other MSA projects. Another, more controversial, ballot proposal would eliminate a con- stitutional provision prohibiting officer salaries and substitute that provision with an amendment placing a ceiling of 3.9 per cent, or $9,000 of the total MSA budget, for officer salaries, the details of which would have to be worked out by the next Assembly. Another ballot proposal advocates a role for students somewhere in the tenure decision-making process. This vote would decide nothing, but the in- tent is to give the University com- munity an idea of how students feel about gaining a role in the tenure process. THE THREE other proposals deal with internal constitutional matters. Elections Director Emily Koo speculated that about 1,000 students cast votes on Monday, and 1,500 yester- day. Last year, a total of 4,427 votes were cast, in the largest turnout since April 1973. Koo said that ballots would be validated tonight after the polls close, and the actual tallying of votes would occur tomorrow. She also said that even after dif- ficulties in obtaining enough poll workers on Monday, along with other problems encountered during the first day, such as polling sites opening late or not at all, the elections are running ,noothly. Candidates and workers expect the biggest turnout in the three-day elec- tion today, the final day of voting. Caught in Daily Photo By MAUREEN 'MALLEY the act? The National Geographic Society says the tallest structure in the United States is the television tower at Blan- chard, S.D., which rises 2,063 feet above the plains. Boston suburb hit by blackout again BOSTON (AP) - The lights went out again yesterday for about 30,000 residents of the trendy Back Bay neighborhood and officials said it may be another day before power is restored. A third blackout in three days cram- ped the bustling style of this urban en- clave, which one wag dubbed "Black Bay." Elevators were stuck, apartmen- ts were dark, refrigerators were drip- ping, many shops were closed, and grocers were worried about piles of food going bad. A BOSTON Edison spokesman said the latest blackout, which struck about 10 a.m., probably would cbntinue until this morning while linemen wrestled The Undergraduate Political Science Association presents STUDENT/FACULTY WINE-CHEESE PARTY. TODAY-3-5 PM 6th floor lounge-Haven Hall -MEET FACULTY -FIND CLASSES FOR NEXT TERM ALL WELCOME For more info, call 763-2227 or stop by 6618 HH with fire-damaged and overloaded cables. "We think the power will go back on and stay on," said Edison spokesman Stephen Sweeney. Meanwhile, the densely packed neighborhood of stylish shops, posh hotels and expensive apartments made do with warm drinks, cold showers and breathless treks up seldom-used stairs. The trouble began Sunday noon when a fire in a manhole destroyed one of seven main cables that feed the Back Bay. 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