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17 Gateway Publications
SUBURBAN PITTSBURGH'S LARGEST CIRCULATION
Vol. 81 No. 42
Wednesday/ October 17, 1984
30 Cents
Inside
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‘Stil work ahead* -interview with leaders of 'Forgotten Sewickiey-
3
Aleppo debates sale of police services to Osborne
Utity spokesman reacts to nuclear reactor editorial '
Local resident travels to Czechoslovakia on sentimental Journey
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Quaker Valley defeats Albert Gallatin
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Sewickley officer, Credited wiiii arrest
of suspect
RENAISSANCE FAIR. Findlay-McQuade (left) and Fletcher McNeil were dressed in the spirit of the Renaissance
at Sewickley Academy last Friday afternoon. Academy students arid teachers spent last weekstudying the life,
times and entertainments of the people who lived during the Renaissance. Featured were dancers, tumblers,	.
jugglers, a town crier and street brawlers. DuquesneUniversity Concert Corale provided apprppriate musip for
the event. McQuade is the director of curriculum at the Academy and McNeil is the head of the drama
department. For more information turn to page 26.	*	(Photo by Tim Kuzma)
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Voters register in record numbers
To help voters meet the Oct. 30 deadline for filing an absentee ballot, the Allegheny County Department of Elections has set up a telephone hotline, available 24 hours a day.
Persons who will be Out of the county On Election Day, Nov. 6, or those who cannot get to the polls because of illness or handicap, ShQUid call 355-4540 and leave their name, address and zipcode on a recorded message.
Deadline for filing .an application for an absentee,ballot is 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30.
Deadline for returning the completed . ballot to the' Elections Department is 5 p.m,, Friday, Nov. 2,
The latest voter-registration totals in Allegheny County list 543,767 Democratic voters; 215,262 Republican - voters; 381 Consumer Party voters, and 41,739 voters with no party affiliation.
Approximately 15,000 registration forms swamped the Allegheny, County Department of Elections on the last day before the voter registration deadline. “Fantastic,'’ said James E. Scanlon,
Absentee ballot deadline Oct 30
director of the Elections Department, “is a good way to describe it.” ■
By 5 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 9, some 15;000 persons registered to set a one-day new-registration record in the Elections Department. They signed up by registering over-the-counter, by U.S. Mail, and by various groups bringing in the results of their voter-registration drives.
“We won’t know the exact figures for about a week or so until we get all the statistics into the computer,” explained Director Scanlon, “but 1984 has to be the single biggest year of registering voters in the history of Allegheny County.” “The last three days were incredible. Even on Saturday, five bags of mail came in. That coupled with about 1,500 over-the-counter registrations gave us about 5,000 for a Saturday.
“Last Monday was a rainy day and a holiday for many. But they kept coming in. We normally close at 5 p.m., but our
people stayed here until 8 p.m. to handle voter registrations.”
“It’s a great feeling to see so many people eager, to sign up to make sure they’ll be able to vote on Election Day for the kind of government they want,” said Scanlon.
“It’s also a terrific pat on the back for so many wonderful, people ducted voter registration drives. These are the League of Women Voters, the Urban' League, and other political organizations.” i Director Scanlon pointed out this surge in interest in registering to vote isn’t unique to Allegheny County or Pennsylvania. It’s a growing interest across the entire United States.
Now, it’s especially important, he said, that these people Who spearheaded the highly successful voter registration drives don’t fumble the ball. On Nov. 6—Election Day—we have to ‘‘get out the vote.”
TOMORROW’S VOTERS. Not being the legal age for voting did not deter Edgeworth students from" casting, their baijots. A Presidential election was held' at the school last week. Mr. SkiarSky's fifth-grade class inputted a computer program that will register each child’s vote in the school. The program will display a total number of votes cast. Shown here, about to vote electronically, were (from left) Mr. Sklarsky, Erin McMillen, David Whitfield and Thuy Le.