4 Incumbents Win, 2 Unseated : Election: Legal secretary takes seventh seat on Town Council in open race. Loser in one contest claims winner violated campaign laws.

By RICHARD WINTON

May 13, 1993 12 AM PT

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

ALTADENA —

Seven residents have won two-year terms on the Altadena Town Council, but a defeated candidate is claiming that the winner in his race broke election laws.

Incumbents Kathryn Klomburg, Steve Lamb, Walter Martin and Oscar Werner were reelected Saturday, while challengers Craig Hall and Thomas Hubbard unseated incumbents and Annette Siulagi won an open seat.

The 14-member Town Council for the unincorporated county area advises the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on issues in the area, including planning, the possible closure of Farnsworth and Charles White county parks, and fire and police protection.

Town Council Vice Chairwoman Cue McKenzie said the results in one race are not final because the election of Hall, a retired Los Angeles transportation official, in Census Tract 4602, is being contested by Jonathan Vos Post, who lost by 10 votes.

In a five-page letter to the council, local business owner and publisher Vos Post claimed that Hall’s election workers violated federal election law by campaigning within 100 feet of polling stations at the Bank of America at Lake Avenue and Marcheta Street and Thrifty Drug at Altadena Drive and Lake Avenue.

Vos Post said Wednesday he wants the council to throw out results from those polling places.

McKenzie said the Town Council’s executive committee will meet next week to decide what to do about Vos Post’s challenge. If his claim is valid, the council can call a new election, she said.

Hall said neither he nor his family campaigned within 100 feet of either of the polling places.

Hall won 105 votes, Vos Post 95. The incumbent, Leatrice Gloria Erlander, president of the Altadena Chamber of Commerce, won 38 votes, while Saleem Samia garnered eight.

The other incumbent unseated was Mary Cogswell Baum, a retired teacher, who lost Census Tract 4612 to Hubbard, a librarian and teacher, by 75 votes.

Town Council Chairwoman Klomburg scraped by challenger Jacqueline Fennessy, an executive director of a nonprofit foundation, by one vote, 118 to 117.

Werner, an 86-year-old retired architect, won a fifth term in Census Tract 4613. He again defeated James Iamurri, a governmental relations consultant, 46 to 2, in a repeat of election results between the same candidates two years ago.

Two other incumbents were reelected: Martin, an environmental technician, defeated Labarbara Madison, 47 to 22, and Lamb, an architect, won with 98 of 199 votes in a three-way race with Tom Cartwright and Norman Lewis.

In Census Tract 4611, the open seat, Siulagi, a legal secretary, beat William Caulfield, a racetrack clerk, 67 to 28.

Results

Census Tract 4601

Kathryn Klomburg (i): 118

Jacqueline Fennessy: 117

Census Tract 4602

Craig Hall: 105

Jonathan Vos Post: 95

Leatrice Gloria Erlander (i): 38

Saleem Samia: 8

Census Tract 4603

Steve Lamb (i): 98