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...MONTE KEMMLER (D) District 9 (South central--Altoona...
Contrasting his small-town roots with what he calls Bud Shuster's big-city problems, Kemmler says he knows the people, land and needs of this district. He emphasizes economic development, education and the environment. But even with Shuster's problems, it may be difficult to overcome the momentum of incumbency...
...lobbyist, Eppard heads a fund-raising operation for Shuster that in 1995 surpassed $600,000. The effort is all the more remarkable as he has run unopposed since 1984, when he trounced Nancy Kulp, who played Jane Hathaway on the Beverly Hillbillies. In November he faces Monte Kemmler, a largely unknown county planner...
...servant, indefatigable researcher and humorist very much manque, Robertson has highly individual criteria for celebrity. Not for him the Joe Namaths, Henry Kissingers or Valerie Perrines of this world. The Robertson laurels go to "Manchester Jack," the first lion tamer (1835); M. Jolly-Bellin, first dry cleaner (1849); William Kemmler, first man to die in the electric chair (1890), and the late great George Crum, inventor of the first potato chip (1853). Surrounding these immortals is a pantheon of some 6,000 achievers and achievements, each one a monument to ingenuity or perversity. En masse, they provide the best argument...
Guinea Pig. It was emphatically the wrong time for Kemmler, too. Dr. Alphonse David Rockwell was then advancing the notion that electrocution would be a humane method for executing criminals. Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse were noisily disputing the relative merits of direct and alternating current. Kemmler was a convenient guinea pig, and so became the first man ever to be executed by that new scientific wonder, electricity. Calling his hero-victim Rupert Weber to suit his fictional purposes, Davis takes the reader through the last months of Weber's life-his moods and his memories, fears and dreams...