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By PAM KELLEY, ANNE-MARIE DOWNEY
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Carrboro voters Tuesday night approved the major part of a
$2-million bond package, the most ambitious town project
proposed in years.
Approved were a recreation facilities bond worth $1.5 million
and a fire station building bond worth $280,000. It was the first
bond approved in three years by either Chapel Hill or Carrboro
voters. Fifteen bonds proposals have been turned down during
that time.
Voters turned down a public building bond worth $165,000
and a land acquisition bond worth $70,000. City officials
expected the two proposals to face opposition because both
involve long-range plans without immediate need.
"The results of the bond referendum show that Carrboro has
accepted the challenge for the future and is moving forward,"
Carrboro Mayor Robert Drakeford said Tuesday night.
Voters overwhelmingly approved the fire station building
bond 1,053 to 745. The recreation facilities bond was approved
916 to 861.
T he land acquisition bond was soundly defeated, 943 to 819
and the public building bond failed, 839 to 915.
In the final hours of vote tabulation, tallies began to align in
two groups... students and Carrboro Coalition Community
members against the older, more established residents.
Support for the bonds was strongest in precincts with a large
student population. University Lake precinct, which includes
Old Well, Carolina, Roayal Park and Yum-Yum apartments,
approved all bonds by a 63 to 75 percent margin. The South
Carrboro precinct which includes Fidelity Court, Greenbelt and
Berkshire apartments approved all bonds by a smaller margin, 50
to 62 percent.
Apartment dwellers will pay as much as $22.54 per year by
1981 for the bonds.
"Some people are probably voting against the bonds because
of the Carrboro Coalition," Carrboro Alderman and Coalition
member Ernie Patterson said. "The coalition is hated because of
what we do for apartment dwellers. People should start to make
decisions based on the community good rather ? than the
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Coalition spokesperson and Carrboro lawyer Steven Rose
said he got up Tuesday at 5:30 a.m. and spent the day handing out
leaflets and urging people to vote for the bond.
John Thomas, UNC assistant budget officer and spokesperson
for those questioning the bonds, said they will hurt Carrboro's
ability to choose its future. He said the established residents
resent this.
"The established homeowner has no chance to voice his
opinion in Carrboro, he said. "Some people have no one
representing them. Carrboro officials have never sat down and
looked at a financial program. They just go out and try to buy a
pie in the sky."
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By MIKE COYNE
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Staff Writers
HILLSBOROUGH Conservative Democrat Frank
Frederick scored a 2-to-l election victory over black Republican.
Richard Batts Tuesday to capture a fourth term as Orange
County clerk of Superior Court.
Democratic Party and Orange Committee leaders hailed
Frederick's runaway vote total as a sign that straight-ticket
voting can unite conservative and liberal ideologies under the
Democratic Party banner.
Frederick piled up 10,102 votes to Batts 4,983. Frederick's
support came from a spectrum of precincts, including those
dominated by liberal University students and faculty,
conservative farmers, merchants and county employees.
Gerry Cohen, voter registration chairperson for the Orange
County Democratic Party, said Frederick carried precincts in
more-liberal Chapel Hill and Carrboro because Democratic
voters in the area cast their ballots for a straight party ticket.
"This shows that Orange is a Democratic county, Cohen said.
"Batts was obviously unable to get his message across.'
Lucius Cheshire, chairperson of the conservative Orange
Committee, agreed with Cohen that Frederick picked up support
from Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Ingram, who
carried Orange County.
"This is something anyone could have predicted," Cheshire
said. "Mr. Frederick was a Democrat in a Democratic county."
Republican leaders had speculated that Batts would pick up
enough votes in Chapel Hill and Carrboro and in predominantly
black Democratic, precincts to overcome Frederick's party label.
GOP leaders said from the beginning that Frederick would draw
support from conservative farmers and landowners in rural
northern Orange.
"I was worried," Frederick said as the returns poured in to the
Orange County Board of Elections office. "But the support for
me seems to have come from throughout the county."
In the face of defeat, Batts was both resigned and optimistic
about his unsuccessful challenge of Frederick's incumbency.
"I have always felt 1 really couldn't lose even if I lost the
election," Batts said. "Of course I wanted to win. But my main
goal was to bring attention to the inefficiency of the clerk's office!
Batts, who had spent most of the night surveying key precincts,
admitted the Democratic orientation of the county was stronger
than he expected.
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"The straight Democratic ticket voting was Frederick's main
support, and it was very substantial," Batts said. "The powerful
people in this county are Democratic, and every one of them
supported his candidacy. I guess it made a difference to the
voters.".;.' '
"The only thing that carried Frederick was the party structure
itself," Batts said. "A person looking at Frederick as an
individual couldn't support him with his record of involvement
with the Orange Committee."
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By DINITA JAMES, DIANE NORMAN
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Staff Writers
HILLSBOROUGH Orange County . voters
made their overwhelming choice Democratic
Tuesday, as Democratic candidates for county
commissioners, state house and senate and register of
deeds swept to victory.
Statewide results on page 2.
Democratic incumbents Norman Walker and
Norm Gustaveson easily retained their seats and
were joined by Chapel Hill Democrat Anne Barnes
on the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
With all precincts and absentee ballots counted,
Walker led with 1 1,916 votes, followed by Barnes,
11,231; Gustaveson, 10,558; and lone Republican
challenger the Rev. Billy Cuthrell, 4,1 12.
Democrat Betty June Hayes, facing her first
challenge since she was elected in 1954, easily held
her position as Orange County register of deeds,
outstripping Republican opponent Carolyn Griffin
1 1,388 to 3,071 with all precincts and absentee ballots
counted.
With 23 of 34 Orange County precincts, 19 of 23
Randolph County precincts, eight of 20 Moore
County precincts and 33 of 39 Randoph County
precincts reporting, it appeared that incumbent
Democrats Charles Vickery of Chapel Hill and
Russell Walker of Asheboro would win a narrow
victory in the neck and neck race for the two state
Senate seats in the 16th District.
Incumbent Democrats Trish Hunt and Ed Holmes
appeared to be romping over lone Republican
challenger Carolyn Mercer in the Orange County
portion of the N.C. 1 fth District House race. With all
precincts reporting. Hunt had 11,622 votes and
Holmes, 10,454; and Mercer, 4,022.
Orange County Sheriff CD. "Buck" Knight and
District Attorney Wade Barbour Jr. won their
Democratic primaries in May and were unopposed.
N orman Walker, f ormer chairperson of the county
commissioners, was elected for his third term5
Gustaveson, the board's current vice chairperson,
won a second term. Barnes is a past county
chairperson of the Orange County Democratic Party
and a member of the N.C. Democratic Executive
Committee. .
Republican Senate challenger Richard Smyth
attacked Democratic opponent Charles Vickery's
voting record during the campaign, saying that the
incumbent was absent for too many votes.
Of the 35,696 registered voters in Orange County,
16,595 turned but to vote. The 46.48 percent turnout
was slightly ahead of the predicted state-wide
turnout.
Longtime incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. L.H.
Fountain easily retained his 2nd N.C. Congressional
District seat over Republican challenger Barry L.
Gardner of Rocky Mount and Libertarian candidate
Leslie L. Koehler.
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By JIM HUMMEL and TONY MACE
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RALEIGH Republican Sen. Jesse Helms rode the crest of a
54-46 margin over Democratic challenger John R. Ingram to
make good his bid for a second term in the U.S. Senate and
become the first GOP candidate to win statewide re-election in
modern North Carolina political history.
With 1,183 of the state's 2,344 precincts reporting, Helms had
amassed 318,714 votes to Ingram's 257,820. Helms carried rural
areas in the east and west, as expected, and also scored
surprisingly well in urban areas such as Mecklenburg and
Guilford Counties, regions critical to Ingram's effort.
Ingram, 49, beat Helms in traditionally liberal and Democratic
Orange County. With all votes tallied, Ingram had 9,522 votes to
Helms 6,584 a margin of 3 to 2. Turnout in the county was high
for an off-year election, with some 46 percent of all registered
voters casting ballots.
Ingram ran particularly strong in the predominantly student
precincts in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, garnering 77 percent of
the votes cast at the Northside, East Franklin, University Lake,
Country Club and Mason Farm polling places. The Democrat
received 1,495 of the 1,935 votes cast in the five precincts; Helms
took 440 votes to take 23 percent of the vote.
"I am Senator No and I'm glad to be here," Helms, 57, told a '
jubilant, relatively youthful throng packed into the ballroom of
Raleigh's Sheraton Inn for his victory celebration. "The people
of North Carolina want senators who will vote 'no' to excessive
federal spending, federal controls and inflation. In voting no' to
these things, I have been voting yes to the wishes of the people of
my state.
"This is not a personal victory," Helms said, "but a bipartisan
victory for Americans everywhere who yearn for the preservation
and restoration of the free-enterprise system."
The senator thanked his family and supporters, especially
campaign manager Thomas Ellis, and called Ingram "a tough
opponent" in wishing him and his family well. The senator waved
a T-shirt bearing the inscription "Senator No" before leaving the
ballroom. ; . -
"Helms for President" signs were in abundance at the victory
celebration.? Ellis said he expected Helms to enter the North
- Carolina GOR. presidential primary as a ayorite-son candidate
Helms conducted the most expensive campaign in Tar Heel
. history, outspending his opponent by a margin of as high as 3 to
I. He spent an estimated $300,000 on television advertising a
figure roughly equal to Ingram's entire campaign budget. Helms
campaign coffers have been estimated to top $6.7 million.
A tired and disappointed Ingram appeared before his
supporters at the Hilton Inn in Raleigh and continued his railing
on the issues of Helms campaign finances and history of negative
; voting. "We did riot have the national constituency from which to
draw (campaign funds)," Ingram said. He expressed a hope that
, Washington would soon institute some form of election reform
to limit excessive campaign spending.
"On some issues, the people do expect a representative of the
people to vote no" Ingram said in reference to Helms' victory
speech. "But they do expect a representative of the people to vote
yes for the people on some issues as well."
"The stronger our message was heard," Ingram said, "the
stronger we would win. We were fighting terrific odds, and we
were not able to put that message out strong enough."
The three major television networks projected a Helms victory
shortly after North Carolina polls closed at 7:30 p.m. But while
ardent supporters cheered Helms victory as they waited for his
arrival at the ballroom, the senator was telling newscasters that
he preferred to wait until victory was assured.
Helms, a former Raleigh television editorialist, overcame a
bevy of charges from the Ingram camp, including recent claims
that Helms workers were buying Republican votes. None of the
charges, however, were substantiated by Ingram or his campaign
manager, Charles Webb, the state senator from Greensboro.
Ingram, who will continue to serve as North Carolina's
Insurance Commissioner, voted in his hometown of Asheboro
early Tuesday before attending an afternoon session of the
. Council of State in Raleigh. After eating his traditional election
night meal with his family at the Angus Barn in Raleigh, Ingram
'addressed an early crowd of about 100 supporters in the
ballroom of the Hilton to thank his party, staff and family. He
then retired to his room to receive vote returns, dressed in his
shirtsleeves.
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WASHINGTON Democrats
marched toward renewed command of
Congress Tuesday night in mid-term
elections that unseated Sen. Edward W.
Brooke of Massachusetts while installing
Thad Cochran as Mississippi's first
popularly elected GOP senator.
Democratic Rep. Paul E. Tsongas, 37,
beat Brooke, the only black senator,
whose third-term bid was crippled by
admitted misstatements about his
finances in a divorce case.
Thad Cochran, 40, a congressman
from Jackson, won Senate election to
succeed . Democratic Sen. James O.
Eastland in Mississippi.
In New Jersey, Democrat Bill Bradley
of basketball fame, won what had been a
"Republican Senate seat, defeating
conservative Jeffrey Belt
Republican Sen. Charles H. Percy was
trailing Democrat Alex Smith in Illinois,
despite Percy's being projected as the
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Sen. Robert P. Griffin, the Republican
who retired and then decided to run
again, was in. big trouble in Michigan.
Democratic Govs. J.J. Exon of
Nebraska and David Boren of Oklahoma
also won what had been Republican
Senate seats.
Nancy Landon Kassebaum, daughter
of Alf Landon, won Senate election in
Kansas, holding a Republican seat.
Senate Republican Leader Howard H.
Baker Jr. was re-elected in Tennessee,
beating Democrat Jane Eskind in what
may be the first leg of a 1980 bid for the
GOP presidential nomination.
Other Republicans re-elected include
Sen. Strom Thurmond in South
Carolina.
And in Virginia, the Senate lead
belonged to Republican John Warner,
former secretary of the Navy who often
campaigned with his wife, actress
Elizabeth Taylor.
I n Connecticut, Democrat Ella G rasso,
one of the nation's two women governors,
won a second term Tuesday, as did N.Y.
Democratic Gov. Hugh Carey, while
Republican Gov. James Rhodes held a
"narrow lead in Ohio.
Democrats also held onto the
governorships of Georgia, Rhode Island,
Maryland, Florida and Arkansas.