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THE TRIBUNAL AID VOLUME 1, NO. 25 WEIMESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1973 SERVICE TO ALL 15 CENTS PRESS RUN 5000 HIGH POIHT THOMASVILLE WINSTON-SALEM BURFORD RE-ELECTED; CLAPP MAYOR; DEMOCRATS CONTROL CITY COUNCIL Rachel Gray Samuel But;ford 0. Arthur Kirkman Frank Wood Mk. Roy Culler Arnold Koonce Jr. Bob Wells Jim Pearce Republican Paul Clapp of High Point will be this city’s next mayor after defeating former Mayor Carson Stout by 1,003 in the Tuesday election. Clapp, a 56-year-old city councilman who defeated current Mayor William Bencini in a Republican primary that involved a runoff election, was the top vote getter in the election, receiving 6,898 votes. Elected to the High Point City Council were five Democrats giving that Party a majority on the eight-seat Council. One of them, political-newcomer Mrs. Rachel Gray, led the voting race with 6,620 votes for the Ward 1 seat. The Ward 2 seat went to Republican James L. Pearce, a Republican incumbent, who got 6,270 votes. Democratic imcumbent O. Arthur Liquor Vote Margin Here Is Decisive High Point voters decisively rejected the idea of liquor-by- the-drinl{ while balloting in the city election Tuesday. The vote, according to unof ficial tally, was 4,9§7 for liquor-by-the drink and 7,470 against it. The voting was similar to the pattern across the state which defeated the issue. Paul Clapp Vote Favors An Elective School Board How High Point Voted By RAY HUBBARD Enterprise Staff Writer By a whopping better than 2- to-1 margin, residents of the High Point School District voted Tuesday to elect future members of the High Point Board of Education. The vote to change from the appointive to an elective system was 5,293 to 2,434. The totals are still unofficial, however, subject to the county elections board convass. The lopsided vote for change apparently will cool a con troversy that has alternately simmered and boiled here for more than a decade. The effects of the change will not be felt until November, 1975, when the first board members will be elected. The elective issue carried everyone of the 21 precincts in the school district, even the predominantly black precincts where there were organized efforts to defeat the referen dum. Only in small precinct 11 in the heart of the city was the tally close. There, 45 voted in favor of change, and 40 voted to keep the appointive system. Black community leaders have argued that the appoin tive system is the only selec tion method which will guarantee equal black representation on the school board. But apparently the rank and file did not listen to these arguments. WHAT’S INSIDE Editorials Entertainment Features Sports fight for the referendum to city hall and to the state capital and then worked to inform the citizenry about the pros and cons of Both systems prior to the Tuesifaji election. “Great,” exciaimed Mrs. Stackhouse following the an- nouncemeat of the results. “Now I justj hope that having decided to directly select board members, High Pointers will show the same interest in support of the school board and the schools, and I think they will. “I feel like I’m not going to have to leave town now,” she laughed. “J have worked on this, for two years, and now I want t» just relax for awhile.” “I thought it would be close, and during the past few days I have been Worried about it,” said Mrs. Herndon. “What we started -out to do was to stimulate interest in the schools and 1 think we have done this. This gives people a chance to decide who is going to run our schools and I know they will support them,” she said. “And I’ve learned you can fight city hall and win,” Mrs. Herndon added. City Council refused last spring to consider the referen dum, arguing that there was no interest in High Point in changing the system. Mrs. Herndon and Mrs. Stackhouse then took the issue d'rectly to the General Assembly, where they were able to persuade legislators that High Pointers wanted an opportunity to vote on the issue. The makeup of the board will remain unchanged under the new system. The heavy vote for change bore out various polls taken during the past decade all of which indicated heavy senti ment for a -change to an elec tive system. PRECINCTS 1 MAYOR 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 . 9 10 U 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 Total STOUT (D) 447 165 272 651 498 236 110 297 363 245 130 295 161 92 177 417 443 222 423 151 5,795 ’CLAPP (R) 302 DEMOCRAT COUNCILMAN 210 324 501 440 100 95 458 523 345 64 342 172 155 299 685 669 442 421 251 6,798 ^BURFORD 408 150 313 642 648 346 113 352 399 242 174 327 135 82 160 460 506 204 418 118 6,197 •CULLER 365 188 300 588 562 255 112 332 424 257 135 335 168 102 198 447 489 266 452 162 6,137 DALTON 417 180 287 639 496 246 111 330 408 243 122 285 146 70 147 377 411 238 412 145 5,710 •GRAY 514 222 339 765 550 230 111 380 447 283 128 "SIO 161 89 204 503 530 266 439 149 6,620 ILDERTON 428 176 295 650 456 215 104 329 402 223 112 286 156 99 162 424 441 218 402 124 5,702 •KIRKMAN 424 186 293 644 533 258 107 326 360 220 110 298 153 82 161 395 426 223 407 126 5,732 PATTERSON 340 182 273 496 528 250 113 277 394 248 116 323 151 .89 175 391 482 223 419 166 5,636 •WOOD 438 REPUBLICAN COUNCILMAN 196 295 670 528 227 109 315 396 238 118 306 146 89 167 388 446 221 391 141 5,825 CARRICK 213 166 24H 356 285 21 83 342 433 306 38 302 174 143 277 575 527 403 341 238 5,471 CLAYTON 278 174 229 399 303 22 76 364 430 294 32 262 155 124 252 592 584 358 328 221 5,477 •KOONCE 408 201 304 679 336 30 73 473 465 355 48 284 163 151 276 659 507 380 370 236 6,428 PATSEAV 261 161 226 467 258 23 71 374 404 292 32 246 140 135 240 546 536 335 302 199 5,248 TEARCE 351 161 251 532 400 70 82 432 456 , 284 52 281 168 140 262 671 650 353 442 232 6,270 SHAVITZ 217 155 258 430 355 86 72 386 434 286 58 285 143 137 239 568 559 267 337 214 5,486 SHELTON 203 166 245 328 305 18 81 307 402 313 44 267 164 155 274 578 495 367 328 227 5,267 •WELLS 225 170 258 462 350 37 71 383 459 322 39 293 166 136 259 674 641 378 385 244 5,952 TOTAL 778 397 609 1,204 973 363 221 781 908 606 218 655 340 262 495 1,136 1,144 •Denotes Winner 671 869 409 13,597 High Point Housing Authority Plans Fund Apphcation BY BOB BURCHETTE Daily Ntw* Htgh Point Burtou HIGH POINT — Application for federal funds to finance con struction of 136 apartment units for low-i«cjfne persons will be made by the High Point Housing Authority by the end of next week, possibly sooner, H. K. Martin said Thursday. The application, Martin said, will be filed under the Federal Housing Authority’s “236 pro gram,” which allows 20 per cent of the persons occupying the apartments to receive rent sup plements. Martin, head of the redevelop ment division of the housing autJwrity, said the U.S. Depart ment of Housing and Urban De- ve.opment invited the housing autJwrity here to make the ap plication. *'I just talked to them on the telephone,” he added, “and I haven’t received any information from them through the mail. I’ll know more about it when I do.” He said he isn’t sure whether there has been a release of more housing funds by the Nix on administration or whether the funds would cofne from funds already available to HUD. “The President said all along it (the money freeze)- wcwldn’t M per manent but I dorft taa# II As freeze is letting up.’" FUNDS FOR the "236 pro gram” and other bousing pro grams have been imitin -»iH8e early this year. It has not been determined, Martin added, how mudi flte 136 iiousing units will cost. “TWs will have to be negotiated ac cording to whafls t)uilt.” A determination has not been made where the units will be constructed but there is a possi bly some will l>e built in the Spring Valley Apartmeht area off Commerce Street and others could be built on the city’s southside, Martin said. Kirkman, a former mayor of High Point and former member of the N.C. General Assembly took the Ward 3 vote with 5,732 votes. Samuel Burford, a Democratic imcumbent and the first Black ever to serve on High Point City Council, won in Ward 4 with 6,197 votes. He is former principal of Andrews High School. Two of the four "at large” positions on Council went to Democratic imcumbents Roy Culler with 6,137 votes, and Frank Wood with 5,825 votes. Arnold Koonce, a Republican, and newcomer Bob Wells, also a Republican, took the other “at large" positions. Losers in the race were Republicans Virgil P. Carrick, 5,476; Mary M. Clayton, 5,477; John G. Patseasvouras, 5,248; Henry Shavitz, 5,486; and James R. Shelton, 5,267; and Democrats P.Hunter Dalton Jr., 5,710; Clarence Ilderton, 5,702; and incumbent Joe B. Patterson, 5,636. Former Mayor Stout, who had served as mayor from 1961 to 1963 and from 1965 to 1967, received 5,795 votes. Stout, a furniture manufacturer, also had served as city councilman from 1967 to 1969. Clapp, a manufacturing representative for two High Point companies, beat Stout in 13 of the 20 city precincts in a election which saw 13,597 of the city’s 22,680 voters go to the polls. Clapp in an interview following the election, made it clear that he regards his victory as a people’s mandate for a change in city government and its administration. The police department was the key issue between him and Carson Stout in the race for mayor, Clapp said. “I hope Council will take the results of the election as such a mandate to clear up the allegations involving the police department,” he said. “It was the underlying issue of the campaign. There were others, the electrica4 distribution system, utilities bills, but this was the one.” Clapp said he will present the police department investigation issue almost immediately to the new Council, which is to take office on Dec. 3. He indicated he did not expect Council to become divided on the issue, ’’i’m very pleased with the Council to voters have chosen,” Clapp said. “They are all persons of integrity.” “I do not think we will become involved in partisan politics. We will work to do what is best for High Point.” “It is up to me to lead them in that direction,” Clapp said, returning to the question of the police department situation. Late last summer, at the heighth of the controversy over an alleged theft ring within the police department, Clapp called for the resignation of Chief of Police Laurie Pritchett. Today, Clapp said, “I am not head-hunting. I’m hunting for confidence and efficiency in all levels of our government. This is what the people are concerned about. Confidence in our governments seems to me to have dwindled to its lowest level. My goal is to restore confidence.” Asked if other changes he had in mind for city government concerned the status of City Manager Harold Cheek, Clapp said, “Many people have asked me if I were out to ‘get’ the city manager. I am not out to ‘get’ the manager.” “I feel Harold Cheek has had his hands handcuffed and his feet shackled by Council in the past few years,” Clapp said. “He has not known just where he stood with Council or what Council wanted done, from one meeting of Council to the next. I have had this problem myself.” Clarence E. Lightner, a black man was elected mayoi of Raleigh last week. He was the first black man elected by the voters of a major Southern city with a predominantly white population. A funeral home director and insurance salesman, Lightner, 52, currently serves as mayor pro tem on the city council. He defeated his opponent, G. Wesley Williams by 17,348 to 15,476. Raleigh, has a white-to-black ratio of approximately 70 percent from a total population of about 125,000. Maynard Jackson, a black man, was elected mayor of Atlanta, this Georgian city has black majority in population and a slight white majority in voter '■egistration. York WinsUn Archdal^ ARCHDALE — Incumbent Arohdale mayor Henry J. York Sr. survived a last-ditoh write-in campaign to defeat former ooun- cilwoman Doris Spencer by a vote of 577 to 500. But Ward 2 incumbent Robert L. Cooper was defeated in a bid for second term hy Bruce D. Lance, 674 to 450. In Ward 1, another former councilman, T. C. Talbert gained 803 votes to 245 to defeat Amie Halo. Bill Kinley, the incumbent in Ward 3, survived a challenge by Dwight Ldir with a total vote (rf 785 to 329. ARCHDALE Mayor Henry Yorit Sr 577 Mrs. Doris S^ncer (write-in) 500 Town Board (1 from each of 3 wards) Ward 1: Amie Halo 245 T. C. Talbert 803 Ward 2: Bruce D. Lance 674 Robert L. Cooper 450 WaM 3: Dwight Lcfir 329 Bill Kinley ..785 SUPPORT THE ADVERTISING MERCHANTS OF THIS, YOUR NEWSPAPER!
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