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North Carolina' first presidential
primary and several fierce intra-party
battles wtfl highlight the voting across the
state Saturday.
More than 1,300,000 voters are
expected to cast their ballots with an
unprecedented number of blacks, women
and newly enfranchised young people
going to the polls to exert their
considerable political clout.
In Orange County alone, more than
4,500 young people have registered to
vote since the 26th Amendment was
ratified, giving the vote to 18 year olds.
The primaries offer Orange County
voters a choice from among 57 candidates
for 14 offices on the Democratic slate
and 15 candidates vying on the
Republican ticket for five nominations.
Besides the Presidential contest, Tar
Heel voters will be selecting the
Democratic and Republican nominees for
the governorship, lieutenant governor,
U.S. Senate, U.S. House of
Representatives, N.C. Council of State,
N.C. Senate and N.C. House, and local
offices.
Two bond issues will also be voted
upon Saturday.
One $150 million issue to be passed on
64 delegates at stake
SanforcL Wallace battle
The North Carolina Democratic
presidential primary has boiled down to a
two-man race between Duke University
President Terry Sanford and Alabama
Governor George Wallace, with the winner
getting most of the state's 64 first-ballot
convention votes.
Senators Edmund Muskie and Henry
Jackson remain "on the ballot; -although
they have already dropped out of the
primary race. The fifth candidate,
Representative Shirley Chisholm of New
York, has made several campaign swings
through North Carolina, although she is
not expected to draw a large percentage
of the votes.
The Republican presidential primary
pits Richard Nixon against Representative
Paul McCloskey, who has already
dropped out of the race to concentrate
on retaining his California House seat.
Sanford, who served as governor of
North Carolina from 1961 to 1965,
announced his candidacy March 8 after a
student-run drive spearheaded by UNC
law student Bill Blue got the 25,000
signatures needed to put Sanford's name
on the ballot.
Wallace, a two-term governor of
Alabama, took 31 percent of the vote in
North Ca rolina when he ran for president
as a third-party candidate four years ago.
The 52-year-old Wallace has attempted
to brush off Sanford's candidacy, telling
at least one Tar Heel audience that "this
is a game for men, not boys, and it's
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East Franklin Public Library, E. Franklin
Westwood
Lincoln School, Merritt Mill
Country Club Woollen Gym
Glenwood
Ridgefield
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Norlhside
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Glenwood School, off NC 54
Binckley Baptist Church, Willow Dr. at 15-Eo4
Bypass
Colonial Motors Ephesus Church Road
Municipal Building
Colonial Heights Umstead Rec. Center, Umstead Dr.
North Carboro Carrboro School off Hillsboro St.
South Carrboro Carrboro Town Hall
Dogwood Acres Culbreth Jr. High, Culbreth Dr.
Kings Mill Aldersgate Church, 15-501 Bypass near
Manning Dr.
Estes Hills Guy B. Phillips Jr. High, Estes Dr.
Patterson McDuffie Baptist Ch., NC 86 1.5 miles N of
Homestead Rd.
Cole's Store Midway Service Station, Old Hwy. 86
Williams Odell's Grocery, Farrington Road
Baldwin Ruritan Club, Bynum
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by the voters is designed to provide
additional money for control of water
pollution. The other issue is to provide
two million dollars for the N.C. Zoo.
Polls across the state will be open from
6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.
(For those registered in Orange
County, a list of precincts and polling
places is provided at the bottom of this
page.)
Former governor and Duke president
Terry Sanford's campaign for the
Democratic presidential nomination faces
its first major test as he meets Alabama
Governor George Wallace in the
presidential primary.
The races for Democratic and
Republican nominee for the governorship
have attracted most of the voters'
attention.
Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor, State Senator
Skipper Bowles and State AFL CIO
President Wilbur Hobby are the main
contenders in the six-man Democratic
race. The Republican nominee will be
either 1968 choice Jim Gardner or Boone
State Representative Jim Holshouser,
although two other candidates are also in
the race.
going to take a man to win it." Wallace
also told Newsweek magazine last week
that Sanford's major problem as a
candidate is that "he'll bore your ass off.
Nobody wants a candidate who'll bore
your ass off."
But while Wallace has split his
campaigning between North Carolina,
Tennessee, Michigan and Indiana, Sanford
has concentrated on his home state,
promising to visit "every congressional
district and almost every county" in
North Carolina before the primary.
Sanford has stressed the economic
issue in his campaign, attacking the
current wage-price controls on food and
meat.
"Workers have been victims of a
double standard," he said April 21.
"While profits and prices have gone up,
the consumer has been ignored and left to
suffer."
Sanford has also charged that Wallace
is "a wolf in sheep's clothing" when he
calls for reform of the tax structure.
"The little man in Alabama is taxed
until he is hump-backed," Sanford said
April 21. "If there is a message from
Alabama, it is that there has been no tax
justice for the poor man there."
Wallace, on the other hand, has relied
on the same issues that brought him
victory in the Florida primary and
second-place finishes in Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin and Indiana. He calls for
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Alderman, Kenan, Mclver, Old East, Old West, Spencer, Oak Terrace,
Northampton Plaza, Towne House, Brookside, Colonial Arms, Davie
Circle Area, Camelot, Shepherd Lane, E. Rosemary St. Area.
Granville Towers, Whitehead, Kingswood, Graham Court, Westwood
Area, Big and Little Frat Courts.
All dorms except those on East Franklin or Westwood Precincts. Odum
Village. Victory Village. Purefoy Road Area. Greenwood Area.
Glen Lennox. Golf Course Fraternities.
Colony Apts., Willow Terrace Apts., Ridgefield Area.
Castillian Villa, Kings Arms Apts., Oxford Apts., Booker Creek Apts.
University Gardens. Stinson St. Area. Northside Area.
Sharon Heights, Bolinwood Apts., Elkins Hills, Barclay Road Area..
Cedar Ct., Pine Knoll, Sue Ann Cts., Labeth Apts., Pine St. Area, N.
Greensboro St. Area.
Royal Park Apts., Yum Yum Apts., Chateau Villa, Fidelity Ct..
Northampton West, Windwood Area, NC 54 W. of Carrboro.
Dogwood Acres, Heritage Hills.
Morgan Creek Area. Rarrington Road and Old Lystra Road in Orange
County.
Stratford Hills Apts., Estes Hills, Lake Forest Area.
North Forest Hills, Trailers off NC 86.
Piney Mt. Trl. Ct., area North of Homestead Road, West of RR Tracks,
East of Old Highway 86.
Greenway Park.
Park 'n Stay Trl. Court.
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Chapel Hill. North Carolina, Friday, May 5, 1972
Incumbent Senator B. Everett Jordan
faces a rough challenge from Fourth
District Congressman Nick Galifianakis in
Jordan's bid for re-election. Republicans
Jim Johnson and Jesse Helms are trym?
for the Republican nomination.
Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee is
trying to unseat Second District
Congressman L.H. Fountain in one of the
most heated campaigns in the state.
A three way battle for the Democratic
nomination for Lt. Governor has shaped
up between Jim Hunt, Roy Sowers and
Margaret Harper, who ran for the post in
1968. The post is now a full-time position
and has become a springboard for a shot
at the governor's office.
Three candidates are trying for the
two N.C. Senate nominations from the
district that includes Chapel Hill, but
seven Democrats are battling for the two
party spots in the race for the 17th
District N.C. House seats. .-
To win the nomination in any of the
races Saturday a candidate must receive a
majority of the vote. In a race for a single
nomination that is 50 percent, but in a
race for two nominations such as the
17th District N.C. House race, a
candidate simply must receive one-fourth
"freedom of choice" school assignments,
taxation of foundations, and periodic
reconfirmations of Supreme Court
justices. He attacks bureaucrats, "welfare
chiselers," his "ultra-liberal" primary
opponents and their programs, which he
said recently were bised on "crime and
dope and high taxes, of four-letter words
in a college newspaper . . . this is not
progress; it is degeneracy."
In a speech before 4,000 supporters in
Raleigh's Dorton Arena Monday night,
Wallace said "national Democrats" and
"those on the ultra-liberal side" of the
party "hope to stop George Wallace in
this state."
He said that "leaders in the
Democratic Party ... are using every
method they can think of to defeat
George Wallace." Although he didn't
mention Sanford by name, he charged
that nowr the "leaders" are "doing it a
different way in your state."
While Wallace has generally restricted
his North Carolina campaigning to rallies
and a few television spots, Sanford has
made heavy use of the media in the
closing days of the campaign. The former
governor has attempted to attract black
and liberal support that might otherwise
go to Chisholm by stressing the fact that
"with only two candidates having serious
chances of winning, a vote for anyone but
Terry Sanford is just another vote for
George Wallace. "
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of the votes cast to receive the
nomination.
In any races v. here a majority nominee
is not selected, a run-off primary will be
held June 3. Run-off look probable in
the Democratic gubernatorial and
lieutenant-governor's races, in the 1 7th
N.C. House race, and in the battles for
the Democratic nomination for
Commissioner of Labor and Cornmisioner
of Insurance.
Absentee balloting will be allowed in
the June 3 run-offs Applications for
absentee ballots may be sent to the
Orange County Elections Board in
Hillsborough beginning May 6.
In order to vote in the party primary,
one must be a registered party member.
Normally a voter declares his party
preference when he first registers to
vote. If a voter registered "No Party" but
wishes to vote in a primary, he may
change his registration at his polling place
before he votes on Saturday.
N.C. law provides that any voter may
challenge the right of any other citizen to
vote.
Such a challenge may be made on a
number of grounds but the most common
is that the voter is net a legal resident of
the state. If one is challenged at the polls
Saturday, he must re-take the oath
affirming his residency here.
The registrar is empowered to question
the challenged voter on the status of his
residence. N. C. law, as interpreted by the
courts, defines residence as involving a
place of abode, the intent to return to
Chapel Hill and the intent to remain a
Chapel Hill resident ' until circumstances
change that residence.
Sunny and mild is the weather
outlook for Saturday, with highs in
the 70s. There is near zero chance
of precipitation on primary election
day.
In race for
Chapel Hill Mayor Howard N. Lee is
up against racial bias and 20 years of
experience in his fight to unseat Second
District U.S. Rep. L.H. Fountain.
But, although the odds are against Lee
in the predominantly white, rural small
town district, Fountain has felt it
necessary to campaign as he never has
before.
The veteran representative has relied
heavily on television and radio spots and
an abundance of brochures and bumper
stickers during the campaign while Lee
has conducted a massive voter registration
drive' and a whistle stop tour through the
1 2-county district.
"I'm firmly convinced," Lee said
recently, "that the best way for me to
convince people I'm the best person to
represent them in Congress is through
direct, person-to-person contact.
"I think the over-emphasis most
politicians put on the mass media has
decreased the responsiveness of our
government."
Lee, director of Human Development
at Duke University and the first black
mayor of a predominantly white southern
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Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls Pat Taylor, left, and Wilbur Hobby confronted
each other while campaigning on the UNC campus. For more on the Governor's race,
see page three. (Staff Photo by Leslie Todd)
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Fountain
town since Reconstruction, has been
campaigning on the Vietnam War,
education, taxes, housing, employment
and health and medical services.
Fountain, the white conservative dean
of the N.C. Congressional delegation, has
concentrated on his experience, inflation,
taxes, pollution, education and the rising
cost of medical and hospital care.
"After being shocked last week by the
Defense Department's announcement
that more than one million human beings
have died in this conflict," Lee said, "I
realize that there are no more words
adequate to oppose this conflict.
"I want to go to Washington where
these decisions are made and use a
Congressman's vote to prevent any
President from ever involving this country'
in a conflict that could conceivably last
ten years, exterminate a million people
and leave the world no better off than it
was before the conflict started."
Both candidates have hit rising taxes
and the inequities in the nation's tax
system.
Fountain said recently, "Fortunately,
there is, I think, a rising indignation among
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our people against ever-increasing tax
burdens as well as against inequities in
our tax system.
"There ought to be a renewed effort
to correct existing inequities and to make
our tax system at all levels as bearable as
any tax system can be."
"The average working men and women
have no tax loopholes, but there are
plenty for big businesses, big
corporations, and millionaires," Lee ha-,
said. "Our tax system is progressive m
name only. We must change a tax system
that sometimes lets millionaires and
corporations pay less taxes than working
people and small businesses."
"Unless there is true tax reform, there
will be a major tax revolt."
Fountain and Lee both have cited the
need to upgrade education, but Fountain
says emphasis should be on public schools
while Lee says the educational system
must "meet the future needs of our
children."
"Every American child," Lee said,
"should have the right to develop his tal
ents to the fullest - from pre-school to
college."
Fountain, 58, chairman of the House
Intergovernmental Relations Subcom
mittee of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, was first elected to Congress in
1952 when he defeated John H. Kerr, a
29-year House' veteran.
A native of Leggett in Edgecombe
County and a resident of Tarboro,
Fountain was educated in Edgecombe
County public schools and at
' UNC-Chapei Hill, where he received AB
and JD degrees.
He was Reading Clerk in the State"
Senate from 1936-41 and a state senator
from 1941-52.
Lee, 37, who was first elected mayor
of Chapel Hill in 1968 and reelected in
1971, was elected a vice chairman of the
state Democratic party last spring.
A native of rural Georgia, Lee was
educated in Georgia public schools,
graduated with honors from Fort Valley
State College in Georgia and received an
MS degree in social work 3t L'NC-Chapel
Hill.
He serves on the boards of directors of
the Southern Regional Council, the Day
Care and Child Development Council of
America, the National Association of
Social Workers and the North Carolina
Advancement School.