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In our editorial of April 22, we noted
that the race for U.S. Senator Sam
Ervin's seat in the Democratic primary
of May 7 was quite similar to a lean draft
year in professional football.
Of course, we still feel that way, but as
we pointed out, North Carolinians have
to choose someone to represent them up
there in Washington.
Whoever wins the Democratic
primary will probably meet Republican
William E. Stevens, a Lenoir
businessman, who by all accounts has a
comfortable lead over Wood Hall
Young and B.E. (Bee) Sweatt.
And, at this stage, it appears that
whoever the Democratic candidate
turns out to be would have an advantage
over Stevens in the fall elections.
There are two things to consider
about the candidates: first, how close
the candidates are in their way of
thinking to ourselves as members of the
university community, and second, how
well the candidates would represent
North Carolina.
First of all, we do not feel that Robert
Morgan and Jesse Helms as North
Carolina's representatives in the U.S.
Senate accurately reflect the view of all
the constituents in North Carolina.
We have one 'conservative in the
Senate; we don't need two. We can't feel
that someone who supported I. Beverly
Lake's campaign in 1960, then the
speaker ban in the mid 60s, and who has
avoided taking any stands is the kind of
man we feel could represent our views in
Congress.
We feel that among the front-runners,
Nick Galifianakis and Henry Hall
Wilson are much more politically
acceptable. Also, both have experience
in Washington, Galifianakis as a U.S.
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Unquestionably the DTffs most
enthusiastic endorsement goes to
Norm Gustaveson in his race for
Orange County Board of
Commissioners. Gustaveson and
Jan Pinney, owner of a grocery store
in the county, are the two most
acceptable candidates in the
commissioners' race. Voters are
allowed to choose three members of
the board in the May 7 primary.
Gustaveson hardly needs any
introduction to UNC students. He is
the director of the campus YMCA, a
Democratic Precinct Chairman, and
has been the loyal friend of hundreds
of Carolina students since he came
to the university ten years ago. His
wife works in the Carolina
Population Center and his own
interests span from the local tax rate
to the International Bazaar to
Rainbow Soccer.
Educated at Drake University, trie
University of Chicago, and the
London School .of Economics,
Gerry Cohen
In large part, the results of next Tuesday's
primaries will be determined by how many
students and University people turn out to
vote with exams over the next day, turnout
jis totally unpredictable.
Dut the offices up for election are among
the most important to the citizenry. The
Orange County Commission has power over
education, health, welfare, sheriff, rural fire
protection, manpower training, taxation
and road priorities. Three commissioners are
to be elected, with voters allowed not more
than three votes. -
In that race, Norm Gustaveson has shown
the voters a strong intelligent and
progressive campaign, concerned with issues
such as fiscal management, 1-40, land use
planning and open government. Gustaveson
is the most qualified of all the candidates.
Jan Pinney, owner of a country store, has
come on well in the campaign. He has
endorsed countywide zoning and is strong in
opposition to 1-40. As a rural candidate, he
can represent a large group of people usually
ignored in politics the working class
whites.
Incumbent Melvin Whitfield has been
working hard since being on the board, but
has yet to be strong on many issues.
Incumbent Norman Walker angered the
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representative and Wilson as an aide to
Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
Between Galifianakis and Wilson,
Wilson has been the most articulate and
forthright in presenting his viewpoints.
Galifianakis sat on the fence for much of
the campaign, saying he was so(
moderate it was unbelievable, but
recently has made attacks on big oil, and
was the first candidate to take a stand on
impeachment, although Wilson's
subsequent stand was clearer.
While Galifianakis has not been quite
as clear in outlining his stances as has
Wilson, this can perhaps be attributed
to the sting of the 1972 defeat by Helms
and the desire to capture more of the
moderate to conservative vote.
And Galifianakis has taken his
unclear campaign right to the people of
North Carolina, as Wilson has failed to
do. Although a native of Monroe,
Wilson was away from North Carolina
from 1960-1973, and one cannot help
think but that he's not really all that
interested in North Carolina. He does
however want to serve in the U.S.
Senate, so hence he has returned to
North Carolina.
Wilson's more recent friends are not
North Carolinians, but out-of-state
businessmen. We cannot believe that
this will make no difference.
Wilson and Galifianakis are to us
politically the most acceptable of the
candidates, and the decision is difficult.
But we are electing a North Carolina
Senator, and Galifianakis has always
been a North Carolinian.
Hence, we endorse Nick Galifianakis
for U.S. Senate. If you think this is a
mild endorsement, you are right. We
don't feel strongly about any of the
candidates.
Gustaveson would be a much
needed addition to the board of
Commissioners. He has three
children now in Chapel Hill schools
and is running an environment and
service-oriented campaign.
The annual county budget is $6
million and Gustaveson wishes to
combine fiscal responsibility with
increased educational and social
services, as well as expanded public
health opportuniites. His campaign
literature is understandably general
but Gustaveson has the ability, the
drive and the record to achieve his
consistently liberal objectives. He
has run a model campaign, as
honest, open and friendly as his own
personality.
Jan Pinney is a hard-hitting
candidate who owns a Stop and
Shop grocery on the New
Greensboro highway. More populist
the politico, Pinney is probably the
only candidate in North Carolina to
turnout
majority of voters by voting against the OEO
appropriations for 1973, but as chairman he
has run open and public meetings, with none
of the secrecy and backroom deals that
characterize the county board prior to 1972.
George Spransy began the campaign with
strong credentials and an excellent record in
the area of planning but has failed to come
forward with many other specifics in his
campaign. Sam Holton, a member of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board since
1969, has not distinguished many of the
issues thus far in the campaign. The seventh
candidate, Tom Bacon, is a Hillsborough
plumbing contractor. Easily the most
conservative candidate in the race, Bacon is
also one of the most forthright and honest
about his positions.
In the State Senate race (two votes)
Charles Vickery and Russell Walker have
run strong, progressively oriented
campaigns against the sales tax and the
death penalty and for the Equal Rights
Amendment. Walker's long history in
politics, and his longtime progressive
activities in a conservative county
Randolph) merit a vote of support.
In the Supreme Court race, James Exum
is the best candidate for justice our state has
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tell you exactly and specifically what
he thinks.
Pinney says about 1-40, "We need
Alternate One like a case of
smallpox.' He is equally
unequivocal about zoning laws, tax
relief, and a fair shake for the "little
man" in the county. Two years in a
trailer park, rural residence, and
small business proprietorship give
Pinney a background which most of
his opponents simply don't have.
His social concern is shown by his
position on the board of Janus
House, a residential treatment home
for adolescent boys. It is refreshing
to read Pinney's no bull-shit
pamphlet and we believe him when
he says, "Whether I am elected or
not, I will continue to fight for the
working people of Orange County.
Gustaveson and Pinney would
make a very powerful effective and
representative contribution to the
Orange . County Board of
Commissioners.
crucial to
seen in many years. Letting Bobby Roberts
help in his campaign may not show a large
amount of political knowledge in Chapel
Hill-Carrboro, but it points up the idiocy of
electing judges. Why should a person have to
have large amounts of money and friends to
serve on the Supreme Court? Exum is clearly
the most qualified candidate fdr any of the
four judgeships.
In the State House race, incumbents Trish
Hunt and Edward Holmes have put together
good records. They are opposed by Douglas
Holmes, who has twice run for mayor of
Chapel Hill.
In Durham County, eleven candidates are
seeking the five county commissioner seats.
Bill Bell and Nathan Garrett, the two black
incumbents, and challengers Elna Spaulding
and Ron Mabry are all 20th century
politicians.
In the Durham judge race, Jim Keenan
has put forward a platform, and has been
willing to issue more than platitudes. He has
spoken out again and again for equal justice,
court reform and changes in the system of
handling juveniles.
In the Durham State House race (three
votes) George Miller, Micky Michauz and
Wilbur Hobby will all carry forward
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In the state senate race we urge
students to support Charles Vickery on
the Democratic ticket, or Ed Tenney if
you happen to be voting Republican.
On each ballot the voter will be asked
to choose two candidates since both
16th district senate seats are open. The
Democrats are offering a field of six
candidates and the Republicans have
three men on the ballot. We feel that
Tenney and Vickery are the two most
acceptable primary candidates to
students, who may or may not wish to
use their other vote.
Vickery is not an ideal candidate, but
the others that are running are even less
ideal. Now a rather photogenic Chapel
Hill lawyer, the 31 -year-old Vickery was
a mediocre student in UNC Law School.
But he is an honest, hard-working man
who helped pay his way through school
by working as a night-watchman at the
Carolina Inn. His campaign leaflet is
purposely vague, the only concrete
measure he advocates being the repeal
This has been one of those campaigns
in which it is very difficult to get people
to vote. One reason has been the
candidates themselves, for the campaign
has largely been dull, failing to capture
people's attention and to get them
involved in the issues.
Another reason is the voting
procedure. The May 7 primary is one
week away from today for many
students after their last exam and after
they have left the campus for the
summer. This procedure has caused
much confusion, so some have just said
to themselves, "The hell with it all."
If you are going to be gone by May 7
and you still want to vote, but up until
this time you have failed to mail away
for an application for an absentee
ballot, you still have two courses of
action available.
Seth Effron
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Even the most casual observer of the
past session of the North Carolina
General Assembly would agree our
public servants sold the state down the
river.
The legislature defeated a landlord
tenant law designed to give tenants a
better relationship with their landlords.
They also watered down the Coastal
Management bill beyond recognition.
If these actions haven't proven the
importance of the need for vocal and
responsive legislators in Raleigh,
nothing will.
Orange County has been blessed by
having state legislators who are
responsive. Trish Hunt and Ed Holmes
serve as islands of virtue in a sea of
mediocrity. Their service should be
rewarded by re-election.
The State Senate race is a different
matter. Neither representative in the
Sixteenth Senatorial District is seeking
re-election. Lonnie Coleman, from
Hillsborough, is indeed a representative
the citizens of Orange County will miss.
His seat and the seat of Bill Saunders
must be filled by candidates who will
stand up for honesty, decency and
fairness in government. These are a set
of basics that were sorely missing in the
past General Assembly.
In the Democratic primary there is a
field of five candidates. Two of the
candidates can be eliminated right off;
one because he's unknown and has not
primary
Durham's progressive delegation in Raleigh.
Hobby has spent the last 10 years trying to
improve things in N.C. politics and his
campaign forgovernorin 1972 brought fresh
air, although the big boys are still dishonest.
Perhaps the most heated race in Chatham
County is for the school board. In the last
two weeks of voter registration, over 600
blacks signed up to vote and support the
candidacy of Charles Samuels for the
County School Board in Chatham. Samuels
is the first black candidate to ever run in
Chatham and wants to represent a group
of people Who have been left out of
Chatham's government.
I've gotten some flak for writing
endorsements some people say an elected
official should not get involved in other
people's campaigns, that this will hurt him in
the future. Besides, it just isn't done.
The criticism assumes a public official's
sole responsibility is to himself. I believe the
most important thing is to get things
changed now, and not to keep quiet so I can
run for something in 76.
If it angers some people and I lose next
time around, then so be it. Politicians
refusing to say anything are the rightful
cause of a lot of the apathy that is going
around this year.
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of Terry Sanford's sales tax on food. But
a consistent theme in his campaign is
refusal to bow to special interests, which
would be a nice change in the state
General Assembly.
Vickery does not seem to be as close
to the UNC administration as his
primary opponent, Carl Smith, which
could be a drawback for the University.
But Vickery's independence is on the
whole quite admirable. Smith, an older
man and veteran of the 1971 General
Assembly, is on the board of the Central
Carolina Bank and is a clever politician,
with most of the pejorative
connotations of that word. We found it
hard to believe when he claimed that
banks and utilities had almost no
lobbying forces in Raleigh.
Ed Tenney, 51, is a very smart and
personable real-estate agent in Chapel
Hill. A former Democrat, Tenney
switched to the GOP to help further
black civil rights while he lived in
By this time, it is too late to start the
procedure of mailing for an application
in the mail, waiting for the application
and sending it back, waiting for the
ballot and sending it back. It's too many
times through the mail to complete the
process by the deadline.
Now, you will either have to stay
around in Chapel Hill until May 7 to
vote in person, or you can go over to the
Board of Elections Office in the Old
Courthouse in Hillsborough tomorrow,
Wednesday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to noon
or from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., in person to go
through the whole procedure.
When you have filled out the
application in person (a friend cannot
do this for you), you will be given the
ballots. Tomorrow at 6 p.m. is the
deadline by state law for applying.
message to Raleigh
overcome it, the other due to his
inability to develop any organization for
himself throughout the district.
Benjamin Swalin isa newcomer to
politics, and has not had much luck in
getting his name or his ideas known. He
has made some effort to grab the student
vote and says the right things, but
without much depth. The fact that
people don't feel they know him will
hurt at the polls. The same is true of Joe
Monroe from Moore County. He's not
known in Chapel Hill and does not seem
to have made much effort at making
himself known. Thus he will reap what
he has sown: not too many votes from
students because he has made no effort
to get their vote.
Carl Smith and Charles Vickery have
been campaigning hard for the student
vote. Both have had extensive ad
campaigns in the Tar Heel. Smith has
advertised the support of former student
leaders and members of the University
administration. But he has made no real
effort to back up his appeal to students
with action. Smith can be remembered
for bowing to community pressures at
election time in 1972, and evicting
Adam and Eve, the contraceptive
boutique. Smith voted to raise the out-of-state
tuition to its sky-high rate when
he was in the legislature in 1971. He
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turn of mind, Tenney is Hard to classify
as a liberal or a conservative. But he is
witty and candid, two of the rarer traits
in politicians, and can be counted on to
make up his mind in the best interests of
his constituency.
In many ways the most interesting
end likable candidate in either party is
Ben Swalin, an elderly Democratic
educator and musician. Both Mr.
Swalin (pronounced swah-leen) and his
wife are refreshingly honest and open
individuals who have given much of
their lives to the improvement of music,
the arts, and education in North
Carolina, but a wider range of interests
is needed in a good state senator.
Both Vickery and Tenney have their
faults, one being an uncertain liberal
and the other a headstrong independent,
but they seem to represent the best
combination of honesty, ability and
concern available to the voters this year.
After that, the deadline for the
elections board to receive the ballots is 6
p.m. Monday, May 6, the day before the
primary. Ballots should be in the mail by
Friday to ensure delivery, unless you
want to hand carry the ballot to
Hillsborough on Monday.
There is one final step to be taken
before the ballots may be mailed or
handed in, and that is to have them
notarized. Student Government is
sponsoring a free notary service from 3
5 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays
with additional hours from 7-9 p.m. on
Tuesdays through Thursdays and on
Saturday, May 4, from 10a.m. to 1 p.m.
in Suite C of the Union.
If you've thought about., voting
absentee, you'll soon be passing the last
opportunity.
really isn't the liberal he pretends to be.
This leaves Charles Vickery and
Russell Walker. These two are the best
choices; for- the - State Senate
nomination. Vickery is a Chapel Hill
lawyer and a member of the same firm as
Lonnie Coleman. His programs are
outstanding and he has made a point of
seeing that students know about them.
He has appeared on campus talking
with students, and soliciting their views.
He wants to end the states' food tax,
press for correction reform and
campaign spending limitation. Vickery
deserves the support of students and he
will be responsive to their comments
and suggestions once he is in office.
Lastly, there is Russell Walker, who is
the frontrunner in the race according to
an article in the North Carolina Anvil.
As a delegate to the 1963 Democratic
National Convention he supported the
anti-war platform which was killed by
the Daley-Humphrey-Johnson gang of
party regulars. Russell Walker is one of
those rare individuals who will not only
stand up for what he believes is the best
interest of the people of North Carolina,
but will work for what he believes.
In the final analysis voters May 7 will
see Russell Walker and Charles Vickery
are far and away the best people for the
job.