Volume 89, Issue No. 7
Thursday, July 10, 1980
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By Bill Peschel
Sixty-two percent of Orange County
residents voted for Jimmy Carter in the 1976
presidential race.
Now, a litde less than five months before the
1980 general election, the Democrats,
Republicans and the Independents for
Anderson are getting ready each believing
they can carry the county.
After collecting more than 10,000 peti don
signatures to. put Anderson's name on the
North Carolina ballot, his supporters are
trying to raise money to keep his candidacy
alive.
Mark Dodd, a radio, television and motion
pictures major at UNC, is one of two full-time
workers at Anderson's state office in Durham.
"In July," he said, "we'll have fundraisings,
cocktail parties and such, just to get people and
friends to contribute.".
From a pool of 60 to 70 volunteers, a few
come in each day and "mail out fund-raising
packets, do secretarial duties and basically take
care of traffic," he said. "Our duties change
every week."
Dodd said Anderson's support comes from a
wide variety of people. "At , the convention
(held in Research Triangle Park to nomiaate ; in theiaU, gQoor-jtoDQ.r jencouraging people
Anderson) we had people i -every backgrouna7 -to vote tor theerjgcratie-ti:
every race. It was a real mix.
The critical time for the campaign, Dodd
said, will be in September. "We think about
Labor Day, John Anderson will be on most of
the ballots; at a watershed where most of the
people will be taking a look at him."
Dodd said Anderson is very popular on the
UNC campus. During the May petition drive,
"UNC was the only organization that really
held together after school let out," Dodd said.
He organized the UNC group.
They also hope to draw support from
students and people who do not represent the
traditional . voter "someone who John
Anderson would appeal to," Dodd said.
The South, as a region, would be very
- difficult to win, he said, but Anderson has a
good chance to win in four states: North
Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee.
"North Carolina is very much in the game
plan," Dodd said. .
The Democrats, under chairman
Anderson Little, are getting organized at the
precinct level. "Actually," Little said, "we
started planning this last August, with
seminars for our precinct officers, to help them
organize their registration books and card files.
"We'll be involved with block organizations,
choosing block captains, canvasing, and then
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Initially, this will be handled by precinct
At local post offices '
captains responsible for making lists of
potential democratic voters in their areas and
making sure they vote, Little said. "1 hey are
the nuts and bolts," he said.
Those volunteers come from many
backgrounds, Little said. "Ken Mclntyre has
just retired from the University. We have a
foreign-service diplomat living in Eastside,
somebody in computer science in Estes Hills.
Basically, they are people who have been
Democrats for some time. But we're going to
need a lot of volunteers."
This reorganization probably will last until
the first of September. 'The first thing farthest
along (by then) will be fund raising," he said.
"We're going to do a precinct fund raising,
collecting $120 per precinct, and with 35
precincts that is going to be our basic party
funding. - ;
"In the final result," Litde said, "I think the
Democratic ticket is going to sweep Orange
County. I know there is some dissatisfaction
with Jimmy Carter, but I think in the long run
the alternative is just not that good. I think
Orange County is strongly Democratic, and I
can't see them going Independent. I can't see
them going Republican."
He said that Anderson will have some
influence "in the southern part of the county
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By Marc Barnes
Draft registration for men born in. 1960 and 1961 is
scheduled for July 21-Aug. 2. Registration will be held
during regular business hours at any post office, post
office officials said.
Ironically, the registration takes place almost exactly 1 1
years after the first troops were brought, home from
Southeast Asia in President Richard Nixon's de-escalation
effort.
There is no draft at the present time, and until recently,
the federal agency which oversees the draft was operating
with a handful of employees. Congress recently approved
funds to revitalize the Selective Service System.
President Carter, in his 1980 State of the Union Message,
said he hoped it would not be necessary to impose a
military draft, but that the United States must begin
registration and then meet future mobilization needs,
should they arise.
Registration is the collection of names and addresses of
people who might be called to serve in the event of an
emergency. No physical examinations or classifications
are involved in the process. No one is being inducted for
military service this time.
The Selective Service intends to use a three-month
breakdown of birthdays which will correspond to different
days during the week, to simplify the. registration process
and help prevent long lines at the Post Office. Also, those
See DRAFT on page 2
eer-drinking con be beneficial to health
By Lisa Goldfarb
Beer, glorious beer! What's life without a
pint or three to tantalize the palate and oil
the speech tubes? And the euphoria
produced by quaffing the amber fluid has
produced masterpieces of verse and has
provoked inspiration for many a term
paper as the midnight oil burns low.
So much for the aesthetic benefits of this
truly marvelous beverage. But can they
overcome the stigma of idle lounging that
beer drinking has been burdened with by
our less enlightened ancestors?
No, you say, and sadly shake your head.
Beer makes you fat, and makes you lazy,
and in every respect makes you prey for the
devil's machinations. So you say. Sigh.
But no. Now,, when your puritan
professor chastises you for indulging your
appetitive urges instead of strapping
yourself into his onerous assignment; you
can look him in the eye and sneer. Loudly.
For beer, say those medical wizards who
have brought us so much bad news in the
past, is good for you.
In fact, some physicians sometimes
prescribe a daily alcoholic beverage to their
elderly patients in order to prevent kidney
stones. Surely you don't want kidney
stones. That's one chill bottle right there.
Robert J. Hazelgrove, a third-year UNC
dental student, states that a certain amount
of alcohol prevents the accumulation of
plaque in the arteries, a condition which
can lead to heart attacks. This dreadful
prospect is worth at least another
stimulating stirrup cup.
Amanda Sloop, a senior nutrition major,
explains that a moderate amount of
alcohol "increases the high density lipid
level, the best form of cholesterol to have in
the body." In hopes of building up the
good old high density lipid level, another
dram of delight, please.
A beer a day may also "replace lost elec
trolytes (liquid ionic conductors)," notes
Steven S. Gubin, a senior chemistry major.
So if you get sweaty walking to the bar, be
sure to have an extra swig to keep those
electrolytes perking right along.
The clincher, that one heavenly fact that
any professor, however crabby, must bow
to, is the fact that "moderate drinkers (one
drink per day) have a longer life expectancy
than either hearty drinkers or total
abstainers," according to Sparky Carpenter
of the North Carolina Center for Alcohol
Studies. '
There you have it, an arsenal of facts
guaranteed to wither the righteous in
dignation of any militant teetotaler. The
accumulated information assures you of
perhaps a six-pack of liquid gold, all in the
interest of health, of course.
So next time you embark on a
bacchanalia, courtesy of the medical
profession, be sure to pour a libation to
those cheeky devils in their laboratories.
Inside
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Young furniture maker
finds success. See page 8.
Highland Games are this
weekend. See page 9.
Summer movies fizzle.
See page 10.
The week at a glance. See
page 15.
Cuban refugees not likely
to settle here. See page 16.