Analysis
duced jby in - cautious voting in i
multiple place races are unclear
even “to some veteran political
■workers. But they can become
bitterly clear to losing candi-!
dates particularly veteran los
ing ones! '
ft works this way. You work >
and vote hard for your first
choice man, and maybe have a i
' second choice, and give your
third vote to Joe Doakes. So do
your friends, but some other
people like Joe Doakes and your
second choice, but not your
first! When the votes are count
ed, you find that you and your
friends have beaten the man you
ieally wanted.
This is what happened to the
anti-ruralzoning committee who
preferred Lee Kennedy, the rel
ative of their chairman, Max
Kennedy. They elected Mr. Smith,
and were indirectly responsible
for the defeat of Kennedy and
Walker * by election of Mr.
Smith.
—1 Let us trace me course of
the campaign to prove this re
sult. As the unrest over the
countywide zoning study grew, it
developed no political direction
except as animosity against the
incumbent commissioners. Mr.
Smith then joined in the anti
zoning committee meetings and
spoke out against rural zoning,
giving the movement a vocal
candidate but still no political
direction. Then the Lake poli
ticians, who would like to win
and rebulid their strength for
”1964 — and who can also work
well when they., have, campaign
* funds to work with — joined the
-coalition. In the county this co
alition supported a Smith-Ken
nedy-Walker ticker; — in Chap
el Hill, Smith, heartily, and
. Walker less heartily. This is
not to say at all that any one
of these gentlemen had support
ed Dr. Lake for it is under sttod
that Mr. Kennedy supported Gov
ernor Sanford.
On the other hnad, the ma
jority of people in the County
Democratic organization, who
were - largely supporers of Gov.
Sanford, had been promoting
Cleveland’s campaign for months.
They gave their support to him
as an active Sanford worker,
and to McDade. who had been
instrumental in inviting the
Governor to address the Cedar
■Grove Ruritan Club before .the
1960 gubenatorial campaign. The
Samford-ites split up between
Kennedy, Jones and Walker for
their third choice.
More money was evident in
this campaign than has been
spent in a county campaign —
even a sheriff’s campaign — in
my memory, Mr. Smith filed a
f preliminary expense account of
$850, afld had heavy advertising,
mailing and radio costs there*,
after. '
Mr. Cleveland filed preliminary
expenses of $172, itself high for
such a race. And he had heavy
mail expense thereafter. And on
election day, there were, accord
ing to my information, 14 paid
drivers working for on© ticket
(The going rate is $35 a day)
along Highway 70-A from Uni
versity precinct thru Hillsboro,
Efland, and Cheeks. 1 saw
eight myself, and one supervis
or.
The results are plain in the
figures. Mr. Cleveland received
practically all his votes from
Sanford supporters and won. Mr.
Smith received 2,382 votes from
Chapel Hill and Carrboro, from
a mixed following, and 1,421
from the rest of the county.
The Smith - Kennedy - Walk
er ticket ran very fast in the old
Lake strong points of University,
Wes: Hillsboro, Efland and
Cheeks precincts. These three
virtually clobbered their three
opponents except that MoDade
got a fair vote in Cheeks.
Had Mr. Smith received the
same number of county voles
as Mr. Cleveland, 508, he would
not have been elected. And if
the 913 other county votes he
received been given to Walker,
Kennedy and MoDade, some
what evenly,, neither Smith nor
Cleveland would have surpassed
their totals.
So it turns out that County
people who oppose Chapel Hill
conrol the Board of Commission
ers, let by the anti-rural zoning
committee and maneuvered by
Orange Pealings
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in several places causing short
circuits and blowing out of fus
es. Primarily affected were
downtown Chapel Hill, E. Rose
mary St., and Pittsboro St.
Westwood areas.
THERE'S BEEN QUITE AN
increase in the issuance of court
warrants against persons who
fail to pay up parking tickets in:
Chapel Hill. This is because of a
newly-inaugurated Police Depart
Lake 'forces, elected one Chapl
Hillian to the. Board and so made
it certain that they could not
defeat the second Chapel * Hill
ian.
ment policy: The first ticket a j
person receives is filed. Five;
days after failure to pay the j
second ticket a warning letter
is sent, and five days later a
warrant is issued. It has been
the practice of the Recorder’s
Court to fine Such offenders, ill
addition to requiring them to
pay the $7.80 costs of court and
the one-dollar parking tickets.
LOOKING AT THE CONTEM
porary-architecture new hotel
proposed for W. Franklin St.
(see front page picture), the view
er will not get the effect of a
large expanse of glass, accord
ing to its designers. Although
the rooms will have floor to ceil
ing glass- walls, they’ll be recess
ed several feet inwards from the
stone facing of the exterior walls
behind individual room balcon
ies, thus giving an open, but not
a “stark” effect—or so the de
signers declare.
MARIE LEON, CLERICAL
employee at the UNC Medical
School and a recent refugee from
Havana, is cooperating with a
Cuban parents’ project to try to
find temporary homes for young
Cuban children in this country.
Many Cuban parents — she ex
plained — are simply putting
their babies on Miami-bound
planes, with the hope they’ll be
cared for better in this country.
Several persons in Chapel Hill •
have already expressed interest
in this foster parent plan. Infor
mation may be obtained from
Srita. Leon through the office of
Dr. Georgs Fenick.
Most Likely To Succeed
will come from
J. B. Robbins
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