Valentine Seeks Unity in Party (Raleigh News & Observer)
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July 29, 1982

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-a *DrE-ry o€ slrt $6t 6tErr( tc!(It.AsserttnB ttrst the teniporar-v eoursc would demonstrale I.bc in trerest in a permanent ohe, Tomasino said there are ifir F risbe€ golf cours.s in Ihrr llnited States. inctu<liug an lB-holt,cour:\(: e^_s tablrr,hcd trl tho Forsvth County parks dr:l,irtnir..nt 'Ihe gamtr is "playcd just like qolf," 'iirmasino tolrl thc prr:u:l "oxcept )rru U:iC a [.'rist,ee instead rif a grilf ball arrd trr.{:s tOr i,lll(,r ob;r:ett r jnstead rii hrrlcs.".Iht'advr.sory l>,oard askerl Ihe parks and rccreatirrlr staif Ir.r re. vicw the rtlea. pfcator'rrptnas F L. Mo<rrr. said iloOre Wednr.sdav in an interr'iew. itoore. '.{'iro has held thr tibrar.r. pxr.-rt. si111.6' Octoi:er, r.rrl!s his Il.r:r Vrnl,entiru* ' seeles unityChicf sayri vagrant problenr l.o stay i #;hl:dlifftlliiriil$:dit#,#jxvifl;,H,* *fi i in p arty Wednesday. ' I -- -' F "Unfortrrnatelv. that's.a pmbtem which always.is going tr tn * .n#"*;,".;11*]*,",with us," Ueineman told the'Comprehensive planningt,lmhlttec $ f .1,. ,.Tim,, Valentine, the Dern-during a discussion of oroblems r6lateA to Hillsboiouflh Sh;t . E ocratie nominee in the 2nd Con-The chief said stati taw protrlUiG rh; "il;t;i-p&,b['*"e.uty fr gressional District. labeled his Re-forpublie drunkenness. ' t "certainly if these $treet oeoole are tresoassinE. or slpeniap , 3*l::*..lpP-1qi!^ll9.,l'-c.-gt"t-"certainly if these $treet peopte are rrespassing or steepins I fii;iAil[r.[,ia'ililt]:*"il'ltil', :*:,:i?9g!.Hl!LJgi,.q.:! rI,,:"',';he saii.. ;'sut triatG I and rried ro hear the wounds rromnotgoingtocuretheorotlem,becausethe.v:llmovearound." - ! r,iJ .r""ri'ri-"to.y'or". H.M.Heineman said the police department tis i il.ooo budeet to find E ..*r,^.--.,,' r.ri-L^..- r-,of:ffffiifii.ff l""Tl"rt*r3l.iill}:'" $r'000 budget to rind fi "u+;i;;i,rt"t,iiii.- . fi";;iic6;fi; JiLv peonr"w"r,o a1e a1u* to spend.the nigrrt E ,rlr'lr"L}ru;:mm*:i,:ffIln the pollce station in dre inunicip:] building. he'sairt, o.liLu E ttp"" i,r-U""i,ii;iie'th; sbte,s firstthem to the detnxilication center at w"tu couiiill"Jii} c"i,t"r f ulu"L - congressman in B0 yearsifthe.peoplearewilling. il -o* rrrcrr.,lazr in r\r^-r^-.r_ _..- : ;";;Jtdgtrffiitr il1TlHT:,*m,.has nor been deart wth, E ffi :JIHS', i|.-"ftffi t{i,,Iil 3q1i:l-.Rgputrlican John w. }lN.C.credltunionopen8newoffi".$,]x,g#,hm**t,tlx.n..ur"r.yiu'**'ffi,"#mr ilffiiffi,m,ffi,*hT**ffiffi#ffi I i ? lt arxr a scparate-trura$ aO ininisira - tion hurlding could begin ncxt year Tirr: offire burlding, lwo re- gionai !ihrarir',r, a l)ew branch Ii- hr;lry al (lrabtrct, valk'r, aruj a gave out of the bntiri---t'stfi,-iil; in lVake County." he said. County eommissioner Betty Ann Knudsen - ruho ralled }Ioore's proposal "rninrl [*;gi;ling" -- said !il&ty atencles sucn as atncu- tural extension. The l98o Goldhor study proposed a l:,0.(Xm square-foot central li. 5e e W,AXE, page l2C ,ffiIffiffiffi.ffiffiffiffiffiffi'Hffiffiiffi, if srr'i.urlih;;i]:fililfit.i#ffirt er nan(urns tne vorume i; ham lanler ind formcr Duke uni- years. '.vida"bett€iservic6andaconvenienuoeation.X offtce ucruld prc' I i:lt:'I-::'d ili#i;;rl-b;.i*' - ry, dmf&trmff st,* gffi-dlt*-iiii*,i" ! T,,"tr,-*:.*:yr,* ffi,Hffiro+:*q* {ti:fl"*t ffiffirererrtnglo histome-ir6m-uerrtnri rv against^the cdGsfi;'ail-b -fi'a terepho"" bfyg:r1y.a3l A:Hir:THS$:l"iH,iTJ:Hnrnoff victory over Michaux. candidate,,' he saidl said, ,,I'miot in tauor of in, tai vor wrrr6 s (,ur eongnessiona valentine'ofNashville,alawyer TtreNationalCongressionalClub incr6ase." Ce saia itrjdte. b, Strrtrlxtlo a, X.rvt Lrtrcrr Statf plloto DI tany ,lorarlnili \r- Ef nFrfult shy away fro* queries nominalion. ''l just rrall]' don't ;;; #.crv. .rame*s B. ttunt rr. Hi l,.^f' tit& uoting split in judgeship race Liottr t.hc u,inne.r nt,1, lo:y..j: pa1,ne had wide nrargins in scv hyill:n;,,ifll"t i3l[" ffllxH :1fl""ir",,"xlr:i!,1 gs ^,n, #ff#*lJ ;[*.il"J,fi 'il iilTT:[t m'ulmt*fi Hi:Xi"h*t "'?.?.t :t'J::lili';, **n,,r*r,n{ tffiI"*il"':r;.,.:*; ::fj W+je1qr," said L.l'Y. "trlike' white, who won the ?:nryI.: remarliuaee,*osappoinri.otoine ffi---o' -11'.';"'i:i"*i: I*0, e.ur"s5 UJi1;3X;ffi:r#1il:Hll:,t'xu;, l said she had campaign:.d lof .t+e ieeatcommunirywhosaidprivaie- ,., -. ."',4',, judgeship "on the basis.that I'd be it"rht i;ia ttiui ;uag" W'ard did ... .; , ,. . ffni.tt,g,:ff"?'ilj"X"1li-i"U; :*li:rlriF;itiltriu,r :;i:i,r ';, ':,:i!: ":;{ votes from all the people of Wake Uencfr. - lYard ' payne James M. O'Reilly, a eampaign Oounty." consultant for Michau:t, said an es- According to unofficial tdlies, r: 1. I . J.r! r r . tirnated 60 percent of black Demo- Payne, an issistant distriet atmil FOfmef Lee Shefilf IOSgS bid crats and 55 percent of the whites ney, won ?3 of the county's 88 pre. voted in the primary. cirrcts, getting 13,702 votes, or ti:!.4 o I - . . oo .,rhet's an astonishinely hieh 5;"";f ; iuale-wirais ?,883 tOf f€'€l€CtiOn iff fUnott VOte rate," he said. "It thoyj {olt* 'irig"Warddrewalargevotein SANE'OBD-Fonnerl.eeCor1n- had3,2fllyotestoHolt's2,/sl. when.you have race.in a North tr,i-ffirirt eieht p"edohinantry tySheriff HaroldR.Thomas,who Hot't'a win tuesaay ii tant"- Carolina campaign, things begin bi;d-;il;"i;%'r6|iil ili-# ri9ig."d his pnl! h March amid mount-to election, 6ecause he to h9p' first r;riilii,l ror- "*"mpf", -Jn ale[ations of official misconduct tac"s no opposition in the Novem- "Black turnout went upl wlt!!9 il;#i-tt"rrri"r,voieaairviary ard-semal harassment,-tras tost U*s"nerdltlection. turnout.went up. But there arejust i:. Ffriifip" 'Scfroof . she polled idZ his bid for re-election. tn ttre runoff primary for three morewhitevotersthanbla.gk..': .. ,itiJt"F-"*,i;riliii'pi"di""t-2, James S. Hott, a former chief searsontheLedCountyBoardof About 36 petcent of.the district's il;" 6;'Jil; .oi-d;e&;,i deputy in the department, defeat- ComnriisionJ.s, itro apparenr registeredvotersarebl_1".I:._- __,,^ iil;i@;w"ri-tiooziu*erto eo'thomas by i vote of '{,{?G to yrnngrs were *mocretsbertha As examples-gf-thg rac.ially split ifilL;rz. 3,{21, accordilng to unofficiat re- L. "I}ert" Matthews, 5,081 voteE; vote, in an all'black Edgecombe ' jrit; Ward also won six mosgy turrri trom Tuefday's Democratic Jerry M. Almond, {,564; and John C'ounty precinct, th9 turnout.was ",[i-tJ"pr""incG, Uut the margini nrlo!{or1mary.- R. "iack" Dosseirbach, {,53s. All *#i".,,lH"fr#jillu,1x1,l:1, ;;;r6i;;;e;. --' In th'e June 2e primary, rtomas were rhe top finishers in June. ""ll*oor*ffir#'I"##'* Fear of tax hike, soggy yearpercent. Vdentine got Michaux's 19{. blamed for leafs low:prices f].S. IIouse Sntt IlisrrilI TP PR -€'*v3u,= aEt*9aicl COUNTY Caswcll Drrham l- lgecombc Granvillt' Halifax Johnston Nash Petson Vancc 1{arren l,Yilson 14 l{ ?aig 31]8 $ $ I;s{0 1r}750 x0 m 59s iPr," l8 l8 ;9t3 rl3&t 30 30 il{5 ffg$ 2 2 l3? ;132 2{ 2{ {r0 8{t82 l{ t{ t635 ?l(5 16 t6 3{,15 '18,10r{ 14 v% 2A16 z3 23 {6511 8{Bl TO'I.AL 219 2r9 8tW?4 'W2 Valentine seeks unity in hout with Ntrarin t.otlr;tt:t tl lrottt pt,yit ll' ilirl;rtcl, Antorr;1 the rr-t t.lrttorr'.; :rirr,,):irlr':i arr. lht r'lull arrd llr ftr puhli< nn Nat ron;il Crrrnmil.l r:t:. 'l'irr. Ilelrris; rtrganizction rs lx. p/i(:tr,(i to lrr-, invulved deeply in tu,o other campaigrrs against. fiemo- r:ratic irururnbents in Eastr:r'rr Nrrrl h Carolina -. William rN. Co. ircy of Chapcl Hill vs. Rep. Ikc F. Andrcrvs of Cary in the 4th Dis- trict, and Eugenc "Red" McDan- iel of Buies Creek vs. Itep. Charles 0. Whitley of Mount Olive in the 3rd Distrir:t. .larnes Cain, the club's deputy director, said Wednesday that the organization was a "a little 5rrrpriscd" by Valentine's win, but ''t.hat docs not in any way discourage the prospects for Mirr- in. " State GOP Chairman David T. Flahcrty expressed sharper disap. pointment that lVlichaux would not bc the nominee. "We nould have preferred Mar- in again.:t Itlichaux because that would have becn a classical liberal ts. conservative," he said. l,ast week, Flaherty mailed out 2,3ffi fund-raising letters in thc dis- trrct saying that I{ichaux was like. ly to u'in the Democratic contest. The Republi< an chief said he thought Valentrne's conservatrve credentials could be questioned. "We're going to have to make it t'lear that the real Reagan conser- vative is Jack Marin," Flaherty Bdid. Marin said he was "slightly *uprised" by the outcome of the rlnoff, adding that there may have been "tactical" advantages to running against Michaux. But lre also expressed "great re- lief" that hc would not have to campaign against a black candi. date, experiencing the same "ra- t'tlil ri'.'t'rlrrrrf:," tlr;,i rriirki'rl tlic l)r l niir.r' ('(),ll r)r,l . 'lir r,lrtru!.t; rrf r,:ilrt ,r," ttI-,tr, ('.rrrrlrarl_li ivtirkcr:,. }1it'hirtrl satd lt a I)tirlrant Jlgqi'v: 1i;11f1s1'gncr: tliat Valcntinc also llrust rcprcsent ''thr. 50,(tfl) pl'rlArosslve lirlks rvho vr.rtcd for me.'' Arry dtcision to en- rlorsc Valentine would be made ai- tt:r discussion with Democratic I'arty' lcaders, hc said. Valtrrtine said hc would not tailor his platform to woo Mi- chaux, and hc claimed hc already was getting support from the lvli- chaux camp. "l think I can win without his support," Valent,ine said. "But I dorr't want to win without his sup- port. " High turnout marked the runoff voting, with almost 56 perc:ent of the registered Democrats in the district going tr) the polls. That topped the firsL prirnary level of 5{ percent. The number of white voters rose markedly. And many voters who had backed the third-place prima- ry finisher, James E. Ramsey of Roxboro, shifted to Valentine. While he won only two eounties in the prinrary. Valentine carricd seven in the runoff. Valentine took Casrvell, Person, Granville, Vance, Nash, Wilson and Halifax counties. He also car- ried O'Neals Township in Johnston County, which was added to the district in recent reapportionment. Michaux, who won six eounties in the primary, carried only three in the runoff - Durham, Warren, and Edgecombe. Like the primary, in which Mi- chaux led with 4"1 percent to Valen- tine's 33 percent of the vote, the runoff saw widespread bloc vot- rn8. In a predominan0y black Dur- ham precinct, the turnout was 6l percent, with 1,315 going to Mi. chaux and 15 going to Valentine. . But in a chiefly white Durham pr$ cinct, the turnout was 40 percent. Valentine had 664 votes to Mi- chaux's 251. By NASH HERNDON Ellll wrlter Fears of a higher federal tax on cigarcttes and a rainy.year that C!rus also said, "U that (the higher tax) became law. the ciga- rette manufacturers definitelY would not need as much tobacco." up later this season ar t eiter quati' tj leaves from thld upPer stalk move into the marketplace. IIc said the cooperative had not i. rt