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Carter Must Now Follow Talk
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The Alvin Sun Encourages
Your Letters-To-The-Editor
to retire Gerald Ford.
Mr. Carter seems likely to retain those
voters by wrapping himself in the flag
and sequestering himself in the Rose
- Garden. Excepting an unbroken string
of victories by margins exceeding 70
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' Open Letter To Thief
School Senior Asks For Purse
Committee in the U.S. House of
Representatives has proposed:
Even though his slices in urban aid
and the range of other programs that
appeal to traditional Democratic voters -
- labor, minorities, the aged and poor -
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Well, it is official.
After many weeks of intense campaigning and two elections, the
Alvin City Council is back in business with the, three incumbents
who stood for re-election all returned tooffice.
- The three, Loyce Crouch, Doyel Raney and Hugh Adams, all
survived serious challenges from opponents in order to be returned
to their positions by the voters of Alvin. -
We congratulate all three. ,
The city of Alvin faces tremendous thallenges over the course of
the next year
It is going to fake team work, dedication and cooperation to
make positive accomplishments.
We offer our support to the entire Alvin City Council as it goes
about the job of solving some of these key problems.
The Alvin Sun received a call this week from an interested
citizen who is not quite satisfied with our electoral system.
•n his call, he indicated disbelief that because he was going to
vote in the Republican Primary - perhaps because of the
Presidential Primary - he could not vote in the sheriff's race which
is being contested In the Democratic Primary *
When informed that he had the option of skipping the Republican
primary this time around and voting Instead In the Democratic
Primary, he replied something to the effect that it would be a long
day before he'd vote Democratic.
Wonder if that is an indication that even Brazoria County is
edging just a little closer toa two-party system?
Washington
Carter Budget III, as expected, cuts
heavily from aid to local governments
and to the disadvantaged, the very
groups quickest to jump on the Carter
bandwagon this year. At the same time,
the Department of Defense, which now
accounts for 25 percent of all Federal
spending, will enjoy the greatest share
of the few proposed spending increases
in the new Carter budget and the lowest
levels of cuts.
November s Democratic voters may
face a Jimmy Carter pledged to support
the fiscal conservatism that has
propelled Ronald Reagan to his party’s
nomination.
Or they may see a Carter born-yet-
again, adopting Kennedy’s Campaign
thesis to insure the return of scattered
Democratic voters to the Carter fold.
It’s hard to say. F rom his pro and anti-
abortion positions in Iowa’s Catholic
precincts in 1976 to his yes-no con-
demnation of Israel in 1980, Carter has
shown a political ambidexterity even
Jerry Brown would envy
Four years ago, a Georgia friend
argued*that Jimmy Carter merited
support because of all the federal
money he’ll® bring back home.” My
friend assumed that more than a fair
share of these tax dollars would be spent
on human service programs that would
benefit our state’s large, poor, black
population.
Last week, Georgia Gov. George
Busbee announced that Carter budget
cuts would slice $100 million in federal
funds from the state treasury. The. city
of Atlanta anticipates losing $5.4 million
of its $141 million annual budget, along
with 154 of the city’s 550 Comprehensive
Employment and Training Act jobs and
$2.1 million of the city’s share of crime
prevention funds from the law En-
forcement Assistance Administration
The list of other city cuts provide a
percent in the remaining races, Ken-
nedy’s forces will be reduced to fighting
symbolic battles over rules and platform
at the. nominating convention. The
Peanut Brigaders will celebrate another
triumph of style over substance.
But the Kennedy campaign has other
worth as well. Congress will design a
budget that fits between expected in-
As many of you read this editorial, there is an excellent chance
you will have neglected an important respmosibility of citizenship
today.
The responsibility of voting.
Saturday is primary day in Texas and both Republican and
Democrats have an opportunity to make important decisions in
contested elections.
In the Democratic Party, critical decisions will be made at the
local level in the races for Conservation and Reclamation District
positions.
In addition, hotly contested races for district attorney and county
sheriff positions have been prominent in the news.
There's a key battle to determine the Democratic Party
nominees for Congress and State Senate. Both of these will face
Republican opposition in the November general election.
I n addition, there are statewide offices to be determined. ,
The point of all this is that as you .sit and read this editorial.
Democracy is at work all around you.
if you haven't voted, please do so before 7 p.m.
Don't let the closing of the polls find you on the outside of this
important election. •
prescription for urban blight $1.2
million to restore parks $300,000 in
housing rehabilitation funds, $1 million
•. in umployment programs, $200,000 for
rapid transit, $680,000 for the Board of
Education.
Kennedy's primary votes should grow
as cuts like these begin to draw blood.
And the lesson should be sent - to
Congress and the White House - that
Ronald Reagan has too strong a claim
on the selfish side of government to
tolerate Jimmy Carter moving in.
are less severe than those put forward
by the House. Mr Carter will bear the
brunt of reaction from those who feel
abandoned by the party of the New Deal
and Great Society.
These regular Democrats overcame
initial suspicion of the born-again ex-
governor of Georgia in 1176 to give his
failing campaign the margin he needed
The Alvin Sun will sponsor a Southerh Kitchens Cooking School
on Thursday, May 15 at Marguerite Edwards Auditorium.
For Alvin, homemakers, the school will provide a great op-
portunity to become familiar with interesting new recipe concepts.
Two home economists will conduct the two hour school. The
stage of Marguerite Edwards Auditorium will be set up just like a
kitchen with appliances which will be used during the preparation
of the food.
In addition, hundreds of dollars worth of free door prizes will be
given away including a grand prize - details of which will be an-
nounced in Wednesday's edition of The Alvin Sun.
The point for Alvin homemakers to consider is that the cooking
school is absolutely free to them. It is a public service by The Alvin
Sun, Southern Kitchens' and local participating rerchants.
At this point, advance free tickets are available at The Plant
Factory, Stanton's Shopping Center, Alvin Home & Auto, Bud
Brown Ford, Ed Nesrsta Jewelers, Wickes Lumber and West
Brothers stores. -----
Free tickets will also be available the night of the cooking school
but seating will be on a first come, first served basis*
The Alvin Sun encourages you to be there.
We are confident, because our people have planned and seen
these shows in other areas, that you will enjoy every minute of it.
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candidates’ popularity, Bush was the
unexpected winner after spending 38
days campaigning in the state.
. Reagan's infrequent forays into Iowa
became an issue in that contest, a
potential problem he promptly resolved
by substantially increasing the number
of personal appearances in New
Hampshire - where he trounced Bush in
the primary
In the primary here in Pennsylvania,
Bush again achieved a surprising vic-
tory after spending 14 consecutive days
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Personalized campaigning is not, by
itself, the key to victory for a contender
in a major political race, especially in a
heavily populated state like Penn-
sylvania.
That’s why candidate travel schedules
often are constructed to reach several
“media markets” in a single day - so
television and radio stations and
newspapers can convey to voters the
message that the politician cared
enough to visit their home town.
In addition, paid advertising remains
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Invariably leading that list is
television advertising, followed. by other
depersonalized approaches such as
telephone banks, computerized mass
mailings and stands on issues tailored to
the results' of public opinion surveys.
But in this year’s contest- for the
Republican presidential nomination, the
• two most striking upsets scored by in-
surgent George Bush against front-
runner Ronald Reagan have come in
states where Bush devoted an inordinate
amount of his own time to campaigning
in person a
in Iowa. where precinct caucuses
provided' the ■ year’s first test of the
their minds about which candidate prior
to the last week of the campaign.
Among those voters, Reagan slightly
favored over Bush and Kennedy was tied
with Carter.
But among the remaining one-third of
the voters who waited until the final
week to decide - when the two in- •
surgents had taken up temporary
residence in the state - Kennedy was
favored by a 52-36 margin and Bush was
preferred by an even wider 63-31
margin: .
An open letter to a thief, easily returned. If you felt you needed
' Yes, even though the purse was lost I the 820 more than a graduating senior,'
consider it stolen. With 100 graduation You could have gladly kept that. It's the
calling cards, drivers license and other senior picture of her friends and other
identification it could have been so things that cannot be replaced we would
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come and anticipated revenue. The
debate over which programs may be cut
and which will actually Weed will test
whether Kennedy’s liberal economics -
separated from association with his
candidacy - will have a hearing in
immediately prior to election day
traversing the state
Reagan originally planned to spend
only portions of two days here. then
'belatedly added appearances on
Saturday and Sunday prior to the
Tuesday balloting - but (hat effort ap-
parently was too little too late
in the race for the Democratic .
presidential nomination.. Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy. D-Mass., similarly
achieved his most striking victories over
PresidentCarter in the two primaries
where he virtually lived in the state for a
week or more prior to election day -
New York and Pennsylvania
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Time To Vote.
By ROBERT WALTERS
VALLEY FORGE, PA. (NEA) - The
contenders in the current presidential
race have successfully revived a
political technique that in recent years
has been in danger of becoming a lost art
- campaigning in person.
Devoting weeks of the candidates'
time to actually meeting and talking
with voters may not appear to be an
especially revolutionary approach to
campaigning, but in some quarters that
old-fashioned concept has long been out
of favor
Many of the professional managers
and consultants who gained substantial
influence in the political process during
the 1960s and 1970s have derided the
nation as inefficient, irrelevant and
outdated. .
Personal campaigning may be
suitable for candidates seeking lesser
offices and representing smaller con-
stituencies. they argue, but contenders
for the presidency ought to use more
modem techniques
still like to have back. If you have hot
disposed of the purse and other contents,
please drop it by one of the news papers
or schools, no questions asked.
Thank you,
S- Mrs- C. Lewis Gerlovich
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a crucial element of a successful
statewide campaign Here in Penn-
sylvania. for instance, Bush spent an
estimated $1 million, approximately half
of which was used to purchase time for
television commercials, while Reagan’s
total campaign budget was only about
$250,000. .
The impact of extensive personal
campaigning is reflected, in part, in the
results of public opinion surveys of i
voters as they leave their polling
stations.
An ABC News poll found, for example,
that about two-thirds of all participants
in the Pennsylvania primary made up
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By JULIAN BOND
WASHINGTON (NEA) - The
president has set himself adrift in a
small, leaky boat
Ai the principal patron of tailoring *
government spending to match
government income, Jimmy Carter .
must now pay the political price for the
cuts in social programs the Budget
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Looney, Richard. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 192, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 4, 1980, newspaper, May 4, 1980; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493484/m1/4/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.