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REPUBLIC MAIL The Arizona Republic Wednesday, May 9, 1984 Helms, N. Carolina governor in Senate fight I A Indiana executive to be challenged by state lawmaker Aocited Press Republican Jesse Helms and Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt easily won primaries in North Carolina on Tuesday, setting up a multimillion-dollar battle for Helms' U.S. Senate seat Indiana Gov. Robert Orr captured the Republican nomination for a second term, while Democrats picked state Sen.

Wayne Townsend to oppose him. Two congressional primaries tested the ability of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign to draw voters to the polls for other black politicians. In North Carolina's 2nd District, slate Rep. Ken Spaulding of Durham, trying to become the state's first black congressman this century, challenged freshman Rep.

Tim Valentine in the Democratic primary. In Indiana's 1st District, in the heavily industrialized northwestern corner, Katie Hall, the state's first black congresswoman, was challenged by three whites, including Lake County Prosecutor Jack Crawford and Peter Visclosky, an aide to the late Rep. Adam Benjamin, whom Hall succeeded. Ohio and Maryland held primaries Tuesday as well, but no statewide offices were at stake. Cleveland voters were turning back a proposal to increase the city income-tax rate from 2 percent to 2.5 percent to avoid layoffs and cutbacks and also were voting down measures to require the hiring of more police and firefighters.

In Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, a proposal to authorize increased property taxes to finance a $150 million domed sports stadium was trailing in early returns. Cleveland's tax measure first was rejected by voters Feb. 7, and Mayor George Voinovich warned that defeat this time once again would make the city "the laughingstock of the world" that he said it became after defaulting in 1978. Helms, a leading conservative who is seeking a third term, trounced his Republican-primary foe, George Wimbish, a Charlotte resident and broker-wholesaler. With 51 percent of 2,352 precincts reporting, Helms had 72,673 votes, or 90.3 percent, and Wimbish had 7,782 votes, or 9.7 percent Hunt, a popular two-term governor who describes himself a moder- ing blacks to a number of offices, including the state Supreme Court, he has taken a hard-line approach to crime and favors the death penalty while opposing a nuclear-weapons freeze.

With Hunt out of the running for governor, 10 Democrats sought the nomination, making a June 5 runoff likely if no one polled 50 percent With 53 percent of the vote in, state Attorney General Rufus Edmisten led with 184,879 votes, or 28 percent, followed by Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green with 157,277 votes, or 23 percent, and former Charlotte Mayor Eddie Knox with 124,711 votes, or 18 percent On the Republican side, Rep. Jim Martin of the 9th District crushed Ruby Hooper, a Burke County dietitian. Martin had 64,593 votes, or 85.2 percent, to 11,213 votes, or 14.8 percent, for Hooper.

In Indiana, with 55 percent of 4,753 precincts reporting, Orr had 160,430 votes, or 71.1 percent, to 65,117 votes, or 28.9 percent, for former Republican state Chairman John K. Snyder. Snyder had accused Orr of mishandling the state's fiscal problems. Orr said his strong showing "tends to indicate to me that people support what they recognize to be effective leadership." Townsend, a state senator and hog farmer from Hartford City, won the Democratic nomination. He led with 179,416 votes, or 55.8 percent while former U.S.

attorney Virginia Dill McCarty, who broke her pelvis in a fall Monday, had 119,110 votes, or 37.1 percent Donald Mantooth, a retired airline worker, had 22,821 votes, or 7.1 percent In Ohio's 17th District Mahoning County Sheriff James Traficant who went to jail rather than sign home foreclosures and successfully defended himself last year against bribery charges, was one of seven Democrats seeking the nomination to oppose Republican Rep. Lyle Williams. In North Carolina's 2nd District, where blacks make up about half the registered Democrats, Jackson campaigned alongside Spaulding. In Indiana's 1st District where about 30 percent of registered Democrats are blacks, Jackson did not make an endorsement, but he is closely allied with Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, who is Hall's political mentor. Hall's opponents had accused her of favoring the interests of the mostly black inner city of Gary at the expense of the rest of her constituency.

ate, defeated businessman Thomas L. Allred of Greensboro, a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, and Harrill Jones, a civil-rights activist Hunt had 309,155 votes, or 75.5 percent; Allred had 68,520 votes, or 16.8 percent; and Jones had 31,831 votes, or 7.8 percent Although Helms and Hunt have sniped at each other for months, the primary officially launches what observers call a battle for North Carolina's political soul between men who symbolize the state's most prevalent ideological strains. Helms, 62, often derided by his opponents as "Senator No," is a national leader of the New Right He has been an outspoken foe of abortion and busing while championing school prayer, spending cuts for social programs, a hawkish defense policy and the federal tobacco-support program. Hunt, 46, is generally regarded as a moderate but has taken conservative stands on many issues. While supporting a national Martin Luther King Jr.

holiday and appoint Mark Stebbins Does not deny his parents, brothers and sister are white 'Blackness' of official is disputed Defeated foe seeks councilman's recall Associated Press STOCKTON, Calif. A city councilman who claims to be "culturally, socially and genetically" black faced a recall election Tuesday initiated by a defeated opponent a black man who claims the councilman is white. The recall election against Mark Stebbins, 41, was initiated by Ralph White, who held the council seat for 12 years before Stebbins defeated him last fall. Stebbins, who won last fall's election with 899 votes, or 39 percent, needed more than 50 percent to survive the recall. White is one of four candidates on a second ballot ques tion, asking voters who they want as councilman if Stebbins loses the challenge.

After his defeat, White ob tained Stebbins' birth certifi cate from Colville, showing that Stebbins' parents were white. "If the mamma is an elephant and the daddy is an elephant, they durn sure can't AP Democratic candidate Walter Mondale gives a hopeful sign to Cleveland commuters at Terminal Tower as he prepares to leave the city. Hart make no lion, White said. Blacks make up 10 percent of Stockton's 169,000 residents. In the disputed council district 37 percent of the residents are black, 46 percent Hispanic, 8 percent white and 9 percent of other ancestry.

White, 41, a millionaire bail bondsman, said Stebbins, who has blue eyes, a red mustache and frizzy brownish-red hair, "defrauded" voters. Stebbins, the soft-spoken coordinator of several dozen city-sponsored community gardens, does not deny that his parents and his four brothers and sister-are white. But he describes' himself as black "culturally, socially and genetically," while conceding he does not know Continued from Al Sen. Gary Hart, greets a Cleveland voter at Terminal Tower just after the departure of Mondale. Its polls said Hart, among nonunion households, had about 54 percent of the vote and Mondale about 33 percent.

Based on the early returns, Hart would win 39 of the 77 pledged delegates at stake in Indiana on Tuesday, with Mondale getting 34 and Jackson 4. Tom Cosgrove, Mondale's Indiana campaign coordinator, described the Indiana campaign as "a horse race." He said Mondale had not made much of an effort in the state until a month ago because "no one ever thought Indiana would be a big focus of attention." In the weeks leading to the primary, Hart campaigned vigorously in Indiana, touching every corner of the state. In Maryland, Mondale was running ahead in both rural and urban areas. With 75 percent of the vote counted, these were the results: Mondale 149,344 votes, or 47 percent Hart 86,606, or 27 percent Jackson 79,639, or 25 percent In addition to the presidential-preference vote, which has no effect on delegate selection, Mondale is expected to pick up a majority of the 62 national convention delegates at stake in Maryland. Mondale began the Maryland race as a favorite because of his strong union support and endorsements from most of the state's top Democratic elected officials.

He also had the backing of the political clubs and precinct-level organizations that wield a lot of influence in urban areas of Maryland. Even in the black community in Baltimore, where Jackson directed Spokeswoman Kathy Bushkin said in understatement, "We needed to show we could win in a northern industrial state." In Ohio, with 41 percent of the precincts reporting, the results were: Hart 228,213 votes, or 42 percent. Mondale 217,686, or 40 percent Jackson 99,880, or 18 percent Ohio was the big prize with 154 pledged delegates at stake. Based on early returns, Hart was expected to get 82 of those delegates, Mondale 62 and Jackson 11. Hart showed surprising strength in rural areas, surging past an initial Mondale lead on the basis of returns from those mostly down-state areas.

Jackson was 6trong in Cleveland and Dayton. Mondale and Hart wound up their Ohio campaigns by soliciting votes from commuters at rush hour in downtown Cleveland, the party's stronghold with 40 percent of the vote. Jackson completed his campaign in the Buckeye State on Monday by leading a march to an abandoned steel factory near Youngstown. With 66 percent of the vote in Indiana counted, the results were: Hart 186,585, or 43 percent Mondale 180,498, or 41 percent Jackson 68,427, or 16 percent NBC said Hart benefited from a strong anti-union vote in Indiana. how many generations ago blacks were part of his family.

"I have accepted myself and called myself, as I see it what I am," Stebbins said. Stebbins has been involved with black communities for two He was a community activist in San Francisco's black Hunter's Point area in the early 1960s and then moved to Stockton with a church group trying to organize the city's disadvantaged. He has twice married black women, including his present wife, Jennet, a candidate for county supervisor. He notes that he never brought up the issue of race. White questioned Stebbins on his race at a meeting of the black political association during last fall's campaign.

Stebbins replied that he was "human," and when pressed, said he is black. The Rev. Bob Hailey, who chairs the Stockton chapter of the Black American Political Association of California, called Stebbins "one of the bright spots here. In my estimation, he thinks black and is black." rocketed in those cities this year. Hart won big in his home state on Monday.

With returns from 58 percent of the state's precincts, the outcome was: Hart 5,619.5 delegates to Democratic county conventions, or 82 percent. Mondale 669 delegates, or 10 percent Jackson 295 delegates, or 4 percent Officials said 238 delegates, or 3 percent, were uncommitted. The only contests remaining for the Democrats are primaries next Tuesday in Nebraska and Oregon, caucuses in Idaho on May 24, and the June 5 primaries in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, South 'Dakota and West Virginia. Hart had organized early in three of the four states voting Tuesday, neglecting only Maryland, where Mondale had gained early support from almost all the key elected officials and party leaders. most of his campaign effort Mondale's organization was strong.

In North Carolina, with 67 percent of the precincts reporting, the outcome was: Mondale 222,419 votes, or 40 percent Hart 190,067, or 35 percent Jackson 137,768, or 25 percent A victory in North Carolina would give Mondale a majority of the 75 national convention delegates at stake there. Jackson staked his fortunes in North Carolina largely on a high black turnout as did a number of black candidates for state offices. While overall voter registration in the state increased from about 2.7 million in October 1983 to 2.9 million in April, black registration shot up from 488,261 to 565,281. Many of the new voters were 'enrolled during registration drives spurred by Jackson. As has been the case all year, President Reagan had only token, if any, opposition in Republican primaries in the four states.

While Hart vowed to continue the battle regardless of Tuesday's results, many supporters and advisers said the combination of a growing campaign debt and the declining credibility of his candidacy could cripple him. Hart has not won a binding primary since his March 27 victory in Connecticut. In the six weeks since then, he lost to Mondale in New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and to Jackson in the District of Columbia and Louisiana. During that time, Mondale built his delegate lead to the point that a sweep of Tuesday's contests might make him unstoppable. As the voting began, House Democratic leader Jim Wright said it would be Hart's decision to make on continuing the race.

But if Hart does badly, he said, that scenario "does seem plausible." Mondale has carried every big ind ustrial -state primary this year, but once again his margins were eroded by Jackson, who scored heavily in Cleveland and Baltimore. Black voter registration has sky Reporters fear eyes won't have it at convention ondale, Hart would make hot ticket, McGovern says reporter who is going to be at the convention a seat on the 50-yard line," Russell said in a telephone interview from San Francisco. "How the hell do they expect us to cover the convention if they won't let us see it?" asked Roy McGhee, superintendent of the Senate Periodical Gallery, which is handling credentials and arrangements for 818 non-daily and reporters. Russell said a plan under study would involve raising some of the middle rows of seats six inches above the front rows and placing the back two rows still higher on risers. "I committed to risers, and I stand by that commitment," Russell said.

Associated Press WASHINGTON Some reporters who plan to cover the Democratic National Convention fear that because of a new seating arrangement on the press platform, reporters assigned to the back rows wont be able to see the action on 'the convention floor. Because of the low roof and the presence of huge arches in San Francisco's Moscone Center, where the Democrats will meet in mid-July, a flat press platform nine to 12 rows deep is being planned. Several reporters complained that without the usual tiered seating on the press platform, it might be impossible to get an unobstructed view of convention activity from back-row seats. Gene Russell, director of communications for the Democratic Party, said he is working "within the architectural and financial limits" to improve the reporters' view of the convention floor. Russell said 434 of the 1,280 platform seats have some partial to full obstruction of the view of the floor.

Reporters covering a certain state delegation are seated in a location where they can see their delegates, he said, but they might have an obstructed view of other parts of the floor. About 1,200 of the 5,000 reporters who applied for credentials to cover the convention will be assigned space on the platform, which amounts to two wings on either side of the podium where convention speeches are made. The press platform faces the floor. The remaining print reporters and broadcasters will work in space provided elsewhere in the hall or in rented space in hotels. "It will be like going to a movie in a theater that is flat," said Tom Raum of The Associated Press, chairman of the Standing Committee of Correspondents.

This is the, organization of reporters that is working with the Democratic and Republican parties in handling credentials and allocation of work space for the press at the two nominating conventions this summer. The GOP National Convention will be in Dallas on Aug. 20-23. "It is impossible to every Associated Press WASHINGTON George McGovern said Tuesday that he thinks Walter Mondale and Gary Hart can work out their differences and that a "Mondale-Hart ticket would be a very strong ticket" in November. "There's no irreparable problem facing the presidential candidates in 1984," McGovern said in an interview on the CBS Morning News.

"I don't see any issue dividing Walter Mondale and Gary Hart, the two front-runners, that can't be resolved between now and the convention." McGovern, who dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, said, "I think a Mondale-Hart ticket would be a very strong ticket and would be an ideal way to get the supporters of these two men working together in November." The Rev. Jesse Jackson, campaigning in North Carolina, said, "I think it's a little early for matchmaking. I think there should be peacemaking first.".