The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 9

Election picture unfocused WARDS FORM NO PA TTERN Star 9A The Minneapolis MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1971 WE IIAVK PtOPL.E seriously touting race-track gambling as the next great breakthrough toward a society of happy pastures and clovered bliss in Minnesota. There have been special pleaders in front of legislative committees for weeks describing pari-mutuel betting in sactifying language that has put it somewhere between a birthright and the salvation of man. A CITY BECOMES A BOOKIE They have marshaled before the blinking lawgivers a skyrocket display of figures, statistics and dollar estimates attributing to pari-mutuel betting the magical power of being able been fully measured, but he is still considered ahead of the puck. (He was stripped of the Council vice-presidency und two committee chairmanships by his Republican colleagues for allegedly implying that some aldermen took bribes.) But he is slill endorsed by the ward Republican organization and by the Building Trades. He, too, picked up new territory in the ward rcdistrlcting but the new voters are considered friendly.

Expected to survive the primary with him is James (Red) Nelson, a park board member who is endorsed by the DFL, Teamsters and Auto Workers. Others In the field are Dennis Banks, an Indian activist; Gregory Guckenburg, Socialist Workers Party candidate; Mrs. Clayton Anderson, 2639 Harriet Av. and Willis G. Trueblood, 420 Chicago Av.

A JTrl III I MM) (III ''h i If 0 cj EDITOR'S NOTE: This article on aldermanic races Is one of a scries on cunriUlutcs In the Minne-apolis city primary election April 27. My JIM SHOOP Minneapolis Slur Muff Writer Finding a clear pattern to the election contests for Minneapolis aldermen is like trying to put shattered glass buck together. The pieces are fairly clear-cut, but making them fit into a recognlzuble whole is another matter. Currently Republicans hold 10 of the 13 City Council seats. Two hot issues rising taxes and school busing are providing opponents with a madc-to-ordcr opportunity to cut deeply into that margin.

But there is another factor at work which may have even greater effect on Tuesday's primary and the final election June 8: That is the continuing split between labor and the DFL party in city politics and the emergence of a labor-backed group of candidates Republican, DFL and independent closely allied to Mayor Charles Stenvig Should all of the labor-backed candidates win, Stenvig could find himself with a "working majority" on the Council. Attempts to reconcile the old labor-DFL marriage failed early in the campaign when labor supported Sten-vig's Further attempts to unite at least on the aldermanic races also fell apart. In only two wards, the 1st and 3rd, is there a solid labor-DFL endorsement front. Normally, DFLers would have a good chance of regaining two others now held by Republicans, the 8th and 12th. But the party failed to endorse in either ward and most of the major labor organizations are lined up behind former alderman Byron Nelson in the 12th.

In four wards the 4th, 6th, 9th andlOth the labor endorsements are divided between the DFL candidate and Republicans or independents. Republicans currently hold all four seats but incumbent Richard Curtin is not seeking reelection in the 9th. In at least six wards the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th and 12th labor-backed candidates either support Stenvig openly or are allied philosophically to him. Here is a look at each of the wards: 7th WARD Incumbent Republican John Bergford has been swamped with calls from angry taxpayers because of the property reassessment which hit the 7th especially hard. But the ward is heavily Republican and he is expected to survive the primary.

He also may benefit from a split in DFL ranks. William Hood, 33-year-old folksinger running on an antiwar platform, has DFL endorsement but Martha Westrum, whom he defeated for the nomination, also has entered the primary. Carl G. Rice, restaurant owner and investment securities counsellor; Clyde C. Anderson, 2544 Aldrich Av.

and Ole Seastrand, 2524 Colfax Av. also are entered. 8th WARD Eight candidates are challenging incumbent Republican James Butler, who would have been considered a prime target under normal circumstances. But DFLers could not agree on a candidate and most labor organi Minneapolis Star Photos by Larry Schrelber ALAN PAGE AND MRS. WENDELL ANDERSON Viking, governor's wife walked for fund They walked to help fund More than l.COO persons walked in the rain Sunday tor funds to refurnish Camp Indian Chief, a camp for retarded children on Glen Lake.

Money collected from 15-mile walk will be used to repair the damage done by vandals who broke into the' camp last winter. Marchers walked for fees ranging from 25 cents a mile to $250 for the trip. The money was donated by the hikers' sponsors. About 600 walked the entire distance. The march committee estimated that the $11,000 goal had been passed.

1st WARD to create a $100-million industry without touching one zipper on the taxpayer's billfold. Friends, the taxpayers have been slickcred and snowed before, and we are getting a re-enactment in the campaign to legalize gambling in Minnesota. One of the arguments that has been bouncing around the Capitol rotunda is that a horse race is such a rhapsodic experience that thousands will storm out of the prairies for the pure joy of watching, and thus the gambling part of it is incidental. YOU HAVE HEARD of Grand Central Station in New York City. It used to be widely advertised as the crossroads of humanity.

This was before New York City went broke despite, incidentally, the existence of such places as Aqueduct, Roosevelt Raceway, Yonkers and other wellsprings of salvation and clovered bliss. Grand Central Station has changed character in the last few years because not many trains run any more in New York. Not much of anything runs in New York any more. But there is one thing that is running with a feverish zeal in New York City, and that is the new Off-Track Betting Corp. in Grand Central Station.

The city went into the bookie business 16 days ago. Undoubtedly hundreds of its first-day customers were people to whom the government was giving welfare payments in some fashion. Nobody played "My Old Kentucky Home." There was a noticeable absence of lumps-in-the-throat and pim-ples-on-the-skin when all those beautiful thoroughbreds paraded to the pot. What it was was a mob scene and shoving match in the best tradition of rowdy grubbiness that you associate with stacks of poople trying to make a fast buck. This is the highest calling of a benevolent government? "With Off-Track Betting," the magazine Sports Illustrated quotes a rapturous Grand Central wagerer, "everybody will be doing it suburban housewives, grandmothers, everybody, Beautiful.

New York will become the gambling Mecca of the world." I DOUBT IT. I doubt it, because I think we have here the forerunner of widespread state and city-operated bookie shops in places where gambling is now legal. The financial clutch in which the big cities now find themselves, and some of the states, puts them on the hunt for desperation bail-outs. So in New York you now have the spectacle of public employees (job classification bookie clerk S4) working behind bullet-proof glass and spewing out tickets for a new race of losers, the off-track bettors. The myth that pari-mutuel horse racing is irresistible to the public mass AS A SPORT is pretty well blown up by the siege of Grand Central.

For the blooded country club horse breeders it may be the passion of life but for the customer it is a casino operation. I consign nobody to damnation for gambling. Everybody has gambled in some fashion. My objection to what is being lobbied in the Minnesota Legislature is that the package has been mislabeled and misidentified and the good will and needs of Minnesota's old people crudely misused and exploited to make it respectable. think you could make some argument for pari-mutuel betting in Minnesota by showing there was a significant and enduring relief here from the tax burden of the people.

It can't be shown. In place of this the lobbyists are airily flinging figures like a hundred million dollars and thousands and thousands of new jobs, where the experience of states like Minnesota that have gone for racetrack gambling show no economic redemption. 1 So whera is the shove really coming from? Not all of the backing is really identified. Ncr the true source of all those lovely millions that are supposed to accrue to Minnesota. The source, of course, is the working grunt in Minnesota.

And aside from the ones who make the gambling rakeoff, the big profiteers will be the few motels and joints that locate near the track. That the way it is -for football and baseball as commercial well pumps. IF MR. HENRY McKNIGHT, the developer of Jonathan, is truly enthralled with race tracks, for example, let him build the world's biggest and most alluring track right in the middle of Jonathan. Let him even have the track zoned agricultural.

And let him have all the non-wagering races he wants. And we will see how many customers show up. zations have also not endorsed anyone. Of those who did, the Building Trades backed Butler and the laborers supported June Hegstrom, wife of former 8th Ward alderman Gerry Hegstrom. Three others who sought DFL endorsement, Ed Felien David Fai-son and James Washington, also are in the race.

Norman Lindberg, 31 16 3rd Av. is endorsed by the T-Party. Other candidates are Sidney S. Smith, a peace candidate, Marienne Curry, laundromat operator, and Jerry Hill, 2721 Stevens Av. S.

9th WARD The race here is considered wide open, with nine candidates competing1 to succeed retiring Republican Richard Curtin. DFL endorsement went to Richard Pith-eon, who also won Teamsters and Auto Workers support in the labor-oriented ward. But the CLU, Building Trades, laborers and the T-Party are backing Zollie Greerr, an independent who has announced his support for Stenvig and his opposition to school pairing and busing. He also has enlisted part of the campaign organization of Russell Green, Minneapolis police detective who missed beating Curtin two years ago by only nine votes. The Republican-endorsed candidate is Dan Ficker, assistant St.

Paul city attorney, who is getting consider- able help from Curtin's campaign organization. Tom McDonald, DFL activist and perennial 9th ward candidate is in the race aga'ini Others are Henry Melander, 2313 Minnehaha Barbara Sheets, 3638 15th Av. Kim A. Gudemstad, 513 20th Av. John R.

Bridell, 3724 Elliot Av. and Dale K. Henjum, 619 22nd Av. 10th WARD Expected to lead the field is Republican incumbent Vern Anderson, who has CLU and building trades support. His DFL opponent, Keith Ford, a former member of Gov.

Wendell Anderson's staff, is supported by the Teamsters and Auto Workers and also is expected to survive the The other candidates are Ernest G. Opp, 3208 Lyn-dale Av. Paul M. Osborn, 3325 Garfield Av. and Robert Altman, 3328 Harriet Av.

S. BILL LANGFORD WALKED BACKWARDS Started and ended trip this way Advertisement Advertisement Incumbent DFLer Sam Sivanich is endorsed by the five major labor organizations Central Labor Union (CLU), the Minneapolis Building and Construction Trades Council, Teamsters, Construction and General Laborers and United Auto Workers. The Republicans, who had an incumbent in the race two years ago, have not put up a candidate. With both DFL and labor backing this time, Sivanich is in a far stronger position than in 1969 when he had to defeat the DFL-endorsee in the primary. Minneapolis fireman Don Pielow appears to be his principal opponent.

Others in the race are Roger H. 01-sen, 2717 Central Av. and Donald P. Brouillard, 35(01 Taylor St. NE.

2nd WARD John Cairns, incumbent Republican and probably the most liberal alderman on the City Council, has no DFL or labor opposition and is expected to survive the primary handily. His vote totals will be closely watched as evidence of how strong a candidate he might make in a try for mayor two years from now. His leading opponent appears to be John F. Mattson, a research analyst for the State Department of Manpower Services, who has the backing of the conservative Minnesota T-Party. Others are David N.

Lawrence, candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party who ran for 6th Ward alderman two years ago, and J. E. Norstrom, 2907 42nd Av. S. 3rd WARD Attorney Joseph Strauss is the choice of both the DFL and labor to succeed retiring DFL Alderman Albert Hofstede, who has become chairman of the Metropolitan Council.

Strauss has stronger than expected opposition, however, from Lester Roach, former Hennepin Av. shaver shop operator who claims new downtown parking restrictions forced him out of business. Roach also has T-Party support. Minneapolis policeman Ray Bailey is using a picture of himself taken with Stenvig in his campaign literature and says he strongly backs the mayor. Others in the race are former Republican 3rd Ward Alderman Robert Denny, who was appointed to the post five years ago and.

then was defeated for election; Ed H. Dickman, 1325 Main St. and Henry L. Harris, 171 1 25th Av. N.

4th WARD Incumbent Republican Mark Anderson is running mainly on his association with Stenvig, whose North Side headquarters is located next door to Anderson's. Anderson refused at first to accept GOP endorsement because Of the party's choice of Bruce Rasmussen for mayor, but agreed later under pressure from party headquarters. Anderson also picked off three labor endorsements against two for his young, energetic DFL opponent, John Derus. Both are expected to survive the primary ahead of Marvin A. Eakman, 3323 Sheridan Av.

N. 5th WARD "Pumpkin Joe" Greenstein faces one of his tougher fights for the seat he has held since 1961. He picked up a large chunk of new territory and unfamiliar voters from northeast Minneapolis in the recent redrawing of city ward boundaries. Greenstein unsuccessfully sought DFL endorsement but won the support of the ClU, Building Trades, Teamsters and laborers. His DFL-endorsed opponent, Louis DeMars, failed to win any labor endorsements but is waging a strong campaign.

Others running are ArnHd R. Bolin, pastor of Community Covenant Church, 901 Humboldt Av. Don Rl-ky. Pilot City Health Center coordinator. Samuel A.

Faulk, 1103 Plymouth A v. Ernest R. Beauchane, 1610 Girard Av. eliminated in the primary two years ago, and Gerry Hoag, 1204 I'pton Av. N.

6th WARD The effects of incumbent Jem Cr.ritfensn's falling out with his own Republican City Council caucus haven't It ft. I r-T 1 Uth WARD Mrs. Gladys Brooks, the Republican incumbent, also has been hit hard by the tax issue but is expected to survive against mild opposition. She is opposed by Bo6 Dale, 4901 Lyndale Av. T-Party candidate, and Philip O'Donoghue, 6 E.

45th St. 12th WARD Another wide-open contest is expected here for the post being vacated by incumbent Republican Anne Wy-rauch, who is not seeking a second term. Candidates allied to the DFL, Labor and Stenvig are in danger of splitting their available vote. That might work to the advantage of the Republican candidate, Steve Hofstad, who got into the race on the last day of filing. Former Alderman Byron Nelson has Teamsters, Building Trades, CLU and laborers endorsements but failed to win DFL backing in a contest with Berniee Skeldon, who also has entered the primary.

Russell Green, police detective who was redistricted out of the 9th Ward, is new to the territory but is considered a strong contender. Others running are Robert Tunnell, 3807 E. 50th Gerald Caverly, 4010 39th Av. and Philip G. Kochler, 2223 E.

58th an insurance agent. 13th WARD Republicans are normally a cinch in the heavily GOP 13th and incumbent Republican Richard ErdalL-the City Council president, is considered comfortably ahead. But the ward also was among the hardest hit by the tax increases and Erdall has been busy explaining why in a series of neighborhood meetings. DFLers have fielded funnyman Hal Krieger, considered more formidable than the usual token DFL candidate in the 13th. Other candidates are Thomas H.

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