Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from Fairbanks, Alaska • Page 33

Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, Monday, Nov. uany News-nmner, r-airoanKS, AiasKa, wonaay, NOV. W6--A-35 Candidates seeking six State House seats Twelve run, six will win BOB BETTISWORTH LARRY CARPENTER Voters Tuesday face a choice among a dozen Democrats and Republicans to fill the six seats allotted the Fairbanks area in the state House of Representative. Here, in alphabetical order, are the candidates and their backgrounds. SAM BARNES--Republican.

Barnes has Been a resident of Fairbanks for 10 years and is the owner- broker of Barnes Company Realtors. He has been a board member of the Alaska Stale Housing Authority since May, 1975. He is treasurer of the Fairbanks Chapter of the Alaska Heart Association and is a fund-raiser for United Way. He also is a member of the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce and a former president of the Fairbanks Board of Realtors. DON BENNETT-Republican.

Bennett has been a resident of Fairbanks for 10 years and is manager of field medical services for Alyeska. He is a retired U. S. Army lieutenant colonel. He is a member of the College Rotary, Bilks Club, Disabled American Veterans, Petroleum Club and is chairman of the Fairbanks Heart Fund.

BOB BETTISWORTH--Republican. Bettisworth has been a resident of Fairbanks for 28 years and is president of Teal Development, a partner in Bettisworth Masonry and director of College Utilities Corp. He has been a North Star Borough Assembly member for 11 years and is a former presiding officer. He is a member of the Masonry Contractors Association and is former chairman of the 20th District Republican party. BRUCE BOYD--Democrat.

Boyd has lived in Alaska five years ami in Fairbanks since 1974. He is an assistant personnel manager for Perini Arctic and a partner in the Detente Alaska, a consulting firm. He is a member of the Fairbanks Kiwanis Club. FRED BROWN--Democrat. Brown has been an Alaskan resident most of his life and has Jived in Fairbanks since 1944.

He is an attorney. He has been a member of the state House since 1974, and has served on the Judiciary and Resources committees, as chairman of the Select Committee on Telecommunications and as chairman of the finance subcommittee.of the Judiciary Committee. LARRY CARPENTER-Republican. Carpenter has lived in Fairbanks for 10 years and is community relations representative of Alyeska. He is vice-chairman of the KUAC advisory board, a member of the governor's Interior Alaska Energy Analysis Team, on the Impact Advisory Committee of Fairbanks North Star Borough.

He is former news director of KTVF-KFRB and for several years hosted KFRE's nightly talk show, "Bee Line." SELWYN CARROL--Republican. Carrol has been a resident of Alaska for 18 years and has lived in Fairbanks the past 10. He is an employe of He served in the Eighth Alaka legislature as a state represenatlve, was chairman of the House Community and Regional Affairs Commillee, and was a member of the Labor and Management Committee. He is a former teacher and is the director of customer development at Alaska National Bank. STEVE COWPER--Democrat.

Cowper has been a resident of Alaska for eight years and is a lawyer. He served in Iho state House last term on the House Finance, and Legislative and Budget and Audit committees. He was chairman of the subcommitte on revenue sources, chairman of the subcommittee on University of Alaska budget, and chairman of the subcommittee on contractor "bonding. He was Fairbanks assistant district attorney in 1968 and 1969. MILT MAYR-Democrat.

Mayr has been a Fairbanks resident for 14 years. He is a teamster foreman and previously was a loan officer for the Small Business Administration. He was office manager for the William Egan Administration, is a former member of Ihe Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce and former president of the Democratic Club. JIM O'SULLIVAN Republican. O'Sullivan has lived in Fairbanks for five years and has lived in the state since 1958.

He is vice president of Alaska International Air. He is team leader for the Governor's Management and Efficiency Review, a member of the Interior Alaska Energy Analysis Team, and is on the board of directors of the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of Fairbanks Industrial Development Corp. and is a founder of OMAR (Organization for Management of Alaska's Resources). CHARLES H.

PARR--Democrat. Parr has been a Fairbanks resident for 15 years. He served in the 1975-76 stale House, and is a former member of the Fairbanks Human Rights Commission and the Fairbanks North Star Borough where he was presiding officer in 1972 and 1973. He has been chairman of the Alaska American Bicentennial Commission two years and is president of the Alaska Civil Liberties Union. SARAH J.

"SALLY" SMITH--Democrat. Smith has been a resident of Fairbanks for four years and has lived in the state since 1969. She is a former state manpower administrator with the Department of Community and Regional Affairs. She was legislative administrative assistant to Gov. William Egan and a member of the Rural Impact Advisory Commute.

BRUCE BOYD FRED BROWN SELWYN CARROL JIM O'SULLIVAN CHARLIE PARR SALLY SMITH Four competing for single Senate seat What is normally a two-person race for the stale Senate seat representing Fairbanks has four entrants in Tuesday's contest. The office is being sought by the nominees of Ihe' Democralic and Republican parties, a Democratic write-in candidate and an Independent. Here, in alphabetical order, are the contestants. MIKE BRADNER--Democrat write-in. Bradner has been a state legislator for 10 years and a speaker of the House for two sessions.

He served as chairman of the House Rules, and Budget and Audit committees, and has been Democratic minorily leader. DICK GREUEL--Democrat. Greuel owns a real estate business and has been a resident of Fairbanks for 29 years. He is in his third term on the Fairbanks City Council. His also is a director of (he Fairbanks Town and Village Assosication and a member of the National Association of Development Organizations.

Greuel is a former four-term member of the Alaska House of Representatives and has been House speaker and majority leader. He has served two terms on the Alaska Legislative Council and has been its chairman. GLENN HACKNEY-Republican. Hackney has worked in Alaska since 1948 and is presently a salesman. He has been a city purchasing agent in Fairbanks and was a special assistant to Gov.

Keith Miller in 19C9 and 1970. He was elected to the state House in 1972 and re-elected in in 197-1. He is a member of United Way, Birthright, National Association for Ihe. Advancement of Colored People, and the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce. JULES WRIGHT--Independent.

Wright has lived in the Interior all his life. He is owner of Tundra Contractor, and is chairman of DNH Development Corp. He served in the Alaska State House 1967 and 1968, and is a member of the Rural Affairs Commission and Legislative Council, the Alaska Federation of Natives, Fairbanks Native Association and the Xanana Chiefs Conference. MIKE BRADNER DICK GREUEL GLENN HACKNEY 1 A' JULES WRIGHT The Capital Site Larson Lake Yonlo Willow Make Your Selection Punchcard voting here to stay By KAY BARTLETT AP News Features Writer The Vatican still sends up white smoke, Congress still answers a roll call, but when the Great American Public chooses between Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter, 15 to 20 per cent will pick up a stylus and punch a hole in a yellow computer card that cannot be folded, spindled or mulilatcd, as IBM taught us long ago. Computer card voting is making inroads into those two other traditional American voting methods--the old- fashioned paper ballot, still used by 20 to 25 per cent of the voters on election day, and the lever-operated voting machine, which 55 lo 60 per cent of the voters will operate on Tuesday.

The computer card system--legal in 35 states--was invenled in 1962 by Joseph P. Harris, a political scientist, and used in the 1964 presidential in five counties--Iwo in Georgia, two In California andone in Oregon. The most popular of several punch card systems is known as Volomatic Vote Recorder. The voter enters a booth and inserts his punch card in the Votomatic Vote Recorder, a table-lop device that helps guide the voter in punching out the squares alongside the candidates of his or her choice. Votomatic Vole Recorder docs not less expensive and that helps to explain its growing popularity.

The cost fo each Votomalic is about S200, compared with $2,000 for a lever-operated machine. The Votomatic weighs less than 20 pounds and can be foled to briefcase size. David Dunhar, president of Com- Do not fold, spindle, rnnlilale or count Ihe ballots. They must be taken to a computer, usually one leased for election day. Depending upon the size of the computer used, the ballot cards can be counted at a pokey 1,800 an hour or Ihey can be spewed out at a rate of 240,000 an hour.

The votes cannot necessarily be counted faster than those regislcred on the traditional lever voting machines. Bui the Votomatic, designed and manufactured by Computer Elections systems, of Berkeley, is puler Elections Systems, says one of his company's biggest chores between elections is lo convince stale officials of Ihe efficiency of his system and get them lo change (heir election laws. It's not (hat the system invokes anything shady; it's just thai when the laws were wrilten Ihe advanced technology did not cxisl and therefore it's not included in the method (hat can be usd to conducl an election. "There's a certain resistance lo change," says Dunbar. "That's our big problem in lobbying.

The other, of course, is the opposition." (Votomatic has 90 per cent of the computer card voting market.) IBM bought Ihe Votomalic system in from Harris, but in J969 the company decided to divest itself of Votomalic. Dunbar. an IBM employe al (he time, and nearly 30 other employes decided lo take it over and they set up Computer Election Systems, In 1972, they bought the patent for a reported STOO.OOO. Does IBM regret that move, considering that CES reported over SI million in net earnings tor the year lhat ended last March "I haven't heard one way or another," chuckles Dunbar, whose 39th birthday falls jusl after the election. Dunhar says there are more than 400 jurisdiclions in 32 stales lhat will USD the system on Tuesday, These range from such gianls as Los Angeles, with 7,000 voting districts, and Cook County (except Chicago) to very small districts such as Grays Harbor County, with 32,737 registered voters.

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