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loP4 J--l- ---r 3 THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Monday November 5 1984 5A i Campaign Buttons Can Be Popular Even If The Candidates Aren't 1 of 110 Hat ifs) leete Look For Our Free Recipes 8c Meal Ideas Using This Week's Sale Items Button-wearing members of the Charlotte chapter of National Organization of Women say it: "A Woman Voting for Jesse Helms is Like a Chicken Voting for Colonel Sanders!" Whether pro or not so Helms's Senate buttons will be best sellers said Barbara Balcerak a Charlotte button dealer who displayed 5000 buttons at a flea market over the weekend "Election buttons are good because you put your money on your candidate then the value comes in later" she said "Any button is good conversation especially if it's funny or different" Campaign '84 has had a store of that Some buttons tout kooky candidates for president: Curly of "The Three Stooges" and Theodore Cleaver of "Leave It To Beaver" Rock singer Boy George and Charlotte radio personalities John Boy and Billy would groove in the Oval Office or so campaign buttons suggest But the serious and issue-oriented buttons which increase in value most are most popular In this year's stock are "Social Workers for Mon-dale" "I'm Pro-Choice and I Organize" and "Women Were Not Born Democrats Republicans or yesterday" "It stirred questions about the environmental issues in this campaign" said Brad Bush a Charlotte Sierra Club member of his "Environmentalists for Hunt" button Hanson the Dump Jesse button-seller said her future in buttons hinges on a Helms win "If he's dumped" she said "I suspect the market for my button will come to a grinding halt" Continued From Page IA will grace showcases nationwide For instance buttons bearing defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate Eddie Knox who Jumped ship to become cochairman of Democrats for Reagan may be a favorite nationally "DG" the button of 9th District congressional candidate DG Martin is a collectible because initials-only buttons are unusual Also on collectors' must-have lists are buttons from the race between Democratic senatorial candidate Jim Hunt and Republican Jesse Helms "Jim Hunt will be popular because that race is so historic" said War lick who sold Hunt buttons Wednesday in Philadelphia Baltimore and New York "Helms also but there's very little Helms stuff out there" The Helms camp preferred stickers this year said Karol Goebel cochairman of the Mecklenburg Helms campaign Buttons that say Helms in many cases say anti-Helms Eileen Hanson a 43-year-old Charlotte political activist has sold 1000 "Dump Jesse Helms" buttons Most recently she began promoting "Helms a small-volume button from Asheville that is sure to make the collector circuit "Feelings are so strong about Helms that they Want to say something public about him" said Hanson who also sold a collectible "Jesse Jackson Ht for President" button "They say 'I've got to have one They're buying because they want to make a statement" Buttons Favored In Informal Poll More Than 70 Lean "All Size Pkgs" DA Choice Whole "Untrimmed Beef Round 8-12 Lb Avg Weight "fJ 39 Tip Lb Limit 1 Per Customer Please! 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USDA Choice Quality Trimmed Beef Parts Lb --) Round Tip Roast Lb 199 Lima 3 Pkgs Per Customer Please I Doors Vote Be Counted 59C (because on average women earn 59 cents for every $1 men earn) No Mondale (a la "Ghostbusters" with the international red slash traffic sign) No Republicans No Reagan Mondale Ferraro Women Win Ride with Ferraro in '84 And a list of Oval Office misfits: What You Want Baby You Got It John Boy Billy for President Curly for President Elect Pe tey The Beaver for President Boy George for President Button makers and collectors this year nominate these as favorite buttons: Mondale Eats Quiche Anti-Helms buttons: HelmsBusters Dump Jesse Helms A Woman Voting for Jesse Helms is Like a Chicken Voting for Colonel Sanders! C4 Jane Wyman was right Don't blame me I voted for the other guy Social Workers for Mondale The Issues: I'm Pro-Choice and I Organize Environmentalists for Hunt Women for Reagan I America is About Opening Lobo Pendergrast iMan Ends Fast For The Homeless to refurbish the shelter "We care more about folks on the street at this point than our lives I don't enjoy suffering but I am not going to spend another winter at the shelter in the condition it's in" he said late last week as he became progressively weaker On Sunday administration officials reversed their refusal to renovate the building which is intended to shelter up to 1000 "street people" Snyder has said it would cost $5 million to get the shelter repaired but an administration spokeswoman said no specific amount had been pledged Snyder is the unofficial leader of the Community for Creative Non-Violence a group formed in 1970 by a Roman Catholic priest to protest the Vietnam War but now championing the causes of the poor and homeless Associated Press A community activist who abandoned a business career to become an unpaid 'crusader for Washington's down-and-out ended a 51- nday fast Sunday after the Reagan administration agreed to renovate a shelter for the homeless sa- Mitch Snyder 41 was admitted to the intensive care unit of Howard University Hospital shortly President Reagan acceded to the demand and four hours before millions of television viewers were to ee him featured on CBS's "60 Minutes" program Snyder is a onetime Madison Avenue management consultant who left his job wife and two children 15 years ago to take up the cause of the destitute Before quitting his protest fast during which he consumed only water Snyder had said he was prepared to die if necessary to force the administration vb''' 1' tit MD I -t 1 10 i 1 i LACY TN The following Attorneys support and endorse Lacy Thornburg for Attorney General of North Carolina Pillsbt BE xxx Plain Self-Rising Unbleached Or Bread Pillsbury 5 Flour Lbs me rpasblototago ommumat BE I xx BE Lc I Pillsbury's Iii mix Pill 1 16 EU'Itr 'FIG Floi 1 11z 'Hour 1 Plain Self-Rising Unbleached Or Bread Pillsbury 5 No Flour Lbs '91 '0" Cottonelle White Yellow Blue BeigePeach 3- tomaartt 4i -1-- 7--- ts! 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