Wednesday. April 2. 1980
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County favors Reagan, Carter
In the Republican primary race in Douglas County, precincts dominated by KU voters preferred John B. Anderson and Stephen R. Woodward swapped the county to Ronald Regan.
President Jimmy Carter was the favorite of Douglas County Democrats, beating Sen Edward M. Kennedy 2,498 to 2,367. The Republican-Brown received 259 votes in the county.
The Lawrence results were closer, with Carter receiving 1,618 votes, Kennedy receiving 1,185 and Brown receiving 194.
The eight precepts surrounding and including the University supported Anderson over Reagan 1,093 to 615. There were 255 votes for George Bush.
But with all 43 prescents in Laramie County reporting, Reagan received 4,315 votes. Anderson received 3,273 and Bush received 1,083.
Voter turnout was better than expected as 41.4 percent of Lawrence's registered voters participated in the primary.
In the Republican primary 112 voters chose none of the above and in the Democratic primary 273 voters took that option.
Other Republican candidates who received Douglas County votes were Howard Baker, 77; Benjamin Fernandez, 53; Philip Crane, 38. John Hewlett, 52; Donald Badgely, 13; R.W. Yeeager, 12; William Carlson, 7 and Harold Garsten, 6.
Senior picture delivery slowed
Personsel changes and backed-up work orders are delaying the mailing of senior pictures, according to Vince Berke, manager for the Jayhawker Yearbook.
Senior picture were taken last October by Rappaport Studios, a New York-based company, and were supposed to have been mailed to students in December.
"The company is reliable, but it's being slowed by personnel turnovers and a large volume of student picture orders." Berke said.
Promoted by student inquiries. Berke
called the company twice and was told each time that the pictures would be mailed in two weeks. Berke last spoke with the company last month, just before spring break.
"I was told that the order would be completed March 21." Berke said. "Students should start to receive their pictures next week."
Berke said the Jayhawk Yearbook received black-and-white senior pictures for the yearbook in January. More than 2,000 of their pictures taken for the yearbook
University Daily Kansan
New method elects Carter mayor
BvLYNN ANDERSON
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
He got his title last night in a swirl of debate about whether the election was a necessary move into compliance with state law or a calculated effort to deprive one of its citizens.
CommissionEd Carter, the new mayor, was elected under his own proposed procedure that broke a decade-old tradition of having board members between the top vote-voting commissioners.
Instead he had proposed electing the mayor annually without considering how any commissioner had ranked in votes.
The new procedure, former Mayor Barkley Clark pointed out, would make the city comply with state statutes. Previous decisions, he said, had been only forquiries.
"This is a better idea," Clark said, "for the simple reason that it's the only way that conforms to state law."
COMMISSIONER DON Binn said his reservations about the new procedure had been erased by talking to a former mayor, John Crown.
Bins said Crown had pleaded that the commission elect its mayor on the basis of leadership rather than votes.
Another former mayor, John Weather-
gave, gave the commissioners a brief history of the city commissioner-city manager form of government in Lawrence.
Weatherwax said that in the past, the commissioners had elected as mayor the person they felt was fairest and most able to govern. But it also allowed the commissioners to do the same.
The only objections to the proposed change were raised by Coyne and others. And that the traditional method of relating the position according to role-setting rank gave residents some say in how they were treated.
"I think we're removing the process another step from the people," Francisco said. "Traditionally we returned the power to ourselves, and then hold that power to ourselves."
Clark disagreed, saying that residents were not informed enough to realize the
commission election was a mayoral election.
"I don't think one person in a thousand knows the system," he said.
A NUMBER of residents spoke against the proposed change, saying no change should be made until Rioms and Francesca Kavanaugh are elected and they would have been the next two mayors.
Hiprick David, 1021 Missouri, said there was a consensus among people he had talked to that the commissioners proposing the plan were besides the ones they had verbalized.
"My concern is that this move is an attempt to thwart the sequence of events, in particular Marci," Heidrick said.
Ron Kuby, 345 Mississippi, agreed.
"For better or worse," Kuby said, "apparently there are a lot of people who perceive this to be personalized."
Binns broke the tension by saying he enviied Francisco.
"I haven't heard one person speak up on behalf of poor old Bimns, who is slated to be mayor after Carter," he said.
AFTER CARTER and Commissioner Bob Schumm, the new vice mayor, were elected, Carter gave Clark a gavel and the keys to the city and thanked him for his efforts.
Clark said he felt that Lawrence's form on government had benefited the city.
"We've had a lot of heat lastly," Clark said. "We have been excited about the way the commission operates and the city responses. It seems to me we've got a reasonably efficient form of firefighting."
Carter, in taking up his own gavel, made a pledge for the year ahead: "I will do my damned to be a good mayor."
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