They Gave a Forum and Almost Nobody Came

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An Open House

Here we have the 33 p ople whoshowed up at last night's ma oral

rorum. I ine or them - SIX candt·dates and three reporters - werethere because th y had to be . Th .

re t are pubhc·spirued cit izens ' 'hosat through the sturry hour-and-a·half mee11n g and a ked a lot ofque t1on at th end . (S taff Photob Da 1d P r ) .

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on . them pass out one of his bro·- - '" · onhe ·Heratd staff · chures. Ware ·brought some govern-~ · . w i f c o r i i ~ J ~ this great crowd ment reports and a map of the area

t ~ a . r s b o ~ e o up tonight," Said Anne and passed out brochures from theGabbard as she ·looked out over the citizens' advocate's office. I don'taud.ience· at _ast night's forum for, have any volunteers and I'm not tak-

L e x 4 l ~ o n may.oral candidates. ing any contributions," he said.

'".,_She ~ s j ~ k i n g ~ " " _ , ~ " ' . \ ' d · ' · The forum 'seemed destined to die

~ ~ : ~ t ~ r r p ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i ~ n ~ $ t h ~ ~ ~ : e l : ~ ~ - ~ . ~ / ~ ~ : ~ ~ ~ s ~ ~ ~ ~ = ~ d ~ ~ ~ ~ r c : e ~ ~ o ~ ~ z··associations, ,had promised to surprising IO of , the 24-membere a n ~ f f a i r . . .. .· • , "crowd'. ' had .something they wanted

~ ~ ~ r ~ t tjffi'e au s ~ inay; ~ o a s k '. pdi'Clates>showe.d ·up al: ~ • '. ,,,rraffic Question ,

s . ~ ~ ~ ; h ~ s a m e lime. :  t1 · m. ond ' c.ox, I  SI Cherokee Park.· t , ._()I.It ;· ~ < : ~ r o w d " outnQn'lbete<I:' , · speciflcs ,on how each .candi- '

t h e ' ~ a n ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ; ~ ~ r i l y f ~ 9 ~ ~ '.  · .. a ~ o ~ d ; a u a e k the traffic prob-

~ - ~   ~ } 9 - , 9 ~ - ~ W ~ l ~ S ? ' A l r s ; · .,.,- . -.. .~ f ? ~ c ~ . P . 8 1 ~ " ~ ~ i i f o ~ ~ .,. , . __ s i ~ ~ e r - ~ ~ i i ~ a ' b t ' t I ~ s , t i i 1 fd 1 d ~ t e : s h ~ r t ~ ' - : : ~ e f o ~ e t-he. a : f f ~ t r :;f-pt<> if>sals on ttie council"':.: flxirig i nbegan. . .. . .._, . [ " i . ·. t e J , ' . ~ e c t i o n s , synchronizing lights' re-

. . ~ w n , i a n W J)s Draw . ;.- . pafhng potholes, b u i l d ~ n g new r o a d s., . Ttie ,can lidates ·drew pieces ot . "".here needed. Amato talked about"

))lip¢{ with :pumbei:s written on them: 7, his_ plans to reverse lanes on main·t:q_\jJleter:ID i'ne, :the · spea{dng order, . str.eets during r u ~ h h o u r ~ and. encour-·

p ' f e r ; i Y N ~ ~ t n a n was first, folloV{ed by . agmg .mass t ~ n ~ 1 t Martm ~ I d a f?et-·Scott)" 'Bae$1er, James Amato; .Joe ter mass t r a n s 1 ~ system 1s needed l

G r a r t Nic.k M ~ r t i n and Roger a.nd future .traHlc probl.ems can .be ',Ware . · , · . ·· , \: _ · headecf off · 1f the government "avoids

-. ' Research' had been done on each. the corrupt system wher.e certain,candidate so _a proper introdu·ction people are pa1,mg c.ertam people

could· be given. The plan was that under the table.,each would speak 1 minutes. Graves went over his plan to re-

But it was stuffy in the Central organize responsibility for traffic .Baptist Church and the pews stretch- planning, increasing local control overing· ~ m t b e f f > i : ~ the- candidates m ~ d e state roads and getting more citizens

c a ~ d i e ¥ l a e " o o k e v e r i ' f i m 8 J ' >   ··. - ' wiY  'siD a   ~   N ~ q i J l : nwell-laid plans were scrapped. Speak- proposed replacing railroad tracksing· time was cut to three minutes with a long park and a trolley. Ware

a n c l ' the irttr.oductions consisted of said Lexington needs massive un -' N e x t is Mt So and S o " derground parking and buses tbat run

< It's father f r u ~ t r ~ t i n g for a poli- iWnigJlt.  '..to"get to · p e a k - o ~ l Y . ~ b i : ~ m i n Expressway OpposedUtes, -:- ·but ·fortul}ate for you,_: said ·' All candidates · e n ~ asked their

A m ~ t o a t the ~ ~ g i h r f i l g of ~ i s state: feelings ab.out a north-south express- ·-ment ~ , ~ ~ " " - / ' ' : · · : . _ . '. ·.,, . w_ay. N e s a i d h e l i k e d t h e i d e a: -· ·- i .

Rel>i at •Performances ' Amato, who-earlier in the campaignT t i e ~ p e e c - h e s given by the candi- . wanted to study th.e feas'ibility o( .and ~ t e s b ~ s i c a l l y we_re .speeches thev . .expressway, sai.d it now Is a de;id;J_ issue." · · .. '

have given -oefof e and will g i v . ~again: -Newman talked. about " p r o f e s Other questi?ps conc.erned health ·

s i O n a : ~ s ~ i ' . l e s a n d s t o p p i n g grow.th, ca  e, government services, s e w e ~Baesl-er -about his record as vice an<k growth. , ··lnayor: ·:Amato •about leadership and > h h e forum was ~ p o n s o r e d by the

"his P,a$LPJ' Qlic si rvice, G_raves - a b o u t ' > /   Park-Barberryc Lane Neigh-·traffic' a.nd planning, , Martin about / bofhood Association, the Elizabeth" r e t u r : n i n ~ : the ___government tQ the Street Neighborhood Association andpeople,'' ~ n d Ware about p e o p J ~ liv,- · the Cheroke_,e Park Neighborhood As·iRg in p o v e r t y . <· · ' s.ociation . ·

- O p l f w 9 candidates used visual Three reporters_ perhaps a new·aids. Gi'ave5 had two campaign work- record - covered the forum . It

ers· wearing T-shirts with his picture lasted abou t an hour and a half.