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daily neb regain
House candidates'
issues are busing,
grain, government
By Jcs IIicn cr.d Gecr;? I'Zlzr
Grain sales, busing 2nd big government are among the
issues that candidates jousting for Nebraska's three Con
gressional seats stressed in their primary campaigns.
The field of eleven candidates will be trimmed to six
after the primary elections and three of those six aspirants
already are assured of a victory May 1 1.
Candidates for the First Congressional District seat will
not have to worry about the primary since both Republi
can incumbent Charles Thone, 51, and Democratic chal
lenger Pauline Anderson, 56, are unopposed on the ballot.
They will face each other for the spot in November.
Thone, running for his fourth term in the House, said
the basic campaign issue was "whether or not I've done a
good job," while Anderson stressed bread and butter
issues such as inflation and unemployment.
She said that Thone has been "a good mechanic" dur
ing his six years in Washington, D.C., but that he has
lacked imagination and innovation.
Thone, on the other hand, said he thinks his record
meets his constituents' approval.
He pointed to his work on the House Agriculture
Committee and what he called his role as farmers' spokes
man as reasons to be re-elected.
Wheat exports essential
Thone said he thinks international grain deals, includ
ing wheat sales to the Soviet Union, benefited farmers of
both large and small farms.
"Exports are essential to our prosperity," Thone said.
"It would be a catastrophe if they were taken out of the
picture."
If grain was not exported, Thone said, the resulting
surplus would lower market prices.
He said the United States exported $12 billion more
than it imported, more than paying for oil imports.
Anderson, however, said there was "a great deal of
resentment in the agricultural community about some of
the grain deals being made." She said she would encour
age an agriculture policy that ensured a fair return for the
grain producer and also a stable export market.
Anderson favors the federal office negotiating inter
national food export and import deals. Such an agency
should have an advisory board of farmers to establish
negotiating guidelines she said.
University financing
Regarding universities, Anderson said state funds and
student tuitions should finance basic university functions,
such as faculty salaries and operating costs, while federal
funds should pay for research and loans to low-income
students.
Thone said he has introduced a bill in the House that
would allow income tax deductions for higher education
costs.
The bill. is directed toward middle-income groups, he
said.
Doth candidates said they would not tailor their
campaigns to get the student vote.
The student vote is there, Thone said, but it will not
make the difference between winning and losing in the
First District. Anderson agreed.
She said the 18 to 24-year-old vote in recent years has
been far below the average of other voting-age groups.
"Young people basically are trying to get prepared for
the future," and often are not concerned enough with
politics to vote, she said.
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Anderson said this summer she and her husband, UNL
history professor Albin Anderson, w21 travel the district
in a mobile home to "take the campaign to where the
people are-"
She s2 when fall elates resume, she will concentrate
on Lincoln.
Thone said he will continue his half-day "work ses
sions" around the district, in which he has pumped gas,
t:?d groceries in susr nmksts and fcrnisd.
"It's an awful good way to gst closer to people"
Those said.
II2 sdi he also will try to rk the streets of each town
in the district.
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Omtha City CouncHsnn Mcate Taylor, ess of four
Republicans rusnisg for the Second District seat, describ
ed the rasa by srying: "There isn't a drrr.-ti; difference
ca crjor esu's. It pst scms to be t question cf who's
ccit cLHi for the job."
Le3 Terry, PJ. I-crn and Joe B. Macs join Taylor in
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Terry, former TV news anchorman, stressed tne Dusng
issue. Cusing causes suspicion and dissention among races,
he said, instead of integration.
He proposed allowing students to attend the school of
their choice.
Douglas County Commissioner Morgan, a former state
senator, noted his record of budget trimming and "signi
ficant contributions in mental health and mental retarda
tion." Number cf y ard srns
Dut fa politics," said Morgan, 36, "people tend to
look at the number of yard signs and television appear
ances." In addition to three years as Omaha city councilman,
Taylor also was Douglas County election commissioner
for three years.
Taylor, 44, said integration can be achieved by enforc
ing equal employment opportunity and fair housing laws.
He also said government should justify its programs and
regulations before continuing its spending.
State Sen. Jchn Cavanauh, the only Democrat to file
for the seat, criticised Republican economic theories.
MA3 you hear them talisig about is getting rid of
government," said Cavanaugh, 30. "Cut you never hear
them talk about specifics."
The four-year veteran of the Nebraska Legislature also
said it is "perfectly appropriate" for universities to
comply with federal grant restrictions, "when some
national need has been determined."
General grant ail
Cavanaugh also would like to see "some general (block)
grant aid to higher institutions. But I wouldn't like to see
federal funding of universities on a national basis."
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Moss, a Western Electric employe, could not be
reached for comment.
The three men vying for incumbent Virginia Smith's
Third District seat all claim they can exert more influence
in Congress than Smith has during her year and a half in
Washington, D. C.
But Smith, 62, of Chappell, says she has been effective
in "reflecting the philosophy of Nebraska."
Neleigh State Sen. John DeCamp, 34, will challenge
Smith for the Republican slot on the November ballot.
Holly Hodge of Holdredge and James Hansen of Gering
are battling for the Democratic position.
"Virginia and I bascially are both thinking the same
and working in the same direction," DeCamp said. "But
I can get it done she can't." He said his influence in the
Legislature, along with his work in Operation Babylift
during the Vietnam evacuation, are proof of his effective-
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Smith said she has played key roles kt attempts to raise
the estate tax exemption, stop the dosing of small town
post offices, tighten the inspection and labeling of im
ported beef and limit the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
All candidates agreed Smith has done an "excellent
job" reporting to her ou tstate constituents.
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international grain
"I am absolutely opposed to any government interven
tion in the market," Smith said, and actions such as AFL
CIO President George Meany's pressure on the President
to get a grain embargo.
Hodge, a46-year-c!d farmer active ia several agri
cultural asaxaations, criticized the administration's grain
policy, saying the grain embargo costs fanners "several
billion dollars" in lost sales.
Hodge said his "marry contacts in the United States
Department of Agriculture," give him enough influence to
"do a better job" than Smith.
End ia themselves
Concerning higher education, Smith said the federal
government should distribute most of its grants in block
form, giving more control to state and local governments.
DeCamp warned that federal grants may be "becom
ing an end m themselves, rather than a means to
accomplish certain goals."
Each candidate criticized the influence and size of the
federal government.
"We must choose priorities that we want the govern
ment to take on," Hansen said.
A 32-year-old Scotts Bluff County public defender,
Hansen said he favors a "strong energy conservation
program," the study of wind and solar energy, along with
a plan to conserve water in Western Nebraska.
Challenging DeCamp's support of a . proposed coal
slurry from Wyoming to Arkansas, Hansen charged the
slurry would use water from Wyoming that normally
flows into Nebraska.
While three candidates expressed optimism about their
campaigns, DeCamp voiced some apprehension.
"I'm up against one of the best greased, financed and
organized political machines that exists," DeCamp said.
"I'm not really running against Virginia Smith; she is the
smallest cog in the machine. It will be extremely hard to
win."
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