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Baldwin vending gets curbed
By MELISSA CRAIG
Campus Correspondent
The Athens City Council voted
unanimously Tuesday night to
regulate vendors on Baldwin
Street.
Vendors Virginia Gundaker
and Gerald Crowley contested
the regulations, proposed by Joe
Broadhurst, director of the Uni
versity^ Business Services.
“We’re licensed up to the hilt
oefore we can even earn a
penny,” Gundaker said. “To im
pose any more restrictions on us
is an undue hardship.”
It isn’t fair to single out ven
dors when delivery trucks from
.beverage and snack companies
can park on the sidewalk to un
load, she said.
Crowley submitted a petition
with the signatures of 300 people
who approve of vendors, and
Gundaker asked the council to
suspend the proposal pending
further discussion and compro
mise.
Kathy Hoard, Public Safety
Committee chair, said that con
sidering the vendors’ requests
and the fact that city police want
to establish a peddler-free area,
this proposal is the best compro
mise she has seen.
The regulations restrict the
amount of sidewalk space al
lotted to vendors to a maximum
36 sq. ft. They may take up only
eight feet parallel to the street
and a depth of half the sidewalk’s
width.
Vendors must set up at the in
nermost edge of the sidewalk.
The regulations also limit the
vendors to areas at least 20 feet
from the Sanford-Bald win inter
section and 20 feet from the north
end of the the intersection’s west
crosswalk.
Vendors must display their li
censes or permits prominently.
To regulate competition, only a
single vendor or business organi
zation can operate in one location
at a time.
In other business, the council
postponed the recommended
adoption of a tree ordinance pro
posed by the Athens Tree Com
mission. The council will vote on
the ordinance at next month’s
meeting, and a work session is
scheduled for Tuesday.
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backflow preventers, which pre
vent Bewer lines from contami
nating drinking water, be installed
in all the main buildings on
campus — more than 200 build
ings.
The average cost ie $300 per
building. All MMR funding was cut
and less than 10 have been in
stalled to date.
• Emergency lighting — Public
Safety recommended that certain
parking lots and other areas re
ceive additional lighting. All of the
$100,000 asked for was cut and not
reinstated.
• Indoor Air Quality — the
$100,000 asked for was cut by the
state, then reinstated out of the
University operating funds.
TenBrook said he often is in the
center of controversy.
“Public Safety, the handicapped
all call me and want to know about
handicapped (accessibility pro
grams), about air quality and the
fire codes,” TenBrook said.
“If you’re a member of one of
these special groups, sure you’re
frustrated. Should they be critized
because they’re angry and frus
trated at Physical Plant? No, I
don’t blame them."
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• District 6 — Marilyn Farmer
won with 55 percent, eliminating
the need for a runoff.
• District 8 — Ken Jordan and
Jim Waters will face each other in
a runoff.
• District 9 — Tom Chasteen got
35 percent of the vote and Harry
Sims got 32 percent to advance to
the runoff.
• District 10 — Tal Duvall won
with 52 percent of the vote, beating
John Jeffreys who finished second
with 37 percent.
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Jones wins, Gingrich fights
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Freshman Rep. Ben Jones closely
won re-election, while Georgia’s lone Republican con
gressman, Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, fiercely bat
tled for re-election Tuesday night. Early returns
suggested the races could go either way.
Veteran Rep. Doug Barnard, D-Augusta, and seven
other incumbent Democrats in Georgia’s House dele
gation defeated GOP challengers easily.
But the other two House races remained tight.
In the 4th District, Jones of Covington and Repub
lican John Linder of Dunwoody were neck-and-neck.
With 52 percent of the vote tallied, Jones led by 53
percent, or 45,549 votes, to Linder’s 47 percent,
40,064.
Gingrich of Jonesboro, fought Democrat David
Worley of Jonesboro in a 6th District rematch of the
1988 race in which Worley captured 41 percent of the
vote.
Early returns showed Worley and Gingrich held
each other to 50 percent of the vote with 57 percent of
precincts reporting. Worley had 38,409 votes to Gin
grich’s 37,925.
Barnard won re-election to his eighth term, de
feating Republican Sam Jones of Evans 66 percent, or
44,396 votes, to 34 percent, 23,346, with 65 percent of
the vote tallied.
In Georgia’s seven other districts:
— Rep. Lindsay Thomas of Statesboro was elected
to a fifth term in the 1st District, defeating Repub
lican Chris Meredith of Rincon 73 percent, with 58,-
907 votes, to 27 percent, 22,138, with 80 percent
reporting.
— Rep. Charles Hatcher of Newton easily defeated
political unknown Jonathon Waters of Ray City in the
2nd District. With 76 percent reporting, Hatcher had
ercent or 56,327 votes to Waters’ 27 percent, or 21,081
Waters, a college student, raised no money for his
campaign.
— Rep. Richard Ray of Perry won his fifth term
against Republican Paul Broun Jr. of Amencus in the
3rd District. Broun is the son of longtime Democratic
state Sen. Paul Broun Sr. of Athens. With 65 percent
of precincts reporting, Ray led the race 62 percent, or
42,902, to 38 percent, or 26,542.
— Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta again defeated Dr
J.W. Tibbs of Atlanta in the 5th District, garnering 80
percent, 37,109, of the vote to Tibbs’ 20 percent, 9,182,
with 57 percent reporting.
— Rep. Bi^ddy Darden of Marietta was re-elected in
the 7th District, defeating Republican A1 Beverly of
Smyrna 63 percent, 39,410 votes, to 37 percent, 22,-
894, with 49 percent of the vote counted.
— Rep. Roy Rowland of Dublin defeated Republican
Bob Cunningham of Macon in the 8th District. With
75 percent precincts reporting, Rowland garnered
69 percent, 63,961 votes, to Cunningham’s 31 percent,
or 28,658.
— Rep. EM Jenkins of Jasper bid for his eighth term
from the 9th District in a rematch of his 1988 race
against Republican Joe Hoffman of Duluth. With 63
percent ofrtta vote in, Jenkins led Hoffman 61 per
cent, 55,8l3retes, to 39, 35,976.
Ryles, Barber, Durden, Irvin win
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Democrat Tim
Ryles, who won a primary victory
over the incumbent with a pledge
to lower car insurance rates, was
leading Republican Billy Lovett
Tuesday in the race for Georgia in
surance commissioner.
With 16 percent of the state’s 2,-
643 precincts reporting, Ryles led
with 72,116 votes or 56 percent.
Lovett had 57,349 votes or 44 per
cent.
Two seats on the utility-regu
lating Public Service Commission
went to former PSC member Mac
Barber and Robert Durden, both
Democrats, and Agriculture Com
missioner Tommy Irvin, anpther
Democrat, easily won re-elecpbn to
his sixth term.
In the race to succeed Ganr An
drews on the PSC, Barber defeated
Republican Jim West of Jonesboro.
With 15 percent of the precincts re
porting, Barber had 77,453 votes,
or 68 percent, to West’s 36,923
votes, or 32 percent.
With 15 percent of the precincts
in, Durden had 82,572 votes, or 85
rcent, to beat Libertarian Eliza-
th Goldin with 14,161 votes, or
15 percent, in the other PSC con
test, to replace Lovett.
In the agriculture commissioner
race, Irvin had 85,550 votes, or 69
percent, to 38,804 votes, or 31 per
cent, for Republican Raymond
Young, a former Agriculture De
partment employee, with 16 per
cent of the precincts reporting.
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