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...twelve years since City Council Candidate Barry Goldwater led it into office against a scandal-spotted Democratic administration, Phoenix's staunchly conservative, nonpartisan Charter Government has cleaned up the city's fabled old gambling and vice rings and won at least 50 civic awards for its efficient ways. With that kind of record, Charter Government should have waltzed to re-election this year. Instead, Phoenix's Mayor Samuel Mardian Jr. and his incumbent city councilmen found themselves in a bitter fight over an improbable, implausible issue. The charge: that Charter Government's candidates-as well...
...start off his campaign, Hanner, a World War II fighter pilot who boasts of his membership in the John Birch Society, charged that Charter Government's city manager system was part of a plan launched by the National Municipal League (a thoroughly respectable association of U.S. civic leaders who work for such reforms as urban renewal, Metro government and modern budgeting) to further "the aims of internationalism and Communism." Hanner added that the league was "uninformed about Communism." At a press conference, a reporter asked if Hanner meant to include Senator Goldwater, who is a regional vice president...
...Gazette and Arizona Republic, which at first were reluctant to attack the committee, although they had given Charter Government strong support in the past. Despite the backing of Phoenix newspapers, Charter Government ran scared, spent more time defending itself against the pro-Communist charge than boasting of its solid civic record...
...constabulary, told both candidates that his men were nonpartisan and intended to do their policing job and nothing more. On election day, reinforced by detachments from the regular army, the constables avoided any suggestion of intimidating voters by remaining 100 yds. from the polling places-but they kept order. Civic-minded organizations such as the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Knights of Columbus set up volunteer, nonpartisan groups to tally results...
...demonstrations were called by CORE and the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) in support of a continuing campaign by the Civic Interest Group in Baltimore against discrimination in local eating facilities...