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...Ralph J. Perk, Republican mayor of Cleveland, retained office in a landslide victory over city council clerk Mercedes Cotner in the non-partisan election yesterday...
When you are the first Republican mayor of your city in three decades, and, what is more, Democrats there outnumber Republicans 8 to 1, it behooves you to run, at the very least, a shrewd re-election campaign. Cleveland Mayor Ralph J. Perk has been doing just that, and last week he won 56% of the vote in the nominating primary against Millionaire Democrat James M. Carney.* Perk took office two years ago, succeeding Carl Stokes and changing the tone of city hall from soul food to sauerkraut. To unseat him, Carney, an attorney and land developer, seemed...
What was not expected was that Carney would do as poorly as he did among whites. By contrast, Perk's showing among blacks was impressive. When he ran in 1971, Perk got less than 4% of the black vote. This time he received a respectable 15%. Perk seems a sure winner in the general election in November, where he will face Carney again...
...fiercely independent local mountain men are known, have never been reluctant to deal outside of the regulated state economy. In recent years, the action in the Tatras has shifted from minor-league trade in furs and sheep skin coats to deals in real estate big enough to perk the interest of lawyers, engineers and other professional types from Warsaw, Katowice and Krakow with investment cash to spare. Lured by the tenfold rise in tourism in the area since the end of World War II, and the inability of the slogging state construction agency Podhule to keep up with the demand...
...urban areas have looked to the conservative wing of the Democratic party and to the Republican party for a home. In Philadelphia they got support from tough talking former Police Chief Frank Rizzo. In Cleveland, the alternative to the primarily black Stokes machine proved to be conservative Republican Ralph Perk. Because of the steady influx of blacks into central cities, these whites are afraid of the proliferation of crime and are looking for law and order candidates...