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Show Thursday. .'Vcember I 1T3 THKHFRMD 14 Provo 15 Utah-P- aee Peoples Party Not Down By DAVID E. ANDERSON WASHINGTON (I'PI) -- They didn't talk like losers and despite the fact that their presidential candidate received a bare 75,000 votes, the tiny staff of the fledgling People's Party claims 1972 as a year of victory. its from Fresh moving national offices mto a room over a fishmarket, national staff the has started mapping strategy for both elections and issue battles in 9173 We were able to legitimize the name People's Party" in the 1972 campaign, said Jim McClellan, campaign Christmas rfco so coor- dinator for the national ticket of Dr. Benjamin Spock and Julius Hobson. "You can tell by the way Walter Cronkite says it on the evening news. He no longer puts verbal quotation marks around the name." the party's Lou Aroniea, national organizer, said the biggest achievement was that "Ben and the party were able to simply flat out and say we are and and it's not a laughing matter. "Although some people cringed, you could say those things and the foundations did not shake. It was very pleasing that we didn't have to shy away from the issues," Aroniea said. i anti-racis- t, anti-sexi- Here to Stay the During the campaign party's first national effort Spock said repeatedly that the party was here to stay and that the November election was secondary to building support. "Our campaign is not over yet," McClellan said. "We've always said that the major difference the Democrats, Republicans and us was that we in were interested implementing a platform and they were interested in electing candidates." The party's steering committee already has approved a plan in which the party will focus on organizing around the issue of health care for 1973. Euring the 1972 campaign, Spock and the party urged that "the American people should get free, top quality medical care as a right." As a first step in the organizing process, the party intends to draw up model legislation that would implement this concept. "It will provide a concrete proposal for what medical care should be in this country," McClellan said, "and go far beyond any other By doing that, he said, it "will expose the fact Democrats that latest colors, styles, and knits in I All firs, quality 12.95 savings prices in pure reg. $20 knit dress slacks fashion polyester. Solids or patterns, waist. styles; fine tailoring. Sizes 29-4- 2 All V ; . h j$ O, , I 'v$, ' U Wm$ W3i: , ifeM J liS3 liP Ig& cx aX , " re9- - - $5, -t- side." Kentucky. "Votes are psychologically important," Aroniea said, "bethe cause that is what American mind is tuned to." He said that in those places where the party got on the ballot this year (10 states), "things seemed to generate. "Where we failed to get on the ballot, we failed to get a group." Of the six targeted states, three Wisconsin, New Jersey and strong Kentucky-ha- ve orranizations. New York, Ohio and Virginia still need to be organized, Avery said. "In these states we have to use 1973 as a start to becoming credible," he said. By working with local groups and fielding candidates, the party believes it is building toward 1976. Carleen Petschuk, national treasurer, said the party would spend about $22,000 on its 1973 activities, about what it did on the 1972 campaign. itlH tHH jyv'V'iW'r lli'Vl::!!5"A' I - yS VI to $70 polyester knit sport in an ejtc'tii9 selection of solids or potterns. All sizes. coa,s fXWi T&tiy I SiVVVlf llro - to $60, Price-Soli- T'O ) iiji III quality at an excePtionaly low patterned knit. All sizes. f ,'vCwi!fvvM 1 reg- 9'oup CO) or (Q) men s socks men's fashion ties 2M 1.99 j selection of solids and fancy polyester; 4" widths. A patterns in Popular styles, from famous makers. 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