THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, June 12, 1995                  TAG: 9506120110
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 
SOURCE: By MASON PETERS 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   41 lines

PLAN OF ACTION SEN. BALLANCE HAS SIX GOALS FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

State Sen. Frank W. Ballance Jr., newly elected chairman of the 1st Congressional District Democratic Party, has issued a six-point ``plan-of-action.''

In a letter to 1st District Democrats, Ballance, a Warren County attorney, said that in the next 30-days he hoped to: - Organize three district rallies by the end of summer. - Raise $50,000 for the party, with 40 percent going to county organizations; 20 percent to the 1st District Congressional incumbent; 20 percent to Democratic candidates for statewide office; 6 percent for the state party, with 14 percent retained for district party operations. - Organize teen-aged Democrats. - Organize senior citizens groups and Democratic women in the District. - Involve the district party with members of the General Assembly and locally elected Democrats. - Reclaim straying Democrats and recruit new ones.

Ballance sent a copy of his plan to Democratic Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., and to 1st District U.S. Rep. Eva M. Clayton, Ballance's neighbor in Warrenton.

Clayton is up for re-election next year, and much of the effort of the Democrats under Ballance will be to support Clayton, the first African American and the first female to be elected to Congress from the state this century. ILLUSTRATION: File Photo

Sen. Ballance

KEYWORDS: ELECTION NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRAT by CNB