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The original documents are located in Box 22, folder "Press Statements (News Summaries),
11/2/1976 (2)" of the Michael Raoul-Duval Papers at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Library.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
WIRE REPORT
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER
PHILLIP BUCHEN 2
JAMES CAVANAUGH
JIM CANNON
FOSTER CHANOCK
FORD is LIBRARY AERALD
JIM CONNOR
MIKE DUVAI
MAX FRIEDERSDORF
ALAN GREENSPAN
ROBERT HARTMAN
JERRY JONES
JOHN O. MARSH
TERRY O'DONNELL
BOB ORBEN
BIRGE WATKINS
E.O.B. 128 - RESEARCH
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PM-Turnout, 400
URGENT
By The Associated Press
Initial reports indicated heavy to very heavy voter turnout across
much of the nation today as voting began in a presidential election
that some experts had said might draw a record light vote.
Long lines were reported at polls as they opened in massachusetts,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, michigan. Texas and at least as dozen
other states. Sunny skies and crisp autumn temperatures were the rule
across most of the country.
**I*ve never seen anything like it, said a voting official in
Waltham, mass., a Boston suburb where. voters were lined up before the
opening of polling places.
At Precinct 264 in Dallas, Tex., an area of apartment complexes,
there were 250 persons in line when the polls opened at 7 a.m.
Unusually heavy voting was reported in Alabama. Police cars had to
be sent to polling places at schools in Birmingham because the voter
traffic was so heavy children were having trouble getting to class.
The voter turnout in New York City was "astonishingly heavy, " the
Board of Elections reported. A Democratic survey of urstate New York
and subruban areas indicated early balloting was heavier than in
1972.
The traditional political wisdom is that a heavy voter turnout would
favor Democrat Jimmy Carter in his race against President Ford, since
there are more registered Democrats than Republicans.
Election analysts had predicted that only slightly more than half
the 150 million Americans of voting age would 80 to the polls today.
In 1972. the turnout was 55 per cent.
Early turnout in Michigan was reported heavy to very heavy
throughout the state. In Grand Rapids. Mich, where President Ford cast
his ballot, voting was reported four times as heavy as in 1972.
The morning turnout in Albany, Ga., indicated record voting.
officials said. At 7 a.m. there were long lines at every polling
place they said. Mrs. R. O. Buitman, superviosr at one of the polling
places, said, *'this is the heaviest turnout I have seen,' in 20
years.
Forty- to 45-minute lines were reported at polling places in
Richmond. Va. Uniformly heavy voting was reported in a half dozen
cities in Maine. Long lines were reported in various parts of
Tennessee.
Early reports from Pennsylvania indicated heavy voting throughout
the state. In one precinct in State College, Pa., 71 people voted in
the first 50 minutes.
1121aES 11-02
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PM-ELECTION-ADVISORY 11-2
EDITORS: WE ARE WRITING A 2ND LEAD ELECTIONS TO INCLUDE THE HEAVY
VOTER TURNOUT REPORTED OVER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
UPI WASHINGTON
UPI 11-02 10:46 AES
D TROIT (UPI) -- MICHIGAN VOT RS TURNED OUT IN STRONG
-w-
NUMB A NATIV RS UND R CLOUDY SKITS TODAY TO BALLOT ON WH THER PRESIDENT EARLY FORD,
THE SON, SHOULD B RETURNED TO TH WHIT HOUSE.
SHOWING FIRST UP HOURS OF VOTING. IN OTHER AREAS OF THE STATE, VOTURS WERE THE
TWO TURNOUT WAS R PORTED HEAVY IN D TROIT AND SUBURBS DURING
AT NORMAL OR ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS.
72 OF THOSE REGIST R D.
P STATE R C NT OFFICIALS PR DICTED A RECORD TURNOUT OF 3.7 MILLION VOTERS,
DETROIT. DAY. SAID A SPOK SMAN FOR THE WAYNE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE IN
"IF THE WEATHER STAYS AS IT IS, VOTING SHOULD BE H AVY MUCH OF THE
UPI 11-02 11:09 ASS
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -- NEWLY-R GISTERED SPANISH-SPEAKING VOTERS COULD
GIVE JIMMY CARTER THE MARGIN OF VICTORY HE NEEDS IN CLOSELY CONTESTED
STAT S SUCH AS T XAS, ILLINOIS AND CALIFORNIA, A DEMOCRATIC PARTY
OFFICIAL SAID Y ST RDAY.
MOR THAN 800, 000 SPANISH-SURNAMED AMERICANS WERE ADDED TO VOTER
ROLLS THIS YEAR, RAISING TH IR NATIONAL TOTAL TO 2.8 MILLION, SAID
JOS PH ARAGON, NATIONAL DIR CTOR OF TH DEMOCRATIC VOTER REGISTRATION
AND G I-OUT-THE-VOT CAMPAIGNS.
HE SAID 90 PER C NT OF THOS N WLY REGISTERED AND AT LEAST 70 PER
CENT OF ALL LATINS WHO VOTE ARE EXPECTED TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR
CARTER.
AT LEAST 250,000 HISPANICS WERE ADDED TO THE VOTER ROLLS BOTH IN
CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS, ARAGON SAID.
IN FLORIDA WITH 17 ELECTORAL VOTS AND LEANING TOWARD CARTER AT
L. AST 25,000 HISPANIC VOTURS WERE ADDED TO THE ROLLS, RAISING TH IR
NUMBERS TO ABOUT 130,000.
ILLINOIS WHICH IS RAT D A TOSS-UP AND HAS 26 ELECTORAL VOTES
REGISTER D 0,000 NEW HISPANIC VOTERS RAISING THEIR TOTAL TO ABOUT
100,000, WHICH COULD PUT CARTER OVER THE TOP IN THAT VERY TIGHT
RAC.
UP-2 2
(POLITICS)
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- D MOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ROBERT
STRAUSS Y STERDAY ACCUSED REPUBLICANS OF DTC PTIV AND MISLEADING
CAMPAIGN ADV RTISING AIMED AT DISCREDITING JIMMY CARTER IN TH FINAL
HOURS OF THE PRESID NTIAL RACE.
STRAUSS TOLD THE INDEP NDENT T LEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION THAT AN
ADV RTIS - MENT APP ARING IN A NUMBER OF N WSPAPERS ACROSS THE NATION
Y ST RDAY WAS "THE KIND OF THING I DON'T BELIEVE WOULD BE RUN BY THE
PUBLICANS IF THEY WEREN'T DESPERATE IN THESE FINAL HOURS."
TH AD CARRIES A HEADING IN LARG LETT RS STATING, "CAN A MAN NO
LONG TRUSTED BY THE COCHAIRMAN OF HIS NATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
B⁻ TRUST D BY YOU?" IN SMALL R LETTERS, IT SAYS: "A PERSONAL WARNING
ABOUT JIMMY CARTER BY HERBERT HAFIF."
HAFIF WAS A FUND-RAIS R FOR CARTER IN CALIFORNIA, BUT WAS FIRED
B FOR THE CALIFORNIA PRIMARY. HE SAID HE P RSONALLY PAID FOR THE
ORIGINAL AD WHEN IT APP ARED IN THE LOS ANG LTS TIMES OCT. 27.
STRAUSS CLAIMED THE PRESIDENT FORD COMMITTEE R PRINTED IT IN OTHER
NEWSPAPERS Y STERDAY WITH COMMITT FUNDS.
"I'M ON THE NATIONAL CARTER STEERING COMMITTEE. HE'S NOT A MEMBER
OF IT AND N VER HAS BEEN," STRAUSS SAID OF HAFIF.
"THIS FOLLOW IS A NOTHING. THAT'S TH REASON H WAS FIRED. 11 SAID
STRAUSS. "THE AD NOW IS BUING RUN ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IT'S
DEC PTIV. IT'S MISL ADING. IT IMPLI S THAT THIS F LLOW IS DOING IT
ALL FOR $8,000, BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATT IS THAT THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY TC RUNNING THESE ADS "
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PM-Political Rdp. Insert aC19, 40
UNDATED: to insert clarifying data about Roper poll insert after 13th
graf. 47 lead.
The Roper poll gives Carter a 47 to 40 edge over Ford in the
category of *eligible voters and likely voters The 51-47 figure
comes from the *final estimate of the popular vote, " & tabulation
that takes into account the 47-40 projection.
The Roper: 14th graf
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Current Quotes
By The Associated Press
presidential campaign ended.
**I >m glad it's over." - Jimmy Carter, as his Democratic
President held a firm hand on the tiller for on an even
keel. **America I has turned around. I put the ship of state
Ford, campaigning for four more years a steady in the course., White House. -
stêrile the figures." unemployment - the personal tragedy that lies point about the
**All tragedy through of this campaign, we have tried to make the
Mondale. Democrátic vice presidential candidate behind Walter
president. Sen. Bob Dole, the Republican candidate time for vice and
into it.,, campaign - over-all. We have put a mighty lot of But it's work
there good "*If will we win. be a it lot will of be Monday characterized morning quarterbacking. as remarkable. If we lose. been
a
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PLAINS, GA. ADD CARTER
"I'M GLAD IT'S OVER, " SAID THE CANDIDATE LATE MONDAY NIGHT AS HE
SANK INTO AN AIRPLANE SEAT OPPOSITE SEVERAL REPORTERS ON THE WAY HOME
ABOARD HIS CAMPAIGN JET, 'PEANUT ONE.
"IT SEEMS THERE'S A CRISIS EVERY DAY, AND SOMETIMES TWO OR THREE,
THE CANDIDATE SAID. AND, HE SAID, THOSE CRISES SEEM TO BRING EVER
MORE CRISES. WHEN YOU'RE DOWN. EVERYONE KICKS YOU, HE SAID.
BUT THE FINAL HOURS WERE MORE A TIME OF RELAXATION AND GENTLE
ENJOYMENT THAN OF POST-MORTEMS. CARTER, HIS STAFF AND REPORTERS
GATHERED AROUND AN ORGAN ABOARD THE CANDIDATE'S PLANE AND SANG TUNES
LIKE "WE SHALL OVERCOME, " ''AMAZING GRACE'' AND 'SEWANEE RIVER.
EARLY TONIGHT, HE PLANNED TO SPEAK TO HIS NEIGHBORS AND VISITORS
FROM THE PLATFORM OF THE OLD TRAIN DEPOT THAT SERVES AS HIS LOCAL
CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS. LATER. HE PLANNED TO TRAVEL TO ATLANTA TO WATCH
THE ELECTION RETURNS AND PARTICIPATE IN WHAT HE AND HIS SUPPORTERS
HOPE WILL BE A VICTORY CELEBRATION.
11-02-76 09:10EST
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CARTER-SOUTH
ALWAYS VOTES WITH A REGIONAL RADIO ADVERTISEMENT WHICH SAYS, ''THE SOUTH SOUTHERN HAS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- DEMOCRAT JIMMY CARTER IS APPEALING FOR
TO BEEN THE CONSCIENCE OF AMERICA. MAYBE THEY'LL START LISTENING
US NOW.
STRANGE, MAYBE ONLY A SOUTHERNER CAN UNDERSTAND.
SECOND, THE SOUTH IS BEING READMITTED TO THE UNION. IF THAT SOUNDS
IN THE SO-SECOND RADIO SPOT, AN ANNOUNCER SAYS, ''ON NOVEMBER THE
MEANS JOKES TO AND UNFAIR COMPARISONS. ONLY A SOUTHERNER CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT IT
"ONLY A SOUTHERNER CAN UNDERSTAND YEARS OF COARSE ANTI-SOUTHERN
UNDERSTAND WHAT JIMMY CARTER AS PRESIDENT CAN MEAN.
BE A POLITICAL WHIPPING BOY. BUT THEN ONLY A SOUTHERNER CAN
SAY? OWN ARE YOU GOING TO LET THE WASHINGTON POLITICIANS KEEP ONE OF OUR
OUR REGION'S HISTORY. ARE YOU GOING TO LET IT PASS WITHOUT HAVING YOUR IN
''IT'S LIKE THIS. NOVEMBER THE SECOND IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY
COMES ON, WITH THE CANDIDATE SAYING: ''WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY. WE LOVE
AT THIS POINT, THE ANNOUNCER STOPS READING AND A TAPE OF CARTER
OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE? NOT IF THIS MAN CAN HELP IT.''
TO MAKE OUR OWN DECISIONS.''
OURSELVES. WE WANT TO BE TREATED FAIRLY. AND WE WANT TO HAVE A RIGHT
OUR GOVERNMENT. WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING SELFISH OUT OF GOVERNMENT FOR
11-01-76 17:56EST
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PM-NONDALE 1STLD-PICKUP3RDGRAF A048 11-2
BY CHERYL ARVIDSON
AFTON, MINN. (UPI) -- WALTER MONDALE VOTED "FOR JIMMY CARTER AND
HIS RUNNING MATE" TODAY. AND, HE SAID, THE CARTER-MONDALE TICKET WILL
WELCOME ANY KIND OF WHITE HOUSE VICTORY.
"I'M GLAD IT'S OVER. I CAN GET A LITTLE REST NOW," SAID THE WEARY
DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AFTER THREE MONTHS AND 54,000
MILES OF CAMPAIGNING.
"I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO WIN WITH A MANDATE," THE MINNESOTA
SENATOR TOLD REPORTERS AT VILLAGE HALL, A SMALL WHITE FRAME BUILDING
THAT SERVES AS AFTON'S POLLING PLACE. BUT "IF WE CAN WIN WITHOUT IT,
AND THAT'S ALL WE CAN GET, I'LL TAKE THAT TOO."
AFTER VOTING WITH HIS FAMILY, MONDALE HAD BREAKFAST WITH FRIENDS
AND PLANNED TO GO TO MINNEAPOLIS FOR A DENTAL APPOINTMENT WITH HIS
NEPHEW, DR. RALPH MONDALE, WHO THE SENATOR SAID HE VISITS FREQUENTLY
"SO HE CAN MAKE A LIVING.
AT MONDALE'S SIDE TO VOTE IN AFTON SHORTLY AFTER 7 A.M. LOCAL TIME
WERE HIS WIFE JOAN AND HIS OLDEST SON TEDDY, 19, WHO IS VOTING THIS
YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME.
"TODAY IS A DAY WHEN WE ARE PROHIBITED FROM CAMPAIGNING, SO I.
WON'T," MONDALE SAID. "BUT I'M SURE YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO I VOTED FOR.
I VOTED FOR JIMMY CARTER AND HIS RUNNING MATE."
A LINE OF ABOUT 25 PEOPLE HAD FORMED OUTSIDE THE SMALL BUILDING
WHEN MONDALE ARRIVED. THE SENATOR SHOOK HANDS WITH TOWN RESIDENTS AND
NOTED IT WAS A "BEAUTIFUL DAY, NICE VOTING WEATHER.
MONDALE SAID_HE WAS "VERY CONFIDENT" OF VICTORY. HE CALLED THE
ELECTION A CRUCIAL ONE AND SAID "THE STRENGTH OF THIS NATION" WAS AT
STAKE.
HONDALE ALSO PLANNED A PRIVATE LUNCHEON WITH STAFF NEMBERS, A TRIP
TO A MINNEAPOLIS ART GALLERY WITH JOAN AND A PRIVATE DINNER WITH HIS
FAMILY BEFORE THE RETURNS STARTED ROLLING IN.
"I HOPE A NAP IS IN ORDER," HE ADDED.
PICKUP 3RDGRAF: HONDALE'S WIFE
UPI 11-02 10:02 AES
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PU-ELECTION 1STLD-PICKUP5THGRAF A018 11-2
BY ARNOLD SAWISLAK
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
GERALD FORD AND JIMMY CARTER CAST BALLOTS IN THEIR HOMETOWNS TODAY
AND MILLIONS OF OTHER AMERICANS DID THE SAME IN A PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION E PERTS SAY IS ONE OF THE TIGHEST IN HISTORY.
VOTERS WILL ALSO SELECT GOVERNORS IN 14 STATES, SENATORS IN 33 AND
HOUSE MEMBERS AND OTHER STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS IN ALL 50. THE
BALLOTING BEGAN JUST PAST MIDNIGHT IN THE EAST AND WILL CONTINUE
UNTIL EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING IN ALASKA.
AN ESTIMATED 75-80 MILLION PERSONS WERE EXPECTED TO CAST BALLOTS
IN THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF THE NATION'S THIRD CENTURY. THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PREDICTED FAIR SKIES AND MILD TEMPERATURES
IN MOST AREAS OF THE NATION.
DENOCRATS HAVE CONTENDED ALL ALONG THAT DECENT WEATHER WILL HELP
CARTER BECAUSE IT WILL ENCOURAGE A HEAVIER TURNOUT. THERE ARE MORE
REGISTERED DEMOCRATS THAN REPUBLICANS IN THE COUNTRY.
FORD AND HIS WIFE, BETTY, CAST THEIR BALLOTS AT AN ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. "I FEEL VERY GOOD," FORD TOLD
REPORTERS. "NOV. 2 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY."
"ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY," FORD WAS ASKED. "SURE DO," HE REPLIED.
THEN HE ASKED A REPORTER, "DON'T YOU THINK WE HAVE GOOD REASON?"
THEY VOTED IN THE AUDITORIUM OF THE WEALTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL,
ABOUT THREE BLOCKS FROM THE HOME WHERE MRS. FORD WAS REARED. EACH
SIGNED THE REGISTRATION BOOK AND TOOK THEIR PAPER BALLOTS. THE
PRESIDENT STOOD IN ONE POLLING BOOTH AND MRS. FORD STOOD NEXT TO HIM
IN ANOTHER. EACH TOOK A FEW MINUTES TO CHECK OFF THEIR CHOICES.
THE PRESIDENT PLANNED TO RETURN TO HIS HOTEL SUITE FOR A COUPLE OF
HOURS BEFORE GOING TO THE AIRPORT WHERE HE WILL DEDICATE NURALS IN
THE TERMINAL SHOWING PARTS OF HIS LIFE. THEN WILL THEN RETURN TO
WASHINGTON FOR A GATHERING OF THE FORD FAMILY TO WATCH THE RETURNS.
IN PLAINS, GA., CARTER VOTED "FOR WALTER MONDALE AND HIS RUNNING
MATE" AND SAID HE WAS CONFIDENT OF OUSTING FORD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
"I'M GLAD THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER, IT'S BEEN A GOOD ONE," CARTER TOLD
REPORTERS AFTER CASTING HIS BALLOT A HALF HOUR AFTER THE POLLS OPENED
IN A SMALL, WHITE CONCRETE BLOCK HOUSE.
"I VOTED FOR WALTER MONDALE AND HIS RUNNING MATE," CARTER SAID,
FLASHING HIS FAMOUS GRIN. "I FEEL CONFIDENT ... I THINK WE HAVE
ADEQUATELY PRESENTED MYSELF AND SENATOR MONDALE TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE AND I AM PERFECTLY WILLING TO ABIDE BY THEIR JUDGMENT TODAY."
THE VOTERS OF DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H., APPEARED TO MIRROR THE
NATIONAL POLLS THAT SHOWED FORD AND CARTER RUNNING ALMOST DEAD EVEN.
DIKVILLE NOTCH WAS THE FIRST COMMUNITY TO COUNT ITS PRESIDENTIAL
BALLOTS AND GAVE FORD A TWO-VOTE LEAD OVER CARTER.
THE 26 VOTERS CAST 13 VOTES FOR FORD, 11 FOR CARTER AND ONE FOR
INDEPENDENT EUGENE MCCARTHY. ONE BALLOT WAS VOIDED BECAUSE THE VOTER
SELECTED THREE CANDIDATES. THE RETURNS CAME IN JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT
EST.
PICKUP 5THGRAF: BOTH
UPI 11-02 09:28 AES
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PM-LaRouche. 390
NEW YORK AP - A minor party candidate, who bought $95,000 worth of
election eve television time to charge that Jimmy Carter is bent on
nuclear war, has drawn hundreds of protest calls.
The attack on Carter - an admitted effort to elect President Ford by
siphoning off votes from the Democratic candidate - was made by
Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., candidate for president on the U.S. Labor
party ticket.
The party, which is fielding national candidates for the first time
this year. got a half-hour of paid time at 10 p.m. monday after an
NBC rejection of the last-minute request was overturned by the Federal
Communications Commission.
After the telecast, which vied with a half-hour paid telecast by
Carter on CBS, NBC reported receiving hundreds of calls protesting the
LaRouche speech but did not say on what basis the protests were made.
However, the New York Times reported receiving many calls from
viewers who objected to the **virulent,* attack on Carter.
LaRouche charged during the broadcast that if Carter is elected, he
will have the nation **irreversibly committed to nuclear war by no
later than November of 1977.,,
Asked if his aim was taking votes away from Carter, LaRouche
replied: **In a sense, yes. But I'm saying the Democrats should vote
for me and after the election we'll get together."
The U.S. Labor party, which says it is committed to sweeping
reorganization of the monetary systems of capitalist nations claims
the support of from seven million to 1C million voters and is on the
ballot in 25 states.
The request for election eve prime time was made only on Saturday,
and turned down by NBC on grounds it was too late to rearrange
schedules.
NBC noted that the time alloted to Carter and Ford Tuesday night was
discussed last August and purchased in October.
But the FCC ruled Monday that under the **reasonable access''
provisions of the law governing equal time for political broadcasts,
the network must sell the time to the minor party.
With a Carter telecast scheduled at 9 p.m. and a Ford half-hour at
9:30 p.m., NBC bad to move its own one-hour election eve special from
10 to 10:30 p.m. and advance following programming in order to open
the 10 p.m. slot for LaRouche.
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By VICTORIA GRAHAM
Associated Press Writer
GRAND RAPIDS Mich. AP - Amidst the glare and flash of cameras,
President Ford became citizen Ford for three minutes in a voting booth
today as he cast his ballot in the election he hopes will send him to
the White House.
Ford voted by punching a card in a metal, three-sided booth that
lacks curtains to totally conceal a voter exercising his franchise.
The serious-faced Ford, wearing a gray, pin-striped suit, studied
his ballot as television cameras recorded the event. He looked up
once to smile. His wife, Betty, voted simultaneously in a booth
beside him.
Outside of the elementary school where the booths were housed,
crowds of children shouted, *We want Ford: We want Ford!"
Ford entered the booth at 7:41 a.m. He emerged at 7:44 a.m. He took
his ballot and Betty's and handed them to city clerk John Wielsma,
who deposited them in a locked steel box.
Asked if be felt lucky, Ford said, Sure do. Don't you think we
have good reason?,,
Afterwards. Ford and his wife went to Granny's Kitchen for a second
breakfast. He planned to unveil a mural and attend a Pentecostal
church service before returning to Washington later today to await the
outcome of the election.
Ford closed: 6th graf
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With Wirephoto
ALEXANDRIA Va. AP - President Ford's daughter, Susan, showed up
at the polls today and listened intently to a voting official's
instructions for two minutes before entering the booth to cast her
ballot.
"I don't want to screw up now, " she explained without saying for
whom she intended to vote.
Ford's 19-year-old daughter drove alone in a small canary yellow car
to the polling place in this historic suburb across the Potomac River
from the White House her father has occupied for two years. She was
followed by another car containing her Secret Service guards.
Like others arriving at the poll, she stood in line until her turn.
Th3n she spent a minute in the booth before driving off to school.
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ADD FORD, GRAND RAPIDS
"I FEEL VERY GOOD. NOV. 2 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY," SAID FORD
AFTER H AND HIS WIFE CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR THE PRESIDENT AT WEALTHY
EL M NTARY SCHOOL.
THE PRESIDENT ARRANG D TO RETURN TO WASHINGTON BEFORE NOON, WHERE
HE AND HIS FAMILY WILL WATCH THE RETURNS ON TELEVISION TONIGHT.
"ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY?" FORD WAS ASK D WAS ASKED BY REPORTERS AS
H SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS FOR CHILDREN IN GRAND RAPIDS AND JUBILANTLY
HOISTED HOISTED ALOFT ONE YOUNGSTER WEARING A "FORD" CAP AND WAVING
AN AMERICAN FLAG.
"SUR DO. I'M FEELING OPTIMISTIC," H SAID. OBVIOUSLY REFERRING TO
NATIONWID POLLS WHICH SHOWED HIM FORGING INTO A VIRTUAL TIE WITH
CARTER IN THE LATE GOING, H ADDED: "DON'T YOU THINK WE HAVE GOOD
REASON?"
MRS. FORD SAID SHE VOTED FOR "MY FAVORIT CANDIDATE, PRESIDENT
FORD."
TH PR SIDENT AND HIS WIF TRAVELED IN A MOTORCADE FROM THE HOTEL
PANTLIND TO THE SCHOOL, ARRIVING AT 7:30 A.M. EST. ALONG THE WAY,
FORD STOPP D TH MOTORCAD IN FRONT OF A SERVIC STATION WHEN HE
SPOTTED AN LDERLY COUPLE WHO WERE "FRIENDS OF MY PARENTS".
THEY VOTED IN TH AUDITORIUM OF THE SCHOOL, ABOUT THREE BLOCKS
FROM THE HOM WH RE MRS. FORD WAS RAISED. EACH SIGN THE
REGISTRATION BOOK AND TOOK THEIR PAP R BALLOTS. THE PRESIDENT STOOD
IN ON POLLING BOOTH AND MRS. FORD IN ANOTHER. EACH TOOK A FEW
MINUTES TO CHECK OFF THEIR CHOIC S.
FORD S EM D NOT TO WANT TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL. WHILE HE WAS MARKING
HIS BALLOT, S VERAL HUNDRED CHILDREN OUTSIDE CHANTED, "W WANT FORD."
WHEN HE MERGED TO SUM HIS MOTORCAD FORD PAUSED TO SHAKE
HANDS WITH THE CHILDREN, MANY OF WHOM WANTED HIS AUTOGRAPH. HE
HOIST D 7-YEAR-OLD CHRIS WARING, WHO WAS WEARING A RED, WHITE, AND
BLU BASEBALL CAP WITH FORD'S NAM ON IT AND CARRYING AN AMERICAN
FLAG, HIGH INTO THE AIR.
UPI 11-02 09:33 A S
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BY HELEN THOMAS
UPI WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (UPI) -- AN OPTIMISTIC AND NOSTALGIC PRESIDENT
FORD VOTED AT WEALTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN HIS HOMETOWN TODAY BEFORE
HEADING BACK TO WASHINGTON TO AWAIT THE OUTCOME OF HIS WHITE HOUSE
BATTLE WITH JIMMY CARTER.
"I FEEL VERY GOOD. NOV. 2 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY," SAID FORD
AFTER HE AND HIS WIFE, BETTY, MOTORCADED TO THE SCHOOL AND CAST THEIR
BALLOTS FOR THE PRESIDENT.
THE PRESIDENT ARRANGED TO RETURN TO WASHINGTON BEFORE NOON, WHERE
HE AND HIS FAMILY WILL WATCH THE RETURNS ON TELEVISION TONIGHT.
"ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY?" FORD WAS ASKED WAS ASKED BY REPORTERS AS
HE SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS FOR CHILDREN IN GRAND RAPIDS AND JUBILANTLY
HOISTED HOISTED ALOFT ONE YOUNGSTER WEARING A "FORD" CAP AND WAVING
AN AMERICAN FLAG.
"SURE DO. I"M FEELING OPTINISTIC," HE SAID. OBVIOUSLY REFERRING TO
NATIONWIDE POLLS WHICH SHOWED HIM FORGING INTO A VIRTUAL TIE WITH
DEMOCRAT CARTER IN THE LATE GOING, HE ADDED: "DON'T YOU THINK WE HAVE
GOOD REASON?"
MRS. FORD SAID SHE VOTED FOR "MY FAVORITE CANDIDATE, PRESIDENT
FORD."
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS WIFE TRAVELED IN A MOTORCADE FROM THE HOTEL
PANTLIND TO THE THE WEALTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN GRAND RAPIDS, WHERE
THEY ARRIVED AT 7:30 A.M. EST. ALONG THE WAY, FORD STOPPED THE
MOTORCADE IN FRONT OF A SERVICE STATION WHEN HE SPOTTED AN ELDERLY
COUPLE WHO WERE "FRIENDS OF MY PARENTS."
THEY VOTED IN THE AUDITORIUM OF THE SCHOOL, ABOUT THREE BLOCKS
FROM THE HOME WHERE MRS. FORD WAS RAISED.
EACH SIGNED THE REGISTRATION BOOK AND TOOK THEIR PAPER BALLOTS.
THE PRESIDENT STOOD IN ONE POLLING BOOTH AND MRS. FORD IN ANOTHER.
EACH TOOK A FEW MINUTES TO CHECK OFF THEIR CHOICES.
FORD SEEMED NOT TO WANT TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL. WHILE HE WAS MARKING
HIS BALLOT, SEVERAL HUNDRED CHILDREN OUTSIDE CHANTED, "WE WANT FORD."
WHEN HE EMERGED TO RESUME HIS MOTORCADE, FORD PAUSED TO SHAKE
HANDS WITH THE CHILDREN, MANY OF WHOM WANTED HIS AUTOGRAPH. HE
HOISTED 7-YEAR-OLD CHRIS WARING, WHO WAS WEARING A RED, WHITE, AND
BLUE BASEBALL CAP WITH FORD'S NAME ON IT AND CARRYING AN AMERICAN
FLAG, HIGH INTO THE AIR.
FORD WAS WEARING A GRAY SUIT WITH A THIN WHITE STRIPE, PALE BLUE
SHIRT, AND MAROON TIE. MRS. FORD WORE A GRAY WORSTED PRINCESS-STYLE
COAT WITH A BLACK VELVET COLLAR.
FORD, WHO BROKE DOWN EMOTIONALLY AT THE OVERWHELMING GREETING ON
HIS ARRIVAL IN GRAND RAPIDS MONDAY NIGHT, APPEARED STILL IN A
NOSTALGIC MOOD. HE SPOKE SENTIMENTALLY OF SOME OF THE OLD FAMILIAR
PLACES HE SAW EN ROUTE TO THE POLLING PLACE.
TODAY, HE AUTOGRAPHED A 1948 CAMPAIGN PHOTOGRAPH OF HIMSELF, HELD
BY JOHN RITHASTER, WHO TOLD REPORTERS THAT FORD USED TO HAVE HIS HAIR
CUT IN RITMASTER'S GRANDFATHER'S BARBER SHOP.
"IN APPRECIATION AND BEST WISHES. JERRY FORD," WROTE THE
PRESIDENT.
NEARBY, TWO YOUNG MEN HELD UP PLACARDS READING: "PRESIDENT FORD,
SAY NO TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS."
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TH MARKET RES ARCH OPINION POLL SHOWED FORD ONLY ONE POINT AHEAD
OF CARTER IN THE COUNTDOWN, WHIL HE HAD B EN FIGHT POINTS AHEAD A
FW WEEKS AGO. STN. ROBERT GRIFFIN, R-MICH. TALKING TO REPORTERS,
ALSO MADE IT CLEAR THE FORD CAMP WAS WORRIED ABOUT MICHIGAN.
IN A FINAL CAMPAIGN RADIO BROADCAST, THE PR SIDENT SAID HE
BELIEVES THE CHOIC IS CL AR IN TH LECTION: "I BELIEVE I OFFER
EXP RIVNC D LEADERSHIP; YOU WILL HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER MY OPPONENT
CAN MAK THE SAME CLAIM."
H MAD THIS APPEAL:
"PERHAPS ONLY ON WHO CAME TO THE PRESID NCY WITHOUT B ING ELECTED
CAN CAR AS D EPLY AS I DO TO US THAT POWER WITHOUT EVER ABUSING
YOUR TRUST. P RHAPS ONLY ONE WHO HAS SERV D AS YOUR PRESIDE WITHOUT
YOUR MANDATT CAN DESIRE AS STRONGLY AS I DO TO STRVE AS YOUR
PR SID NT WITH YOUR MANDATE."
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By WILLIAM E. SCHULZ
Associated Press Writer
PLAINS, Ga. AP - Ending his exhausting and often lonely 98-week
presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter today entered the solitude of the
voting booth and cast his ballot for **Walter mondale and his running
mate."
**I feel a sense of satisfaction. l'did the best I could " he said
afterwards. **I think Sen. Mondale and I adequately presented
ourselves to the American people."
Carter waited for his wife, Rosalynn; his son. Chip, and his
daughter-in-law Caron. to cast their ballots before voting at 7:29
a.m. in the booth housed in a small cinder-block building near the
railroad tracks that run through this rural hamlet.
He spent five minutes marking the lengthy Georgia ballot.
The Carter party was preceeded by William E. Wise, a Plains resident
who was the first to vote in the candidate's precinct.
Carter was followed by Jimmie Wallace, an acquaintance. **Jimmie and
I used to plow a mule together. " Carter commented.
Afterwards. Carters walked down a black-top road to his peanut
warebouse where he spent approximately 10 minutes beore returning to
his home.
Carter said he expected the voting and tabulating to proceed slowly
today, especially in Georgia. **We"ve got all those constitutional
amendments. But that's normal for a general election in Georgia, he
said
Wearing a brown, open-collar shirt. tan slacks and a beige sweater
in the nippy morning air. Carter told the throng of reporters and
onlookers trailing him that he was pleased to have had a chance to
present himself to the American people.
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BY RICHARD LERNER
PLAINS, GA. (UPI) -- JIMMY CARTER VOTED EARLY TODAY "FOR WALTER
MONDALE AND HIS RUNNING MATE" AND SAID HE WAS CONFIDENT OF OUSTING
PRESIDENT FORD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
"I'M GLAD THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER, IT'S' BEEN A GOOD ONE," THE
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE TOLD REPORTERS AFTER CASTING HIS BALLOT AT 7:30
A.M., A HALF. HOUR AFTER THE POLLS OPENED IN A SMALL, WHITE CONCRETE
BLOCK HOUSE.
"I VOTED FOR WALTER MONDALE AND HIS RUNNING MATE," CARTER SAID,
FLASHING HIS FAMOUS GRIN. "I FEEL CONFIDENT ... I THINK WE HAVE
ADEQUATELY PRESENTED MYSELF AND SENATOR MONDALE TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE AND I AM PERFECTLY WILLING TO ABIDE BY THEIR JUDGMENT TODAY."
CARTER, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE ROSALYNN, SON CHIP AND HIS WIFE,
CARON, WAS THE 11TH VOTER IN PLAINS -- ARRIVING AT THE POLLING SITE
AT THE CRACK OF DAWN AND WEARING ONLY A BEIGE CARDIGAN SWEATER AND
SLACKS DESPITE TEMPERATURES NEAR THE FREEZING MARK.
CARTER SPENT A FULL FIVE MINUTES BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF A VOTING
MACHINE. ASKED BEFORE HE ENTERED IF HE EXPECTED TO WIN TODAY, HE
REPLIED VERY SOFTLY, "YES."
WHEN HE STEPPED BACK INTO VIEW, HE WAS SMILING BROADLY AND SAID
"THANK YOU ALL ... LET'S GET OUR CROWD OUT NOW."
CARTER THEN WALKED A BLOCK AND A HALF TO THE FAMILY WAREHOUSE
OFFICE WHERE HE WENT INSIDE AND SIPPED COFFEE WITH HIS BROTHER BILLY.
TWO LONGTIME FRIENDS, JOHN AND BETTY POPE, JOINED THEM. TEN MINUTES
LATER, CARTER LEFT FOR HOME.
CARTER RETURNED TO PLAINS LATE MONDAY NIGHT AFTER CLOSING HIS
CAMPAIGN BY SEEKING A LAST-MINUTE SURGE IN FORD'S HOME STATE OF
MICHIGAN. HE WAS CLEARLY RELAXED AND OPTIMISTIC THAT HE WOULD WIN HIS
22-MONTH-LONG, 500,000-MILE BATTLE FOR THE PRESIDENCY, DESPITE A
STRING OF RECENT SETBACKS, INCLUDING THE CURRENT RACIAL CRISIS IN HIS
HOME CHURCH.
"I'll GLAD IT'S OVER," HE SAID MONDAY NIGHT WHEN HE ENDED HIS
CAMPAIGN.
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EDITORS: THE FOLLOWING CLARIFIES THE ROPER POLL FIGURE MENTIONED IN
THE 5THGRAF.
X X X DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT.
BOTH CANDIDATES AND THEIR SUPPORTERS TALKED CONFIDENTELY, BUT THE
MAJOR POLLS PLACED THEM NO MORE THAN A SINGLE POINT APART -- TOO
CLOSE TO SUPPORT PREDICTIONS. A POLL BY THE ROPER ORGANIZATION FOR
THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE FOUND CARTER AHEAD BY SEVEN POINTS
AND INDICATED HE COULD WIN BY FOUR POINTS IF UNDECIDED VOTERS SPLIT
THEIR OFFERINGS EVENLY AMONG THE MAJOR CANDIDATES.
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By LEE MITGANG
Associated Press Writer
AFTON Minn. AP - Democratic vice-presidential candidate Walter F.
Mondale ended his 32-state campaign for the nation's second highest
office by voting today with his wife Joan and son Teddy.
The Minnesota senator waited in line behind about 20 other voters
before casting his ballot at the Afton City Hall.
He joked that he was '*undecided." But then he assured reporters he
voted for *Jimmy Carter and his running mate.,.
Mondale told reporters he would very much like a mandate from
voters. **If we win without it 1,11 take that too. " be said.
The Mondales spent about 10 minutes in the City Hall, and the
senator explained that it had taken some time for his 19-year-old son
Teddy to be cleared to vote for the first time.
Winding up his 54 000-miles of campaign travel, Mondale joined
Carter Monday night for a labor auditorium rally in Flint, mich. The
message from both candidates before some 9 COO listeners was the same
it had been at so many other campaign stops: a plea to the Democratic
faithful to fight apathy. to get out the vote.
After voting today Mondale planned to visit his dentist and then
tour Minneapolis, Walker Arts Center. He planned to watch the election
returns privately with his family.
The Flint: 6th graf
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UP-027
(SUGAR PRIC S)
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- RETAIL SUGAR PRICES HAV PLUNGED A LONG WAY
FROM THE R CORD DAYS OF LATE 1974 AND EARLY 1975, BUT THEY HAVEN'T
COM DOWN AS FAST AS RAW SUGAR PRICES, AN AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
R VI W INDICAT S.
A ROUTIN MONTHLY R PORT ON SUGAR MARKETS SHOWED TODAY THAT RETAIL
PRIC S F LL FROM 24.72 C NTS A POUND IN AUGUST TO 22.88 C NTS A POUND
IN SEPTEMBER, LEAVING THEM 29 PER CENT BELOW A YEAR EARLIER AND 61
PER C NT BELOW THE 58.92 CENTS A POUND REPORTED IN JANUARY, 1975.
RAW SUGAR PRIC S, HOWEVER, FELL IN NEW YORK FROM 11.32 CENTS A
POUND IN AUGUST TO 9.8 CENTS IN SEPTEMBER. THIS WAS 44 PER CENT BELOW
A Y AR EARLIER AND 76 PER C NT BELOW THE 40.15 CENTS R CORDED IN
JANUARY, 1975.
TH NEW REPORT INDICATED THAT RAW SUGAR PRICES, WHICH HAVE RANGED
THIS Y AR FROM A HIGH OF 16.27 CENTS A POUND IN MARCH TO THE
SEPTEMBER LOW OF 9.8 CENTS, WILL WIND UP THE YEAR AT THE LOWEST
ANNUAL AV RAGE SINCE THE 10.29 C NTS OF 1973.
UPI 11-02 10:27 AES
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
WIRE REPORT
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER
PHILLIP BUCHEN 2
JAMES CAVANAUGH
JIM CANNON
FOSTER CHANOCK
JIM CONNOR
FORD & LIBRARY CERALD
MIKE DUVAL
MAX FRIEDERSDORF
ALAN GREENSPAN
ROBERT HARTMAN
JERRY JONES
JOHN O. MARSH
TERRY O'DONNELL
BOB ORBEN
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AUSTIN (UPI) -- PR SID NT FORD'S I XAS CAMPAIGN LEADERS PREDICT
HIS GROWING POPULARITY IN TH STATE IN TH FINAL DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN
WILL PUT HIM AHEAD OF JIMMY CARTER IN TODAY'S LECTION. DEMOCRATS
SAID A LARG TURNOUT WOULD GIVE TH STAT TO CARTER.
S CR TARY OF STAT MARK WHIT HAS STIMATED TURNOUT FOR TODAY'S
EL CTION AT .5 TO 4 MILLION. THE STAT HAS 6.2 MILLION REGISTERED
VOTERS.
LAND COMMISSION R BOB ARMSTRONG, CHAIRMAN OF CARTER'S CAMPAIGN IN
T XAS, SAID CARTER HAS NOUGH SUPPORT IN TRADITIONALLY DEMOCRATIC
AR AS TO CARRY THE STAT 'S 26 ELECTORAL VOT S.
FORD'S TEXAS CAMPAIGN LEAD RS CONT NDED THE PRESIDENT HAS OVERCOME
CART R'S FARLIER L AD IN THE STAT .
"I THINK THE TREND HAS BEEN OBVIOUS FOR THE LAST 10 DAYS TO TWO
WEEKS." SAID WALES MADDEN, CHAIRMAN OF TEXANS FOR FORD. "THE LINES
HAV CLOS D AS W HAD HOP D THEY WOULD, AND CARTER HAS LOST STRENGTH
AND PRESIDENT FORD HAS GAINED."
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AUGUSTA, MAIN (UPI) -- EARLY VOT R TURNOUT WAS H AVY THROUGHOUT
MAINE TODAY.
TOWN CL RKS FROM YORK TO AROOSTOOK COUNTI S R PORTED CROWDS ON
HAND WH N THE POL.L.S OP N D B TW EN 6 A.M. AND 10 A.M., LOCAL TIME.
IN AUBURN, THE CITY CL RK R PORT D A LARGE NUMBER OF NEW VOTERS,
WHO UND R MAIN LAW MAY REGIST R AND VOT ON EL CTION DAY.
SKI S WER CL. AR OV R MOST OF TH STAT.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST BETW EN PRESIDENT FORD AND JIMMY CART R
WAS CONSID RED A TOSSUP AND D MOCRATIC STN. EDMUND S. MUSKIE FACED A
STIFF R PUBLICAN CHALL NG.
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MILWAUKEE (UPI) -- PR SID NT FORD WAS A SLIGHT FAVORIT TO GRAB
WISCONSIN'S 11 FL CTORAL VOTES TODAY BUT SOMT OBSERVERS SAID A
POSSIBL R CORD VOT R TURNOUT COULD SWING THINGS TO JIMMY CARTER.
N ARLY ID AL W ATH R, THE CLOS PR SID NTIAL RAC MOR VOTERS AND
TH APPEAL OF SEVERAL HOT L.OCAL. CONT STS AR ELEMENTS THAT COULD
BRING MOR THAN TH R CORD 1.85 MILLION TO THE POLLS.
FORD START D W LL BEHIND CART R IN WISCONSIN SEVERAL W KS AGO BUT
CARTER'S SUPPORT DWINDL D AND, IN RECENT DAYS, MANY LEADING DEMOCRATS
HAV SAID THEY FEEL FORD WILL CARRY TH STAT. SOME, HOWEVER, F EL
THAT CARTER HAS A CHANC IF TH TURNOUT IS LARGE. DEMOCRATS CONTINUED
OV R TH W EKEND AND ON MONDAY URGING TH VOTERS TO GO TO TH
POLLS.
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Editors: Matter below the dash will stand.
By JIM BRIGANCE
Associated Press Writer
DALLAS AP - Texas voters turned out in large numbers Tuesday
climaxing a spirited presidential campaign that gave neither President
Ford nor Jimmy Carter a clear advantage.
Both Ford and Carter had campaigned in Texas this past weekend as
they sought the state's 26 electoral votes.
Secretary of State Mark White estimated 33 million of the state's
6,286,707 registered voters - the highest registration in state
history - would cast ballots.
In a race to elect a U.S. Senator, incumbent Democrat Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen appeared to hold a lead over his Republican challenger Alan
Steelman, who is finishing his second term as a congressman from
Dallas.
While there is no official breakdown of voters by party in Texas
voting in primary elections usually shows Democrats with about as 4-1
margin over Republicans. However, in general elections the vote for
national offices often goes to Républicans. The state went for former
President Richard Nixon in 1972 and 1ts senior U.S. senator is
Republican John Tower.
Carter's image as a southerner and his membership in the Southern
Baptist church appealed to many Texans.
But Ford visited Dallas in early October and drew the support of Dr.
W. A. Criswell. a prominent Baptist and fundamentalist pastor of the
First Bantist Church in Dallas.
Ford also had the backing of former Texas Gov. John Connally, who
switched to the Rerublican party in 1973, and Ronald Reagan, who
appeared on his behalf in television ads:
Carter had problems here after his Playboy magazine interview in
which he made derogatory comments about former President Lyndon D.
Johnson.
But this past weekend, Carter made four campaign appearances
accompanied by leading Texas Democrats including Johnson's youngest
daughter Luci Baines Johnson Nugent.
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Associated Press Writer
Mondale office ended his 32-state campaign for the nation's second highest
AFTON Minn. AP - Democratic vice-presidential candidate Walter F.
said as he returned home.
""I"m 30 tired I don't know what I'm doing, " the minnesota senator
by voting today with his wife Joan and son Teddy.
raper ballot at the Afton City Hall.
Mondale waited in line behind about 20 other voters before casting a
voted for **Jimmy Carter and his running mate."
He joked that he was "undecided. But then he assured reporters be
would tell Carter. Mondale replied: *Congratulations.
Mondale said he may talk to his running mate tonight. Asked what he
And what he would say if be talked tonight with GOP vice-
presidential candidate Bob Dole? **How you doing, Bob?,, said Mondale.
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(PREVIOUS KANSAS CITY)
RUSSELL, RETURNED TO A HERO'S WELCOME IN WHERE HE ATTENED AND
BY IRA R. KAN. ALLEN (UPI) -- REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL HIS HOMETOWN CANDIDATE TODAY
ROBERT VOTED AT DOLE A MODERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ON THE SITE
CLASSES 40 YEARS AGO.
DOLE FLEW SPELLED "FORD-DOLE" IN FRESHLY PLOUGHED TORNADO SIREN HE
MORE THAN FROM KANSAS CITY TO GREAT BEND, KAN., WINGING EARTH. THEN OVER A
FIELD DROVE WHICH 50 MILES TO RUSSELL WHERE BANDS PLAYED AND THE
SOUNDED IN HIS
LAWN HE TOLD THAT A "YOU" CROWD VE PUT ME ON THE MAP -- NOW WE'RE GOING TO PUT
HONOR. OF SEVERAL THOUSAND MASSED ON HIS MOTHER'S TRY FRONT TO
RUSSELL ON THE
FORD MAP." IS GOING TO WIN A TRUMAN-LIKE VICTORY," PREDICTED ROBIN,
DOLE, "PRESIDENT WHO WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER,
AND MOTHER, BINA.
73-YEAR OLD DOLE DAY' FOR THE 53-YEAR-OLD CANDIDATE, 62,000-MILE WHO LATER
PLANNED IT WAS TO "BOB RETURN TO WASHINGTON AFTER A 44-STATE,
CAMPAIGN. PICKUP 4THGRAF: HE WILL
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Editors: Material below the dash will stand.
By MIKE ROBINSON
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO AP - The outcome of balloting Tuesday for Illinois, big
bloc of 26 electoral college votes was closely tied to the contest for
governor in which the Republican candidate was heavily favored.
Jimmy Carter was looking for help from Chicago mayor Richard J.
Daley's Democratic organization. Backers of President Ford were hoping
Ford could ride the coattails of former U.S. Atty. James R. Thompson,
Republican candidate for governor.
Thompson gained wide popularity by convicting corrupt political
figures, including some connected with Daley's organization.
Thompsón was pitted against Democratic Secretary of State Michael J.
Howlett in the race to succeed Gov. Daniel Walker. an independent
Democrat who lost a primary election to Howlett in his bid for a
second term.
Weather was fine throughout the state and state election officials
projected a statewide turnout of 75 to 80 per cent of the 6.25 million
registered voters. Turnout in 1972 was 78 per cent.
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Carter's hopes for victory were tied to the ability of Daley's
powerful political machine to get a big turnout in heavily Democratic
Chicago. Republicans and Democrats alike figured Ford had to get at least 31
per cent of the vote in Chicago to remain competitive and about 55
per cent downstate drawing for his most massive support on the
heavily GOP suburbs ringing Chicago.
Carter held a big lead in Illinois after the Democratic National
Convention. but Ford closed that gap to four points by Sept. 9,
according to Carter's own polls.
Final figures in the Chicago Sun-Times Straw Poll rublished Sunday
showed Carter with 49.4 per cent, Ford with 49.3 and independent
Eugene J. McCarthy with 1.3.
The Sun-Times poll gave Thompson 67.7 per cent statewide and Howlett
32.3.
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Editors: Material below the dash will stand
By WILLIAM KRONHOLM
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio AP - Early voting reports Tuesday indicated a very
heavy turnout across Ohio in the contest between President Ford and
Democrat Jimmy Carter for the state's 25 electoral votes.
The secretary of state's office predicted a record 4.2 million
voters out of the total official registration of 4,693,338 would 80 to
the polls. There is no official breakdown by party, but 1,585,000
voted Republican in the primaries and 1,305,255 voted Democratic.
Ohio's ballot also carried a close U.S. Senate race between Sen.
Robert Taft Jr., a one-term Republican incumbent from Cincinnati, and
Democratic challenger Howard M. metzenbaum.
Voters also were deciding three proposed constitutional amendments
which would limit utility rates, restrict nuclear power plant
construction and allow consumers a greater voice in utility
rate-making. All three were proposed by initiative petition and were
hotly opposed by state utilities.
Carter and running mate Walter mondale campaigned heavily in Ohio
during the closing days of the campaign. One of the two was in Chio
for four of the last five days before the election, and mondale noted
he had visited the state 13 times during the campaign.
But Ford had the last word in Ohio. addressing about 10,000
supporters in Columbus on Monday before returning to his home in
neighboring Michigan.
Pre-election polls showed either an even race or at most a two-point
spread. With the margin so close, Democrats based their hopes on a
registration drive they said had signed up 450.000 new voters and an
election day get-out-the-vote effort aimed at those voters.
Republicans also worked to get voters to the polls. In Cleveland,
the Cuyahoga County Republican party planned to make 150, 000 phone
calls to voters in 600 key precincts.
Metzenbaum, a wealthy Cleveland attorney-businessman who served a
year in the Senate as an appointive senator in 1974, attached himself
to Carter's coattails early in the campaign. His bumper stickers
promoted **Grits, Fritz and metz." He stressed consumer legislation
and attacks on the oil industry.
Taft. wary because early polls showed Carter with a lead, ran
separátely from the President.
By the end of the campaign, Taft was on the attack against his
challenger, accusing him of being a big-spending ultraliberal who
would wreck the national defense.
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Editors: Material below the dash will stand
By WILLIAM WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA AP - Twenty-seven electoral votes were at stake
Tuesday in Pennsylvania with no one predicting with certainty whether
they would go to Democrat Jimmy Carter or President Ford.
Only California and New York had more electoral votes to offer.
Just as close was the race for the U.S. Senate seat held by minority
Leader Hugh Scott, 75, who is retiring after 18 years in the House
and 18 years in the Senate. Democrat William J. wreen was facing
Republican H. John Heinz III in that contest.
Registration alone favored the Democrats, with an edge of 747, 000
among 5.7 million voters, but Pennsylvaniáns are known for ticket
splitting. In congressional races, Democrats had an opportunity to pick up at
least two more seats in the state delegation to give the party a 16-9
edge or better.
Ford and Carter considered the state's electoral votes SO important
that both spent more time in Pennsylvania in the final campaign week
than in any other state.
Carter concentrated his closing efforts in the major cities where
labor supported the Democratic drive.
Ford's efforts were directed toward the Republican suburbs and in
rural and mountainous counties in the central and northern parts of
the state.
Heinz, who has been in Congress for five years, spent $2.5 million
on his campaign, $2.2 million of that from his personal fortune as
heir to the Pittsburgh-based Heinz food company.
The money became a campaign issue. Green a congressman for 13
years, labeled his battle **the man againšt the money." He spent
about $870 000, mostly from contributions.
Green. whose holds the congressional seat his father held for 18
years before his death in 1964. was accused by Heinz of being tied
closely to two of the state's leading Democrats, Gov. Milton J. Shapp
and Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo.
Green pointed out that he had run against Rizzo for mayor in 1971.
Neither Rizzo nor Shapp campaigned extensively on Green's behalf.
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Editors: Material below the dash will stand.
By DOUG WILLIS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES AP - Millions of Californians turned out on Tuesday
with 45 electoral college votes at stake for the winner of the state's
presidential ballot.
Jimmy Carter was aided by a Democratic majority among registered
voters, and Republican Gerald Ford had the advantage of the stronger
campaign organization.
Also on the ballot was a U.S. Senate contest between incumbent
Democrat John Tunney and Republican S.I. Hayakawa.
Secretary of State March Fong Eu predicted that 7.9 million of
California's 10 million registered voters would cast ballots. Warm,
sunny weather in most parts of the state helped the voter turnout.
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Democratic majority in the state. The margin on election day was 5.72
A registration drive over the past several months increased the
million Democrats to 3.46 million Republicans.
Carter led Ford in California by 20 rercentage points in polls after
the two nominating conventions. but that lead dwindled over the last
21 months. A survey one week ago by pollster Mervin Field gave Ford a
six-point lead, but with a large number of ticket-splitters or
cross-over votérs in both parties.
Both Ford and Carter had said California was crucial to their
chances, and Carter spent part of the final two days of his campaign
here. **It's going to be very close. and the state I've got to have is
California, Carter said Monday during a 21-hour swing through the
state. Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. who defeated Carter by as 3-1 margin in
California's presidential primary, accompanied Carter at every stor.
There was only one comparable appearance for Ford by former GOV.
Ronald Reagan, who defeated Ford by 2-1 in the state's primary before
losing the nomination to Ford at the GOP National Convention.
Hayakawa's fame is based on his hard-line tactics against campus
demonstrators eight years ago when be was president of San Francisco
State College. He attacked Tunney as **Sen. Flip-Flop" because of
what he said were Tunney switches on several major measures.
Tunney attacked Hayakawa's off-the-cuff campaign remarks that the
internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II actually
and that the United States might send peace-keeping troops to Africa.
were beneficial, that the minimum wage should be lowered for youths
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PRESIDENT FORD AND JIMMY CARTER HAVE WRAPPED UP THEIR LONG
CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY BY VOTING IN GRAND RAPIDS AND PLAINS, GA.
NOW THEY -- AND THE NATION -- AWAIT THE OUTCOME OF THE VOTES OF
MILLIONS OF THEIR FELLOW ANERICANS. BY ALL INDICATIONS THE OUTCOME
WILL BE CLOSE. ALSO AT STAKE ARE 14 GOVERNORSHIPS, 33 SENATE SEATS
AND ALL 435 HOUSE SEATS.
UPI WILL PROVIDE A COMPLETE ELECTION PACKAGE AND A HORE DETAILED
ADVISORY WILL MOVE SHORTLY. THERE WILL BE AN EARLY 800-WORD NIGHT LD
IN 2 TAKES BY UPI POLITICAL WRITER STEVE GERSTEL (ELECTION) UNDER A
WASHINGTON DATELINE THAT WILL BE LED AS WARRANTED. WE WILL CONTINUE
TO LEAD THE STORY THROUGHOUT THE CYCLE AND INTO THE MORNING UNTIL THE
PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS DECIDED WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE 9 P.M., 11
P.M., 1 A.M., AND 3 A.M. LEADS. WHILE THE MAIN STORY WILL CONCENTRATE
ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IT WILL ALSO INCLUDE A WRAPUP OF
CONGRESSIONAL AND GUBERNATORAL RACES TOO. WE WILL PROVIDE AND
ANALYSIS WHEN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IS DECIDED ALTHOUGH THAT MAY NOT
BE UNTIL EARLY IN THE MORNING. PICTURES.
THE ELECTION PACKAGE ALSO WILL INCLUDE:
(FORD) GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. -- PRESIDENT FORD, OPTIMISTIC AND
NOSTALGIC, CASTS HIS VOTE AT WEALTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN HIS
MICHIGAN HOMETOWN BEFORE FLYING TO WASHINGTON TO AWAIT THE OUTCOME OF
HIS BATTLE AGAINST JIMMY CARTER. 500.
(CARTER) PLAINS, GA. -- JIMMY CARTER CASTS THE 11TH BALLOT OF THE
DAY IN HIS GEORGIA HOMETOWN, SAYING HE VOTED "FOR WALTER MONDALE AND
HIS RUNNING MATE" AND IS CONFIDENT OF OUSTING PRESIDENT FORD FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE. 500.
(DOLE) RUSSELL, KAN. -- REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL NONINEE
ROBERT DOLE WRAPS UP 44-STATE, 62, 000-MILE CAMPAIGN WITH VOTE IN HIS
KANSAS HOMETOWN AND FLIGHT TO WASHINGTON TO WATCH ELECTION RETURNS
WITH PRESIDENT FORD. 400.
(MONDALE) AFTON, MINN. -- DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL NONINEE
WALTER MONDALE VOTES "FOR JIMMY CARTER AND HIS RUNNING MATE" BEFORE
VISITING THE DENTIST AND WATCHING RETURNS AT HIS RURAL NINNESOTA
HOME. 400.
(CONGRESS) WASHINGTON -- CONTINUED DENOCRATIC CONTROL OF CONGRESS
VIRTUALLY ASSURED, BUT SIZE OF REPUBLICAN INROADS A QUESTION AS
VOTERS FILL 33 SENATE SEATS AND ALL 435 HOUSE POSTS. 500.
(GOVS) WASHINGTON -- VOTERS IN 14 STATES CAST BALLOTS FOR
GOVERNOR, WITH BATTLE BETWEEN PRESIDENT FORD AND JIMMY CARTER
EXPECTED TO HAVE ONLY MINOR IMPACT ON THE STATE RACES. 500.
(NEW YORK) NEW YORK -- FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR DANIEL MOYNIHAN
FAVORED TO BECOME NEW YORK'S FIRST DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SINCE THE LATE
ROBERT KENNEDY; HEAVY VOTER TURNOUT IN NEW YORK CITY EXPECTED TO HELP
JIMMY CARTER IN PRESIDENTIAL BALLOTING. 300.
(CALIFORNIA) LOS ANGELES -- CALIFORNIANS, WITH THE LARGEST AND
POSSIBLY DECIDING BLOC OF ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES, CHOOSE BETWEEN
JIMMY CARTER AND PRESIDENT FORD. 300
(OHIO) COLUMBUS, OHIO -- EARLY VOTER TURNOUT HEAVY IN OHIO, A
STATE WITH 25 ELECTORAL VOTES RATED A TOSS-UP BETWEEN GERALD FORD AND
JIMMY CARTER. 300.
(HARPERS) HARPERS FERRY, W.VA. -- THE ELECTION IS A SERIOUS MATTER
IN HARPERS FERRY, WHERE MOST HOUSES HAVE PORCHES AND MOST PORCHES
HAVE ROCKERS. MRS. JUNE BRADY, FOR EXAMPLE, COULDN'T SLEEP ALL NIGHT
AND MADE HER DECISION WHEN SHE PICKED UP HER BALLOT. AN ELECTION-DAY
REPORT FROM SMALL-TOWN AMERICA BY MIKE FEINSILBER. 500.
(TURNOUT) UNDATED -- VOTER APATHY WAS A BIG WORRY BEFORE ELECTION
DAY, BUT THE EARLY MORNING LINES AT THE POLLS WERE LONGER THAN
EXPECTED. TURNOUT WAS SO HEAVY IN LITCHFIELD, N.H., THAT ELECTION
OFFICIALS HAD TO BUILD FOUR EXTRA VOTING BOOTHS. 300.
(WEATHER) UNDATED -- FAIR SKIES AND MILD TEMPERATURE GREET VOTERS
IN MOST PARTS OF NATION, BOLSTERING HOPES FOR HEAVY ELECTION DAY
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LITCHFIELD, N.H. (UPI) -- so MANY VOTERS TURNED OUT IN THIS
SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY TUESDAY MORNING THAT ELECTION
OFFICIALS HAD TO HAMMER TOGETHER FOUR EXTRA VOTING BOOTHS.
PEOPLE WERE STANDING IN LINE 40 MINUTES TO VOTE IN A TOWN WHICH IN
1970 HAD 1,420 RESIDENTS. HUNDREDS MORE PEOPLE HAVE SETTLED IN THE
AREA SINCE THE LAST CENSUS.
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UPI WHITE HOUSE REPORTER
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (UPI) -- PRESIDENT FORD VOTED IN HIS HOME
DISTRICT TODAY, BROKE DOWN AND CRIED AT AN AIRPORT DEDICATION IN HIS
HONOR, THEN FLEW TO WASHINGTON FOR THE FINAL COUNTDOWN IN THE WHITE
HOUSE BATTLE WITH JIMMY CARTER.
"I FEEL VERY GOOD. NOV. 2 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY," SAID THE
CONFIDENT AND NONTALGIC PRESIDENT AS HE AND HIS WIFE, BETTY,
MOTORCADED TO WEALTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND CAST THEIR BALLOTS
SHORTLY AFTER THE POLLS OPENED.
LATER, HOWEVER, HIS VOICE BROKE AND TEARS COURSED DOWN HIS CHEEKS
AT LATE MORNING UNVEILING CEREMONIES FOR A WALL OF MURALS AT THE KENT
COUNTY AIRPORT. THE MURALS DEPICT HIGHLIGHTS OF FORD'S LIFE.
"I'M JUST OVERWHELMED AND IF I HAD ANY GOOD SENSE, I'D SIT DOWN,"
SAID FORD, AT FIRST BLINKING BACK TEARS. BUT HE COULD NOT CONTROL HIS
EMOTIONS.
"I JUST CAN'T ADEQUATELY EXPRESS MY GRATITIDE FOR BRINGING MY LIFE
TO THIS WONDERFUL AIRPORT FOR SO MANY PEOPLE TO SEE," HE SAID.
"WHATEVER HAS BEEN DONE BY ME, IT'S BECAUSE OF MY MOTHER AND FATHER,
DOROTHY AND GERALD R. FORD.
"I OWE EVERYTHING TO THEM, THE LOVE AND LEADERSHIP AND WHATEVER I
AM."
PEOPLE IN THE AIRPORT CROWD OF 200 ALSO WIPED AWAY TEARS.
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
GERALD FORD AND JIMITY CARTER SHOWED EARLY TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS
TODAY AND MILLIONS OF OTHER AMERICANS TURNED OUT IN HEAVY VOLUME TO
DECIDE ONE OF THE CLOSEST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN HISTORY.
ELECTION OFFICIALS IN DOZENS OF EASTERN, HIDWESTERN AND SOUTHERN
STATES REPORTED THAT VOTERS WERE FORMING LONG LINES TO SELECT BETWEEN
FORD AND CARTER. GOVERNORS WERE ALSO BEING SELECTED IN 14 STATES,
SENATORS IN 33 AND HOUSE MEMBERS AND OTHER STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS
IN ALL 50.
THE WEATHER WAS GOOD IN MOST SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. DEMOCRATS
HAVE CONTENDED ALL ALONG THAT DECENT WEATHER WOULD HELP CARTER
BECAUSE IT WOULD ENCOURAGE A HEAVIER TURNOUT. THERE ARE MORE
REGISTERED DEMOCRATS THAN REPUBLICANS IN THE COUNTRY.
THE ELECTION OFFICIALS WERE ALMOST UNANIMOUS IN DESCRIBING THE
TURNOUT SO FAR AS "HEAVY." THERE HAD BEEN PRE-ELECTION PREDICTIONS
THAT THE NUMBER OF VOTERS PARTICIPATING WOULD BE THE LOWEST EVER
BECAUSE OF WIDESPREAD APATHY AMONG THE ELECTORATE.
FORD AND HIS WIFE, BETTY, CAST THEIR BALLOTS AT AN ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., THE PRESIDENT'S HOMETOWN. "I FEEL VERY
GOOD," FORD TOLD REPORTERS. "NOV. 2 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY."
CARTER CAST HIS BALLOT IN PLAINS, GA., AND EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE THAT
HE WOULD WIN.
BOTH CANDIDATES WERE AMONG THE FIRST TO VOTE WHEN THEIR LOCAL
PRECINCTS OPENED THIS MORNING.
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that WASHINGTON a telegram AP to - A black President ministers Ford Committee spokesman said today
Plains. known about Ga., it. Baptist church was **in about terrible a racial taste dispute at the
head. Ron Weber, James A. the Baker we Ford would III campaign have authorized stopped spokesman. the it.,, denied telegram that signed and the if campaign's the we had
Weber President said the Ford Committee,".
voters. The Committee. and People several The for others Ford *black telegram on Committee the desk,, was People drawn focuses is a for component up Ford on and issues sent Committee's of out the by President Martin black Dinkins Ford desk.,,
and *Sunday sort of afternoon took it upon the black themselves desk got this information concerning from black AP Radio
not should have have authorized been cleared it be with added. higher to campaign send it officials, out " Weber who said. would
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policy tarring when blacks it was from adopted joining in the 1965. church. Carter church voted members against to drop the a
because The telegram he had questioned not convinced whether his Jimmy fellow Carter was fit to be president rule
telegrams. Dinkins said Monday that be did not know who authorized the
membership. because to The 400 People black a controversial for ministers Ford Committee after black the minister sent Plains the was church telegram planning canceled Sunday to seek to its some service 375
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X MORNING.
ELECTION OFFICIALS IN THE MIDWEST, WHICH ENCOUPASSES SEVERAL KEY
STATES, SAID VOTERS ARRIVED AT THE POLLS EARLY AND IN HEAVY NUMBERS.
"I HAVE WORKED A LOT OF ELECTIONS AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY
VOTERS COME OUT SO EARLY," SAID ONE PRECINCT WORKER IN COLUMBUS,
OHIO.
"IF THE WEATHER STAYS AS IT IS, VOTING SHOULD BE HEAVY MUCH OF THE
DAY," SAID A SPOKESMAN FOR THE WAYNE COUNTY, MICH., CLERK'S OFFICE IN
DETROIT.
MICHIGAN OFFICIALS PREDICTED A RECORD TURNOUT OF 3.7 MILLION
VOTERS, 72 PER CENT OF THOSE REGISTERED.
IN MUNCIE, IND., A PRECINCT JUDGE SAID THE TURNOUT WAS THE
HEAVIEST HE HAD SEEN IN 10 YEARS.
OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE TED BROWN, WHO ESTIMATED A RECORD 4.2
MILLION VOTERS WOULD CAST BALLOTS, SAID THE EARLY VOTING THROUGHOUT
THE STATE WAS "VERY HEAVY."
IN NEW JERSEY, ANOTHER KEY STATE TO BOTH CARTER AND FORD, AN
ELECTION OFFICIAL IN HUDSON COUNTY SAID, "IF WE KEEP GOING AT THE
RATE WE HAD AT 9 CLOCK, WE' LL HAVE 80 TO 84 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL
REGISTERED VOTERS BEFORE THE POLLS CLOSE."
NEW YORK CITY OFFICIALS SAID 75 PER CENT OF THE THREE MILLION
REGISTERED VOTERS THERE WILL CAST BALLOTS. "THE VOTER TURNOUT IS VERY
HEAVY," ONE OFFICIAL SAID. "THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS THAT
I'VE HAD COMPLAINTS ABOUT LONG LINES AT POLLING PLACES."
IN NEW ENGLAND, OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT VOTERS WERE ARRIVING AT
THE POLLS IN "RECORD" NUMBERS
AN OFFICIAL IN MANCHESTER, N.H., REPORTED THAT VOTING IN THAT CITY
WAS "MUCH HEAVIER THAN USUAL."
IN THE TINY COMMUNITY OF LITCHFIELD, N.H., SO MANY VOTERS TURNED
UP THAT ELECTION OFFICIALS HAD TO HAMMER TOGETHER FOUR EXTRA VOTING
BOOTHS.
THE STORY WAS THE SAME IN SOUTHERN AND BORDER STATES.
"WE'VE GOT SO MANY PEOPLE HERE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO," A POLL
WORKER IN AUBURN, ALA., SAID. "THIS IS MUCH HEAVIER THAN IN PREVIOUS
ELECTIONS."
WOULD-BE EARLY MORING VOTERS AT SOME ATLANTA POLLING PLACES GAVE
UP IN DESPAIR AFTER WAITING IN THE VOTING LINES FOR 90 MINUTES OR
LONGER. MANY SAID THEY MIGHT TRY AGAIN AFTER WORK.
IN ST. PETERSBURG, FLA., ELECTION OFFICIAL SARA ADCOCK SAID THE
VOTING WAS SO HEAVY "SOME PRECINCTS WERE ASKING FOR MORE VOTING
MACHINES."
HEAVY TURNOUT WAS ALSO REPORTED IN TENNESSEE, NORTH CAROLINA,
VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, MARYLAND, WEST VIRGINIA, AND LOUISIANA.
PERHAPS THE MOST WHIMISCAL REACTION TO THE ELECTION DAY EXCITEMENT
CAME FROM ALBERT ROSS, 69, WHO WAS THE FIRST VOTER TO SHOW UP AT ONE
PRECINCT IN CHICAGO.
"I LIKE TO GET UP, GET OUT AND GET IT OVER WITH," HE SAID. "IT'S
THE ONLY THING THAT DOESN'T COST ANYTHING ANY MORE."
AFTER FORD CAST HIS BALLOT IN GRAND RAPIDS, HE EXPRESSED OPTIMISIM
ABOUT HIS ELECTION CHANCES.
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By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
AP Political Writer
A heavy turnout marked the early voting today as Americans chose
between Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford to lead the nation as
president over the next four years.
Democrat Carter cast his ballot in a cinder-block building near the
railroad tracks in Plains, Ga. Republican Ford voted in an elementary
school in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Historically, a large turnout generally favors the Democrats, the
majority party. If the trend continues throughout the day - and the
weather was generally good - analysts agreed it could help Carter in
his bid to oust Ford from the White House.
The analysts said the election was poised on knife-edge, probably
one of the closest of the century. However, a late Roper poll gave
Carter a four-point lead - 51 to 47.
A heavy turnout was reported all along the East Coast - in New York,
Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Maryland, the District of
Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina.
The same pattern held true in Louisiana, Ohio, michigan and
Tennessee.
Carter's 98-week campaign came to an end in Plains, his rural home
town. "I feel a sense of satisfaction, he said. %1 did the best I
could."
Ford, home in Grand Rapids, was asked if he felt lucky **Sure do,
the President replied. Don't you think we have good reason?,,
Carter's running-mate, Walter F. mondale. also voted early, in
Afton. Minn,, his home town. He joked that he was **undecided. " but
then assured reporters he had voted for "Jimmy Carter and his
running-mate."
The fourth man in the celebrated quarter; GOP vice-presidential
candidate Bob Dole, planned to vote later in the day in his home town,
Russell, Kan. At a rally Monday evening in Independence, MO, he sat
in former President Harry S. Truman's chair in the local courthouse
**for luck."
Ford and Carter ended their campaigns Monday night with rallies in
Michigan, barely 100 miles apart.
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For release Wed, Nov. 3
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
NEW YORK AP - Don't look for the immediate stock market reaction
to necessarily represent approval or censure of the presidential
election winner.
A possibility, say many analysts of market behavior, is that stocks
might rally briefly in any event, simply as an expression of relief
from indecision. Uncertainty usually weakens the market.
There is the chance too that the market might shrug off the election
results, being once again unable to make a sharp determination of
whether the news is good or bad. It wouldn't be the first time this
year it has happened.
Reviewing the thoughts of the market letter writers, one can detect
the confusion.
A good many analysts, for example, have assumed uncritically that a
Ford victory was good for business and therefore for stocks. Others,
however, recall how it seems to be that stock markets rise when
Democrats are in power.
The betting seems to be with those who insist that the current
market, locked into a monotonously limited range since last February,
is looking for any news event as an excuse to become more active.
Capital gains can only be made - and lost - when stocks move.
In that context, the election event could provide the reason for
some of the largé institutions to promote activity. hoping that the
general public then will join in the excitement and generate a spasm
of trading.
Such emotions have been arisen throughout the year, but never have
they been sustained, another illustration it is said of the reluctance
of Americans to commit themselves to an uncertain future.
This attitude has been evident in various ways. Industry, to cite
one instance. has been wary of spending for capital expansion, that
is, for the improvement and enlarging and equipping of production
facilities.
This failure of industry to enlarge its capital commitments,
especially since borrowing costs have dropped sharply from last year's
levels, has distressed many economists and investors. who fear that
if business doesn't lead can consumers be blamed if they don't follow.
Individuals too have been less than eager to invest. Money that in
more exurberant times might have gone into the market has been going
instead into the least risky of ventures, such as savings accounts.
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NEW YORK: Savings accounts.
This is a typical phenomenon of a society whose confidence is low,
and those who measure that confidence agree that up to now it has
never fully recovered from the deep recession of 1974.
Whether the doubts and the wariness are the result of consumer
attitudes mainly about the future financial picture, or whether they
also represent reservations about political leadership, is debatable.
But it is there.
The lack of inspiration is reflected in the price-earnings ratios of
stocks, which now are selling at what could be viewed as bargain
prices.
The P-E ratio for the 30 component'stocks in the Dow Jones
industrial average is now only 10.4, based on earnings of $90.68 a
share. A year ago, when many doubts existed about the country's
ability to continue upward from recession. the ratio was almost
identical measuring 10 on earnings of $83.83.
This ratio is considered a fair indication of confidence or lack of
it, since it indicates the degree of risk that investors are willing
to take. If they are wary, the ratio - or the number of times
earnings numbers. they are willing to pay for a stock - might fall into single
That very thing occurred in 1973, when the ratio fell to just 6.2.
Investors then not only retreated from the market but they gravitated
such as bonds.
toward the high interest and lower risk of fixed-income securities,
By contrast. in the heady days of the early and mid-1960s the ratio
sometimes reached close to 20, and for some of the more speculative
stocks not in the average the ratio even exceeded 100.
Rather than the immediate reaction. it is these price-earnings
ratios that will determine whether the investing public endorses the
election results.
End Adv Wed Pms Nov. 3 sent Nov. 2
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COLUMBUS (UPI) -- VOT RS TODAY TURNED OUT IN VERY HEAVY EARLY
NUMBERS ACROSS OHIO, WHER 25 VL CTORAL VOTES WERE CRUCIAL TO TH
WHIT HOUS HOP S OF BOTH G RALD FORD AND JIMMY CARTER.
FROM TH INDUSTRALIZ D MAHONING VALLEY IN THE NORTH ASTERN PART OF
THE STAT TO THE FAR WESTERN FARM AREA OF GREENVILLE, OHIOANS CAST
BALLOTS IN WHAT COULD BE RECORD NUMBERS.
TH OUTCOM WAS RATED A TOSS-UP.
S CR TARY OF STATE T D BROWN. WHO ARLIER PREDICTED A RECORD 4.2
MILLION P RSONS WOULD VOTE, SAID TH FARLY BALLOTING THROUGHOUT OHIO
WAS "VERY HEAVY". HE ATTRIBUT D TH STRONG TURNOUT TO GOOD WEATHER
AND A MASSIV VOTER DRIVE CONDUCT D BY ORGANIZ D LABOR.
H AVY TURNOUTS WERE REPORT D IN TH CLEVELAND AREA, TOLEDO,
ELYRIA, LORAIN, CINCINNATI, COLUMBUS, WARREN, LIMA, AND THE FARM
AREAS OF JOHNSTOWN AND NVILLE.
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NEW YORK (UPI) -- JIMMY CARTER'S CAMPAIGN AIDES ARE WORRIED A LOW
VOTR TURNOUT IN NEW YORK CITY COULD CRIPPLE THE DEMOCRATIC
CHALL NGER'S CHANCES OF CARRYING THE STAT TODAY.
M ANWHILE DEMOCRAT DANIEL MOYNIHAN IS EXPECTED TO WIN HIS HEATED
SENATE RAC AGAINST CONS RVATIV -REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT JAMES BUCKLEY.
LOCAL POLLS SHOW CARTER WITH A 3 TO 6 PERC NTAGE POINT LEAD OVER
PRESID NT FORD IN TH RAC FOR NEW YORK'S 41 ELECTORAL VOTES BUT THE
D MOCRATIC CHALL NG'R'S SUPPORT HERE IS CONSIDERED SOFT.
N w YORK CITY LECTION OFFICIALS SAY THAT ALTHOUGH SUNNY SKIES AND
50-DEGR E TEMPERATURES ARE FORTCAST TODAY, VOTER APATHY COULD CUT THE
TURNOUT TO AS L.OW AS so TO 65 PER CENT. STATE EL CTION OFFICIALS
PREDICT D A STAT WIDE TURNOUT OF 80 P R CENT.
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CONCORD, N.H. (UPI) -- SUNSHIN AND HEATED FIGHTS FOR GOVERNOR,
CONGRESS AND CONTROL OF TH STATE LEGISLATURE WERE EXPECTED TO
PRODUC A R CORD VOTER TURNOUT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE TODAY.
ACTING SECR TARY OF STAT DWARD K LL. Y PREDICTED WELL. OVER THE
334, 055 P RSONS WHO CAST BALLOTS IN THE 1972 PR SIDENTIAL ELECTION
WOULD GO TO THE POLLS.
A CLOSE CONTUST B TW EN PRESIDENT FORD AND JIMMY CARTER WAS
RFFL CTED IN TH OUTCOME OF BALLOTING IN DIXVILLE NOTCH TODAY. TH
NORTHERN N W HAMPSHIRE HAML. T'S 26 VOTERS CAST BALLOTS SHORTLY AFTER
MIDNIGHT, AWARDING 13 TO FORD, 11 TO CARTER, 1 TO EUGENE MCCARTHY.
ANOTH R BALLOT WAS VOIDED.
CAMPAIGNS FOR GOV RNOR AND THE 2ND CONGR SSIONAL DISTRICT HAVE
DRAWN MOST OF THE ATTENTION SINCE THE SEPT. 14 PRIMARY. REPUBLICAN
GOV. MELDRIM THOMSON, SEEKING A THIRD TWO-YEAR TRM, IS GOING AGAINST
D MOCRAT HARRY SPANOS.
R P. JAMES CL VELAND, R-N.H., HOPED 14 YEA OFCONSTITU NT
SERVIC WOULD WIN HIM AN IGHTH TERM FROM TH 2ND DISTRICT. DEMOCRAT
JOS PH GRANDMAISON ARGU D CLEVELAND VOTED AGAINST THE DISTRICT'S
INTERESTS, PARTICULARLY ON NERGY.
TH ONLY SUR THING AMONG TH TOP THREE RAC S APPEARED TO BT THAT
R P. NORMAN D' AMOURS, WOULD WIN A SECOND T RM IN THE 1ST
DISTRICT.
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HARTFORD, CONN. (UPI) -- R PUBLICAN SEN. LOWELL WEICKER'S
RE-ELECTION WAS EXP D TODAY, BUT THE RAC BRIWEEN GERALD FORD AND
JIMMY CARTER WAS A TOSSUP.
BOTH SIDES PR DICT D VICTORY, BUT CITED CONFLICTING POLLING DATA
THAT ONLY R INFORCED TH IMPR SSION THE STAT WAS UP FOR GRABS. THEY
AGR ED ON ELECTION TVE A LARGE BLOC OF UND CIDED VOTERS WAS THE KEY
TO VICTORY.
TH STATE WAS PRIZ D BY BOTH PARTIES BECAUS OF ITS ABILITY TO
FOR CAST THE NATIONAL WINNER IN IGHT OF TH PAST 10 PRESIDENTIAL
EL CTIONS. AS SUCH, CONNECTICUT'S ARLY RETURNS COULD HAV AN EFFECT
ON LAT -VOTING CALIFORNIA'S ALL IMPORTANT 45 LECTORAL VOTES.
W ICKER'S L. AD OVER DEMOCRATIC NOMIN El GLORIA SCHAFFER APPEARED
INSURMOUNTABLE WITH HIS IMAGE AS A POLITICAL MAVERICK DRAWING HIM
SUPPORT FROM DEMOCRATIC AND IND P NDENT VOT RS. ON TH V OF THE
LECTION, SOURCES SAID THE LATEST POLL BY THE SCHAFF R CAMPAIGN
SHOW D HER TRAILING WEICKER BY 20 PERCENTAG POINTS.
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BOSTON (UPI) -- LEGIONS OF VOLUNT ERS TOOK TO THE STREETS ACROSS
MASSACHUS TTS TODAY TO DELIV A MANDAT FOR SEN. EDWARD KENN DY IN A
STAT WID FFORT CERTAIN TO HELP JIMMY CART R.
AID S SAID AN ESTIMATED 10,000 VOLUNTE RS WOULD SCOUR
MASSACHUS TTS' 351 COMMUNITIES FOR VOT RS FAVORING A THIRD FULL TERM
FOR K NN DY.
"I THINK L.L. DO W LL," THE 14-YEAR S NATE VETERAN SAID Y STERDAY
FOLLOWING A LUNCH-HOUR PLUNGE INTO DOWNTOWN SHOPPING DISTRICTS.
"W "V WORK D HARD FOR IT."
R P. THOMAS O'NEILL JR., D-MASS., ALSO WAS CONFIDENT OF VICTORY IN
A CAMBRIDG CONGR SSIONAL DISTRICT H SERVED FOR 24 YEARS.
CARTER L. FT KENNEDY AND O'NEILL TO HANDLY MUCH OF THE NUTS AND
BOLTS OF TH PRESID NTIAL CAMPAIGN IN MASSACHUS TTS, A STATE WHERE
THE FORM R GEORGIA GOV RNOR SUFFER D HIS WORST D FEAT OF THE
PRIMARI S.
CARTER SP NT FOUR HOURS AND $85,000 TO REACH MORE THAN 3 MILLION
VOTERS, APPARENTLY CONFID NT HV WOULD EASILY CARRY A STAT THAT HAS
VOTED D MOCRATIC IN 10 OF TH 12 PRESIDENTIAL L CTIONS SINC 1928.
UPI 11-02 11:42 AES
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WASHINGTON
WIRE REPORT
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER
PHILLIP BUCHEN 2
JAMES CAVANAUGH
JIM CANNON
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
FOSTER CHANOCK
JIM CONNOR
MIKE DUVAI
MAX FRIEDERSDORF
ALAN GREENSPAN
ROBERT HARTMAN
JERRY JONES
JOHN O. MARSH
TERRY O'DONNELL
BOB ORBEN
BIRGE WATKINS
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Then the campaign was over. The candidates. like other Americans
could only vote and wait. Besides control of the White House, at stake
were 33 Senate and all 435 House seats. The Democrats were expected
to retain control of both chambers.
As the day wore on, the pattern set in the East was extended through
the Midwest, the Plains states and the West. record-challenging
turnouts.
In Iowa, from Secretary of State Melvin Synhorst came as prediction
of 1.25 million voters the third highest in the state's history in a
presidential race. In Detroit, Mich., 157,233 had voted by noon,
compared with 132 000 in 1972.
In California, Los Angeles and Orange counties reported substantial
increases over 1972 and march Fong Eu. the secretary of state.
predicted 7.9 million of the state's 10 million registered voters
would cast ballots.
One of the presidential candidates, Lester Maddox of the American
Independent party, waited in line about an hour in marietta, Ga. The
former governor commented: As far as I'm concerned, I was the only
one running for the people."
Maddox said he could have won in many states, but was hampered by
lack of news coverage and by the greater spending of Ford and Carter
supporters.
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BY LEE LEONARD
COLUMBUS, OHIO (UPI) -- UNDECIDED VOTERS AND A STRONG OF MINOR
PARTY CANDIDATES APPEARED TO FORESHADOW A VICTORY MARGIN MEASURED IN
SINGLE PERCENTAGE POINTS FOR PRESIDENT FORD OR JIMMY CARTER IN THE
BALLOT BATTLE FOR OHIO'S CRUCIAL 25 ELECTORAL VOTES.
THE CARTER ORGANIZATION PREDICTED THE DEMOCRAT WOULD TAKE OHIO,
PERHAPS WITH "A GOOD SIZE PLURALITY," WHILE THE FORD CAMPAIGN ALSO
FORECAST VICTORY, "NAYBE BY A COMFORTABLE MARGIN."
DESPITE THE PUBLIC EXPRESSIONS OF CONFIDENCE THAT OHIO'S 4.2
MILLION VOTERS WOULD FURNISH AT LEAST A SLIM MAJORITY FOR THEIR
CANDIDATE, SEASONED POLITICIANS ADMITTED THE CONTEST WAS A TOSSUP
WHICH COULD GO EITHER WAY.
THE KEY WAS EXPECTED TO BE THE SIZE OF THE TURNOUT AND THE FINAL
CHOICE BY THE HIGH PERCENTAGE OF UNDECIDED VOTERS. SEASONED POLITICAL
OBSERVERS FELT THE DECISION MIGHT HINGE ON 20,000-100,000 VOTES -- 1
TO 2 1/2 PERCENTAGE POINTS.
ADDING TO THE UNPREDICTABILITY WAS THE PRESENCE OF SIX MINOR PARTY
AND INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT, INCLUDING FORMER SEN.
EUGENE ICCARTHY OF MINNESOTA AND FORMER GOV. LESTER MADDOX OF
GEORGIA. THEY WERE EXPECTED TO CAPTURE A PRECIOUS 4 PER CENT OF THE
VOTE.
ALSO AT STAKE WAS A U.S. SENATE SEAT NOW HELD BY FIRST TERM SEN.
ROBERT TAFT JR., A CINCINNATI REPUBLICAN.
TAFT WAS PITTED AGAINST DEMOCRAT HOWARD M. METZENBAUM OF
CLEVELAND, WHOM HE DEFEATED BY 70,000 VOTES IN 1970.
TAFT, 59, CONDUCTED AN ENERGETIC CAMPAIGN, ACCUSING HIS OPPONENT
OF PROPOSING DEFENSE BUDGET CUTS THREATENING AMERICAN SECURITY.
NETZENBAUM, ALSO 59, SERVED ONE YEAR IN THE SENATE THROUGH
APPOINTMENT BY FORMER DEMOCRATIC GOV. JOHN J. GILLIGAN. HE ACCUSED
TAFT OF PANDERING TO UTILITIES AND CORPORATIONS, AND FAILING TO
PROPOSE ANY POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO U.S. PROBLEMS.
THE SENATE CAMPAIGN WAS MARKED BY HEAVY MEDIA ADVERTISING AND
SPENDING, PERHAPS APPROACHING $1 MILLION BY EACH CANDIDATE.
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BY RICHARD H. GROWALD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- PRESIDENT FORD VOTED TUESDAY, ATE A BLUEBERRY
PANCAKE FOR GOOD LUCK AND WEPT BEFORE FRIENDS BACK HOME IN GRAND
RAPIDS AS THEY DEDICATED A MURAL DEPICTING HIS LIFE. THEN HE RETURNED
TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE LONG WATCH FOR ELECTION RETURNS.
THE PRESIDENT WRAPPED UP HIS CAMPAIGN MONDAY NIGHT WITH A
RECEPTION IN GRAND RAPIDS THAT BROUGHT TEARS TO HIS EYES. HIS EMOTION
OVERFLOWED ONCE MORE AS THE HOME TOWN FOLKS PAID HIM TRIBUTE TUESDAY
NORNING.
PICKUP 2ND GRAF: FORD'S TEARS
UPI 11-02 03:02 PES
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ST. LOUIS (UPI) -- A HEAVY VOTER TURNOUT UNDER IDEAL WEATHER
CONDITIONS TUESDAY APPEARED TO INCR AS JIMMY CARTER'S CHANCES TO WIN
TRADITIONALLY D MOCRATIC MISSOURI'S 12 LECTORAL VOTES.
PRESID NT FORD BANKED ON HELP FROM A STRONG R PUBLICAN STATE
TICK T, H AD D BY U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE JOHN DANFORTH AND GOV.
CHRISTOPH R BOND.
LONG LIN S OF CHILLY VOT RS AND L. NGTHY WAITING PTRIODS WERE
R PORTED FROM ALL SECTIONS OF THE STAT SHORTLY AFTER TH POLLS
OP N D AT 6 A.M. SKITS W R CLWAR AND AFT RNOON TEMPERATUR S WERE
PREDICTED IN TH 60S.
S CR TARY OF STAT JAM S KIRKPATRICK FOR CAST A R CORD 1.95 MILLION
VOT RS WOULD VISIT THE POLLS BFFOR THE 7 P.M. CLOSING.
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MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) -- VOTERS IN MINNESOTA LINED UP IN
"FANTASTICALLY HIGH" NUMBERS TUESDAY TO CHOOS 10 ELECTORAL VOTES FOR
PR SID NT, A S NATOR AND IGHT HOUS SEATS.
OBS RV RS SAID TH HEAVY BALLOTING PROBABLY COULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO
A S NTIMENTAL VOTE FOR ONE OF THE STAT 'S MOST POPULAR POLITICAL
FIGUR S, SEN. HUBERT HUMPHREY, AND A LOCAL BOY WHO HOP S TO MAKE
GOOD, STN. WALTER MONDALE, TH DEMOCRATIC VIC PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE.
"TH VOTE WAS FANTASTICALLY HIGH," SAID ALBERT HOFSTED, FORMER
MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS AND HUMPHREY'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER IN THE STATE.
JOAN GROWE, SECRETARY OF STATE, SAID AFT R A SPOT CHECK OF ABOUT 20
POLLING PLACES THAT THE VOTE WAS so H AVY SOME AREAS WER ASKING FOR
EXTRA VOTING MACHIN S.
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CHARL STON, W.VA. (UPI) -- THE GUBERNATORIAL RACE BETWEEN DEMOCRAT
JOHN D. ROCK F LLTR IV AND REPUBLICAN CECIL UND RWOOD TUESDAY
OV RSHADOW D THE PRESID NTIAL BATTL BETW EN JIMMY CARTER AND G RALD
FORD IN W ST VIRGINIA.
WITH AN ESTIMAT D 750, 000 VOTES AND SIX ELECTORS AT STAK, BOTH
CART R AND FORD HAVE LARGELY IGNORED THE MOUNTAIN STATE.
DEMOCRATS, WHO OUTNUMBER REGISTERED R PUBLICAN 2-1, WERE EXPECTED
TO TAKE THE PRESID NTIAL, THE GUB RNATORIAL AND FOUR HOUSE SEATS.
TH VOTER TURNOUT, UND R CL. AR SKIES, WAS HEAVY.
ROCK F LLER, 9, LOST FOUR YEARS AGO TO GOP GOV. ARCH MOOR BY
7 000 VOT S. SINC THEN, TH VIC PR SIDENT'S NIPHTW HAS MODIFIED
PR VIOUS STANDS AGAINST STRIP MINING AND GUN CONTROL.
UND RWOOD, 5, ATTACKED ROCKEF LLER'S WEALTH -- HIS OPPONENT SP NT
$2.5 MILLION IN THE PRIMARY AND GENERAL LECTION -- AND STRESS D HIS
OWN R CORD AS A "ROAD BUILDING GOV RNOR" IN A STATE KNOWN FOR POOR
HIGHWAYS.
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PHILAD LPHIA (UPI) -- TIGHT RAC S TW EN MOCRAT JIMMY CARTER
AND GERALD FORD AND U.S. S NATE CANDIDATES, PHILADELPHIA DEMOCRAT
WILLIAM GREEN AND PITTSBURGH REPUBLICAN JOHN H INZ, RESULTED IN
SURPRISINGLY H AVY VOTER TURNOUTS TUESDAY.
BOTH CARTER AND FORD CAMPAIGN STRAT GISTS HAD US D "GNT OUT THE
VOTE" CAMPAIGNS.
P NNSYLVANIA'S 5.7 MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS EXPERIENCED CLEAR,
SUNNY SKITS AND BRISK TEMP RATUR S. THE D MOCRATS HOLD A 750, 000-VOTE
R GISTRATION DG.
IN ERIE, LACKAWANNA AND YORK COUNTINS, TL CTIONS OFFICIALS SAID
THE ARLY VOT WAS "VERY H AVY". THE VOT WAS LIGHT IN HARRISBURG,
MOD RAT IN ALTOONA, AND MODERATE TO H AVY IN PHILADELPHIA AND ITS
SUBURBS AND IN PITTSBURGH.
THER WAS SOME CONFUSION IN TH PHILAD LPHIA AREA, WHERE A NUMBER
OF VOTERS W RE TURN D AWAY B CAUS THEY DID NOT MEET REGISTRATION
R QUIREM NTS UNDER THE STATUS NEW POSTCARD R GISTRATION SYSTEM.
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By VICTORIA GRAHAM
Associated Press Writer
TASHINGTON AP - President Ford cast his ballot paid a tearful
tribute to his parents, and then returned here today to await the
verdict of the nation's voters on whether he should remain in the
White House for four more years, or surrender it to Democrat Jimmy
Carter.
Ford's helicopter reached the south lawn of the White House at 2
p.m., to be greeted by a crowd of about 200 well-wishers.
His return had a festive air in contrast to the sober and emotional
scene that occurred as the President departed his home town of Grand
Rapids. Mich. where he had voted earlier in the day.
At the dedication of an airport terminal mural depicting Ford>3 life
from infancy to the presidency, his eyes welled with tears as he saw
portraits of his parents. owe everyuthing to them. he said
with a voice that cracked. "I"m just overwhelmed. If 1 had any good
sense I'd sit down.,,
As the helicopter landed at the White House. first up the ramp was
one of the Ford family's golden retrievers, which were decked out with
hite dog blankets bearing the letters, **President Ford."
The President and Mrs. Ford emerged arm in arm from the aircraft as
the crowd applauded and two local high school bands brought on for
the occasion played The Victors ,, the University of michigan fight
song that has become Ford's campaign anthem.
Press Secretary Ron Nessen said the Fords planned to rest until the
election returns began coming in later in the day. He said Sen. Bob
Dole, the Republican vice-presidential nominee. would join the
President at the White House for what Nessen sáys is a long-planned
victory party.
In Grand Rapids. a sober-faced Ford voted at a local elementary
school amidst the glare and flash of cameras.
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URGENT
BY JIM ANDERSON
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- RICHARD HELMS, THE CONTROVERSIAL FORMER
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, HAS RESIGNED AS U.S.
AMBASSADOR TO IRAN, ADMINISTRATION SOURCES SAID TODAY.
THE WHITE HOUSE WAS EXPECTED TO MAKE THE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT LATER
IN THE DAY.
THE SOURCES SAID HELMS DECIDED TO RESIGN BEFORE A WINNER WAS
ANNOUNCED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN ORDER TO MAKE IT PLAIN THAT
HE WANTED TO STEP DOWN NO MATTER WHO WAS ELECTED.
THEY SAID HELMS, 64, DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO STEP DOWN AFTER MORE
THAN 30 YEARS OF GOVERNMENT SERVICE.
IT IS CUSTOMARY FOR ALL PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES, INCLUDING
AMBASSADORS, TO AUTOMATICALLY HAND IN THEIR RESIGNATIONS WHEN A NEW
ADMINISTRATION TAKES OVER IN WASHINGTON.
HELMS HAD SPENT MUCH OF THE EARLIER PART OF THIS YEAR IN
WASHINGTON WAITING TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEE ON THE CIA'S PART IN THE WATERGATE AFFAIR, AND HIS EARLIER
TESTIMONY ABOUT THAT INVOLVEMENT.
SOME SENATORS WANTED TO HAVE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PROSECUTE HIM
FOR PERJURY BECAUSE HE HAD TOLD A SENATE COMMITTEE THAT HE WOULD HAVE
VETOED ANY CIA INVOLVMENT IN DONESTIC AFFAIRS.
LATER, TESTIMONY FOUND THAT THE CIA, WITH HELMS' KNOWLEDGE, GAVE
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO WATERGATE BURGLAR E. HOWARD HUNT, "LAUNDERED
CONTRIBUTIONS IN MEXICO AND CONDUCTED SURVEILLANCE ON SOME
CONTACTS.
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BY ARNOLD SAWISLAK
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
VOTERS ACROSS THE NATION FORMED LINES THAT STRETCHED FOR BLOCKS
AND SOME WAITED AS LONG AS TWO HOURS TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS TODAY IN A
NIP-AND-TUCK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAT MAY PRODUCE THE HEAVIEST
TURNOUT IN YEARS.
APPARENTLY SHATTERING PREDICTIONS OF POLITICAL APATHY, THE STORY
WAS THE SAME IN STATE AFTER STATE. ELECTION OFFICIALS USED WORDS SUCH
AS "FANTASTIC," "TREMENDOUS," "JAMMED" AND "UNUSUALLY HEAVY" TO
DESCRIBE THE TURNOUT IN THE RACE BETWEEN PRESIDENT FORD AND JIMMY
CARTER.
SOME VOTERS TEMPORARILY GAVE UP IN DISGUST WHEN THEY DISCOVERED
THE WAIT WAS TOO LONG AND THEY WOULD BE LATE FOR WORK. OFFICALS IN
SOME STATES HAD TO FIND ADDITIONAL VOTING MACHINES OR BOOTHS TO
HANDLE THE CROWDS. THE WEATHER WAS GOOD OVER MUCH OF THE COUNTRY.
THE HEAVIEST VOTER TURNOUT EVER OCCURRED IN 1960 WHEN 64 PER CENT
OF THE VOTING AGE POPULATION APPEARED AT THE POLLS TO ELECT JOHN F.
KENNEDY. IN 1968, THE PERCENTAGE SLIPPED TO 60.7 PER CENT AND FELL
EVEN FURTHER TO 55.5 PER CENT IN 1972.
POLITICAL OBSERVERS HAD PREDICTED APATHY WOULD RESULT IN A LOW
VOTER TURNOUT AND DEMOCRATS HAD FEARED THIS WOULD DAMAGE CARTER'S
CHANCES SINCE THERE ARE MANY MORE REGISTERED DEMOCRATS THAN
REPUBLICANS.
BESIDES THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE, VOTERS IN 14 STATES WERE ALSO
SELECTING GOVERNORS, SENATORS WERE BEING ELECTED IN 33 STATES AND
HOUSE MEMBERS AND STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS WERE VYING FOR JOBS IN
ALL 50 STATES.
FORD AND HIS WIFE, BETTY, CAST THEIR BALLOTS SHORTLY AFTER THE
POLLS OPENED IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HE TOLD REPORTERS THAT HE FELT
"VERY GOOD. NOV. 2 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY."
CARTER CAST HIS BALLOT IN PLAINS, GA., AND EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE
THAT HE WOULD WIN.
THE FINAL NATIONWIDE POLLS SHOWED THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN A
VIRTUAL DEAD HEAT.
THE LOUIS HARRIS ORGANIZATION CONDUCTED IT FINAL POLL ON FRIDAY,
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. IT SHOWED CARTER HOLDING TO A 46-45 PER CENT
LEAD OVER FORD. HARRIS SAID THE RESULT INDICATES A CONTEST "TOO CLOSE
TO CALL" AND SAID EITHER MAN MIGHT WIN THE POPULAR VOTE AND LOSE THE
ELECTORAL VOTE.
A POLL BY THE ROPER ORGANIZATION FOR THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING
SERVICE FOUND CARTER AHEAD BY SEVEN POINTS AND INDICATED HE COULD WIN
BY FOUR POINTS IF UNDECIDED VOTERS SPLIT THEIR VOTES EVENLY AMONG THE
MAJOR CANDIDATES.
MORE
UPI 11-02 01:28 PES
MASS. ELN.
BOSTON (AP) -- VOTING WAS REPORTED EXTREMELY HEAVY TUESDAY ACROSS
MASSACHUSETTS ON A BALLOT THAT INCLUDED STRONGLY CONTESTED SENATE AND
HOUSE RACES AND CONTROVERSIAL STATE PROPOSITIONS AS WELL AS THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
ELECTION OFFICIALS SAID THE TURNOUT MIGHT SURPASS THE RECORD 91.6
PER CENT RECORDED IN 1950 WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY RAN FOR PRESIDENT.
DEMOCRAT JIMMY CARTER WAS CONSIDERED A SURE BET TO WIN THE HEAVILY
DEMOCRATIC STATE'S 14 ELECTORAL VOTES OVER REPUBLICAN GERALD FORD AND
INDEPENDENT EUGENE MCCARTHY.
SEN. EDWARD M. KENNEDY'S BE -ELECTION BID WAS OPPOSED BY REPUBLICAN
MICHAEL ROBERTSON AND TWO MINOR PARTY CANDIDATES, BUT HE WAS THOUGHT
TO BE ASSURED OF VICTORY.
REFERENDA ON THE BALLOT INCLUDED SUCH HIGHLY CHARGED ISSUES AS A
HANDGUN BAN, A NONRETURNABLE BOTTLE BAN, A GRADUATED INCOME TAX. A
STATE POWER AUTHORITY AND UNIFORM RATES FOR ELECTRIC UTILITY CUSTOMERS
OF ALL SIZES.
DEMOCRATIC U.S. REP. ROBERT F. DRINAN AND REPUBLICAN RFP. SILVIO 0.
CONTE FACED STRONG COMPETITION TN THEIR RE -ELECTION CAMPAIGNS. SEVEN
OTHER INCUMBENT CONGRESSMEN, INCLUDING HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER THOMAS
P. O'NEILL JR., WERE EXPECTED TO SURVIVE CHALLENGES EASILY. THREE
INCUMBENTS WERE UNOPPOSED.
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SAN CLEMENTE (UPI) -- RICHARD NIXON AND HIS WIFE. PAT, WHO IS
RCOV RING FROM A STROK CAST ABS NTE BALLOTS IN ADVANCE OF
TU SDAY'S L. CTION, APPARENTLY IN ANTICIPATION OF A BRIEF DESERT
VACATION WHICH WAS CALL. D OFF.
"THE NIXONS VOTED ABS NTEE BALLOT.' " RETIRED COL. JACK BRENNAN.
NIXON'S AID TOLD WAITING NEWS P RSONNEL. "THE NIXONS WERE GOING TO
GO TO TH DES RT FOR THREE DAYS BUT THE PLANS FELL THROUGH."
NOR WHY TH PLANS W RF CANCELED.
HE DID NOT SAY WHERE ON TH DESERT THE NIXONS HAD PLANN TO GO,
THE NIXONS HAVE BEEN FR QUENT GU STS AT THE STATE N AR PALM
SPRINGS OF WALTER ANNENBERG. FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN.
MRS. NIXON SUFFERED A STROK AT THEIR CASA PACIFICA ESTATE JULY 7
AND WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR MOR THAN TWO WEEKS.
ASK D HOW SHE WAS DOING IN HER RECOVERY, BRENNAN SHRUGGED AND
SAID, "ITS A SLOW PROC SS BUT SHE'S DOING WELL."
BR NNAN SAID ONE OF NIXON'S DAUGHTERS. TRICIA COX, WAS VISITING
HER PARENTS. THE OTHER DAUGHT R, JULIA EISENHOWER, LEFT A F W DAYS
AGO. H SAID.
À R GISTRATION SHEET POSTED AT PRECINCT NO. 48-141 AT THE
CONCORDIA LEMENTARY SCHOOL A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF THE NIXON HOM
CARRIED BALLOT. A NOTATION THAT THE FORM R FIRST FAMILY HAD VOT D BY ABSENTES
IT LIST D TH NIXON ADDRESS AS 4100 CALL ISABELLA AND SHOWED TWO
OTH R P RSONS LIVING TH RE -- MR. AND MRS. MANOLO SANCHEZ. SANCHEZ IS
NIXON'S VAL T.
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LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- INDEPEND NT PR SID NTIAL CANDIDATE FUGENE
MCCARTHY, CONC DING H WAS UNLIK L.Y TO WIN ANY ELECTORAL VOT S,
PLANNED RESULTS. TO R TURN TO WASHINGTON TUESDAY NIGHT TO AWAIT THE ELECTION
MCCARTHY WAS ON THE BALLOT IN 29 STATES AND WAS A WRITE-IN
CANDIDATE IN CALIFORNIA.
MCCARTHY, WHO CAST HIS ABSENTEE MINNESOTA BALLOT LAST WEEK, MADE A
FINAL CAMPAIGN APPEARANCE AT A UCLA RALLY MONDAY. HE DECLINED TO SAY
WH TH R H PR FERRED PR SID NT FORD OR JIMMY CART R.
THAT IF H RECEIVED 5 PER CENT OF THE POPULAR VOTE HE WOULD INTERPRET
BUT H CONCEDED HE WAS UNLIKELY TO G T ANY LECTORAL VOTES, ADDING
THAT -0- AS A SIGN OF DISSATISFACTION WITH THE MAJOR PARTIES.
RUSS LL, KAN. (UPI) -- R PUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
ROB RT DOL. R TURNED TO A HERO'S W LCOM IN HIS HOM TOWN TODAY AND
VOTED AT A MOD RN ELEM NTARY SCHOOL ON TH SITE WHERE HE ATTENED
CLASS S MOR THAN 40 YEARS AGO.
DOL. FL. W FROM KANSAS CITY TO GR AT BEND, KAN., WINGING OVER A
FI LD WHICH SPELLE D "FORD-DOL" IN FR SHLY PLOUGH'D EARTH. THEN HE
DROV 50 MIL S TO RUSSELL WHERE BANDS PLAYED AND THE TORNADO SIREN
SOUND D IN HIS HONOR.
H TOLD A CROWD OF SEV RAL THOUSAND MASSED ON HIS MOTHER'S FRONT
LAWN THAT "YOU'VE PUT M' ON THE MAP -- NOW WE'R GOING TO TRY TO PUT
RUSSELL ON TH MAP."
"PR SIDENT FORD IS GOING TO WIN A TRUMAN-LIK VICTORY," PREDICT D
DOLE, WHO WAS ACCOMPANI D BY HIS WIF, FLIZABETH, DAUGHTER, ROBIN,
AND 7 -Y AR OLD MOTHER, BINA.
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NEW YORK (UPI) -- UGENE MCCARTHY'S CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR
COMPLAIN D BITTERLY TODAY ABOUT THE STATE'S COMPLICATED WRITE-IN
PROC DUR AND SAID SOM LECTION INSPECTORS WERE TELLING VOTERS
WRIT -IN VOT S WOULDN'T BE COUNTED.
UNDER STAT LAW, A VOT R WANTING TO WRITE IN MCCARTHY'S NAME HAS
TO WRITE THE NAM S OF ALL 0 ELECTORS FOR THE FORMER MINNESOTA
S NATOR IN TH THREE MINUTES ALLOWED IN THE VOTING BOOTH.
A SPOK SMAN FOR TH STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS ACKNOWLEDGED MONDAY
THAT IT WOULD B "NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE" TO WRITE IN THE NAMES OF THE
ELECTORS IN TH AVAILABL TIME, BUT SAID THE MCCARTHY FFORT WAS
FUTIL.
"TH Y CAN PUT MCCARTHY'S NAM IN, BUT IT ISN'T GOING TO COUNT FOR
ANYTHING, HE SAID. "I DON'T V N THINK THEY WOULD BE COUNTED -- BUT
THAY MIGHT BT FOR CURIOSITY'S SAKE."
PAUL SWIDMAN, MCCARTHY'S STAT COORDINATOR, SAID HE HAD REPORTS FROM
THREE POLLING PLAC IN TH METROPOLITCAN AREA THAT INSPECTORS WERE
TELLING VOTRS THAT TH IR WRITT-IN VOTES WILL NOT BE COUNTED.
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MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) -- S N. WALTER MONDALE, AWAITING WORD FROM THE
VOT RS ON HIS VICE PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS, GOT SOME GOOD NEWS FROM
HIS DENTIST TUESDAY -- NO CAVITIES.
MONDAL AROSE EARLY AND L. FT THE SMALL HOUSE IN ASTON, WHICH
S RVS AS HIS OFFICIAL MINNESOTA RESIDENCE AND HEAD D TO TH VILLAGE
HALL TO VOTE FOR "JIMMY CART R AND HIS RUNNING MATE."
WHEN MONDAL. HIS WIFE JOAN AND ELDEST SON TEDDY, 19, ARRIVED AT
THE POLLING PLAC TH Y FOUND ABOUT 25 VOTERS IN LINE AHEAD OF THEM.
SMILING AND GR TING TOWN R SID MONDALE ENTERED THE HALL AND
FAC D Y T ANOTH R DELAY -- CERTIFYING TO THE VOTING OFFICIALS THAT
TEDDY WAS ACTUALLY OLD ENOUGH TO CAST HIS FIRST PRESID NTIAL. BALLOT,
ANOTH R VOT FOR CARTER.
TH N IT WAS OFF TO MINN APOLIS AND A VISIT TO HIS NEPHEW, DR.
ROG R MONDALE, A DENTISLY MONDALE GOT HIS T ETH CL. AND AND TOLD
REPORT RS AFT RWARDS THAT "ALTHOUGH I HAV USED MY MOUTH AN AWFUL.
LOT" IN R CENT MONTHS, HT HAD NO CAVITIES.
TH MINNESOTA SENATOR THEN MOV D INTO A SUITE AT THE L. AMINGTON
HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN MINN APOLIA FOR A PRIVAT STAFF LUNCHEON, A VISIT
TO A MINN APOLIS ART C NTWR, AN AFTERNOON NAP AND DINNER WITH HIS
FAMILY.
THE OTHER TWO MONDALE CHILDREN WER TO FLY FROM WASHINGTON TUESDAY
AFTERNOON TO JOIN TH IR PAR NTS HERE.
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BY STEVE GERSTEL
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- VOTERS TURNED OUT BY THE MILLIONS TUESDAY TO
NAKE WHAT THE OPINION POLLS CALLED A TOUGH CHOICE BETWEEN GERALD R.
FORD AND JIMMY CARTER IN ONE OF THE NOST UNUSUAL ELECTIONS IN
AMERICA'S 200 YEARS.
THE 48TH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SINCE 1789 PITTED FORD -- A
REPUBLICAN WHO SUCCEEDED THE FIRST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY TO RESIGN IN
DISGRACE -- AGAINST CARTER, A DEMOCRAT WHO WAS RELATIVELY UNKNOWN A
YEAR AGO.
FORD RAN WITH ROBERT DOLE, A KANSAS SENATOR WITH A GIFT FOR FIERY
ORATORY. CARTER RAN WITH WALTER MONDALE, A MINNESOTAN KNOWN AS ONE OF
THE MOST LIBERAL MEMBERS OF THE SENATE.
EXPERTS SAID THE ELECTION MIGHT BE AS CLOSE AS THE ONE IN 1876,
WHEN THE HOUSE HAD TO DECIDE BECAUSE NO CANDIDATE HAD A MAJORITY.
IN ADDITION TO THE WHITE HOUSE, ALL 435 SEATS IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, 33 SEATS IN THE SENATE AND 14 GOVERNOR'S CHAIRS WERE
CONTESTED.
IT TAKES 270 VOTES IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY,
WITH EACH STATE CASTING ALL ITS BALLOTS FOR THE WINNER OF THE POPULAR
VOTE. THE EARLY TURNOUT WAS HEAVY AND THE WEATHER GOOD NEARLY
EVERYWHERE.
OFFICIALS IN NEW YORK CITY PREDICTED 75 PER CENT OF THOSE
REGISTERED WOULD CAST BALLOTS. EXTREMELY HEAVY VOTING WAS REPORTED IN
NEW ENGLAND, THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA,
MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS AND TE AS.
IN OHIO, LABELED A "MUST" STATE BY BOTH CANDIDATES, OFFICIALS
PREDICTED A RECORD TURNOUT. "I HAVE WORKED A LOT OF ELECTIONS AND I
HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY VOTERS COME OUT SO EARLY," SAID A PRECINCT
WORKER IN COLUMBUS.
IN TINY LICHFIELD, N.H., SO MANY VOTERS TURNED UP THAT OFFICIALS
HAD TO HANMER TOGETHER FOUR TRA VOTING BOOTHS.
AND THE TRADITIONAL MIDNIGHT VOTE IN TINY DI VILLE NOTCH, N.H.
REFLECTED THE POLLS THAT SAY THIS ELECTION WILL BE VERY CLOSE -- 13
VOTES FOR FORD, 11 FOR CARTER AND 1 FOR INDEPENDENT EUGENE MCCARTHY.
FOR CARTER, 52, THE CLIMAX OF A 22-MONTH CAMPAIGN CAME IN A SMALL,
CONCRETE BLOCK HOUSE IN PLAINS, GA. HE WAS UP AT THE CRACK OF DAWN
AND WAS AT THE POLLING PLACE AT 7:30 A.M., HALF AN HOUR AFTER IT
OPENED.
CARTER WAS THE 11TH VOTER AND SPENT MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES
STUDYING THE VOTING MACHINE. "I'M GLAD THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER; IT'S
BEEN A GOOD ONE," HE SAID.
"I VOTED FOR WALTER MONDALE AND HIS RUNNING MATE. I FEEL CONFIDENT
...
I THINK WE HAVE ADEQUATELY PRESENTED MYSELF AND SENATOR MONDALE
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND I AM PERFECTLY WILLING TO ABIDE BY THEIR
JUDGMENT." HE FLASHED THAT TOOTHSONE GRIN THAT HAS BECOME FAMOUS.
FORD'S CAMPAIGN WOUND UP AT THE WEALTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
AUDITORIUM IN HIS HOME TOWN OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., WHERE THE
PRESIDENT, 53, CAST HIS BALLOT WITH A STYLUS AND PUNCH CARD IN A FEW
MINUTES. AFTERWARDS, HE AND HIS WIFE BETTY INDULGED A SUPERSTITION
BORN OF HIS EARLIER SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGNS FOR CONGRESS, EATING ONE
BLUEBERRY PANCAKE AT GRANNY'S KITCHEN.
"I FEEL VERY GOOD, FORD TOLD REPORTERS IN A VOICE MADE HOARSE BY
HIS 10-DAY CAMPAIGN BLITZ. "NOVENBER 2 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY.
MORE
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -- AN ATTORNEY FOR A HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE TODAY
CHARGED THAT PRESIDENT FORD IS TRYING TO PREVENT CONGRESS FROM
INVESTIGATING POSSIBLE EXECUTIVE BRANCH ABUSES BY REFUSING TO RELEASE
TO THE PANEL NATIONAL SECURITY WIRETAP REPORTS.
ATTORNEY E. BARRETT PRETTYMAN JR. TOLD THE U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF
APPEALS THAT THIS WAS THE ULTIMATE AFFECT OF FORD'S ARGUMENT THAT HE
ALONE CAN DETERMINE THAT GIVING THE REPORTS TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE WOULD
INVOLVE "AN UNACCEPTABLE RISK OF PUBLIC DISCLOSURE."
THE PRESIDENT'S ASSERTION OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEDGE WOULD "DEFEAT
THE RIGHT OF CONGRESS TO CHECK AGAINST ABUSES THROUGH ITS OVERSIGHT
OVER EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS,' PRETTYMAN SAID.
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL RE: E. LEE ARGUED THAT SOMEONE MUST
HAVE THE FINAL AUTHORITY TO DECIDE WHAT RISK TO TAKE IN DISTRIBUTING
"THE EXTREMELY SENSITIVE" WIRETAP INFORMATION AND THE CONSTITUTION
HAS GIVEN THAT RIGHT TO THE PRESIDENT.
LEE SAID THE OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE HEADED BY
REP. JOHN E. MOSS, D-CALIF., COULD THROUGH A HAJORITY VOTE DECIDE TO
RELEASE THE WIRETAP RECORDS MOSS HAS SOUGHT TO SUBPOENA FROM THE
TELEPHONE COMPANY.
LEE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT ANY MEMBER OF THE HOUSE WOULD HAVE A
RIGHT TO SEE THE RECORDS.
JUDGES HAROLD LEVENTHAL AND SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON III TOOK THE
CASE UNDER ADVISEMENT.
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BY HELEN THOMAS
UPI WHITE HOUSE REPORTER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- PRESIDENT FORD VOTED IN HIS MICHIGAN HOME
DISTRICT TODAY, BROKE DOWN AND CRIED AT AN AIRPORT DEDICATION IN HIS
HONOR, THEN FLEW HERE FOR THE FINAL COUNTDOWN IN THE WHITE HOUSE
BATTLE WITH JIMMY CARTER.
"I FEEL VERY GOOD. NOV. 2 IS GOING TO BE A GOOD DAY," SAID A
CONFIDENT AND NONTALGIC FORD AS HE AND HIS WIFE, BETTY, MOTORCADED TO
WEALTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN GRAND RAPIDS AND VOTED SHORTLY AFTER THE
POLLS OPENED.
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BY ELMER LAMII
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- VOTERS IN 14 STATES CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR
GOVERNOR TUESDAY, WITH THE BATTLE BETWEEN PRESIDENT FORD AND JIMMY
CARTER LIKELY TO HAVE ONLY MINOR IMPACT ON THE STATE RACES.
A PRE-ELECTION UPI SURVEY INDICATED A NEAR STAND-OFF IN THE
GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS -- THE DEMOCRATS EXPECTED TO WIN SEVEN, THE
REPUBLICANS FIVE, AND RACES IN TWO STATES, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND
WASHINGTON, TOO CLOSE TO CALL.
AS VOTERS WENT TO THE POLLS, REPUBLICANS HAD HIGH HOPES OF TAKING
OVER ILLINOIS, DELAWARE AND VERMONT FROM DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS AND OF
KEEPING CONTROL OF INDIANA AND MISSOURI.
DEMOCRATS HOPED TO RECLAIM WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA FROM
REPUBLICANS AND TO MAINTAIN THEIR HOLD ON ARKANSAS, MONTANA, NORTH
DAKOTA, RHODE ISLAND AND UTAH.
THERE WERE INDICATIONS THAT MANY VOTERS WERE CROSSING PARTY LINES
IN PICKING CANDIDATES FOR STATE OFFICE AND THAT NEITHER FORD NOR
CARTER WAS LIKELY EITHER TO HELP OR HURT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARLY RETURNS WERE EXPECTED TO SHOW WHETHER
REPUBLICAN GOV. HELDRIM THOMSON, ONE OF THE NATION'S MOST
CONSERVATIVE GOVERNORS, COULD TURN BACK A CHALLENGE BY DEMOCRAT HARRY
SPANOS.
IN ILLINOIS, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE JAMES "BIG JIM" THOMPSON, A U.S.
ATTORNEY WHO SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED FORMER DEMOCRATIC GOV. OTTO
KERNER, WAS APPARENTLY RUNNING AHEAD OF SECRETARY OF STATE MICHAEL
HOWLETT, WHO HAS THE BACKING OF CHICAGO NAYOR RICHARD DALEY.
TWO WOMEN WERE AMONG THE CANDIDATES. DEMOCRAT DITY LEE RAY, FORMER
CHAIRMAN OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, WAS GIVEN A GOOD CHANCE TO
WIN IN WASHINGTON, BUT DEMOCRAT STELLA HACKEL APPEARED TO BE RUNNING
BEHIND REPUBLICAN RICHARD SNELLING IN VERMONT.
MISS RAY WAS IN A TIGHT RACE WITRH KING COUNTY EXECUTIVE JOHN
SPELLMAN, WHO WON THE GOP NONINATION AFTER REPUBLICAN GOV. DANIEL
EVANS DECIDED NOT TO SEEK AN UNPRECEDENTED FOURTH TERM.
REP. PIERRE DUPONT, WHO GAVE UP HIS HOUSE SEAT TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR
IN DELAWARE, WAS EXPECTED TO WIN OVER THE DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT, GOV.
SHERMAN TRIBBITT.
IN WEST VIRGINIA, WHERE REPUBLICAN GOV. ARCH MOORE WAS PROHIBITED
BY LAW FROM SEEKING RE-ELECTION, DEMOCRAT JAY. ROCKEFELLER WAS
EXPECTED TO WIN OVER FORMER REPUBLICAN GOV. CECIL UNDERWOOD.
DEMOCRATS EXPECTED TO WIN IN NORTH CAROLINA, WHERE REPUBLICAN GOV.
JAMES HOLSHOUSER ALSO COULD NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION UNDER STATE LAW.
DEMOCRATIC LT. GOV. JAMES B. HUNT JR. WAS FAVORED TO DEFEAT
REPUBLICAN DAVID T. FLAHERTY.
IN RHODE ISLAND, DEMOCRAT J.. JOSEPH GARRAHY APPEARED TO HAVE AN
EDGE OVER REPUBLICAN JAMES TAFT.
REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL VERNON ROMNEY WAS EXPECTED TO LOSE TO
DEMOCRAT SCOTT MATHESON IN UTAH, WHERE VETERAN DEMOCRATIC GOV. CALVIN
L. RAMPTON DID NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION.
INCUMBENT GOVERNORS EXPECTED TO WIN WERE DEMOCRATS DAVID H. PRYOR
OF ARKANSAS, THOMAS JUDGE OF MONTANA AND ARTHUR LINK OF NORTH DAKOTA,
AND REPUBLICANS OTIS R. BOWEN OF INDIANA AND CHRISTOPHER BOND OF
MISSOURI.
EVEN A SURPRISE REPUBLICAN SWEEP OF THE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS
WOULD HAVE LEFT THE DEMOCRATS FIRMLY IN CONTROL OF A BIG MAJORITY OF
THE NATION'S STATE HOUSES. THE CURRENT LINEUP IS 36 DEMOCRATS, 13
REPUBLICANS AND 1 INDEPENDENT.
UPI 11-02 01:54 PES
BY ELMER LAMII
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- VOTERS IN 14 STATES CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR
GOVERNOR TUESDAY, WITH THE BATTLE BETWEEN PRESIDENT FORD AND JIMMY
CARTER LIKELY TO HAVE ONLY MINOR IMPACT ON THE STATE RACES.
A PRE-ELECTION UPI SURVEY INDICATED A NEAR STAND-OFF IN THE
GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS -- THE DEMOCRATS EXPECTED TO WIN SEVEN, THE
REPUBLICANS FIVE, AND RACES IN TWO STATES, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND
WASHINGTON, TOO CLOSE TO CALL.
AS VOTERS WENT TO THE POLLS, REPUBLICANS HAD HIGH HOPES OF TAKING
OVER ILLINOIS, DELAWARE AND VERMONT FROM DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS AND OF
KEEPING CONTROL OF INDIANA AND MISSOURI.
DEMOCRATS HOPED TO RECLAIM WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA FROM
REPUBLICANS AND TO MAINTAIN THEIR HOLD ON ARKANSAS, MONTANA, NORTH
DAKOTA, RHODE ISLAND AND UTAH.
THERE WERE INDICATIONS THAT MANY VOTERS WERE CROSSING PARTY LINES
IN PICKING CANDIDATES FOR STATE OFFICE AND THAT NEITHER FORD NOR
CARTER WAS LIKELY EITHER TO HELP OR HURT GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARLY RETURNS WERE EXPECTED TO SHOW WHETHER
REPUBLICAN GOV. WELDRIM THOMSON, ONE OF THE NATION'S MOST
CONSERVATIVE GOVERNORS, COULD TURN BACK A CHALLENGE BY DENOCRAT HARRY
SPANOS.
IN ILLINOIS, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE JAMES "BIG JIM" THOMPSON, A U.S.
ATTORNEY WHO SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED FORMER DEMOCRATIC GOV. OTTO
KERNER, WAS APPARENTLY RUNNING AHEAD OF SECRETARY OF STATE MICHAEL
HOWLETT, WHO HAS THE BACKING OF CHICAGO MAYOR RICHARD DALEY.
TWO WOMEN WERE AMONG THE CANDIDATES. DEMOCRAT DIKY LEE RAY, FORMER
CHAIRMAN OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, WAS GIVEN A GOOD CHANCE TO
WIN IN WASHINGTON, BUT DEMOCRAT STELLA HACKEL APPEARED TO BE RUNNING
BEHIND REPUBLICAN RICHARD SNELLING IN VERMONT.
MISS RAY WAS IN A TIGHT RACE WITRH KING COUNTY EXECUTIVE JOHN
SPELLMAN, WHO WON THE GOP NOMINATION AFTER REPUBLICAN GOV. DANIEL
EVANS DECIDED NOT TO SEEK AN UNPRECEDENTED FOURTH TERM.
REP. PIERRE DUPONT, WHO GAVE UP HIS HOUSE SEAT TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR
IN DELAWARE, WAS EXPECTED TO WIN OVER THE DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT, GOV.
SHERMAN TRIBBITT.
IN WEST VIRGINIA, WHERE REPUBLICAN GOV. ARCH MOORE WAS PROHIBITED
BY LAW FROM SEEKING RE-ELECTION, DEMOCRAT JAY. ROCKEFELLER WAS
EXPECTED TO WIN OVER FORMER REPUBLICAN GOV. CECIL UNDERWOOD.
DEMOCRATS EXPECTED TO WIN IN NORTH CAROLINA, WHERE REPUBLICAN GOV.
JAMES HOLSHOUSER ALSO COULD NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION UNDER STATE LAW.
DEMOCRATIC LT. GOV. JAMES B. HUNT JR. WAS FAVORED TO DEFEAT
REPUBLICAN DAVID T. FLAHERTY.
IN RHODE ISLAND, DEMOCRAT J. JOSEPH GARRAHY APPEARED TO HAVE AN
EDGE OVER REPUBLICAN JANES TAFT.
REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL VERNON ROMNEY WAS EXPECTED TO LOSE TO
DEMOCRAT SCOTT MATHESON IN UTAH, WHERE VETERAN DEMOCRATIC GOV. CALVIN
L. RAMPTON DID NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION.
INCUMBENT GOVERNORS EXPECTED TO WIN WERE DEMOCRATS DAVID H. PRYOR
OF ARKANSAS, THOMAS JUDGE OF MONTANA AND ARTHUR LINK OF NORTH DAKOTA,
AND REPUBLICANS OTIS R. BOWEN OF INDIANA AND CHRISTOPHER BOND OF
MISSOURI.
EVEN A SURPRISE REPUBLICAN SWEEP OF THE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS
WOULD HAVE LEFT THE DEMOCRATS FIRMLY IN CONTROL OF A BIG MAJORITY OF
THE NATION'S STATE HOUSES. THE CURRENT LINEUP IS 36 DEMOCRATS, 13
REPUBLICANS AND 1 INDEPENDENT.
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BY RICHARD H. GROWALD
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (UPI) -- PRESIDENT FORD VOTED IN HIS HOME TOWN
TUESDAY, KISSED AN OLD FRIEND, WEPT AT THE DEDICATION OF A MURAL
DEPICTING HIS LIFE AND FLEW BACK TO WASHINGTON TO AWAIT THE VERDICT
IN ONE OF AMERICA'S HOST CLOSELY RUN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
FORD'S TEARS FLOWED OPENLY AT THE KENT COUNTY AIRPORT IN GRAND
RAPIDS WHERE A GOODBYE CROWD OF 200 WATCHED THE DEDICATION OF A WALL
OF NURALS SHOWING HIGH POINTS OF HIS CAREER FROM EAGLE SCOUT TO
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
HIS VOICE BREAKING, HIS EFFORTS FAILING TO CONTROL HIS DEEP
EMOTION, THE PRESIDENT SAID: "I JUST CAN'T ADEQUATELY EXPRESS MY
GRATITUDE FOR BRINGING MY LIFE TO THIS WONDERFUL AIRPORT FOR SO MANY
PEOPLE TO SEE:
"IT EXPRESSES OUR LIFE AND OUR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP.'
TEARS COURSED DOWN HIS CHEEKS. HIS WIFE, BETTY, JOINED HIM ON THE
PODIUM AND THEY HELD HANDS THROUGH THE REST OF THE CEREMONY.
"I THINK THAT BETTY OUGHT TO MAKE THE SPEECHES FROM NOW ON," FORD
SAID, HIS VOICE A LOW, HOARSE BASSO AFTER 15,000 MILES OF CAMPAIGNING
IN 11 DAYS.
EARLIER, AFTER CASTING HIS BALLOT, HE ANSWERED A REPORTER WHO
ASKED IF HE WERE FEELING LUCKY.
"SURE DO! DON'T YOU THINK WE HAVE GOOD REASON?" HE SAID, STANDING
GRAND RAPIDS WEALTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
MRS. FORD JOINED HER HUSBAND IN VOTING IN THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
THREE BLOCKS FROM THE HOUSE WHERE SHE GREW UP HOPING TO BE A DANCER
AND NEVER DREAMING OF BECOMING FIRST LADY.
ASKED FOR AN ELECTION PREDICTION, SHE REPLIED: "I THINK MY
FAVORITE CANDIDATE, PRESIDENT FORD, IS GOING TO WIN."
THE LONG CAMPAIGN LAY BEHIND, FORD SHOOK EVERY HAND IN SIGHT.
MRS. STEPHANIE WALTZ SAID "HELLO" AND FORD CLASPED THE 72-YEAR-OLD
WOMAN IN HIS ARMS, LIFTING HER FROM THE FLOOR AND SAYING: "STEPHANIE!
STEPHANIE! HOW IN THE WORLD ARE YOU?"
FINE, SHE CHUCKLED, AND TOLD FORD: "YOU'RE A WINNER! YOU'RE A
WINNER!
THE PRESIDENT, A MAN HOUNDED BY THE SELF-DISCIPLINE OF A 20-YEAR
DIETER, GAVE WAY TO A POLITICIAN'S SENTIMENTAL SUPERSTITION AND TOOK
HIS WIE OUT TO GRANNY'S KITCHEN WHERE HE HAD BREAKFASTED ON BLUEBERRY
PANCAKES ON A GENERATION OF CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION MORNINGS.
FORD ACKNOWLEDGED HE ALREADY HAD EATEN AT THE PANTLIND HOTEL, BUT
TRADITION MUST BE SERVED. HE ORDERED ONE BLUEBERRY PANCAKE AND ATE
IT.
BETTY ATE SCRAMBLED EGGS AND THEY SAT IN A BOOTH WITH OLD FRIEND
PETER SECCHIA AND THE FRIEND'S SON CHARLES, 5. ON THE WALL HUNG A
SIGN READING "LOVE ONE ANOTHER. FORD PAID THE $4.37 BILL AND JOKED
WITH REPORTERS AT NEARBY TABLES.
WHEN UPI'S HELEN THOMAS SUGGESTED HE MIGHT SUBSTITUTE FOR THE
PANCAKE SOME OF THE CHICKEN SOUP HE HAS BEEN USING TO EASE HIS
HOARSENESS IN THE CAMPAIGN, THE PRESIDENT NODDED, TALKED OF THE
CHICKEN SOUP HE HAD CONSUMED AND SAID: "I THINK I NEED SOME MORE."
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN WERE NOT SO CALM AS THEIR CHIEF. THEY
SCANNED NEWS REPORTS OF WEATHER, VOTER TURNOUT AND OTHER OMENS OF THE
EARLY HOURS OF NATIONAL VOTING.
FORD WAS MORE CASUAL.
"I'LL PROBABLY GET A REPORT OR TWO," HE SAID.
HE PAUSED TO SIGN THE GUEST BOOK OF GRANNY'S KITCHEN: "AS ALWAYS
-- GOOD FOOD AND NICE PEOPLE. JERRY FORD."
THE REPORTERS SET UP A BETTING POOL AND THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF
RUSHED IN WITH THEIR $5 BILLS. LUCIEN WARREN OF THE BUFFALO EVENING
NEWS, CONTROLLER OF THE BETS, REPORTED SOME 35 FIVE-DOLLAR BETS IN
ALL, WITH MOST WAGERING ON THE PRESIDENT, AND MOST -- IN GUESSING
ELECTORAL VOTES -- FORECASTING A CLOSE PACE
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AFTER THE PRESIDENT VOTED, HE WENT TO THE KENT COUNTY, MICH.,
AIRPORT TO DEDICATE A MURAL DEPICTING HIS IFE AND TO FLY BACK TO
WASHINGTON TO AWAIT THE ELECTION RESULTS.
AT ONE POINT, FORD WEPT DURING THE DEDICATION CEREMONY. HIS VOICE
BREAKING, THE PRESIDENT SAID il "I JUST CAN' T ADEQUATELY EXPRESS MY
GRATITUDE FOR BRINGING MY LIFE TO THIS WONDERFUL AIRPORT FOR SO MANY
PEOPLE TO SEE."
COMMENTS BY OFFICIALS WHO WORK AT THE POLLS WAS MUCH THE SAME FROM
COAST-TO-COAST.
"I HAVE WORKED A LOT OF ELECTIONS AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY
VOTERS COME OUT SO EARLY," SAID ONE PRECINCT WORKER IN COLUMBUS,
OHIO.
IN MUNCIE, IND., A PRECINCT JUDGE SAID THE TURNOUT WAS THE
HEAVIEST HE HAD SEEN IN 10 YEARS.
OHIO SECRETARY OF STATE TED BROWN, WHO ESTIMATED A RECORD 4.2
MILLION VOTERS WOULD CAST BALLOTS, SAID THE EARLY VOTING THROUGHOUT
THE STATE WAS "VERY HEAVY."
IN NEW JERSEY, AN ELECTION OFFICIAL IN HUDSON COUNTY SAID, "IF WE
KEEP GOING AT THE RATE WE HAD AT 9 'CLOCK, WE'LL HAVE 80 TO 84 PER
CENT OF THE TOTAL REGISTERED VOTERS BEFORE THE POLLS CLOSE."
NEW YORK CITY OFFICIALS SAID 75 PER CENT OF THE THREE MILLION
REGISTERED VOTERS THERE WILL CAST BALLOTS. "THE VOTER TURNOUT IS VERY
HEAVY," ONE OFFICIAL SAID. "THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN FIVE YEARS THAT
I'VE HAD COMPLAINTS ABOUT LONG LINES AT POLLING PLACES."
IN NEW ENGLAND, OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT VOTERS WERE ARRIVING AT
THE POLLS IN "RECORD" NUMBERS
IN THE TINY COMMUNITY OF LITCHFIELD, N.H., SO MANY VOTERS TURNED
UP THAT ELECTION OFFICIALS HAD TO HAMMER TOGETHER FOUR EXTRA VOTING
BOOTHS.
THE STORY WAS THE SAME IN SOUTHERN AND BORDER STATES.
"WE'VE GOT SO MANY PEOPLE HERE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO," A POLL
WORKER IN AUBURN, ALA., SAID. "THIS IS MUCH HEAVIER THAN IN PREVIOUS
ELECTIONS."
WOULD-BE EARLY MORING VOTERS AT SOME ATLANTA POLLING PLACES GAVE
UP IN DESPAIR AFTER WAITING IN THE VOTING LINES FOR 90 MINUTES OR
LONGER. MANY SAID THEY MIGHT TRY AGAIN AFTER WORK.
IN ST. PETERSBURG, FLA., ELECTION OFFICIAL SARA ADCOCK SAID THE
VOTING WAS so HEAVY "SOME PRECINCTS WERE ASKING FOR MORE VOTING
MACHINES."
IN TEXAS, VOTERS IN MANY TEXAS URBAN AREAS WAITED IN LINE FOR TWO
HOURS OR MORE TO VOTE. SOME LEFT BECAUSE THE LINES WERE SO LONG.
IN PITTSFIELD, MASS., A "TREMENDOUS TURNOUT" WAS REPORTED.
IN POPULOUS LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIF., THE SECOND HOUR TURNOUT
WAS 16.29 PER CENT. THIS COMPARES WITH A 15.5 PER CENT TURNOUT DURING
THE SAME TWO HOURS FOUR YEARS AGO.
ONE EVENT THAT MARRED ELECTION DAY OCCURED IN PUERTO RICO WHERE A
TOWN MAYOR WAS SHOT AND WOUNDED AND A YOUNG MAN BEATEN TO DEATH IN
CAMPAIGN CONNECTED INCIDENTS.
ONE WHIMISCAL REACTION TO THE ELECTION DAY EXCITEMENT CAME FROM
ALBERT ROSS, 69, WHO WAS THE FIRST VOTER TO SHOW UP AT ONE PRECINCT
IN CHICAGO.
"I LIKE TO GET UP, GET OUT AND GET IT OVER WITH," HE SAID. "IT'S
THE ONLY THING THAT DOESN'T COST ANYTHING ANY MORE."
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At the end. as SO often before. the campaign between Ford and Carter
was detoured by a side issue - the refusal of his Plains Baptist
church to admit to membership a black minister from another church in
Albany. Ga. The Rev. Clennon King's application for membership was
rejected by vote of the church deacons. last Sunday's services were
canceled. and King was turned away when he arrived with reporters.
Carter said Monday that he disagreed with the action of the deacons
but would not resign from the church. He also said the incident might
have been **partially, at least. politically motivated."
Black supporters. among them Coretta Scott King and mayor Richard
Hatcher of Gary, Ind. came to Carter's defense. some suggesting
Republican involvement in what they called a suspicious incident.
A group supporting Ford sent telegrams to some 375 black ministers
questioning whether Carter could deal with Congress if he cannot
influence his own church.
Martin Dinkins. director of Negro activities for an organization
called the People for Ford Committee, said his group had sent the
telegram.
A Carter aide called it low politics. A President Ford Committee
spokesman said the telegram was in terrible taste and if we had
known about it, we would have stopped it
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By VICTORIA GRAHAM
Associated Press Writer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. AP - President Ford cast his ballot Tuesday
and then paid a tearful tribute to his parents before heading back to
the White House to await the outcome of the election he hopes will
make him President in his own right.
Tears filled Ford's eyes as he watched the unveiling of a mural
depicting his life from infant, to football star, to congressman and
finally to President.
Cheeks flushed and voice cracking, Ford praised his mother and
father, saying, **I owe everything to them.,
"I"m just overwhelmed " Ford told the home town crowd at Kent
County airport. "and it I had any good sense I'd sit down."
Earlier. a sober-faced Ford voted amidst the glare and flash of
cameras at a local elementary school.
Ford cast his ballot by punching a card in a metal. three-sided
booth that lacks curtains to totally conceal a voter exercising his
franchise. His wife, Betty. voted in a booth beside him.
Outside, crowds of children shouted. **We want Ford! We want Ford!"
He emerged from the booth after thrée minutes. took his ballot and
Betty's and handed them to city clerk John Wielsma, who deposited them
in a locked steel box.
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By PETER ARNETT
AP Srecial Correspondent
RUSSELL, Kan. AP - Sen. Bob Dole ended his vice-presidential
campaign today by voting with his family and joking to a large home
town crowd that "If anything goes wrong today 1 might have to move
cut."
Hundreds of persons turned out to greet Dole on the front lawn of
his mother's home before he cast his ballot. Mayor Roger Williams
proclaimed it **Bob Dole Day'' in this community of 5,500 where Dole
grew up.
Voting with Döle were his 73-year-old mother Bina, his wife
Elizabeth and daughter Robin. As be left the voting booth before
returning to Washington, he joked, ..I just changed my mind."
As his 76-day campaign came to a close, Dole said be had fought "a
good campaign over-all.,,
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- PRESIDENT FORD HAD CHIPPED AWAY JIMMY CARTER'S
LEAD TO A MERE EDGE GOING INTO TODAY'S GENERAL ELECTION IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
REPUBLICANS IN THE PREDOMINANTLY DEMOCRATIC STATE WERE HOPING FOR
WIDESPREAD SPLIT-TICKET VOTING TO GIVE NORTH CAROLINA'S 13 ELECTORAL
VOTES TO FORD.
DESPITE FORD'S APPARENT POPULARITY, POLLS SHOWED GOP GUBERNATORIAL
CANDIDATE DAVID FLAHERTY DISMALLY TRAILING DEMOCRAT JIM HUNT.
IN CONGRESSIONAL RACES, THE 5TH DISTRICT ATTRACTED THE MOST
ATTENTION WITH INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT STEVE NEAL TRYING TO HOLD OFF
REPUBLICAN WILMER MIZELL, WHOM NEAL UNSEATED TWO YEARS AGO.
SIX INCUMBENT DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN AND TWO INCUMBENT REPUBLICANS
APPEARED HEADED FOR RE-ELECTION. BUT RETIREMENTS ASSURED THE STATE OF
TWO NEW CONGRESSMEN.
DEMOCRATS, SMARTING FROM A STATEWIDE POLL THAT SHOWED CARTER LEADING
BY JUST OVER ONE PERCENTAGE POINT, HAD COUNTED ON A STRONG STATE
ORGANIZATION AND A FIRM SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC FOLLOWING.
FORD'S STRENGTH INDICATED A HEALING OF PARTY WOUNDS OPENED DURING
THE STATE'S PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY LAST MAY, IN WHICH RONALD REAGAN RODE
A CONSERVATIVE WAVE TO HIS FIRST PRIMARY VICTORY.
IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, CARTER WON IN EVERY AREA AND VOTER GROUP
TO HAND ALABAMA GOV. GEORGE WALLACE A MAJOR DEFEAT.
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WASHINGTON. cast ballots.
There are about 150 million voting-age Americans. approximately
two-thirds of them registered. In the last presidential election, 55
per cent of the potential electorate voted.
A study last July had forecast that perhaps fewer than half the
registered voters would cast ballots. but pollster Burns Rorer, in as
survey conducted for the Public Broadcasting System said Tuesday's
turnout was likely to be somewhat higher than in 1972, 56 to 59 per
cent. That would reverse the downward trend in recent elections.
Sen. Walter F. Mondale. the Democratic vice-presidential nominee
voted in Afton, Minn. Sen. Robert F. Dole, Ford's running mate, was in
Russell, Kan. to cast his ballot.
Former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy. the independent whose ballot spot in
29 states could give Carter problems, voted absentee, in advance, 30
he could spend election eve plugging for write-in votes in Los
Angeles.
A number of other smaller party candidates for president were on the
ballots in states where they were able to qualify under state
election laws.
Voters also chose a new Congress. the 95th certain to be controlled
ly the Democrats who have run both House and Senate for 22 unbroken
years.
Thirty-three Senate seats were at stake, and all 435 in the House.
Fourteen states elected governors.
But the focus was on the White House. and the 270 electoral votes
that will determine who holds it for the next four years.
At the end of a 30 000-mile campaign that has taken him to about
half the states. Ford went home to wrand Rapids on monday night and
said he wanted to do as President what he had done as the district's
congressman for 25 years.
He said when people brought him problems, he didn't ask their
politics. **We said what can we do to help you - and that is the way I
want to be your President.,,
In Detroit, he appealed for Michigan's support as the state's
**first son'' to occupy the White house and said he expected to win
his home state. rated a tossup in the final polls.
Hours later, Carter arrived. for a rally in Flint with Mondale at
his side. Carter had bypassed the traditional Democratic campaign
opening on Labor Day. in Detroit's Cadillac Square. But with the race
close, and 21 Michigan electoral votes at stake, he chose to close
his campaign in Ford's state.
**Every vote counts. " Carter said in Flint, urging a big turnout in
a contest he said is going to be very closé.,,
Then he too. flew home to vote and await the decision.
Carter had cóvered more than 60 000 miles. and 40 states, in his
eight-week campaign, waged on the road while Ford spent the early
phase of his race campaigning primarily from the White House.
But there were countless miles behind Carter, and countless speeches
and handshakes and 30 presidential primary elections in his quest
for the nomination that once had seemed hopelessly out of his reach.
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By WALTER R. MFARS
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON AP - A voter turnout described as heavy to very heavy
appeared to be building across the nation on Tuesday as the United
States chose a president in an election that forecasters called one of
the closest in this century.
Initial reports said there already were long lines when polls opened
in some states along the Eastern seaboard such as massachusetts New
York Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Voting also was reported heavy
in Michigan, Louisiana. Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming. In
California, the state with the biggest bloc of electoral votes, 45,
and rated close for the candidates. an 80 per cent turnout was
predicted on the basis of the early turnout in Los Angeles and
populous Orange County.
A large vote historically has favored the Democrats.
Among the voters. their campaign rhetoric stilled. their long race
done, were President Gerald R. Ford, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and his
Democratic challenger, Jimmy Carter of Plains, ua.
Ford cast his ballot'at an elementary school in his old
congressional district, then bid an emotional goodby to the home folks
before flying back to Washington, to await at the White House the
verdict of the nation he has led as its first appointed president.
Accompanied by his wife. Betty Ford voted by punching a card in a
metal three-sided box. he studied the ballot carefully before voting
and when asked afterward whether he felt lucky, he replied: Sure
do. Don't you think we have good reason?,,
At the unveiling of an airport mural depicting his own life the
President wept and his voice cracked. He struggled to hold his
composure when he sa;
his parents, pictures in the mural. and told
those watching that he owed everything he is **to my mother and
father
In Plains. the rural hamlet where he and his cadre mapped the
22-month cámpaign that raised him from anonymity to command of the
Democratic ticket, Carter spent five minutes marking the long Georgia
ballot. He announced afterward that he'd voted for **Walter Mondale
and his running mate.,
He was accompanied by his wife, Rosalynn, his son, Chip, and
daughter-in-law Caron.
Standing outside the small cinder-block building near the railroad
tracks that serves as Plains, voting center. Carter said: "I feel a
sense of satisfaction. I did the best I could. Then he went down to
inspect his peanut warehouse.
Both candidates planned election victory rallies. but for one. there
will be no rejoicing. But late polls of public opinion were too close
to offer clues to which man will celebrate and which will concede.
With Carter's once-towering lead in the polls having dwindled to
near deadlock. the outcome could hinge on the size of the turnout.
Organized labor staged a massive election day effort to get its
troops to the polls for the Democratic ticket. and the Republicans
were using a huge telephone bank to contact voters and urge them to
cast ballots.
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By DAVID SHAFFER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK AP - Amid signs of a heavy turnout that could help the
Democrats, New Yorkers went voting Tuesday to award the state's 41
electoral college votes and decide the fate of Sen. James Buckley.
Buckley. a strongly conservative Republican, faced a stiff challenge
from Daniel Patrick Moynihan. a Democrat who won enormous publicity
as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and who took liberal stances
more in line with New York's political traditions.
The state has 8.5 million registered voters, with Democrats holding
a 3-2 edge in registration. New York's bloc of electoral college
votes are second only to California*s 45 electors.
For Jimmy Carter, New York was virtually in the *must-win",
category if the Démocratic presidential candidate was to head off a
last-minute surge by Republican President Ford. Among the big states
where the election was expected to be decided, New York appeared from
the polls to be the one leaning most strongly to Carter.
Democrats hoped to capitalize on Ford's initial opposition to
federal aid during the New York City fiscal crisis last year. Carter
pushed such issues as aid to cities and government-backed employment
programs during repeated visits to the state, where unemployment has
been above the national average.
The aid-to-New York City issue was raised in the Senate race. with
Moynihan reminding voters that Buckley had initially taken the
position that the city should go bankrupt.
Buckley won election to the Senate six years ago as the Conservative
party candidate in what politicians have called a *fluke." ne had
only 39 per cent of the vote.
A Republican moderate and a Democratic liberal split the rest of the
votes then, and though Buckley had the backing of the GOP this time
the one-on-one race with Moynihan produced a tough campaign, with the
Democrat consistently ahead in polls.
Buckley and Moynihan both called their race a classic contest
between liberal and conservative ideas. and in most ways it was.
Moynihan styled himself as an old-style liberal, arguing that the
federal government should expand its role in the economy and in
dealing with social problems. He favored national health insurance. a
federal takeover of welfare costs and a massive federal job-creation
program - all ideas Buckley opposes.
Buckley responded that The answer to every problem is not a
massive new federal program, " and said Washington was *endangering
our way of life'' with expanding bureaucratic controls and deficit
spending which fueled inflation.
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sunny pivotal state.
Generally sunny skies contributed to the spirited balloting in both
urban and rural areas. massachusetts State Secretary Paul H. Guzzi
called the turnout ""amazing" Leaders of the NAACP in Indiana
predicted a record turnout of black voters in the pivotal state.
Historically, a: 4th graf
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(BY W SL. Y G. PIPPERT)
PLAINS, GA. (UPI) -- JIMMY CARTER, APPAR NTLY UNWEARI D BY 22
MONTHS AND 500,000 MIL S OF CAMPAIGNING, CAST THE 11TH BALLOT OF THE
DAY TU SDAY IN HIS GEORGIA HOM TOWN AND SAID HE WAS CONFID NT OF
TAKING OV THE WHIT HOUS.
CART R PLANN D A RELAX DAY AT HOM WITH A BRIEF, LATE AFTERNOON
SPEECH TO SUPPORTERS AT THE ABANDON D WHITE FRAME RAILROAD DEPOT
WHICH S RVED AS HIS CAMPAIGN H ADQUART RS. HE WAS THEN SCHEDULED TO
GO TO AN ATLANTA HOTEL TO AWAIT TH VL CTION R TURNS WITH HIS FAMILY
AND SOM FRI NDS.
TH DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE RETURNED TO PLAINS IN THE PRE-DAWN HOURS
TU SDAY AFTER A HECTIC FINAL DAY CAMPAIGNING IN CALIFORNIA AND IN
PRESID NT FORD'S OWN STAT OF MICHIGAN, THE LATTER A LAST-MINUTE
DRIV TO SNAP UP TH STATE'S 21 CTORAL VOTES.
HF WAS UP FARLY AS USUAL, HOW VR, AND CAST HIS BALLOT AT 7:30
A.M., A HALF HOUR AFTER THE POLLS OPEN D IN A SMALL, WHITE CONCRETE
BLOCK HOUSE.
"I VOTED FOR WALTER MONDAL AND HIS RUNNING MATE," CART R SAID,
FLASHING HIS FAMOUS GRIN. "I FEEL CONFID NT ... I THINK WE HAV
AD QUAT LY PR SENTED MYS LF AND SENATOR MONDALE TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE AND I AM PURFECTLY WILLING TO ABID BY TH IR JUDGMENT TODAY.
"I'M GLAD THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER, IT'S BEEN A GOOD ON."
WEARING ONLY A B IG CARDIGAN SW ATR AND SLACKS DESPITE
TEMP RATUR NEAR THE FR ZING MARK, CARTER WAS THE 11TH VOTER IN
PLAINS. HE WAS FOLLOW D BY HIS WIF ROSALYNN, THEIR SON CHIP AND
CHIP'S WIF CARON.
CARTER SPENT A FULL FIV MINUTES B HIND THE CURTAINS OF A VOTING
MACHIN ASK D BEFOR HE NTR D IF HE XP CTTD TO WIN TODAY, HE
R PLI D VERY SOFTLY: "Y S."
WH N H STEPP D BACK INTO VI W, HE WAS SMILING BROADLY AND SAID:
"THANK YOU AL.L. ... L. I'S GT OUR CROWD OUT NOW."
CARTER SAID HE HAD VOT D THE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
HF WALKED A BLOCK AND A HALF TO THE FAMILY PEANUT WAREHOUSE
OFFIC W NT INSIDE AND SIPP COFFEE WITH HIS BROTHER BILLY AND TWO
LONGTIM FRI NDS, JOHN AND BETTY POPE. B FOR LEAVING FOR HOME.
"I'M GLAD IT'S OVER. " HE SAID MONDAY NIGHT WHEN HE WRAPP UP HIS
CAMPAIGN WITH A JOINT APP ARANC WITH MONDAL AT A RALLY IN FLINT,
MICH.
CARTER WAS CLEARLY R LAXED ON THE FLIGHT HOME AND OPTIMISTIC HE
WOULD WIN HIS LONG BATTLE FOR THE PRESID NCY D SPITE A STRING OF
RC NT S TBACKS, INCLUDING THE CURR INT RACIAL CRISIS IN HIS HOME
CHURCH.
CHATTING INFORMALLY WITH A FEW REPORT RS ON THE PLANE. HE TOLD
THEM HIS "GUT R ACTION" WAS THAT HE WOULD NOT SUFFER S RIOUS
POLITICAL LOSS S AS A RESULT OF A DECISION BY DEACONS OF HIS PLAINS
BAPTIST CHURCH TO REFUST M MBERSHIP TO A BLACK MINISTER.
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after 16th graf. Sen. Walter
his ballot.
**I m SO tired I don't know what I'm doing, " Mondale told reporters
after he voted with his wife. Joan, at the Afton City Hall, waiting
in line behind about 20 other voters.
He joked that he was *undecided, " but then told reporters he had
voted for Jimmy Carter and his running mate," - the same line, in
reverse. that Carter had used in Georgia.
Dole was greeted by hundreds of persons, many of whom have known him
since his boyhood. at the family home in Russell, where Mayor Roger
Williams proclaimed it Bob Dole Day."
Voting with Dole were his 73-year-old mother Bina, his wife
Elizabeth and daughter Robin. "I just changed my mind, he joked as
he left the voting booth.
Former Sen.: 17th graf
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N W YORK (UPI) -- FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN
WAS FAVOR D TUESDAY TO B COM N W YORK'S FIRST D MOCRATIC SENATOR
SINCE THE ASSASSINATION OF ROB RT KENNEDY IGHT YEARS AGO.
LOCAL POLLS SHOWED MOYNIHAN, THE FLAMBOYANT HARVARD PROFESSOR WHO
S RVED FOUR ESIDENTS., WITH A 4 TO 8-POINT LEAD OVER STN. JAM S
BUCKLEY, A CONSERVATIVE-R PUBLICAN.
A HEAVY VOT R TURNOUT IN NW YORK CITY WAS XPICTED TO HELP
D MOCRAT JIMMY CARTER IN HIS RACE WITH PRESIDENT FORD FOR NEW YORK'S
41 LECTORS, THE S COND LARGEST BL.OC IN THE COUNTRY.
ALTHOUGH TH R PUBLICANS HAD ONCE ALL. BUT WRITTEN OFF THE STATE
AFTER FORD'S WID LY PUBLICIZ D FISCAL FEUD WITH NEW YORK CITY, BY
TU SDAY BOTH CAMPS PR DICT VICTORY IN A TIGHT RACE.
IN CONGR SS, 37 OF 39 INCUMB NTS SOUGHT RE-PLECTION AND THE BEST
GU SS IS THAT TH DEMOCRATS WILL PICK UP ANOTHER HOUSE SEAT OR R TAIN
TH IR 28-11 MAJORITY.
LOCAL LECTION OFFICIALS STIMAT D MOR THAN 75 PER CENT OF THE 3
MILLION VOTERS R GISTERED IN N W YORK CITY WOULD CAST BALLOTS IN
SUNNY, MILD WEATHER, UP FROM THE 60 TO 65 PER CENT PREDICTTI EARLIER.
TH CITY COMPRISTS NEARLY TWO-FIFTHS OF THE TALLY IN TH STATE
WHICH HAS A CLEAR DEMOCRATIC PLURALITY BUT A VOLATILE INDEPEND NT
VOTE.
VOT R TURNOUT WAS "MOD RAT TO HEAVY" IN TH NEW YORK SUBURBS AND
UPSTAT WH RE REPUBLICAN STRENGTH IS GREAT ST.
SOM 8. MILLION VOTERS WERE REGISTER D STATEWIDE, DOWN FROM THE 9.2
MILLION REGIST RED FOR TH LAST PRESID NTIAL ELECTION.
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MONTP LIER (UPI) -- VERMONTERS TUESDAY SWARMED TO THE POLLS IN
R CORD NUMBERS TO CHOOSE THEIR NATIONAL LEAD RS AND DECIDE WHETHER TO
EL CT TH STATE'S FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR.
NCOURAGED BY FLAWLESS AUTUMN W ATHER, LONG LINES QUEUED AT
POLLING PLAC S IN MOST TOWNS AND CITITS. V RMONT HAS TH
GOV RNORSHIP, A S NAT STAT AND ON HOUSE S AT AT STAKT ALONG WITH
THR
ELECTORAL VOT S.
OFFICIALS PR DICT D FARLIER THAT 70 PER CENT OF THE ESTIMATED
280, 000 R GISTER VOT RS WOULD SHOW UP. TH LARGE EARLY TURNOUT
INDICAT D IT WOULD GO HIGHER.
D MOCRATIC STATE TR ASUR R STELLA HACKEL, 49, WAS CONSIDERED A
SLIGHT UND RDOG TO V RMONT HOUS REPUBLICAN LEAD R RICHARD SNELLING
IN TH GOV RNOR'S RACE. A CONS RVATIVE, SH PLEDGED TO VETO ANY NEW
TAX S AND DISMANTLY TH AG NCY FORM OF STAT GOVERNMENT.
GOV THOMAS SALMON HOPED TO BREAK TRADITION AND GIVE THE DEMOCRATS
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -- VOTERS ACROSS THE NATION FORMED LINES THAT
STR TCH D FOR BLOCKS AND SOME WAITED AS LONG AS TWO HOURS TO CAST
TH IR BALLOTS TODAY IN A NIP-AND-TUCK PR SID NTIAL ELECTION THAT MAY
PRODUC THE HEAVIEST TURNOUT IN YEARS.
APPAR NTLY SHATT RING PR DICTIONS OF POLITICAL APATHY, THE STORY
WAS TH SAM IN STATE AFT R STATE. L. CTION OFFICIALS USED WORDS SUCH
AS "FANTASTIC, "TR M NDOUS, "JAMMED" AND "UNUSUALLY HEAVY" TO
DESCRIB THE TURNOUT IN THE RAC BETWEEN PRESIDENT FORD AND JIMMY
CART R.
SOME VOTERS T MPORARILY GAV UP IN DISGUST WHEN TH Y DISCOV RTD
THE WAIT WAS TOO LONG AND TH Y WOULD B LATE FOR WORK. OFFICALS IN
SOME STAT S HAD TO FIND ADDITIONAL VOTING MACHINES OR BOOTHS TO
HANDL TH CROWDS. TH WEATH R WAS GOOD OVER MUCH OF THE COUNTRY.
TH H AVI ST VOTER TURNOUT V R OCCURRED IN 1960 WHEN 64 PER C NT
OF TH VOTING AGE POPULATION APPEARED AT THE POLLS TO ELECT JOHN F.
KENNEDY. IN 1968, THE P RC NTAGE SLIPP D TO 60.7 PER CENT AND F LL
EV N FURTH R TO 55.5 PER CENT IN 1972.
POLITICAL OBS RVERS HAD PR DICTTD APATHY WOULD RESULT IN A LOW
VOTER TURNOUT AND DEMOCRATS HAD FEAR D THIS WOULD DAMAGE CARTER'S
CHANC S SINC TH RF ARE MANY MORT REGIST RED D MOCRATS THAN
R PUBLICANS.
BESIDES TH PR SID NTIAL RACE, VOTERS IN 14 STATES WERE ALSO
S L CTING GOV RNORS, S NATORS WERE B ING LECTED IN 33 STATES AND
HOUS M MBERS AND STAT AND LOCAL OFFICIALS W RE VYING FOR JOBS IN
ALL 50 STATES.
FORD AND HIS WIFE, B TTY, CAST TH IR BALLOTS SHORTLY AFTER THE
POLLS OP N D IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HT TOLD R PORTERS THAT HE FELT
"VERY GOOD. NOV. 2 IS GOING TO BT A GOOD DAY."
CARTER CAST HIS BALLOT IN PLAINS, GA., AND EXPR SS D CONFIDENCE
THAT H WOULD WIN.
TH FINAL NATIONWIDE POLLS SHOWED TH PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN A
VIRTUAL D AD H AT.
THE LOUIS HARRIS ORGANIZATION CONDUCT D ITS FINAL POLL. ON FRIDAY,
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. IT SHOWED CARTER HOLDING TO A 46-45 PER CENT
LEAD OV R FORD. HARRIS SAID THE R SULT INDICATES A CONTEST " TOO CLOSE
TO CALL" AND SAID ITHER MAN MIGHT WIN TH POPULAR VOTE AND LOS THE
LECTORAL VOTE.
A POLL BY THE ROPER ORGANIZATION FOR THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING
S RVIC FOUND CARTER AHEAD BY SEVEN POINTS AND INDICATED HE COULD WIN
BY FOUR POINTS IF UNDECIDED VOTERS SPLIT THEIR VOTES EVENLY AMONG THE
MAJOR CANDIDAT S.
AFT R THE PR SIDENT VOTED, H WENT TO TH KENT COUNTY, MICH.,
AIRPORT TO DEDICAT A MUR AL. D PICTING HIS. LIFE AND TO FLY BACK TO
WASHINGTON TO AWAIT TH EL CTION R SULTS.
AT ON POINT, FORD WEPT DURING TH DEDICATION CEREMONY. HIS VOICE
BR AKING, TH PR SID NT SAID " "I JUST CAN'T ADEQUATELY EXPRESS MY
GRATITUDE FOR BRINGING MY LIFE TO THIS WONDERFUL AIRPORT FOR SO MANY
PEOPL TO S ."
COMMENTS BY OFFICIALS WHO WORK AT THE POLLS WAS MUCH THE SAME FROM
COAST-TO-COAST.
"I HAV WORKED A LOT OF CTIONS AND I HAV NEVER SEEN so MANY
VOT RS COM OUT SO ARLY," SAID ON PRECINCT WORK R IN COLUMBUS,
OHIO.
IN MUNCI IND., A PRECINCT JUDGE SAID THE TURNOUT WAS THE
H AVIEST H HAD SEEN IN 10 YEARS.
OHIO S CRETARY OF STAT TTD BROWN, WHO ESTIMAT D A RECORD 4.2
MILLION VOT RS WOULD CAST BALLOTS, SAID THE ARLY VOTING THROUGHOUT
TH STATE WAS "V RY HEAVY."
IN N W JERS Y, AN L CTION OFFICIAL IN HUDSON COUNTY SAID, "IF WE
K EP GOING AT THE RATE W HAD AT 9 O'CLOCK, W "LL HAVE 80 TO 84 PER
CENT OF THE TOTAL REGIST RED VOT RS BEFORE TH POLLS CLOSE."
N W YORK CITY OFFICIALS SAID 75 PER CENT OF THE THR MILLION
R GIST RED VOT RS TH RE WILL CAST BALLOTS. "THE VOTR TURNOUT IS VERY
H AVY,' ON OFFICIAL SAID. "THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN FIV YEARS THAT
I'V HAD COMPLAINTS ABOUT LONG LIN S AT POLLING PLACES."
IN N W NGLAND, OFFICIALS R PORT D THAT VOTERS WERE ARRIVING AT
THE POLLS IN "R CORD" NUMBERS
IN TH TINY COMMUNITY OF LITCHFIELD, N.H., SO MANY VOTERS TURNED
UP THAT EL CTION OFFICIALS HAD TO HAMMER TOGETHER FOUR EXTRA VOTING
BOOTHS.
THE STORY WAS THE SAME IN SOUTH RN AND BORDER STATES.
"W 'VE GOT so MANY P OPLE H RE WE DON' T KNOW WHAT TO DO," A POLL
WORK R IN AUBURN, ALA., SAID. "THIS IS MUCH H AVIER THAN IN PREVIOUS
LECTIONS."
WOULD-B ARLY MORING VOTERS AT SOM ATLANTA POLLING PLACES GAVE
UP IN D SPAIR AFT R WAITING IN THE VOTING LINES FOR 90 MINUTES OR
LONG R. MANY SAID TH Y MIGHT TRY AGAIN AFTER WORK.
IN ST. PETERSBURG, FLA., ELECTION OFFICIAL SARA ADCOCK SAID THE
VOTING WAS so H AVY "SOM" PRECINCTS WER ASKING FOR MORE VOTING
MACHINES."
IN TEXAS, VOTERS IN MANY TEXAS URBAN AREAS WAITED IN LINE FOR TWO
HOURS OR MOR TO VOT. SOME LEFT B CAUS THE LINES W RE so LONG.
IN PITTSFIELD. MASS., A "TREM ND OUS TURNOUT" WAS REPORTED.
IN POPULOUS LOS ANGEL S COUNTY, CALIF. THE STCOND HOUR TURNOUT
WAS 16.29 PER CENT. THIS COMPAR WITH A 15.5 PER CENT TURNOUT DURING
TH SAM TWO HOURS FOUR Y ARS AGO.
ONE V NT THAT MARR D ELECTION DAY OCCURED IN PUERTO RICO WHERE A
TOWN MAYOR WAS SHOT AND WOUNDED AND A YOUNG MAN B ATEN TO DEATH IN
CAMPAIGN CONN CTED INCIDENTS.
ON WHIMISCAL R ACTION TO THE ELECTION DAY XCIT M NT CAME FROM
ALB RT ROSS, 69, WHO WAS THE FIRST VOTER TO SHOW UP AT ONE PRECINCT
IN CHICAGO.
"I LIK TO GET UP, G T OUT AND GTT IT OV R WITH," HE SAID. "IT'S
TH ONLY THING THAT DO SN'T COST ANYTHING ANY MORE."
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HCCARTHY, EMOTIONAL FAVORITE OF MANY ANTIWAR DEMOCRATS IN 1968,
RAN AS AN INDEPENDENT. HE SAID IN LOS ANGELES TUESDAY THAT HE DOESN'T
E. PECT TO GET ANY ELECTORAL VOTES, BUT IF HE GOT 5 PER CENT OF THE
VOTE HE WOULD CONSIDER IT A MARK OF DISSATISFACTION WITH THE MAJOR
PARTIES.
IN ADDITION TO MCCARTHY, THERE WERE 10 OTHER MINOR PARTY
CANDIDATES ON BALLOTS IN A MAJORITY OF STATES. THEIR RANKS INCLUDED
LESTER MADDOX, A CONSERVATIVE WHO MADE HIS PICKRICK RESTAURANT A
SYMBOL OF SEGREGATION IN THE 1960S.
FORD IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO TAKE OFFICE WITHOUT ELECTION.
UNDER THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, HE BECAME VICE
PRESIDENT AFTER SPIRO T. AGNEW RESIGNED, FACED WITH INCOME TAX
EVASION CHARGES. HE BECAME PRESIDENT WHEN RICHARD M. NIXON, WHO HAD
APPOINTED HIM VICE PRESIDENT, RESIGNED AS CONGRESS PREPARED TO
IMPEACH HIM ON CHARGES OF COVERING UP THE WATERGATE SCANDAL.
"OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER," SAID FORD UPON TAKING
OFFICE.
FORD PARDONED NIXON ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, CREATING A NEW FIRESTORM
OF OPPOSITION. HE WAS PRESIDENT AS THE COUNTRY FELL INTO ECONOMIC
DOLDRUMS, WITH INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT SKYROCKETING. HE WAS IN THE
WHITE HOUSE AS U.S. MARINES EVACUATED VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA.
CARTER, WHO HAD MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE "NEW SOUTH"
GOVERNORS WHO TURNED HIS BACK ON THE OLD POLITICS OF SEGREGATION,
QUIETLY BEGAN HIS CALCULATED DRIVE FOR THE PRESIDENCY 22 MONTHS AGO.
HE CAMPAIGNED WITH THE FERVOR OF A REVIVAL PREACHER, ATTACKING THE
ECONOMY, WASHINGTON BUREAUCRATES, IMMORALITY IN POLITICS -- ALL OF
FORD'S PROBLEMS.
AMERICANS, HE SAID MONDAY, HAVE "BEEN DISAPPOINTED AND ALIENATED
...
SOMETIMES ASHAMED OF OUR OWN GOVERNMENT. PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP.
WE'VE GOT TO CHANGE THINGS, BUT WE'VE GOT TO DO IT TOGETHER."
CARTER DEFEATED A HOST OF DEMOCRATIC COMPETITORS TO WIN HIS
PARTY'S NOMINATION WITH A LEAD OF MORE THAN 30 POINTS IN THE POLLS.
HE IS CREDITED FOR WINNING TWO OF THE THREE HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATES.
WHILE CARTER STUMPED THE NATION, FORD STAYED IN THE WHITE HOUSE
AND EMPHASIZED A "PRESIDENTIAL" IMAGE. HE ATTACKED CONGRESS IN THE
MANNER OF PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN.
THEN, IN THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN, FORD WENT ON THE ROAD.
HE POINTED OUT THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS AT PEACE, THAT THE ECONOMY
HAD IMPROVED, THAT HE WAS A MAN TO TRUST. HIS EFFORTS WERE SUCCESSFUL
TO THE EXTENT THAT ON THE ELECTION'S EVE, MOST POLLSTERS CALLED THE
RACE A DEAD HEAT.
IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN, WITH BOTH MEN STRESSING THEIR
PERSONALITIES.
IT ENDED WITH HUGE RALLIES AND TELEVISION ADDRESSES. CARTER SAID
HE WANTED TO RETURN TO A "CLOSE, PERSONAL, INDIVIDUAL DIRECT
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY."
FORD PLEADED FOR THE MANDATE HE DID NOT HAVE WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE
AND, BEFORE A CROWD OF OLD FRIENDS IN GRAND RAPIDS, THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES CRIED. "I'VE MADE A LOT OF SPEECHES AND THIS IS THE
HARDEST," HE SAID AS THE NOTES BILLOWED AWAY. THE CROWD SHOUTED,
"FORD, FORD, FORD."
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By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
AP Political Writer
A heavy turnout marked the voting today from Maine to California as
Americans chose between Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter to lead the
nation as president over the next four years.
Their arduous race finally at an end, Ford and Carter joined with
millions of citizens in casting their ballots early - Carter in a
cinder-block building near the railroad tracks in Plains, ua., and
Ford in an elementary school in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Generally sunny skies contributed to the spirited ballot in both
urban and rural areas. Massachusetts State Secretary Paul H. Guzzi
called the turnout **amazing.* Leaders of the NAACP in Indiana
predicted a record turnout of black voters in the pivotal state.
Historically, a big vote favors the Democrats. the majority party.
If the trend continues through the day analysts agreed it could help
Carter in his bid to oust Ford from the White House.
Long lines were reported in such states as Massachusetts. New York,
Michigan Texas, Pennsylvania. North Carolina. Texas and Colorado.
**We're loaded this morning, said an electión official in Albany
county, Nyo.
Sen. Bob Dole. the Republican vice-presidential candidate. went home
to Russell, Kan., to vote and to be greeted on the front lawn of his
mother's home by 28 relatives. **If anything goes wrong today I might
have to move out " Dole told a crowd of about 2 500.
The analysts said the election was poised on knife-edge, probably
one of the closest of the century. However, a late Burns Roper poll
gave Carter a four-point lead - 51 to 47.
Ford, home in Grand Rapids, was asked if he felt lucky. **Sure do,
the President said. Don't you think we have good reason!"
Ford later flew back to Washington but before leaving he wept at
the unveiling of a mural at the Kent County airport, detailing his
life from infant to President. He told the crowd be owed everything to
*my mother and father.,
Carter's 98-week campaign came to an end in Plains. his rural home
town **I feel a sense of satisfaction, he said. 2.1 di the best I
could.:
Carter's running mate, Sen. Walter F. Mondale, also voted early in
Afton, Miinn., his home town. ?m SO tired don't know what I'm
doing. he told reporters afterward.
Mondále joked that he was ''undecided'' and then gave assurances
that he had voted for **Jimmy Carter and his running mate." It was
the same phrase, in reverse, that Carter had delivered to reporters in
Plains.
Ford and Carter ended their campaigns Monday night with rallies in
Michigan, barely 100 miles apart.
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