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North Carolina polls
has unprecedented vote
RALEIGH (AP) — From the
mountains to the coast, unprece
dented thousands stood in line
and voted Tuesday in a North
CaroUna general election
marked by traffic jams, long
waiting and tired feet.
"I’ve never seen anything like
it,” said a registrar in Raleigh.
"I think everybody who was
registered wanted to vote.”
A milkman was caught in the
pre-dawn traffic jam at a poll
ing place in Raleigh and was
delayed in his deliveries.
Breakfast could be purchased
for a price outside the town hall
in Garner.
■'There’s no doubt it’s a rec
ord vote, " said Alex Brock, ex
ecutive secretary of the state
Board of Elections. Brock, one
of the early risers, had to wail
in line an hour to vote.
The interest was centered on
a three-man presidential race
and a governor's contest
marked by a long, gruelling
campaign.
An unusually long ballot con
tributed to the delay in the vot
ing process. Through it all, how
ever, most voters waiting in line
joked good-naturedly.
“I feel like a half chaplain to
day,” said Brock. “We’ve had a
few irate callers, but most of
them calmed down and were
good-natured about it when they
realized the voting problem
throughout the state. ”
The state Board of Elections
had urged citizens to vote early
and the response was terrific.
At Brookhaven, a housing devel
opment near Raleigh, 400 peo
ple were waiting to vote at 6:45
a.m.
From throughout the state re
ports were the same—long lines.
In Lincoln County, the early
voting and. the traffic were so
heavy at polling places that L.
A. Grooms, chairman of the
Lincoln Board of Elections, said
he would recommend that
Hal Boyle
Prepare for future
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AP) — We are
always being admonished to
prepare for the future.
But most of us, being the con
trary creatures that we are,
prefer to relive the past, over
and over and over.
One doesn t have to look very
hard to find the reason. The fu
ture is a gamble, an unknown
full of potential dread and new
dragons. The past is a more
comfortable place. We have sur
vived its perils, slain its drag
ons, and turned it into a memo
ry garden which is pleasant in
deed to revisit.
TQHERE are a lot of blooms in
your own memory garden if you
can look back and remember
when—
The only people who played
golf were those who could really
afford to.
Hatcheck girls looked grateful
if you put a dime on the counter
to retrieve your bonnet.
Most workers carried their
sandwiches in tin lunch buckets
instead of imitation leather
briefcases.
One of the hated chores of
childhood was having to put
blacking on the big pot-bellied
coal stove in the living room.
It cost as much to buy the
sack of popcorn as it did to go
into the movie.
Every housewife had the dull
conviction that sometime during
her matrimonial career she d
have to deal with the problem of
bedbugs.
A college rebel was any male
student who objected to joining
the ROTC.
No one had heard of the dan
gers of a population explosion,
and motherhood was the one
thing on earth that stood above
criticism.
If you looked at a painting in
an art gallery, you could tell at
a glance what it was—and
whether it was hung right side
up.
The quality of a saloon was
judged by the variety of its free
lunch and whether its brass cus
pidors were brightly polished.
It was easier to detect a dyed
blonde than it was to spot a
counterfeit45 bill,
A poor person was one who
bought day-old bread at the bak
ery because the price was low
er.
Every small town had at least
one haunted house that children
were afraid to pass by alone aft
er dark.
As a Gypsy caravan ap
proached, children fled to the
safety of their front porches,
mortally certain that, if they
didn t, they 'd be kidnaped and
never see home again,
A juvenila delinquent was a
sneaky kid who put rocks in the
snowballs he threw at adult pas
sers-by.
Girls wore dresses so long
that if they had chapped knees
nobody knew it but them.
Those were the days! Re
member?
Number 1
for Humphrey.
It must be emphasized that
all vote returns are unofficial.
Down in Texas, HHH is hold
ing onto a lead of 1,103,000 to
1,059,000, while in Missouri the
Democratic hopeful is out front
701.000 to 690,000.
Nixon’s running-mate, Spiro
Agnew, has apparently lost
Maryland to Humphrey by some
19.000 votes.
Political analyists indicate
Wallace hurt Nixon more than
Humphrey, and point out that
many, supposedly in the Wal
lace camps, returned to the
Democratic fold during the cru
cial voting on Nov. 5.
Lost and Found
Turn in found articles to Mrs.
Parker, at the switchboard in
McDowell Columns Building. Al
so, report lost articles to Mrs.
Parker.
Found articles will be held
two weeks. If not claimed, they
will then be returned to the find
er or disposed of.
schools be closed on election
days.
Grooms said he would make
such a recommendation when
the Governor’s Study Commis
sion on Elections Procedures, of
which he is a member, meets
again.
In Gaston County, 650 persons
voted at the Greer School pre
cinct in the first two hours.
Lines were so long that poU of
ficials began using the school
auditorium for the marking of
ballots. However, the situation
was complicated by lines of as
many as 150 persons waiting to
put their ballots in boxes.
, “We haven’t nearly enough
booths or polling places, ” said
L. B. HoUowell, chairman of the
Gaston Board of Elections,
In Mecklenburg County, poll
workers at the Berryhill pre
cinct said cars were backed up
for two miles during the early
rush.
Early morning lines were so
long at some precincts in
Greensboro and Guilford County
ing places, planning to return
later in the day.
In Durham, all polling places
were reported jammed before
the 6:30 starting time.
At High Point, the early lines
stretched out the doors of the
precincts in the city and rural
areas.
Voting was so heavy through
out Forsyth County that the For
syth Board of Elections ordered
the polling places to stay open
an extra hour until 7:30 p,m.
Under the law, counties which
use voting machines can stay
open an extra hour if the board
of elections deems it necessary.
Wish I d Said
THAT
My finances are getting in
.such a mess, you would think
I was getting advice from the
government,—DaleHoldridge,
The Langford (S. Dak.) Bugle.
The search for truth is so
difficult that even preachers
are unable to agree upon its
exposition.— N. DeVane
Williams, Holmes County
(Fla.) Advertiser.
“A man can cash in good
resolutions if he keeps them
long enough to earn dividends.”
—Fred R. Grown, The Bergen
(N. J.) Citizen.
“More diets begin in dress
shops than in doctors’offices."
—Bath County (Ky.) News-
Outlook.
So that's what I did!
Carol Guenther of Richmond, looks over galleys of type
which were produced by automatically operated linecast-
ing machines. Carol is a teletypesetter operator student
in the School of Graphic Arts, and punches perforated
paper tape to run composition machines.
Congressman Jones
visits area, campus
great deal was learned by those
in attendance.
After the formal delivery, the
audiance was given the opportu
nity to ask qestions. Before
doing so, Representative Jones
told the people that a loan had
been appropriated to Cho'A'an
College for the construction
of an additional dormitocy
Since elections are to be held
shortly, many questions addres
sed to the congressman were
of a political nature. A stu
dent asked if Jones was in favor
of lowering the voting age. His
reply was “I am faced with
mixed emotions, but agreed to
the fact that today’s younger
people are more mature and
better informed than I at the
age of 18, I feel adjustments
should and will be made, '
By FRANCINE SAWYER
By special arrangement of Mrs,
Pittman, her students in gov
ernment classes and those inter
ested from economics, heard
guest speaker the Honorable
Wa'-'-er B, Jones, congressman
from the First Distrist of North
Carolina,
On hand were interested citi
zens of Murfreesboro, faculty
members, and Mayor Vann of
Murfreesboro, who formally in
troduced Representative Jones,
Farmville, North Carolina is
where Jones makes his home.
On the local level of govern
ment he has held the post of
mayor, judge, state legislature
in both the House and the Senate.
He took over the post of F'irst
District leader upon the death
of Rep. Herbert C, Bonner,
The primary purpose of his
appearance was to enlighten stu
dents as to the way Congress
operates. This he did and a
Concluding the address. Con
gressman Jones bid a cordial
invitation to visit his office when
in Washington, D,C,
Smokers still puffing
NEW YORK (AP) — Ameri
can smokers are puffing at a
greater rate this year than last
year, a survey indicated Tues
day,
The annual tabulation by John
C, Maxwell Jr, in the November
issue of Marketing Communica
tions puts the 1968 increase at
1,3 per cent.
He said a major factor has
been the rise in smoking by
women.
Government figures have
shown a slight decrease in ciga
rette production this year. Max
well sais the disparity lies in
the fact that several new varia
tions of cigarettes were intro
duced in 1967 and the pipelines
had to be filled. As consumption
edged ahead this year invento
ries have shrunk slightly.
R. J. Reynolds remains the
biggest cigarette producer with
32.1 per cent of the domestic
volume in 1968. American to
bacco is second with 21.8 per
cent of the market.
Filters—^plain, mentholated
and charcoal—now account for
74 per cent of the total market.