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Carter i
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
Talking to people on the
streets downtown the day
after the national election,
there were mixed feelings on
Carter's win and many
surprise who expressed that
he had apparently taken the
election in light of the ballot
controversy in New York, and
with votes still to be tallied in
Oregon and Ohio.
Donald Wilson, now unemployed,
said, "I think he will
help a lot in terms of
generating jobs. I was
surprised he won. All I saw on
television during the reporting
of the returns was Ford. I
really hope he will be able to
do something about putting
people back to work. I've been
wolfking part-time on and off. I
need a steady job."
Debbie Gray, a Wachovia
employee, said she was
"terribly surprised" that
Carter won. "I thought Ford
Bakers
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
People very often never
know how well off they are
until given the opportunity to
observe others in worse
shape. It's like the man who
' complained because he had no
m
shoes for his feet, then saw a
man who had no feet. It serves
as an interesting point of
, reference in the study of a new
family come to town, the
Bakers.
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Wilson ' Barnette
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Victory
would take it. I was very
displeased that Ford lost.
Actually it was worse than that
for me. I'm a Ford fan." she
said.
Conrlro RqmipHp a iiininr of
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Winston-Salem State, was
overjoyed that Carter won.
She said, "I was up with my
grandmother til about 4:30
Tuesday morning keeping an .
See Voter* React, Page 7
Ymsmtn Foard
...Miss WSSU
WSSU Queens
Winston-Salem State University's
Homecoming Week
activities are scheduled to
Hit With I
The Chronicle became
involved at the brink of the
struggling family's troubles.
Mrs. Patricia Baker, 24, of
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year-old son, Terrence, had
been involved in an accident
on the corner of 27th and
Patterson Ave.
Mrs. Baker was coming
back from picking up her car
for repairs because of a
previous accident.
Her car was extensively
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Black V ot
by Rudy Anderson
Staff Writer
A heavy black voter turnout
that was resoundingly democratic
was clearly a determining
factor in President-elect
Carter's bid for the White
House. His statement on
preserving "ethnic purity"
and the last minute controversy
involving his church's
admittance of a black minister
anu mice uiau civil ngnis
activist had very little affect on
the way blacks voted nationally.
Carter had 85% of the
black vote nationally
Not since the election of
1960 had blacks turned out to
vote in such numbers. Early
predictions that blacks would
not vote in large numbers
proved to be wrong. Rev.
Jesse Jackson said the black
voter turnout had "clearly
Barbara lraaiap
...Miss Homecoming
Part of Hornet
begin Sunday, October 31 and
will continue through Saturday,
November 6.
lardship
damaged on the passenger
side, the side where her son
was sitting. The impact of the
crash was so great that it
knocked the car for a complete
circle and was pointed in the
opposite direction, back down
27th.
Mrs. Baker said she kept
her cool to steer clear of a
post. She said if they had hit
the post it would have been
over. "God was with us," she
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Saturday November 6, 1976
n 65% of Registere
er T urn-ou
been the deciding factor in
Carter's win," adding, "the
hands that once picked cotton
have now picked the President."
"Here in th^Winston-Saiem/
Forsyth County area the black
vote reflected the national
trend. In the predominately
black voting districts all voted
better than 90% democratic
with approximately 65% of the
black registered voters casting
their ballots.
The unofficial ballot totals
looked like this: There were
three ahead that recorded the
lowest voting percentages of
the black precincts.
Martin Luther King 'with
35% of the registered voters
voting had only 373 people to
vote out of the 1,053
registered. North Elementary
recorded only 24% of the vote
Margaret Edmonds
...Miss Alumni
coming *76
This year's theme, *'We're
All in This Together"
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The Baker family Minos Mr. Bain
since moving here.
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with 188 votes cast of the 761
registered voters. A mix up in
tabulations may have been
partly responsible for the low
voting percentage in the
Memorial Coliseum area
which recorded only 22% of '
the registered voters voting.
Of the 1.553 registered voters
only 343 voted.
Elsewhere, the voting
ranged from moderately heavy
to heavy. At Paisley Junior
High, 672 voted out of 1,422
registered for 47% total.
Kennedy recorded 42% of
their registered voters voting
with 675 ballots jcast of the
1,621 registered. At Anderson,
48% of the reeistered
voters voted with 529 votes
cast out of 1,106. The 14th
Street area indicated that
better than 50% of*their voters
cast ballots, boasting a total of
912 votes out of the 1,749
registered. Happy Hill showed
a big increase in their voting
percentage with 44% of the
registered voters voting. They
recorded 371 votes out of a
possible 848.
The Skyland area showed a
marked improvement with
50% showing to vote. They
recorded 904 votes out of
1,792. Lowrance Elementary
and Fairview . Elementary
recorded similar totals and
voting percentages.
Kimberly Part School and
Carver Jr. High had the
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