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CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA- -'WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER G, 1068
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Robert Scott, the
Democratic candidate and
present Lt. Governor of the
state, was declared winner of
the North Carolina
gubernatorial race over his
Republican opponent James
Gardner.
In the race for Lieutenant
Governor, Pat Taylor, another
democrat was apparently on
his way to victory in that race
over his opponent DonGarren,
a republican.
Declared winner by CBS
New's projected vote, Scott
was expected to receive 58 of
the popular vote to Gardner's
42. The decision naming
Scott as the winner came at
9:36 p.m. with only 15 of the
actual vote counted.
During the early returns,
with only a small number of
the precincts reporting,
Gardner held the lead in the
race often by as much as a
thousand votes.
Scott led his opponent in
the eastern part of the state
and the Piedmont section while
Gardner showed his strength in
the western portion of the
state by leading Scott.
The latest returns before the
paper went. to press showed
Scott leading by 193,684 votes
to Gardner's 157,248. At this
time, 598 precincts or 27 out
of a total 2198 had reported
their results.
The race for lieutenant
governor didn't create a great
stir of interest as Taylor led in
the voting from the beginning
and increased his substantial
lead over Garren.
All intramural managers
should go by the intramural
office today in Woollen Gym
to pick up an important notice
concerning future intramural
activities.
This notice must be picked
up by 4 p.m. The request is a
"must" item for all managers.
Few Surprises Projected
In National Senate Races
Some 34 out of the
country's 100 Senate seats
were on the line Thursday and
parlv returns indicated tew
reversals of pre-election polls.
Reds Blast Saigon
Bridge Injuring 7
SAIGON (UPl)-Oommu-nist
guerrillas blew up a new
bridge built to handle U. S.
military traffic over the Saigon
River in a predawn raid
Wednesday. The blast injured
seven American guards and
another GI was missing, South
Vietnamese spokesmen said.
The spokesmen said the
saboteurs apparently floated
explosives down the river on a
raft. They planted mines
around the structures
supports, and the blast ripped a
hugV section out of the bridge
14 miles north of Saigon.
US infantrymen and South
Vietnamese militiamen
defended the two-lane span
The spokesmen said one
tnamese guard was inju
Other Communist soldiers
Outdistances Gardner In
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U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin,
Jr., won his fourth term in
office Tuesday soundly
defeating his Republican
opponent of less than half his
age, Rowan County Solicitor
Rober Somers.
With 569 of 2,198 precincts
reporting, Ervin had 184,126
votes to Somers' 119,201. The
71-year-old Morganton
Democrat outpolled Somers in
nearly every county.
Somers, 31, of Salisbury,
held a slight edge in his home
county of Rowan with 33 per
In the South incumbent
Herman Talmadge of Georgia
was easily outdistancing
ReDublican opponent Earl
Patton by a 4-1 margin. Ernest
Tuesday wounded two
Americans.
Deeper in the Mekong Delta
early Wednesday, Reguerrillas
lobbed an undetermined
number of mortar and
recoilless rifle rounds into the
district town of Thoi Binh and
then followed the shelling with
a brief ground attack. Six
civilians were wounded in the
shelling and local militiamen
received "light" casualties in
fighting which followed,
spokesmen said.
Tuesday the Saigon
government claimed the
Communists have been ordered
to step up the pace of fighting
during the bombing halt over
the North. An Allied
spokesmen reported 129
Communist troops had been
killed in 24 hours of scattered
fighting in South Vietnam
starting Monday. They
reported 80 minor contacts
with Red forces during the
period.
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Chapel Hillians Go To The Polls Tuesday
... To Make The Big Choice
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cent of the precincts reporting.
In the election for U.S.
Representatives with early
returns, Democratic candidates
were leading in four N.C.
congressional districts.
The Republicans also had
the lead in four districts; in the
remaining three districts, the
Republican candidates were
running with no opposition.
Walter Jones, incumbent
Democrat for the first
congressional district, was far
ahead of Reece Gardner. L.H.
Hollings, South Carolina
Democratic incumbent, led his
Republican challenger,
Marshall Parker by a 2-1
majority.
Sen. Russell B. Long of
Lousiana was unopposed.
Republicans appeared
headed for victories in the
senatorial races of Kentucky
and Florida.
Judge Marlow Cook,
Republican, looked the winner
in a close race over Katherine
Peden in the race to replace
retiring Kentucky Republican
Senator Thruston Morton.
In Florida, Rep. Edward
Gurney, Republican, was
leading former Democratic
Gov. Leroy Collins in the
battle for the seat vacated by
retiring Sen. George Smathers.
In the Northeast Sen. Jacob
Javits (R-N.Y.) appeared an
easy winner over the dovish
Paul O'Dwyer. Connecticut's
Democratic Sen. Abraham
Ribicoff was far ahead of
Republican challenger Edwin
May, Jr.
Republican George Aiken of
Vermont was unopposed for
reelection.
At press time Republicans
had captured one seat formerly
held by the Democrats, and
were leading in five others.
Democrats had won no
Republican seats and were
leading in only one race.
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Fountain, of the second
district, had no Democratic
candidate opposing him.
Republican candidate
Howell, of the third district,
had a slight edge over
Democrat David Henderson.
With only a few precincts
reporting by press deadline,
Smith Bagley (Dem., 5th dist.)
was barely behind Republican
Wilmer, Vinegar "Vinegar
Bend" Mizell.
Richardson Preyer,
Democrat from the sixth
district, was running a close
race with Bill Osteen. There
was a difference of only a few
hundred votes.
Republican from the
Six Arrested A t SSOC Tarty
By WAYNE HURDER
DTH Editor
Six person were arrested
Tuesday night during a street
party sponsored by the
Southern Student Organizing
Committee in protest of the
political situation in the
country.
The persons arrested were
picked up for obstructing an
officer, obstructing traffic,
disorderly conduct, and assault
on an officer. All six have been
released on bond.
The first person arrested
was a history insturctor, Larry
Kessler, who was picked up for
obstructing traffic.
The others arreste were
Brian McKay, a student, for
disorderly conduct; Meri
Robbings, a student, for
obstructing an officer, and
assault on an officer; Eric Clay,
a student, for obstructing an
officer; Peter Hulth, no
occupation listed, for
disorderly conduct; and Walter
Hicks, faculty member, for
disorderly conduct.
About 500 persons turned
out for the street ' party
featuring the Thursday Grief
combo.
The purpose of the affair,
according to SSOC worker
Scott Bradley, was to show
that while "the politicians are
in office, the streets belong to
the people."
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seventh district, Alton Lennon,
had no opposition in the
election. Voit Gilmore,
Democrat from the eighth
district, was only a few
thousand votes ahead of
Republican Ruth.
Charles Jonas, Republican,
had no opposition in the ninth
district. James Broyhill,
Republican from the tenth
district, was slightly ahead of
Basil Whitener.
In the eleventh district, Rod
Taylor, Democrat, was ahead
of Republican Harvey.
Republican Nick
Galifianakis appeared to have
the lead over Democrat Fred
Steele in the fourth district.
The students attending the
party did their best to show
just that, that the streets
indeed belong to the people.
SSOC had a police permit to
hold the party in front of the
Tempo Room on Franklin St.
but the streets were supposed to
be kept clear, according to the
police. They had about 20
officers out for that purpose.
However, there was
continuous traffic by
partygoers back and forth
across the street, slowing down
traffic.
Kessler, the first person
arrested, was picked up when
police told him not to walk
back and forth across the street
so often.
He continued crossing
the
street at
the
and
crosswalk,
however,
so a
plainclothesmen grabbed him
and started hauling him off to
the police station.
WThen a crowd of about 70
or 80 began following the
plainclothesman, yelling "Pig"
and other things, the police
threw Kessler in a nearby
police car and sped him off to
the police station.
During the arrest the police
sprayed one coed who was
protesting the arrest with
Del-Delfend, a chemical
substance similar to Mace.
The other five arrests
occurred sporadically
throughout the evening.
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Governor's Race
Wallace
Vice-Presidnet Hubert H.
Humphrey and former veep
Richard M. Nixon were locked
in a titantic struggle for the
presidency of the U nited States
last night as record numbers of
Americans went to the polls
Tuesday to elect a successor to
Lyndon B. Johnson.
The fast-closing Humphrey,
aided by a bombing halt in
Vietnam only a week before
the election, by Sen. Eugene
McCarthy's endorsement, and
by President Johnson's full
support, proved the latest
Gallup and Harris polls
accurate as the election
appeared a tossup even late
into the evening.
However, it became
increasingly evident that the
strength of American
Independent candidate George
Wallace would not be as strong
as had been feared, and that
the selection of the 37th Chief
Executive would, not have to
be settled by the House of
Representatives.
Wallace, w hose effect on the
national scene depended on his
spread of strength from the
Deep South into the boarder
and midwestern states, was
knocked out early as a deciding
factor, according to the
Columbia Broadcasting
System's computerized sample
of voting trends.
In fact, North Carolina,
.which had been considered a
tossup between the three
candidates and vital to
Wallace's influence on the
national results, was forecast as
going Republican for the first
time since 1928. Its 13 votes
cast for Nixon which would
be only the fourth state to be
committed by CBS was an
indication that Wallace could
not expect to win more than
four states.
With 21 per cent of the
national vote counted, Nixon
and Humphrey had polled 41
per cent apiece and Wallace 18
per cent. In the electoral vote
column, Nixon led the
Vice-President slightly, 124
votes to 114, with 39 going to
Wallace.
Nixon, as expected, was
doing well in the Midwest, but
Humphrey's surprising strength
in the East showed that the
race was indeed going to be a
cliffhanger.
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The first real breakthrough
for the Vice-President came
when Michigan swung into his
column with its block of 21
electoral votes, the largest such
state to fall at that time. At
that time, according to the
CBS count, 10 per cent of the
vote had been tabulated.
Nixon led Humphrey by
only one percentage point at 15
per cent of the national totals,
but spurted again briefly with a
forecasted victory in Arizona.
Fourth
R
ace Very Close
With 44 of the precincts in
the fourth congressional
district " of North' Carolina
reporting Tuesday night,
incumbent Nick Galifianakis
held a slim lead over challenger
Fred Steele.
Galifianakis', the Democrat
who was first elected to the
House of Representatives in
1966, led his Republican
opponent by just over 1,000
votes.
With just under one-half of
the ballots counted,
Galifianakis had 33,723 votes
to 32,643 for Steele.
In Orange County,
Galifianakis' held -a large lead
and seemed well on his way to
capturing a large majority of
the county's congressional
election votes.
With 10 of 25 Orange
County precincts reporting,
Galifianakis led Steele by
5,474 to 2,869.
Galifianakis, a native of
Durham, was a state legislator
before being elected to the
United States House of '
Representatives.
He has also been a
practicing attorney and a
business law professor at Duke
University.
He was chosen as one of the
outstanding young men in
American in 1964 by the U.S.
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Fred Steele, a conservative
Republican, -has -triefl to appeal
to Nixon and Wallace
supporters alike' by citing
Galifianakis' "liberal" voting
SSOtTs Non-Election Street
. Protesting Tuesday's Presidential
Falters
However, New York with
43, the largest single block of
electoral votes went to
Humphrey at 10:10 according
to CBS. The state, considered
vital to the national aspirations
of all three candidates and of
particular importance to Nixon
since he needed it to build a
sizeable advantage in the East,
enabled Humphrey to match
Nixon in the national
percentages, 41 apiece, with 18
for Wallace.
District
record and by attacking his
active support of Democratic
Presidential candidate Hubert
H. Humphrey.
Galifianakis has tried to win
the support of a wider range of
voters by citing the help he has
received in his campaign from
liberals and conservatives alike.
Senator Sam Ervin, the
veteran conservative U.S.
Senate member North
Carolina, said of Galifianakis:
"Congressman Galifianakis
voting record on important
issues has been well-balanced,
in keeping with the best
national interests of the people
' of his district"
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