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r. 7 ¥m ■ r. -Ur-'; L ELECTION CONFUSES All, BUT POUSTERS WORSE _site i tfsf! contest these United Stated, and it ha< everyone confused, but no on< is more confused than the pol takers. No section of the United Oon sttoitaon id more confusing titan that which spedfices the rnarmei fat which .presidents are to be elected. There k no national law per tabling to the selection of can didates. This k left to, the in dividual — as with George Wal Jaee, or to the parttes/who select their respective nominees in an assortment of ways. The confusion begins wit! these national party conventions since those designated to She convention are not etas en hy the electorate, but an wSm " ead schemes for fhk designation oi convention confusion simply aecraea that he wanted to be a candidate for president and with a small staff and a low-budget operation he has performed a poetical mira cle in getting Ms name on all ballots in every state. This is rthe first time a nation-wide can didacy of this kind has ever existed. ( * Then after the names of all prmridentM candidates is in the political pot more confusion sets in: The constitution declares that the high man in each state gets all of that state’s electoral votes. Which, in a 3-way raoa.otovious ly creates the statistical possi bility of a man picking up all of a given state’s electoral marbles with just 33-per-centpkis of the popular vote. But after the Election is over mid the electoral votes have been collected the constitution adds further confusion by saying that in this department, the Electoral College, a candidate must have a majority, and not simply a plurality. 79ns is a somewhat belated gesture in the general direction of msjority rule, after having ignored this principle at the +tate level. And to muddy the waters fur ther, electoral votes are r. at al located to states by papulation, but under a formula that gives each state one vote in the Elec toral College for each member it has in congress. And recent ly as a minor gesture to the res idents of the District of Colum bia they were given three votes in this electoral rat race al though they have no representa tion in congress. With 100 senators and 453 members of the house of repre sentatives and the three votes of D. C. one easily adds tip, the 538 votes of the electoral college. This is easy mathmatioally, but not nearly so easy politically. NUMBER 28 TRENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1968 VOLUME XXI Short Civil Session of Jones Covnty Superior Court Accomplishes Much, J. C West's Will is Fully Approved AMiougm edb ween s session of Jones County Superior Court didn’t last until Noon Tuesday it did accomplish a considerable amount of work in that brief , period. Divorces were granted to Laura Morris Morrow from Rog er Morrow, Helen R. Hill from forest HiM and to Lillie Mae Las siter Pittman from Carlton Pitt man. Final judgments were entered in a suit brought by Brake Equip ment Company against George Mateja with Mateja ordered to pay $572.33 with six per cent interest from August 3, 1967. A suit brought by Henry W, Gerock against Ben Rhodes was nonsuited; A nonsuit was entered in a suit brought by the First Citi zens Bank against Waiter and Nannie Rouse. An accident case involving a mule and a motor vehicle in which Benjamin L. Parker was suing Adjer Haddock and Bruce Palter was settled with an award of $1740 to the plaintiff. Still another nonsuit was en tered hi a damage suit brou^it against the Late Ely Perry and his wife by Lonnie Miller, aid ministrator of the estate of Al bert Miller Jr., who drowned in a pond on the Perry Farm. A similar suit is still pending in New Bern Man is f Fined for Killing Doe in Jones County in Jones fne federal court. Finally ithe will of the Late J. C. West was approved. Mem bers of this family had sought to (break the will because the bulk of the estate was left to J. C. West Jr. The court ruled that the will was in fact the last will and testament of West, that he had sufficient mental capaci ty at the time he made the will to do so, and that the win was not procured by exercise of fraud, duress or undue influ ence. Major Nolan Alcock Wins Second Air Force Commendation Medal Major Nolan C. Alcock (right), receives the Air ForceCommenda tion Medal at the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center at Denver. Brigadier General Edwin S. Wittbrodt, commander of the Air Force Aocdunting and' Finance Center, makes the presen tation. • Major Nolan C. Alcock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Alcock of Pol locksville, has received his sec ond award of the Air Force Commendation Medal at the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center at Denver. Major Alcock was decorated: for meritorious service, a? comp troller for the 482nd Cbmibat Support firoup at Udora Royal Thai AFB, Thailand He was cit ed for job Shady Grove Revival Evangelist George "Shorty" Hawkins, a former resident of Jones County, will conduct a one-week revival at Shady Grove Methodift Church beginning on November 3rd and lasting through November 8tn with ser vices and special singing each night at 7:30. TURKEY SHOOTS The Maxwell Mill American Legion Post near Pink Hill is holding turkey shoots every Sat urday until Thanksgiving with a free fish stew to be served at the Hut where the shoots are to be held. With a total of 538 votes in the electoral college a majority is 270; or more than half. With the population distribu tion the nation had in the 1960 census the congressional alloca tions make it theoretically possi ble to get that magic 270 elec toral votes by carrying only 11 states, and the District of' Col umbia. Those 11 states and their respective electoral votes are: New York 43, California 40, Pennsylvania 29, Illinois 26, Ohio 26, Texas 25, Michigan 21, New Jersey 17, Florida 14, Massachusetts 14 and either In diana or North Carolina with 13 electoral votes each. , Eight of thtoe states are Ip. the northeast and northcentral corner of the country, one in the far west, one in the Southwest and' two in the southeast. But it would take a political magic ian to pull this magic 11 states together in a threeway argu ment that has sectional over tones. The candidates, and their staffs have to play a dangerous form of. Russian Roulette; deciding which states are “safely” theirs, which are impossible to hope tor and those that might be theirs with enough effort. This is difficult enough in the usual two-man contest, but the addition of just one more ma jor candidate makes this task 10 times more difficult, as the poll takers are finding much to to their, own consternation, as well as to the mounting con sternation of the poll watchers, whose number includes every candidate. me most nugniy touted pair ot poll takers in the nation until now kas been George Gallup and Louis Harris. This week, so near to the de cision day Harris has predicted that Nixon will get 40 per cent of the popular vote and Hum phrey will get 35 per cent, which of course leaves 25 per cent to be divided between Wallace and the “undecideds”. And in the same week Gallup is saying Nixon will get 43 per cent and Humphrey will get 31 per cent — a six per cent spread between what are supposed to be the best estimators of voting habits. This leaves 26 per cent to be split between Wallace and those “undecideds.” The experts who analyze the experts say that poll taking is accurate within six per cent. Even a non-expert can under stand how insecure the poll tak Principal's List and Honor Roll at Jones Central High School Listed ifte following Principal’s List and Honor Roll List is being re leased by William H. Bowen, principal of Jones Central High School. In order for a student to make the principal’s list, he or she must have all A’s. In or der for a student to make the honor roll, he or, she must have which aided immeasurably in identifying and solving problems within the comptroller area. The major, a graduate of Mays villePolloeksville High School, received a B. S. degree in 1954 CHILD BADLY HURT Five year-old Joseph Gardner 107 Springfaiil, Kinston, suffered a broken arm and badly lacerat ed leg last week when he ran into >the path of a car driven by Flora Keel Penuel of 704 Jones Avenue near his home. The acci dent was classed unavoidable as far as the driver was concerned. ■ all A’s and B’s. Principal’s List by grades is as follows: Ninth grade, Minnie Ellen Jones. Eleventh grade, Marline Jones. Twelfth grade, Jay Bender and Storma Thomas. The honor roll by grade is as follows: Math grade: Frances Ohap rnan, Stanley Keith Jones, George P. Moore, Karen Mercer, EXanna Potter and Ivey Riggs. Tenth Grade: Bonnie Banks, [jyndia Creagh, Barbara Hen ierson, Pam Jenkins, Murray Jones, Janie Meadows and Lar ry Thompson. Eleventh Grade: Frank Bend !r> Bryan, Susan Morgan, Gregory Straybom, Louis T01 jr, Lynne Thompson and Mich lel Thompson. Twelfth grade: Sue Oauley, Pony CriscMieMo, Bobbie Davis, jVIlliam Hawkins, Janice Jones, Wni Mallard, Sherwood McDan ^jplSfn Mills, Wanda Mills, 34K»rt Norris, Michael Parker, wjjjnie Pollock and Grover era are this week when the six per cent variance between Har ris and Gallup is put beside the “within-six-peicent” accuracy factor that is supposed to be built into even the most scientific forms of poll taking. To further accent this ex treme state of flux of the poll takers it is agreed this Week that Wallace is still running in second place insofar as electoral vote is concerned despite the fact that Humphrey — in third place is rated far ahead of him in the popular vote department. This results from Wallace’s pop bar vote being concentrated — so the pollsters say — in a few states, while Humphrey’s appeal is more generally spread across the nation. This gives rise to the ultimate possible absurdity: That a naan could be lowest of the three in popular vote and stffl wind up in first place in the electoral college vote. This is a very real mathmatica'l possibility but hard ly a political probability. There is a great hue and cry for a change in the method of electing presidents as one imme diate result of this confused sit uation. This is being heard most loudly and most frequently from the liberal side of the political fence. The peculiarity of the sys tem is such that it may work in favor of either the liberal, the moderate or the conservative candidate, and the answer will not be known until after the election and then it is most like ly that there will be no absolute answer to the question of who was helped or 'hurt most by the present system. Because of tihis uncertainty and because the next congress is almost certain to be more con servative than the last there is little to no chance of the con stitution being changed on this particular point. Which means, among other things, that those who watch and try to keep up with what is go ing on in this great American game of politics will have to stu dy a great deal on this particu lar election if they hope to be able to do a better job of guess ing on the next; since it will very likely be run under the same rules, and again with three ma jor candidates. And with Gene McCarthy still pouting there is that even wilder possibility of a four-way Campaign nationally in 1972. Now, that is something to real ly soothe the aching pollsters' ulcers!
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