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ALIO :am High’s h ; he stiij. : the sclii; Che Battalion 105 BS VOLUME 64, Number 31 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1968 Telephone 845-2226 Humphrey Gets Texas Votes; | ]\ixOIl NearS V ictOF V Smith Elected Governor J club sst tggielaii Bduledi itionsjl people* 1 ; ill you. Ii ig fearlt: an do sob ;ep it If* By ROBERT E. FORD Associated Press Writer Hubert Humphrey, underdog nd a late starter, swept Texas’ ritical 25 Electoral College votes )to the Democratic basket to- ay in one of the closest presi- ential races the state ever held. ■ The Democrat spurted ahead Ihortly after the vote count Itarted at the end of Tuesday’s leneral election balloting and Iheld this lead doggedly. I Lt. Gov. Preston Smith, 56, a mgtime state official captured e top Texas government spot the governorship—over stronig- nning Republican Paul Eggers, |9, of Wichita Falls. ALL THE Democrats seeking jtatewide posts marched into of fice, most of them back into the feme positions they previously held. It was a day for the incum- ents, too, in the U. S. House of epresentatives. All Texas con- ressmen won reelection, mean- g Texas sent 20 Democrats and ; life i» nething if for 1101,1 y enduii? I at M ounty Picks Nixon, Smith; tarnes Beats Ag-Ex DeCluitt st disastf signs p ollege ®i a call. I' :it witlu* nals. foil native, iK i it toil three Republicans back to Wash ington. THE latest vote went like this: Humphrey had 1,103,591 votes, Nixon 1,059,266, and Wallace 499,254 when the Texas Election Bureau made its last count of the night at 4 a.m. These figures gave Humphrey 41.46 per cent of the Texas vote, Returns from 234 of 254 counties, 123 complete, on the 14 amendments to the Texas Constitution: 1. State workers’ pension system changes: For 756,154, against 549,766. 2. Welfare ceiling raise: For 548,261, against 741,237. 3. University fund chang es: For 789,240, against 538,- 275. 4. Dallas County road bonds: For 592,339, against 627,275. 5. Legislators’ pay raise: For 623,577, against 683,647. 6. Anti - pollution tax benefits: For 580,241, against 686,755. rdson ler 77 027 ENI 1 LIFE IILADE^* 1 Voting against statewide trends, razos County voters cast 6,899 allots for Republican candidate ichard M. Nixon, 6,299 for Dem- iratic candidate Hubert H. Hum- hrey, and 2,437 for American dependent candidate George C. r allace. In the Texas governor’s race, le county tallied 7,597 votes for reston Smith, Dem., and 7,360 otes for Paul Eggers, Rep. Ben Barnes, Dem., received 10,580 votes in his bid for lieu- nant governor. Douglas De- !luitt, Rep., received 4,115. Other state offices include: Attorney General — Crawford artin, Dem., 10,910; Sproesser Wynn, Rep., 3,588- Comptroller — Robert S. Cal- irt, Dem., 10,484; John Bennet, ep., 3878. I Treasurer—Jesse James, Dem., jl,051; Manuel Sanchez, Rep., 521. Agriculture Commissioner — 3hn White, Dem., 10,456; E. G. huhart, Rep., 3825. i Land Commissioner — Jerry laddler, Dem., 10,027; Millard Heptune, Rep., 3,734. Railroad Commissioner — Jim angdon, Dem., 10,213; James egrist, Rep-, 2916. Voting for the 14 proposed mendments to the State Consti- ition was as follows: lAmendent 1, concerning State tmployees Retirement Fund — 8,134 for; 3,386 against. I Amendment 2, increase in amount spent for public assist ance from state sources — 5,144 for; 6,167 against. Amendment 3, allow Board of egents of University of Texas ystem to invest assets in stock ■7,876 for; 3,739 against. Amendment 4, allow Dallas ounty to issue unlimited tax onds — 6,106 for; 4,257 against. Amendment 5, increase pay of *tate legislators — 6,659 for; 4,- 8 against. Amendment 6, allow exemption om ad valorem property taxa tion — 5,302 for; 6,191 against. I Amendment 7, gradual reduc tion of state property tax — 7,- p68 for; 3,709 against..-, Amendment 8, eliminate re- tuirement of governor’s approval or purchase of certain services 5,709 for; 5,129 against. Amendment 9, increase contri- mtion to teacher retirement sys- «m — 9,997 for; 2,381 against. Amendment 10, refund taxes ollected on tobacco products sold o Texarkana, Tex. — 3,994 for; >>780 against. Amendment 11, consolidation of government offices and duties n El Paso and Tarrant Counties 5,928 for; 4,342 against. Amendment 12, empower cities and counties in Texas to issue revenue bonds — 5,666 for; 4,340 against. Amendment 13, exempt prop erty in public warehouse from -ad valorem taxation — 4,990 for; 5,953 against. Amendment 14, allow legisla tors to be elected to offices they helped create and to vote to in crease salary — 7,795 for; 3,328 against. Jaworski Speech Postponed Again Leon Jaworski, scheduled for Great Issues Speaker Series presentation Wednesday, has postponed his talk indefinitely, announced Paul Scopel, mem ber of the Great Issues Com mittee. Jaworski is a member of President Johnson’s Violence Committee which is now being required to meet four times per week in an attempt to com plete its report before Johnson leaves office. Scopel, a sophomore from Seguin, said Jaworski notified the committee he would be un able to appear here Wednes day in view of the Violence Committee’s new meeting re quirements. Jaworski’s topic was to have been “Does Justice Favor the Accused?” 7. Property tax decrease: For 798,385, against 480,343. 8. State contracts chang es: For 583,404, against 646,- 424. 9. Raise teacher pension contributions: For 966,303, against 424,018. 10. Texarkana tobacco tax relief: For 440,272, against 796,946. 11. Governmental consoli dations: For 571,517, against 616,174. 12. Industrial bond issu ance: For 582,811, against 669,- 729. 13. Stored property tax exemption: For 522,723, a- gainst 705,060. 14. Legislators’ office eli gibility: For 610,390, against 373,487. Nixon 39.79 and Wallace 18.75. Texas Election Bureau returns at that time in statewide races: Govemof: Preston Smith 1,425,- 944, Paul Eggers 1,082,400. Lieutenant governor: Ben Bar nes 1,651,533, Doug DeCluitt 642,- 952. ATTORNEY GENERAL: Crawford Martin 1,563,962, Sproe sser Wynn 653,253. Comptroller: Robert S. Calvert 1,486,610, John Bennett 678,664. Treasurer: Jesse James 1,570,- 382, Manuel Sanchez 627,123. Land Commissioner: Jerry Sad ler 1,527,780, Millard Neptune 644,793. Agriculture commissioner: John White 1,490,403, E. G. Schuhart 659,843. Railroad Commissioner: Jim Langdon 1,464,873, Jim Segrest 675,651. WHEN the Texas Election Bureau made its final tabulation of the night, there were 117 coun ties of the state’s 254 incom plete. Of these, Humphrey was leading in 81, Nixon in 30, Wal lace in 6. The Texas Election Bureau es timated the total vote at 2,950,- 000 with slightly less than 300,000 untabulated. The only major counties with a substantial vote still out were Dallas and Tarrant. The Election Bureau said its analysis of the untabulated vote on the basis of trends that had held throughout the night would give Humphrey a final lead of 40,000 to 50,000 votes. DALLAS COUNTY had returns from 270 boxes of 293, with these totals: Humphrey 113,820, Nixon 166,459, Wallace 49,567. The esti mated uncounted vote in Dallas was 28,000. Tarrant County had returns from 123 of 159 boxes, with 108 complete. The totals were Hum phrey 65,907, Nixon 69,630, Wal lace 23,534. The estimated un counted total was 60,000 in Tar rant County. WEATHER Thursday — Partly cloudy to cloudy. Winds Easterly 10-15 toph. High 68, low 41. Friday — Partly cloudy, becom ing cloudy with rain in the late afternoon. Wind Northerly 10 mph. High 64, low 38. Dallas—Partly cloudy to cloudy winds Southerly 15 - 25 mph. High 67. 40% Humidity. KEEPING ABREAST Lane Gulledge changes figures on one of the tote boards during the long election evening at Political Forum's “Elec tion Center” in the MSC Ballroom. Students received blan ket election coverage from color televisions hooked up to all three networks. (Photo by Ned Muse) In Photo-Finish Race VOTING LEADER Former Vice-President Richard Nixon shields his eyes from the lights as he listens to a question in an Austin appear ance last week. Nixon neared the 270 electoral votes needed for election early Wednesday. (AP Wirephoto) Nixon, Eggers Win Straw Vote Here By DALE FOSTER Battalion Staff Writer Republicans Richard .Nixon, Spiro Agnew and Paul Eggers and Democrat Ben Barnes were the election choices of A&M stu dents in Tuesday polling on cam pus. A total of 1,720 students voted in the Student Presidential Pref erence Poll sponsored by the Po litical Forum of the Memorial Student Center Directorate Great Issues Committee. The voting was a part of planned activities which included an “Election Cen tral” in the MSC Ballroom where students could watch election re turns. “I BELIEVE THIS is the larg est turnout of students for a mock election at A&M,” noted Voting Project Chairman Larry Carreker. All students with activity cards were eligible to vote in the pref erence poll. To keep students from balloting twice at different polling places, special holes were punched in their activity cards. Voting booths were set up in the MSC post office area, Aca demic Building rotunda, and the new library. All polling places closed at 5:15 p.m. IN THE presidential race, the voting was Nixon-Agnew, 995; Humphrey-Muskie, 368; and Wal- lace-LeMay, 322. Write-in votes were Eugene McCarthy, 12; Pat Paulsen, 11; Ted Kennedy, 3; Gene Stallings, 2; Nelson Rocke feller, 2; Barry Goldwater, 1; Lyndon Johnson, 1; John Lind sey, 1; Dick Gregory, 1; and Dean Rusk, 1. Votes tabulated for the Texas Governor’s race were Paul Eg gers, 1,094 and Preston Smith, 619, with four write-in votes for Don Yarborough and one each for Dolph Briscoe, Waggoner Carr, and George Wallace. BALLOTS CAST for lieuten ant governor were Ben Barnes, 1203 and Aggie-ex Doug De Cluitt, 458, with one write-in vote for Ramsey Clark. The presidential and guberna torial results of the A&M stu dent poll were similar to results obtained in polls conducted at 19 other Texas colleges and univer sities at various times in the past two weeks. The Nixon-Ag new ticket and Paul Eggers car ried at 17 campuses while the Democrats took the other two for Humphrey-Muskie and Preston Smith. THE A&M election-day poll compares to a summer poll in which American Independent Party candidate George Wallace won over other presidential as pirants and a May “Choice ’68” poll won by Republican Richard Nixon. The MSC-sponsored sum mer poll and Time magazine sponsored poll differed from the mock election in that they in cluded the names of all candi dates for party nominations. The MSC ballotting showed Wallace with 64 votes; Nixon, 56; Ronald Reagan, 29; Rockefeller, 26; Humphrey, 17; McCarthy, 17; Johnson, 11; John Connally, 3; Lindsey, 3; and Charles Percy, 1. THE CHOICE ’68 primary poll (See Straw Vote, Page 3) A&M Coeds Allowed To Run For NCAA Football Queen The Southwest Athletic Con ference rejected a Student Sen ate proposal to let Annella Wright, Aggie Sweetheart, be the “C a m p u s Football Queen of A&M.” The reason given by Wilber Evans, director of the Southwest Conference contest, for the pro posal rejection, was that all con testants must attend the college or university. Therefore, a mem ber of the A&M student body will have to be chosen. All girls interested in the con test may obtain applications at the Student Programs office of the Memorial Student Center. The applications must be re turned with picture by 5 p.m. Tuesday. The SWC winner will be se lected from college representa tives at the A&M-University of Texas game Nov. 28 in Austin. The conference-level winners will Humph rey Bea ten In California^ Ohio then compete on the national level for the NCAA “College Football Centennial Queen.” The purpose of the Centennial Queen is to draw attention to the Centennial year of football, according to Bill Carter, Presi dent of the Student Senate. Chosen from the .11 conference winners, the national queen will win a $1,000 scholarship to the college of her choice, and the runner-up will receive a $500 scholarship. The Chevrolet Divi sion of General Motors will pay expenses of winners of local con tests and their chaperones to the conference contest. The entry requirements are that the candidate be in good academic standing, be returning to school, and agree to serve as NCAA Centennial Queen, if she wins. Also, she must have an avid interest in football. (See Coed, Page 4) WASHINGTON </P> — Republi can Richard M. Nixon drove to within inches of winning the presidency today, scoring major victories in California and Ohio. By at least three accounts— ABC, CBS and NBC broadcast ing networks—the 55 - year - old former vice president had al ready made it by virtue of an 11th hour triumph in Illinois. CALIFORNIA and Ohio pump ed a massive 66 electoral votes into Nixon’s growing lead over Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey in a dramatic, nose-to-nose race to become the 37th President of the United States. Illinois would put Nixon over the top, mounting his electoral vote total to 287—17 more than required for victory. Nixon was reversing his ra zor-thin loss to John F. Kennedy in 1960 by outscrambling Hum phrey. IN POPULAR votes Nixon and Humphrey were in a virtual tie. But as the morning wore on, Nixon’s electoral vote count surg ed comfortably ahead of Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president. Humphrey’s only chance—and it was diminishing rapidly—was to deny Nixon an Electoral Col lege victory and have the House decide the presidency. To accomplish this, Humphrey had to keep Nixon’s total be neath 2 7 0. Nixon, meanwhile, could end it all by taking Illinois or by beating out Humphrey in any one of three other undecided states: Maryland, Missouri or Washington. EVEN IF Humphrey won all four he still would be short of an electoral majority. Humphrey’s total stood frozen for hours. American Independent George C. Wallace, who said on the eve of balloting that the race really was between him and Nix on, was a distant third with 45, all in the Deep South. Nixon knocked off Humphrey in Ohio by the thinnest of mar gins. With 98 per cent of the vote counted Nixon had 1,766,384 to 1,658,933 for the Democratic vice president an edge of 107,451. IN CALIFORNIA, with 95 per cent of the preciencts reporting Nixon had 3,183,897 and Humph rey 3,054,577. Nixon’s press chief, Herbert G. Klein, had claimed Nixon would carry the state by 300,000 votes. Humphrey went to bed early in the morning without making a specific prediction. He said the election was “a donnybrook,” that “anything can happen” and that he was optimistic. AS THE tabulating of Tues day’s record balloting continued, Nixon had won in 29 states with 261 electoral votes and Humphrey in 11 plus the District of Colum bia with 172 electoral votes. The popular ballot looked this way: Nixon 28,463,410 votes, or 43 per cent; Humphrey 28,186,590, also 43 per cent, and Wallace 8,- 941,585 or 14 per cent. In the Senate Republicans tal lied gains, but the Democrats were left with clear numerical control. In the governors contests that have little over-all national impact but offer the winning party grass roots power, Republicans in creased their present majority of 26. Klein claimed that the Repub lican candidate would wind up with an electoral majority of more than 300. Klein said that Wallace “cut in on us heavily” in Pennsylva nia, which Humphrey won. No Republican has been elected pres ident in this century without Pennsylvania’s support. APPEARING ON early morn ing television, Humphrey said that the contest had been “a Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ings Center, since 1919. —Adv. BB&L donnybrook and anything can happen.” He said he doesn’t be lieve the result will be known until later in the day. Humphrey said he is “an op timistic man” and “I feel that way tonight.” If the issue should go to the Electoral College, members could cross party lines. Only 16 states and the District of Columbia bind their electors to support the popular-vote winner and even those laws have not been tested for constitutionality. NIXON HAS SAID he would be willing to accept as the presi dential victor “the man who re ceives the most votes for the office who ever that man may be.” Humphrey did not accept Nix on’s invitation to let the plurality winner take all. He said he felt bound to follow the “constitution al process” of letting the deci sion go to the House, if it came to that. WALLACE’S comment was that “this election is not over yet.” This seemed an obvious reference to the possibility that the decision might go to the Electoral College, since Wallace would have little influence on a choice made by the House. Humphrey’s main strength was built around New York, Penn sylvania and Texas, all heavy electoral vote states, with sup port in the northeastern states. NIXON FASHIONED his elec toral vote strength largely from midwestern and western areas as well as a fringe of states around the Deep South and New Jersey. How much President Johnson’s Thursday decision to halt attacks on North Vietnam affected the outcome remained problematical. Nixon’s advisers thought John son’s action may have added a percentage point to Humphrey’s support. But they also thought refusal of South Vietnam to send a delegation to the Paris peace talks might have subtracted this. THE VIETNAM issue seemed to have no overriding effect on Senate races, where doves and hawks registered victories and defeats. Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a lead ing critic of the Johnson admini stration’s Asian policies, won re- election. But Sen. Josept S. Clark, D-Pa., another dove, was defeat ed. Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Edward Gurney of Florida, regarded as hawks, won Republi can seats. WALLACE’S impact on the outcome would be limited to what he might do about Electoral Col lege votes, if he got the oppor tunity to do anything. Outside the South and the border states, Wallace’s political muscle is flab by. In Delaware, Indiana, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada and West Vir ginia he got slightly more than 10 percent of the popular vote. He had 9 per cent of ballots counted in California, Illinois, Michigan and New Jersey, 8 per cent in Pennsylvania, 7 per cent in Wisconsin and 5 per cent in New York and Massachusetts. WALLACE’S vote did not keep Nixon from carrying Flori da, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vir ginia. South Carolina and Okla homa. Nor was the third party candidate able to take Texas away from Humphrey. Nevertheless, Wallace’s vote in some of the larger states was big ger than the difference between the percentages of the two major party candidates. In such in stances there were no clear indi cations which of the two he had damaged most. EXPECTED massive protests against the election failed to ma- (See Nixon Nears Victory, Page 4) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M. —Adv.