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THE BATTALION Page 5 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1974 the nature of Gtl nenta] sttrekn I rnjuirenie-iia-'l for registrath): FED irate rraM>u»l tlitl do theses andil ) m irate. All h&l I OBILE ITY” Tiedoiw ;io* 5 live ad, th 680 5AU 3AU JAL I & )NING r , (TIES TRIC :es ) I £ Democrats regain control of Senate; surge on WASHINGTON (AP) — Democ rats recaptured control of the Se- nate and surged toward heightened command of the House Tuesday in off-year elections that also installed a Democratic governor in New York for the first time in 16 years. Democratic Gov. Wendell H. Ford wrested a Kentucky Senate seat from Republican Marlow W. Cook. Richard Stone, a former Florida secretary of state, captured another GOP seat in Florida. With those turnovers and their incumbent victories, the Democ rats had won 50 Senate seats, and were guaranteed another in Hawaii, where Sen. Daniel K. Inouye had opposition in name only. IT WAS the 11th successive elec tion in which Democrats have taken charge of the Senate. In New York, Rep. Hugh Carey, a Brooklyn congressman who chal lenged the party establishment to win nomination, swept to election as governor. He heat Gov. Malcolm Wilson, who as lieutenant governor had taken over the office when Nel son A. Rockefeller resigned. Rep. EllaT. Grasso, 55, a Demo crat, won the governorship of Con necticut, and became the first woman elected a governor without succeeding a politician husband. In Tennessee, Democrat Ray Blanton, a former congressman, won away another Republican gov ernorship. AND AS the verdict took shape on House contests, Democrats built leads in what had been safe GOP districts. Four GOP House members were trailing in New Jersey; five were behind in Indiana; in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, Rep. Joel T. Broyhill was beaten after 22 years in congress. Democrat John H. Glenn Jr., the former astronaut, won election to the Senate in Ohio after a decade of trying. His victory held a Democra tic seat. Robert B. Morgan, a former Democratic attorney general, won the North Carolina Senate seat re tired by Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. DEMOCRATIC Gov. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas was elected to the Senate to succeed Sen. J. W. Fulbright, the man he beat in the primary election. Democratic Sens. James B. Allen of Alabama, Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, Thomas F. Eagletpn of Missouri and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut all won easy reelec tion. Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., had no opposition. Democrats kept the governor ships in seven states—Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Mary land, Vermont and Arkansas. Big- name re-election winners included two potential 1976 presidential con tenders, George Wallace of Alabama and Reubin Askew of Florida. Republican incumbents in two major states—William G. Milliken in Michigan and Francis Sargent in Massachusetts—were trailing in gubernatorial races. And Democra tic Rep. Hugh Carey took an early lead for the currently Republican New York governorship. IN SOUTH Carolina and Kansas, Republicans were ahead for Demo cratic governor s chairs. An inde pendent candidate led for Maine’s Democratic governorship. Republicans were ahead, in some cases narrowly, in their defense of a half-dozen Senate seats, and in Iowa and Nevada for currently Democra tic held Democratic seats. But Democrats led for currently Republican seats in four other states, one of them in Vermont, where the race was close for election to succeed retiring Republican Sen. George D. Aiken, dean of the Se nate. Voter turnout patterns and re turns indicated that participation in the off-year balloting would exceed advance forecasts—which in some cases had pointed to turnouts as low as 40 percent of the electorate. THE NATIONAL PICTURE: In the Senate, with 34 seats at stake and 51 needed for a majority. Democrats won 13 and had 38 hol dovers for a new total of 51—control of the new Senate, while Republi cans had 28 holdovers. That is a net gain of 2 Democrats with 22 races undecided. In the House, with all 435 seats at stake and 218 needed for a majority. Democrats won 104 while Republi cans won 21. That is a net gain of 1 Democrat with 310 races unde cided, compared with the current lineup of 248 Democrats and 187 Republicans. In the races for governor in 35 states. Democrats won 11 and had 9 holdovers for a new total of 20, while Republicans had 6 holdovers. That is a net gain of 2 Democrats with 24 races undecided. TUESDAY’S balloting passed judgment on a government irret rievably altered by the trauma of Watergate. The President who urged Ameri cans to go to the polls for a show of confidence in the government sys tem was not the man they elected to the White House by historic land slide only two years ago. President Ford, who waged a 20-state campaign to bolster the GOP, cast his Michigan absentee ballot in advance, then urged his countrymen to turn out and send to Washington and the world a mes sage of trust in the American way of government. In Congress and the state capi tals, Democrats were virtually as sured continued and increased con trol. AS THE electoral procession flowed through town halls and schoolhouse polling places from New England across the time zones to the West, the statistics and the political omens signaled a tightened Democratic grip on the levers of power at the Capitol and in the states. There were 34 Senate races, 20 for seats now held by Democrats. Democrats control the current Se nate 58 votes to 42, and were headed for gains that could push their number to 65. In the House, the present lineup is 248 Democrats, 187 Republicans. Democrats were expected to gain 30 to 50 seats. There are now 32 Democratic governors; the election promised to swell that count by a half-dozen, perhaps as many as 10. ABOUT 145 million Americans were eligible to vote, but off-year turnouts are traditionally low. Forty-three percent of the eligible voters cast ballots in the last off-year elections, in 1970. This time, apathy and political disenchantment spawned by Watergate, and even some rainy weather in the East and Midwest, seemed likely to hold the turnout even lower. The level of participa tion will not be known for several days, but as President Ford noted, some surveys indicate a turnout of only 40 percent of the electorate. If that is the case, Ford said in an election-eve statement, the 94th Congress which will have to deal with major economic woes could be chosen by only 21 percent of the voters. “I don’t think anyone wants that kind of minority decision,” Ford said. He called on people to vote, whether they be Republican or Democratic, saying that those who shun the polls are “actually voting ‘no’ on our system of self- government.” FORD’S personal campaign spanned nearly 17,000 miles, cover- ing 20 states, and he made inflation 807 Texas Ave. Across From College { \ 3 *y" Aggie Special Drink & Drown EVERY WEDNESDAY NITE Girls 2.00 “<5hilnh” Guys 3.50 onilOH All You Can Drink 7:30 till 11 p.m. NOW BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE. YOU WILL BE PLEASED WITH THESE CARE FULLY PREPARED AND TASTE TEMPTING FOODS. EACH DAILY SPECIAL ONLY $1.29 PLUS TAX. 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Friday evening special Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread OPEN Sunday through Friday Breakfast from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Doughnuts & Coffee from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Lunch-from 11:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Dinner-from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce & Crabapple Combread Dressing Rolls - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable “QUALITY FIRST” his theme. Watergate, the scandal that brought the appointed Presi dent to office, was always in the background as he warned against election decisions that could un dermine the two-party system. He raised the spectre of runaway, inflation-fueling spending by a “veto-proof Congress” with Demo cratic margins that could overrule him by the required two-thirds votes. Actually, even with Democ ratic dominance, the wholesale overriding of Ford vetoes is not a realistic prospect. Philosophic dif ferences within the parties preclude Ags invade Dallas for parade, game The Corps of Cadets hits the highway this week, for a Coips Trip to Dallas. The military operation, first of the 1974 football season, centers on the A&M-SMU game at the Cotton Bowl. The 2,200-plus member Corps of Cadets, led by Rickey A. Gray of Dallas, will appear in a Saturday morning parade prior to the game. A coffee honoring the reviewing party for the parade will officially initiate activities at 8 a.m. “We re looking forward to this ‘rehearsal’ for the Cotton Bowl parade,” Col. Thomas R. Parsons said. Texas A&M, with a 4-0 South west Conference won-loss record, is a leading candidate for the New Year’s Day grid classic. Corps Commander Gray, will lead the Corps, Texas Aggie Band and Parsons Mounted Cavalry onto the parade route at 9:30 a.m. Corps units will form on Griffin Street. The troops, in winter un iform for the first time this year, will march up Main Street to Harwood Street and turn right, where units will disband. The reviewing stand will be bet ween Ervay and Akard Streets. Brig. Gen. Charles I. McGinnis will take salutes of passing corps units. Gen. McGinnis is district engineer, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Southwest Division, headquartered in Dallas. A 1949 Texas A&M graduate, he is a classmate of Col. Parsons, com mandant of cadets and professor of military science. Among other officials on the re viewing stand will be Dr. Jack K. Williams, TAMU president, and Dr. John J. Koldus, vice president for student services. Ford said also that there is a danger of legislative dictatorship. And, again on the inflation- fighting theme, he urged voters to “throw the big spenders out,” no matter their party. ALL TOLD, Ford campaigned personally for nearly 100 Republi can candidates, from Vermont to California. For the appointed Ford as for no President before him, the off-year campaign was a national political debut—and one waged against all the odds. The political honeymoon days that began his presidency were soured after a month with his Sept. 8 pardon of his predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, for any and all offenses as president. The pardon drew an adverse pub lic reaction, and Ford said he was surprised at its vehemence. Some Republicans complained that the pardon and the conditional amnesty Ford granted Vietnam-era draft evaders had made their difficult campaign lot even worse. That reac tion subsided during the last weeks of the campaign. AS IN any off-year balloting, state and local issues were frequently more pivotal than national themes. But this time, they often were offshoots of national concerns. Thus, in the election after Water gate, anything smacking of scandal was magnified, and candidate spending was a common issue. So were taxes, state and federal. And Republicans took no comfort in Ford’s call for a five percent middle and upper income surtax to help curb inflation. Many declared their opposition. All the while, inflation gnawed at the dollar. The cost of living rose 1.3 percent in the campaign month of September. There was no sign of slackening in October, although the figures have not yet been compiled. Pollsters and candidates were vir tually unanimous: rising prices in a slumping economy comprised The Issue of 1974. ISSUES aside, the Democrats had a hefty head start. In the past five mid-term elections, the party out of White House power has gained an average of 26 seats in the House and four in the Senate. There were big swings in 1958, a time of recession, when Democrats gained 49 House and 13 Senate seats; and in 1966, a time of adjust ment, when Republicans picked up 47 House and 4 Senate seats. In that latter election, the GOP gained back most of the House seats lost in the 1964 presidential elec tion, when Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide over Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater helped the Demo crats boost their House majority by 37 seats. Nixon had no comparable coat tails in his 49-state sweep of the 1972 presidential election. Repub licans gained only 11 House seats, and lost two in the Senate. NEVER HAS the face of Ameri can politics changed as markedly in two years as since that 1972 land slide. Nixon, whose last election day was a time of triumph, spent this one in his Long Beach, Calif., hospi tal bed, in the political exile of res ignation. Spiro T. Agnew resigned the vice presidency more than a year ago in his own scandal. Ironically, two of the names on 1974 ballots are those of the losers—Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, the Democrat Nixon trounced; and Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, the running mate McGovern chose and then banished from the ticket over a his tory of treatment for mental illness. OPEN MON THRU SAT 9:30-9:30 f Campus briefs | A&M sponsors dredging seminar Texas A&M will sponsor the 7th Annual Dredging Seminar in New Orleans Nov. 8. Civil engineers from across the nation will gather for the meeting which will include speakers from the U. S. Army Engineers, Corps of Engineers, academic and engineering firms. Col. Herbert Harr Jr., associate port director, Port-of New Orleans, will also speak. Dr. John Herbich of A&M will act as moderator for the seminar. A major topic of discussion will be the environmental impact of dredging operations. ‘Y’ sponsors appreciation picnic The Student Y is sponsoring a picnic in appreciation for the 1974 Fish Camp counselors. The outing will be held Nov. 11 at 5 p.m. in Hensel Park Area 3. The event is free for counselors, $1.00 for Delta Y members. Everyone must have a ticket and the tickets must be picked up by noon Friday. Library offers term paper clinic The Library is offering a week-long term paper clinic with specialists to aid in students’ research. The project centers near the card catalog section on the main floor. Wednesday and Friday the service is available from 1-3 p.m. with extra hours from 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday. Thursday the service runs from 10 a.m. . to noon and from 7-9 p.m. Saturday the clinic operates from 10 a.m. to noon. Society meets to observe stars The Central Texas Astronomical Society will meet this week for observ ing Jupiter, Saturn and other subjects. If the sky is clear, the group will meet Thursday night. If not, it will gather Friday no matter what the conditions. Area amateur astronomers, students and others are invited to attend the gathering at the home of Dr. Ron Schorn, A&M physics professor. Newcomers should phone 846-4172 or 823-5519 for directions. Foreign students plan dinner The International Students Association plans a dinner to be held Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the A&M Presbyterian Church. Anyone interested is invited to attend the dinner, which will cost 50 cents per person. Tickets are available from the Foreign Student Advisor Office in the Academic Building and from the international student section of the Old Exchange Store Lounge. WED., THURS., FRI., SAT. Sale Price PLASTIC BOWLING BALL 15 97 VIP ball. Choice of weights. Custom Fitting and Dril ling Included with Bowling Ball VINYL PONCHO 4 Days Only 1 47 INSULATED 2-PC. SUIT 4 Days Only 6 96 A must for cold weather out doors activities'. Acetate suit with warm Orion® acrylic insu lation, comfortable cotton lin ing. Kidney flap on jacket. (R) DuPont Reg. TM Ideal wear to protect you from foul-weather. Fits into pocket so you can carry it anywhere In men's sizes. Charge it. 7X50MM BINOCULARS 4 Days Powerful binoculars with view of 376 ft. at 1,000 yards. 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