THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APR. 14, 1976
Page 9
SlVallace tours Texas
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Associated Press
BlLENE — Alabama Gov.
'Ilportfc Wallace was to move to West
j-xas today in search of votes in the
. ite’s May 1 primary with speeches
mned here, in Lubbock and El
Hill ace came to Texas Tuesday
ere neiidlvas in Fort Worth and Dallas
400An)eiHe he opened campaign head-
1 byacuiiarters.
d Christian Dallas late Tuesday, Wallace
i, the li ged Texans to provide him with
ilecruisenioigh votes to give him a chance at
and a r e Democratic nomination and
the U,S, *ki sure the middle and lower in-
r, severalclasses are represented in the
!ubmari«|rt> s platform.
^Rdlace will be facing Georgia
then or ov - Jimmy Carter and Texas’ “favo-
ndtwoes te s o n candidate Sen. Lloyd
Split,' mtsen, D-Tex.
the vid^-Widlace told a crowd of supporters
is g r{)1 |p triDallas: “If you’ll go out and give
1 90 warplii : ' :
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George Wallace your vote, and
work, and I’ll work in other states,
we’ll go to the convention with
enough votes that we will not only
have a chance at the nomination, but
we will also see that the party plat
form is one that represents the aver
age middle class, low income citi
zens of the United States that they
(the party) forgot and looked down
their cultural noses at in 1972.”
In Fort Worth Wallace told sup
porters he felt, “we are going to do
well in Texas ... I have a better
chance of being the nominee of the
Democratic party than Mr. (Ronald)
Reagan has of being the nominee of
the Republican Party.”
Reagan will face Ford in the Texas
Republican primary.
Wallace declined to comment on
reports that some of his supporters
were switching to Reagan because
they did not think Wallace has a
‘realistic” chance of getting the
Democratic nomination.
In his appearances in Fort Worth
and Dallas, Wallace told his listeners
that the major issues were un
employment, inflation, internal sec
urity, national defense and crime
and government spending.
He said the party should not be
afraid, “to attack big government,
the bureacracy in Washington that is
overgrown and glutted. The matter
of crime in the streets which we have
always said was a great domestic
issue eating the internal security of
the United States and threatening
the largest cities of our countries.”
Wallace disagreed with Sen.
Bentsen’s prediction that the Demo
cratic convention will be a “brokered
convention.” He said: “I don’t know
what a brokered convention is, but
nobody is going to the convention
with a majority of delegates.
Ford and Connally meet
Still no Connally endorsement
for Texas primary candidates
Ford rejects ethnic term
. By HOWARD BENEDICT
k S| Associated Press Writer
1 HaSHINGTON — President
1 H says he rejects the term “ethnic
n il hut believes “an ethnic heri-
ge is a great treasure” that should
>t he destroyed by federal housing
ws
Asked about Democratic candi-
ite Jimmy Garter’s reference to
tlmic purity of neighborhoods,
t jJBr sa ' c ^ Tuesda y> I would not use
1 s . an< lai term to describe any of my
usse i oticies.”
r , antl ' At a White House news confer-
linmos nel, he said it is “not the way to
.Hrihe the practical situation in-
'."8’•, (Wing government housing policy.
heW «M; lr ter stirred controversy last
Sm0 j H k b y saying ' n an interview that
1 helgovernment should not pursue
Dandid l() |j ( .j es ji ul t f orce the alteration of
a ^ <)l etjmic purity of neighborhoods.
1,1 !i,l ' ome critics claimed there was racial
l 0 ivei tones in the statement,
i jr^B ar t er later apologized for the use
ijisetn kg term, but said he remained
thee >pp OSCC l to the “arbitrary use of fed-
1 :ral force to change a neighbor-
(“II, th( 100( |’ s e th n ic character. His com-
! jp™ perns were in regard to legal efforts
o onii () force the government to finance
instruction of low-income housing
n allluent suburbs as well as in poor
niier-city areas.
H’ord seemed to support Carter’s
>tand on allowing neighborhoods to
pines a: retain ethnic identity, saying, “I
here ttttt 1 1 think that federal action should
iiiers fmHused to destroy that ethnic trea-
sun
ingkob||r ut b e sa ' ( l he is sworn to uphold
DC8 alr4 sent f eder ‘ d housing laws, which
r (n , I( , give local governments a great deal
the oii|®f u tonomy and responsibility as to
, aj where low-income housing should
0 theofepocated.
^word said Carter will face a test in
is hijaC' dle Apdl 27 Pennsylvania primary,
\irlini w ^' c h will determine “whether that
I )m i ( remark will have any impact on the
support that he has heretofore got
ten in the black communities of the
o Lib Vl T ous states ”
^Carter was campaigning in
( hJ, Philadelphia where he said, “I am
nip
epe
pines
airo
ppy to have aroused the interest
jJ and the opposition of the President.
■The former Georgia governor said
Ford “has often expressed his pref
erence not to have me as an oppo
nent and I guess he has now joined
the stop Carter movement.’ But
what he should know from me is that
I am going to stop him in No
vember.”
iTeague opens
. Bn headquarters
rom Hrhe Teague for Congress county
, headquarters has opened at 2915
Hall: Texas Avenue, Glynn A. Williams,
“•* "'local campaign chairman, an
nounced yesterday.
■Rep. Olin E. (“Tiger”) Teague,
who is seeking his 16th term in the
U.S. House of Representatives,
faces Ft. Worth television weather
man Ron Godbey in the Democratic
Bimary May 1.
In other political developments
Tuesday:
VFord met with former Texas
Gov. John Connally, their second
White House talk in 12 days, but said
he neither sought nor received Con-
nally’s endorsement in the May 1
Texas primary. Ford nominated
Ross N. Sterling, a member of Con-
nally’s Houston law firm, to federal
judreship on Monday.
Ford called GOP challenger
Ronald Reagan a formidable oppo
nent, but said “We re winning and
we re going to keep on winning. ” He
also praised Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinrer and said Kis
singer will remain in his job, despite
criticism from political opponents.
V Carter countered speculation
that the “ethnic purity” remark
might have cost him support from
blacks, appearing in Atlanta early in
the day with the Rev. Martin Luther
King Sr., father of the slain civil
rights leader.
VKing told several thousand per
sons at a rally that Carter “has been
for equal justice when it wasn’t an
easy thing to be for in southern
Georgia.” King said of Carter, “I
love him and believe in him.”
V Former California Gov. Ronald
Reagan charged in Texas that Ford is
“proceeding to give away the
Panama Canal” and said he had a
transcript of recent closed-door tes
timony exposing that plan.
He quoted from what he said was a
transcript of testimony by Ambas
sador At-Large Els worth Bunker,
chief U.S. negotiator in the Panama
Canal talks. Reagan said Bunker ad
mitted he had guidelines from Ford
to surrender both the canal and the
Canal Zone.
VSen. Edward M. Kennedy said
again he would not be on the Demo
cratic ticket. At a fund-raiser in At
lanta, he said he thought the flap
over Carter’s “ethnic purity” remark
was “overblown.”
A compromise bill to restructure
the Federal Election Commission
and return its power to disburse fed
eral matching funds to presidential
candidates was announced in Con
gress, but backers of the measure
said they feared Ford would veto it.
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VSen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, a
late entry in the race for the Demo
cratic nomination, said in Nebraska
that Ford has been “saber-rattling
in relations with Cuba.
VRep. Morris K. Udall said in
Pennsylvania that his money-tight
campaign has been damaged by the
failure of Congress to get a Federal
Election Commission bill passed.
“It will definitely hurt us here. It’s
like campaigning with half the
money,” said Udall. He said he may
be forced to scrap a planned advertis
ing blitz if he cannot raise more
funds.
V Alabama Gov. George Wallace
was in Texas, telling a Dallas crowd
that with their votes “we ll go to the
convention with enough votes that
we will not only have a chance at the
nomination, but we will also see that
the party platform is one that repre
sents the average middle-class, low-
income citizens of the United States
that the party forgot and looked
down their cultural noses at in
1972.”
^Sen. Henry M. Jackson courted
labor support in Pennsylvania, say
ing, “Jobs and employment are the
overriding issues in this campaign. I
have great faith in what this nation
can do, but it’s a tragedy to see that
it’s so mismanaged.”
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Ford and former Texas Gov. John B.
Connally have held another long ses
sion at the White House, but the
President says Connally still has not
volunteered to support him in the
Texas May 1 primary.
Ford and Connally met for 40
minutes Tuesday. There was no offi
cial announcement of what was dis
cussed, but President Ford said later
that Connally “was not offered a job.
I did not ask him to support me. He
did not volunteer.”
Connally has declined to make any
public statements in favor of either
Ford or Reagan in the Texas primary
although reportedly the two have
sought his help.
The former governor has said he
intends to work to help strengthen
the Republican party’s congressional
delegation.
Connally drove away from the
White House without discussing the
meeting with waiting reporters.
Although Connally has said he will
make no endorsement in the hotly
contested Texas campaign between
Ford and challenger Ronald Reagan,
the President and his advisers are
known to be hopeful that Ford and
Connally will make at least one joint
public appearance before the May 1
balloting.
Ford is scheduled to return to
Texas for another campaign appear
ance April 28-29.
Ford has classified himself as the
underdog in Texas. He has won six of
the seven primaries he has entered,
with Reagan beating him in North
Carolina.
A White House spokesman said
that Ford telephoned Connally in
Absentee voting
is now underway
Absentee voting for the May 1
county, state and Presidential
primaries is underway and will con
tinue through April 27.
Registered voters who will be
out-of-town on election day are
urged to vote absentee at the tax
assessor-collector’s office in the
Brazos County Courthouse.
Texans this year, for the first time,
will be voting on party presidential
preferences in the primary. Also on
the ballot will be primaries for
county, state and Congressional of
fices.
College GOP
polls students
in MSC today
The Texas A&M chapter of Col
lege Republicans are polling voter
support today for Gerald Ford and
Ronald Reagan.
Students may vote on MSC’s first
floor from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Students
must present an A&M student ID
card to be eligible to be polled.
College Republicans is sponsoring
the poll to increase interest in the
May 1 Texas Republican primary.
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