The Daily Banner, vol. 77, no. 7, November 6, 1968

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Nixon leads with six per cent of vote out
Richard Nixon
By RAYMOND LAHR
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rich-ard
M. Nixon held a precarious
lead over Hubert H. Humphrey
today in a presidential race so
close it could end with neither
candidate winning the needed
majority of 270 electoral votes.
If that should happen, George
C. Wallace would be in a
strategic position to tip the
election to either Nixon or
Humphrey when the formal
Electoral College balloting takes
place Dec. 16. Wallace ran
third, picking up about 15 per
cent of the popular vote and
carrying 5 southern states.
Nixon's hopes for a clear cut
victory hinged on the outcome
of still.unsettled races in
populous California and Illinois
which have 66 electoral votes
among them.
With 78 per cent of the vote
tabulated, the count for pres-ident
at 5:15 a.m. EST:
Humphrey 24,426,837
Nixon 24,558,985
Wallace 8,288,311
Humphrey had won 13 states
with 181 electoral votes and led
In 3 states with 48 electoral
votes for an Indicated total of
229.
Nixon had won 28 states with
221 electoral votes and led in 2
states with 43 electoral votes
for an indicated total of 264.
Wallace had won 5 states with
45 electoral votes.
No Clear Mandate
One thing was certain:
whoever wins, the new pres-ident
will not go Into office with
a clear national mandate. He
will win the presidency with the
smallest share of the popular
vote given any president since
Woodrow Wilson won a three-way
contest with 41.9 per cent
of the popular vote in 1912.
If Nixon squeaks through to
victory in one of the closest
presidential elections in Ameri.
can history, he will confront a
Congress controlled by the
opposition party. Democrats
retained control of both cham-bers
of Congress, losing part of
their comfortable majority in
the Senate but holding onto
most of their edge in the House.
In the popular vote, Nixon
and Humphrey ran almost even
throughout the night in the
count by the National Election
Service. But it was a see-saw
contest for the electoral votes
alloted to the states on a basis
of one for each of its members
of the House and Senate.
After Nixon had taken an
early lead, Humphrey moved
ahead by winning such prizes as
New York with its largest bloc
of electoral votes, 43; Pennsyl-vania
with 29, Michigan with 21;
Massachusetts with 14, and then
President Johnson's home state
of Texas with 25.
Await Maryland Results
Typifying the teeter-totter
events of the night was
Maryland where Humphrey
emerged in front by 19,000 votes
when the voting machine
tabulation was completed. But
there were 35,000 absentee
ballots which will not be
counted until Thursday, continu-ing
the uncertainty over the
state's 10 electoral votes until
then.
Except for Texas, Humphrey
was shut out in the once solidly
Democratic South. Nixon and
Wallace each carried five
states. Humphrey trailed in
third place in Tennessee,
Georgia, South Carolina and
North Carolina.
Humphrey appeared to benefit
across the country from mas-sive
support in Negro communi-ties.
The GOP had hoped to
rebound in those areas from its
miserable showing of 1964 when
Barry M. Goldwater polled only
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about six per cent of the Negro
votes.
For Humphrey, the close race
represented an almost incredl-ble
comeback for a candidate
whose chances were rated near
zero after the disastrous Demo,
cratic National Convention at
Chicago in late August.
He moved up fast in the final
days of the campaign—perhaps
because of President Johnson's
announcement of a bombing
halt in Vietnam, perhaps
because his party slowly pulled
itself back together.
Nixon Takes Midwest
Except for Humphrey's home
state of Minnesota, Nixon swept
the Midwestern farm belt and
Continued on Page 10
Hubert H. Humphrey
"It Waves For All"
VOLUME SEVENTY-SEVEN GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1968 UPI News Service 10C Per Copy No. 7
Bayh bucks Republicans
Hoosiers side with
Republican ticket
By BOYDGILL
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)—For-mer
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon won Indiana's 13 presi-dential
electoral votes Tuesday
and carried most Republican
nominees into office on his coat-tails,
including Secretary of
State Edgar D. Whitcomb who
became the first GOP governor
in eight years.
The lone Democratic victor
on the state ticket was 40-year-old
Sen. Birch E. Bayh Jr.,
who defeated State Rep. Wil-
Ham D. Ruckelshaus, 36, an
Indianapolis attorney, by about
50,000 votes to win a second
six-year term.
The GOP fashioned a net gain
of one seat in the Hoosier dele-gation
in Congress. Next Janu-ary,
the Indiana group will con-sist
of 7 Republicans and 4
Democrats compared with 6 and
5 now.
Nixon beat Vice President Hu-bert
H. Humphrey by around
200,000 and the Democratic
nominee was far ahead of third
party candidate George C. Wal-lace,
who got more than 200,000
ballots but only 11 per cent of
the total. Nixon may have won
a majority of the presidential
votes cast. With the count In-complete
but from more than 80
per cent of the precincts, he
had about 50 per cent to 38 for
Humphrey.
Whitcomb, 51, a Seymour at-torney,
rode a tide of GOP
votes to a handy triumph by
Voters
decide
school
issues
By SHAUN HIGGINS,
Staff Reporter
Confusion still reigns in Putnam
County schoolboard elections
with at least one race completely
undecided at presstime today.
The undecided race is one
between incumbent William E.
Etcheson, Jr., Bainbrldge, and
James Mandleco, Fincastle In the
North Putnam school district.
Last reports showed that Mand-leco
had a lead in the race but
at least one precinct had no
reports.
Mandleco was seeking election
to the board because of what he
considers faulty construction and
mismanagement in the building of
the new North Putnam High
School. The district comprises
the present Roachdale, Russell.
vtlle, and Bainbridge high-schools.
The residents of theCloverdale
Community School district return
one incumbent and elected two
new members in a controversial
race in Cloverdale township.
Returned to the board was Mrs.
Lillian Whitaker. TheCloverdale
voters also elected Samuel M.
Connor and Alva Cash. One of
the persons defeated in the race
was Russell O. Sendmeyer, the
other incumbent in the race.
Robert A. Ziegleman, Jr., who
had voiced strong charges
against the incumbent's school-board,
was defeated. Ziegleman
had stated that the current board
was interfering in classroom
affairs and that Cloverdale's
superintendent of schools was not
doing his job.
In the race of South Putnam
schoolboard member Richard K.
Jones defeated BiU Birdsell. The
district contains Fillmore and
Reelsville high schools.
about 100,000 votes over Lt.Gov.
Robert L. Rock of Anderson,
who barely survived in the
Democratic state convention
last June with a two-vote nomi-nation
victory over former
House speaker Richard Bodine.
13 Other GOP Winners
Thirteen other Republican
nominees for Statehouse offices
ranging from lieutenant gover-nor
to six judges of the Su-preme
and Appellate Courts
were elected.
The 1969 Legislature, which
must deal with critical financial
problems, will be controlled by
the GOP in both houses, giving
a friendly lawmaking branch of
government to Whitcomb, who
pledged during his campaign
there would be no tax increase
at least in the first two years
of his four-year term. However,
many legislators of his own
party disagree on his tax phil-osophy.
Whitcomb will be inaugurated
next Jan. 12, succeeding Demo-cratic
Gov. Roger D. Branigin,
and will become the first Re-publican
since Gov. Harold W.
II and ley in 1961 gave up the
state's highest office to Demo-cratic
Gov. Matthew E. Welsh.
Hoosiers rejected in a non-binding
referendum the idea of
legalizing parimutuel betting on
horse races. But the margin of
victory for the "noes" on the
question, "Do you favor pari-mutuel
betting on horse racing
in Indiana?" was not great and
It was sure to be considered
inconclusive.
Roush Is Defeated
Of 10 incumbent congressmen
who sought reelection, only Rep.
J. Edward Roush, D, was de-feated,
but he ran a good race.
Roush had the misfortune of
being shifted from the old 5th
Into the 4th District with Rep.
E. Ross Adair, a veteran Re-publican
congressman from
Fort Wayne.
Newcomers to Congress were
former State Rep. David W.
Dennis of Richmond, in the 10th
District, and former State Sen.
Earl F. Landgrebe of Valpa-raiso,
In the 2nd, succeeding
former House GOP leader
Charles A. Halleck who retired
this year after serving in Con-gress
continuously since 1935.
Dennis and Landgrebe are Re-publicans.
Nixon's victory in Indiana, by
a margin approximately the
same as the 222,000 by which
he carried the state over John
F. Kennedy in 1960, was appar-ent
less than 90 minutes after
the polls closed at 7 p.m. in the
Eastern time zone.
Whitcomb's triumph did not
jell until a couple of hours
later, and it was past midnight
when the touch-and-go race of
Bayh and Ruckelshaus became
a victory for the highly-regard-ed
young freshman senator who
beat veteran Republican Sen.
Homer E. Capehart in an upset
by about 10,000 votes in 1962.
"They Wanted A Change"
Even then, however, Bayh
would not claim victory with a
public statement. Shaken by his
lack of a sizeable victory mar-gin
for the second time, Bayh
remarked "I seem to pick the
wrong years to run."
Whitcomb described his elec-tion
as a matter of "the people
wanting a change and we were
the logical change offered."
"Many people wanted a
change so desperately they
worked harder than we did,"
Whitcomb said at a midnight
news conference.
Continued on Page 10
Francis N. Hamilton John Carson Jewell W. Blue Wayne E. Hopkins Fred A. Cox Robert A. Ziegleman Sr.
Republicans regain control of County courthouse
by DENNIS ABELL,
managing editor
There was once a short lived
television program entitled,
"That was the week that was."
Last night as election results
began coming into the Putnam
County courthouse, and reports
were given on the national voting
trend, it became apparent that the
former television program name
was characteristic of the eve-ning's
events — "it was the night
that was."
Early today at 6 a.m., 11 hours
after the polls were closed in
Putnam County, the results from
the final precinct, Franklin South,
got to the courthouse to be
counted. The balloting and count-ing
of ballots took place In Fitz-simon's
garage. It took all night
and most of the early morning
hours to get the job done. There
were 503 registered voters in the
precinct.
The first precincts were
charted in the courthouse right
around 9 p.m.
East Second precinct, with 636
registered voters, was one of
the first results recorded. North
Second precinct with 449 voters
turned in their counted ballots
before midnight.
The rest of the precincts, with
a lot less amount of registered
voters in most cases, got their
results to the courthouse during
all hours of the night.
The county Republicans
handled their own election re-turns
in party headquarters. As
it became apparent that the GOP
had swept the county's five races,
Putnam
election results
Putnam County voters went to
the polls yesterday and charted
the results in the following races:
President
Nixon (R) 5679
Humphrey (D) 3692
Wallace(AI) 1787
U.S. Senator
Ruckelshaus (R) 5481
Bayh (D) 4897
Governor
Whitcomb (R) 5955
Rock (D) .4877
Representative, 7th District
Myers (R) 6886
Tipton (D) 4116
Joint State Representative
Thomas (R) 6462
Roeschleln (D) 4327
County Auditor
Carson (R) 6028
Hillls (D) 3541
County Treasurer
Blue (R) 5456
Rice (D) .4082
County Coroner
Hopkins (R) 5548
Rector (D) 3911
Commissioner, 1st District
Cox (R) 5065
Shannon (D) 4522
County Commissioner, 3rd
District
Ziegleman (R) 6388
Huffman (D) .4580
the tall bottles of bubbly stuff
poured out for well wishers and
party workers shortly before
midnight.
Precinct committeemen called
in results to the headquarters.
Figures were charted on a wall
size form. The Republicans, in
most cases, had results figuring
somewhat higher than informa-tion
coming out of the court-house.
The GOP headquarters ran an
easy 10 to 12 precincts ahead of
the courthouse all night.
The only Democrats who will
remain in the courthouse after
Jan. 1, will be the present County
recorder, Mrs. Virginia Mullis,
and Circuit Court Judge Francis
N. Hamilton. The judge, polled
5,039 against no opposition last
night to win another term.
The judge, although not in-volved
in a race, was involved
in the election Issues this year.
The Putnam County Judge made
a ruling last month, that college
students were not eligible voters
and could not vote in Greencastle.
The students protested and took
their case, first to the state
election board and them to a fed-eral
court. Hamilton's ruling was
never disputed by the federal
court.
Yesterday students from De-
Pauw did go to the polls. They
were challenged as not being
legal residents. Most of the stu-dents
left the polls without voting.
Eleven students, with at least
three from Roberts Hall, did vote
in North Fourth precinct after
they were challenged.
Ennis Masten, county clerk and
a member of the Putnam County
election board said the student's
names will be given to the election
board members who will decide
whether to transfer the affidavits
to a Putnam County grand Jury.
Robert Poor, Putnam County
Republican chairman, who man-aged
much of the returns chart-ing
along with his wife, Barbara,
discarded the idea that his GOP
office seekers were sucked into
their winning positions on the
coattails of Edgar Whitcomb,
candidate for governor.
"Our candidates got out and
worked, talked about the county
and were elected on their in-dividual
merits,"he said.
Poor said he did not feel that
the voter failed to take the time
to examine each county candi-date
and instead simply pulled
a party lever.
"They did try to examine each
candidate," he said.
Poor pointed out the close race
between County commissioner
opponents in the 1st district
Democrat Kenneth Shannon, who
defeated the incumbent Democrat
commissioner in last spring's
primary, only lost by some 500
votes. The race was about the only
undecided one by the middle of
the evening.
Poor said had voters gone
strictly by party lines, Shannon
probably would not have run so
close.
Robert A. Ziegleman, Sr. a
Republican, defeated Democrat
incumbent Richard E. Huffman.
Ziegleman campaigned against
what he called bad road con-ditions
in his district south of
U.S. 40.
Poor said he also credited the
GOP success with a large ad-vertising
campaign and getting
the message out to the voters.
Other candidates winning were
Jewell Blue, treasurer, Wayne
E. Hopkins, coroner, and John
Carson, auditor.
Carson paced the GOP ticket
Indiana voters return nine
congressmen to capitol hill
By KURT FREUDENTHAL
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Nine
of the 10 Indiana congressmen
who sought reelection were sent
back to Washington for new
two-year terms Tuesday by
Hoosier voters as Republicans
increased their margin in the
delegation from 6-5 to 7-4.
Rep. J. Edward Roush, a
Democrat who survived some
close brushes with defeat in the
old 5th District, was the sole
victim, and his loss was blamed
on the fact three federal judges
moved his home county into the
territory of Rep. E. Ross Adair,
a veteran Republican.
Roush ran a good race after
an aggressive campaign, but
Adair had too much going for
him in familiar counties and
walked away with the prize by
a margin of less than 10,000
votes.
The reelected incumbents in
addition to Adair were Demo-cratic
Reps. Ray J. Madden of
the 1st District; John Brade-mas,
3rd, Lee H. Hamilton, 9th,
and Andrew Jacobs, Jr., 11th
and Republican Reps. Richard
Roudebush, 5th; William G.
Bray, 6th; John T. Myers, 7th;
Roger H. Zion, 8th.
GOP Wins 2nd, 10th
Republicans also won the two
districts where no incumbent
was running.
Former State Sen. Earl F.
Landgrebe of Valparaiso con-quered
Edward Kelly, a Lafay-ette
Democrat, in the 2nd and
will succeed former House GOP
leader Charles A. Halleck who
retired after serving in Con.
gress since 1935. Landgrebe's
margin was more than 15,000.
Former State Rep. David W.
Dennis of Richmond was the
winner in the 10th, beating Wil.
liam Norton, an Anderson attor.
ney, by around 10,000 votes.
Considering that the election
was not a landslide in Indiana
for the national and state tick-ets,
It was surprising there
were no extremely close con.
gresslonal contests.
Madden won over Republican
Donald Taylor by more than
30,000. Brademas beat former
Republican State Sen. will
Erwln by more than 15,000.
Roudebush won with ease
over Robert Ford by more than
50,000 votes. Bray conquered
former Indianapolis Mayor Phil-lip
L. Bayt by more than 40,000.
Myers was the winner by more
than 25,000 over Elden C. Tip-ton.
Zion beat 35-year-old
Evansville City Judge Wayne
Kent by more than 15,000.
Hamilton beat Robert Garton,
34, by around 10,000, and Jacobs
beat former State Sen. W. W.
Hill by more than 10,000.
Decided By Midnight
In contrast to many past elec.
tions in Indiana when the slow
vote counting from paper-ballot
areas and close races clouded
the outcome in one- or more
congressional races until dawn
or later, the last contest was
decided this time before mid-night.
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John T. Myers
Although incumbents general-ly
were favored in pre-election
guessing, the unknown factor
was the realignment of districts
by the federal judges last Janu-ary.
That realignment moved
Roudebush into a district with
many new counties in which he
never had campaigned before,
and to make matters worse for
the Noblesville man, he spent
all except the last week or so
of the campaign in hospitals
following a plane crash in
which he was seriously hurt and
five other persons including his
wife also were injured as they
flew home from the GOP na-tional
convention last August at
Miami Beach.
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I
Edgar Whitcomb
in Putnam County with 6,462
votes, higher than anyone on the
ballot including state and national
candidates.
County Coroner Charles H.
Rector, Jr. (Democrat) was ap-pointed
to the office two years
ago.
Birch Bayh, who finally de-feated
his opponent, Bill Ruck-elshaus
on a state level, lost the
race In Putnam County by a small
margin. , 5481 to 4897.
Congressman John Myers
easily defeated his opponent
Eldon C. Tipton, by over 2,000
votes.
Some three hundred or more
voters cast their vote for
president In Putnam County this
year than in 1964, but only 100
some more than in 1960. Nixon
drew 5,679 votes this year. He
drew 6,583 in the 1960 election
in the county against John F.
Kennedy.
George Wallace polled just
under 2,000 votes In the county
in a major Presidential election.
He polled 1,131 votes in the 1964
primary in Putnam County
showing that his threat to the
other candidates was not as
serious as first felt.
Indiana voters
reject referendum
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Ind-ana
voters rejected the general
idea of legalizing parimutuel
betting on horse races, but the
margin was likely to be consid-ered
inconclusive.
A tabulation of votes from
about 2,600 of the state's 4,453
precincts showed 408,205 voted
"no" and 355,832 voted "yes"
on the non-binding referendum
question, "Do you favor pari-mutuel
betting on horse racing
in Indiana?"
If the relatively small margin
of "noes" is borne out in final
official tallies, it appeared
members of the Indiana
Legislature might look at the
results in different lights.
The 1967 Legislature ordered
the referendum after bills In
several recent past sessions
failed to pass which would have
legalized betting despite a con-stltutlonal
prohibition against
lotteries.
Chief opponents of the betting
were the Indiana Council of
Churches, representing more
than 15 Protestant denomlna-tions,
and the Indiana Farm
Bureau, the state's largest farm
organization. They waged a
vigorous campaign in behalf of
"no" votes, possibly with a
helping hand from groups In
neighboring states which wished
to protect their income from
Hoosiers who visit the tracks in
Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio.
Horsemen's o r g a n i zatlons
thumped tubs for a "yes" vote
and argued against the oppo-nents'
contention legalizing a
form of gambling would encour-age
syndicate crime activity in
Indiana.
When returns were in from 65
of the 92 counties, some of them
only partially complete, only 12
of the counties gave majorities
favoring parimutuel betting.
Mostly they were the more pop-ulous
counties, and among them
were a number which tradi-tionally
rank high in the num.
ber of federal gaming tax
stamps sold each year.
Marion County (Indianapolis)
voted "yes" by a 90,000 to
62,000 majority and Vander-burgh
(Evansville) by a 17,000
to 15,000 margin. Other "yes"
counties on the basis of incom-plete
returns were Clark, Dear-born,
Dubois, Fayette, Floyd,
LaPorte, Madison, Perry, Shel-by
and Tippecanoe.
The "no" group Included most
of the state's rural-oriented
counties but also such large
counties as St. Joseph (South
Bend), Allen (Fort Wayne), and
Delaware (Muncie).
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1 Weather
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Cloudy with occasional rain
today and tonight and cooler.
Cloudy, occasional rain likely
possibly mixed with snow north
portion and cooler Thursday.
High today 47 to 52. Low to-night
mid 30s. High Thursday 38
to 43. Precipitation probability
percentages 80 today, 90 tonight,
70 Thursday.
Outlook for Indiana: Cloudy
and colder with snow likely
north, rain or snow mixed cen-tral
and south. Considerable
cloudiness and cold Friday with
snow flurries north.
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