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fl INDI • - 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 The Daily Banner 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. I 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. Continued on page 10 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). ;£:::::::*::x*:w^ 1 Weather S V* watcher •X •'.•'. 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. MM^i mtmm
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Title | The Daily Banner, vol. 77, no. 7, November 6, 1968 |
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Transcript | fl INDI • - 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 The Daily Banner 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. I 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. Continued on page 10 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). ;£:::::::*::x*:w^ 1 Weather S V* watcher •X •'.•'. 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. MM^i mtmm |
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