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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 8, 1967
Election wrapup
Cleveland elects Negro
By United Press International
Democratic state legislator Carl B. Stokes won the Cleveland mayoral election Tuesday to become the first Negro elected mayor of a major American city.
Another Negro Democrat, Richard G. Hatcher, was elected mayor of Gary, Ind., after a battle against the race issue and his own local party organization. National Guardsmen had been placed on the alert at both cities to forestall any outbreaks of racial violence.
Elsewhere, Tuesday's off year elections resulted in scattered Republican gains, which included winning an edge in state governorships for the first time since the 1954 elections. Republican governors now outnumber Democrats. 26 to 24.
Both Cleveland and Gary are normally overwhelmingly Democratic cities, but the 1967 mayoral contests were settled by razor-thin margins.
Indications of backlash Other places in which race was
1.
Mrs. Hicks and White were both Democrats running in a nonpartisan election.
The most conspicuous Republican gains were in Kentucky and New Jersey.
The Johnson administration could claim comfort, however, from a referendum in San Francisco, where a proposition calling for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam was defeated by a margin of almost 2 to 1.
a factor included New Jersey, Mississippi and Boston, where Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin H. White won over Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, who became a symbol of racial backlash as a member of the city's school committee.
The slender margin by which Stokes and Hatcher won and the large vote rolled up by Mrs. Hicks despite her loss indicated that white backlash against Negro bids for political power is still a potent force to be dealt with by the national political parties.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
SUA Lecture. 3:30 p.m. "Contem-
pany Music. Austin Ledwilh. Musi-
cle Music."
Comp. Center Distinguished Lecture
puter Services and Use of Data Banks;
the Improvised Information System." D.
J. Jones, UMKC. 301 Summerfield.
Foreign Students: Sign up this
dinner-program. 226 Good Hall.
Carillon Recital. 7 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Le Caréte Francais se reunit mira
l'accent, le sens de la réflexion.
Jayhawk Room de 'Uunion Building.
Programme: Discussion de la comedie,
de la théorie de la professeur
Jacques Seherer barlaër.
Classical Film. 7 & 9 p.m. "Knife in the Water." Dynec. Dyche Auditorium.
Geology Lecture, 8 p.m. "Devonian Reef Complex in Western Australia." Dr. P. E. Pleyford, Australia, 402 Lindley.
Fine Arts Honor Recital. 8 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall.
Concert Course. 8:20 p.m. "Le Tre-
teau De Paris." University Theatre.
Experimental Theatre 8:20 p.m.
theatre Today! Experimental
Study Break Devotions. 9:30 p.m.
University Lutheran Church.
THURSDAY
Asphalt and Paving Conference.
All day, Forum Room. Kansas Union.
In Kentucky, conservative Louie B. Nunn was elected to the governorship as the first Republican to win the job since 1943. The loser was former state Highway Commissioner Henry Ward. Nunn campaigned against the Johnson administration and tried to associate Ward with it. Ward emphasized state issues.
aid day, Forum Room, Kansas Union.
English Dept. Poetry Reading. 4 p.m. Ed Wolfe reading his poetry.
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union.
SUA Foreign Culture Forum. 4:30
Parking. Trinidad. Prindado.
Pine Room, Kansas Union.
In New Jersey, the GOP recaptured both houses of the state legislature. In both New Jersey and Kentucky, the Republican campaigns were directed substantially against Washington and the administration.
Alpha Chi Sigma, 7:30 p.m. General meeting.
KU Pre-Law Club. 8 p.m. Green Hall Basement.
SUA Special Film, 7 p.m., "Turn
In, In-Drop Out" Hoch
Audifilium
Experimental Theatre 8:20 p.m.
*theatre Today.* Experimental Theatre
The Republicans failed to achieve one of their major 1967 goals, in the city election in Philadelphia. Democratic Mayor James H. J. Tate was re-elected by a margin of about 11,000 votes over Dist. Atty. Arlen Specter, a former liberal Democrat turned Republican.
In the only other gubernatorial contest Tuesday, Rep. John Bell Williams, an unswerving segregationist, was elected chief executive of Mississippi. The GOP loser was Jackson attorney Rubel Phillips, who made a respectable showing for a Republican in Mississippi four years ago. He took a more moderate stance on the racial issue this year and made a weaker showing.
In Cleveland, Stokes defeated Seth C. Taft, a grandson of President William Howard Taft, by about 2,500 votes out of more than 250,000 cast. He won the Democratic nomination by defeating Mayor Ralph S. Locher in a primary contest in a city in which the Negro population is estimated at less than 40 per cent of the total.
Election Disputed
In Gary, unlike Cleveland, the local party organization turned its back on Hatcher, who sought and got help from the national Democratic party.
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