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Wednesday, November 6, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Transfixed on Rou
By Kensan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
Republicans stare at the flickering image of Rep. Bill Roy as Roy concedes defeat to Sen. Bob Dole. Roy congratulates his victory, while Sen. Bernie Sanders slays him.
he would value the associations formed in the campaign all his life.
In his bid for a second six-year term, Dole defeated Roy by an estimate vote of 362,566 to 349,820 with 94 per cent of the population.
TOPEKA-Incumulent Inc. Bob Dole, R-Kan, broke the team's professional victories last night by newly defeating Step. Bill Rikke.
Dole defeats Roy
By the Kansan Elections Team
Dole said he heard Roy concede the race before he made his victory declaration at about 10:45 p.m.
"I really believe people have faith in me," Dole said. He said he thought people didn't believe he was involved in the Watergate scandal.
"I had some experience and I was a pretty good senator," Dole said.
Dole said he thought his role in Washington would be tougher because the national trend of Democratic congressional victory had been moving toward a president-elect.
Dole said he thought he would be a better senator because of the tough competition Roy gave him. Many political experts considered the race too close to call as the polls opened yesterday.
Dole, 51, said he wouldn't be national Republican chairman again. He held that position from 1971-73, during former President Richard M. Nixon's landslide re-election and the Watergate break-in.
Political experts and Dole himself said the national chairmanship was Dole's biggest political handicap in this election.
seniority in the Senate. He has been active on the agriculture committees of both the House and the Senate and next year will be the top Republican on the Senate's Agriculture and Forestry Committee. Dole is also a member of the Senate Budget Committee, Committee on Finance, and Post Office and Civil Service Committee.
Roy, 48, emphasized his record for health legislation, while attacking Dole's conservative voting record. Roy was the author of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, the first law that officially adopted legislation written by a Kansan in 30 years.
During the campaign, Roy said, "I think Kansas deserves a senator who will place service to Kansas and the nation above all."
In his concession speech tonight, Roy said, "We've lost, but I almost feel that we've won. I wouldn't have done anything."
"The associations that we've made are something we'll have all our lives," he said.
Roy received several boots from the crowd when he announced that he had sent a message to Dole congratulating him on his victory.
"You've been a great congressional staff. It's been a great and a glorious fight in a very positive mood," Roy concluded.
Keys defended Republican John Peterson in the battle for the 2nd District Congressional seat 26,530 to 61,200 with 93 per cent of the precinct reporting.
Chester Mize for the 2nd District congressional seat in 1970. He is a member of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee and the subcommittee on public health and the environment.
Maturity and an appeal to represent the "ordinary people" have been the focus of
4 Kansas seats go Republican despite national trend
By the Kansan Elections Team
Smiling and shaking hands with well-wishers, Democrat Martha Keys said last night that she intended to work hard in Congress for the people in the 2nd District.
TOPEKA - Despite the Democratic sweep in many states, Republicans were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in four of five congressional districts in Kansas yesterday. The only Democrat in Kansas was former history of Kansas to be elected to the House.
Keys' campaign, Keys, a 44-year-old Manhattan housewife and mother of four, said that although maturity was an issue in its design, it wasn't a slam against her opponent.
"I feel very good right now," she said.
"I'm going to rest at home for a few days and then get busy. There are lots of things to get done between now and January."
"I'm going to work to preserve the very proud democratic heritage that is present in
She said she had benefited from the popularity of Democrat Rep. Bill Roy, who gave up the seat to run for senator, and she had "very large shoes to fill."
"This district is educated to listen," Keys said. "I've been open and honest about it."
issues and problems. We didn't deal with slogans."
Keys cited health, education and the economy as the issues of primary concern.
"I want to be part of seeing real change in Converses," she said.
Keys said being a woman had helped her campaign, but men were just as responsive as women. She said people voted for her just as a candidate, not as a woman.
Not visibly shaken and also smiling was Peterson, the defeated candidate
Keys is the second woman ever to represent Kansas in Congress.
Peterson, a 26-year-old -Ole
Republican, said_keys' media campa-
ma was a major factor in his loss. Keys'
friend, Jeff Scales, a person and
was responsive to them, he said.
Peterson said his relative youthfulness was also a factor.
"1 join all Kansans in the 2nd District in wishing the very best to her," Peterson said.
"The age factor could be an asset or a liability," she said. "She used it as an investment."
Peterson revealed no bitterness toward his opponent.
Despite charges by his opponent that he had waged a "noncampaign," incumbent Keith Sebellus, R-Norton, won his fourth term from the I1st Congressional District by a vote of 84,200 to 46,492 with 88 per cent of the precincts reporting
his challenger, Don C. Smith, D-Dodge
City, biased his own defeat, in part, upon
County incumbents survive rocky election day
By the Kansan Elections Team
By the Kaisean Elections Team
Douglas County incumbents who
sought the nomination, but
County Clerk Delbert Mathia said
the election was anything but smooth.
"It was one heck of a mess," he said.
"It was no heat at some polling places, poll workers didn't show up and people that were there showed them they moved, which is a normal problem."
There were reports that some of the material fell into the ballot box.
Problems of the clerk's office were magnified by prank votes. Mathia said.
"I don't doubt it. That's what I heard," Mathia said.
Dick Tracy, cartoon detective, received one vote for county attorney. Maria said
one vote for county attorney, Mathia said. Candidates throughout the county races said they were relieved that their campaigns were over.
Vern Miller was a popular candidate on the prank ballots. Miller received votes in all races from township treasurer to township judge, Mathia said.
Incumbent state Rep. Michael G. Glover
defeated incumbent G. Gray in the 41st District
877 to 3,357
Except for Glover's controversial proposal to legalize marijuana, the two candidates were in agreement on several issues.
Glover said he didn't think his opponent needed to bring up his stand on legalization or the economy. "I don't know," Glover said.
Kennedy's recent allegations of Buzz's ancessions on House votes distorted the facts.
"The real issue is decriminalization versus legalization," Glover said. "We buy and consume liquors so decriminalization is a priority, and we are establishing consistency in our lives."
Buzzi, Republican incumbent, and Kennedy, his Democratic challenger, said personal contact with the electorate was a concern.
It is a question of education, he said,
but there isn't documented the effect of
their training.
Glover said he would again ask for decriminalization in the coming legislative
Enacting such legislation was the right and safe way, he said.
Lloyd Buzzi defeated Frances Kennedy, 49 to 328, in the 48th District Kansas Association tournament.
Gray, the loser, said, "I haven't taken time to reflect on which were the deciding issues in the campaign, but I met a lot of people and it was worth it to me."
Most of the votes Buzzi missed were due
to his being on legislative assignments and
all of those quoted in recent advertisement
"I missed two and one-half days, for instance, because I was the only representative in the legislature to be chosen to go to the convention in Columbus, Ohio." Buzzi said.
Safety bills, and mental health and penal reforms are planned for the upcoming term,
Buzzi said it had been a great campaign and many workers had spent countless hours in the field.
The re-election campaign of Democrat Sue Neustein, register of deeds, didn't seem to be hindered by her opponent's fund. Neustein won 14,708 to 7,287 travel funds. Neustein won 14,708 to 7,287 travel funds.
Claiming overexpending by the register's office, Wanda L. Fendley, the Republican challenger, will reduce expenditure and to eliminate needless spending of taxpayer's dollars."
Neusifter challenged these allegations, saying that she had kept expenditures in check, reduced the number of employees in the office and traveled only to national conventions or symposiums important to the management of the register of deed's office.
Neusifter said she didn't feel bitter about the allegations made on her conduct in the office, and she would try to reaffirm the public's trust in her.
Peter A. Whitenight, Republican, won 3,411 to 3,188 over John Bingham. He had emphasized the need for contact with his rural constituency and the importance of passing the bridge bond issue, also on easterday's ballot.
Both candidates for county commissioner had emphasized the need for insight into financial affairs for effective governing in the commissioner's office.
"I plan to make no changes in my office," she said. "I'm just real happy about the quit-line."
Sherlyn Sampson, victorious Democrat for clerk of the county court, said she would go ahead with the reorganization plans she had drawn up after being elected to the Ellen Greenwald 12,410 to 7,588.
"Most of the staff, in fact a majority, will leave," Samson said. "A couple that have been hired since I left the office might stay, but that will be mainly up to the judges."
"The campaign has been a lot of fun getting out and talking to people." Bingham wrote.
"Our opponents failed to make any joint appearance with us," he said. "The noncampaign did a terrible disservice to the people and dreams of the people in western Kansas."
Sampson said her goals were to run the office efficiently and to turn some of the
lesser duties over to the deputies so that the clerk could spend more time in the office.
Smith said Sebellus, after campaigning very little, was re-sheduled strictly on the basis of his performance.
Greenwall took a two-week vacation from her duties as secretary to Archie R. Dykes, University of Kansas chancellor, to concentrate on campaigning.
"Other than attending meetings at which all candidates were present, I really didn't have time for much other campaigning until later," Greenwaalt said. "But it's been nice with win or lose, and it given me an opportunity to go out and get to know a lot of people."
Democratic incumbent County Treasurer Edythe L. Norman won another term as treasurer. She defeated Ruth P. Verynk and lost the Norman has served in the office for 24 months, between between treasurer and deputy treasurer. Verynk, a Democrat, had warned against
media bias and the amount of money and publicity given to Kansas senatorial candidates, as well as a member and member of the Kansas State House of Representatives from 1963 to 1974, also said it was difficult to gain recognition in the last few years. The district is Kansas' largest Congressional district.
official apathy, and had pledged to fight this trend.
Sebelius, a former city and county at-bailer in Norton, discounted Smith's charges.
Norman said she had visited every KU residence hall and she had found the students to be open and "tremendous." The treasurer's office has many dealings with students, including registering and issuing tags for their cars, she said.
Requiring double license plates will be a change during her next term, Norman said. Although much more work will be required, Norman said, her office will continue to be run in the same way and it should be able to handle the increase.
"The campaign has been tremendous," Norman said. "In the beginning of the campaign I decided to run on my record and let the people decide on that. I have no hard feelings toward my opponent and hold nothing against her."
In the shiffr's race, incumbent
Pimenta (12,792 to 9,025)
O. Fountain est, 12,792 to 9,025
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"We appeared on television," Sebelius said. "He went around the district saying he'd challenged me, and he never once spoke to me."
William Wiley
Sebelius visited all but one of the counties in the district, he said.
Lecture, Friday, Nov.15 1:30 p.m. Kansas Union Forum Room
Winn, a member of Congress since 1967,
defeated Democrat Samuel Wells by a
86,938 to 47,744 margin with 95 per cent of
the precincts reporting.
A prediction made last week by Republican incumbent Rep. Larry Winn told the House of Representatives Congressional District seat by almost a two to one margine proved to be true last night.
Incumbent Koubiz Skubit, R-Pittsburgh, won his sixth term as representative from the 58 Congressional District, defeating Frank Gaines, D-DAugusta. The vote was 77,922 to 62,827 with 93 per cent of the precincts reporting.
Wells said last night that he thought it was strange that there was a Democrat landslide in many states but a Republican one in Kansas.
Winn attributed his easy victory last night
to keep in touch with his constituents through newsletters and questionnaires, and to satisfaction by both Republicans and Democrats with his performance.
"Here in Kansas, we are losing our shirts," Wells said.
in the 4th Congressional District race, incumbent Republican Garner E. Shriver of Wichita defeated Democratic candidate John Koehler with 99 per cent of the precincts reporting.
"We know what we're doing, and just about what the reactions of the people will be."
The campaign has been sophisticated and thorough, he said.
Gaines, a state senator and former member of the state House of Representatives, was the first tough competition he has had since he first ran for the office.
Shriver is the senior member of the Kansas delegation to the House of Representatives and has served seven terms as representative of his district.
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