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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.52
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Wednesday, November 3, 1976
More results on pages 6-8
Carter edges Ford in late returns
Double victory celebration
With her children looking on, Rep. Martha Keys, D-Kan, got a surprise visit from her husband, Rep. Andrew Jacobs, D-Ind., at a victory celebration last night in Topeka
following Keys' victory over Ross Freeman in the race for the 2nd District congressional seat. Jacobs also won re-election in Indiana last night.
Keys turns
Bv COURTNEY THOMPSON and JIM COBB
TOPEKA - Democrat Mara Keys last night ended a hard-fought campaign to retain her 2nd District congressional seat when she stepped before cameras in state Attorney General John Edwards' first husband and wife team in Congress has survived."
Her husband, Rep. Andrew Jacobs, D-Ind., arrived as she began to speak and surprised both the Democratic audience and Keys. Jacobs had just flown to Topeka from Indiana where he had also re-election.
Keys, first elected in 1974, trailed in polls during much of the campaign but won over Republican Rex Freeman, Gore and Mitt Romney.
The contest had attracted national attention.
KEYS' DIVORCE last year and subsequent remarriage to Jacobs wasn't a campaign issue, the candidates had said throughout the race. But the question of whether he was the victim of a baffler because of her re-marriage was repeatedly raised.
Elated by her victory, Keys said Kansas voters had been open-minded and had reaffirmed her faith in their
ns back Freeman's bid
The crowd of about 500 Democrats at the Downtown Holiday Inn enthusiastically welcomed Keys and repeaters from the Republican Party.
Jacobs later echoed the theme of his wife's speech.
"I'm glad Kansans can speak out against bigotry and thereby set a tone for the United States. Walls of prejudice and unequal standards of justice for men and women no longer exist." he said.
"NOW THE IDEA that a woman can't think for herself is gone."
Four blocks away, amid preparations for a victory
--celebration in the Ramada Ijm's Regency Ballroom. Freeman went before Republicans to concede defeat.
Party supporters express mixed reaction to election See stories page six
See stories page six
Fifteen minutes earlier, Freeman had said he thought he could still win. At the time Keys was leading by more than a quarter.
A few women Republicans and campaign workers in the audience, whom he had consolated a few minutes before, wept softly as he said, "We have respectfully disagreed and we have offered an alternative.
Composed now, but no longer confident, he stepped before the microphone and said quietly, "Oh. gee."
"We've run a good, clean campaign. We've been open. we've been honest."
REPUBLICANS HAD tried to portray Keys as a liberal who didn't represent the conservative views of the district because she had supported Democratic-sponsored social programs and had favored decreased defense spending. They also said he received large contributions from out-of state labor groups.
In return, Keys said that Freeman, if elected, would support big-business interests.
Freeman said in an interview that he was disturbed by "vicious" advertising by the Keys campaign during the
In particular, he referred to a television commercial he said had been released last Wednesday. It showed three men, partially obscured in a haze of smoke. The ad imitated the actions of political boasies in smoke-filled rooms, Republicans said.
Both Democrats and Republicans said Keys' unexpected margin of victory was a result of a last-minute advertising blitz. Some Democrats said televised debates between the candidates had also helped Keys.
that many impugned my integrity," Freeman said. "KEYS' BRIEF SPEECH to her supporters was her only appearance at the state Democratic headquarters. She couldn't be reached later for comment.
When asked how she had won, Keys said, "I don't know how we did it. But I know it was a good, hard campaign."
By WALTER MEARS AP Special Correspondent
Washington (AP)—Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated President Gerald Ford and won the White House early today, ending eight years of Republican rule and crowning Carter's long, once lonely campaign out of the political wilderness.
He rejoiced in Atlanta, at 3 am. (CDT) a sensation of a long count and a close rays, save his eyes.
"I pray that I can live up to your confidence and never disappoint you."
He praised the vanquished Ford as a formidable opponent, a good and decent man.
At the White House, a spokesman said the President had gone to bed at 2 a.m. (CDT) and would have nothing to say until later in the morning.
Carter, an obscure, ex-Georgia governor a scant two years ago, won the presidency after the GOP's victory.
The returns as of 8 a.m. today showed Carter carrying 23 states with 272 electoral votes. Ford carried 24 states with 186 electoral votes.
The popular vote totals from 90 per cent of
waters and Ford, Carter 36,567
tied for 43,848,518.
It was a night for rejoicing in Atlanta and in tiny Plains, Ga., Carter's home hamlet.
"It's not going to be easy for any of the president-elect said, "I don't claim to know all the answers but . . . I'm not afraid to take the responsibility of president of the United States because my strength and my courage . . . comes from you."
So Carter prepared for power,saying he
already has a list of names to be considered for top appointments in a new Democratic administration. On Jan. 20th, he will become the 39th President of the United States, and the first Deep South president elected since Zachary Taylor in 1848.
"We've made political history," he said. And Ford was left to political history as the only appointed president. He came close, narrowed what had been a runaway candidate and lost to a poll that counted was registered yesterday, by an unexpected high turnout of voters.
Georgia's Carter swept out of the South, holding it almost solidly and returning the region to the Democratic column, save for a few faint blips. Georgia crack he could manage in Carter country.
To that base, Carter added border states, New York and Pennsylvania. He won in Democratic strongholds like Massachusetts and Rhode Island, cut into the Midwest with victories in Wisconsin and in Minnesota, and his running mate, Sen. Walter Mondale.
In Minneapolis, Mondale said the new president will unify America, and make it "the kind of compassionate nation we want it to be."
Ford ran strongest in the Midwest and West.
Kansas results
National
President (98 per cent complete)
Ford (R)      477,771 543 per cent
Carter (D)    408,419 46)
McCarthy (I)   12,056 1)
Maddox (D)    2,117 1)
State
1st District Congress
Sebellus (R) ... 129,503 (75 per cent)
Yowell (D) ... 47,930 (27)
2nd District Congress
Keys (D)...83, 091 (5 per cent)
Freeman (R)...72, 368 (48)
14209
3rd District Congress (99 per cent complete)
(99 per cent complete
Whm (R)      119,919 (69 per cent)
Rhodus (D)    50,172 (29)
Wyman (R)    34
38 per cent complete)
4th District Congress
5th District Congress
Glickman (D) ... 86,769 (50 per cent)
Srivir (R) ... 85,426 (48 per)
Zhang (T) ... 22,331
(99 per cent complete)
Skuluxk (D)
Olsen (R) (
61125
404,880 (59 per cent)
61125
407,875
Commissioner of Insurance
(88 per cent complete)
Bell (R)
(Douglas) (A)
Sunday (P)
Shreddy (P)
539, 221 (8 per cent)
14, 76
42, 36 (8)
Treasurer (90 per cent complete)
*Family (D)* ... 415,994 (56 per cent)
Weber (R) ... 290,450 (39)
Hyatt (A) ... 23,992 (3)
Hudin (P) ... 13,511 (2)
Amendment No.1 Land Use
Yes 362,133 (56 per cent)
No 287,543 (44)
County
Senate—2nd District 100 per cent complete
House----44th District
Berman (D) 12,845 (52 per cent)
Booth (R) 11,660 (48)
100 per cent complete)
Glover (D) ... 5,395 (60 per cent)
Hambleton (R) ... 3,797 (37 per)
... 249
House—45th District
SHERMI (100 per cent complete)
Buzzl (R) (    ) , 5,502 (57 per cent)
Francis (D) (    ) , 4,224 (43)
Johnson (R) ... 14,055 (55 per cent)
Huskie (D) ... 11,495 (45)
Commission-2nd District
Nels (R) . . . . . . . . 5,467 (77 per cent)
Flder (D) . . . . . . . . 1,617 (23)
Commission—3rd District
Bradley (R)          4,647 (51 per cent)
Stoneback (D)       4,423 (49)
Treasurer
Booth upset by Berman
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
(100 per cent complete)
In an upset last night in the race for state senator, 2nd District, Democrat Arnold Berman, a Lawrence lawyer, outpaced the incumbent Arden who had just 1.185 votes.
Staff Writer
Verycky (D) 13,829 (54 per cent)
Leslie (R) 11,825 (46)
Berman said he had anticipated a closer
bit, but was "clearly just very pleased."
Berman led with 12,845 votes to Booth's
11,660, with all preincidents reported.
Glover is re-elected
His appearance at the Douglas County Courthouse was enlivened by back-slapping and refrains of "I can't believe it" from fellow Democrats.
Democratic incumbent Mike Glover, 44th District state representative for four years, last night was reelected to that office for another two years.
Within two hours after the polls closed, and with less than 65 per cent of the votes cast, a runoff was conducted.
Glover defeated Nancy Hambleton, the Republican candidate and a former Lawrence mayor, and Thomas Hart, the American senator. Glover had an 103-2 total goal.
AS CAMPIGN workers embraced both repeats. I’m fine. I’m fine. Enjoy!
But he admitted that he was running
He drew more conservative strength in this election, Glover said. He said he thought conservative votes now knew he could present conservative issues such as retirement programs in the same open, outfront way he deal with liberal issues.
In his past two terms, Glover has been concerned with issues generally considered
more liberal, such as the decriminalization of marjuana. liquor-by-the-drink and alcohol by the drink.
If he can deliver on some of the conservative programs, he said, his liberal interests in such things as marijuana don't 'not be an issue with conservative voters.
"My greatest concern is that my defeat may cause good men and women to stop from seeking public office. They would not be able to carry on a campaign to which I've been subjected."
behind and that Berman had a substantial lead.
"I was a happy man before I was a senator and I will be a happy man after I'm a president."
The incumbent always has an advantage, she said. Also, she said, the 44th district is somewhat different from others because it has many registered votes who are
Booth wouldn't elaborate, but Republican campaign aides expressed concern over a recent Berman ad that listed Booth's voting patterns in the senate.
HAMBLETON SAID she couldn't identify a particular issue that gave Glover the
See GLOVER page eight
The aides contended that the ad specified in the document does that the umbrella with raincoats
BERMAN SAD THE ad merely laid out proposals Booth 1b voted for and Berman 2c voted against.
Berman said he had won the election because voters sensed that a change was needed in the direction of Kansas government. Deficit spending this year is one of his principal concerns. Berman said—spending that had amounted to more than $50 million or state revenues. Such spending Berman said, would eave away the state's surplus.
During his campaign, Berman advocated the elimination of the sales tax on prescription drugs and food, and an increase in income tax exemptions from $800 to $750.
Checking the returns
Arnold Berman, left, beams at an early-morning party at his home, celebrating Berman's win over incumbent Arden Booth in
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
the state senator race in the 2nd District. Fellow Democrat Michael Clover, who will return to the 44th District House seat,