THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.49
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday. October 29.1976
Election section studies issues
See stories pages 13-20
Polling results
In politics as of today, do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or Independent (in percentages)?
Sent 25.29
October 22-27 Democrat ... 26.1 Democrat ... 26.7
Republican ... 30.1 Republican ... 28.2
Independent ... 43.7 Independent ... 45.2
If the election for president were today, which candidate would you vote for (in percentages)?
Oct. 22-27
Sept. 25-29
48.4 Ford 43.4
28.5 Carter 35.2
2.7 McCarthy 9.1
1.9 Others 1.2
17.1 Don't know 11.1
Ford 48.4
Carter 28.5
McCarthy 2.7
Others 1.9
Don't know 17.1
In the debates, did you watch (in percentages):
| | First | Second | Third |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| All | 46.0 | 31.7 | 28.6 |
| Part | 25.2 | 29.0 | 22.9 |
| Glanced | 9.7 | 7.3 | 6.7 |
| None | 19.1 | 32.0 | 41.9 |
The second Kranan poll was conducted by reporting II and advanced reporting unit student telephone interviews of 2,500 students enrolled in the University of Minnesota's System Department of the University Computation Center. Statistics indicate that a survey of 341 persons would have a
Kansan poll says Ford still leads
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH
JIM BATES Editorial Editor
Gerald Ford still holds a commanding lead over Jimmy Carter in the Kansan's final poll of registered KU students before Tuesday's presidential election.
However, Carter and independent candidate Eugene McCarthy have made sizable cuts into Ford's previous lead, reported in the first Kansas poll taken September 25-29.
In the latest poll, taken Oct. 22-27, Ford leads Caterr. 43.4 per cent to 35.3 per cent. In the earlier poll, Ford had led Carter 48.4 per cent to 28.5 per cent.
McCarthy, meanwhile, has increased his share of the vote from 2.7 per cent in the first poll to 9.1 per cent. That like comes from a number of supported support among independent voters.
CARTER'S GAIN comes from a combination of increased support among DANIELS.
In the first poll, Carter captured 63.6 per
cent of the Democratic party's vote. In the latest poll, that figure jumped to 82.4 per cent. Carter's share of the independent vote went from 23.3 per cent to 26.0 per cent.
Ford, the Republican incumbent,
captured 68.5 per cent of his party's vote in
the first poll and 82.7 per cent in the latest
poll. He also carried the district
dipped from 40.7 per cent to 35.7 per cent.
In the first poll, 421 students were asked questions in personal interviews about their preferences of presidential candidates and their views on the state of the televised Ford-Carter debates.
IN THE LATEST poll, 341 students were asked questions during telephone interviews, once again about the candidates and once about the polls the poll didn't include the same students.
However, a comparison of the two polls shows that the share of Republican, Democratic and independent voters in them were about the same.
In the latest poll, 28.2 per cent of those interviewed said they were Republican,
If the election for President were today, which candidate would you vote for (in percentages)?
| | Ford | Carter | McCarthy | Others | Don't know |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Republican | 92.7 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 |
| Democrat | 4.4 | 82.4 | 7.6 | 0 | 5.5 |
| Independent | 35.7 | 26.0 | 15.6 | 2.6 | 20.1 |
| TOTAL | 43.4 | 35.2 | 9.1 | 1.2 | 11.1 |
The comparable figures for the first poll
Republicans, 45.2%, Democrats, 43.8%
Democrats, 43.8%.
26.7 per cent said they were Democrats and
45.2 per cent said they were independents
The two Kansan polls also attempted to discern how much effect the three televised debates had on KU students' choice for President.
Of the 330 persons who at least glanced at a part of any of the three debates, 46.0 per cent saw all of the first debate. The number dropped to 31.7 per cent for the second debate and dipped even lower, to 28.6 per cent, for the third confrontation.
THE MOST OBVIOUS statistic was the distance in the viewing audience for the debater.
An independent agreed.
"I didn't think they really discussed issue at all," a Democratic Carter vote affirms.
Most students who commented on the debates criticized them.
"ITHOUGH TREBATE debates were unfair," he said. "They made it seem that the only people running were Carter and Ford and that wasn't true."
The poll also indicated two other things about the debates' effects: 15.2 per cent of the 330 respondents their votes had been changed by the debates, and 41.9 per cent of the student voters said watching the debates made them more sure about their vote.
A Republican voter noted, "The debates just made both of them look kind of intense."
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Swine flu stinger
Being a grown KU senior doesn't always mean flu shots won't hurt as Rick Brack,
Kansas City, Mo., senior, discovered yesterday when he got his shot at Watkins Hospital. Yesterday was the first day swine flu shots were given at Watkins.
Meanwhile, the number of students who didn't watch any of a debate climbed from 19.1 per cent to 32.0 per cent and, finally, to 41.9 per cent in the final debate.
Flu shots don't worry recipients
By PAUL ADDISON
OF THE THREE large groups of voters,
the Republican leaders are populous
screens. See FORD, pages 396.
Staff Writer
"It didn't even stink," she said. "I didn't
have to done it to me until they said
it could be."
Jane Kleinberg rolled down her sleeve and smiled.
Kleinberg, wife of Jack Kleinberg,
professor of chemistry, was one of 100
people who received flu shots in the
first hour westerday at Walkins Memorial
Hospital as part of Douglas County's public
flu swine immunization program.
The reaction of other Lawrence residents to the $13-million national campaign was subdued.
"If an epidemic does start, it is important to me to know that I've had one and that
WINONA DINGMAN, 323 Dakota St., said she had come for the shots because her husband had a chest disease and she didn't want him to get the flu.
they were necessary." Craig Edmston, who got the shot because his doctor advised him to stop
The shots given at Watkins were part of Douglas County's campaign to immunize all its citizens. President Ford started the nationwide program after an outbreak in February of a new strain of flu, type A New Jersey 76 (swine flu), caused the death of one soldier and the infection of several hundred others in Ft. Dix, N.J.
"I got the shots to protect him, to protect my family's health and to protect my work."
"Everything's going smoothly and we're pacing it well," Wollmann said. "The County Health Department staff and our own staff are all giving a helping hand."
Martin Wollmann, director of health services at Watkins Hospital, said that the immunization program was working effortlessly but not interfering with the hospital's routing.
ON OTHER occasions when a change in the virus structure has occurred, a pandemic (worldwide outbreak) has followed. In 1957-58, the United States suffered an estimated 62,000 deaths when a new Asian flu strain first appeared. In 1968, a Hong Kong virus killed an estimated 33,800 people.
"Sare, for a while I had doubts, but if Sare's ready for me to go, then I'm ready," she said.
WOLLMANN SAID a few people had
Milton Weaver, 1938 Maine St. agreed, "I've been having flu shots since 1946 and that's something I think everybody should you have, there's just no real evidence of it."
doubles about receiving the shots because of the recent deaths of about 40 people across the United States within 48 hours of their receiving the vaccine.
"They shouldn't be worried," he said. "I'm convinced there's no association between the two."
Mildred Hodge, 529 Tennessee St., said the reported deaths didn't worry her.
Von Hoffman finds little election choice
By JANET FERREE
Syndicated columnist Nicholas Von Hoffman last night asked a crowd of about 400 in the Kansas Union Ballroom why "such a good-looking girl like America can't find a decent date" in this year's presidential election.
Voff H汗腾 blamed the selection of "two donkeys," such as Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, on a new era of campaigning created by sophistication of the media.
He said this new era had exposed the candidates to the extent that they had become repetitive and that this familiarity had bred contempt.
THE REPEETITIVENESS also came from the lack of "nun" in the canamax, he said.
"They don't say something all the time; it would scare the bell out of us."
Von Hoffman said that apathy had developed as a result of this campaign but that it was nothing for the American people to worry about.
"In general, presidential campaigns don't have much to do with decision making in the office."
"We are brought up thinking that the presidential office is so powerful, but you can quite accurately say that no major governmental leader have taken place in the past 50 years."
VON HOFFMAN said also that there had no changes in foreign policy in the past 30 years.
"Richard Nixon was the only president who attempted any change in foreign policy and you see what happened to him," he said.
Von Hoffman said that we had elections because people lived a symbolic life and elections were one of America's favorite symbols.
"Elections are traditional. They are something other than caddies." But that means democracy.
"Every now and then something comes up where we need an election. It is in a good place."
IN A PRESS conference yesterday
in ANO. Von Hoffman said he didn't want
Nicholas Von Hoffman
either Ford or Carter to win the election, but that he was placing his bets on Ford.
"I Carter wins it will be because of Bob Dole. The public's reaction to him ranges from "I like it."
"The best thing Dole could do from now until election day is to go to the supermarket, find a large paper bag, and put his head in it."
Von Hoffman said that Dole could cost Ford the election except that people were sick of being told what to do.
Official asserts death unrelated to flu vaccine
State medical experts said yesterday that the death of a 45-year-old Lawrence man was unrelated to his having received a swine flu shot Wednesday.
Laurance Price, pathologist at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said that the man, Miguel Ramos, 1508 Powers St., died of a severe coronary disease.
Den Wilcox, director of the department of epidemiology at the Topeka State Health Department, said that Ramos would probably have died had he not been to the clinic. The death was "simply a coincidence." Wilcox said.
'I'd do it again.' savs pumpkin slaver
Martin Wollmann, director of health services at Watkins Hospital, said that there was no reason to halt the Lawrence swine flu shot program and that further clinics would continue throughout November for high-risk people (those older than 45 and those who are chronically ill) and all others who want to receive shots.
By BILL SNIFFEN
Associate Campus Editor
All right! I've had enough! I confess—I killed it, or
be-whatever.
I turned around quickly—no one there. My radio was *off*, so we were the TV.
It started innocently enough, I guess. I mean, here I was out to buy a pumpkin--you know, to carve for Halloween. I searched carefully—I went to a couple of places in DeSoto, Eudora, all the supermarkets in Lawrence to look for the perfect pumpkin. And finally, I found it--hater- whatever: exquisitely well-proportioned, in coloration, small yet amply endowed. The perfect pumpkin. At least, that's what I thought at time.
So I brought my pumpkin home, laid it on some newspapers, raised my knife.
But you don't know the whole story.
"What do you think you're doing?"
AN AUDITORY hallucination, I thought. I raised my knife again. . . .
the pumpkin? Sure, I did it. And I'm proud of it, too. I bet none of you guys would have the nerve. Slashed her foot.
It was the pumpkin. No doubt about it this time.
"Hold off. buster."
"You're not supposed to talk," I said. "You're supposed to let me carve you up."
"Well nobody ever told me that."
I laid my knife aside, and listened to the orange thing that lay before me.
"You're supposed to be doing this to turnips, nurd."
"Turnips?"
The pumpkin sighed (I think) and explained:
More Halloween treats on pages four and five
that is the way it was done in the early century—want turnips, to ward off the ghosts who visited homes on
Halloween. It's a bit barbaric, if you want my opinion, but then most Scottish-Irish customs are.
I COULDN't move. I'd never talked to a pumpkin before.
"But you're so much more attractive than a turnip," I said.
"Listen, buster," the pumpkin snapped. "I don't come clean, and I'm not easy."
"Oh I know that you weren't cheap—$2.75, I think."
“Can you think of nothing but money?” she asked, her tender stem trembling. “I guess you've never had your relatives guts ripped on and thrown away, or baked in the oven,” she said. “If by iters you'd prefer to be watching a football game,
CARTER HADN'T said "less government" in convincing terms, making him a better leader.
"BUT YOU provide entertainment for children all over "world," I said. I pleaded. "You call that world."
You've never known the degradation of being left outside for weeks, rotting away, until you become part of the garbage. Or worse, becoming a basketball for not-tossed balls and funny the sound you make when a car rides over you."
"Times have changed, big fella. Used to be that we were carved into fancy stuff--you know, elaborate. Really attractive. Or at least scary. Now, everything's political."
"One of my cousins up north had his carved so thin, that after they took the inards out of him, his head was so flat."
Sure. I did it. Look me up—I don't care.
"No!" she screamed. "No! No! Arrghh..
"Another had her smile cut so wide, the top half of her belt fell over backwards. They had to stick nails in her."
I had more than I could stand. My hand moved so-slowly toward the knife, almost without thought. I walked into the room.
But you'll see. When I get out, I'm going to do the same thing to a turnip. Just wait and see. And then, you guys will never catch me. Never. You haven't heard the last of me... "
"I don't know how the political process was stuck us with two turkeys this far before the Iraq war."
Von Hoffman offered a solution to a dull campaign; Voters should write their congressmen and ask that Secret Service protection be removed from the candidates and put on Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters.
Hour gained this weekend
There is really a Halloween trick, and treat, this year.
Dedylight Saving Time officially ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, meaning clocks should be set back one hour to conform with the time change.
So much for the trick
The treat is that there will be an extra Sunday, to sleep in perhaps, or goblin about.
Since 2 a.m., April 25, most of the nation has been on DST. Only residents of Arizona, Hawaii and parts of Indiana ignore DST. They remain on standard time all year.