Georgia trio vie for governorship
ATLANTA — (UPI) — Georgia's gubernatorial situation appeared headed today on a course that may rival its three-ring circus of 1947 when three men laid claim to the governor's seat.
It is a virtual certainty the legislature or the federal courts, or both, will have to settle the race between Democrat Lester Maddox, Republican Howard Bo Callaway and write-in candidate Elli Arnall.
THE LATEST COUNT, with 1,868 of 1,893 precincts reporting 98.6 per cent of the vote, gave Maddox 437,258 votes to 435,489 for Callaway and 54,939 for Arnall. Maddox 47.1 per cent of the ballots cast, Callaway 46.9 and Arnall 5.9.
The contest was the only unsettled governor's race in the nation.
Georgia's election code provides that if neither candidate wins a majority, the legislature will decide the election between the two candidates.
But there is a rub. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in federal court yesterday claiming the legislature is malapportioned and not qualified to be an election referee. A three-judge panel was appointed to hear arguments tomorrow morning.
LBJ intensifies war finance talks
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. — (UPI)—President Johnson called Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara back to the LBJ Ranch today for their second meeting in five days on military spending and other defense matters.
Johnson has said that the final figure of a request for extra funds to finance the Viet Nam war will be a key factor in deciding whether to ask for a tax increase next year.
In Washington the Pentagon's reduced draft quota for January has been noted as the first in its planned 1967 slowdown of the draft, but manpower experts believe the lower rate may be difficult to maintain through 1968.
Astronauts wait
CAPE KENNEDY — (UPI) — A device known as the misbehaving emergency guidance system held the key today to tomorrow's launch of Gemini 12 astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Buzz Aldrin.
The system on the Titan 2 rocket that will carry the Gemini capsule into space was undergoing a series of tests today. Final clearance for the launch depends on the results of the tests.
Rallies tire China
HONG KONG—(UPI) Thousands of trucks carrying about a half-million singing and chanting Red Guards rolled into Peking for a giant rally today. But the government warned the youths their zeal was interfering with production.
Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his heir apparent Defense Minister Lin Piao appeared at the rally and watched the six-hour drive-by of banner-waving youngsters.
But neither spoke and the official government newspaper printed an editorial apparently timed to coincide with the rally. It warned Red Guards against "putting the great cultural revolution in opposition to production."
Recent reports reaching Hong Kong indicated that Mao and other Peking leaders were becoming tired of the continuing marathon-length rallies.
Mid-term election draws 56 million
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The voter turnout in the 1966 midterm elections approached a record 56 million, a check of returns from 50 states showed today.
The estimate, based on nearly complete returns from most of the states that had governor, senator and House contests Tuesday, indicated that about 48 per cent of the U.S. voting-age population went to the polls. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the voting-age population at 116.4 million.
THE TURNOUT represented a sharp increase over 1962, when 51.3 million persons voted in House races for 46.5 per cent of the then estimated 110.3 million voting-age population.
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FLORENCE, Italy — (UPI) — New devastating floods threatened Florence today as heavy rains sent the River Arno swelling beyond the danger level. Thousands of Florentines fled their already battered homes in terror.
New floods threaten Italians
The new flood threat in Florence arose as drenching rains in the northern Italian Alps and Dolomites brought new avalanche threats to dozens of mountain villages.
SAIGON —(UPI)— U.S. Navy jets broke through North Viet Nam's deadliest antiaircraft defenses and dumped tons of bombs on a key bridge American pilots have been trying for more than a year to destroy, a military spokesman said today.
Jets bomb key bridge; jungle hides VC force
The bridge links the key port of Haiphong with the southern panhandle through which men and supplies pour into South Viet Nam.
It is the costliest target in North Viet Nam.
ABOUT 30 AMERICAN planes reportedly have been shot down
while attacking the strategic span guarded by about 2,000 antiaircraft guns.
In the ground war, U.S. troops who smashed Communist forces in war zone C touched only the underbelly of a huge Red concentration in the jungles near the Cambodian border.
Maj. Gen. William E. Depuy said yesterday his forces succeeded in frustrating Communist attempts to launch a major attack on nearby government outposts, but that an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 troops were believed still operating in the thick jungle.
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