ELECTION SPECIAL
kansan
Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No.38
KU
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday, November 9, 1966
Docking defeats Avery
Winner talks
By EMERY GOAD and JUDY FAUST
TOPEKA—"It's up to us to perform," said Robert Docking, first Democrat to defeat an incumbent Republican Governor, as early returns came in.
-UDK Photo by Pres Doudna
At 11 p.m., with only 25 per cent of the vote reported, Docking said he was making arrangements to meet with Kansas legislative leaders today to discuss plans for a new state administration. He beat incumbent Gov. William H. Avery by 55 000 votes.
DOCKING'S OWN white Lear Jet missed the Topeka airport on the first four attempts as a result of foggy conditions, but finally made it 20 minutes late on an instrument landing.
"We've been given a great opportunity. I'll try to give them (the voters) a kind of administration to merit their confidence," the Governor-elect said.
A few minutes later, at the Jayhawk Hotel, the new Governor was greeted by hundreds of very happy Democrats.
BE FOUGHT his way through out-stretched hands to the second floor of his hotel, greeting people and accepting emotional congratulations all the way.
Docking disappeared into a room with his family and party leaders. A few minutes later, the crowd parted to allow his mother Virginia to walk through. A Democratic well-wisher held her hand and said with a grin, "the best campaign manager in the state of Kansas."
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN
Everybody was happy.
Smiling Bob Docking, Kansas governor-elect, greets Democratic well-wishers only minutes before Avery's concession announcement.
History Set
By ROBERT STEVENS
Grant Township in Douglas County was one of many across the state that voted Democratic in the gubernatorial contest for the first time in 100 years.
Robert Docking, the little Democratic gubernatorial candidate, pulled the upset of the century by defeating Governor William H. Avery in Tuesday's general election.
More than one-half the counties went for the Democratic choice, many even more heartily than they did for his father in 1956 and 1958.
DOCKING BECAME the first Democrat in the history of Kansas to defeat an incumbent Republican governor.
He had planned to spend the evening quietly in his Arkansas City home, until early television predictions cast him as Kansas' new governor.
Quickly boarding his own Lear Jet, he arrived at Topeka Airport shortly after 10 p.m. and headed directly for the Jayhawk Hotel and the Democratic headquarters.
AS THE EARLY hours of the morning toiled on, James DeCoursey, gained a slight lead over Republican incumbent John Crutcher, 171,219 to 166,824.
Republican officers that retained their posts included Robert Londerholm, attorney general; Mrs. Elwill Shanahan, secretary of state; Clay E. Hedrick, state auditor; Walter H. Peery, state treasurer; W.C. Kampschreeder, state superintendent of public instruction; Frank Sullivan, commissioner of insurance; and Robert R. Sanders, state printer.
Kansas only one of nation's upsets
By CHERYL HENTSCH and JOHN McGEE
The GOP won big in the off-year elections, apparently picking up a net gain of 46 House seats that spell certain trouble for LBJ plans. Republican candidates also grabbed indicated gains of three Senate seats and six governorships.
Johnson's Great Society program is suffering acute pains this morning after an upsetting election night.
The GOP gain in the House apparently was even more than Johnson feared. Johnson said last week the Democrats could lose 40 to 50 House seats without adversely affecting his Viet Nam policy. He said this much of a loss was the average for the party in control in off-year elections since 1890. Actually, the average loss in off-year elections since 1912, when the House became its present size, is 36 seats.
While Democrates retained their expected control of both houses
of Congress, Republicans ran up their above-average gains all across the country. They had their most impressive gains in Ohio, Iowa, California, Virginia, Michigan and Kentucky.
CALIFORNIA
By far the biggest star in the Republican firmament today is Republican Ronald Reagan, veteran actor but political newcomer. Early in the evening Reagan skyrocketed into the governorship of California defeating twoterm incumbent Democrat Edmund G. Brown.
Reagan's victory apparently ended Brown's 23-year political career as the 55-year-old Hollywood performer built up commanding leads in virtually all areas of the state, including many normally Democratic strongholds.
Of the large counties, Brown led only in his home county of San Francisco. Reagan's victory
in the nation's most populous state automatically made him a force to be considered in national Republican politics, especially the Republican 1968 presidential nomination, either as a serious candidate or as a "favorite son" head of the big California convention delegation.
At his Biltmore Hotel headquarters, Reagan said "Republicans can remember Nov. 8 as the day we restored the two-party system"
Congressional box score
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
R-171 elected, led in 16.
D-235 elected, led in 13.
SENATE
R-16 seats won, led for 2.
D-17 seats won.
NEW YORK
Republican Nelson A. Rockefeller won his third consecutive term as New York's chief executive yesterday.
Rockefeller, 58, defeated Democrat Frank O'Connor, Liberal Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Conservative Paul L. Adams. Multi-millionaire Rockefeller led from the outset, ending a long and expensive campaign.
Roosevelt Jr. ran much weaker than expected. In fact, he was out-polled by the Conservative candidate Paul Adams, not considered to be any force at all.
MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts, usually Democrat, and Kansas, usually Republican, switched gubernatorial nametags last night.
Massachusetts chose Republican incumbent John Vohef for
their state's executive position, and Kansas chose Democratic Robert Docking.
Volpe defeated rival Democrat Edward J. McCormack who is the nephew of House Speaker John W. McCormack.
Massachusetts victorious Republican Edward Brooke, the first Negro to win a U.S. Senate seat on a major party ticket since Reconstruction, will be the first Negro to serve in the Senate since 1871. Brooke defeated Gov. Endicott Peabody for the seat.
ALABAMA
Democrat Mrs. Lurleen Wallace won easily in the Alabama governor race against Republican James D. Martin. Mrs. Wallace, wife of arch-segregationist Gov. George C. Wallace, made it clear throughout the campaign that if
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