Glenn and Wallace defeated in primaries
COLUMBUS (UPI) — Ohio voters rebuffed their Republican governor, James A. Rhodes, and sent former astronaut John H. Glenn down to defeat. while Alabamans put a crimp into George C. Wallace's bid to regain public office.
The Ohio and Alabama voting highlighted a scattering of primary elections Tuesday.
Rhodes was beaten by Congressman Robert A. Taft Jr. for the Republican nomination for the Ohio Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Stephen M. Young, a Democrat who said he was retiring at age 80, in spite of good health to let a younger person move in.
Glenn, at first an odds-on favorite to win the Democratic nomination to succeed Young, was overhauled by Howard W.
Metzenbaum, a millionaire from Cleveland. Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, had intended to run against Young in the 1964 Democratic primary but withdrew after being injured in a household accident.
A month old strike by six northeast Kansas labor unions has halted the construction on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Building and Malott Hall on the University of Kansas campus.
Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor for operations, said Wednesday that the trade unions had been negotiating for new hourly wage contracts for several weeks. Contracts for the unions expired April 1 of this year.
Strike by labor unions halts KU construction
Lawton said the NASA building was scheduled for completion
in late summer, but the completion date would be extended into mid-fall of 1970.
In Alabama, Wallace—the third party candidate who kept neither President Nixon nor Hubert H. Humphrey from getting a majority in the 1968 presidential election—failed himself to get a majority in Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary.
The original completion date for Malott hall, he said, was October of 1970. The amount of time delayed would be proportional to the length of the strike.
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Lawton said it was impossible to tell if construction on the Kansas Union would be affected by the strike. Contractors were employed by the insurance company. Emergency repairs, such as blocking off of the damaged areas, were made by the trade unions who agreed to do them, he said. Construction will begin after the union is cleaned up and the redesigning of the building is completed.
In fact, Wallace's narrow lead over Albert Brewer, the incumbent governor seeking renomination, vanished today as late returns were counted, and he fell behind by 17,000 votes. Wallace and Brewer now will be matched in a runoff. Charles E. Woods ran a fairly strong third with more than 100,000 votes to deny Wallace or Brewer a majority.
Kansan corrects report of elections
A story in Wednesday's Kansas concernring ROTC elections errored in that it did not specify that the elections were for Pershing Rifles, an honorary organization, only and not the entire KU ROTC.
The runoff is expected to be close and a Wallace defeat could doom any future national political aspirations.
where 11 communities had primaries, slates pledged to incumbent Democratic Sen. Thomas were beaten in nine of 11 races. The state party's convention to endorse candidates for the November election is scheduled in June.
In Indiana, all 11 incumbent congressmen—four Democrats and seven Republicans—won renomination. In Connecticut,
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