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68.OOO Alaskans to Decide Tight Governor's Race By WARD SIMS AsHooialcd Press Writer JUNEAU (AP) With attention centering on the races for governor and U.S. representative, Alaska's 1966 general election campaign passes Tuesday into the hands of the final arbiter, the electorate. Some 68,000 of the estimated 123,300 persons eligible to vote in Alaska are expected to cast ballots from the time polls open at 8 a.m. local time and the voting deadline at 8 p.m. In addition to electing a governor and a man to -fill the state's lone seat in the U.S.

House of Representatives, voters wJl elect 60 state legislators and pass on seven proposed general obligation bonding issues totaling $62,585,000. Voters in the Third Judicial District also will be asked whether Superior Court Judges Ralph E. Moody and Hubert A. Gilbert should be retained. The race for governor pits William A.

Egan, a Democrat and the state's chief executive since statehood, against Republican Walter J. Hickel of Anchorage and independent John F. Grasse, also of Anchorage. Political observers expect a tight contest between Egan and Hickel, with perhaps the votes drawn by Grasse determining whether Egan or Hickel wins. Running with Egan on the Democratic ticket for secretary of state is Hugh J.

Wade. Keith Miller, a former Anchorage William A. Egan, Incumbent Walter J. Challenger legislator who now lives in Fairbanks, is Hickel's secretary of state running mate and Owen Saupe of Anchorage will be on the ballot with Grasse. Rep.

Ralph J. Rivers, a Democrat who has served as Alaska's lone voice in the House since statehood, faces another big hurdle in his bid for re-election in State Sen. Howard W. Pollock of Anchorage. Observers see the Rivers-Pollock race as an extremely close contest, with the decision probably resting in the bush precincts of Western and Arctic Alaska.

U.S. Sen. E. L. Bartlett, a Democrat, faces Dr.

Lee L. McKinley, a Palmer dentist and fanner, in his try for another six- year term in the Senate. Bartlett, who has shared Alaska duties with Sen. Ernest Gruening, D-Alaska, smce statehood, is up against McKinley for the second straight time. He beat McKinley in 1960.

Under the provisions of Egan's State Senate reapportionment order last September, all 20 seats in the Senate are up for election this year, 10 for four-year terms and 10 for two-year terms. The full 40 House seats are up, as usual, for two-year terms. Of the seven bond issues to be voted upon, the largest is a $16.9 million proposal for the University of Alaska, including $5 million for community college facilities at Anchorage and in Southeast Alaska, with the remainder earmarked for improvements at the campus at College. CITY NEWS BRIEF Daily men "America's Farthest North Daily Newspaper" Member of The Associated Press VOL. XLIV Per Copy FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1966 Eighteen Pages Voter Information The League of Women Voters will sponsor a Voter Information Service to answer questions on where and how to vote election day.

You can call them at 452-2814'. Zoning Hearing There will be a public meeting on the proposed borough zoning ordinance at 7:30 tonight in Hunter School. The session, one of several neighborhood gatherings scheduled by the Fairbanks North Star Borough Planning Commission, is for South Fairbanks residents. Other meetings this week will be at North Pole School Tuesday and in Nordale School Friday. All meetings are at 7:30 p.m.

PEG Chapter I of the PEG Sisterhood will meet at the home of Mrs. Ed Niewohner, USSGalena, Tuesday at 1 p.m. Unaffiliates are welcome. Telephone 456- Chamber Lunch The Chamber of Commerce membership lunch Tuesday at the Travelers Inn will feature Sen. E.L.

(Bob) Bartlett, who will speak on the accomplishments of the 89th Congress with particular emphasis on legislation affecting Alaska. Recreation League The Community Recreation League will meet tonight at the home of Evelyn Skaladany, 226 Second at 8 p.m. CLOUDY RECORD SEEN ACROSS Partly cloudy to cloudy today, tonight and Tuesday with possibility of light snow tonight and Tuesday. Low last night -3; high yesterday 23; low tonight 10- high tomorrow 2o; sunrise tomorrow, 8:02 a.m sunset 3-07 p.m.; total daylight 7 hours and 5 minutes, with a loss of 7 minutes. Temperature at 10-30 a.m.

10. Precipitation- Nov. 3, 2.2; Nov 4, 1 1- Nov. 5, 2.1; Nov. 6, 1.2; Total snow presently on ground, 8 inches.

Elsewhere Albuquerque, cloudy, 65 and 43; Bismarck, snow, 34 Chicago, cloudy, 54 a 4 8 ver clear 67 and 32; Honolulu, cloudy. 78 and 73; Los Angeles, cloudy, 65 and 58; New Orleans clear, 78 andI 52; New York, cloudy, 50 and 39; Portland, cloudy, 55 and Seattle, cloudy, a peg, cloudy. 32 and 10; An- row, cloudy, 24 and 14; Barter Island, cloudy, 25 and 20; Cordova, cloudy, 37 and 23; Juneau, clear, 40 and 24; King Salmon, snow 34 and 27 Kodiak. rain, 42 and 35; Kotzebue cloudy. 34 and 32; Nome, snow 35 and 32; Sitka, clear, 43 and 32; Yakutat, cloudy, 40 and 24.

Like Getting ftPags to Choose Carefully (An Editorial) Going to the polls tomorrow is similar to heading for the preacher to get married. Alaskans are going to have to live with whomever we pick to head up our collective household for better or for worse for the next four years at least. Simultaneously, like the newlyweds contemplating purchase of their first home, we have to decide whether we can afford the necessities and luxuries represented in the seven bonding propositions. This is the most important election in Alaska since 1958. The decisions represented on the ballot deserve serious study of every voter before he and she head for the polls.

How much further should we go into debt for the bonding propositions? Remembering that our 272,000 Alaskans are already in hock to the tune of'almost $73 million for obligations we have previously okayed, rubber stamping Gov. William A. Egan's suggested $62 million additional debt really deserves study. Three of the seven propositions are necessities; these are Propositions Number 2, Number 4 and Number 7. All are to go for additional educational facilities which are necessary if Alaskans are going to provide our children and future generations with the knowledge and special skills necessary to adequately cope with increasingly complex problems characteristic of this futuristic age.

The ferAaming four bonding proposals are all meritorious, all desirable, and arguments have been made for each by political candidates, in addition to the governor, that all four are also necessary. The three education bond issues have a combined price tag of $24 million; the remaining three total about $38 million. If voters approve only the education funding propositions Alaskans will be authorizing a per capita debt which will place us about neck-and-neck with the highest in the nation. If approval is given to all seven issues (and we predict that approval will also be forthcoming in this "fly now, pay later" era) Alaskans will have the dubious distinction of being further in the hole than citizens of any other of the smaller states. Would it be better to authorize the "education necessity issues" and then wait to see if we elect a new governor, and if we do, whether he can, lead the way to a business-like pay-as-you-go acquisition of the remainder? Who should be our next governor? Will it be better for Alaska for us to stick with Bill Egan for a total of 12 years, or should we give Wally Hickel a chance to prove his promise that ho can show us a better way to run our state? The governors race has aroused more interest than any other contest in the state.

This is good. It is good for Alaskans to be intensely interested in who our next governor will be. Who the man and how he conducts his office is of far greater importance to Alaskans than is the usual case, as in other states. In other states (Continued on Papp 4) FLY-IN-VOTER John Miscovich and his wife, a recent naturalized American citizen who was voting for the first time, flew to Nenana Saturday to cast their ballots. The couple leaves today for California.

There is no provision for District 15 voting by absentee ballot in Fairbanks. Miscovich, a life-long Alaskan and gold miner from Flat, was determined h.s wife would vote. He chartered a plane, loaded aboard wife Mary, Peter, 6, 3 and Sandra, 2, and went to Nenana. -(News-Mmer Staff Photo) Keith Miller Excuse Me, May I Use Disagrees With The Phone: I've Been Shot' Gene Miller Keith Miller of Fairbanks, Republican nominee for Secretary of State, today lashed back at a statement made on local television last night by Democratic senate candidate Gene Miller, who said Miller had never supported Wally Hickel for governor. "I have publicly supported Wally Hickel's candidacy and his programs since January of this year, and served as chairman of the Workers for Wally in the Interior long before the primary," Miller said.

He also criticized comments by sen. E. L. (Bob) Bartlett that Hickel had not proposed a program for economic development in Alaska. "We have proposed a positive program for progress in Alaska and the Hickel administration will carry it out." Adam Lang, 53, a Ft.

Wainwright soldier, was arraigned in District Court here on charges of carrying a.concealed weapon and assault with a dangerous weapon. Lang is accused of shooting Robert H. Harper, 30, with a pistol about 1:30 a.m. today at the Boatel, off Airport Way, according to State Police reports. Harper, also a soldier, is in Bassett Army Hospital in fair condition, with wounds to the chest and abdomen, Army sources said this morning.

Lang and Harper were sitting at the same table when Lang was observed to stand up and point his arm at Harper, police say. Approximately 12 patrons in the Boatel at the time and the bartender did not see agunin Lang's hand nor did they hear a gunshot, according to an as yet in- complete State Police report. After standing up and pointing his arm at Harper, Lang was observed to sit back down at the same table, police said. Then Harper got up, walked over to the phone. "Excuse me.

May I use the phone? I've just been shot," he is reported as saying. A trooper arrived on the scene to find Lang still there. He was disarmed and arrested and taken to State Jail. Initial bail was set at $1,000, police said. Viet Split Profit LONDON (AP) Organizers a Viet Nam charity concert bowed to protests from show business personalities Sunday night and agreed that money raised would pay for medical aid to both sides in the war -not just the Viet Cong.

Election Questions Answered Although voters must vote either straight Democratic or Republican in the state closed Primary Election, they may vote for candidates of both parties in tomorrow's open General Election, Mrs. Lil Angerman, state director of elections, said here today. Mrs. Angerman said she had received several calls from voters who were confused about the subject. She said another matter which she wishes to clarify for voters is that they did not need to pre-register for this election.

"Unlike city elections, voters register when they go to vote," she said. She also stressedthatthosewho didn't vote in the primary are still eligible to vote tomorrow if they have lived in their precinct for 30 days and in the state for one year, and are over 19. She has estimated that 17,000 will go the the polls in the Central District tomorrow. The Central District includes Election Districts 13, 14, 15, and 16 and stretches from Bristol Bay to ftnaktuvuk Pass. Voters in this district numbered 11,006 in the primary.

Election Headquarters here has received 449 absentee ballots so far. A total of 467 were received for the primary. The ballots must be dated by Nov. 8, ana 1 signed by a notary puouc. iney may oe received up until eight days after the election.

casting Co. will have direct phone connections to Fairbanks for tomorrow's election returns. Ten Lathrop High School students, directed by Mrs. Doris Ray, will be stationed at Election Headquarters to phone in results from five precincts to NBC. They will report returns from Fairbanks Precinct No.

2, Lemeta, International Airport, Badger Road, and Graehl-Derby. Mrs. Leonard Peyton, a spokesman for the League of Women Voters, which is handling coverage for ABC, said ABC did not want to release the names of which precincts it would cover. Precincts which are hoped to be representative of how the election will go were chosen by 'council meetings will be on the Peyton said. The two national broadcasting networks are televising election returns from all stales.

Members of the League of Women Voters in 48 states are participating in ABC's program. Off-Year' Gains Forecast for GOP By JOE F.KANE WASHINGTON (AP The campaign winds up today, sparked by a blast from President Johnson at "white backlash" voting. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon also added some homestretch steam, counter-punching at the President on the Viet Nam issue. will be out Election At a Glance 'Vote here across the land Tuesday, and an estimated 59 million Americans a record for anonpresidential election are expected to answer the call.

An Associated Press survey completed five days before the voting indicates the voters are likely to give the Republicans five or six additional governorships, perhaps an additional Senate seat and fewer than 30 additional House seats. The "out" party usually makes congressional gains in off-year elections. President Zeroes In At a Texas news conference Sunday, Johnson zeroed in on the backlash the adverse reaction of some, whites to violence in some Negro demonstrations and the feeling of some whites that Negroes are pushing too hard for equal rights. The President declared "racism, whether it comes packaged in the Nazi's brown shirt or a three-button suit, destroys the moral fiber of a nation. It poisons public life." He said: "I can think of nothing more dangerous, more divisive, or more self-destructive than the effort to prey on what is called white backlash.

It is dangerous because it threatens to vest power in the hands of second-rate men whose only qualification is their ability to pander on other men's fears." 'A Tired Man' Johnson was on the receiving end of retort from Nixon. The 1960 GOP presidential standard- bearer, replying to Johnson's criticism of him last Friday for questioning the Manila conference's approach to any future troop withdrawal from South Viet Nam, said the President was "a tired man engaging in verbal abuse." Here's a look at some of the key races and the AP survey indications on them as the politicians sounded the last hurrahs of the long and often listless campaign. GOVERNORSHIPS California: Gov. Edmund G. Brown agreed Sunday he is trailing in public opinion polls in the race against his Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan.

But Brown said "they told Harry Truman that back in '48. I will win." He said the backlash is a Sw ELECTION 7) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "Here are some facts on Tuesday's elections: At stake: 35 governorships, 35 Senate seats, 435 House seats, thousands of lesser state and local offices. Mayorships: 20 at stake now held by Democrats, 15 by Republicans. Republicans expected to gain about 5. Holdovers 13 Democrats, 2 Republicans.

Senate seats: 20 at stake now held by Democrats, 15 by Republicans. Little net swing expected. Holdovers, 47 Democrats, 18 Republicans. "Needed for majority, 51. House seats: 294 now held by Democrats, 139 by Republicans, 2 vacancies.

Republicans expected to gain about 25-30. No holdovers. Needed for majority, 218. Tradition: "Out" party usually makes congressional gains in off-year elections. Turnout: Between 56 million and 59 million voters expected, which would break off-year record of 53.5 million.

Weather: Mixed, including fair in East, cold and storm westward to central and northern Rockies, somewhat cloudy in Southwest and West. "I think them candidates got mixed up spagetee feed'last night. Seemed like what they dished out was mostly balonee.".