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,16 C()C ClatiOnCcDgCt Monday, September 6, 1976 Elvis KfeS vendor yelled. "Elvis posters, Elvis buttons, Elvis, Elvis, Elvis!" Kacy Ritter and Vonnie Bush-miaer of Jackson came together, dressed as though for church. "I saw him the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show," Mrs. Bushmiaer said. "He was fantastic; he was so wicked no, not wicked.

But he was horrible. All the older folks couldn't stand him." He's okay now with those folks, "us older folks," as Mrs. Estelle Wicker of Natchez said. It means she's a mother. She and her husband brought their children this time, their children eight and nine.

"THE KIDS love him," Mrs. Wicker said. "We've come the last two times he's been here, and we promised the kids we'd bring them this time." This man, this Elvis Presley, who can still bring married women out of the home without their husbands, he's for the whole family now. They make no pretense, these women. "We like his music, sure," Mrs.

Knight says. "But mostly it's him." She's an attractive woman, short dark hair, sparkling eyes, nicely dressed. "I told my husband," said her friend, Kathy Allen, "not to expect me home I just wish there was some way we could get up to meet him." They never will, they know. They'll never meet this man, this Elvis Presley. But, oh, if she ever could, says Mrs.

Todd. "I'D JUST like to meet him one time so I could ask him something. A long time ago my sister and her husband were driving an apple truck in Georgia, and they picked him up hitchhiking with his guitar. I'd sure like to ask him if he remembers my sister. I bet he does." They bought Elvis posters, Elvis buttons.

"Get your mirrored Elvis buttons," the man said from the platform. "All the women will want to have one in their purse." "Twenty-five pages of Elvis," the Staff Photo by Ann Ballle Mrs. Tommy Mize And Dr. Barbara giggle over Elvis program before concert The Voice Is Still Strong, But The Elvis Energy Is Gone Continued from Page 1 "Of course just the women come," said the married daughter, Frances Knight. "The men don't care about Elvis." But Mrs.

Knight still cares. "If he was 80 and in a wheelchair, I'd come to see him." NOT BECAUSE of what Elvis was then, when Mrs. Knight was Frances Todd and wore white socks. "He's right now," she says. beautiful, he's gorgeous, he's all those things rolled into one.

He's better than Robert Redford." Costs UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. -Unite manufacturing costs, a mix of wage and productivity comparisons, are surprising. Germany in 1970 produced at 60 per cent of U.S. costs, but in 1975 German costs crept past America's. Japan's manufacturers turned out goods at 51 per cent of U.S.

costs in 1970 and at 93 per cent in 1975. In 1970 Britain was at 94 per cent of U.S. costs and in 1975 at 147 per cent. Cards Continued from Page 1 BARNES ADDED that in early 1970 only about 50 jurisdictions were using punch cards. About 350 jurisdictions currently are using the CES system, he said, and the company is adding 35 to 50 new clients each year.

Another company manufacturing punch-card devices, Diamond International Corp. of San Francisco, serves about 50 jurisdictions, company officials say. One industry leader estimates 19 or 20 per cent of the U.S. electorate now votes on punch-card devices, compared to five or" six per cent in 1970. Among the jurisdictions contacted by the The Clarion-Ledger, the most commonly cited reason for changing to punch cards was the expense of maintaining and storing automatic machines and transporting them to and from polling places.

SHELBY COUNTY (Memphis, Tenn.) officials also are considering replacing the county's 1,260 automatic voting machines with punch cards. Shelby County election commission chairman Ann Weldon said the heavy machines damage floors and carpets in homes and schools and, therefore, have limited the number of available polling places. Shelby officials said their machines weigh about 1.200 pounds each and take up 40,000 sq.ft. of storage space. It also takes about seven days to move the machines to the county's 218 polling places, officials say, and another week to return them.

BY USING punch-card devices, Weldon said, Shelby County could expect to save about $200,000 in big election years and about $165,000 in less-active years. Weldon added that Shelby tested the new devices in 30 precincts in an August primary and that 80 per cent of the voters responded favorably to a questionnaire on the new system. WKIGl RiRGUSON FUNERAL DIRECTORS HIGH AT NORTH WEST STREET MR. HAROLD R. DEVER North Hill Square Apts.

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HE ADDED that the system's manufacturer "got out of the voting machine business." McKinley said he does not know if newer systems would eliminate Hinds County's problems. "Those I've talked to say 'yes'," he said. "There probably would be less problems with a new system, but even less with automatic voting machines," McKinley said. But Cook County (Chicago, 111.) officials would disagree. Cook County tried a new punch-card system in four precincts in the 1974 general election.

"THE FINDINGS of the sample were very favorable," said Sidney Chambless, personal assistant to Stanley T. Kusper Cook County clerk. He said that "was was one of the major reasons for switching." The county has purchased the system for 2,300 precincts and 1.2 million registered voters outside Chicago and will be using it this fall in place of automatic voting machines. The county hopes to save $600,000 per election year as a result. Mount Vernon MOUNT VERNON, Va.

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There can be no denying that the man still has his voice. In fact, on tunes like "And I Love Her So," he sounds even better than he did back in the days of "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock." And how many performers can get a standing ovation after singing "America the Beautiful?" But for Presley, it all seems to be a chore. He hands out his scarves to the clutching females near the stage with all the animation of a man handing out handbills announcing a supermarket opening. His self-indulgence has grown over one year. "These sentences are for indeterminate periods and no reliable information is currently available regarding the length of time those sentenced to prison will actually serve." OUTSIDE of New York City, the report said, courts generally have been able to manage new law drug cases without an increase in the average time it takes to process a case.

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None of this, of course, made any difference to The King's more vocal subjects. For them, the mere presence of Elvis in their midst is a cause for jubilation. But for the less frenzied fans, Sunday night's concert was somewhat disappointing. Like Burt Reynolds, Elvis Presley is in danger of carrying self-parody to a tedious extreme. The pity is, he may now be at his peak and not really care.

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Monday Baldwin Chapel Graveside: 12:30 p.m. Mt. Zion Cemetery Smith County, Mississippi MR. JULIUS LEMON ALFORD Barnett Reservoir 2:00 p.m. Monday Baldwin Chapel Florence Cemetery Lightweight STETHOSCOPE Tht vftinuli Ms hM.

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Perkins said. "BUT WE WOULD be spending a ton of money ($800,000 to $1.5 million) to change the voting system," he added. "We're not rushing into it." Because of problems Hinds County has experience with its present punch-card system, however, officials here are not considering other punch-card systems. In May, a study committee headed by Circuit Clerk Bill McKinley recommended the supervisors purchase 350 mechanical voting machines as soon as possible. Cost estimates range from 5600,000 to $800,000.

THE COST for the entire CES system for Hinds County including 800 voting devices and a minicomputer vote counter for each of the county's 112 precincts would be about $245,000, company officials say. John Davi, manager of the elections services division of Diamond International said the company's system, with 800 devices and a program for the county's computer, would run about $159,000. But McKinley's study committee did not explore the punch-card "The feeling of the committee was that anything connected with punch-cards would have difficulty attaining credibility with the voters," McKinley said. EVERY TIME the county's present punch-card devices have been used, there have been problems which delayed the certification of vote returns, he said. Last November, 4.000 ballots had to be counted by hand because the computerized vote reader rejected them, McKinley said, either be- DOUGLAS FOUNDATION 6 REPAIR 25 yrs.

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