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Daily Mews Miner "Ameria's Farthest North Dtify Newspaper Since Mtmbtr of The Aaocitttd Press VOL. LXVIII 15c Per Copy FAIRBANKS.ALASKA.TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 3,1970 Eighteen Pages NO. 258 Voter turnout reported heavy across nation Big turnout at polls here Workers at the polling places in Fairbanks and outlying areas were bracing themselves today for an expected record crush of voters. As early as 10 a.m. precincts were reported as "doing pretty good" or "very well." None of those contacted was doing any worse than averagi-V All those contacted noted they had had a very heavy turnout in the primary election and were expecting an even greater one today.

"We're waiting until people get off work this afternoon," one election board Court says Jack Martin wrong man Charges were dismissed last week because of mistaken identity against Jack Martin, arrested Oct. 9 in connection with the football lottery and charged with one count of selling tickets in a lottery. Martin, who says he doesn't play cards and doesn't gamble, turned himself in when he heard there was a warrant for his arrest. He was arraigned before Judge Mary Alice Miller and bail was set at $500, which he paid. Martin said he then went to Police Chief Robert Sundberg and informed him that the arrest was a case of mistaken identity.

Martin was given a polygraph test and the results showed he had no guilty knowledge of the lottery, Sundberg said. Sundberg recommended to the district attorney that the case be dismissed because Martin was arrested due to mistaken identity. District Court issued a dismissal order Oct. 29 and all charges against Martin were dropped. Jury charges C.

D. Toomey Alvin James Martin was indicted this morning by the Grand Jury on a charge of manslaughter as a result of the death of Walter Williams in a fight in front of a bar on Second Avenue this summer. Several other violent crimes against persons resulted in indictments of six other persons, including a charge of shooting with intent to kill against Charles D. Toomey. Thirteen indictments were handed to Superior Court Judge Warren W.

Taylor by jury foreman Clyde Geraghty naming 12 persons and including two secret indictments. CLOUDY The Fairbanks forecast is for continued fair and not so warm weather this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday. High this afternoon near 30, the low tonight near 15. High Wednesday near 25. Probabilities of measurable precipitation are near zero this afternoon and tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday.

The outlook for Thursday is fair. At noon today the Fairbanks temperature was 25 degrees. The low this morning was 15 compared to i record low for this date of -24 in 1945. The high yesterday of 43 degrees for four degrees lower than the record hi(h of 47 degrees set In 1951. Tomorrow the sun will rise at 7:49 a.m.

and setit 3:20 p.m. for a day of 7:31, I loss of eight minutes from today. member said. "Then we will really catch It." Not only are Fairbanks and borough election workers expecting a near-record voter turnout, but Thelma Cutler, state elections director, foresees a whopping 85,000 or 90,000 voters casting ballots around Alaska. About 72,500 Alaskans voted in the Alaska primary election in August, far surpassing the 1968 primary record of 54,500.

In that same year, some 82,000 voted in the general election. Facing each other in the race for governor-lieutenant governor are Republican incumbents Keith Miller and Robert Ward vs. former Democratic Gov. William A. Egan and running mate H.

A. "Red "Boucher. Republican incumbent Ted and Democratic challenger Wendell Kay are battling it out for election to the U.S. Senate, and Republican Frank Murkowski and Democrat Nick Begich are seeking the U.S. House seat being vacated by Republican Howard Pollock.

Voters in each of Alaska's 19 House election districts have an opportunity to help elect at least one state representative. State Senate races arc being decided in six of the state's 11 Senate districts. In Senate District I (including Fairbanks), incumbents John Butrovich and Donald E. Young are seeking to defeat challengers Don Pruhs and Norbert Skinner. There are 14 District 16 candidates vying for seats in the state House of Representatives.

Seven of them, who will represent Fairbanks and the surrounding area, will be chosen. Appearing on ballots in every district is a proposed state constitutional convention. The constitution itself requires that the proposal be placed for a vote once every 10 years if there has been no such convention during that period. The 11 general obligation bond proposals also are appearing on ballots in every district. They total $146.2 million.

Voters in each judicial district are voting approval or disapproval of Superior or District Court judges in their districts whose terms are up for reconfirmation. Small GOP gain seen in Senate but little House change likely A I (AP) Awaking in most parts of the nation to rain and overcast skies, Americans still turned out in unusually heavy numbers today to choose a new Congress and shape their state governments. President Nixon set the pace, arriving at a school house in San Clemente, with wife Pat and daughter Tricia, moments before the 7 a.m. poll opening. He let the ladies vote VOTERS TURNOUT--Thousands of voters were expected to exercise their vote today as shown here at the State Court and Office Building.

Voters will select statewide as well as local officials to government. (Staff Photos) Muskie, Nixon in TV appeal to voters on eve of election WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon and Democratic Sen. Edmund S. Muskie spoke to the nation on the eve of today's congressional elections in back- to-back television appearances that provided a possible preview of the 1972 presidential campaign. Muskie used the time, purchased on all three networks by some leading Democrats, to charge Nixon with leading a "law and order" campaign marked by slander, lies, "name-calling and deception of almost unprecedented volume." In so appearing, Muskie, who is a going away favorite to win re-election In Maine over Republican Neil Bishop today, underlined his own position as the leading contender for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.

Muskie spoke immediately after a 15-minute xcerpt, paid for by the Republican National Committee, of Nixon's speech last Saturday in Phoenix, in which he responded to the violence-marked confrontation he had with antiwar demonstra- tors in San Jose, Thursday night. Nixon called on "the great silent majority of Americans of all ages, of every political persuasion, to stand up and be counted against the appeasement of the rock throwers and the obscenity shouters in America." Muskie, speaking from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, said the Republican campaign has been marked by efforts "to turn our common distress to partisan advantage--not by offering better solutions--but with threat and malicious slander." Muskie's appearance recalled the time when Nixon spoke on nationwide television four years ago as the Republican spokesman after an attack by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Just as that speech provided a boost for Nixon's 1968 presidential candidacy, Muskie's enabled him to appear to the nation as his party's chief national spokesman almost two years before it picks its 1972 presidential candidate. Democratic National Chair- man Lawrence O'Brien said that, if the party had the money to buy the time--about would have not featured just one of the party's 1972 hopefuls.

But he praised Muskie for "a highly effective job of counteracting the last-minute Republican blitz." The senator's appearance was sponsored by a newly created Committee for National Unity, headed by former diplomat and New York Gov. Averell Harriman, and also including West Virginia Secretary of State John D. Rockefeller IV, Mrs. Martin Luther King and labor leaders I.W. Abel of the United Steel Workers and Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers.

The poor quality of the black and white film of Nixon's speech supplied to the networks by the Republican National Committee compared unfavorably with the high quality color Muskie tape, and stirred a controversy of its own as thousands of viewers phoned stations charging they were ing" the President first, then cast his ballot for what he hopes will be national endorsement of his administration. In school houses, fire stations and municipal halls from chilly Maine, through rainy Ohio and Michigan to sunny Arizona, Americans were electing 35 senators, 35 governors and a new 435-member House of Representatives. The angry clamor of a bitter mid-term campaign was yielding to the solemnity of the decision. Republicans appeared likely to add one to three seats to their minority position in the Senate. Little change was expected in Democratic-controlled House.

Democrats appeared headed for statehouse gains of perhaps a half-dozen governorships. The President noted the party in the White House usually loses substantially in congressional balloting in off-year elections, but he said Republicans will do better than that this time. He wouldn't make a prediction in numbers, though. Above all, Nixon said, he hoped voters would turn out in great numbers. "This is a day for the majority to speak," he said.

The turnout across the nation seemed to be fulfilling this expressed wish. In Rhode Island, a possibly unprecedented off-year high appeared in the otfint. Voting wu heavy in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma and tending toward heavy in Connecticut, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Against this trend were Maryland and the city of Detroit, though the rest of Michigan showed a strong turnout. Major offices on ballot today in 47 of 50 states The rain belt included Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska.

Nebraska also was getting some snow as was Texas' western panhandle. The voting followed a campaign in which Republicans stressed law and order and Democrats hammered at the state of the economy. The GOP theme was continued even on election day as White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler volunteered a statement at San Clemente about the rock throwing incident following Nixon's speech last Thursday in San Jose. "It was a serious and unfor- tunite incident that I personally would hope never would occur again around the President of the United States and those accompanying him," Ziegler said.

The San Jose police chief, Ray Blackmore, had said Monday that reports of the violence were exaggerated. Ziegler disagreed. The reports i a a exaggerated," he said. And the great enigmas remained as the ballots were and folded, the voting levers pulled. Among them: --How will the nation react to a Republican offensive concentrated on the issue of lawlessness and violence--and dramatized at the last minute by the confrontation in Stn Jose, between Nixon ind dcmonttntoH? -What of the economy, the Democratic issue? Will the voters look, as Democrats have urged, to their wallets? -What will be the polling place impact of the six-week General Motors strike, which has idled some 400,000 men, most of them in crucial, hotly contested midwestern states? -Where and how will state concerns, local problems, personalities, issues never raised on a national platform, override the broader arguments and shape the outcome? By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In 47 of the 50 states Tuesday, voters choose either a senator or governor, or hoth, and every state picks its of the 435 members of the Hojse of Representatives in the Congress.

Many states also have legislature elections, constitutional amendment votes and local bond issues. The national themes are the emotional issues such as law and order and the unrest in so- ciety, and the pocketbook issues: inflation, unemployment and the cost of living. But the issues state-by-state are almost as numerous as the candidates and outcome probably will tell little about national trends--although winners may argue otherwise. At stake: 35 Senate seats, now held by 25 Democrats, 10 Republicans; 35 governorships, now divided 11 Democrats, 24 Republicans; 435 House seats Fairbanks responds in cash to help William Smallwood SMALLWOOD CONTRIBUTIONS-Mr. and Mrs.

Wes Yager, brother and sister-in-law of BUI Smallwood, victim of chronic kidney ailment, examine a list of contributors to the Smallwood Fund. Contributions are dose to $6,000 total. (StaffPhoto) By SUE LEWIS Staff Writer Fairbanksans have contributed their money, time and talents to the Bill Smallwood Fund to the tune of close to $6,000, and contributions are still coming in. Smallwood, 322 Lakeview, a victim of chronic kidney failure, has been accepted by the Northwest Kidney Center in Seattle for their artificial kidney machine program. The program costs $13,500 for the first year and $3,500 each year thereafter.

Smallwood's borther, Wes Yager, 2027 Lakeview Terrace, is a i contributions. "I've heard about the Alaska people being now I know what they mean," Yager said. "You just can't thank everybody. It's fantastic." KFAR Radio and TV has been accepting contributions and the a a volunteered to pick up pledges, Yager said. 'The cab drivers are donating their own money, too," he said.

Mrs. Yager pointed out that any money left over from the Smallwood Fund would go to the credit of the Alaska Chapter of the Northwest Kidney Center to be used for Alaskan residents. Mrs. Yager said that several a i a residents have contacted them about people who might have a future need of the machine. The local chapter of the Teamsters Union has pledged to obtain the money necessary to purchase the portable unit Smallwood will be using in his home.

Witts Air Cargo will pick the unit up in Seattle and fly it to a i a at no charge. Smallwood will be returning to Fairbanks with the unit in December. While the machine is in his home, Smallwood will use it three nights a week. An account to accept the contributions has been set up at Alaska National Bank and checks should be made out the the Bill Smallwood Fund. They may be mailed or delivered to KFAR or to Wes Yager, 2027 Lakeview Terrace, 4524276.

now held by 243 Democrats, 187 Republicans, with 5 vacancies. Outlook: Republican hopes of gaining 7 seats necessary for control of the Senate faded late in the campaign and the prognosis is for a net gain of one to three Senate seats on the GOP side of the aisle. Democrats seem destined to pick up at least four governorships, reducing their 32-18 deficit. Democrats are expected to increase their margin in the House, but not by the traditional average of 37 seats that usually falls to the party out of White House power in the off-year elections. Last-minute changes: The incident in San Jose, when President Nixon was jeered by demonstrators and some rocks were thrown, plus the President's subsequent speeches emphasizing this violence, throw an unknown factor into predictions previously made in polls.

Democrats also are going on television to counter the last- minute Republican thrust. Pete's Union robbed FAIRBANKS Soviet scientist Dr. Valeriya Troitskaya is visiting the University of Alaska today as part of a tour of the United States. PageS. THE NATION Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour which brought every kind of talent from hoofers to crooners to the public's attention will be canceled by CBS.

Page 8. a i congressional committees--two in the House and one in the Senate--were knocked off in party primaries and two Senate chairmen are involved in close elections. Page 7. THEWORLD Three days of celebration started today in Chile with ceremonies i a i Dr. Salvadore Allende president.

Allende is the first freely elected Marxist president of any nation in the western hemisphere. Page 3. A thief armed with a small revolver stole about S230 dollars from Pete's Union Station at Third and Steese early this morning in the third robbery in the area since Friday. The robbery was apparently not connected with other robberies. "There is nothing to indicate any connection with the other robberies," Police Chief Robert Sundberg said.

The thief was described as male, Caucasian, 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-8, in his 20s or 30s, clear complexion, dark hair, smooth shaven, wearing a blue Air Force tanker coat, black pants, brown shoe packs over shoes, and armed with a small revolver. The thief entered the gas station about 2:30 this morning and asked Charles Creamer, the only attendant on duty, for change for a dollar. "When he walked up to the cash box, he pulled a gun and asked for money," Preston Owen, owner of the station, said. Creamer gave him about $230. Vote today: polls open until 8 p.m.

they have them elections once in awhile cuz it's the only time I can cancel out my wife and she can't do nothin' about it.".