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Sunday, July S. If 1 1 American Peg JA Tuesday's runoff election to choose new congressman JACKSON. Miss. (API VntPrs on the size of the turnout, because, he than prospective Republican voters. Attempts to arrange a head-on debate said, there are more prospective Less than 30 percent of the voters between the two candidates in the final Democratic voters in the 4th District turned out for the first election.

days of campaigning fell through. Who A Differerace turnout, especially among blacks, to overcome Williams built-in advantage with the 12-county district's conservative voters. Williams has sought to make it a liberal vs. conservative fight, attempting to link Dowdy with policies espoused by liberal House Democrats. "I represent the basic conservative philosophies of the Reagan administration and I think Mr.

Dowdy basically represents the liberal philosophies supported by (House) Speaker Tip O'Neill," Williams says. Dowdy, who says he is a fiscal conservative and a moderate on social issues, has accused special interests of trying to buy the congressional seat. He claims Williams, at the last public accounting last month, had received more than $70,000 in campaign contributions from oil interests. "I'm running against the White House, the United States Chamber of Commerce and every oil company in the world," Dowdy said. In their last financial reports June 17, Williams reported spending $208,767 and Dowdy $157,571.

Williams, then a political unknown, was the choice of a special Republican nominating convention that trimmed its list of candidates in order to throw all party support behind one contender. He not only has the backing of a party that has controlled the congressional seat for a decade but also holds Reagan's endorsement. Democratic leaders kept hands off in the first-round of voting, but have given their support to Dowdy in the runoff. They include Gov. William Winter, Democratic Congressmen G.V.

"Sonny" Montgomery and David Bowen and Democratic Sen. John C. Stennis. Winter has rejected the notion that Tuesday's vote will be a plebiscite on Reagan's policies in a district where the president already is a popular figure. The governor said the issue will hinge A Aionfh choose a new congressman Tuesday after a short but lively runoff campaign pitting a Democrat and Republican in a battle that the GOP candidate has sought to make a plebiscite on President Reagan's policies.

The candidates in the 4th District race are Republican Liles Williams, 45, a Jackson business executive, and Democrat Wayne Dowdy, 37, first-term McComb mayor, businessman and lawyer. They were the survivors of a special election June 23 among eight candidates to succeed former Republican Rep. Jon Hinson. Hinson resigned in the fourth month of his second term after his arrest In Washington on a charge of attempted oral sodomy. Williams led the first round of voting, polling 45 percent of the votes but falling below the majority needed to avoid a runoff.

Dowdy had 23 percent. Williams is considered the front-runner In the runoff, too, but Democrats hope to muster a large i Mokes Just Ask Any SPA FITNESS CENTER Member Williams tops Warren County's list sample ballot which gives Democrat Wayne Dowdy first listing. Dowdy's name will appear first in the other 11 counties of the district. Nancy Burkhardt, chairman of the Warren County Election Commission and a member of the GOP, said the commission decided to list Williams first after a local Republican requested the action. The ballots were printed on Wednesday.

"It matters very little to me whose name is first," she said. "I happen to be a Republican, but I have no particular thought on which is first." She said state law provided that "the officer charged with printing the official ballot" has the authority to decide the arrangement of names of the candidates and "I am the officer in charge. Secretary of State Ed Pittman noted, however, that another section of the same law called on county election commissioners to follow as "nearly as possible" the sample ballot mailed out by his office. The sample ballot, which lists Dowdy first, was approved by the governor and reviewed by the attorney general. "It was our opinion that the law required in this instance that they should have been in alphabetical order," Pittman said.

He said the opinion was conveyed to officials in Warren County and "I thought when our office called that they would have the ballots reprinted." "If it's a close election it would be possible to end up with some type of contest over the election," he said. Deputy Attorney General W.D. Coleman said a 1980 written opinion approved by Allain ruled that county election commissioners should follow the sample ballot as sent by the secretary of state. The order of names may not be altered from the way they appear on the sample ballot, the opinion said. vSr TAN OA A.7H1 ml SPA FITNESS CENTER VICKSBURG, Miss.

(AP) The name of Republican Liles Williams will appear first on Tuesday's 4th District congressional runoff election ballot in Warren County despite an official Winter participates in holiday activities GRENADA, Miss. (AP) Gov. William Winter took part in Fourth of July ceremonies Oxford and Charleston Saturday before heading to the Grenada area and a barbecue at an old friend's house in the country. We've been going to the house of Kermit Yott out in the country for several years," Winter said after taking part in a courthouse ceremony at Oxford. "He's an old schoolmate.

We used to ride the same school bus." Winter arrived in Oxford Friday night and attended a reception for the Spanish attache from Washington. Saturday morning he patricipated in a three-mile run through Oxford. The courthouse ceremony included remarks by Maj. Gen. Cohen E.

Robertson, Mississippi's adjutant general, Mayor John Leslie of Oxford and units of the National Guard. Winter said he spoke "in special recognition of our Vietnam veterans." Later the governor attended an Independence Day celebration in Charleston, joining Rep. Jamie Whitten, and Lt. Gov. Brad Dye.

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