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80-NO. 286 41 FACES ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1DG4 lOCENTSACOrY PAV NOV! DlllViaiO CINTI GOVERNOR'S RACE, SENATE CONTEST TOP TODAY'S PRIMARY BALLOT 12 ml hn Flood HIGHEST HONOR IN JOURNALISM Polls Will Open 7H A A A I i Times Wins Puliizer at A.m.; i-air ft 3 vvearner diarea DICKINSON For Turnpike Series 3 The Pulitzer Gold Medal "for disinterested and meritorious public service" highest honor in the newspaper world was S7 Pulitzer Pri frf J2-1 awarded yesterday to The St. Petersburg Times. 77w participated Ptfjjtf 72-4 I Profile of Martin Waldron Page U-A gj 'Discoveries? Page U-A There were 80 entries In the public service category.

KARL IIK.II The coveted award came to The Times, judges said, for its Other election news. Page LB. Time Wire Kmlrw More than 1.2 million Florida voters wore exacted to turn out today to nominate party candidates for the U.S. Senate, six congressional seats and the governor's office. Yesterday voters In the major cities gut all the attention as the candidates for governor closed out their first primary races.

Voting begins at 7 a.m. (EST) today. Voters standing in line at 7 p.m. poll-closing time will be permitted to cast their ballots, even if it takes all night. In one Northwest Florida county, where the polls close an hour later than the rest of the state because of central standard time, ballots were being cast until 2 a.m.

in one recent election. Bolstering predictions of a record total turnout of 1.2 million voters was the weatherman's prediction of generally fair skies election day. Florida has a total voter registration of 1.8 million Democrats and 396,885 Republicans. aggressive investigatio of Florida Turnpike Authority i spending, leading to the resig A5 nation of its chairman and to major legislative reform of state auditing and bonding practices cToA The legislation will save the people of Florida many millions i 1 Mv of dollars. It was only the fourth time MATHEWS KELLY since 1918 that a Florida news V.

candl- a The six Democratic paper has won the Pulitzer Gold W4 L1: Medal. dates for governor, who togeth er have spent J2.1 million in "IT'S AS editor'i their bids for a berth in the said Nelson Poynter, editor and president of The Times. 5 Other States To Ballot Today May 26 runoff primary, cam paigned right down to the wire, "All 650 Times and Indepen' and planned to shake more dent staffers are busting with hands in between casting then pride. The Turnpike was Mar own ballots In their hometowns tin Waldron's story but even he today. couldn't be two and four place; at the same time.

Jack Nease TEMPERS FLARED last became Martin's partner. night as the six Democratic can didatcs for governor of Florida "The backup team ranged all the way through the news and 'XL met face-to-face on a Miam editorial departments along with television program in a last-minute bid for votes in Flor graphic arts and mechanical de partments which met heroic ida's biggest city. deadlines and circulators who Arguments over the record breaking size of campaign con knew where and how to sell ex tra newspapers." 13 tributions. "The Jacksonville Pulitzer prizes were endowed Story," and Sen. Scott Kelly's by Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of attacks on Dade County's met the New York World and St.

ropolitan government 6oon In Louis Post-Dispatch, to be se terrupted the orderly question- lected by trustees of Columbia and-answer format of the l' (EORCiE WALLAC In spotlight Imln.V University with the aid of news hour program. Pearson, U-A. Times ire Services Five other states beside Florida will hold primaries today. These elections will test the public temper on civil rights as well as candidates for high political office. Gov.

George C. Wallace of Alabama will try at home to separate his state's November electors from the Democratic ticket. At the same time he is asking Indiana Democrats to support his segregationist views. Rep. Robert Taft Jr.

is seeking the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio, and in Oklahoma, Bud Wilkinson, the well-known former football coach, is favored to win a similar designation. THE OHIO VOTE also may indicate what kind of candidate Col. John Glenn would have been. He has withdrawn from the race for the Democratic nomination for the Senate and has said he would not run if nominated. However, his name is on the ballot against the in paper editors across the na At one point, Rep.

Fred Karl declared it was "a tragedy" tion. that "petty bickering" was pre A TIP FROM an employe of the Turnpike Authority in Feb venting a sober appraisal of the ruary 1963 started The Times on campaign issues. its long and complex search for The most heated argument broke out after Jacksonville's facts hidden in files scattered Smothers1 Rights Talk Interrupted By JERRY BLIZIN Times Bureau about Florida. Mayor Haydon Burns remarked that during the 19(i0 campaign, 2w jLmm Fred O. Dickinson had called Gov.

Farris Bryant and Doyle Before the story came to even a temporary close in November It had been expanded to vast areas of fiscal controls and the cost of borrowing money and had sparked major legislative Carlton "the gold dust twins because of their big campaign WASHINGTON Florida Sen. funds. reforms. George A. Smathers scarcely broke stride in a speech on the MIAMI'S MAYOR Robert Here are some of the changes resulting either directly or in ivil rights bill yesterday when 26-year-old Negro launched a It 1 directly from the Times series: 1.

The Legislature created verbal counter attack from the gallery. cumbent senator, 75-year-o 1 Stephen M. Young, and there may be some complimentary votes for the injured astronaut. The spectator, Kenneth Wasli- a new agency, the Bond Review Board, to study and regulate ngtnn, of I'assaic, N.J., was future state bond issues. quickly ejected by plainclothes 2.

An annual state audit Canitol police and removed to iiliiiii was ordered for the Turnpike Authority, previously checked D.C. General Hospital for obser vation. King High added that Dickinson had accused Bryant and Carlton of "selling their souls to the special interests" to get the money, and he noted that this year Dickinson had collected and spent nearly $700,000, more than any other candidate. Dickinson flatly denied that he had made the statement and High retorted that he could quote the statement verbatim from a wire service account of a speech by Dickinson at Pen-sacola. When Dickinson demanded that High produce the wire service story, the Miami mayor said that he had not brought it with him.

Later, he obtained It was the first such disturb only by its own auditors. 3. The Authority was di rected to start clearing its bud ance in 47 days of debate. Wash ington, a well-dressed man Sen. Barry Goldwater's candidacy for the Republican nomination for president is likely to enjoy a morale boost in the Indiana balloting.

The Indiana ballot carries the names of Harold E. Stassen and two other persons in addition to the Arizon-an's. The top man will win 32 first-ballot votes. New Mexico's only contest is for a House member at large. Wallace's Alabama campaign is aimed at electing a slate of "unpledged" electors who will gets through the State Budget poke In a clear tenor voice He didn't shout but he could be Commission.

heard clearly. 4. The Legislature created I thought this was America, a special investigating commit tee, armed with a $25,000 appropriation and subpoena pow the land of the free," Washington said as Smathers droned through the first part of what Supreme Courf Won'f Hear School Zoning Plan Appeal ers, to investigate the Turnpike Authority and other agencies fcfi-' if i i 4 ttlWWIi "'in' 1r and read a photostatic copy. "That's not a Dickinson protested. cast the states 10 votes for president in November.

"Unpledged" in this case means, in practice, pledged to Wallace, who is not likely to cast them turned out to be a 3-hour speech. Smathers just kept talking as a plainclothesman vaulted a gallery rail to seize Washington. The spectator took exception to (Please see SMATHERS, 8-A) which borrow money. 5. The lawmakers also set restrictions on interest rates, discounts and other costs permitted on bond issues and gave the voters of Florida a final voice in plans to finance a multi-million dollar higher ed the assignment of teachers.

Yesterday's order does not prevent the Supreme Court from considering the "de facto" dispute in the future. for the national Democratic ticket. IX THE INDIANA Democrat yjnii i mi i -f- ucation construction program ic presidential primary, uov. Matthew E. Welsh, standing in for President Johnson, has put the party's prestige and cash on by bond issues.

6. Chairman John Hammer of the Turnpike Authority resigned. 7. The governor gave responsibility for operation of the the line in an effort to beat Wal- ace, who has campaigned for EARLIER, BURNS, Dickinson and Sen, John Mathews had clashed over how much personal responsibility Burns could claim for "The Jacksonville Story," which had been one of progress and development. The governor's race Is the only statewide contest on the Republican side of the ballot.

The candidates, Rrp. Charles Holley of St. Petersburg, H. B. Foster of Fort Myers Beach and Ken Folks of Orlando, have campaigned mostly in the populous areas and mostly on the theme of the need for a two-party system.

In other statewide races, Sen. Spessard Holland and challenger J. Brailey Odham pitched (Please see 1.2 MILLION, 2-A) WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider a Gary, case involving Negro complaints of "de facto" school segregation. The court refused to hear an Appeal from a group of Negro parents protesting Gary's school zoning plan. Rights leaders contend that while there are no segregation laws in northern cities, assigning most Negro pupils to predominantly Negro schools and vice versa for white students creates discrimination.

This was the basis of the appeal. The complaint said about 97 per cent of Gary's 23.000 Negro students are attending predominantly Negro schools and the same situation prevails in evidence of Northern opposition to the pending civil rights bill. Turnpike to the chairman of the -if Polls have indicated, howev State Road Board, integrating to 00 er, that two out of three persons some extent Florida's highway Business 5-B Comics 8-9-D Crossword 7-D Editorial 10-A Entertainment G-D Family Today 1-3-D Horoscope 8-D Jumble 8-D Meetings Today 9-D Obituaries 9-B Radio-TV 7-D Sports 1-4-C State Page 8-B What's Doing 5-C intending to vote for Wallace said they were not acting on the Staff Color Photo by Bernlt Oram basis of his stand against civil system. 8. Members of the Authority were stripped of their unlimited expense account privileges and given the per diem au- (Please see TIMES, 2-A) rights.

They said they were voting against Welsh to protest his state policies on spending and These Nine Girls Are Symbols Of A Challenge, Story, 2-A KENNETH WASHINGTON quickly ejected. taxes..