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jToa May Top Presidential Year White-Hicks Battle Draws It, Reeord Turnout for Boston TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1967 60 Pages-10 Cents 1967, Globe Newspaper Co. 288-8000 STOCKS Markets closed, election day. rl WJT'TTl By JOSEPH KEBLIXSKY and S. J.

MICCICHE A record Boston vote was turning out today to elect the next four-year term mayor with the kleig lights of the nation focused on the choice between Secretary of State Kevin White and Mrs. Louise Day Hicks. Precincts across the city reported early heavy voting, giving assurance to the predicted total vote in excess-of 205,000. The election of a successor to Mayor Collins has dominated the campaign, but Boston voters are also selecting a nine-member City Council and a five-member School Committee. Several open seats on the Council and School Committee have sparked competition which has added to voter interest.

The Boston mayoralty is being watched closely along with elections in Cleveland and Gary, for impact on the race issue. The outcome in these three cities will be gauged for national import as prelude to the presidential election in 1968, and whether the civil rights movement will take a more or less violent course. i 4 'C- 1 I'- Ut 1 i KEVIN WHITE, with his wife, Kathryn, checks in to vote at the Charles-st. Meeting House this morning. (Globe Photo by Jack O'Connell) 38 Other Cities Voting their ballots "in extraordinarily heavy numbers." Greene added, "Cripples are helping other cripples to get to the polls." The chairman said that some of the Dorchester and South Boston precincts up to noon today had shown a 25 perecnt turnout.

"The way people are responding, I wouldn't be surprised if we go beyond our expected 72 percent turnout," he said, Ward 13, Precinct 11 at the Dever School, Columbia Point housing project, had recorded 304 votes at noon. The voting strength at the precinct is slightly over 1200, according to Greene. ELECTION Page 6 The secretary of state and Mrs. White voted shortly after the polls opened at 8 a.m. at Ward 5, Precinct 5.

Mrs. Hicks cast her ballot at 9 a.m. at Ward 7, Precinct 1 Both camps are confident of victory, and each has reserved space for celebration, White at the Sheraton Plaza and Mrs. Hicks at the Boston Club. Boston Election Commissioner George Greene said that "trouble complaints have been at a minimum.

Everything is running smoothly." Voter turnout may exceed all records, Greene said. A tour of Roxbury, Dorchester South Boston voting precincts, showed that voters were casting MRS. LOUISE HICKS walks with brother, Paul Day (left) and husband, John, to vote this morning at the Oliver Hazard Perry school, South Boston. (Globe Photo by Harry Holbrook) Guard Identifies Kelley As Plymouth Robber 1 i Cambridge voters were greeted by uniformed American Legionnaires and representatives of Veterans for Peace in Vietnam outside their voting places. The veterans are seeking to sway voters on a public opinion referendum item that seeks to test voter sentiment on the American Vietnam involvement.

U.S. Voters driver's side of the mail truck shouting the same warning. said the government would show that about a half hour earlier Mrs. Diaferio and Thomas Richards, dressed in a policeman's uniform were near the Clark rd. exit observing traffic.

At the moment the holdup occurred Mrs. Diaferio and Richards were standing near a roadblock at the Clark rd. exit, diverting traffic so that it would not be flowing northbound past the scene of the crime, Markham said. PLYMOUTH Page 19 Boston 6th in Nation Associated Prus WASHINGTON The Census Bureau said today the population of the New York metropolitan area by far the nation's largest rose to 11.41 million persons on July 1, 1966. Los Angeles remained in second place with 6.789.00Q persons.

Other metropolitan populations include: Chicago with Philadelphia area, Detroit, 4,060,000, and Boston area, 3,201,000 Race, Viet, Society Head Issues in Nation Vnllfd Pris Intf rnstlonsl The nation's leaders turned to hear the voice of the people today on race, Vietnam and the Great Society as voters went to the polls in state and local elections across the country. The mood of the nation was expected to produce a heavy turnout. Volpe, Cusick Ride Rush Hour MET A Markham, in his opening on the second day of the mail robbery trial, also said the government would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that, at the time the crime was committed, the defendant, Patricia Diaferio, 32, of Roslindale, was about 4Vi miles south, of the scene, directing traffic at the Clark rd. exit. He said further it would be shown that with Mrs.

Diaferio at the time was the now missing defendant, Thomas R. Richards, 41, of Wey-mouth, dressed in a policeman's uniform. Markham told the locked-up panel of 13 men and one woman that he would produce a witness who actually saw Kelley in the cab of the mail truck in the town of Whitman after it had been driven from Plymouth with the two postal employees held captive in the vehicle. The U.S. attorney said that the robbery occurred about 8 p.m.

on the night of Aug. 14, 1962, and that Kelley ran from a parked car to the passenger side of the mail truck after halting it and shouted to the postal guard, "Open the donr or I'll blow your head off." Markham stated that Kelley had in his hand at the time what appeared to be a shotgun. At the same time, Markham said, another man as yet unidentified ran from a second car which was parked there and went to the BULLETIN In a dramatic move in Federal Court today the guard who was on the mail truck that was robbed of $1.5 million in Plymouth in 1962 picked out the defendant John J. Kelley, of Water-town, as one of the gunmen who staged the celebrated holdup. The testimony came from William F.

Barrett, 56, of Mansfield. By JEROME SULLIVAN The government told a jury in Federal Court today that it would produce witnesses to prove that the defendant, John J. Kelley, 53, of Water-town, was one of those who actually robbed a U.S. mail truck of $1.5 million on Rte. 3 in Plymouth on the night of Aug.

14, 1962. U.S. Atty. Paul F. JOHN Salty FDR Vice Prciident diet it 98.

Sea itory on Page 0. f-y N. GARNER The anti-Vietnam representatives have posted watchers inside some polling areas to keep an eve on voting. i Voting in Quinry was very light in the early hours today. CITIES Tage 3 feated a similar resolution last November.

National Guardsmen stood in the wings at Gary, where tensions were running high at the end of a hot contest for mayor between a Negro and a white. Last minute charges of attempted election fraud further embittered the race. U.S. VOTERS Tage 7 Rteincrohn ...20 Thfilen ..38, 39 Twlitagram ..58 TV-Radio ....53 Women Besides Boston, three key mayoral contests were to be decided, two of them directly involving racial issues, and in Kentucky President Johnson's prestige was at stake in a close contest for the State House. In San Francisco, voters were balloting on whether the United States should withdraw from Vietnam.

Dearborn, voters de By WILLIAM D. GODSOE Early day voter interest in 38 Bay State cities outside Boston ran hot and ecld. Near freezing weather, with snow flurries on the North Shore, dampened the early morning voting but as the day warmed so did the interest in the local issues and candidates. Election officials were sticking to previous predictions for strong voter interest because of a number of lively mayoral contests, especially where there was a strong possibility of administrative change. Heavy voting was in evidence in both Somerville and Cambridge.

tem, except buses. He stood beside the riders on the Everett to Forest Hills line, the and the Orient Hights line. Cambridge-Dorchester line He described the rides as "comfortable" and the vehicles in good condition despite their age. He was recognized by a number of riders who threaded their way through the crowds to shake his hand. Volpe in turn introduced the new general manager to the commuters.

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Cusick took a rush hour inspection tour of the transportation system today and they liked what they saw. But, Volpe added, "there is tremendous room for improvement in the existing stations on the system." "Everett station hasn't changed in over 50 years in appearance it's run down and dirty on the outside," the governor remarked. "The same is true for Sullivan and the other stations on the line." Volpe urged Cusick to give priority to the improvement of these stations and especially at Park st which used by thousands during the rush hour, morning and afternoon. Volpe said he also realized that several stations including the Everett stop were due $250,000 Paintings Vanish INSIDE HEADLINES SURVEYOR 6 ON TARGET Minor corrections aid U.S. bid to land on lunar plain.

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At Arlington st. station Volpe said he realized that a great deal of money had been spent there and this showed a great improvement over the former dark, dreary station it once was. governor had a great deal of praise for the trains and operation end of the system. The governor rode almost all the vehicles used in the sprawling transportation sys new M.B.T.A. Ccn.

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