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JOURNAL ALABAMA WEATHER Fair aid qaite coot tonight tfaroogfc Thars day. No raia forecast Low teaigkt mid 31s. Higk tomorrow 60s. (More weather Page S) 88th Year-No. 264 FINAL EDITION roi news iminiNS Dial MS-ttU Price is Montgomery, Ala Wednesday Afternoon, November 3, 1974 68 PAGES Cmiidl Don 'Dear Jimmy' gram Fudlgs ypperf i 6 I -1 Frd WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Jimmy Carter's long, once-solitary journey from Plains, will carry him to the White House in January with a vie-tory forged from the traditional Democratic party coalition of the Old South and industrial North.

President Ford acknowledged Carter's victory shortly after noon with a "Dear Jimmy" telegram pledging a smooth transition of power. At the time Carter bad 272 electoral votes, two more than needed to win, Ford, 235, and 31 undecided. "Although there will continue to be disagreements over the best means to use in pursuing our goals," Ford told Carter, "I want to assure you that you will have my complete and wholehearted support as you take the oath of office this January." Ford's message to the victor was read for the hoarse President by his wife, Betty, to reporters in the White House press room. Behind them, stood other members of the family. All appeared composed, although daughter Susan had tears in her eyes.

"It is apparent now that you have won our long and intense struggle for the presidency," Ford said. "I congratulate you on your victory." Carter surpassed the 270-electoral mark with victories in Wisconsin and Mississippi in The Associated Press tabulation. Two states, Ohio and Oregon, remained too close to call, although Carter held slim leads in both. Even if Ford carried the two, Carter, with 272 electoral votes, would be the next president. Ford pledged that he and all members of the outgoing administration "will do all that we can to ensure that you begin your term as smoothly and effectively as possible." The message concluded: "May God bless you and your family as you undertake your new responsibilities." Mingling with reporters later, the former University of Michigan football player commented, "We lost, in the last quarter." He said his two-year White House tenure and the campaign had been "a lot of fun" and added, "We really enjoyed it." The lead in California passed back and forth through the night with Ford finally declared the winner near daybreak.

Later, Maine fell into Ford's column. The closeness of the vote in many states raised questions about absentee ballots which are handled differently in different states. A quick check of election officials in 13 states showed, however, that the absentee ballots whether completely counted or not were not expected to have any impact on the total. Among those who said the absentee ballots had already been counted or would have no effect were: West Virginia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, South Carolina, Hawaii, Alabama, Nebraska and Georgia. In some states, absentee ballots are accepted only up until the hour the polls close and they are counted with all the other votes on election night.

In others, like Florida, where there are an estimated 150,000 absentee votes, they are not counted until the day after the election. The New York vote, with its margin for Carter, was already under challenge by the Republicans over alleged irregularities. However, the state election board said that some 400,000 absenteee ballots had been mailed. Any received by 9 pjn. Tuesday, the hour the polls closed, 'would have been counted.

But a board spokesman said he did not know how many had been counted or how many remained outstanding. The challenge over alleged ir- Til President-Elect Carter And Next First tady Wash Mrs. ilflcDaniel Wins PSC Wifhouf Hometown 4 Victory' Smies Dickinson Calls Victory 'Historic' By VIRGLMA GIBSON U.S. Rep. Bill Dickinson of Montgomery called his Tuesday victory over Democratic opponent Carole Keahey "historic" this morning, adding he was "terribly disappointed" over the presidential race.

The final unofficial returns gave the incumbent a total of 92,553 votes to Miss Keahey's 62,642 in the 13 counties which comprise the Second Congressional District. Dickinson carried Montgomery County by a landslide with 32,808 votes to 19,602. His victory gave the 12-year veteran congressman a larger victory than his 1972 race which pitted him against Eufaula Dist. Atty. Ben Reeves.

Dickinson defeated Reeves by a vote of 80,362 to 60,769 in that race. Miss Keahey, a pretty face and political neophyte, staged an eleventh-hour media advertising blitz against the incumbent, blasting his voting record and political "junkets." Early today, Dickinson called his 1976 election historic pointing to the amount of money spent by Miss Keahey in her unsucessful bid to unseat him. "She spent more more than has ever been spent in the history of this state," he added. "That just shows this seat's not for sale and when she finally gets around to filing (campaign expenses) as re-, quired by law, I think we'll find out that a lot of money to spend on a little country district" The congressman said he was -'concerned for the future of this country" with Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter moving into the White House.

"Without a system of checks and balances, we'll have runaway spending," he said, referring to a Democratic- congress and Carter as president presidential election year since 1920 when universal suffrage into effect The lowest turnout Was in 1948, when 51.1 per cent of the voting age population voted. "I pray that I can live up to your confidence and never disappoint you," Carter told jubilant supporters in Atlanta after the results Were clear. "It's time for us to get together, to correct our mistakes, to inswer difficult questions and to make our nation great" Carter praised Ford as "the most formidable opponent that anyone could possibly have." And he called his defeated opponent "a good and decent man." Neither Ford, the first incumbent denied a new term since Herbert Hoover was swept from office in 1932, nor his running mate, Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, appeared at a Republican "victory party" in Washington. A White House spokesman said Ford had gone to bed before Carter was declared the winner.

Voters' desires for a change in Washington overcame their qualms about Jimmy Carter and their respect for Ford's experience in office, an Associated Press poll showed. Carter won by coaxing support from the traditional Democratic blocs, despite their feelings, expressed in the survey, that be has promised more than he can deliver and that he will be a less than excellent president. The former Georgia governor drew strong support from the lower income groups, labor union members, blacks and the less educated, all the traditional bases of Democratic strength. Thus, on Jan. 20, 1977, James Earl Carter Jr.

will take the oath as the 39th president of the United States. Taking office as vice president will be Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, a man who once toyed with the idea of running for president himself, but then decided against putting himself through the rigors of a national campaign. Carter will be the first deep Southerner to reach the presidency by election since Zachary Taylor in 1848.

And after eight years of Republican control of the White House, the Democrats once again will be in command of both the executive and legislative branches of government. Democratic domination of the House and Senate was unchanged by Tuesday's election results. Although the party lineup in the Senate will be familiar, a lot of the faces will be new. At least 16 newcomers will take Senate seats in January. Battling for an electoral mandate to the office he reached by appointment, Ford was unable to survive the tide of Democratic votes that flowed from the Old South and the industrial North.

That coalition was forged originally by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the man who defeated Hoover back in 1932. Throughout the campaign, Carter referred often to the nation's economic ills, mentioning the Great Depression of the 1930s and linking the names of Ford and Hoover. But Ford battled Carter for the South, an area that in recent years had moved farther from its "solid" image and had consistently become a strong point for GOP presidential candidates. But the strength Ford hoped he might have among the dominant conservatives in the South never materialized.

Carter's appeal to Southerners to support one of their own was too much for Ford to overcome. The Southern trend was apparent in the early returns Tuesday evening. In rapid succession, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas fell into the Carter column. But the death of Ford's hopes for a Southern breakthrough became apparent when Carter carried Louisiana, Florida and Texas, three states Ford strategists thought the President could carry. It was nearly dawn when Mississippi went to Carter, completing the Georgian's near sweep of the states of the Old Confederacy.

Only Virginia voted for Ford. Carter ran equally strong in border states such as West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland. The other element in Carter's formula for victory was the big cities of the North. New York City and Philadelphia came through as they have in so many elections past with big Democratic majorities, that overcame Republican votes in other parts of New York State and Pennsylvania. Ford led in the returns from New York State until early this morning when a surge of Democratic votes from New York City gave the state to Carter by a margin of 150,000.

Mondale appeared at a victory celebration in Minneapolis and told supporters, "Jimmy Carter is going to be one of the greatest presidents in American history." And in Plains, the mother of the victorious president-elect, 79-year-old Miss Lillian Carter, wore a tee shirt that said, "Jimmy Won." "I never had any doubt," she told reporters'. Elements of the coalition her son put together showed up in the AP survey, made among voters outside 100 polling places in the country. (See CAKTER Page 3) New York Machines Impounded NEW YORK (AP) Trucks were sent throughout New York State this morning to pick up the state's 29,000 voting machines, all impounded by a middle-of-the-night court order carrying White House approval. The highly unusual action believed to be a first in this state was ordered after representatives of Republican officials alleged that irregularities had occurred in Tuesday's election. A spokesman at the Board of Elections in New York City said this morning that trucks were being dispatched "to pick up the machines.

They will be removed to a central location and guarded." The impoundment is meant to safeguard the voting machines while a recount is conducted. With 98 per cent of the state's vote counted, Jimmy Carter led President Ford by about 250,000 votes and Was running four percentage points ahead 52 to 48. That lead was considered far more than could possibly be needed to survive any changes in the state's vote total as a result of a recount. However, there was confusion-over the status of absentee ballots in the state. A spokesman for the state Board of Elections estimated that 400,000 absentee ballots had been mailed by local boards.

Under state law, any ballot received by 9 p.m. Tuesday the hour the polls closed was counted Tuesday and is included in the current total. However, there was no way to immediately determine how many absentee ballots were counted and how many remained uncounted. Any absentee ballot received in New. York State after 9 p.m.

Tuesday is being held by local election boards pending a court test over their legitimacy. They will not be counted until the court decision is made. regularities led to impoundment of all New York voting machines for the purpose of a recount. One reaction to Carter's victory came this morning from the New York Stock Exchange, where the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 15.38 points in the first half hour of trading to 950.71. One analyst said the development was "an initial knee-jerk reaction" from traditionally conservative Wall Street.

The latest returns showed Carter carrying 22 states and the District of Columbia with 272 electoral votes. Ford had 26 states with 235 electoral votes. The popular vote totals from 99 per cent of the nation's precincts gave Carter and Ford 38,396,355. With more than half the states still not reporting final voting figures, the tabulations indicated that just under 52 per cent of the 150 million American's of voting age went to the polls Tuesday. The turnout, while far from a record, was greater than the low turnout 50 per cent or less some experts had predicted.

In 1972, 55.4 per cent of the voting age population actually voted. In 1968, the turnout was 60.7 per cent; in 1964, it was 61.8 per cent; and in 1960, it was 62.8 per cent. The 1960 turnout was the highest of any Won In y44 in the fourth district, swamped his Re publican cnauenger. Democrats swamped their Republican opponents in the statewide races for President of the Public Service Commission and Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. In Birmingham, where Democrats had counted on a heavy black vote in an effort to elect Mel Bailey to Congress, was there evidence of a solid, mostly unsplit Republican vote.

Only in Jefferson, Baldwin, Houston, Lee Mobile, Monroe, Montgomery and Shelby counties did President Ford lead. With tabulation of the vote still incomplete this morning, more than 1,100,000 ballots had been counted, surpassing the record of 1,044,177 established in 1968 when Gov George C. Wallace ran for president as a third-party candidate. Democrats had counted on a heavy vote in the Tennessee Valley-where labor has a significant impact to help establish a lead they had predicted would dwindle in South Alabama. They got the heavy vote in the vaU (See ALABAMA Page 2) i 5,096 reporting, had received 602,205 votes to Allen's 251,882 and Partain's 12,682.

Allen, however, edged Mrs. McDaniel in Montgomery County by a 25,480 votes to 24,102 votes. Partain received 852 votes. State Sen. C.

C. "Bo" Torbert was elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in a race that was never considered close over Republican Fred Blanton of Birmingham. With 4,239 boxes tabulated, Torbert had 619,838 votes to Blanton's 199.282. Because of Mrs. McDaniel's election, Gov.

George C. Wallace will have to name a successor to fill her seat on the utility rate-setting panel when she takes office as its president in January. Torbert will succeed Chief Justice HoWell Heflin, who has stepped down after the current term. There has been speculation that Heflin will run for governor or the U.S. Senate in 1978, but he has said he is simply returning to private law practice in Florence.

There were seven other statewide elections in Tuesday's election, but all of those, for appellate court seats, had Democrats running unopposed. Supreme Court justices Sam Beatty, James N. Bloodworm and Hugh Maddox, all were reelected. Also reelected were Judge Robert Bradley of the Court of Civil Appeals and judges John Bookout and John DeCarlo of the Court of Criminal Appeals. Also running unopposed Tuesday Was Bill Bowen, an assistant attorney general, who will succeed Presiding Judge Aubrey M.

Cates on the criminal appeals court Post Alabama Picks Winning Demo For First Time Mrs. Juanita McDaniel won Tuesday the presidency of the Alabama Public Service Commission, but she had to do so without carrying Montgomery County. Mrs. McDaniel, who became the first woman to head the PSC, defeated Republican opponent Bob Allen and Prohibition Party candidate Jim Par-tain by nearly a 2-to-l margin. Mrs.

McDaniel, with 4,311 boxes of Man Sought In 3 Deaths Surrenders TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) A Tuscaloosa man sought in the shooting deaths of three people surrendered to Tuscaloosa County officers this morning. Sheriff Beasor Walker said the man, Dudley Wayne Kyzer, 35, Was booked on three counts of first-degree murder. Walker said he received a telephone call saying Kyzer, sought since the Sunday slayings of his former wife, her mother and a University of Alabama student, would surrender. He did so a few minutes later.

The shooting spree left Mrs. Diane Kyzer, 29; Mrs. Eunice Barringer, 54, of Richard Pyron, 22, of Birmingham dead of bullet Wounds. The Kyzers' 6-year-old son, Kris, escaped harm when his fatally wounded mother ran from the house with him. Mrs.

Barringer was the housemother of Delta Tau Delta, an Alabama fraternity to which Pyron belonged. She was on a bedroom telephone trying to call police when she was shot in the head. Mrs. Kyzer was shot in the chest while running to a nearby house with the boy. She died in a hospital two hours later.

Pyron was shot in the head and shoulder. Police said Kyzer drove to a friend's home and got his motorcycle after the shooting. He rode it to Selma, left it at a relative's house and drove away in a small car belonging to the relative. Train Wreck Kills 25 WARSAW, Poland (AP) An express train rammed into a stopped passenger at a small station in southern Poland early Wednesday, killing 25 persons and injuring about 60, the official Polish news agency said. The accident, the worst train disaster in Poland since 1962, occurred near Czestochowa.

a rti Since FDR By CLINT CLAYBROOK As the election results poured in from across Alabama the figures raised an almost verbal cry: It was And big. It was the first time since 1944 that the state has voted for a winning Democratic presidential nominee. This time it was an unusually heavy rural and black vote that rolled up such size sizable totals that the urban vote was unable to substantially dent the Carter majority. Evidence of considerable "ticket-splitting" was seen in the fact that all three of the state's Republican congressmen won handily despite the Democratic sweep. Only three of the seven counties in Rep.

Jack Edwards' first district and two of 12 in Rep. Bill Dickinson's second district voted Republican in the presidential race. 'Birmingham, which makes up most of the sixth distric nv substantial majorities for botn President Ford and Republican Rep. John Buchanan. The only Democratic congressman who had opposition, Rep.

Tom Bevill New faces among the nation's governors include a Rockefeller, a woman scientist and a prosecutor of the Daley political organization. Page 8. Voters in New Jersey approved gambling, but voters in Delaware rejected it; Massachusetts voted to allow the continued sale of handguns. Page 8. Vowing to crack down on prostitution at a local snack bar, the sheriff of Junction City, confiscated an empty whisky bottle and two beds and sent the sheets to the lab for analysis.

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