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METRO 15c OTHER 20c FINAL MONDAY NOVEMBER 1, 1976 IB oils show iff jj ttilltlffl IImP i mm I' election U.S spun a toss-up imp mm mm 5. Journal News Services WASHINGTON Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter wind up their campaigns tonight barely 100 miles apart in the president's home state of Michigan. And if the poll takers and pundits are right, the candidates are approaching election day Tuesday almost in a dead heat. Too close to call is the forecast coming from most quarters in the hours before U.S. citizens vote in the country's bicentennial presidential election.

In his final day of campaigning for the office he now holds through appointment, the Republican president was in Ohio and planned to go on to Michigan for a closing rally in his hometown of Grand Rapids. His Democratic challenger campaigned 'is IliliiillliilS 4 Elsie, the mechanical cow, cuts away from Dick Knight on his cutting horse Mechanical cow helps 'cut' horses in California and then planned to wind up his two-year quest for the presidency with a rally in Flint, before flying to his Georgia home. All polls show Carter ahead in Georgia. The Michigan stop was inserted in Carter's schedule at the last minute, an indication the candidate believes he still has a chance to carry Ford's home state, where a Detroit News survey shows Ford leading Carter by only two per cent. Michigan has 21 electoral votes.

The final Gallup Poll, released Sunday night, gave Ford 47 per cent, Carter 46 per cent, others three per cent and four per cent undecided. It was the first time since March that Ford has led Carter in a national poll, though the difference is so small that it has no statistical import Referring to the undecided voters in the close race, pollster Louis Harris said: "What happens Monday night when each candidate has blocked out a half hour of prime time on each network will probably make the difference." Harris, whose latest poll, showed Carter with a 45-44 per cent lead, said he plans to continue polling through Tuesday. A New York Times-CBS poll, released Sunday, also gave Carter a slight edge but his margin was less than the 2.5-point margin of error. The Harris poll found seven per cent still undecided; the Times-CBS survey put work. But he still likes to test a horse against live cattle every week or two.

"When they go and look at a real cow, it seems like it makes them even better," said Knight. Elsie was put together by Mechanical Animated Animals of Elgin, 111., which began manufacturing the fibreglass machines last December. General manager Ed Heaney said about 60 have been sold in the United States. "It's much quicker and cheaper to train cutting horses this way." said Heaney. "You can provide the same kind of training in three weeks that it would take three months to provide with 100 head of live cattle." Knight said he bought Elsie last June for about $3,800.

"Picked it up over at Sacramento and brought it home in the back of a pickup truck," he said. "Boy, you think we didn't get eye-balled by the other drivers!" Ranch hand Gayle Gray took over inside the cow, while Knight mounted Doc's Tom Tucker, a four-year-old stallion just learning the cattle-cutting trade. As Gray drove the machine into the corral for a practice run, Doc's Tom Tucker perked up his ears. Elsie approached, then the horse lurched quickly and repeatedly as Elsie twisted and turned, but held his ground as a cattle-cutter must. Inside the machine, Gray was using two levers to steer.

Four heavy-duty, rechargable six-volt batteries powered its two IVi-horsepower motors. "With a cow, you go where she wants to go. With Elsie, we can control where she goes, and repeat the same moves as long as it takes to get the horse trained," Knight explained. Knight, who charges about $300 for a month's training, said he uses Elsie for 95 per cent of the SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) What has three wheels, weighs 800 pounds, can spin on a dime and looks like a golf cart wearing a cow costume? It's a battery-powered mechanical cow, and Dick Knight says, "We call 'er Elsie." Knight trains horses that specialize in "cutting" a cow from a herd and blocking its return so it can be weaned, examined, branded or sent to market He said he's delighted with Elsie, although some horses are a bit startled the first time they see it.

"One jumped clean out of the corral," Knight said. "All of 'em look at it funny." The reaction seemed understandable as Knight demonstrated the machine, sitting inside with his head protruding from the artificial cow's back. he figure at 10 per cent. A poll by United Press lnternauonai, Inside The Journal fcving no figures, said the election was too pose to call. But UPI gave Carter a big lead In the number of electoral votes 220 to Carter's church refuses black activist PLAINS, Ga.

(AP) Jimmy Carter, whose Baptist Church cancelled services rather than admit four blacks, says he will "seek church action" to guarantee that "those who share our religious faith" are allowed to worship there. The incident outside the Plains Baptist Church on Sunday, just two days before the election, prompted allegations that the incident was staged in an attempt to embarrass the Democratic presidential nominee. But Rev. Clennon King, 60, a black minister and political activist who has twice sought the presidency through the Republican and Afro-American parties, denied political motives caused him and three other blacks to seek entrance to the church. King also ran for governor of Georgia in 1970, was committed to a Mississippi mental hospital in 1958, served a jail term in California for missing child support payments in 1966, and was expelled for Kenya in 1965 for refusing to obey an order to leave the country after spending a month in jail.

The church's pastor. Rev. Bruce Edwards, blamed the incident on "Republican politics," and he said: "I am sure it is an attempt by enemies of Gov. Carter to sabotage his campaign." More CA TER Page 3. building slabs swinging in wind Lower floors of the Clinical Sciences Building at the University of Alberta were evacuated today when four pre-cast concrete slabs threatened to blow off the building.

The concrete slabs, measuring 10 by 20 feet and weighing an estimated one ton each, were swinging loose in high winds at the top of the 13-storey building on 84th Avenue between 112th and 113th Streets after restraining ties at the bottoms of the slabs apparently sheared off. University officials said six of the slabs were loose although only four were actually swinging in the wind. The slabs were reported swinging out from the base as much as six feet during strong gusts of wind. They were hanging by the restraining ties at the top of each section which were hooked over the upper parapet of the building. Emergency crews were working early this afternoon to restrain the loose slabs Marty Doerkfen, safety officer for the University, says new holders will be put into the base of the slabs Tuesday as it is too windy today.

1108 for Ford. UPI said 16 states with 210 lwvni.iii.!f.MWnmjmwipwMn Mitchell's Market, a lectoral votes were too close to call. A poll conducted for Carter gives the hew weekly column on ahe stock market, starts icmocratic challenger 242 electoral votes. Itoday on Page 45. There are 538 electoral votes and 270 are leeded to win.

pa 1 The popular vote means little since each The correctional sys late has so many electoral votes and these tem in Canada is a fail ire what count in electing a president. I he andidate who polls the largest number of otes in a state gets all that state's electoral ure, says Solicitor-General Francis Fox. Page 6. ivotes. Conceivably, in an election as close as Media Sexploitation this, one of the candidates could lead in tne popular vote and lose the election because he wins fewer electoral votes.

is among the books reviewed today on Page The paths followed by the candidates 32, The Journals book during the final days of the campaign reflected their own views of where the undecided votes are. age. Both campaigned in New York, with 41 Lifestyle Calendar, electoral votes, and California, with 45, as the week's guide to well as in Ohio with 25, Texas, 26, Pennsylvania, 27, and Illinois, 26. what's happening in Ed monton and district, ap A New York Daily News poll gives Carter a 51-46 lead in New York. All polls pears on Page 51.

Bryce Mackasey's I i Rhodesian war will continue, say nationalists Journal News Services GENEVA African nationalists at the Geneva conference on Rhodesia's future said today the war will go on in the breakaway colony. They were commenting on events during the weekend in Rhodesia, where black-nationalist guerrillas killed four white civilians and the white-minority government announced it has launched "hot-pursuit" attacks into Mozambique. Robert Mugabe, who is at the Geneva conference as spokesman of the biggest guerrilla army fighting white rule in PJiodesia, ruled out a halt in the intensifying bush war. "Our own war is going on," he said. "We won't stop it." A spokesman for Joshua Nkomo, another of the African nationalist leaders in Geneva, told reporters: "The war can only be ended if this conference succeeds." Mugabe and Nkomo had talks today with the British chairman of the Geneva conference, Ivor Richard, who is trying in private contacts to narrow the gap between black and white delegates.

Richard has already held similar soundings with two other African nationalist leaders, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. He has also seen Rhodesia's white prime minister, Ian who unilaterally declared independence from Britain 1 1 years ago to avoid moves towards black-majority rule. Wide differences The only agreement at the conference so far is on the key principle of majority rule and legal independence within two years. There are wide differences on all other major issues.

Asked to comment on reports that Smith may return to Salisbury for a few days, Nkomo smiled and said: "The British are not leaving. Part of their delegation can go, that doesn't make a difference." Black-nationalist leaders have said they regard Smith's negotiating team as part of the British delegation to the conference. An official communique Sunday gave no details of the size of the operation into Mozambigue or its location. "We have undertaken hot-pursuit operations as a result of trans-border aggression by terrorists," it said. Mozambique Radio from Maputo, monitored in London, said "more Zimbabwean patriots have been murdered" by the Rhodesian forces but gave no further details.

On Saturday night, Rhodesian guerrillas attacked a motel at Victoria Falls with rockets, grenades and automatic weapons, killing Robert Calvert, 41, a Canadian-born Rho-' desian government official and wounding a white civilian. Three other white Rhodesian civilians died in guerrilla attacks near the southwestern city of Bulawayo, 300 miles from the Mozambique border. More terrorists attacks feared, Page 3 Conference chairman has impossible task, Page 55 message to tngnsn Quebec: "It's time we put a little water in our wine." Page 75. rate California as too close to call. Also campaigning up to the final hours before the polls open were Sen.

Robert Dole, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, and Sen. Walter Mondale, Carter's running mate. Voters also will choose 33 senators and 435 House of Representatives members, as well as 14 governors and thousands of state legislators and local officials. Story on Congressional races, Page 6. Life Goes To The Movies, a three-hour Shell out! shell out! the witches are out! And assorted other skeletons, ghosts and goblins.

A look at the Halloween festivities on Page 17. Alberta: land of red-necked, cowboy-hatted bigots? Guy Demarino and Franco-Albertans he talked to don't hanker to that description. Page 5. Shaggy school grounds, students learning magic and reorganized West 10 are among the stories covered by the Neighborhood Journal. Page 20.

look at cinema history, impresses Barry Page 22. SOS returns today Women's group wants to meet Lougheed and deals with the set tlement of a car insurance problem. Page 24. The Alberta Status of Women Action Patterns -64 65 Sports 3944 Temperatures 2 Terry Jones 39 TV, Radio. 22 iCommittee (ASWAQ, twice rebuffed in at-Bcmpts to have Premier Lougheed attend its Conference, now plans to seek an audience jwith the premier.

Marilyn Moysa's Golden Years column takes a look at senior citizens' art classes. Page 26. Debate leading to this decision showed lelegates are still outraged by the govern- Ann Landers 24 Barry Westgate 22 Births, Deaths ...56 Marriages .......56 Book Reviews 12 Bridge 62 Business, Stocks ....4549 Charles Lynch 4 Classified Ads 57 75 Comics, Features 14 Crossword Puzzle 61 Editorials 4 Entertainment ....52,53 Family-Lifestyle ...2326 Focus on People 8 Horoscope 60 Letters to The Journal 5 8nent's response Friday to an ASWAC brief lubmitted Oct. 6. Lougheed four months ago to attend its conference which was held on the weekend.

The premier said he could not make commitments so far in advance. A month later the invitation was renewed, but by then the premier had accepted another engagement. Deputy Premier Hugh Horner subsequently spoke to the women and told them there was no need for a special cabinet committee on equal opportunity, as proposed in the brief. He said the functions were already being performed by existing committees. Angered by the government's response, the group sent a telegram to the premier Friday night inviting him to attend its meeting.

The premier's office replied that the premier was away and unable to accept The brief seeks more government atten- Calgary Stampeders had the tricks Sunday and the fans had the treat as Eskimos' dream fion to the problems and concerns of wom- Weather Cloudy, becoming sunny this afternoon; gusty west to northwesterly winds. High 4 to 6, low tonight near -5. Tuesday, mainly sunny, with moderate southerly winds. High 8 to 10. Details on Page 2.

but the government has refused to take ny of the actions suggested. The delegates, numbering 214 from of another year atop the Western Conference vanished 36-28. Page 39. throughout Alberta, believe the premier give the group a new hearing. ASWAC had originally invited Mr..