The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 33

i -v? a Classified Pages 17-20 i Comics Page 211 vi I 't V--- KNOXVILLE TENN 37901 WEDNESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 23 1968 Without Majority Anyone Might Win -rV MarinesKill 178 CmhihiBiists I s' I i i i control It would require a majority of a delegation not a plurali-1 ty to caet that one vote for president jt- Richard MNixaa recently suggested font Hubert ite phrey Bight tese the election bet edll via the pree Meucy ta the of RenreeeatetivM Hen le a detailed exptantetiou ef what aright happen if no prtiiidrnttal eeadideto wiae aa Electoral Catlegc majority ea Nev THE EDITOR By MARSHALL McNEIL la one stats there is no majority for ta that vote? riatewhat 1 and it will not vote until a WASHINGTON Oct 23-The ponderous complicated Constitutional process of picking the next president reaches its climax in the general election Nov 3 Hen in question and answer form is the story of what may happen thereafter: on Nov What Hut state does not vote majority supports one candidate Hew many votes an requiredM the Heuse ta elect a The Constitution says that it requires the affirmative votes of a majority of the states or votes '9 Could this aujority be attained evea if some' states fod art vote? Yes Any time 21 votes are cast for a presidential candi-1 date he is elected y' What will prompt individual congressmen terete wttMn their state delegation tor a particular candidate tec president? This depends upon the individual congressman Some have already said that they will vote for the man who gets countrywide the largest tout popular vote even though he did pot get al majority of the electoral vote: Others have said they will vote for foe man who gets foe largest popular vote in their congressional district Most presumably will vote for Ae candidate of their party no matter how many popular votes he got state 75 opened 'Tuesday- State cials and Campbell Countians move aside to let tourist traffic through' f-75 -The' scene looks north-word and toward Pine Mountain from Caryville 'as 256 new miles of Inter Voters do not vote directly for presidential candidates but for slates of presidential electors who later actually will elect foe next president i ''r 1 i Who an presidential electors how an they named and how ds their names get an the ballot? 'o At Each party by methods varying in the several states selects its presidential electors These an certified for the ballot and an printed thereon individually or under the name of the candidate they jue intended to represent and vote for under foe name of the party andor under-foe symbol of their party 'i- ri How many electors an then? Each state has a presidential elector for each congres iidfh fnr iwgS skmal district and one for each United States senator- Then anl 435 congressional districts and the 50 states elect 100 senators! Yes but perhaps indirectly If in one state with 13 two each This makes a total of 535 presidential electors But I congressmen there an six who favor Humphrey and six who then also an three presidential electors allocated to the District favor Richard Nixon and the 13fo congressman absents himself of Columbia This makes a total of 535 The presidential candi-1 foe state's presidential vote will not be cast because it has no date who gets a majority of these 538 or 370 votes be I majority for any candidate conies our next president Together these electors constitute the! socalled Electoral Collette If sa the first ballot sf the state ae candidate gets the I required majority of 21 votes what happens? Hew ds elsctars wia the right to repress their candidate in the Electoral College! Presumably again following tradition the House will decide the in session until decision is made If at outset to stay a no The slate of electora of each state which receives most of I candidate gets a majority of 26 votes on foe first ballot a second j-r 4- SpdcialFoncgs Camp Battle t' Endi War Lull 1 I SAIGON Oct 23 US Marines today killed 178 Communists bought near foe Thuong Due Green Beret camp Not a Leatherneck was hurt in rim fighting' military spokesmen said 1 The battling near the Special Forces camp which 8000 North Vietnamese soldiers failed to take in a 15-day siege earlier tiiis month apparently ended two-week lull in major ground action in South Vietnam Some diplomatic observers bed cited the MU part of pattern surrounding American efforts to get Hanoi to agree to mutually docscnlnte the war Shefie Smash Positions Marine patrols late last night spotted about 400 Communists forking near the Thuong Doc Camp which guards foe western approaches to foe Allied bastion city of Da- Nang 300 miles above Saigon The Reds were moving in three columns The Leatherneck patrols signalled for artillery and air strikes The Marine ground troops pulled back Military spokesmen mid the Communist troops were virtually defenseleH against foe rein of bombs and artillery sheila font slammed down on their positions The Rede were dressed in khakis black pajamas or shorts and -were earring rifles me-chineguns packs and one 122mm rocket round Hit Children's Hoqrital The military spokesmen Mid foe Communists were moving in different directions along a plateau witiun 15 miles of the camp There was no Indications where foe Red troops were heeded Yesterday Communist artil-lery- shelled the American bare at Dong Ha near the Demilitarized Zone end nearby hospital killing nine persons and wounding 25 others Another Communist artillery attack was made yesterday on a Marine position just south of the DMZ It foiled one Leatherneck and wounded three others Other Communist gunners fired 16 mortar rounds into farming village at foe bare of the Thuong Due Special Forces camp yesterday The attack killed four civilians and wounded 13 others military spokesmen Mid Allied forces recently broke Communist siege armmd the camp 25 miles southwest of Ae northern coastal city of Da so of is foe popular vote cast on Nov 5 wins foe right to cast the entire electoral vote of that state Thus in a state as big as New York with millions of voters the slate of electors which has just one mors popular vote than those of either of the other two candidates gets the right to cast the electoral vot es of New York ballot will be taken and so on until one candidate gets a majority The first time the House elected a president it took 36 ballots I before a decision was reached Meantime what happens about a vice president? The Constitution says that the vice president shall be elected by the Senate Ql What happens after the electors arc chases aa Nav A The electors of each state will meet and cast their badotsl for president These meetings are scheduled for Dec 11 They are usually held in foe capitals of the respective states Must electors vote for the candidate for president so whose slate their names appeared on the Nev I ballet? Haw does the Senate proceed? It meets and makes its decision also according to the I Constitution between the two candidates for vice president who have the largest electoral vote la such a senatorial election of a vice president does state as in the have Just one vote? No Each state has two votes for foe vote of each senator I i Theoretically electors are free agents free to vote their own convictions even if by so voting they oppose that man on whose slate their names appeared on the ballot The Constitution icmmts seems to leave electors free to vote for any legible person for president' whether or not he was formally nominated or made a campaign In some 17 states however there are laws-still untested in the Supreme which require them to vote for the candidate on whose slate their names appeared and to whom they thus are pledged In other states without such laws by practice and tradition the electors vote for the man to whom the ballot pledged them each Mm must additional is Devil's that on 1-75 overlooking -M-l PtMMt by Jack KkWanS Jacksboro From here too on a clear day you can see all the way to Cumberland Gap How many senators must vote for a candidate to make the vice president? The Constitution says that the man elected vice president win a majority of the 100 senatorial votes or 51 votes What happens if the Senate to tied say 550? Are there ballots? No In the event of a tie the vice president as the presi- jCaryville to Jellieo dent of the Senate will cast his vote to break foe tie Who will be the vice president with that power nextJaa1? ALONG THE This Racetrack dolomite formations challenge mountain climbers just north of Caryville and Spectacular Could aa elector who was on the ballot pteged to Humphrey cast Ms stable doctoral vote for sas of As other candidates? Subject to the conditions outlined above the answer isl 1-75 Link Open yes i He will be Humphrey became Ms term as vice president! will not expire until next Jan 20 By WILLARD YARBROUGH 'T So in the event sf a Senate tie Humphrey with Ms one vote emdd decids whs win be aur next vies president? They want funds unfrozen that a second Interchange wifi go in where Stinking Creek Rd meets the Interstate something the A Bureau has but been unable to tackle Meanwhile some 60 miles uninterrupted Interstate between Lake City end Corbin Ky now open to travel It means too that with opening tomorrow of Nang the 15-mile link of HO between Newport and the Noth Carolina Cut line near Waterville and some ILdmDOClia 301 mites of 1-24 hi Marion and laill UIJ fiMMi Hamilton Counties soon fontli II MOIQ DOQT Could sueh deviattoe bs ckalkaged to the courts? V1 A- In foe states a challenge in the courts is probable in the other states possible It would depend in a large degree upon whether the candidates involved asked or agreed to such a shift Suppose no candidate gets a majority of 276 electoral votes on Nov 5 could the electors ia their separate meetings agree to shift their votes to produce a aujority for eas candidate? Yes Indeed this apparently to what George Wallace has in mind He has Mid on several occasions: MI think would be settled in the Electoral When asked whether this meant that "two of the candidates would get together or their electors get together and determine who is to be Wallace replied: "Hut is How am foo votes sf the ctoctsrs of the various states CARYVILLE Terni Oct 23 name best describes a Tennessee Interstate which offers foe motorist some of the most picturesque scenery in foe I Southeast? Jim McCloud La Follette real estate man who operates rustic ML Cloud Trails atop a mountain near here has come up with his own definition for the 256 mile stretch of 1-75 which the state formally opened late In that event and supposing that meanwhile the Senate yesterday has elected a vice president that vice president would become He calls it "America the acting president on Jan 26 and would remain acting president I Beautiful That's apt I until the House finally gives a majority of 26 votes to one of the enough The route used spas- candidates for president Imodically and then closed af ter a News-Sentinel article in i September caused a virtual traf-A: president actually becomes presi-j fic jam links Caryville to the reverts to Ms role as vice presi- south with Jellieo to the north now is bypassed by through travelers was magnaminous about it all saying: "The Interstate opening is a big event for Campbell County It means another link added to the long chain of 1-75 between the north and foe south this one running through the most beautiful section of the United Cove Lake Park's fine restaurant was taxed to feed the officials who came including Long Champion Warner Dunlap Roy Iddins Mo-Amis all with die State Highway Department and Noonan and Garland Kentucky State Highway Department division officials stationed at Somerset Within sight of the Caryville interchange workmen were busy carving a roadbed for the first East Tennessee link in the Appalachia Highway that wifi stretch from here to Cumberland Gap environs 66 Mika Open And within sight of the motorcade poised atop the Royal Blue overpass near here was a delegation from Stinking Creek community A woman waved a Mg American flag to attract attention to that area's problem: Tennessee wifi hove opened up II new Interstate milesfois cal-1 PHNOM PENH Cambodia endar year Oct 23 Cambodia re- Plan for Future I fused yesterday to return a UA These three sections slone I Army patrol boat and its 12-man cost 18 12 million pushing the crew until the United States state's Interstate mileage to 870 mikei compensation for an nl-or more than two-thirds of its remhodiae allocated 1050 miles of Federal Ittack CtmbodMa highways village As for those first tourists! The American vessel cany-pushing yesterday at their im-ling 11 UA Army men and one provised vistas oo 1-75 Commis-1 South Vietnamese was seized sjoner Speight Mid foture State Jldy moved along foe Highway plans can for several I places along foe 256 mites Mrto" River where motorists can stop andMch originated South Viet-enjoy the scenery Some daynam Cambodia charged the perhaps be picnic areas I feat deliberately violated Ca Bland comfort station too 1 territory The United States attributed foe incident to a navigational error At one point last aummer Prince Norodom Sihanouk foe ICambodian chief of state denuded ransom of one bull- dozer for each of Ae captive dent Is It possible that under this system the House could elect president of sue party aad the Senate ceuM elect a vice president sf aaother party? Yes Staff Charge 1 Nonsense 9 Ike Says He Made Final Decisions Vows To Stay Several copies are made of the official certifications of their votes One copy is sent to the president of the United States Senate another to Ae governor of the state another to the General Services Administrator here What happens next? The Congress which will be elected next Nov 3 will convene in Washington next Jan A Both houses of Congress will organise Then they will schedule a joint session to be held in the chamber of foe House of Representatives next Jan I to canvass the electoral votes who presides over this session? The vice president of the United States who is also president of the Senate Next Jan 3 no matter what happens in the election this man will be Vice President Hubert Humphrey because his term trill imt expire until Jan 20 What dsn this Joint sesston da? It appoints two sets of tellers The certifications of the electoral votes from the 50 states and the District of Columbia are thereupon opened A clerk calls out foe vote of each state forlmer President Dwight Eisro- Presideat and vice president The tellers take these down When I bower writes that it is all foe votes are opened and counted the tellers advise the to believe that he ran his presiding officer and he amwonces the totals for each candidate presidency largely through staff one candidate for president and one candidate for vice presi- dent receive 276 electoral votes or more they are declared elect-1 Eisenhower in an article in ed the November Digest WTyhappensRnaanecandidate gets foe necessary Z71 vote majority? I I consulted with The aanouncement of this foct automatically ends the joint my aulf and I valued their opia-sesaion and the two houses separate senators returning to their ions But staff work doesn't chamber Honse members remaiaing in their chamber The Con-1 meaa that yen take a vote ef otitutioa says that the House shag start the pro- lyour subordinates and then cess of electing a president abide by Ae majority opirriou fThts of course is Qs The man thus elected idem and foe acting president cutting travel time between the two points previously linked only by Highway 25-W to 40 minutes and distance by 5 miles Many Stop The Tennessee Highway Department and Bureau of Public Roads sent top officialdom here to remove foe barricades and let an traffic through There wasn't even a speech made nor a ribbon snipped A drive between Caryville and Jellieo revealed tourists already were stopping an the Interstate shoulders for a long took at foe Cumberland Mountains and val-perience Bat above alL he Mid leys below Even foe fall leaf every president had pnlcoiorina was at its bevt found dure to the nation: To ex- Frank Deller executive vice cit moral I president of foe Chamber ef Commerce in Knoxville got a look-see coming here with the Chamber's Jim Haslam Mr and Mrs Defier drove herein September to drive foe stretch only to be turned back by guarded barricades Luncheon First The opening means that north-south UMto'tsts now can travel Interstate from Lake City to Corbin Ky without deviating U- 25-W The uewfynpened A "Seeing maBy of Arias Panama Embassy WASHINGTON OcL 23 (UPI) President Arnulfo -Arias politely captured Panama's embassy here Tuesday and to may until he recovers the rest of his country from the military junta that overthrew him after 11 days in office Arias flew to Washington from his refuge in the Canal Zone oe- tensibly to appeal to the Organi- American States for MB move that sur-ggg Jg nnsed the State fOHMBM fluwll PBIf ISr wmtmimA twin lb aiftnBflw Ub first moved into the virtually The Cambodian refusal yesterday was in response to two official UA notes reqoesting release of the boat and crew Jaycees Jayatto Back Bond Issue Two more organizations have joined time supporting foe S3 milhoa industrial bond tesae Fountain City Joyces voting bv tetephone pofi conducted by BiB Rhodes a chib director have endorsed the bond issue whkh win provide funds far industrial park development and expnnsioik Fountain City Jay-Icettcs aba voted teat night to Isapportfoetaree Give-A-Ways Ton I weeh ill Mtteth CiB tk Irish Setter German Shepherd Whippet A Which one of these is uggestnre of a cemetery? Parody epitaph satire preamble A Which Mountain overtaking Newcomb in Elk VaOey to (he wesL Deeper cm than anticipated had to be engineered tathechaagef- ef resting He left associates throughout foe building temng the night to thwart any attempts for pie- junta diplomats to regain the i The Constitution says the House shall make a selection I The former chief executive from among the three presidential candidates who have foe la rg-1 worked on the article last est number of votes I user at Walter Reed Army Mefo- leal Center Just before Ms sew- How rises the Hsum vote? cmh heart anack If precedents ertiMIford foe last time there was such an of a ptTiiilrnt by foe Hobm (this was in MS when John I what some persons said ha kept Adams was elected president foe HoamwiB first adopt I a tight tern on Secretary of set'af special cutes cswerfog its operations as foe body which state John Foster NteT of These wifi also provide lor each delegation ieiga policy i the Hone floor aad to cast ks vote for president on military Eisen-two identical holbtsi each going to separate tefiera (inner contmaefo he teamed (that his "Many hemidmydeci- The CsnstintianaBons each state but one vote Issons rant Mtrerylofoeniajoe- Qilten does each won decide te whom bs vote sbalgO? Sute Highway Cemmimtoner Charles Speight and John how tong it take a of fight to Cobh Nashville Ti PRESIDENT ARNULFO ARIAS Al home in B'Mhmgtoa far the A Bate PUbbc Roads led a big official party from hmcheoa at Cave Lake State Park far foe tender spoke of srurtim an ea-vuy to the OAS Wednesday to Tern (he or ai reach ns from the smi? 2 Fi 274 am 31 Ain the left hand rtow you wdi Pad the of five of jat the nghL Try to ni ur ma Polk Man Killed a BENTON Tnm OcL 21 elderly FA Couety ted Ti family fore a sphere and traveled to the United to JeOicaforNatxm toseekUKstai Among tecal offr-jofficials looked on the miihN NsodrAn One hrfo Macfc i 14 years eiA Cal S725M7 Three Ini kinT- Cal S94G7 after pm Fhe atek all kkldh Cal mn hud oa momg as a strictly Panamanian aha SPFTTnatefr- Yre are emltied turhere were County Jadeelgnarrel wuh a touch of coauc pnmt ter each Aiuder CsiynDc May-jieficC lorJdmev McGhee Jefika May-1 Bccaase tite embassy iategal-tor Pate Harp and La FoOmely regarded as Panamanian ice- (Mayor Ctot Alley Jackstare namy foe only way Arias coaid at Ae time of foe hlaae The (Maw Janmy Gent remamed bc reamed is ea a wammteaawsf foe lire was not hnme-iMhssjohi Ichargxg murder rape sr as-distely defereiawd eflteere Meyer Alky whom tone stah jsul Cal S5-N8A Oar Black I weeks sU Cal.