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FACE A2 BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD Wodnasday November 6 1974 Demos strengthening control of Senate Birmingham Weather Forecast fair weather north partly south with scattered showers south portion Friday and Highs Friday should be in the north to lower 70s south and in Saturday and Sunday Lows should be near 40 north to near and mid 40s north to near 50 Saturday and Sunday Clouds will partially cover the Birmingham area Wednesday as temperatures remain cool The official forecast calls for "partly cloudy Wednesday and Wednesday night with increasing cloudiness Thursday" Highs Wednesday and Thursday mid SOs with lows Wednesday night neartO Winds will be northerly five to 12 miles an hour The extended forecast for Alabama Friday through Sunday calls for National Weather Service Forecast to I pm CST mostly cloudy over the Saturday mid 60s the 70s Friday 50 south south Connecticut and four Deep South senators James Allen of Alabama Herman Taimadge of Georgia Russell Long of Louisiana and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina Long chairman of the Senate Finace Committee was unopposed Morgan North Carolina attorney general defeated William Stevens a furni-' ture manufacturer He will succeed retiring Sen Sam Ervin Jr who presided over the Senate Watergate hear ings Altogether 34 Senate seats were on the line with more than one-quarter of them sure to be filled by newcomers in the new Congress seat of Sen Howard Metzen-baum whom he defeated in a Democratic primary race earlier in the year Bumpers governor won in a landslide' over Republican John Jones Bumpers earlier was a primary winner over Sen Fulbright chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Among the Democratic incumbents who won re-election was Sen Thomas Eagleton of Missouri who got bumped as the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1972 Other Democratic incumbents who coasted to victory included Adlai Stevenson of Illinois Abraham Ribicoff of Cook running for a second term was defeated by Ken- Democratic governor Wendell Ford Charles McC Mathias of Maryland was the first Republican senator to nail down a victory He won a second term by defeating Bar-barg A Mikulski Baltimore City Council mamber who has been active in Democrats ic party reforms In addition to Stone and Ford other newcomers to the Senate will be John Glenn of Ohio Dale Bumpers of Arkansas and Robert Morgan of North Carolina Glenn the former astronaut scored and easy victory over Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk Glenn will take the Birmingham Weather yesterday's temperature (24 houreriod ended at I pm) LowesIM Mean CO Normal mean thin date il Departure from normal -4 Depart urethii month 14 Departure Uii year S2 Highest this date laat year 61 Lowest this date last year SI Mean this date last year SS Highest temperature this date II In 1909 Lowest temperature this date SS ir 1167 Precipitation Data 124 hour period ended at 6 pm 12 hours ended at 6 am 61 I2haurs ended allpm 00 Total this month to dale 61 Total since Jan 146 SI Excess since Jan 1175 Creates! amount this month 1S2S Ir jl949 Least amount this month 01 in 1024 Kyi Rises tnday at 6:06 am Sets at pm will rise tomorrow all: 10 am Tuesday temperatures lam 65 I pm 62 a 64 2 pm 61 Jam 64 Jpm 64 to Rep Bill Roberts of Mobile also moving up to the Senate appeared to have won over his Conservative party opponent McDade with 2 4 Un Wl aft I lOfOCAStC am 5a Sam 7am lam tam 10am Ham 51 1 1 pm Noon II Midnight 4 pm 50 5 pm 56 6pm 55 7 pm SS Ipm 54 Ipm 5510 pm Rain is forecast Wednesday for the Pacific Northwest while showers are expected in southern Texas and southern Florida Clear skies should dominate over the rest of the nation Windsor is the only Canadian whisky made with hardy Western Canadian grain with the water of glacier- fed springs and aged in the crisp dry air of the Canadian Rockies Available in Vis gallons McGovern also won defeating Leo Thosness former Vietnam prisoner of war in South Dakota The three gop winners all Incumbents were Sens Jacob Jaist of New York Charles McC Mathias of Maryland and Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania In Florida the Democratic candidate former Secretary of State Richard Stone won a three-cornered race to capture the seat held by retiring Republican Edward Gurney Stone beat Jack Eckerd the GOP candidate and owner of a drugstore chain and John Grady the American party candidate who siphoned conservative votes away Eckerd Another Republican Senate seat was lost when Marlow Frink posts in the general election Jack Tatum filed to oppose him in the Democratic primary but was disqualified on grounds he did not pay the proper qualifying fee Mrs Allen who will move from her present job as state auditor to state treasurer beat Secretary of State Mabel Amos and A Passmore of Montgomery in the Democratic primary She faced Alabama Prohibition candidate Mrs Geraldine Hughes of Rt 2 Oxford but Mrs Hughes withdrew in September Lane defeated A Todd of Russellville in a hotly contested June Democratic runoff for commissioner of agriculture and drew no opponent Tuesday The appelate court races were settled by the Democratic primaries Toughest was a cliff hanger in which Birmingham attorney Eric Embry was listed a 436-vote winner over William Morrow Jr of Montgomery general counsel with the State Bar Association Morrow contested those results and Embry was upheld after a lengthy series of hearings by a Democratic party subcommittee for fast Demos trounce Republicans in early legislative returns County legislative unit remains totally Demo The smoothest whisky ever to come out of Canada Associated Press WASHINGTON Democrats appeared likely to strengthen their control of the Senate in election as they captured Republican seats in Florida Colorado and Kentucky With 19 races decided jut over half of those at stake the Democrats had won 16 and the Republicans three This assured the Democrats of at least 54 seats in the next Senate three more than a majority- The present party line-up in the Senate is 58 Democrats and 42 Republicans In Colorado Republican Peter Dominick running for a third term lost to Gary Hart manager of Sen George disastrous 1972 campaign as the DEmocratic presidential nominee Baggett win state Two longtime names in Alabama's capitol assured themselves of being around even longer Tuesday as Mrs Agnes Baggett easily won election for secretary of state and Mrs Bettye Frink marched into the state auditor's job Both won easy victories over minor opposition' Unofficial returns Tuesday night showed runaway races of Mrs Baggett over Mrs Ira Pegues of Birmingham the Alabama Prhobition Party candidate for secretary of state Mrs Frink was a heavy winner over Prohibition candidate Ogburn A Gardner of Anniston and Jack Frost of Jasper who withdrew as a Whig candidate for state auditor but still drew more votes than Gardner in early returns With 2075 of 4245 boxes reporting (49 per cent) results in the Secretary of state's race showed: BAGGETT (D) 274951 96 PEGUES (AP) 10859 4 per cent Results in the state auditors race within 2075 of 4245 boxes reporting (49 per cent were: FRINK (D) 255943 92 FROST (W) 7137 3 per cent GARDNER (AP) 16077 6 percent Mrs Frink first was elected secretary of state in 1958 She was state auditor from 1963 to 1967 and was elected to the Slate Board of Education in 1971 Site is 41 and the mother of four children Mrs Baggett has been a state official for 24 years She served as secretary of state during 1951-1955 and again 19G3-67 was state auditor in 1955-59 was elected state treasurer in 1959-63 again in 1967-71 reelected to a term that ran from 1971 and until the present Three other constitutional officers and five candidates for appelate courts already had been assured of election Tuesday when they drew no opponents They included Atty Gen William Baxley Mrs Melba Till Allen for state treasurer and McMillan Lane for a full term as commissioner of agriculture and industries Elected without opposition to the State Supreme Court as associate justices were Janie Shores and Eric Embry both of Birmingham and Reneau Almon currently a member of the State Court of Criminal Appeals Baxley drew no opposition The Birmingham Post-Herald Owned and Published dally sxcaot Sunday by The Blrminaham Past Co IMS Fourth Ava Blrminaham Ala 15X1 Th Blrmlnahani oilaWlah-dim Th Birmingham MablldMdIITO Combinad 66y IS tf SO lo form Tha Birmingham Posf-Hereld Entered Socond Clou Manor it Ih Blrminaham Post Other MISS YOURPAPERT hoot not hut It your carrier should arr PLEASE CALL EARLY 325-2251 Our service cantor to tram 6:06 am to 6:00 ta contact vwr Independent carrier or fa help you reach Mm direct Yeur newspaper carrier it an Ind aandtnf contractor and eaymanfi by subscriber to carrion ara net subtoct ta central by The Blrminaham Fast-Htrild Th Blrminaham Pest-Harsld racemmandi subacrlbart that ortoaymonto mad directly to carrt rs bs limited te maximum of thirty IN) days Sutessftd subscription rstss by carrier far the memtae Post-Harsld tv tnlna News and Sunday News: Maralne avanln and Sunday I wash SI SO Evanlnp and Sunday ar memlno and Sunday I weak toe I month SLtoi Mamina ar avanlno only 1 weak soc 1 month tt60 Dally only slnato copy at toe Rotas Include all salts tax (Mill and farelan subscription rstss euotadupen rawest Easy-Off daytime cleaning in Or overnight By Ted Bryant SI alif Writer Democratic nominees for the Alabama Legislature were soundly trouncing their Republican opponents in early returns from the gener-' al election The GOP in fact appeared likely to lose one of the two seats it held in the previous makeup of the legislature State Rep Bert Nettles of Mobile with 2455 votes was trailing his Democratic oppo- nent Nat Sonnier who had I 3416 with 62 per cent of the I vote counted Returns were late coming in from Madison County home of the other Republican legislator Rep Doug Hale oi Huntsville Around the state veteran I Sen Bob Wilson of Jasper '-'chairman of the Senate Fi- nance and Taxation Commit-! tee took an early lead over his opponent and appeared to I be winning another term 4 Wilson whose district ex-tends into Jefferson and Blount Counties is a floor leader of Gov George Wallace In Anniston Rep Donald Stewart held a commanding lead over his Republican opponent Margaret Stout for the Senate seat in District 20 Stewart had 9583 to Mrs Stout's 3502 with 54 per cent of the vote reported Sen Waller Givhan of Dallas County dean of the state Senate was winning 'handily over his opponent Amelia Boynton Billups of Selma At the conclusion of this term Givhan will have served 40 years in the legislature including 16 in the House and 24 in the Senate the longest period in history for one legislator Rep Bert Bank of Tusca- loosa held a solid lead over the National Democratic Party of Alabama candidate Martin Goodson of Eutaw for the Senate seat in District 30 By Ted Bryant Staff Writer Jefferson delegation to the Alabama Legislature will remain 100 per cent Democratic barring any drastic turn in results of Tuesday's election The Democratic nominees for both Senate seats and the 13 House seats that were contested held commanding leads over their opposition Veteran Sen Bob Wilson of Jasper most of whose district now lies in Jefferson County was winning handily over Republican Larry Akins also of Jasper With 772 per cent of the vote counted Wilson was leading 5884 to 1445 In the other contested Senate race attorney Richmond Pearson was defeating Conservative candidate Herbert Stone 7382 to 1902 with 66 per cent of the vole in In the House Districts: 14 Carl Jolly of Warrior was winning over Republican Neal Acker 1636 to 1325 with 71 per cent counted 15 Bob Hall of Pinson with 4483 votes was defeating Guy LoPresti of Birmingham 921 and Lyman Ash of Trussville 201 LoPresti is Republican and Ash a Conservative si in of ihe closer Nixon lawyers races Dr Dewey White was i defeating Republican Bentley QSK COpy IHCJ Owens 5423 to 4175 with 666 percent of the vote in 32 Rep Francis Falken-berg was winning over Republican Julia Johnston Crowder 3978 to 2198 with 77 per cent of the vote in 34 Richard Andrews de feated Republican Danny Newman5533 to 2289 35 Jack Biddle won over Republican Mary Douglas 4757 to 739 with 90 per cent of the boxes reporting 37 Tom Leonard had downed Republican Charles Miles 4003 to 2094 with 83 per cent counted 39 The Rev John Porter trounced his National Democratic Tarty of Alabama opponent Tommy Wrenn 2832 to 225 with 62 per cent of the vote counted 40 Jack Hopping defeated his Republican opponent Davis Hunt Thompson 4185 to 1224 with 77 per cent in I 43 With only 33 per cent of the vote counted Jerome Tucker was well in the lead against Republican Charlene Crowell 726 to 97 45 Earl Hilliard outdistanced Leavy Oliver independent 2100 to 158 with half the vote in 49 Asbury Howard was winning over two opponents He had 3323 to 738 for Clyde Blackmon ative and 214 for Henry Varner independent 51 Rep Jabo Waggoner won another term downing Republican Lester Alexander 4481 to 2651 with 83 per cent counted of papers ban United Press International WASHINGTON Attor-neys tor former President Richard Nixon citing the "privilege of presidential 63 60 56 S3 51 51 50 40 45 62 per cent of the vote counted Voting was hot reported in many legislative races at press time conserv-' confidentiality" asked a federal judge Tuesday to bar present or former White House ajdes from copying their files without Nixon's consent Escalating the squabble over custody of Nixon's presidential papers his law yers contended he retains the "right to object and prevent the copying of particular materials" if he judges it to be in the public interest Their claim was contained in a legal brief filed late Monday and made public Tuesday The brief asked District Judge Charles Richey to modify an order issued last Thursday granting defendants at the Watergate cover up trial and "any other person" currently or presently on the White House staff the right to make copies of their files Nixon lawyer Herbert Miller Jr said the former President must consent to everything requested to be copied and if he does not the materials must be minutes sparkling clean World ij 'Up Spray before you go to bed Get Easy-Off'America's number one oven cleaner For easy overnight cleaning or for fast daytime cleaning in minutes liOt i CLIP AND SAVE 10 on Easy-Off Oven Cleaner Regular or Lemon-scented In the morning wipe STORE COUPON! 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