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'A 1 v- 4 1 7 i i- ft 1 7 i i i I I El Paso Voters Flocked to the Polls and Elected These Men Into Office HOME MID-DAY STOCKS PRICE 10 CENTS 62 PAGES -SIX SECTIOr The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers EL PASO TEXAS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8 1972 VOL XCII NO 268 TCI CDLiniUCCi NEWS AND GENERAL TELEPHONES: want ads CIRCULATION 532-1661 532171 44200 nj ul NOTHING TO LOSE This Coupon will appear today only: Test your skin as a (ootbaD forecaster by checking 1 the results Of the fallowing games: SATURDAY GAMES WIN VN Policy Bolstered By TED KNAP Scrlpp-Howard Staff Writer The landslide re-election of Pres- ident Nixon strengthens bis hand in negotiating peace In Vietnam on his terms and encourages fttm to fur- ther improve relations with Moscow and Peking In a victory Statement he Briscoe Wins On i Rural Vote read in the White House at midnight Nixon Mid he is swi toward with in Vietnam He described the world us being the eve of the greatest generation of peace Man has ever THE SIZE of the mandate also improves the chances of winning approval of I WIN WIN TIE Wyoming Utah State 9-mu Arkansas Kan State Florida Mich State Ore State Alabama Syracuse Illinois it 1 UT El Paso 2 Utah 2 Texas Aggies 4 Rice 5 Okla State 6 Georgia 7 Ohio Sta 2 California' 9 La State 19 Army ill Indiana 4 1 18 UCLA i- 13 Purdue 14 Clemson 15 Minnesota AMI ft fht LANDSLIDE WBWEU The publican ticket President Nixon President Spin Agnew acknowledge at the Republican election night the Sbereham Hotel last night landslide victory (UPI) -cj HHar tSa A a a Pw la So Maanpapar MNUap MHIa aaaaua oaS PETE DOMENICI congressional candidate in the country this year TOWER and Sanders fought a bitter campaign with each accusing the other of smear tactics during the final weeks The incumbent claimed he had a 22 percentage point lead in the days just before the election The race was much closer than that however and Tower owed all to the basically conservative voter in the small towns who not only voted for him but pulled the lever or checked the square for Nixon as well campaign cost more than $2-2 million No other candidate running for the Sen- ae they appear headquarters at following Rural Votes Carry Tower i t- i i Tills caupaii must al Tha llarald Past tar naan Friday Nov ra-aordlaaa af poslmort Tha prtaa la HU far a parfact aoora artth 500 limit yuoHOvided taa ar mar Hat Evaryftady to aHglMa aneapl amplayaa fr JV DOLPH BRISCOE DALLAS (UPI) Mil- iionaire Democrat ranch- ec Dolph Briscoe was': elected Govemorof Texas today parlaying his sup-port In rural Texas to overcome a in the major cities and turning back the etial- lenge of Henry Grover who came closer than any Republican in this tury to winning the tion want to work toward building a stronger Democrat- ic party and making it a party with a stronger voice in the national Briscoe raiif from his Uvalde ranch vjj IT WILL not be an easy' task President Nixon won 67 per cent of the vote RepubH- can Sen John Tower was re-elected with 54 per cent And Republicans won four US House seats one more than they held previously And Grover who led' throughout the counting of the? first million votes came closer than any Republican in 104' years to winning file Gover-f chair Returns to the Texas Elec-' tion Bureau at noon from 353 out of the 254 counties in state (including 153 complete) -showed Briscoe ahead by 75- 561 votes: Briscoe 1421702 Grover 1346141 La Raza Uni- da candidate Ramsey Muniz 182356 GROVER A conservative tote senator and school -administrator was buoyant during the first returns which showed him piling up huge majorities in Dallas and Hous- ton and leading in the overall 1 returns rural vote we tradition-1 ally carry although -1 worked hard Grover4 (Tun to Page A-2) El Paso Sunshine The tun shone today for the 313th consecutive day The sun has failed to shine only it days of the last 3JSB6 (Me A lim LP Voters Favor Nixon And Briscoe By JANE PEMBERTON El Paso voters went along witb the rest of the nation to give President Nixon another four years in the White House but in most other races Democrats held the lead Ben John Tower And Maurice Angly candidate for State Treasurer were the exceptions Democrat Dolph Briscoe candidate for governor held a lead of about 3806 votes over hisRepublican opponent Henry Grover but there were stHl absentee votes from the machines and the mail to be counted These totaled around 9000 1 EXHAUSTED election workers were stilt at work after midnight and voting lines were stHl in progress around 11 pm in the Ysleta area The last vote was cast at 9:30 pm last night at Precinct 29 St Hall 1810 Elm street Part of the delay was due to machine breakdown Probably the only reason candidates and voters learned today who the winners were is due to the efficiency of the County Data Processing Department headed by Ray ZRur HE AND HIS employes worked into the wee hours of the morning running figures on the computer Leading vote getter in the contested races was Sheriff Mike Sullivan who totaled up 50844 votes to his Republican 18572 Sullivan was opposed by one of his former deputies Gary Hetrick a political novice Voters in El Paso along with the rest of the state returned Republican Senator John Tower to his Senate seat by a margin of about 5000 votes a lead which may be swelled by absentee counts Democrat Barefoot Sanders got 30969 votes to 35826 PRESIDENT lead over Sen George McGovern totaled a comfortable 13000 votes with the Nixon total set at 43078 to 30853 In the race El Paso gave Briscoe 31607 to Grover's 27739 Ramsey Muniz the candidate for La' Raza Uni da garnered 12240 votes and Deborah Leonard of the Socialist Workers Party got 410 In El Paso County Angly topped his opponent State Treasurer Jesse James the incumbent with a vote of 31597 to 28493 Ruben Soliz of La Raza Unida got 8299 votes OTHER WINNERS in the Democratic column were Byron Tunnell for State Rail- (Tutu to Page A-2) Inside Your Herald-Post Weather Service Forecast: Partly cloudy cooler tomorrow (Details on Page A-3) Amusements Ann Carroll Around the World Classified 1 I 1-7 Crossword and Comies I Dear Abby A II Deaths I Dr BUL Conner 2 Editorials 2 Markets 8 Sports 14 Star Gazer 1 TV Programs 18 Virginia Payette 1 News A 8-11 NAMB kaas Tha eaupan abava I tha afflcM County aiilry his domestic programs from the next congress even though both fiie Senate and House remained firmly in control of democratic majorities The voters rejection of Sen George McGovern the 11b- For Additional Election Stories See Pages A-2 3 D-2 8 E-L eral Democratic nominee waa brutally decisive and almost universal With 96 per cent of the precincts counted the popular vote was: Nixon 44824744 or 61 per cent McGovern 27919012 or 38 per cent THE ELECTORAL vote count was Nixon 521 McGovern 17 Hie President swept everything except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia The Nixon landslide surpassed President Lyndon victory in 1964 over Republican Sen Barry Goldwater in- which the poou-lar vote distribution was 011 per cent to 385 per cent and the electoral vote count was 486 to 52 It almost equaled President Franklin drubbing of Republican Alf Landon in 1936 Roosevelt got 625 per cent of the popular votes and all but eight of the 531 electoral votes A remarkable feature of election was the massive ticket splitting Crossover voting was especially heavy among traditional Democratic voters in the South in the industrial cities of the North among Catholics Jews and nationality groups IN 22 STATES majorities of voters elected Democratic senators or governors at the same time they were voting overwhelmingly for Nixon or againsf McGovern The Democratic Party took a knock on the head but it was left standing Nixon had asked voters to send Hanoi a message that they wanted with honor not If McGovern had won or even come dose Hanoi could have demanded peace on terms which included the ouster of South Vietnam President- Nguyen Van Thieu and did not require a cease-fire agreement The vote wHl be a signal to the Soviet Union that Americans approve of handling of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and to Communist China that they want to expand contacts WHILE HIS victory statement stressed peace Nixon also promised to work- in the next four years for domestic without and progress with equal opportunity for everyone The repudiation of McGovern means he will be relegated quickly to the rear ranks of party leadership The voices: ot Democratic' leadership will belong to the new presidential Sens Edward Kenimdy Mass (Turn to Page Ar2) By bob ybarra An estimated 85527 El Paso County residents cast their votes In election Trouble on two machines used in absentee voting prohibited an exact count early today Election official began again counting I By UnHad IV Mamotlofial Pete Domenlci smashed 38 years of Democratic tradition in New Mexico yesterday defeating Jack Daniels for the US Senate seat held by Clinton Anderson who stepped down because of poor health The Texas race for the US Senate saw incumbent Republican Seq John Tower defeat Barefoot Sanders Tower an U-year veteran owed his victory to his strength in rural Texas In New Mexico with 97 per ceqtof the precincts counted today Domenici had 196175 votes or 54 per cent and Daniels had 189476 or 46 per cent support of atomic energy and space programs contributed to location of valuable research programs in New Mexico at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Sandia Laboratories and White Sands Missile Range MUST make sure that the resources at Los Alamos Sandia and White Sands continue to be used to the maximum as we convert to a gener-atkm of Domenici said protect and make sure these facilities are completely utilized is a high high priority for Domenici who said continued utilization of' the New Mexico research facilities was his "number priority said it was important that the nation not start new institutions on new kinds of peaceful projects while we have the capacity already Domenici running in a state with twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans was considered the underdog when he won his party's nomination in the state's June6 primary He carried 25 of the 32 counties including populous Bernalillo County Domenici lost the 1970 race for governor against Democrat Bruce King the man who defeated Daniels in the Democratic primary for the gubernatorial nomination IN DEFEAT Barefoot Sanders indicated Tower probably owed his victory to President Nixon think there would be much of a coattail said Sanders as he felt farther and further behind early today now I believe there was such an Tower spent more money to win re-election than any other 7 A aaaaiaaaa 11 eaupan In Tha HaroM-Peat rapiaducad Ibcaimlla ar not Voter Is 65 chalked up in the 1968 presidential election year A CHECK of the large and email precincts in the various geographical areas of El Paso revealed the larger precincts going for Nixon and generally Republican in the US Senate and Texas race Both large and small precincts from the state race on down went predominately Democratic In a check of eight precincts in the various sections of El Paso Nixon won in the Northwest Northeast and the Airport areas ag areas with large precincts Republicans Tower and Grover also won in those areas The southside with a large Modcan-Amextean vote went heavily for McGovern and Democratic candidates for governor and UB Senate THE LARGER precincts registered turnouts of wed over half while the smaller inner city precincts missed the 50 par cent mark or just reached it Precinct 74 with 4718 voters registered the largest of the 88 precincts recorded 2881 votes more than half of its voters Located at Eastwood Knolls School Precinct 74 went overwhelmingly for Nixon with 2171 votes while McGovern netted 971 votes The Eastsi-ders also went Republican in thf and US Senate (Turn to Page A-2) SENATOR TOWER ate or the US House spent as much TOWER assumed an early lead last night and soon that lead began to steady out at 55 per cent to 44 per cent Raza Unida candidate Flores Amaya polled 1 per cent of the vote forces said they thought things would change when the vote totals from Houston and Austin were counted But Sanders could not -pile up large pluralities in either county and not even large victories in those two areas would have helped him The damage had been done in rural Texas them the word that they must have their resignations on his desfc the near according to Ziegler He also ordered his deputy foreign policy adviser Gen Alexander Haig to Saigon for further discussions with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu about the cease-fire agreement the United States is trying to work out in Southeast Asia Ziegler Mid Haig would confer with Thieu progress of peace negotiations and make a general assessment of the situation in Nixon Moves Swiftly To Reshape His Staff WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon moved swiftly today in the wake of Ids landslide re-election to reshape his 'Cabinet end staff paing the word that executive appointments should submit their resignations the near ballots by hand at noon THE VOTER turnout was a record in total number but fell abort of die record percentage votes cast in ISM when 78 per cent of the 88195 registered residents east their votes 1 'Yesterday's 85537 votes was 9513 per cent of the 1 131320 registered voters in El Paso County -The approximately 9090 absentee votes cast in election wes also record number but ft wee 6 per cent of the total registered votes the same- per cent 6- Bond Issue Rumored For i EP Schools 'w El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) Board of Trustees meets at 5 pm today in Education Center amid rumors that $50 million bond issue wgl be called for The proposal has been rumored that half of the bond issue will be used for new buildings and sites and the other half for air conditioning of schools not already air con-ditioned Call for a bond issue is required 30 days in advance of the election date which could put the voting in early or Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler explained to reporters that it is for appointees to hand in resignations prior to a new presidential term in order that the President could be in a position "to organize his second NIXON LOST no time moving toward his new term after very best one of his political victories He held a series of separate meetings with members of his Cabinet presidential aides and federal agency heads giving vv 4.