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ttwit Jftee i00 METRO Bob Talbert's Column Page 19, Section A 13c 6-Day Home Delivery 90c WINDY High 45-50 Low 23-26 Mo jntf obtain en Page U-D ON GUARD FOR 145 YEARS 1976. Detroit Free Pres Vol. 146 No. 183 Wednesday, November 3, 1976 KEY STATES TEETER JIV BALANCE Carter, Ford Running Neck-and-Neck Riegle Winner In Senate Race Georgian Has A Slim Edge From AP and UPI WASHINGTON Jimmy Carter and President Ford were in a near-deadlock late Tuesday night in their struggle for the White House. At midnight, Carter held a narrow lead over Ford, but many key states teetered in the balance.

At that time Carter had 51 percent of the popular vote in the presidential election, with 36 percent of the union's precincts counted. Ford was- polling 48 percent, and independent Eugene J. McCarthy was picking up one percent. Carter had won in 13 states with 111 electoral votes, Ford in four states with 33 electoral votes. The Democratic challenger led the president in 10 states.

Ford was ahead in. 17 states, among them Ohio and Texas, both razor-close. Based on indicator precincts, the president took the 21 electoral votes of his home state, Michigan, but only by a slight popular vote plurality. All told, Carter had won or led for 248 electoral votes, Ford for 212. It takes 270 to win.

Slll (I ffr BY REMER TYSON Free Press Staff Writer Young, ambitious Don Riegle, a maverick congressman from Flint, won Michigan's U.S. Senate race Tuesday, according to Free Press indicator precints. More than 3'2 years after he switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party, Riegls defeated his one-time GOP congressional colleague, Marvin Esch of Ann Arbor. Riegle's victory gives him the Sennra seat bein? vacated by the retiring Philip Hart. Hart, a Democrat, is ill with cancer.

FOR RIEGLE, Tuesday's victory was a sweet one, for he won by riding the backlash to a Detroit News story that disclosed he had had an extramarital affair seven years ago with a pretty, young unpaid volunteer who worked in his Washington congressional office. For a few days after disclosure of Riegle's affair, Demo- Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m.

and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Election: Ou the Inside Detro iters turn down legalized gambting in advisory referendum. Page 3A. Voters oust at least four IAS.

Senate incumbents. Page 12A. A third Rockefeller, John D. IV, becomes head of a state government. Page 12A.

Detroit millage proposal too close to call. Page 14A. Thomas G. Kavanagh, chief justice of the Supreme Court, routs Roman Gribbs. Page 14A.

Suburban election results. Page 7C. Free rress Photo by ALAN AMU DA Don Riegle and his wife, Meredith, share joy of victory- cratic leaders feared that the story might destroy his candidacy. At the time of the disclosure, Riegle's campaign was in a slump. Esch, wifis hardhitting television ads attacking Riegle's record, was rapidly eating up a 19-point lead that Riegle had at one time in public opinion polls.

But the controversy over Riegle's sexual behavior injected new vigor into his campaign. The 38-year-old congressman swung back viciously at Esch and the. Detroit News, accusing them of conspiring to destroy him with tactics used by( former Republican Presid-dent Richard Nixon and Hitler's Nazi Germany. Riegle offered nol evidence of a conspiracy, and his charge was denied by both the News and Esch. Within 36 hours of the publication of the story describing Riegle's love affair, his campaign began to feel a new surge that was never headed.

Attempts by Esch to regain the offensive in thee ampaign failed. FREE PRESS indicator precincts showed that Riegje was winning by a margin of about five percent. Riegle got votes from many of the people who split their ballots to vote for Gerald Ford in the presidential race. As an indicatoin of the interest in the Senate race, the Rie-gle-Esch totals in many precincts exceeded the number cast in the presidential rac. In a cautious victory statement to cheering supporters in Detroit's downtown Cobo Hall about 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Riegle paid tribute to the campaign efforts on his behalf by his family. Riegle was joined by his mother, Dorothy; his father, Donald a sister, Mrs. Dee Ann Torres, and his wife, Meredith. THE CROWD of more than 1,000 persons packed into Cobo's Riverside Ballroom demonstrated for longer than two minutes before Riegle could make his statement. "I don't think a lot of people ever understood what this campaign was all about, because they never saw us to-, gether in one room before," Riegle said as he stood among his family members and supporters.

"If there was ever a time when the people won a campaign, it was this campaign and it was tonight," Riegle said. Alluding to the bitter campaign with Esch, Riegle said: "I think what this represents Ban on Throwaways Wins by Big Margin Master Charge of Virginia continues to bill me for money I don't owe namely $274, plus finance charges. I paid my bill in full August 3, and with the check enclosed a note asking them to close the account. I moved here in 1974 and should've switched to Michigan Master Charge. I can do that only when this mess is cleared up.

Can you clear it up for me? R.W., Grosse Pointe. Numbers were juggled again after Action Line's call. Jumbling act resulted in bill reduction of $187. Bank of Virginia customer service representative discovered levy was for returned goods which local merchant gave credit for, but reported charge again for some unknown reason. Other $87 is for returned merchandise which wasn't credited.

Master Charge says credit was given and that $87 is still outstanding. Rep will send complete statement to back up their claim. Account will be closed upon final payment if you request. It's the time of the year again when I hear the pitter patter of little feet around my house. Not children, mice.

No matter what I do to stop them they manage to find a way into the "This is o-niii sage to the rest other bottles and cans. Supporters of Proposal A were jubilant Tuesday night. "We're just unbelievably proud and pleased," said Thomas L. Washington, executive director of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC), the proposal's chief sponsor. "This is going to be a clear message to the rest of the nation." Washington and other proponents of the so-called "bottle bill" overcame bitter industry opposition, including an avalanche of "vote no' media advertising in recent weeks.

MICHIGAN becomes the first major industrial state to approve legislation banning ISSUES to be a clear mes- of the both the use of non-returna-bles beverage and tab-top Oregon was first in 1971 and Vermont and South Dakota have since followed suit, but industry attempted to isolate those states as untypical and has spearheaded the defeat of bottle bills in dozens of other state and local jurisdictions. Proposal A fared extremely well in outstate Michigan especially in rural areas and in white collar Detroit suburbs. In general it fared poorly in inner city Detroit precincts and in other black and low-income areas. Its heaviest "no" vote Please turn to Page 12A, Col. 5 ARE TROUNCED BY HUGH McDIARMID AND LOUIS M.

HELDMAN Fret Press Lansing Staff Michigan voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to impose mandatory deposits on beer and soft drink containers and to iban. throwaways. The vote on ballot Proposal A was lopsided 60 percent in favor and 40 percent opposed, according to returns from Free Press indicator precincts across the state. AS A RESULT of the vote, the container deposit law will become effective Nov. 3, 1978, thus allowing brewers, bottlers and container manufacturers two years to shift from throwaways to a new system emphasizing refillable contain-, ers.

At that time, the law will require minimum five-cent deposits on refillable beer and soft drink 'bottles and minimum 10-cent deposits on all Tax and Ford led narrowly in partial returns from Texas. He cracked Carter's Southern base with a lead in Virginia and in Oklahoma. He was ahead in New Jersey and in New York. However on the basis of computer projections, CBS-TV declared Carter the winner in the battle for Texas' 26 electoral votes, ABC-TV also gave New York's 41 votes to Carter. In congressional elections, the Democrats moved toward their already assured control of the new Senate and the House of Representatives.

CARTER FLEW from Plains, to Atlanta, in a buoyant and confident mood, talking already of his plans for transition to a new Democratic Administration. In Washington, Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss said "things are look- ing good." "We haven't lost one single state that we expected to carry," he said. "We have carried a couple that we thought we might lose." Republicans staged a rally in a Washington hotel, cheering every time the counting board registered a state lead for Ford. THIS WAS the national picture with' 26 percent of the precincts reporting. Ford's popular vote was 10,477,726, or 47 percent.

Car ter tallied 11,365.008. or 52 percent. In the 33 Senate races. Democrats won seven and led in 11. Republicans won four and were ahead in five.

Forty Democrats and 27 Republicans are holdovers in the Senate. Please turn to Page 12A, Col. 1 Weary Ford casts his rote in Grand Rapids. Page 17A. efforts, said, "The voters recognized that tinkering with the (state) Constitution is a very serious thing They also realized that we have the message.

Wed better have the message." ISSUE had been sponsored and supported by a bipartisan array of legislators, the Michigan State Chamber of Commerce, the Michigan Association of Realtors and others. Opposition came primarily from elements of the so-called education lobby, including the Michigan Education Association and the trustees, regents and presidents of the major of Women Voters, the Milli-public universities, the League ken administration and Democratic legislative leaders. The issue would impose a constitutional freeze on the warmth of my home. What's the best way to fight them? P.K., Trenton. Best offense is defense.

Exterminators Action Line talked to said if your home is yearly vacation spot for mice you should be outside looking for point of entry. Task's not easy since mouse can squeeze through dime size hole if he has sights set on your abode. Once mice do get in, there are several ways to make their surroundings uncomfortable. Some exterminators are using poison powder and old standby, snap mousetrap. But then there are better devices like "catch-all" trap which depends on rodents' curiosity.

Once they walk into small wire cage, they can't get out and trap can hold 15 mice at a THE QUESTION The 1976 presidential campaign has come to an end. Are you confident in your candidate's ability to run the country? time. Tunnel can be added to cage which leads to water-filled vat, and that's not to provide a warm bath for critters. There are still lots of mousetrap inventors trying to make them better. U.S.

Patent Trademark office in Arlington, has no accurate count on number of traps registered but office rep said number is in the thousands. My husband applied for his Vietnam Veteran Era Bonus Please turn to Page 7A, Col. 1 Spending Limit Beaten Ford Wilis Michigan But Not By Much BY SAUL FRIEDMAN Free Press Washington Staff President Ford, on the strength of his home state advantage, fought off a powerful challenge in Michigan from Jimmy Carter and hung on to the state's 21 electoral votes. Incomplete returns from Free Press indicator precincts gave Ford a slight but growing lead about 2.5 percent over Carter, with just over one percent of the vote going to independent Eugene McCarthy. IT WAS NOT an impressive showing in Michigan for the state's first Michigan president, but Ford was apparently averting an embarrassing defeat.

Like a carpetbagger in reverse, Carter, a former Georgia governor, invaded the president's territory on election eve while 100 miles away at Grand Rapids Ford vigorously appealed to state pride and his former neighbors. Carter counted on latent Democratic power In the state, independents who usually vote for the moderate, and a massive, united effort by labor. But the returns showed that Ford and Michigan Republicans were in turning out a heavy vote In his areas of strength western Michigan and rather conservative outstate suburbs. The vote was moderately heavy throughout the state, with an estimated turnout of 75 percent of the registered voters. That topped the 1972 turnout by about two percent and was far above the projected national average of 55 percent.

THE TURNOUT belied press reports of apathy among the voters; indeed, the voters may have reacted to cries of apathy and the last-mfmrte polls which showed the presidential race too close to call. Nevertheless, there were signs that the voters did not think much about their choices -for president. For neither ma-" jor candidate showed any pol- A little publicized state issue to permit persons 18 to 20 years old to hold legislative office, Proposal lost by nearly a 4-to-l margin. Proposal C's big defeat was the big surprise. And reaction from the successful opponents was predictable.

"It's fantastic," said Herman Coleman, executive director of the Michigan Education Association which bankrolled the "vote no" campaign with $228,000. "It proves (the MEA's) capability to deliver once we get organized." Keith Molin, state labor director and head of the Milliken BY HUGH McDIARMID Lansing Bureau Chief Michigan voters Tuesday flatly rejected Proposal the controversial limit on state spending, and buried Proposal which called for a graduated incom tax. In both cases th margins were unexpetedly decisive. The tax and spending limit proposal, which had been considered a tossup, lost by a big 3-to-2 margin, based on returns from Free Press indicator precincts from across the state. The income tax proposal lost by nearly a 3-to-l margin based on the same indicators.

administration's vote no" HOW YOU VOTED YES, 54.5 percent. COMMENTS: "I'm confident that Jimmy Carter will pull this country out of the slump it's in" "Sure. Past history has shown it doesn't take any brains to be president" "President Ford has done a good job so far and I expect he'll continue to do so" "I think either man will do a fine job running the country." NO, 45.5 percent. COMMENTS: "I don't think either candidate could run a little league team, much less the country" "I voted for the lesser of two evils" "I get frightened every time I think of either of those two running things" "No, but I voted anyway." U.S. Voter At Lowest Turnout Appears Level Since '48 is a breakthrough in politics, because? some things happened in this campaign that have never happened before." Besides paying tribute to his family, Riegle thanked his campaign staff and singled out his campaign manager, Douglas Dibbert, for special praise.

At Esch's election night headquarters in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dearborn, gloom pervaded the ballroom from the time early returns began to be reported. Riegle is a different breed of politician from his predecessor. Page 14A. Ann Landers 5C Billy Graham 14D Bridge 1ID Business News 11-12C Classified 14-19C Comics U-13D Crossword Puzzle 11D Death Notices 14C Editorials 8A Entertainment 8-10D Feature Page 19A Food Guide MOB Horoscope 11D Movie Guide 12-13D Names and Faces 14D Obituaries SC Opinion 9A Real Estate IOC Sports 1-8D Television 9C Women's Pages 1-5C close to a minority of adult Americans. In 1972, the George McGovern-Richard Nixon contest produced a turnout of 55.4 percent.

In 1968 it was 61 percent and in 1960, 63 percent. The falloff this year was heavier in the Midwest and East than in the Southern and border states. The South has historically had the lowest turnout. It was 42 percent in 1972 and appeared heading toward a figure near or only slightly below that Tuesday night. Only the presence of favorite son jimmy Carter on the ballot appeared to have kept the Southern vote from falling even further.

An early assessment of the vote, using key precincts chosen for the ABC television network by pollster Louis Harris, showed that Please turn to Page 12A, Col. 4 PHILIP MEYER Free Presi Washington Staff NEW YORK Despite long voter lines in some big-city precincts, the overall turnout Tuesday appeared headed towrad the lowest level in a generation. Early reports through the day had indicated heavy turnout across the nation, with officials describing the numbers of voterrs as "fantastic" and "unbelievable." Those judgments were often based on subjective observations by precinct officials. In fact, returns from key precincts pointed to a final nationwide turnout of close to 50 percent. Not since 1948, when the turnout was 51.1 percent, has the proportion of voters fallen so TOMORROW'S QUESTION Under a new program in Massachusetts, drivers who cause accidents or commit major traffic violations have to pay an auto insurance surcharge of up to $675.

The surcharges are then returned to good drivers through credits on the next year's policy. Would you like to see a similar program tried in Michigan? To vote YES To vote NO Call 961-3211 Call 961-4422 Please turn to Page 14 Col. 8 Please turn to Page 13A, Col. I.