Color Country Spectrum (Newspaper) - November 3, 1976, Saint George, Utah IS C Color Country Spectrum Local forecast Cedar Fair through Thursday with continued mild days low tonight highs mid 70s St Fair through Thursday with mild low tonight highs upper 70s Wednesday Novembers 1976 The printed voice of Utah's booming Volume 13 Number 183 Fair through with continued mild lows tonight 20s to mid highs and lower 70s Carter wins by narrow marg WASHINGTON UPI Democrat Jimmy Carter marching out of Georgia with a pledge to restore the nation's founding principles narrowly ousted Gerald Ford from the presidency today in a election Carter will take office Jan 20 as the nation's 39th president and the first of its third century To w in he put the Solid South and just enough of the industrial North into the Democratic column to give him and Walter Mondale a narrow but conclusive popular and electoral vote victory He will have a solidly Democratic Congress to work with in attempting to redeem his campaign promises of tax reform government reorganization and federal intervention on the side of the poor and disadvantaged In one of the closest electoral vote decisions in a century California went narrowly for Ford and Carter apparently took Ohio by fewer than 700 votes cast as results trickled in after dawn Carter appeared before a cheering crowd in an Atlanta convention hall shortly after 3 EST to claim his victory and declare that Americans are now ready to see our nation unified It's time to tap the tremendous strength vitality idealism hope patriotism and sense of brotherhood and sisterhood in this country to unify our country and make it great once Carter said The EST national vote for president with 98 per cent out of 178.159 of the precincts Vote Pet 51 166.7770 Carter won 24 states with 297 electoral votes Ford won 27 states with 241 electoral votes Ford had won 25 states with 192 electoral votes and was leading in two states with 49 electoral votes When Carter finally put together enough votes to win Ford was in a position to make the election the closest since 1876 when Republican Rutherford Hayes was awarded the presidency by a single vote in an disputed election decided bv a special commission The popular vote appeared to be the closest since 1968 which Richard Nixon won by 510.000 The 1976 election was close because neither candidate could dominate the big electoral states Carter won New York Pennsylvania Texas Florida and Massachusetts hut Ford got New Jersey Michigan Indiana and Virginia Carter ail but swept the South beating Ford in every state of the Old Confederacy except Virginia He also rolled up the border states Kentucky Tennessee West Virginia Maryland and Delaware But Ford gobbled up the western mountain states and split with Carter in the Farm Belt taking Iowa Kansas Nebraska and both Dakotas white the former Georgia governor carried Missouri Minnesota and Wisconsin Ford waited for the results in the White House and retired before UPI first flashed the news that Carter had won Carter got the returns in Atlanta the Georgia capital from which he launched his unorthodox assault on the presidency two years ago Carter trained as a naval officer and nuclear physicist now makes his living as a peanut warehouse operator Throughout the winter and spring Carter won after primary over a long list of nationally known Democratic hopefuls He then dominated the most peaceful and unified national convention the Democrats have had in more than a decade and came out of Madison Square Garden with a lead in the national polls that seemed unbeatable But Ford the Michigan congressman who came to the presidency by succeeding Richard M Nixon and Spiro T Agnew the first president and vice president ever to resign their offices put together a comeback campaign that pulled him almost even with Carter by election day The conservative midwesterner first had to fight off a determined bid for the GOP nomination by former Gov Ronald Reagan and then catch up with his Democratic opponent He did it by remaining in the White House projecting a presidential image during most campaign and then emerging with an out barnstorming tour that concentrated on the bie states where Carter was most vulnerable The campaign was full of unique elements Ford was the first president ever to come to office without having run for the office or for vice president Carter was the first native of the South except for Lyndon B Johnson to win a major party presidential nomination since Woodrow Wilson a New Jersey resident born in Virginia in 1916 Ivan unopposed Garth returned Grant J wins James Clark commissioner wins in district Q Murray wins again Jerry Lewis solid win GOP sweeps Washington Iron Counties at Iron County election is Republicans claim wins in all Washington County races votes were counted and local races of- few surprises for Iron County residents A last-minute write-in campaign for state senator a close vote tally and the suspense of waiting for the final vote counts from made things interesting for the candidates says practice discriminates By DENNIS ROWLEY Spectrum Staff Writer CEDARCITY A Utah Power and Light official urged the Utah Public Utilities Commission to file a legal suit against the federal government Sid Baucon senior vice president of the company urged the commission to join the attorney general in the consideration to file the suit against the government for the practice of supplying power to preferred customers from federal power sites Baucon told the commission that private power companies are not able to buy power from Glen Canyon Dam because of the policy of giving municipal and rural electric associations preferred status in the sale of claims the sale of the cheaper power to municipal systems discriminates against the citizens wno are under private power systems such as Utilities Baucon was before the hearing between the utility commission and where the power company is trying to gain approval for a rate increase in Cedar City Utah Pow er was Jo appear to explain its roll in the contracts made with for supplying power and the construction of a new transmission hne from Sigurd to the Iron line Utah Power's position is that even if took over ownership of the line after repaying Utah Power as some critics of have requested it would not be in as good a position economically as it is without the line Questions into the legality of the contract were raised by representatives of the Division of Public Utilities local farmers and the attorney general's office They indicated they felt the contract should have been submitted to the Public Utilities Commission before authorization was given Further and cross-examination continue today with some indications that the hearing of the rate increases mav conclude increases requested by have been modified to total 48 per cent A cent increase tentatively has been approved i in three of the four cases before the commission The commission is expected to make those increases manent and will consider an additional increase of 10.16 per cent in the case relating lo the new transmission line A through increase of 3.445 per cent is also under consideration in a case where no increases have been approved officials indicated the status of power generation facilities in the Cedar City area are under study and it is likely those plants will be removed The cost of generating power with those plants officials said is three limes the current costs of buying power Ivan Matheson unopposed in his bid for state senator got a last-minute challenge from Hal Adams Ivan Matheson unopposed in his bid for state senator got a last-minute challenge from Hal Adams Adams bid won him 546 votes This was not nearly enough votes to overcome the total of 4.728 votes for Matheson Much closer was the race in the county school board Precinct 4 between Gwyn Clark and Ardeen Childs Clark took 899 votes to win but Childs Dulled close with a 859 Iron County followed closely the voting patterns of the of Utah as a whole in giving Gerald Ford Scott Matheson Orrin Hatch Dan Marriott David Monson Robert Hansen and Richard Jensen their margins of victory in the Iron County went for Stanford Darger but state tallies put his Democratic opponent in the In the state representative race covering and Kane Counties incumbent Garth Jones walked way easily with another victory against Vivian Little and Bert Eastman County Commission races went to the Republicans as James Clark and Grant Seaman were Other winners in the county school board races Frehner over Reagan Precinct Hallerman over lensen Precinct Rollo beat Perkins Precinct 3 and Overson won unopposed in Precinct 5 Stale school board incumbent Steve Garrett was also victorious over challenger Dallas Greener Iron County voter approved the state constitutional amendment lowering the legal voting age in the state to 18 years while they defeated the other three initiatives Utah election wrapup By Cooper Spectrum Staff Writer ST GEORGE Republicans reclaimed Washington County Com- mission and State Representative seats here Tuesday night as voters cast ballots for GOP candidates in all state and local seats plus went strongly for Gerald Ford in the President's race Ford claimed 5927 votes to 1889 for Jimmy Carter as 79.5 per cent of the registered voters cast ballots in the Incumbent G Murray Webb Republican was returned to office picking up 59.6 per cent of the vote 4863 to Democrat Edna Mae son's 3299 Jerry Lewis Republican newcomer to the commission race swept the county picking up the largest percentage of the votes of any local candidate as he captured 63 per cent of the final tally 5204 votes to 2946 for Democrat opponent Ron Nelson The commission race became the most heated race in the final week of the campaign as the recent hospital sale was made a major issue by the two Democratic candidates The commission race had a larger spread than in the primary for both GOP candidates as G Webb narrowly edged Republican opponent John Whitney in the earhar election I did my homework this time and that made the difference stated Webb indicating that he spent more time campaigning throughout the County during the general election In the race for State Representative from 75 Ray cap- tured 60.36 per cent of vote with a total of 4894 to MacArthur Wright's final total of 3214 All at the Courthouse Tuesday night expressed gratitude toward campaigning efforts of friends and family following the final election tally Republican candidates in the state election fared well in Washington Vernon Romney although defeated in the State election winning in Washington County over opponent Scott Matheson The race was the closest of any state race in the County however finished with a total vote of 4954 while Matheson captured 3229 In other state races throughout the County Omn Hatch overpowered Frank E Moss 5969 to 2212 George Batchelor American Party Candidate picked up 125 votes and Steve Trotter Libertarian candidate captured 22 votes in the County Daryl McCarty's last minute write-in sticker campaign effort had little effect in Washington County as Dan Marriott won overwhelmingly finishing with 5944 votes Allan 1777 votes and McCarty only managed 151 In the remaining state races David Monson finished with 5868 votes to 2120 for David Duncan in the Secretary of Governor's Robert Hanson balloted Gilbert Athay 6000 to 2026 in the Attorney General's Richard Jensen picked up votes to for Robert Swan in the State Auditor's and Stanford Darger captured 5207 votes to 2607 for Robert Swan In the Washington County School Board race John Willie Sheldon Johnson and Sherwood Bracken captured posts Willie beat Dr Robert Coombs 551 to 455 in District three Johnson captured 1068 votes to 529 for Cleo Atkin to capture the seat in District Uvo and Sherwood Bracken finished with 816 votes to 541 for Dennis Payne to capture the seat in District one In the State School Board election Washington County went for Steven Garrett with 2858 votes to for Dallas Greener In the State Senate Race District 29 Ivan Matheson running unopposed picked up 6287 votes in County In the balloting for the proposals Washington County voters went for proposals one two three ami against number four On One the 18 year-old vote Washington County voters balloted for and On Initiative Proposal A the issue the County voters went 4425 for and and on Initiative Proposal B She Utah Recall and Advisory Act the wens 4038 for and 5507 against The proposal to lose in County was the Budgetary Procedures The voters defeated the in the County 5333 to 2196 for Hatch unseats Moss in U.S Senate SALT LAKE CITY UPI Republican Orrin Hatch a Reagan conservative un- seated veteran Democratic Sen Frank Moss in Tuesday's election and fellow GOP con- Dan Marriott ousted Rep Allan Howe To no one's surprise President Ford swept the state's four electoral votes defeating Democrat Jimmy Carter by a two to one margin But the Democrats held on lo the governor's office and state's other congressional seal as Scolt Matheson and Rep Gunn McKay rolled to easy victories over their Republican opponents Republicans won three other major state offices electing David Monson as lieutenant governor Robert Hansen as attorney general and Richard Jensen as slate auditor Democrat Linn Baker won a close race lo become slate treasurer a job he held from 1964 lo Republicans recaptured the Ulah House of Representatives but the Democrats a slim majority in the State Senate Utahns rejected two proposals a public officials recall law and a proposal lo freeze slale budgel But they passed an measure and a con- lowering voting age lo 18 H 42 rode an wave lo viclory in Senale race Throughout the campaign he branded Moss as a big spender who consistently voted for costly social welfare programs pushed by the liberal establishment Former California Gov Keagan drove home the attacking a free spending Congress and endorsing Hatch campaign through the slalo 1 week before The pollsters falling race a dead but licat senator In percentage points finishing with 53 per cent of the vote to Moss's 45 American Party candidate George Batchelor and Libertarian Steve Trotler attracted less than 2 per cent een them Hatch ended Moss's 18 year career in Washington and gave the state two freshmen Republicans in Senate Jake Garn was elected in GOP Sen Wallace Bennett Moss 65 was the number three in the Senate leadership during tho laM congressional lerni and his ilx throughout campaign enough teal till replied hen w In he hail loM Moss hail counting on a last the vote to him Koul helped pull I couldn't I thought we had a surge in the last few said the senator The Ford momentum had to help us too said Hatch I Ford I gaxe more than 400 speeches tor him 1 think we would have won without it but so big a margin McKay who won re election to a fourth In defeating Fork airline pilot Joe said lie thought Moss had been a 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