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VNUpshur Voters Follow State-Wideif;Trends in Saturday's Balloting11Upshur County voters-, wns followed the staie-svide trend in Democratic second primary balloting Saturday, i A hmviur-lhnn-expected I turnout of some -5.200 gavel margins to Barefoot Sand-'; crs over Ralph Yarborough in the U.S. Senate Race, Dolph Briscoe over Francis Karo nth old in the governor's race, Bill Bobby over Wayne Connally far lieutenant governor. Robert Calvert over Jim Wilson for comptroller.All won their races state-1percentage wise more than the 1.094 million to | 877,000 lead he had oven1 ihei stale. He lead command ingly in every Upshur County box and was the nearly unanimous choice at Rosewood, which went for him 00 to 7. Sanders won in all but five boxes and in one of those, Rosewood, he lied with Yarborough. His total Upshur County vote was 2.039 lo 1,717 for the former senator.Hobby Margin Narrow Bill Hobby of Houstonwide.Briscoe's nearlymargin over the candidate from Christi -—3,077 toI narrowly repeated his first I primary win her over Con-Hobhy's leads in North west Gilmer and in the eastern and northern boxes, Diana, Ore City. Coffeeville and | Ewell. put him on top.Mrs. 1. R. (Lois) Jackson t ef Longview again earned! Upshur as well as her home j county, Gregg, in her race I against Tyler Oilm:»7\ Peyton, McKrughl for the Cist. fcj Stale Senate seat, hut it; wasn’t enough. Me Knight) repealed his hig leads ini Smith acid Wood Counties' and carried nil the ir\sl of the counties in the district, including lhc.se on the wosl-3 towoman : nally. winning 2,120 to 2,024. t-rn end that hod gone for Corpus I Connolly carried three of j Jim Calon in Die first pri-1,113—'the four GiJmci boxes but mary. Mrs. Jackson led in --‘Upshur County, 2,130!UTourists See Tight Security in Tel Aviv| 2,010, but the 9-counly total ; gave McKnighi .77.2011 lo j 24,881 for Mrs. Jackson.Lee Wins House I'osL In the race for slate re-Nino Gilmer tourists ar- i after midnight Monday.rived home early after a 2-week trip to Europe and the Holy Land that took them through the Tel Aviv airport two days after three Japanese terrorists had killed 24 persons and wounded 7G with sub-Tuesday3 Making the trip were Mrprescnialive of District 2 Die 4 • vigorous campaigns waged j I here by Doyen R. Lee of! .Naples and Jim Stanley of - j Lone Slur in effect rieuLia-|and Mrs. Jimmie Marshall,: li/ed Upshur County. Lee,:Mr. and Mrs. Komic Bishop, the winner, carried the Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cars-1 county with 2,048 votes to well, Mrs. Leon Hudgins, j 2.035 for Stanley. Leu, aMrs. Neil B Harrison and! Naples «Homey, nearly John Edward Dean. They doubled Stanley's total in flew from New York to I See ELEC TION, page 10
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