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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - November 6, 1968, Norwich, New York 7. I he vol. 78, no. 155ning Sunti rigs Chry november 6, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10<j per copy i f he twp Imil % Nixon is Victor in Cliff Hanger Illinois count puts him Over joint Victory sign is Given at Chenango county democratic Headquarters As George Vav. Carnrike left was elected mayor and James Scott right won his race for Alderman in Ward 2 much to the jubilation of Thomas a. Vitanza county chairman. Carnrike captures City Hall Democrat also wins Council seat by Casey Jones a new Norwich mayor and a Ward 2 Alderman both democrats will take their positions in City government Jan. I after scoring two of the biggest upsets in recent City political history tuesday. Ward 6 Alderman George w. Carnrike who in 1961 became the first democratic member of the common Council in several years won the mayoral vote by 52 unofficial ballots defeating incumbent Republican Melvin Vav. Osborne. James Scott a 26-year-old Norwich Junior High school mathematics teacher captured 26 More votes than his incumbent Oppon ent l. Forrest hotel Man As he followed in the footsteps of his Grandfather Dennis Normile who in the Early 1930s, became one of the first democratic aldermen in the City a history. Or. Carnrike running As an Independent although endorsed by the City democratic committee received 1,808 unofficial votes compared with 1,756 for or. Osborne. Only 40, or. Carnrike will be one of the City a youngest in a ors if not the youngest observers said. The mayor elect carried three of the six wards building a margin of almost 200 votes in his own District to carry the election. Unofficial tallies by wards with or. Carnrike listed first show n Ward i a 257 to 349 Ward 2 a 172 to 229 Ward 3 a 318 to 389 Ward 4 a 181 to 169 Ward 5 a 380 to 306 and Ward 6 a 500 to 314. Or. Scott polled 226 votes to his opponents 200. A pre election poll conducted by the evening Sun foreshadowed the mayoral upset. In that Survey or. Carnrike garnered 39votes to or. Osborne a 30. Another 31 persons polled were undecided. Heavy voting was apparent throughout the City with almost 90 per cent of the 4,059 registered casting ballots. Military and Absentee voting Cut the original margin Down. Machine totals showed the Winner with a plurality of Over too votes. Or. Carnrike said last night he had anticipated a a very very close election report new a first lady Council prospects Carnrike 3 Stratton Story county presidential Riv Recti. Page 4. Complete county vote score a Sheet. Page 5. Editorials. Page 2. He said he had expected to carry the three wards where he of tamed pluralities and had hoped to come close enough in the other three to win. The biggest obstacle he declared was his position on the ballot. Due to the number of contestants for president and . Senator he was forced to accept placement under to i in a far Corner of the ballot. He had not filed a primary designating petition and therefore could not run on the demo cratic ticket. He was listed officially As a Square Deal party candidate. A it might have Cost me the vote a he said. A there was much comment that they voters find me on the ballot. A a in la definitely be up for reelection next year As a Democrat for a full two year term. It wont be As a to i. Ill never do that his election is to fill a vacancy created by the death of or j. Leo Weiler earlier this year. Or. Osborne a Ward 2 Alderman was appointed by the common Council to fill the position. Or. Hotchkin in turn was appointed to fill the Aldermani Post. The mayor elect said he expects a there will probably be some changes in City government As far As appointive offices Are he said he would be pushing for employment of a professional assessor noting that the common continued on Page 3 did Thieu want bomb halt after vote ? Washington a presi. Dent Johnson a plan to halt the bombing of North Vietnam and expand the Paris peace talks was threatened with indefinite delay and possible collapse last week when South Vietnam Sud. Denly withdrew its agreement to the Deal in a bid to change the terms. The split Between Washington and its South vietnamese ally could have stalled the end of the bombing until after tuesdays presidential election and thus denied democratic nominee he. Bert h. Humphrey whatever political Benefit he might have de. Rived from it. There has been some Specula Tion Here that president Nguyen Van Thieu was interested in put. Ting off action until after the election to see whether he might get the terms he wanted if re. Publican Richard m. Nixon won. Nixon himself who has Gener ally supported Johnson a efforts to negotiate an end to the bomb ing and Advance the peace talks said in an election eve television broadcast monday night that a the negotiations came apart at the seams when the Saigon government refused to participate in the talks. Washington authorities had kept the split with South Viet Nam secret. They finally Dis. Closed details tuesday after plans to Start the expanded peace talks wednesday col. Lapsed. Thieu had refused to Send a delegation to Paris. His demands which had been presented to Johnson through ambassador Ellsworth Bunker in Saigon a week earlier were two. He wanted the United states weather Rainy and Cool tonight and thursday. Low temperatures tonight around 40 and highs on thursday in the 40s. To get an agreement from North Vietnam that it would Deal directly with his delegation in Paris. He also wanted Hanoi to agree that a delegation of the South vietnamese National lib. Ration front Elf would Par. Tic Pate in the talks Only As a part of the North vietnamese delegation. Johnson rejected these Condi. Tons on the ground that they would produce new counter de mands by Hanoi upset the in. Der standing he had already reached and deadlock Neotia. Tons indefinite. The North vietnamese had come to terms with him in a series of exchanges through be. Got gators in Paris on october 27th and 28th. The final proposal to which they responded had been sent to them by Johnson about october 15. According to administration officials president Thieu had approved that proposal before it pc demolish spans of biggest Bridge Saigon a Viet Cong saboteurs today blew out the three Center spans of the big. Gest permanent Bridge built by . Army engineers in Viet Nam but the american com. In and said it expected traffic to be moving Over a Pontoon Bridge by thursday morning. . Headquarters also an. Bounced the loss of four Ameri. Can helicopters in combat Mon Day and tuesday with one american killed and six wounded. Three of the choppers were shot Down by enemy gunners along the Jungle invasion routes Northwest of Saigon. This raised to 914 the total of . Helicon. Ters shot Down during the War. A military spokesman said frogman apparently floated a massive charge beneath the heavily guarded l,000.foot Phu Cuong Bridge just before Dawn. About 180 feet of the Bridge was blown out but there was no re. Port of casualties. The Bridge 18 Miles North of Saigon was one of the busiest in the nation handling Supply tray. Fie for two . Divisions North West of the capital. Completed last june the Bridge was the Pride of the . Army engineers. It floated on piles driven almost 300 feet into the Silt and special Protection against floating mines or Frog men was built around the piles. In the air War . Air Force and Navy fighter bombers streaked to within two Miles of the cambodian Border and set off a massive Chain of expo. Sions in a communist am Muni Tion dump filled with rockets and mortars military spokes men reported today. More than to bombers at. Tacked the ammunition dump tuesday in retaliation for heavy enemy shelling of a . 4th i. Vision base in the Central High lands four Days ago. Pilots reported at least 37 Sec. Mondary explosions that touched off two huge fires and sent fire balls 8,000 feet into the air. The strikes were 15 Miles West of the town of Dak to. Several ground clashes were reported across the country but the Lull in major sustained fight ing continued in its fifth week. Was sent. Thus on monday the 28th, the president Felt he was ready to end the bombing. At his request commander Gen. Creighton. W. Abramsjr. Flew Back from Saigon arriving at the White House at 2 30 . Tues. Day to give his personal a. Proval and join in a final review of military arrangements but on tuesday Johnson got word that Thieu and his Assoc. Ates were backing out of the agreement. They declined to go through with plans to Issie a joint com. Munique with the United states on the bombing halt. Bunker asked for time to try to resolve the crisis. But new assurances offered to Thieu through Bunker that the United states intended no recon. Nation of the liberation front and was not moving toward a coalition government in Saigon were unavailing. Johnson then decided to go ahead in spite of his knowledge that the South vietnamese would not cooperate. Washington a re. Publican Richard m. Nixon was elected 37th president of the United states today bursting by Democrat Hubert h. Humphrey with narrow Windup victories in California Illinois and Ohio. The 55-year-old former vice president went Over the top at 11 35 . Est by capturing la. To noise 26 electoral votes for a to Tai of 287 votes in the electoral College. Earlier he closed in on the White House by taking his native California with 40 electoral votes and Ohio with its 26 votes. With four states still in doubt a Alaska Maryland Missouri and Washington Nixon had put together a dramatic Victory Over Humphrey with 30 states in his electoral column. The race was a virtual deadlock and the final result was delayed for hours aft. Or the polls had closed. In new York Nixon stopped Short of claiming Victory. He apparently was awaiting a statement of Concession from Humphrey. George c. Wallace of the american Independent party was a Distant third. Shortly after to . Hum. Prey placed a Telephone Call to his Republican rival for the presidency. He turned to friends in his Minneapolis hotel suite and said a i done to want any sym from any of Nixon a Victory reversed in a sense his razor thin loss to John f. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race. It also completed a remark Able political comeback. After losing to Kennedy Nix. On was beaten by Edmund g. Pat Brown for the governor ship of California. Nixon moved to new York City and became a lawyer. In popular votes Nixon and Humphrey were in a virtual tie. But in the More important electoral votes Nixon had surged at 8 40 . Est to a Lead of 261 to 172. The number necessary for Victory is 270. Humphreys total stood Frozen for hours. American Independent George c. Wallace who said on the eve of balloting that the race really was Between him and Nixon was a Distant third with 45, All in the deep South. Nixon knocked off Humphrey in Ohio by the thinnest of mar. Gins. With 98 per cent of the vote counted Nixon had 1,766,384 to 1,658,933 for the democratic vice president an Edge of 107,451. In California with 95 per cent of the precincts reporting Nixon had 3,183,897 and Humphrey 3,054,577. Nixon a press chief Herbert g. Klein had claimed Nixon would carry the state by 300,000 votes. Humphrey went to bed Early in the morning without making a specific prediction. He said the election was a a dorm Brook a that a anything can Hap. Pen and that he was optimistic. As the tabulating of tuesdays record balloting continued Nix. On had won in 29 states with 261 electoral votes and Humphrey in la plus the District of Colum. Bia with 172 electoral votes. The popular ballot looked this Way Nixon 28,463,410 votes or 43 per cent Humphrey 28,186,590, also 43 per cent and Wallace 8,941,585 or 14 per cent. In the Senate republicans tallied gains but the democrats were left with Clear numerical control. In the governors contests that have Little Over All National in. Pact but offer the winning party grass roots Power republicans increased their present majority of 26. Republican National chair Man Ray Bliss described the election results at 4 . Est As a a a Cliffhanger which the gop would win because it was then moving ahead in the Cru Elal states of new Jersey Ohio and Wisconsin. One of Nixon Stop advisers Herbert g. Klein claimed that the Republican candidate would wind up with an electoral majority of More than 300. Klein said that Wallace a Cut in on us heavily in Pennsylvania which Humphrey won. No Republican has been elected president in this Century without Pennsylvania a support. Humphrey is cheered in defeat Minneapolis Minn apr vice president Hubert h. Humphrey his voice choking with emotion conceded the presidential election today to Richard m. Nixon. A a in be done my Best. In be lost. Or. Nixon has won. The demo cratic process has worked its will so lets get on with the or. Gent task of uniting this noun. Try a Humphrey told several Hundred cheering admirers at his Humphrey supporters had been waiting in the hotel Ball room More than six hours when the vice president showed up. A a it a fair to say a Humphrey went on a that we have done much better than most observe. Ers thought we would and about As Good As i thought we would. There Are critical states yet to be heard from Ohio Illinois California and Washington. A this is a Donnybrook. Anything can Humphrey said several Mem. Hers of his family a have a1, ready seen fit to retire in confidences a and that when his wife Muriel asked him whether he wanted her to get up and appear with him he replied a Well dear lets wait until we can announce a Victory statement Humphrey said he had always been a a rather optimistic Man a and tonight i feel that Way. A i feel that by the time the turn of Day comes tomorrow you and i Are going to be a lot Humphrey thanking his supporters said the american people a have been mighty Good to us. They have Given us a great vote of thus Humphrey followed in the footsteps of democratic can. Dilates of history like John f. Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson who also went to bed before knowing the verdict of the elec. Torte. Humphrey hoped for the same outcome. Richard m. Nixon president elect cop fails a Al i i 11 o demos in to top Senate Washington a Veter. An senators from Oklahoma and Pennsylvania were toppled tuesday As republicans Whit. Tied Down but failed to Over come the democrats substantial majority. Republican Barry Coldwater of Arizona whose crushing 1964 presidential defeat helped main Tain the democrats powerful congressional control returned easily to the Senate. Goldwater a Victory tuesday combined with defeat of demo cratic Sens. Joseph s. Clark in Pennsylvania and a. S. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma High lighted a cop net gain of at least four seats. Incomplete returns indicated democrats would hold 58 or 59 seats in the new Senate and re. Publicans 42 or 41. Democrats held a 63 to 37 majority in the last Congress. Republicans besides taking Over democratic seats in Arizona Oklahoma and Pennsylva. Ilia took away seats in Florida and Maryland republicans threatened democratic seats in Alaska Ohio and Oregon. Republican Max Rafferty and Democrat Alan Cranston waged a close Battle for the seat held by California Republican sen. Thomas Kuchel Defeated by Rafferty in the primary. The republicans needed to capture 14 seats from the demo. Crafts to Clinch control of the Senate but no sweep of that size developed. Monroney Veteran and chairman of the Senate Post office and civil service committee and a longtime Champion of congressional re. Form was Defeated by Henry Bellmon Oklahoma a first re. Dow loses As by gop gains in House new York a demo. Crafts captured another Strong majority in new Yorkus 41-member congressional Dele a. Tion tuesday despite the loss of the seat held by John a Dow the Only incumbent beaten in the election. Unofficial returns showed democrats winning 26 seats and republicans 15. The last race to be decided was the election of Republican Hamilton fish jr., in the mid. Hudson Valley 28th District. With All the vote in he Defeated Democrat John s. Dyson by 89,904 votes to 85,439. Fish the fifth member of his family to be elected to the House won the seat vacated by rep. Joseph y. Resnick also a Democrat. Willard Lowenstein an Antiwar Democrat backed by the Liber als Defeated Mason Hampton jr., endorsed by conservatives and republicans in the 5th Dis. Strict on Long Island. Democrats held a 26-15 Edge in the 90th Congress although Democrat Adam Clayton pow. Ell ousted for misconduct Nev. Or claimed his seat. The Harlem preacher Politi. Can was among the democrats returned to office tuesday. He has promised to try to take his seat when the new Congress convenes in january. Dow lost to Republican mar. Tin b. Mckneally a former a. Tonal commander of the Ameri. Can legion in the normally re. Publican 27th District. Dow had won an upset Victory there in the 1964 Johnson landslide and was re elected by 5,000 votes two years ago. Also re elected was rep. Emanuel Ceiler the 80.year-old Dean of the delegation and chairman of the House Judi. Clary committee which recon. Mended censuring and fining Powell. Ceiler was first elected to the House in 1922 and Powell in 1944. Mrs. Chisholm a Victory was in the newly created 12th District which includes the pre. Dominantly negro Bedford and Stuyvesant sections of Brooklyn. The 43-year-old state Assembly woman easily Defeated James Farmer former head of the Congress of racial Equality who ran on the Republican and Liberal tickets. Tile 24th District in the Bronx which had elected Republican Paul Fino to eight straight terms chose Democrat Mario Biaggi Over Andrew Man. Tovani a Fino aide. Publican governor. The Cam. Pain was marked by disputes Over the Vietnam War and Federal spending. Another democratic senator who failed to win re election was Daniel b. Brewster of Maryland. Clark an outspoken foe of the Vietnam War seeking his third term lost to Republican rep. Richard s. Schweiker despite Hubert h. Humphreys capture of Pennsylvania a presidential electoral votes. Brewster was Defeated by another Gap Congress Man Charles Mcc. Mathias. Brewster supported the Nistra. Tiona a Vietnam War policies. Mathias called for bombing halt be. Fore president Johnson ordered it last week. But the Vietnam War had no clearly discernible Impact on Senate races. Taking seats vacated by retiring members of their own party Are Democrat James b. Allen of Alabama and republicans rep. Robert Dole of Kansas and judge Marlow w. Cook of Kentucky. Jackie renounced Laith paper says Vatican City a a Vatican publication said today that Jacqueline Kennedy a marriage to Aristotle Onassis did riot excommunicate her from the roman Catholic Church but was a in effect a renunciation of her own the comment appeared in the weekly la Osse Vatore Della Domenica. It was the first com. Merit on the wedding to appear in a Vatican publication and in essence repeated what the vat. Can a chief press officer msgr. Fausto Vallain said earlier. The paper did not mention mrs. Onassis name but it of. Piously was talking about her. The comment was in reply to a a a Reader who asked a is it True that one of the principals in a recently publicized event has been excommunicated a a news that Speaks of Escom. Mun location is not accurate a said the reply explaining that since 1966 excommunication has not been a penalty in such cases. Today chuckle Junior brought Home a note from school. They want a written excuse for his presence

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