Ford campaigns for N Y votes HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., (UPI) President Ford, claiming he has seized the momentum from Democratic Jimmy Carter, stumped New York yesterday in a final drive for the state's eliktoral votes as a, key to his bid for a full term in the White House. With only two days left, Ford ignored a steady downpour at rallies in Buffalo and Rochester before heading downstate into fair-weather Suffolk and Nassau counties and New York City. He sipped chicken soup to cure a hoarse throat. 'ord won a thinly-veiled endorsement from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, Edward Head, while attending services at the 103-year old St. Stanislaus Polish American Roman Catholic church. Monseignetir Chester. Meloch read Oom the pulpit a letter from Head that said church members cannot remain neutral on abortion. Head's letter said Roman Catholics personally feel that abortion is wrong and Catholics must carry their convictions to the ballot box. Head said the church does not endorse cirdidates but added "the Church is not Carter on the stump in close Calif. race SAN FRANCISCO ( UPI) Jimmy Carter, cheered on by a compact crowd near Fisherman's Wharf, last night accused the Ford administration of allowing the nation to driftaimlessly at a tile of inflation' and high unem ployment. Carter, swinging• into California where he was locked in a tight election race with President Ford, did not singe out the chief executive by name but detailed the nation's 'troubled times. "There is no leadership in the White ' ,House, and the country has been drif -ting," the Democratic contender said in a Ghiradelli Square courtyard. `!We must change all that." The appearance, attended by some 7,000 persons in and around the small courtyard, was televised live ih San Erancisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, akersfield, Calif., Los Vegas, Nev., and Spokane, Wash. His flight into California came at .a time when there has been grumbling by some state Democratic leaders that he . has not spent enough time in the state ' and his organization has not made a *concentrated effort to win new voters. The speech was not as tough as the one he delivered at Fort Worth, Tex., earlier when he called on the American voters to "fire" Ford. "He hasn't done a thing but let our nation drift and become divided," rter said. He predicted a close battle Post no horns Cruising the countryside off campus, one finds scenes like Sam Reed's trophy " signpost in Pine Grove Mills. More fall scenes, page 10. . . Q - 01legian the daily neutral to hunian rights, especially the right to life." ' - Ford backs a constitutional amend ment which Would allow states to ban abortions. Carter, although personally against abortion, does not support the amendment. . Never before, especially in such a dramatic setting and so close to the election, had the Church spoken so. directly in Ford's behalf. After leaving upstate New York considered strong Republican country Ford flew aboard Air Force Dne to Long Island for rallies under clear skies in Suffolk and Nassau counties. The President was joined by former baseball star Joe Garagiola and jazz musician Lionel Hampton. In an emotional pitch, Ford told the • Suffolk County crowd estimated at 9,000 to 10,000 that "we were way, way behind .in the first quarter but we got together , and the Republican party, got unified. .Ford stopped short of absolutely predicting he would carry New York, but said: "We'll see this state is on the right side." against Foid, but said: "We have a good chance for a large victory." Carter told reporters he doubts that a vote by deacons at his home Baptist church in Plains, Ga., to cancel services yesterday rather than admit four blacks will affect tomorrow's election. Carter has spoken out in the past against the church's rule barring blacks from membership. The Democratic presidential nominee's final two-day push of his 22- month caMpaign was to take him into three "states Including Ford's home state *of Michigan , — with a total- of 92 • electoral votes. • „ . , • Mixing optimism and tough across the-board attacks on Ford, Carter told campaign workers in Dallas that "any businessman or woman who had an executive like this would fire him on the spot and that's what the American people are going to do." At an early afternoon chicken-basket. dinner for about 7,000 get-out-the-vote supporters who filled the Tarrant County Convention Center, Carter invoked the names of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. "They would never sit quiet in a divid ed nation with no respect for the con gress, no action, stalemated, drifting, while the unemployment rate is up to 8 million people. ~ Chip Carter, 26-year-old son ofDemocratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, came to campui Friday to urge students to vote for his father. Carter's son assails Ford's politics By JAY BOOKMAN Collegian Staff Writer Chip • Carter, the 26-year-old son of Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, told a group of University students Friday that Jerry Ford is resorting to dirty politics to get elected _ "I think President Ford is getting :desperate," ,he said. ',`l•halie never seen a' campaign in life that's as - dirty as the onele!s •- • :- Chip said that it i,a'Ccepted / in . politics to attack the other candidate, 'bid charged that Ford has made personal attacks on his mother, Rosalymy Carter, and younger brother, Jeff, concerning their religious beliefs. , But, according to Chip, the dirty politics, ; aren't working and Jimmy Carter will become the thirty-ninth President of the United Statm. Chip Carter campaigns in father's image By JAY BOOKMAN Collegian Staff Writer lie walks like Jimmy Carter, he drawls like Jimmy Carter, he looks like Jimmy Carter, he smiles like Jimmy Carter. But he is not Jimmy Carter. He's the Democratic presidential candidate's son. - - Chip Carter came to State College last Friday to talk about his father. It is his role in the campaign to act as a sort of ambassador, to portray the candidate as a family figure. It seems to personalize a candidate when you hear someone refer to him as "Daddy." Chip Carter even seems to think just like his father; he says there are no issues on which he and' his father disagree. Impressions "People ask me and say that Steve and Jack Ford both disagree with their father on some, issues and I tell them that if my father: was Jerry Ford I would disagree with him too," he said. Chip has been on the road for 18 months campaigning for his father, from the primaries all the way through the Hearings to resume Wednesday Cross examination of James M. Beat tie; dean of the College of Agriculture, ended Friday, concluding the Univer sity's testimony on department heads at the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) hearings. Originally the University had planned to ‘get the testimony of *all 11 of the col lege deans. PLRB hearings examiner Sidney Lawrence, however, halted the testimonies with Beattie (the fifth dean to testify) to shorten the length of the hearings. The PLRB hearings deal with the pos sible representation of the faculty by the Pennsylvania State University Profes sional Association (PSUPA) or by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) . On Wednesday the hearings will begin again at 1' p.m. in 114 Keller Building. Next month, beginning on the Bth, PSUPA and AAUP will begin presenting their respective cases. "Momentum is building. Every poll shows us one or two points ahead of the last one," he said. "The main thing we have to do in Pennsylvania is to get the vote out." Chip also said that the candidacy of Eugene McCarthy will have little effect of the outcome of the election because people will realize that by voting for McCarthy they ar e actually voting for Ford,,. . - Carter said. his father opposes legalization of marijuana, but does support decriminalization at the federal level, leaving the states to make their own • decisions. "We will • decriminaliie," he said decriminalization." He said he supported his father's statement that he would not interfere militarily if Russian troops invaded general election. He often is separated from his wife, he had to fly to Texas from State College for another appearance. "It's been a really good experience," he said. "It makes the statistics not numbers, but people." He said the ex perience of staying with a fisherman in Maine and a coalminer in Pennsylvania has changed his life. But, when it's all over, win or lose, he wants to return to his former lifestyle. "I'm going back to the second mobile home from the post office in Plains, Georgia, and raise peanuts," he said. "I don't believe in nepotism, and I wouldn't want a federal job that paid." Even after 18 months of practice it's easy to pick up the fact that Chip is still a little uneasy speaking before crowds, a fact he readily admits to. He also freely admits to the fact that he flunked speech twice during his college career at Georgia Tech. Because of that, and the fact that he has gotten the same questions every day for the last year and a half, his responses seem memorized and mechanized. He is forced to use the same jokes and anecdotes at each appearance, and they tend to get a little stale after repetition. Chip said that if his father is elected, there will be a rock concert at the White What's Inside Endorsements Op-Ed page Collegian notes League Voting Guide .. Dorm dieting Sports Election '76 .. Collegian Arts Williams and Wise page 4 page 9 pages 11, 12, 13 and 14 page 15 . pages 17 and 18 page 19 Correction John Dolbeare, president of the mountaineering division of the Penn State Outing Club, was incorrectly identified as Jeff Dolbeare in Fri day's Collegian. Weather Partly sunny, breezy and chilly today. High 45. Clear and cold tonight. Low near 30. Sunny tomorrow morning, becoming partly cloudy cloudy by afternoon, with warmer temperatures. High 50. Ten cents per copy Monday, November 1, 1977 Vol. 77, No. 70 20 pages University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University House open "to anybody who wants to Democratic convention. come," and with the possible ap- "He'll also quote him, I hope, in his: pearance of Bob Dylan, whom his father acceptance speech for the presidency," ' quoted in his acceptance speech at the Chip said. Races down in state, national elections page 2 page 3 page 4 By the Associated Press After a long and tedious campaign, Pennsylvanians go to the polls tomorrow to elect a new U.S. senator and help decide whether Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter will occupy the White House. Televised debates, millions of printed words and mile after uncounted mile of campaigning have brought one con clusion: Nobody knows who's going to win. Senate candidates John Heinz and William Green have spent almost $3 l / 2 million between them (only a million of that in the Green camp) to tell voters of their past records and future promises. Yet, the best estimates of where that contest rests at the moment place it squarely on the fence. "It's close, very close," said an aide to Heinz. Strange, but an aide to Green said the very same thing. And in Pennsylvania, with 27 electoral votes hanging in the balance, it's much the same story on the incumbent Yugoslavia, and said the speech was a statement of policy and not a mistake. "I don't think it's a slip at all," he said. "Daddy said he would not get involved in the internal affairs of other countries." Chip responded to criticism leveled at his father's record as governor of Georgia in a series of Ford television commercials. The adVertikmenfs state that expenditures in Georgia under the Carter ad ministration rose by a large percentage, as did the state's debts. "Dad, at the end of his administration, had $ll6 million surplus left over, within a balanced budget, and without raising taxes," Chip said. He also said that inflation was responsible for a large percentage of the increased expenditure. "Dad's for to the wire president and his Democratic challenger from Plains, Ga. State figures show that 5.7 million voters are registered for this election but even the most optimistic observers say that only 70 per cent will turn out. The new postcard registration added more than a half million to the rolls, with Democrats outpointing Republicans 2-1. The new lineup includes 3.1 million Democrats and 2.3 million for the GOP. While claims abound that voter apathy will keep the turnout down to less than 50 , per cent, Pennsylvania historically has done better in presidential years. • In 1972, Richard Nixon collected 2.7 million votes while George McGovern received 1.7 million. The state had 5.5 million voters that year. In 1968 and the years going back to 1936, the outpouring for presidential candidates seldom dipped below 4 million voters. That many voting Tuesday would constitute a 70 per cent turnout: Photo by Andy Gum berg
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