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
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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,,.
.
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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
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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
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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.
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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