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2 Friday, August 2, 1968 OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
Rockefeller Rebounds
After Switch in Polls
Open Up, Rogers Told
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53 more than required to
win, and that he would be
nominated on “an early bal-
lot.”
Just as Klein had exploited
the Gallup Poll on Monday,
the Rockefeller forces
moved to capitalize on the
Harris survey.
'jdalcolm W. Wilson, New
fork’s lieutenant governor,
put N i x o n’s first-ballot
sifength at 515, Rockefeller’s
al-350. and Ronald Reagan's
3t‘280, with the remainder of
tWF 1,333 undecided.
'.Wilson predicted a second
bjilot shift raising Rockefel-
lers total to 400. a further
s6ift of the third batllot and
a*-victory on the fourth or
ftCh ballot.
^Leonard Hall, a former
QQP national chairman and
Rockefeller floor manager,
called the Gallup-Harris
statement "further confir-
mation’’ of the momentum
building for his man.
Gallup and Harris said two
key factors accounted for
the apparent disparity in the
polls: the time at which the
polls were taken and the
margin of error built into the
sampling process. “Public
land each was an accurate
reflection at the time it was
taken,” they said.
The pollsters’ joint state-
ment said the July results of
the Gallup and Harris polls
and of a Rockefeller-fi-
nanced survey by Archibald
M. Crossley "are not as dis-
similar as they might ap-
pear to the public at first
glance.”
The New York Times quot-
ed Gallup as saying in an in-
terview that he thought it
possible that his poll had
“caught a transitory peak"
in Nixon’s popularity and a
corresponding dip in Rocke-
feller’s.
Noting that his interview
ers had gone into the field on
the day newspapers carried
accounts of the endorsement
of Nixon by former Presi
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Galulp said: ”1 have no ab-
solutely solid evidence but I
am convinced that that was
a major factor.”
Monday’s Gallup Poll gave
Nixon 40 percent of the vote,
but Harris gave him only 35
against Humphrey. The
five-point difference would
be about 3.5 million votes,
based on the 70.6 million
San idling *■ -----
opinion changes over time, votes in the 1964 presidential
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and they agree. The trees have now been trimmed and
are no longer a view obstruction.
I still have my GI insurance and my wife heard that
the government would pay a dividend this year. If they
did, I have not received mine. I got a dividend check last
year in March. J.P.H.
Tim Turnbull, service officer for American Legion
Post No. 35, says these dividends are paid each year on
the anniversary date of the insurance policy.
A neighbor of mine in the 7100 block NW 8 wants a
gas metier and some gas lines from her house moved be-
cause they run across her property. Why should she
have to pay to have them moved? Mrs. K. R. F.
A spokesman for the Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. has
been in touch with you to explain that since yard lines
are owned by the customer and not the gas company, the
ONG would not be able to relocate this line.
Two years ago the city put in a water line in front of
my house in the 1000 block Chisholm Rd. and filled in a
drainage ditch. This has caused my house to be flooded
on two occasions. Could you get the ditch cleaned out?
Mrs. D. S.
Forrest Keene, assistant director of the department
of public works, says he has ordered a small drainage
swale cut in this ditch. He says this will not solve the sit-
uation, but it will help.
There is a vacant house in the 2800 block SW 56 and
another one in the 2800 block SW 55, both owned by the
FHA, that are all grown up in weeds and need to be
cleaned up. We have contacted the FHA several times,
but they will not do anything about them. Can you get
something done? L. M.
Jack Bell. FHA area director, says the house in the
2800 block SW 55 has just been acquired by the FHA and
the weeds and grass have been cut. Necessary renova-
tion work will be done as quickly as possible. He says
the FHA does not own the house in the 2800 block SW 56.
Sooners
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election.
Gallup gave Rockefeller 26
percent against both Hum-
phrey and McCarthy, but
Harris gave him 40, or what
amounts to a difference of
about 2.8 million votes in
1964 terms.
Harris and Gallup said
their joint statement was is-
sued in an effort to eliminate
what they considered to be
widespread confusion over
the polls. "It is simply an ef-
fort to clarify the situation,”
Gallup said.
‘This has been a year of
the unexpected in politics,”
the joint statement said,
"and the polls have reflected
this volatility.”
The two pollsters said of
their surveys:
“If these polls are plotted
out sequentially, as though
they were conducted by a
single organization, using
the same sampling tech-
niques and the same ques-
tion-asking techniques, then
the following conclusions can
be firmly reached:
1. A Nixon-Humphrey-
Wallace race today would be
extremely close, hovering
around the 50-50 mark, with
Wallace perhaps holding the
balance.
"2. Rockefeller has now
moved to an open lead over
both his possible Democratic
opponents, Humphrey and
McCarthy.
”3. The McCarthy vote has
the greatest amount of vola-
tility among the four leading
candidates."
The full impact of the polls
on the delegates is uncertain
because many of them have
yet to arrive in Miami
Beach. But the significance
of the polls themselves has
been highlighted, if not exag-
gerated, by the fact that
Rockefeller has staked his
entire candidacy on the
proposition that the surveys
would show that only he
could win in November.
In a recent meeting with
the Virginia delegation, for
example, the New Yorker
said that if the polls did not
reveal this fact, he would not
ask the support of any dele
gate among them.
One Rockefeller man took
hard-headed view of the
Harris Poll. “We don’t need
equalizers; we need gain-
ers." he said.
A fear among the New
Yorker's following is that
Nixon fails to win on the
first ballot and Rocky gains
on the second, supporters of
California's Gov. Ronald
Reagan, especially among
the southern delegations,
might switch their support to
Nixon as a bar to Rockefel-
ler, a man they regard as
too liberal lor their conserv-
ative taste.
Another source of appre-
hension is th«t the delegates
may discard |lhe polls as an
accurate gaU»e of voter sen-
timent because of the incre-
dible swing in voter prefer-
ences in a week's time and
revert to personal choices.
Prior to the poll rhubarb,
a consensus among Republi-
cans was that ideology
wouldn't matter this year
because the GOP senses vic-
tory over the Democrats in
November and wanted the
man most likely to bring it.
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Andy Payne, slate supreme court clerk, examines
petitions in court office._
Speed Urged
On Bond Fate
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the capitol Thursday or Fri-
day.
At mid-morning Friday,
Bartlett blasted Rogers for
"thwarting the constitution-
al” right of the petition cir
culators to file it.
The governor tprmed Rog-
ers’ actions "completely ir-
responsible and childish,
and, I believe, embarrassing
to all citizens of the state.
"The secretary of State’s
action is clearly aimed at
thwarting the constitutional
rights of over 40.000 Okla-
homa citizens, both Demo-
crat and Republican, to call
for a vote on a most impor-
tant question," the governor
said of the petition.
“The right to petition by
referendum has been a part
of the Oklahoma constitution
since statehood.
“He will not be successful
in this attempt to deprive
the citizens of this right. His
actions are completely irre-
sponsible and childish, and,
believe, embarrassing to all
citizens of the state.
“I have Ihe utmost confi-
dence the courts will uphold
the right to file the petition.
“The closing of the secre
tary of state's office has
stalled many important ac-
t j v i t i e s of the various
branches of state govern-
ment, since ii is the official
repository for many impor-
tant documents.
The law the petition seeks
! to repeal was passed by the
11968 legislature. It would
I outlaw straight-party voting
Tulsa
it to
other
in Oklahoma and
Counties, but permit
continue in the 75
counties.
Republicans, claiming
40.000 names — with about
34.000 needed — went to
Rogers’ office to file the pe-
tition Thursday, knowing the
office was locked.
After trying to enter the
locked office, they took the
petition to the clerk of the
supreme court for safe-keep-
ing in a vault, and then
asked for a court order.
tation for being unpredicta-^
ble since he took office inW
Rogers has gained a repu- broadly.
January, 1967. However, his
act In closing his office on
two business days surprised
even seasoned political ob-
servers.
Former Gov. Raymond
Gary, in the capitol Friday
for a study of constitutional
revision, was asked what he
would have done if a secre-
tary of state locked his office
as Rogers had done.
“I’d have appointed a new
one,” said Gary, grinning
Bellmon’s Net
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Grows $1,279
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ernors by publicly reveal-
ing his assets and liabili-
ties.
He did this, he said, be-
cause of “charges made
against my integrity" over
a $13,000 federal loan he
obtained.
Democrats hinled that
since Belimon was making
$25,000 a year as governor
he was taking advantage
of the federal loan pro-
gram.
The wheat farmer-cattle-
man and former governor
has lined up against U. S.
Sen. Mike Monroney for
Monroney's senate post.
Auditors show Bellmon's
current liabilities include
$99,500 in notes payable to
banks and $5,695 in ac-
counts payable to feed
lots.
Long term liabilities in-
clude a $150,000 insurance
mortgage and a farm ma-
chinery equipment note of
$4,000.
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tally needed and which the
people so strongly endorsed,
at a time when speed is es-
sential because of steadily
rising costs of construction,
is more than we can under-
stand.
"This election was con-
ducted honestly. There was
no crookedness and there
were no errors in the ballot
counting. The suit that has
been filed cannot possibly be
valid."
H. S. “Tex" Newman,
election board secretary,
said the votes were properly
registered and counted on
the election machines. He
said the record of the vote is
still on the machines if any-
one wants to look at them or
see how they work.
Newman said "There is al-
ways the chance of human
error and our system is de-
signed to catch errors of this
nature. That's what was
done."
He explained that the
words shown on the machine
"for” and “against" on the
street bond issue were re-
versed on the tally sheets on
which the vote is recorded in
the machines.
However, he said, each
word had a code number
which designates the column
In which the votes were cast
and that the code numbers
were printed in the correct
order. .
District Attorney Curtis F .
Harris said someone called
him about the ballols a week
or so ago.
"I talked to Tex Newman
and he told me what had
happened," Harris staled.
He said after receiving the
explanation, he saw no rea-
son to take any action.
“I don’t believe it comes
under any mulilaled ballots
or anything like that," he
staled.
Draft to Take
160 Sooners
Architects
Licensed
Ten new architects
been licensed by Ihe
have!
Okla-
About 160 Oklahomans will
be drafted in Ortobor. Col.
Herbert Hope, slate selec-
tive Service director, said
Friday.
The national draft rail for
that month will be 13.800
men, one of the year’s low-
est monthly quotas. Hope
said. The state’s September
quota is 140. while the na-
tionwide call is for 12.200
men, he said.
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City; Charles Chief Boyd.
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