CBS AND SCHORR See Editorial Page :Y it 43zn i i WARMER High-58° Low-31* Cloudy, rain possible Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 125 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, February 25, 1976 10 Cents Eight Pages GOP RACE TOO CLOSE TO CALL Carter wins; Ford ahead in N.H. Udall takes second spot; Bayh third By ELAINE FLETCHER and PAUL HASKINS Special To The Daily MANCHESTER, N. H. - Geor- gia's smooth - talking Jimmy Car- tre capped an intensive month- long blitz of New Hampshire with a comfortable win in yesterday's Democratic presidential primary. The former governor grabbed 31 per cent of the vote to edge out Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, the early favorite, who received 23 per cent in early morning tal- lies. INDIANA SENATOR Birch Bayh eas- ily outpaced former Senator Fred Har- ris to claim the third spot. Former Vice Presidential candidate Sargent Shriver trailed the field. Last night's victory comes on the heels of strong showings for Carter in the Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Iowa delegate caucuses. A Carter victory was apparent by 8:30 p.m. In his election night headquar- ters here, reserved optimism gave way to giddiness as one television network after another predicted a Carter victory. "IT'S FANTASTIC," said Carter's son Chip. "I didn't expect it to be this big." Carter delivered his victory speech shortly before midnight. A ring of sizzl- ing television lights converged on him as he scaled the steps of the Carpenter Ballroom, flanked by his family and a horde of secret service agents. Smiling broadly over the crowd of 800, Carter said, "I think you know how I feel about you, about the people of New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Iowa. I want to repair the damage done by government." THE WINNER praised his supporters for their efforts, and urged them to press on. "When we get to the conven- tion in July, after a lot of hard work, there's going to be a quick decision. I think . . . first ballot." Carter's easy win coupled with Udall's See CARTER, Page 2 BULLETIN CONCORD, N. H. W)-Here are the vote totals in the New Hamp- shire primary with 89 per cent of the state's 299 precincts, or ap- proximately 70 per cent of the an- ticipated vote, reporting: Republicans Ford: 43,448 votes (50 per cent) Reagan: 42,711 votes (50 per cent) Democrats Carter: 18,620 votes (30 per cent) Udall: 14,511 votes (24 per cent) Bayh: 10,036 votes (16 per cent) Harris: 6,931 votes (11 per cent) Shriver: 5,500 votes (9 per cent) Humphrey: 3.122 votes (5 per cent) Reagan's early lead diminishing By DAN RIDDLE and JIM TOBIN Special To The Daily CONCORD, N.H.-President Ford clung to a razor-thin lead over conservative challenger R o n a I d Reagan early this morning in New IHampshire's Republican presiden- tial primary. With 89 per cent of the vote counted, Ford leads Reagan by 737 votes, 43,448 to 42,711. As of 1:00 a.m., two major networks projected Ford as a winner, but by a margin .of no more than six per cent. "I guess you could call it a win," Rea- gan told a Daily reporter as he shook hands with the press last night. REAGAN, AFTER a day campaigning in Illinois, an airplane jump to New Hampshire late yesterday afternoon, and, ,n evening of awaiting returns, appoared drawn and tired. At his midnight press conference he said he was "sleepy" and the lines of his face were etched more clearly than during recent days. But some Reagan workers conceded last night that there was increasing pressure on the former movie actor to win the primary outright. This probably resulted from Monday's news of a poll showing Reagan way ahead of Ford in California. Reagan scored well. in Manchester, beating Ford soundly in the state's larg- est city. He also far outdistanced the President in most rural communities and did surprisingly well in working class communities like Franklin. Ford easily beat Reagan in Portsmith, Concord and Nashua, all of which are' considered liberal cities. The President was expected to widen a lead later to- day on the basis of late results from Keene, Dover and other liberal Repub- lican cities. "We're not sad," said press officer John Breen. "We feel we're going to win. Many of the places that aren't re- ported we expect to do real well in." "I guess by now the public says the only kind of a win is a real numerical win," said Ash Burton, Reagan's Con- cord publicity coordinator. "FOR FORD, a win is a win here, no matter how small it is," Burton said. See GOP, Page 8 New lynn the fo DCily Photo by KEN FINK Hampshire Democratic primary victor Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosa- acknowledge cheers last night in Manchester following announcement of ormer Georgia governor's victory. voters. O AP Photo REPUBLICAN presidential contender Ronald Reagan reacts happily over his strong showing early in the N.H. primary. and ,. ----- special To The Daily MANCHESTER, N.H. - As the crowd filed out of Saturday night's rally for Ronald Reagan, a Manchester policeman said he liked the former California gov- ernor's style but hadn't made up his mind on how to vote. "It won't be Ford," he said. "That's for sure. I'd say more if I didn't have this badge on." THEN HE SQUINTED. "I'll tell you !his, though. The thing that gets me, is that no matter which one wins, it won't make much difference for us, will it?" That was a common sentiment last week of voters in the nation's first pres- idential primary, among those who voted as well as those who sat it out. "You can't trust any of them 100 per cent," said a waitress at the Cadillac Restaurant. "They're all the same. You nick out the one you think is going to con you the least, and hope that he's the most honest. They all get conned event- rallv--either by the big corporations, or by their cohorts in the government, or what have you." SHE SAXD SHE hadn't yet made up her mind how to vote either. That was S~ndav. Yesterday morning she had c"'osen to vote for Jimmy Carter, "al- ih-o-gh I understand he's for gun control, and I don't like it." "There's been too much of this cam- paign," said a hotel manager on Satur- day. "I tell you what I'm going to do, me and five or six other guys. We're doing to write in Hubert Humphrey. I still trust him." "What's the difference? They're all a bunch of crooks," said an older waitress at the Merrimack Restaurant. "They go into it poor and come out of it million- aires. Reagan, he's all right. What the hell has Ford done for us? I don't sup- port that welfare stuff, period. I went for 31 years to raise my kids without a father. His dad died when he was six . . I like what Reagan says. Told 'em to get off their duffs." campiaign'76 VOLUNTEERS at several, campaign headquarters reported last weekend that many voters had been over-politicized. Contacted anywhere from one to a dozen times by the several campaigns, many citizens were slamming their phones down to avoid hearing the repe- titious r h e t o r i c as voting time ap- proached. "All of a sudden they're getting sick of it, of all the candidates," said Clint Chapel, a freshman at UM-Flint who came here in January to work for Demo- crat Morris Udall. "Or else they'll say there's just too many candidates, I can't decide. "We live here," said the office man- ager at Henry Jackson's Manchester headquarters. "We know how the people hate to be bothered over and over and over again. It's not like someboy fami- liar coming to the door and saying, 'Hey, I'm supporting so-and-so.' They (the volunteers) are from out of state. I don't think the people in New Hampshire can be bought. You have to earn their re- spect," Evidentally the Jackson people had the right idea-at least in some voters' eyes. One woman, Agnes Kerooch, has been badgered by the vast field of candidates for weeks. "They called me up after ten the other night," she said yesterday. "I was in bed. I had a bad headache, you know. I hang up on this one and two minutes later another one calls." "TOO DOG-GONE many phone calls!" echoed another woman. "The one that didn't call me is the one I voted for." Virtually all of the candidates have hustled to rid themselves of the politician image, but a bakery saleswoman seemed to see through the strategy. She said she switched her preference from Udall to Birch Bayh because, "Bayh doesn't say he's not a politician." In light of New Hampshire's small size and comparatively high political aware- Indian senator chides Gandhi By GEORGE LOBSENZ A senator from the upper house of India's Parliament yesterday lashed out at the present regime of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for its "oppressive" tactics. Dr. Subramanian Swami, in exile since the declaration of a National Emergency in India in June 1975, cited the illegal imprisonment of thousands, the strict press censorship and the suppression of besieged ness, personal contact with the ovters is a vital tool in winning elections. Many voters said they base their decisions on a single contact with a given candidate. "I LIKE TALKING to them, I think it's a good thing that they come through the factory," commented a secretary at a Manchester shoe factory. "We can see what they're like and make up our minds." Many voters just want to see the can- didates; others like to ask a serious ques- tion or two. But then there are always a few who heckle the harried hand- :-hakers. "Hey, Jimmy Carter, how come you and your boys ain't w e a r i n g Thom See VOTERS, Page 2 Ex-FCC head blasts boob tube5 By BARBARA ZAHS Criticizing the c o mm e r c i a l nature of television, former Fed- eral Communications Commission FCC) Chairman Nicholas Johnson yesterday called for"an elevated consciousness of the, effects of the mass media." . Johnson, now director of the Na- tional Citizens Communications ' lobby, told a Future Worlds audi-I anr a HttAn vp ct ardn that- iF } j r" r ;r it s: } r r 5} 1 F r I' 4r. Y } Y +j f n. ......