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Ford winner
in squeaker
CONCORD, N.H. (UPI) -
President Ford narrowly de
feated Ronald Reagan early
today and Jimmy Carter
whipped four other Democrats
in a New Hampshire primary
that gave no one an open road
to the 1976 presidential nomina
tions.
The Republican contest was
the closest in the primary’s
history and looked for some
time like a replay of the state’s
no-decision 1974 Senate election.
But Ford finally seized and
held a small lead in the final
hours of unofficial vote-counting
today. Carter led from the start
and now becomes the man to
President thinks win
started him on road
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford is “delighted by
his victory” and believes that
New Hampshire has “started
him on the road” to the
Republican presidential nomi
nation, his chief spokesman
said today.
In a mood of elation, Press
Secretary Ron Nessen told
reporters Ford arose about 5:30
a.m.—his usual hour—turned on
the radio and heard the latest
tabulation of primary votes.
The President went through
his regular routine of exercises,
and at 6:35 a.m. he was
telephoned by Richard Cheney,
his chief of staff.
Nessen said the President
told Cheney that “he was
delighted.”
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catch in the crowded Democrat
ic race.
Ford nearly swept the boards
in separate balloting for selec
tion of 21 national convention
delegates, but he scored no
knockout over the former
California governor, his only
challenger. More likely, it was
only the first skirmish of the
grimmest battle for the GOP
presidential nomination since
the Taft-Eisenhower struggle of
1952.
Carter, the former Georgia
governor who pledged to wage ‘
war on Washington red tape
and bureaucratic waste, opened
a wide early lead and whipped
“This was obviously Reagan’s
best state,” said Nessen. “He
gave it everything he had. He
spent 21 days campaigning
there and couldn’t win it.”
Nessen declined to back up
statements by made Ford’s
campaign lieutenants Tuesday
night that the momentum had
been blunted by former Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon’s trip to
China.
“Over here the feeling is that
its too soon to make an
assessment,” he said.
Nessen reminded reporters
that New Hampshire’s gover
nor, Meldrim Thomson, had
forecast that Reagan would get
55 per cent of the vote and
added, “so obviously they fell
short of that expectation. They
runner-up Rep. Morris Udall,
D-Ariz., Sen. Birch Bayh, D-
Ind., former Sen. Fred Harris
of Oklahoma and Sargent
Shriver, the party’s 1972 vice
presidential candidate.
At 8:00 a.m. EST, with 96 per
cent of the vote counted, the
Republican tally was Ford
54,629—51 per cent; Reagan
53,373-49 per cent.
On the Democratic side, with
94 per cent, Carter had 30 per
cent with 22,795 votes; Udall 24
per cent and 18,301; Bayh 16
per cent and 12,372, Harris 11
per cent and 8,690, and Shriver
9 per cent and 6,541.
gave it a hell of a shot and
couldn’t win it.”
He said the President was
behind two weeks ago, but
gained momentum in the last
few days.
Nessen said Ford now be
lieves the momentum is his and
that he is going to win
upcoming contests in Vermont,
Massachusetts, Florida and the
other primary states.
“We certainly believe that
New Hampshire has started
him on the road to victory,” he
said.
Nessen said Ford expects to
hold a strategy session today
with campaign manager How
ard “Bo” Callaway, White
House political counselor, Ro
gers C.B. Morton and others.
The top two campaign offi
cials in the Ford campaign
were convinced Nixon’s trip
had hurt Ford in New
Hampshire.
“If President Ford loses in
New Hampshire, Richard Nixon
will be the reason,” deputy
campaign director Stuart
Spencer said while watching
the returns Tuesday night at
the Ford campaign headquar
ters.
“I know it was not a help,”
said Callaway. “We know this
was an emotional issue that
was not a plus for us. I just
can’t say what it cost us.”
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unauthorized campaign for Sen.
Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., got
5 per cent with 3,999 votes.
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Massachusette, Florida
primaries next in line
By United Press International
The political eyes of the
nation may have been on New
Hampshire Tuesday but Sen.
Henry Jackson claimed the
first real test for himself and
other Democratic presidential
candidates would come in the
Massachusetts primary next
week and the Florida primary
March 9.
Jackson, who was not on the
New Hampshire primary ballot,
made the statement at a news
conference at Tampa Interna
tional Airport before flying to
Pensacola for another news
conference and to Hollywood
for a reception with labor
leaders.
He was scheduled to fly back
to Washington this morning
after a breakfast with members
of the Broward County news
media and a speech at a
Hallandale condominium pro
ject.
Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy
Carter, fresh from his victory
in the New Hampshire Demo-
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cratic primary, returns to
Florida tonight to address the
Donkey Club in Jacksonville.
Jackson said the primary in
Massachusetts is the one “that
is really going to make the
difference” and predicted a win
over Alabama Gov. George
Wallace there.
“That will be the first test of
Wallace’s ability to get votes in
the industrial north,” the
senator from Washington said.
“Wallace, in order to be viable
and credible, must carry
several of the big industrial
states of the north.”
Jackson said “the real issue”
in Florida is the candidacy of
Wallace.
“He is on trial here as he is
in Massachusetts as well and
unless he carries Florida he
will be in real trouble,” he
said.
About two dozen anti-aboruon
demonstrators picketed Mrs.
Ford’s appearance at the rally.
- Griffin Daily News Wednesday, February 25,1976
Escaped murderer
caught at Newnan
NEWNAN, Ga. (UPI) -
Escaped murderer William
“Billy” Mitchell Jr., convicted
of two murders and wanted for
several more, has been recap
tured here, Newnan police said
today.
Police said Mitchell and an
unidentified man, both of them
heavily armed, were arrested
Tuesday night after police
received a tip they were at a
local tavern.
Officers who stopped the pair
on the street without resistance
said four handguns, a sawed-off
shotgun and a knife were taken
from the pair. The two men
were moved to the Fulton
County Jail in Atlanta after the
FBI was informed of their
capture.
The 24-year-old Folkston, Ga.,
native had been the object of
an intensive FBI search since
his escape from the Worth
County Jail in Sylvester last
July.
He has been sentenced to die
in the electric chair for the 1974
shooting of a young grocery
store clerk in Sylvester.
Mitchell has also been sen
tenced to life in prison for
another slaying in Albany and
is charged with two more
murders in Jacksonville, Fla.,
an FBI spokesman said.
Mitchell, also known as
“Fats” Mitchell and Leon
Davis, is a suspect in “several
more” slayings in the Jackson
ville area as well as a recent
series of crimes in the Atlanta
area, the bureau spokesman
said.
Mitchell’s most recent convic
tion resulted from the holdup of
the Sylvester store where he
ordered the 14-year-old clerk
to kneel on the floor before
shooting him in the head four
times.
Mitchell shot the boy’s
mother as well, but she
survived.
The FBI spokesman said
Mitchell usually operates alone
and preys on isolated stores.