European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse , of Cleber 27, 1964 the stars and stripes Page 7 i Ghi i 1960 voting dead wrong in 36 and 48 polls becoming More refined but they re still human by Relman Morin York a pollsters have Hod � rough Lime in this presidential Fhon y.?"r to ln8 to div Encino intentions or that skitter Critter the America i voter. He has confounded them be fore notably in we. In u48, an to a lesser degree in 1�52. Of some questions president Johnson in fact As far ahead of sen. Barry Gold water As the polls indicate at this stage generally the figures give or. Johnson around 60 per cent of the vote. Some polls run higher than that and some slightly Tower. On oct. 18. George Gallup director of the american Institute of pub Lic opinion gave or. Johnson m per cent and described this As an unprecedented Are some factors deep seated and difficult to measure oper Atung for Goldwater on oct. 11, pollster fouls Harris said the gop candidate has Cut president Johnson s Lead. Harris put it at so per Cento 34 for Goldwater with eight per cent undecided. Regained ground week later however Harris Aid or. Johnson had regained ground despite the fact that the Walter Jenkins Case had broken in the meantime. The new figures were 60-34-6.on oct. 14. A newspaper Trade Magazine the american press said its poll of weekly and Small daily newspaper publisher showed that the publishers be Lieve Goldwater wifi win majority support from voters in their circulation areas. The Magazine said the poll taken mostly in Rural areas gave Goldwater cent to or. Johnson s 40.1 per cent. Wallace j. Olds Man aging editor of the Magazine Laid 10,000 cards were sent to subscribing publishers and s3 replies were Many voters Are still undecided refuse to state a prefer ence or May switch Between now and election Day on oct. 22, Goldwater s Cam Palgon director Delson Kutchel said republicans Are receiving very encouraging reports about switching. Gallup in an interview . News it world report said in the Magazine s oct. 5 Issue that he believed about 80 per cent of the voters have makeup their minds. As of today pollsters generally emphasize that their findings Are As of today and that positions May change by election , there is the record for this your and the stunning results of some other years the pollsters did not. Hit Toenail on the head in the gop presidential primaries in new Hampshire. Oregon or California they did not detect the tide of write in Voles that gave the new Hampshire election to ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. In Oregon polls showed leading whereas new York s gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller won in California Rockefeller led i the polls but Goldwater won in ing landslide for today i Olieve thai the Magazine s cards went mainly a subscribers and others who were in the upper income brackets an therefore largely Republican. Since then polling technique Sand methods of analysis have been , in l48, new York s gov. Thomas e. D e w e a the National opinion poll pick replies the Magazine concluded Peu Rcd to be running so far Al. L a n a 0 n ahead of president Truman that porting. They spoke of shirts to Ward Rockefeller in Oregon and toward Goldwater in recent National elections in Britain also confounded the pollsters. The labor parly won by 0.7per cent. On election Day oct. 15, three digest sent out cards asking the major polls published their final preferences of More than two million persons. On the basis of surveys. De labor by 3gallup poll saw labor winning would do foil Franklin d. Roost some pollsters stopped surveying by 3.5 per cent. And the news veil. Instead there was a smash-1 Long before election Day. The paper daily express published results of its own Survey show ing the conservatives winningly 0.8 per cent. Bui these arc minor Klips com pared to the shockers of 1936 and 1048.in 1036. The Magazine literary thai gov. Alfred m. Early training prevents dropouts experts say pollster beam i wife evil did get close to the la the eleventh hour re unpaid Carol Harrison Ike Saa Francisco stripper who appears in the controversial Republican Campaign film Choice which was scheduled Tor to snowing and then withdrawn us she will sue unless the gop pays her. She says she wants to give the Money to the democrats. A Don t Call me ill Call you nominee told Charleston. . Kelly Castleberry a candidate or the state House of delegates has a Volunteer worker whose overtime activities have him worried. The worker phones Charleston residents with the message hello i m Kelly Castleberry candidate for the House of Dele then he goes into apolitical speech. Castleberry in t worried about his phone Bill although the worker makes about 60 Calls Aday. But he Doss suspect that in caller does t really have his Best interests at Calls arc made Between 2 . And 4 . Washington a each year a million Young americans drop out of school before High school graduation. Some of them swell the ranks of the unemployed go on Relief o1 Lead such lives of despair an frustration that in growing num Bers they turn to delinquency and crime. And ii is All unnecessary says panel of experts. Their solution begin working with the slum several years Lic Foro he would normally enter school give him a solid Back ground in the three r a especially Reading and most of All Jive him a sense of Persona Worth and dignity. Francis Kip pc . Commissioner of education Calvin e. Cross new York City Supern indent of schools and Samuel Hepard jr., assistant Suprin indent of schools in St. Louis agreed on that approach to the problem. They spoke at the annual meeting of the Council for Basic Edu Aren t going to get to first base in this Enterprise if Wearen t willing to believe thai hese children can be said. Pc Kinder Garton instruction Isno longer a Radical idea. We must begin with this Early instruction before ii is too Gross said there needs to Bemore concentration on Reading the first and Foremost of Al subjects and we arc going to have to train u new generation of teachers to Leach in the slum schools. They will need Faith a absolute unwillingness to give Bangor paper for Barry Bangor Maine Dpi the Bangor daily news Maine s largest morning newspaper has endorsed Republican president la nominee Barry Goldwater the heart and soul of our approach Shepard said is hard work and an abiding Faith that our pupils have the potential to learn. If we can produce an Elemen tary school Pupil so Well grounded in Basic subjects that he Panhandle a secondary school pro Gram he will not drop out and we will have gone a Long Way to Ward preventing a major part of the Banneker program he said is enlisting the cooperation of the parents and trying to change their attitude from one of con Cpl for Educa Tion to one of respect and is Keppel said the nation has been wasting enormous creative Powers by beginning education too Lato by assuming that there is some magical fixed age a which learning lakes place. It is Lime to recognize that the age of the learner is not As important As his previous learn ing experience. It the deprived child is to become Anable student and later a productive member of society his for Mal education would wisely begin before his More fortunate contemporaries begin their Shepard described the special program under Way in the Sun Neker District of St. Louis where he said there has been Success. In establishing a Middle class backwards. It was just a slow Burn to Start with Orinda. Calif. A the Highway patrol said Lloyd h Maxwell of marline/., driving to Ward Orinda was lighting a cig Urtle when u fell into his lapse slopped the cur leaped of to Brush off his soldering trousers when the car began rolling environment in a slum neg Hlor Hood youth find Mas Strin pah attached Minneapolis a two21-year-old Minneapolis youths admitted in . District court that they tried to remove a two Way radio from a car Here. I turned out the car belonged to the Fri. The two pleaded guilty Lodestro Ying government properly and a pre sentence ordered. Moo wrong number i wanted Armstrong s Jefferson City to. Up a livestock Raiser has sought to have his Telephone moved from his barn into the House because those cows Don t do a very Good lob of answering it. Be Armstrong of Rural fair rave Low the Public service a pc he would to do Armstrong said. I a begged almost with Armstrong s 237-Acrc t a r straddles the Polk Grcen county line near Bell Telephone co. Is certified to serve Green county where his barn is and Lakeland Telephone co. Serve Polk county. Thai s where Strong s House is. The Telephone companies said Only the pc could change the certified sense docs l Indi Cate thai a Man can have a Tele phone in his barn but not in his House a Quarter mile away lie chased ii. Tried to gel Inland the Auto rolled Over his foot it also rolled Over an embankment. The cigarette wedged in to scat Kepi on burning. The car caught did i grass a Fence and nearby Woods Maxwell limping on his so Root hitchhiked Home an phoned police. Armstrong s attorney cows Don t do a very Rood Job of answering that phone in the Bam Armstrong added. Purtill eclipse hits Moonshiner Gulfport miss. Up government agents said they up 46 stills oui of business in a ser Leof raids in two Gulf coast coun tics. Agents of the alcohol and tobacco tax unit said tills d stroked last week represented lax fraud on the government c 17.3 million a year. The largest still seized had capacity of 10,000 Gallons be Day. More than 50.000 Gallons Ash and whisky Wero d stroked. Ree major polls gave dcwcy.5, 50.1 and 52.8. They rated Ruman at 45.0, 44.5 and 37.5r cent. Truman won with almost 50cent of the total popular poll picked Truman to in the Popcorn ills poll moviegoers and supermarket shoppers can buy Anc Knic of Popcorn decorated Ith the picture of either Candy Nile. Presumably they choose e one thai shows their prefer Nee for president. How about the present Elco on As of oct. 8, the Popcorn poll towed 65 per a Cal of the pack Gas sold carried or. Johnson suture. The ims election has been sex nine. In some analyses by ote switching in the late stages Hills that were not discovered Causo the pollsters had . Now take 1052. On nov. 3, the associated press moved ills Dis Utch from new York three of the nation s top Jolls lers were cautious today in heir presidential election fore arts bul inclined to consider Wight d. Eisenhower ahead. None of theim picked h i Mally to win however. Two of hem said gov. Adlai e. Steven on has gained ground so Stead Hal he May be tomorrow 48 hours late two Days later the a moved us Dis Pulch the professional pollsters and listed Loday they were too Cau Ous in their presidential Prelc appeared to give Gen. A Wight d. Eisenhower a slight margin iwo said the undecided ote before election Day could Lave spelled Victory for gov. And at e. Stevenson none foresaw the Republican , in the spectacular own to the wire 1060 race be Ween the late John f. Kennedy and vice president Richard Faxon the polls predicted the Winner said it would be a tight contest and came close to hitting he percentage Points that final a went into their respective col Johnson appears to be an avid poll watcher. After a Impromptu news conference in he while House Garden recent a he invited reporters into his office and read them the figures about a half dozen or More re cent they or published reports of polls fluency voters said democratic chairman John m. Bailey i Don t think polls affect they do sometimes affect people conducting campaigns. Think they sometimes become Panicky when they feel the polls ire against them. Other times they have a tendency to re Axil the polls Are or them. Personally i Don t read them be cause Over the years i have seen them both right and Republican chairman Dean Burch i Don t think polls affect Vot ers materially. Polls Are import ant and we take some of duty week to determine what the pub Lic is thinking about. Increasingly of late they have shown steady strengthening of Goldwa Ter support across the nation and also a Large number of undecided votes whom we intend to bring into our Camp by election Day. Well a poll is not a precision instrument. And human behaviour is difficult to predict. It s As Elu Sive i quicksilver. On nov. 4. You la know u the polls were right this year
