European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fogs 4 the stars and stripes Priddy juy 12 my  say they re preferred polls become an Issue in polities by Brian Sullivan new York a the poll taker will have a map with an x on it telling him where to Start asking who should be pres ident. But if the x is at a Corne House hell skip it. The owner is Likely to have a Little More Money than the next Guy and that might Bias the poll. This is probability sampling gathering the raw material that is added up Analysed weighed and weighted to produce the Public opinion poll. For example what percentage of the Ameri can voting Public favors Rich Ard m. Nixon for president and How Many lean to gov. Nelsons. Rockefeller. The importance of the polls has become a Central Issue in the Nixon Rockefeller Republican contest and the democratic fight Between vice president Hubert h. Humphrey and sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy. Nixon and Humphrey Lead uncommitted Delegate strength. Rockefeller and Mccarthy sup porters say the polls show their candidates Are More popular with the voters. Rockefeller has called for nationwide poll run by the re publicans to demonstrate that he would be the strongest gop presidential candidate. A Nixon spokesman said the delegates to the National convention Proba Bly would take a dim View of having the nominee selected Bya polling of 3,000 people. The polling is often smaller than that said or. George Gal Lup. But it was enough to pre dict right on the Button he i960 race Gallup said in a Tele phone interview from his Prince ton n.j., office. We said Ken Nedy would win with less than 1 per cent you can t be More nearly right than  the Gallup organization working with census Bureau figures picks about 320 Sample areas City blocks or segments of townships for conducting interviews. The Sample areas Gallup said Are chosen at ran Dom. Each interviewer one to a District conducts about five interviews thus producing a Sam ple of at least 1,600 persons. This the Gallup people said approximates the adult civil Ian  it does t matter if we use3,000, 30,000, 300,000 or 3 Mil lion said Louis Harris another major poll taker. A Sample of 2,000 or 3,000 is As reliable As a Sample Many times that  the Harris poll to a k j n g i usually based on about 2,000, which boils Down to about 1,600after screening ending with a Sample of about the same sizes that of the Gallup operation. Both Gallup and Harris plan two More National surveys on the relative Nixon and Rockefeller strength before the aug. 5 gop National convention in Miami Beach. They will involve different samples Gallup said he would not con duct a poll for the republicans such As urged by  said he had t been asked and would have to wait until he was before deciding. He said it could be viewed As a pub Lic service. Pojas Are inanimate dead objects Harris emphasized i talking about their effects on politics. They Are reflective of the thinking of the people  i be always regarded my self Gallup said As a sort of scorekeeper and nothing  fact that polls Are important Points to the very obvious weaknesses in the whole elec Tion system. The american peo ple would like to change the sys tem by which we select and  Nixon aide said it is no time for political glm Mickery. I gov. Rockefeller now proposes that All Normal democratic proc esses be subjugated to a Deci Sion by the pollsters inaccurate As they have been he is propos ing a Radical change in the american system which right fully he should submit to the  pollsters disagree with the charges of inaccuracy arguing that everyone has an absolutely equal Chance of being selected for an interview and that the polls operate within the Taui Nicaj margin of error and Gallup notes that a Nna it in _. There s never in an Ela Tion when All the top contenders Nixon Rockefeller Humphrey and Mccarthy wow lightly bunched or where whole situation was so volatile1 he said. 1 Tranquility in Doz fishermen re turn to their Village on the Mouth of the Cua Viet River at dusk after a Day of fishing in the Gulf of Tonkin. Women an children Wade out in the shallow water to help unload the Day s catch within ear shot of gunfire in the nearby demilitarized one in sooth Vietnam. Their seems a Long distance away a photo what shall we do with it?9 $3 million Iff Silver is big problem Washington a stashed away in a sealed vault in the basement of the Treasury department is one of the most unusual problems Ever faced bythe nation s Money men what to do with three million Silver dollars. The Treasury has wrestled with the problem since 1964when it stopped feeding Silver dollars into circulation because All the remaining ones were Worth much More than ?1 a collectors items. One Treasury official estimated the value in the Coin collectors Market at roughly 75 Mil lion. The joint commission on the coinage the group of Treasury officials members of Congress and private citizens who periodically review coinage policy plans to discuss the Silver Dollar headache in detail at its next meeting monday. But some officials Don t Loo for a Quick solution. The com Mission has discussed the prob Lem on and off since its first meeting in May 1087.it now has before it however the first hard suggestion from Treasury official. Robert a. Wallace assistant Secretary of the Treasury has suggested Sale of the Silver Dol Lars by the department at the collector Market  than 2.8 million of the dollars now in Treasury hands which in turn would sell them Tocsin collectors and dealers at a  the Treasury contended such a plan discriminate against other groups just As worthy and insisted any profit should go to the Public not to a private  Silver in the coins is now Worth much More than their lace value because of the Sharp jump in the Price of Silver to More than $2 an ounce he Pat  a Price of $1.29 an ounce the Silver Content of the dollars is Worth $1. Melting of the coins is Barrow by the Treasury.  intends to a up the ban in j effect indefinitely. Were made at the Carson City,nev., mint in the late 1880s. No Silver dollars have been minted since 1935 and there Are no plans at this time to mint anymore. 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