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ONE COLOR IflR V'-' r'--'i ') -r- I THE MINNEAPOLIS Tuesday, November 2, 1976 Copyright 1976 Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company Single copy: 20 Carrier delivery: 70 cent per week Citie teir limie nation! EDITOR'S NOTE: This report was compiled by Minneapolis Star staff writers John Carman, Mike McCabe and Martha Rose and includes material from The Star's news services. Concern about voter apathy appeared to be evaporating today at busy polling places throughout the Twin Cities area and across the nation. Election officials in the metropolitan area reported that voting this morning was at- least as heavy as during the 1972 presidential election. Several election judges in the Twin Cities area said a large number of persons were registering to vote today. Across the nation it was the same.

The Associated Press reported heavy to very heavy voting as polls opened. IN NEW YORK City, the board of elections said the early turnout was "astonishingly heavy." There were long lines when the polls opened in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Michigan, Texas and elsewhere. Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter cast his ballot in a cinder-block building near the railroad tracks in Plains, Ga. Republican Gerald Ford voted in an elementary school in Grand Rapids, Mich. Historically, a large turnout generally favors the Democrats, the majority party.

If the trend continues throughout the day and the weather is generally good analysts agree it could help Carter in his bid to oust Ford from the White House. A late Roper poll gave Carter a four-point lead, 51 to 47. Carter's running mate Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota, also voted early, in his hometown of Afton. He joked that he was "undecided," but then assured reporters he had voted for "Jimmy Carter and his running mate.

The fourth man In the quartet, GOP vice-presidential candidate Bob Dole, planned to vote later in the day in his hometown of Russell, Kan. THE MINNESOTA secretary of state's office said an initial survey of rural, suburban and city precincts across the state pointed toward a vote by more than 70-percent of the registered voters. Vernon Janowiec, deputy voter registrar in Minneapolis, said this morning that telephone checks of precincts in the city indicated the turnout was matching that of 1972, when 73 percent of the city's registered voters went to the polls. "Everyone was expecting apathy," said Susan Jacox, en election judge at Lyndale School, 3333 Grand Av. in the city's ELECTION Turn to Page 4A 'HOTLINE' GIVES POLL INFORMATION Polls will be opea in Minnesota until 8 p.m.

today. Eligible are U.S. citizens who have lived In Minnesota for at least 20 days and who are at least 18 years old. Metropolitan area residents who don't know where to vote can find out by telephoning, before 6 p.m., 222-0360, a "hot line" set up by the Minnesota secretary of state. Unregistered voters can register at the polls with a valid driver's license or by appearing with a registered voter from the precinct who will vouch for the unregistered voter's residency.

MORE ON ELECTION Survey shows electoral race too close to call: Page 8C. Little change expected in Senate races: Page 8C. i A i Illllll'l'lllliil fcl I Star Photo by Jim McTaggart HE HAD TO WAIT TO VOTE Democratic vice-presidential nominee Walter Mondale shook hands with Sgt. Arleigh G. Cook of the Washington County sheriff's department outside village hall in Afton, this morning.

Mondale, his wife, Joan, and son, Teddy, 19, right, were in a line behind 20 other Afton residents waiting to vote. Before he entered the old white-frame structure, the Minnesota senator Joked that he was "undecided." Teddy was voting for the first time. Let worker practice religion, firm told The ruling did not state which four justices voted to uphold the lower court decision and which four justices voted to reverse it. Stevens gave no reason for disqualifying himself. Although the case revolved around work on Saturdays, the Synogogue Council of America argued that the law also could be invoked by Christians whose churches counsel against working on Sundays.

Parker Seal challenged the law on grounds it required employers "to discriminate in favor of Individual employees on the basis of their religious beliefs." CUMMINS WENT TO work for Parker Seal in 1958. He was promoted to day-shift supervisor at the Berea plant's rubber-mixing department in 1965. The plant is in production about half the Saturdays in a year and supervisors are supposed to be present when the plant is in, operation. When Cummins joined the World Wide Church in 1970, he said he could no longer work on Saturdays. The firm accommodated his scheduling problems for 14 months but fired Cummins when he once more refused to work on Saturdays.

Cummins said his religious beliefs prohibit work between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. Top court says home arrests need warrant: Page 8A WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court ruled today that employers must change an employee's work schedule if he requests the change for religious reasons. The court, in a 4-to-4 decision, said the Parker Seal Co. was guilty of religious discrimination when it fired Paul Cummins because he refused to work on Saturdays. Cummins was a supervisor in the company's Berea, rubber seal plant.

THE DISPUTE BETWEEN Cummins and his employer attracted the attention of Seventh-Day Ad-ventist and Jewish organizations, which urged the Supreme Court to uphold the federal law prohibiting an employer to discharge or discriminate against an employee because of his religion, including "all aspects of religious observance and practice." In a 2-to-l decision last year the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that "grumbling" by other employees "must yield to the single employee's right to practice his religion." A tie vote in the Supreme Court affirms the judgment of the lower court. Justice John Paul Stevens took no part in the decision. Jy' NEAHKAHNIE HIGH IS REALLY HIGH NOW ROCKAWAY, Ore. (AP) When students at Neah-Kah-Nie High School In this coastal community got home yesterday and told their parents that "school stinks," they really meant it. Principal Jess Kennlson said that Halloween pranksters had turned five skunks loose in the building overnight.

When officials opened the doors yesterday, their noses quickly told them it would be impossible to conduct classes. Administrators chased the skunks away, sent students home and opened the windows. Associated Press mey was killed In a fire apparently started by children playing with matches. A VICTIM OF FIRE A Wichita, fireman carried the body of a 2-week-old boy from an apartment gutted by fire yesterday. Jonathan Ra- One charge dismissed in drug antitrust case Girls' group admits mulatto, is expelled By GWENYTH JONES 'Minneapolis Star Staff Writer INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) The International Order of the Rainbow, a girls' service organization, I Cuffs take I place of I I marital knot I Wedding plans cost a 48-year-old man his freedom Friday in more ways than one.

Donald Thunstrom, 2756 Colorado Av. St. Louis Park, was picked up about 12:45 p.m. Friday by U.S. deputy marshals who had a warrant for his arrest after he escaped Sept.

8 from a Minneapolis halfway house. Authorities discovered Thun-strom's whereabouts after his name and address were spotted in a newspaper wedding announcement, a deputy marshal said. Thunstrom is being held in Carver County jail, authorities said. 'Character protection' studied for city areas By ROBERT GUENTHER Minneapolis Star Staff Writer The Minneapolis Planning Commission is considering a proposed ordinance that would protect certain neighborhoods from construction that would detract from their character. Being considered are design districts, in which all major renovation or construction projects would have to be cleared by a design review board consisting of residents.

It would not apply to single-family housing. John Burg of the city planning department said the purpose of the design district ordinance would be to protect neighbor- hoods from developments that meet all zoning criteria but, by their design, clash with the surroundings. "THE INTENT is to deal with visual problems that are not handled by other reviews," Burg said. The Whittier East neighborhood, which Is bounded by Nicollet Hwy. I-35W, Franklin Av.

and 29th Is a prime candidate for designation as a design district, if the planning 'commission, city council and mayor favor the ordinance. Burg described it as an area consisting of older mansions "whose qualities make it a nice place to live," but one that also is "vulnerable" because of economic pressures for redevelopment. Some argue that constraints on DESIGN REVIEW Turn to Page 5A canceled the charters of all 136 Iowa chap ters after one of i them voted to admit a girl whose mother is black, "it hit us like The remains of what was once the nation's largest and most complicated antitrust suit got even smaller yesterday when U.S. District Judge Miles Lord dismissed one of three counts in the suit. The charge dismissed was that three of five defendant drug firms used fraud to help one of the firms get a patent on certain types of antibiotics, which they then sold to the federal government at Inflated prices.

LORD SAID the government, which was aware for many years of the alleged fraud, had waived its right to collect damages by continuing to buy the drugs at those prices. The three firms involved in the charge were American Cyanimid Charles Pfizer and Co. and Bristol Myers Co. Two other defendants, involved only a bolt out of the I'j, blue." said Carol VS Holdsworth. who V'v International Order of the Rainbow for Girls in accordance with a 54-year-old "unwritten law" prohibiting blacks from becoming members.

"I can't get over it it's just tragic," said Mrs. Kline', of Malvern. Asked whether the revocation implies a policy of racial discrimination, Mrs. Kline said, "We call it selective membership." The Rainbow organization, which includes preteen and high school-age girls, is affiliated with the Masons and its women's auxiliary, the Order of the Eastern Star. THE HEAD of the Iowa Masonic organization Issued a statement repudiating the canceling of the charters.

"From this date on, no Rainbow assembly which is affiliated with the international supreme council will be permitted to use the facilities of any Masonic Lodge under our Jurisdiction," said W. Ross McCulla, grand master of Masons in Iowa. McCulla, of Brooklyn, Iowa, said, "The Grand Lodge of Iowa has a policy of nondiscrimination by reason of race, creed, color or national origin." Herbert Grout, supreme Inspector of the Rainbow Girls, said in McAlester, that he had no comment on the matter. price-fixing and monopoly charges, are Squibb and Upjohn Inc. Cyanimid, Pfizer -and Bristol Myer are still charged with ccants of price-fixing and monopoly practices.

The government Is expected to appeal Lord's order to the 8th U.S. Circuit Couirt of Appeals. If upheld, the dismissal could reduce tne potential damages the government could recover by more than $200 million to about $41 million. The suit began in 1969, and involved many plaintiffs and groups of plaintiffs, including several states, competing drug firms Insurance companies and union welfare funds. At one time the trial which began in 1974, was being held before two juries, a process unique in American legal history.

VARIOUS out-of-court settlements gradually reduced the number of plaintiffs until only the federal government was left. Last August Lord declared a mistrial In the case because of the "prejudical and cumulative" effect on the jury of publicity about the settlements. It is not yet decided whether the case will be retried with a new jury or with a judge sitting without a jury. is grand deputy for Rainbow Michelle assemblies in the south central Iowa area that includes Indianola. She and other Rainbow officials said they learned yesterday that the order had expelled Iowa's assemblies, with a membership of 5,000, because the Indianola branch admitted Michelle Palmer, 12, In October.

"THE KIDS balloted and they wanted Michelle," Mrs. Holds-worth said. "They did the right thing." Michelle's father. Dwaine Palmer, who is white, said he is "stunned by the whole thing. Nothing like this has to us before." Helen Kline, supreme "inspector of the Rainbow Order in Iowa, said the revocation was ordered by the supreme assembly of the Amusements 8C Briefly 2A Business news Section Column 1 1C Comics Pages 8, 7C 6, 7A Entertainment 4C Flanagan column 1C Klobuchar column Page IB Morrison column Page4C 1-SD TV Inside back page, Section Variety.

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