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Humphrey can count as safe only four states and the District of Columbia. He holds a precarious edge in Minnesota, his home state, and West Virginia, for a total of 46 electoral votes. In Michigan, Polltaker Frederick Currier found only a single percentage point separating him from Nixon. George Wallace has moved up in Florida and may now be able to deny Nixon the state's 14 electoral votes. Republicans are heartened, however, by slippage from the third-party candidate in South Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia. The breakdown...
...HUMPHREY LEADING: District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and West Virginia. Total electoral votes...
...TOSSUPS: Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington. Total electoral votes...
Last week a Virginia Circuit Court of Appeals convicted a member of the Big Stone Gap congregation, Roscoe Mullins, 50, of violating a state law against handling snakes "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." (Another defendant, Kenneth Short, was acquitted of the same charge.) The prosecution claimed that Mullins had also handled the snakes at the service, thus endangering other worshipers. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine. Released on $2,000 bond, Mullins said that he would appeal all the way to the Supreme Court...
Mostly Illegal. Mullins' conviction-the first under Virginia's snake-handling law in 21 years-was a reminder that the use of serpents in worship is still alive in the mountain villages of Southern Appalachia. Across rural Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, dozens of small fundamentalist churches regularly include the handling of rattlers or copperheads as part of their services. How many snake handlers there are is not really known. Generally they are as secretive as moonshiners, and for much the same reason: the cult is illegal except in West Virginia...