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...Council's questionnaire will list as possible choices: 1) student activities center building, 2) music center building, 3) new infirmary, 4) monument, statue, plaque, etc., 5) scholarships. Space will also be available for write-in votes for "other" memorials, and a choice between utilitarian and non-utilitarian memorials...
...Write-in Vote. A better test of Japanese democracy will come later this month, in national elections for the two houses of parliament. On the broader national scene, Prime Minister Yoshida's Liberal incumbents had used the purge powers given them by General MacArthur to get rid of the leaders of the Democratic Party, their principal opposition...
...night of Jan. 14, when Georgia's legislature met to elect a successor to Governor Gene Talmadge, son Herman's chances were slim. In the first count of write-in ballots, he was running third among the contenders, and the new governor was to be chosen from the top two. Then, suddenly, 58 new votes-all from Talmadge's home county of Telfair-put Hummon back into the running. Ever since then, thoughtful Georgians have been wondering about those 58 votes. Last week they found out. After a month of cloak-&-dagger sleuthing, the Atlanta Journal splashed...
...Goodwin and Gregory, were still digging. They had received tips of vote-fixing in Cherokee County (55 votes had been added after the returns reached Atlanta). And they were poking around in Rockingham precinct (one of the two precincts in the state which gave Hummon, a write-in candidate, more votes than the regular Democratic nominee, ol' Gene). The Journal's Managing Editor William Kirkpatrick contentedly indicated that he still had a few more firecrackers to shoot...
...clear-cut method of determining his successor. Backers of incumbent Governor Arnall believed that he should continue in office, even though he was constitutionally barred from a second candidacy, and had not run in 1946. Others wanted the General Assembly to choose between the two highest general election write-in candidates: James V. Carmichael and Talmadge's son, Herman (pronounced Hummon to rhyme with summon). Still others tried to make a case for M. E. Thompson, Georgia's newly elected lieutenant governor. At week's end no way had been found of resolving the dilemma...