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HAVANA SEIZED Hf CUBAN ARMY REVOLT Tank and armored ear patrol the Presidential Pal
ace area in Havana, Cuba, after Gen. Fulgencia Batista seized the city and Army headquarters in a
coup to overthrow the Government. Two members of the palace guard were reported killed and i
wounded in an outburst of Srmg before the surrender.
Medford
Tribune
Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1952
Pages 1-6-
Less Than Majority of Popular
Vote May Elect U.S. President
Washington (U.R) A Presi- j (R., Mass.), has proposed a con-1 votes and , Republican Ruther-
dent of the United States may
be elected with less than a ma
jority of the popular vote cast.
That is because the people do
not vote directly for the nomi
nees. They vote for presiden
tial electors.
There are 531 electors in what
is called the electoral college.
It takes 266 electoral votes to
put a man in the White House
regardless of how many popu
lar votes a presidential nomi
nee gets In the November elec
tion.
Electoral Votes Allotted
Each state has the same num
ber of electoral votes as it has
members in Congress one for
each member of the House and
Senate.
The method of choosing elec
tors varies according to state
law. In some states, the names
of candidates for elector appear
on the ballot along with the
names of the presidential nomi
nees. In a few states, only the names
of the candidates for elector are
on the ballot. And in others, only
the names of the presidential
and vice presidential nominees
themselves are shown. In any
case, it is electors not the
nominees themselves whom the
voters actually choose.
Some weeks after the general
election, the electors meet on
December 15 this year at their
respective state capitols and cast
their votes for President and vice
president.
In theory, the nominee who
got the biggest popular vote in
any state wins all of that state's
electoral votes. Some states re
quire it by law. But it doesn't
always happen that way. In
1948, for example, the Truman
Barkley ticket won the popular
vote in Tennessee. But one of
the state's electors cast his bal
lot for the Thurmond Wright
State's Rights ticket.
Sen Henry Cabot Lodge Jr..
Jobless Reserve
How $76,092,899 -
Salem (U.R) The Oregon Un
employment Compensation com
mission now has $76,092,899 in
its reserve fund, the commission
reported Wednesday.
The fund dropped to about
$70,000,000 after the severe win
ters of 1949 and 1950 but re
corded an increase of $2,215,079
during the past 12 months. The
commission said further in
creases are expected, despite the
lower payroll taxes paid by em
ployers. There have been increases in
the number of claims on the
funds, from 76,461 to 82,070, but
the number of workers who have
drawn all the money they were
entitled to during the year is
lower than at any time since
the war.
stitutional amendment under
which the electoral votes of each
state would be divided up among
the nominees on the basis of
the percentage of the total popu
lar vote received by each. Under
this proposal, a nominee who
polled 60 per cent of a state's
popular vote would get 60 . per
cent of the electoral votes in
stead of all of them..
Results Not Official
The results of the November
election do not become official
until the results of the electoral
voting have been forwarded to
Congress, and opened and count
ed at a joint session of the House
and Senate on Jan. 6, 1953, for
this year's election.
It is possible for a nominee
to get a majority of the popular
vote and still lose in the elec
toral college. That has happened
twice.
In 1876, Democrat Samuel J.
Tilden got 4,284,885 - popular.
Airline Merger
Would Increase
Traffic by Half
Washington (U.R) Wil
liam Bailey, an economic con
sultant, predicted at a Civil
Aeronautics Board hearing Wed
nesday that merger of West
Coast and Empire Airlines would
increase traffic 50 per cent.
Bailey was a witness for West
Coast, which proposes to buy
the outstanding stock of Empire
and 'take over its routes with
new segments criss-crossing be
tween Spokane and Portland
and Seattle and Richland-Pasco-
Kennewick.
Traffic Doubles
Bailey said his research show
ed as a general rule traffic
doubles between pairs of cities
when single-airline service re
places connecting service. He
said one-carrier service was es
pecially desirable on short hauls,
like the distances between pres
ent points served by Empire and
West Coast
He attributed to "poor" con
necting service the underdevel
opment of traffic into Seattle
and Portland from Empire's
routes.
UAL Official To Testifr
The hearing was to end "with
testimony of United Air Lines
official James E. Moor e.' He
planned to say United does not
oppose the merger -providing
three conditions were attached:
1. United should not have its
service suspended at any points
in the area involved. . -
2. The merger should involve
only one new route, between
Pendleton and Portland.
3. The merger company should
disavow any intention to try to
evolve into a trunk airline.
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COURT AND McANDREWS - - -
ford B. Hayes got 4,033,950. The
Republicans contested the elec
tion. Congress appointed an elec
toral commission of 15 members,
eight Republicans . and- seven
Democrats, to look into it. The
commission, by a strict party
line vote, awarded the 22 elec
toral votes of Florida, Louisi
ana, South Carolina and Oregon
to Hayes, who. was declared the
winner on an electoral vote of
185 to 184.
Harrison Winner
In 1888, Democrat Grover
Cleveland, seeking re - election,
polled 5,540,050 popular votes
to Republican Benjamin Harri
son's 5,444,337. But - Harrison
was the winner of an electoral
vote of 233 to 168. :
In case no nominee gets a
majority of the electoral votes,
the election of a President, of
the United States is thrown into
the House of Representatives.
That, too, has happened twice
in 1800 when Thomas Jefferson
defeated Aaron Burr, and in 1824
when John Quincy Adams de
feated Andrew Jackson.
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Paris U.R) Independent
Premier Antoine Pinay's stream
lined government, confirmed by
the French National Assembly,
set to work; Wednesday in a
fight to save the country from
economic chaos. .
The new cabinet faced a triple
financial problem lack of for
eign exchange to meet European
payments play and other foreign
commitments, a bare treasury
and lack of a 1952 budget.
The 17 ministers and five sec
retaries of state in Pinay's
center-right government were
approved Tuesday 293 to 101.
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