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President Franklin D. Roosevelt was reelected to a fourth term Tuesday by a large margin of popular and electoral votes.

With all but a few places still to report, he netted 23,071,640 to Dewey’s 20,277,006.

Roosevelt leads in 35 states with an electoral vote of 413, which was 36 short of his 1940 total. Dewey is maintaining margins in 13 states with 118 electoral votes, 101 of which were coined in the Midwest.

Essex County registered a record vote with 14,973 votes cast, topping the number in 1940.

Republicans balloted 10,128 for Dewey and the Democrats 4,105 for Roosevelt, who also picked up 467 votes through the American Labor party and 67 through the Liberal party, making a total of 4,637.

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License plates

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For the fourth consecutive year, motorists in 1945 will be obliged to operate with but a single license plate because of wartime conservation of raw materials. The single plate edict went into effect in 1942, immediately following Pearl Harbor.

Motorists in 1943 received no new plates but were supplied with a small metal strip on which the new year was embossed. In 1944, as for next year, single plates were issued.

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Army and venison

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Getting his first deer and being inducted into the army both in one week is enough excitement for one man, according to Case Prime, 18, who enters the service as a volunteer on Friday.

Three bucks were killed by the same hunting party at the head of Lake Placid over the weekend. Mrs. Raymond C. Prime, mother of Case, shot a beautiful specimen with 10 points weighing about 200 pounds Saturday morning. On Sunday, Craig Wood, champion golfer, hunting with the same group, shot a six-pointer weighing almost as much, and in the afternoon Case Prime got his spikehorn.

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Buck swims

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A deer driven into the open from the woods Monday morning swam a pond and a lake before escaping for fields of snow.

The buck was first sighted near the depot at the lower end of town. He swam across the Mill pond and ran up the hill to the school campus.

After crossing Main Street, he jumped into Mirror Lake near the village park. After circling several times, he swam northward and climber ashore near the boathouse at the Lake Placid Club.

Several residents had been attracted by the animal by this time and a number of cars lined the shore drive when the buck emerged. After all the hazards to which he had been subjected, he stopped at the edge of the pavement and looked both ways as if to see if a car was coming before he took to the slopes south of Cobble Mountain. Army photographers managed to get a camera shot of him.

It is believed that the buck might first have been chased by dogs and either through fright or slight wounds he became befuddled and ran his head into the wall near the school.

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Sanford Lake

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The following statement has been issued by the New York State Conservation Council, Herman Foster, president:

“With Sanford Lake, famous Adirondack beauty spot, converted into a chocolate soda by mine waste and the supposedly ‘forever wild’ state forest reserve slashed open by industrial railroads and highways as a wartime emergency measure, New York state sportsmen are again facing the pressing problem of protecting the state’s woods and waters for its millions of firemen, hunters, campers and nature lovers, according to the New York State Conservation Council.”