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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1972
NATIONAL NEWS
■ From United Press InternatTona 1
Humphrey posts
narrow victory
COLUMBUS, Ohio Sen.
Hurbet Humphrey scored a
narrow victory over Sen.
George McGovern Thursday
in Ohio’s prolonged
Democratic presidential
primary but control of the
party’s 153-member
delegation to the national
convention remained in
doubt.
With 98 per cent of the
state's precincts reporting,
Humphrey had 461,185
votes; McGovern, 438,069;
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie,
99,321; Sen. Henry M.
Jackson, 90,036, and former
Sen. Eugene J. McCarty,
24,807.
Humphrey continued to pad his slim lead in the race for
the 38 at-large delegates in the error-filled primary by
posting narrow victories in the state’s Democratic
strongholds.
Pretty good hopes' men safe
KELLOGG, Idaho Mine officials Thursday still held
out hope for 58 men trapped nearly a mile underground by
fire and smoke in the Sunshine Mine, but Idaho Gov. Cecil
Andrus said the situation could be “very, very bad.”
As successive crews of rescue workers were forced back
before they could reach the huge silver mine's No. 10 shaft,
Sunshining Mining Co. Vice President Marvin C. Chase said
he hail pretty good hopes” that the missing men were safe
in a fresh-air section of the mine, far below the fire which
has been pouring smoke and poison gas into No. 10 since
Tuesday.
Peace talks halted second time
PARIS The United
States Thursday indefinitely
suspended the Paris peace
talks for the second time
because of “lack of progress
in every available channel’’ of
negotiations. It indicated
hopes also were dim for
secret negotiations.
In a repeat of his March 23
action which canceled regular
weekly sessions for five
weeks, U.S. negotiator
William J. Porter told North
Vietnam and the Viet Cong it
was useless trying to talk to them.
“Let it be recorded that it is impossible to induce you to
discuss particular subjects bearing on a peaceful
settlement,” he said. “That truth is as clear as your military
aggression in South Vietnam. We therefore see no grounds
for a meeting next week.”
Majority will fight to the death'
BELFAST The Rev. Ian Paisley said Thursday
Northern Ireland's Protestant majority would fight to the
death any move by Britain to unite the province with the
Irish Republic.
Paisley, leader of the province’s Protestant breakaway
Democratic Unionist Party and member of the British
Parliament, issued the “solemn warning" in a statement to
William Whitelaw, secretary of state for Northern Ireland.
“We will fight to the death for our heritage, religion,
homes and families,” the statement said.
2-1 vote bars men s voting
ATLANTA The national
League of Women Voters
Thursday rejected letting men
vote in their organization,
accepting pleas that such a
move could take away the
league's power as a moderate
women’s group.
Interrupting a drawn-out
discussion of how to assess
dues, the women voted about
2 to I against the question of
raising men from the
second-class, non-voting
status they now have.
“We are one of the only
moderate organizations for
women that has power.”
Priscilla M. Leith of Newton
1,500 delegates to the league’s
WORLD NEWS
STATE NEWS
, Mass., told the more than
national convention.
Fair
WEATHER
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Fair to parth rloudy
today through Saturday
with a slow warming
tri'nd expected. High
today in th>' upfx'r 70's
with thi' low expected
near 50. High expected
on Saturday in the BO's.
F.xtended outlook for the
weekend and Monday:
* V ariably cloudy with a
chance of showers or
thunder showers.
Students rally, register to vote
Bv MITCHELL SHIELDS
About 300 students passed up
classes yesterday to attend an
antiwar-voter registration rally held
outside of Phi Kappa Hall.
Student leaders and invited
speaker, told the students that the
way to “change things” is through
REGISTRAR
“Read
Photo by JON HAM
ALLENE CARTEAUX
it in the code”
the vote. The rally’s purpose,
according to its organizers, was to
encourage students to register to
vote.
Chuck Searcy, VVAW coordinator
and an organizer of the rally, said
“This is our way of observing the
moratorium (the National Antiwar
Moratorium) and we think it’s a
constructive way. Students need to
register so we can work for change.”
Searcy told the group, “We need
more than the vote, we need
someone to vote for.”
Although the rally was originally
planned to protest the war, most of
the speakers talked about
Wednesday’s arrest of student
demonstrators.
A Black Student Union
spokesman said that the arrests came
about because “The faculty has been
the flunky for the alumni and other
outside influences.” After the speech
student Connie Brown led a group of
students to the courthouse to
register.
MS ALLENE CARTEAUX,
Clarke County registrar, received
applications for voter registration
from 130 people. All but 20 of the
applicants were allowed to register.
She denied voting status to the 20
mainly because they had out-of-state
STUDENTS AWAIT THEIR TURNS TO REGISTER TO VOTE
110 more students became Clarke County voters yesterday
Photo by JON HAM
driver’s licenses or out-of-county
auto license plates. Their applications
were put on appeal to the county
voter registration board.
Ms. Carteaux was asked if she was
advising the applicants of their rights
regarding eligibility to vote. “No,”
she said, “they can read it in the
code."
Today is the last day applicants
may register and be eligible to vote in
the upcoming city-county
consolidation referendum.
Former Congresswoman Jeannette
Rankin, told the assembled students
that “Schools have to change, just
like any other institution" and that
“students are in school to learn how
to change things." She received
applause when she said that there
was nothing wrong with going to jail
as long as “you take books and paper
along. You always have to be
learning.”
Other speakers at the rally
included Steve Patrick, David
Alonso, City Councilman I d Turner,
A1 Bragg, and Steve Letzch
AFTER THE SPEECHES the
band Ravenstone played. Early
during the set David Alonso told
Ravenstone there were complaints
about the loudness of the music from
the administration building.
Ravenstone’s lead singer reacted to
this by singing louder. Later Captain
Ernest M. Nix of the University
police came and told the band to
“either turn down the volume or be
arrested." He cited complaints from
Athens businessmen and the Testing
and Evaluation Center.
During the rally three plainclothes
policemen were stationed outside of
President Davison's office.
Administrators finish
case against janitor
By CINDY SHORT
The University Physical Plant
concluded presentation of its case
yesterday in the third session of the
continuing appeal hearing for fired
custodial worker and alleged labor
organizer Robert Craig.
Craig, fired for alleged irregular
job attendance and refusal to
perform assigned duties, has taken an
appeal action to a University
grievance board. During the three
sessions of the hearing held to date.
Physical Plant official W. C.
Nicholson has presented the bases for
Craig’s dismissal.
At the April 27 session, a review
was made of the absence dates on
Craig's record. Craig’s legal
counsellor, Al Bragg, pointed out
during his cross-examination of the
Physical Plant’s witnesses that several
of these dates fell on Saturdays and
Sundays while Craig was employed
on weekdays only. Physical Plant
officials said these were
typographical errors.
In Thursday's reiteration of the
defense Nicholson pointed out that
Craig had been absent in excess of 30
days during his 17 months of
employment, 16 of these for illness.
He contended that calls to Craig’s
other employer, supervisor of bus
drivers for the county schools,
revealed that on some of these dates
Craig had been present at his other
job as a bus driver.
Bragg said discrepancies existed in
the several sets of attendance records
presented by Physical Plant. C. M.
James of personnel services said the
records were kept for different
purposes such as pay amounts and
actual time worked. Bragg further
charged that Craig’s other employer
had possibly been prejudiced against
Craig by the calls from University
employers.
James Dillard, personnel
supervisor for Physical Plant, was
called as the next witness. Dillard
testified that Craig’s attendance had
been poor, in his opinion. When
asked if he was familiar with all
individual attendance records and
how Craig’s record compared, Dillard
answered that he was familiar with
the records in a general way and that
Craig's record was "below average",
but not, in his opinion, the worst.
Bragg said although Craig's record
was not “the worst”, no other
employees had been recently fired
for poor attendance.
In further testimony,
Superintcndant of Custodial Services
T. E. Carter stated that Craig had
refused to perform an assigned duty.
He further charged Craig with
insubordination.
In the particular incident in
question, Craig allegedly argued with
his supervisor over the supervisor's
having signed an illiterate worker’s
name to a memo, signifying that the
worker understood and accepted the
change in policy outlined in the
memo.
At the next session, to be held
next Thursday morning, Craig’s
representatives will begin
presentation of their case. The
hearing, to be held at 9 a.m. at the
Personnel Services building, is open
to the public.
Photo by STEPHEN JACKSON
PLAINCLOTHES POLICE KEEP WATCH OUTSIDE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
Lee Wolfe, Larry Grey and Murrel Tyson guard during rally
Protesting students
meet with Davison
Candlelight march
Photo hv GEORGE WILLIAMS
Sedate North Campus reverberated at sunset yesterday to
massive cries of “Join us. join us. peace now. peace now"
and “One point/peace plan/out now” and two or three
other catchy slogans, the most memorable of which are not
printable, as a crowd of students estimated at over 500
marched by candlelight from the Reed quadrangle to a rails
at the Academic Building. The lo^al Student Mobilization
Committee to I ml the War in Vietnam organized the march
and rally as part of an “emergency nationwide
moratorium" called by the National Peace Action
Coalition. The rally included student efforts at folk singing
and speeches by professors Martin Yanuck and James
Hethunc. The I diversity police supervised the march and
blocked traffic as the war protestors swarmed up Sanford
• Drive from Hooper Street to Baldwin Street, refreshed by
minted leimmade the Hare Krishna people had distributed
for free on the steps of Memorial Hall where the march
started.
Nine coordinators of the sit-in at
University President I-red C.
Davison’s office Wednesday and a
rally Wednesday night to protest the
alleged housing crackdown have
made an appointment to talk with
President Davison today at 2 p m
The coordinators went in person
Thursday afternoon to ask for the
appointment, according to David
Bell RHA representative from the
Mell-Lipscomb Community.
Davison’s secretary, after conferring
with the President, gave the group an
appointment from 2 to 2 30 p m to
discuss the list of demands made at
the sit-in, Bell said
A crowd of about 400 students
gathered at Legion Field Wednesday
night at a rally protesting the alleged
housing crackdown and the arrest of
students Wednesday morning in
Davison's office.
The rally took the form of a
concert and student speakers
sponsored by the Residence Hall
Association
David Alonso, leader of Coalition
*72, spoke about the 34 people who
were arrested, the housing changes,
and voter registration.
“Let's get organized, let’s get
together, let’s show our faces and
fight for the rights that students
should have,” Alonso said.
Karen Keith, graduate resident of
North Myers and one of the
coordinators of the Wednesday sit-in
at Old College, said that for the past
two or three years the R.H.A. has
been fighting for student rights, and
the administration is “now saying
put up or shut up to the students.”
Bell said, “The problem is that
Dean (of Student Affairs O. Suthern)
Sims doesn’t want to be criticized by
anyone, especially those with
political influence. The only way he
can do this is to run the dorms and
housing in such a way as to avoid
criticism by anyone, especially
people like Carl P Savage,” he said.
“We can’t stop Sims because we
have no veto power. But we do have
power in giving bad publicity to the
administrators. We can do this by
demonstrations/' Bell said.
Both Dean Sims and Dr. Richard
Armstrong, director of the housing
department, were present at the
rally, but neither addressed the
crowd.