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Griffin DaOy News
Butts Still Comes i iut With Bell
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR JR.
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) _ Former
Georgia football coach Wally
Butts, scarred but
by some of life’s toughest
punches, is carving a new
career for himself far from
the playing fields where he
achieved his greatest tri
umphs—and suffered his big
gest heartache.
“I don’t know how many
rounds I have left,” said the
61-year-old Butts in an inter
view “but I’m going to come
out with the bell as long as I
can.”
Nearly three years after a
Saturday Evening Post article
charged that Butts "rigged” a
football game in 1962 with the
Castro Lawyers Join
Bond Case CLU; Drops
(UPI)—Mrs. Flor
ence Robin, executive director
of the Georgia branch of the
(ACLU) said Sunday the or
American Civil Liberties Union
ganization is withdrawing its
legal support of ousted State
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Universiy of Alabama, the for
mer coach has launched a new
venture in the insurance field.
Butts has a credit insurance
business which involves travel
ing all over the southeast. He
sells credit insurance in bulk to
large business concerns.
"I'm not making a great deal
of money now," he said, "but
the potential is there and in
another year I hope the
ness will be grossing a
lion.”
The "little round man”—who
coached for 84 years and won
250 games—has turned his back
on the coaching profession firm
ly, if somewhat reluctantly.
Too Long To Return
"I’ve been out of the coach
ing profession too long hdw
Rep.-elect Julian Bond.
The move came after two
new attorneys, Victor Rabino
wltz and Leonard Boudin of
New York, entered Bond’s case
which is on appeal to the U. 8.
Supreme Court protesting the
Monday, Feb. 21; 1966
go back,” he said. ‘Tm trying
now to make a living for my
self.
“it’s a tough road to start
out again. I was broke after
the trial. There was nothing set
aside for retirement. But I’ve
always said that with the right
material I can win.”
Butts won hia libel suit
against the Post in August,
1963, but he still has not col
lected a cent. A Jury awarded
him $3,060,000 in damages but
about six months later Federal
Judge Lewis Morgan reduced
this amount to $460,000. The
Post appealed and the case is
now before the U. 6. Supreme
Court
Looking back on the 16 days
of the Post trial, Butts said
Georgia House of Representa
tives action denying Bond his
seat,
Both attorneys are members
of the Emergency Civil Liber
Ue3 Committee (ECLC), an or
ganization described by the
House Committee on UnAmeri
can Activities as “a front for
the Communist Party.”
The ACLU statement said it
18 016 Practice of the organiza
tion to "exercise full responsi
bility” in cases it enters and
“the introduction of attorneys
not affiliated with the ACLU
create a conflict with this prac
tice of primary responsibility
by ACLU counsel.
"For this reason the ACLU
can no longer be associated
with the Bond cr.~e,” the state
ment said.
Another attorney, Howard
Moore Jr., a vice president of
the Georgia ACLU and Bond’s
brother-in-law, will continue to
represent the young civil rights
leader, but in a private ca
paclty.
_ Bond, . Information . . „ director ,
for
the militant Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, was
removed from the legislature
for endorsing a SNCC statement
accusing the United States of
aggression in Viet Nam and
saying he believed persons who
burned their draft cards showed
courage.
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h teld , Wednesday a to fill Bond’s
Ife w£ e ! h only jiars .. candidate
sembly on Jan. 10. The as
sembly session ended Friday.
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"It hurt me mentally and phy
sically. And sometimes I didn't
know if I could take it any
more.
"Even it X wanted to, I
wouldn’t know bow to fix a
football game, unless I could
talk the quarterback into throw
ing the ball over the fence.”
Friends Pull Out
The Post trial seemed to com
pound Butts’ miseries and mis
fortunes. His “fair weather”
friends deserted him. He had
some bad breaks in several
business ventures and lost a lot
of money. Already suffering
from high blood pressure, the
tensions of the trial made his
physical condition a matter of
concern to his doctor and fam-
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NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—The
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Compton said Luther Ray
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Asked if he lost many friends
because of the Post article and
the trial, Butts replied:
“I believe I have a lot of
friends, still the only ones I’ve
lost have been the fair weather
kind.
“I will say this—there were
some well-known people who
could have helped me during
the trial by speaking up. But
they didn’t.”
Faces Tax Lien
Several months ago the In
ternal Revenue Service, charg
ing that Butts owed about $36,
000 in back income taxes,
slapped liens on his property in
Georgia.
Butts says this battle with the
government Is still unsettled.
“I don’t have anything to set
tie it with,” he said.
Butts still makes a few
speeches before athletic groups
and touchdown clubs. His main
recreation is going to football
games.
Each year he Is mailed free
tickets to University of Georgia
athletic events. “I go to all of
their football games that I pos
sibly can,” he said, “and I
have some friends in the ath
letic department there.”
He thinks highly of the Geor
gi a football team and the ath
i e tlc office.
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"They’ve got a good setup
over there now. The best they
ever had. They’re doing many
of the things that I always ad
vocated — better recruitment,
paying the assistant coaches
better salaries.”
He and Alabama coach Paul
(Bear) Bryant, who was
charged in the Post article
along with Butts with "fixing”
the 1962 Georgia - Alabama
game, continue to be good
friends. “But we don’t see
much of each other because
I’m no longer a coach. The last
time I saw him was in Miami
when Alabama played Ne-
braska.”
After living in Athens for 28
years, Butts now resides in At
lanta with his wife, daughter
Nancy and her two children.
Aside from his high blood
pressure, Butts appears to be ;
in good health.
“My blood pressure will be
better when the Post case is
finally settled," he said.
"Things are brighter now for
me than they have been since
all the trouble started.
“I’ve always played to win,”
he added, “and I’m going to
drive myself as bard as I can
and as long as I can.”