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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 ' I m £ ■ mm m :> liH w .bJLt' ...... .. ..... . I I. !1 4 . k It jMBbaiiff ”ok Bu’ If v? m v .s : ■ Jh ?■; H IH * -.V,. T 'V* Z^ZZZZ^, -••V ■ # 1 . Wf /-J 4> ’1 (fl W ! - ‘ ' A mm ■ * & .'HF* » DOLLARS DOWN UNDER—Australia Is abandoning the quaint but cumbersome pounds, shillings and pence monetary system of Britain and switching to a decimal system based on a new Australian dollar worth $112 in and reproduces Australian aboriginal paintings and carv fags |^the back. Bill denominations will be $1, $2, $10 . I •.. ■■ P ’ s 1 if flip I m Sitlifll "■Si; 3 '■ .. i 1 - 1 * « *vts v,-. m ' ¥ ; -■ m • • m •. mow How can any fuel be as clean as electric energy? The answer is simple. None can. For nnlike fossil fuels, electricity has no by-products of combustion. No smoke. No soot. No grime. Flameless, fumeless electric heat keeps your home sunshine-clean and sunshine-warm. It is an even heat. No cold drafts and hot blasts. Quiet, too. No rumbling on-off noises. And never before has electric heating been so low in price! There’s even a special rate for total-electric customers. With budget billing your electric bill is the same amount every month. Within recent years, 2,500,000 American families have chosen the unquestionable cleanliness, convenience and comfort of elec tric heating. Let 1966 be your year. GEORGIA POWER COMPANY 9 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. . ___ , ... ectlon e wlu b ® 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. L I jf ! \ i '■ ' * i ' * ! : i m Pi , • | K; m. It |, ' J | , j j p ( « l - . * ' * ' ■ i ! 8 j f T> U :'i : I«v A | ; IB . l | ill;? ; if ■ 4 . ? km* I! I ” s. 1 m . Cp & WM ■'A, , 4 :! APOLLO READY—The Apollo spacecraft rests atop its Sat urn IB rocket at Cape Ken nedy, ready for the Feb. 23 unmanned test flight. The plan: 310 miles into space and then roar down at 18,- 750 mph to a South Atlantic splashdown 5,520 miles away. CARLISLE A CO. 116 W. Poplar St. COMPLETE INSURANCE SERVICE Phones 227-2258 — 227-2259 "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- 1 Dateline Griffin Georgia To Hoar Cos. Sanders NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) — The 109th annual session of the Southern Baptist Convention will be held May 24-27 at De troit, with Georgia Gov. Carl Sanders heading a list of 10 speakers, it was announced Sat urday. A Southern Baptist layman, Sandera will be the only fea tured s P e8ker who In not a mln ister or denominational lead er ‘ Following 0,8 of "God's Word for a New Age,” Dalton Band Judged ‘Best’ NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—The Dalton, Ga. high school band mar cbed In the mid-city carni val parade Sunday after win ning the annual Greatest Bands in Dixie contest, The Dalton band was pre- 2 Arrested In Firm WRENS, Ga. (UPI>—Jeffer son County Sheriff Zollle Comp t°n said Sunday two Columbus men were arrested earlier in the day inside a wholesale grocery company, Compton said Luther Ray Black, 51, and James C. Fore hand ’ * ~ char ^ Undercofler Named AMERICUS, Ga. (UPI) - r. rzjrrz 016 address at the annual mem bership meeting 0 f the Ameri- RAIN MARS VISIT ST. 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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. 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The meeting will close with a spe cial service to launch a Baptist evangelistic campaign for 1969 which will cover North, Central and South America. sented a trophy and each mem ber of the musical group was given a gold medal. Judging in the contest was based on ap pearance and marching and musical ability. two counts of burglary. Compton said several hundred dollars taken from the company were found on the two men. Burglary tools and a cutting torch also were confiscated. The two men were placed in the county Jail at Louisville in lieu of $40,000 bonds each. can-Sumter County Chamber of Commerce. Undercofler practiced law in Americus for a number of years before moving to Atlan ta for his state post. VACRRD Sense** Q—The bidding has been: West North East South 14 Pass 1N.T. 2 4 2 V Pass 4 V 5 4 Pass Pass Dble. Pass 5 V 6 4 ? You, South, hold: 4* VKJ5 4 ♦Q106 5 4 4Q7* What do you do now? A— Pass. Your partner knows that you doubled five clubs and will double six himself unless he thinks that he can make- six hearts. If he has no. clubs there is a good chance that he • For Better SHOES SHOP 1 on 2 SHOES Will "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.”