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LAW AND ORDER is an issue in the Fortas nomination as it is in the presidential
campaign. To criticism of decisions freeing criminals on technicalities he replies that
this is a government of law. not men, and once strictest adherence breaks down, so
does constitutional government.
Fortas Motion
Faces Talk Death
By ROY MCGEE
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Senate
opponents of Abe Fortas’
appointment to be chief justice
were determined today to talk
to death even the motion
bringing his nomination up for
debate.
Senate Democratic leader
Mike Mansfield said he was
prepared to fight for his
surprise formal motion to take
up the debate today on
President Johnson’s nomination
of Fortas.
Fortas’ opponents immediate
ly vowed a filibuster. One of
their leaders, Sen. Strom
Thurmond, R-S.C., said he
doubted the motion would ever
get to a vote.
Mansfield and Republican
leader Everett M. Dirksen
support Fortas, but both are
pessimistic they will be able to
muster the two . thirds vote
necessary to halt debate and
get moving on the issue. Both
Georgia News
It’s Official:
Duckworth Wins
ATLANTA (UPD — W. H.
Duckworth, who has held the
top post on Georgia’s Supreme
Court for the past two decades,
has officially been elected chief
Justice for another six year
term.
The 73-year-old chief justice,
praised by his fellow jurists for
serving on the court with
“honor and distinction,’’ was
elected to the new term Tues
day.
Justice Hiram Undercofler,
seconding Duckworth's nomina
tion, said the 30-year state su
preme court veteran had a
‘‘brilliant legal mind and
literally had dedicated his life
to upholding the law.”
Duckworth defeated John
Westmoreland of Atlanta and
Hamilton Rep. William Steis in
the Sept. 11 Democratic pri
mary election for his incumbent
seat on the court.
Spinners Say
Expand Quotas
SEA ISLAND, Ga. (UPI) —
The American Yarn Spinners
Association Tuesday approved a
resolution asking that interna
tional controls on textile imports
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Rev. James C. Meaders, Pastor
; Mansfield caught the opposi-,
s; tion coalition of conservative j
1 Republicans and southern De- i
i inocrats off guard late Tuesday
; with the unexpected motion to [
i take up tlie nomination next.
His move left dangling some ;
SIOO billion in appropriations the !
■ Senate must yet consider, $71.9 ’
i billion of it the long-awaited and |
i all-time record appropriation 1
: for defense.
Putting this legislation behind
i the nomination appeared to
favor the opposition by adding
• to pressures on the leadership
to settle the matter as soon as
i possible.
Sen. Robert P. Griffin, R- j 1
, Mich., organizer of the bloc 1
opposing Fortas’ confirmation, 1
said his forces were not ; ’
disorganized by Mansfield’s i
surprise move and “quite a lot” i 1
of senators were ready with j 1
lengthy speeches opposing Pres-1
believe the nomination would be [
confirmed if it could be brought} 1
be expanded to include all fi
bers, not just cotton.
In the final session of the as
sociation’s annual convention,
officials reported that yarn im
ports “severely restricted the
growth potential of the cotton
sales yarn industry” in this
country. Sales yarn is product
ed by mills to sell to weaving
and knitting mills.
The resolution called for an
international trade agreement
on imports of all teztile fibers,
including yarn products, similar
to the agreement now in effect
for cotton.
Private Sentenced
In Gl’s Slaying
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) — Au
18-year-old Colorado Army pri
vate has been sentenced to life
in prison in the hammer slay
ing of a fellow soldier.
A Muscogee County Superior
Court jury deliberated three and
a half hours Tuesday night be
fore returning a guilty verdict
against Pvt. Jurgen Williams of
Colorado Springs along with a
recommendation for mercy.
Williams entered a plea of in
nocent, saying that he stru-’c
Sgt. George D. Garrett of Co
lumbus over the head in self
defense.
He testified Garrett tried to
strangle him, in an argument at
the sergeants house.
16
to a vote.
I ident Johnson’s selection of an
I old personal friend and confi
dant to succeed Chief Justice
Earl Warren.
Their objections center on
constitutional and philosophical
principles that:
Fortas continued advising
Johnson after joining the
Supreme Court; he accepted
law school lecture fees raised
from individuals who might at
■sometime be court litigants; he
is a "Judicial activist” inclined
to legislate from the bench
rather than interpret the
Constititution; his decisions in
obscenity, Communist and cri
minal defendant cases sided
with the guilty; Johnson, as a
“lameduck” president, should
leave so important a nomination
to his successor.
Never in history has a chief
justice nomination been filibus
tered.
Negro Parents <
Vow To Keep Up
School Boycott
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPD—Ne
gro parents vowed to continue
to keep their children out of the
city’s public schools again to
day, following a boycott Tues
day that forced the closing of
one high school.
More than 40 per cent of the
city’s 4.800 pupils did not show
up for school Tuesday and one
predominantly Negro school.
Center High, was forced to shut
down.
Some students picketed both
Negro and predominantly white
schools, turning black students
away from the city’s other nine
elementary and high schools.
Tire Negro parents threatened
to keep their children out of
school unless the Waycross s
Board of Education met five de
mands concerning a speedup in
classroom integration.
The grievances concerned the
alleged failure of the school sys
tem to comply with a federal
desegregation plan and some pa
rents complained that three
schools were still all-Negro.
J. E. McLean, school board
president, said the board was!
complying as best it could and
invited the petitioners to discuss i
the problems.
He said that under the feder
al plan, the integration process I
would continue until 1970 when 1
the dual school system would ■
theoretically be gone.
“We haven’t had a bit of ■
trouble before,” McLean said. 1
“This is not a consensus of Ne
gro opinion.
—_—
Desert air is so dry that rain I
falling from a cloud often evapo- j
rates before it hits the ground.
Niagara’s American Falls is
182 feet high.
The first Christmas cards were
designed in England in the 1840 s.
Because they are thick-skin
ned animals, wriggling in mud
helps hogs to keep cool and re
moves extra oil on their skins.
A few American Indian tribes
still have hereditary chiefs, but
they are not always considered
the heads of these tribes.
Washington College at Chester
town, Md., is the only college to
which George Washington per
sonally gave the use of his name.
Court Rules On
Intent To Steal
ATLANTA (UPI) _ “Intent”
to steal can get you into just
as much trouble as stealing it
self, according to the Georgia
Supreme Court.
The court Tuesday upheld a
state law on the subject and
wrote a chapter in Georgia’s le
gal vocabulary. It defined, le
gally, the term “rogue.”
A rogue, according to the high
court, is a person found in a
“dwelling house, warehouse,
store, shop, coachouse, stable or
outhouse,” with intent to steal.
Clifford Marter, convicted of i
being a rogue and sentenced to I
three years in prison for it, had i
asked the court to throw out the
Georgia law as unconstitutional.
He said it does not give the I
suspected criminal due process I
of law because the person is in-!
stantly held guilty of a felony
without having actually robbed ;
or stolen anything.
But the high court turned I
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down Marter’s argument, refus
ing to consider the constitution
ality question, and upheld the
state law.
The court said it was against
the law in Georgia to be a
“rogue or vagabond” and add
ed, “it is not the name given
to the offense in the indictment
which characterizes it, but the
description in the averments
(allegations) of the indictment.”
Marter received in addition to
the three - year sentence as a
“rogue and a vagabond” a one
year sentence for burglary.
HONESTY’S REWARD
MANILA (UPD—An unem
ployed father of five who found
nearly 810,000 in eathquake
ruins recently, turned in the
money and get a reward—a job.
The government appointed him
a seamen in the water patrol
division of the bureau of
customs.
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-U.L RIGHT, YOU BIRDS, FORWARD MARCH!” This mother duck takes on the
appearance of a drill sergeant as her ducklings pass in review. Photographer Randy
Dieter spotted the action on a pond near Evansville, Ind.-