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Fifth District Duel
Weltner - Thompson: The Lively Ones
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPI) — Former
Congressman Charles Weltner,
gambling that Atlanta voters
failed to develop a taste for con
servatism during his sabbatical,
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GRIFFIN LAUNDRY
COMPLETE FABRIC CARE CENTER |
210 East Solomon St. — Phone 227-5555
Across from City Hall
Nothing is more empty than a politi
cal promise and for that reason I
I have made none to you. I do, how-f '-
ever, solemnly pledge that I will act
? as YOUR city commissioner, think-
? ing only of Griffin and its people. 4s'
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I W. Barron Cumming
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November sth
(Paid Political Advertisement)
bids for a comeback Tuesday
against GOP Incumbent Fletch
er Thompson.
Ranking as one of the most
intense congressional races in
the South, the sth District duel
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Alone in the crowd,
the candidates mix
and mingle, waving,
kissing babies,
exchanging greetings
with nameless faces
that surge and swirl
around them, shaking
hands that are ever
reaching, ever
clutching.
between Weltner —a liberal
young Democrat who quit a
1966 re-election race rather than
support Lester Maddox for gov
ernor — and Thompson — who
won the race over a stand - In
Democrat — has been bitter.
The vote is expected to be
close.
It has also awakened much in
interest in a year when southern
congressional campaigns have
been generally dull. In Georgia,
seven of 10 representatives will
be incumbent Democrats elect
ed without opposition next
week.
Although Weltner and Thomp
son would appear to represent
clearly divergent views, each
candidate has charged that the
other is inconsistent in political
approach.
Appraising Thompson’s rec
ord, Weltner claimed is like
“trying to unscrew the unscrut
able.”
“I can’t decide whether he is
a right-wing reactionary or a
Great Society liberal,” Weltner
said of his opponent. “He has
voted yes and no so much on
the same issue he needs a new
category — maybe.”
Thompson, on the other hand,
claimed Weltner’s four - year
Congressional performance was
“a contradictory record.” He
charged that Weltner, known as
a racia 1 moderate, voted
against the 1964 Civil Rights
Act until reapportionment upped
the Negro vote in the district
and then voted for the Sen
ate amendments to the bill.
The Republican freshman con
gressman also claimed Weltner
was only being “politically
astute" when he withdrew from
the 1966 race. “He signed the
loyalty oath four and a half
months before he quit,” Thomp
son said. “He realized that with
Lester Maddox heading the tick
et, he didn’t stand a chance to
win.”
Thompson defends his various
votes by saying, “I wanted to
respond to the needs of the peo
ple but not ignore the burden on
the taxpayers.” Weltner ex
plains his early civil rights vote
this way: “I was wrong the
first time.”
Weltner said Thompson voted
against the open housing and
rat control bills, voted for
Peace Corps and certain anti
poverty authorizations but was
against funding them, and voted
for certain urban bills the first
time and against them on final
compromises.
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of the treasury and the darling
of the ACA and do anything
about these other problems,”
Weltner said.
Thompson said he voted for
the 1967 Civil Rights Act and
was the only Georgia congress
man who attended the funeral
of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Thompson refused to shake
Weltner’s hand following a tele
vision program in which Welt
ner accused the Republican of
“conflict of interest” between
his office and his insurance bus-
Roy Harris
Sees Nixon
3rd In State
AUGUSTA, a. (UPI) —Rich
ard Nixon will come in third in
next Tuesday’s general election
in Georgia, according to a pre
diction by George Wallace’s
state campaign manager.
“He’s defeating himself,” de
clared Roy Harris Friday, .re
ferring to the Republican presi
dential nominee, who has been
considered a leading contender
for Georgia’s presidential vote.
Humphrey, however, would .rank
behind Wallace, with Nixon
third.
“He’s coming up in Georgia,”
Harris said, referring to the
Democratic nominee. “He’s got
his best chance now.
Harris said “there isn’t any
doubt” Wallace would win Geor
gia. “There isn’t too much that
can happen now to change the
results,” he said. “People know
what they want.”
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HULA HANDS tell a story,
but man in background
seems to be missing the tale.
Lesley Anderson danced in
a London street while
modeling a new swim fash
ion made up of simulated
leaves in multicolors on
cap, lei and wristlets.
DECISIONS, DECISIONS
ENID, Okla. (UPD—Harve
Smith, the Garfield County
court bailiff for 28 years, is not
a man who makes hasty
decisions.
Smith today will wed Mrs.
Naomi Wise, ending about 80
years of bachelorhood. He has
known Mrs. Wise all of her life
and recalls having a date with
her older sister the day Mrs.
Wise w bwa-
Sat. and Sun., Nov. 2-3, 1968 Griffin Daily News
Peace Remains
No. 1 Issue
By United Press International
Peace, in the waning days of
campaign ’6B, remained the No.
1 political issue. All three
presidential candidates had
prescriptions.
Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey, obviously pleased
with the new bombing halt,
returned to Chicago, where his
nomination by the Democrats
was marred by bloody street
fights between police and
antiwar demonstrators. He
promised “a new day” of peace.
Richard M. Nixon campaign
ing in Texas, branded Hum
phrey as one of the “fuzzy
thinkers” who could get the
country into war because they
don’t know how to keep the
peace.
George C. Wallace, while
hoping the bombing halt would
be effective, insisted that if
negotiations In the Vietnam War
fail, “We ought to wind it up
militarily.”
After a torchlight parade with
Mayor Richard J. Daley
through Chicago’s Loop, Hum
phrey gave sober notice at
Chicago Stadium to what
happened during the convention.
“Some things happened at
Chicago and at our convention
that I’m not proud of—and that
you’re not proud of,” he said, at
the same time pledging to
“Heal the wounds and end the
iness.
Weltner charged Thompson
was soliciting business in
“something of a scandal” and
Thompson said Weltner was
misrepresenting the facts in an
“underhanded, dishonest” fash
ion.
The sth District covers the
gamut of racial and economic
divisions in most of Atlanta.
Weltner won 98 per cent of
the Negro vote in the Sept. 11
Democratic primary against
Wyman Lowe and said he was
“well received” on the moder
ate northside and “coming up
well’ on the conservative south
side.
Finally, Thompson was par
ticularly chagrined about
a Weltner ad that pictured
Thompson as voting to spend
millions on ducks in Canada.
Thompson said the conservation
bill he supported had to do with
Canadian ducks, but only after
they migrated to this country.
“It’s absurd that it holds the
prominence it does in people’s
minds,” fumed Thompson.
“Everybody keeps asking me
about those ducks. Frankly, I
think it was tircky, treacherous
and deceptive for him to do
that.”
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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE
SOUTH PART OF TOWN, CORNER LOT, 150 feet
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Located on property is building with central air con
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Dan Slade
228-2134
division” afflicting Americans.
Nixon, campaigning in de
fense-oriented Texas cities, said
he believed in keeping U.S.
Armed Forces “So modern and
so powerful” they would never
be challenged.
“There are too many fuzzy
thinkers—including my opponent
—who profess to believe that
keeping America strong is
somehow being against peace,”
Nixon said. “These are false
prophets. They will, if they have
their way, get America into war
—not because they want war,
but because they don’t under
stand how to keep the peace.”
Wallace said in Asheville,
N.C., that if he were elected,
“We are not going to stay in
Vietnam forever.”
“This war must be concluded
one way or the other, honora
bly,” Wallace said.
In other political develop
ments :
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie—The
Maine senator, in the stretch of
his vice presidential run,
defended President Johnson
against charges that the bomb
ing halt was politically motivat
ed.
Gov. Spiro T. Agnew—The
GOP vice presidential nominee,
told a St. Joseph, Mo., audience
Friday that a guaranteed
annual wage was “Socialistic
dreaming” that would only add
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THEN NEED A SPIRIT OF COOPERATION FOR OUR COUNTY AND
OUR CITY MUST GROW — WE SEE GROWTH ALL AROUND US
WITH NEW PEOPLE, NEW INDUSTRY, NEW EDUCATION FACILITIES, |
NEW JOBS AND NEW HOPE. I AND MY FAMILY ALONG WITH YOU
AND YOUR FAMILY WILL SEE GRIFFIN MOVE FORWARD IF WE j
CAN MAINTAIN A SPIRIT OF OUR TOWN AND OUR COUNTY BEING I
A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE AND GROW BUT ALSO A PLACE THAT
NEEDS TO BE CONSTANTLY IMPROVED. WE AS CITIZENS PUT A
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Ann Cook
227-7244
to the country’s welfare costs.
Curtis E. LeMay— Wallace’s
running mate, appearing in
Nashville, said he could “only
be pessimistic” about the new
Vietnam peace moves. LeMay,
former Air Force Chief of Staff,
said, “The odds are that this is
a stalling tactic and the time
gained by Hanoi will be used
again to re-supply and re-equip
as well as reinforce their
fighting men in the south.”
Poll— Pollster Louis Harris
reported Friday Humphrey had
risen to within three percentage
points of Nixon. He said if the
vice president could gain two or
three more points in the last
week before the election, he
could throw the election into the
House.
Doves—New York Democratic
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FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
South 6th Street Extension
Dr. Delma L. Hagood, Pastor
Rev. Don Clark, Assoc. Pastor
11 A.M.
Sermon by Rev. Clark
“Salvation - Redemption from a
Spiritual Death"
8 P. M.
Jonah - "An Unwilling Evangelist"
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228-1225
senatorial candidate Paul O'D
wyer reversed himself Friday
and endorsed the Humphrey-
Muskie ticket because of the
bombing halt. In Oregon, Sen.
Eugene J. McCarthy, another
leading dove said, “I made the
switch to Humphrey and I think
the rest of you ought to suffer
with me.”
POST NO BILLS
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPD—
Either the elephant was a
Democrat or he just declined to
be an exhibitionist.
Tuffy was supposed to carry
cardboard signs draped over his
back to boost the senate
candidacy of Jerris Leonard, a
Republican.
But Tuffy, a 4-year-old from a
| Burlington animal farm, kept
seating the cardboard signs.
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