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By Quimby Melton
No one has to be reminded that
tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 5, is el
ection day throughout this nation
of ours.
There are 89 Million Ameri
cans registered to vote. Here in
Georgia some Two Million,
and in Spalding County more
than 15-thousand.
Nationally we will vote for a
President and Vice President;
In Georgia we will vote for a U.
S. Senator, U.S. Congressmen,
and several State Officers, inclu
ding members of the State Sen
ate and Georgia House of Repre
sentatives. Also here in Spalding
we will vote for men to hold
many local county offices.
And, also, voters living inside
the City of Griffin will vote in a
three-man contest for a seat on
the Griffin City Commission.
This election will be separate
from the General Election; there
will be separate ballots, separate
election managers and separate
voting booths. However, the poll
ing places of the city election
will be in the same places as the
general election.
In response to many requests
and as a public service today we
are republishing the Sample Bal
lot for the general election. This
will enable one to become famil
iar with it and will result, we be
lieve, in preventing any undue
delay in casting and then count
ing, the vote.
There has never been a more
Important election held during
the life time of this man. Much
is at stake — even survial of this
nation itself.
The first election, in which we
cast our vote was that of 1912,
we were nearing our 22nd birth
day when it was held. Since then
we have voted in every election,
making a total of 14. But we are
sincere w'hen we state we have
never gone to the polls to c a s t
our vote in a more important
election.
Frankly we are almost temp
ted to find an excuse to stay
away from the polls — but this
is a responsibility no American
should shirk.
So we intend to vote a n d we
expect to cast our vote for the
men we believe are best qualified
to lead our nation, our state and
our community.
Recently read comment on the
election that said it was an “If”
election. “If” this man or that
man was to be elected he must
carry this or that state or seg
ment of the registered voters.
This commentator wrote his
whole column about the possible
“Ifs”.
As we read this, our memory
jumped back to the days of Fr
anklin D. Roosevelt who coined
the word “Iffy”. This was used
so frequently by FDR in answer
ing questions at press conferen
ces that one will now find “Iffy”
in the dictionary. The President
when asked “If so and so hap
pens what will be your reaction,
how will you meet the situation?
etc.” He would say “That’s an
“Iffy” question. I’ll cross that
bridge If and When it happens.”
But there is one “If” that ev
ery voter should not brush off as
an “Iffy” matter.
If one fails to vote, one will be
neglecting their God given duty
to have a voice in the future of
the United States, and “If” one
fails to vote then one has no
right to criticise the results.
One might say “Vote or but
ton your lip,” a paraphase of the
old saw “Put up or shut up.”
The polls open here at 7:00 a.
m. and will be open until 7:00 p.
m. "If” you love your country,
and we feel certain a v. ;t maj
ority do, make it a point to cast
your ballot tomorrow.
Country Parson
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“We try to keep young
people from making the
same mistakes we do —by
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Ballot Check
Henry Michael, a Griffin High student who will be voting for the first time in the
general election Tuesday, looks at one of the ballots in the office of the Spalding
County Registrars. A number of Griffinites will be casting ballots for the first time.
Fortson Predicts
Record Turnout
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Democrats are not expecting
their candidate, Hubert H.
Humphrey, to carry the state,
as Georgia sits on the brink of
Election Day and what is pre
dicted to be the largest voter
turnout in Georgia’s history.
Secretary of State Ben Fort
son predicts that 1.2 to 1.3 mil
lion Georgia voters will go to
the polls Tuesday.
Among them will be an esti
mated 344,000 Negroes, or 18
per cent of the eligible black
voters in Georgia. Thirty-two
Negroes are seeking state legis
lative seats this year.
Top leaders in the state’s ma
jor political parties were optim
istic, as expected. State Demo
cratic party leader Joe Sports
agreed with George Wallace
campaign manager Roy Harris
that Hubert Humphrey would
place second behind the third
party candidate. But the Demo
crats expect to sweep state and
local races.
Republican state director Alex
Hodges predicted third place for
Humphrey, with Richard M.
Nixon edging out Wallace with
perhaps a 15,000 vote margin.
As the campaigns drew to a
close last week, the battle of
predictions went like this?
Sports said the Democrats have
“a very good chance” of send
ing 10 Congressmen to Washing
ton, though he gave Republicans
even odds in the two contested
Atlanta races.
And he expected Democratic
legislative candidates to steal
two Senate seats and from mour
to six House seats from the
GOP.
Hodges insisted the Republi
cans would double their Senate
membership and jump from 22
members to 35 in the House.
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
15,729 Eligible
To Vote Here
Spalding County has 15,729 vo- 1
ters eligible to cast ballots in the i
general election to be held Tues- i
day, according to Registrar O. 1
M. Snider, Sr.
Voters will cast ballots on the 1
national, state and local levels i
in the election. Polls will open :
at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
Snider said that he had issued '
843 absentee ballots and that a i
lot of them had been returned i
What Happened
To The Comics?
Sunday morning, 8,000 subscribers to the Daily
Times in Gainesville received Griffin Daily News
colored comics.
Today, 8,000 Griffin Daily News subscribers will
receive Daily Times of Gainesville colored comics.
Another 1,000 will receive regular Griffin Daily
News comics which they should have gotten Satur
day. (We have 9,000 subscribers in all.)
How come?
Because the comics are printed at a central plant
and delivered to various newspapers by truck. Last
week the truck goofed and delivered 8,000 Griffin
Daily News comics to Gainesville and 1,000 of the
Griffin Daily News comics and 8,000 of the Gaines
ville comics to Griffin Saturday evening too late to
be included in the weekend paper.
We hope this does not happen again.
Today we at Your Hometown Newspaper are not
laughing at the funnies. ’Taint funny.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, November 4, 1968
to his office in the Spalding Co
unty Courtrouse. He did not have
an accurate account of the num
ber of absentee ballots returned.
A large number of absentee
ballots were received today and
more expected tomorrow, Snider
said.
Anyone not knowing where to
vote Tuesday, may call the re
gistrars office. It will be open all
day to aid voters.
Major Polls Show
HIIII On Verge Os
Overtaking Nixon
By RAYMOND LAHR
WASHINGTON (UPD—
Major polls indicated today
Hubert H. Humphrey was on
the verge of overtaking Richard
M. Nixon with only one day left
in the 1968 presidential cam
paign.
More than 70 million voters
are expected to ballot Tuesday
to climax one of the most
uncertain campaign years in
modern history.
Nixon still appeared to be the
man to beat, but Humphrey’s
hopes were lifted by his late
surge in public opinion polls and
a widespread belief among
Democrats he would benefit
from President Johnson’s deci
sion to stop the bombing of
North Vietnam.
The final Gallup and Harris
polls published today both
showed Nixon leading Humphrey
42 to 40 per cent, indicating
Humphrey had closed the wide
deficit with which he started the
campaign. George C. Wallace’s
share of the vote was indicated
at 14 per cent in the Gallup poll
and 12 per cent in the Harris
poll with the balance undecided.
Nixon’s biggest leads over
Humphrey at any time during
the campaign came in late
September in the Gallup survey
with a 15 per cent spread, and
in the Harris poll at the middle
of that month with an 8 per
cent difference.
Hard To Predict
Lawrence F. O’Brien, Hum
phrey’s campaign manager,
said professional pollsters agree
that a two-point margin “makes
the election too close to call.”
However, the pollsters also
agree that their margin of error
works both ways and that a
two-point difference could in
fact mean a spread of 8 to 10
points.
The Albert D. Sindlinger
polling firm of Norwood, Pa.,
reported that its current survey
showed Humphrey had moved
ahead of Nixon for the first
time during the campaign. It
gave Humphrey 34.4 per cent,
Nixon 33.8 and Wallace 14.1,
with the balance divided among
people who preferred other
candidates, refused to tell their
choice, or said they still were
undecided.
“Clearly anything can happen
by the time the polls open on
Tuesday,” Sindlinger said.
A New York Times survey
published today showed Nixon
ahead in 30 states with 299
electoral votes, 29 more than
the 270 majority needed to win.
Humphrey was in front in eight
states and the District of
Columbia with 77 electoral votes
and Wallace in five states with
45. Seven states with 117
electoral votes were reported
too close to call.
Woo Californians
Nixon, Humphrey and the
vice president’s running mate,
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, all
were spending the final day of
the campaign in California,
which was a prized bloc of 40
electoral votes.
Democratic campaign mana
gers had virtually written off
California. The presence of both
Humphrey and Muskie there
today indicated a lingering,
desperate hope the nation’s
second largest bloc of electoral
votes could be saved for the
Democratic ticket.
The Los Angeles Times today
published a copyrighted poll
that showed Humphrey trailing
Nixon in California by only 1
per cent—43 to 42—with 4 per
cent favoring Wallace, 9 per
cent undecided and 2 per cent
opposed to all the candidates. A
poll by the newspaper published
Oct. 12 showed Nixon leading
Humphrey by 10 per cent.
The Democrats still had no
realistic hope of carrying
another pivotal state, Illinois,
with 26 electoral votes. The
final Chicago Sun-Times poll for
Illinois indicated Nixon would
receive 46.86 per cent of the
state’s vote, Humphrey 39.64
and Wallace 13.5.
Vol. 95 No. 263
Humphrey’s chances depend
largely on the populous states of
the East—four of the New
England states, New York and
other middle Atlantic states,
Ohio and Michigan.
New York and its bloc of 43
electoral votes is vital to the
vice president. The final New
York Daily News poll published
today showed Humphrey ahead
in that state with an Indicated
46.8 per cent of the vote, Nixon
43.5 and Wallace 6.8.
The Detroit News said today
its poll showed Humphrey with
a 44-41 edge over Nixon in the
race for Michigan’s crucial
electoral vote package. But the
paper said the race was still so
close it was sending its poll
takers back into the field today
for a final sampling.
When the vice president
arrived at Los Angeles Sunday
night, his aides said he would
collect 313 electoral votes, 43
more than the magic number.
They said he was sure to win 16
states with 237 electoral votes,
and should pick up enough in 12
states they rated as tossups to
give him more than a majority.
California was one of the states
listed in the tossup class.
A contrasting statement Sa
turday from Nixon’s campaign
manager, John N. Mitchell,
forecast Nixon would win more
than 400 electoral votes. He said
a Republican-sponsored poll
Friday after Johnson’s speech
showed 98 per cent would not
change their votes as a result of
the bombing halt.
A series of unforseen events
filled this election campaign
with uncertainty and made
predictions of its outcome
perilous.
March 12, Sen. Eugene
McCarthy, a peace candidate,
shocked the nation by his strong
showing in the New Hampshire
Democratic primary and de
monstrated the voter appeal of
an antiwar candidacy.
At the end of March,
President Johnson surprisingly
announced he would not seek re
election.
In June, Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy was assassinated, tak
ing another major force out of
the race and leaving his
followers to choose an uncertain
course.
In August Nixon won the
Republican nomination as ex
pected. Humphrey also was
nominated as expected, but the
rancor that divided the Demo
cratic convention, and the clash
of war protesters and police in
Chicago served the polarize the
political climate and do uncer
tain damage to the traditional
allegiance of liberals to the
Democratic party.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Clearing and cooler
tonight, fair and cool Tuesday.
LOCAL WEATHER — High
today 74, low today 58, rainfall
.80 of an inch; high Sunday 77,
low Sunday 58; sunrise Tuesday
7 o’clock, sunset Tuesday 5:46.
Fire District
Plan Up For
Vote Tuesday
Spalding County voters w 111
cast ballots Tuesday on an am
endment to the Georgia constitu
tion to permit the Spalding Co
unty Commissioners to establish
fire districts.
The amendment will be in the
lower right corner of the ballot.
It is No. 116.
The amendment will allow the
Spalding County Commissioners
to move forward in their efforts
to provide fire protection for
some areas of the county.
Where To Vote
Voting precincts in Tuesday will be
as follows:
City Precincts:
1— Salvation Army
2— City Hall Fire Station
3— Rural-Urban Center Spalding Courthouse
4— Welfare Building (Old Hospital)
5— Stuckey Building, Experiment Station
6— Orrs Courthouse
7— National Guard Armory.
County voting places:
Cabin at Ringgold Courthouse
Orrs District at Orrs Courthouse
Akin at Orchard Hill Courthouse
Mt. Zion at Zetella Courthouse
Union at Union Courthouse on Highway 92
Africa at Pomona Courthouse
Line Creek at Line Creek Courthouse
Experiment at Stuckey Building, Experiment
Station
East Griffin at East Griffin Courthouse.
City Votes On
Commissioner in
Separate Election
Voters in the city of Griffin will
elect a city commissioner Tues- i
day to succeed Mayor Kimsey
Stewart. He did not seek reel- .
ection.
Three candidates qualified for
the office. They are former city
commissioner Carl Pruett, attar- 1
ney W. Barron Cumming and 1
businessman Raymond Head, Jr.
The city commission election i
will be held separate from the j
general election. It will be held |:
City Gets Tough
On Parking Fines
The Griffin Police Department
today assigned a man to make
cases against people who have
failed te pay parking tickets.
An announcement from the de
partment said a number of peo
ple have accumulated tickets
and have not paid them. It said
the Police Department has a
record of the tickets and the man
assigned today will make cases
against those people who have
failed to pay for the tickets.
The usual fine for overtime
parking Is 50 cents if the parking
ticket is paid within 24 hours. If
the ticket is not paid in 24 hours,
the fine jumps to $2 per ticket.
The announcement said that
those people who have collec
ted tickets can check with the
Police Department and get their
names off the list by paying $2
for each ticket they hold. They
can save a case being made ag-
The amendment provides that
the voters In each of the fire dis
tricts will decide in a referen
dum whether or not to tax them
selves for fire protection.
Amendment No. 116 was intro
duced in the General Assembly
by the Spalding County delega
tion at the request of the Spald
ing County Commissioners.
The commissioners have been
working for several years to set
up fire protection in some coun
ty areas.
at the same polling places in the
city.
The polls will open at 7 a.m.
and close at 7 p.m.
Mayor Stewart announced that
he would not seek reelection. He
served two three year terms as
a commissioner.
Cumming and Head are new
comers in politics. Pruett served
for 15 years as a city commiss
ioner.
ainst them by doing this, the
announcement said.
A spokesman for the Police De
partment said that if a case is
made, the fine is raised to $3 per
ticket plus sl2 for costs of the
case.
He also said that if the man as
signed to collecting for tickets
fails to locate a person and he
fails to check with the Police De
partment, the car will be im
pounded if it is found on the st
reet. This will add a towing fee
to the other fines and costs, he
said.
The announcement said that
some people have accumulat
ed a large number of parking
tickets.
Vote Panel
Will Observe
In 3 Counties
A special committee studying
automated voting for Spalding
County will observe voting In
three counties Tuesday.
Representatives of the commit
tee will go to Lamar (Barnesvil
le) County where voting mach
ines will be used. They also will
go to Carroll (Carrollton) and
DeKalb where Votomatlc devic
es will be used.
Carroll was picked because it
has a population nearly the same
size as that of Spalding.
Ordinaries in each of the coun
ties have been advised about the
observer teams.
The Spalding Committee plans
to make a recommendation on
automatic voting devices after
observing elections and studying
voting devices that are avail
able.