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By Quimby Melton
There has never been a Presi
dent of the United States who
has not had opposition in his bid
for the office; save of course
George Washington, the first
President. And there have been
few, if any times, when the
campaign managers of the can
didate, who was to be elected,
didn’t “run a scared race”, for
anything can happen in a Pre
sidental election. Possibly the
only exception to an election in
which the managers felt
complacent was in 1936 when
Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for
reelection with Alf Landon, of
Kansas, as his opponent. Jim
Farley, campaign manager for
FDR was confident from the
very day Mr. Roosevelt was
nominated and before the elec
tion predicted Governor Landon
would “carry no more than two
states”.
An example of how careful
campaign managers are not to
be overconfident is told of in one (
of the many Lincoln bio
graphies. It would have been
back in 1865, when Lincoln was
a candidate to succeed himself,
that nothing but smooth sailing
lay before him. But this was not
the case; Lincoln even had
opposition in the nomination
convention. He and Andrew
Johnson of Tennessee, were the
party nominees, but a group of
malcontents walked out and
held a rump convention in Cle
veland where they nominated
•John Charles Freemont,
soldier, explorer, teacher, U. S.
Senator and late in his life be
came governor of Arizona.
(Incidentally Freemont was
bom in Savannah, Ga.)
Except for the followers of
Freemont it would have seemed
Lincoln had a clear road ahead,
but a report by Judge Advocate-
General of the Army (Holt) re
vealed deep rooted and desper
ate opposition to Lincoln. This
report told of a plot should Lin
coln be re-elected to stage a re
volution in the north against the
administration, seize Washing
ton, and call off the war. Those
who sought to bring on the re
volution were encouraged by
draft riots in New York and
other large cities.
This report brought terror to
the chief supporters of Lincoln
and they stepped up the cam
paign. The President remained
outwardly calm, breathed
optimism, and seemed confi
dent. However when reports be
gan coming in from Indiana
that “Lincoln is in trouble”, the
President made a move. He
wrote a letter to General
William Tecumseh Sherman,
then beseiging the City of
Atlanta. The letter said the
President was not “ordering”
Sherman to do anything but he
would like Indiana men in the
Union Army given leave to go
home for the State election on
Oct. 11. Lincoln pointed out that
Indiana was the only state
where soldiers could not cast
absentee ballots.
President Lincoln was oppos
ed in this election by General
George B. McClellan, the
Democratic party nominee.
McClellan was affectionately
known as “Little Mac” by his
soldiers and posed a genuine
threat to Lincoln until the Lin
coln supporters stopped being
“over confident”. Sherman let
Indiana men leave Atlanta to go
home and vote.
Republican candidates for
state offices in Indiana were
swept into office and Lincoln
went on the next month to be re
elected President. Lincoln re
ceived some 2,200,000 votes to
1,800,000. The electoral college
vote gave Lincoln the victory
212 to 21.
However President Lincoln
did not serve out his second
term, being assassinated early
in 1865. Neither did he live to see
an end of the war, but students
of history who have laid aside
prejudices are generally of the
opinion that had Abraham Lin
coln lived the South would not
have experienced the horrors of
the Reconstruction Era.
Thursday is the anniversary
of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Mary Hedderman
Is Proud Os Griffin
Because - -
I’m proud of Griffin because it is a “people
town”. Even though Griffin is growing by leaps
and bounds, it still holds fast to its quality of caring
for the individual. While many cities grow cold to
their citizens needs, Griffin’s warmth still remains.
This is only one of the magnetic qualities that draw
newcomers to our city, though.
Griffin’s physical appearance is always at its
best. I once heard a visitor to Griffin remark that
the downtown area was one of the cleanest that
she’s ever seen in any city. This also holds true to
Griffin’s residential and recreational areas.
Griffin is a town filled with opportunity and
potential It provides Griffinites with facilities for
well rounded lives through its churches, schools,
parks, clubs, and organizations. As Griffinites we
should be proud of our city which is truly a “city
on the GO!”.
Mary Hedderman
Griffin High School Senior
Ribicoff Says North
Guilty Os Hypocrisy
WASHINGTON (UPI)-High
lights of the Senate speech Mon
day by Sen. Abraham Ribicoff,
D-Conn., accusing the North of
hypocrisy and urging integra
'Stop Rusk’
Move Killed
ATLANTA - The “Stop Rusk”
move was defeated yesterday
when the Georgia House voted
103-13 to kill the motion.
The motion would have re
noved the $20,000 state salary
of former Secretary of State
Dean Rusk from the Board of
Regents’ funds an applied the
money to securing visiting
lectures “who have the reputa
tion of being conservative in the
field of internal law.”
Mayor Dutton
Coming Home
Mayor Joe Dutton was to be
dismissed from an Atlanta hos
pital to his home in Griffin to
day. He had surgery on his back
several weeks ago.
The city commissioners an
nounced today that the regular
commission meeting scheduled
tonight had been postponed un
til Friday night at 7:30 at the
city hall.
Mayor Dutton indicated he
would try to attend but was not
certain if he would be able to do
so.
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tion of Northern suburbs:
“Mr. President, my remarks
today are prompted by two
amendments introdced by the
senator from Mississippi (Mr.
Stennis)...
“In the South, 70 per cent of
black children attended schools
that were 95 to 100 per cent
black. In the North, the total
was 50 per cent.
“The HEW report also show
ed that a majority of the stu
dents in 10 of the 20 largest
school districts in the country
are black. In 16 of these sys
tems, 60 per cent or more of
the blacks attend schools that
are almost totally segregated...
“Senator Stennis has argued
that: ‘lf segregation is wrong
in the public schools of the
South, it is wrong in the public
schools of all other states’...
“On this statement, the sen
ator from Mississippi is correct.
“The North is guilty of mon
umental hypocrisy in its treat
ment of the black man.
“Without question, Northern
communities have been as sys
tematic and consistent as South
ern communities in denying to
the black man and his children
the opportunity that exists for
the white people.
“The plain fact is that racism
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Griffin, Georgia 30223, Tuesday, February 10, 1970
Roger Foster’s
Hearing
Postponed
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI)-A
Circuit Court judge adjourned
temporarily today a hearing to
determine whether Roger Fos
ter, 24, is sane enough to stand
trial for slaying a charter boat
captain and his son during a
wild voyage nearly seven years
ago.
Judge Acquilino Lopez Jr.
called off the sanity hearing in
order to give both sides an op
portunity to take sworn deposi
tions from doctors at the South
Florida Mental Hospital at Hol
lywood, Fla., where Foster has
been confined since the fall of
1963.
The hearing could reconvene
as early as next week.
Foster, a physician’s son from
Griffin, Ga., was granted the
hearing at the request of his
Miami attorney, Henry Carr.
is rampant throughout the coun
try. It knows no geographic
boundary and has known none
since the great migration of
rural blacks following World
War 11.
“The institutional roots of rac
ism — which depersonalize our.
prejudices and make it easier
for us to defend them — are
as deeply embedded in the
large metropolitan communities
of the North as they are in
the small rural communities of
the South.
“Perhaps we in the North
needed the mirror held up to us
by the senator from Mississippi
in order to see the truth.
“If Sen. John Stennis of Mis
sissippi wants to make honest
men of us Northern liberals, I
think we should help him.
“But first we must be honest
with ourselves.
“Our problem is not only the
dual system of education which
exist 16 years after the Su
preme Court struck them down
in 1954.
“The more fundamental prob
lem is the dual society that
exists in every metropolitan
area — the black soceity of the
central city and the white soci
ety of the suburb.
“Massive school segregation
does not exist because we have
segregated our schools but be
cause we have segregated our
society and our neighborhoods.
“That is the source of the in
equality, the tension and the
hatred that disfigure our na
tion.”
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jp Scoville accepts plaque from I
V Mays
Scoville Presented
Jaycee Service Award
Warren K. Scoville, bank exe
cutive, was presented the Dis
tinguished Service Award for
1969 last night by the Griffin
Jaycees.
Cecil Mays, chairman of the
awards committee, along with
President Larry Neill of the
Jaycees, presented a plaque to
Scoville.
The award is an annual pre
sentation by the Jaycees to a
young man in recognition of his
community service. Nominees
must be under 35 and residents
of the community during the
year.
Both Mays and Neill com
mended Mr. Scoville on his
many civic, fraternal, religious
and community service activi
ties which were mentioned in
the presentation.
The Griffin Business and Pro
fessional Women’s Club
nominated Mr. Scoville.
He and a number of other
Griffin young men were no
minated by organizations and
individuals for the award.
Mr. Scoville is vice president
of the First National Bank of
Griffin, and secretary to the
board of directors.
A native of Macon, he was
educated in the public schools
there and graduated from Mer
cer University cum laude.
At Mercer he was ROTC Ca
det Colonel Commanding offi-
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cer of the Regimental Corps and
in 1958 received the Third Army
Meritorious Leadership
Achievement Award.
He served two years in the U.
S. Army in the Military Police
and reached the rank of first
lieutenant.
Scoville is president of the
Exchange Club and has been
active with a group of young
men seeking to establish a
Boy’s Club in this community.
Mays cited his active interest
in a number of civic and frater
nal organizations during the
presentation of the award.
An active member of the First
Methodist Church, Scoville is a
member of the Administrative
Board, and the Finance Com
mittee. He is past president of
the Methodist Men’s Club and
past president of the Joy Class.
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‘‘We shouldn’t throw
people on the scrap heap be
fore they are entirely worn
out.”
Copyright WO, by Frank A. Clark
School Board Refuses
To Rezone West Griffin
The Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education refused to change
any school zone lines last night,
after being petitioned by some
citizens in the West Griffin ele
mentary school area to do so.
Some of the citizens pointed
out that their children would
have to travel a long distance to
another school when West
Griffin was right in their neigh
borhood.
The board said it explained to
the parents the pupil-teacher
ratio which was one of the fac
tors in setting up the zone as it
was.
The board thanked the
parents for their understanding
and interest in the school
system. It said it wanted to be of
help when possible.
The board referred to its
Lena Ann Chaplin of Columbus.
They are the parents of three
children, Susan, 7, Ansley, 4,
and Ann, nine months.
They make their home at 1319
Grantland road, Griffin.
Snow Avalanche
Kills 42 People
VAL D’ISERE, France (UPI)
—Tons of snow rolled off 10,000-
foot Dome Muntain in an
avalanche today and crushed a
three-story youth hostel and a
hotel at breakfast time in this
alpine ski resort.
By noon rescuers had pulled
42 bodies from the wreckage.
They feared the death toll
would climb higher by the hour
in France’s costliest snow
disaster since World War 11.
Another 60 persons were
rescued from inside the tangle
of snow and timbers, many of
them hurt so badly they were
not expected to live. There
were no reports, of American
casualties.
This tiny village almost
deserted when the snow is
gone, is the home of Jean
Calude Killy, former French
Olympic ski champion and one
of the world’s premier athletes.
“It hit the hostel like a
bulldozer,” a witness said of
the avalanche.
transportation committee a re
quest from residents of Ever
green Forest subdivision that
bus transportation be provided
their children to Fourth Ward
School.
Carl Lewis, representing the
residents, presented their re
quests in a letter to the board.
The board authorized the
transportation committee to
call for bids on five new school
buses for the next school year.
It received a report that the
old Griffin High School building
had been repaired to meet city
building code requirements.
A request to use a school bus
for the volunteer program in the
Family and Children Services
Department during the summer
was referred to the transporta
tion committee for a re-
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Wheel
Ran Off
Vehicle
Two Griffin men had a nar
row escape yesterday when
their truck loaded with propane
gas overturned some two miles
east of Griffin on the Rehoboth
road. Traffic in the area was
blocked some three hours.
Ernest Higgins of 1445 Atlanta
road, told state patrolmen that
he was driving about 40 miles
per hour when the left front
wheel came off the truck and
rolled across a field. The truck
ran off the road into a bank and
turned over.
It was thought at first that the
tank had ruptured but later it
was found that gas was leaking
through a broken line. The en
tire load of about 1,600 gallons
was lost. Mr. Higgins said a
strong wind was blowing away
from the road and helped the
gas to evaporate.
Joe Steele of Route Three,
Ellis road, was in the truck with
Higgins and together they
blocked traffic until the State
Patrol came.
The Dundee Fire Department
was called to the scene and
stood by in case of an explosion.
Both men were taken to the
Griffin-Spalding County Hos
pital and Higgins was treated
for bruises and a cut on the fore
head.
Man Gets Life
In Slaying
Os His Daughter
An all male jury found 55-
year-old Willie Edwards of 1272
Boyd row, guilty of murder in
the shooting death of his 17-
year-old daughter and Judge
Andrew Whalen Jr. sentenced
him to life imprisonment.
The trial which began late
yesterday morning, took up the
entire afternoon. The jury was
out for about 40 minutes and re
turned the guilty verdict about
5:30 p.m.
Zepher Ann Edwards, who
was a senior at Fairmont High
School, died of a bullet wound in
the chest Nov. 16. Witnesses
said her father shot at her twice
following an argument in the
yard of her grandmother’s
home at 1269 Boyd row. She was
hit once in the chest by the .22
caliber pistol and died almost
instantly.
commendation.
The board commended
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert and
others who make it possible for
the School Patrol members to
make their annual trip to Wash
ington, D.C.
The board instructed Supt. D.
B. Christie to write a letter of
thanks to the Men of the First
Presbyterian Church who had
commended the board on its
handling of school affairs.
Mrs. Dot Clements was elect
ed to the faculty at Third Ward
and Miss Linda Sell to Moore
Elementary. The resignation of
Mrs. Carole Nordan from Third
Ward was accepted.
The board approved a request
from Griffin Civic Ballet for use
of the Griffin auditorium for a
presentation.