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Griffin Daily News
Sat. and Sun., May 9 -10, 1970
Agnew Softens
On Dissenters
By RICHARD CHARNOCK
BOISE, Idaho (UPI)-Taking
his cue from President Nixon’s
televised news conference, Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew
softened his prepared attack on
the nation’s dissenters Friday
night
After hearing the President
tell the nation, “when the
action is hot, keep the rhetoric
cool,” he deleted from a
Republican fund-raising dinner
speech two pages of controver
sial remarks about dissenters
already distributed.
“I did not author these
controversial paragraphs,” Ag
new told the dinner audience of
more than 1,000. “. . .1 will not
apologize for them or the
content of them or the thinking,
Student On Board
LAGRANGE, Ga. (UPI) -
There will be a student on the
LaGrange College board of
trustees for the first time.
The board voted Friday to al
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Government Association to
serve as an ex-officio, but vot
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First student to serve is
Charles Stevens of Buena Vis
ta, a premed major.
The board elected Charles D.
Hudson of LaGrange as chair
man, Clifford C. Clover of West
Point as vice chairman and
adopted a $1.4 million budget.
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but the rhetoric is not mine.”
“If my abandonment of the
first two pages of this speech in
some small way will kelp to
cool the very volatile situation in
the United States I’m going to
do it,” he told the applauding
audience.
Was Not “Muzzled”
Agnew stressed he in no
way was “Muzzled” by the
President but merely was
exercising “self restraint” in a
difficult time. He urged dissen
ters to do likewise.
In the prepared remarks
which Agnew neither used nor
retracted, the vice president
commented that at every
critical point in U.S. history,
there has always been a “cadre
of Jeremiahs.”
He said these were made up
of a “coalition of choleric young
intellectuals and tired, embit
tered elders.”
He especially attacked in the
distributed remarks Sen. J.
William Fulbright, the outsr'y
ken war critic who heads the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee. He charged the Arkan
sas Democrat of trying to
“rekindle the debilitating fires
of riot and unrest.”
Agnew said a primary reason
for crossing the Vietnamese
border was to reaffirm “our
credibility and decisiveness”—
to show Communist nations
they should not miscalculate
U.S. intentions.
Shall End War
“Our actions in Cambodia are
not intended to threaten or
intimidate the Communists,” he
said. “They demonstrate in
stead that we shall end this war
with a just peace without
depending on the good faith of
the Communists.”
The vice president’s Boise
public appearances were brief
and closely guarded once for
five minutes at the airport
while he spoke briefly to
newsmen. Some 130 university
students chanting “Peace Now”
stood in the background.
The banquet honored Idaho
Gov. Don Samuelson.
As Agnew sped in a car from
the airport to a hotel, a
bearded youth raised a sign
saying: “Number two should
try harder.”
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These Griffin High students were at Rock Eagle today to
attend the weekend Christian Life Conference sponsored by
Y clubs. Shown on the GHS campus as they prepared to leave
for the meeting were (front, 1-r) Bob Fitzhugh, Dickie
Kent’s Future Unsettled
By ROBERT E. CORBETT
KENT, Ohio (UPI)—For the
first time in a week, there were
no National Guardsmen on the
Kent State University campus
today. But the return of the
school to its faculty and
students remained in question.
Robert I. White, the Kent
State president, decided Friday
to keep the university closed at
least through the scheduled end
of the spring term June 13.
“Everyone who has asked to
study the situation and take a
look at it has advised that it
would be unsafe to bring the
students back," White said.
“There are guns, there is the
danger of fire, and there is no
one who can say to any parent,
we can give reasonable assur
ance for the safety or
convenience of your son or
daughter’.”
School Closed Monday
The school, which has an
enrollment of 20,000, was closed
Monday after National Guards
men opened fire on rioting anti
war protesters, killing four
students and wounding 10.
Friday, after the last contin
gent of 275 guard troops
departed, White met with about
800 of the university’s 1,200
faculty members, some wear
ing black arm bands in
memory of the four dead
students.
He called last Monday’s
tragedy “moments of shock and
horror which I never want to
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Christian Life Conference
live through again—nor do
you.” Then he announced the
rest of the spring term was
canceled.
A group of students wrote to
White, telling him of their
support and urging him to
reopen the university as soon
as he could. They urged other
students to send similar letters.
FATAL ATTRACTION
SALEM, Ore. (UPI)-John
Davis wishes he knew why the
left rear fender of his car
seems to attract other automo
biles.
It was dented by a hit-run
driver recently and he was
filling out insurance forms
about the mishap when the
phone rang. A woman called to
report she had just backed into
his parked car and hit the same
fender.
And at midnight, he was
called by a neighbor who
reported he had just backed out
of his driveway, and—you
gussed it—the fender had been
hit again.
KNOWS WAY HOME
CLEETHORPES, England
(UPD—Hoppy the kangaroo
apparently got bored with his
zoo life Friday and hopped to
freedom.
Seven hours later, while
police searched the countryside,
he hopped home.
Spangler and Cole Cartledge; (standing) Helen Head, Mari
beth Castellaw, Marsha Montgomery, Rose Thomas, Oieiyl
Anders, Dianne Williams, Pam Waldrop, Glenda Pitts and
Marilyn Foster. The conference win end Sunday.
White appointed a committee
of college deans to set up a
plan for students to complete
their work for the term.
In Columbus, the state
capital, an Ohio National Guard
official said a “fragmentary
report” showed that one of the
10 wounded students was struck
by a “non-military bullet.”
Col. J. E. P. McCann,
administrative assistant to the
state adjutant general, said the
report was prepared by the
National Guard inspector gener
al’s office. He did not identify
the wounded student.
National Guard officials have
maintained that a sniper fired
on the troops before the
guardsmen started shooting.
Maddox
Asks
Grants
MILAN, Ga. (UPI) - Gov.
Lester Maddox has proposed
state grants to all students at
tending private schools and col
leges. He said Georgia has a
responsibility to private as well
as public education.
In a speech to the private
West Telfair Academy in Milan
Friday night, Maddox urged
payments of $l5O annually to all
elementary and secondary
school students and S3OO a year
to college students.
The governor said the grants
would cost the state about $11.3
million more a year. But he
said Georgia “would be taking
a real step toward meeting its
responsibility to its young peo
ple and to education.”
He said if the students now
attending private schools had to
switch to public institutions, it
would cost the state about $45
million above what it now pays.
Maddox charged the system
of public education was under
“systematic destruction ... by
the federal government.”
“Those responsible don’t care
about education,” he said.
“They are placing social re
form, getting elected and fol
lowing some theorist’s ideas
ahead of the children, black and
white, ahead of their safety and
ahead of their education.”
He praised backers of the
private Telfair County school
for making their commitment
“to do whatever must be done
in order to end the war upon
our rights, our children and
their education.”
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for the Crown that the Queen
always appeared before the
people with her foreign hus
band. . .
♦ • ♦
Our national anthem, “The
Star-Spangled Banner,” was
written by a Maryland
lawyer who had come to
Baltimore in 1814 to Inter
cede for a friend being held
prisoner by the British. In
this letter, the lawyer,
Francis Scott Key, tells his
mother of his plans.
Geo Town
2 Sep. 1814
My dr mother,
... I am going in the
morning to Balto. to proceed
in a flag-vessel to Genl.
Ross. Old Dr. Beans of Marl
bro’ is taken prisoner by the
Enemy, who threaten to
carry him off. Some of his
friends have urged me to
apply for a flag & go to try
to procure his release.
I hope to return in about 8
or 10 days, though it is un
certain, as I do not know
where to find the fleet. As
soon as I get back I hope I
shall be able to get out to
Fredk. . .
God bless you my dr. mother
Ever your most affect, son
F. S. Key
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Ohio Congressman James
A. Garfield was almost as
surprised as anyone else
when In 1880 the Republicans
nominated him for president,
and he was elected. Four
months after taking office he
was shot by a disappointed
office-seeker, but before he
died 11 weeks later he wrote
his mother this reassuring
note.
Dear Mother.
Don’t be disturbed by con
flicting reports about my
condition. It is true I am
still weak and on my back,
but I am gaining every day
and need only time and
patience to bring me
through. Give all my love to
the relatives and friends and
especially to sisters Hitty
and Mary.
Your loving son,
James A. Garfield
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The poet Robert Louis
Stevenson writes to his
mother of faith and the good
life.
December 26, 1880
-My Dear Mother—
... I wonder if you or my
father ever thought of the ob
scurities that lie upon human
duty from the negative form
in which the Ten Command
ments are stated, or of how
Christ was so continually
substituting affirma
tions. ‘Thou shalt not’ is but
an example; ‘Thou shalt’ is
the law of God ... It is much
more important to do right
than not to do wrong; fur
ther, the one is possible, the
other has always been and
will ever be impossible . . .
Faith is not to believe the
Bible, but to believe in God;
if you believe in God, where
is there any more room for
terror? ... If you are sure
that God, in the long run,
means kindness by you, you
should be happy; and if
happy, you should be kind.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Georgia News
May Leaves Lockheed
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) —
Thomas R. May, former presi
dent of the Lockheed - Georgia
Co., has announced his resigna
tion from the Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation rather than accept
a transfer to California.
May said Friday he has de
cided to remain in the Atlanta
area rather than move his fam-
Killed In Vietnam
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Defense Department announced
Friday the death of another
Georgia soldier in Southeast
Protest At Perry
PERRY, Ga. (UPI) - Black
leaders have called a noon ral
ly today to protest the suspen
sion of a Negro teacher mid
seek dismissal of another black
man.
Silas Smith, local president of
the Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference (SCLC), said he
expects 2,000 persons for the
mass rally. He said the crowd
may then march through the
town.
“We may march on the board
of education and the merchants
of Perry,” Smith said. “That
Nixon Defends
Cambodia Move
By WILLIAM B. MEAD
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Claiming alliance with protes
ters gathered by the thousands
outside, President Nixon has
told the American people that
his Cambodian action is saving
American lives by the thou
sands and hastening the peace
sought by young and old alike.
The first U.S. soldiers will
leave Cambodia next week,
Nixon said, and all of them “by
the end of June.” He said South
Vietnamese troops, not Ameri
cans, could handle any future
Cambodian drives. For the
third time in as many weeks,
the President promised to
withck*aw 150,000 more U.S.
troops from Vietnam within the
next year.
Nixon announced no signifi
cant policy shifts in his
televised news conference Fri
day night. But he aimed an
obvious bid for reconciliation at
opponents of his policies.
Thousands of them, mostly
students, stood outside the
White House, listening on
transistor radios. They and
thousands like them planned a
massive demonstration today
against the President’s decision
to send U.S. troops into
Cambodia for attacks on Viet
Cong and North Vietnamese
sanctuaries.
Nixon said the United States
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where he would have been a
senior vice president.
May, 48, served as president
of Lockheed-Georgia, manufac
turer of the huge and con
troversial CSA transport plane,
until February. He said he
would announce his future plans
soon.
Asia. He was identified as S.
Sgt. Fred Denikins Jr. of Co
lumbus, Ga.
will be determined at our ral
ly."
Hosea Williams, SCLC region
al vice president, is scheduled
to address the meeting.
Black leaders are seeking the
reinstatement of Marvin Dyson,
a mathematics instructor and
one of two teachers suspended
by James Hightower, director
of minority affairs at Houston
Junior High School. The other
teacher, Elijah Weatherstoon, a
physical education instructor,
was reinstated. Protest leaders
are seeking Hightower’s remov
al.
would not defend the neutrality *
of Cambodia or Laos. He said
“only history will record”
whether the whole Vietnam t
War was worthwhile, and he
reminded his audience that he
inherited the conflict.
•
To maintain U.S. troop
withdrawals, Nixon said, he
made the “terribly difficult”
decision to send U.S. soldiers
into Cambodia.
The attacks began eight days
ago, and the President claimed *
they had succeeded already.
Nixon said he planned “a
report to the nation when our
actions are completed” in '
Cambodia, “toward the latter
part of June.”
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