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By Quimby Melton
Making mistakes is human
and sometimes the men who are
experts in their field slip up.
Recently a highly respected
political analysist who writes a
column for a highly respected
newspaper, in discussing
Maine’s Senator Edward
Muskie, and his chances of be
seeming President of the United
■States says, “For the first time
I in almost a century Maine has a
.native son who aspires to the
■ Presidency. Last time around it
, was James G. Blaine — the
• “flumed Knight.”
James G. Blaine was not a na
tive of Maine. He was born in
I Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in
• 1830. It was not until he was 24
years old that he moved to
Maine to “engage in jouma-
* lism”. Four years later he won
a seat in the state legislature,
and another four years later
| was elected to Congress. At the
• beginning of his fifth year he
was elected Speaker.
J At the 1876 Republican con-
• vention Blaine sought the no
mination for President and lost
out to Rutherford B. Hayes the
I» vote being Hayes 403 — Blaine
' 351. Hayes was the President
who defeated Samuel J. Tilden,
and the election developed one
, of the bitterest fights in our na
| tions history.
Florida, Louisiana, Oregon
» and South Carolina votes were
“ challenged and a commission
was appointed to examine the
contests and declare the win-
J ner. Hayes was the winner be
ing given 185 electoral votes to
184 for Tilden.
4 Blaine then returned to the
• Senate and four years later once
1 again tried for the Presidency
| — but he was defeated for the
, nomination by James A. Gar
field.
Still determined to be Presi
dent the “Plumed Knight” who
• was said to have been able to
sway his audience better than
any man of his time, came back
t 4 for more, was nominated but
was defeated by Grover Cleve
land. The margin was slim and
4 returns show that the shifting of
• less than 1,000 votes in New
York State would have made
Blaine President.
* So if Senator Edwin Muskie
1 has hopes of becoming Presi
dent it might be wise that he not
let anyone call him the
/ “Plumed Knight.”
Good Evening likes to read
about old political campaigns.
> There have been many hotly
contested races. Often the na
tional conventions of the parties
are a climax to intra-party
fights that give one an idea of
’ Just what was happening in
those days.
, Recently we read of the 1900
, Republican convention when
McKinley was nominated for
file second term and Teddy
> Roosevelt was named as his
. running mate. Roosevelt,
political students say, was
nominated because the political
* leaders of his state wanted to
get him out of New York where
he was governor.
, In 1904 Roosevelt, who had
become president when McKin
ley was assassinated, was
nominated and elected in his
own right. In 1908 Roosevelt
backed William Howard Taft
and Taft was nominated and
elected.
j’ But by 1912 Roosevelt and
Taft had split; Roosevelt and
Senator Bob LaFollette, father
, of the Progressive Party, saw
i things much alike. Roosevelt
was defeated by Taft at the
GOP convention and switched
' to the Progressive Party. But
LaFollette cjid not want to share
the spotlight with Roosevelt or
, anyone. Bitterness was evident
in the speeches of Roosevelt,
Taft and Senator LaFollette.
A New York newspaper com
» menting on Roosevelt becoming
1 • candidate did not say, Roose
velt had “thrown his hat in the
ring” — But “Roosevelt has
thrown HATE into the ring.”
How like some Georgia races
this year?
▼ Exchange Club forum J
I Candidates say growth inevitable t
w Five of the six candidates for Spalding County Com-
missioner believe that an accelerated population growth
w is inevitable during the 19705. They agreed that planning
would be necessary to make the growth orderly.
A These were among the views the candidates covered in
an Exchange Club program yesterday. All six candidates
A were invited to the meeting to give their views in five
minute talks.
A Bobby Dunn could not be present. He told program
▼ chairman Bill Ramsey he already had planned to be on
A vacation this week and could not accept the invitation.
y The other candidates accepted and appeared on the pro-
A gram.
W The order in which they appeared on the program was:
Glenn Conkle, Jean Yates, T. A. (Bubber) Scott, Sandy
* Morgan, and Kyle Cobb. All except Yates are candidates
in the Democratic primary Sept. 9. Yates is an unopposed
A Republican candidate.
The candidates drew numbers for their position of ap-
A pearance on the program.
▼ Conkle introduced himself as a native of Spalding
A County who presently is in the insurance business.
y He said Spalding is in a prime growth area and needs to
A look for diversified industries and business. He said he
W was concerned about county water needs, garbage dis-
I posal, fire protection, schools and medical services.
He said the county should seek all the federal and state
funds it can in solving these problems. He said he was half
A owner of nine houses and a store and that taxes were high
already.
A “We need to tie up some loose ends,” Conkle asserted.
▼ Yates saw internal and external factors as contributing
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LOS ANGELES — Yvette Minieux, actress and wildlife
conservationist, extends her protection while playing with
baby Bengal tiger cub and jaguar, at die Los Angeles zoo.
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“The test of an idea isn’t
simply whether it is good for
you — but whether it also is
good for your neighbor.”
Copvriaht IWO, by Frank A. Clark
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CHOLERA SUSPECTED
SEOUL (UPI) —Seventy sus
pected cholera cases have been
reported in a provincial area of
South Korea, government offi
cials said today.
Officials said a government
Health Ministry antiepidemic
team is examining the patients
in the Changnyong area, 160
miles southeast of Seoul.
Four persons have died in the
area since the first case was
reported on Aug. 1, the officials
said.
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State ends its part Weather
in auto cast
State and federal agencies
preceded to wrap up their in
vestigations which centered
around the purchase of an auto
mobile through the city of
Griffin and its transfer to Jerry
Lacey, former acting director
of the Mclntosh Trail Area
Planning and Development
Commission.
Lacey resigned following the
disclosure of the transaction.
“I have turned my in
_ formation over to State
Revenue Commissioner John
Blackmon and he tells me that
his office plans no further ac
’ tion, now that the tax has been
paid,” State Attorney General
Arthur Bolton said.
Bolton had followed the case
t with interest as his office pre
' pared the investigation, ac
’ cording to office employes.
' “There is possibly a case of
violaton of public trust here but
’ that would be a case for your
’ local District Attorney to
1 handle,” Bolton added.
A possible excise tax evasion
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Georgia 30223 Wednesday, August 12, 1970
i Miss Minieux is campaigning to include the two species in the
law that bans importation of pelts of a number of wild ani
mals. (UPI)
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also existed, according to Inter
nal Revenue sources.
“A check or money order has
been offered in the amount of
the tax,” a tax spokesman said.
‘“At this stage of the game, I
don’t know what action will be
taken,” he added.
Candidates keep stumps hot
By United Press International
Republican gubernatorial
candidate .Hal Suit urged
Tuesday a three-day waiting
perio dfor purchasers of han
dguns to reduce “passion”
killings in Georgia.
In a question-and-answer ses
sion with supporters in Macon,
Suit charged Georgia leads the
nation in such slayings. He said
several states have enacted
waiting periods successfully.
Later, Suit told Jaycees in
Gainesville he was “very much
worried” about the quality of
to the growth of Spalding County in the 70s. Population
will accelerate more during the next 10 years he said,
meaning more jobs, more schools, more homes, and more
business in the community he said. He saw growth not as a
matter of “if” but “how.”
One of the outside factors that will affect this area is
Atlanta growth, Yates continued.
Another outside factor, Yates believes, is the possible
location of a second Atlanta airport in Henry County.
He noted that the county expects to get federal help for
construction of 70 miles of water lines.
“This will be a drop in the bucket” compared to what
will be needed, he said.
Yates believes that Spalding will become an urban com
munity in the 70s, completing its shift from a rural com
munity.
“Either we plan for growth or we’ll be plowed under,”
he said.
Yates invited voters to examine his qualifications for
the job.
He said he had no ax to grind and no favors to ask.
Scott, the next speaker, said that he, too, was a native of
Spalding County and had been a farmer here all of his life.
He said that the county was destined to grow in the next
decade. More people will be moving to the Griffin area
from Atlanta to make their homes, he said.
Morgan said now that he was retired, he would have the
time to devote to being a County Commissioner. He said
he always had been interested in good government and
now has the opportunity to serve.
“I need a job,” he said. “I need something to do,”
setting a humorous tone for his remarks. Morgan pre-
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viously operated a building supply business.
He recalled a farm joke in which the farmer told one of A
his workers to grease the rake and rake some hay. The V
farmer asked the hand about it a few days later and was A
told, “I done grazed (greased) the rack (rake) and rucked y
(raked) the hay.” I
“I done racked my hay,” Morgan joked. w
He said he thought the people in the Southern part of the
county should be represented on the board of commission- A
ers. He said at present they either live in town or in some
other section. Morgan lives in Orchard Hill, the southern A
part of the county. ▼
He said he would like to see something done about litter A
in the county. y
Sometimes people have beer parties and dump 25 to 30 A
empty cans in one place, he said. y
“The city gets the tax (off beer) and the county gets the A
cans,” Morgan cracked. W
Cobb said he was glad to see the good group of candidat-
es in the race this year, indicating interest in county W
government.
He said he thought a county commissioner should be A
able to offer aggressive business leadership and experi
ence to the job. These will be needed to cope with the A
growth in the 70s and 80s, he said.
Cobb said that county tax payers should get a $1 value A
for every $1 in taxes paid. He said some waste could be ▼
eliminated in county government. Overall, though, he said A
the county was in good shape. y
He said businesses in the county and contractors should A
be licensed, not for revenue but for the protection of the y
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90,000 expected
in state colleaes
ATLANTA (UPI) - An estimated 90,000
students will be .attending Georgia’s 27
public colleges arid universities this fall—
almost triple the enrollment the Univer
sity System of Georgia handled a decade
ago.
University System officials said
Tuesday about 40,000 of the students will
be enrolled at the University of Georgia in
Athens and Georgia State University and
Georgia Tech, both ir Atlanta.
This exceeds the 30,686 public college
students in the entire state in 1960.
Since the mid 19605, the University
System has been absorbing some 6,000 to
7,000 additional students each year, and
the heavy increase in enrollment has
required expansion of existing campuses
and construction of new ones at a total cost
of about a third of a billion dollars.
Eight new junior colleges have been
built during the decade and junior colleges
at Americus, Columbus, Savannah and
Rubella vaccinations
will climb rapidly
ATLANTA (UPI)-The num
ber of children vaccinated
against rubella, or German
measles, will “climb rapidly”
with the opening of schools in
a few weeks, according to the
director of the National Center
for Disease Control.
Dr. David J. Sencer, the cen
ter director, said rubella im
munization in most communi
ties has been conducted primar
ily in the schools, with empha
sis on children in the early ele
mentary grades. The latter are
the principal spreaders of the
disease, he said.
His two opponents for the
GOP nomination in the Sept. 9
primary, Jimmy Bentley and
Jeptha Tanksley, campaigned in
Houston and Fulton County re
spectively.
Bentley charged that former
Gov. Carl Sanders, who is seek
ing the Democratic nomination,
“has pledged to repeal Geor
gia’s right to work law” in ex
change for an endorsement by
the state AFL-CIO.
And Tanksley said he would
be “weak and irresponsible” if
he resigned as Fulton Superior
Augusta have been elevated to four-year
status.
In addition, Georgia State was elevated
from a college to a university, Southern
Tech in Cobb County has been expanded
from a two-year to a four-year institution
and Valdosta State, West Georgia College
in Carrollton, and Savannah State College
have instituted graduate programs, giving
Georgia total of 10 institutions which offer
graduate degrees.
The state also has increased ex
penditures for higher education during the
decade more than five times, at least
partially because of a 10-sod increase in
the number of graduate and professional
students, who require a much higher
average expenditure than undergradu
ates.
In the 1959-60 fiscal year the total state
outlay for higher education was $27.4
million. This year it will be almost $166
million.
The center said Tuesday an
estimated 16 million children
have been vaccinated against
rubella since the vaccine be
came available just over a year
ago.
Thirteen million children were
immunized in community pro
grams and another 3 million re
ceived the vaccine in private
physicians’ offices.
“The Public Health Service
Advisory Committee on Immun
ization Practices has stated that
the best means of preventing
birth defects due to rubella is to
prevent exposure of pregnant
Court judge as he has been re
quested to do by the Atlanta
Bar Association.
Reeves Bowen, president of
the 17,000-member Local 709 of
the International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace
Workers, said his local opposed
the endorsement of Sanders by
the state AFL-CIO.
Bowen, whose local is at
Lockheed - Georgia’s Marietta
plant, said his people have gone
on record as opposing the en
dorsement of both Sanders and
State Rep. Charlie Jones for
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women to the virus,” Sencer
said.
He added that the experience
of health officials indicates the
nation should press forward un
til the goal of 60 million vacci
nations of children is reached.
“An intensive effort to vacci
nate children age one year to
puberty can prevent an epidem
ic such as the nation experi
enced in 1964,” Sencer said,
“one which caused an estimat
ed 50,000 abnormal pregnancies,
and the birth of some 20,000
children with one or more crip
pling defects.”
lieutenant governor.
Sanders, campaigning in
Douglas, Fitzgerald, Mcßae and
Ocilla, urged Democrats to turn
out a large vote in the primary.
“We want to go ahead and
win on Sept. 9, get it over then.
And then, I might add, just go
ahead and beat the hell out of
the Republicans in the fall,” he
said.
Another Democrat, Jimmy
Carter, told a Dublin barbecue
he wanted equalization of prop
erty assessments within coun
ties.