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By Quimby Mdton
We hear a lot these days about
how political campaigns have
changed. A successful candi
date must possess a great de
gree of “charisma”, he also
must have an “image” that is
pleasing; he must appear to be
at ease and confident when he
appears on TV to be questioned
by a “moderator” or when con
fronted by his opponent on a
panel show.
Even the method of voting has
changed or is being changed.
More and more voting
machines are being used.
But there is at least one thing
that has not changed. Some
times a candidate fihds a
vulnerable spot in his opponents’
“armor”, he bores in, “ex
poses” his opponent as one with
“feet of clay” and makes hay
while his opponent seeks to deny
the charges.
We remember well such an
occasion years ago when we
were the boy editor of a South
Georgia newspaper.
Before we tell that story may
we tell some of our readers, who
like Good Evening are so old
timey they don’t know what
“charisma” means, that the
word is not found in older dic
tionaries such as Good Evening
uses, but in more modern ones
“charisma” is defined as “a
divinely conferred gift or power
that gives and individual in
fluence over a large number of
people.” (We old timers have a
shorter word that means the
same thing. This is “it”, that
power many women have to in
fluence large number of men.
“It” was first used in describing
what it was that made Clara
Bow such a popular moving
picture star back in the “silent
picture” days.
Well on to our South Georgia
story.
There were two men running
for Congress. In a certain
county their campaigns were
being managed by their
brothers-in-law, both of whom
were lawyers.
One day one of the two receiv
ed a letter from his candidate
which said among other things
“I am having two cases of
whisky shipped you to help in
our campaign. The bourbon is
for the city boys, the shine for
the country boys.”
Some how or other the man
ager of the other candidate
heard of this letter, managed to
get hold of it long enough to
have it photographed and re
turned to the other managers
office without him knowing it
had “been in the hands of his
enemy”.
Three days before the election
a photographic reproduction of
this letter, was published in
newspapers all over that con
gressional district. The heading
of the political advertisement
read something like this.
“Bourbon for the City Boys,
Shine for the Country Boys.”
The candidate who had sent
die cases of whisky lost by a
wide margin, every county pre
cinct went almost solidly
against him, and even the cities
where the “boys” had been
given Bourbon did not respond
enthusiastically, for many of
them were “Country Boys” who
had moved to town.
Out the window went what
ever “charisma” that candi
date may have had.
Is this a true story?
Like Uncle Remus Good
Evening “gives it to you as it
was ’gin to me” years ago when
he was the boy editor of the
Americus Times-Recorder.
NEED ROOM
GOSHEN, Ind. (UPI)—A $1.7
million jail under construction
here is eight inches wider than
die available land.
Elkhart County officials said
die planner apparently forgot
the old jail would not be
demolished until the new one
was finished next door.
Work on the new jail has
been limited to excavation.
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Mrs. Mildred Sawyer and Chairman Jerry Savage boost United Fund drive.
City fee set at $l5O
Do you have any of this
money coming to you?
Several thousand dollars is
awaiting people in Spalding
County and the state wants to
pay them. This money is income
tax withholding rebates due
persons who either filed an in
correct address or failed to
leave a forwarding address
when they moved.
Checks have been mailed
them to the address given origi
nally, but have been returned to
the State Income Tax Division
because the person to whom the
checks were mailed could not be
located.
John A. Blackmon, State Re
venue Commissioner, has an
nounced the names of 3,760 per
sons in Georgia who will receive
their checks if they will furnish
the department correct and
complete addresses.
Persons whose names have
been announced should notify
the department in writing the
Night football out
The City Commissioners ap
proved a resolution prohibiting
night football games in the city
for the present and heard a
statement from a man who said
he represented the black com
munity of Griffin.
The Commissioners held their
regular meeting at the city hall
last night and handled a number
of other business items.
About a half dozen Jaycees
attended the meeting. The club
has been sponsoring the con
cession stands at the night foot
ball games and using the pro
ceeds for community service
work.
Dale Harris, who was with the
group, asked the Commission
ers when they might rescind the
resolution. Mayor Joe Dutton
said he didn’t know the answer
to that.
Vice Chairman Barron Cum
ming said that the city board
would keep apprised of the
■situation. He said it could
change.
This is not a blanket resolu
tion, Mr. Cumming said.
Mayor Dutton said a “small
group of radicals on both sides”
are responsible.
Freddie Phillips read a state
ment to the commissioners he
said was from the black com
munity.
The statement blamed the
death of Sutton on “white
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
address where they now live. In
writing, persons must include
their Social Security number so
handling their requests for pay
ment can be speeded up. Too,
they must sign their notice with
the exact signature used in fil
ing their tax returns.
Names of those in Spalding
County for whom checks have
been issued but could not be de
livered include:
Kerry Allen, Rt. 4; Mitchell
Baugh, 617 Meriwether street;
Boyd V. Beal Jr., RFD 1, Box
437; Joseph M. and Mary E.
Blanton, RFD 1; L. M. and
Carol G. Carden, 157 South Ex
pressway; Opal M. Carter,
RFD 2 Box 1098A; Ezeal
Cauthen, 121 North Third; John
B. and Gaynell Chaney, 640
Johnson street; Brenda T. Cog
gin, RFD 2, Box 30; Vernon S.
Corley, 319 South Broadway;
Frank and Margie Goen, RFD
2; Ovid L. and Jane P. Good-
racism”.
The statement said that black
citizens were willing to call off
protests so the dty could seek a
resolution to grievances of the
black citizens.
Phillips’ statement reviewed
Classic game studied
The Griffin City Commission
ban on night football includes
the Textile Classic which is
scheduled to be played here Oct.
3.
Officials of VFW Post 8480
and the athletic director of Ft.
Valley State College, tried un
successfully yesterday to per
suade City Commissioners to
allow the game to go on as sche
duled.
The game between Ft. Valley
State and Clark College of
Atlanta is an annual event in
Griffin.
It has been played here for the
past 10 years.
Whether or not the game will
be played on Oct. 3 is now in the
hands of the respective col
leges.
“We have been working on
arrangements for the game
since last July,” Raymond
Head, Quartermaster of VFW
Post 8480 said today.
“AD oiir publicity, bumper
stickers, and posters show the
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1970
man, 176 North Second street;
George E. Graddy, P. O. Bor>
334; Bethamy G. Griffin, RFD
2, Box 360 B; William Graham
Hammock, 815 West Broad;
Donnie L. Harris, P. O. Box 583;
Rebecca J. Hayes, RFD 1, Box
294; William Roy Hunter, RFD
1, Box 195, Apt. 2; Rufus John
son, 214 North 15th street; Jim
my Lavender, 405 Bell street;
Debbie J. Nicholson, 216 Ala
bama street; Rose Norman,
RFD 4, Box 405; John W.
Pilkenton, 1060 Collier street;
Wilbur Poss, 112 Tyus street;
Curtis H. and Willodean Smith,
2686 Town & Country park;
James P. and Violet T. Smith,
15 Ninth street; James I. Will
iams, RFD 4, Box 25; James W.
Ray, Box 226.
In addition the following fail
ed to give any street address
Beth A. Anderson, Carrie Cros
by, and Richard L. Merritt.
demands for more jobs for
blades, better housing, and
more recreational facilities.
(The texts of the football
resolution and the statement by
Phillips was published in full to
day on page 21.)
game will be played at night.
“Changing it to a day time
game presents a tremendous
problem. The black community,
not only here in Griffin but over
the state, always looks forward
to the game played here. It is a
terrific drawing card.
“The game has been played
here for 10 years and in all those
years there has never been any
trouble.
“We do not feel there would
be any trouble here this time,”
Head said.
Head said that if the game is
played here it probably will
start at 4 p.m.
Besides Head, those who met
with city commissioners were
Jimmy Holland, Commander of
VFW Post 8480, John Simmons,
a trustee of the Post, the Rev. O.
H. Stinson, an interested citi
zen, and the athletic director of
Ft Valley State.
Whether or not the game will
be played here on Oct. 3 will be
decided by Ft. Valley and Clark
College officials.
The Griffin City Com
missioners set the entrance fee
for City Commission candidates
at $l5O last bight. This is the
same fee that was charged last
year.
A City Commissioner will be
elected in the Nov. 3 general
elections this year. The three
year term of Mayor Joe Dutton
will expire. 1
The Commissioners also
named City Manager Jack
Langford as election superin
tendent. It named Claude
Donehoo, tax collector for the
city, as deputy superintendent
and Mrs. Frances Bolton, a
secretary for Mr. Langford, as
the absentee ballot clerk.
In other action at the com
mission meeting last night the
commissioners:
—Gave the Griffin-Spalding
School System permission to
locate two portable classrooms
on the Atkinson elementary
campus.
—Put on final reading an
ordinance to grade, pave, and
curb North 16th street between
Experiment and Ray streets.
—Put on second and final
reading an ordinance
establishing a C-la commercial
district zone.
—Approved purchase of fire
equipment at a cost of $4,650.
—Put on first reading an
ordinance to pave about a block
and a half of Ray street ad
joining 16th.
—Put on first reading paving
Scales street north of Beck and
Booker streets.
—Put on first reading the 1971
city license ordinance with
some amendments to clarify
points that were misleading last
year.
—Put on first reading the
installation of sewer mains
from Harlow street west to
include Willis Motor Court on
Memorial drive on the north
side of Memorial and east from
Harlow to Skating Rink on the
south side of Memorial drive.
—Adopted a city policy to
permit addition of actual cost of
encasements in sewer taps, in
addition to the regular SBO per
tap inside the city and $l2O
outside the city.
“It’s easy to tell when
you’re doing the right thing
— it’s what you didn’t want
to do.”
Vol. 98 No. 201
Hearing in
slaying case
Boys Club
growing
More than 496 boys have
availed themselves of at least
one of the activities of the Boy’s
Club of Griffin-Spalding County,
according to club director Don
Wilkinson.
“Our membership has topped
100 after eight program days,”
Wilkinson said.
Wilkinson added that the club
has been serving an average of
62 boys a day.
“We have gotten off to a
really fine start and it looks as if
membership will continue to
grow,” the boy director pointed
out.
A lack of adult volunteers to
act as club advisors has
hampered promotion of such
programs as radio club and
other activities requiring
special skills.
“Right now we are looking for
someone to teach arts and
crafts,” Wilkinson explained.
Speaking of the boy’s
response to the club, Wilkinson
said they helped repair broken
windows, swept the building
and mowed the lawn. The club
is housed in the old nursery
building in East Griffin.
“Most of the time we have 40
or more boys still here when we
get ready to close at 9 p.m., and
if they weren’t here, I don’t
know where they would be,” he
added.
Griffin’s Boy Club has a good
chance of becoming a United
Voters make
choices today
ATLANTA (UPI)-Election of
ficials, despite a forecast for fair
weather and a stinging Demo
cratic gubernatorial contest be
tween Jimmy Carter and Carl
Sanders, were pessimistic about
the voter turnout for today’s
runoff elections.
“There’s nobody talking.
There’s nobody saying anything.
There’s nobody that cares,”
said Secretary of State Ben
Fortson, chairman of the State
Election Board.
But whatever the response,
voters will resolve two statewide
contests, including the Carter-
Sanders battle and the Demo
cratic race for state comptroller
general between State Reps.
Mac Barber of Commerce and
Johnnie Caldwell of Thomaston.
Deadlocks in two congression
al districts will be resolved. Ne
gro Andrew Young faces Atlanta
attorney Wyman Lowe in the sth
District for the change to meet
Robison fund
A public fund for the legal defense of Ray Robison, 42, of
128 East Poplar street, has been set up here by his friends.
Robison is being held on a murder charge in connection
with the shooting death of Ricky Sutton, 16, last Friday §
night near the Labor Department office in Griffin.
Atty. Jim Owen who is handling Robison’s defense said
he was informed of the fund by a woman late yesterday.
He confirmed that a bank account had been set up for the
Robison fund. Mr. Owen said that Mr. Robison and his
brother, Robbie, would be authorized to withdraw money
for the account.
A post office box to which contributions could be mailed
was announced but withdrawn later in the day. When >:
available, it will be announced. S
Fund agency, provided the local
goal is reached.
“They would let us have
$5,000 for this year and take on
our budget afterwards if the
goal is reached,” Wilkinson
said.
Even with the addition of the
United Fund money, Wilkinson
forsees the need for another
$4,000.
“Now we are limited to
gameroom activities like pool
and checkers, but very soon we
will start to have flag football,
weight lifting, on all day fishing
and picnic, a dance with the
“Close Generation” band on the
27th, and other things in the
works,” he pointed out.
Warren Scoville is chairman
of the board of the Boy’s Club of
Griffin-Spalding County, Inc.
“We could use any type of
equipment we could get, but we
especially need some basketball
goals,” Wilkinson added.
Football is hampered by lack
of a suitable place to play, but
the boy’s chief feels this
situation could be corrected
easily with some earth moving
machines.
“If we could just level the
field that we now use, our
problem would almost be
solved,” he said.
Wilkinson predicted that
within the next few weeks, club
membership will top 200 if old
programs are maintained and
new ones are started.
incumbent Republican Fletcher
Thompson in November.
In the 2nd District, former
television newsman Dawson
Mathis and attorney Harry Win
gate, both of Albany, face each
other for the place being vacat
ed by retiring Congressman
Maston O’Neal. They have no
Republican opposition.
The featured attraction, of
course, is the Carter - Sanders
bout.
Carter, apeanutfarmer, ware
houseman and former state sen
ator, was scheduled to vote
Wednesday in his home town of
Plains, travel to his opponent’s
home town of Augusta to seek
additional votes, then wind up
in Atlanta to count results.
Sanders, the former governor
who changed his issues-oriented
primary campaign to a tieless,
coats-off approach for the run
off, was scheduled to vote in
Augusta, then return to Atlanta.
Inside Tip
Flop
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A commitment hearing was to
resume this afternoon at 2
o’clock on a charge of murder
against Ray Robison, 42, of 128
East Poplar street. He was
charged in connection with the
slaying of Ricky Sutton, 16, last
Friday night following a foot
ball game.
The Spalding Courthouse
where the hearing was held was
under heavy guard. Deputies
and lawmen were inside the
courtroom where the hearing
took place as well as on the
courthouse premises.
The court appointed Atty.
Barron Cumming of Griffin to
act as prosecutor at the hear
ing. He did so in the absence of
District Attorney Ben Miller of
Thomaston who was in Fayette
County court today.
Robison was represented at
the hearing by Atty. Jim Owen.
Atty. John Goddard who is a law
partner of Mr. Owen sat at the
table with him during the pro
ceedings and consulted with Mr.
Owen.
Robison was returned to
Griffin this morning from an
out-of-county jail where he had
been held since his arrest.
He sat silently through the
morning of testimony.
The hearing was held under
Judge John O. Clements, a Jus
tice of the Peace and a Small
Claims court judge.
Sandra Porter, 19, of Route
One, Brooks; Isaac Reed, 18, of
1308 Lincoln road, Griffin; and
Tempie Lee Sutton, mother of
Sutton, all blacks, along with
Maj. Ronnie Irvin of the Griffin
Police Department were sworn
as witnesses.
The hearing began at 10 a.m.
and recessed shortly after noon
until 2 p.m.
The Griffin Daily News is
making every possible effort to
report the news as quickly as
possible, correctly, and impar
tially. It has reported the arrest
of Ray Robison and the charges
against him which are matters
of record. It can not report his
defense or any statement from
him because none has been
given yet. He has been confined
in an out of town jail and un
available for comment. Also,
his attorney declined to com
ment when invited to make a
statement. When his case is
told, the Griffin Daily News will
report it fully.
ABC gives
to fund
for Stubbs
The American Business Club,
Griffin Chapter, has voted to
contribute $l5O to the Craig
Stubbs scholarship fund.
This brought the con
tributions to a total of $1,115.
Craig Stubbs is the son of the
late Garlon Stubbs. He was
killed last spring in an
automobile accident en route to
the ABC convention at
Savannah. Mr. Stubbs was a
vice president in the Griffin
ABC Chapter. He was assistant
manager of Radio Station
WHIE.
The scholarship drive is to
continue through this month.
Contributions to the fund may
be mailed, care of Box 971,
Griffin, Ga. 30223.
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