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BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
it looks prettv likelv now that Miami Beach will get
the 1972 Democratic convention to be set in early July.
If that’s it. the people in Miami Beach may come to won
der why they ever wanted the thing.
There’s bound to be at least a minor explosion of emo
tion. though the intensity of Chicago in 1968 almost cer
tainly won't be matched.
One reason difficulties are predictable is that the
party's ardent left consistently takes the position that if
its narrow minority doesn't win. that means the whole
setup is lousy and illegal.
Barring some freakish combination of events, the arch
left isn't going to win. It will lose because most of the
people thev want to ’’give power to" are in the middle,
where thev are not. The cries of pain, signifying "injus
tice." will be loud. Action will be. er. vigorous.
Another factor forecasting trouble looms larger with
the passing weeks. Reformers who have labored hard
and earnestly to open up the convention delegate selec
tion process probably imagine they're going to get an
amazingly "wide-open" convention.
Yet one of the big things happening in the name of
reform appears to point the other way. So far, eight new
primaries have been added to the rolls, for a total of 23
against 15 in 1968. It might go to 26 if Delaware. Michi
gan and Louisiana all convert present interest into law.
What does this do for the “wide-open" convention?
It means, above all, that—on the day the convention
first meets —a higher proportion of the total delegate
roster will be legally bound to one candidate or another
than ever in U.S. political history.
Just on the basis of present primary status, 744 dele
gates would thus be bound, and another 416 could be
bound under certain circumstances. That comes to 1,160,
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Thomas Evans, Joe Burnes and Jeff Morgan are attending
the 10th annual Resource Conservation Workshop at
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, this week
as announced by Shorty Garrison, District Conservationist,
Soil Conservation Service, Griffin, Ga. Their scholarship is
being sponsored by Production Credit Association and the
Towaliga Soil Conservation District. The workshop is
conducted by the Georgia Chapter of the Soil Conservation
Society of America and the Georgia Assoctetion of Soil
Conservation Districts.
CARD OF THANKS
The brothers and sisters of
Mr. Thomas N. Bassett wish
to thank each and everyone
for the food, flowers and
prayers during our sorrow.
We want to especially thank
the entire staff or the Ist
floor of the Griffin Hospital,
who were kind and attentive
to Tom. He had to spend so
many long days and nights in
the local hospital. Also to Dr.
Kenneth Reynolds, we all
will never forget how you
tried so faithfully to make
his suffering less. Also to the
preachers who visited Tom
so often and prayed with us
and made him know we
loved him and that God loved
him, too. A special thanks to
the following preachers:
Billy Anderson, Gary
Hately, Otis Raybon. God
bless all these kind people in
the prayers of Tom's sisters
and brothers.
Hazel Biles
Elsie Barnes
Evelyn Bennett
Effie Ballard
Jim Bassett
Gresham Bassett
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Wednesday, June 9,1971
1972 Democratic Convention
That Lucky(?) Miami Beach
ELVIS AVE.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) -A
city councilman plans to ask
the Memphis council to rename
a seven-mile stretch of U.S. 51
“Elvis Presley Boulevard.”
Presley’s mansion, “Grace
land,” is on U.S. 51. Council
man Downing Pryor said he
originally considered having the
entire stretch of U.S. 51 from
Mississippi to the northern city
limits named for Presley, but
officials of Bellevue Baptist
Church objected to being
located on Elvis Presley
Boulevard.
DISCOUNTED SNOOPS
CUPERTINO, Calif. (UPI) -
The De Anza College student
council wants to help out
undercover agents on its
campus.
The council voted Tuesday to
give a 20 per cent discount on
student activities tickets to all
police agents, FBI agents and
members of the Central Intel
ligence Agency.
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
roughly two-thirds of the 1,509 needed for nomination
and somewhat more than a third of the 3.016 grand total.
The figure could be altered upward by new primary
additions. It could be moved downward by action in
Massachusetts (102 votes), where major change in the
law is pending. But the "bound" total will stay high.
It is interesting to note, against the "reform” back
drop. that voting results will bind delegates in five of the
eight new state primaries—Maryland. Tennessee, North
Carolina. New Mexico and Alaska. They MAY be binding
in another —Rhode Island.
Altogether. 10 states presently have legally binding
primaries and in six more the delegates may be bound.
You will sometimes hear it argued that, yes, these
delegates will be bound —but only for a ballot or two.
Silly argument. Beginning in 1932, the two major parties
together have held 20 conventions. Exactly 16 of the 20
were decided on the first ballot. Two went three ballots,
one went four and one, far back in 1940, went six.
Now this entire business, greatly magnified by the new
primaries, points up a terrible contradiction in the argu
ments of “open convention" delegates. At least since the
1960 nomination of John F. Kennedy, they have been
shouting "rigged!” whenever a large proportion of the
delegates seemed committed before the first gavel fell.
Rigged? Really? The changes for 1972 mean that mil
lions more voters than ever before will have a hand in
the nomination decision. The voters involved will include
those in possibly nine of the nation’s 10 most populous
states with the largest convention delegate totals.
Is it more democratic to ignore these voter choices
(and even those made in state conventions where no pri
maries exist). in favor of delegate decisions rendered in
the frantic, artificial, pressure-cooker atmosphere of a
no-sleep national convention?
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NEW YORK (NEAi
Pity the Russian bachelor. The Kremlin rulers, alarmed
by the declining birth rate, have now decreed that he is
an "antisocial element" and possibly a traitor to the
Communist cause.
The single man, to be sure, is not yet an outcast in all
Marxist-Leninist dictatorships.
For instance, the Red Chinese, Russia’s neighbors and
enemies, are currently cautioning their young against
rushing into marriage until they are 25 or 30.
But China already has a population of 700 to 800 million
and Peking’s problem is to control the birth rate. The
Russians, who fear Mao Tse-tung and his "clique of ex
pansionists," have not yet reached 250 million mark.
Young Soviet males are now urged by the Kremlin to
marry at an earlier age and produce more children.
If Moscow’s prestigious newspaper Literaturnaya
Gazetta is to be believed, bachelorhood is harmfulu
not only to society but to the individual, "causing all
sorts of neuroses because of irregular habits."
Also, "part of a person's wages is intended for the sup
port of children,” Literaturnaya Gazetta writes. But the
perfidious bachelor spends that part on himself, “playing
around without sharing with anyone."
He therefore “simply robs others who are married and
support children.”
In addition to the anti-bachelor campaign, there has
been a marked increase in Russia in studies and articles
on sex, love and marriage. "Sex hygiene" is now the
party line.
The scientist Igor Zabelin even warned that "love as an
emotion will play a very important role in the future in
the populating of outer space."
Writing in the magazine Moskva, Zabelin predicted
that “when mankind fulfills its mission of populating
outer space, men and women will be sent in spacecraft
somewhere for many years."
Therefore, he added, Soviet scientists "must not only
deeply analyze love as an emotion but also try to regu
late it properly."
Meanwhile, the Kremlin’s educators have embarked on
an experimental sex program for schoolchildren on earth.
The program appears to follow the general lines of
similar programs instituted years ago in the United States
and many Western school systems.
Russian educators explain this sex education lag by
insisting that in the Soviet Union the subject “lacks the
urgency it has in the capitalist countries."
Nevertheless, the Red rulers are increasingly haunted
by their earlier propaganda which endorsed "free love"
in an effort to undermine the “capitalist family.”
They have discovered belatedly that the “smart set"
among young Russians—and in other East European
Communist countries—has shaken loose from moral con
vention, Communist or capitalist.
This is something a totalitarian society cannot tolerate.
Thus, the belated sex education program deals with
conditions that “cement the family.” It stresses the im
portance “of spiritual harmony and common interests of
a happy family life."
Children now hold class room discussions on “man
liness. femininity, the girl’s honor” and related sub
jects. Teachers are even permitted to talk about the con
sequences of marital infidelity and of “psychological in
compatability" of the partners.
No wonder. According to recent statistics, Russia has
the greatest rate of divorce of any major nation. There
is only one new marriage for every 10 divorces. And
many women who remarry remain childless.
But it is the poor bachelor who has to pay the price for
the declining birth rate. He is already penalized by
paying a special tax of six per cent of income. Now he
is castigated as a traitor.
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By LEON DENNEN
Rep. Packwood has queasy feeling
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen.
Robert W. Packwood, R-Ore.,
says he has a “queasy feeling”
about the refusal of 24 banks to
invest another dime in Lock
heed’s Tristar jumbo jet after
having risked >4OO million on
the project.
Because the banks insist upon
it, the Nixon Administration
has asked Congress to guaran
tee that the treasury will repay
the banks any losses they suffer
if they invest an additional $250
million in the Tristar project.
In effect, the banks have
asked the taxpayers to assume
the risk that would otherwise
be theirs. And Treasury Secre
tary John B. Connally says
refusal of Congress to go along
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would plunge Lockheed, a firm
with sales of $2.5 billion a year,
into bankruptcy and “thwart”
the nation’s economic recovery.
The banks involved are a
consortium of 24 of the nation’s
largest, including Califomia’a
Bank of America, New York’s
Chase Manhattan and First
National City and Chicago’s
Continental Illinois, the bank
that Connally’s predecessor,
David W. Kennedy, headed
before he joined the Nixon
administration.
All this, Packwood told
Connally Wednesday at a
hearing of the senate banking
committee, troubles him. “I
can’t put my finger on what
bothers me,” he said, “But I
have a queasy feeling about the
banks involved in this.”
Packwood’s qualms drove
home the point Sen. William
Proxmire, D-Wis., sought to
make.
He said he suspected that the
banks’ motive was to involve
the govennment in Lockheed’s
well-being. The government,
Proxmire said, “will be forced
to save Lockheed.”
Proxmire’s suggestion was
heatedly denied by Connally.
“You are 100 per cent
completely and totally wrong,”
he said.
ORGANIC ADVICE
MONTPELIER, Vt. (UPI) -
The Vermont Agriculture De
partment has some business
advice for farmers: Check to
see if there are rock concepts
or other hordes of young
people are coming their way
this summer.
The department told termers
in a weekly newsletter Tuesday
there has been a “distinct
change in the food purchases of
the young generation which is
beginning to create a special
demand for so-called natural
foods.”
“If your area expects to an
influx of this type of customer
it may be well to increase your
plantings,” it said.