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Atlantan killed
NASHVILLE, Term. (UPI)— The jackknife of a tractor
trailer on a bridge here Thursday resulted in the death of
the driver, A. J. Wharton, of Atlanta.
Authorities said the 40,000-pound rig jackknifed,
crashed through a guard rail and plunged 75 feet. The 48-
hear-old driver died from internal injuries suffered after
jumping from the truck while it was in mid-air.
Wharton, employed by the Terminal Transport Co.,
Inc., of Atlanta, was the father of nine children.
Robbery attempted
ROSSVILLE, GMa. (UPI)—Two youthful bandits
attempted to rob the Rossville branch of the American
National Bank here shortly after it opened for business
today.
An unidentified bank guard was reportedly assaulted by
one of the bandits during the attempted holdup. It was not
immediately known whether the guard was seriously
injured.
The bank is across the Tennessee-Georgia state line just
south of Chattanoonga, Tenn.
The would-be bandits were described as about 18 years
old dressed in T-shirts and denim trousers.
Agency to close
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
asked the Public Service Commission Thursday for
permission to close down agency service to Ludowici,
contending the agent only does an hhour’s work a day.
Representatives of the southeast Georgia town
contended, however, they were trying to lure new industry
to Ludowici and needed the railroad.
Mayor Clyde Gordon said the town “could never expect
to get industry into the county without this transportation
facility.”
Railroad spokesmen claimed they could save SIO,OOO a
year by shutting down the Ludowici agency and letting the
agent at Walthoursville, seven miles away, handle the
business.
The PSC took the case under advisement
Prison probe pushed
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep. Jack Brinkley, D-Ga.,
joined 21 other congressmen Thursday in sponsoring a
resoultion to create a blue ribbon commission to
investigate prison conditions.
Rep. Seymour Halpern, D-N. Y., principal author of the
bill creating a 15-member commission, said “the
nightmares of Attica and San Quentin and the rumblings
in other prisons are evidence that reform is long
overdue.”
Halperin said the commission would be authorized to
“look into the past and present conditions of our prisons
and make recommendations to improve the system.”
Eight members of the commission would be picked by
Congress and seven by the president but Halperin did not
say what qualifications the members shotfid have.
1-75 report filed
ATLANTA (UPl)—Federal officials have been given a
lengthy report and set of recommendations by the State
Highway Department on proposed routes for extending I
-75 in the Lake Allatoona area.
The path finally recommended by the highway
department and designated as route “T” would cross only
a narrow portion of the lake after travelling north of
Acworth in Cobb County, then roughly parallel U. S. 41 to
the completed portion of the interstate outside Carters
ville.
That plan, according to the report, has been approved
by most of the 23 state, federal and local agencies which
have reviewed it and would have the least effect on the
environment.
Poss top runner for court job
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Republican
Congressman Richard E. Poss of Virginia
appeared in line today for appointment to
one of two U.S. Supreme Court vacancies.
President Nixon’s aides hinted that the
other spot might be filled by the first
woman justice.
A second vacancy on the court occurred
Thursday with the resignation of Justice
John M. Harlan. 11l with cancer of the
spine, Harlan, 72, stepped down after 16
years on the high court
The resignation of Harlan, known as
“the great dissenter,” followed by six days
the resignation of Justice Hugo L. Black,
85. Blade lay critically ill from a stroke
today at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and
officials said the outlook for his recovery
was “poor.”
President Nixon hinted strongly
Thursday night at Poff’s appointment.
At a question and answer session at the
Detroit Economic Club, Nixon said his
choice need not be a judge, as his previous
appointments have been, but could be “a
legislator with experience in the Judiciary
Committee of the House or Senate.”
“That gives you an idea of where I am
leaning,” Nixon said.
Poss, 48, is the second ranking
Republican on the House Judiciary
Committee and is considered an able
constitutional lawyer. He has been
mentioned frequently as a possible
appointee.
But already some opposition had risen to
Poss. The Americans for Democratic Ac
tion charged Poss has a record of
opposition to civil rights legislation.
The ADA’s national director, Leon Shull,
said Poss was a signatory of the Southern
Manifesto in 1956 and would “become the
first justice in more than 20 years to have
declared that segregation is
constitutional.” In Congress, Shull said,
Poss had voted “against every civil rights
bill to come before him.”
The opening salvo against Poss called to
Speaker
sees
cuts
ATLANTA (UPI) - House
Speaker George L. Smith pre
dicted today membership of the
lower chamber would either be
cut to 180 members or be main
tained at 185 members during
the special reapportionment ses
sion.
Smith, in remarks prepared
for delivery at the opening
House session at 11 a.m., said
regardless of what action the
lawmakers take, their’s will be
“a thankless task.”
He said if the House mem
bership is reduced, some law
makers would be unhappy along
with a lot of reformers. On the
other hand, he said, if the mem
bership is retained at its pres
ent level, “those who are deeply
concerned about the length and
breadth of legislative districts
and the further removal of the
representative from his constitu
ents won’t be satisfied...”
He added that holding mem
bership at 195 “means that peo
ple in the most sparsely populat
ed counties will still have to go
farther to see their legislators.”
Smith told the House “our in
mate is ‘one-man, one-vote.’”
The House speaker added that
“no matter what we ourselves
think, it is, unfortunately, not a
burning issue with many of our
people.”
Ginger
aims
at SE
MIAMI (UPI)— Meandering
Hurricane Ginger, a massive
storm the size of Florida,
returned to its birthplace today
and aimed its 75 mile an hour
winds westward toward the
southeastern United States.
The spaceport at Cape
Kennedy was alerted for winds
of 58 mph or higher within the
next 72 hours, assuming the
storm remains on its present
course. Officials said it was too
soon to say whether Ginger
would affect Monday’s launch
of a S2B-million orbiting solar
observatory.
Since blossoming in the
Atlantic about 250 miles north
of the Bahamas islands Sept. 9,
Ginger has cut a huge figure
eight in the central Atlantic
Ocean. It reached the point
wtere it started after buffeting
the British resort island of
Bermuda Thursday with near
hurricane winds.
“Ginger is a large, but not
terribly powerful storm,” Hur
ricane forecaster Gil Clark
said. “Her gale winds cover a
75,000 square mile area, which
is about the size of the state of
Florida.”
After buffeting Bermuda
Thursday, Ginger began absorb
ing most of the circulation of
smaller tropical storm, Janice,
some 1,500 miles to the south.
Then Ginger took off west
southwestward toward the U.S.
mainland.
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mind Nixon’s two earlier, and
unsuccessful attempts to win confirmation
of a Southerner to the Supreme Court. Two
years ago the Senate rejected Nixon’s
Southern nominees, Clement Haynesworth
and G. Harrold Carswell.
The Washington Post said today
Attorney General John N. Mitchell told the
newspaper in an interview Nixon was
“very seriously” considering nominating
a woman to the court
At the same time, the White House
announcement of Harlan’s retirement
carefully avoided saying Nixon was
looking for a man to replace Harlan, as it
did when Black resigned.
Ronald L. Ziegler, the White House press
secretary, said Nixon would try “to find
highly qualified persons for these
positions.”
Mitchell also told the post he thought
Poss was “an outstanding individual” and
would “be great in any job.”
The appointments gave Nixon an
opportunity to continue tailoring the court
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to his strict constructionist philosophy. It
was considered likely he would act quickly
on the appointments. The court convenes
for its fall session Oct 4.
In accepting Harlan’s resignation, Nixon
said history would regard the jurist as
“one of the court’s towering figures.”
Harlan had been a leader of the court’s
conservative minority.
Harlan was appointed to the court by
President Eisenhower on March 28, 1955.
When the liberal group headed by former
Chief Justice Earl Warren gained
ascendancy, Harlan filed dissent after
dissent on court opinions.
Harlan contended restrictions on police
questioning of criminal suspects
represented “poor constitutional law.” He
said the forced reapportionment of state
legislatures put the “basic aspects of state
political systems under the pervasive
overlordship of the federal judiciary.”
But the justice joined the court’s
majority in the 1954 decision ordering
desegregation of schools.
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DETROlT—President Nixon
dropped a strong hint he will
name Rep. Richard E. Poss a
Virginia Republican who once
signed a Southern manifesto
against the Supreme Court’s
school integration ruling, to one
of two vacancies on the high
court bench. Poss is the second
ranking Republican on the
House Judiciary Committee.
(UPI)