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i By Quimby Melton
President Nixon’s nomination
1 of Lewis Powell, a former
President of the American Bar
Association, and William Reh
. mquist, assistant U. S. Attorney
General, for seats on the
Supreme Court has started
tongues to wagging.
Up until the President stood
before the michrophone and
nominated the two there had
been many who predicted a
woman Judge Mildred Lillie
and a Southerner Judge Her*
schel Friday, of Arkansas
> would be nominated. But a
critical report from the Ameri
can Bar Association on both
blocked them, the President
' later explained.
Later President Nixon,
speaking to a meeting of
Republican women said he
knew they were disappointed
“as was my wife” that a woman
was not nominated. But he
< “vowed” a woman would be
named to the bench. However,
he could not say whether this
would be during his term or
' terms in the White House —for
there must be a vacancy before
any additional judges can be
v named.
Anyway “developments”
bring to mind other times when
the Supreme Court and the
• President were in the spotlight.
For instance, there has been
at least one President of the
United States who after he left
the White House became Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court.
This was William Howard Taft.
Taft started his public career
as a Justice of the Supreme
Court of his native state, Ohio.
He then served as Solicitor
General of the U. S.; then as
Judge of a U. S. Circuit Court.
He was then appointed Gover
nor of The Philippines, and was
elected President in 1909. How
ever in the 1912 election Taft,
opposed by the man who had
played an important part in his
election four years before,
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, a
candidate on the Progressive
Party ticket, lost to Woodrow
Wilson.
Taft returned to the practice
of law and in 1921 became Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court,
being nominated by President
Harding. Taft resigned in 1930
because of ill health.
Another interesting thing
about Presidents and Supreme
Court Judges.
Charles Evans Hughes, after
serving as Governor of New
York, in 1910 was appointed a
„ Justice of the Supreme Court by
President William Howard
Taft.
One of the greatest surprises
f in American politics during the
first quarter of this century
came when Justice Charles
Evans Hughes in 1916 resigned
' to run against President
Woodrow Wilson. It was
predicted he would “win easily”
not only was he popular in the
East but he had a tremendous
following on the West Coast,
especially in California.
But something backfired.
Hughes ran so well in the east
that there was no doubt but
returns from California would
add to his margin of victory.
New York papers carried big
headlines “Hughes Wins.” And
President Wilson was preparing
a statement congratulating
Hughes and acknowling his
victory. But Wilson decided to
> go to bed and wait till morning.
Next rikorning Wilson was
told ne had carried California
and had been elected to a
second term. Hughes retired
from the spotlight but in 1930
was nominated by Herbert
Hoover and served on the U. S.
Supreme Court during the first
two terms of Franklin D. Roose
velt.
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Scene of historic vote.
Supreme Court
lets Pontiac
busing stand
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Supreme Courtjefused today to
disturb a massive school busing
order in troubled Pontiac,
Mich., where white and black
parents and their children have
clashed over desegregation and
the Ku Klux Klan was linked to
bus bombings.
In a brief order without
comment, the court refused to
review a Feb. 17,1970, ruling of
U.S. District Judge Damon J.
Keith, which later was upheld
by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Although there was no formal
segregation policy in the auto
making city, Keith ordered half
its 25,000 children bused. He
held that the school board
“intentionally utilized” its pow
er to perpetuate existing
segregation created by housing
patterns.
Heretofore, desegregation
considered by the high court
has been “de jure”—that is,
imposed by law.
The other kind is “de facto”
—brought about by housing
patterns that create all-black
schools in ghettoes like New
York City’s Harlem. The court
has passed up chances to
examine it over several years
in cases from Gary, Ind.,
Cincinnati and Kansas City.
| Cleanup drive
| set Saturday
The Griffin Kiwanis Club Scout Committee is
g conjunction with the Red Pine Association Girl Scouts and
g Towaliga District Boy Scouts has completed plans for a
county-wide roadside cleanup.
$ Scouting chairman Dale H. Carley announced that
8 Saturday Nov. 6 has been set as cleanup day. An
S estimated 400 Scouts and leaders are expected to
8 participate.
Chairman Carley asked that residents driving on county
roads that day to be on the lookout for cleanup units that
will be spread throughout the county.
He asked that everyone drive by the collection point at
the Kiwanis Fairgrounds on Saturday to see the results of
8 the effort drive.
Scouts and Kiwanis members hope that all residents
:£ will take pride in their roadsides and will help keep them
clean.
GRIFFIN
DAI EVWN EWS
Daily Since 1872
County worker today began razing the old building behind the Spalding County jail to make way
for a new one to house clerical staff for the county. The old building, not in use for several years,
used to house the jail. Later it was the home for the welfare department and then the Farmers
Home Administration. County Commissioners said to repair the building would cost more than to
replace it The new structure will house some of the staffs now in the crowded Spalding
Courthouse.
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“You can afford to make
mistakes with your money —
but not with your time.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 1971
Dr. Venable
M-H speaker
Dr. John Venable, state direc
tor of the Georgia Department
of PubUc Health, will speak
tomorrow night at the Griffin-
Spalding County Mental Health
Association’s annual dinner
meeting. He will be introduced
by Lee Roy Claxton. The
smorgasbord affair will be at
the Holiday Inn at 7:30 p.m.
Miss Gail Bilderback, presi
dent of the local chapter, invited
Griffin and Spalding citizens to
join the association.
Reservations may be made
by calling Mrs. Ellen Cox at the
Spalding County Health Depart
ment.
Statistics show that in this
county one of every ten persons
is in need of immediate
psychiatric help. More Spalding
Countians are in hospitals
suffering from mental illness
that from cancer, polio, heart
disease, and all other physical
ailments combined, the
association said.
Any health problem as
serious and extensive as this,
demands the interest of respon
sible community members,
Miss Bilderback added.
Mental health authorities
estimate that the number of
Dr. Venable
patients now under custodial
care can be reduced by 50 per
cent or more within the next 20
years with the development of
community-based treatment
facilities. Adequate community
care also can reduce drastically
the need for admission to
mental hospitals and can work
toward the prevention of mental
and emotional illnesses.
Vol. 99 NO. 254
By BRUCE W. MUNN
UNITED NATIONS (UPI)-
The United Nations voted
overwhelmingly Monday night
to seat Communist China and
expel the Nationalists, a move
that dealt the United States its
worst diplomatic defeat in the
26-year history of the U.N.
There was no immediate
comment from Peking, and the
impact was first felt today in
Geneva where Communist Chi
nese officials repeated their
demands for a world summit
conference to discuss disar
mament.
There was anger and dismay
in Washington where Sens.
Peter Dominick, R-Colo., and
Janes Buckley, R-C-N.Y., began
mapping an attempt to cut
American financial support for
the United Nations. Currently
the United States pays about 35
per cent of U.N. expenses—far
greater than any other nation.
The decision stunned Teipei.
The government had expected
the move but the people were
surprised and their first
thoughts were of survival of the
island nation coveted by the
mainland Chinese as a province
of China. Some expressed fear
of an eventual Communist
takeover.
There were no Nationalist
government statements. Taipei
was content to rest on the
farewell statement of Foreign
Minister Chow Shu-kai who
dramatically led the Nationa
lists out of the assembly before
the crushing 76 to 35 vote, with
17 abstentions.
He said the world body which
Nationalist China helped found
in 1945 had become “a circus.”
Then he staged a walkout of
such dignity that the assembly
gave him a spontaneous ova
tion.
While the United Nations was
voting, Communists in Peking
were celebrating the 21st
anniversary of the entry of
more than one million Chinese
“volunteers” into North Korea
to battle troops of the United
Nations command. There was
no mention of the United
Nations at the banquet given by
the North Koreans but only
denunciations of “U.S. aggres
sion.”
Throughout Europe the reac
tion was about the same—that
Peking had at last gained its
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UNITED NATIONS—Empty for the first time in 26 years are the seats of the Nationalist China
delegation, in the General Assembly here late last night minutes before the assembly voted to seat
Communist China in their place. As a face-saving measure, the Nationalist quit the U.N. prior to
the final vote. (UPI)
“rightful place” in the United
Nations, the same reaction that
came from the Soviet news
agency Tass. And there was a
general belief that world power
politics would change and
change drastically with China
representing 700 million per
sons. But how, only the future
could tell.
Inside the great assembly
hall of the United Nations the
normally staid body erupted
into the closest thing to
pandemonium since Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev pounded a
table with his shoe during a
boisterous 1960 session.
Tanzanian Ambassador Salim
Ahmed Salim, wearing a black
tunic buttoned to the throat,
leaped to his feet and did a
victory dance. Across the hall,
UJS. Ambassador George Bush
sat glumly, the United States’
21-year-fight to prevent the
seating of Red China at an end.
A “moment of infamy”, Bush
called it.
In the end, it was a group of
undecided nations which
brought the American diploma
tic defeat. Fifteen of them
abstained on the vote by which
the United States sought to
have the expulsion of Nationa
list China declared an “impor
tant question” which would
require a two-thirds vote. That
vote lost 55 to 59 and the
seating of mainland China
became a certainty. Among
those abstaining were such
allies as Italy, the Netherlands,
Laos, Turkey ...
U.N. Secretary General Thant
immediately sent a cablegram
to Peking informing the Chi
nese government it officially
was a member of the world
body. There was no immediate
reaction from China, whose
population is estimated at 730
million, but speculation in the
United Nations was that Huang
Hua, a topflight diplomat
assigned to Ottawa by the
Peking government earlier this
year, might come from Canada
to take over the China seat.
The decision was foresha
dowed an hour earlier when the
General Assembly defeated, 59
to 55 with 15 abstentions, the
U.S. resolution requiring a two
thirds vote to expel the
Nationalists. It was a last-ditch
American effort to save a seat
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UNITED NATIONS (UPI)—
Following is the roll call vote
on the U.N. General Assembly
resolution sponsored by Albania
and 22 other countries to seat
Communist China and expel the
Chinese Nationalists:
For (76): Afghanistan, Alba
nia, Algeria, Austria, Belgium,
Bhutan, Botswana, Bulgaria,
Burma, Burundi, Byelorussia,
Cameroon, Canada, Ceylon,
Chile, Cuba, Czechoslovakia,
Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt,
Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia,
Finland, France, Ghana, Gui
nea, Guyana, Hungary, Iceland,
India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Kenya, Kuwait,
Laos, Libya, Malaysia, Mali,
Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia,
Morocco, Nepal, the Nether
lands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakis
tan, People’s Democratic Re
public of Yemen, People’s
Republic of Congo, Peru,
Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
Singapore, Somalia, Sudan,
Sweden, Syria, Togo, Trinidad
and Tobaco, Tunisia, Turkey,
Uganda, Ukraine, Soviet Union,
United Kingdom, Tanzania,
Yemen, Yugoslavia and Zam
bia.
Against (35): Australia, Boli
via, Brazil, Central African
Republic, Chad, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Costa Rica,
Dahomey, Dominican Republic,
El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia,
Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,
Ivory Coast, Japan, Khmer
(Cambodia), Lesotho, Liberia,
Madagascar, Malawi, Malta,
New Zealand, Nicaragua, Ni
ger, Paraguay, Philippines,
Saudi Arabia, South Africa,
Swaziland, United States, Upper
Volta, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Abstentions (17): Argentina,
Bahrain, Barbados, Colombia,
Cyprus, Fifi, Greece, Indonesia,
Jamaica, Jordan, Lebanon,
Luxembourg, Mauritius, Pana
ma, Qatar, Spain and Thailand.
Absent (3):(Nationalist) Chi
na, Maldives, Oman.