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By Quimby Melton
We read a lot these days about
“timing”.
And there is dose kinship bet
ween “timing” and “rhythm”.
Both mean doing something
snoothly and easily.
There is no room for ten
seness, nor nervousness if one
would win — be it in golf, base
ball, football or any other sport.
“Timing” has often been
likened to “being at the right
place at the right time”.
All of which leads Good Even
ing to say that the annual
Chamber of Commerce meeting
Monday night was most enjoy
able he has attended in many
yeas. Every detail was “timed”
and everything moved off
snoothly and enjoyably.
Much of the “timing” of that
meeting was due to the planning
of Dewitt Simonton, executive
vice-president of the Chamber.
In making out the program he
typed, in large letters,
besides each item exactly how
many minutes should be given
to each speaker. And each
speaker adhered to this
“suggestion.” The only person
on the program who was not
allotted a rigid time limitation
was Senator David Grambrell.
And he caught the spirit of the
meeting and held his talk to 22
minutes. And speaking of
perfect timing? Senator Gam
brell had to fly to Washing
ton Monday to be present when
important bills came up for a
vote. His secretary notified the
local Chamber saying the
Senator would be here no later
than 8:00 o’clock. (The schedule
called for him to be introduced
at that hour.) Some were rather
Sceptical about the timing; for
was it not likely his plane
from Washington to Atlanta
could be delayed?
What happened?
The Senator walked into the
banquet hall at 7:40, was in
troduced at 8:10 and kept the
snooth rhythm of the meeting
alive.
The Senator’s talk was inter
esting. It had none of the
features of a “typical” political
speech. He did not seek to
impress his audience — some
350 people — with his oratorical
power; he did not “open fire” on
anyone; he just talked about
what he was trying to do in
Washington and what he
believed was the trend there.
The entire talk, of 22 minutes
was more like a man who had
taken a trip to some place of
interest, telling his homefolk
all about the trip.
The very tone and content of
this talk no doubt made a lot of
friends for the junior Senator.
The only reference he made to
anything political was when he
told of something that happened
in another Georgia city. His
wife had gone before him to that
town, he being delayed in
Washington. Mrs. Gambrell,
terself a gracious person, had
to “pinch hit” for the Senator.
When te finally got to the
meeting, Mrs. Gambrell had
finished her talk, and the
presiding officer, a prominent
Georgia woman, told the
senator how well Mrs. Gambrell
had done and said “in fact she
did so well many here are think
ing of starting a “Mrs. Gam
trell for Senator campaign.”
Since then, the Senator added,
“I have always made it a point
to get to any speaking engage
ment before my wife is called on
to “pinch hit. I don’t want her to
get any ideas about running.
There already are too many
who would like to run for my job
this fall.”
Incoming President Jerry
Savage, outgoing President Lee
Roy Claxton, and master of
ceremonies Homer Sigman, a
former president, all adhered to
the “timing” schedule. Presi
dent Savage summed up the 10
minutes he was allotted by
saying the program for 1972 was
to “improve the quality of the
life of the people of Griffin and
Spalding County.”
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Longtime lawmaker
Hayden dead at 92
MESA, Ariz. (UPI)-Carl
Hayden, the laconic Arizonan
who spent more years in
Congress than any other man,
died Tuesday. He was 94.
Hayden, who served 56 years
in the House of Representatives
and the Senate and was once
third in line for the presidency,
City backs
proposal
on housing
City Commissioners ap
proved a resolution last night
supporting Will Hill Newton,
Jr., in his proposal to construct
multi-family housing in the area
of Boyd’s row and West College
extension.
The resolution was approved
with the provision that a
feasibility study be completed
on the project.
In other business at the 10-
minute session, the com
missioners:
—Approved payment of
$16,011.08 to Milton Construc
tion Company for sewer line
installation.
—Awarded the tire contract
of the city to Hill’s Tire Store for
the year. He was low bidder.
—Approved purchase of a
Loader-Buck hoe for the Light
and Water Department at a cost
of $16,545.65 from Ward Tractor
Company, the low bidder, with a
trade-in allowance of $4,000.
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ATLANTA—Lt Gov. Lester Maddox (1) and Senator Stanley E. Smith, Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Economy, Reorganization and Efficiency in Government (c) and Senator Mayion
K. London (r) a member of the same committee, discuss some of the developments taking in the
legislature. (UPI)
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
died at Southside Hospital here.
He had been a patient since
Dec. 30.
Hayden C. Hayden, one of the
two nephews who are the only
survivors, said Hayden was
admitted for “observation,” but
lapsed into a coma Sunday.
He died at 10:30 p.m. MST
(12:30a.m. today EST), accord
ing to the other nephew, Larry
Hayden of Tucson. With him
were the two nephews and
James Minotto, a long time
friend.
In addition to his 56-year
congressional record, the 41
years Hayden spent in the
Senate is also a longevity
record.
“The Silent Senator”
Dubbed “the silent senator”
by Harry S Truman, Hayden
was president pro tempore of
the Senate before his retire
ment four years ago. That
made him third in line after the
vice president and speaker of
the House to become president
in the event the chief executive
died.
He also served as chairman
of the Senate Appropriations
Committee for 14 years.
Shortly after the assassina
tion of President John F.
Kennedy, Hayden was asked
what he would do if circum
stances actually led to his
becoming president.
“I’d call Congress together,
have the House elect a new
speaker, and then I’d resign
and let him become president,”
Hayden replied.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1972
Nixon points finger
at Hanoi as blocker
By STEWART HENSLEY
UPI Diplomatic Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon, apparently con
cerned over the impact of
continued Vietnam conflict on
his trip to China and on his
chances for re-election, has
unveiled details of secret
negotiations with the Commu
nists to end the Indochina War.
He said the disclosures prove
that Hanoi, not Washington is
blocking peace.
Nixon told the nation in a 24-
minute radio and television
address Tuesday night that in
October he secretly submitted
to the Communist negotiators
at Paris an eight-point peace
plan. It called for a cease-fire
and simultaneous withdrawal of
all UJS. forces and release of
war prisoners over a six-month
period—all within the frame
work of an arrangement
designed to settle all political
issues. But he mentioned no
specific withdrawal date.
He suggested there should be
free elections, internationally
supervised, with participation
by the Viet Cong—and said
South Vietnam’s controversial
president, Nguyen Van Thieu,
was willing to resign one month
before that balloting took place.
Plan Submitted Oct. 11
The plan was submitted to
the Communists Oct. 11 after
Nixon’s national security advi
ser, Henry A. Kissinger, made
12 clandestine trips to Paris.
But Nixon admitted the plan
drew no response from the
North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong, who instead took advan
tage of the secrecy shrouding
the negotiations to condemn the
United States in public for not
making any new suggestions for
ending the conflict.
Although he did not say so,
the President is known to be
concerned about a heavy North
Vietnamese buildup in Laos and
Cambodia along the South
Vietnamese border. The beefing
up indicates the Communists
are planning a main force
assault into the Central High
lands at about the time Nixon
is on his way to Peking,
sources said.
High administration officials
have expressed fear that such
an offensive might undermine
Nixon’s visit to China—and
Nixon Tuesday night appeared
to be trying to head off that
possibility by disclosing his
dealings with Hanoi.
In addition, the speech was
an obvious attempt to prove to
the American electorate—some
of whom, he said, “have
become accustomed to thinking
that whatever our government
says must be false”—that only
Communist resistance, not
American reluctance, is respon
sible for the lengthy conflict. In
particular it was a move to
deprive Democratic presidential
hopefuls of their claim that the
administration had never of
fered to set a definite date for
withdrawal and release of the
prisoners.
Debate Might Continue
But it appeared the political
debate on the war might
continue nonetheless. Reaction
generally fell along party or
ideological lines, some of it
little different than before.
The National Peace Action
Coalition said the American
people don’t want an eight-point
plan “but a one point plan—for
the United States to get out of
Indochina now, lock, stock and
barrel.”
The eight-point plan, which
Nixon said would be offered
publicly once again in Paris on
Thursday, included:
—Total U.S. and allied
withdrawal from South Vietnam
within six months of agree
ment.
—Release of all POWs
concurrent with pullout.
—lnternationally supervised
elections, with resignation of
the Thieu government one
month before balloting and a
pledge of neutrality from the
United States.
—Both sides will respect the
1954 Geneva Agreement on
Indochina and the 1962 Agree
ment on Laos, with no more
foreign intervention in Indochi
na.
Problems Settled
—Future Indochinese prob
lems will be settled by the
countries themselves, with each
nation’s forces remaining be
hind its own frontiers.
—A general cease-fire start
ing when agreement is signed
with no more infiltration from
outside from that date on.
—lnternational supervision of
cease-fire, POW release and
troop withdrawals.
—lnternational guarantee of
the rights of Indochinese
people, the status of all
countries in Indochina and for
lasting peace in the region.
Nixon reached back into the
past to resurrect a promise,
once made by President Lyndon
B. Johnson, that the United
States would supply large scale
economic aid to both North and
South Vietnam once a political
agreement was achieved.
Cong
rejects
Nixon
PARIS (UPl)—The Viet Cong
today officially rejected Pres
ident Nixon’s peace plan as
“electoral propaganda” aimed
only at prolonging the Vietnam
War.
In a formal statement, the
Viet Cong delegation to the
peace conference snubbed the
American eight-point peace
package as designed to “fool
public opinion.”
The Viet Cong charged the
presidential plan was construed
to maintain South Vietnamese
President Nguyen Van Thieu in
power.
“In his statement filled with
election propaganda arguments,
President Nixon, on the one
hand, seeks to cover up the
policy of prolongation and
extension of the war of
aggression pursued by his
administration in the past three
years,” the Viet Cong declara
tion said.
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DALLAS—Mrs. Joy Jeffrey rubs her hands together in nervous anticipation as she and her son
Bill, 7, watch President Nixon. Mrs. Jeffrey, whose husband, Maj. Robert Jeffrey, has been a
prisoner of war for seven years, said “I don’t know whether to feel disappointed or elated” at the
President’s remarks regarding the prisoners of war. (UPI)
Rep. Savage repeats
charges about dorms
ATLANTA (UPI) - Monte
zuma attorney Carl P. Savage
repeated his charge at a public
hearing today that womens’
dormitories at the University of
Georgia are turning into “bud
ding communes.”
But several students who said
they were identified by Savage
in a letter written to legislators
as “dancing drunkenly in the
halls,” claimed there is no
basis for the charge.
University of Georgia presi
dent Fred C. Davison, also at
the hearing, said Savage’s
claims are “totally
exagerated.”
“The charges are without
grounds,” Davison said.
However, Savage was ada
mant and said “there was a
drunken party.” He attacked
the university’s “open house”
rules which allows men to visit
in the womens’ dorms during
Gov. Carter faces
loss of mandate
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gov. Jim
my Carter faced a possible loss
of his “mandate” for reorganiz
ation today.
The House and Senate, rush
ing through a mountain of work
in the final eight days before a
two-week recess, were handed
committee reports which would
restrict Carter’s future power to
carry out additional reorganiza
tion plans.
Committees from both houses
voted Tuesday to repeal the
“reverse veto” feature, which
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“You’ve already made a
mistake when you pass up an
opportunity for fear of making
one.”
certain hours saying “it’s so
wrong. It’ll destroy this state.”
Savage testified at a public
hearing held by the Senate Uni
versity Systems Committee,
chaired by Sen. Ed Zipper er of
Savannah.
The committee also heard
from Student Government pres
ident Pat Swindle who said
“Mr. Savage’s allegations are
based primarily on emotion.
You can’t go to the university
in a sterile environment and
get a complete education.”
In a 27-page letter to mem
bers of the General Assembly,
Savage said he and his wife
had seen male students wan
dering in his daughter’s dormi
tory carrying drinks. He said
today he had seen a tall blonde
girl fall out of the door of her
room completely inebriated.
“She was dog drunk,” said
Savage. “She crawled around
allows proposals for reorganiz
ation of the executive branch to
become law unless vetoed by
the legislature.
The House Rules Committee
erased the veto system in a bill
containing most of the propos
als killed last week by the
House, but retained a reorganiz
ation “mandate” to the govern
or. The Senate Committee on
Economy, Reorganization and
Efficiency in Government voted
to kill the “reverse veto” with
no mention of a “mandate.”
Carter said he would not fight
the repeal moves, favoring the
House version because it keeps
in the “mandate” he considers
so important in further
reorganization work. The hotly
contested veto authority
granted the governor last year
by the lesgiature in House Bill 1
would have continued
throughout his administration.
One outspoken Senate critic
of Carter’s plan said that with- .
out the veto provision, the gov
ernor would no longer be able
to “browbeat” lawmakers,
lawmakers.
The House Rules Committee
offered a new bill setting up the
Department of Human Resourc-
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on the floor but couldn’t get
up. The whole corridor smelled
of alcoholic beverages.”
Savage said he had seen at
least six men participating in
the alleged party.
The attorney moved his
daughter out of the dormitory
into private housing.
Savage said he would not al
low his daughter to remain in
the dormitory because he
feared for her safety.
However one of the coeds
who said she was identified
in Savage’s letter, Carol Mc-
Ghee, said “I have never once
felt unsafe or objected to the
open house rules. Miss Savage’s
boyfriend, as far as we know,
is the only one who had access
to Miss Savage’s room.”
Rep. Chappell E. Matthews,
meanwhile, says his University
System Committee is willing to
investigate the charges.
es with health service, voca
tional rehabilitation and welfare
included. Also proposed was a
Department of Offender Reha
bilitation and a bill affirming
all sections of the reorganiza
tion plan already approved by
House and Senate, heading off
a possible constitutionality fight
in the courts.
The Senate voted to lower the
legal age limit in Georgia to
18, with all the privileges and
responsibilities of those now 21
years old. The bill now goes to
the House where a similar
measure is under consideration.
A Senate proposal to make
the selling of hard drugs pun
ishable on first conviction by
the death penalty was defeated.
The House approved a pro
posed constitutional amendment
to allow cities and counties to
combine their services without
a referendum. If it passed the
Senate, the people will vote on
it next November.
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