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I jj972 will probably be the most
cresting — to say the least —
I I yssidential election year our
I -don has ever known. In fact it
I Sy be the “zaniest” year, for
I /thing can happen.
I ? or instance:
I Just when it appeared that
I :nator Edmund Muskie was
I ■t of the picture as a candidate
• the Democratic nomination
• President he “made a come
ck”. Following his disap
fl tinting races in the New
afunpshire and Florida primar
■ it was predicted the one
U :ld Tuesday in Illinois would
I put the icing on the cake” —a
Ike of bitter disappointment
] was generally coceded
I fcnator Eugene McCarthy
<ould deliver the knockout
I inch. But what happened? The
rimary showed Muskie
ceived 63 percent of the vote
id McCarthy 37.
The Illinois Democratic pri
| lary also had its “zany” angle,
n addition to the primary race
I Ifetween the two Senators —
fuskie and McCarthy — there
vas another place on the ballot
vhere to vote for delegates to
he party convention. Sixty
I vere chosen that were pledged
I r considered favorably in-
I dined to Muskie and 14 to
I McGovern, another Senator
I figuring in the Illinois primary.
I There also were 80 “Daley
I Delegates” who go “unin-
I structed”. That means, in spite
I of reforms the party has an-
I nounced, that they will vote as
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley
orders.
Ilf there was any sizeable
write in vote for Alabama
I Governor George Wallace there
was no mention of it in the news
from ILLINOIS. And evidently
there was little or no write in for
Hubert Humphrey.
One friend, with whom we
were discussing the primary
believes the confusion, and hard
fighting of all the presently an-
I nounced candidates will result
in a stalemate and predicts
“Senator Edward Kennedy will
be “drafted” to run and will
“bow to the will of the party”.
This, we believe, will split the
, present Democratic party wide
open.
And while we’re talking about
a politics and the Presidential
* campaigns, evidently the
Republicans plan to campaign
seriously in Georgia. And they
are sending their “advance”
troops in.
Today* Mrs. Martha Mitchell,
outspoken wife of the former
* attorney general who now is
managing the Nixon campaign,
is visiting Atlanta. Mrs. Mit
chell is always interesting and
conveys the idea that she is
“telling it like it is.” This is a
rather unusual approach for the
> wife of a cabinet member.
Tomorrow Mrs. “Pat” Nixon
will meet with Republican
women at Callaway Gardens
and then will go to Atlanta for a
reception. Mrs. Nixon and her
charming manner will tend to
smooth any ruffled spirits Mrs.
Mitchell may have aroused.
And Saturday Mrs. Elinor
Isabel (Judy) Agnew, wife of
the Vice President, will play the
role of “follow up man.”
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“A moment of joy can provide
years of happiness if we don’t
destroy it with a wild bant for
) greater joy.”
Easter is next week; shop in Griffin
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THREE TO MAKE READY for their coming mission visit the Apollo 16 launching
pad at Cape Kennedy. Left to right, Charles M. Duke, lunar module pilot; Thomas
K. Mattingly, command module pilot, and John W. Young, mission commander. In
the background, the Saturn V vehicle that will lift them off April 16.
Tractor kills man in Lamar
BARNESVILLE, Ga. -
Robert Pixley, 32, of Lamar
County was killed yesterday
around noon when a tractor
overturned on him.
He was clearing sone land
where he had just moved into a
mobile home near Barnesville.
Harry Pippins, Lamar County
coroner, said Mr. Pixley ap
parently died at the scene. He
was working alone and his wife
apparently discovered the
accident.
How to soften bite on your pay check
By RAY DE CRANE
Despite the wage freeze
and the 5(6 per cent wage
increase guidelines of the
Pay Board, it is possible to
increase your take-home pay
without obtaining cumber
some approval.
It’s accomplished by re
ducing the deductions on
your pay check. Any time
the deductions go down, the
amount you have left for
yourself increases.
It is now a well-known
story that the withholding
tax deductions from pay
checks last year were in
adequate. The Treasury
Department attempted to
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Muskie leads in Biossat poll
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON - (NEA)
—A shaken Sen. Edmund
Muskie may never again
reach so high a water mark,
but with 1509 votes needed
for nomination he has piled
up a potential of 1282 l 6
votes in the first 1972 NEA-
National Observer D e m o
cratic Box Score on the pres
idency, known as The Bi
ossat Poll.
The 50-s ta t e telephone
canvass by Bruce Biossat,
NEA’s Washington Bureau
Chief, was conducted before
and during
the period of
the Florida
primary
which struck
a hard blow
at Muskie
by thrusting
him to fourth
place in a big
the
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Daily Since 1872
The mishap occurred about a
quarter of a mile off the
Meansville road near Barnes
ville.
Mr. Pixley was born in
Fairfield, lowa. He was em
ployed by the FAA in Hampton
for the past two and one half
years. He served in the U.S.
Marine Corps and was a
member of the United Brethen
Church in Des Moines, lowa.
Mr. Pixley lived in Jonesboro
for a year and a half before
rectify last year’s mistakes
on this year’s new withhold
ing tax tables.
They have overcorrected:
now they are taking out too
much.
This comes as no surprise
to most people who won
dered what happened to
their pay stub this year.
Despite the widely ac
claimed income tax cuts for
1972, the amount of tax be
ing withheld from earnings
has seemingly skyrocketed.
Again Internal Revenue is
attempting to make correc
tions.
IRS recommends that you
claim all the withholding ex-
field dominated by the sur
prising Gov. George Wallace.
This count, to be followed
by others in the weeks lead
ing to the Democrats’ July
10 convention at Miami
Beach, placed Sen. Hubert
Humphrey a distant second
with 402 votes. His very
modest runner-up showing
in Florida has not yet
boosted his delegate poten
tial materially.
Sen George McGovern
scores third with 287(6
votes, Wallace fourth with
220, Sen. Henry Jackson
fifth with 102, New York
Mayor John Lindsay sixth
with a mere 42.
About a hundred more are
tied to lesser candidates like
Rep. Wilbur Mills, Rep.
Shirley Chisholm, first black
woman candidate, and
lumped with huge blocks of
uncommitted in a broad
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, Mar. 23, 1972
moving to Meansville.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Janet Houston Pixley of
Meansville; and his mother,
Mrs. Lucille Reynolds Pixley of
Conyers.
Funeral services will be
conducted Saturday afternoon
at 2 o’clock from the chapel of
Haisten Funeral Home in
Barnesville. Burial will be in
Green Meadows cemetery in
Conyers.
emptions to which you are
entitled. In the past a work
er entitled to four exemp
tions frequently would claim
only three exemptions for
withholding. In that way he
was sure he would have
enough tax credits at the
end of the year to pay his
total income tax bill
This is no longer neces
sary. IRS claims that the
new withholding tax rates
are adjusted so that single
employes earning up to $25,-
000 a year and married em
ployes, whose spouses are
not also employed, with
earnings up to $31,000 a year
can generally expect to have
their full tax withheld.
category totaling 680 votes.
Included was California’s
271 to be assigned on a win
ner-take-all basis in the
state’s June 6 primary.
In this and subsequent
surveys, Biossat taps the
best political judgments he
can find in the various
states. As the campaign ad
vances, the holding of pri
maries and state conven
tions will “harden” these
counts and reduce the ele
ment of educated guesswork
they necessarily contain.
This first review caught
the Democratic leadership
and electorate at a cross
roads puzzled by front-run
ner Muskie’s too-mild tri
umph in New Hampshire
and his stiff Florida reverse,
but generally unwilling yet
to believe that he is marked
for collapse. The correct
thing to say, from this can-
NEWS
The Pike County Sheriff’s
Department and Georgia
Bureau of Investigation are
investigating the arsenic
poisoning of a herd of cattle in
Pike County. The herd is owned
by Melvin Minter of Meansville.
By around 9 p.m. last night, 16
cows were dead and several
others were near death. Sheriff
J. Astor Riggins said that
Minter had put the herd into two
adjoining pastures he was
renting from his aunt, Mrs.
Flossie Gibson. The land is
located about nine miles south
west of Zebulon off the Kings
road.
The sheriff said that someone
had mixed some 50 to 75 pounds
of arsenic and sweet feed and
had poured the mature in rows
about eight feet long and 10
inches wide into the two
pastures.
He said that Minter noticed
the first sick cow Tuesday. It
died shortly after the vet
arrived. Yesrerday he found 12
dead and by last night the toll
had reached 16.
GBI Agent Mike Carothers
was called and samples of the
feed were sent to Auburn
University and the State Crime
Lab in Atlanta. Both confirmed
that arsenic was in the mixture.
The sheriff said that serum
had been rushed to the farm,
but it may have arrived too late
to save any of the animals.
The herd contained around 40
cows of Black Angus and
Hereford breeds. The sheriff
said that Minter had purchased
some of the cows a few days
ago.
Lawmen estimate the poison
was put out sometime after last
Saturday.
Now it is possible to claim
even more withholding ex
emptions than you actually
have. A "special withholding
allowance” is now available
if you earn less than those
previously stated limits.
Furthermore, an “addi
tional withholding allow
ance” can also be claimed
if itemized deductions are
substantially larger than the
standard deduction. For 1972
the standard deduction is 15
per cent of adjusted gross
income but not more than
$2,000.
These additional allow-
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vass, is that the massive,
well-structured Muskie cam
paign edifice is badly jarred
and loosened but is still hold
ing.
The consensus is that
Muskie must quickly begin
to do well in the primaries
and the other tests just
ahead, and that he surely
will crumble if he does not.
Humphrey is the man
viewed as the almost auto
matic fall-back choice, but
that idea is resisted in some
quarters. McGovern is given
no chance. Wallace worries
the party but has no chance,
Ted Kennedy is a potential
alternative not yet talked
about very much.
Democrats want to choose
Muskie if he will only per
form well enough so they
can. They fear they may
flounder without him.
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ATLANTA—Lt Gov. Lester Maddox took a fast tour around the capital block on his mount, a
sporty motorcycle. Although he was not at the controls, as he is here, he did get enough of the feel
of the bike to say he would ride one again soon by himself. The lieutenant governor joined the cycle
set briefly enough to get the ride from a stunt man visiting Maddox’s office.
U. S. threatens
to boycott talks
PARIS (UPI)-The United
States told the Vietnamese
Communists today it will not
return to the negotiating table
unless they show willingness in
advance to engage in “mea
ningful” talks on war and peace
issues.
U.S. Ambassador William J.
Porter told North Vietnam and
the Viet Cong he will boycott
next week’s meeting and agree
to meet them only when they
indicate through various chan
nels, including liaison officers,
their readiness to hold “serious
discussions.”
The American move, promp
tly backed by the South
Vietnamese delegation, ap
peared to be a threat to
suspend indefinitely the dead
locked three-year-old Vietnam
peace conference.
The talks have fallen into a
familiar pattern—U.S. demands
that the North Vietnamese
discuss the freeing of American
prisoners of war and Commu
nist counter-charges that the
United States is escalating the
air war while talking peace in
Paris.
No progress has been report
ed in nearly three years of
negotiation since the original
agreement on the shape of the
conference table, and both sides
have boycotted the talks for
various reasons. The last
American boycott was to
protest a Communist walkout.
Today’s session started off in
familiar pattern. Porter once
again called for North Vietnam
to peimit impartial inspection
of the POW camps and the
Communists refused on grounds
the request was merely a
maneuver in President Nixon’s
bid for re-election.
Abusive language
law is overturned
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Over
the vigorous dissent of two jus
tices, the Supreme Court today
found unconstitutionally vague
and overbroad a Georgia law
barring “abusive language”
that tends to cause a breach of
the peace.
Justice William J. Brennan
Jr. spoke for the court. Justices
Lewis F. Powell Jr. and Wil
liam H. Rehnquist, who were
not on the bench when the case
was argued, did not participate.
The case concerned the activi
ties at any Army induction cen
ter in Atlanta of Johnny C. Wil
son, a former Student Nonvio
lent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) worker who is now
serving time in the Federal
Youth Correctional Institution
at Tallahassee, Fla.
Wilson was one of a group of
persons picketing the building
on Aug. 18, 1966 with signs op
posing the Vietnam War.
When police officers asked
them to move so that inductees
could get in, a scuffle ensued.
Wilson was charged with say
ing such things as “White son
of-a-bitch, I’ll kill you,” and
“You son-of-a-bitch, if you ever
put your hands on me again,
I’ll cut you all to pieces.”
The law says that “any per
son who shall, without provoca
tion, use to or of another, and
in his presence ... opprobrious
words or abusive language,
tending to cause a breach of
the peace ... Shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor.”
Brennan said Georgia state
courts have not sufficiently nar
rowed the meaning of the law
so that it is in conformity with
a line of U.S. Supreme Court
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opinions on the subject of free
speech.
The high court has held that
in order not to be protected by
the First Amendment, the lan
guage used must be “fighting”
words “which by their very ut
terance ... tend to incite an
immediate breach of the
peave.”
Brennan said “it matters not
that the words (Wilson) used
might have been constitution
ally prohibited under a nar
rowly and precisely drawn sta
tute.”
“The statute must be care
fully drawn or be autorita
tively construed to punish only
unprotected speech and not be
susceptible of application to pro
teced expression,” he said. “...
The separation of legitimate
from illegitimate speech calls
for more sensitive tools than
Georgia has supplied.”
Chief Justice Warren E. Bur
ger and Justice Harry A. Black
mun each wrote a dissent call
ing the ruling “strange” and
“bizarre.”
“The court makes a mechani
cal and, I suggest, insensitive,
application of the overbreadth
doctrine today,” Burger said.
The Brennan opinion upheld a
ruling by the sth U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, which invali
dated the law on Aug. 19, 1970.
The circuit court was affirming
a 1969 ruling to the same effect
by UJS. District Judge Sidney
O. Smith Jr. of Atlanta.
Wilson, a black, also was sen
tenced to three and a half years
on federal charges stemming
from the same demonstration.
That is the time he is now serv
ing.