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Forecast farmer 1 22 I I* E GOOD VENIN VF I ■*’ By Quimby Melton l o —■■■ 1 U 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.” b|L “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 Cattle poisoned in Pike County |r .QF ' ar ** V'"' a f J9* f W. ? \v, fe.ll wKrMrflu 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 Charts on page 19 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 bkv/Qt poll DAILY 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- (Continued on Page 3.) 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. (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) Vol. 100 NO. 69 ' . fc L ■ • v tip MB ’ J - bi Ip *A, r t kWw '(ls , j9Ei Hfl y . iff** 9 '// A iMM F /I Ju z * i nflß ■ 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 Inside Tip Lawman See Page 7 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.