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McGovern heavy favorite
tn California, New Jersey
I LOS ANGELES (UPI) -
leorge S. McGovern, dismissed
I a fringe candidate only three
lon ths ago, today was heavily
ivored to win the crucial
blifornia primary. A solid
Ictory could trigger a steam
lller leading to McGovern’s
bmination as the Democratic
residential candidate.
[McGovern was expected to
[feat Sen. Hubert H. Hum
prey in a head-to-head colli
bn between the two leading
[ndi dates for the nomination
nd possibly put to an end, for
P time, the former vice
[esident’s hopes of becoming
[esident.
McGovern also was favored
turn back Humphrey in the
pw Jersey and New Mexico
esidential primaries and was
[opposed in his home state of
kith Dakota.
At stake in the four primaries
ps a rich harvest of 415
[legates to the national
[nvention, opening July 10 in
[ami Beach, and McGovern
hs certain of adding to his
pding total of 516.5 votes. It
kes 1,509 to win the nomina
m.
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Winner Takes All
The winner takes all 271
delegate votes out of Califor
nia; New Jersey’s 109 delegate
votes are apportioned among
the winners in congressional
districts; in New Mexico, the
top two finishers split the
state’s 18 delegate votes; and
McGovern has South Dakota’s
17 locked up.
Although the California pri
mary was considered mostly a
McGovern-Humphrey show
down, George C. Wallace has
mounted a major write-in
campaign.
Wallace, paralyzed from the
waist down by the bullets of a
would-be assassin, launched a
massive media blitz and sent to
California his wife, Cornelia,
and his son, George Jr., to
campaign on his behalf.
Two other candidates on the
ballot, former Sen. Eugene J.
McCarthy and Los Angeles
Mayor Sam Yorty, gave up
their personal campaigns. Yor
ty endorsed Humphrey Monday
and McCarthy threw his
support to McGovern.
Also on the ballot are Rep.
Shirley Chisholm, who has
campaigned in California only
sporadically; Sai. Edmund S.
Muskie, once the favorite who
pulled out of all primaries after
disastrous defeats in Massa
chusetts and Pennsylvania; and
New York Mayor John Lindsay,
who bowed out after the
Wisconsin primary.
Nixon Assured
President Nixon was assured
of clinching the Republican
presidential nomination by
sweeping the California prima
ry. He already has 633 delegate
votes of the 674 needed for
nomination and California will
provide him with 96 more.
Supremely confident of win
ning, McGovern campaigned
only half a day in California in
the 24 hours before the polls
opened, visiting defense work
ers south of Los Angeles and
holding a rally in San Diego.
Then he boarded his char
tered jet for two brief
appearances in New Mexico—
Administration wants congress
to concentrate on less spending
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The
administration wants Congress
to give up plans to try to
overhaul the tax structure this
year and concentrate instead on
reducing government spending.
Spokesmen for President
Nixon said Monday a lid on
spending would blunt inflation,
reduce unemployment and—
perhaps—bring an end to
government economic controls.
Charts E. Walker, acting
Treasury secretary, and George
P. Shultz, U.S. budget director
who has been nominated by
Nixon to be the new Treasury
secretary, outlined administra
tion economic policy in an
appearance before the House
Ways and Means Committee.
The committee took up an
administration request for an
increase in the national debt
ceiling from $450 billion to $465
billion. House liberals hope to
tack tax reform legislation on
the debt limit bill.
Walker said he believed that
the matter of tax reform
“should be dealt with in the
next Congress.”
Rep. Wilbur Mills, D-Ark.,
Ways and Means chairman,
told the administration earlier
this year it should come up
with tax reform recommenda
tions before the current $450
billion debt limit authority
expires at the end of this month
or face congressionally drafted
tax reform.
Since that time, Mills intro
duced his own reform bill,
which would repeal 54 so-called
individual and business tax
deductions and exemptions.
the only presidential candidate
to personally campaign there—
and flew on to Houston to meet
with Democratic governors
assembled there.
In sharp contrast, Humphrey
campaigned up and down the
California coast, still full of
enthusiasm and hoping that
lightning would strike despite
polls which showed him trailing
McGovern by 20 percentage
points.
Humphrey challenged Mc-
Govern to a series of television
“debates” and they held three.
Humphrey asked McGovern for
a fourth face-to-face confronta
tion on election eve but
McGovern flew to New Mexico
and Texas instead, saying the
voters “have had enough of
these debates.”
HARRY S. TRUMAN
Harry S. Truman, 33rd pres
ident, was born on May 8, 1884.
Liberals want Mills to include
this in a new debt bill but Mills
said Monday he did not favor
this approach, and that he
wants his measure to stand on
its own.
Walker and Shultz said
Congress should agree with
Nixon on a binding law to limit
Ray confident Nixon
can carry Georgia
‘Attorney’
pleads
insanity
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) — A
Stone Mountain man who al
legedly practiced law under an
assumed name and without cre
dentials pleaded insanity as a
defense to criminal charges
against him Monday.
Alton Clarence Craft, who al
legedly practiced as John E.
Pope, also said that he was in
nocent of the charges — three
counts of unlawful practice of
law and three counts of theft by
deception.
In one of a handful of motions
filed in State Court of DeKalb
County, Craft’s lawyer said “at
all times within an undeter
mined number of years preced
ing the offense for which he is
herewith charged, that he was
suffering with mental deficiency
and psychotic disorders, which
impelled him to do acts for
which there was no reason or
justification, and to do acts
which were beyond his mental
abilities to repress or con
trol...”
Another motion contended
Craft was innocent of theft by
deception because, when he re
ceived legal fees from three
clients, he “did render the serv
ices contracted for” and had
“no intent to defraud.”
The mothers, including one to
dismiss the charges will be
heard by Judge Oscar Mitchell
on June 23.
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Sen. George McGovern is expected to win primaries in
California, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota
today. Those victories would give him about two-thirds of the
spending in the next fiscal year
that starts July 1, to $246.3
billion. The spending rate for
the current fiscal year is
already at $250 billion they
noted, and not all the bills are
in.
Asked if the spending lid
were enacted whether wage and
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
man who will direct President
Nixon’s re-election campaign in
Georgia says he’s confident the
President can withstand a chal
lenge by Alabama Gov. Geor
ge Wallace among the state’s
voters in November.
Jack Ray, former state treas
urer and one-time Democrat,
said it is still too early to tell
what the effect will be on Nix
on’s chances in Georgia if Wal
lace takes the Democratic pres
idential nomination or runs as
a third party candidate.
However, Ray insisted it would
not be an overwhelming effect,
indicating he would not concede
Wallace could carry Georgia
against Nixon.
Ray’s appointment was an
nounced Monday at the head
quarters of the Committee for
the Re-election of the President
by former Attorney General
John Mitchell, Nixon’s national
campaign director. Undersec
retary of Agriculture Phil
Campbell, who joined Ray and
several other prominent Georgi
ans in moving from the Demo
cratic to the Republican Party
in 1968, was also present at
Ray’s news conference.
He praised Ray as a farmer
“who know the problems of
Georgia farmers” and also
knows the needs of the business
community.
Ray, Campbell, former State
Comptroller Jimmy Bentley and
GOLD STANDARD
On Jan. 12,1897, the National
Monetary Conference meeting
in Indianapolis endorsed the
gold standard.
price controls could be lifted,
Shultz said, “We are as anxious
as anyone else to end the
controls but we cannot say
definitely when we will because
of the damaging speculation
that would set in and defeat all
the successes we’ve had so far
in cutting back inflation.”
State Public Service Commis
sioners Crawford Pilcher and
Alpha Fowler all left the Demo
cratic party together in protest
of national party policies and
became Republicans.
They were referred to as the
“clique” and exerted an influ
ence on state politics.
Ray spoke enthusiastically of
President Nixon’s first-term pol
icies at the news conference,
said he was assured of winning
the Republican nomination and
would carry the state in the
General Election.
Asked if Nixon’s stand on bus
ing was strong enough to help
the Republicans win votes, Ray
replied, “Certainly.”
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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, June 6,1972
delegate votes needed to win the Democratic presidential
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