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H By Quimby Melton
■■ext Wednesday, June 14, is
|Mional Flag Day. An article
fßir Flag” published in the
IHrgia Elks News will help
|Biind all of us what Our Flag
»Hans and why we should
IBject it and all for which it
■ids.
publishing this article the
■■tors of the Georgia Elks
■■vs gives credit to the Toledo,
180, Elks Club’s bulletin to
■mbers.
gllere is the article:
Woe Jia/
that a government of the people,
people, for the people shall oof
perish from the earth.”
|Bome people call me Old
|Bry, others call me the Star
Banner, but whatever
■■y call me, I am your Flag,
||l Flag of the United States of
■■erica. Something has been
me, so I thought I
Ught talk it over with you,
|®ause it is about you and me.
Il remember some time ago
lined up on both sides of
|l street to watch the parade
■1 naturally I was leading
parade, proudly waving
||he breeze. When your daddy
me coming, he immedia
!■ removed his hat and placed
his left shoulder so
{■t his hand was directly over
rl heart. . .remember?
you. . . I remember you,
Minding there straight as a
You didn’t have a hat,
you were giving the right
■ute. Remember little sister?
!■ to be outdone, she was
■uting the same as you with
!■ right hand over her heart.. .
■n ember?
■vhat happened? I’m still the
■ne old Flag. Oh, I have a few
■re stars since you were a
■/. A lot more blood has been
■d since those parades of long
■tot now I don’t feel as proud
■ used to. When I come down
■ir street you just stand there
■h your hands in your pockets
■j I may get a small glance
■ then you look away. Then I
■> the children running around
■ shouting— they don’t seem
■know who I am. I saw one
■n take his hat off then look
■und. He didn’t see anybody
"I'e with theirs off so he quickly
It his back on!
Is it a sin to be patriotic any
■re? Have you forgotten what
■land for and where I’ve been?
■zio, Guadalcanal, Korea and
la' Viet Nam. Take a look at
■ memorial honor rolls, some
|ie, of those who never came
■rk to keep this Republic free,
line Nation Under God. . . ”
l.ien you salute me, you are
■tually saluting them.
I Veil, it won’t be long until I’ll
H| coming down your street
lain. So, place you right hand
I er your heart — and I’ll salute
■ u by waving back. And I’ll
low that YOU REMEMBER!
■ IT FLyING!
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
y low today 64, high yesterday
, low yesterday 66, high
morrow in upper 80s, or low
s, low tonight mostly in mid
s. Total rainfall last night .20
an inch. Sunrise tomorrow
39, sunset tomorrow 8:38.
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only need to stretch the
ith a little to make folks
Lstrust all your facts.”
McGovern sweeps
like prairie wind
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LOS ANGELES—After telling his supporters “I can’t believe
we’ve won the whole thing”, McGovern turns to his wife
Elenore and receives her congratulations after winning the
California Primary. McGovern established himself as the
undisputed front runner for the Democratic Presidential
nomination after winning primaries in New Jersey, New
Mexico, South Dakota and California. (UPI)
Count
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-Here
are the latest California pres
idential primary vote tabula
tions:
Democratic President
Precincts reported: 79 Pct.
McGovern 1,234,029 45 Pct.
Humphrey 1,035,465 38 Pct.
Wallace 156,122 6 Pct.
Chisholm 124,092 5 Pct.
Muskie 58,632 2 Pct.
Yorty 36,443 1 Pct.
McCarthy 27,366 1 Pct.
Jackson 22,647 1 Pct.
Lindsay 21,843 1 Pct.
(Winner takes all 271 dele
gates.)
Republican President
Precincts Reported: 79 Pct.
Nixon 1,561,752 90 Pct.
Ashbrook 170,873 10 Pct.
Carter joins rally
for Wallace money
RED LEVEL, Ala. (UPI) -
The governors of Mississippi
and Georgia will join key Ala
bama dignitaries here June 17
at a rally to raise money for
Gov. George C. Wallace’s presi
dential campaign.
State Sen. Crum Foshee
joined his brother, Wheeler
Foshee, in announcing plans
Tuesday for a rally that they
said was expected to raise
$50,000.
They said they have firm
commitments from Govs. Bill
Waller of Mississippi and Jim
my Carter of Georgia, former
Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississip
pi, Alabama Sens. John Spark
man and James B. Allen, both
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
| Happy ending
This is a story with a happy ending.
It began 20 years ago. g
Mr. and Mrs. Doug Steele then lived at 415 Kincaid g
avenue. J;
’:■( Mrs. Steele was making up some dough in her kitchen
$ one day and lost her diamond wedding band. It fell behind g
S some built-in cabinets and she was unable to locate it. x
S The Steele’s moved from the house and now make their $
ji; home on the Zebulon road. Their former home on Kincaid g
g avenue has changed hands four times since they left. g
g The latest buyer was Frank Jolly, Jr., whose father is a g
vice president at Commercial Bank & Trust Company.
$ Mrs. Steele works there too, and learned the younger Mr. g
g Jolly had bought the house and planned to take out the old g
cabinets. She told him of losing the ring 20 years ago. He g
said he would see if it could be found. g
g That afternoon, Mrs. Steele drove by the Kincaid g
g: avenue home. g
g There she found the young Mr. Jolly sitting calmly, g
g twirling the long lost wedding band on his finger. g
g: Mrs. Steele is wearing it again now along with another g
g wedding band she received to replace the lost one. g
Democrats; Lt. Gov. Jere Beas
ley who is filling in for Wal
lace; Congressman Bill Nichols,
Charles Snider, Wallace’s na
tional campaign director; and
Jack Wallace, one of the gov
ernor’s brothers.
Tentative acceptances have
been received from the other
members of the Alabama
Democratic congressional dele
gation, the Foshee brothers
said, but the three Republicans
were not invited.
Arrangements were being
made for a direct line to be in
stalled from Wallace’s bedside
to the park where the rally will
be held. If he were physically
able to talk to the rally crowd
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, June 7, 1972
the cookout will be available.
Mrs. Cornelia Wallace, the
governor’s wife, will attend if
Wallace gets back to Alabama
in time, they said. His son,
George Jr., will entertain along
with Hank Snow of Nashville,
Tenn.
The activities will begin be
fore midday with a giant bar
becue of pork shoulders donated
by persons in the Covington
County area. The sponsors said
roadblocks will be set up at en
trances to the park and tickets
to get into the rally will cost
$2 each.
Covington County is located
in South Alabama on the Flor
ida state line.
By MIKE FEINSILBER
United Press International
Like a prairie wind, George
S. McGovern swept primaries
in California, New Mexico, New
Jersey and his home state of
South Dakota Tuesday and
predicted “the same fresh
spirit” would lift him into the
presidency.
Less conspicuously, President
Nixon also triumphed. His one
sided victory over Rep. John M.
Ashbrook, R-Ohio, a conserva
tive critic of Nixon’s disar
mament, defense, welfare and
China policies, assured the
President of enough GOP
delegates to win renomination.
That was confirmation of the
obvious.
Among the day’s other
winners were liberal Republi
can Sen. Clifford P. Case in
New Jersey; conservative De
mocratic Sen. James 0. Eas
tland in Mississippi, and
Democratic Sen. Lee Metcalf,
of Montana, a battler against
big utilities.
Among the losers were Rep.
Cornelius E. Gallagher, D-N.J.,
a 14-year veteran who is under
federal indictment for conspira
cy, perjury and tax evasion,
and James Meredith, the first
Negro to enroll at the
University of Mississippi.
Count Not Complete
Although the New Jersey
count was not complete early
today, McGovern was certain of
adding at least 356 delegates to
his total, giving him well over
900 c7 the 1,509 needed to win
the ' Democratic presidential
nomination in July. He was
confident of winning the bulk of
New York State’s 278 delegates
in the primary season finale
June 20.
Hubert H. Humphrey put the
best face on events, but
suffered a severe setback to his
12-year quest for the presiden
cy.
The results from New Jersey,
with a constituency Humphrey
calls his own, hurt. The nation’s
most heavily unionized state, it
has big Negro and Jewish blocs
and Humphrey was backed by
labor and virtually every
Democratic leader. But Mc-
Govern won the majority of the
109 delegates.
This was the picture, state
by-state:
California—McGovern failed
to achieve the 20 percentage
point spread awarded him by
the California Poll last week,
but his defeat of Humphrey was
nonetheless substantial. He
picked up 271 delegates and, in
acknowledging victory, said
“the same fresh spirit, the
same devoted effort ... will
carry us to victory in Miami
Beach and then to the White
House in November.”
Surprise Showing
New Mexico—McGovern won
with about a third of the vote,
but the surprise was the big
diowing by Alabama Gov.
George C. Wallace, who had
done no campaigning in the
state. He finished a close
second with about 30 per cent
of the vote and Humphrey
trailed with about a quarter of
the vote. The remaining votes
were scattered. McGovern and
Wallace split the state’s 18
delegate votes, each getting
nine.
Rep. Paul W. McCloskey, R-
Calif., who dropped out of the
primaries after winning only 20
per cent of the vote in New
Hampshire in March, won his
first convention delegate by
polling 6 per cent of the New
Mexico vote in the GOP
primary. Nixon won 89 per cent
and 5 per cent of the
Republicans voted for neither,
in effect casting blank ballots.
Twenty-five Democrats and
eight Republicans competed for
their parties’ nominations to
succeed Democratic Sen. Clin
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City Manager Roy Inman proved himself to be a good sport last night at the Griffin City
Commission meeting at city hall. After the commissioners whipped through a six-item agenda in
short order, Mayor Louis Goldstein asked Tax Collector Claude Donehoo to bring out a package
from the rear of the aditorium. Mr. Donehoo rolled out an old fashioned bicycle with a big front
wheel. It belongs to Commissioner “Skeeter” Norsworthy who made it about 20 years ago. He had
painted the bike for the affair last night. The city of Griffin has been invited to send an elected
representative to the annual municipal bike race in East Point Aug. 5. Last year Lt. Gov. Maddox
won the race. In a bit of good natured kidding at a previous city commission meeting, the board
designated Mr. Inman to represent the city in the bike race. He quickly pointed out that the rules
provide for contestants to be elected officials. Mayor Goldstein said he would try to get the rules
changed to permit Mr. Inman to ride in the race. After Mr. Donehoo rolled out the bike last night,
Mr. Inman smilingly climbed aboard while Mayor Goldstein (1) Norsworthy (c) and
Commissioner Pete Snider held it for him. It was a city commission meeting which ended with
everybody smiling.
Griffinites join
in plane search
The discovery of a child’s doll
among other scattered debris
spurred searchers in Butts
County in their hunt for a light,
private plane thought to be
down somewhere in the swamps
south of Indian Springs State
Park.
The search, in its third day,
saw local law enforcement
officers and members of the
Civil Air Patrol attempting to
enter extremely rough terrain
after discovering a pilot’s clip
board, pieces of a canopy and
wing flaps, the doll, and a man’s
sock in the area.
Civil Air Patrol Maj. Chris
Pool overcrowded;
city sets limits
The Griffin Recreational
Department announced today
that beginning Friday it would
begin regulating swimming
hours of the city pool and put
limits on the number of people
in the pool.
The move was made because
of unsafe conditions caused by
overcrowding.
Court tackles tax controversy
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Supreme Court agreed today to
examine one of the most
pressing issues in American
public education —whether a
Harris has lead the in
vestigation and search since it
began Saturday afternoon.
Farmer Hubert Tolbert
returned home to find the pieces
of an aircraft in his pasture.
Centering search efforts in
two areas four miles south and
southeast of Indian Springs
State Park, rescuers were
acting on a report from a park
employe who said he thought he
heard an explosion around mid
day Saturday.
Searchers described the
terrain as “rougher than a
good bit of the Okefenokee
Swamp.”
The crowd condition makes is
impossible for life guards to
properly protect swimmers,” a
spokesman said.
The new pool hours will be 2
p.m. until 4:30 p.m. and 5 p.m.
until 8 p.m. Monday through
Friday. The pool will be cleared
of swimmers at 4:30 and the
ticket office will open again at 5
p.m.
state may constitutionally ig
nore tax differences between
rich and poor districts in
financing their schools.
The Court will review a
Inside Tip
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Butts County Sheriff Hugh C.
Pope expressed little hope for
survivors of a crash in the areas
presently being searched.
Officials at the scene said the
plane could be a flight that left
Saturday morning from
Columbus, Ga., with a South
Carolina destination, that is
reported overdue.
Earlier, CAP spokesmen had
thought the plane might have
been based in Warner Robins.
Griffin volunteers, both
members ofXie Civil Air Patrol
and otheX' including several
students have Joined in the
searQl^e^ or^s -
The Sunday hours will be 2
p.m. through 3:45 and 4:15 p.m.
until 6 p.m.
The number of swimmers
allowed in each session will be
approximately 200.
The pool is located between
the Health Center and number
six fairway on the Griffin golf
course.
ruling by a special three-judge
federal court in San Antonio,
which invalidated Texas’ meth
od of school financing and gave
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