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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, July 8,1972
BRUCE BIOSSAT
No Heroes at Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH (NEA)
The Democrats’ reformed presidential selection process
may have the appealing virtues of openness and balance.
But it has ground up candidates so badly that the party
has almost no whole-bodied heroes left.
Nearly every Democrat of prominence is a member of
the walking wounded here at this convention.
The betting favorite for the 1972 nomination, Sen. George
McGovern, has the words “disaster for the ticket” plas
tered across his chest. The rival Democrats who put it
there have been bad-mouthing like crazy for weeks.
As for the rivals, a sorrier bunch of losers seldom has
been collected under one roof.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who bravely tilted against a
whole convention on the civil rights issue in 1948, never
really cut it at all with the Democratic voters of 1972. He
won just four primaries to McGovern’s 10, and none was
really impressive. He never came close to getting even
half the delegates he needed for nomination.
Worse still, he turned mean-spirited and destructive of
good faith in his last efforts to block McGovern by trying
to take some of the latter’s California delegates away
from him.
Sen. Edmund Muskie, once the party’s Lincolnesque
front-runner who seemed almost above battle, was
brought down in primary combat almost before he could
get his sword out of the scabbard. His name today calls
up visions of low percentage points—the 9 per cent he got
in Florida and the 10 per cent he made in Wisconsin.
His late-season 12-state “revival” campaign was a flop.
He ate a lot of McGovern bandwagon dust and picked up
only a few leavings for himself.
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Leaders ‘walking wounded’
BURGLAR FOILED
IXJNDON (UPI)-Alan Dow
ers walked into a bank in the
village of Ashville with a toy
pistol in his hand and demand
ed $12,500. When the cashier
brought $2,000, he dashed
outside. The cashier tripped a
burglar alarm and ran after
him.
The driver of the getaway car
saw the cashier in pursuit,
panicked and drove off, the
prosecutor said. Then Dowers
handed back the money, saying
he didn’t think he’d get away.
The Old Bailey court sen
tenced Dowers to 18 months in
prison.
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Most of the other 1972 candidates were bound from the
start to be chewed up. The Democratic party was boastful
of its big roster, proclaiming it as proof of the new open
ness. But in fact, the multiplicity of candidates was an
iron guarantee that most would look terrible in the vote
percentage—even the winners.
New York Mayor John Lindsay, who tried to make
walking the streets of his city a gauge of his presidential
caliber, failed pathetically and quickly.
Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, an able senator well
seasoned in the ways of the nation’s capital, found his
face hopelessly lost in the crowd when he toured the coun
try seeking votes.
Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first black and first woman
to make a steady presidential bid, never made more than
tiny token payment on her promise to put together an
influential block of 300 to 400 delegates at the convention.
A very nice man, former Gov. Terry Sanford of North
Carolina, picked up some delegates in his own state’s pri
mary but was virtually blanked out in his futile efforts
to do more.
The saddest thing to see was the joining together of all
these people (except Lindsay) to attempt the blocking of
McGovern at the final in-fighting stage. With Humphrey,
they cynically abandoned their party’s rules, encouraged
their lawyers and others to make phony argument in the
name of reform, generally disgraced themselves. And, of
course, they were always hacking at McGovern’s torn
flesh.
They may have made McGovern’s bandwagon into an
ambulance. And they most certainly have made their
convention hall into a field hospital sheltering a pitiful
collection of crippled Democrats.
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Mr. Vining
Funeral services for Mr. Roy
Edward Vining of 135 Third
avenue, Griffin, will be held
Sunday at 2:30 p.m. from the
West Sunny Side Congrega
tional Holiness Church with the
Rev. Billy Anderson and the
Rev. H. W. Hawkins officiating.
Burial will be in the Griffin
Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Vining died at his home
Friday morning.
Born in Columbus, Ga., he
had made his home in Griffin
for the past 25 years.
Mr. Vining was a retired
plumber and a member of the
Mclntosh Baptist Church.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Maggie Mae Vining; four
daughters, Mrs. Rudine
Menzies of Atlanta, Mrs.
Ranona Fowler, Mrs. Linda
Darlene Banks, and Mrs. Sylvia
Pitts, all of Griffin; eight sons,
Rudolph Vining of Marietta,
Charles E. Vining of Atlanta,
Clinton Vining, Bobby F.
Vining, Earl R. Vining, Richard
J. Vining, Larry R. Vining and
Terry L. Vining, all of Griffin;
three sisters, Mrs. Mattie Mae
Sheffield of Orchard Hill, Mrs.
Effie Duffy of Marietta, and
Mrs. Catherine Strickland of
Griffin; one brother, Hugh
Vining of Milner; 22 grand
children, two great grand
children, and several nieces and
nephews.
The body will lie in state at
the home until the funeral hour.
McDonald Chapel Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
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Mrs. Massengale
Funeral services for Mrs.
Cora Kimbrell Massengale of
Route Three, Fayetteville road,
will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
from McDonald Chapel with the
Rev. U. D. Singleton and the
Rev. Robert Higgenbothim
officiating.
Burial will be in the Elmore
cemetery at Senoia.
Mrs. Massengale died at her
home Friday evening.
A native of Alabama, she had
lived in Fayetteville for the past
39 years.
Mrs. Massengale was a
member of the Pine Grove
Baptist Church, and a retired
employe of the Griffin Garment
Company.
Survivors include three sons,
Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer
Hugh Merrill Massengale,
persently stationed in
Michigan, Donald Evertee
Massengale and Glenn Esric
Massengale, both of Griffin;
two sisters, Mrs. Arizona
Coaper of College Park, and
Mrs. Alain Laney of Wedowee,
Ala.; two brothers, William
Joseph Kimbrell of Fayet
teville, and James Herman
Kimbrell of Griffin; eight
grandchildren, and several
nieces and nephews.
The body will lie in state at
the funeral home until the
funeral hour.
McDonald Chapel Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Rev. Jordan
Funeral services for the Rev.
Otis C. Jordan of Molena will be
held Sunday at 3 p.m. from the
Mount Olive Baptist Church
with the Rev. C. J. Johnson and
the Rev. George Sutton of
ficiating. Burial will be in the
church cemetery.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Ruth Jordan; four
daughters, Mrs. Adell Bowens,
Mrs. Mary Jordan, Mrs. Lucille
Morgan, and Mrs. Ernestine
Hays; seven sons, Lowell
Jordan, Otis Jordan Jr.,
Augustus Jordan, Walter
Jordan, Thedore Jordan,
Comilious Jordan and Lindsey
Jordan; two brothers, B. W.
Jordan and John Jordan; 40
grandchildren, 22 great
grandchildren, and several
nieces and nephews.
The cortege will form at the
funeral home at 2 p.m.
Union Society Funeral Home
of Concord is in charge of
arrangements.
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PARKWOOD
CINEMA TWINS
Library
projects
approved
The subcommittee on con
struction for Georgia Library
Services has voted to recom
mend construction of three
branch libraries, according to
Walter Murphy of Griffin. He is
director of the Flint River
Regional Library here and a
member of the construction
committee.
Murphy said $500,000 in state
funds is available and that the
three projects recommended
total $297,000. One branch ap
proved will be in Northeast
Cobb County with $75,000 in
state matching funds. Another
will be at Bowden with $64,000 in
state matching funds. The other
will be a branch in Atlanta with
$153,000 in state matching
funds. A total of $200,000 has
been sought for the Atlanta
project.
Mr. Murphy said that federal
matching money was not in
volved, since it had not been
made available. A total of
$300,000 is anticipated in federal
library money, he said.
He said that some $16,000 had
been raised in Griffin for a new
library but that this was not
nearly enough to begin seeking
matching state and ' federal
money.
Mrs. Wilder
Funeral services for Mrs.
Irene Thomas Wilder will be
held Sunday at 3 p.m. from the
chapel of Haisten Brothers
Funeral Home, Griffin, with the
Rev. Harry Hawkins of
ficiating.
Mrs. Wilder died Friday
morning at the Brightmoor
Nursing Home where she had
been a patient since December.
A lifelong resident of Griffin,
she was a member of the First
United Methodist Church, whre
she attended the Authur
Maddox Sunday School Class.
Survivors include several
cousins.
Haisten Brothers Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Alexander
Funeral arrangements for
Mrs. Jessie Mahone Alexander,
51, of 415 Oak street, Griffin,
will be announced by McDowell
United Funeral Home.
Mrs. Alexander died at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital late Friday evening.
Survivors include her
husband, Tommy Alexander of
Griffin.
McDowell United Funeral
Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Mrs. Reed
Funeral arrangements for
Mrs. Mary O. Johnson Reed of
331 West Tinsley street will be
announced by McDonald Chapel
Funeral Home.
Mrs. Reed died this morning
at the Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
About Town
CBCLUB
The Friendly CB Club of
Griffin will holds its monthly
meeting Saturday night at 7:30
p.m. at the new Rural Urban
Center, on South Fifth street.
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Robert Fotlett presents plaques to Rep. Clayton Brown (c) of Griffin and Gov. Jimmy Carter (r)
at the capitol in recognition of their efforts for POWs and MIAs. Brown authored a bill granting
full scholarships in any unit of the University System of Georgia to children of POWs and MIAs.
The General Assembly approved the measure unanimously and Gov. Carter signed it Fotlett is an
official in the national organization for helping POWs and MIAs. Georgia was the first state to
express gratitude in such manner.
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MIAMI BEACH—A smiling Joan Kennedy, one of the co
chairmen of the Democratic Telethon Is greeted at airport by
admirers on her arrival. (UPI)
State welfare
ATLANTA (UPI)—A tighten
ing of welfare eligibility proced
ures reduced the number of
persons on welfare in Georgia
last year and saved sls million
in Medicaid benefits, according
to the Department of Human
Resources.
Deputy Commissioner Jim
Parham said Friday some $4.15
million in public assistance
funds were trimmed.
He said welfare benefits were
increased $4 million to Georgi
ans July 1 with increases to in
dividuals amounting to $1 to $6
per month. The increase to the
state’s 135,330 needy aged, blind
or disabled adults came from a
$1.2 million appropriation by the
General Assembly which was
matched with federal funds.
The boost, said Parham,
helps to restore partially the re
ductions to some recipients
when federal changes in the
regulations went into effect •
last year.
Parham said in fiscal 1972 an
average of 3,041 dependent chil
dren and mothers or caretakers
were added each month to the
welfare rolls.
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