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By Quimby Melton
The week of July 4 has been
marked off the 1972 calendar.
If it were not for the fact that
the national Democratic con
vention is being held this week
in Miami Beach, the candidates
for Georgia state and local
offices would be working at full
swing. But with all the hullaboo
and tenseness that will be
displayed in the Florida con
vention, any local “politicing”
probably will be of the soft sell
nature.
But when and if that con
vention ever gets through, the
local candidates will put on
extra steam and go after the
voters.
The Georgia primaries will be
held on Tuesday Aug. 8.
There probably are some who
are wondering if they can still
register and vote in that Aug. 8
primary.
No. It’s too late to register for
it. But Registrar Joe Burson
says there is time left to
register for the November
general election.
Looking back over the week of
July 4, it is still appropriate to
tip our hat to the Jaycees and
their aides for the fine Fourth of
July celebration they staged.
As we are handing out
well deserved congratulations,
we take this opportunity to
congratulate our good neighbor
Barnesville. On Wednesday,i
July 5, Gordon became an
approved Junior College.
Griffin missed out on her bid for
the Junior College. No doubt but
Gordon Junior College will be a
fine addition to this community.
News of interest to millions
centered around preparations
and preliminary moves — like
those in a chess game — that
will.be played this week at
Miami Beach. Even the courts
got into the game but none of the
players were able to score a
position that could not be check
mated. The showdown begins
tonight.
The convention is scheduled
to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President
and to adopt a platform which
party leaders hope will unite all
factions.
With the hard feelings that
are likely to be created by the
in-fighting at the convention,
this may be a hard thing to'do.
Harry S Truman, the
President who refused to crawl
off and play dead when it was
said he had no chance to be
reelected, went to the hospital
for a checkup and former Presi
dent Lyndon Johnson’s picture
was hung way back in the rear
of his party’s convention hall in
Miami.
Communist diplomats in
London announced the Hanoi
government had been advised
to wind up the Indo-China war
as quickly as possible.
Mayor Sam Massell of
Atlanta announced the appoint
ment of a 31-year-old woman,
wife of a Georgia State Univer
sty faculty member, as the first
woman aiderman.
Governor Carter remained
silent as for whom he would cast
his vote on the first ballot at
Miami.
And good news for Georgians.
The State wound up its fical
year with a $33-million surplus,
which might go as high as S4O
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hands with future voter, one-year-old Rosanne Gioia of
Queens County, New York, in lobby of the Saxony hotel.
(UPI)
Georgia
MIAMI BEACH (UPI) - A
hurriedly formed temporary
Georgia delegation today pres
ents itself to the Democratic na
tional convention with the hope
of being seated on a one-day
only basis to vote on the crucial
California delegate fight.
The Georgians have not com
plied with orders of the national
credentials committee to re
form their delegation as a re
sult of several challenges be
cause challengers and chal
lenged alike have agreed on a
compromise plan.
Gov. Jimmy Carter said lead
ing candidates have agreed to
endorse the compromise and its
acceptance by the convention
seemed assured. But it does not
come up for a vote until after
the California vote.
Delegation chairman Charles
H. Kirbo announced at a caucus
Sunday that after days of nego
tiations he could not get party
officials to agree to seat the
compromise delegation pro-
Notebook:
HHH loses first test —on pool table
By WALTER WISNIEWSKI
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-Re
porter’s notebook at the Demo
cratic National Convention:
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
lost the first test of his game
plan Sunday. Democratic Na
tional Chairman Lawrence F.
O’Brien beat him at the pool
table in a game of eight-ball.
Miami Beach residents are
getting to meet the more
flamboyant members of the
“nondelegates.” Two elderly
women wearing floppy hats and
carrying a pink parasol were
visiting the Flamingo Park
campsite of the Yippies and
Zippies. They were welcomed
by a boy with no shirt and hair
to his shoulders. “Glad to make
your acquaintance,” one of the
woman said. “Are you a boy or
girl?”
At assorted places around
town, the gut issues of politics
were being settled during
meetings of state delegations.
Florida’s pro-Wallace delegates
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delegation temporary
visionally so it could vote on
the California issue.
There remained no choice but
to form a delegation that tem
porarily, at least, complied with
the revisions called for by the
credentials committee.
To do this meant shifting
delegates and alternates around
between the district seats and
delegate at large seats and add
ing a number of delegates, who,
if the plan works, will vote on
the floor for one day only.
This the Georgians voted
unanimously to do, with little
debate. But dissension erupted
after a campaigner for Sen.
George McGovern was allowed
to address the caucus.
Morris Dees of Montgomery,
Ala., likened the move to strip
McGovern of between 151 and
153 votes he won in California’s
winner-take-all primary to the
voting rights legislation Con
gress aimed selectively at the
South in 1965.
Sounding a “states’ rights”
shouted down an appeal Sunday
by Sen. Fred Harris, D-Okla.,
for “fair play” and support of
McGovern’s “winner-take-all”
victory in California. “We’re
going to play to win. That’s
what we’re playing for,” yelled
L.L. “Red” Herring, of Bald
win, Fla. “Who ever heard of
politics being fair?”
Hubert Humphrey had his
morning briefing for reporters
aboard a luxurious yacht
moored on Indian Creek—
almost. The briefing was called
off at the last minute for
unknown reasons. One news
man who learned of the event
only 10 minutes before it was to
begin managed to rush two
miles through heavy traffic and
board the yacht on schedule,
only to be kept waiting for
nearly an hour before the
cruise was canceled. Another
reporter rushed to the dock
wearing his tennis shorts and
carrying his racket; the candi
date’s staff tried to shoo him
away, claiming he was unsuita
bly attired.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, July 10, 1972
MIAMI BEACH (UPI) —
George S. McGovern invaded
the camps of his enemies
today, seeking a key victory at
tonight’s opening session of the
Democratic National Conven
tion which could make his
nomination almost certain and
almost bloodless.
His rivals still lacked—and
still sought—the cohesion neces
sary for an effective stop-
McGovem coalition in Wednes
day’s presidential balloting.
They also lacked a unity
candidate all could agree upon,
and no new name surfaced.
Edward M. Kennedy’s wife
Joan, here to help raise money
for the party, said Kennedy’s
decision neither to seek nor
accept the nomination was
“final.” From Haynnis Port,
Mass., where he went yachting,
Kennedy said there was “no
way” he could be convinced to
take second place on the ticket.
Maine’s Edmund S. Muskie,
once the front-runner, took on
kingmaker powers at this least
orthodox 36th quadrennial as
sembly of disarrayed Demo
<rats. But Muskie was undecid
ed whether to use those powers
to coronate McGovern or to
keep alive his own hopes of
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Gov. Jimmy Carter
note, Dees said the convention
should not interfere with Califor
nia’s winner-take-all primary
law.
The Dees appearance showed
the Georgians were sharply di
vided on the California issue.
Charles Brown of Statesboro, a
A vending machine operator
has installed “Balloon-o-mat”
machines in the headquarters
hotel to dispense helium-filled
ballooms emblazoned with the
name of the candidate of your
choice: McGovern, Hum
phrey, Muskie or Wallace.
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Les Waldroop, a gospel singer
from Franklin, N.C., brought
hismother-and-daughter “Jesus
burros” to George Wallace
headquarters Sunday. The older
donkey, which was hitched to a
cart, wore a blanket saying,
“I’m pulling for Wallace.” The
younger animal’s blanket said,
“Me Too.”
becoming a compromise choice.
Muskie Pivotal
Aides promised a quick
decision after Muskie’s sche
duled “solidarity meeting” this
morning with his estimated 200-
plus delegates.
In the same flat, dry prairie
voice with which he announced
his candidacy 18 months ago—
when he was unknown to most
Americans — McGovern ex
pressed boundless confidence of
reaching his goal. He reflected
none of the tensions swirling
around him in this steamy
resort strip, trapped in its own
traffic.
He claimed enough support in
tonight’s voting to reverse the
Credentials Committee vote
which took from him 151 of the
271 delgates won June 6 in
California’s winner-take-all pri
mary. He also sought an Illinois
compromise which would put
Chicago Mayor Richard J.
Daley in a delegate’s seat with
one half a vote—and a more
kindly feeling toward Mc-
Govern.
With that accomplished, Mc-
Govern’s delegates counters
said, he would have 1,541.5
votes Wednesday night at the
nominating session—32.s more
Ist District delegate, demanded
a right to give opposing argu
ments.
Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s
black vice mayor, said that if
Brown were allowed to speak he
would demand that the way be
opened for general debate.
Kirbo steered clear of this by
persuading Brown to forego his
speech since representatives of
Sen. Hubert Humphrey and pos
sibly those of other McGovern
opponents may appear at a
Monday afternoon caucus.
In the temporary plan, the
at-large Delegation was in
creased from 13 to 26 with each
having one half vote, and dele
gates of the 2nd and 7th dis
tricts were trimmed to three
fourths vote each.
The temporary delegation was
designed to have about the
same balance of support for va
rious candidates as the pro
posed compromise delegation
the Georgians expect to be
permanently seated later.
A food franchising firm plans
to hand out free boxes of fried
chicken to all delegates and
alternates entering convention
hall. The Secret Service, in
charge of security, has instruct
ed the private guards manning
the doors to search every box.
In some cases, this year’s
delegates are the poorest ever
chosen, financially speaking.
Mrs. Ann Martindell, chairman
of the New Jersey delegation,
said her group was on “the
world’s most limited budget,
subzero.” New Jersey’s dele
gates are staying at a hotel 11
miles away from convention
hall.
The committee for the Re
election of the President, which
has maintained such a low
profile hereabouts that most
people are unaware of its
presence, has opened a hospita
lity suite for reporters who
crave respite from the tur
bulent round of Democratic
credentials fights and rules
disputes.
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than necessary.
A parliamentary ruling Sun
day from Lawrence F. O’Brien,
the party chairman, streng
thened McGovern’s hand.
O’Brien decreed that all dele
gates except those whose right
to vote is under challenge could
ballot on whether to seat a
challenged delegation.
Even if he loses all challen
ges, they said, he would have a
bare minimum of 1,331.5 votes
and would pick up the rest
toward the 1,509 needed as the
roll was called. He claimed well
over twice as many delegates
as his nearest rival, Hubert H.
Humphrey.
UPI Delegate Tallies
UPl’s count, reflecting Mc-
Govern’s loss of 151 California
votes and his Illinois loss,
showed him with 1,315.95 votes
plus 42 leaning his way, putting
him 152.05 short of the
nomination.
The UPI tabulation gave
Humphrey 531.55, plus 58
leaning. The uncommitted bloc
numbered 311.4.
McGovern, well aware that
victory on tonight’s procedural
votes over the ground rules of
the convention could yield
victory Wednesday, wooed dele
gates for support in that crucial
roll call.
He scheduled visits to the big
and largely unfriendly delega
tions from Ohio, where Hum
phry is strongest; and Texas,
where George C. Wallace held
the lion’s share of delegates.
Texas rancher Dolph Briscoe,
who beat a liberal to win his
party’s gubernatorial nomina
tion, was thought to be leaning
toward Humphrey. “I came
here uncommitted,” he said,
“and I’m still uncommitted.”
McGovern made a “fair
play” pitch, arguing that taking
California delegates away from
him after all candidates had
agreed to the winner-take-all
rules would be unjust.
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| Convention schedule |
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (UPI)— Here is the tentative 3
3 schedule for the Democratic National Convention, subject
to change at any time with the possibility of additional 3
3 afternoon sessions if business cannot be completed within 3
x the planned four days: Monday x
3: —7:30 p.m. EDT: call to order and invocation. 3
Welcoming addresses by Sen. Lawton B. Chiles of x
•x Florida, Rep. Claude D. Pepper of Florida and Mayor 3
£: Chuck Hall of Miami Beach. 3
Speech by Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F.
3 O’Brien. 3
Report of the Credentials Committee. 3
3 Debate and vote on the Credentials Committee report. 3
Tuesday 3
x; —7 p.m.: Election of permanent convention chairman.
Consideration of Rules Committee report. •<
3 Keynote address by Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida. x
x Platform Committee report, debate and votes. 3
x Wednesday
3 —7 p.m.: Nominations and balloting for the Presidential 3
3 nominee. 3
3 3
x Thursday 3
3 —7 p.m.: Consideration of new charter for Democratic 3
party.
3 Nominations and balloting for the vice presidential 3
3 nominee. 3
3: Acceptance speeches. 3
3 Adjournment. 3
Robber loses part
of hair in scuffle
Spalding Sheriff’s officials
are looking for two Negro men
who robbed a grocery store
operator and his wife at gun
point last night and made off
with, between S6OO and S7OO in
cash.
Officials said Ernest Hatcher
and his wife, Mrs. Willie Mae
Hatcher, had just closed the
Riverside Package Store, west
of Griffin on Ga. 16, when two
men drove up and asked if the
store was closed. One of the
men got out with a gun in his
hand. Hatcher, who was locking
the store and had put a money
box containing the cash on the
ground, attempted to disarm
the bandit and a scuffle ensued.
Officers said when Mrs.
Hatcher, who was sitting in her
Woman wrecks taking
wounded mate to hospital
Lawmen said a woman who
was taking her husband to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital last
night for treatment of gunshot
wounds, wrecked her auto. She
and her two daughters were
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car, saw the man scuffling with
her husband, she ran to his
assistance. They said she
scratched the bandit on his face,
knocked his cap off and pulled a
handfull of his hair out. They
said the bandit called, “Get her
Jesse”, and the second Negro
jumped out of his car and pulled
Mrs. Hatcher away.
The two men grabbed the
money box and were driving
away when Mrs. Hatcher took
her husband’s pistol from his
pocket and shot twice at the car.
The auto stopped a few seconds
and then continued on, deputies
said.
Hatcher suffered a cut on his
hand during the scuffle and was
treated in the emergency room
of the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
injured, one seriously enough to
be admitted to the hospital.
Sheriff’s deputies were called
to the trailer home of Daniel
Conkle at the Town and County
Trailer Park to investigate a
disturbance there. They said
that Conkle told them that Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Chambers of
489 New Lane street had come
to his trailer and the two men
had gotten into an argument.
Conkle told lawmen he shot
Chambers when he came at him
with a knife. Chambers was
wounded in the right shoulder.
Mrs. Chambers, her husband,
and two daughters got into the
car and were en route to the
hospital when the auto ran into
a ditch and overturned.
Mrs. Chambers suffered a
laceration above her eye. Her
daughter, Katie Mae Harris, 12,
suffered arm, hip and back
injuries and was admitted to the
hospital. Another daughter,
Mary E. Chambers, four, was
treated for contusions and
abrasions.
No charges were placed
against Chambers and Conkle.
Mrs. Chambers was arrested on
a drunk driving charge and was
released from the Spalding jail
later under a S4OO bond.