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MIAMI BEACH—Alabama Gov. George Wallace strains to
lift dtunbell over his head during exercise in his hotel suite
here. (UPI)
Maddox
Third party movement alive
By ED ROGERS
MIAMI BEACH (UPl)—Geor
gia Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox, an
avid supporter of Alabama
Gov. George Wallace for presi
dent, has spread a new gospel
at this Democratic national con
vention scene:
“The third party movement is
alive, not dead.”
Maddox, who for days picket
ed the Democrats’ 1964 conven
tion as a private citizen and at
tended as a delegate and also
while presidential contender in
1968, made his 1972 presence
brief.
Within the span of a few
hours late Sunday Maddox con
ferred with Wallace at his con
vention headquarters, met lead
ers of the Georgia delegation
at their hotel, and held a news
conference.
“The third party movement is
alive, not dead,” he told report
ers. “The third party move
ment is not dead in this partic
ular year. I tell you frankly and
sincerely, the third party move
ment is alive.”
Floyd, Murphy critical
of revamp plan for GBI
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — Two
powerful legislative leaders ex
pressed concern this weekend ov
er a proposed reorganization of
the former Georgia Bureau of
Investigation.
Rep. James H. “Sloppy”
Floyd, D-Trion, and Rep. Tom
Murphy, D-Bremen, criticized
the plan as unworkable.
The plan, drawn up by new
director William Beardsley,
would place agents in eight of
fices located in Atlanta, Carters
ville, Athens, Albany, Colum
bus, Macon, Statesboro and
Waycross.
Floyd, chairman of the House
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Maddox dodged questions
about his source of information.
Wallace himself has carefully
avoided revealing what he will
do if he fails to win the Demo
cratic presidential nomination.
Maddox said he thought every
one knows that chance is slim.
But Maddox said the Demo
cratic party leadership and oth
er leading candidates are inter
ested in Wallace because he has
something they need, an issue
the people believe in.
“I predict they will be nice to
him through the first ballot and
then they will be through with
him,” Maddox said.
Meanwhile, he said, the other
candidates are blanketing the
state delegations with canvas
sers and campaigners trying to
win over support of the Wallace
delegates.
“I think they have been
courting and romancing hind,
riding his coattails,” Maddox
said. “They have all been do
ing it but they have not had
the courage to endorse him.”
Appropriations Committee, said
“No money for such a move was
ever approved by our commit
tee.” He charged the “morale
of the men in the division is at
an all time low.”
Murphy, speaker pro tern,
said the plan is designed to
force older agents to retire, re
sign or return to the state pa
trol.
He said it would also leave
remote areas of the state unpro
tected.
Floyd said he had contacted
several sheriffs around the state
who all opposed the plan. He
said the appropriations commit-
Wallace courts delegates
By BESSIE FORD
MIAMI BEACH (UPI) -Gov.
George Wallace courts more
Democratic delegations today,
trying to show his presidential
campaign still is alive and he is
in good enough physical condi
tion to carry the nomination
through to November.
As the national convention ap
proached its formal opening to
night, Wallace was relying on
shaking hands and talking brief
ly with several delegations filing
through his suite.
The 52-year-old governor has
a reserved box on the conven
tion floor, but to conserve his
strength he probably will not at
tend the convention at least un
til Tuesday, and perhaps not
until Wednesday.
Maddox, who arrived and left
within the span of a few hours,
said he made his impromptu
trip to the convention scene at
the prodding of Georgians who
said he ought to go to Miami to
help Wallace.
Maddox consulted with sever
al leaders of the Georgia dele
gation at their hotel headquar
ters without meeting Georgia
Gov. Jimmy Carter, motored 12
miles across town to his selected
news conference sight and
planned to return to Atlanta.
Carter is considered to have
strong personal control over
11% of the Georgia delegation’s
53 convention votes and could
swing all but a few to Wallace
if he chose.
Maddox indicated he had no
idea what Carter will decide.
But he denounced the South
generally, naming a broad tier
of states for failing to declare
their united support for Wallace
months ago.
This, he said, would be “fol
lowing the mandate of the peo
ple.” If any Southern governor
tee will meet within the next
two weeks to probe department
spending, including the funding
of the consolidation plan.
Col. Ray Pope, Public Safety
Commissioner, said the move
will “bring about a higher level
of efficiency in the Department
of Investigation.” He said the
design will cluster agents with
“certain expertise in some as
pect of crime in central loca
tions.”
SECOND THOUGHTS
TEIGNMOUTH, England
(UPl)—The organizers of an
nual Harbor Festival are
having second thoughts about
the young language student
from Exeter University who
translated their program into
Spanish for tourists.
After all 10,000 copies of the
program had been distributed a
Spanish-speaking waiter told
them what it said:
“Welcome to Teignmouth. We
hope you will enjoy yourselves
in the unfriendliest resort in
Great Britain. There are many
sharp people here who have
many ways of taking your
money, including the organizers
of the annual Harbor Festival.
“We hope you will not come
back next year.”
Wallace and his aides are
pushing his presidential drive,
but they are equally concerned
with his health. They want to
be sure he does not overdo his
activity and impede his recov
ery from bullet wounds suffered
in the May 15 assassination at
tempt.
He met with South Carolina
and Tennessee delegations Sun
day and Michigan was the first
on his list today. He has invited
the delegates from all 50 states
to get on a waiting list so he
can assure them that he is still
fighting for the nomination.
The delegates who talked with
him appeared to be on his team
already. There were a few
blacks in the South Carolina
group.
had done this it would have
made a “king” of him, Maddox
said.
They have refused because
leading candidates, “primarily”
Sen. George S. McGovern and
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, have
promised some of the Southern
Governors they wuld be consid
ered for selection as their run
ning mates, Maddox said.
Maddox said he had “encour-
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To show the Tennessee dele
gates that he was bouncing back
from his brush with death, Wal
lace lifted a 10-pound dumbbell
with each hand several times as
he sat in his wheelchair that he
must use. He still is paralyzed
from the waist down.
“Oh, he’s just showing off,”
said Cornelia, his pretty 33-year
old wife. “You know there’s no
body in this room as strong as
he is. When he gets through, he
will ask you to feel his muscle.”
“We’re going to be very ac
tive at the convention,” he told
the delegates. “We are going to
play a large part in the outcome
of the convention as far as the
platform is concerned and as
far as the nominee is con
cerned.”
aged” Wallace not to make any
deals.
Maddox, who attended the
1968 Democratic national con
vention as a delegate and, for
a brief time, as a declared
presidential contender, foresaw
little good coming from the 1972
convention.
Apparently referring to riots
and protests that marred the
convention four years ago, Mad-
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ATLANTA (UPI)-A 58-yearold Atlanta
x man literally coughed up a bullet Sunday
that almost got him 38 years ago.
Clifford L. Wood was admitted to the
emergency room at Grady Hospital
3 Sunday suffering with a severe cough.
In a few minutes, however, he had
$ coughed up the slug and was doing fine.
Wood was shot in the neck nearly four
decades also when a woman with an
automatic pistol opened fire on the door of
a case Wood was leaving.
The bullet lodged in his neck and doctors
said they couldn’t get it out. Sunday they
didn’t need to.
“I was just taking a bath Sunday
# morning,” he said, “when I started
dox said, “If this convention
turns to be as bad as in
Chicago I am going to tell them
to hold them in the future in
Havana.”
“Maybe Abernathy can walk
on water,” he said, referring to
Ralph D. Abernathy, head of
the SCLC, who is leading a co
alition group on hand for dem
onstrations at the 1972 conven
tion.
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windows.”
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revealed the bullet had started to migrate $
from Wood’s neck to his upper chest area. £
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Wood, “but I said ‘Uh-uh, I’ve carried that
thing with me for 38 years. It’s my good £
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