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By Quimby Melton
The Tuesday night session of
the Democratic National
Convention was like Tennyson’s
brook that flowed on and on; or
like an extra inning ball game
that might run so long the
umpires would call it off.
But the delegates at the
convention sweated it out and it
was not until 6:15 a.m. Wednes
day when the session ended.
Tonight the delegates, some
exuberant, some dejected and
disappointed, will meet to
nominate the party’s candidate
for President. It will be a much
shorter session than the one
Tuesday night-morning.
There is no doubt but that Sen.
George McGovern of South
Dakota, will be chosen on the
first ballot.
There will be other persons
nominated more or less in
protest to the naming of
McGovern. Senator Henry
Jackson of Washington will be
nominated by Georgia’s
Governor Jimmy Carter;
Governor George Wallace, Con
gressman Wilbur Mills of
Arkansas and Congresswoman
Shirley Chisolm will also
probably have their hat thrown
into the ring by supporters.
After tonight’s session all that
will remain to be done is to
name McGovern’s running
mate Thursday night.
Softietime Friday morning
after the shouting and the
tumult have ended Senator
McGovern and hi s advisors will
wake up to the fact that while
they have won the first game of
the big series they face diffi
culties they had not expected.
Ttey must find away to over
come the lack of enthusiasm on
the part of many of the old-time
party leaders, many of whom
not only were not delegates to
the convention but some were
excluded from its sessions.
Many of them will probably “go
fishing”; some of them may
openly fight the McGovern
ticket. Some of them may even
go so far as to endorse the Nixon
ticket.
How can these be brought
back into the fold? That’s a
question McGovern and his
aides must solve if they hope to
win.
Then, too, they must find a
way to finance their campaign.
Labor leaders have already
sgnified they will not help
McGovern in any way become
the four year tenant of the White
House. And organized labor al
ways has played an important
part in Democratic victory.
We can’t help but believe that
the situation McGovern faces is
very much like the old nursery
rhyme. “Humpty Dumpty sat
cn a wall; Humpty Dumpty had
a great fall; Can all the kings
horses and all the king’s men
ever put Humpty Dumpty to
gether again?”
Can McGovern be the “king”
and can his managers be “the
king’s men” and perform this
magical, surgical wonder?
Time will tell — but to this
observer it would seem the
cards are stacked against it.
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“Good advice is the kind you
wish you had taken.”
New politics master McGovern
appeals to old masters for help
Churchman doesn’t believe
city straddling liquor vote
Funeral
directors
perplexed
Griffin funeral directors were
perplexed today by a statement
put out by a committee yester
day saying that state
regulations on ambulance
service had not been drawn.
One Griffin funeral home
director said he thought it
unusual for the committee to try
to change the law that already
has been signed by the gover
nor.
Griffin funeral homes have
agreed to end ambulance
service of all types Dec. 31,
because they say they cannot
meet state regulations.
They said the decision was
based on information supplied
to them at a meeting here by a
Health Department official.
An ad hoc committee con
cerned with the Georgia am
bulance situation met in Atlanta
last week. They put out a
statement that said rules and
regulations had not been drawn.
This was in dire conflict with
what the Griffin funeral direc
tors had been told.
The ad hoc committee said it
thought that decisions by some
Georgia funeral homes to quit
the ambulance service were
premature.
Griffin funeral directors said
their decision was based on the
Georgia law.
They have not changed their
plan to end ambulance service
Dec. 31.
One director here said 90
percent of Georgia funeral
homes already have decided to
end ambulance service and that
most of the other 10 percent was
thinking about it.
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MIAMI BEACH—With massed flags below on the floor of
Convention Hall, Alabama Governor George Wallace sits in a
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A Baptist churchman told the
city commissioners last night
he didn’t think the people of
Griffin would be naive enough
to think they (commissioners)
were straddling the issue of
legal liquor sales in the city.
Dillard Wilbanks, 530 Ivy
road who is the music and
education director of Second
Baptist Church, attended the
commission meeting at city hall
last night to ask the com
missioners some questions
about a move for a referendum.
Mayor Louis Goldstein con
firmed that the board thought
the question should be put to a
vote. But he said the board was
not taking a position for or
against legal liquor sales in the
city.
Wilbanks said it seemed to
him that if a dry petition is
circulated in a wet county that it
is an effort to go dry and that if
a wet petition is circulated in a
dry county it is an effort to go
wet.
Wilbanks held up a copy of a
letter and a post card being
mailed to city voters asking
them to sign for a referendum.
He noted that the city is ac
cepting contributions to help
finance the mail campaign.
Wilbanks asked how much
had been contributed. City
Manager Roy Inman answered
$350. He said there were two
SIOO-dollar contributions and
some others. Wilbanks wanted
to know how much had been
spent and Mr. Inman answered
$308.10.
The city manager said no city
funds had been spent in the
project.
Wilbanks wanted to know how
many new beer licenses had
been issued since Mayor Gold
stein took office. He was told no
new permits had been issued.
He asked how many license
transfers had been approved.
The commissioners said Mr.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, July 12, 1972
Inman could check city records
and tell him later.
The Rev. Harold Graham,
director of the Flint River
Baptist Association, asked if the
list of people signing petitions
for the referendum were public
record and if he could get a
copy.
Mayor Goldstein referred the
question to Bob Smalley, city
attorney, who said he would
have to check the law before
giving an answer. He said if the
commissioners directed him to
do so, he would. The com
missioners did.
Rev. Graham said he, as a
private citizen, wanted to
publish the list of names if they
were available.
Wilbanks said he believes the
campaign for the referendum
being pushed by Jack Faulkner,
restaurant owner, had bogged
down and that the city com
missioners had stepped in to
keep it from failing.
Faulkner had said in earlier
statements that he would mail
about 200 of the referendum
letter appeals daily until he gets
enough signatures to call a
referendum. Under a state law
approved at the 1972 General
Assembly session, 35 percent of
the registered voters in a city or
county is required to call a
liquor referendum.
Mr. Faulkner has said he is
financing the mail campaign
with his own money.
Letters are being mailed to
voters from registration lists
calling for a liquor referendum.
Enclosed in the letters is a post
card addressed to Faulkner.
Space is provided on it for
signatures of persons wishing to
petition for a referendum.
wheel chair to address the 1972 Democratic Convention in a
dramatic appearance. (UPI)
NEWS
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-A
conciliatory George S. Mc-
Govern-assured of the Demo
cratic presidential nomination
tonight by his mastery of the
“new politics”—appealed to the
old masters today for their help
in defeating President Nixon.
But his unity overtures
collided with the die-hard
opposition of organized labor’s
candidate—Sen. Henry M. Jack
son of Washington, who vowed
to go down battling what he
considered McGovern’s politics
of Democratic disaster.
McGovern had the votes to
beat Jackson and George
Wallace and four token op
ponents on tonight’s first ballot
—and everyone here knew it.
So he secluded himself in his
penthouse and concentrated on
re-establishing the old Demo
cratic coalition with telephoned
appeals to a smoldering George
Meany, president of the AFL
CIO; and Chicago Mayor
Richard J. Daley, miffed by his
ouster by a vote of the
convention.
While McGovern worried
about the pragmatics of win
ning the election, several
thousand delegates worked
through the night in an H-hour
session—the longest in history
approving the platform on
which he will run.
They came out for busing and
gun controls, rejected a far
reaching tax reform proposal
and turned back attempts to
endorse abortion and, homosex
ual rights in a session that
finally ended at 6:20 a.m. EDT.
Three delegates collapsed from
exhaustion and dozens dozed in
the aisles.
In another move toward
reassuring the old guard,
McGovern asked party Chair
man Lawrence F. O’Brien to
stay on the job, foregoing the
candidate’s privilege of install
ing his own loyalist in the party
top command.
Old Liners Hard to Get
The old liners were hard to
get.
Louisiana Gov. Edwin Ed
wards left the convention,
declaring it would be a waste of
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MIAMI BEADH—The lengthy proceedings are too much for these two alternate delegates
from Texas, Mrs. G. A. Jones (1), Jacksonville, and Mrs. Jerry Lumpkin of Lufkin, at the
Democratic Convention. The second session lasted more than 11 hours, longer than any
convention in history. (UPI)
Evergreen residents kick
about concrete dust, noise
Griffin City Commissioners
told some residents of the
Evergreen subdivision last
night they would attempt to
seek relief of their complaints
about a concrete firm’s
operation across the road from
the residential section.
Carl Lewis of Evergreen
pointed out a petition com
plaining of dust and noise from
Tommy Johnson’s concrete
firm had been presented to the
commissioners. He said it was
signed by 16 families.
The firm is located on
Meriwether street opposite
Evergreen.
Residents complained that
Gambrell campaigns here
Sen. David Gambrell made a
campaign tour of Griffin this
morning. He began with an
early morning change of shifts
at Dundee Mills where he and
his staff manned the gates to
speak with most of the em
ployees there.
He later held a press con
ference on the County Court
House steps where one of his
largest single groups was an
American Government class
from the summer session at
Griffin High School.
Sen. Gambrell who believes
that the average citizen should
have a voice in the democratic
system is doing grassroots
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noise from the concrete
business was keeping them
awake at night and early in the
morning. They also complained
of air pollution.
Mayor Louis Goldstein said
that the city did not have a
pollution ordinance but that the
commissioners would check
with state health officials to see
if state regulations were being
violated.
The group said they already
had been attempting to contact
the local health department
about the matter.
D. W. Simonton of Evergreen,
a retired city employe, asked if
politicing in an effort bent on
meeting the average man.
He meets most of his con
stituency in factories or other
places that employ large
numbers of working people. He
feels he gets a chance to better
meet and talk to persons this
way.
His voting, he said, is one by
the mandate of the people
rather than his own conscience.
He pointed out his conscience is
not so different from the
people’s mandates.
He says he is in favor of ef
forts to limit textile imports
though he has no program of his
own. He asserts that jobs held
by American textile mill
workers should not be
jeopardized by the influx of low
quality materials from abroad.
He says he will support the
Georgia Democratic party in
the November elections but
would like to make it clear now
that his ideas and those of the
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the city’s nuisance ordinance
could not be used. Mayor
Goldstein said the city would
check and if a nuisance hearing
were in order, one would be
called.
Homer Riley and Joe Lan
drum of Evergreen were among
the group complaining about
the cement operation. Mr.
Landrum also questioned the
commissioners about a garbage
ordinance they had just put on
first reading. He wanted to
know what constituted dump
ping of trash and if it covered
people’s dumping their own
trash on their own land.
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probable National Democratic
presidential nominee, George
McGovern, were very different
and he could not support them.
The senator’s next stopover
was scheduled for Barnesville.