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Senator George Stanley
McGovern of South Dakota will
be the Democratic Presidential
candidate in the November
election.
He was elected on the first
ballot at the Miami Beach
convention.
When the roll call of states
had ended his vote was an
nounced as 1728. Ibis was 219
more than the 1509 necessary.
Following this announcement
many states changed their vote
giving him a final vote of 1864.
Twelve persons received one
or more votes. One was cast for
someone named Mondale.
(Please don’t ask who Mondale
is. We don’t know, in fact
“never heard of him or her.”
The leading “also rans” and
their votes were:
Senator Jackson 485;
Governor Wallace 377;
Congresswoman Chisholm
101;
Hubert Humphrey 35;
Senator Ted Kennedy also
received 10.
The voting was unusual, to
say the least in that there were
fraction votes recorded. They
were not simple fractions such
as one-half, but complicated
fractions such as the final vote
of McGovern. This was 1864.95.
Now that the Presidential
candidate has been chosen, all
that remains for the convention
to be over is election of a vice
president candidate and the
McGovern speech of ac
ceptance.
Senator Ted Kennedy has
once again notified McGovern
that he does not want to be the
man. In a telephone call to
McGovern last night to
congratulate him on his
nomination, Kennedy said “no
thanks” when offered the vice
presidential nomination.
The names of a dozen or more
possible running mates have
been and will be discussed right
up till the last minute. But there
is one thing certain. Many
things have changed at this
convention. New party rules
were adopted that it was
daimed would make this an
“open convention”. It was even
intimated that it would be
“open” when it came to select
ing the man to run for vice
president.
But in spite of all this, the age
old practice of letting the
presidential candidate name his
running mate will prevail. We
end this series of columns on the
Miami convention by
congratulating both the powers
that be in the municipal govern
ment of the host city and of the
Democratic party for the rather
“smooth” way the convention
was handled. Compared with
the 1968 convention in Chicago,
it was a Sunday School picnic.
Two hijacks
One plane stranded with blowout
By United Press International
Two men believed armed
with a bomb, a pistol and a
shotgun hijacked a National
Airlines passenger jet today,
demanded and received a
$600,000 ransom and para
chutes, and then forced another
National airliner from Philadel
phia to Texas.
The plane, with six crewmen
held hostage, landed at a small
commuter airport 50 miles
south of Houston. It blew out
four tires on landing and
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McGovern struggles
to name running mate
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Mrs. George McGovern watches the
balloting for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination
from her seat in the VIP section at Convention Hall. (UPI)
Senate contenders
staying clear
ATLANTA (UPI) - It ap
peared certain today that the
major contenders for Georgia’s
U.S. Senate seat were going to
stay as far away as possible
from the Democratic presiden
tial candidate.
Incumbent Sen. David Gam
brell, former Gov. Ernest Van
diver, state Rep. Sam Nunn
and state Treasurer Bill Burson
made it clear they considered
Sen. George McGovern a handi
cap — at least in Georgia.
Gambrell said party candi
dates “throughout the country .
will be put at a tremendous dis- ]
advantage by having to carry ,
an albatross like that (McGov- I
ern and the party platform)
along with them.” ,
GambrellpredictedMcGovern ,
would be defeated in Novem- |
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Nunn said he couldn’t support i
the South Dakota senator “un- |
der any circumstances," saying
McGovern was “against just
about everything the people of |
Georgia are seeking in a presi- j
officials said it could not
possibly take off again because
of the airport’s size. Authorities
also said there were no
facilities at the airport to refuel
the craft.
About the same time, a gray
haired man surrendered after
he succeeded in obtaining a
$200,000 ransom from American
Airlines in Oklahoma City
following the hijacking of an
American 727.
In the National hijacking, a
Federal Aviation Administra
tion spokesman said the pilot of
the first National craft the two
black men hijacked while
during a flight over New York
jumped through a window to
escape while the craft was on
die ground in Philadelphia.
The two men then transferred
to another plane with six crew
members as hostage. The 113
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dent.”
Burson said, who was in
southeast Georgia on his hiking
trip of the state, said he had
“the strong impression that at
least in this area, the Demo
cratic ticket’s going to be in
trouble.”
He said he would write in a
slate of electors pledged to Ala
bama Gov. George Wallace for
president and to Lt. Gov. Lester
Maddox for vice president.
Vandiver charged Gambrell
aided in the reforms of the
Democratic party and charged
they bordered on the subver
sve.
“Your appointed senator
openly supports these so-called
reforms in the Democratic
party delegate selection system
which permitted Sen. McGovern
to attain his present position of
power,” he said.
Vandiver said he planned to
write in the name of “some Jef
ferson-Jackson type Democrat
in November.”
passengers of the original craft
were set free.
After the second plane landed
in Freeport, the flight engineer
was shot and wounded and the
copilot was pistol whipped. Both
were taken to a Freeport
hospital.
In both cases passengers had
been released and the crew
held as hostages.
Both incidents began Wednes
day night when the hijackers
seized the planes and demanded
parachutes plus ransom totaling
in excess of $1 million.
The first hijacking occcurred
about 7 p.m. EDT as a National
Airrlines 727 jetliner with 118
persons aboard was making its
final approach to John F.
Kennedy Airport in New York.
Two armed men, demanding
three parachutes and $600,000,
some of it in Mexican pesos,
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, July 13, 1972
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-Arm
ing for November, George S.
McGovern set about today
choosing a running-mate accep
table to both the coalition of
discontent which nominated
him for the presidency and the
angry old pros who think he
can’t win it.
Vice presidential ambitions
swelled in a dozen hearts while
McGovern pondered his choice.
Whispers and rumors and
speculation — and clandestine
campaigning — were evident
wherever Democrats gathered.
But McGovern kept to his
rented penthouse and kept his
own counsel. Some of his
associates said he had nar
rowed the list of possibilities to
four. Others insisted 12 to 14
names were still being consi
dered.
The one man acceptable to
both distrustful Democratic
camps—Edward M. Kennedy,
surviving heir to a dynasty
said a final “no” early this
morning in a congratulatory
telephone call a few minutes
after McGovern won a restless
convention’s call to leadership.
Party Unity Needed
The need for the party unity
that most felt McGovern must
now cultivate to make the
nomination worth having gave
support to speculation that he
might turn to conservative Rep.
Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas as
a vice presidential choice,
despite his earlier vow to
eschew a running-mate whose
views were incompatible with
his owns.
In a living room crowded
with kinfolk and confidants,
McGovern watched his nomina
tion on television under the
heat and glare of television
lamps recording the moment.
After 18 months, starting
from nowhere, the candidate of
discontent had won. His eyes
shone bright with emotion. He
kissed his sisters and his nieces
and shook hands with the men,
then went back to writing on a
yellow pad with a felt-tip pen
the acceptance speech he will
deliver tonight.
But hostility remained from
the old guard. On the conven
tion floor, the die-hard suppor
ters of Hubert H. Humphrey
and Edmund S. Muskie cast
their votes for the token
candidates or for Sen. Henry
M. Jackson of Washington, a
party warhorse, rather than go
with the obvious winner.
Remain Unreconciled
Jackson and Alabama Gov.
George C. Wallace remained
unreconciled to the bitter end to
a McGovern candidacy on a
diverted the plane to Philadel
phia where it landed while
officials scurried about in an
attempt to procure the money.
than two hours later, a
man identified as Melvin
Marvin Fisher, 49, of Norman,
Okla., commandeered an Amer
ican Airlines 727 shortly after
takeoff from Oklahoma City
enroute to Dallas, federal
agents said.
The man, who demanded
$550,000 and parachutes, or
dered the plane with its 50
passengers and crew of seven,
to circle the Dallas-Forth Worth
area but eventually permitted it
to land at Oklahoma City.
The passengers on the plane
in Oklahoma City were released
by the lone hijacker.
For reasons not immediately
known, however, he surren
dered in midair. The pistol he
liberal platform—and so did
Wallace’s antibusing supporters
and Jackson’s labor supporters.
The votes of Illinois delegates
who had ousted and antago
nized Chicago Mayor Richard
J. Daley provided McGovern's
majority. Illinois swelled his
total to 1,728.35 votes, 219 more
than a majority—showing how
close it might have been had he
not recovered 151 California
delegates taken from him by
the party’s Credentials Commit
tee in an act he had decried as
foul and evil.
Other delegates came across
after their votes were no longer
needed, but many did not make
the conciliatory switch, demon
strating that the wounds
remained raw.
Mills, chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
could reassure the old guard
and the South. He shares few of
McGovern’s views, but his ties
are strong to the party’s
disenchanted congressional
wing.
Without naming them, Mc-
Govern adviser Fred Dutton
said 12 to 14 persons remained
on McGovern’s veep list.
But freshman Sen. Thomas F.
Eagleton of Missouri said that
the choice, with Kennedy’s
refusal, had narrowed down to
three—and that he was among
them. He named the others as
Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff of
Connecticut and Leonard Wood
cock, president of the United
Auto Workers.
The withdrawal of Mills and
former Sen. Eugene J. Mc-
Carthy just hours before the
ballot began Wednesday night,
left only five names in the final
competition at the convention—
McGovern, Jackson, Wallace,
former North Carolina Gov.
Terry Sanford, another vice
presidential possibility; and
Rep. Shirley Chisholm, achiev
ing her goal of becoming the
first black woman to be placed
in nomination.
Ribicoff placed McGovern’s
name in nomination—just as he
had four years ago, in Chicago,
in a speech which drew derision
from Daley.
Discontent with McGovern of
another sort—from the uncom
promising left—camped at his
doorstep daylong Wednesday.
Bearing a Viet Cong flag, about
100 militant leftists took over
the lobby of his luxury hotel
and demanded to confront the
senator with their charge that
he had modified his demand for
an unconditional pullout from
Vietnam. Against the worried
advice of the Secret Service,
McGovern descended to the
was carrying was found to be
empty.
Agents Refuse Money
In Philadelphia FBI agents
refused to turn the money over
to the air pirates until the
passengers were released.
The National Airlines flight
with a crew of six was on its
way from Miami to New York
City when the hijackers ordered
it back to Philadelphia from
where it had taken off less than
an hour earlier.
“Bring a car with parachutes
and the money in it to within 50
yards of the plane on the right
side and then wait until we call
again,” the hijackers said in a
message to the Philadelphia
control tower.
After the plane landed within
100 yards of the main terminal
the air pirates transmitted a
warning “Get us another 727
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lobby to meet them. A shouting
match ensured for 30 minutes.
he told an interviewer
that memories of the Chicago
violence had driven him to
meet his challengers. He said
the encounter was “a Sunday
afternoon excursion compared
to that.”
The Secret Service’s unease
was reinforced by the arrest
near McGovern’s hotel of two
men, members of a black
nationalist group called the
Republic of New Africa, by
agents who found handguns in
their automobile. The two were
held under SIOO,OOO bail on a
charge of carrying concealed
weapons.
McGovern’s staff told UPI of
plans to undertake a bold
campaign by mail to solicit $1
million contributions of $25
each. The drive, using exten
sive mailing lists McGovern has
compiled since his first race for
Congress from South Dakota in
1953, is to be an enlarged
version of the one which
collected $4.5 million from
160,000 people in his primary
campaign.
Unknown in its effect was an
announcement by Wallace Wed
nesday night that he would not
run against Nixon and Mc-
Govern on a third-party ticket.
Analysts differed on whether
Wallace’s absence would help
the Republican or the Democra
tic ticket.
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Note: Convention officials
have revised their presidential
vote totals necessitating the
following sub:
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-The
final vote totals for the 1972
Democratic presidential nomin
ation as announced to the
convention:
McGovern 1,864.95
Jackson 485.65
Wallace 377.5
Chisholm 101.5
McCarthy 2
Muskie 20.8
Humphrey 35
Mondale 1
Kennedy 10.65
Sanford 69.5
Mills 32.8
Hayes 5
Abstentions 9.7
The above totals include
changes made by 18 states
after the roll call had been
finished. Before the changes,
McGovern had 1,728.35.
immediately or something will
happen.”
Two Jets Sent
National Airlines sent two
727 s from Miami one of them
carrying the $600,000 in ransom.
The American Airlines plane
was hijacked over north Texas
on the Oklahoma City-to-Dallas
leg of a cross-country flight
from New York to Los Angeles.
The hijacker, described as
elderly and nervous, permitted
the plane to land at Oklahoma
City then forced it into the air.
After circling the area for
about three hours the plane was
notified by the control tower
that the ransom was ready and
the hija deer permitted it to
land again.
The money was delivered to a
specified place on the runway
and one passenger left the
jetliner to pick it up. Then the
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Griffinite posts bond
in battle over fawn
Declaring “all I’m guilty of is
loving a deer,” Mrs. Darryl
Crumbley refused Wednesday
to give up the orphaned fawn
she has adopted and was
charged with unlawful
possession of a game animal.
Two state game wardens and
four Spalding County deputies
came to the Crumbley home
with a search warrant for the
fawn, Rambler, but left empty
handed, instead serving a war
rant on Mrs. Crumbley for
keeping the animal illegally.
Mrs. Crumbley went to the
Spalding County jail on her
own, put up a $750 security
bond and was released until a
court appearance set for early
September.
The mother of three children,
Mrs. Crumbley has been fight
ing game officials for weeks
trying to keep the young deer,
found in a field by a neighbor
who almost ran over it with his
combine. When he couldn’t find
the fawn’s mother, the neighbor
gave it to the Crumbley’s who
added it to a menagerie that
already included six goats, four
dogs, four cats and a turtle.
“I’m guilty, but all I’m guilty
of is loving a deer,” the Grif
fin woman said. “I told them I
wouldn’t give up the deer, so
they had to issue a warrant.”
State game officials have said
a permit would be required to
keep the animal, but such per
mits are only issued to game
preserves and zoos.
State game warden James
Morgan of Griffin, one of the
two agents sent to look for
Rambler, would only say
Wednesday night that Mrs.
passengers were released.
The hijacker indicated he
wished to fly north from
Oklahoma City saying “he
wouldn’t need much fuel.”
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“A bad reputation may have
been fun to acquire — and
certainly will be easy to
maintain.”
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Crumbley was charged with il
legal possession of a game ani
mal. He referred other ques
tions to the State Game and
Fish Commission headquarters
in Atlanta.
At one point, it appeared a
home had been found for the
fawn at Six Flags Over Geor
gia, but Mrs. Crumbley said
she discovered that Rambler
could not be kept at the amuse
ment park after it closes for
the season in the fall.
She said she was told by state
game officials that the animal
would be taken to a game area,
which is scheduled to be opened
to hunting in a year or so.
“After I nursed the deer and
hand fed it and stayed up with
it, I’m not going to let it be
slaughtered by anyone,” Mrs.
Crumbley said.
Officials said that apparently,
the deer is being kept in Mrs.
Crumbley’s home as shortly
after they arrived, it walked out
of a bedroom.
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WOLVERHAMPTON, En
gland (UPl)—Magistrates fined
Karnail Singh $125 Wednesday
for taking a driving test for his
friend, Balbinder Singh, and
then attempting to bribe the
examiner not to fail him.
Balbinder Singh was also fine
$125 for allowing the other
Singh to impersonate him.
Balbinder said he was sure
Karnail, a bus driver, would
pass the test. The two are
unrelated.
Dr. Stokes
is bishop
LAKE JUNALUSKA, N. C.
(UPI) — United Methodists
turned to the associate dean of
the Candler School of Theology
in Atlanta today in selecting the
third of six new bishops for the
Southeastern United States.
The Rev. Mack B. Stokes, 61,
who also serves as professor of
systematic theology at the
school in Atlanta, was elected
a bishop on the sixth ballot at
the quadrennial Southeastern
Jurisdictional Conference.
Dr. Stokes was a former
pastor of the First United
Methodist Church in Griffin.
He came to Griffin following
the death of the Rev. Mclowery
Elrod and completed the church
year until the vacancy was
filled at the regular meeting of
the North Georgia Conference.
The convention Wednesday
elected Rev. Carl J. Sanders,
60, of Arlington, Va., and Dr.
Joel D. McDavid, 56, of Mobile,
Ala., as bishops.