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By Quimby Melton
“The Battle of the Ballots” is
being fought in Georgia today.
Both major political parties are
holding their primary. There
are some Two Million
Georgians registered to vote.
Prognisticators say the turnout
will be “fair.”
First guns will be fired at 7:00
a.m. The last ores at 7:00 p.m.
Or as soon thereafter as
everyone in the voting places
when the closing time comes
can vote.
Chances are that a runoff will
have to be held three weeks
later — Aug. 29.
And while candidates, their
workers, and those who conduct
the primary voting will not have
time to discuss the general
election to be held in November,
there will be others who will be
thinking about the “big show.”
What effect will naming
Sargent Shriver as Senator
McGovernr’s running mate
have? Why did Shriver agree to
run, after it had been offered to
many a “Tom, Dick and
Harry?” Few like to play
“second fiddle” not to mention
a much lower “fiddle” than
that.
Why did he accept the “call”
when his brother-in-law Senator
Kennedy turned it down? And
why did the Kennedy family
agree for him to run, for if the
Democrats should win he —
Shriver — would be a step
higher on the political totem
pole than Senator Teddy.
Close friends of Shriver say
he has a high sense of duty.
They say it was this that
compelled him to accept the
offer to be McGovern’s running
mate in a race that could, if
unsuccessful, close the door on
any further political
aspirations.
It was this sense of duty that
caused him to accept the post.
“Sarge” a close friend said,
“Is a damn good soldier. Why
else would he have taken over
the OEO, a program that could
only give him headaches. Or
stay on as Ambassador to
France under a Republican
president.”
So Sargent Shriver answered
the call of “Duty.”
And the Kennedys, always
practical in its political
viewpoint, saw the possibility
that he could be vice-president
and in due time step up to the
Presidency; and failing in this
the way would be opened for
Senator Teddy to run and
maybe win.
This New Englander must
have had time to have read
some of the history of Robert E.
Lee. It was the great Confeder
ate general who said “Duty is
the sublimest word in the
English dictionary.”
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Nixon has chance to beat
anti-war amendment
By DANIEL RAPOPORT
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Pres
ident Nixon appeared to stand a
good chance today of beating
back an attempt by House
doves to legislate an end to
U.S. participation in the Viet
nam War.
But in so doing he risked
sacrificing nearly $1 billion in
military aid for Southeast Asian
allies to continue the struggle
on their own.
The House prepared to begin
debate on a $2.1 billion foreign
military aid bill that contains
the first antiwar amendment
ever approved by the House
Foreign Affairs Committee.
The administration is deter
mined to make sure that it does
not become the first antiwar
amendment ever passed by the
House.
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ATLANTA—Dr. Stothe P. Kezios (1) director of the School of
Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, looks on as Mark
Bohn (e) and Bill Clark (r) put the finishtag touches on a
natural gas fueled Wankel engine powered vehicle. The car is
Era of Russell politics ends
By RANDALL H. HARBER
United Press International
With 18 candidates thrashing
about in the race for the U. S.
Senate only one thing seems
certain — the era of politics
practiced by the late Sen.
Richard Russell is over.
From 1932 until his death last
year, Russell ministered in the
halls of the Senate with a type
of populist - conservative phi
losophy. His roots were in rural
Georgia and his campaigns
were backed and bankrolled by
the party’s “establishment.” He
died unbeaten and unbeatable.
A look at the front runners in
either party provides little basis
for comparison.
When David Gambrell was
appointed to the Senate his po
litical philosophy was a ques
tion mark. Many believe it still
is. First, he voted with the
liberals in killing the SST. Then
he swung right to offer an anti
busing bill which he boasts re
ceived more votes than any
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Michigan Republican Rep.
Donald Riegle, a foe of Nixon
on the war, intended to outline
at a news conference today the
costs he computed the United
States has paid in dollars and
lives during the 3M> years of
Nixon’s “peace plan.”
The amendment before the
House would direct the Pres
ident to halt all U.S. combat
activities throughout Indochina,
subject only to a release of
prisoners, an accounting of the
missing and a limited cease-fire
to guarantee the safe withdra
wal of American forces from
Indochina.
The provision calls for an Oct.
1 deadline but sponsors say
they realize this is impractical
and will offer to push it back to
Dec. 1, a move that would
bring it more in line with a
other anti-busing measure.
Gambrell refuses to put him
self into any category — “I
don’t use labels.”
One newspaper that has en
dorsed Gambrell in the current
campaign aligned him with both
wings (rs the Democratic Party,
calling his voting record “con
servative-liberal.” In any case,
it is far away from Russell’s.
Rep. Sam Nunn of Perry has
cast himself with the right wing
of the Democratic Party, ap
pealing to rural conservatives
who support George Wallace
and Lester Maddox. If asked,
however, Nunn will deny he is
aiming only for conservatives.
He says his platform and his
voting record in the Georgia
House contain much to appeal
to “progressives.”
In fact, Nunn has a separate
printed fact sheet on his record
in the House which he passes
out almost exclusively to young
voters. The list includes the fact
Inside today
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, August 8, 1972
Senate-passed amendment.
Neither side was making any
flat predictions but Administra
tion lieutenants were talking a
bit more confidently than their,
opponents. Rep. Lee Hamilton,
D-Ind., one of the amendment’s
co-authors, acknowledged that
his side faced “an uphill
struggle.”
Working in Nixon’s favor was
the continued silence of Speaker
Carl Albert and Majority
Hale Boggs. Although
House Democrats have over
whelmingly endorsed the prin
ciple of end-the-war legislation,
the party’s top two leaders
have not yet responded to pleas
that they “vigorously support”
the pending amendment. Both
sides agreed that the stand of
the leaders could be critical in
the outcome of the contest.
to be tested in a clean air contest at the testing dome on the
proving grounds of GM in Milford, Mich., later this week.
(UPI)
However, an administration
victory could prove costly.
Without inclusion of the antiwar
amendment, many doves are
set to vote against the bill. In
the past they have voted for
military aid, but only because it
was coupled with economic
assistance, a program they
endorsed. This year, for the
first time, military aid has
been split off from economic
aid and must stand on its own.
Besides disgruntled doves, the
measure would face opposition
from conservatives who are
against all kinds of foreign aid.
Even if the bill makes it
through the House, it faces a
major obstacle in the Senate.
That chamber two weeks ago
killed the aid bill even with the
antiwar amendment included.
he co-sponsored the majority
age bill which gives 18-year-olds
the right to drink, sign contracts
and do anything else adults can
do. In addition, he was also co
sponsor of a teacher ac
countability bill and a teacher
tenure statute.
Nunn, instead of taking the
conservative stance against
change, said he is an “anti
status quo” candidate.
Also, Nunn says his campaign
funds are coming from small
contributors while Gambrell’s
campaign is being paid for by
bankers and lawyers, the tradi
tion source of party funds.
Former Gov. Ernest Van
diver, a member by marriage
of the Russell family, would
probably claim his political phi
losophy more closely parallels
the late senator’s than anyone
in the race. However, recently
Vandiver admitted that “times
have “changed” since he was
governor and that he had
changed also. Additionally, Van-
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a suburban street. (UPI)
DOI likely to locate
office in Thomaston
Apparently, a regional office
for the State Division of In
vestigation (formerly Georgia
Bureau of Investigation) will be
located in Thomaston instead of
Griffin.
The DOI, which was recently
reorganized with regional of
fices, had considered Griffin as
their headquarters for this
area. They had asked the
Spalding County Com-
Committee approves
busing as last resort
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
House Education Committee
diver has cast Gambrell as the
“establishment’ ’ candidate.
Lastly, Republican Congress
man Fletcher Thompson would
probably say his conservative
credentials would win the ap
proval of the late senator. How
ever, Thompson is an urban
legislature whose voice lacks a
rural ring.
Additionally, he is a Republi
can, the party traditionally
aligned with big business and
wealth; a far cry from Rus
sell’s traditional rural middle
and lower class following.
The effect of all this — taking
into account that Sen. Herman
Talmadge has been inching his
philosophy more toward the
center — is that it will become
increasingly more difficult to
pidgeonhole Georgia’s senators
on any particular Senate vote.
And finally, for the first time,
the state may be heading away
from provincialism and into the
mainstream.
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missioners to erect an office
building to adequately ac
commodate 12 agents, a
qualified lie detector operator,
and two or three secretaries.
Commissioner David Elder said
the county had offered them one
floor of the old Spalding Hotel at
Hill and Taylor streets, but did
not offer to build new office
space as they do not know the
future plans of the DOI.
approved today legislation to
make court-ordered busing a
last resort for school desegre
gation and to ban crosstown
busing of grade school pupils.
The measure was approved
by a 21-16 vote as the House
Rules Committee was meeting
to consider taking from the
Judiciary Committee President
Nixon’s measure to order a
moratorium on new busing
orders.
The Education Committee
was under a mandate from the
Rules Committee to act by
today on Nixon’s guidelines
measure or the Rules Commit
tee would consider ordering the
moratorium bill to the floor for
a vote.
The full rules panel voted, 9
to 6, a week ago to take from
the Judiciary Committee an
amendment to ban racial
busing and send it to the floor
where a vote could come this
week.
Eight Democrats joined 13
Republicans on the Education
Committee in approving the
guidelines measure. Thirteen
Democrats and three Republi
cans voted against it.
The guidelines measure would
allow busing only as a last
resort and then it would ban
busing of grade school pupils
past their neighborhood or
“next closest” school. The
effect would be to prohibit
Elder said the commissioners
would have liked the offices
located here and made a big
effort to get them but he thinks
Thomaston was chosen as it is
more centrally located.
Previously GBI agents had
offices at State Patrol
headquarters throughout the
state.
crosstown busing of sixth
graders and below.
Georgia
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ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
voters turned out in generally
light numbers to cast ballots to
day in the Democratic and Re
publican primaries as incum
bent Sen. David Gambrell laid
his political career on the line
for the first time.
Gambrell sought the Demo
cratic nomination over a bulky
field of 14 challengers. He was
expected to lead the field but
a runoff was a virtual cer
tainty. That means the man
appointed last year to succeed
the late Sen. Richard B. Russell
probably will meet either form
er Gov. Ernest Vandiver or
State Rep. Sam Nunn for a
second time on Aug. 29.
A spot check around the state
showed voter turnout generally
light. In populous Fulton Coun
ty, which takes in most of At
lanta, an election official said
voter response was “much less
than expected.”