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By Quimby Melton
If one thinks splitting several
counties and forming the 28th
Georgia Senatorial district has
caused any confusion, we
suggest they consider the
confusion that must exist in
Bristol— Tenn.-Virginia.
The line that divides these two
Southern States runs down the
middle of one of the main
streets. And if one wants to
write a friend in Bristol, he
must look up the zip code
number of each of the Bristols if
he wants to speed up delivery.
The zip for Bristol, Tenn., is
37620, and for Bristol, Va.,
24201.
And there is St. Louis, Mo.
and East St. Louis, 111.,
separated by the big river; not
to mention Columbus, Ga. and
Phenix City, Ala.
Then there is Kansas City,
Mo. and Kansas City, Kan. They
are “just across the river.”
We thought of these cities and
states in connection with the
question, “Will Senator Bob
Smalley win the ‘Battle of the
Ballots’ without a runoff?
Just as one thinks he has the
answer, here comes a report
that the final tabulation of
absentee ballots in this or that
county could decide the
question.”
So we’ll have to wait until
there is a more detailed report
available.
However, the race for the
House — run by Carlisle-Hyatt-
Jackson with enough reports in
to determine the outcome,
shows a Carl isle-Jackson runoff
necessary.
The David Gambrell— Sam
Nunn runover will be “one of
the most interesting races ever
run for the U. S. Senate.”
Already the two have agreed
to meet in debates over the state
with many of them being on tv.
Both “of the contestors” as the
referee at a championship
boxing match would call them,
are receiving instructions. The
first bout probably will be
fought Sunday night. The two
will stand toe to toe and slug it
out. The bell will ring Aug. 29
when the polls close at 7 p.m.
Georgia will await the an
nouncement as to the winner.
There can be no “draw”. There
will have to be a “knockout”.
New lights
in First Ward
The city has completed in
stallation of new mercury vapor
lights in the First Ward section.
The contractor is now working
in the Third Ward area.
City officials voted several
months ago to install mercury
vapor street lights in all areas
of Griffin.
Commissioners drew to
determine which ward was
lighted first. The order of
scheduled lighting is First
Ward, Third Ward, Fourth
Ward and Second Ward.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
85, low today 67, high yesterday
92, low yesterday 71, high
tomorrow in upper 80s, low
tonight in upper 60s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:01, sunset
tomorrow 8:23.
“Folks seem to admire you
most when you admit your
weaknesses.”
When demand sufficient
Gordon to offer
Griffin courses
Gordon College will continue
to teach courses in Griffin when
there is sufficient demand for
them.
This was announced today by
Dr. Jerry Williamson, president
of Gordon which is located in
Barnesville and which became
a unit of the University System
of Georgia on July 1.
During an interview in his
office in Barnesville yesterday
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Gambrell says he’s ready for Nunn debate.
Gambrell, Nunn
open slug match
By JACK WILKINSON
ATLANTA (UPI) - In true
Georgia political style—and be
fore the final returns were in
—the two survivors in the 15-
man Democratic senatorial pri
mary started shooting away in
the runoff. Sen. David Gambrell
called Sam Nunn a liberal and
political backstabber and Nunn
said Gambrell had been out in
the sun too long.
Gambrell, appointed to the
Senate by Gov. Jimmy Carter
upon the death of Richard B.
Russell, led a varied field in
Tuesday’s Democratic primary
that included a white racist and
a civil rights activist. Gambrell
had 188,540 votes, or 32.3 per
cent, with a little over 80 per
cent of the vote tallied.
Nunn, a state representative
and nephew of former Congress
man Carl Vinson, came in sec
ond with 137,411, or 23.5 per
cent.
Gambrell called a news con
ference Wednesday to describe
Nunn as a liberal without any
experience on national issues
and with an ineffective voting
record in the Georgia House.
“I’m concerned that the Geor
gia people may be electing a
political pig in a poke,” the At
lanta lawyer said. “Mr. Nunn
Smalley, Whaley in runoff
Robert H. Smalley, Jr., the
incumbent senator from the
28th Georgia District, is headed
for a runoff against Claude
Whaley of Jonesboro.
With the vote tabulation still
unofficial in a couple of coun
ties, it appears that Sen.
Smalley barely missed getting
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GRIFFIN
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afternoon, Dr. Williamson told
Mrs. Lee Roy Claxton of Griffin,
“This is our mission: to work
with the citizens of Griffin, and
if we need to offer courses in
this community, then we will do
it, because we are here to serve
the needs of the citizens in our
service area. Griffin is certain
ly one of the largest con
stituencies in our service area.”
Mrs. Claxton said that he told
has no record of experience in
the U.S. Senate and no record
on the national issues.
“He has played on the antago
nisms and differences in our
people and I’m afraid he is a
puppet for discredited political
interests in Georgia.”
Gambrell added that Nunn
maintained a “liberal posture”
throughout his tenure in the
Georgia General Assembly but
did not get much done.
“He hasn’t introduced in his
own right one piece of major
legislation,” the senator added.
“The only thing he’s ever done
in four years is try to carve
himself out a congressional dis
trict so he could run for the
Congress and failing—that’s how
he ended up in the Senate
race.”
Nunn retorted that he is wor
ried about Gambrell’s health.
“He’s been working harder
than a Harvard man is ac
customed to,” Nunn said. “I
think he’s been out in the sun
too long.”
Nunn, a farmer-lawyer-legis
lator from Perry said that dur
ing four years in the Georgia
House he had sponsored at least
five pieces of major legislation
dealing with criminal law.
Despite the sudden aggres-
50 percent of the total votes in
Tuesday Democratic Primary.
Unofficial returns show Sen.
Smalley with 7,238 votes.
Whaley is in second place
with 4,316 and Carl Pruett of
Griffin is third with 3,430.
Sen. Smalley carried
Spalding County by a wide
margin. He polled 4,121 votes to
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, August 10, 1972
her, “I honestly feel if Griffin
has a demonstrative need in any
area it can come to us and we’ll
fill it if we have the resources to
do it.”
Presently the Continuing
Education Center of the Univer
sity of Georgia offers night
college credit courses in Griffin.
Enrollment this summer is 92
students and classes are taught
siveness against each other,
both of the candidates in the
Aug. 29 runoff agreed to a ser
ies of debates before television
cameras. The first two are
scheduled for Sunday on WALB
TV in Albany and WRBL-TV in
Columbus.
The winner in the runoff elec
tion will meet Republican Rep.
Fletcher Thompson in the No
vember general election.
Thompson grabbed off the GOP
nomination against three
political unknowns with 92.2 per
cent of the vote.
Former Gov. Ernest Vandi
ver, trying for a political
comeback, placed third in the
Democratic primary with
119,063 votes.
Hosea Williams, an outspoken
civil rights activist and one
time aide to Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., bested white racist J.
B. Stoner for the fourth spot.
Stoner had drawn the ire of
Jews and blacks with his racist
spot commercials on radio and
television.
State Treasurer Bill Burson,
who had walked across Georgia
in a futile campaign, came in
sixth.
The remainder of the vote
was divided between the other
nine candidates.
Pruett’s 1,765 and Whaley’s
1,174.
Henry County went for Sen.
Smalley with 587 votes to 529 for
Whaley and 337 for Pruett.
Fayette’s unofficial returns
show Smalley with 250, Whaley
with 114 and Pruett with 132.
Coweta County voters gave
Sen. Smalley 1,348 votes,
at Griffin High School. After
Gordon became a unit of the
University System, the Univer
sity of Georgia turned this over
to Gordon.
Dr. Williamson pointed out
today in an interview with the
Griffin Daily News that it would
be less expensive to teach the
night classes on the campus in
Barnesville which is 14 miles
from Griffin. Nevertheless, he
said, when there is a sufficient
number of students and need for
classes in Griffin, they will be
taught in Griffin. He said that as
a rule of thumb, about 15
students per class would be
required.
Also he pointed out these
differences in the program
which Gordon will offer in
Griffin and the one which the
University of Georgia has of
fered through the Continuing
Education Center:
—Students can obtain up to
one year of non-resident college
credit under the present pro
gram but under the new one
they can take two full years.
—Presently students can not
meet residency requirements
for degrees but under the
Gordon plan they will be
regular Gordon students in
stead of extension students and
meet residency requirements.
—Non-credit courses as well
as collegs credit ones will be
offered in Griffin.
—Gordon is limited to junior
college work (freshman and
sophomore), but Dr. W. R.
Brown of the Continuing Educa
tion Center at the University of
Georgia has written Dr.
Williamson that the University
of Georgia will provide senior
division (junior and senior
college years) on an extension
basis in Griffin when there is
sufficient demand.
—ln addition to classes taught
in Griffin, a wider variety will
be available at the campus in
Barnesville. These will include
subjects such as art and music
and will be available to quali
fied students from Griffin.
“We are going to do
everything we can to serve the
educational needs of Griffin,”
Dr. Williamson concluded.
In addition to discussing the
night classes, Dr. Williamson
pointed out that Gordon and the
City of Griffin are planning for
the college to teach police
courses in Griffin. He said that
the college has $20,000 available
in federal funds to pay for this.
Griffin is one of two Georgia
cities which offers policemen
incentive pay for satisfactorily
completing such courses.
Dr. Williamson plans to come
to Griffin tonight to meet with
students and other interested
people at the Math building on
the Griffin High School campus
at 8 o’clock to explain the pro
gram.
Whaley 834 and Pruett 801.
Clayton County went for
Whaley 1,665 votes to Sen.
Smalley’s 932. Pruett received
395 votes in Clayton.
The unofficial returns show
Sen. Smalley with 7,238 votes
and his two opponents with a
combined total of 7,746.
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Final Spalding totals
didn’t alter outcome
Votes in the Democratic and
Republican primaries held here
Tuesday were officially
tabulated yesterday.
The final results did not alter
the outcome of the county
commissioner and the election
in the 67th Georgia House
District.
There will be runoffs to elect
Democratic nominees in those
elections.
Palmer Hamil was the top
vote getter in the County
Commission race with 2,349
votes. Bobby Dunn polled 2,005,
just 15 more than Glenn
Conkle’s 1,990. George Farrar
received 844 votes.
Hamil and Dunn will meet in
a runoff on Tuesday, Aug. 29.
John Carlisle drew 3,254 votes
in the race for Post One, 67th
House District. Don Jackson
received 2,518 votes here and
Dick Hyatt polled 1,462.
Fayette County also went for
Carlisle. He received 1,022 votes
there. Don Jackson polled 960
and Dick Hyatt 279.
Carlisle also led in Coweta
County with 134 votes. Jackson
received 107 and Hyatt 35.
Carlisle finished with 4,410
votes, Jackson 3,585 and Hyatt
1,776.
Carlisle will face Jackson in a
runoff election on Aug. 29 for the
house seat.
In the U.S. Senate election,
Sen. David Gambrell carried
Spalding County with 2,069.
Former Gov. Ernest Vandiver
was second with 1,384 votes and
Sam Nunn came in third with
1,248.
Republican Fletcher
Thompson won here.
Sen. Gambrell will take on
Sam Nunn in a runoff election
fbr the Democratic nomination
and the winner will meet
Thompson in the general
election.
Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert won
reelection with 4,444 votes to
Ralph Steele’s 2,776.
In the only Justice of the Mrs. Linda Freeman 736 to 380
Peace race, J. L. Hardwick beat in the Experiment District.
Returns |
Tabulation of results in the Spalding Democratic
primary were completed yesterday afternoon. The
official results in the major contests were:
U. S. Senate
Gambrell
Vandiver
Nunn
Public Service Commission
Barber
Smith
Public Service Commission
Spinks
Thomason
6th District Congress
Flynt
Gurley
State Senate
Smalley
Pruett
Whaley
House of Rep.
Carlisle
Jackson
Hyatt
Sheriff
Gilbert
Steele •
County Commission
Hamil
Dunn
Conkle
Farrar
Justice of Peace
Experiment District
J. L. Hardwick
Mrs. Linda Freeman
(Republican primary returns were being tabulated today *
but it appeared Fletcher Thompson took Spalding easily g
in the only contested race in Spalding.)
2,069
1,384
1,248 :=:•
3,292 |
1,244
3,665
1,907 g
5,610 |
980 g
4,121
1,765
1,174 g
3,254 $
2,518 &
1,462 §
4,444 £
2,776
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2,349 |
2,005 :$
1,990 :$
844 £
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736 £:
380 §