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By Quimby Melton
Frankly, we do not like the
way Ramsey Clark, a former U.
S. attorney general, and
Sergent Shiver, Democratic
nominee for vice president, are
handling the Indochina
situation.
Their comments seem to this
veteran to amount to a whole
sale indictment of all men and
women in our armed services,
from the President — com
mander in chief — right on
down to the newest and
youngest buck private.
But we do not join those who
would have them tried on
charges of treason. They may
be sincere in their feelings but if
they are making their wholesale
charges to get elected, they are
playing the lowest down politics
America has ever known.
You’ll never convince this
veteran that the men and
women who wear Uncle Sam’s
uniform are just “murderous
deamons.” There are many of
them who wear that uniform
because, both volunteers and
draftees, they love their
country. Are you familiar with
John 15:13? “Greater love hath
no man than he lay down his life
for a friend?” We sincerely
believe this “greater love” can
be demonstrated by one’s love
for his country.
We have personally seen this
during World War One, and we
have been told by veterans of
other wars of this “greater
love” shown on the battlefields.
How well we remember Capt.
Kirk Newell, one-time Auburn
football star, who threw himself
on a grenade a nervious
replacement had dropped in a
trench in the Argonne Forest,
after having pulled the safety
pin, smothering the explosion
with his body and saving the
lives of other men in the trench!
Captain Newell was so badly
wounded that he spent the rest
of his life a bed ridden patient in
a veterans hospital.
Don’t tell me Kirk Newell was
a “mudering deamon.”
And don’t tell this veteran
that First Class Private Vito-
Dugo, an Italian-American, did
not show “greater love” wheh
that early morning as the sun
peaked over the horizon, he
jumped from the trench waving
his arms as he sighted a Ger
man patrol approaching un
noticed. He delayed them long
enough to kill him. The noise of
their shots awakened other mqp
who may have been dozing at
their posts and the Germans
were driven off.
And don’t tell me that such
men as a young Georgian who
was killed by snipers that day in
the Battle of the Bulge when he
made three trips out into no
man’s land and brought three of
his badly wounded buddies
safely back on his shoulders;
only to be killed by a sniper on
the third and last trip, did not
show “greater love.”
There are other instances
which we can recall and no
doubt there are many who read
this column who can also recall
when loved ones displayed this
“greater love” in war time.
We just don’t like that
wholesale “murderous
deamon” tag.
And while we are getting this
“off our chest” let us add that
while we respect a genuine
conscientious objector, and
there are many of them, we
have utter contempt for those
who claim to be such, just to
camouflage their lack of guts.
We personally know of men
who were genuine conscientious
objectors who offered their
services in hospitals and the
like in time of war. We
remember well a man in World
War One, an older man, who
served with the YMCA in
France and this man did not
remain behind the trenches
during battle. He would fill his
knapsack and, unarmed, crawl
up into the front lines, bringing
the soldiers candy bars and
other little reminders that there
was someone who loved them.
No one wants peace,
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Bump or pat?
Kissinger, Thieu
give no clues
By TRACY WOOD
SAIGON (UPI) - President
Nguyen Van Thieu and Dr.
Henry A. Kissinger met today
for their first Vietnam talks in
more than a year. They smiled
and joked for newsmen but
gave no clue whether Kissinger
was here to dump Thieu or pat
him on the back.
The South Vietnamese said
they had been supposed to meet
at lunch but that Thieu was
“too busy.” The Americans
said this was not a snub and
that reports Kissinger had been
given a cool reception weren’t
true either—that the 20-hour
delay before he saw Thieu was
taken up with other meetings.
Kissinger has not given
newsmen any indication what
will be discussed during the two
days of meetings with Thieu
and other officials, including
U.S. military leaders.
Government sources have
said the purpose of Kissinger’s
sudden visit is to assure Thieu
Gwinnett commissioner
files counter suit
LAWRENCEVILLE (UPI) —
Chairman W. R. Pruitt of the
Gwinnett County Commission
has filed a $2.4 million counter
suit, accusing 23 persons of in
juring his chances of re-election
in the Aug. 29 primary runoff.
Pruitt had been accused of
misuse of county funds in a
$120,000 suit brought by present
commissioner Julian Archer,
two former commissioners and
20 members of the Gwinnett
County Taxpayers Association.
They had charged Pruitt with
“wilfully and wantonly ignoring
the rights of Gwinnett County
citizens by authorizing reloca
tion of a Gwinnett County road
to benefit a private developer.”
In his cross complaint, the
commission chairman said the
allegations were “defamatory,
debasing, slanderous and libel
ous” and aimed at damaging
him in his duties and in
his runoff with Lawrenceville
City Councilman Bill Atkinson.
Pruitt said a grand jury had
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A delegation from Crisp County and Cordele visited the Small
Claims Court in Griffin yesterday to see how it is operated.
Crisp-Cordele is thinking about establishing such a court to
serve its citizens. They said they understood Griffin’s
operation was one of the best in Georgia and came to ask
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of continued U.S. support.
Other sources contend Kissin
ger’s mission is to persuade
Thieu to step down as a
concession to the North Vietna
mese negotiators at the Paris
peace talks.
There has been widespread
speculation that Kissinger’s
visit signaled a breakthrough in
peace negotiations that he has
been holding privately with the
North Vietnamese in Paris.
But the White House has
cautioned against expecting too
much from the visit and Press
Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler
said in Washington the official
purpose of the trip was “for a
general review of all aspects of
the Vietnam problem, including
the negotiations in Paris.”
The presidential adviser, in
his first visit to Saigon since
July 4, 1971, spent nearly three
hours earlier today conferring
with U.S. Ambassador Ells
worth Bunker, U.S. commander
Gen. Frederick C. Weyand and
investigated the private road
dispute and concluded that
nothing was wrong.
Girl dies
in wreck
near Springs
Joyce Denise Russell, 16, of
Route Two, Hephzibah, Ga.,
was killed when the small
foreign made car she was
driving ran out of control of a
curve near Indian Springs.
The accident occurred about
11:20 yesterday.
Miss Russell was attending
the annual camp meeting being
held this week at Indian
Springs.
She was dead on arrival at the
Sylvan Grove Hospital at Jack
son.
People attending the camp
meeting said that Miss Russell
was among the most popular
girls attending the meetings.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, August 17, 1972
7th Air Force commander Gen.
John W. Vogt.
Kissinger told a pool of
reporters they conducted a
“general and political review of
the situation” during the
lunchtime meeting.
When Kissinger and Thieu
met at the palace at 4:30 p.m.
they shook hands, smiled and
posed for news photographers.
Thieu and Kissinger then
went into a private meeting
with Bunker, Thieu’s foreign
affairs assistant Nguyen Phu
Due and press secretary Hoang
Due Nha, the president’s
nephew.
Kissinger, relaxed and smil
ing, left the U.S. command’s so
called “Pentagon East” head
quarters on the fringe of Tan
Son Nhut Air Base, shouted at
waiting reporters, “What are
you writing?” and climbed into
an air-conditioned limousine to
be driven back to the embassy,
where he had spent the night.
Government sources said
Thieu had spurned a U.S. bid
for a luncheon meeting at the
palace with Kissinger on the
ground that Thieu was “too
busy.”
However, Thieu agreed to
meet with Kissinger later in the
day.
The sources said the “cool”
reception accorded America’s
unofficial chief peace negotiator
aroused immediate speculation
that Kissinger was carrying a
plan for Indochina peace that
was not to the liking of the
Saigon government.
The half-mile-long route be
tween Bunker’s residence,
where Kissinger is staying, and
Thieu’s palace was heavily
guarded today by security
forces.
Kissinger’s arrival in the
capital during a light monsoon
rain Wednesday night was only
briefly mentioned on the official
Saigon Radio.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
87, low today 67, high yesterday
84, low yesterday 69, high
tomorrow near 90, low tonight
near 70. Sunrise tomorrow 7:07,
sunset tomorrow 8:16.
Judge John O. Clements how he operates the court. Talking
with Judge Clements (1) are Ralph West, George Pass,
Charles Ginter and Charles Wells. The Cordele Chamber of
Commerce is pushing for the project.
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vaccinates Thomas Henry Newman, 10, against Rubella with
a hypodermic injection “gun” which does not use a needle.
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“The less a fellow’s involved
with a problem, the easier its
solution appears to be.”
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27 men, one woman
accused in auto ring
WASHINGTON (UPI) -A
federal grand jury has charged
27 men and one woman with
conspiracy in connection with
an auto theft ring that allegedly
contemplated murder and oper
ated in at least 10 states,
Attorney General Richard G.
Kleindienstannounced today.
Sixteen of the accused were
charged with receiving and
concealing stolen cars and one
count of the indictment in
volved discussion of killing a
witness by planting a bomb in
his car.
The 25-count indictment was
returned sealed in U.S. District
Court in Bowling Green, Ky.,
Tuesday. It was unsealed today
City hall
consolidates
two offices
The city announced today that
effective today the Building
Inspection Department will be
co-located on the first floor of
dty hall with the office of City
Tax Collector and License
Inspector.
Building, plumbing and
electric permits will be issued
from the new location and no
longer can be secured from the
street-level location.
The consolidation was
necessary when the city decided
that two positions, vacated by
resignations, would not be
filled.
City officials said they will
attempt to get more out of fewer
employes.
The immunization program will be in operation at the
Spalding County Health Department until 8 p.m. today to
ready youngsters for school.
after FBI agents arrested 15 of
the defendants, 13 of them in
Louisville.
The 28 persons were charged
with conspiring to steal a total
of 80 cars in Kentucky,
Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Ala
bama, North Carolina, Arkan
sas, Georgia, Missouri, Missis
sippi and elsewhere.
The grand jury charged that
the accused transported most
of the vehicles interstate,
altered the identification num
bers of the cars, obtained
fraudulent titles and registra
tion and sold them to unknow
ing wholesale or retail purcha
sers.
Between Oct. 1, 1970, and
Jan. 21, 1971, the grand jury
charged, five of the accused
discussed killing a potential
witness against them. On Jan.
21, 1971, a four-stick dynamite
bomb was found in the witness’
car but did not explode.
Another count charged that
four of the accused discussed
killing a man identified as
Barry Lynn Clayton, no address
given, because of his evident
cooperation in the grand jury
investigation. Clayton was one
of 13 persons named co
conspirators but not indicted.
The maximum penalty on
conviction of conspiracy is five
years in prison and a SIO,OOO
fine, and for each count of
receiving and concealing a
stolen car in interstate com
merce, five years and $5,000.
Indicted were: Billy Mayes,
34, and his wife Charlotte, 31,
Shirley Basham, 39, Billy D.
Miller, 37, Fred Tabor, 42,
Jimmy Thompson, 38.
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McDaniel, 21, Larry Gann, 25,
Charles E. Adams, 47, Ronald
Kinser, 23, Larry Suddeth, 28,
James Dennison, 25, and James
H. Hendricks, 29, all of Bowling
Green, Ky.
Also, William Albert Hudson,
44, Rockfield, Ky.; William
Belvy Barbee, 35, Park City,
Ky.; Hubert Harrisson, 30,
Alvaton, Ky.; James Donald
Newberry, 28, Lafayette, Tenn.;
Carroll Ray Pemberton, 39,
Columbus, Ohio; Earnest Frank
Fowler, 38, Scottsville, Ky.;
Larry Osborn, Chandler, Ariz.;
and L. C. Cook, 47, William
Houk, 34, William Henry
Wilson, 29 and Lewis Bewley,
30, all of Louisville, Ky.
More troop
pullouts?
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Pres
ident Nixon is expected to
announce shortly that 14,000 to
19,000 U.S. troops will be
brought home from Vietnam,
administration sources said
today.
The remaining 20,000 to 25,000
troops in Vietnam could be the
“residual” force that the
President on several occasions
has said will stay in Vietnam
until prisoners of war are
released and the missing in
action are accounted for by the
Communists.
Some type of statement had
been expected from Nixon
shortly since he had announced
June 28 that by Sept. 1 only