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CHICAGO—When Leo LaMontagne says he’s up to his neck
in work, he means it... he heads up a crew replacing a gas
main in a Chicago street. LaMontagne isn’t really buried, of
Fortson says disgust, frustration
cause light turnout in primaries
ATLANTA (UPI)-State Sec
retary Ben Fortson said
Wednesday the low turnout of
Georgia voters in the Aug. 8 pri
mary elections was the result
of disgust and frustration.
Fortson, who is also the
state’s chief election official,
charged that politicians are too
interested in attacking each oth
er.
“The people are fed up with
this kind of stuff,” Fortson said.
Fortson made his comments
in releasing the offdal results
of the elections. His figures
showed that only 40.9 per cent
of Georgia’s 2,050,000 registered
voters bothered to cast ballots.
It was the lightest turnout in
a state primary in years and
broke down to 752,207 votes cast
in the Democratic primary and
69,144 in the Republican.
The official results produced
no surprises. But they did show
that incumbent 7th District
Rep. John Davis beat back the
challenge of Dr. Larry Mc-
Donald by only 3,008 votes in the
closest of any of the statewide
or congressional races.
Sen. David Gambrell, battling
State Rep. Sam Nunn in an
Aug. 29 Democratic runoff,
polled 258,216 votes for the
Democratic senatorial nomina
tion to 170,699 f9r Nunn. For
mer Gov. Ernest Vandiver was
third in the 15-man field with
151,708.
Gambrell carried 117 of the
state’s 159 counties, Nunn 32
and Vandiver 10.
Public Service Commissioner
Ford Spinks got 394,201 votes to
207,735 for Larry Thomason in
the official returns for a seat
on the PSC. In another PSC
race, Mac Barber defeated
Douglas Smith 388,788 to 168,918.
In the Ist District Congres
sional race, incumbent G. El
iott Hagan got 37,868 votes to
34,536 for Ronald “Bo” Ginn,
jutting them into a runoff. The
hird Democrat in the race,
Briefs |
FUND INCREASED
SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI)-A
sale of pasties—a meat pie
which is the traditional miner’s
lunch—pushed the amount of
money collected for nearly 200
children left fatherless by the
Sunshine Silver Mine fire to
more than $95,000.
H.F. Magnuson, a trustee of
the Miners Memorial Fund,
said Wednesday $3,232 was
contributed during the pasty
sale.
The fund is for scholarships
and vocational training for the
children of 91 miners who were
oiled in a May 2 blaze near
Kellogg, Idaho.
WWII PLANE FOUND
MINDEN, Germany (UPI)—
\ salvage crew working in a
marsh found wreckage of a
>lazi Focke Wulf 190 fighter
jlane with the body of the pilot
jinned inside. It was shot down
n 1944 during World War 11.
The pilot was identified as
3apt. E. Maak from the Bth
Squadron, 11th Fighter Group.
Tom Taggart, polled 15,023.
On the Republican side in the
7th District, Charlie Sherrill
beat Eugene McMichen 2,277 to
1,572.
Other contested Democratic
congressional races:
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a refreshing swig of a soft drink. (UPI)
4th District: Odell Welborn
10,292, Dennis Bade 7,278.
sth District: Andrew Young
35,926, Wyche Fowler 19,549, H.
D. Dodson 3,053, Howell Smith
1,008.
6th District: Incumbent John
Flynt 53,943, Ray Gurley 16,237.
Bth District: Incumbent Wil
liam Stuckey 66,104, Mitch Mil
ler 18,519, Harry Powell 14,863.
10th District: Incumbent Rob
ert Stephens 59,714, Charles Ru
ark 10,997.
Atlanta 29th
Bank robbers getting bolder
ATLANTA (UPI) - Atlanta
has chalked up its 29th bank
robbery this year, a wave that
FBI officials have blamed on
increasing boldness, drugs and
the city’s image as a boom
town.
To date the metropolitan
area’s banks have been robbed
more times than all of last
year.
Bandits are “just gutsier
these days,” said Leo Conroy,
agent in charge of the Atlanta
FBI office.
“We’re seeing the same pat
tern in hijacking, kidnapings
and hostages. They probably
just figure the easiest way to
get something is to do it big.”
Most bank robbers here are
“young and many are on
drugs,” Special Agent Ange
Robbe said.
“They just get hopped up and
just don’t give a damn who
they hurt or how they get their
money.”
Robbe, who heads the bu
reau’s bank robbery detail, said
Atlanta was a “boom town”
that attracts the criminal type.
He added that banks haven’t
kept up with modern deter
rents — “criminals are taking
advantage of this. They also
know that when employes are
threatened they have been in
structed to cooperate.”
The 29th robbery — three
ahead of the number for all of
1971 and more than double that
for the entire state two years
ago — came Wednesday when
a lone bandit robbed a down
town branch of the Citizens and
Southern National Bank for the
second time in 24 hours.
Later, a suspect was arrested
and charged with both holdups.
He was identified as Timothy
Lee Jackson, 23.
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Another attempted robbery in
the metropolitan area was
thwarted Wednesday when an
official of the Avondale branch
of Citizens and Southern Na
tional Bank of DeKalb County
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stalled a suspect who claimed
to have a bomb in a brief case.
Police were alerted and took
a man identified as John Sam
uel Cranford, 49, of Decatur,
into custody. He was charged
with attempted bank robbery.
Atlanta Police Chief John
Inman said he was willing to
station special marksmen inside
or outside the banks to cut
down the wave of robberies.