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By Quimby Melton
Who will be the Republican
nominee for President in 1976?
The convention that will
choose the nominee is four
years away, but there are signs
of budding campaigns for some
who dream of moving into the
White House four years from
now.
Os course, whether the Nixon-
Agnew ticket wins the current
race will have some effect on
who will carry the GOP banner
four years from now. If the
Nixon-Agnew combination is
reelected, then Spiro Agnew
will have the pole position in the
76 race. And the GOP is con
fident Nixon-Agnew will win.
But even then there will be
those who will challenge
Agnew. Prominently mentioned
are such public officials as
Governor Nelson Rockefeller of
New York, Senator Charles
Percy of Illinois and former
governor of Texas, John B. Con
naUy.
And there is a possible “dark
horse” that may enter the race.
He is Senator Robert Taft Jr., of
Ohio.
The desire to be President
seems to possess the Tafts as
much as it does the Kennedys.
Robert Taft Jr. is the grandson
of one time President William
Howard Taft and the son of
former Senator Robert Taft who
was steam rolled at the con
vention that nominated Dwight
D. Eisenhower, who went on to
serve two terms as President.
The present Senator Taft of
Ohio, will be out not only to
realize his dream but to avenge
the defeat of his father.
Now it is only reasonable to
believe that President Nixon
will favor Spiro Agnew to get
the 76 nomination, judging from
the present good relations
between the Number One and
Number Two men.
President Nixon might even
go as far as to appoint would be
opponents of Agnew to high
positions in his government that
would sidetrack those who
would oppose Agnew.
Connally he might name
Secretary of State; Rockefeller,
Secretary of Defense; Percy,
Secretary of the Treasury or
Attorney General.
But he cannot side track Sen.
Robert Taft of Ohio. Taft’s term
in the Senate lasts until 1977.
And there is no better base for
launching a Presidential
campaign than the U. S. Senate.
Should Robert Taft be elected
President in 1976, he would be
the second grandson of a former
President to be elected. The
first was Benjamin Harrison,
the 23rd President whose
grandfather was William Henry
Harrison, the 9th.
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Mrs. Tricia Nixon Cox, Mrs. Pat Nixon and David
Eisenhower watch convention proceedings from
floor. (CPI)
Nixon plunges into campaign
seeking landslide victory
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By DAVID E. ANDERSON
MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-De
monstrators rallied their forces
today for an attempt to
confront President Nixon with a
half-empty hall when he deliv
ers his acceptance speech at
the Republican National Con
vention.
Miami Beach Police Chief
Rocky Pomerance said he
hoped he would not have to call
upon 3,000 Florida National
Guardsmen and 2,500 federal
troops being held in reserve in
case the disorders are too much
for regular law enforcement
officers to control at the final
session of the GOP convention
tonight.
“We expect some more
Tax hike
studied
in state
ATLANTA (UPI) — A state
wide one cent increase in the
sales tax is one of four propos
als being studied by a state
House subcommittee to assist
financially-pressedlocalgovem
ments.
The subcommittee was one of
five which reported Tuesday to
the House Committee on State
Planning and Community Af
fairs. The committee has
been researching such major
problems as local financing, po
lice standards, rural housing,
local zoning and state land-use
policy.
Along with the proposed sales
tax increase, the subcommittee
said it was examining a one
per cent cigarette tax increase,
a one per cent local option
sales tax and a minimum beer
tax. Currently, the beer tax
ranges from 5 cents to $2 per
case and a $1 minimum was
suggested.
The law enforcement sub
committee proposed the state
adopt minimum jail standards
for the first time, including
structural and health provi
sions.
It also proposed that sanc
tions be taken against local
governments which don’t re
quire training for law enforce
ment officials and criticized the
failure of some sheriffs and
other law officers for not tak
ing advantage of available
training programs.
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testing,” the police chief said.
“I hope we can do it with our
civilian police. But I just don’t
know.”
Pomerance admitted it was
“very nasty out there” Tuesday
night when antiwar protesters
laid siege to the GOP conven
tion hall, jeering and otherwise
harassing delegates and tying
up traffic.
Earlier demonstrators had
roamed through the streets of
this resort city, smashing
windows, cursing pedestrians,
pounding on passing cars, and
looting a beer truck and a
liquor store.
Police made 210 arrests.
State troopers, assisted by
marine patrol officers, arrested
206 persons near the Convention
Hall Tuesday afternoon and
police jailed four more Tuesday
night.
Policemen and demonstrators
alike anticipate many more
arrests tonight when a massive
campaign of civil disobedience,
carefully orchestrated to pro
voke arrests, will be carried
out.
Demonstrators intend to
blockade streets and possibly
hotel lobbies to prevent dele
gates from getting to the
Convention Hall.
The confrontation Tuesday
night when keyed-up demon
strators pounded and damaged
cars of convention-goers was
the most serious so far.
The drawn-out arrest process
took most of the afternoon.
When it was over, police had
brought in 166 adult males, 36
adult females and four juve
niles—two girls and two boys.
Cases were dismissed against
seven.
Anger at the arrests built up
and was vented against the
cars of delegates moving to the
Convention Hall Tuesday night.
One car, carrying Judge and
Mrs. Martin J. Roess of St.
Petersburg, Fla., was stalled
for 20 minutes in traffic. The
driver, Kenneth A. Anderson,
said demonstrators beat on the
limousine with fists and sticks,
smashed one window and
ripped away antennas.
“Thank God for the state
troopers,” said Anderson.
“They came to our rescue and
we were able to drive off. I ran
two of them down—l don’t
know if they were hurt.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, August'23, 1972
By MIKE FEINSILBER
MIAMI BEACH (UPl)—Pres
ident Nixon plunges into his
fifth campaign for national
office tonight in pursuit of a
life’s dream—a landslide.
The candidate for re-election
of a conservative platform and
convention, he is pitching his
appeal to the two big blocs of
voters where polls give Demo
cratic rival George S. Mc-
Govern the edge—the blacks
and the young.
Youth violently against Nixon
vowed to lay siege to Conven
tion Hall to keep it half empty
when he appears tonight.
They cursed and jeered at
delegates and dignitaries Tues
day night, pounding on arriving
cars, ripping down posters and
breaking a few windows.
Nixon, in a speech he drafted
on 12 pads of yellow legal-sized
pages, will make his carefully
considered appeal to blacks and
minorities after the convention
ratifies his selection of Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew for
another term.
Attends Rock Concert
To chants of “Four more
years, four more years!” Nixon
stressed youth’s new and
untested political muscle when
he arrived here Tuesday and
again at a Miami stadium rock
concert where he delivered
what amounted to an unofficial
acceptance speech in the
embrace of black entertainer
Sammy Davis Jr.
“We’ve got just as good a
shot at it (the youth vote) as
the other side,” he said.
At the convention hall,
delegates watched Nixon’s ap
pearance before the young on
huge television screens.
Minutes before, balloons had
showered upon them as the
results of their balloting were
announced—Nixon’s renomina
tion by a vote of 1,347 to 1.
The single vote of dissent was
reluctantly cast by New Mexico
for anti-Vietnam Rep. Paul N.
McCloskey of California on the
basis of his showing in that
state’s primary last spring.
The convention accepted a
Nixonian platform defending his
Vietnam policies, denouncing
marijuana, racial busing and
gun controls and amended only
to speak more clearly on behalf
of the self-determination rights
of American Indians.
Reforms Scorned
The delegates scorned re
forms proposed by liberals
which could have hampered
Agnew in a bid next time for
the presidential nomination.
Sen. Charles H. Percy of
Illinois, a leader earlier in the
week of the fight to alter the
delegate selection formula for
1976, sat silent while others
carried the battle to the
convention floor at Tuesday
afternoon’s session. Conserva
tives had claimed that Percy’s
efforts were self-serving.
The reformers wanted to
change the system which
awards extra delegates to
stalwartly Republican states,
usually rural, small and conser
vative, at the expense of big
states where moderate and
liberal Republicans come from.
But they were defeated by a
vote of 910 to 434.
New York Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller, often a Nixon foe
in the past and three times a
candidate for the party’s
presidential nomination, placed
Nixon in nomination—and was
followed by 11 seconding
speeches, including three De
mocrats, a teen-aged black girl
from Nevada and a fired Nixon
administration Cabinet officer,
former Interior Secretary Wal
ter Hickel.
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City to charge $lO each
for false burglar alarms
Plagued with an increasing
number of false burglar alarms
connected to the Griffin Police
Department, City Com
missioners last night decided to
begin charging $lO for those
exceeding one per month at
each establishment.
Some institutions were
running as high as nine false
alarms per month, the com
missioners pointed out. The
increase in such alarms took a
diarp upswing early in the
spring and has continued, they
said.
The commissioners referred
to automatic burglar alarm
devices which some business
firms have installed. They are
connected with the Police
Department and when touched
off send patrolmen scrambling
to the institution.
The commissioners believe
some of the alarms need ad
justing so that they are not so
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President Nixon greeted at Miami airport. (UPI)
sensitive.
Each firm with an alarm will
be allowed one false call per
month and will be charged $lO
for each additional alarm.
In other action, the com
missioners gave W. B. Forbes
30 days to put two houses into
compliance with city codes. The
houses were relocated to Ray
and Fourteenth streets in the
spring.
Neighbors petitioned that the
houses in their present shape
are a nusiance.
John Newton Jr., attorney for
Mr. Forbes, a pharmacist,
apologized for Mr. Forbes to the
people who complained for the
condition of the homes.
Mr. Forbes said he would
make every effort to get the
houses repaired within 30 days.
The commissioners
threatened to have them
removed if he did not.
Among those complaining
Mrs. Frank EUiridge, Mrs. Charles Clifton and Mrs. T. C. Barron (1-r) handled processing of 235
people who came to the bloodmobile yesterday during its visit at the First Baptist Church’s
Cheatham building. Lin Thompson, chairman of the program, said 200 pints of blood were
collected. This was the goal.
Vp\. ioo No. 197
about the houses at last night’s
city hall meeting were W. C.
Apple, Mrs. Mattie Lou Holmes,
Rosalyn Jones and Mrs. Arthur
Wimberly.
One unidentified objector told
the commissioners the houses
“ain’t good enough for chickens
to stay in.”
Another woman complained
that rats in the neighborhood
had increased since the homes
were moved there.
In other action, the com
missioners approved Light and
Water Dept, purchases totaling
$16,868.44.
They approved purchase of a
chipper for the street depart
ment at a cost of $3,700.
Purchase of little league foot
ball equipment was approved at
a cost of $4,100.
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Talmadge opposed
to junking draft
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Herman Talmadge said today
he was opposed to replacing
Selective Service with an all
volunteer army.
“It would be hazardous in
deed to attempt to survive and
win a war of any dimension, or
to even maintain a ready na
tional defense, without the
draft,” Talmadge said in his
weekly neweletter.
“Crimes begin in the mind —
a man has to think wrong before
he acts wrong.”