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By Quimby Multon
Weekend Notes:
Last week was runoff
primary day in Georgia.
An eleventh hour endorse
ment of Candidate Sam Nunn by
Lieutenant Governor Lester
Maddox brought victory to the
Mid-Georgia lawyer-farmer
over incumbent David Gam
brell in the U. S. Senate race.
Nunn and Fletcher Thompson,
who had no opposition in the
Republican primary will fight it
out in the general election.
Thompson is at present Con
gressman from the Fifth
District.
Locally State Senator Bob
Smalley was the winner in the
District 28 State Senate race. He
will have no opposition in the
general election.
John Carlisle, winner of the
Democratic nomination for
Representative, will meet Alton
Norris in the general election.
Norris had no opposition in the
GOP primary. Palmer Hamil,
Democrat, and Ivan Taylor,
Republican, will vie for the
County Commissioner post.
Throughout the state the total
vote cast in the runoff races was
analler than the one cast three
weeks before.
Spalding County public
schools opened and the first
report of enrollment was 8,866.
This was 321 more than the first
report last year. The second
report showed 9,189, and the
third 9,207.
Announcement was made
that a Griffinite businessman
and a member of the Griffin-
Spalding Board of Education, J.
Edward Stallings, would
become Grand Master of the
Sovereign Lodge Odd Fellows.
He will be the second Griffinite
to become international leader
of this fraternal order.
Motorists took to the high
ways Friday beginning the
Labor Day weekend holiday.
Every possible precaution is
being taken to keep the
estimated number of fatalities
lower than expected. Here in
Georgia the Civil Air Patrol is
helping the Georgia Highway
Safety Department. Flying
overhead they are directing the
flow of traffic and are seeking
to slow down cars breaking the
speed limits.
American athletes continued
to win gold medals in the
Summer Olympics held at
Munich. Munich has been most
hospitable to the visitors from
all sections of the world until
Saturday when some
protesters, for some reason or
the other, sought to harass the
athletes.
Bobby Fischer defeated Boris
Spassky for the world cham
pionship in chess, slept late the
next morning and was late at an
Iceland barbecue planned in his
honor.
The Democratic primary held
in the First Congressional
District (Savannah area) had
an unusual angle. Congressman
G. Elliott Hagan lost to Ronald
Ginn, a former member of
Hagan’s staff. Ginn faces
Republican opposition.
The State Highway Depart
ment began its “Interstate
Rescue Service” program. Two
vehicles outfitted with extra
tires, extra gasoline and extra
oil and some easy to install
repair parts were travelling
over highways in the Atlanta
district. They will stop where
cars have become stalled and
offer help. The service will be
put in effect all over Georgia by
the end of the year, it was an
nounced.
President Nixon visited
Hawaii where he met with
Japan’s Prime Minister Kakuei
Tanaka and discussed trade
issues between the two nations.
He also met with Elsworth
Bunker, ambassador to South
Vietnam, and announced 12,000
more troops would be with
drawn from South Vietnam,
leaving 27,000 there.
Democrats and Republicans
alike charged “irregularities”
in the financial status of the
other.
Traffic men busy
writing tickets
By midmoming the Griffin
Post of the Georgia State Patrol
had recorded only five traffic
accidents in their area (Spald
ing, Henry and Butts Counties)
snce the Labor Day weekend
began at 6 p.m. Friday. But
troopers had made cases
against 219 drivers. They had
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She says bombings jeopardize
release of three American POWs
GAY HEAD, Mass. (UPI)—
ITie freedom of three U.S.
pilots held prisoner in North
Vietnam could be jeopardized
by continued bombing of North
Vietnam, according to Cora
Weiss, who helped arrange
their release.
“Both the President and the
military have been leading
Americans to believe that they
are continuing the war in the
interests of the prisoners,” she
said Sunday. “Such bombing
raids are a threat to the lives
of those prisoners who are
there and create new prisoners
because of planes that are shot
down. The continuation of
bombing will jeopardize not
only this release but potential
future releases,” she said.
“Interference” by the mili
tary with the POWs when they
return to the United States—or
even before—could cause the
planned release to break down
and ruin chances of possible
other releases before the war
ends, she said in a telephone
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issued only two or three war
nings.
In Lamar County, a Barnes
ville youth was killed Saturday
when his car overturned near
his home on the Yatesville road.
Os the 219 tickets given, 15
were for driving under the in
fluence of intoxicants. Most of
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interview from her summer
home on Martha’s Vineyard.
But on the other hand, all
U.S. POWs could be released
within 90 days if the United
States stopped bombing North
Vietnam and withdrew its
support of South Vietnamese
President Nguyen Van Thieu,
Mrs. Weiss said.
“It wouldn’t even take 90
days and we have the
experience of French to go by,”
she said. “The Vietnamese
released every single (French
prisoner) within weeks of the
Geneva agreement (in 1954). ”
Mrs. Weiss and pacifist Dave
Dellinger are cochairmen of the
Committee of Liaison with
Families of American POWs in
North Vietnam. Dellinger on
Saturday—the day Hanoi an
nounced the planned release of
the three POWs—used the word
“brainwash” to describe the
actions of the U.S. military
when other released prisoners
returned home.
Mrs. Weiss said the release of
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, September 4, 1972
the remainder were for speed
ing.
Four persons were injured in
the five accidents.
William David Hardy, 23, of
Jackson, was admitted to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital
Friday night with a broken arm.
His car collided with an auto
the three was conditioned on
non-interference with the priso
ners.
“I can’t prevent the military
from taking these men back,”
she said. “But they must not be
used for political and propagan
distic purposes and to train new
men to go over and kill.”
She said the North Viet
namese suspended prisoner
releases from 1969 until now
because other released POWs
had “slandered the Vietnamese
people” with statements about
inhumane treatment and even
torture in POW camps.
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low today 67, high yesterday 92,
low yesterday 64, estimated
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driven by Evelyn Carolyn
Henderson of Warner Robins.
The accident happened east of
Griffin on Ga. 16 at Hamil road.
A 16-year-old Covington
youth, James Allen Griffin,
suffered a fractured nose, neck
injuries, and multiple cuts and
abrasions when his auto left the
road and clipped a utility pole in
Butts County on the Four Points
road, Friday.
Two other persons were in
jured Saturday in a Flovilla
wreck, but that accident report
was not available this morning.
A wreck in the city Saturday
on Ga 16 at the By Pass sent
two injured persons to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Police said a car driven by
James Wiley McGhee, 26, of
Pool road, collided with an auto
driven by Franklin David
Barton of Atlanta. They said
Mrs. Mattie McGhee and Mrs.
Lena Barton, passengers in the
cars, were injured.
The Forsyth State Patrol Post
investigated a wreck Saturday
morning in which Riley Steve
Dawson, 18, of Route Two,
Yatesville road, Barnesville,
was killed. They said the ac
cident happened on the Yates
ville road about a mile from his
home.
Troopers said Dawson was
thrown from his car as it ran off
the road and overturned twice.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Antioch
Baptist Church on the Yates
ville road with burial in the
church cemetery. The Rev.
Edward Mims and the Rev.
George Phillips officiated.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Felton
Dawson of the Yatesville road,
Barnesville; four brothers,
Bernard Dawson, Earl Dawson
and Ricky Dawson, all of
Barnesville, and George Daw
son of Jackson.
Hubbard Funeral Home of
Barnesville was in charge of
arrangements.
The traffic record over the
nation was not as good as that in
the Griffin area, as at least 401
persons had died by 7 o’clock
this morning. A rash of ac
cidents is expected during the
final hours of the 78-hour
holiday.
The National Safety Council
estimated that between 580 and
680 persons would die in traffic
accidents during the holiday
period.
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Peking. Cotton cloth is rationed in China. A team of United Press International executives,
reporters and photographers is visiting in Peking. They found the East Wind Department Store
downtown is one of several department-type stores where Chinese can buy variety of items
including clothes and fabrics. (UPI)
Success spoil Fischer?
Apparently not
By JIM WARD
REYKJAVIK (UPI) — Has
success spoiled Bobby Fischer?
Apparently not — Fischer
turned up 53 minutes late at
official closing ceremonies for
his world chess championship,
remarked how small his win
ner’s gold medal was, asked for
his money and sat down to play
some more chess with the man
he beat for the title.
The crowd attending the
banquet ceremonies closing the
championship cheered louder
for loser Boris Spassky of the
Soviet Union than it did for
Fischer, a 29-year-old New
Yorker. But Fischer, busy
playing chess on a pocket
board, seemed not to notice.
While Spassky sat at one end
of the banquet table chatting
with his wife Larissa, Fischer
Southern governors
cool to McGovern
By WILLIAM STARR
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.
(UPl)—Sen. George McGovern,
promising political upsets with
a hard-fought personal cam
paign through Dixie, wooed
Southern governors Sunday
night with little indication of
any success.
The Democratic presidential
candidate made a brief dinner
appeal to chief executives from
17 Southern and border states
and received what one source
described as a “pleasant” re
ception while picking up one
lukewarm gubernatorial en
dorsement.
Gov. John C. West of South
Carolina, who earlier refused
comment on the presidential
race, said after the private
two-hour meeting at this ex
clusively swank sea island re
sort that he will vote for the
Democratic ticket.
But West said he would not
ask South Carolina voters to
cast ballots for McGovern and
suggested they follow “the dic
tates of their conscience.”
did what he has done so
superbly the past two months—
he played chess.
Fischer, dressed in a velvet
tuxedo, made no speech and
interrupted a game with
himself on a pocket chess board
only once—to walk across the
hall and accept a check for the
$76,125 winner’s purse from
Icelandic Chess Federation
President Gudmundur Thora
rinson. Fischer smiled, took the
envelope with the check, looked
inside and returned to his seat
without a word.
Spassky collected the loser’s
share—s46,B2s. Another $150,000
put up by a British millionaire
will be split the same way at
some future time. He doubled
the original purse when Fischer
said it wasn’t enough.
Fischer arrived 53 minutes
Most governors secluded
themselves at heavily guarded
villas after meeting McGovern
and were not available to com
ment on the dinner gathering.
Gov. Bob Scott of North Caro
lina, who has endorsed Mc-
Govern, scheduled a news con
ference shortly after McGov
ern’s appearance but cancelled
it at the last minute.
The governors were sched
uled to officially begin their
three - day conference with a
discussion of regional problems
today with political attention
now focused on the appearance
of Vice President Spiro T. Ag
new at a state dinner Tuesday
night and his planned address
to the session Wednesday.
McGovern held a brief rally
at nearby Savannah, Ga., Sun
day night before being taken by
helicopter to the posh Planta
tion Club on Hilton Head to
meet with the governors. Mc-
Govern was invited to the con
ference by West and Scott, co
hosts for the meeting.
Shortly before leaving, Mc-
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late for the lamb and roast
suckling pig dinner, held in the
small hall in which his 21-game
“match of the century” against
Spassky took place.
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“I wish folks could forgive a
misbehaving adult as readily as
they can a naughty three-year
old.”
Govern told reporters he did
not ask the governors for en
dorsements, but added that he
was “pleased and delighted”
with their response to his ap
pearance.
“I have every intention of
waging a hard fight to carry
the South,” said the Democratic
candidate. “It will be an uphill
fight in the South and in the
nation but I can promise you
that there will be some sur
prises, and some of them will
be in the South.”
McGovern vowed to personal
ly campaign in as many South
ern states as possible in the
next two months, but added
that he has not yet determined
which Southern states he should
hit hardest.
McGovern again denied he
has a Southern strategy and in
sisted that Southerners “want
only to be treated as persons
in other sections of the country.
Any talk to a Southern strategy
is an insult to the South.”
In a statement issued shortly
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