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Trying to break stalemate
Kissinger holds new
private Vietnam talks
By GEORGE SIBERA
PARIS (UPI) -Henry A.
Kissinger, President Nixon’s
top foreign policy adviser,
conferred privately with two
North Vietnamese diplomats
today in an apparent new
attempt to break the stalemate
over a Vietnam peace settle
ment.
The meeting was announce
first by the White House.
Neither a presidential spokes
man nor Paris representatives
of the two sides would give any
details, “in accordance with our
agreement with the other side,”
as White House Press Secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler put it.
It appeared likely that
Kissinger and the North Vietna
mese negotiators, Le Due Tho
and Xuan Thuy, agreed to
discuss for the second time in
11 days a Communist statement
Sept. 11 that as part of a
Vietnam peace, “neither a
Communist regime nor a U.S.
stooge regime” should be
imposed in South Vietnam.
Hanoi broadcast Monday an
editorial from the official North
Vietnamese newspaper, chal
lenging the United States to
“put forth and carry out
necessary measures to ensure
that neither side dominates the
political life in South Vietnam”
as part of a settlement.
Also on Monday, the Viet
Cong delegation in Paris called
on Nixon to accept the Sept. 11
proposal for a tripartite govern
ment in Saigon, with represen-
Garden clubs plan
Hill-Solomon dance
An old fashioned square
dance will be held at Hill and
Solomon streets in connection
with the Harvest Market on the
weekend of Oct. 6-7.
It is scheduled on the night of
Oct. 6 from 7 p.m. to 8 pan.
Federated Garden Clubs of
Griffin will cooperate with the
Griffin Merchants Association
in their annual Harvest Sale
during that weekend.
The federation made
arrangements with City
Manager Roy Inman to have the
Hill and Solomon street area
roped off for the square dance.
An Atlanta Square Dance
Club known as the Dancing
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HOMOSASSA SPRINGS, Fla.—Lucifer, a baby hippo at the
tourist attraction here opens wide to allow caretaker Cecil
tatives of the Viet Cong, the
present South Vietnamese re
gime — specifically excluding
President Nguyen Van Thieu—
and “representatives of other
political forces in South Viet
nam."
Some observers have said the
Communistposition represented
a change from what U.S.
officials viewed previously as
recommendations that would
result in a quick Communist
takeover in Saigon.
Both U.S. and North Vietna
mese spokesmen refused to
discuss details of the meeting,
the 18th on record by Kisssin
ger with Hanoi representatives.
“Our plan is an exceptionally
favorable opportunity for Pres
ident Nixon to disengage
himself from Vietnam with
honor,” Viet Cong spokesman
Ly Van Sau said.
The North Vietnamese diplo
matic mission refused to
discuss the new private meet
ing which, as agreed by both
sides, was shrouded in secrecy.
But a Viet Cong spokesman
said, “The form of the
meetings—whether they are
private or public—does not
matter. The important thing is
for Mr. Nixon to accept
legitimate demands of the
Vietnamese people embodied in
the Sept. 11 declaration.”
The Kissinger-Tho meeting
was held 48 hours before the
161st session held by the two
sides fruitlessly since the
inception of the talks in the
Shadows will lead the dance.
Members will be dressed in old
fashioned costumes for the
affair and invited Griffinites to
participate.
Mr. and Mrs. Rhett Glover of
Griffin are in charge of
arrangements.
The Garden Clubs will erect
booths downtown during the
weekend and hold an old
fashioned open-air market. It
will feature produce grown by
local gardners and farmers,
flowers, candles, baked goods
and other items.
Money raised through the sale
will be donated to the Downtown
Beautification project.
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Majestic Hotel in January 1969.
Some Washington newsmen
were roused from their beds
with predawn telephone calls by
the White House and were told
that the new private negotiating
session was taking place.
Kissinger apparently made a
quick trip to Paris. He was in
Washington Monday.
Snider will not
seek reelection
City Commissioner 0. M.
(Pete) Snider, Jr., announced
today he would not be a can
didate for reelection.
He is completing his 12th year
on the city board.
His present term will expire
at the end of November.
Preston Bunn, Griffin busi
nessman, qualified as a can
didate for the Third Ward Post
yesterday. This is the post
presently held by Snider.
It is the only one to be filled on
the five-member board of com
missioners this year. The
election will be on Nov. 7, the
same date of the general
elections.
This will be a separate vote.
Snider operates an insurance
agency here.
“The time has arrived for me
to now devote more time to my
own business and not offer for
reelection,” he said today.
He said he felt it a privilege to
have been able to serve the
people of Griffin as a com
missioner and to have a part in
the growth and development of
the community.
Snider predicted Griffin
would continue to grow and at a
more rapid pace.
With continued proper
guidance, it will be a city of
which its citizens can be proud,
Snider said.
He said the city has a group of
dedicated employes in every
department. They provide
services for safety, health and
welfare of the citizens, he said.
“I don’t believe we can find a
Keyes to get in to do some dental work.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, September 26, 1972
Hanoi diplomats hinted pri
vately one of the reasons why
they did not wish to discuss the
secret talks were Hanoi’s fears
that big publicity would help
President Nixon in his re
election campaign.
North Vietnamese diplomats
have been cautioning against
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McGovern gaining,
Harris poll shows
DETROIT (UPl)—Democra
tic presidential nominee George
McGovern has narrowed the
gap between himself and
President Nixon by 6 per cent
since Sept. 1, national pollster
Louis Harris said Monday.
“If I were Richard Nixon, I’d
be afraid,” Harris told the
Economic Club of Detroit in a
speech.
Harris said his latest poll,
Sept. 19-21, showed Nixon with
59 per cent, McGovern with 31
per cent and 10 per cent
undecided.
Harris did not give details of
how the poll was conducted, the
groups interviewed or the size
optimism in recent statements,
accusing the Nixon administra
tion of stepping up the bombing
in North and South Vietnam
and maintaining Thieu in
power.
“So far the Nixon administra
tion’s reaction to our plan was
entirely negative,” the Viet
Cong spokesman said.
better team anywhere,” Snider
said.
He said the city com
missioners are very responsive
to the needs of the citizens and
are thankful for constructive
suggestions.
Snider said that he had
pledged, when elected, to do his
best to represent the best in
terests of the majority of the
people.
“I believe my record shows
that I have carried out this
pledge”, Snider said.
He said he had enjoyed ser
ving as a commissioner and
wished his successor luck.
of the sampling involved.
In a Sept. 1 poll, Harris said,
Health board
sets meeting
on housing
City and County Commission
ers and the county zoning board
will meet Thursday afternoon
with the Spalding Health Board
to discuss health regulation
proposals as they apply to house
lot sizes.
The Board of Health called
the special meeting and invited
the commissioners and zoning
board to discuss the proposals.
The Health Board is pushing
for regulations which would set
minimum lot sizes on new
houses constructed in the
community.
Since the health board’s
proposals are in conflict with
present county zoning
regulations, the meeting was
called to see if the differences
can be worked out.
Dr. George Walker is chair
man of the Health Board.
The meeting will be at the
Health Center beginning at 4:30
p.m.
Hampton subdivision
to have 107 houses
Construction is under way in
Hampton on a 107 house sub
division.
Streets already are being
paved and curbed in the West
Main street project.
Permits already have been
issued for construction of two
houses.
Prices in the development
will range from $22,000 to
$30,000.
The subdivision has city
water and sewerage as well as
fire hydrants.
Castle Park Systems of
Atanta which will develop the
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—A storage shed is leveled by an explosion and fire that rocked the
Southern Facilities Oil Co. here Monday killing one person. Firemen continued early today to
spray thousands of gallons of water on the gasoline-fed flames which engulfed four storage tanks.
(UPI)
US diverts bombers
from Viet to Cambodia
By ARTHUR HIGBEE
SAIGON (UPl)—The U.S.
command diverted more than
than one-third of the 852 force
in Indochina from targets over
Laos and Vietnam and sent
them on one of the heaviest
raids yet over southeastern
Cambodia, military sources
said today.
The 30-plane strike force
Monday night and today
dumped more than two million
tons of bombs on Communist
McGovern trailed Nixon by 34
percentage points and in last
week’s poll McGovern had
picked up six points to trail
Nixon by 28 per cent.
While declining to speculate
on the outcome of the election
with six weeks of campaigning
left, Harris did say that if
McGovern is to improve his
standings, he must regain his
“anti-politics” image, hurt bad
ly by his recent courting of
Democratic party
professionals.
Clothing drive
is a success
The clothing drive here last
night was a success, according
to Scott Searcy, chairman of the
Kiwanis event.
He said much usable clothing
was gathered and placed in a
clothing bank for needy
students in the Griffin-Spalding
School System.
Searcy said anyone whose
house was not contacted last
night and who has clothing to
contribute may telephone him
and he will see that it is picked
up-
subdivision installed the
utilities.
Meanwhile, construction in
Henry County continued at a
brisk pace.
Thirty-two new houses were
started in August with a total
valuation of $695,300.
A permit has been issued for
an Economy Inn at Locust
Grove near the 1-75 complex.
The inn was valued at $305,000.
Environ’s Inc., a mobile home
park at Hempton, will expand
its facilities with 128 more pads,
increasing the total of 300.
base camps just across the
South Vietnamese border,
spokesmen said. U.S. military
authorities fear the Commu
nists may renew their offensive
from the camps within the next
three weeks in a pre-U.S.
election effort.
Command spokesmen also
said Air Force jets demolished
a fuel storage dump outside
Hanoi Monday with laser-guided
bombs and leveled an area the
size of four city blocks, sending
black smoke rising to 13,000
feet.
In South Vietnam, govern
ment rangers today punched
through a Communist ring to
reach a besieged battalion that
Daylin opens
Griffin office
Daylin, Inc., operator of
Elliott’s Drugs, Stripe Discount
Stores, and Diana Shops, has
opened in Griffin.
Daylin’s regional
headquarters are in the building
on Carver road formerly oc
cupied by the H. V. Kell com
pany. Arthur Blank is the
general manager of the Griffin
operation. Daylin has other
offices in Los Angeles, Calif,
and New York City.
Nineteen Daylin executives
are locating in Griffin to direct
the Southeastern Regional
Office and 140 people are em-
Simonton to leave
Chamber of Commerce
Dewitt Simonton has resigned
as executive vice president of
the Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce effective Oct. 9.
He will return to radio station
WKEU as news director, a posi
tion he held 14 years before
joining the Chamber 16 months
ago.
President Jerry Savage
announced the resignation
yesterday afternoon to a called
meeting of the board of direc
tors.
“Dewitt Simonton has done a
tremendous job as executive
vice president of the Griffin
Area Chamber of Commerce for
the past 16 months and we are
extremely sorry to lose him. His
shoes will certainly be very
difficult to fill,” Savage said.
He said Chamber staff
members Mildred Sawyer and
Jean Turner would continue to
carry out the office responsibili
ties until a new executive can be
selected.
“I have enjoyed my associa-
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had been isolated for nine days
at the central coast district
town of Ba To, military sources
said. But 12 miles east of Ba
To, UPI reporter Edward
Bassett said North Vietnamese
troops attacked three outposts
early today at Due Pho, 300
miles north of Saigon.
F 4 Phantom fighter-bomber
pilots struck the La Danh
petroleum storage area 46
miles north of the North
Vietnamese capital for the first
time since President Nixon
April 6 ordered a renewal of
bombing above the Demilita
rized Zone (DMZ) separating
the two Vietnams, the spokes
men said.
ployed in Griffin by the firm.
Officials said additional em
ployees are expected to be
added.
Daylin is one of the largest
companies to locate in Griffin in
a number of years. Daylin
purchased the Kell building last
April for $1,120,000. The
building has spacious air
conditioned offices, 155,000
square feet of floor space, and is
located on a 38 acre site, with
parking for 76 cars.
Top company officials were in
Griffin for the grand opening
ceremonies.
tion with the Chamber and hope
that I have contributed
something to the betterment of
our community during the past
16 months,” Simonton said in
his letter to Savage.
“I pledge continued interest
in the Chamber and its pro
grams, and stand ready to
assist the Chamber whenever
called on,” he said.
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“Lots of folks avoid the
church — but even they practice
its teachings.”