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By Quimby Melton
Weekend Notes:
Last week was Superior Court
week. The grand jury met and
civil cases were tried. This
week criminal cases will be
tried.
Judge Andrew Whalen Jr.
instructed the grand jury on
their duties. This was
necessary, since a major part of
the jury had never before
served in this branch of the
court. It was the first panel
drawn following orders to the
jury commission to include
newly registered voters and
other citizens on the jury
eligibility list.
It was also Harvest Values
I v in Griffin with many of the
leading merchants joining in
the campaign to demonstrate
Griffin’s advantages as a
shopping center.
Russ Spangler, director of the
I economic and industrial
development division of the
| Mclntosh Trail, was named
I executive vice president of the
I Chamber of Commerce.
I Spangler was with United
Airlines before joining the
Mclntosh Trail.
Griffin’s Bears continued
their victories, whipping
LaGrange 27-13. Friday night
they play Rockdale County at
Memorial Stadium. With the
football season half over, they
have a four win, one tie, no loss
record. The total, scores of the
five games is Griffin 139, Op
ponents 61. Griffin is one of few
Triple-A teams that has lost no
games.
Members of the Kiwanis Club
. prepared for the opening of the
Kiwanis sponsored fair which
opens tonight.
'i Georgia Republican leaders
j announced President Nixon,
I probably accompanied by his
J wife, would visit Atlanta Thurs-
I day. They plan a “Peachtree
Parade” for the chief executive.
| The President in a White
House Conference said there
g would be no Presidential
request for new taxes next year.
1 But Ralph Nader charged the
| Congress had abdicated its
| responsibility to special inter
■ ests and that the Nixon ad-
S ministration with being the
H most corrupt in current history.
B Congress knocked out all pro-
H posals for reform of the welfare
■ program.
8 Candidate George McGovern
d I promised to make organized
81 crime and the traffic in drugs
B] his chief domestic targets.
U Atlanta’s mayor — Sam
Massell — proposed a $2.50 head
H j tax on passengers boarding the
gjll Atlanta Hartsfield Airport.
Ml Thi 8 ’ he c l aime d> would enable
gB the city to reduce or eliminate
KK the $25-million property tax.
H Columbus already has such a
9 SI.OO tax in effect. But a bill has
9 been introduced in Congress to
I outlaw such a tax.
The United States and Soviet
B’ Russia signed an agreement to
gj limit nuclear weapons. Presi-
B dent Nixon and Soviet Foreign
B Minister Andrei Gromyko
H toasted each other after the
I signing.
Over in China:
H A joint editorial published in
Ml Peking stated that the Soviet
9j Union and not the United States
I was China’s most dangerous
■ enemy.
B | Denmark voted nearly two to
Bone in favor of joining the
IB Common Market.
|H Fighting continued in In
gßdochina.
W 1 *■■■'s,.
“Folks are won to your
religious beliefs less by
description than by
demonstration.”
Congress pushes
to end session
Campaigns dirtiest
in recent years
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The 1972
political campaigns appear to be the
dirtiest in recent years, the Fair
Campaign Practices Committee said to
day.
Committee spokesmen said mid
campaign analysis showed the committee
had handled more complaints about dirty
politics in the first five weeks of the race
than were handled during a comparable
period since the committee started
keeping statistics.
Since Labor Day, the committee said, it
had received 21 complaints of violation of
the Code of Fair Campaign Practices.
“This is more than twice as many
complaints as we received at the same
point in the 1966 campaign year and an
increase of 50 per cent over 1968, the last
presidential campaign year,” said
committee Chairman Charles P. Taft.
Taft said that on the comparable date in
1970 only 15 complaints had been received.
“Historically, dirty politics always
peaks during the last two weeks of the
Central Virginia
sorts flood debris
By JOHN G. JOHNSON
RICHMOND, Va. (UPI)-
Central Virginia today was
sorting out the debris left by a
major flood that killed at least
six persons and sent the highest
water in history surging
through Petersburg, 25 miles
south of Richmond.
Rivers surged out of their
banks after pounding rains
Thursday that dropped six to 10
inches of water on the region,
heavily flooded only four
months earlier by tropical
storm Agnes. Weather forecast
ers said the new flooding will
continue for several days.
Officials and businessmen were
still assessing the damage.
A search was to resume
today for Emporia Mayor
George Lee, presumed drowned
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sweeping debris and litter in its path through the low-lying sections of the town. Petersburg has
been besieged by sightseers, and police are attempting to keep people out of the area, but still
some manage to get through and walk up the railroad tracks, unmindful of the fast moving water.
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campaign,” Taft said. “If the present
trend continues, we will have a new high in
political low blows during 1972.”
The committee handled complaints of
violations of the 20-year-old Code of Fair
Campaign Practices filed by candidates or
their campaign aides in races for
president, for seats in the U.S. Senate and
House and for governorships. Taft said
there were two possible reasons for the
surge in complaints.
“First, this appears to be the year for
the Great Stamp Robbery,” he said.
“Already, half way through the 1972
campaign, the committee has received
more complaints about members of
Congress abusing their free mailing
privilege than we received throughout the
entire campaign period in previous years.
“Second, this seems to be a negative
year with many candidates attacking their
opponents’ positions instead of taking a
positive stand on the issues. A negative
attack in a close race most often results in
dirty politics.”
after being swept away by the
raging Meherrin River Satur
day night.
Emporia police said Lee
apparently thought several
children had been pulled into
the swift currents of the river,
and waded into the water
looking for them. He was last
seen hanging on a tree limb
about 100 yards down stream,
calling for help.
Petersburg officials called the
weekend flooding of the Appo
mattox River the worst of the
century.
Low-lying areas of the city’s
business district were flooded
Sunday when water from the
Appomattox tore up several
sections of highway and flooded
Petersburg’s historic Old Mark-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, October 9, 1972
et district.
The National Weather Service
said Sunday that “flooding will
continue substantially near
existing conditions for several
days, even though slow falling
stages will prevail.”
Weathermen predicted the
river will not return to its
banks until next week.
A number of lumberyards,
warehouses and stockpiles near
Interstate 95 were surrounded
by flood water. Apparently no
effort was made to evacuate
vehicles and industrial material
in some areas hit by the flood.
H. E. Costly Jr., Petersburg’s
civil defense coordinator, said
at least a dozen families were
forced to move from their
homes because of the flooding.
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Con
gress hopes to end its 1972
session this week but before it
does it will have to deal with
what President Nixon calls “the
major domestic issue” of the
election—the plan to put a lid
on federal spending.
Nixon wants Congress to set
a limit of $250 billion on
spending for the fiscal year
that started July 1. He has
argued the limit is necessary to
prevent inflation.
In a Saturday radio address,
Nixon pledged that if he is re
elected there will be no tax
increase during his second term
— unless Congress enacts
“budget busting” spending pro
grams over his vetoes.
Sen. George S. McGovern has
branded Nixon’s demand for
the spending lid as a request
for a “domestic Gulf of
Tonkin” resolution. McGovern
said Nixon’s maneuver was an
attempt to “blame his record
SBS billion in budget deficits on
the Congress”.
Congress hopes to adjourn by
Saturday, allowing its members
who are up for re-election to go
home to campaign. But the
spending limit issue and some
other knotty problems could
prevent the adjournment.
And the chances for a post
election lame duck session
abhorred by both parties—have
grown stronger.
The House plans to take up
the spending limit bill Tuesday.
It would give Nixon power to
cut or impound federal spend
ing in any area, even that
protected by law such as Social
Security and veterans benefits.
The Senate scheduled the
start of debate today on a
House passed bill to restrict the
busing of school children to
achieve racial balance.
Fair
judging
starts
The 26th annual Spalding
Kiwanis Fair got off to a busy
start this morning with several
rounds of exhibit judging being
completed.
Fair Manager Jack Smith
said the needlework contest was
judged early in the day and the
display would be ready for
viewing when the fairgrounds
open tonight.
Exhibits submitted by
youngsters which included
homemade models, craft work
and the like were to be judged
this morning, too.
The community exhibits
came under the eyes of the
judges this afternoon beginning
at 1 p.m.
The flower show entries will
be judged tomorrow afternoon
and the livestock entries will be
judged Thursday.
Smith said he expected a
smooth opening day and
believed thousands of people
would be on the fairgrounds
tonight.
Many Kiwanis members with
other Griffinites worked
through the weekend complet
ing preparations for the annual
event.
The fair will run through
Saturday night.
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Gov. Jimmy Carter congratulates Raymond Head, Jr., after he was sworn in as a member
of the State Hospital Advisory Council at the State Capitol. His term will end July 1,1975. His
wife Mrs. Ceola Head, was on hand for the swearing in ceremony. Rep. Clayton Brown (not
in picture) was present also. Head is a Griffin City Commissioner.
Kissinger steps up pace
of Paris peace discussions
PARIS (UPl)—Presidential
adviser Henry A. Kissinger has
stepped up the pace of Vietnam
peace discussions, planning a
second day of private peace
talks with North Vietnamese
negotiators today and possibly
an unprecedented third straight
day of meetings Tuesday.
The newest private talks
marked the 19th time Kissinger
has made the trip to Paris and
the third time U.S. and Hanoi
representatives have met pri
vately in the last 24 days—a
substantial jump in the rate of
nonpublic meetings.
U.S. and North Vietnamese
delegation officials in Paris
maintained silence about Sun
day’s meeting, refusing even to
acknowledge the new session
was taking place. But in
Washington Sunday night,
White House Press Secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler said the two
sides had agreed to meet again
Chou
China must look for new leadership
By United Press International
Premier Chou En-lai says
China must turn to the nation’s
youth for new leaders to replace
himself and Chairman Mao Tse
tung. He specifically named the
chief editor of the People’s
Daily—Yao Wen-yuan.
Chou spoke to a group of 20
American newspaper editors in
Peking Saturday in a 3 % hour
interview. J. Edward Murray
and Don Carter of the Knight
Newspapers today gave details
of what Chou told the American
Society of Newspaper Editors
members who are on a 23-day
visit to China.
They said Chou “talked of
many things...but what seemed
to interest him most was the
question of who will succeed
Chairman Mao and himself. He
returned to the subject repea
tedly, always stressing the need
for younger men to replace the
present aging leadership.”
Chou is 74 and Mao 78.
Murray and Carter said “he
mentioned one name which
stood out like a lighthouse in a
fog of history and reminscences
about old comrades, now sick or
going blind or already dead” —
Yao Wen-yuan.
Yao, a well-known writer
today for a second day of talks
and “possibly a third day”
Tuesday.
Kissinger and the North
Vietnamese met for a full day of
negotiations on his last trip to
Paris Sept. 25 and extended
their meeting another day, the
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longest session since the secret
talks began in 1969.
Ziegler said Kissinger’s depu
ty, Maj. Gen. Alexander Haig,
attended the Sunday session
with Hanoi’s special envoy, Le
Due Tho, and Xuan Thuy, head
of the North Vietnamese
whose editorials in a Shanghai
newspaper sparked the Cultural
Revolution, is a member of the
Central Committee, the Polit
buro and has been chief editor
of the People’s Daily since
March, 1967. Chou described
him as a member of the “over
30” group. His exact age was
not available but he has been a
writer since 1951.
Yao was rumored to have
married the daughter of Mao
and his wife, Chiang Ching, and
was seen voting ninth in line
behind Mao during the 1969
Party Congress, the editors
said. However, the rumor of his
marriage to Chou’s daughter
was denied in China.
During the interview at the
Great Hall of the People, Chou
touched on several
international and internal
issues, but not on Vietnam.
Among the topics discussed
were President Nixon’s visit,
the problem of Nationalist
China, China’s needs of
mechanization and
industrialization, doctor ex
change programs between the
United States and China and the
exchange of newspaper
correspondents between the two
countries.
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delegation to the weekly Paris
peace talks.
The extension of the session,
coming so soon after their last
meetings, prompted
speculation that some progress
was being made. But Ziegler
declined to characterize the
sessions in any way, telling
reporters: “In accordance with
our agreements with the other
side, I have no other
information to provide you.”
Haig met in Saigon last week
with President Nguyen Van
Thieu. Following their meeting,
there were news reports that
Thieu would soon step down as
South Vietnam’s chief as part of
a new U. S.-Saigon peace offer.
The White House labeled the
reports “speculative” and
Communist negotiators in Paris
denied any breakthrough in
achieving a peace settlement
was imminent.
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The Knight editors reported
Chou as saying he was
generally satisfied with in
creased U.S.-China contacts
since Nixon’s visit last Februa
ry, and especially pleased with
China’s developing foreign poli
cy.
He said China was prepared
to absorb Taiwan gradually and
assume its SBOO million budget
without increasing taxes and
said the small island’s living
standards could even rise, the
editors said.