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his wife and daughter. On Dec.
11, with his heartbeat controlled
by medication, Truman told his
doctors “I feel all right.”
On Dec. 12 his vital signs
became unstable again and the
decline of his health resumed.
The former president held his
own for a few days in “very
serious” condition. But by Dec.
14 he was semi-conscious and
unable to respond to questions
from doctors or family.
His kidneys failed steadily,
and doctors could not use a
kidney machine to help because
of his hardened arteries.
Truman became president
April 12, 1945 on the death of
Franklin D. Roosevelt with
World War n climaxing in
Europe and raging in the
Pacific.
Critics called him “that little
man in the White House.” That
image may have been a hidden
factor in his stunning 1948 re
election upset of Thomas E.
President Nixon calls
Truman ‘courageous’
By HELEN THOMAS
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI)
— President Nixon today
eulogized former President
Harry S Truman as “a man
who will be remembered as one
of the most courageous presi
dents in our history” and
ordered a national mourning
period.
Nixon designated Thursday,
Dec. 28, to be a national day of
mourning and recommended
that Americans assemble on
that day in places of worship to
honor the memory of the
former President who died
today in a Missouri hospital.
“Our hopes today for a
generation of peace rest in
large measure on the firm
foundation that he laid,” Nixon
said in a statement.
“Recognizing the new threat
to peace that had emerged
from the ashes of war, he stood
boldly against it with his
extension of aid to Greece and
Turkey in 1947—and the ‘Tru
man Doctrine’ thus established
was crucial to the defense of
liberty in Europe and the
world.
“In launching the Marshall
plan, he began the most far
sighted and the most generous
act of international rebuilding
ever undertaken. With his
characteristically decisive ac
tion in Korea, he made possible
the defense of peace and
freedom in Asia.
“He was a fighter, who was
at his best when the going was
toughest. Like all political
leaders, he had his friends and
his opponents. But friends and
opponents alike were unani
mous in respecting him for his
enormous courage, and for the
spirit that saw him through,
whatever the odds. Whether in
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Dewey.
Truman rose in politics
through the Kansas City
Pendergast machine to the U.S.
Senate and finally to become
Roosevelt’s running mate in
1944. As vice president less
than three months, he had little
time to prepare himself for the
awesome duties that fate thrust
on him.
He later admitted he had
been told nothing about the
existence of an atomic bomb
until the day after he was
sworn in as President.
Faced with the choice of an
invasion of Japan by U.S. land
forces or unleashing the newly
developed atom bomb, Truman
approved the nuclear attacks on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki that
killed thousands of civilians.
“It was a military decision,”
he said later. “No other course
was conceivable.”
In the confrontation with
communism after the war, he
a political campaign or making
the great decisions of foreign
policy, they recognized and
admired him—in a description
he himself might have ap
preciated the most—as a man
with ‘guts.’
“Embroiled in controversy
during his presidency, his
stature in the eyes of history
has risen steadily ever since.
He did what had to be done,
when it had to be done, and
because he did, the world today
is a better and safer place—and
generations to come will be in
his debt.
“It is with affection and
respect that a grateful nation
now says farewell to ‘the Man
from Independence’—to its 33rd
president, Harry S Truman.”
A spokesman also said the
President and Mrs. Nixon had
sent a personal message of
condolence to Mrs. Truman.
Nixon and Truman had been
political foes in the ‘SO?. Their
enmity reached a dimax in
1952 when Nixon, campaigning
for the vice presidency on the
ticket with Dwight D. Eisen
hower, accused the Truman
administration of a record of
“Korea, communism and cor
ruption.”
During Nixon’s senatorial
days, he also accused the
Truman administration of “20
years of treason.”
The two men patched up their
political quarrels when Nixon
became president. Nixon
stopped by Independence, Mo.,
in 1969 to visit Truman on his
85th birthday, using the occa
sion to present to the Truman
library the piano that Truman
used in the White House.
During the get-together in
Independence, Nixon played
“Happy Birthday” to Truman
acted decisively on the foreign
front but raised the ire of
McCarthy-era conservatives at
home. He pushed through the
Marshall plan in the face of
Russian post-war expansion,
sent U.S. troops to Korea when
Communists invaded South
Korea, and broke the Soviet
blockade of Berlin with a
massive airlift.
But he was called by critics
“soft on Communism” for
dismissing the Alger Hiss case
as a “red herring,” his China
policy and the firing of wartime
hero Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Born May 8, 1884 in a frame
house in the town of Lamar in
southwest Missouri, Truman at
age four moved with his
parents to Independence, Mo.
He called it home for the rest
of his life.
His parents gave him a
middle initial S, with no period,
to stand for either of his
grandfathers whose names
were Shipp and Solomon.
on the piano and led the
singing.
Nixon was expected to lead a
host of dignitaries to pay their
respects to Truman at services
in Independence.
Highlight
dates in life
of Truman
INDEPENDENCE, Mo.
(UPI) — Highlight dates in the
life of former President Harry
S Truman.
May 8,1884 —Born at Lamar,
Mo.
June 4, 1901 —Graduated
from Chrisman High School at
Independence, Mo.
March 30, 1918 —Sailed for
France with Army rank of
captain.
June 28,1919 —Married Bess
Wallace.
Nov. 7,. 1944 — Elected vice
president. ,
April 12, 1945 —Became
president upon the death of
President Franklin D. Roose
velt.
May 8,1945 —Proclaimed the
surrender of Germany in World
War H.
Aug. 6, 1945 —Announced
development of atomic bomb,
the first one being dropped on a
Japanese city Aug. 5.
Aug. 14, 1945 —Announced
Japan had agreed to surrender
terms ending World War 11.
Nov. 2, 1948 —Elected to
presidency, defeating Thomas
E. Dewey.
Jan. 20, 1953 -Left White
House, returned to Independen
ce.
Dec. 26, 1972 —Died at
Research Hospital in Kansas
City, Mo.
Gov. Carter at midway point
Turns to revamp
of local services
By JACK WILKINSON
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov. Jim
my Carter — standing on the
brink of the second half of his
administration — sees nothing
but good behind him and better
things to come.
With the state government re
organized into “probably the
best in the whole nation,” Car
ter will set about this year to
revamp government services on
the local level.
The keystone to his program
will be a $1.6 billion budget
made up of funds from revenue
sharing, savings from reorgan
ization and Georgia’s healthy
economy.
The aim of this ambitious un
dertaking is to relieve some of
the burden on the property tax
payer, shift the cost of many
local health, education and wel
fare programs to the state and
accomplish it all without a tax
increase.
Backed up by reorganization
savings that “at times were
even greater than anticipated,”
Carter said the state is now
able “to meet some of the
basic needs of mental health,
prison reform, education, na
tural areas and so forth, with
outany increase in state taxes.”
In an year-end interview with
UPI, the governor said he ex
pected the general Assembly to
approve most of his program,
especially the $63.5 million ear
marked for state funding of
local services and SSO million
for income tax rebates for
homeowners and apartment
Special
Christmas
for Hubbards
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hubbard
of Orchard Hill had an extra
special Christmas surprise this
year. Their son, John Albert
Hubbard was discharged from
the U.S. Marines on Friday,
exactly 27 years to the day that
his father received his U.S.
Army discharge.
The young Marine was
waiting at Parris Island, S.C. to
receive a medical discharge
which was expected to come
any day. When Congressman
John J. Flynt learned that the
father’s discharge anniversary
was Dec. 22, he placed a phone
call and about 40 minutes later
notified Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard
that they could drive over and
pick up their son.
In loving memory of my
beloved son, Russell Keith
Whatley, who departed his
life 2 years ago Dec. 26th,
1970.
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
And the mother at home
says, "Hark! For his voice I
listen and yearn;
It is growing late and dark,
And my boy does not
return!"
CHILDREN
Come to me, O ye children!
For I hear you at your play,
And the questions that
perplexed me Have vanished
quite away.
Ye open the eastern
windows, That look towards
the sun. Where thoughts are
singing swallows And the
brooks of morning run.
In your hearts are the birds
and the sunshine, In your
thoughts the brooklet's flow,
But in mine is the wind of
Autumn And the first fall of
the snow.
Ah! what would the world be
to us If the children were no
more? We should dread the
desert behind us Worse than
the dark before.
What the leaves are to the
forest, With light and air for
food, Ere their sweet and
tender juices Have been
hardened into wood, —
That to the world are
children; Through them it
feels the glow Os a brighter
and sunnier climate Than
reaches the trunks below.
Come to me, O ye children!
And whisper in my ear What
the birds and the winds are
singing In your sunny
atmosphere.
By: Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Sadly missed by:
Mother: Mrs. Cleo Whatley
Grandmother: Mrs. Nadine
Horton
Great Grandmother: Mrs.
Carrie Horton
Aunts and Uncles and
Cousins
dwellers.
Other projects in the gov
ernor’s sights include judicial
reform and correcting what he
views are “abuses of legislative
power” in the Senate.
Carter isn’t predicting the out
come of the inevitable Senate
battle with Lt. Gov. Lester Mad
dox, but feels certain the local
government reorganization plan
will pass.
“We don’t have the deep in
grained power groups to be dis
turbed in the local government
recommendations that we did in
completely restructuring state
government,” said Carter. “Os
course, there are some people in
state government who oppose
everything the governor puts
forward. That’s to be expected,
I guess.”
There will be a move in the
Senate to strip Maddox of his
committee appointive powers,
backed by Carter, but just how
much reform will be enacted in
the Senate is uncertain.
“It depends on the interest of
the Senators to correct it,” he
said.
“The effectiveness of the Sen
ate has been damaged,” ac
cording to Carter. “The ap
pointments of standing commit
tees have been used to persuade
senators to vote a certain way
on issues. Senators with senior
ity, who were extremely compe
tent, have been bypassed. The
Senate has been shot full of po
litical intrigue.”
The governor charged that
chairmanships were parceled
out for promises of support and
interim committees were “con
trived” to allow senators to
draw state funds for doing noth
ing,
“Those abuses in the Senate
ought to be corrected,” he said,
denying that he is personally in
volved. “I don’t have the slight-
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est interest in who is chairman
of what committee or who
serves in this or that capacity.
But I think the Senators have
become more and more aware
that their ability to consider
each issue on its own merits
has been taken away from.
many of them.”
Many bills, including several
from the reorganization pack
age, were purposely bogged
down during the last term, he
said.
“These sort of abuses of leg
islative power by ... the lieu
tenant governor,” said Carter,
“need to be ended.”
So far as the reorganization
plan is concerned, Carter is
thoroughly pleased.
“We’ve got a government re
ganization now that is. probably
the best in the whole nation,”
he boasted. “Our reorganization
effort was not superficial as it
was in some states. We com
pletely restructured everything,
according to the recommenda
tions of a study that took all
year. And it was almost en
tirely accepted by the legis
lature and put into law.”
The 48-year-old Plains peanut
farmer has been mentioned as a
possible contender against U.S.
Sen. Herman Talmadge in 1974.
However, Carter is closed
mouthed about his future and
approaches all queries with
characteristic logic.
“Whether I go back to Plains
to grow peanuts, or whether I
stay in Atlanta in some busi
ness capacity, or whether I stay
in politics, the best preparation
for any of these is to do a good
job as governor,” said Carter.
— Griffin Daily News Tuesday/ December 26,1972
Five injured
in city wrecks
Both Griffin Police and the
Griffin Post of the Georgia State
Patrol had a very quiet
Christmas weekend wreck wise.
The Patrol Post recorded only
one injury in eight accidents.
There were five injuries in the
city during the period which
began at 6 p.m. Friday and
ended a midnight last night.
Around 4:30 a.m. Sunday,
Mrs. Hazel Chapman Johnson,
21, of 1317 Lincoln road and her
passenger, Mrs. Sally Mae
Clemmons, 27, of Route Two,
suffered lacerations and
abrasions when their car ran off
the road on North Hill near
Northside drive.
Two Griffin men were
checked in the local hospital
Prisoners
shared
in holiday
Five trusties at the Spalding
County jail got some free time
for Christmas and they shared
in helping serve a special
holiday meal for 16 fellow
prisoners in the jail.
At the city jail two of the five
prisoners were freed Christmas
Eve on their promise to be back
at the jail by 6 p.m. Christmas
day. They returned as
promised. The other three could
not be released from jail for
Christmas because the county
has hold orders on them.
A spokesman for the city jail
said that most of the prisoners
had been cleared out of the jail
before the Christmas holidays.
At the Spalding County jail, two
trusties left Christmas eve and
returned Christmas morning to
help with the meals.
The other three trusties had
most of Christmas day off.
Odd Forecaster
For 100 years, a strange
barometer has helped villag
ers near Munich, West Ger
many, forecast the weather.
A 164-foot pipe leading to a
spring deep in the ground,
emits a whistle with low
atmospheric pressure and a
hissing noise when the pres
sure is high.
emergency room Saturday
morning after their car was
struck from behind by a
Trailway bus on the Old Atlanta
road, near Experiment street.
Police said Paul James
Cussins, 58, and Paul Brandon,
29, both of 1405 Old Atlanta
road, suffered minior injuries.
The bus driver said he applied
his brakes, but could not stop in
time to avoid hitting the car
which was stopped at the inter
section.
Bruce E. Stinson, 56, of 1410
North Ninth street, was ad
mitted to the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital with face and head
injuries he received when his
auto hit a utility pole and
another car at the Meriwether
and Everee Inn road intersec
tion Friday afternoon.
The other driver, Beamer V.
Donahoe, of Route One,
Bransville, was not injured.
State troopers said William
Rayburn Cochran, 24, of
Sylvania was injured in a Butts
County accident on the Indian
Springs road, south of Jackson.
He was admitted to the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital. His car hit
an embankment and over
turned, they said.
During the holiday period, the
Griffin troopers made 33 arrests
and issued 24 warnings.
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