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Goldwater says GOP
has a big job ahead
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
ATLANTA (UPI) — The
Young Republican convention
here ended Thursday with Sen.
Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., talk
ing of “a big job ahead of us”
and national GOP chairman
George Bush urging a swift end
to the Watergate hearings.
Despite the convention’s close,
the national executive commit
tee was to meet today to iron
out a second Watergate resolu
tion, pinning the blame on “per
sonally inexperienced person
nel” and advocating national
committee control of future
campaign finances.
The resolutions committee is
sued a statement vindicating
President Nixon from any in
volvement in the breakin or the
coverup, but urging him to put
the case in perspective “in the
setting of his choice.”
Goldwater, theconvention’s fi
nal speaker, said the Republi
can Party had sustained serious
but not irreparable damage
from the bugging scandal.
“I am not inclined to come
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here with a sugar - coated mes
sage stating that all is well in
the GOP, neither am I about
to tell you that it is time for
the Republican party to roll ov
er and play dead. I suggest it
will take a lot more than the
Watergate to kill off the Re
publican party.”
The Arizona legislator said
the most damaging aspect of
the entire affair was the tying
of illegal tampering to the fte
publican party even though, he
said, none of the people involved
in the scheme were elected to
office by GOP voters.
“I am sure I don’t have to
tell you that ambitious Demo
crats are making the most of
this fact,” he said. Goldwater
said that until any incriminat
ing evidence is delivered, Nix
on should be presumed innocent
of “any and all involvement in
the sorry and sordid events.”
Goldwater ripped Sen. Ed
ward Kennedy, D-Mass., for
speaking out with “unctuous
righteousness” on the
Watergate matter when “all the
facts involving the Chap
paquidick tragedy” are still
unknown.
“The American people can do
without moralizing from the
Massachusetts Democrat,” he
said.
Bush said he thought a quick
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stopper as she personally attended the implantation of her
“Star” in the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. The
action occurred at the corner of Wilcox avenue and
Hollywood boulevard and actually created a traffic jam
as word spead that the popular actress was being honored.
(UPI)
end to the Watergate hearings
would absolve Nixon of any
complicity and “lay to rest dam
aging speculation” about the
President.
He said he thought former
White House counsel John
Dean’s testimony would be con
tradicted by future witnesses.
“I don’t believe John Dean’s
testimony,” he said. “Let’s see
how many people will stand up
and say John Dean speaks the
truth.”
Bush, a longtime Nixon favor
ite, said he thought the Presi
dent should appear before a
news conference when the Sen
ate investigation concludes.
“My own view is that the
President’s direct statement on
non-involvement will stand up, ”
Bush said. “The evidence of
Watergate will be remembered
in history for its abuse by a
handful of people of our political
system.”
Bush also discounted the ef
fects of the scandal on other
elections across the country, ci
ting several instances of Repub
licans being elected to office
despite Watergate.
“The party is alive and very
well indeed,” Bush said. “The
Nixon mandate on November,
1972 will be just as valid in
1974. The great issue of war
and peace will be just as valid
in 1974 as they were in 1972.”
Drivers
accept
contract
ATLANTA (UPI) - The At
lanta bus drivers’ union voted
Wednesday night to accept a
contract proposal from the Me
tropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority, (MARTA) ending
problems that started with a
week - long strike of some 1,-
100 bus drivers.
Division 732 of the Amalga
mated Transit Union accepted
the contract for a 70-cent - an
hour raise by a vote of 661-233.
The new contract provides the
raise over a two- year period
and includes other benefits ap
proved by the union.
Allan Kiepper, a MARTA of
ficial, said they are “gratified”
with the vote on the contract,
which “puts the operators and
mechanics of the rapid transit
system on a level comparable
to other systems in the United
States.” He said MARTA is
grateful to the city people for
being patient.
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NARA, Japan—This is the left hand of Mrs. Tachiyo Kawamatsu, 45, after her left toe was
transplanted onto her hand to replace the thumb she had lost in an accident. The rare
grafting operation was performed on the Japanese housewife June 28 by Dr. Susumu
Tamai, 38, of the Nara Prefectural Medical College. The nine-hour operation required
delicate stitching with extremely fine surgical thread, with Dr. Tamai viewing the area
through a microscope as he worked. (UPI)
Family survives
‘lt was
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) - A
family of 10, including six
children, clung to an over
turned boat for more than 24
hours in rough seas and
torrential rains before being
rescued by a pleasure boat.
“It was a miracle, a plain
... absolute miracle that
we all survived,” Gerald
Surfus, 38, a Sarasota attorney,
said Thursday from his hospital
bed.
He said his family had left
Key West Tuesday morning
aboard the 26-foot boat he had
recently purchased for $41,000.
They planned to return by
nightfall after a trip to the Dry
Tortugas islands 70 miles to the
west.
On board the boat were
Surfus; his father, Clifton
Surfus, 61; mother, Frances,
Abernathy
asked
not to quit
ATLANTA (UPI) — Hosea
Williams, head of the Atlanta
chapter of the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference,
(SCLC) Thursday attacked two
prominent black leaders for hav
ing helped bring about Dr.
Ralph Abernathy’s resignation
as national leader of the organi
zation.
Williams asked Abernathy to
reconsider his resignation since
“any possible replacement
would do nothing more than
turn the SCLC into another Ur
ban League - type organization
and there is not room enough
for two Urban Leagues in Am
erica.”
Williams said that any suc
cessor to Abernathy would have
“no intention of keeping SCLC
what Dr. (Martin Luther) King
and Dr. Abernathy organized it
to be.”
He criticized King’s widow,
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for
failing to continue her work of
her late husband by not sup
porting the SCLC.
He contended that she used
money intended to support the
SCLC for furthering her own or
ganization — the Martin Luther
King Jr. Center for Non-Violent
Social Change.
Williams said Congressman
Walter Fauntroy of Washington,
D. C. openly “attacked the leg
acy left by the late Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr....by stating
Mrs. King has raised or shared
several hundreds of thousands
of dollars...she has received
since the death of her husband.
“In fact, the records will
prove that Dr. Abernathy has
shared the financial income of
SCLC with Mrs. King and the
Center, but Mrs. King and the
Center have never shared the
financial income with Dr. Aber
nathy and the SCLC,” Williams
charged. “This is the big secret
they have been trying to keep
from the public.”
a miracle’
59; wife, Mary, 41; and the six
girls: Emily, 4; Daphne, 6;
Amy, 8; Bonnie, 10; Carrie, 12;
and Dawn, 17.
Surfus said they ran into
rough weather on the way back
to Key West Tuesday afternoon.
“We hit maybe a three-or
four-foot wave and the bow just
broke right off,” Surfus said.
“In 90 seconds, we were
overturned and in the water.”
The accident happened so
quickly that only three life
jackets were salvaged from the
boat’s safety equipment, and
given to three of the smaller
girls. The rest of the family
clung to the broken hull of the
boat.
Surfus’ wife held 4-year-old
Emily and was unable to fight
off Portuguese men-of-war that
stung her legs for hours. She
was treated at a hospital for
cuts and bruises.
“Dad was just great,” Surfus
said of his father. “All
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throughout the night—the long
est day any of us ever spent—
he called the roll every five
minutes and in that way we
made sure we were keeping
together. And the courage those
kids showed was unbelievable.
Not a whimper.
“We never mentioned the
words life, death or shark,”
Surfus said. “But for a while, I
was sure a few of us weren’t
going to make it.”
Late Wednesday afternoon, Al
Huffard of Hollywood, Fla., and
his wife spotted the red
container lid Surfus was waving
as a distress signal. They took
the Surfus family aboard their
pleasure boat, then transferred
them to the Coast Guard cytter
Cape York, which had been
searching the area because the
family failed to return Tuesday
night.
All were reported in good
condition after treatment for
shock and exposure.
— Griffin Daily News Friday, July 13,1973
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Phony ‘Martha’
calling media
By HELEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
phony “Martha Mitchell” has
been telephoning newspaper
editors and reporters recently
and the real Martha is hopping
mad about it.
The real Mrs. Mitchell called
UPI Thursday to deny she had
telephoned the wire service’s
Washington bureau the
previous morning to say, “I
want you to know that my
husband is absolutely correct in
all his testimony.”
A woman with a Southern
accent, lower than Martha’s
and husky-voiced as if she had
been drinking, has been calling
members of the Washington
press impersonating the wife of
the former attorney general.
The caller’s conversation is
rambling, usually filled with
obscenities and bad grammar
according to those she has
telephoned.
The true Martha swears a
little but she handles the
English language very well.
She Fails on Questions
The fake Martha also has
failed on a number of questions
put to her by suspicious
recipients of her calls. She has
said she lives on Park Avenue in
New York City. Martha
Mitchell lives on Fifth Avenue.
In her Wednesday morning
telephone call, the fake Mrs.
Mitchell said she was in
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Washington. The real Martha
said in her follow-up call that
she was “down South,” as her
husband had said Tuesday when
he began testifying before
Senate Watergate
investigators.
In a telephone call to Bonnie
Angelo of Time magazine on
June 21, the woman mas
querading as Martha said, “I’m
half drunk, I drink a little bit but
why shouldn’t I.” Mrs. Mitchell
has never discussed drinking
with this reporter.
The woman posing as Mrs.
Mitchell also told Miss Angelo
her husband was too stupid to
have been involved in Water
gate. The real Martha has
always expressed pride in her
husband.
She Calls Publisher
Last June, the woman who
had tried to dupe the press also
called Katharine Graham, pub
lisher of the Washington Post
and got Managing Editor
Howard Simons at 3 a.m.
Simons talked to her for 40
minutes and took four pages of
notes. The Post decided that she
was not the real Martha and did
not run a story.
The woman also telephoned
the Washington Evening Star-
News and talked to Editor
Newbold Noyes.