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WARNER ROBINS A.8., Ga. — President Nixon tells a stroy to former Rep. Carl Vinson
(r) who celebrated his 90th birthday with the President as a guest. Listening is Nixon’s chief
domestic advisor Melvin Laird. Vinson, speaking at the Chapel on the Mercer University
campus where he graduated from law school 72 years ago, said, “No event in my life and no
event in the future could equal this day.” (UPI)
I ‘A-Bomb ’ Keenan gives up vigil
3 DEBORGIA, Mont. (UPI) -
“A-Bomb” Keenan is leaving
his atom haven.
x It has been 27 years since Bill
Keenan and his family fled
their Long Island home and a
X prosperous construction busi
ness in New York to settle in
this sparsely populated valley
X in the mountains of western
Montana.
Stories about Keenan’s flight
>•: from the atomic war he was
certain would come “sooner or
later” appeared in newspapers
around the country.
;$ He was a minor celebrity in
Eban in L.A.
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba
Eban Sunday said the recent
Mideast war has caused “the
total paralysis of the nation’s
economic efforts for human
needs.”
Eban predicted that negotia
tions with Arab nations would
begin next month. He said the
sale of Israel Bonds was needed
for “morale” as well as
economic reasons and would
not be used for the military.
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that era, when school children
drilled for an atomic attack and
citizens joined the ground
observer corps to watch the
skies for enemy aircraft.
But over the years, Keenan
has stopped worrying about the
bomb and learned to live with
it.
Now he plans to retire late
this year from the postmaster
job he has held for 24 years and
move to Arizona to be near
three of his daughters who live
in Tucson.
The advancing years, and
perhaps the fear he would be
South African missionaries
to fight sin in Dallas area
By PRESTON MCGRAW
DALLAS (UPI) - Two black
missionaries from South Africa
will fight sin among the natives
of Texas.
But the Rev. and Mrs. Jerry
Nkesi deny that their ministry
is intended as a spiritual
example of “man bites dog.”
The traditional story of
missionary travel in the past
has been of whites going from
scoffed at by a generation
which has learned to live with
the threat of a mushroom
shaped cataclysm, have made
Keenan reluctant to discuss his
long-ago fears.
He told UPI in an interview
he was “probably” fleeing
more from the congestion, filth
and “evil element” which he
saw crowding in on the East
Coast in those post-war years.
The Atom Haven Case which
the Keenans built here has
given way to a combination
post office and living quarters.
Keenan looks much younger
the United States to Africa to
Christianize the blacks. > .
The Rev. Nkesi, 44, and his
wife said putting down U.S.
missionaries was not even in
their minds when they decide to
come to the United States.
They said they were not the
first African missionaries to
come to the United States and
did not expect to be the last.
The Nkesis visited Dallas in
1970 and he said he was
“shocked by the sinfulness” he
saw among the young.
“We don’t have it quite that
bad in South Africa,” Nkesi
said Friday. “Drug abuse is
very little of a problem.
“But this country is in need
of the gospel. Christian values
to an extent are being thrown
overboard.
“Dallas is a strategic place
from which to operate. Not that
I feel it to be more sinful, it
just fits better into my plans.”
The Nkesi’s missionary ac
tivities will be concentrated
among the young and in black
churches, but they will not
devote themselves exclusively
to blacks.
Neksi, a former welterweight
boxer, said he used to hate
whites but was converted by
radio and came to think of
whites and blacks as one body
of human beings.
“I became a Christian Jan.
In Macon
Nixon overshadowed Vinson
By JACK WILKINSON
MACON, Ga. (UPI) -
Central Georgia greeted a
beleaguered President Nixon
triumphantly Sunday and he
quickly promised to return.
The president came here to
honor former Georgia Congress
man Carl Vinson, a power in
the House of Representatives
for 50 years, but Vinson was
overshadowed.
An enthusiastic crowd of
20,000 met Nixon at nearby
Robins Air Force Base and
made it clear he was the man
they intended to honor.
Nixon was booed and jeered
by several hundred students
when he arrived at Mercer
University, but the critics were
outnumber a hundred to one by
supporters—andoutshouted.
Air Force One landed at
Robins shortly after 1 p. m. to
the music of an Air Force band
24, 1954,” he said. “I visited a
friend’s house to hear a jazz
program on the radio. It turned
out to be a Jesus program that
I heard.
“I heard the gospel very
clearly—that you need to be
born again. He (radio prea
cher) told it like it was. My life
changed all together. I no
longer had hate in my heart.”
Nkesi is a member of the
African Evangelical Church, a
fundamental Protestant religion
that does not have a branch in
the United States, though it is
similar to the Congregational
Baptists.
Drifter
admits
arson
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - A
young drifter with an arson
record, paroled only a week
earlier from an Arizona reform
school, has admitted setting the
deadliest structural blaze in the
city’s history, police said
Sunday.
Michael Altenburger, 18, was
being held on suspicion of
murder in the Stratford Apart
ment fire, which killed 24
persons late Thursday night
and early Friday.
Police and arson investiga
tors said they would bring
charges against Altenburger
today or Tuesday.
Retired Roman Catholic Car
dinal John Francis Mcintire
was to say a special mass
today for the dead—most of
whom were Mexican-Americans
—at a church in the downtown
Los Angeles neighborhood of
the Stratford.
The case against Altenburger
includes “physical evidence” in
addition to his confession,
investigators said. They would
not say what that evidence is.
Altenburger was arrested
some distance away, near the
UCLA campus, by officers who
found him sleeping on a bench
at a bus stop, and brought in
for routine questioning.
Police said it was learned
then that he had been paroled
Nov. 8, his 18th birthday, from
the state Industrial School for
Boys at Ft. Grant, Ariz., where
he was sent after an arrest in
September, 1972, for arson at a
Tucson mobile home lot where
he lived.
his assertions of peace brought
the loudest cheers.
“We can be thankful that for
the first time in 12 years, the
world is at peace,” he told the
airport crowd. “We can also be
thankful that for the first time
in eight years, every American
POW is at home where he
belongs.”
Nixon said he had never been
in Macon before, “but I am
going to make sure it is not the
last time.”
Along the 15-mile motorcade
route to Macon, clusters of
people held up friendly signs
and cheered as the presidential
playing “Hail to the Chief’ and
the din of flag waving,
cheering Georgians.
Seventy per cent of Warner
Robins’ residents are stationed
or employed at the air base
and Nixon’s praise of the
nation’s Vietnam war effort and
than his 70 years, attesting, he
said, to the quality of life in
this tiny community located in
a mountain valley almost
midway between Missoula,
Mont., and Spokane, Wash.
The Keenans have watched
their tiny community grow
from 51 residents to nearly 200
during the years his five
children grew up and moved on
to California and Arizona.
And now Keenan said he sees
some of the same “evil
elements” he fled from creep
ing in here.
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limousine passed. Not until
Nixon neared downtown Macon
did signs of dissent appear.
“Hospitality Yes, Support
No,” read one sign, and another
said, “They Don’t Call Him
Tricky Dick for Nothing.”
Two thousand persons
jammed the wooded, pictures
que area around the campus
chapel where the ceremonies
honoring Vinson and Mercer’s
law school were being held.
A small group, mainly stu
dents, chanted “Impeach Him,”
and began booing when the
limousine appeared. But like
fans from the visiting school at
a football game, their voices
were swallowed by cheers of
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WARNER ROBINS - The President and Mrs. Richard Nixon shake hands as they arrive.
The Nixons are on the second of three planned public appearances in the South. (UPI)
Griffin Daily News Monday, November 19,1973
the President’s supporters.
Inside the gothic chapel,
Nixon praised Vinson as one of
the “giants of the House” and
announced that the country’s
third nuclear aircraft carrier
will be named after him —a
present on Vinson’s 90th birth
day.
Vinson, walking erect and
speaking in a clear, firm voice
despite his 90 years, walked
arm in arm with Nixon through
the crowd in the chapel after
the ceremonies were over and
rode with the President during
the return trip to Warner
Robins.
Vinson said the Nixon visit
“is the evening tide of my life.”
Doctor
suspects
clams
SARASOTA, Fla. (UPI) - A
10-year-old boy was in critical
condition Sunday after eating
clams poisoned by a substance
health authorities said was a
“cousin” of the red tide.
Dr. John McGarry, director
of the Sarasota County Health
Department, banned all shell
fish gathering in Sarasota
waters after Lonnie Long, 10, of
Siesta Key and two other
persons, suffered paralytic
shellfish poisoning as a result
of eating the clams.
“We’re still not sure what the
organism is, but it’s a cousin of
the red tide and the toxin
produced by it is very potent,”
McGarry said.