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ELECTION 76
Men who would be president
During the next several months,
Democratic and Republican
presidential candidates will be
fighting hard to make contact with
voters.
Most will fail in their efforts to es
tablish impressions. Only a handful
will have coaxed enough support
from a bemused (and often con
fused) citizenry to arrive at the
national political conventions in the
summer with sufficient backing to
make a contest out of the
nominating process.
At least 12 Democrats are
searching for the edge. Several
more, undeclared candidates, are
watching carefully for slippage. On
the Republican side, there are
presently two declared candidates:
President Ford and former Gov.
Ronald Reagan of California. Sen.
Charles Mathias of Maryland may
yet declare.
Who are these men? Why do they
want the presidency? In the months
ahead, Americans will be hearing a
lot from — and about — the men
who would be president. The
editors of Newspaper Enterprise
Association felt that the views of
candidates on the character of the
man who should be elected presi
dent on Nov. 2 should be presented,
unedited and without comments or
interpretation, in the form of a
series of articles written by the
candidates themselves.
In letters sent to each of the can-
Ford report to be
mildly optimistic
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President
Ford tonight gives Congress and
American voters his assessment of the
State of the Union in its bicentennial
year. Aides said his report would be
mildly optimistic, largely philosophical
and short on election-year proposals.
Ford, in a nationally televised
appearance before a joint session of the
House and Senate, is expected to couple
predictions of steady economic growth
and a drop in unemployment with a call
for a Social Security tax increase and
restrained federal spending to help
avert new inflation.
In advance of the 9 p.m. EST speech,
White House aides billed it as a basic
blueprint for Ford’s presidential
campaign. They said he would stick to
the conservative themes and go into
more detail Wednesday when he sends
Congress a proposed federal budget
totaling about $394 billion for the 1977
fiscal year, with an anticipated $43
billion deficit
Although officials ruled out any
striking new policy changes, they said
Ford would be making several
significant recommendations in his
message, including:
—A $lO billion increase of current tax
cuts now scheduled to expire in July to
assure continued economic im
provement.
— A rise in the Social Security tax
rate next Jan. 1 from 5.85 to 6.15 per
didates (and to several other
political leaders whose views on
presidential character could be
considered instructive), the editors
invited the men to confine their ar
ticles “to a very brief and pointed
discussion of the qualifications and
character of the person who should
be elected president, as well as
some considerations of the direc
tion toward which this new presi
dent should lead the nation.”
With the exception of former Sen.
Fred Harris of Oklahoma, and
President Ford, whose aides claim
ed he was “too busy” to write an
article, all candidates have sub
mitted essays.
In addition, there are articles by
Gov. Reubin Askew, Democrat of
Florida, Sen. Frank Church,
Democrat of Idaho and Senator
Mathias.
Some candidates wrote closely
on the proposed topic; others did
not.
Beginning today, articles will
appear in this newspaper by
Askew, Sen. Birch Bayh, Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen, former Gov. Jim
my Carter, Sen. Henry M. Jackson,
former Ambassador Sargent
Shriver, Gov. Milton J. Shapp,
former Gov. Terry Sanford, Rep.
Morris Udall and Gov. George
Wallace, former Sen. Eugene
McCarthy and Sen. Robert Byrd of
West Virginia.
Askew: page 12
cent to generate an extra $4.2 billion in
revenues needed to meet the growth of
benefit payments. But officials said
Ford would no longer insist on a 5 per
cent ceiling on cost-of-living increases
for Social Security recipients.
— A revision of the Medicare
program for elderly Americans that
would set a SSOO annual limit for
hospital and nursing care and a
maximum of $250 a year on doctor fees.
But in return for the expanded aid,
persons insured by Medicare would
have to pay more for coverage.
Congress rejected a similar plan in
1975.
—Use of tax incentives to create jobs
by letting companies in areas of high
unemployment depreciate their
investments on plants, equipment and
machinery faster than usual. — Giving
states more federal aid in “block
grants” for education, health and social
services rather than in traditional
“categorical grants” to let state and
local government officials have more
freedom in determining how they use
the money they get from Washington.
Congressional Democrats were
expected to balk at the change.
Officials said the overall tone of Ford’s
report would be more favorable than
the one he gave a year ago, when he
dealt at length with America’s energy
and economic problems and told the
nation: “I must say to you that the state
of the union is not good.”
By DAN LOHWASSER
RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) - Did you
know someone “grinning like a jackass
eatin’ briars” has really been “caught
in the act, sort of like a suck-egg dog,
when you’re caught flat-footed, or red
handed?”
If not, then Roy Wilder’s book, “You
All Spoken Here,” may be “sho nuff”
what you need for “carryin’ on” in the
South.
The small paperback is designated by
its author as “Dialect and quaint
sayin’s interpeted so sho nuff yankees
from other foreign parts can parley
vous in com pone country.”
Wilder, a 61-year-old ex
newspaperman, press agent, public
relations man, and sometime
politician, is a “good ole boy” from
Spring Hope, N.C., who “took a notion”
Senate okays wide homes
ATLANTA (UPI) - The Senate
easily approved today a bill allowing 14-
foot-wide mobile homes to be hauled on
Georgia highways, as soon as two
neighboring states permit the big
trailers on their highways.
The bill, sent to the House in an 39-16
vote, is contingent upon approval by
four states contiguous to Georgia.
Alabama and Tennessee already allow
the 14-foot trailers, so approval in
either of the other three states —
Florida and the Carolinas — would
implement the proposal in Georgia.
Sen. Hugh Carter, D-Plains, said
Florida has shown no interest in such a
bill but said both North Carolina and
South Carolina are likely to pass it. He
said the mobile home manufacturing
industry in his southwest Georgia
district is virtually in a depression,
losing most of its business to Alabama
because that state allows the “14-
wides” on its roads.
“Most of the movement will be from
factories to the nearest interstate
highway, then the rest of the way on the
divided interstates,” said Carter.
Sen. Gene Holley, D-Augusta, said he
has changed his mind about the big
mobile homes, which he fought in past
legislative sessions. He said safety
considerations should be secondary to
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get what he wants — if it isn’t
something you want.”
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GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
to put the collection of verse together
after “splitting the quilt” with the
advertising business last winter.
The idea originated as a promotional
pamphlet for tourists visiting North
Carolina — “comers and goers” — but
wound up encompassing a “whole kit
and caboodle” of sayings throughout
the South
The 20-page illustrated book includes
colloquialisms used in specific areas
such as North Carolina’s Outer Banks
where “the coldest time since the
‘Crissie Wright’ come to shore” means
the coldest time since Jan. 11, 1886,
when people shivered in the ocean
spray watching the grounded schooner
“Crissie Wright” on Schackleford
Banks.
It also documents sayings like
“Roebuckers” (false teeth), “doodly
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, January 19,1976
providing jobs and low-cost housing for
Georgians.
“Don’t forget safety, but put it in a
priority where it belongs, and I think it
belongs in this day and time secondary
to the right of the American people —
and the people of Georgia in particular
Miller backs
‘sharing’
ATLANTA (UPI) - Lt. Gov. Zell
Miller told Georgia mayors today it
costs Georgia cities about >IOO million a
year to comply with complex federal
regulations. He called for extension of
revenue sharing to help bridge the gap.
“The fact is, dollar for dollar,
revenue sharing has benefited more
people in more ways than any other
federal program, and has reached
people previously not affected by any
form of federal assistance,” Miller told
the Georgia Municipal Association.
As keynote speakers of the
association’s Mayors Day convention,
Miller and House Speaker Tom Murphy
pledged their support for the GMA
efforts to lobby Congress for extension
of the revenue sharing program, which
is to expire at the end of this year.
Miller said Georgia cities and
counties get about $75 million in federal
revenue sharing each year.
“We in Georgia have what we refer to
as our ‘federal debt’,” said Miller. “It
means the federal government owes our
cities approximately SIOO million each
year, which represents what it costs us
in the form of higher property taxes,
over and above all federal grants, to
comply with the vast swarm of federal
regulations Congress has imposed upon
local governments.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 45, low
today 11, high yesterday 37, low
yesterday 10, high tomorrow near 50,
low tonight bi upper 20s.
People with citizens ban (CB) radios got together yesterday and raised more than S9OO for
John Lindsey, 1329 Herndon street, and his family. Mr. Lindsey had been in an Atlanta
Hospital and expects to be out of work while he recovers from back surgery. He was
employed at Rushton Mill. He has a CB unit and is known as “Stringtw-on’’ Organizers of
the drive set up headquarters at A 4 W drive-in restaurant on Memorial drive. Contribu
tions were brought to headquarters where people were offered coffee, sandwiches which the
CB’ers rounded up. Rollin Griffith of A & W estimated up to 1,000 people contributed. A
volunteer band set up at the restaurant during the afternoon to help promote the drive.
squat” (indifference), “high as a
Georgia pine” (intoxicated), or “right
smack dab” (a certain point).
The book includes a “whole mess” of
translations and derivations for those
who don’t “know ‘A’ from ‘izzard’”
about Southern talk. Wilder is planning
an expanded, “spankin’ brand new”
printing of the work this spring which
may be in hard back form.
The mini-book does not approach a
serious study of the language. But the
preface says resident folk lore experts
and college professors maintain many
of the colloquialism are derived from
the speech of “Britain of centuries ago,
of Chaucer and of Elizabeth the Virgin
Queen.”
The sayings were collected from
Wilder’s personal “running file,” other
writers and columnists, politicians.
— to own a home they can afford,” said
Holley.
Meanwhile, both House and Senate
leaders think it possible that the
traditional two-week budget recess can
be reduced because of cooperation
shown on the supplemental budget last
week.
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Wilder described himself as the
“author, editor, publisher, circulation
manager, credit manager, and delivery
service” in the book’s production. The
book’s success, said Wilder, has
encouraged him to go to work on a
“raunchy code book” to be titled
“Chitlin’s, Collards and Cold Com
Bread."
Wilder said he considers himself
somewhat of an authority on chitlins, or
boiled hog intestines.
His experience with the dish goes
back as far as the Normandy invasion
when he came ashore with “a roll of
toilet paper, a change of socks, a quart
of chitlins and a carbine.”
Copies are available for $1.50, plus 35
cents for handling from The Gourd
Hollow Press, Raleigh, N.C., 27612.
Vol. 104 No. 15
News
summary
By United Press International
Albert raps nets
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Speaker of
the House Carl Albert has charged that
the commercial networks almost
always give the president live coverage
at his request but subject Democratic
party requests for equal time to stricter
standards of news judgment.
The networks denied the charges
Albert made Saturday. He said a
Library of Congress study shows that in
the past decade ABC, CBS and NBC
“provided simultaneous coverage of
the president on almost every occasion
that he has sought to deliver a
nationwide television address.”
Socialists meet
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UPI) -
Socialist leaders from 17 Western
European nations meeting in
Copenhagen have pledged to give
economic support to the Socialist
parties in Spain and Portugal.
A spokesmen Sunday said the amount
of monetary help will be decided later
by a special committee.
Plant explodes
CUMBERLAND, R.I. (UPI) — A
series of explosions blew the side out of
the Peterson Puritan Aerosol plant,
injuring at least 17 persons, two of them
seriously.
Fire officials Saturday estimated
that about 25 per cent of the plant was
destroyed by the blasts, the cause of
which was not immediately deter
mined.
Steel quotas
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
International Trade Commission has
proposed putting quotas on imports of
stainless steel and alloy tool steel in
order to protect domestic industries.
The commission said increased
imports of the specialty steels are a
cause of “serious injury” to related
U.S. industries. A spokesman said this
is the first time the commission has
made such a finding in an import relief
investigation under the Trade Act of
1974.
Vietnam diplomacy
TOKYO (UPI) — South Vietnamese
Foreign Minister Mme. Nguyen Thi
Binh reportly has demanded economic
aid from America in exchange for
diplomatic relations with Vietnam. It
was the second such statement from a
Vietnamese leader in two days.
Victim safe,
SILVER SPRING, Md. (UPI) - The
27-year old son of trucking executive
Joseph Bortnick was released
unharmed after five days following the
payment of a ransom described only as
“very substantial.”
The victim, Alan L. Bortnick of Silver
Spring, Md., was described by
authorities as “fatigued" but otherwise
healthy, despite some facial scratches.