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City Commissioner Raymond Head, Mrs. Jeff Carter, Jim Mankin, Griffin businessman;
Jeff Carter, and Clayton Brown, another Griffin businessman (Lr) went for a brief stroll
yesterday afternoon along West Taylor street. Carter, son of Presidential candidate Jimmy
Carter, and his wife, were in Griffin to talk up the campaign.
Carter’s Griffin friends
By MAY WINGFIELD MELTON
Jimmy Carter has friends all over the
United States but some of his strongest
supporters are right here in Griffin,
Georgia.
They have campaigned for him in
New Hampshire, Wisconsin and
Florida, all paying their own travel and
other expenses.
Bob Smalley, Griffin attorney who
served in the Georgia Senate with
Carter, says he first met him in 1962 in
Lt Gov. Peter Zack Geer’s office. He
was impressed with his friendly
manner and later noted that he was
quiet and studious and a “man of
conviction” in voting in the Senate.
Bob and his wife Mary went to New
Hampshire to campaign for Carter and
under the supervision of New Hamp
shire supporters Bob worked on a team
that went door to door making a “pit
ch” for Carter in Democratic house
holds. Mary worked at Carter
headquarters there.
The Smalleys and the Carters have
been personal friends for a long time.
The Smalleys entertained with a party
at their home here on Maple Drive in
1966 when Carter was running for
Governor. Rosalyn Carter stopped by
the Smalley home to visit on her way
home to Plains following the Wisconsin
primary last week.
Raymond Head, city commissioner,
says that he first met Carter when he
was campaigning for Governor the first
time. He says that Jimmy and Rosalyn
Carter went before a group of black
Press scolded
Jimmy Carter’s use of the words
“ethnic purity” was no big deal in
discussing segregrated neighborhoods,
George McGovern said. He blamed the
resulting furor on “superficial and silly
reporting.” And one civil rights leader
said Carter is talking like a racist to
“lode up the Polack vote.”
Henry Jackson campaigned in
Indiana and Morris Udall stumped in
Pennsylvania, while Carter rested at
home before hitting the trail again
today in Atlanta.
Vacationing?
CHICAGO (UPI) - Estel Blevins told
his office he was taking an unscheduled
vacation, but now is suspected of
identifying a corvse found floating in
the Chicago River as his own.
William Hamilton of Jackson, Mich.,
Blevins’ brother-in-law, supposedly
was the person who identified the
corpse as Blevins and ordered it
cremated. But the corpse turned out to
be Joseph Tallarico, 55, a retired Navy
divpr
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citizens to speak at that time and for
“most blacks he was a new change and
a new face. . . we liked his new ap
proach to politics.”
Commissioner Head says that it is not
hard to get black support when the
candidate shows “forward movement.”
He says, “We have seen this in Jimmy
Carter.”
Jimmy Mankin, who with his wife,
Angie, also went to New Hampshire to
work for Carter at their own expense
says that Carter has a certain charm
that is “dynamic.” He says that if
Carter can ever “touch base on a one to
one basis he can almost always gain
support.”
When he was governor, Carter ap
pointed Mankin, Griffin businessman,
to the board of Natural Resources for
the state. This is a non-paying job.
“Jimmy Carter won’t toss me a
political plum on a national scale unless
he felt like I was qualified,” says
Mankin.
Clayton Brown, former state
representative and Griffin
businessman, also worked for Carter in
New Hampshire. He and his son David
Brown spent a week in Wisconsin at
their own expense campaigning for
Carter and says that they each walked
“at least 75 miles” in that state.
The work done by a .planeload of
Georgians in Wisconsin is credited by
some politicians as being the thing that
tipped the scales of that state and put it
into the Carter column.
Arlene and Joe Clark and Carlton
News summary
By United Press International
Record flood
MINOT, N.D. (UPI) - The rising
Souris River, glutted with a flow of
melting snow from the Saskatchewan
hills, is expected to crest Saturday at
seven to eight feet above flood stage.
More than 12,000 persons will be
removed from Minot and hundreds of
volunteers, National Guardsmen and
Air Force personnel are racing to finish
dikes before a “horrendous” record
flood gushes over the city.
“It will be an all-time record,” an
Army engineer said.
Hijacking
KARACHI, Pakistan (UPI) - A DCB
jetliner left for Libya on the final leg of
a six-day journey carrying three armed
hijackers and their 12 hostages.
The Filipino Moslem hijackers have
promised to release their hostages after
their arrival in Libya, although the
Libyan government has not said
whether it will grant amnesty to the
hijackers.
The long ordeal began last
Wednesday in the southern Philippines
when the three men commandeered a
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, April 13,1976
Some work for him
in other states
at own expense
Morris campaigned in Florida for
Carter and other friends here include
Jimmy Goolsby, chairman of the
Spalding County Democratic party,
Arthur Bolton, attorney general for the
state of Georgia, and Howard Wallace,
' Griffin attorney.
One of Carter’s staunchest sup
porters in Spalding County is Mrs.
Virgie Lee Head who ran the V & H
Grill at Experiment for years. Asked if
her husband, Horace, also supports
Carter she says, “He’s pretty good, but
he doesn’t love Jimmy like I do.”
Virgie says, “Jimmy is the same
person all the time, he never changes.”
She first met him when he was running
for Governor and he went by the grill to
eat and talk.
One day his mother, Mrs. Lillian
Carter, went by for lunch carrying a
metal container that looked like a
“lunch box” filled with Carter
literature and covered with Carter
pictures. Virgie told Mrs. Carter that
she would like to have one like that and
Mrs. Carter immediately emptied it
and gave it to her.
On March 14 when Sheriff and Mrs.
Dwayne Gilbert were having a birthday
party for Virgie the telephone rang and
Jimmy Carter was on the line to wish
Virgie a “Happy Birthday” in the midst
of his campaign for President. .Virgie
says they were eating dinner but “you
should have heard me holler”.
His other longtime supporters in
Griffin have been “hollering” for him
one way or another for years.
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twin-engine Philippine Air Lines
BACIU jetliner.
When the plane landed in Bangkok on
its way to Libya, the three agreed to
switch to the larger DCB. They kept
seven of their original 12 hostages,
replacing five crewmen with
volunteers.
Nationalists win
NABLUS, Israeli-Occupied Jordan
(UPI) — Palestinian nationalists won
majorities on municipal councils in
Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah, three of
the largest towns on the West Bank,
creating a new challenge for the Israeli
government already troubled by
growing Arab unrest in the region.
In only one large town, Bethlehem,
did a traditionalist manage to stay in
power—and a Communist militant won
a council seat there.
Sources close to the government
expressed concern that the militant
gains would raise tensions on the West
Bank — scene of 2% months of anti-
Israeli unrest.
Delta official renews
second airport talk
ROME, GA. (UPI) - Metropolitan
Atlanta will face a slowing of Economic
growth and the loss of its status as an
air transportation hub and interna
tional trade center if a second city
airport is not built, according to a Delta
Airlines official.
Clint G. Sweazea, assistant vice
president for public affairs, Monday
told a Rome civic group “if the second
airport is not built, the Atlanta area’s
economy will be curtailed and we will
face the loss of air transportation
superiority and a decline of
international trade center status...”
Propane
tanker
burning
WOODLAND, Ga. (UPI) —
Authorities Monday night said it will
take a few days for a 100,000-gallon
Seaboard Coastline propane tanker to
burn out — but it could explode first.
The tanker caught fire Monday
afternoon in a rural area, shooting up
150-foot-high flames which could be
seen several miles away.
Talbot County firemen could not
extinguish the flames and after several
hours decided to let the car burn out by
itself.
“It’s still burning. It hasn’t exploded
yet. They don’t know if it will burn out
or expode. It could take two to four days
to bum out. It’s unbelievable,” a
spokesman for the state patrol’s
Manchester office said.
Three area families were evacuated
from their rural homes. One of the
families lives in a trailer located about
300 feet from the blaze, about one mile
east of Woodland, the spokesman said.
The tanker was the only car of the 75-
car freight train carrying the explosive
gas and it was separated from the rest
of the train.
The patrol spokesman said
investigators believe the blaze started
when sparks from the tracks ignited
gas escaping from a small leak in the
tanker.
State and local police cordoned off the
area to keep passing motorists on a
nearby county road away.
The fire was burning about 67 miles
south of Atlanta.
The Country Parson
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“I’d rather see a candidate
try to persuade his opponent
than condemn him.”
People
••• and things
Little boy sitting on bicycle in open
door of Fire House No. 1 at City Hall
looking with interest at the trucks.
Pretty Gordon student red from
sunbathing.
Woman kisses husband on cheek and
slides out of car to go to work at Dundee
No. 5 in East Griffin. He drives on to his
own job elsewhere.
Vol. 104 No. 88
He said Atlanta’s Hartsfield
International Airport ranks second in
the world to Chicago’s O’Hare
International Airport and Atlanta is on
its way to the No. 1 spot.
He said forecasts “developed by the
long-range planning group within the
airlines and based on the availablility
of unreconstructed airport facilities
indicate by the mid to late 1980’s,
Atlanta’s passenger encampments and
aircraft operations will exceed
Chicago’s.”
He also said if the second airport is
not built, Atlanta could lose air traffic
Assembly session
30 pistols confiscated;
bomb scares eliminated
ATLANTA (UPI) — Bomb scares and
disruptions at the Capitol were
eliminated during the past General
Assembly by beefed-up security, but
guards confiscated more than 30 pistols
from the more than 170,000 persons who
entered the building, according to a
legislative report.
The legislative services com
mittee Monday received the report on
the effectiveness of security
precautions ordered by Gov. George
Busbee after two bomb threats were
received at the Capitol.
“From the outset, there has been no
report of theft, either personal or state
owned property,” said the report. “No
bomb threats have been received. No
diruption of any type within the
building (were) caused by the public at
large or any one individual has been
reported.”
Busbee ordered the posting of red
coated security guards at each of the
Capitol’s seven entrances. He also
ordered all state employes and persons
conducting regular business under the
gold dome, including journalists, to
wear plastic identification tags while in
the building.
Anyone making deliveries or
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Snake attacks youth
SYDNEY, Australia—This 15-foot Python attacked 15-year-old reptile keeper,
Stephen Mcewan, Sunday as he tried to help the snake shed its skin in the swimming
pool of a Reptile park near here. Park keeper, Eric Worrell, is helping the boy in his
fight for life. (UPI)
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 78, low
today 51, high yesterday 78, low
yesterday 47, high tomorrow in mid 70s,
low tonight in lower 50s.
FORECAST: Fair and not so cool
tonight. Partly sunny and warm
Wednesday.
to other Southeastern cities.
“In the event a second airport is not
built for the area by the late 1980’s, new
flights will have to be shifted to other
cities such as Birmingham, Charlotte
or Jacksonville,” Sweazea said.
The city has purchased a 10,000-acre
tract in Paulding County for a second
airport but stiff local opposition has
developed to the proposal and no final
decision has been made.
A move to require a referendum in
Paulding County on whether an airport
could be built was defeated in the 1976
session of the General Assembly.
carrying briefcases and purses into the
Capitol has them checked, but there are
no electronic devices like those used at
airport checkpoints.
The report said 173,854 persons
passed through the security posts
during the legislative session — all but
46,467 of them employes, reporters and
lobbyists with the picture badges. The
report said 21,583 visitors passed
through on escorted tours.
“During the session, in excess of 30
handguns were detected being carried
by other than law enforcement peron
nel,” the report said. “Since March 5
(the end of the session), the average is
estimated approximately three a week.
The majority were carried by women.
“There is no estimate of handguns
that are brought into the building
concealed in clothing.”
The report said “several individuals
have been denied entrance because of
obvious effects and strong odor of
alcohol,” but only one drunk got in and
had to be escorted out of the Capitol.
“Several individuals have been
denied entry or removed from the
building because of ‘strange’
behavior,” it said.