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Mondale hopes he’ll
be heard from again
FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - Vice
President-elect Walter F. Mon
dale knows all about the two
brothers, the one who ran away
to'sea and the other who grew
up to be vice president and
never was heard from again.
Mondale harbors a genuine
hope that this hoary joke, origi
nated by an almost-forgotten
vice president named Thomas
Marshall, will not apply to him.
Nevertheless, the incoming vice
president is enough of a politi
cal realist to know that Presi
dent-elect Carter is indulging in
well-meant exaggeration when
he promises that Mondale will
be “an equal partner” in the
new administration.
As a Mondale aide observed:
“The senator understands there
can be only one boss in the ex
ecutive branch — and it isn’t
the vice president.”
In these pre-inaugural weeks,
however, Mondale already has
played moreof a role in the for
mation of the new government
Aviation fuel spilled
METTER, Ga. (AP) — A gasoline tanker overturned at
an intersection near here early today, spilling 8,000
gallons of aviation fuel, the state patrol reported.
The patrol said the driver, who was not identified imme
diately, escaped unhurt.
The accident happened about 5:30 a.m. at Georgia 41
and U.S. 1, approximately 12 miles west of Metter in
Emanuel County.
The fuel did not ignite, and firemen went to the scene
and spread foam over the overturned truck while traffic
was rerouted, the patrol reported.
Four-year-old girl killed
AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) — A 4-year-old girl was shot and
killed by a 9-year-old playmate Monday night as the
children were playing with a .22-callber rifle, police
reported.
Dead is Misty Gann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Gann of nearby Lithia Springs, Police Chief Clyde Hardin
reported.
He said the children were playing in a bedroom while
adults at the home of Irene Couch were in another part of
the house.
House fire injures pair
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Two young men were hospi
talized today after fire swept through a Marietta house.
Hospitalized are Jay Westbrook, 20, of Marietta and
Rick Couey, 18, a visitor kin the Westbrook home. They
suffered second and third degree burns.
Westbrook’s parents escaped unharmed.
Fire officials said the blaze apparently was caused by
smoking in bed.
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than any vice president-elect
before him.
He has been consulted on ev
ery top appointment. He has
shared in all the intelligence
and national security briefings
that Carter has received. He
has been a jet-age commuter
between Washington, where he
has spent 12 years in the U.S.
Senate, and Carter’s home
here.
This collaboration will contin
ue after Jan. 20, Carter insists.
He has told reporters that Mon
dale will be his “chief staff per
son,” will participate in all ma
jor decisions, will travel abroad
as Carter’s representative and
will convene meetings of Cabi
net members to help hammer
out solutions to problems cut
ting across departmental lines.
Carter's press secretary,
Jody Powell, said last week
that Mondale will serve as Car
ter’s “principal adviser and al
most as a co-equal across a
whole range of issues.”
At a Washington meeting ear
ly this month, Mondale told
Carter the history of the vice
presidency “is nothing short of
grim, and I hope it won’t hap
pen here.”
The two men talked for an
hour and a half about what
could be done to make certain
that Mondale’s vice presidency
will be effective and produc
tive. Mondale came away con
vinced he has “a real .hance
and hope of doing something.”
To dramatize the enlarged
role he envisions for Mondale,
Carter is insisting that his vice
president move into a White
House office almost next door
to his own. Ironically, resigned
President Richard M. Nixon
provided similar quarters,
along with the promise of a
major voice in administration
councils, to his first vice presi
dent, Spiro T. Agnew.
But, as a reporter reminded
Mondale this week with mild
exaggeration, Agnew was
moved out of the White House
after a three-day stay. “If I
last four days,” Mondale re
sponded with a grin, “that will
represent a 25 per cent im
provement.”
Actually, Mondale is not keen
about moving into the White
House in the first place. A po
litical veteran who appreciates
the difference between
substance and window dressing,
he has told his associates he
would prefer to work in the
neighboring Old Executive Of
fice Building where Vice Presi
dent Nelson A. Rockefeller is
now quartered. Mondale is said
to be fearful that he will be cut
off from easy access to his own
aides, almost all of whom will
work in the old EOB.
The vice president-elect con
tends he could be at Carter’s
side within two minutes if he
were permitted to spend most
of his time in the office he pre
fers.
Although the Carter-Mondale
partnership is off to a promis
ing start, the incoming vice
president acknowledged last
week that “once in a while” he
and Carter found they could not
agree on a top appointee.
Mondale candidly related that
he later learned Carter “was
thinking of something and not
telling us about it ... He was
holding a couple of cards, I
think.”
In other words, Mondale al
ready has grounds for under
standing that he remains the
junior partner.
At a news conference last
Thursday, Mondale said he will
speak up publicly if and when
he has a serious disagreement
with Carter. To date, however,
he has acted in the traditional
vice presidential fashion of pub
licly standing behind his boss’
decisions.
At a Dec. 22 news conference
here, for example, Mondale
was asked if he had given ad
vance approval to Carter’s con
troversial selection of Atlanta
attorney Griffin Bell to be at
torney general.
“I think when the full Justice
Department team is assembled
and announced,” Mondale glib
ly replied, “it will become ob
vious that the commitment of
this administration to the Con
stitution, to justice, to human
rights, will be as high, if not
higher, than any administration
in American history.”
Pressed to answer the ques
tion, Mondale said, “Yes, I sup
port the nomination.” He did
not say he supported it in ad
vance.
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P. W. Hamil (r) became chairman of the Spalding County
Commissioners today. He succeeded Reid Childers who
became vice chairman. Commissioner Frank Thomas
and Childers (below) confer during first regular session
this morning at courthouse.
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The Griffin Kiwaniannes will meet
Wednesday at noon at Bonanza.
AAUW
The American Association of
University Women will meet Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. at St. George’s Episcopal
Church.
NEWCOMERS
The Griffin Newcomers Club will
meet Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. at the
Moose Club.
KIWANISCLUB
Frank Jolly, president of Com
mercial Bank and Trust Company, will
be guest speaker at the regular meeting
of the Griffin Kiwanis Club on Wed
nesday, at the Elks Club, beginning at
12:15 p.m.
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Carter prefers
summit in U.S.
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Presi
dent-elect Carter said in an in
terview published today he does
not want to leave the country
for a summit meeting with So
viet Leader Leonid I. Brezhnev
“right at first” but would pre
fer meeting Brezhnev in the
United States.
Carter also reaffirmed that
he would not advocate state
hood for Puerto Rico unless the
Puerto Ricans want it, but
added: “If I feel the majority
want such, then I’d certainly
want to make it possible for
them.”
President Ford has proposed
statehood for Puerto Rico, but
White House Press Secretary
Ron Nessen said today the
President’s statehood legisla
tion might not be ready by the
time he leaves office.
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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, January 4,19
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