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Fortson backs push
for Georgia Southern
ATLANTA (AP) — A push by i
some legislators for a univer- 1
sity in south Georgia has been I
given support by Secretary of I
State Ben Fortson, who sug- i
gests that Georgia Southern
College be upgraded.
“I say here and now, you
ought to be a university along
with the other great universities
in the state,” Fortson said in a
commencement address last
week at Statesboro.
Sen. Joe Kennedy of Claxton
agreed. “We definitely feel
there is a need for a university
in the southern portion of the
state,” he said. “If they can
grant the status, the money can
be found.
“They have ways of finding
County
(Continued from page one.)
Griffin Real Estate Board showed there
are 3,000 homesites already laid out in
Spalding County. He also said the
county has tracts with acreage
available to the prospective buyer.
Spalding County was once termed
agricultural and the economy of the
county depended on agriculture and the
cotton mills. Now, the economy of the
county is more diversified. Agriculture
and the cotton mills still are important
to the economy, but do not have the
bearing they once did.
The railroads once played an im
portant role in transportation, but it has
been a long time since regular
passenger train service was discon
tinued in Spalding County. Trains made
regular stops in Sunny Side, Pomona,
Vaughn, Zetella, Rover, Orchard Hill
and other communities. Some com
munities had depots which later were
replaced with shelters. Now, the
shelters are gone.
The people of Spalding are relying on
automobiles for their transportation to
and from their jobs and for pleasure.
A few of the “old country stores"
remain in the county and have the
country store atmosphere, but most
have yielded to the general mer
chandise type community super
markets. Convenience stores have
popped up in some areas of the county.
“The people of Spalding County have
not turned up their noses at growth.
They have been very receptive to those
who have moved from other areas to
the county and to those who have
moved from Griffin into the county,”
Hamil said.
“Some of the people moving into
Spalding County are wanting to get
away from the crowding in the
metropolitan area and they are finding
it in Spalding County,” Lewis Leonard
said. He is the county administrator.
Leonard also said the availability of
money for the construction of homes
had been a contributing factor to
growth.
“We are looking forward to a bright
future for our county; we are not going
to stand still and let growth pass us by,”
Hamil said.
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money to do the other things
they want. We’ve been fighting
for some six or eight years to
get our point across to get the
regents to look at this,” he said.
A resolution was passed by
the state Senate during the last
session urging the regents to 1
grant university status to Geor
gia Southern.
However, the vice chairman
of the state Board of Regents,
Milton Jones, said the con
version of institutions requires
“a lot money. Right now I do not
see the availability of funds to
start another university in the
system.”
Regent Rufus Coody of
Vienna said that, even if the
funds are available, he does not
see a need for another univer
sity in the state.
A spokesman for Georgia
Southern, Claude Felton, said
members of the college com
munity have urged the con
version and said the college
recently submitted a request for
approval of a doctoral program
in education.
A university generally must
have a series of graduate and
professional programs.
“I think this has triggered
community and area response to
the university status,” * Quick
said.
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FBI boss
(Continued from page one.)
bench.”
Kelley also praised the choice, saying
in a written statement, “Although I do
not know Judge Johnson personally, he
impresses me as having excellent
credentials to take over the reigns of
the FBI.”
Johnson, a Republican, was ap
pointed to the bench in 1955 by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower after
having served for two years as a U.S.
attorney in Alabama.
He turned down one request from
Carter to take over as head of the FBI
and its 8,000 agents, citing personal and
financial reasons when he was ap
proached last December. Bell also tried
unsuccessfully earlier this year to get
Johnson to leave the bench to become
deputy attorney general.
However, Bell said that he met with
Johnson for two hours on Sunday in
Newman, Ga., and persuaded him to
take the FBI post. Bell said “no side
deals” were involved. “We didn’t
promise him anything. He changed his
mind of his own volition. He just said he
made a mistake.”
The law provides for a single 10-year
term for the FBI director, and Bell said
Johnson is committed to serving the full
tenure. He has been mentioned as a
possible choice for the Supreme Court
in case of a vacancy, but Bell said such
a move “would shock me.”
Johnson’s judicial rulings in school
desegregation and other cases brought
him into confrontations with Alabama
Gov. George C. Wallace and aroused
bitter animosities among many
Alabamans.
“We have had our differences but I
never considered them personal,”
Wallace said of Johnson on Wednesday.
He is a hard worker and I wish him the
greatest of success in this new un
dertaking and in behalf of the people of
our country.”
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Panama treaty opponents
hope to block two-thirds
By RICHARD PYLE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Opponents of a new Panama
Canal treaty, moving to counter
White House efforts to rally
support for the agreement, are
hopeful they can deny it the two
thirds vote needed to pass the
Senate.
A leading foe of the treaty,
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.,
predicted Wednesday the pact
will fail “unless tremendous
pressure is brought by the ad
ministration.”
Thurmond and two other Sen
ate opponents of the agreement,
Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, planned to
leave today for Panama.
They intended to confer with
U.S. officials, including Maj.
Gen. Harold R. Parfitt, gover
nor of the American Canal
Zone, and Panamanian leader
Gen. Omar Torrijos, after ar
riving on an Air Force jet.
Thurmond said he doubts that
former President Gerald R.
Ford’s endorsement of the
treaty Tuesday will influence
many Republican senators to
vote for it. “They pretty much
know how they stand,” he said.
Two years ago, Thurmond
garnered the support of 38 other
senators in opposing any move
to give control of the 51-mile
long canal to Panama.
There is no clear indication
yet of whether the treaty can
pass the Senate, as most mem
bers say they won’t take a posi
tion on it until they study the
document.
While the general terms of the
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agreement have been an- I
nounced by the Carter adminis- <
tration, the treaty itself is still
being written.
Ambassador Sol Linowitz, one
of the President’s top treaty ne- ,
gotiators, said Wednesday tech
nicians are working “around
the clock, seven days a week,”
to have it ready for the Senate
next month.
Opponents of the treaty are
pegging much of their case on a
recent public opinion poll that
said 78 per cent of the American I
people oppose giving up the 1
waterway. And some legislators 1
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have said their constituents are
disturbed by the proposal.
Linowitz admitted yesterday
that a “very large percentage”
of Americans now oppose the
treaty, but said those people
“have not had the chance to
learn the facts about what is in
volved.”
In the House, meanwhile,
treaty opponents, led by Rep.
John M. Murphy, D-N.Y., sub
jected Linowitz and fellow am
bassador Ellsworth Bunker to a
day-long grilling on the pro
posed treaty Wednesday.