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Leader-Tribune, Fort Valley, Ga., Thurs., July 25, 1968
crease in the sanitation tax and/
or an increase in business licenses
could have been added to make up
the difference.
There is another way in which
any raise at all may have been
unnecessary if it had been consid
ered a year or so ago. One may
say the need for the raise was not
here a year ago. Yet the budget
has shown an increase in each of
the last four years and the trend
should have been apparent.
By virtue of his office the ma
yor, whoever he or she may be,
is a member of the Utilities Com
mission. In 1966 and 1967 alone
the Utilities made available to the
city council some $253,000.00 for
paving, curbing, guttering, etc. Is
it not possible and even probaible
that some $50,000.00 would have
been made available to use as a r
cushion so to speak against the
time it was needed? Like now?
As we said, our disagreement
is not with the increase since we
know that the cost of services is
ever increasing. We do disagree
with putting it all on the property
owner. We think it should be more
evenly divided.
We also believe all members of
the general government, including
the chief administrative officer,
should be present on such an im
portant occasion unless sickness,
death or some like thing prevents
it. And we believe further that
all of them should vote.
Major Issue In
Nation Today Is
Tyranny - Maddox
Gov. Lester G. Maddox, address
ing the state convention of the
American LegiPn’s Georgia Depar
tment held in Augusta, said ‘ev
ery American who cherishes his
freedom can praise the American
Legion for its battle against Com
munism.’ In discussing the ever-in
creasing threat of Communism in
this country, the governor stated:
‘For a number of years, some
segments of the news media have
made this governor the subject of
ridicule for my contentions that
world Communism has moved our
nation to the brink of slavery. It’s
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PEACHLAND JOURNAL I agree then, that an increase
property owners. It is true that is warranted, if the council feels
\ they have fire protection, police, all of the services demanded by
protection, many paved streets to the people should be provided. I
ride on, etc., but so do the non believe the cost should be divided.
property owners here. And the It is my opinion an increase of
non property owners have it at say, two mills, could be added to
no cost except the tax on the auto the property owner and an in-
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gettings to be a favorite pastime of
some writers and cartoonists to
poke fun at those who speak out
against the enemies of America
and freedom.
‘But I’ll tell you one thing. The
threat to the security of our cou
ntry is no laughing matter. It’s al
dreaded reality.’
Gov. Maddox said the largest
single subversive organization in
this country today is the Commun
ist Party, U. S. A. - - ‘an arm of
the Kremlin.’ Describing Gus Hall,
who was elected general secretary
of the organization in 1959, as ‘a
ruthless, militant, Moscow-trained
ex-convict,’ the governor quoted
Hall as saying this in 1964:
‘If we could launch a national
and international campaigjn agai
nst Southern brutality, we could
make a signal contribution to the
freeing of the South.
. . . The civil rights front is that
on which the main battles are be
ing fought today. It must at all
times receive our top attention.’
Maddox added: ‘And the civil
rights front has received the top
attention of the Communists, ac
cording to the announced Comm
unist strategy.’
Turning to the other side of the
coin, the governor quoted FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover as say
ing in 1961:
‘Heartened by an atmosphere of
continuing public complacency
and encouraged :by its success in
involving every legal tecnicality
to thwart the interests of justice,
the Communist Party is today a
unified, ambitious, and destruct
ive instrument of subversion op
erating within our midst. It has
shown a brazen defiance and dis
respect for America’s laws, gov
ernmental institutions and tradi
tions.’
Gov. Maddox added: ‘Remember
this was seven years ago. And the
intensity and danger of this evil
force has increased with every
passing month.
‘The issue is no longer ‘civil
rights’ or ‘freedom.’ It is tyranny,
plain and simple.’
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Maddox Is Proud
Of Being Called
A Conservative
Asserting that ‘it is the conser
vatives who are holding this nat
ion together in the face of chaos,’
Gov. Lester G. Maddox commented
that he has been called a conser
ative - - and he likes it.
Speaking to the Sons of Confed
erate Veterans at Stone Moun
tain, he said: ‘It is the conservat
ives who cry out for fiscal respon
sibility when untold billions of
dollars are being poured down the
drain by our federal government
to encourage, finance and direct
programs that lead to the rioting,
looting, burning, injury and death
that scars the face of our great
country.’
Connecting political philosoph
ies with recent tragedies occurr
ing in the United States, Gov.
Maddox declared:
‘It was a leftist - - not a con
servative - - that killed President
Kennedy. It was a leftist - - noa a
conservative - - that killed his
brother. It was leftists who gain
ed, not conservatives - - when
Martin Luther King, the number
one front man for the Communists
was killed.’
Summarizing his hopes for a
better tomorrow, the governor
said this: ‘It is the duty of every
citizen in this state and nation to
try to understand that conserva
tives ‘conserve’ our rights and lib
erties that are under such fanatic
attack by leftist elements in the
nation.’
Burson Praises
Ga. Troopers For
Doing Good Job
Although Georgia’s traffic dea
^h over the long July 4th hol
iday weekend exceeded the 21 pre
dicted, Col R H Burson, state pub
lic safety director, was high in his
praise of the troopers for their ef
fort in holding the fatality total
to 25.
‘If thay hadn’t done such a good
job, there’s no telling how high the
total might have gone, ‘he said.’
I have never seen patrolmen work
any harder or with more dedicat
ion to their duty. Nine of the 25
persons died in muliple fatality
collisions. That’s what really ran
the total up. It hurt us.’
Col. Burson said members of
his department spent 23,157 hours
and drove 343,623 miles in patrol
ling the highways during the 102
hour holiday period. They issued
11,719 arrest and warning tickets,
over 1,700 more than were issued
during the corresponding period
last year.
Science Center
Director Named
Atlanta, — (GPS) M. Dale Hen
son, general manager of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce, who
was appointed executive director
of the state’s new Ocean Science
Center of the Atlantic Commiss
ion, will assume his $28,000-a-year
post July 15. He served as acting
director for six months last year.
In his new position he will be
responsible for overseeing develop
ment of the center located on
Skidaway Island in Coastal Geor
gia.
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Two Ga. Teachers
Return From Tour
Two Georgia Teachers have just
returned from a four week motor
trip which took them through the
middle section of the Country.
Miss Harriet Flournoy, who teach
es in the Atlanta Public School
system and Miss Margaret Wrigjht
who teaches in the Fort Valley
Schools have just completed a
trip which took them into fifteen
states and two Canadian Provinc
es.
A few of the cities in which ex
tensive sight seeing was done
New Orleans, Little Rock, St.
Louis, Springfield, the home
Lincoln, Chicago, Milwaukee,
neapolis, Indianapolis,
and Lexington. In Canada,
drove from Winnipeg, Manitoba;
East along the New Canadian
pressway to Sault Ste Marie,
tario, where they crossed back
to Michigan 'over the
Mackinac Bridge.
Some of the highlights of
trip were visits to Baton Rouge,
and the State Capitol, the Botan-
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was the trip through the Race
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several of the champions were on
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