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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON y | _INCH MIDDLING ........ 4le Vol. CXX, No. 67, . S. Prepares To Give Wage Hike o Union Over Head Of Industry ioting Convicts Hold Qut Today In N. J. Prison TRENTON, N. J.,, April 16 — (AP)—A handsome but vicious life-term ¢onvict and 67 followers continued today to defy their keepers in the third riot inside New Jersey's state prison within ghe past month, August Bernard Doak, de scribed by the judge who sen tenced him to life imprisonment for kidnaping as a “menace to so ciety,” led the revolt which broke out at 10 a. m. yesterday in the prison’s print shop. The 68 convicts barricaded themselves within the print shop, holding four prison employes hos tages. They had not smashed any of the shop’s equipment, a pattern set by some 50 convicts who ri oted for 45 hours three weeks ago in a segregation building. Put, like their predecessors, the Doak gang went without food or licht through the night while guards manned machine guns and riot rifles in the yard outside. Cov. Alfred E. Driscoll called a conference of prison officials to day. Driscoll said: “Mutinies, especially those sponsored by men who have proved & menace to society, are hardly ealculated to arouse my sympathy.” The rioters had demanded an investigation of the prison by an impartial organization—the same demand made by the previous ri oters—and the immediate dismis sal of Warden William H. Carty. During the night, the gang re ceived encouragement from other prisoners locked in one of the prison’s main wings. The prison ers yellew and screamed, rattled cups on bars, but eventually quieted down. Crambleft Rises /re Held Today Services for Robert Lee Bramb lett, jr.,, 49, were held this after noon at 2 e'clock from Princeton Methodist Church with Rev. Newt Saye, pastor of Edwards Chapel Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in Princeton Ceme tery, Bridges Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Pall bearers were Judge Arthur Old ham, Frank Huff, Early Epps, Roy Parr, Walter Couch and Acey Al len, Mr. Bamblett is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cora Harper Bram blett; daughter, Mrs. T. E. Arnold, Winterville; two sons, B. H. Bramblett, Augusta, and J. E. Bramblett, Athens; mother, Mrs. Ida Bramblett, Athens; three sis ters, Mrs. Fred Lavender and Mrs. Homer Hale, both of Athens, and Mrs. Charles Mercer, Dothan, Ala.; two brothers, Guy Bramblett and Lawrence Bramblett, both of Atbuns, and four grandchildren. He was a native of Athens and a lifelong resident here, being the son of Robert Lee and Ida Burger Bramblett, For many years he was associated with the Budwine Com pany here and later, until a few vears ago, with Athens Lumber Company. Recently he had been operating his own business on the Macon Highway. He was a mem ber of Princeton Methodist Church, C. L. Harris, Sr., R o Dies In Decatur; T " Services Friday DECATUR, GA. — April 16 — Charles Leon Harris, sr., 79, died here Tuesday. Funeral services will be con ducted Friday from.the chapel of A.S. Turner & Son, Decatur, with nierment following in the cemet vy at Winterville, Ga., at 3:30 o'clock. Mr. Harris was a practicing at torney ‘in Cordele for thirty-one vears, retiring in 1948. He was a member of First Methodist Church in Cordele. His wife was the for mer Deasie Lou Harris of Ogle thorpe County, Ga. He is survived by his wife, three sons, Charles Leon Harris, jr., Madison, Ga., Captain David A. Harris, Chicago, 111., and Dr. Jesse Douglas Harris, New Orleans; two daughters, Miss Isabella Deas Har- Tis, Washington, D. C., Miss Har riet Safford Marris, Decatur; one brother, Major Smith A, Harris, Tallahassee, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Bell, Tallahassee, Mrs. Estelle McKee, Phienix, Arizona, Mrs. Loud Rhodes, Bainbridge, and two grandchildren. [LITYLE L% 28 | s ” 3 N I EAN) A &:t l‘ﬁ’ Q‘),Q W‘ W AL NNBA Boma en get 1o know o gt sbeck soy ks ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Associated Press Service . Firms Are Ready To Battle Issue By NORMAN WALKER WASHINGTON, April 16 — (AP)—The Truman administra tion today prepared to go over the head of the seized steel industry and give a wage boost to Philip Murray’s CIO steelworkers. Whatever the terms may be, the steel industry was réady to fight back. Its attorneys had papers al ready drawn seeking a court order to restrain any payment of in creased wages out of industry funds. An historic legal test was in the offing—a court fight climaxing a titanic economic struggle between one of the nation’s biggest indus tries and one of its biggest unions. More than 100 of the country’s leading industrialists stand behind the steel companies in a fight to the finish. They, or their repre sentatives, pledged all-out cooper ation at a meeting yesterday, called jointly by the National As sociation of Manufacturers and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. “Mr. Truman’s action imposes upon Congress and the courts,” the industrialists said in a state ment, “the necessity of undoing his seizure of the steel mills, a step which places the freedom of every American in jeopardy.” Meantime, Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall had two scheduled appear ances to argue for the administra tion’s stand that the steel industry is entitled to no more than a $3- a-ton price boost under stabiliza tion rules. Arnall to Speak Arnall was due to talk to the National Press Club (about 1 p. m. EST) and later (2:30 p.m. EST) he goes before the Senate labor committee, He has insisted, ap=- parently with Truman’s support, that anything beyond a $3 boost for steel would start a new infla tionary spiral. Government-sponsored negotia tions between the steel industry and Murray’s union collapsed last night, with Secretary of Com merce Sawyer, boss of the steel industry under Truman’s seizure, saying the time had come for the government to deal directly with the union. “I shall proceed promptly, but not precipitately, to consider the terms and conditions of employ ment as 1 was instructed to do,” Sawyer said last night. : The question therefore was not whether the government would deal directly with the union, but what the government would grant in the way of pay increases and other benefits. No industry-union deal seemed possible. Pharmacy Prize Goes To Veale The University of Georgia’s best pharmacy students were honored here Tuesday at the annual R. C. Wilson Awards Dinner. = This dinner, held as part of the Pharmacy School’'s annual Stu dent-Faculty-Alumni Day, tradi=- tionally honors both outstanding students and Dr. Wilson, a long time dean of the school. - This year the R. C. Wilson Award of SSO for the most out standing senior in Pharmacy School was given to Emory O. Veale, of Arnoldsville, The Rho Chi Award for the most outstand ing freshman ,was made to Wilbur L. Clifton, of Albany. Winner of the Atlanta Drug and Chemical Club Awards for achievement in pharmaceutical chemistry and for outstanding scholastic achievement in phar macy went to Samuel K. Henley, Blackshear, and William Earl Landers, Lindale, respectively. Seniors received the Merck Awards recognizing achievement in practical pharmacy were Don=- ald A. Cooper, Park Ridge, 111, and Harry Sutton, Ocill®# These awards have a value of approxi= mately S2O each. ! Two awards were made by Kappa Psi pharmaceutical fra ternity, The first, recognizing the senior member of Kappa Psi who had rendered the most service to the organization, went to Donald R. Hall, Augusta. The second, made to the member of Kappa Psi with the highest junior class average, was given to Lowell Kepp, Savannah. Certificates of merit for the senior members of the Georgia Pharmacist, quarterly publication (Continued On Page Two) WEATHER ATHENS AND VICINITY Fair and warmer today and tomorrow. Cool again tonight. Low tonight 40, high tomorrow 68. Sun sets today at 7:05, and rises tomorrow at 6:00. GEORGIA—MostIy fair and slightly warmer this afternoon and Thursday. Fair and cool again tonight with light scatter ed frost in north and central portions. Low temperatures to night 36-42. TEMPERATURE Wighest . ..o v o 0 is 90 TOWAOE i it 2iay rigs BT BUGRTE Viis ook gion Sosa awtylß E el . oy Bl RAINFALL ¥lches last 24 hours .., ... .00 otal since April 1 .. .. «. 8.03 Rcﬁcit nm.;lAp:lirlxtllf' ‘.g}s yerage April rainfall ~.. 3.85 'fo’?al sfd&%anuary 10012041 Excess since January 1 ... 8.27 Russell Deni Of Civil Right By EDWIN HAAKINSON WASHINGTON, April 16 — (AP)—Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia vigorously denied today that he had changed or would change his position on civil rights because he is seeking the Demo cratic presidential nomination. “I have never changed my po sition one iota,” the Georgia Dem ocrat told a reporter, At the same time Russell said be is hopeful that the Democratic National Convention in Chicago can write a civil rights plank “on which Democrats could stand.” It may not be possible to write “an_extreme plank” that will be acceptable to all viewpoints of the party, Russell said, adding: “There must be give and take.” For years Russell has been the floor leader of fights against num erous efforts to pass anti-lynch, fair employment, and similar civil rights legislation. “Through the years I have al ways offered compromises upon these measures,” Russell said. He made it clear he does not intend to alter his basic opposition to what he called extreme civil rights measures or platform planks, now that he is an active presidential candidate. “This is a most controversial subject and one on which Demo crats and others often have disa greed,” Russell said. Humphrey Stand 3 Sen. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) has served notice he will not retreat from the civil rights provisions of the 1948 Democratic platform. That provision stated the party’s belief “that racial and religious minorities must have the right to live, the right to work, the right to vote, the full and equal pro tection of the laws, on a basis of equality with all citizens as guar anteed by the constitution.” Humphrey led a floor fight at the convention four years ago ‘against a compromise -eivil rights section reeemmended by the plat form committee. The bitter Dattle ended with numerous southern Democrats walking out and run ning their own states’ rights can didate, former Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. New Athens High School Building To Be Open Sunday For Inspection Interior of Athens’ new High School will be opened for public inspection Saturday afternoon fromr 2 to 6 p. m., and during the same hours on Sunday. A corps of boys and girls, stu dents in the present High School, will be on hand to serve as guides for those going through the big new scnool just off Milledge ave~ nue. The guides are familiarizing themselves with all of the various features incorporated in the school and will be ready for the Open House. This week newspaper reporters and reporters from the two radio stations were allowed to go through the building from bottom to top, and also the new gymnas ium, connected with the main building by a covered runway. Looking at the school from Mil ledge avenue, or even closer up, one is deceived as to its size. Fronr such a vantage point one gets the impression of a fairly large build ing. But until a visitor tours the inside there is no true conception of the hugeness of the structure, Completely Fireproof In the first place, it looks as near fireproof as possible, no wood being used in the entire pbuilding except for the doors to classrooms. The entire building is wired with a special fire alarm systém anad, in addition, each classroom is equipped with a loud speaker system connecting with a central office over which various announcements can be made, as well as being used in case of fire should the alarm system fail for any reason. The alarm system, all electric clocks and the loud speaker systenr are products of In ternational Business = Machine Company. This feature is in great contrast to the building the stu dents will vacate to attend the new school. In adidtion to these precautions, there are ten exits from the build ing, which, based on an enrollment of about 500, which the High School now has, provides one exit for every 50 students. Thus the big building can be emptied in a matter of moments. In the building are twenty-three regular classrooms and special areas to increase this number to twenty-eight classes each period. These wili accommodate 840 stu dents, allowing not more than thirty pupils to a class. The class rooms are lighted by incandescent lamps and fluorescent lamps with all ceilings being a soft white and the sidewalls painted in light shades of yellow and green. The “plackboards” are of the new green class type and are so locat ed that the natural light from the windows falls directly on them. ' 'ln the basement are the auto madtic gas-fired boilers for heating, automatic gas-fired water heating SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGCIA OVER A CENTURY. ATHENS, CA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1952, Gen. Eisenhe:ver Posts Glittering 130,000 Vote Victory-~ver Sen. Taftln New Jersey Primary Two-Cities Put Guard Up Against Hard-Punching Missouri Rampage Murphy May Get Appointment As Jan Ambassador WASHINGTON, April 16 — (AP)—President Truman was ex pected to send to the Senate, probably today, the nomination of veteran diplomat Robert D. Mur~ phy as America’s first postwar ambassador to Japan. The action would follow closely on yesterday’s signing by the president of the Japanese Peace Treaty, completing United States ratification of the document. Its effective date is April 28. Murphy, now ambassador to Belgium, was chosen for the im portant post because of a varied 31-year career which has made him one of the country’s most ex perienced diplomats. The 57-year-old envoy for the past month has been undergoing intensive briefing at the State De partment on the complex prob lems expected in the new phase of Japanese-American relations. Murphy is a native of Milwaukee. Japan’s new Ambassador to the U. B.’is expected to be Vice For= eign Minister Sadao Iguchi, First Secretary at the Embassy here when the attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, plunged his country into war with America. The Japanese treaty is not in full effect until at least seven of the 12 nations who signed the document in San Francisco last year have ratified and deposited it with the State Department. Four nations have completed action—Japan, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. The U. S. de positing will leave only actiop by two nations needed to make Japan a sovereign state again. A Japanese security ftreaty which Truman also signed yester=- (Continued On Page Two) equipment and the room for the main electrical controls. Industrial Aris On the ground floor one finds the Industrial Arts Department with multi-purpose general shop with new equipment. Work to be carried out in this area includes woodwork, mechanical drawing, metal work, -ceramics and elec tricity. Then there is the Music Room, including facilities for instrumen tal and vocal music. Leading off from this area is a large room for group ‘work and storage of instru ments. Then comes the cafeteria, cer tainly the most modern in Athens and probably better than any school_in the state. The cafeteria at present will accommodate 500 children and will be equipped with completely new and modern tables and chairs. In the center are the steam and serving tables, elec~ trically warmed. There is a dish washing room behind the tables and facilities for taking out the odors. There is plenty of storage room for dishes, cutlery, etc. The kitchen area provides ade quate storage space and has dress ing rooms and bath facilities for the kitchen workers. There is an office for the dieticiamr and a large walk-in reirigeration room. Also provided is all new equipment for institutional cooking and dish washing. Two large classrooms are to be found on this floor, as well as two large restrooms for girls and two for boys. The girls’ rooms are tiled and dusty rose in color. The boys’ rooms are also tiled and are green. The remainder of the ground floor is occupied by the armory and rifle range, with an area to be used as an office by the mili tary department. The armory and rifle range is 25 feet wide and 75 feet long. On the first floor are ten regu lar classrooms., There is also an office area with a general office, vault, book storage room, office rest room facilities and two pri vate offices. One of the most popular safety features is the clinic, where one finds the nurses’ office, storage room, rest room facilities and two rooms with beds. On this floor are also two rest rooms for girls and two for boys, as well as a large faculty confer ence roonm. The art room is large and well lighted with an adjacent supply room, . Homemaking Area The homemaking area has the latest equipment and provides a model apartment, living room, dining « room, - and & . grooming room. On the second floor is the sci- Rifle Range River Expected To Hit 31.5 Feet OMAHA, Nebr., April 16.—(AP) —The guard was up today against a flood punch hardly anyone thought the mad Missouri river could throw. And the river was ready with that punch after leav ing much of its valley in misery. The slashing river—most savage of several now creating havoc in the rich Mid-West area—is due to hit the Omaha and Council Bluffs area early tomorrow with a crest of 31.5 feet. Levees were original ly built for a 26.6 crest. To meet the Missouri’s march, the levees have been hiked by flash boards, more dirt, sandbags, almost everything that an esti mated 14,600 workers—Army men and civilians—could throw up. Some 34,000 persons have been moved out of sections of Council Bluffs that will be flooded if there is a “blow out” and 5,000 in Omaha. In the Bluffs that is two thirds of the population. This is the scene that President Truman views by air today as he flies into Omaha to talk over the job of putting the dispossessed back on their feet once the water is gone, : Big Question The big question is whether the Omaha-Council Bluffs protections will be able to hold back the big gest Missouri flood ever recorded. Lt. General Lewis A. Pick, Chief of the Army Engineers, thinks there’s a good chance the Missouri can be handled here. : Upstream, the Missouri has handed the land a terrific trounc ing. So has the Mississippi in areas of Minnesota and Wisconsin and the Red River of the North in Min~ nesota. Further, the Mississippi has a spearhead poised to rip into lowa and possibly Illinois cities along its southward route to the sea. . That is why President Truman has called a conference of Gover nors Stevenson, Illinois; Peterson, Nebraska; Sigurd Anderson, South Dakota: E. Elmer Anderson, Min (Continued On Page Two) ence area with complete labora tory facilities for Chemistry, Phy sics and Biology. There are eleven large, regular classrooms on this floor, and the customary two rest rooms for girls and two for boys. There is also a faculty room. In the library area one finds a large stock room, work room, li= prarian’s office and the main li brary, well lighted, sound-proofed, with all new and modern equip= ment including tables and chairs to seat more than 100 students, with charge desk, card catalogue and shelving. The audio-visual room is equip ped with facilities for audio-visual library and will contain all mod ern equipment. The gymnasium can be reached by covered passageway from the main building and will have an entrance lobby with ticket booths on each side; public rest rooms; two locker and dressing rooms for girls with bath facilities; office of girls Physical Education Director; main gymnasium floor with large basketball court and two cross courts for practice; permanent seats for 2,000 spectators; two locker and dressing rooms for boys with bath facilities; two equipment storage rooms and the office for the boys Physical Edu cation Director. Total acreage of the campus is approximately 26 acres. There will be parking space and a base ball field, physical education and military drill space; football field and track, tsorm sewers and tile drainage and space for tennis and volley ball courts as well as other physical activities. There are so many features in corporated in the huge building that one is apt to overlook a num ber. Tile Floors For instance overlooked so far by this reporter is the fact that classrooms are floored with as phalt tile, as is the hall. The rooms are acoustically treated to deaden noise, while the hallways are also sound-proofed. There will be 490 individual lockers in the building, each of them recessed in the walls, both for safety and to utilize all possi ble space. There are numerous drinking fountains in the building, all of them: providing running ice wa ter. “All of the wiring and plumbing run through square tunnels so that they can be reached easily and quickly for repairs without having to tear into walls, floors, etc. This was also planned for the time when the facilities may have to be expanded to take care of a larger number of students by con structing additional wings. This can. be done without marring the looks of the building, tearing down (Continued On Page Three) Van Cleave Quifs Dean's Post At Demorest School DEMOREST, Ga., April 16— (AP)—Piedmont College's accept ance of money fronr a capitalist with anti-Negro and anti-Jewish sentiments has caused the dean of the school to resign. “I fear Fascism as much as I do Communism,” said the dean, Dr. A. R. Van Cleave, in his letter of resignation to President James E. Walter, # Van Cleave is a former Modera tor of the Southeastern Congre gationalist Churches. For more than a year, Piedmont College has received SSOO per month from the Texas Education Association, created and financed by George Armstrong, Texas cat tle and oil magnate. Armstrong has publicly express ed his feelings against Negroes and Jews. In resigning, Van Cleave wrote Walter: “It has become clear to me that you are now ‘prepared to accept ever increasing funds from this source. “I fear Fascism as much as I do Communism. I am not uninformed concerning the attack on free edu cation that is being made in Am erica and I see the distribution of money by the Texas Education Association as part of the attack.” Walter said he received the dean’s letter in the morning mail. His only comment was: “The dean has the right to give any reason he chooses for resigning.” ! Piedmont College is affiliated with the Congregational Church, Barber Services To Be Thursday Noah Pittman Barber, well known resident of the Sanford community in Madison county, died in a local hospital Tuesday afternoon at 3:25 o'clock. Mr. Barber was 74 years old and had been ill for the past week. Services are to be held Thurs day afternoon at 3 o’clock from Gordon’s Chapel with Rev. L. L. Cotton, of Jehovah’s Witnesses, officiating. Burial will follow in Pittnman cemetery, Bernstein Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Pall bearers will be J. M. Rutherford, C. W. Perry, Calvin Fouche, Lon Hopkins, John Fields and Lloyd Nelms. Mr. Barber is survived by two sisters, Mrs, W. I. Barnett, Nich olson, and Mrs. W. F. Coleman, sr., Athens, and several nieces and nephews. Bond Will Speak At Radio Meet Ford Bond, a veteran radio an nouncer, programmer and pro ducer, will be one of the speakers for the Radio and Television In stitute to be held at the Univers ity of Georgia May 8-10. Bond, one of the most famous names in radio, is the third stand ing speaker to accept an invitation to address the meeting of Georgia radio and televesion experts. On the program with him will be Martha Rountree, television pro ducer, and Charter Heslep, head of radio and TV information for the Atomic Emergy Commission. The Institute is sponsored joint ly by the Georgia Association of Broadcasters and the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism. Title of Bond’s address has not been announced but it is expected that he will speak on some phase of his thirty years’ experience in radio. Bond made hig first profession al broadcast over a Louisville, Ky. station in 1922. He has been in radio ever since and has gone to the top of the profession. He worked with local radio stations for seven years and then went with the National Broadcast ing Company as an announcer. Since 1936 he has worked as a free lance announcer, radio consultant, and now television consultant as well. Ten years ago he started his own company producing radio “pack age shows” — complete, transcrib ed programs used by local stations as well as networks. He still con tinue# to work as an announcer for both networks and local radio sta tions. ] He has had wide experience in radio advertising and is considered to be an authority on radio ad~ veértising techpique. -« . ¢ The Radio ahd Television In stitute at which Bond will speak is-the seventh that has been held on the University campus in as many years, Read Dally by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area lke Will Take At Least 31 Of State’s Convention Delegates By RELMAN MORIN NEWARK, N. J., April 16-—(AP) — (Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower posted a glittering 130,000-vote victory over Sen. Robert A, Taft in the New Jursey grimary today, regaining a stretch of the ground he lost this month in the race for the Republican presidential nom ination. In winning, Eisenhower stood to take at least 31 of the state's 38 convention delegates, Taft won four, and possibly six delegates, and Harold E. Stassen, one. With 345 of the 3,840 election districts yet to report, the count in the preferential popularity poll showed: Eisenhower .. .. .. 328,610 BRIt sl e e TR DLRARER . i T D The Democratic Primary, with 473 districts unreported, gave Sen, Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, the only contender, a total of 138,883 votes. The 32 Democratic conven- STEVENSON STATEMENT SPRINGFIELD, Xii., April 16— (AP) — Gov. Adlai E. Steven son said today “I could mot ac cept” the Democratic nomona tion for president. Stevenson issued his statement clarifying his political plans shortly before his scheduled takeoff for a flight to Omaha and a conference with President Truman on flood conditions. “I have repeatedly said that I was a candidate for Governor of Illinois and had no other ambi tion,” Stevenson said. Y 1 must now add that in view of my prior commitment to run for governor and my desire and the desire of many who have given me their help and confi dence in our unfinished work in Illinois, I couldnot accept the nomination for any other office this summer.” tion votes, however, are not neces sarily tied to Kefauver'’s standard. Statistically, Eisenhower scored (Continued On Page Two) New Discovery On Pelio Made NEW YORK, April 16—(AP)-— A vital new discovery about polio will be tested on children this summer ,to prevent infantile pa ralysis. The discovery is that the polio virus apparently gets into the blood first, before it enters nerves and destroys them. And while the virus still is in the blood, it ean be killed by giving antibodies. This kind of prevention of polio has worked in monkeys and chim panzees. g Next children threatened by an epidemic wifll be given the anti-bodies to hit the virus before it makes them sick. Where or when the tests will come was not disclosed. The antibodies will come from. human blood. Most people have had polio, without ever knowing it, and they made their own anti bodies to destroy the virus. One substarice in your blood carries these anti-bodies. The new discoveries were re ported to the Federation of Amer ican Societies for Experimental Biology by Dr. David Bodian of the Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Dorothy M. Horstmann of Yale. The hope is that antibody shots would protect many humans in a polio epidemic. It might be a hard problem to get enough of the blood medicine, or to give it soon enough. And the antibodies that are given this way don’t last ef fectively for very long. Fliers’ Charges Aired Before Senate Group WASHINGTON, April 16—(AP) —The two top air force spokesmen were called before a senate watch dog committee today to tell about airmen who refused to fly and to defend extra pay given fliers. Adm. William M. Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations, also was to be asked to explain why extra “hazard” pay goes to Navy submarine crews, airmen and deep sea divers. % ‘Secretary of the Air Force Fin letter and Gen. Hoyt S. Vanden berg, Air Chief of Staff, were ex pected to lead off (10:30 ap m. EST) with testimony about a “sitdown strike” at two air bases. Disobedience charges have been lodged against four of six officers at Randolph Air Base, San An tonia, Tex. Six others have figured in “sitdown” incidents at Mather Air Base in California. Officers Complaint Some of the officers, mostly beribboned veterans with long re cords of combat missions in World War 11, have.complained they no longer have the youthful spirit to fly. Several have based their op position on consideration for their wives and children, acquired by most since their wartime flying days. Chairman Hunt (D-Wyo) of the Senate Armed Services Commit tee called his group together :to consider extfa pay given service HOME EDITION Result From # Oconee Primar WATKINSVILLE, April 15—« Sheriff Jerry M. Bond was ree nominated to a four year term in Oconee County’s Democratie Prie mary held Tuesday, defeatin& his opponent C. Willard Kilpatrick by a vote of 1311 to 646. Herbert M. Hammonds defeated incumbent Roy Ward for Ordi nary, the count being 988 for Hammonds to 944 for Ward. In the contest for Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues,"a run-over will be necessary between the in cumbent, Frank M: Norris, who polled 569 votes and Herman Mi chael, who polled 661. The other candidates in that race, Percy B. Middlebrooks and Shannon Thom as, polled 422 and 243 votes re spectively. A runover will also be neces sary 1o nominate Tax Commis= sioner. The runover will be be tween Elizabeth Hale, who got 979 votes and James W. Crow, who polled 841. The other candi date, R. E. (Rus) Fain, received 143 votes. Senate Race In the race for senator from the 27th senatorial district, a runever will also be necessary. The run over will be between William Breedlove, with 856 votes, and E. N. Anthony, who polled 666 bal lots. Henry M. Fullilove received 413 votes. For Associate Commissioner, with seven candidates ,both in cumbents were defeated. Incum bent T. R. Aycock got 804 vetes and Incumbent .Alben R. Saxon received 728 votes. The winners were Price Harper, with 1113 votes, and C. W. Maxey, who re ceived 864. Votes received by the other candidates were as follows: J. L. Fambrough, 626; Emory Peck, 384, and Alvin Verner, 782. Unopposed for Clerk of Super ior Court, Mrs. Bessie Q’Dillon received 1950 votes, while B. C. Hogan, unopposed for County School Superintendent, polled 1934. Unopposed for Coroner, Bud Shellnutt got 1932 votes and J. Phil Campbell, unopposed for Representative, received 1928 bal- Jots. . : Nicholson 06 i Homer Nicholson, Clarke County Engineer, will attend the 38th an nual convention of the Association of County Commissioners in Sav annah on Monday, April 21, An address by Governor Her= man E. Talmadge on Tuesday morning will be the highlight of the two day meeting. A feature of Monday’s meet ing will be a forum on “County Highway Problems.” Mr. Nichol son will appear on the panel along with R. S. Howard, jr., Dougherty County Engineer, Albany; W. R. Neel, Glynn County Executive, Brunswigk; and Fenley Ryther, Bibb County Engineer, Macon. Judge Arthur W. Solomon, Chatham County Commissioner, Savannah, will call the convention to order. Judge Solomion has been a County Commissioner for 38 years, which is the same age as the Association. i nen who perform “hazardous” duty. But he said the air force sitdown incidents were certain to figure prominently in the inquiry. Sen. Douglag (D-Ill), leading a fight to reduce or eliminate the extra pay, contends there is less danger in modern submarines and combat airplanes- than in many other military, naval or air as signments. Douglas, wounded as a Marine Lieutenant Colonel in World War 11, says between 200 and 300 mil lion dollars a year could be saved by dropping the extra pay. There has been criticism in both the Senate and House about air officers, assigned to desk or other routine jobs, collecting hazard pay by flying as passengers for as few as four hours a month. - Recently the Senate ignored its Armed Services Committee and approved $45-a-month extra com bat pay for all men and officers under actual enemy fire in Korea, and Douglas was for this. The Senate put the cembat pay provision in a bill aimed at grant= ing a “cost-of-living” increase, averaging 5.6 per cent, {0 aﬂ,ﬂ&:ﬁ million persons in the unifor services. ; That 'bill now is baek ‘in the house which early this year ap= Phci‘ease’“'s. 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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, April 16, 1952, Home Edition, Image 1