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Free Press-News & Farmer, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1963
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Why Don't They Test 'Reporter'
Burnett in a Courtroom Phone Call?
The other day, traveling the back roads in
Clayton County looking for a “friend” who had,
through a party of the second part, threatened
us with mayhem, a car carrying two girls of col
lege age passed us. On the rear window was this
Sign: WE’RE FOR WALLY.
We had heard of these stickers being around
in behalf and support of Wallace Butts, former
University of Georgia football coach who appears
to be winning in Federal Court in his 10-million
dollar libel suit against the magazine many
Southerners are in the habit of calling The Sat
urday Hitching Post. (Not for horses, but dogs).
As we say, we had heard of these signs being
attached to automobiles, but that’s the first one
we’ve seen. About 10,000 Blue and White North
Clayton Eagle stickers have been in evidence,
but only one sticker so far have we observed for
Wally.
And it’s a funny thing, too, about Georgia
alumni. Maybe they are secretly backing Wally
Butts, but openly they have been so reticent and
downright mum about their position that it sort
of makes an old Sports Editor of The Atlanta
Constitution (us) a little ashamed of having
covered Georgia football with Wally Butts for
more than a dozen years, and having, too, par
ticipated a little in the education of a daughter,
Janice, five years at the University.
Not to mention having written a book—LEAD
ING A BULLDOG’S LlFE—about Georgia foot
ball history and the coaching greatness of Wally
Butts. We have not been asked to: testify for
Wally, although we have known him from Mercer
days on, and we are going to go in voluntarily
and tell the jury what we know about him and
also what we know, in fact, about bad-check
artist and accuser. Burnett. So too, is Guy Butler,
old Atlanta Journal assistant sports editor under
the late Morgan Blake, and old Miami Daily News
sports editor, as well. Butler and the writer know
Butts as well as anybody, second only to his wife.
The following statement quoting Butts in the
Saturday Atlanta Constitution intrigued us.
Butts said he gained much of his football knowl
edge from Carl Snavely and Dick Harlow, and
that he, in return, had "never refused” a coach
who came to him for information on a coaching
point.
How true! In fact, Wally Butts had the na
tion’s best reputation for pass patterns. Georgia
Bulldogs could do more with the passing and re
ceiving department of the game than any other
major team in college football. So what did
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Butts do?
Well, when the late Frank Thomas wanted a
special pass pattern, Wally Butts diagremmed
it for him; when Notre Dame's Frank Leahy
wanted something special for the improvement
of the aerial attack of the Fighting Irish, he
visited Athens and Wolly Butts, and he returned
to South Bend with the bacon. And there were
so many others who, rather than trying to figure
out from the game films, how Butts managed to
get so many receivers in the open for passes,
they would simply ask him and unselfish Wally
would give away his secrets. He was really too
good for his own good. But that is the nature of
the Little Round Man. We know. We covered all
but one of his bowl games and countless others.
We are glad that Wally didn’t include Bernie
Moore, Southeastern Conference Commissioner,
among the coaches who had taught him any
football, for, even though Moore was Butts’ coach
at Mercer. Moore had been downright dirty in
his attitude about the Post accusations, even be
fore a thing had been proved — if anything ever
is — on the charge that Butts and Bear Bryant
"rigged" a game in which Alabama’s THIRD
TEAM could have LICKED GEORGIA'S VAR
SITY of 1962 by ANY SCORE Bryant desired.
Moore, who often told us that Butts was the
finest end for blocking a tackle that he had
ever seen — and Moore also coached at L.S.U. —
he seemed to forget the fine boy of yesteryear,
and to this very day has not had a kind word to
say in Butts’ behalf. So damn a guy who’s scared
of his job and will let down a great player.
We hope all teams pull out of the Southeastern
Conference and leave Moore without a job!
We hope when the case comes to the jury and
the final verdict is rendered that, win or lose,
Georgia will fire their present lousy head coach
—he couldn’t carry Butts’ baseball cap as a
coach—and that also Georgia alumni will take
steps to curb the guttersnipe journalistic activi
ties of the Journal’s Furman Bisher, whose multi
annual vacations come more frequently and also
seem to get longer and longer and which is, in
deed, a break for those who read the sports pages,
Bisher, who surely wrote the interviews in the
Post story, according to Post testimony, really
had no knowledge of the real Wallace Butts. We
happened to be writing Georgia and Tech foot
ball in the glory days of Bulldog history, when
Butts was considered so great that Father Cava
naugh of Notre Dame was agreeable to Butts
succeeding Frank Leahy as head coach of the
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With Such Support — How Could Goldwater Lose?
NICE-LOOKING NANCY CLIETT, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cliett, 1221 Skyland Drive,
Forest Park, gives all you disgruntled Demo
crats the message. It's Goldwater for this Re
publican daughter, and, believe us, we would
Fighting Irish. They explained to Butts that
Knute Rockne was a Protestant, but Baptist
Butts replied he was no Rockne, and besides, he
said, he wanted to spend the rest of his coaching
days at the University of Georgia. Butts turned
down great offers from other major institutions
of higher learning and also from the pros. Was
he loyal? Yes, he was loyal to Georgia to the
core, and besides that, when he discovered one
day that two trusted aides helping him to run
the Huddle, Butts' late and lamented restaurant
in Athens, were engaged in peddling pool cards
designed for football bets on college games, Butts
FIRED them both. Only a fool would charge that
he had given away any of Georgia’s secrets, for
even had he wanted to, he attended only two
practices leading up to the Alabama opener of
1962, and both of these were open to the public!
Alabama knew more from game films and scout
ing reports of the season before than Butts did.
As to that crapshooter Burnett, he has passed
dozens of bad checks SINCE publication of the
Post charges of game-rigging.
Our son Dan’s father-in-law has extensive dry
cleaning and laundry operations at Broadview
Shopping Center, Atlanta, and there are signs
behind the cash registers — “Don’t accept or
cash Burnett checks; he has passed many bad
ones on us. He is a total risk.”
Burnett is not only a total risk; he is, in our
opinion, a dirty liar. A newspaper man, trained
Quality
Author—l have a story that
everybody ought to read.
Editor—Sorry; if it were a
story nobody ought to read I
would take a chance and pub
lish it in book form.
find it pretty hard to resist such an appeal.
You wavering Democrats, let your conscience
be your guide. A Goldwater For President
Headquarters has opened in Clayton County.
through the years, would have a terribly tough
time taking notes of a two-way telephone con
versation even when he is poised and ready with
a notebook and pencil in hand.
How, then, does an insurance agent who “acci
dentally”, by electronic mixup, as it has been de
scribed, suddenly, without reportorial training
and without enough knowledge of football to
know a split-T from a split-pea, skillfully take
notes — follow the two-way conversation from
beginning to end, and then “wrestle with his
conscience” — what CONSCIENCE? — before
deciding to blow the whistle on two football
coaches of impeccable coaching reputation.
How did Burnett do it? We wish they’d put a
telephone in the courtroom and have someone
call Burnett about some football information—
one-way—and watch him take down the notes —
and then find out how unconscionably this bad
check artist really lied, damaging for life the
reputation of two great coaches — just for a few
measly bucks! Anyone who’ll do such a thing as
this is as bad, or worse, than Johnny Griffith,
the Georgia coach who is so gutless that he
went out of the way to hurt the mentor and his
family who had been so kind to him through the
years. Butts, and we know this first-hand, taught
Griffith a lot of football and he tried to teach
him integrity, too, but neither lesson took hold.
Griffith has got to go and so, too, has Presi
dent Aderhold, a sort of stupid looking, stupid
acting “Educator?”
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THE RECENT directive of
the Defense Department con
cerning so-called off-base dis
crimination is an outrageous and
unwarranted attempt to give the
military control over purely
civilian affairs.
Secretary McNamara, in a
report to the
President with
respect to
equal opportu
ni.ty in the
armed forces,
said that “the
damage to mil
itary effective
ness from off-
base discrimination is not less
than that caused by off-base
vice.”
This, it seems to me, should
certainly be insulting to owners
of private establishments who
operate their businesses in
keeping with local law and pro
priety. They, of course, are in
no way comparable to vice dens
which the military must some
times take action against in
order to protect the moral and
physical health of servicemen.
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IN AN ORDER designed to
implement Defense Department
policy, Secretary McNamara
said that “all members of the
Department of Defense should
oppose such (alleged discrimina
tion) practices on every occa
sion,” and “every military com
mander has the responsibility to
oppose discriminatory practices
affecting his men and their de
pendents and to foster equal (
opportunity for them, not only
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Young Tells Rotary
Os European Tour
Rev. Loren Young, Pastor of I
St. Matthew’s Methodist Church, 1
East Point, addressed the Forest
Park Rotary Club, August 7 at
the Bow and Arrow Restaurant. I
Rev. Young talked of his recent'
tour of nineteen European coun-1
tries, most of which was spent |
in Russia on an independent
non-guided tour.
Rev. Young stated that he did ;
not presume to have answers to
many questions about Russia or
the Russian people; howevei^fiV
feels that he has seen a people
as they are seldom portrayed in
published accounts. He has seen
a country, which twenty years
ago was a vast land of peasants
90 % of which were illiterate, but
which now is virtually without
illiterates —a country whose
people hunger to better them
selves.
Rev. Young found an unex
pected anti-Russian attitude in
in areas under his immediate
control, but also in nearby com
munities where they may live or
gather in off-duty hours.”
The military, in the enforce
:ment of this directive, is given
authority to declare civilian
establishments off-limits to serv
icemen. This, of course, places
the military squarely in the
middle of local politics and gives
base commanders a status of
mayor, commissioner or city
councilman.
* * *
THIS ACTION is strangely
reminiscent of the military dis
tricts which were created during
Reconstruction when great por
tions of our Nation were divided
and ruled by bayonets.
To my mind, it is the most
unwarranted order in connection
with the military establishment
that I have ever heard of in my
lifetime. We live in a Nation of
law, not of man, and certainly
not under a military dictator
ship.
As we all know, the mission
of the military is to defend our
country" in time of war, and it is
not its business to meddle in the
affairs of local civilian govern
ment or. to extend its control
beyond the boundaries of bases.
We should certainly do all
that we can to see that this ex
treme and far-reaching order is
rescinded if we are to keep our
Army, Navy, Air Force and Ma
rines out of the political arena.
Finland and a definite pro-
American attitude in Lower
Scandanavia. In Denmark he
found an attitude opposed to the
American movement; but one
which was not opposed to the
American individual.
The Russian May Day celebra
tion was pictured for the Ro
tarians and Rev. Young told of
the astounding reverence with
which Nicholi Lenin is held in
the Russian mind. It is com
parable only to our Christmas.
Rev. Young found the Rus
sians to be affable, hospitable,
and eager to learn more about
the West. He found them not
too different from us. He has
seen an industrious and remark
able people —a people who are
watching us and want to be like
us, a people who highly prize a
gift of a ball point pen, a Louis
Armstrong recording, or a Perry
Mason mystery story.