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HANOI WILL TAKE THIEU
WASHINGTON—One of
the stumbling blocks to a
peace settlement in Vietnam
may be removed soon.
We have learned that Hanoi
is secretly alerting its cadres
that it may be necessary to
accept President Thieu as
leader of the Saigon regime
during a cease-fire.
In the past, the North Viet
namese have stubbornly re
fused even to consider a truce
unless Thieu quits. But now
increasing pressure from the
Chinese and the Russians is
causing Hanoi to re-evaluate
its position on Thieu.
It now appears that Hanoi
will allow Thieu to remain as
President of South Vietnam
during a cease-fire—at least
until a compromise coalition
government pan be formed.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Air
Command in Vietnam has in
formed the Pentagon that is
has now hit all but the off-limit
targets in North Vietnam. Un
disturbed, the Pentagon has
ordered the air war to con
tinue. Hit them all again, the
Pentagon has told our pilots.
American air attacks have
taken a terrible toll, wiping
out as many as 50 per cent of
some North Vietnamese divi
sions. But U.S. intelligence
reports warn that Hanoi has
replaced almost all the combat
troops killed during the recent
offensive. These reports also
claim that the North Vietna
mese divisions still have plen
ty of supplies stockpiled in the
south.
In short, Hanoi has both the
men and the material to keep
the war going. As a result, the
secret negotiations now going
on in Paris continue to offer
the only hope of settling the
Vietnam conflict this year.
McKay’s Lessons
A few weeks ago, we re
ported that President Nixon
had attempted to save the
taxpayers some money by
Where To Go -
To See -
AUGUST
7- 4-H Horse Clinic - Stone Mountain
8- Concert, Band of Atlanta - Lenox Square,
Atlanta
8-13 Theater of the Stars presents “The Odd
Couple,” starring Tony Randall - Civic Center,
Atlanta,
11-Combination Horse Show, Midway Saddle Club
Arena - Gumming
11- Atlanta International Film Festival of 1972 -
Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta.
12- Country Music Show, Lanierland Country
Music Park, Gumming
12- Prater’s Mill Country Fair, Prater’s Mill-
Dalton
12- “Stay and See Statesboro Y’all” Week -
Statesboro
13- Snipe Fleet Sailing, Frederica River ■ St
Simons Island
13- Auto Race, Forsyth County Speedway -
Gumming
13 - Tri- State Motocross Race - Macon
13- Art Fair, Museum of Arts and Sciences -
Macon
14- Fannin Country Fair- Blue Ridge
14-19 Forsyth County Fair, Fairgrounds - Gum
ming
14- Town and Gown Players present “Fiddler on
the Roof” - Community Theatre, Athens.
15- Concert, Band of Atlanta - Lenox Square,
Atlanta
15-20 Theater of the Stars presents “The Lixa
Minnelli Special” - Civic Center, Atlanta.
17- Georgia-Carolina Junior Tennis Tour
nament, Augusta Tennis Center, Augusta
18- Square Dance Jamboree - Aquarama, Jekyll
Island
18- Sidewalk Art Show - Town Square, LaGrange
19- Square Dance City Recreation Building,
Brunswick.
19- Antique Auto Show - Bell Auditorium, Augusta
19- L & M Grand Prix - Road Atlanta,
Gainesville
20- Auto Race, Forsyth County Speedway,
Gumming,
20- Snipe Fleet Sailing, Frederica River - St
Simons Island.
20-31 Exhibit - Making the City Observable - High
Museum of Art, Atlanta.
PERRY, GEORGIA,' THURSDAY, AUG. 3, 1972
ordering his lieutenants not to
fly first-class. The order, how
ever, has been blatantly ig
nored. Every cabinet officer
we have checked on —and
most of their assistants—al
ways use the comfortable, up
front seats.
But on Capitol Hill there is
at least one public servant
who always flies tourist. He is
Congressman K. Gunn Mc-
Kay, a moderate Democrat
from Utah.
McKay came to Washing
ton without enough cash to
buy a house, so he is renting.
Once, his secretary was help
ing him with his income tax
and she asked if he had any
outside investments. He pro
duced a slip showing he had
earned $24 interest on a credit
union savings account.
A few weeks ago, McKay
invited me to lunch. We dined
in his office on sandwiches and
trimmings that had been pre
pared by his wife and staff.
Congressmen are permitted
by law to go home 12 times a
year at public expense. Most
of them fly first-class. But not
Gunn McKay.
He sits in the back of the
plane and saves the taxpayer
$1,824 a year.
The President's aides
should take a lesson from
Gunn McKay.
Flood Damage
The East Coast is still re
covering from last month’s
devastating floods which in
Pennsylvania alone caused
property damage estimated
far over one billion dollars.
One story in the tales of
misery coming out of Pennsyl
vania is the plight of the
private colleges. Seventeen
colleges suffered damages in
Pennsylvania. Not one of them
is eligible for federal money
to pick up and start again.
Worst hit was Wilkes
College in Wilkes-Barre. The
school, which has an enroll
ment of 2,600 students, suffer
ed $lO million in damages.
Wilkes’s president Francis
Micheleni told us candidly, "I
don’t see how we'll survive
without substantial help from
somewhere.”
Wilkes lost everything from
grand pianos in its music
department to expensive lab
equipment to 23,000 volumes
of books. The library was so
badly damaged that the school
had to order a bulldozer inside
the building to clean up the
muck.
“In most of the 58 buildings
on campus, we re still ankle
deep in mud,” Micheleni told
us. "You’ve got to see it to
believe it.”
Pressure T actics
Small minority businesses
which get government con
tracts are being pressured to
support President Nixon for
re-election. The heat is com
ing, appropriately, from a fuel
oil dealer acting with apparent
encouragement from the Presi
dent himself.
Charles Wallace, who heads
the firm of Wallace and Wal
lace in New York, has sent
hundreds of letters to other
companies which have either
gotten contracts with the help
of the Small Business Admin
istration or are trying to get
them.
Wallace encloses a letter
President Nixon sent him
thanking him for his sugges
tions. Also enclosed is a ques
tionnaire demanding to know
if the company will work for
President Nixon’s re-election.
The letter extols the SBA’s
assistance to minority busi
nesses as "the most dynamic
program that has ever been
instituted for minorities.”
Then comes the pitch. "I
cannot tell you,” writes
Wallace, “how important it is
that we go out into the field
and try to get the President re
elected.”
He stoutly denies it, but
Wallace’s mailing suggests
that he is acting in concert
with the administration to use
the minority business program
for political purposes. This use
of his corporate resources to
promote a political cause is
also an apparent violation of
federal law.
Washington Whirl
High Road for Agnew?—
President Nixon’s new
campaign manager, Clark
MacGregor, has been meeting
privately with Nixon and
Agnew urging the two to wage
a dignified campaign this year.
MacGregor specifically hopes
to persuade Agnew not to take
the same low road he Look in
the 1970 congressional
campaign. MacGregor warns
that a rough, name-calling
campaign could drive conser
vative Democrats, sympathe
tic to the President, into the
McGovern camp.
ITT and Taxes—Remember
how embarrassed George
McGovern looked earlier this
summer when he incorrectly
claimed that ITT had paid no
federal taxes in three years?
McGovern sheepishly retract
ed his statement when he
learned that several ITT sub
sidiaries did pay their taxes.
We can now report that Mc-
Govern was not so off as ITT
had claimed. ITT’s effective
tax rate in 1971, we have learn
ed, was less than five per cent
of its income of $4lO millions.
Classic Government Fence
Sitting —The U.S. Depart
ment of Transportation con
tinues to hedge on Ralph
Nader's favorite subject: the
safety of the Corvair. The
Department issued a report
two weeks ago claiming the
Corvair was as safe as many
similar cars. Last week, the
Department was hastily pre
paring a letter to warn owners
of the Corvair's potential
dangers.
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Elentinn of a PrpsiHpnt
A View From Dixie
By Ted Oglesby
Partisan politics in an
election year has resulted in
the American taxpayer
being forced to continue to
subsidize hippie communes
and strikers who refuse to
work. The story is told in the
Food Stamp Debate as
recorded in the
Congressional Record of
June 29.
The Wells Fargo Bank in
California is much like the C
& S in Georgia- big with
numerous branches. The
bank’s food stamp depart
ment confirms the following
story and adds it is common
practice. Swallow this;
A hippie eligible for food
stamps buys S2B worth for 50 *
cents. Each week he buys
exactly $27.51 of groceries
and gets back 49 cents. This
is the most change he is
allowed to get. The next
week, he adds a penny to the
49 cents and buys S2B more in
food stamps. He repeats the
process until the final week
of the month. This time he
sells the S2B in food stamps to
friends or other chiselers for
sls.
What has he done? For an
investment of 53 cents, he
gets sll2 in food stamps.
Using the stamps in the
manner described, he gets
$83.53 of food and $14.47 in
cash. And we wonder how
the hippies live! A commune
of 15 or so of the longhairs
can be well supported by us
"If It Fitz ... "
I'll tell you one thing, Buster.
No one ever shot the star on
fivesies by mail. You had to be
there.
I mean, how about that
Bobby Fischer? He won a chess
game and he wasn't even there.
He wasn't even there sitting in
his special chair flown from New
York to Reykjavik because there
wasn't a chair in Iceland that fit
Bobby's rump right.
Fischer wrote a chess move
down on a sheet of paper flown
from Sweden for the occasion.
He put it in a sealed envelope
and had it delivered to his
opponent, Boris Spassky, at the
chess arena where hundreds
waited to watch the big match.
Thousands more wanted to
watch on TV.
Spassky read the note,
conceded defeat, and left.
Fischer showed up an hour later
to take a bow and drink some
orange juice flown in from
Florida. There was no one there
except Gudmundur Arnlaugsson,
deputy referee of the match. He
taxpayers.
Conress, over the ad
ministration’s objections,
continued the program
whereby this can happen.
But that’s not all.
Striking union members
enjoy sitting it out. It is more
profitable to many of them,
thanks to the taxpayer
subsidy. Congressman
Charles Teague of California
cited specific examples.
The take-home pay of one
union worker before the
strike was $91.35 per week
after deductions. He went on
strike, and guess what ap
pened? ‘
He started drawing S4O per
week tax-free in strike
benefits from his union, and
his family started drawing
$282 per month in welfare
payments. These two
sources provided him sllO
per week take home pay, but
that wasn’t all.
For $42 per month, he
purchased $lO6 of food
stamps -a further subsidy of
$64 per month of another sl6
per week . This striker was
taking home $126 per week
when he was earning but
$91.35 on the job. No wonder
he wanted to stay on strike.
Congressman Felly
revealed the average
striking worker in Michigan
during the automobile strike
of 1970 which shot car prices
Jacks is my game
was still trying to get his name
spelled right on the official score
sheet.
Sort of reminds you of the
time Ty Cobb mailed that stolen
base to the New York Yankees,
doesn't it? Or that time Arnold
Palmer sent a birdie to the
National Open via Western Union
(of course it was never delivered
because it was a weekend but
that wasn't Arnie's fault).
Jacks is my game. (The Birds
is coming).
My children always look a
little ashamed when I tell them I
was jacks champ of my block 35
years ago, edging Mary Margaret
Moriarity in a showdown match
that lasted 3 weeks and delayed
the opening of the yo-yo season.
My kids share the popular
opinion that jacks is a girls'
game. Which is nonsense. They
should just ask Mary Margaret, if
she has come out of seclusion
yet. Championship jacks takes a
lot of stamina and gut-level
coolness. I'll never forget that
battle with Mary Margaret. . .
upward drew S4BB per
month from public programs
in addition to his union
benefits. The cost to the
taxpayer was about $353
million.
How many actually went
on strike? Just before the
strike, there were 107,209
persons on welfare in
Michigan. During the height
of the strike, the welfare
rolls had 431,122 persons.
When it was over and during
the month when unem
ployment always is highest,
the rolls had dropped to
163,657 persons.
The administration tried to
stop this practice but was
defeated by the Democratic
Congress. In the House, the
amendment to stop such
practices failed 199-180. Os
the 199 votes against the
reform amendment, 174
were cast by Democrats.
Most of the 180 votes to
stop these abuses
were cast by Republicans.
The few Democrats who did
vote to put a stop to such
foolishness were primarily
from the South.
Congressman Phil Landrum,
for example, joined Flethcer
Thompson in voting against
continuing such programs
while Congressman John
Davis voted to keep it up.
It’s one thing to hear our
representatives talk about
various programs, but the
First there was a terrible
argument about the playing field
wood, concrete or Reynolds
Linoleum? We finally
compromised and played on our
kitchen floor which had all 3
surfaces. The roll of the jacks
determined how the ball would
bounce and whether your
knuckles were scraped,
splintered or waxed.
Then there was posture. I
favored the kneeling position
it allows greater reach.
But Mary Margaret insisted that
we sit on 1 buttock each, and
play side saddle." We finally
compromised by alternating the
2 positions during the first 2
weeks and sitting Indian style the
3rd week. It is terribly difficult
to play jacks sitting Indian style,
unless you don't have any knees.
Mary Margaret wanted to use
red jacks and a blue ball. This
was spite. She knew I detested
red and blue. I wanted green
jacks and a white ball. Again, we
settled the dispute by'
alternating. But it wasn't easy.
A Faith
Is For
Sharing **
Rev. Dick Reese
Crossroads Methodist Church
“...are you the one who is
to come, or shall we look for
another?” (Matthew 11:3)
Many discouraged persons
appear upon the pages of the
New Testament. In the
scripture quoted above we
find John the Baptist who
has been placed in prison
sending some of his disciples
to ask Jesus if he is the long
awaited Messiah, or should
they begin to look for
another. John, it seems, had
become discouraged and
disappointed. A sick woman
pushed her way through the
crowd to get to Jesus. She is
trying one last time to find in
him some healing and health
for her body. She has been so
discouraged and disap
pointed many times before.
A man lies by the pool at
Bethesda. He seems to be
feeing sorry for himself
because he has been there
for such a long time. He is
discouraged that he has
remained an invalid across
the years. Peter tells Jesus
of a long night of fishing
when he has caught nothing,
and he is discouraged. Who
can forget the two
discouraged men who
walked along the road to
Emmaus that day talking
about their Lord who had
been Crucified.
All these people had a right
to be discouraged. John the
Baptist had spent his
ministry preaching of the
coming Messiah, the sick
woman had no doubt spent
all her money on remedies
for her illness. Peter, the
sick man and all the rest had
expected something that
never came true and they
were disappointed and
discouraged.
Many in our day are
discouraged and disap
pointed. But discouragement
in that day or this can be a
very dangerous thing if it is
not dealt with.
Discouragement defeats us
even before the battle is
begun. In reality it hides
from us the face of God.
Jesus enables us to deal
with discouragement. His
methods are many. To some
Congressional Record often
reveals their votes are op
posite to what they say. One
continuing purpose of this
column will be to reveal how
our elected representatives
actually vote. You’ve heard
and read elsewhere what
they said.
he offers an explanation of
why things are as they are.
Through his teachings as
found in the New Testament
we can get a clearer insight
into why things are as they
are. But Jesus goes still
another step and helps us see
the mighty power of God that
can bring about change in
the world and replace our
discouragement with hope.
So often we depend on our
own strength for survival.
When our strength fails we
become discouraged. We
cannot change hearts, or
control events, or bring
about a new age - but God
can! His is a power greater
than that which we possess
to replace discouragement
with hope.
To still other discouraged
persons, Jesus gives
something to do. In fact this
is a need of most of us.
Perhaps it is not something
to do that we need as much
as it is something different
or something worthwhile to
do. Idleness breeds
discouragement; dis
obedience causes it to
grow. No matter how
discouraged we become,
Jc-sus can deal with our
discouragement, because he
deals with us. We can trust in
him because he is the one
sent from God to bring us
again to God.
Do not be discouraged. The
truth is still truth, right is
still right, and God remains.
He is steadfast until the end.
fho Houafoa
Horn Journal
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—By JimTitzgerald
The arguing went on 15 weeks
and finally went to binding
arbitration by Johnny Miller who
was deputy referee until 8
o'clock each night when his
mother made him go to bed.
Once the match began, Mary
Margaret's dad started taking
pictures with his Brownie while I;
was doing eggs-in- the-basket. I
walked out and didn't return
until he agreed to crouch in the
kitchen cupboard and shoot his
pictures through an opening in
the breadbox.
That'll give you an idea of the
strain I was under. But I won,
mostly because Mary Margaret
was no match for me in the
impromptu, or free figure
competition. She conceded
defeat when I tossed the ball
high, put all 5 jacks in my
mouth, spit them into my shirt
pocket one at a time, and then
caught the ball before it hit the
floor.
I'd like to see Bobby Fischer
mail that in. t