Southern leaders criticize Nixon
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (UPI)—The governors of the Deep South states are either critical of President Richard Nixon's policies on school desegregation, or say they don't know what his policy is.
Only one Deep South governor, Democrat Mills Godwin of Virginia, had anything nice to say about Nixon's desegregation policy. Eight others, all Democrats, commented on the question in a poll conducted on the eve of the Southern Governors' Conference, which convened here Monday.
"The administration seems to be trying to make the application of federal laws more uniform
across the country and to give more consideration to the effect of rapid desegregation on local school systems. I hope this trend will continue."
Not surprisingly, the strongest criticism came from the deepest south, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana.
Mississippi's John Bell William,
laws, however, expressed "hope"
Williams said he was uncertain what Nixon's policy on desegregation is, but was "hopeful."
Gov. Albert Brewer of Alabama said, "The President has clearly not followed his campaign statement in which he represented
himself as opposing racial balance and busing of school children. In Alabama today, court orders renewed at the insistence of Justice Department attorneys are, in fact, seeking to bring about busing and racial balance...
"The Nixon Administration has thus far seemed to be more concerned with social aims than with quality education and has ignored the overcrowding, confusion and opposition from parents and children of both races caused by the current court orders."
Gov. John McKeithen of Louisiana said he sees no change from the previous administration in
Nixon's racial policies. He said he doesn't agree with the administration, and that its current policies "discriminate against the South."
Most outspoken of all was Gov.
Lester Maddox of Georgia, who
said Nixon was "perhaps befud-
dled" by the issue.
"I don't believe that Nixon has a policy of school desegregation," he said. "If he wants to do something about protecting local school systems, as he has said, he hasn't been able to free himself from those who say that the federal government should control
education. His failure to go in either direction has proven to be harmful to education and the country."
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Iowa democrats boosting Hughes for'72 nomination
DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) Some Iowa democrats are wearing buttons boosting Sen. Harold E. Hughes of Iowa for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
The buttons popped up Saturday night at a banquet of the Iowa New Frontier Club—a fundraising organization.
Hughes said, "I am not a candidate for anything for the first time in years. I am not running for anything and I enjoy it."
Stevenson said, "Who knows, instead of a triple-H (Hubert Humphrey), it may be a double-H, and, if so, we're very fortunate."
Born in 1806 in this small community near Fitchburg, Miss Sawyer was brought up on a farm and among her pets were two lambs.
The poem was written in 1817 by Harvard college student John Roulstone who was visiting the school one day when a farmer's daughter, Mary Sawyer, brought her lamb to school.
Flames gutted the small wood building called the Mary Sawyer School Saturday. It was a replica of the original Redstone school which stood on Redstone Hill Road until 1926 when Henry Ford removed it to build his famous Wayside Inn in Sudbury.
STERLING, Mass. (UPI)—Fire has destroyed the replica of the school house that inspired the poem "Mary had a Little Lamb."
In recent years, the replica, which was more than 100 years old, had been used to store apple boxes.
urer Adlai Stevenson III, who is frequently being mentioned as a candidate for the Senate seat vacated by the death of minority leader Everett Dirksen.
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Little lamb's school burns
However, the former Democratic governor did not rule out the possibility that he might seek the nomination. "Ask me again tomorrow and I may have a different answer. That's the way of politics," he said.
Laudatory remarks about Hughes were also offered at the banquet by Illinois State Treas-
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Culver, a close personal friend of Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., refused comment on a potential Kennedy-Hughes ticket in 1972.
Culvers said Hughes is "a man at the vanguard of the problems of the day. I hope you share with me the hope that we will be able to share him with the nation as its president in 1972."
Culver's remarks came 24 hours after Georgia legislator Julian Bond cast a somewhat dismal view of Hughes' chances in national politics. Bond said Hughes, a reformed alcoholic, was "too decent to become involved in the national political wars."
Iowa Congressman John Culver was one of the first to mention Hughes as a possible presidential candidate and said politicians in Washington "are impressed, as we have been, and they want to know more about Harold Hughes."
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