FIFTY & 100 YEARS AGO CONTINUED
Thursday, Nov. 6, 1972
North Heights grade schoolers up on candidates Sixth graders at North Heights School are probably more involved in this year’s state, local and national elections than some registered voters.
Since the beginning of school they have been keeping track of the candidates by reading, discussing and placing on a special bulletin board articles from newspapers and magazines about the races.
A bulletin board titled “Who in ‘72” was also erected at the school.
On Tuesday the sixth graders and teachers will hold a mock election for president. The students also conducted mock registration for all “eligible voters” in the school.
To emphasize the importance of voting, the students made red, white and blue vote reminder tags for teachers and staff members at North Heights and for themselves. They have worn the reminders every day since Oct 31 to encourage people to vote.
To see how the secrecy of a ballot is protected they went to the Floyd County courthouse and saw a demonstration by Ordinary Harry Johnson of how a voting machine operates.
From their studies the students worked out in class a definition of an election as “a democratic way to select a person for a job.”
Parents accompanying the classes on their trip to the courthouse were Mrs. James Dulaney, Mrs. George Norris, Mrs. Robert Crim and Mrs. Joel Jones.
Mrs. Henrice Berrien and Mrs. Glenda Doss are teachers of the classes.
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1972 Shriver may seek elective office again
Sargent Shriver, who believes he and George McGovern were “not clear enough in explaining ourselves” in the 1972 presidential campaign, says he might seek elective office again.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate conceded defeat before a large group of supporters at the McGovern-Shriver ticket at a Washington hotel Tuesday night.
Asked if he would run for elective office again, Shriver said:
“Yes, I would, if there was an appropriate office to run for.”
He didn’t say what he considered appropriate, but his supporters chanted: “Seventy six, seventy six, seventy six. …”
Shriver, brother-in-law of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, DMass, traveled 80,000 miles and delivered 500 speeches in the three months after he replaced Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, D-Mo., as McGovern’s vice presidential candidate.
“These 90 days have been the most rewarding of my life,” he told his supporters. “Never have I so fully realized the greatness of the American people.”
“I think it must be clear the choice was not made clear to the voters,” he told newsmen later. “To that extent our campaign was ineffective. We were not clear enough in explaining ourselves. …”
Shriver, his face somber and grim, stared intently at a television set as his running mate, Sen. McGovern, stood before an audience in South Dakota and conceded the race to President Nixon.
In his own concession speech, Shriver said: “I am sure I will be able to go on in service of my country and all mankind.”
Friday, Nov. 10, 1972 Cycle-Thon collections reach $1,000
The Rome Cerebral Palsy Center announced this week that over $1,000 had been collected from last Sunday’s Cycle-Thon pledges.
“The riders are busy collecting from their sponsors,” said Mrs. Sam Eden, director of the center.
The 25-mile bicycle ride had more riders than any of the other events, and it seemed to be the most strenuous. However, the majority of the riders finished the entire route.
All participants finished the 10-block tricycle ride, according to Mrs. Eden.
Only one motorcycle failed to make the full 125 miles, and that was due to a mechanical failure.
Officials of the United Cerebral Palsy drive said that today was the deadline for turning in the money collected for the rides, but late contributions will be accepted.
The awards ceremony and the presentation of prizes will be held Friday, Nov. 17, at the CP Center, located at 324 W. 10th St., at 4:30 p.m.
100 years ago as presented in the November 1922 editions of the Rome Tribune-Herald
Radio phones and airplanes as aids in carrying on missionary work in virtually inaccessible parts of China will be used by missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church, announced the committee on conservation and advance of that church.
This was decided upon at a meeting of missionaries and Tzwchow, West China. Plans were announced by the Rev. James Maxon Yard, new executive secretary of the centenary in China and relayed to the committee in America by the Rev Paul Hutchinson, editor of the Chinese Advocate.
The delegates at the missionary meeting could see the mountains of Tibet. It is several weeks’ journey from Shanghai and there are no real roads in that region.
Because of the lack of transportation facilities and an accessibility of some sections, missionaries have been unable previously to reach many localities.
The missionaries, planning work for the next 10 years, voted for four sets of wireless telephones with which to link up the widely separated stations, and four two-passenger airplanes with which to reach these inaccessible sections.