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Clovis News-Journal from Clovis, New Mexico • Page 12

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It, CMWTS NEWS-JOURNAL, in Last Hurrah By Uaaed Press Young challengers who saloNtam defeat. He wm When John L. McClellsn an-'hn was toe old, physically and neunced shortly before his TBthjmentally. forced McClellan to birthday last February he would spend almost six months of in- run for re-election to a sixth jtense campaigning. U.

S. term, he said if he won it would be his last campaign. "In all probability will notIpryor. and observers said sorely seek or need to seek another i'his doom was sealed. No incum- McClellan failed to win the primary outright but was forced i'into a runoff with Rep.

David term," he said. (bent since the system was ta- The old lion's campaign was corporated in 19W had won re- seen by many as a last hurrah. with little chance of victory, despite his 30-year tenure. election in a runoff in Arkansas. But a funny thing happened on the way to McClellan's eer- read law at home and, He did it hi a way that has licensed as a practicing at- always been chamteUitK.

of fcrney at age 17, trie yonngeat McClellan to battle ancees- awyer in state history, a rec- ingly against whatever oddserd that still stands. tnere were with the single-mind- His climb was swift prose- ed purposefullness of the borncuting wwifiessman gut-fighter. He was born Feb. 25, 19M on a farm near Sheridan, Grant County, hi the most plain of circumstancet. From the first the toughness had been there.

Forced to quit school to help on the farm when his mother died, nedy as chief counsel, began and finally U. S. senator in McCWlan won a runoff election then too, hut tt was for a vacant seat. Few persons outside Arkansas ever heard of John McClellan until the mid-lfSOs. But then his Senate permanent investigations nbuonnlttee with Bobby Ren- "I was eenfldnt," he MM later.

"1 hat coaldnt believe record I had metfe. In the campaign, was ever himself, the flint lOt eao gathering evidence that wasjn. the peoete stiumental hi putting teamster bosses James R. Hoffa and Daid D. Beck behind bars.

McCMlan grew Into an Institution a personfflca- tion of a large segment of its people. And though many railed out at him publicly, criticized and condemned, when the hour came that they had ft within their hands to turn him out, they did not. 00000 Come To sad DALLAS (he 17-year-old am Tern prosecutor, the tireless worker. "There were three credos I was taught to believe as a young man," he told even the young campaign audiences. "Baptism by emersion, paying year debts and saving your potatoes.

Ma "tent "I've been waiting two yeart to come here," he said joining a long Nne of teen-agers awaiting dbmer under a hot Texas HtfcjMWNh BOB'S SUPER MARKET SAN FRANCISCO II Wfmail CHI DC II her only child, a am she believed dead for yean SUGAR SffflamrtrfaT CANI 10 Del Monte CS or WK 203 Can Del Monte 303 Can Cut 499c PINTO BEANS Cajaerofe 4 cociT Del Monte 303 Can 4 99c BACON CUDAHT WKKLOW $1W PKt. mz CHUCK ROAST CMOfCI CUTS U. ARM ROAST CHOICI CUTS LI. ENGLISH PEAS Del Monte 303 Can 499c' SHURFINE OZ. AU FLAVORS CANNED POP 11: 1 ILACKEYE PEAS Ranch Style 303 Can 2'29e Tall Cans 25e MILK SHUkHNl TAIL CANS 6i 1 PICKLES Mttl-HIGH HAMMMGM SUCID OT.

IV FLOUR GOLD MEDAL in. £9 AUIITSONS QUALITY WHITI KST MAID SALAD DRESSING POST TOASTIES 39e HOT LINKS KYTONS HNIST LI. 59 LIVER SKINNED A SLICED LI. 49 BOLOGNA OLEO WILSONS All MEAT SLICED MKT to a Greek immigrant who wants to "repay a little aomething" to America. James Zissis, tt, sent a check to Vera List, Orlando, Fla.

after he read news stories that her son, Manfred, whom she had not seen since IMS when he was still a baby, suddenly contacted her. Mrs. List, the wife of Air Force T.Sgt. Everett List, was separated from Manfred when she was imprisoned by the Russians during an invasion of Germany. She was toM by the Russians her son died during her imprisonment.

She later emigrated to the United States. Mrs. List said she recently received a letter from Manfred who told her he was living to West Berlin. The Lists since have been working odd jobs to try to raise the air fare to bring Manfred and his family from Germany to Florida. Zissis said he arrived hi America as a merchant seaman hi ISM.

Penniless, he worked as a house painter, salesman and electrician to go into business for himstlf. Following a successful venture in restaurant franchising in the East, Zissis moved to California and is now president of a real estate and investment firm. "I know from first-hand experience what it is like to be without money and to want to participate hi the American dream," he said. He said he gave the money to the Lists to "repay a little aomething because America has been good to me." "This Is Jesus. These are my and sisters.

There are denominations and races. Ii love here for every The Campus Crusade for ChTUt carts it "Explo 71" Evangelist Billy Graham termed a "Christian Wood- Joe Johnson says it's LI. place to flnd the spirit. Ms will we re The Tennessee teen-ager Is one of more than lea.epf teenagers, young adults, infants and the elderly who began flocking tn Dallas Sunday for the weeklong gathering. Graham, tn honorary chairman of Explo, sayt everyone will be taught te spread the gospel.

In a Tuesday night speech before a packed Cotton Bowl, Graham said Explo was a "happening" that "dramatizes the Jesut revolution." "Youth are searching tor pur. pose and meaning and irent," he said. "Some turn te drugs, some to communal tog, some to suicide, but thousands are turning te Jeeua Christ." "We are here to light a of Christian faHh and carry It te the ends of the earth," the evangelist said. "We are saying to the world this week that we are willing to Uve end da for our faith." Throughout the week the tiripanta who paid registration fees of We have attended aeminars and discussion groupe, frequented shopping centera and neighborhoods practicing their newly acquired witnessing technkpiet. "1 think Explo la going the world, and I want to be a pan of it," Mtml Barre of North Hollywood, said.

"I think these are the last days and thii the last generation before the end coming of Christ. I think this is a way a lot of people feel and why they have come la Explo." FOOD KING 1 LI. PKC. 3149 BISCUITS 15:99 RC COLA IAS. Frtf Somplt All Day Friday Saturday COFFEE FOLdlS 1 II.

CAN Commander Flat Can HONEY AUNT SUE DOG FOOD 14 OZ. BOX POT PIES MOITONS FROZEN BEEF, CHICKEN, TUMCEY SIZE FRUIT PIES MMTONS NOZEN APHI CHUIY FfACH, EACH SUPERSUDS ICE CREAM OUCIH ClUI CA1. Wf MATUM nNDERCRUST AND CALIf. TIM tIPf PEACHES 1OCAI HOT HOIMI TOMATOES 2V- CAUf. WHITI POTATOES 10-49 1 BANANAS ALBUQUERQUE (UPI)- Tha case against a former Bernalillo County deputy accused of beating a jail inmate was dismissed Tuesday by District Judge Joe Angel.

Former deputy James Ray had been accused of beating 21- year-old Guillermo Billy Serru, el Albuquerque, last November. Ray and another deputy, Ben Martinez, 25, were indicted in the case. Judge Angel dismissed the case after defense attorney Robert Singer stated the prosecution had failed to prove there waa a "deadly weapon" involved. Serna testified he was struck on the side of the face and was told later by Martinez that was Ray who had hit him. Serna also testified he could not remember anything after being struck.

Serna had been arrested on charges of drunkenness, disorderly conduct and criminal tree- pau. It Clwrtttrizd MOSCOW (UPD-Amtricaa chess champion Bobby Fischer Is "egocentric, capricious, obstinate and hot-tempered" but an "aporoximatoly equal" chance to defeat Soviet world champion Boris Spaisky In their title match next month, Tass said today. A commentary by the newt agency's chest commentator, Yakov Rokhlin, said the match for the world championship that begins in Reykjavik, July may depend on "who will be first to wiae the initiative." Tau called Spaukv, 35, "a universal cheat plaver. "His rich intuition enables Spatsky to effect sharp tactical turnt to a fluid tavolvad potHioa," Rokhlki laid. Tke strategic eonraati el Fiacker are auick different.

"RaeU jfetilnl and ec ate cairulattea ef variitiaai are About People By UaHad PNM Maraatfeaal NEW YORK (UPD-McGraw Hill Inc. Tueaday obbtalned a cause order against author Clifford Irving and his wife Edith, seeking to keep the couple in the United States so the publishing firm can collect a judgment against them. McGraw Hill's attorney, Jeffrey A. Barist, said in an affidavit he needs time to question the Irvingi to mine their asaeU ao that the Judgment can bt collected. Tha order is returnable Thursday and sentencing la eft for Friday.

COLUMBUS. Ohio (UPfC Harold E. Rowe, 45, aafcf Tuesday ha to either going to have to get mailer flags or a bigger yard bacauaa on Flag Day (Wednesday, he placed 17S assorted flags including one from every state on the lawn in front of hhis home. "You may think I'm crazy but I kwe this country," Rowe (Fleeter'!) It MM, to the pyckokfkal aaJ ajyact of the atruf- to WASHINGTON (UPI) Charlet S. Robb, Lyndon B.

Johnson's son-in-law, has taken a aumimr job with the law firm of Williams and Califano ta Washington. The firm is headed by widely known criminal lawyer Edward Bennett Williams and Joseph Califano, who was a top adviser in the Johnson White House. Robb will graduate from the University of Virginia Law School next June. VAN NUYS, Calif. Mavor Sam Yorty to dedicating a million addition to Busch Tvoeday, met the honorary aaayer of the brewery arnua- aaent park, Slim Snorty, wke dees a comedy act in which he "eaeaka" with Yortya retarded veke.

Mayor Snorty to aa alter. His Honor Saerty, according Hoajr Yorty vMk laeteed, Bjarty att Yerty rifM hand, "fluck! I wiak ke wen BMM Yoriy aaM ead flev to Oty HaM av a.

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