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Tallahassee Section Two Wednesday, November 10, 1971 15 Taxpayers, Not Students, Own Campus Local News Sports Comics Want Ads Sen. Barrow Backs Marshall in FSU Fight a constitutional amendment Monday night abolishing student government because of Marshall's reversal of student courts and dismissal of radical activist Jack D. Lieberman. Marshall dismissed Lieberman indefinitely for disobeying the presidential proclamation postponing the start of Center for Participant Education (CPE) courses including Lieberman's "How to Make a Revolution in the U.S.A." for one week at the start of the fall quarter last September. FSU students will vote Nov.

23 on whether to ratify the 511 ft i jr i Vf v. to have a student government, but Mautz said the universities are only "encouraged" to have them. Mautz cited a section of the Board of Regents operating manual which states, "student government shall be the representative of all students and is encouraged to function on campus, with the recognition that authority for university affairs rests with the administration of each university." Lieberman was subpoenaed before Barrow's judiciary--criminal committee last spring to testify about his "revolution" course and the student-run CPE program. Ironically, Marshall did not have to testify then and it was Dr. Marshall who defended his right to lecture the non-credit course, telling the committee the course did not advocate violence.

Dr. Marshall's decisions." Marshall and Dr. Robert B. Mautz, chancellor of the State University System, both said FSU can get along without a student government if the students vote for abolition. "Florida State University will go on, I assume, said Marshall, contacted by the student newspaper, The Flambeau.

Mautz said he regretted the Student Senate's decision, but felt that "each institution has the right to make rules" and enforce them. Student Body President Ray Gross and Vice President Stephanie (Stevie) Eisenmenger said after the vote that abolition of student government would leave Marshall in complete control of the university and its student activities. Miss Eisenmenger said she thought every institution was required amendment and dissolve their government. The student senators, in an emotional hour of debate preceding the 32-6 vote, decided that if Marshall could over-rule their decisions, there was no reason to continue student government. "I think that the students perhaps misunderstood the function of their role in the university system," said Barrow, D-Crestview, chairman of the Senate Judiciary-Criminal Committee.

"I disagree with the action they took because the students have to realize that the university system is owned and operated by and for the taxpayers of Florida. "In this regard, the board of regents and legislature has clearly spelled out that Dr. Marshall has to carry out their policies and it is not for student government to overrule w-vu I 1 1 By WILLIAM COTTERELL United Press International Sen. William Dean Barrow, one of the legislature's most outspoken opponents of radical activities on campus, said Tuesday he was unimpressed $464,000 'Road to on banks of If lie -y I In Big Turnout Larkin Elected Bristol Mayor Saturday Morning Quarterbacks Discuss the Big Game as they wait for something to happen to their town Will Sopchoppy Rise Again? BRISTOL Walter Larkin, retired Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission wildlife officer, was elected mayor of Bristol Tuesday but the real interest by the more than 70 per cent turnout of voters centered on the town councilman races. Larkin, who under the Bristol charter does not have a vote on the council, will act as official host for the town located in his beloved Apalachi-cola National Forest A total of 263 of the town's 362 registered voters went to the polls to select James Alto (Toby) Rankin and Newton Walden to the council posts.

Rankin received 166 votes and Walden 134. Incumbent E. H. Strickland was low man in the three way race with 114. Larkin won handily, 19 7, over two opponents in the mayor's race.

Incumbent Jack Harrell received 38 votes and James M. Jerkins, 23. No one qualified for the elected post of marshall in Bristol so the town apparently will not have one for this two year period. Former Marshal Alvin Jacobs said he didn't want the job any more and didn't qualify for reelection. Mrs.

Betty A. Ramsey was unopposed as town clerk. by the Florida State Student Senate's decision to "self-destruct" over a ruling by FSU President Stanley Marshall. The Student Senate enacted Nowhere' Dead Ends Ochlockonee River (--TV Jim 'Miss Florida' Roberts its greatest catastrophe, a flood that washed away the bridge across the river, blew down the telegraph wires, and tore up some of the railroad tracks. "The Sopchoppy River." recalls Mrs.

Florida Roberts, one of Sop-choppy's oldest citizens and mother of Chief Justice B. K. Roberts of the Florida Supreme Court, "looked like an ocean and stayed that way for days." A rural mail carrier, Lorenzo Cox. who lived in Smith Creek 16 miles northwest of Sopchoppy, couldn't deliver mail for three weeks. Then he would tie his horse to a tree in Sanborn, about half the way to Sopchoppy, take a boat down to the depot for the mail, then row back to his horse.

R. A. "Captain Bob" Gray, for over three decades Florida Secretary of State, remembers the flood from his boyhood days in Sopchoppy where his father was the Methodist minister. He recalls houses that were wrecked by the flood and a few that fell on pigs that were rooting under them. Sacks of corn and other food were piled up in the school-houses or churches that were still standing.

By 1912 Sopchoppy had a Country Jolley, now considered an "unwanted alien" in the United States. Jolley was born in Greensboro, N.C. AFTER renouncing his citizenship in Toronto, Jolley did not apply for Canadian citizenship. Instead, he returned with his wife to the United States. "It is conceivable," said Jolley, "that as one immigration official said, if they are unable to place me in another country, then I would have to be allowed in the States." Jolley, who now works for the Tallahassee Democrat, said he wanted to remain in this country.

Jackson County Is Redistricted MARIANNA Jackson County was redistricted along 1970 census population lines Tuesday but county commissioners, who are elected at large, voted to retain their old road districts. Major change made by the Board of County Commissioners was to put the city of Mar-ianna into one district by itself. The district formerly included a strip from the Alabama line south to the Calhoun County line. THE OTHER four districts in the county now extend from the city limits of Marianna outward to the Northeast (district five), Northwest (district one), Southeast (district four), and southwest (district two). Marianna is district three.

The districts are fairly evenly divided in population. The Marianna district is still the most populous with 2,931 registered voters, but the Northeast district has 2,800. More Big Bend News-Page 25 ultimately rid the community of all unsightly and unsanitary garbage dumps. The project is designed to place at least 70 large containers at various locations throughout the county, with a modern garbage packer truck to service them twice weekly. All garbage will be hauled to the joint city-county sanitary landfill site near Cairo to be buried in trenches.

Large items of junk such as old fence wire, major appliances, and 1 ADMISSIONS: NOV. Mrs. Mary Louise Blount, Quincy; Mrs. Dean C. Christmas, 2411 Jackson Bluff Road; William E.

Cruce, Greenville; Mrs. Geanie R. Singleton, 3677 Lakeview Drive; Miss Kimberly Phillips, 2114 Jackson Bluff Road; Larry Pool, 311 Hoffman Drive; J. Homer Prosser Quincy; Mrs. Ina L.

Prince, St. Marks; Cecil V. Butler, Havana; Mrs. Maude Brown, 1235 North Boulevard; Mrs. Louise B.

Corcoran, 410 Flagler Thomas Duggar, 617 w. Lafayette; Mrs. Margaret Granthem, Monticello; Mrs. Betty O. Green, 1310 Thomasville Road; Mrs.

Idella Gregory, Chattahoochee; Revdee H. Harrell, Crawfordville; Mrs. Alice H. Murphy, Perry; Mrs. Elaine I.

Shiver, Bainbridge, Miss Sue Robinson, Port St. Joe; Mrs. Evelyn Paul, 1425 W. Jackson Jessee Smith, Perry; John B. Smith Quincy; Miss Shannon Leigh Summerlin, 1600 Mabry Miss Sally D.

Webb, 250 Old Dirt Road. DISCHARGES: NOV. 9 Mrs. William K. Rayfield and baby, Mrs.

George Holder and baby, Mrs. James Farish and baby, Mrs. Joel Monroe Devotentine and baby, Mrs. Jack E. Hawley and baby.

Mrs. Higgons S. Ingram and baby, Mrs. Charles Linsay and baby, Mrs. David B.

Shaw and baby, Mrs. Wylene Martina, Miss Lesley Rebel, Mrs. Claudia D- Hetsler, Miss Caroline Nancy Choate, Mrs. Rose Lee Chaires, Glenn Curtis, Mrs. Jewel E.

Oucts, John Dail-ey, Mrs. Melvin M. Williams, Mrs. Mary Eloise Mercer, Miss Margaret L. Revere, Mrs.

Martha G. vanlandingh-am, Mrs. Ella D. Branch, Mrs. Inoia M.

Renfroe, Charles Dekle, Miss Sandra Beck, Sammie L. Morris, James Hires, Austin H. Lambert, Brian H. Woodward, Miss Emma Jean Morgan, L. C.

Buck-halter, George junior olah, Walter R. Godfrey, J. Waiter Allen. such are to be hauled directly to the landfill site. City officials and county commissioners plan to grad-u a 1 1 clean up all roadside dumps and to strictly enforce state laws regarding dumping of garbage and rubbish once the program is underway.

According to Judson May-field, one of the Grady County commissioners, the program is estimated to cost between $25,000 and $35,000, and should be in operation by Jan. 1, 1972. 14 turpentine stills surrounding it, and the spirits and rosin were shipped in barrels down the C. T. G.

to Carrabelle where it was transferred to coastal steamers going to Port St. Joe, Pensacola, and Mobile. Life at a turpentine still was often rough, and once a prominent turpentiner killed another for recrut-ing some of his workers, while a depot agent at the little flag stop at Ashmore shot two men out of three who came in drunk one night to rob his till. The Ashmore station was named for Robert W. Ashmore whose children also did credit to Sopchoppy.

One is Superintendent of Public Instruction for Leon County, another Vice President of Tallahassee Community College, and a third the President of Armstrong College in Savannah. THE SAME year Sopchoppy got the first (and last) bank ever chartered in Wakulla The promoter was Secretary of State Henry Clay Crawford, son of John L. Crawford, who came down every weekend on the train to look after his bank, hunt and fish, and chew tobacco while playing cards with his cronies. This euphoria lasted until the early 1930's when automobiles had taken many of the passengers off the trains. In 1933, at the very depth of the Depression, Sopchoppy built the first four-year high school in the county and paid it off by money raised in the locality.

Afterward, the county seat at Crawfordville built a high school and the whole county helped to pay for it. Sopchoppy has never forgotten this indiscretion. By then the C.T.&G. was 8 By ELIZABETH F. SMITH Special to Democrat Sopchoppy is a small town with a funny name jij located in the southern part of Wakulla County.

The community began with a railroad, nurtured some well known Florida statesmen, and then began vi to decline when the trains stopped running. Now it's waiting for something to come along and happen to it again. As long ago as 1848 Sop-choppy had a post office and is postmaster was John Wesley Adams, a planter who married the daughter of John L. Craw-S ford, Florida Secretary of State and a Wakulla County physician. But nothing much pened in Sopchoppy until 1893 when the Georgia, i-i: Florida, and Alabama Railroad (known as the Gophers, Frogs, and Ali-gators Railroad) built a vi spurline from Bainbridge.

Ga. to Carrabelle. After that, business perked up. Most of the people of Sopchoppy at that time lived west of the river bearing the same name, and when the railroad was finished they moved to the S. east side and built busi-nesses centering around the depot.

Only the ceme-tery was left behind in West Sopchoppy, and that couldn't be moved. 5 Business boomed for the next fifty years. Timber, turpentine, and honey 6 went out from Sopchoppy jij: and manufactured goods came in. On Sundays pie from Tallahassee and other way stations along the railroad went by train to Lanark Village to eat at the hotel and bathe in the water of the Gulf in outfits that ranged from their calves to their insteps, li jii IN 1899 Sopchoppy had Man Without New Garbage Collection Plan Set in Grady County had its hopes restored. In 1965 the County Commission pledged over a half million dollars to build a road from Sopchoppy west to the Ochlockonee River, while Franklin County authorities more reluctantly pledged to join it on the other side of the river.

Once again dreams of sugar plums danced in the heads of people who not only had no more trains, but had even seen the tracks taken up that went through the center of their community. The road westward from Sopchoppy would bring the prosperity that had before come with the train. But, alas, when the road reached the Ochlockonee River there had been no funds pledged for a bridge over the stream, and the three commissioner's who had voted for the road were likewise voted out of office. In Franklin County people gave up and took away the materials stockpiled by the road for its final completion. As far away as New York City articles accompanied by pictures showed Wakulla County's "road to nowhere." But prosperity has a way of sneaking in the backdoor when no one is looking, nothing spectacular but slow and steady.

The opening of the Ochlockonee River State Park near Sopchoppy in 1968 brought campers and picnickers who stop by the town for supplies. Tourists drive out of their way to Sopchoppy just to have their postcards canceled with such a funny name. And more than anything else, retirees are buying property and building a place where there is still some serenity left in the world. That, by itself, is enough to make Sopchoppy rise again. clared he was an alien and couldn't remain.

THE 5TH CIRCUIT Court of Appeals ruled Jolley had made "an unannounced, unheralded and surreptitious re-entry into this country" when it upheld in April the U.S. Board of Immigration order that Jolley be deported within 90 days. The case then went to the Supreme Court. For the past several months Jolley has served as a general assignment reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat. Managing Editor Bill Phillips said Jolley would remain on the news staff.

I1L3 Barber Sits, Waits he's Raymond Revell suffering the malaise of all railroads nationwide. New highways by-passed the town and children reared on the old homesteads began to drift into the cities for work. The bank closed down and new stores never opened. Every fall the sycamore trees planted along the streets when the town was platted for the railroad, dropped leaves ankle-deep on sidewalks (the only ones in the county) where fewer and fewer people walked. During World War II Sopchoppy got a brief respite.

Camp Gordon Johnston was built near Carra-belle and soldiers and supplies began to move again on the railroad. People from Sopchoppy who didn't work at the camp, rented rooms to soldier's families, and made more money than they had ever seen in their lives. But with the end of the war the railroad declined again, and Sopchoppy was left with its memories as more and more of the families who still lived there got jobs in other places and used Sopchoppy as a bedroom. ONE MORE time the town by-passed by change, grant loses his status if he leaves Canada for other than a brief period, the spokesman said. But there is no specific rule, and border-crossing officials determine each case on an individual basis.

Jolley went to Toronto after his local draft board refused to register him as a conscientious objector. Claiming the American draft laws "conflict with my beliefs," Jolley formally renounced his citizenship and sent back his draft card. He then returned to the country without a visa in 1968. Jolley was soon discovered by immigration officials who de CAIRO, Ga. City and County officials here have teamed up to inaugurate a county-wide garbage pickup program which is the first of its kind in Georgia.

Prodded by the Cairo Federated Garden Clubs to help beautify the county and improve environmental conditions, the city and county have embarked on a long-range program to dispose of garbage through regular pickups and to KL J. iUUjn1Li.a.L...r.. tUm mill tal hKtl- 1 Jolley Says He'll Stay If He Can Jolley's attorney, Elizabeth Rindskopf of Atlanta said any discussion of his deportation or nondeportation. was "premature." She said she intended to file a petition for rehearing before the Supreme Court. "It's a very complicated case," she said, "and I'm not sure what else we can do at this time.

I want a chance to review it completely." In Ottawa, an immigration department spokesman said it would be up to port-of-entry officials to determine whether Jolley would be allowed to reenter Canada. NORMALLY a landed immi- By The Associated Press Tom Jolley, who renounced his citizenship to avoid the draft and now faces deportation, says there's a chance he may be able to stay in America if no other country will have him. The 27-year-old newspaper reporter is under deportation orders for renouncing his citizenship during a 1967 flight to Canada. His fight to have his citizenship restored suffered a major setback Tuesday when the Supreme Court unanimously refused to hear his case. Immigration officials said they would begin searching for a country that would accept Grady Countians Discuss New Garbage Collection Program Commissioner Judson Mayfield, Mrs.

Mayfield, W. W. Lundy Mb.