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Wednesday, Sept, 27, 1972 Black Politics Class persons asking why they should vote a fear that registration is a long, involved, and perhaps costly, process. Two other veterans of the summer drive also commented on their experiences. Many of the middle class people contacted in the campaign were not registered, Debbie Abernathy said, and many of the lower income people were extremely hospitable to registration workers. "I urge you to have the patience to just sit down and talk," she told the class. "Many of these people are just plain lonely." Many persons contacted during the drive felt registration would mean they became obligated to a certain candidate, Richard Jimmerson said.

And, he added, some people are afraid to tell a worker they are not registered. In response to the last 'item, Lucius quoted the NAACP slogan that says "Don't -squawk if you don't vote." "Speaking for myself," Lucius explained, "I'll go to vote every time because know people have died to get the vote." "No other people in the U.S. have paid as high a price to vote," Dr. Warren interjected. "I guess many blacks felt their vote didn't count," added the Rev.

John Cunningham, pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist Church and. a 'local NAACP leader. But, he added, last summer's drive "was directly responsible for getting a lot of people out to vote who otherwise wouldn't have in the election of Lettie Kendall to the County Mrs. Kendall's election, he said, may be an indication of a changing attitude.

in Clarksville and Montgomery County. There are currently three black magistrates on the Quarterly Court. Cunningham explained court magistrates are elected by a precinct system, but city councilmen are not. A councilman must give an address in the ward he wishes to represent but is elected in a city wide vote. The Baptist clergyman said the Nov.

7 election would see a black candidate running for a seat on the council. Willie L. Burnett. assistant principal at Ft. Campbell High School, qualified this morning with the county election, commission to run in the race.

The election system for city councilmen, Cunningham said, dilutes the black vote within Clarksville. Roughly one-fifth of the city's population is black. "Believe it or not, this is the thing that has kept many blacks from running," he said. "They realize they're so outnumbered they can't win." "It would be like taking Tennessee's. eight Congressional districts and electing them at large," Dr.

Warren added. "I've talked to people," large dogs Bridge Bids Proposed The state Highway Department has announced it will receive bids next month on the construction project of six bridges in Montgomery County on 1 Interstate 24. The project bids will be accepted on Oct. 25, according to the announcement, and once started will require approximately 300 working days to complete. The bridges, which include one twin prestressed concrete -beam type with concrete deck slabs, three concrete box girders, and two steel welded plate girder bridges with composite concrete deck slabs, are to be constructed on a section of the intersection beginning at a point .4 miles east of Highway 13 and extending to a point .36 miles east of the Red River.

The project length is at 4.669 miles and has an estimated $4,241,000. NAVE FUNERAL HOMES, INC. 1209 MADISON ST. PHONE 647-3371 CLARKSVILLE, TENN. 11 MAIN STREET PHONE 289-4277 ERIN, TENN.

Odd Fellows Host Meeting 17 Continued from Page 1 20 workers covered the Birchwood, New- Providence, Lincoln Homes and APSU campus areas. The BSA leader reported workers contacted 753 persons during the drive. Some 500 of these people were already registered, but Lucius said workers provided transportation for 25 persons to register. Lucius explained workers may meet with problems in their efforts to get people to register. Lucius explained workers may meet with problems i in their efforts to get to register.

Among he people! mentioned: Obituaries I Harry Taylor Harry Taylor, 65, died at 8 a.m. today in Baptist Hospital of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound. He was a retired civil engineer and resided at 110 Circle Hill Drive. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 4 p.m. at Tarpley's Funeral Chapel by the Rev.

Glen Phillips. Burial will be in Greenwood. Mr. Taylor was born in Montgomery March 26, 1907, son of the late Jesse and Ruby Morrison Taylor. He was a member of New Providence United Methodist Church, and a Mason, Shriner (Al Menah).

Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Riggins Taylor, whom he married March 30, 1929: a son, Robert L. Taylor, Clarksville: two brothers, Morton 'and Samuel Taylor, Detroit, three sisters, Mrs. William Tyson, San Diego, Mrs. Howard Kilpatrick, Detroit, Mrs.

Fred Schnediwind, Dearborn, Mich. Pallbearers will be Joseph Smith, Stanley Riggins, Billy Jones, William H. Meacham, Andrew, Clyde, and Charlie Abernathy, Paul Morris, J.F. Morgan J.F. Morgan DOVER-Joseph F.

Morgan, 87, died yesterday in the Greer Nursing Home, Goodlettsville, Tenn. after an extended illness. Mr. Morgan was a retired farmer of the Bumpus Mills Community. Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m.

at graveside at Morgan Cemetery, Bumpus Mills, Tenn. Mr. Morgan was born in Stewart Feb. 28, 1885, and was the son of the late De Witt and Susie Wallace, Martin, two half brothers; Noel, Clarksville, and Zoley Morgan, Texarkanna, Ark. Mr.

Morgan was a member of the Trinity Baptist Church. Milligan Funeral Home, Dover, is conducting the funeral arrangements. H.W. Trinkle DOVER--Herman W. Trinkle, 77, retired merchant of Rt.

1, Cumberland City, died this morning at Trinity Hospital, Erin, after an extended illness. Funeral services will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Paul's Chapel United Methodist Church in Cumberland City. Rev. T.A.

Hargrove will officiate, Burial will be in Cumberland City Cemetery. Mr. Trinkle was born in Stewart Oct. the son of the late William and Elizabeth Abernathy. His wife Addie Mae Sykes Trinkle, died Dec.

12, 1968. Surviving is one son, Charles Trinkle, Cumberland City; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel McCracken, Cumberland, City; and Mrs. Anna Sykes, Dearborn, Mich. Pall bearers are Ed McCracken, B.C.

Trinkle, Howard Ham, Eugene McGregor, Morris Parchman, and Billie Landis. Mr. Trinkle was a member of the Paul's Chapel United Methodist Church and a member of the Charity Masonic Lodge No. 370. Funeral arrangements are by Milligan Funeral Home.

Cunningham continued. "Sometimes they don't like their representative but his friends across town keep voting him in." He mentioned one councilman, who he did not name, who uses his business address. as his voting location, which allows him to represent a ward in which he does not reside. is not, technically illegal," the clergyman explained afterward. Cunningham noted a change in the council's election system require approval from the state legislature.

He said the council itself would have to approve the change. Then state legislators from this area would have to recommend the change to the General Assembly. "'The reason it changed is because of the selfinterest of those on the Cunningham said. He noted, however, Mayor Charles W. Crow had once recommended such a change to the council, but the body refused to approve it.

of the reason they remain in power is because of the apathy of this county," Cunningham continued. "I go to all these meetings and see the same faces. These are the men who control the power." He mentioned a black candidate for the county court who ran in the Aug. 3 election. He registered at the last moment, as part of a planned strategy.

Cunningham named neither the candidate nor his white opponent. But Cunningham said a New Providence group put up a write -in candidate who won the race, which concerned a seat for the Paradise Hills area. Part of the reason the black hopeful lost, Cunningham indicated, was because to vote for him a persons had to enter the voting booth, while those voting for the write-in candidate had to pick up their form outside the booth. One of the ways politicians stay in power, Dr. Warren added, "is by minimizing the vote." Staff Photo by Tom Rogers LIGHT MOMENT Vernon Warren and John Cunningham share a light 1 moment with Milford Lucius as he explains last summer's voter registration drive in Clarksville.

Lucius, vice president of the Black Student Association at APSU, and Cunningham, pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist Church and a local NAACP leader, addressed the university's Black Politics class this morning as the initial phase of its registration drive scheduled to begin this Friday. Warren, associate professor of political science, is the class instructor. Burglary Trial Nears Completion by prosecuting and defense attorneys began in Criminal Court this morning in the burglary trial of Mark Lawrence, 20, charged with breaking and entering the Railroad and Insurance Co. on Dec.

25. Shortly before press time today, Attorney General Noel Bagwell, during his final arguments, asked the jury to find Lawrence guilty of third degree. burglary and recommended a sentence of not less than three years nor more than 10 years in the state penitentiary. At the beginning of the trial, Lawrence's attorney, James C. Cunningham, announced to the court that his client pleaded not guilty to the indictment of burglary, and pleaded guilty to an attempt to commit a felony.

In his summation, Bagwell said, we have here today is a burglary, not an attempt. If this is not burglary then the definition must have been changed." Three state witnesses testified this morning they caught Lawrence, of 1459 McCann and Pete Phillips inside the building on Christmas night about 9:30 p.m., moments after a burglar alarm was activated at the College St. business establishment. Both Detective Lt. Bill South and- patrolman Bob Davis testified they found Lawrence and Phillips, 22, of 1006 Kendrick hiding inside the building when they entered.

Also testifying as a state witness was Frank Norris, owner and manager of the business, who testified he had -not given anyone permission to be inside the building, after closing hours. Norris was also inside the building when the two men were found. In June, Phillips pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of attempting to commit a felony and is now serving a one to three year prison term. Prior to the trial this morning, Morton Cross, 23, of 937 Roman pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of assault and battery and was sentenced to serve six months in the county workhouse and fined $50 and court costs. Cross, who was indicted on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and two counts of forgery, also entered a plea of guilty to one of the forgery charges and received a one to three year suspended penitentiary sentence.

The second forgery count was. dismissed. Dolamide Has Continued Smithson. She called the Clarksville Fire Department, but they couldn't do anything. She called the rabies control office.

Yes, they would send someone. She called the Sheriff's office. They did send someone. "I went out there," reports Sheriff's deputy Barry Seay. "The dog somehow got up under the house and fell down into the blocks.

We had to dig a hole three feet deep and knock out the By this time Miss Lowery's landlord, a local construction company, had also sent someone to rescue the trapped Dolamite. Seay and the construction worker, whose name the deputy says he does not know, finally worked the puppy back out into daylight. "They broke through the block," Miss Lowery explains, "reached in and got his legs. His tummy got caught. But finally they worked him out." Dolamite's six brothers and sisters seemed totally unconcerned about their -sibling's brush with death yesterday afternoon.

But the amateur spelunker himself. He was still shaken, and even a little damp. Chinese Continued from Page 1 Getting up early today, Tanaka and Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira went to the Great Wall of China. Like millions of other persons, including President Nixon, they were struck by its grandeur. But unlike Nixon, who exclaimed "it is a great wall," Tanaka, a genius with figures, compared it to the pyramids.

from Page: 1 He was able, however, able to work. up the energy for some crying. And only the milk-filled bottle seemed to ease the pangs in that tummy that caught on the blocks as he was wriggled out. Miss Lowery herself says she is more than glad to have the dog back. "He's the only one of the litter we're going to she explains.

"He looks like his mother. His mother is a bird dog, but we don't know about the father." And she has only praise for Deputy Seay. She says she was afraid she would be told to leave the dog in the blocks. "But he was so nice about it," she says. And so yesterday ended, a day almost like all days.

But Dolamite was back on the surface, nuzzling his bottle. And Deputy Seay was back in his berth, ready to jump to. -the aid of man or his best friend. The Leaf-Chronicle Published each evening Monday thru Friday and Sunday morning at Second and Commerce Streets, Clarksville, Tenn. 37040 Second Class Postage Paid at Clarksville, Tenn.

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