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ft JQ-A Atlanta lournal and CONSTITUTION SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1972 TOLL REACHES 18 MISSING 72 BATTLE Politicians to Woo Dixie 4. Continued from Page 1A on a road in an Augusta suburb. AN EARLY Friday morning fire in Decatur took the life of Peggy Profitt, 32, a nurse and doctor's office manager. Authorities said the fire apparently began in a rear bedroom of the house where Miss Profitt lived with another woman, who was away when the blaze began. An accidental shotgun blast killed Dwight David Allman, 13, of Cumming Thursday night.

Forsyth County Sheriff Don Perkle said the youth and a companion were playing with the 20-gauge weapon when it went off, striking Allman in the head. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Allman. A 51-year-old Marietta man, William S.

Johnson, was killed Thursday night in a two-car accident on Georgia 280 near the Lockheed-Georgia plant. SPEC. 4 George Rajacich, 23, of Keewakin, was struck and killed by a car on U.S. 78 Thursday night. He was stationed at Ft.

Gordon. An Eden, N.Y., woman Al-field H. Hanks, 69, was walking across Georgia 23 when she was hit by a car and killed Thursday night. The accident happened about two miles south of Jesup. And California authorities reported the death of Col.

Manuel A. Alves, 47, who was stationed at Ft. Benning. 7 t-" Continued from Page 1A village's contribution to AI1-American youth. An honor student, Kendall also earned letters in football, basketball and baseball.

When he entered the University of Delaware, however, Kendall dropped sports in order to concentrate on his studies in chemical engineering. Susan dropped out of college after meeting Kendall and, in late 1969 and early 1970, went to work for Delta Air Lines in Atlanta as a stewardess, hoping to save a little money for their marriage. She- lived in College Park while working for Delta. In June 1970, Kendall graduated. Two months later he and Susan were married, and in October of that year Kendall went into the Army on his Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) commission.

Both felt they had found a home in Jacksonville, near the Army post. Kendall coached Little League baseball, and enjoyed puttering around the little rented bungalow they eventually planned to buy. Susan busied herself with civic projects. Because of a lifelong interest in animals, she founded the Anniston, Humane Society. ON THE NIGHT of Dec.

18, a Saturday, Kendall and Susan attended a going-away party for another Ft. McClellan officer. They were planning to leave that night for Laurel to attend a family dinner the Phillipses held each year. About 11:30 that niglit, a neighbor saw them packing. Susan planned to take two of ROBERT S.

VANCE ZELL MILLER to 60 miles an hour in a 35-mile-an-hour zone. Hanson said as he chased the youths they passed several cars going south on Ga. 29 and barely missed hitting some cars head-on. "I chased them to DeKalb County and I alerted the DeKalb police," he added. DeKalb police took up the chase and finally caught up with the youngsters when their car plunged over a guard rail off 1-285 onto Buford Highway.

The State Patrol identified the dead in the crash near Claxton as Eugene Webber, 35, Savannah, driver of one of the cars; Maggie Beauford, 58, Savannah, and Ronald and Betty Ann Cook, 18, of Tubber-ville, 25, and Sonny Thomas, 25, both of Claxton, driver of the other car. STATE SAFETY officials earlier had predicted that 19 people would die on Georgia highways during the New Year holiday weekeend. which ends at midnight Sunday. The state patrol said Felix B. Hutchison, 50, of Cataula, died Saturday when his car ran off the road and struck a tree near his home town on U.S.

27. Spec. 4 James E. Mund, 19, of Ft. Gordon, was kilied late Friday when his car apparently went out of control and struck an embankment on the post.

Mund's hometown was Houghton Lake, Mich. Edwin Harris Haynes, 14, of Warner Robins, died Friday afternoon after falling from the back of a pickup truck in Rhine. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther H.

Haynes of Warner Robins. Donald Barton Natoli 19, of Augusta, was killed Friday when his car overturned KENDALL PHILLIPS Was Honor Student itary authorities. So are law enforcement officials. Under the prodding of Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Delaware Gov.

Russell Peterson, every angle has been explored. There has been no indication of any domestic difficulties, financial troubles or disenchantment. One of the purposes of the trip was so that Kendall could interview for admission to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where the young couple planned to spend Christmas with Susan's parents. She hasn't yet made it. The suede jacket Kendall had ordered sent to the Levens' home for her Christmas present still waits.

KENDALL planned to leave Susan at her parents' home, and, after the medical school interview, drive back to Jacksonville alone. He hasn't yet made it back, either, and in Jacksonville, a rake leans against a tree. Alves was driving on the freeway near Livermore, Thursday night when he ran into a ditch on a part of the road under construction. Says Party Widening Independents Change Makeup the South but insists it's because of weaknesses in other parts of the country rather than a high-minded resolve to treat the region on an equal basis wih the rest of the country. "For instance, his agricultural policies have caused Midwestern states not to feel too kindly toward him and far Western states have experienced rising unemployment because of cutbacks in defense spending," Scott observed.

"In the larger metropolitan areas, they still find themselves in the grips of problems that haven't been met." The year is in its infancy but the battle lines have been drawn. Mississippi GOP chairman Reed predicts the Democrats will put a "fake Southerner" on the ticket as a sop to the South, and Florida Democratic chieftain Moyle expects Nixon to try again with "a cynical strategy of sectionalism." He says he's been assured by democratic National Chairman Lawence F. O'Brien that the South will have a place in party policy councils in 1972 and the Democrats will follow "a unified policy as opposed to a strategy of regionalism." GEORGIA Republican party chairman Robert Shaw denies that Nixon will "go out of his way to make fantastic promises in order to get the South. It's not necessary any more. The South trusts him because they've heard him say he'd treat us on an equal basis with the rest of the nation and he's done it." Shaw says other presidents "looked down" on the South because "it was not popular in other parts of the nation to treat us as equals.

But because Nixon has taken the lead in recognizing the South, I think the Democratic hopefuls will follow suit." Meanwhile, as the 1972 elections approach, 19 Republican and 14 Democratic seats in the U.S. Senate are up for grabs. Nineteen governors' offices eight now occupied by Republicans and 11 by Democrats are on the block. In the South, voters will decide whether interim appointee David Gambrell should be given a six-year stand in Georgia's Senate seat occupied through five presidencies by the late Richard B. Russell.

And challenges are due for the jobs of Sen. John Sherman Cooper, who is not offering for reelection; Sen. John Sparkman, Sen. John McClellan, Sen. Allen Ellender, Sen.

James Eastland, and Sen. Everett Jordan, SOUTHERN gubernatorial contests will be limited to North Carolina, where Scott cannot succeed himself, Louisiana, where Gov. John McKeithen is barred by law from running again, and Arkansas, where "new breed" Gov. Dale Bumpers will be trying for a second two-year term. The lure of the first wide-open Senate race in Georgia in almost four decades promises to produce a stellar cast of contenders and a summer and fall of undiminished fireworks.

Whether Gambrell can shake his millionaire's son image and whether his leithan-a-year's incumbency can be counted on to give him the advantage normally enjoyed by the officeholder will be put to the test. Until the challengers emerge and the issues are joined, the identity of Georgia's next senator is a parlor guessing game. And "pick the winner" will be the most popular game in parlors across the South throughout 1972. K. wmi" i mmi I I) i nn iw il Mann man mm $1,000,000 MARKDOWN RADIO SHACK SALE A TANDY CORPORATION COMPART rtfc-B! REALISTIC DYNAMIC MIKES Soldier Arrested In Tennessee Death CLARKSVILLE, Term.

OP) -A young soldier from Ft Campbell, is being held in lieu of $14,000 bond in the slaying of a Kentucky man found dead in Indiana. Accused of murder, robbery and car theft is Pvt. John Goodwin, 19. He was lodged in the Montgomery County Jail in Clarkesville. Police said Goodwin allegedly stabbed to death John Mitchell, 45, of Cadiz, in a motel room in Clarksville.

95. 1 Z33SAVES3 REG. 19.95 Ea. 33-992 AM MESH SCREEN her five dogs with her, and leave three for a neighbor to care for. At one minute after midnight, Kendall signed out of Ft.

McClellan, eight miles from their home. Then they disappeared. Except for one questionable report by a gas station attendant who says he saw them a few miles from their home at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 19, no trace of the couple has been found.

The blue Camaro convertible is gone. The two dogs Susan had planned to take with her are gone. Kendall Phillips, whom the Army had just agreed to send to medical school to become a physician is gone. And so is beautiful, talented Susan Phillips. Scores of civil defense work-ers, military personnel, law officers, and just plain volunteers have searched virtually every yard of the highway between Ft.

McClellan and the Georgia line. HELICOPTERS have crisscrossed forested areas. Jeep patrols have checked out rural roadways. Susan's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

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Zell Miller, executive director of the Georgia Democratic party, says the new focus on the South as a place to campaign already is obvious in Georgia. "Every time you look up you see Wilbur Mills or Ed Mus-kie in Atlanta or Henry Jackson trying to hold a 30-minute press conference on the way to Florida," Miller commented. And Miller says he's finding "increasing numbers of people who supported George Wallace in the past who see the futility of a third party. I find more and more conservatives who say they'll work within the framework of the Democratic party. I interpret that to mean they're going to vote Democratic if the Democratic party holds out a little finger to them." EVEN IN Mississippi, state Republican chairman Clarke Reed points to a $10,000 poll last August which showed President Nixon running ahead of Wallace, 38 per cent to 34.

"I don't see how he (Wallace) can get any electoral votes. I don't see how he could carry Alabama," Reed commented. But unlike Miller, Reed sees the former Wallace followers going to Nixon. "Four years ago, Wallace was known in the South. Nixon and Agnew were unknown.

Now they've got a track record. And even Wallace doesn't promise anything on the race issue." Calling the South "a most politically changed area," Reed says Democratic contenders "would be wasting their time down here. Their only prayer is a Wallace candidacy which might throw the border states to the Democrats." Reed, chairman of an organization of Southern GOP state leaders, sees the South as "important as hell' 'to Nixon, and isn't certain enough of a demise in Wallace's popularity to pass up an opportunity to bad-mouth third parties. "If the South defects again, there's a good chance Nixon will be beaten. We can't play these Mickey Mouse games with a third party.

Look what they almost did last time elect Humphrey and they're gonna think about that. I've talked to some hard-core Wallace people who said they'll never take that chance again." IN FLORIDA, where a new March 14 primary promises to rival New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation test as a bellwether, state Democratic party chairman Jon Moyle of West Palm Beach says Sen. Jackson, and Muskie already are "very well organized." New York Mayor John Lindsay will be in the Florida primary and Moyle's "gut reaction" is that Humphrey will make the scene. Sen. George McGovern, also is well-organized in Florida.

Lindsay also announced this week he would be a candidate in the Wisconsin primary. Wallace says he'll decide soon whether to go on the Florida primary ballot as a Democrat. "In a crowded field with the middle and left split 10 ways to breakfast. George could easily sweep across the Northern Panhandle and do well enough in other parts of the state to rack up a win." a top Florida officeholder declared recently. "Then, instead of the nice sophisticated image we hoped to get from the primary, we'd end up with a big black eye, a bunch of bigoted rednecks." Moyle, while hopeful that his primary will be one of the decisive political events of 1972, admits it could turn into a costly and inconclusive shambles.

Obviously relishing his potential as a spoiler. Wallace made it plain at the recent Southern Governors Conference in Atlanta that he doesn't intend to give the primary planners a moment's rest. HE THREATENED to enter the Florida and North Carolina primaries as a Democrat, and the Tennessee Republican, Democrat, and American Independent party primaries. "This thing could become hopelessly fragmented. Worse yet, Wallace could win with a plurality," says Democrat Moyle.

Florida officials, who will decide who goes on the ballot on the basis of press accounts of potential candidacies, have advised Wallace he should disclose by Jan. 10 whether he'll seek a berth on Florida's ballot as a Democrat. Tennessee State Sen. James Roberson of Nashville, a sponsor of his state's primary law, has asked the attorney general if the law will permit a candidate to run in all three primaries as the Wallace backers presume. "Multiple qualifications were not the intent of the law," Roberson says.

"If a candidate can enter all three contests, I will seek to amend the law when the legislature meets in January." Tennessee's primary is scheduled for May 4. Before the threat of a hydra-headed Wallace assault, a poll of 700 Tennessee Democrats in 10 counties showed Jackson holding a narrow lead over Muskie, 32 per ceit to 30.9 per cent. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, 11.1 per cent, McGovern made a 7.4 per cent showing and Arkansas Rep.

Mills garnered 4.9 per cent. ALTHOUGH serious Republican primary opposition for Nixon is unlikely, GOP conservatives have stepped up their attacks aid a liberal challenger, Rep. Paul N. McCloskey of California, will be testing his wings in New Hampshire's March 7 primary. Republican Gov.

Linwood Holton of Virginia believes Nixon is now capable of making a "broad-based appeal to all citizens for their support next year." Holton predicted in an interview that the South would get its share of attention but would not be the target of a replay of the Southern strategy Nixon was charged with employing in 1968. "I never have believed it existed. I think the press created it," Holton declared. Because of moves to cool both the economy with Phase 2 and world tensions through upcoming visits to Moscow and Peking, Nixon will be in a position to woo the black, the poor, the old and the young "as well as the white middle-class American he's been accused of dwelling upon," Holton insists. "He's winding down the war in Vietnam.

They'll realize this man has done this. And he's started these highly important explorations in Moscow and Peking. They just must produce results. It won't come overnight, and the President knows this. But he's set it up and he's going to get the credit for it," Holton says.

WHITE HOUSE chief political strategist Harry Dent shares the widely held opinion of Southern Republican chairmen that Nixon is stronger, Wallace weaker. Dent said Georgia was the only state carried by Wallace in 1968 in which Nixon made any concentrated effort. "And that was thanks to Lester Maddox. He was a governor then. Now he's a lieutenant governor and the state has a more moderate governor," Dent said.

Dent believes the Wallace states are "takeable" by Nixon in 1972. "We didn't make a major effort in all Southern states in 1968. But ki 1972, you're going to see an effort to go all-out everywhere, including the states Wallace carried in 1968." Promising a more active Nixon campaign throughout the South, Dent vowed: "We're not writing otf anyplace. Wallace will have to fight to carry any of his five states." With the new breed of Southern governors holding sway, Dent sees Maddox as the Alabaman's only "aid and comfort." NORTH CAROLINA Gov. Scott agrees that Nixon needs GREAT NEWS FOR HOMEOWNERS The first custom-bui reDiacement wmaows wren enuine insulatin ess ARRIS Founded 1916 in Washington, D.C.

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