European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday Morch 10, aae Garayt presidential Campaign preview politicians spin on Gridiron club s spit Washington a poli tics its top men and some of the would be top men took a sizzling spin saturday night on the Gridiron club s roasting spit in along and satire preview of the 1968 presidential Campaign. Strictly in the tradition of the83-year-old club nobody got off with less than blisters on a politician s reputedly Tough hide. Many of the nation s great were among the 500 guests at the club s annual White tie ban Quet in the Statler Hilton hotel. Hosts were the club s 50 Active members Washington representatives of leading news organizations. In one of the rare Breaks from unadulterated Monkey business Nat s. Finney of the Buffalo evening news was inaugurated As Gridiron president. His pub Lisher James h. Righter and his editor Paul e. Neville were onlookers. On the dais with Finney were vice president Hubert h. Humphrey chief Justice Earl War Ren and justices of the supreme court Secretary of state Dean Rusk Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford and other cab inet members members of the joint chiefs of staff key ambassadors congressional Lead ers governors and leading industrialists such As Semeon e. Knudsen and Edwin n. Cole new presidents respectively of Ford and general motors. From the Field of journalism were Wes Gallagher general manager of the associate press Mims Thomason presi Dent of United press International Thomas Vail publisher and editor of the Clevelan Plain dealer and Turner cat ledge executive editor of the new York times. Humphrey and rep. Gerald. Ford of Michigan House re publican Leader set out a Patter for the whole affair in a two Man preview of the comin Campaign each committing verbal mayhem on the other party. Like All the rest of the proceedings it was off the record under the club Rule that reporters Are never the first skit was a race track scene with the Republican Handicap about to Start. Raffis campaigners costumed As jockeys $2 Mutual plungers and the like switched the tune of Ilove a Parade and wound up like this we love a Campaign we shout and we Bra keep waving the Flag it s part of the we love a Campaign. Pollsters were misrepresented no excuse san Francisco up Wyatt St. B. Ustis jr., a 50 year old tax accountant fro Burlingame has been fined $8,000 and sentenced to three months in jail for failing to file income ears. Tax returns for eight by three touts who claimed Mohave the race taped All in Gallup i be got the candidate. He s big in evry Roper his Man wins All the Way and pays his own expenses and that Ain t it1/-i Titi i so wic Noil Ifor Harris his poll is real sincere. He s got the Winner sure and it s no bum sen. Charles h. Percy r-ih.,got the business Over his encounter with gunfire on a trip to National chair Man Ray c. Bliss was depict Edas asking rep. Melvin Laird r-wis., Why does Junior have to have his picnic right in the Middle of no mans land Laird s reply it s his contribution to the War. He s Only taking his missus and a few the while Percy s stand in protested no publicity Buthis escort officer Sang a differ ent tune about Hall Campaign Man Berlin indians they re More Likely today Ach than ugh but these girls Are having More fun than a whole tribe at Heberlin boat and Leisure show. A photo again linked to civil rights Case flu. Fire bombers strike Gainesville Fla. A Nightrider who have struck a dozen times with fire bombs a Gainesville Homes and Busi Nesses since the first of the Yea hit again Early Friday. Police said the unsolved attacks Ste from the most controversial civil rights Case in the history of this North Florida City. Police chief William d. Joiner said the bombers were quite Likely the same Small group that launched earlier attacks on Small businesses owned by White merchants in the City s negro District. The Homes of judge and an assistant state at Torney involved in the civil rights Case also were hit. It All stems from the trouble that has occurred Here where the civil rights workers have been involved said Joiner. Joiner said he was referring to Carol Thomas and Irvin Jack series of incidents started immediately after Dawkins and mrs Thomas were sentenced on contempt of court dec. 27," he first fire bombing occurred Jan. 1." the chief said other bombings occurred after court hearings in the Case. Asked Why the bombers would attack White merchants Joiner said there would be some animosity on the part of coloured people toward White merchants where they thought they had been taken advantage of. Some times because the merchant Hap pens to be White and happens to have a business in the Center of negro mrs. Thomas who is White and Dawkins convicted and a negro were jailed for con plane crash kills 14 Manila a a Domestic Airliner crashed in the Central Philippines Friday night kill Ingall 14 persons aboard the Philip Pine news service reported. Miami at l a in Sinatra s iraqi cd wife Alia Farrow army saturday flew to Miami was re Sinatra is performing hat refused to say whether their is Over. The 22 year old actress had Cut Tinort her meditation in India with maharishi Mahesh Yogi leaving after six weeks. She i scheduled to go to London to be l Iii lie Iii i vn-nxtmv7 i Kli Abich to j a on Farrow and the 51- car old Sinatra agreed nov. 22 to atrial separation Alcor Diu to James Mahoney press agent for both performers. At. The Airport in Miami miss Farrow refused to acknowledge questions from newsmen lib out. Seen j her plans and whether she would Sinatra who is Filiti new movie during. The Days and at a Miami Ikach hotel each night. There was no comment from Sinatra but in los Angeles a Honey t Aid there had been no at tempt at reconciliation or communication since the separation. Tempt of court after admitting they distributed an underground publication calling Gainesville police and the Alachua county grand jury klan infested and the raiders have always struck about Midnight. Joiner said they have switched from amateurish kerosene filled Glass bottles to the More dangerous and More effective gasoline filled attacked three Busi Nesses Early Friday the Day after the state 1st District court of Appeal in Tallahassee upheld the contempt conviction of Daw Kins and mrs. Thomas wife of University of Florida professor. There have been no injuries inane of the attacks. The Home of Mack s. Futch assistant stat attorney who helped in the prosecution of the Dawkins Thom Scase was hit feb. 4, less than 20 Days after the Home of Ala Chua circuit judge James c. Adkins jr., who cited the civil rights workers for contempt and refused them Bond was fire bombed. The feb. 4 bombing came urn Days after mrs. Thomas and Dawkins were put on broadband water for 12 hours after a jail riot which authorities said they sparked. Damage in the series of bombings in which three Busi Ness establishments have been hit twice each has been slight. Two of the establishments hit Early Friday a furniture store and a lounge had Beer victimized before. Ager for Michigan George Romney until. Pulled out of the race appeared pm. I turned As an undertaker to his horse had As ii ital " wearing s usual. Romney came in sweat suit sheepskin coat dunce Cap and carrying a White Hall borrowed everything but the name of the deceased from Oklahoma to sing Dol fully pore George is former vice president Rich Ard m. Nixon appeared in red coat As a race track bugler to the tune of i be got Yoo under my skin wive got it under my skin the White House deep in the heart of me so deep in my heart it s really part of me i be got it under my skin. Mayor John Lindsay of Newyork City brought a gift for gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller-4shiny garbage pail borne by two White wings. Rockefeller in track suit too the tune of i won t dance to take off singing i won t run Don t ask he concluded since i can win it in a walk Iwon t next on the theme forge the Alamo appeared sen. Rob Ert f. Kennedy d-n.y., As a Alamo defender flanked by Kenneth Galbraith and Arthu Schlesinger or. To the tune of stand up for Jesus the senator Sang about standing up for Lyndon there s nothing else to do. He was for Hubert too audit s shocking How reporters show that it s just not used the tune of Silver threads among the Gold to bewail Silver threads taking the Edge off the youth hints of the famous Kennedy Long hair and warned that Sev Enty two could be too As a secret weapon for the democratic party the great apostle of Freedom and More Federal Grants for Alabama George c. Wallace Sang to the strains of Yankee Doodle Dan he d even let Bobby run with him and set All you Damn Yankees . Eugene j. Mccarthy of Minnesota was Don Quixote. Bespoke sternly to Hubert and Lyndon and serpents of sin in measures from the Man of la the Alamo was saved after All More or less in the skit de voted to Johnson and his Rise from the obscurity of the Texas Hill country. Weather . 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