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Then there was the private bill for Mrs. Camilla Hester of Foley, Ala. She is a widow who has been unjustly denied a federal pension because of legal complexities. The bill contained a couple of quirks that would establish bad pension precedents. The President felt compelled to reject it with his 61st veto. Mrs. Hester, who has been leaning toward Ford in this campaign, allowed as how she was "disappointed." She seemed understanding. But who knows how Mrs. Hester and her family will vote...
Jacksonville, Ala...
...South's many paradoxes that violence is not far from the surface. Montgomery, Ala., Lubbock, Texas, and Savannah, Ga., have the three highest murder rates in the nation, in part because of the gun-toting tradition and a sense that honor dictates that real or imagined wrongs must be redressed. But up North, the combined rate of violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery) is still greater than that of the South. Almost everywhere, people can walk the Dixie streets without having to fear muggings or purse snatchings...
...elective, and few institutions have changed more radically since the mass enfranchisement of Southern blacks. Only five blacks-four of them in Alabama-have managed to get elected to the job, but the day of the head-cracking Southern sheriff is passing. Says W.D. Nichols, sheriff of Dallas County, Ala.: "Most of the oldtimers with the potbellies and pilots' glasses have either retired or been defeated...
Taking their places are politically savvy lawmen like Robert L. (for Lee, naturally) Turner, 46, of Autauga County, Ala. Like most of his Deep South colleagues, who generally still favor straightening out troublemakers in the woods behind the courthouse. Turner is a firm believer in law-and-order. But he made certain to pass out his "Sheriff Turner" pens last year evenhandedly to blacks and whites alike; his constituency of 25,000 is 28% black. Turner's law-enforcement philosophy: "We do our dead-level best to negotiate rather than have a bunch of folks get hurt. The [white...