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Political Groups ActiveA widening variety of political viewpoints is springing into organized form in Greene County, with four groups becoming active since last summer.The New Party, a liberal coalition announced on a national level after Richard M. Nixon’s inauguration as President Jan. 20 and with a county resident as one of its nationalST 3 DAYS! RB SAVINGS!)AY!1MENTS TODAY!chairmen, plans an organizational meeting tonight.The Greene County Young Democratic Club, re-formed last July and still in a reorganization process, will meet next week to consider what its relationship is to be to a splinter— ■ 4group called the New Democratic Coalition. The latter at present has only one local enthusiast, James Cain of Xenia, who is also Young Democrat county president.The fourth group is the Greene County chapter of the George C. • Wallace American Independent party, formed dur- about 75. ing the 1988 presidential campaign.The New Party meeting Is to be at 8 tonight in the Yellow Springs Library. Although Antioch College president Dr.James Dixon shares the national chairmanship with comedian Dick Gregory, he has not participated in forming a local chapter, his secretary, Mrs.Dorothy High, said Wednesday,Two Antioch students, SteveLanders and Jeffrey Davidson, have held one or two organizational meetings on campus.The New Party expects to hold inaugural ceremonies inWashington, D.C., March 4 to install Gregory as head of a “government in exile” as t a protest of established political parties’ activities'.The Young Democrats will meet at 8 p.m Thursday, Feb.20, in the Schlafman k Elliott law offices, S. Central Ave,,Fairborn, to consider its relationship to the New Democratic Coalition, Cain says.Cain describes the New Democratic Coalition (NDC), which he says Is more active in northern Ohio industrial cities than in southwest Ohio, as a “symptom of what’s wrong with the Democratic party at present.” He emphasizes it is not a fourth party, but is one whose members hope to work within the Democartic organt-zation to “get people concerned in an issue-oriented party.”Both NDC and the Young Democrats, he says, have the common purpose of serving as a vehicle for citizen involvement, First members of the *roup were the original supporters of Sens. Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy and George McGovern and some Vice President Hubert Humphrey supporters. The group,Cain says, wants to get away from “courthouse politics.” Next week’s Young Democrat meeting will be open to the public, Cain says, as will an NDC convention to be held in Cleveland April 19-20. V The Wallace group, in contrast to the Democratic clubs, Has not been making, public statements about its acitvities, other than to announce meeting dates. Replies to questions from reporters about Its activi-ties-admit only to “reading - of minutes” and “business.” The group, composed of Xenians and Fairbornites, meets monthly at the Court House and claims a membership list ofWICKIANNOmCLMAD1RA LAUAN MAHCA beautiful panel rich in wirmth and lustre. Excl Perm-A-Tone finish prc against stains and scrat Accent grooved.WHITE SAND LAUANA care-free panel. Perm jfc-ToneReg. $3.89NOExcil or. RHIIMD- BIJiCH56,43 4’rOCLl “Hew To Panelrl\CCi With Plywood* BoolSOUQ HARDWOOD 4 M SWITCH 1 IN EaOUTLET PLATES amm—KiiUrmg
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Daily Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Thu, Feb 13, 1969
Page 6
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Greene C.
OH, USA 13 Jul 2022
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