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Whatever Became of Middle Age?

Most of us have heard the somewhat flip definition of the three stages (J human Hfe: Youth. Middle Age, and "You look fine." Despite the flippancy of thi definition. I imagine that in general it holds true objectively — as in som sociological statistical survey — rather than subjectively to individuals. While we all know when the youth is on us and. except for those persons of hot! sexes who experience difficulty in relinquishing the state of "being young." there i usually a gradualism about passing from youth into what might be called " voiin adulthood." I do not think, for most of us, any watershed marks a day or a yea when we have passed from youth into adulthood. And currently (as for most of thi century) the many stages of adulthood, in turn, are passed so gradually that suspect few individuals think of themselves subjectively as "middle-aged" an more. Excluding those very young who regard anyone past thirty as over the hill, an speaking for my generation (which came of age in the mid-twenties), as I recall, i our youth we simply regarded our parents and their contemporaries as "oldc people" — that is, older than we were. As for the over the hill business, when I w£ 20 or 21, two of my best friends were in their middle and late thirties, and n friend, then or ever, was ever closer to me than my landlady, a bright, educated an very amusing English lady who must have been in her sixties: I never thought c her age, nor apparently did the dozens of talented and/or clever persons in the Young Adulthood who crowded her livingroom at tea time. Of course, as some of us increase in chronological years, there are certai activities which must be curtailed or cancelled altogether, and others in which M no longer have interest. Yet, some of us seem to hold up very well in outdo< activities. I have a friend of 75 who plays competitive tennis and another friend, a editor, who, recently dead, was a gentleman rider in steeplechases when he wi young enough to make the weight (160 pounds with saddle) and a most bo foxhunter until back trouble (from earlier falls) forced him to call a halt in h middle seventies. On tennis courts all around Virginia, you can find gentlemen their sixties and seventies playing on any day. Of these physical activists, since an equal number of their contemporaries a dead, I think they have been able to continue their outdoor interests partly becau of regulated lives but mostly because of the good fortune to have escaped tho crippling illnesses (such as, say, poor eyes or certain kinds of arthritis) which mal vigorous outdoor exercise, especially games, impossible. Yet. their contemporaries who for one reason or another no longer partake outdoor activities are not necessarily relagated to dozing in front of the fire whi waiting for the inevitable end. Many of them lead extraordinarily active lives of ti mind, which is also their playground. In fact, it is a reward as well as a relief to

VIRGINIA RECORD Founded Ifi ble to follow mental pathways that it is in the eye of the beholder. But showed in his at-home-in-the-world Bvherever they lead without here we need explain the identity of the stance as he stood on the busy corner onsideration for their practical value beholder. If contemporaries have been surveying the scene. n the marketplace or with nary a friends, or even acquaintances, who It was not possible, then or now. to hought of competition. have seen one another with some think of him as "middle-aged." However, since for some decades regularity across the decades, they have Obviously no college boy. he was a ixty-five has been considered (except in all undergone together the changes physically powerful male adult of the lolitics) the cut-off place of usefulness, away from youth — graying or balding most charming good humor — which ndividuals past that arbitrary head, thickening or thinning body — could be lost (though it never was on landmark are often regarded as existing and to one another each remains, in that trip) in tumultuous eruptions of n that Valhalla occupied by "Senior essence, the same familiar person. They anger. During that month we were itizens." It is certainly true that in excellent companions. He told me much ome places in Rorida and in Southern know they are long past youth and. by of the pre-prohibition New York he had alifornia there are communities the vital statistics of insurance known in trips in his younger days. One lomposed of retired old people who companies, they know their futures are night at the Gene Tunney-Harry Greb bem to have no purpose beyond being largely behind them. But I do not fight for the light-heavyweight Senior Citizens." believe they think of themselves as "middle-aged" — at least as long as championship in the old Madison A couple who are contemporaries of they remain active, in a profession or in Square Garden (on Madison Square), |iy father (who would be 106 had he sports or in uses of the mind, or any he told me how its architect, Stanford ved) retired to Florida and the combination of all three. White, at a supper party on the Roof usband used to write me long letters When I had just turned 18 and was Garden, was murdered by Harry Thaw ithout ever mentioning Florida but studying in New York, my father, who over Evelyn Nesbit. Tliese tidbits Iways expatiating on some aspect of had just reached 50, was sent to New extended my view of life backward in e Civil War. Then once he wrote me. time until, as Faulkner said, "The past York for a month to be trained in some We are no longer growing old; we are is not dead; it is not even past." new technology by the company which Id." Since he was then in his upper employed him. He stayed at the fghties. and he and his wife had I do not present this memory as McAlpin (probably long since gone), ffered many of the infirmities of the anything like part of a case, except to then a favorite hotel of Southerners, ging process, soon after, he died. This make this point. My father looked to entleman of very strong feelings, just off Herald Square where Sixth me then, and later, as he had always bviously misplaced in a community of Avenue crossed Broadway. On many looked, and I'm sure he thought no seless old people, would clearly if days I would meet him for dinner and I more of middle age for himself than I nhappily fit the category of "Senior can still see him standing on the corner, did for him. At 72 he was struck down itizen." stocky and sturdy in the good clothes he by a quick-acting cancer. Near the very always loved to wear, with an open, end, he began to look old, but there was But I believe there are more outgoing expression on a face reflecting nothing muted like a senior citizen dividuals over 65 of both sexes all over inner vitality. Since he was quick to waiting for the end: he was more like a merica who are senior citizens only by smile with an easy warmth, he never wounded old lion who would never give e chronology which makes them experienced difficulty in establishing nior to younger people than there are up. I was then near forty myself and friendly relations with strangers. This ose in the publicized communities for (Cnnliniivil on inigc 161 e aged.

By the same token, there are )untless young people (say. under ^^^i^YNESBORO irty) who are not and have not ever ;en publicized as "Youth." In this ntury. Noel Coward starred in his own ^idURSERIES t plays in London and New York at 23 id 24. at about the time that Richard PHONK 703/942-4141 odgers (the perennial composer of hit WAYNFSnORO, VIRGINIA 22980 ngs for music shows) was making it g in his mid-twenties. It is M.owI:RINC; TREIVS SIIADF 1 RFIvS conceivable that such people, then or )w. would be interested in any FLOWFRING SHRUBS i:vFRr.Ri:i:N.s iblicity except for their work, adgers, who became a very rich man, LANDSCAPF SFRVICE is always been an extremely private irson. Ask for Free Copy 48 - page Planting Guide - Catalog in color. So, now we come to: what is "Middle DISCOUNT TO CONTRACTORS \t" today? A glib answer, of course, is

> tell the Virginia Story OCTOBER 1978 Oft Conventions and Candidates . The Struggle for Virginia's Senate Seat By Guy Friddell

Neither party had seen anything likj THE race for the U.S. Senate now Light Brigade by seven opponents, most of whom could have been major the actress or the evangelist. reaching a peak throughout Virginia The Republican Convention drew) began in early June at nominating contenders in November. nearly 9,000 delegates and alternates conventions of crucial significance. Miller and Obenshain. both young but veterans of political wars, both plus 1,300 guests. Not only was it the They signaled the start of a struggle largest political convention ever held b)| that would determine this November highly intelligent and articulate, were Virginia Republicans; it was the largesr not only who would occupy a seat in the well-matched. They had met before. In ever held anywhere. U.S. Senate for the next six years but the race for Attorney General in 1%9 also seemed likely to decide which party Miller had defeated Obenshain. Now In sheer gargantuan size it wal — Democrat or Republican — would they squared away for what each cause for rejoicing among the GOF dominate politics in Virginia a decade thought would be the climactic battle of faithful. A quarter of a century age or more. his political career. The Commonwealth party officials had to beseech friends te could look forward to a contest that had The Republican Convention on June attend conventions to get a quorum unusual potential for exploring 2-3 marked the coming of age of the And the conventions used to draf national issues. GOP that had been battling a quarter candidates for state office like so man^ of a century to achieve major status. But on August 2 Obenshain died sacrificial goats. The Democratic Convention on June tragically when the plane bringing hitn Republican nominees entered a statJ 9-10 checked that party's swing to the home from a campaign appearance in race with the sad nobility of Sidnei left and brought it back to the Winchester crashed and burned near Carton going to the guillotine. moderate-conservative course it had Chesterfield County Airport. The face The upturn in Republican fortunei of the campaign changed. been following before the death in 1971 began in 1952 when Dwight Dl of its charismatic young standard Nevertheless, to understand it one Eisenhower beamed his smile upon th{ bearer. J. Sergeant Reynolds. must go back to the beginnings in June. electorate. In carrying Virginia Ike alsJ In the Richmond Coliseum 42-year- Each convention offered spectacles new carried three Republicans on his coatr old Richard D. Obenshain wrested the to politics in the Old Dominion. tails into the House of Representatives. [ Republican nomination from two The Republican contest drew The GOP continued to make gains ii formidable rivals. Prior to the national television coverage through the Congress and in 1969 Lin wood HoltoJ nomination there was speculation, violet-eyed presence of Elizabeth won the governorship when th indeed, as to which of the three would Taylor, actress-wife of candidate John followers of Henry Howell defecte do best as a nominee. W. Warner. Cameramen buzzed at her from the Democratic Party afte To win the Democratic nomination in face like bees at a day lily. The Democratic melee bemused the Howell's defeat in the Deniocrati Williamsburg 45-year-old Andrew P. primary by William C. Battle. Som Miller turned back a Charge of the press with the candidacy of a born- again Christian. G. Conoly Phillips of disgruntled conservative Democrat Norfolk, leading a band of praying, also defected after Fred Pollard's loss i the three-way primary. About the Author: Guy Friddell. hymn-singing newcomers to politics. aw (ltd-winning author, columnist and special writer for Landmark News Service is regarded among the best known of Virginia's newspapertnen. He was honored recently for distinguished service to Journalism when he reci'ived the highest accolade of local Journalists, the George Mason Award. A native of Atlanta. Friddell was graduated from the University of • Riehtnond. A fter World War II service wiih the V. S. Army, he earned a Masters degree in Journalistti at Columbia University. In addition to his Journalistic endeavors. Friddell has written six books about Virginia, the best known being the delightful "What Is It About Virginia?" The George Mason Awards committee had this to say about him — "Guy Friddell has become part of the fabric of the Old Dominion . . . He is r/ie most successful working Journalist- author in the state and perhaps the most quoted among Journalists . . ." Doris and A ndv Miller VIRGINIA RECORD F'ounded l^'. Then young Reynolds. the Democrats' bright and rising star, died of a brain tumor. Howell took over as Lieutenant Governor— and the liberals took temporary command of the Democratic Party. In 1970 U.S. Senator Harry Byrd Jr. turned Independent and in 1972 Republican William Scott upset U.S. Senator William B. SpongJr. In 1973 former Democratic Governor Mills Godwin turned Republican and defeated Howell narrowly in the race for Governor. Howell, who had polled more than 500,000 votes against Godwin, ran a third time in 1976 and defeated Andy Miller in the Democratic Primary but then lost in November to John Dalton, 3 son of Ted Dalton. In 25 years the political complexion of the Old Dominion had changed radically. Starting with Ike. the Republicans breached a solid Democratic front and by 1978 the GOP held the governorship and the post of attorney general, a U.S. Senate seat, and six of the 10 seats in the House of Representatives. The Late Dick Obenshain and wife Helen A view widely held through the OOP's place. A fourth candidate. State County. Warner volunteered at 17 for lean years had been that the Senator Nathan Miller of Staunton, the Navy. After graduation from Republican Party had to build seemed to be using the convention as a Washington and Lee University he had gradually from the grassroots by staging area for some more distant race, finished a year at the University ot gaining a majority of the seats in the (In former years just such a budding Virginia Law School when he was called 140-member Virginia General candidate as Senator Miller would have as a Marine reservist to two years in Assembly. But the party's accession to been pulled green and thrown into a Korea. power has come from the top down. race. Indeed as recently as 1972 He took his law degree in 1953. So the Republicans arrived in Republican Congressman Scott had clerked a year in the Circuit Court of Richmond in June full of hopes and picked up the GOP nomination for the Appeals in Washington, and after five with a surplus of seasoned Senatorial Senate without opposition because years in the U.S. attorney's office and timber. nobody else dared challenge eight years as a corporate lawyer, he Obenshain. a former state party Democratic Senator Spong.) became undersecretary of the Navy in chairman and national co-chairman, The 1978 convention's most 1%9. was front-runner for the Senate surprising aspect was Warner's strong He was Secretary of the Navy from nomination. Warner and former showing. A Washington, D.C. native 1972 to 1974 when he was appointed Governor Holton were vying for second whose father was born in Amherst head of the Bicentennial Administra• tion. Warner was divorced in 1973 from Catherine Mellon, daughter of philanthropist Paul Mellon. They have two daughters and a son. In December 1976 he married Elizabeth Taylor, whom he had escorted as "a blind date" to Queen Elizabeth's luncheon for President Ford in 1976. The idea of running for the Senate occurred to Warner while he was campaigning in Virginia for Ford in October 1976 and Senator Scott announced his intention not to seek re• election. "That's what triggered it," Warner told a reporter later. Two things had to be determined, he said. First, whether enough people were interested in his making the race. "In that," he said, "I was far more encouraged than I had anticipated. "Secondly there was a question mark about Elizabeth. I had married her for solely personal reasons with no political thought in mind and there was some Elizabeth and John Warner speculation the state would not accept /(; H'U the Virginia Story OCTOBER 1978 balloting began. Holton conferred with delegates in a cell-like room in the basement while Mrs. Holton stood outside and talked with others waiting to see the former governor. Wearing a peach-cool frock, her green eyes] sparkling under a cap of tight curls, she brightened the drab corridor and conversation. Then, during the balloting, the Holton clan moved ceaselessly around the three-decked auditorium, a grand canyon of color and sound. Holton, leaning across seats, stretching over rows, laughing, greeting delegates, extended his hand constantly like an elephant's inquiring snout. He told a reporter that he had decided to make the race when he watched the 1977 convention and decided that it was not controlled tightly by the ultraconservative forces. In a week-long family conference at Seashore State Park. Mrs. Holton cautioned: "You've been at the top. Aren't you ever satisfied?" But the! Jinks and Limvood Holt on children sided with Holton because, said his elder daughter Tayloe. "Dad's her. The contrary is the fact. Wherever "You lose," she said, instantly, softly. Following Dalton's election. Warner happier at politics than at anything he we go, people are extraordinarily warm' does." and nice." went to work recruiting talent from the Whatever her doubts. Mrs. Holton In receptions in all of the state's 10 Republican National Committee and from President Ford's Committee to campaigned as thoroughly and congressional districts the Warners engagingly as her husband as their raised between $200,000 and $250,000 head his well-financed campaign organization. command post in the convention for the Republican Party, State dispatched them from one delegation to Chairman George McMath has He formally announced January 5. 1978. In the tumultuous five-month another — Rockbridge, Northampton, estimated. Fairfax. Norfolk. Dinwiddle, Floyd, A picnic at Warner's farm in struggle for delegates, his recruits proved highly effective. Danville — as if they were hop. Middleburg drew 3,000 persons and skipping, and jumping around a giantj netted $45,000 for John Dalton's A cadre of his staffers came into Roanoke County the week before the map of Virginia. Under the Salem campaign for Governor. "From John's standard the two met briefly, kissed back porch, it looked like Woodstock," mass meeting and organized a coup that succeeded in taking more than 50 and went their separate ways in th( said one of Warner's former aides, cause of togetherness. Dennis Peterson. "There was a mass of delegates in Linwood Holton's home From the first vote on the first ballol faces." town, a psychological blow to Holton. in the First District, Holton knew thd Peterson remembers first seeing Miss When the convention opened in cause was lost. "I only got 51 votes anc Taylor at a Chamber of Commerce Richmond. Warner was challenging banquet in a hotel in Staunton. Holton for second place. John Warner got 59," he said. "I hac Afterwards she sat on a couch, with an During the convention proceedings he thought I had to have 100. So there ice pack on the back of her neck, while made additional headway. Visiting a was." local chamber officials trooped through Tenth District delegation in the gallery, As the fourth ballot neared. he got hi; the room to pay their respects. Warner was tagged by a pert little family together for a conference in at upper hallway. "Elizabeth is a very fragile person," Holtonite, a blonde dressed in green "Tayloe and the other children didn' said Peterson. "She spends a lot of her and blue, who fluttered around him like want me to stop, but Jinks thought life in pain, bless her heart, and she just a blue jay and cried a word for Linwood had better get out than get bloodied.' goes on. It was aggravated by her being at every pause in Warner's spiel. he said later. thrown from a horse on the farm in Finally, wheeling, Warner grabbed her November 1976. She's better now; but by the waist, swept her off her feet, and So he put on his coat and combed hi in the course of the campaign it was a swirled her around in the air, as if the hair and led them by a back route to th problem for her. Frankly a lot of people two were in a Strauss waltz. Applause rostrum. On the way they happened ti talked about her weight, but that came swept the delegation — and even the meet Obenshain. Holton shook hi from the cortisone shots she was taking blonde had to laugh. hand, the girls kissed him on the cheek to relieve the pain." Meanwhile, in a remarkable and they climbed the steps to th platform to concede — as much o She endures the rigors of demonstration of family solidarity, Holton and his wife Jinks and their four more a family in defeat as they ha< campaigning with remarkable poise, been in victory. said Peterson. In Hampton a hearty children were canvassing the huge handshaker broke a blood vessel in her coliseum in quest of votes, clambering With a spirited flourish, Holton tol< hand. In Wytheville a man. with a around its steep sides in a kind of the convention: "Fellow Republican friend nearby holding a camera, said he Pilgrim's Progress, a gallant journey as . . . Jinks, Tayloe, Ann, Woody, an( had bet the boys at the plant fifty Holton's position slipped from ballot to Dw ight are very happy to join with yo dollars he could have his picture taken ballot, in the face of Giant Despair. in welcoming me to the status of th kissing Elizabeth Taylor. Earlier in the day, before the elder statesman!"

8 VIRGINIA RECORD Founded I87i Holton pledged to help the nominee, thanked his supporters, and expressed satisfaction that the convention helped "fulfill the overall objective at the beginning of my political career to stop one-party government and create two- party competition." So the Republican Convention, which in former years had difficulty finding a member of the General Assembly to bear the standard, had rejected a former Governor. From two opposing sources that night came analyses of Holton's defeat. "I supported Linwood Holton for Governor in 1%9 but he was more liberal in office than he had presented himself in the campaign." said a delegate from McLean. "Otherwise I would have been right behind him tonight." "Had Linwood been less of a Governor and more of a politician, he could have won tonight." said a former member of Holton's administration. As the Holton forces faltered. Warner |\v.is |)icking up momentum and. after G. Conoly Phillips and Rujus Phillips Holton's withdrawal, he made a The stereotype of a conservative is a one who would work for Goldwater in [surprisingly strong charge at grim, dour individual, which is fully as 1%4. Obenshain. In the midst of the fifth erroneous as the depiction of the stock He entered Richmond politics in 1%0 ballot, the vast convention became liberal as a shrill bleeding heart. as a precinct chairman for Richard aware that Warner, standing in the Anyway. Obenshain didn't fit the Nixon, organized precincts for the 1962 econd tier near the front of the hall was pattern of the humorless conservative. congressional race, worked three years leading his supporters in a cheering Somewhat shy, really, he wasn't a as chairman of the Young Republicans, :hant: "GO! . . . GO! . . . GO! . . . backslapping politician who fell all over and at 28 succumbed to pressures from O!" a voter, but his wide boyish grin left no party leaders to run in a three-way race He shucked his coat and climbed onto doubt about his delight in seeing you. for Congress in 1%4. He finished 1 table at his command post, and. Further, his wit surfaced porpoise-like second only 350 votes behind onspicuous in shirt sleeves and wide in qiiestion-and-answer sessions with conservative Democrat David ed-and-blue suspenders, he balled his the press or audiences. Satterfield. ight fist and swung his arm in a bui^e. A quarter of a century ago the Taft- In 1%9 State GOP leaders persuaded jDumping semi-circle over and over in Eisenhower contest sparked Richard him to run for Attorney General. He ime to the chant. Those on the floor Obenshain's interest in politics. Just out lost to Andrew Miller. But he began ^nd in the galleries swayed back and of high school in Blacksburg, he campaigning the following February for brth in time. attended the Chicago convention at the I he post of State Chairman. Former Governor Godwin and other behest of Bentley Hite of The Republican Party, he preached, Dbenshain supporters conferred with Christiansburg. the first Virginia had fallen into a dismal situation, •Jathan Miller who withdrew to let the delegate to declare for Eisenhower. drawing less than 25 percent of the vote onveiitioii "work its will." On the sixth Obenshain's family always had been in 1970 and 1971 compared with Ted [)allot Obenshain went over the top with Republican. His grandfather was Dalton's performance of 1951 in ,579 votes. 38 more than he needed for Republican sheriff of Botetourt County. garnering 45 percent. ictory. and the Warners came to the His father, professor of agronomy at In a convention in the Roanoke Civic ostrum. VPl. was a Republican in a community Center in 1972 Obenshain defeated They waved to the convention arul where, the son said. "The administra• Governor Holton's candidate for the hen Warner made a gracious tion and faculty of VPl were strongly party chairmanship by nearly three to oncession and called for Obenshain's controlled by the Democratic Party." one. When he took the party's helm as homination. Then it was the turn of At Bridgewater College young the new chairman he told the cheering )benshain and his pretty wife. Helen, Obenshain was president of the student delegates that he aimed to make the o come to the front and accept the body, took national honors debating, GOP "a comfortable new home" for ictory. graduated inanua cum hiude. and wou Democrats fleeing the liberal takeover After paying tribute to his three a Root-Tilden Scholarship to New York of their own party. pponents for "the friendliest, most University School of Law. So he reconstructed the Republican onstriictive competition my party has An outstanding liberal professor. Party in his own image, and, having ver had," Obenshain pitched into the Edmund Cahn, encouraged the worked for the election of others, he pemocrats. Virginia youth to start practice in won the right last June to become a At high points of remarks the crowd Richmond, but by that time Sylvester candidate himself. The day after his h the coliseum screamed and waved Petro. a trenchant conservative nomination in the Coliseum. Obenshain )bcnshain placards — each bearing a professor, had turned the young set out with his usual throiighness to ingle huge O — so that the convention lledgling lawyer "from being what they campaign. |oor looked like a proud, spreading called in Arthur Larsen's day a A week later the Democrats arrived in eacock's tail. nuHlerate Eisenhower Republican" into Williamsburg ravenous for victory. o tell the Virfjinia Story OCTOBER 1978 During the last nine years their party, went "to a school called Groton." Ottcn once as dominant as the New York called a liberal, he would be regarded as Yankees of Ruth and DiMaggio. has moderate in most other states. Downing lost three successive races for Governdr Leading more than 300 Christian and two U.S. Senate campaigns in a soldiers was G. Conoly Phillips, the Insurance, Inc. row. Norfolk automobile dealer and City Concern over that losing streak was Councilman who said he had been marked at the convention. Usually called by the Lord to enter politics and to jump into the Senate race just before ALL FORMS INSURANCE members of the General Assembly shun state political conventions, but 80 the April mass meetings. legislators showed up in William and Thin, w ith the woe-begone look of one Mary Hall. They were motivated by a of El Greco's martyrs, Phillips intrigued Phone 703-63.5-7 I 31 healthy instinct: fear of extinction. newsmen with his serene confidence 1 lOSoiilli Ho\al Avenue Another substantial loss this November and self deprecatory sense of humor, a might jeopardize some of their own contradictory combination. HiOM H(»VAL. VIK(;iMA seats in next year's legislative elections. A 14-year veteran of the General The blacks at the convention also Assembly, State Senator Hunter B. were inclined to be pragmatic. Those Andrews of Hampton commanded a committed to Andrew Miller resisted place in the anti-Miller coalition out of appeals during a black caucus to all proportion to his less than 100 support State Senator Clive DuVal. delegates — just as he is consulted as NEW RIVER DuVal, who had the backing of Henry "Mr. Rules" in the State Senate. Howell, pledged to vote for extension of Indeed, other Senators have found that the Federal Voting Rights Act; but the they can draw on his advice about ELECTRICAL blacks stuck with Miller as the procedure even though they may be candidate who, they felt, had the best pushing a bill he opposes. He obligingly CORP. chance to win in November. explains the route to take while Thus the party's moderates and reserving the right to disagree in voting. Another veteran of the General ELEC I'Ric CONTRACTORS conservatives regained the ascendency that they had lost to the liberals in the Assembly. 58-year-old Carrington 1972 state convention at Salem that Williams, resigned from the House in FOR endorsed McGovern for President. 1977 to fulfill a nearly life-long In Williamsburg last June the ambition in running for the U.S. Senate. The elegant Williams — his UTILITY CONSTRUCTION Democrats had a smorgasbord of candidates. Miller, a former Attorney hair is the striped silver and black of an General for two terms, came into the ascot tie — wears glasses with heavy SUB STATIONS AND convention with 1,000 of the nearly horn rims and appears downright 1,300 votes necessary to win the ambassadorial. nomination. INDUSTRIAL WIRING The president of an engineering llrm Tall, courtly, 65-year-old DuVal in Northern Virginia. Rufus Phillips started with some 500 votes. A veteran campaigned by working a day or two in Phone 703-344-3231 of three terms in the House of Delegates more than two dozen different jobs 1701 Cleveland Ave., S.W. and in his second term in the State throughout the Old Dominion. He Senate, DuVal is a guardian of the believes in learning for himself. ROANOKE, VA. 24016 environment and an advocate of ERA. A former CIA operative, he returned Soft-spoken, polite to the point of being from Vietnam in 1963 and warned self-effacing, he once told me President Kennedy of our failures in diffidently during an interview that he Southeast Asia. David Halberstram's book, "The Best and the Brightest."

tVERYTHING FOR THE TILE CONTRACTOR' notes that Phillips convinced the President that the reports of the military could not be trusted. MORRIS TILE A former chairman of the Fairfax DISTRIBUTORS, INC. County Board of Supervisors, P O. BOX 6446 • 1506 TOMLYNN STREET • RtCHMON D. VI RGINI A 23230 personable Frederick A. Babson, 47, TELEPHONES 8CJ-35S 7856 a 355-7857 now a real estate developer in Virginia Beach, had set his hopes on Andrew Miller being elected Governor in 1977 and on the Democrats nominating a senatorial candidate through a primary. HANOVER FABRICATORS Cut off from his Northern Virginia base, his own campaign hadn't made much headway. SiriM'liinil Wood Trii>'^('> The only woman in the race. Flora Crater, was the only avowed liberal. The C0MM1:R( lAL— INDUS I KIAI, 63-year-old feminist chided hei colleagues for trying, she said, to aci more like Republicans than Democrats 102 S. Lcadbctlcr Road Phone 804-798-6063 That then was the large and able cas Route 2, Box 461 Ashland. Va. that came before the convention o some 4,000 Democrats.

Founded lH7t 10 VIRGINIA RECORD It would have taken a political The solid seven, as the coalition was Iiracle to head off Miller. The born- called, couldn't agree on any one of ain Christians expected one. and I their number behind whom to rally BANK nt a good part of the time watching against Miller. Midway through the t new phenomenon in Virginia third ballot his candidacy took on the tlitics. U^ok of a bandwagon. OF iThey looked, en masse. like members The five main contenders— DuVal, the average Baptist or Methodist Andrews. Rufus Phillips. Williams, BUCHANAN igregation — those. I mean, who Conoly Phillips, and his campaign ne to church year-round, not just at manager. Robertson — huddled in a tristmas and Easter. hallway to try to figure how to slow• |rhey kept a prayer vigil around the down Miller. As a signal of solidarity Hiic liaiian, \ a. ck in the motel where Conoly Phillips they decided to appear on a second- s quartered and gathered early on deck balcony overlooking the morning of the nomination for a convention floor. .MEMBER FDIC layer breakfast. When the six emerged, hands tanding in a long line through the interlocked and held high in a daisy l»by, they sang softly, "TTiis Is the Day chain, the convention fle>or erupted in Lord Has Made." Tourists entering excitement. The six capered on the motel were startled at encountering balcony, one in his exuberance almost delegates leaving with a hymn on toppling over, and then they skipped ir lips, rapt looks in their eyes. into the wings, leaping, thrusting their *at Robertson, chairman of the fists into the air. an antic, dancing ristian Broadcasting Network, frieze of figures — and a last hurrah. GRAY ached a sermon of participation at A short time later all seven candidates prayer breakfast. Constitutional crowded on the rostrum and pledged LUMBER jrch-state separation "de)esn't mean their support to Miller. lest. God-fearing citizens shouldn't "As far as I'm concerned, every single e charge of government," he told the COMPANY one of 'em is an Affirmed," declared ering breakfast throng, Miller in accepting the nomination. pobertson asked how many had So the Democrats, like the ticipated in a convention before, Republicans, came out of their Tnibark Pine-Mulch en no one raised a hand, applause convention reasonably well-knit. laughter swept the room, and bertson quipped: "It's obvious we're Andrew Miller, like Obenshain. One of the oriyinal Pine Park entered politics as a teenager, working a *ing with a group of professionals." mulches endorsed by leading mimeograph machine in the he newcomers to politics had Landscape. Architects. Lanelscape fessional guidance from a paid gubernatorial campaign of his father. sultant, Don Fowler, chairman of Colonel Francis Pickens Miller, in the Contractors. Nurserymen and Democratic Party of South 1949 primary. The elder Miller lost Garden Center. olina. narrowly in that four-way race. (A poignant moment occurred in s the delegates listened attentively to William and Mary Hall when Andrew ructions, the tall, white-clad, poker• Miller, accepting the nomination to the Phone 804-834-2292 ed South Carolinian leaned across to Senate, extended his right hand toward Jvsmen and murmured: "This is the his mother and father sitting in the WAVERLY, VIRGINIA St thorough, detailed, effective, and gallery and introduced them to the sistent political organization I've applauding delegates. Answering the h into since the McGovern kids in delegates' standing ovation. Colonel 72!- Tie born-again Christians occasioned exxl many good-humored wisecracks, ing Conoly Phillips walking onto the Bedford County Memorial Hospital br of the convention, one delegate ifided to another. "Gexl is his DEDICATED 1955 rnate." BEDFORD, VIRGINIA ut there was respect for the well- anized way in which the saints came rching in. TTiey also had an K. R. Olsen. Manager jleniable flair. Dave Appier. .Sales Engineer BN director Robertson put Phillips' ne in nomination and, as a noted vision personality, he held the vention's attention. Then Phillips M t C H A m C A t led the convention not for a noisy lonstration but for "a moment of •SERVICE COMPANY INCORPORATED

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ell the Virginia Story OCTOBER 1978 I 1 He picked himself up and in a year s He also had remarked he had soi Miller struggled to his feet, waved to the time was accepting the Senate notion of the cost to the candidate aj Democrats, and blew a kiss to the nomination and consoling the losers his family. nominee and his lovely wife. Doris, on about the uncertainties of politics. "1 had no notion that the cost woi the platform.) Immediately after the nomination he be this great." said the minist At Princeton University young Miller went to work to try to unify a partv thai looking across the flag-draped casket was a member of the student council had been split nearly a decade. Obenshain's wife. Helen, sitting w and president of the Princeton Senate, a During the next two months their three children. debating society. He studied politics, Obenshain. too. was healing the He had. said Dr. Winn, told philosophy, and economics a year at wounds from the Republican children: "Your daddy died pursuing Oxford. Then he spent a year and a half Convention. His managers felt he was dream. He died trying to do what in the Army in Korea. succeeding. His campaign, they said, thought was best and right for Virgil He entered the University of Virginia was on the upswing. and the nation and for the comi Law School in 1957 and graduated first Then came the crash. generations. in his class and editor of The Law- In the shock waves that spread "You can hold your heads high wll Review. Colgate Darden Jr.. then through the Republican Party and the you remember that." president of the University of Virginia, general public after Obenshain's death, Obenshain, deeply committed advised him to set up practice in there was a widespread and heightened Southwest Virginia and Miller went to principles, "lived more fully in hisj appreciation of the 18 years he had years than many others will live in work in Abingdon. He became worked to restructure and shape the president of the Young Virginia years." said Dr. Winn. party. People began speaking of "the Among the invited guests in Democrats in 1966-67 and chairman of legacy of Dick Obenshain." the Young Lawyers Section of the transept, his face darkened ' Virginia Bar Association. It meant, for one thing, commitment, sadness was Andrew Miller, as the Rev. Dr. Albert Winn stressed in appearances together the two toes l| In 1%9 he entered and won a four- the funeral services on August 5 in the been notably low-keyed and congenij way primary and runoff for Attorney Second Presbyterian Church. The Miller family also had causCi General and then defeated Obenshain "In a time of commitment, when so personal grief. Colonel Miller, who f by 53.(XX) votes in the general election. many people are not willing to get l)een in ill health since two ni; He won again in 1973 and during seven involved, we have much to learn from operations, suffered a stroke not qi years' service introduced a new Dick Obenshain." the minister advised. two weeks after he watched his son professionalism in the office. He recalled that in his last the Democratic nomination. He die(| a Norfolk hospital on August 3. In 1977 he ran for governor and lost conversation with Obenshain at the door of the church he praised him for The veteran of two World Wars, by H.CXX) votes despite almost universal Colonel was as upright in his views a; predictions of success — which, "his willingness to engage in the hurly- burly of politics when so many hang was in his soldierly posture. His cl ironically, may have helped foster the concern during his final illness was ti Knv voter turnout that contributed to back for fear of getting their hands dirtv." in dying he would "mess up Andrq his defeat in the Democratic primary. campaign right in the middle." Campaigning was suspended three •BUILD WITH BRICK' four days, at least outwardly; but Monday a flurry of name-droppinj a p i i a I half a dozen possible Republi candidates suggested that Wai might not have a clear shot at nomination despite his close, seco BRICK CONTRACTOR o r p place finish at the June convention.

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Inc., has been Alexandria which promotes Alexandria Governor's Council on Environment. arded the Award of Honor by the as a tourist destination and provides guidance and services to tourists at the While on special assignment with the ^tional Safety Council for an Council, he helped write and edit the tstanding safety record in 1977. Raniiay House Visitor Center. 221 King Street. As manager of promotion and first report on the state of Virginia's trhe Thompson-Arthur award was on environment. From 1%8 to 1970, ; basis of its record in 1977 with an events, Lasky will be press liaison for local, metropolitan, state, national and Seward was an information technician :idence rate of 0.18 as compared to with VDACS. 3 for the entire Highway and Street trade media in promoting Alexandria's nstruction Industry for 1975-1976. historic landmarks and special events. She will work closely with civic As the Commissioner's administrative cording to statistics from the assistant, Seward will do a great deal of tional Safety Council, the 1977 organizations and historic sites to schedule, develop and promote new research, write speeches, serve on Irformance of Thompson-Arthur was VDACS' executive staff and assist the Vo better than PAR for the whole events designed to attract visitors to Alexandria. deputy commissioner in the area of lustry. administration. rhe Award of Honor is the highest Lasky replaces Nikki Longworth who ard that can be received from the is moving to Boston, Massachusetts. A native of Surry County, Seward tional Safety Council. This is the spent his childhood on a working farm. venth Award of Honor received by He did undergraduate work at the ompson-Arthur. Seward Named University of Virginia where he received Administrative a B. A. in English in 1%7. Bw Manager of Promotion Assistant to Commissioner id Events Appointed For exandria Tourist Council • Roy E. Seward, Jr.. has been named administrative assistant to S. Mason Oliva and Lazzuri Carbaugh, Commissioner of the Jane E. Lasky has been named liirorporaird nager of promotion and events for Virginia Department of Agriculture Alexandria Tourist Council. She and Consumer Services. (VDACS). M AHRi K •TKRRA//«I . Til y report to Peg B. Sinclair, director Seward will assume the research, the organization. speech-writing and Executive Staff ^sky has worked for the American duties previously done by J. E. tomobile Association as a public Norment, who retired July 1. jations associate and writer in the "He brings a broad knowledge of all G :a of travel and has been an editorial VDACS programs and responsibilities istant for McGraw-Hill Inc. in New to the new job, as well as considerable < liiirliiiics\ illr. > a. \{ icli iiiiiiid. \ H. Irk. Recently, she has served as a knowledge of other facets of I'll..I..- 2«>.'i-.'».».'j2 < nil f.J'»-2(»7.T plic relations consultant for the agriculture, learned while serving with partment of Tourism Development the Soil and Water Conservation p Travel Administration for the orge Washington University in jishington, D.C. She has done elance travel writing, brochure SDG INCORPORATED ;ign and production, editing and [otography for several national Phone 804-271-8301 2001 Bellwood Rd. Kirhmond, Va. CONTRAaORS SERVICES INC. Diamond Core Drilling RAYMOND E. PIERCE, iNC |)ncrete Sawing — Air Compressor Work Unique Jobs BONDS AND INSURANCE Sales — Service Dial 703/971-6100 5407A Vine St., Alexandria, Va. 22310 803 Wesl Broad Street. FALLS CHURCH, VA. 22046 703-533-0643 lell the Virginia Stor\' OCTOBER 1978 13 HENRICO AND HANOVER COUNTIES RECEIVE AWARDS Moving? Henrico and Hanover Counties were presented with 1978 Achievement Awards in Atlanta, at the 43rd annual I'l ease . .. conference of the National Association of Counties (NACo). The annual awards are given to counties who have been To assist our subscription depart• specially honored for their outstanding citizen service and for innovative ment in handling your chaii^r ot programs leading to more efficient, modern county government. address . . . include your OLD HENRICO COUNTY received its ADDRESS AND ZIP CODE award for its: Volunteer Services Handbook. Since when sending your change. beginning with three volunteers in 1973. Henrico County has established a full- time probation department supervisory position to address volunteer services and needs. In May 1976. 90 citizens, OLD ADDRESS organizations and businesses were (Use Label if available) recognized for varied volunteer services that year. To assist the volunteers, a John E. Longmire. cout Volunteer Services Handbook was administrator, Hanover Court developed, dealing with the court received a National Association process, expectations of volunteers and Counties (NACo) achievement awarc^ community resources. the group's 43rd annual con ference. HANOVER COUNTY received its I .tin Njmr if ApplKablc award for its: programs and developing long-raH Parks and Recreation Department. planning. During 1977, improveme Citizens interested in establishing a in facilities were underway, and county recreation program met early in department organized such progra 1976, leading to the appointment of a as Softball, gymnastics and squ county parks and recreation director dance classes. that fall. The director took over the NACo is the national spokesman citizens group's work of surveying county government in the Unil available parks and recreation •States.

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VIRGINIA RECORD Founded I 14 The Struggle for Virginia's Senate Seat The (From page 12) Paraphernalia larly two decades. His fellow Indeed, Obenshain's name was Inc. nservatives had never doubted that he mentioned even more than that of the "Jewelry for All Occasions" as the genuine article. Now some of nominee. In death he continued to exert iiem looked, rather wistfully, for a influence over his party. The closing Dial 226-2805 ndidate in his image. minutes of the committee's meeting Eastgate Mall Their first efforts centered on former were the most emotional as Mrs. overnor Mills Godwin. A trio Obenshain pleaded for party unity. East Laburnum Avenue inferred with Godwin on August 4 just So the two campaigns geared up Richmond. Virginia (fore he and Mrs. Godwin left on a again. Both Warner and Miller ng-planned trip to Austria. TTie indicated that they would focus on the trmer Governor's rejection of their bid need to curb inflation and strengthen d not discourage scores of overseas national defense. lis asking him to reconsider. Their principle difference, at least at Culpeper Godwin would be tested again, the start, lay in interpreting their clared one of his admirers, "to see qualifications. Warner declared that his Motor Repair Corp. Jiether his firm 'no* meant 'hell no.'' experience in publicizing the nation's We Repair Meanwhile, among half a dozen bicentennial and in dealing with Electric Motors & Power Tools mes popping up as putative defense budgets and testifying before ndidates. the one attracting the most congressional committees equipped NFVV MOTORS FOR SALE ention as a prospect should Godwin him for service on the national level. y "hell no" was that of Representative In a press conference following 1350 Orange Rd. Phone 825-6324 Caldwell Butler of Roanoke, co- Culpeper. Virginia airman of Obenshain's campaign, Warner's nomination. Miller held that ^presentative J. Kenneth Robinson of his eight years as attorney general inchester also was mentioned as a representing the state's views before fcssible replacement. federal agencies and congressional •The night of Obenshain's death committees gives him "a state arner was speaking to a Republican perspective." the type needed to cope ELCO jnner in New Hampshire, and did not with the major issues. ar of the tragedy until the next Thus the campaign got underway. G>nstruction Co., Inc. |orning. He returned to his It promised to be spirited. iddleburg farm and declined to take Fifty years ago Harry Byrd Sr. Think ELCO y calls. arranged things when he was governor so that statewide elections would not When You Think Building ^onday, August 7. with trial balloons overlap and Virginia, unlike many ing lofted around the state, Warner states, would have a major campaign Pfione 703-228-5505 ^lerged and went to work energetically nearly every year. puncture them. He formally It is exhausting for the candidates. Wytheville, Va. nounced his candidacy in Richmond But edifying to the voters. Jednesday. August 9. saying he was leady to hit the deck running and run ]rd." Meanwhile Godwin sent word lat he would not accept the Good's Transfer Company, Inc. mination even if it were tendered. "Sen'ing Over Half the U.S.A. " overnor Dalton, holding a press ^ference Thursday, August 10, in the FAST. DEPF.NDABLF^ REFRIGHRATOR SERVICE pitol with Warner at his side, linchcd Warner's campaign two days Dial 434-3848 Harrisonburg, Virginia ead of the formal nomination by the publican State Central Committee, ^ever had a Virginia Governor taken Gregory Construction Co., Inc. bold and open a hand in setting a npaign in motion as did Dalton. (;K%KHAi.(:()MHA(I<)R St he endorsed Warner heartily. Next KKMDKM I M - COMMF UC I Vi - IMH SI KI \I released a letter he had written in his lalf to the members of the Central *> I 10 PriiiK- Willijini SI.. ^Ialul^s„^. \ n. 221 HI IMioiii- .U.H-H I « I mmittee. Then he disclosed that he tually had told the two congressmen make up their minds to either get o the race or get out of the way. Industrial Welding & Machine Corp. •urther, when the Central Committee ivened Saturday, August 12, in the Tank Fabricators tel John Marshall, Governor Dalton in replacing Warner's name in Don Kegley. General Manager mination. Accepting, Warner 'ised that his election would "be one the finest tributes we could build to Phone 783-7105 Atkins, Virginia memory of Dick Obenshain." tell the Virginia Story OCTOBER 1978 15 Whatever Bccanie Thomas J. Biirch & J. Lawsoii Jones OfMickUcA^i''.' Stafford G. Whittle, HI (.onslruc'tion Co.. Inc (From page 51

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