Ford Press Releases, January - April 1966: 12130682

March 22, 1966
STATEMENT BY HOUSE MINORITY LEADER GERALD R. FORD (R·MICH.)
REGARDING DEATH OF AP NE'IIlSMAN G. MILTON KELLY.
Associated Press newsman G. Milton Kelly died Tuesday, and with his
death the country lost one of its finest reporters. Mr. Kelly covered the
U.S. Senate and always turned in excellent work.
1 have a special feeling for ''Milt, 11 as all his friends called him,
because Milt was a native of Hancock in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and
worked for AP in my home town of Grand Rapids as well as in Lansing, the
state capitol.
Milt was assigned to Washington in 1939 by the AP after serving in
Michigan and in New Delhi, India.
Here he wrote some of the best stories of his career, doing an
outstanding job in covering a series of Senate investigations that made top
news throughout the country--the Army-MCCarthy hearings, the Bobby Baker
case, the TFX plane investigation, and the Labor Rackets Committee hearings.
One of the finest pieces Milt ever wrote was one about the nicknames
of some of the characters summoned before the Labor Rackets Committee--men
with such colorful names as "Greasy Thumb" Guzik. It made page one wherever
newspaper desk men were on the alert for a great feature story.
The journalism profession is the poorer for Milt Kelly's death. So is
Washington, and so, too, is the nation.
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