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The Keri amt Black. Thursday. August 2. 1979
VIEW OF LOCAL BUSINESSMEN
Possible new airport could pay for itself
K\ JIM G.AVNAM
Assistant city editor
A new Clarke County airport
could not only pay for itself in
the long run. but would be a
major economic boon to
Athens and the county.
That is the view of a number
of local businessmen and the
Athens Chamber of Commerce,
some of which have held the
view since the planning of the
new airport began
In October. 1975. the Clarke
County Commission told the
Federal Aviation Authority it
had accepted a 20-year plan
drawn up by Greiner Engineer
ing for eventual construction of
a new airport The plan calls
for temporary improvements
at the present airport while
land for the new facility is
acquired and construction be
gun
Even though construction
has not begun. J B Giles,
manager of Clarke County
airport said that relocation of
the airport is currently bud
geted at $640,000 and Giles said
his books will show a $24,000
profit this year, money that
comes in from sale of aviation
fuel, hanger rentals and
landing and tie-down fees
But Giles said a local airport
with a motel, restaurant with a
flight lounge and some extra
land to rent for industrial
development could bring in a
good deal more profits for
Clarke. “If we had 200-300
extra acres < at a new airport
site) we could lease it to some
company, like Reliance Elec
tric, and that would bring a lot
of money in.” Giles said The
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*#■ Giles said he would expect
an expanded and modernized
& airport to attract more tourists
since Athens is about midway
between Florida vacation spots
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west “Right now. if somebody
comes into here and wants
something to eat we have a
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be better if we had one right
here.” Giles said.
The Clarke County Commis
sion appointed a five-member
airport commission in 1977 to
make recommendations about
airport construction The air
port commission will make
sucha recommendation to the
county commissioners later
this year.
County Commission chair
man James Holland has said
he is in favor of building a new
airport, but other commission
ers are not sure the cost of
building the facilitv is justified.
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A new airport would cost $10 2
million, but the FAA’s Airport
Development Aid Program
pays 80 percent of that, and the
state another 10 percent
Clarke’s share would be about
$1.2 million
Commissioner Archie Pat
terson said he will rely on the
advice of the Airport Commis
sion when they make their
recommendation. "But I will
say this. I will not be for a new
airport until the voters of the
county say they want it.”
Patterson said
Patterson said he is not sure
the proposed site of the new
facility, near the DuPont plant
northeast of Athens, is most
acceptable. “Actually, there is
no place for a new airport to
be built in Clarke County,”
Patterson said. Commissioner
Jewel John has said the airport
might be built in nearby
Greene County to serve the
entire area around Clarke.
Commssion chairman Holland
has said he doesn’t know why
the commission has not voted
in favor of the new airport “I
guess they just don't think we
need a new airport.” Holland
said.
"We don’t have the same
avenues of income open to us
that are open to an airport like
Jacksonville.” said J B Giles
“They've got restaurants, bars
pay toilets and pay parking
lots. Frankly. I would be in
favor of having a restaurant
with a pouring license out
here, but I just don’t know if
the county commission would
go along with that kind of
thing," Giles said.
Ctiiigin*?
A weekly update of the gasoline situation
in Athens.
Reg
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Hi T
Downtown Siandard Service Station
130 Oconee St.
89 9
93 9
95 9
Alps Road Texaco
Corner of Alps Road and Broad St
92 9
959
96 9
Henderson American Station
1925 West Broad St.
92.9+
969 +
99 9 +
Walls Standard Station
2315 West Broad St.
909
94 9
95 9
Milner Brothers Exxon Service Station
1880 West Broad St.
909
92 9
93 9
Tom Smith Standard Station
129 North Milledgc Ave.
899
93.9
959
Tom Smith Gulf Station
251 West Broad St.
92.9
97 9
989
Oak Street American Service Station
325 Oak St.
899
94.9
97.9
Alps Tire and Service Station
Corner of Alps Road and Baxter St.
94.9
OUT
OUT
Barnett’s Union 76 Service Station
98.9 f
99.9-f
F Indicates the price per gallon at a full-service pump,
all other prices indicate the price per gallon at a
self service pump
Six stations have increased their prices since last week
Henderson American, Walls Standard, Tom Smith
Standard, and Oak Street American kept their prices the
same. Regular and high-test increased an average of two
cents per gallon. Unleaded increased an average of 2.5
cents
Alps Tire and Service is out of unleaded and high-test.
This is the first time in four weeks that a station has
run out of any type of gasoline.
University maintenance workers
give no reply to fair employment team
By CHUCK REECE
Staff writer
A grievance session set up
by a team of workers from the
Georgia Office of Fair Employ
ment Practices met with no
response from the University’s
maintenance workers. July 26.
The GOFEP team was on
hand to hear the workers'
compalints from 11 a m until 7
pm at Thankful Baptist
Church, but none of the
workers showed, according to
Charsie Hedgepeth, coordina
tor of compliance operations
for the GOFEP
“I had absolutely no contact
with the employees.” Hedge
peth said.
The session had been intend
ed to determine whether the
worers’ grievances made pub
lie during a June press
conference, were under the
jurisdiction of the federal Fair
Employment Practices Act.
In a related event. Earl
Hamilton of the AFL-CIO came
to Athens last week to offer his
organization's support to the
Joint Action Group-Georgia
Voter League, the maintenance
workers' organization, accord
ing to Dr. Thom Goolsby,
professor of educational psy
chology
Hamilton will assist in the
organization of the University
maintenance workers. Goolsby
said. Workers will be able to
join the workers' organization
confidentially with Hamilton’s
help, according to Goolsby.
Hamilton could not be reached
for comment. Explaining the
lack of worker turnout at the
grievance session, Steve Pat
rick of Idea Production-Idea
Processing said. "Some may
feel like they don’t want to risk
their jobs.”
Workers have said fear of
harassment or firing has
prevented many of the main
tenance workers from going
public with their grievances,
which include low pay, nonpro
motion, and supervisory har
assment
Patrick said the workers
must go to "people who are in
a position to help them," fi
they are "going to deal with
their problems.”
The JAG had asked the fair
employment officials to send a
team to Athens to listen to the
workers’ complaints, Hedge
peth said
If GOFEP sends another
team to Athens, it will be only
to respond to requests by
individual workers, she said.
The JAG plans for its
members to take their griev
ances to GOFEP at a later
visit, Goolsby said.
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