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State Si Nation
Wednesday, April 14,1982
The Red and Black
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Busbee signs pro-feminist, Medicaid bills
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov. George Busbee signed five bills
repealing archaic laws limiting women's rights Tuesday and
took a tentative first step toward making families pay part of
the cost of nursing home treatment for Medicaid patients.
One of the feminist bills approved by Busbee would allow
married women to keep their maiden names, or to attach
their husbands' names to their own with a hyphen. The
practice has long been favored by women, especially those
known professionally by their maiden names, but has not
been recognized by law.
The governor also approved a ten-fold increase in parental
liability for the cost of repairing school vandalism and
delayed for another year the effective date of the Uniform
Alcoholism Act, which decriminalizes common public
drunkenness.
Another bill signed by Busbee would allow public schools to
display a framed picture of the American flag and national
motto — “In God We Trust" — in classrooms and libraries.
The bill was pushed through the General Assembly by Rep.
Richard Chamberlin, Stockbridge, after failure of a measure
that would mandate teaching "creation science" — the
biblical account of human origin — in the public schools.
After the 114-57 defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in
the House this year, feminist legislators set out to repeal
discriminatory laws bill-by-bill — as many ERA opponents
claimed they would rather do
Reps. Cathey Steinberg, D-Atlanta, Elanore Richardson,
D-Atlanta, and several other women in the House offered
bills to eliminate old laws providing that militia districts
would be established by a headcount of men, requiring
women to vote in their husbands' precincts and exempting
them from certain jobs. The laws have long been unen
forceable and ignored, but some of the feminist legislators
felt their presence on the books was offensive.
Among bills Busbee signed in his first batch of statewide
legislation from the 1982 session was one allowing husbands
and wives to register and vote in separate precincts if they
own more than one home. A Steinberg bill repealing the law
establishing the husband's home as the legal "domicile" of a
married couple was also signed — allowing a couple to
establish its legal address in either partner's home.
Busbee also signed a bill repealing the technical exemption
of women from state militia, police and road duties. Women
have actually served in such jobs for years.
The fourth gender-related law Busbee signed was one by
Richardson requiring a head count of males in militia
districts. Under the new law, both sexes would be counted.
Busbee also signed a hotly-debated bill allowing the Stone
Mountain Memorial Association to sell liquor, beer and wine
at its park. Proponents of the bill had pointed out that park
visitors were illegally bringing their own drinks into the park
grounds, and that the bill would let the state regulate
drinking and restrict it from family recreation areas of the
park.
For the eighth straight year, Busbee signed a bill delaying,
enforcement of the Uniform Alcoholism Act. That 1974 law
would require police picking up drunks to take them to
treatment clinics — rather than jails — but the state has not
yet fully funded a statewide system of alcoholism treatment
facilities.
Busbee also signed a third booze bill, allowing cities and
counties to outlaw the sale of alcoholic beverages on
Christmas Day Existing law only forbids such sales when
Christmas falls on a Sunday.
The Medicaid bill, also sponsored by Richardson, would
allow the Department of Medical Assistance to draw up a
lan for requiring families to pay part of the cost of nursing
ome treatment for elderly patients The DMA last winter
applied to the federal government for a waiver of rules to
allow such "copayment” to discourage young adults from
“dumping” their parents on the state-paid program
The governor signed a bill increasing from $500 to $5,000
the amount parents can be billed for repairing damage
caused by children under 18 in public schools Reps Larry
Walker, D-Perry, and Wayne Snow, D-Rossville, who
sponsored the law, said the 1966 law setting the $500 limit was
insufficient to cover current repair costs,
Busbee also signed a law allowing probation officers to
carry concealed weapons.
Defense questions professor’s report in murder case
From staff and wire reports
A University psy
chologist’s testimony
during the trial of a woman
convicted of murder
became the focal point of
attorneys’ arguments
Tuesday as the case was
appealed to the Georgia
Supreme Court.
An assistant attorney
general told the high court
Tuesday Janice Buttrum is
a sexual sadist who should
be put to death for helping
her husband rape, torture
and murder a 19-year-old
woman.
Buttrum’s attorneys
argued, however, that
expert testimony at her
trial in Dalton was in
flamed by the
prosecution's use of
opinions of a University
psychologist who never
met the defendant.
Buttrum, 19, is one of
three women under death
sentence in Georgia. She
and her husband, Danny,
were convicted of killing
Demetra Fay Parker, a
young Tennessee woman
they met at a Whitfield
County motel Sept. 3,1980.
"Demetra Fay Parker
was raped, sodomized and
stabbed 97 times," said
assistant Attorney General
Charles Brown. "In effect
she was gutted by the
appellant as the last crime
against her.”
Defense attorneys Mike
Brown and Steve Fain, who
were appointed to
represent her at her trial,
told the seven justices they
presented evidence of
Buttrum's severely
deprived background and
mental examinations made
during a seven-week stay
at Central State Hospital in
Milledgeville.
Although their appeal
challenged some search-
and-seizure points in her
conviction, they did not
argue that she was not
involved in the killing.
Their Supreme Court
argument was confined to
the death penalty.
They said District At
torney Steve Williams, who
prosecuted the case,
rebutted their trial
arguments by calling Dr
Henry Adams to the wit
ness stand Adams, a
psychologist at the
University, said he had
read the CSH reports, but
had not examined But
trum, and decided she was
“a sexual paraphiliac"
who was likely to commit
violent crimes again.
Assistant Attorney
General Brown said sexual
paraphilia is a mental
disorder in which the
subject derives pleasure
from stabbing a victim,
“The manner and
method of the murder
supported the finding of
sexual paraphilia," he
said. "The opinion of the
doctor, of sexual
paraphilia, certainly ap
pears accurate when you
look at the facts of this
case."
Buttrum's attorneys
argued, however, that the
accepted medical
definition of sexual sadism
requires a series of violent
sexual assaults — not
multiple attacks on the
same victim.
"There was no evidence
before the jury that Janice
Buttrum had ever been
involved in this sort of
activity before,” said
defense attorney Brown,
He said Judge Charles A.
Panned Jr, should not have
admitted the Adams
testimony that Buttrum
was a sexual sadist capable
of future violence.
Adams, reached at his
home Tuesday evening,
said that while it is helpful
to show a string of previous
deviant activity, "a series
nas to start someplace.”
Adams said he never
testified that the defendant
should be sentenced to
death.
"I don’t think sex
deviants should be put to
death," Adams said. “It’s
possible to treat sexual
disorders, even the more
violent ones Whether
society allows this is
another question."
Lowery group to march for voting act legislation
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Civil rights leader
Joseph E. Lowery said Tuesday a marathon
march planned to begin next week will pro
mote extension of a strong voting act legisla
tion while also protesting unemployment and
the military buildup.
Lowery, president of the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference, said at a news
conference the "pilgrimage" will begin Mon
day in Tuskegee, Ala., and will proceed
through Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia
before reaching Washington, D.C., in late
June or early July.
Lowery also said he has asked President
Reagan to appoint a commission to consider
the plight of Haitian refugees in this country.
He said there are more than 2,000 Haitians in
American prisons who fled their country and
“followed the American tradition of seeking
liberty."
The Reagan administration, Lowery said,
adopted a "clenched fist” reception to these
refugees instead of welcoming them with
“open arms,”
Lowery said he wants blacks to be included
in the presidential commission, including
civil rights leaders and members of the
Black Congressional Caucus.
If Reagan rejects the proposal, “We shall
name our own commission," he said
Lowery said American blacks fear for
their political rights because “of the threat in
the U.S. Senate to pass a weakened version of
the Voting Rights Act." He said there is con
cern in the black community about the
"escalating unemployment rate that is three
times as high for minorities, the escalating
arms race that threatens all humankind and
the continued insensitivity shown poor and
disadvantaged Americans in cuts in the
Federal budget at their expense."
Lowery said the marchers will urge the
Senate to adopt a House-passed version of an
extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
which expires in August. He said proposed
Senate amendments would "water down"
the landmark legislation and deprive
minorities of voting rights.
"Our political future is in jeopardy,"
Lowery said, unless the legislation is extend
ed.
The Civil Rights Leader said the marchers
may time their rally in Washington for July
“We want the nation to take on a new birth
— a new birth of freedom," Lowery said.
Participants of the march will include
Lowery, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Cor-
etta Scott King, the Rev Jes9e Jackson and
United Auto Workers leader Douglas Fraser
KKK won’tfight order barring Millen meeting
MILLEN, Ga. (UPI) - A
order which barred the Ku
Klux Klan from meeting in
this rural east Georgia town
last February was postponed
Tuesday but KKK Imperial
Wizard Bill Wilkinson said
he will not fight the order.
A hearing scheduled for
Thursday was delayed until
April 21 at the request of the
city of Millen, according to
Jenkins County Deputy
Clerk Elizabeth Landing
She said rumors around the
courthouse indicated the
hearings would be cancelled
because of Wilkinson's deci
sion not to contest the order,
but she had received no of
ficial word on the matter.
Jenkins County Superior
Court Judge W. Colbert
Hawkins thwarted the
Klan’s plans to meet on the
courthouse steps Feb. 27
because the group failed to
obtain a legal permit to con
gregate.
Ironically, the meeting
had been called to honor
Hawkins for his ruling in a
controversial child custody
case.
Wilkinson told the Augusta
Chronicle that as far as he
knew, no Klan member
would contest the restrain
ing order.
He said he decided not ot
contest when he learned
KKK members in Millen had
not sought a legal permit to
hold their meeting.
He said the group would
seek a meeting permit at a
later date, but he did not
specify when.
The Klan had originally
sought to meet in Millen to
honor Judge Hawkins for his
ruling in a controversial
child custody case involving
a white woman who gave
birth to a child fathered by a
black man.
Kathleen Blackburn lost
custody of her white son
after she gave birth to a
racially-mixed daughter
Hawkins stirred con
troversy when he said in his
ruling that Millen “was not
ready" for that type of in
tegration.
Blackburn has appealed to
the state Supreme Court.
for March 1 but was delayed
at the request of the Klan un
til April 14. Wilkinson had
asked the American Civil
Liberties Union to represent
the Klan, but the ACLU
refused because a legal per
mit to meet had not been ob
tained.
Wilkinson said he had oral
C ermission to hold a meeting
ut he did not specify from
whom.
A hearing on the restrain
ing order was originally set
1040S tax form works because it doesn’t look like one
ATLANTA (UPI) — The appeal of an ex
perimental, simplified tax form being tested
by the Internal Revenue Service in Georgia
may hinge on the fact that it doesn't look like
a tax return.
Some 30,000 of the new, steamlined 1040S
forms — simplifications of the short 1040A
forms — were distributed at random in the
Atlanta area this year as part of a federal ef
fort to make filing tax returns less painful.
IRS officials said Tuesday the response so
far from taxpayers filling out the return has
been favorable
"They say 'It doesn’t look like a tax form. I
read it. I understood it. This is the first time
I’ve done the tax return myself,’" IRS
spokesman Les Witmer said. “We're op
timistic. Many of the people who have called
Last two in case plead guilty
ATLANTA (UPI) - Two
of three men accused of
operating the largest
counterfeiting ring in
Georgia history entered
guilty pleas before a federal
magistrate Tuesday, joining
the third defendant who
tendered his guilty plea
Monday.
The men were arrested in
a Jonesboro motel parking
lot April 4, 1982. They are
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There are two items on the
proposal that Massey con
tends are especially "picky"
and would cause him to
disassemble every car on his
lot. First, the rule says the
dealer must determine how-
much of the brake shoe is
worn down; and second, he
has to give a description of
the condition of the inside of
the radiator.
And the cost for all this,
Massey says, would have to
be paid by the consumer
But Matysiak says car
buyers don't mind paying to
identified as Howard
Culberth, 24, of Alpharetta,
the owner of Basic Printing
Services in Norcross where
thousands of counterfeit $100
bills were allegedly printed;
Duwain Utter, 36, College
Park; and Riley Lovett, 48,
Riverdale
Authorities confiscated
about $1 million worth of
bogus bills during the arrest
A subsequent search of the
CARS
find out if there’s something
wrong with the product.
“The FTC proposal is the
result of a large number of
complaints from con
sumers,” he says. "They
want safety before anything
else” Their major com
plaint, says Matysiak, has
been over the enormous
number of "clipped" cars
that used- car dealers are
dumping on buyers.
Clipped cars are used cars
that dealers have cut in half,
then welded the better half of
one back onto the good half
of another car
printing shop turned up an
additional $5 5 million and
Secret Service agents said
the shop was equipped with
enough machinery and
materials to print $10 million
more.
Officials said they had
reason to believe $100,000 of
the counterfeit money had
been circulated in Florida,
but so far only six bills have
been recovered in that state.
“Not only are these cars
dangerous,” Matysiak says,
"but insurance companies
won't let accident victims
collect because the in
surance companies say they
won't pay for pre-existing
damage.” The FTC regula
tion, says Matysiak, would
put an end to clipped cars
But Massey points to the
500 or so car dealers in
Georgia who went out of
business last year partly
because of federal regula
tions — and he says if the
new FTC rule is passed, he
may be next.
in who participated in the test have been
positive about it.”
The IRS hired Siegel & Gale, a New York
firm specializing in language and design
simplification, to draw up the new tax
return.
The format resembles a tradition applica
tion and is less intimidating than the 1040A
form, with larger print, more white space
and bright, red headings
The 1O40S forms were sent to 30,000
Georgians who filed the 1040A form last year
They were asked to use the new tax form and
answer a questionnaire about it included in
an information packet.
Because the final count has not yet been
made, it is not known how many of the new
forms will actually be filed, but Witmer said
1,255 telephone calls concerning the 1040S
have been received so far
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