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City wide Beer And Wine Pouring Law
Adopted By Council’s 3-1 Margin
BY GARY WILI.IS
Voting three to one, the city
council Monday night passed a
beer and wine pouring or
dinance permitting the serving
of beer and wine in Carrollton
public establishments
primarily concerned with the
serving of food.
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COUNCIL MEMBERS By a vote of three to one. the City
Council approved the serving of beer and wine in restaurants at its
bi-weekly meeting Monday. Shown here are council members Ted
Robinson (i), who voted against the proposal, and Connie Plunkett,
who voted in favor of it.
THE
WEST GEORGIAN
Volume 41 No. 14
Task Committee
Begins Search
In hopes of locating anew president for the
college by the middle of spring quarter, 23
members of an advisory search committee are
reviewing some 75 inquiries by persons who have
expressed interest in the presidency, according
to Dr. Donald T. Wells, chairman of the com
mittee.
President Ward Pafford will be leaving at the
end of the school year to assume teaching
responsibilities at Valdosta State University.
The committee, which includes four students,
met last week. At that meeting, the committee
adopted the procedure by which the new
president will be selected.
‘We request that all suggestions be made by
Dec. 15. Also, the committee requests that
students give suggestions to the committee or
me,” said Dr. Wells.
The suggestions should be in the form of a
written letter to Dr. Wells. “An indication of why
the individual is being suggested would be
helpful but not necessary,” he said.
Guidelines set up by the committee also
stipulate that candidates are to submit dossiers
by Jan. 1. They are to include biographical,
educational, and the educational philosophy of
the perspective candidate.
In reference to the inquiries already made,
Dr Wells said, “Names are to be kept in con
fidence if possible.”
According to Dr. Wells, “We do not want the
individuals at campuses where the candidates
are to get excited over the inquiries.”
Many of the inquiries are in response to an
advertisement that appeared in the “Chronicle
of Higher Education.”
“We are going to consider them all,” he said.
“We will give them the honest careful con
sideration. They have reflected interest in us, we
owe them the duty of showing interest in them,”
Dr. Wells added.
Lamar Chambers, president of the student
government association and a member of the
committee said “a lot was done” at the initial
meeting of the committee.
Chambers too said he is soliciting suggestions.
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The law becomes effective
immediately.
The sometimes emotional
debate prior to the vote found
those against the proposal
arguing mainly on religious
grounds, while those in favor
cited the increased revenue to
the city from the alcohol tax.
Councilwoman Connie Plun
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DISCUSSION— Newt Gingrich, who lost to John Flynt Tuesday
in the race for sixth district congressman, discusses the night’s
events with supporters at his headquarters in Hapeville.
Flynt Wins District Six
‘No Regrets’ —Newt
BY CAREY SMITH
After eight and a half months
of campaigning which he said
included an estimated 60,000
handshakes and 139 speeches,
Newt Gingrich, West Georgia
professor on leave with political
aspirations to be a
congressman, lost by one and a
half percent of the sixth district
vote.
Gingrich, who was defeated
by incumbent Congressman
John Flynt in Tuesday’s general
election is not bitter about his
defeat though.
“I am excited. For an
unknown, with no money and
no real financial backing, to
take 48 percent of the vote the
first time he ran, I think is in
credible, ” said the 31-year-old
kett, who voted in favor of the
ordinance, said that the council
had been considering the
proposal “for well over three
months” by studying other
towns comparable in size to
Carrollton which have approved
beer and wine pouring laws.
She said the results of the
study show that, after licensing,
there is no increase in crime,
that there are less problems
with drunkenness and littering,
and that the law “will provide
for better control of illicit
sales.”
She said that the city has had
to borrow SIOO,OOO to run its
departments and that the in
creased revenue, though “no
cure all,” would help.
Adding that people should
have freedom of choice, she
said, “Moral and religious
beliefs should not infringe on
the rights of others.”
Council members Miriam
Merrell and Dr. Jack Birge also
voted in favor of the ordinance.
Dr. Birge said that
prohibition will not stop the use
of alcohol and that the “bona
fide drunk” will drink
November 8, 1974
Republican.
Gingrich attributed his loss to
the straight Democratic ticket,
and the general anti-republican
trend. He also said that the
“Blue Law” issue brought out a
lot of people who voted a
straight democratic ticket.
Gingrich said he would do
nothing differently if he had the
campaign to run again.
Comparing his experience to
“a very good young football
team against 20 year cham
pions,” Gingrich said he came
within a minute of winning the
game.
“If it had not been for the
voters ability to vote straight
tickets, I would have beaten
him, by 40 percent. In a sense
the voters were voting for the
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"whatever is available.”
“The latest thing now is to
mix Right Guard with Coke and
really get bombed,” he said.
He also said that the public
school budget is $12,000 short
this year and that the law will
provide more money for the
city.
Councilman Ted Robinson,
who voted against the or
dinance, said, “I was against
this to start with. To represent
my city, I must vote against it.”
The ordinance stipulates:
that the licensed establishment
serve at least one meal a day six
days a week; that there be a
permanent seating capacity for
at least 50 people, not including
bar stools ; that the point of sale
be at least 200 feet from the
grounds of a school and 300 feet
from a church; that the alcohol
be consumed on the premises,
with no carry-out sales ;and that
persons who have committed
misdemeanors within the past
four years for felonies within
the past 10 years cannot hold
licenses.
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Some Serve Beer f
Some ‘Serve Lord ’
BY DAVID WILLINGHAM
The debate is over.
The Carrollton city council, by a vote of three
to one, passed the hotly contested beer and wine
pouring law Monday night. A large contigent of
area church members had filed into the hot and
crowded meeting room only moments before the
meeting was to begin, filling every available
chair. People lined the walls of the room, and
several late-comers stood outside in the corridor.
Members of the audience fanned themselves
with folded newspapers and swigged from cold
soft drinks.
From the beginning, there was heated debate
on the pouring law. Most notable of those op
posing the law was a large group of people from
various Baptist churches in the area. Speaking
largely on theological grounds, spokesmen for
these groups gave strong vocal opposition to the
law.
Those speaking for the passage of the or
dinance mainly cited the additional revenues
that could be collected from the sale of beer as
their reason for favoring the law.
When the debate was finished, Councilman
Jack Birge made the motion that the law be
passed. Voting in favor of the law council
members Connie Plunkett, Miriam Merrell, and
Birge. The lone opposing vote came from
councilman Ted Robinson.
“It was ridiculous,” said Wendell Rush, pastor
of the Baptist Temple and one of the more out
spoken critics of the law. “Only an idiot would
vote for something like beer.”
Tim Davidson, a Carrollton resident who said
that he had four children in local schoools,
commented that he was “glad the law passed.
My main concern is for how the funds raised by
this law will be used,” he said. “We must make
sure that most of it is earmarked for education.”
Steve Williamson, self-styled spokesman for
the young people of the West Carrollton Baptist
Church, expressed disappointment in the
passage of the law. “I didn’t like it,” Williamson
said. “The people around here are going to reap
what they sow. We’re not through fighting yet,
though,” he added.
“The law will be a good thing for Carrollton,”
student Rodney Davis said. “This is mainly a
college town, and the students want the pouring
ordinance. The debate seemed to be more of
church versus beer rather than a discussion of
the law itself. 1 thought that most of the people
against the law were very closed-minded. They
wouldn’t listen to those favoring the law at all.”
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SPEAKING AGAINST -
Wendell Rush, pastor of the
Baptist Temple just outside of
Carrollton, spoke against the
beer and wine ordinance passed
by the city council Monday
night. Paraphrasing Proverbs
20:1, he said that people who
drink alcohol "are idiots.”
Chieftain Proofs
Students who have not received proofs of
their yearbook pictures should stop by the
Chieftain office on the ground floor of the
student center from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.