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Griffin Daily News
Maddox Buys Interest
In Hamburger Business
ATLANTA (UPI)— Gov. Les
ter Maddox, who became fam
ous as Atlanta’s fried chicken
king, has gone into the ham
burger business.
It was learned that Maddox
had received more than $200,000
in loans from the Citizen &
Southern Bank to purchase land
and buildings in Cobb and Ful
ton Counties.
Both buildings are “Burger
King" hamburger establish
ments.
Miles B. Lane, C&S presi
dent, became a Maddox sup
porter for governor shortly be
fore the Nov. 8 election and
has been nominated to the state
Democratic Executive Commit
tee by Maddox.
The bus i n e s s transactions
Maddox Sees Revenue
To Cover His Budget
By MARCIA RASMUSSEN
United Press iniernati°nal
ATLANTA (UPI) While
Georgia’s economy is still rosy,
the bloom is a bit off the boom.
Nevertheless, Governor Les
ter Maddox says that indicated
growth convinces him that his
$1.6 million budget can be fi
nanced.
There have been gloomy pre
dictions in the legislature that
a leveling off of the state's
economic growth would cut into
revenues.
A report Tuesday by State
Revenue Commissioner Peyton
Hawes said that collections for
January and part of December
including the Christmas rush
totaled $59,542,191 or an 5.2 per
cent increase over January,
1966.
Slowdown on the Uptake
So if revenues are Increasing,
why the concern?
Well, revenues are increasing
but they are no longer increas
ing as fast as they formerly
did. For instance the last re
port was far below the 11.9 per
cent rise realized in 1966 over
the same period of 1965.
Hawes said the end of the
month figures indicate a “lev
eling off” in economic growth.
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were revealed Tuesday night by
WSB-TV.
Maddox confirmed taking out
the loans to go into the ham
burger business and said there
was nothing unusual about the
transactions.
Maddox borrowed $103,000 to
purchase the Cobb County es
tablishment. The deal was
transacted Dec. 29 but the pa
pers were not filed until Jan.
19, 10 days after the General
Assembly elected him governor.
Maddox borrowed $127,000 for
the Fulton County establish
ment.
The governor said he made
a down payments totaling
$45,000 for the two businesses.
Maddox said that sum was un-
But the announcement meant.
no distress for Maddox.
“Revenue collections for the
month of January indicate that
the projection upon which this
administration’s budget was
formulated are in line with the
economy," Maddox said.
“I am convinced that the
budget which I proposed to the
general assembly can be
financed and that my adminis
tration's programs can be ef
fectuated."
Maddox said an abnormal
drop in auto tag sales distorted
the revenue picture and blamed
a new law which requires peop
le to pay their automobile prop
erty tax at the time of purchas
ing license plates.
“Hie collection of $3 million
over January of last year, to
gether with the $1.3 million de
crease in tag sales in January,
1967, due to the ad valorem
tax law, means in effect that
RENO, Nev. (UPI) —“Always
lock your car to prevent
burglaries,” inspector John
Faszek of the police auto theft
division warned residents. The
next day he reported burglars
at his home had rummaged
through two, of his cars. Neither
was locked.
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1967
derwritten by a “substantial,
Triple A rated company,” pre
sumably Burger King.
The governor, asked if there
were anything “shady” about
the business deals, responded
“absolutely not.”
“There is nothing shady
about anything I have been do
ing,” Maddox said. “I am an
open book.”
Maddox campaigned for gov
ernor as the “poor man’s can
didate.” He said he suffered a
substantial loss when he closed
his Fickrick Restaurant rather
than serve Negroes as required
by the civil rights act of 1965.
The governor said his Fick
rick Furniture store was still a
struggling enterprise.
we had a $4.3 million increase
for the month.”
House Speaker George L.
Smith said that “if an analysis
of the figures indicates strongly
that there is a possible further
leveling off in our econ
omy, the appropriations com
mittees should take an ever
harder and more searching look
at the proposed budget.
“Before, there was some sur
plus,’ Plunkett added. “We’re
still escalating but the escala
tion has slowed."
Hawes indicated the January
figures were “about what we
expected and anticipated. The
world is not coming to an end.’
Rail Lease
Work Starts
ATLANTA (UPI)—House
Senate Committees today begin
digging through the controversi
al lease of the state - owned
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
At stake is whether the At
lanta to Chattanooga railroad
will be awarded to the Southern
Railway Co. on a 25-year lease
or to the present leasee, the
Louisville and Nashville Rail
road.
The State Properties
Control Commission recom
mended Southern’s high bid of
$906,000 per year be accepted,
but opposition has sprung up in
the General Assembly from
some legislators who feel
awarding the road to Southern
would create a monopoly on
rail traffic between Atlanta and
Tennessee. The I & N bid
$900,000.
The Southern already has one
line between Atlanta and Chat
tanooga and has a line from
Chattanooga to Griffin, Ga. The
I & N contends the Southern
would sew up all rail traffic in
the North Georgia area if it is
allowed to lease the railroad.
The Southern contends, how
ever, the I & N has been dere
lict in industrializing the road
to its fullest advantage and has
been cheating the state in taxes
and property rental*.
Both Southern and I & N lob
byists have been working the
halls of the capitol for weeks
in an effort to persuade legis
lators to their point of thinking
and both have run expensive
newspaper ad campaigns.
Several committees will par
ticipate in the hearings includ
Fulton Okays
School Bonds
ATLANTA (UPI) Fulton
County voters, excluding At
lanta, voted Tuesday to sell $6
million in school bonds.
Voter turn-out was light. Only
4 of 37 precincts voted against
the bonds. The total vote was
4,919 for and 1,498 against them.
The bond issue will raise the
tax rate from 5.6 to 6.4 mills.
It was the 10th consecutive
passage of bond issues in Ful
ton County.
CARD OF THANKS
First of all I want to thank
God for His Love and for Dr.
Martin and his wonderful
staff of doctors and all those
lovely nurses. Also for a pas
tor like mine, Rev. Hartwell
Kennedy and all the great
friends I have. It would be
impossible for me to see each
one in person and thank them
for the gifts, flowers, letters,
cards, visits, phone calls and
most of all for every prayer
that went up in my behalf.
God still hears and answers
prayers. He was with me
every minute during my stay
at Emory Hospital.
I am home and feeling fine
Love to all—
VIRGIE LEE HEAD,
V & H GRILL,
Experiment, Ga.
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mopping operations in his residence hall room by Carol,
his slave for the day.
ing a specially appointed group
of senators in charge of looking
into the lease in detail.
Caldwell Suit
Hearing Set
Next Monday
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) — A
hearing is scheduled in DeKalta
County Superior Court Monday
on a petition aimed at ousting
Sam Caldwell as commissioner
of labor for “bad character.”
A petition challenging Cald
well’s right to take office was
dismissed Tuesday by DeKalb
County Superior Court Judge
Clarence Peeler.
Both petitions were filed by
Shell Hartley of Tifton charging
Caldwell with “bad character,”
improper use of State Highway
Department funds and with
nonpayment of state and De
Kalb County taxes.
Caldwell said Hartley was
"harassing” him and was “po
litically inspired” in his ac
tions.
Hartley said ne was motivat
ed solely by his belief in “hon
esty and morality in govern
ment.”
In the suit Hartley, former
Tifton and Carrollton city man
ager, charged Caldwell with
bastardy and adultery.
The suit charged Caldwell
with fathering two children by
his present wife before they
were married, and while Cald
well was still married to his
former wife.
Caldwell said “there was no
cause of action stated in the
suit” and added “it was simply
a continuation of harassment.”
“I am gratified that the judg
es involved in this case recog
nize the suit as being politically
inspired and acted accord
ingly,” Caldwell said after the
dismissal.
Caldwell defeated long - time
commissioner Ben T. Huiet in
the September primary election
and was sworn in Jan. 10.
NEW TELESCOPE
LONDON (UPI) — Britain’s
Science Research Council Tues
day authorized a grant of
$126,000 for the construction of
a new radio telescope by
Manchester University.
The university already
operates three radio telescopes
at the Jodrell Bank Observato
ry.
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Athletic Financing
Investigation Asked
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)—A special
House subcommittee has been
instructed to look into the “gray
area” of atheletlc financing in
the state university system.
House Appropriations Com
mittee Chairman James H.
(Sloppy) Floyd, called for the
investigation by a Higher Edu
cation subcommittee after com
mittee Secretary William P.
Wiggins pointed out that there
was no accounting of athletic
matters in the budget of the
State Board of Regents.
In other legislative develop
ments Tuesday, Gov. Lester
Maddox said he is convinced
that revenues will be available
to finance his $1.6 billion
budget. Maddox made the ob
servation after Revenue Com
missioner Peyton Hawes noted
in a month-end report that
Georgia’s economic growth is
not as great as it once was.
Two Senate Appropriations
Committee members, mean
while, suggested that former
Gov. Carl Sanders be invited to
testify to “clear suspicion and
doubt as to what his part was”
in deficits in the State Depart
ment of Industry and Trade.”
Wants Sanders Testimony
“I want Sanders to be able to
come up and explain the expen
ditures,” said Sen. Bobby Row
an of Enigma.
In still another development,
the House Reapportionment
Committee announced it will try
to keep House membership from
climbing over the present 205
members, maintain county lines
and still come up with an ac
ceptable plan for the General
Assembly this session in accor
dance with a federal court man
date and deadline.
State Auditor Ernest Davis
told the House Appropriations
Committee that by law the
state has not conducted an aud
it of the athletic system for the
last 17 years. He said he had
not conducted an audit of the
athletic system for the last 17
years. He said he had not even
received a copy of separate
audits run by the universities
themselves for three years.
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While students at
Berkeley riot for
more Southern rights, those Illinois at
University at Car
bondale are offering
themselves as slaves,
It’s all in fun at SIU,
however, with the
girls at Thompson
Point residence nails
trying to raise money
for their entertain
ment fund. Slave
auctions are held
with the girls dis
playing only their
legs from behind a
screen. Below, fresh
man Tim Hohs buys
the household work
“slave” Carol Clyde.
“This is a gray area to me,”
Wiggins said. "I want to know
what is happening to the mon
ey.”
Georgia Tech President Ed
ward Harrison assured the com
mittee his athletic program was
in sound financial shape.
“Literally millions of dollars
have been used for projects on
the campus,” Harrison said,
“donated to the people of Geor
gia.”
Harrison Cooperative
Harrison said he would be
glad to supply the committee
with any information it needed
but would prefer that it not be
made public.
University Chancellor George
L. Simpson said it was simply
a “historic” matter that the
athletic department not be in
cluded in the budget but added
no state money was used In
any way for athletic purposes.
He said ticket receipts or stu
dent activity fees accounted for
the sports budget and the larg
er colleges usually showed a
clear profit.
The suggestion that former
Gov. Sanders appear before the
Senate committee arose after
the Department of Industry and
Trade made an appearance and
admitted overspending its budg
et by $150,000 last year.
Sen. William A. Searcey of
Savannah has urged the Legis
lature to seek an investigation
by Atty. Gen. Arthur Bolton in
to the deficit. He said Tuesday
he suspects records for this
year would show the depart
ment even more in arrears.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) —
Andrew Betancourt, 28, a
civilian clerk at the San
Francisco Police Department’s
park station, filed a $100,000 suit
against the city Monday charg
ing that one or more officers
sent him on an involuntary
“trip” by sneaking LSD into his
coffee.
Betancourt claimed the drug
sent him on a painful,
unpleasant seven-hour period of
Illness and hallucination.
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