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Washington ‘Bad Guy’
At County Meeting
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPI'
—The federal government was
the “bay guy” at the opening
session of the 53rd annual con
vention of the Georgia Associa
tion of County Commissioners
and, in a new twist, the com
missioners were accused of
playing into the hands of Wash
ington.
Gov. Lester Maddox, Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith, Congressman
W. S. (Bill) Stuckey and for
mer Gov. Carl Sanders all
warned Monday against the
•‘erosion of county powers”
and Sen. Herman Talmadge
took a swipe at the Supreme
Court.
Maddox and Smith in partl-
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cular objected to the associa
tion’s proposal for a study
aimed at doing away with local
financing of schools and lett
ing the state handle all educa
tional expenses.
“That’s not going to work,”
Maddox said. “The first thing
you know they will want to
pass a resolution asking Wash
ington to finance them
(schools).”
Local Control Urged
He and Smith called for more
local financing and more local
control.
“Unless we strengthen local
government Instead of going to
Atlanta and Washington,” Smith
said, “we’re going to weaken
and destroy it.”
Stuckey warned commission-
Savannah Beach
Approves Drinks
SAVANNAH BEACH, Ga.
(UPI) —Voters overwhelming
ly approved sale of mixed alco
holic drinks Monday in this At
lantic resort which has been
selling mixed drinks for 60
years.
The vote, which ratified n
1964 legislative act, was 442 foi
and 66 against.
Mixed drinks have been sold
here since the early 1900 s, bul
without benefit of legality.
Actually, officials said, there
were few complaints about the
situation, but several years ago
it was decieed to go through
the formality of legalizing the
sale.
ers that local governments were
being threatened by the national
government and only local re
sponsibility would reverse the
trend.
“The way to end this erosion
of power is to show that local
county responsibilities are still
local concerns,” he said.
Stuckey spoke out against a
plan for consolidation of coun
ties and county services that is
expected to be approved by the
association during the week-long
convention.
‘Man of the Year*
Sanders, who accepted the
association’s “man of the year”
award, challenged counties to
live up to their responsibilities
or face federal takeover.
“We must assert every pos
sible new effort to govern our
selves wisely or we may face
the reality of a federal govern
ment governing us unwisely,”
the former governor said.
Talmadge and Corrections
Department Director Asa Kel
ley told the convention an all-out
war on crime is needed and
the senator said “people want
to see criminals punished and
they want police to be given the
tools with which to work, not
rendered virtually helpless by
the Supreme Court...”
On other subjects at the
convention, the lieutenant gov
ernor said Maddox is “whistling
in the dark” if he thinks he
can push a 1 per cent statewide
sales tax hike through the Gen
eral Assembly in 1968, an elec
tion year.
Local School Tax Backed
Smith said he would continue
to support a proposal backed
by the commissioners in the
1967 legislature for an optional
1 per cent local sales tax hike.
The measure failed largely due
to resistance from Maddox.
Dr. Bruce Schaefer of Toc
coa, outgoing association presi
dent, told commissioners tax
payers will eventually demand
consolidation of some counties.
Schaefer said he was in fa
vor of such consolidation and
pointed out pressing money
needs have already forced con
solidation of sewage and water
services.
He said modern travel and
communication has eliminated
the need for so many counties
in Georgia and emphasized con
solidation would have to be
carried out on a local level.
Robbery Suspect
Gets Life Term
ATLANTA (UPI)—A 16-year-.
)ld Negro with a long record
is a juvenile offender has been
rantenced to life Imprisonment
after pleading guilty to nine
counts of armed robbery.
Fulton Superior Court Judge
Itonewali Dyer sentenced Win
ton Stargel to the life term
Monday after hearing a report
rom the county probation de
>artment.
Young Stargel, one of 12 chil
dren, admitted that he held up
nine persons at gunpoint be
tween Feb. 14 and Feb. 26. One
of his victims was a Black
Muslim who operates a restau
rant.
Judge Dyer sentenced Stargel
to life on the first count of rob
bery and then sentenced him to
10 years on the other eight
counts, holding *hat the 10-year
sentences would run concurrent
ly with the life sentence.
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take a few miles. (To bring it down to consumer terms, a cubic mile of water translates
into something like a trillion gallons.) If the total supply is envisaged in terms of a stand
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Backs Racing, Betting
JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (UPI)
— The newly elected president
of the Georgia Association of
County Commissioners today
advocated legalized horse rac
ing and parimutuel betting as
a means to solve county finan
cial problems.
No Charges
Made In
Shooting Case
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — No
charges will be brought by po
lice against a Macon woman
who shot and killed a man
after he allegedly refused to
leave her home.
A coroner’s jury Monday
ruled justifiable homicide and
recommended no charges be
pressued in the death so 39-
year-old Roy Hunter Sautrday
night.
Officers said Mrs. Ruth Mae
Miles, 60, reported she shot
Hunter after he would not leave
her home.
Mrs. Miles said Hunter said
he had come to see her daugh
ter. She said she struck him
first with a stick in an effort
to get him out of the house.
When he persisted, Mrs. Miles
said, she shot him with a .22
caliber pistol.
Pat Dixon Is
Miss Tifton
TIFTON, Ga. (UPI) — Pat
Dixon, a 19-year-old sophomore
at Abraham Baldwin College,
was crowned Miss Tifton Mon
day night in a preliminary to
the Miss Georgia pageant.
The first girl ever to study
veterinary medicine at the col
lege, the daughter of Mrs.
Sammy Dixon danced with
flaming batons for her talent
presentation.
Among spectators at the pag
eant were Gov. Lester Mad
dox, who spoke briefly, and
Miss America, Jane Ann Javroe
of Oklahoma.
Miss Dixon, who lives in
Kingsland, Ga., said she hopes
someday to be a veterinarian
specializing in large animals.
"This would mean a tremen
dous boost to the economy,”
said Harrison Bray, who was
elected at the association’s S3rd
annual convention Monday.
“We couldn’t get an industry
in Georgia that would provide
such a boost to the economy.”
Bray, of Meriwether County,
said he had not discussed his
proposition with anyone and this
was his own personal view.
“I know the governor will be
opposed to this and I know the
ministry will fight it tooth and
toenail. But I think the people
are for it,” he said.
Bray said other states were
draining tourist dollars from
Georgia with legal betting.
“New York, New Jersey,
Maryland and Florida have
horse racing and parimutuel
betting and I don’t see any
reason why we shouldn’t give
some consideration to it,” he
said, adding that tourists from
northern and eastern states
drive through Georgia on their
way to Florida to the horse rac
es.
“Let them spend their money
in Georgia,” he said.
Bray said Savannah and Jek
yll Island were the two most
likely places in Georgia for
horse tracks.
He said the biggest problem
of county government was to
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find money. He said a new tax
source must be found to relieve
the burden on the property own
er.
He said he was opposed
to the local option sales tax be
cause proceeds would go chief
ly to larger cities and counties
since they were the merchan
dising centers.
“I don’t see how a local op
tion sales tax would help small
counties so much because the
people go to Atlanta, Columbus
and other cities to spend their
money.*’
He said, however, he would
be in favor of a statewide tax
increase if the money goes to
local state governments.
Construction
Worker Killed
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPl)—Ter
rell Woolums, a 30-year-old con
struction worker, was killed
Monday when a brace fell from
a scaffold and hit him.
The accident happened at
Grumman Aircraft Engineering
Corp. Woolum was employed by
a Grumman subcontractor,
Georgia Drywall Supply Co. He
was dead on arrival at Savan
nah Hospital.
Tuesday, April 4, 1967 Griffin Daily Newt
Weather Summary
March Warmest
Month Since ’45
By HORACE D. WESTBROOKS
Local Weather Observer
The month just ended was the
warmest March since 1945.
when the average temperatures
were 8.3 degrees above normal.
The warmest March on record
was in 1921, when the average
was 10.1 degrees above normal,
but no all-time records were
broken that March.
The highest maximum ever
recorded in March was on
March 24, 1929, when the maxi
mum reached 92 degrees. Two
all-time records were broken
this March 1967, with an 87 max
imum on the 12th and 83 maxi
mum on the 14th.
Easter was quite early this
year, and we did not experi
ence the usual “cool” spell ar
ound the observance, and the
temperatures for the last 11
days were nearly nine degrees
above normal. The first 10 days
were 2.6 degrees above normal;
the second ten days 4.5 degrees
above.
Only four mornings had 32 de
grees or below, and the lowest
for the month was on the 18th,
when the temperature dropped
to 26 degrees. It was 30 degrees
on the Bth and 19th, and just at
the freezing point on the first
day of March.
Only 10 days were slightly
below normal, the remaining 21
days all above normal, with the
highest average on the 12th with
nearly 20 degrees above the
normal 55 degrees. The average
of the morning readings was 41.1
degrees, the afternoon tempera
tures averaged 72.3 degrees, giv
ing the month an average of 60.2
degrees, 5.5 degrees above the
normal 54.7 degrees.
As is usual when the tempera
ture are above normal, rain
fall is below normal. It was no
exception for March, because
this observer recorded only 1.32
inches of precipitation, about
23 per cent of the normal aver
age of 5.92 inches.
Precipitation for January was
only 3.44 inches, and February
with 4.51 inches, both months be
low normal amounts of rain
fall. The total rainfall for the
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been only 9.27 inches, which is
5.85 inches below the normal
15.12 inches.
If this observer has not re
ported before, the winter of 1966-
67, December, January, and
February, was 1.5 degrees be
low the normal average winter
months, which was the warm
est winter in recent weather his
tory.
The lowest temperature during
the winter was a 10 degree min
imum on February 25, and the
next morning the minimum was
down to 15 degrees. Christmas
Day 1966 set a new record low
of 19 degrees.
Should the present warming
trend continue, we may expect
the spring and summer months
will break some all-time record
temperatures, and probably
rainfall will be below normal.
The month of April has be
gun with above normal tempera
tures, and this may continue dur
ing the balance of this week,
with some precipitation moving
in later this week.
Strike Fails
To Halt
Publication
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) —
Publication continued today
without interruption at the Col
umbus Ledger - Enquirer after
the six members of the Inter
national Stereotype and Elec
trotype Union walked off their
jobs Monday.
A picket line was formed at
the newspaper plant to protest
automation. Pressmen, the only
other organized group in the
plant, crossed the picket line.
Michael Bruni, business man
ager for the newspapers, said
the strike was caused by a dis
pute over the number of work
ers required to operate a new
plate-casting machine recently
installed by the firm.
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