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Friday, March 1, 1968 Griffin Daily News
Plunkett Not Concerned
Over Revenue Drop
ATLANTA (UPD—State Sen.
Lamar Plunkett of Bowdon,
chairman of the Senate Appro
priations Committee, said today
he is not overly concerned that
state revenue collections in
February failed to rise as
much as had been anticipated.
“This does not concern me
too greatly as to the over - all
fiscal condition,’’ Plunkett said
when It was disclosed Thursday
that revenues for the month
were only 6.4 per cent above
the comparable period last
year.
“I have confidence in the
Budget Bureau’s predictions,”
added Plunktt, “but we cannot
help but be somewhat con
cerned about these ups and
downs.”
Revenue Commissioner Pey
ton Hawes told a news confer
ence Thursday that the small
er-than-expected increase low
ered to 9.2 per cent the over-all
rise in revenue collections for
the first eight months of fiscal
1967-68.
The Budget Bureau has pre
dicted collections have to rise
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9.3 per cent for the entire fiscal
year to pay for the $874.5 mil
lion budget proposed by Gov.
Lester Maddox. However, the
legislature has trimmed nearly
sls million from that proposal.
Revenue collections for Feb
ruary totaled SSB million—an in
crease of $3.5 million over the
same month last year. Totals
for the eight-month period are
$446 million—up $37.4 million.
Hawes said the February col
lections were not as high as
had been anticipated because
more efficient handling of state
income tax returns had enabled
his department to refund $2.4
million to taxpayers.
He said this compared to $1.4
million in refunds in February
1967 and “this will, of course,
readjust later in the year.”
But some legislators ex
pressed dismay that the collec
tions weren’t as high as had
been predicted.
House Speaker George L.
Smith, who has been leading a
fight to reduce next year’s bud
get, said the collections report
“should again sound a warning
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to all that the line must be
held on state governmental ex
penditures if a tax increase
next year is to be avoided.”
House Appropriations Com
mittee Chairman James (Slop
py) Floyd said the report
“demonstrates what I have
been saying for a year — that
the economy might be tapering
off and we ought to live within
our means.”
Sen. Paul Broun of Athens
said it was “all the more rea
son that we’ve got to see our
budget reduced to avoid a tax
increase.”
Bank Robber
Gets Life
Plus 15 Years
MACON, Ga. (UPI)-A bank
robber who fled to Puerto Rico
in an attempt to evade the law
has wound up with a long pris
on sentence.
Sam Franklin Brown, 30, was
sentenced to life plus 15 years
Thursday after conviction on
charges of armed robbery of a
bank and a liquor store.
A superior court judge gave
Brown life for making off with
$32,000 from a branch of the
First National Bank here last
Nov. 29, then tacked on 15
more years for the liquor store
holdup.
Authorities said Brown, after
the bank holdup, took a taxi
from Warner Robins to Jack
sonville, where he caught
a plane to Puerto Rico. He was
later arrested there by FBI
agents. Most of the money has
not been recovered.
Bibb County Asst. Sol. Gen.
Fred Hasty called for the death
penalty for the armed robberies
but Brown’s court-appointed at
torney said the accused, a for
mer mental patient, should be
declared insane.
BODDE BOOED
UMEAA, Sweden (UPD—
Screaming and shouting anti-
U.S. demonstrators Wednesday
night forced William Bodde,
second political officer of the
U.S. embassy, to cancel his
lecture on American foreign
policy at the local university.
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Once-A-Week Boycott
Os School Planned
In Social Circle
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (UPD—
Racial unrest in this small
North Georgia textile town is
expected to break into the open
again.
Negro leaders, headed by
Willie Bolden of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence (SCLC), announced Thurs
day there will be a once-a
week boycott of the town’s all-
Negro elementary school and
an economic boycott of all Wal
ton County businesses.
These two forms of protest,
said Bolden, will continue “un
til black children are receiving
equal education to that of white
children” here.
Furthermore, said Bolden,
Negroes will ‘ ‘organize
marches, both day and night,
until those that deceived us
adhere to our plea for justice.”
Bolden said the student boy
cott at Social Circle Training
School would begin today.
Robert Howard, president of
the “Community Organization
for Progress and Education,”
said the economic boycott also
would begin immediately.
Tlie announcements came
while U.S. District Judge W.A.
Bootle waited at Macon for
written legal arguments in a
suit demanding reinstatement
of Negro teachers Allie Norris
and Lillian Hill.
Negroes here are seeking to
end alleged discrimination in
Walton County schools as well
as better lunchroom conditions
at the controversial school here,
better textbooks and bus serv
ice and the reinstatement of
the two teachers who were
fired for protesting conditions
at the school.
Bolden said protest leaders
will decide “arbitrarily” which
day of the week to hold the stu
dent boycotts. Howard said his
gruop would try to discourage
“any Negroes from spending a
dime in Walton County” until
the issues are resolved.
Suspect Held
Dedmond Released;
Awaits New Trial
GREENWOOD, S. C. (UPD—
Roger Zane Dedmond, convict
ed nearly a year ago of his
wife’s murder, is a free man
today, waiting at home with his
parents and young son for a
new trial which likely will be
a mere formality.
“I think I’ll sleep a whole lot
better tonight," Dedmond said
after Circuit Judge Francis B.
Nicholson ordered his release
Thursday on personal recogniz
ance bond. “I’m so happy—it
feels so darn good.”
Dedmond’s release and retrial
were ordered after “Gaffney
strangler” suspect Lee Roy
Martin led police to a wooded
spot in Cherokee County where
clothing and personal belong
ings of Mrs. Annie Lucille Ded
mond and three Gaffney area
girls were found.
Martin, a 30 - year • old tex
tile worker, was accused of kill
ing three women earlier this
month. Authorities said evidence
turned up In the Investigation
definitely cleared Dedmond of
his wife’s murder.
“I don’t know if we will have
to go through the formality of
having Roger appear in court”,
said one of his attorneys, “but
I expect the case will be nol
prossed (not prosecuted).”
The 28 - year • old textile
worker had been serving an 18-
year manslaughter sentence at
a prison camp in Union County.
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At his trial last May, Dedmond
denied making a confession po
lice said he had made.
Sheriff J. Harold Lamb is
sued a lengthy statement
Wednesday night claiming Ded
mond had confessed the killing
several times, but ended the
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should be freed.
Dedmond, grinning broadly,
was taken to his parents’ home
at Forest City, N.C., for a re
union with his 2 - year • old
son. He said he plans to return
to his old job at a textile mill.