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Maddox Asking:
‘Very Minimum
Tax Increase’
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD— Gov. Les
ter Maddox said Monday, on
the eve of a report on recom
mendations to his Tax Revision
Study Commission, that he is
asking for "a very minimum”
tax increase.
Maddox said he wanted
the commission's recommenda
tions to include his $211.5 mil
lion proposed tax hike. And he
said, “I would hope and believe
that the people and their rep
resentatives in the General As
sembly would go along with
this program of progress.”
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Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1968
Dr. James Papke, the com
mission’s research director, is
scheduled to submit the final
recommendations to a meeting
of the full commission Tuesday.
Papke's proposals call for
about SIOO million more for lo
cal governments to relieve
property tax rates, s3l million
for highways, and $80.5 million
more for state agencies.
The hikes would come from
a one-cent increase in the state
sales tax, a one-and-a-half cent
gas tax increase, corporate and
personal income tax jumps
with credits for low - Income
families, and other changes.
The proposals will later go to
the General Assembly after ap
proval by the commission.
In the event the tax commis
sion does not approve the full
amount of increase proposed by
Papke, Maddox said, “We’ll
have to make a determination
at that time on what to do
next.”
Prior to the commission
meeting, Maddox is scheduled
to hold a session with legisla
tive leaders which he said “was
to discuss planning and affairs
of state.”
In the next two weeks, Mad
dox will make an 18-city tour
immediately following the re
port to the commission Tues
day. He said the purpose of the
tour is to explain his version of
the budget story and “let the
people decide.”
The governor also declined
Monday to answer comments
made earlier by Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith, who predicted
only an SBO million increase for
local governments could win
legislative approval.
Smith said “it’s a little late”
to begin selling people on a tax
increase.
Welfare Cases
Decrease In
Poorest County
By MARCIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD —A State
Welfare Department investigat
ing team has gone into Geor
gia's poorest county to find out
why such a small percentage of
eligible poor people is receiving
federal aid.
State Welfare Director Wil
liam Burson, announcing the in
vestigation—the first of its kind
since he took office in 1967—
said Monday that in October 869
persons in Webster County had
taken part in federal food pro
grams. By’ comparison, only 182
of that possible 869 took part
in state welfare assistance dur
ing the month of November.
Burson said federal food fig
ures have not yet been made
available for November so a di
rect comparison could not be
made. He added that there
could be some explanation for
the apparent dropoff.
“There may be a logical ex
planation for this,” Burson said,
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US Destroyers
In The Black Sea
ISTANBUL (UPD—Two U.S.
destroyers plied the waters of
the Black Sea today, tiieir
skippers ignoring Soviet
protests that the ships constitut
ed a provocation against
Moscow.
The Dyess and the Turner
moved on what U.S. 6th Fleet
spokesmen officially called
“routine” exercises—in a sea
the Soviets consider a private
lake.
As the destroyers entered the
Black Sea early Monday, they
passed an unidentified Soviet
Tanker.
American officials would not
say, but military observers said
the U.S. ships were sent into the
Black Sea as a tit for tat
response to the steady Soviet
naval build-up in the Mediter
ranean.
Between 40 and 50 Soviet
naval vessels are cruising
"but frankly I can't think of
one right now.”
He said the three - member
team would conduct a two-week
investigation of welfare prac
tices in the southwest Georgia
county, particularly the federal
food assistance program.
“It is not our intent to try
to force anyone to take wel
fare,” Burson said.
“But we have a responsibility
to make certain that everyone
who is eligible is aware of that
fact and has a chance to file
an application,” he said.
Bruson said he decided on the
action after “it became appar
ent we couldn’t get a review
from the local office.”
Webster County is the sixth
poorest in the country and the
poorest in Georgia. It is one of
five counties which have direct
federally - controlled food pro
grams because local officials
refuse to administer them.
“We have the authority to put
eligibles on the welfare roles
and we certainly will do so if
the team finds that action war
ranted,” Burson said. “We are
required to make certain that
local officials do not exclude
eligible persons.
Burson said it was strange
that the number of persons tak
ing part in the federal food pro
grams in the county had de
creased instead of increased
this time of year when food is
harder to come by.
Conried in ‘Barefoot -
HOLLYWOOD (UPD—Hans
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considered the almost undisput
ed preserve of the 6th Fleet.
The Soviet Communist party
newspaper Pravda has steadily
denounced the cruise as part of
a chain of U.S. provicatlons.
The Soviet news agency Tass
rejected U.S. statements that
American destroyers have been
visiting the Black Sea every six
months since 1965.
“Provocation remains provo
cation regardless of the fact it
is repeated twice a year,” Tass
said.
The last time two 6th Fleet
destroyers entered the Black
Sea, in June, there was no
uproar.
This time, Tass commentator
Leonid Velichansky coupled the
dispatch of the vessels with the
establishment last month of a
new North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) air recon
naissance command In Naples,
Italy, to watch Soviet naval
movements.
Both moves, Velichansky
wrote, constituted “police and
spy supervision over other
countrys ships in the Mediter
ranean.
U.S. officials said the two
destroyers would stay In the
Black Sea about five days
conducting “routine operations
in international waters.” It was
not known how close the ships
would sail to the Soviet Unions
southern coast.
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Escaper Not
Taken Alive
ATLANTA (UPD — Edward
“Legs” Williams Jr. had vowed
he would never be taken alive.
“I called to him and asked
him to come out,” said detec
tive C. O. Hestley Monday,
“but he didn’t answer.”
Minutes later, Williams fired
through the open doorway of an
apartment where he had holed
up after his escape Thursday
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from the Fulton County Jail.
Atlanta detectives, in a near
by apartment, returned the fire.
Williams died of a single gun
shot wound in the left temple.
Police said the 33-year-old
fugitive, who had been serving
a 20-year term for robbery
when he escaped, had once
vowed he would never be taken
alive.