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Panel Recommends
Local Option Taxes
By TOM GREENE
ATLANTA (UPl)—Nearly ev
eryone at a subcommittee ses
sion of the Tax Revision Study
Committee Monday agreed with
Rep. Howard Atherton of Mari
etta when he said “The present
sources of revenue for local
governments are not suffi
cient.”
Other than that, there was
little general agreement.
The subcommittee recom
mended that the General As
sembly pass local option taxes
allowing local governments to
adopt either a 1 per cent local
sales tax or a 1 per cent in
come tax.
However, five of the nine
members of the same subcom
mittee issued an alternative rec
ommendation that the tax be
limited to a local income tax,
all of which would go for edu
cation.
Both recommendations to the
full committee also contained
proposals for local taxes on
hotel and motel charges, mixed
drinks and amusements.
Clarke County Commissioner
Hugh Logan, a subcommittee
member, recommended raising
the state sales tax from 3 to 4
per cent, with all the money
earmarked for education.
Logan, who is president of the
Association of County Commis
sioners, said “I think we are all
aware of the unrest among tax
payers today.” He said he had
previously opposed increasing
the state sales tax, but has be
come convinced that some relief
is necessary for property tax
payers.
If the sales tax is increased
to provide an additional 1 per
cent for education, he said, local
property taxes for school pur
poses should be cut.
Committee Chairman Al Holo
way of Albany said he considers
Logan’s proposal “awfully close
to a tax increase” rather than
the tax revision for which the
committee was created and
might have to rule it out
of order eventually.
Atherton read the committee
recommendation which would
give local governments a choice
of taxes. If a county adopted
either the sales or income tax,
half the money raised would go
to the local board and the re
mainder would be divided
among the local governments in
the county.
If a city adopted one of the
taxes and a county did not, and
there were no independent
school system within the city,
it would keep all the money.
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Tuesday, Sept. 30,1969
The recommendation also
specified that local property
taxes would have to be cut
back by half of the money taken
in under the new tax for the
first year.
Sen. Bob Walling of DeKalb
County, reading the recommen
dation issued by him and four
others, said local boards of edu
cation should be empowered to
levy a 1 per cent local income
tax to be collected by the state
and remitted to the school sys-
Q—For some time I have
been getting short of breath
on mild exertion. My doctor
says my electrocardiogram
(ECG) is inverted. He pre
scribed Peritrate which I
have been taking for a year.
Could I have an impending
heart attack?
A—An inverted T wave on
an ECG is usually a sign of
heart muscle damage. This,
plus the fact that you are
taking a nitrate, suggests
coronary heart disease and
the need for periodic check
ups by your doctor.
Q—What is congestive
heart failure? How serious
is it?
A—When a heart valve
leaks the heart must work
harder to pump the blood.
When it reaches its limit,
there is a backing up of
blood and waterlogging of
the tissues, with shortness
of breath. This is conges
tive heart failure. It is a
serious condition but it can
often be corrected by surgi
cal repair or replacement
of the diseased valve.
Q—l am a housewife, 26.
My heart has been enlarged
since I had rheumatic fever
as a child. Last year I had
pericarditis. Could I have a
normal pregnancy?
A—Some women with this
condition go through a nor
mal pregnancy but they are
at a far greater risk than a
woman with a normal heart.
A successful outcome re
quires the combined skill of
a heart specialist and obste-
Welfare Demonstrators
Promise To Return
To Wisconsin Capitol
By FRANK RYAN
MADISON, Wis. (UPI)-A
militant Roman Catholic priest
and 300 welfare demonstrators
promised to return to the state
Capitol today—and to the same
room they occupied for nearly
10 hours before leaving it
peacefully Monday night.
“I feel we got our point
across,” said the Rev. James
E. Groppi of Milwaukee.
“We’re going to be here as long
as the legislature is in session.”
Groppi and his followers
broke down a door and took
over the assembly chambers
shortly before a special session
to consider restoration of
welfare cuts and urban aid
grants was to convene.
Before the occupation was
over, Gov. Warren P. Knowles
had called up more than 1,000
National Guard troops, only a
few of whom had arrived when
the demonstrators marched
without incident from the
Capitol shortly before midnight.
There were no arrests.
Groppi and the demonstra
tors, joined by several hundred
terns.
The recommendation of Wall
ing’s group also calls for a “roll
back” of local property taxes
levied for educational purposes
in an amount equal to one-half
of the revenue collected from
the income tax, or allowing
each property owner a credit
against his property tax bill for
half his added income tax.
The committee, created by the
last General Assembly, is to re
port its recommendations back
to the legislature next year.
DOCTOR’S MAILBAC
Periodic Checkups
Are Wise Precaution
By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT. M.D.
trician working as a team.
They should be consulted be
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Q—My husband, 60, is in
good health except for a
slightly enlarged heart. He
is not taking any medicine
but the doctor checks his
heart every two months.
Does he need to be seen that
often?
A—Enlargement of the
heart is usually due to rheu
matic heart disease or a high
blood pressure of long stand
ing. The victim can live a
long and useful life if he fol
lows his doctor’s advice, has
regular checkups and re
ports any unusual symptoms
to his doctor promptly. What
interval between checkups is
best for your husband would
depend on several factors
and should be left up to his
physician.
NOTE: In a recent column
I recommended “The Offi
cial AMA Book of Health”
as a paperback family medi
cal guide. I am informed
that this book is out of print.
You may still be able to get
another excellent paperback,
“Home Medical Encyclope
dia” by Dr. Paul Kuhne,
published by Fawcett Pub
lications, Inc., Greenwich,
Conn.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Please send your questions and
comments to Wayne G. Brandstadt,
M.D., in care of this paper. While
Dr. Brandstadt cannot answer indi
vidual letters, he will answer letters
of general interest in future columns.
University of Wisconsin
students and other youths, then
marched to a church a short
distance from the Capitol.
Groppi stood on the church
steps and called for a rally and
another walk to the Capitol
before the legislature recon
vened (at 11 a.m. EDT).
Knowles had called for the
special session to pass on a
$33.1 million supplementary
budget. In the speech for
delivery Monday, he was
prepared to tell the legislators,
“so long as some of our people
go to bed hungry or in ill
health, or in hopelessness every
night, nobody in Wisconsin has
the right to be indifferent.”
About 40 persons, led by
Groppi, who has gained a
measure of fame as a civil
rights activist, had staged a
week-long 90-mile march from
Milwaukee to dramatize their
demands for a restoration of
welfare cuts made in the
original budget.
The protesters rallied at the
university shortly after noon
Monday and then moved to the
Capitol, their ranks swelling to
as many as 2,000 at times.
No hush puppy
BALTIMORE (UPI)-Balti
more police take barking dog
complaints seriously. After a
number of calls from neighbors
about a woman who let her dog
bark, police zipped out to her
house, arrested her, fingerprinted
her and then locked her up for
12 hours. County officials pro
tested the action, but the police
said the woman had been warned
several times about her noisy
dog.
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Pastor, His
Stabbed To
CHICAGO (UPl)—The bodies
of a Methodist pastor who had
worked closely with Puerto
Rican street gangs and of his
wife were found Tuesday in
their North Side apartment.
Police said they had been
stabbed to death.
The body of the Rev. Bruce
Johnson Jr., 30, was found by a
mailman in a living room chair.
His wife, Jean, 28, was found in
the couple’s bedroom. He had
been stabbed 18 times in the
chest and stomach while Mrs.
Johnson was stabbed five times
in the back and 14 times in the
chest, police said.
The couple had three child
ren, Brian and Kevin, 4-year-old
twins, and Perry, 14 months.
They were taken by relatives.
The mailman, Solomon Wil
liams, found Brian, wearing
pajamas and with blood on his
hands and feet, sitting on the
porch crying.
“Mommy and daddy won’t
talk to me,” he told Williams.
Mailman Finds Body
Williams said he looked in the
front door and saw Johnson
slumped in an easy chair, his
pipe at his feet. He summoned
the building owner, who called
police.
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DA’s Must Stick
To Their Duties
ATLANTA (UPl)—From now
on, Georgia’s district attorneys
will have to stick strictly to the
duties of their office.
The Georgia Supreme Court
Monday handed down a unani
mous decision overturning a rul
ing by Fulton Superior Court
Judge Durwood Pye and thus
declaring constitutional a law
that prohibits district attorneys
from practicing law on the side.
In 1968, the General Assembly
passed the law setting an SIB,OOO
annual state salary for district
attorneys and specified that
they could not maintain an out
side law practice.
Prior to that many district at
torneys in the smaller circuits
in the state were paid lower
salaries and allowed to continue
x their private law practice.
Dist. Atty. Fred Hand Jr. of
the South Georgia Judicial Cir
cuit filed a complaint last May
in Fulton County for a declara
tory judgment on the law.
Hand’s circuit is comprised of
Decatur,Grady, Mitchell, Baker
and Calhoun Counties.
Among other things, he con
tended that the constitution sets
Fatal barrel
KINGSVILLE, Tex. (LPI)-
A local woman asked a highway
maintenance foreman to move
a roadside litter barrel farther
away from her home.
“Every time we get a new
dog it gets killed crossing the
road to get over there,” she said.
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blade and a wooden handle was
found near Mrs. Johnson’s
body.
Johnson’s work with the
Young Lords gang had involved
him in running skirmishes with
city officials on urban renewal
and other issues. It also drew
criticism from some neighbor
hood residents when he allowed
the Young Lords, after a sit-in,
to open a day care center at
the church.
In August, Johnson and the
Lords began working for
establishment of a “people’s
park” on a vacant lot slated to
become a private tennis club.
They planned a street fair for
Aug. 24 to dedicate the park
and christen the church “The
People’s Church.”
Circulate Petitions
Neighborhood groups, howev
er, circulated petitions opposing
the fair and Aiderman G. Barr
McCutcheon refused to sanction
a permit for the event.
Difficulties heightened when
McCutcheon’s office was fire
bombed Sept. 15. He publicly
blamed the Young I,ords for the
incident and Johnson accused
him of “intemperance and
prejudice.”
McCutcheon responded with a
charge the Young Lords had
conducted a “reign of terror”
the qualifications for the office
of district attorney, and the
General Assembly can not go
beyond that.
However, Supreme Court Jus
tice Hiram Undercofler said in
Monday’s decision that the 1968
act’s prohibition against prac
ticing law on the outside does
not constitute setting qualifica
tions for eligibility to seek and
assume the office.
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Bishop Tom M. Pryor of the
Northern Illinois Conference of
the United Methodist Church
said if the murders were the
result of Johnson’s ministry, “it
can only be said that this
couple must be numbered
among those who laid down
their lives for others in the
name of Christ.”
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BRUCE BIOSSAT
Move to Boost Influence
Os Elected Black Officials
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
America’s elected black officials, nearly 1,500 today, are
giving prime priority to a kind of watchdog operation which
they hope will help assure a full census count of the
nation’s blacks in 1970.
These officials see themselves as a new focus of leader
ship in the black community. Their decision at their recent
conference here to set up a permanent Center for Black
Elected Officials, with another major meeting next year,
reflects that conviction.
They believe that the 1960 census probably underweighed,
the total black population by at least tens of thousands..
They think the same thing may happen again next year un
less they use their energy and ingenuity to aid in turning
up all or almost all of the people in the city ghettos.
The elected officials’ motivation is a very practical one.
If the Negro head count goes to the levels tney believe it
might, then on the basis of one-man, one-vote black repre
sentation in Congress, state legislatures and city councils
might double the number of black elected officials in 1972
and thereafter.
Obviously, such a result would greatly magnify the poten
tial clout of the organized black officials, and in the view
of many, make “black power” an acceptable and useful
reality within the established political system rather than
a revolutionary slogan.
As an inevitable corollary of the plan, leading black offi
cials would also expect at least a doubling of their repre
sentation at national nominating conventions from 1972 on.
A little-noted point at their Washington conference here
in mid-September was that the elected officials deliberately
did not invite civil rights leaders to join in their sessions.
As a budding group with only one other meeting (at Chi
cago) under their belt, the officeholders felt they would be
seriously overshadowed by “name” leaders like Whitney
Young, Roy Wilkins, and Phillips Randolph.
Operating on their own, their confidence grew. The day
they decided to create their new permanent Center, attend
ing officials dug into their own pockets on the scene to
dredge up $2,000 for a financing start. They figure they need
at least $30,000 to get off the ground and set up a permanent
headquarters somewhere.
Interestingly, the chief initiative for these actions came
from officials who were elected as independents without
regular party nomination or endorsement. (About 15 per
cent of the 350 or more officials present were Republicans.)
One source, while acknowledging that most of the inde
pendents present had probably won with heavy voting sup-.
port from rank and file Democrats, nevertheless noted that
a good many were considerably responsive to pressures
from the more militant black elements.
These pressures underlay the drive for permanence, for
enlarged elected representation through a fuller ghetto cen
sus count, for a certain independence of white financial
sources.
The Washington conference cost roughly $120,000, and
white foundations put up some $60,000 of that. Hereafter,
black officials would like to pay more and more of their
own way.
Temporary chairmen in the new setup are State Rep.
Arthur O. Eve of Buffalo, N.Y., and Aiderman Charles
Chew of Chicago, an anti-Daley winner. Others in the fore
front are State Rep. Charles Rangel of New York City
(Harlem), City Councilman Bernard Charles of Ramapo,
N.Y., and two other anti-Daley Chicago aidermen, Richard
Newhouse and A. A. (Sammy) Rayner.