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Gov. Carter talks to Senate subcommittee
Carter tells of H-epidemic
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Gov.
Jimmy Carter told a Senate sub
committee on government reor
ganization Thursday that he had
been snubbed by the Pentagon
in requesting the military’s aid
in halting a “heroin epidemic”
in Georgia.
In a prepared statement, Car
ter said heroin addiction is al
ready “rampant in the New
South” but growing worse be-
Revamp committees
review 22 plans
By TOM GREENE
ATLANTA (UPI)-Legislative
committees Thursday began
sorting out 22 different plans for
reapportioning the state’s con
gressional districts and sched
uled a series of weekly meet
ings to begin drafting final pro
posals for the upcoming special
session.
The special session will bring
the General Assembly back to
the capitol beginning Sept. 27
and will focus on drawing new
lines—under pressure of a court
order—for the state’s congres
sional, House and Senate dis
tricts.
Both the House and Senate
committees have scheduled
weekly meetings beginning next
Wednesday to start arriving at
final proposals.
Thursday, a joint meeting of
the committees took a straw
vote on 22 proposed proposed
{dans to rework the state’s con
gressional districts with 11 of
the plans receiving votes.
The legislators liked two of
the proposals best, one by Rep.
SATURDAY MORNING
JULY 17,1971
at 10:00 A.M.
UNDER THE BK TEMT
Corner of Sharpe Street
and Pinkey Circle
Forsyth, Georgia
Spiling at Auction, a total of 41 -- - 3,4 and 5 room houses, and
one apartment building with five, 3 room apartments. All of
the houses are frame with metal roofs. This is excellent
investment property, and is currently grossing approximately
$13,728.00 per year. The taxes and insurance are about
$2,475.00 leaving a net income of $11,253.00 per year. There will
be several building lots offered in addition to the buildings.
This property will sell at auction with 25 percent down, and the
balance over 5 years at 8 percent interest To get to the sale
site, turn off the Square in Forsyth on toGa. Hwy. No. 42 South,
and foUow it South to Sharpe Street Turn Right on Sharpe
Street, and look for the Big Auction Tent. These houses will be
sold one at the time, so come and plan to stay. For more
information, call or write our office for a brochure:
cause of addicted soldiers re
turning from Vietnam.
He said he made repeated at
tempts to obtain help from the
Pentagon for his statewide pro
gram but “received absolutely
no offer of assistance....”
“I am completedly dissatisfied
with the response of the armed
services to the heroin addiction
problem,” said Carter.
He spurned plans announced
Frank Pinkston of Macon and
the other by Rep. Bob Harrison
of Jesup.
Pinkston’s plan would create
a middle Georgia district, a
new mostly-black district in At
lanta, and a coastal district, in
addition to combining the dis
tricts now represented by U. S.
Rep. Fletcher Thompson of At
lanta and Rep. Jack Flint of
Griffin.
Thompson has said that if he
is redistricted out of a congres
sional post he will run for the
U. S. Senate seat now held by
Sen. David Gambrell of Atlanta,
a Democrat appointed by Gov.
Jimmy Carter.
Harrison’s plan would divide
the state’s 10 congressional dis
tricts almost equally into rural
and urban districts, combining
such large presently-indepen
dent districts as Savannah and
Augusta, and Macon and
Columbus.
During Thursday’s meeting,
Sen. Culver Kidd of Milledge
ville. refuted charges made by a
Southeastern Newspapers Inc.
by the Veterans Administration
for heroin addiction treatment,
saying the plans were not
“equal to the task.
“If the VA programs are to
be successful, they must recog
nize heroin addiction as a serv
ice - connected disability, and
contract with state and civilian
agencies to provide an adequate
range of services,” he said.
reporter that he and another
senator were using reapportion
ment to have Sen. Al Holloway
of Albany ousted as majority
leader. &
The article charged that Kidd
was using redistricting as a
“hammer” to coerce other leg
islators to go along with the
ouster or have their districts
changed.
Suits filed
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI)-Three
suits were filed in federal court
here Thursday charging Warren
County Sheriff A. Roger Dye,
13 state troopers and a Warren
ton theater owner with civil
rights violations.
. The suits seek a total of $450,-
000 in damages from the de
fendants.
In one suit, Winston Grier
charges he was arrested with
out a warrant by state troop
ers at his residence about mid
night on May 21, and was beat
en while being taken to jail.
Grier further charges that
the troopers accused him of
shooting another trooper, and
that Dye ordered him to run.
He said, however, he was beat
en so badly he could not run,
and that Dye shot him. Grier
said he still had bullets lodged
in his face, shoulders and legs,
is without the use of his right
arm and has been unable to
work since the incident.
Perching prisoners
are in solitary
ALTO, Ga. (UPI)—Two young
prisoners who spent 28 hungry
hours atop a water tower in
protest of an eight-day isolation
sentence are in solitary confine
ment today.
The two 19-year-olds—one of
them white, the other black
backed their way down a ladder
on the 100-foot tower after the
unexpected happened — the
mother of the black youth came
to talk her son down.
Leon Brooks and Daryl Cooly
ascended the tower Wednesday
morning after they were sen
tenced to eight days in isolation
for taking part in a barracks
disturbance.
They vowed to continue the
vigil, despite a blazing summer
sun and lack of food and water,
until State Corrections Director
Ellis McDougall agreed to hear
their protest.
Thursday morning, Mrs.
Charlie Lois Brooks appeared,
stalked to the base of the tower
at the Georgia Industrial Insti-
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FDA keeps
eye on soup
ATLANTA (UPI) - State
officials said Thursday they are
cooperating with the U. S. Food
and Drug Administration
(FDA) in keeping contaminated
canned gourmet soups from be
ing sold in Georgia until inspec
tions can be completed.
The soups carry the label
“Bon Vivant” and have been
blamed for recent cases of
sometimes-fatal food poisoning
known as botulism.
Agriculture Commissioner
Tommy Irvin said food whole
salers in Georgia have been re
quested to withhold such prod
ucts listed by the FDA.
Scott Sprinkle, director of the
Health Department’s sanitation
branch, said restaurants have
been asked not to serve any
canned gourmet soups such as
claret consomme, vichyssoise,
jellied consomme, onion soup
with sherry, green turtle soup
and the like until the threat has
passed.
“There is no cause for pan
ic,” Sprinkle said, “but both
(Agriculture and Health) de
partments feel that consumers
should be advised that Bon Vi
vant is recalling these products.
“We have to hope the people
will curtail their interest in ex
otic soups and sauces until sus
pected items can be located and
returned to Bon Vivant or the
FDA.”
Hearing set
on 1-75 route
ATLANTA (UPI)-A public
hearing has been tentatively
scheduled on Aug. 25 in the Ac
worth area on the proposed new
location of the controversial por
tion of Interstate 75 at Lake Al
la toona.
Construction of the highway
has been delayed five years be
cause environmental groups
have challenged the original I
-75 route which would have taken
the expressway over the recre
ational lake north of Marietta.
The department is proposing
an alternate route that would
largely skirt the lake on the
west side.
Also Thursday, the State High
way Board approved 15 new
construction projects to be let
Aug. 6, including four interstate
jobs.
Two of the interstate contracts
included 6.9 miles of grading
and construction of a bridge on
1-95 in Camden County, and 6.2
miles of resurfacing and re
building on 1-285 around Atlanta
between U. S. 141 and Red Oak.
Goals hearing
in Athens
ATLANTA (UPI) - Public
hearings in conjunction with
Gov. Jimmy Carter’s “Goals for
Georgia” program continue at
Athens today.
Carter has described the
hearings as “an opportunity for
all citizens from every walk of
life to record their view of
what state government ought to
be doing for them.”
The hearing will be the 16th
held around the state this
tute, and conducted a five
minute hollering conversation
with her son, Leon.
Warden Charles Balkcom said
Mrs. Brooks “talked to him like
a mama would. She more or
less chewed him out for being
up there to start with. She told
him he didn’t have any business
up there and to come down.”
He came down and surren
dered. A few minutes later, red
with Sunburn, Cooly also
climbed down.
McDougall refused to discuss
the boys’ protest with them. He
said they would have to serve
the isolation sentences and said
they also face an extra 200 days
in the prison because of their
protest on the tower.
A physician examined Cooly
and Brooks after their descent
and found "both of them fa
tigued and Cooly quite sun
burned.”
They were given food and wa
ter, then placed in solitary con
finement.
month and Carter said he hopes
the hearings will draw some 10,-
000 participants before they end
next month.
Friday’s meeting in Athens
was scheduled for noon at the
University of Georgia’s Center
for Continuing Education. Uni
versity President Fred Davison
and former Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, now a law profes
sor, were to attend.
Critical group
dropouts up
ATLANTA (UPI)-Dr. Abbott
L. Ferriss, an Emory Univer
sity sociologist, said Thursday
the steady decline of school en
rollment among 18-and 19-year
olds may require a nationwide
program to halt the decrease.
Ferriss said enrollment
among this “critical group”
continued to slip by five per
cent in 1970 among males, with
enrollment of white males drop
ping 3.4 per cent and blacks 5.9
per cent between 1969 and 1970.
Female enrollment remained
constant.
Ferriss said he considers
school enrollment to be a lead
ing social indicator and that the
18 and 19 year old group is a
primary index for enrollment.
Leaf sales
set Aug. 3
MACON, Ga. (UPI)-After
hearing reports that Georgia’s
tobacco crop is of high quality
but later than usual, state Agri
culture Commissioner Tommy
Irvin Thursday set Aug. 3 as
the opening day of auction sales
on the Georgia-Florida flue
cured belt.
The decision followed a two
and a half hour meeting of the
Georgia Tobacco Advisory
Board. The members voted
unanimously to open sales on
Aug. 3 in the 23 Georgia market
cities.
The five markets in Florida,
also part of the two-state flue
cured belt, agreed last Monday
to begin sales on that day.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Striking Southern Bell Co. employe gives
picketing sandwich board a novel twist Operator Starr Wil
son of CWA Local 3220 is one of 500 strikers called “friendly”
by local Manager Bob Haley, who with 90 supervisors is
keeping phones in service. (UPI)
Stuckey pushes national shore
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep.
W. S. “BUI” Stuckey, Jr., D-
Ga., Thursday introduced legis
lation to establish the Cumber
land Island as a national sea
shore.
The 18-mile long, 24,000-acre
island is the southern-most of
the Golden Isles of Georgia’s
coast, located immediately
south of Jekyll Island.
Stuckey introduced an earlier
bill to create the seashore, but
the House Interior Committee
Griffin Daily News
faded to take action on the
measure.
Since then, Stuckey said, the
National Parks Foundation,
working with private foundation
funding, has acquired more than
70 per cent of Big Cumberland
Island for donation to the sea
shore when the bill is enacted.
Stuckey said the island had
“probably the most beautiful
beach that you will see any
where.
Friday> July 16,1971
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S. C. says
peaches
were okay
COLUMBIA, S. C. (UPI) -
State Commissioner of Agricul
ture William L. Harrelson
Thursday said the recent ship
ment of South Carolina peaches
to Europe for use by U.S. Army
personnel arrived in excellent
condition.
The peaches had received a
U. S. Extra Fancy Number One
grading by the Department of
Agriculture. However, when the
fruit arrived in Europe, it was
rejected by Army officials who
said the peaches were imma
ture, too small or contained
worms.
Sen. Ernest F. Rollings, D-S.
C., Thursday called for a com
plete investigation into the inci
dent saying there may be po
litical maneuvering surround
ing the buying of food for the
military in Europe.
“It appears that the Army is
making a determined effort to
block any attempt by American
agricultural interests to com
pete with common market
farmers,” said Rollings.
Harrelson said two representa
tives of the South Carolina De
partment of Agriculture report
ed the 877 three-quarter bushel
containers of peaches arrived in
Holland in excellent condition.
“They were resized and re
graded,” he said. “Less than
one-half of one per cent were
lost in the regrading process.”
Harrelson said that state of
ficials were unable to convince
the military inspector and chief
procurement officer for the mil
itary that the peaches were of
high quality.
“We regret that the peaches
were said to be unacceptable,”
Harrleson added. “We feel that
file quality was acceptable....”
The peaches were hand-picked
and selected from Sumter Coun
ty peach orchards in late June
for shipment to Europe in re
frigerated containers.