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Vandiver checks
ATLANTA (UPl)—State Adjutant Gen. Ernest
Vandiver, accompanied by members of the House and
Senate appropriations committees, was to be in Savannah
today to wind up a two-day tour of National Guard
facilities.
On Wednesday the group viewed Air Guard facilities at
Dobbins Air Force Base at Marietta.
Vandiver, a former governor, is bidding for more state
financial support for the guard. He noted his department
is cutting spending because of an expected shortage in
state revenue this year. But he emphasized the guard is
“looking forward to the future” when Georgia will be
getting more federal funds, which must be matched with
some state money.
He said the federal government provides $33 for each $1
in state money.
Vandiver said the increased federal funds will come “at
a time when Georgia’s economy will need this federal
revenue” and added “our citizens must continue to
receive the protection of Georgia’s 12,000 Army and Air
National Guardsmen.”
Six turned down
ATI .ANTA (UPI) — The budgets of six county school
systems were turned down Wednesday by the State Board
of Education which said it wanted proof the budgets
would be in balance.
A spokesman said the action, which affects the counties
of Early, Emanuel, Evans, Forsyth, Habersham and
Paulding, “isn’t anything critical.”
He said “it is just a notice that we want them to provide
certification that the tax digests will produce the revenues
indicated on the budgets.”
He said there were about 20 systems which probably
would have to renegotiate with the state requirements.
I .aw requires the systems have their budgets in balance
but the state board has annually approved some deficit
budgets provided the schools can prove they are reducing
their debts.
Pay increases
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (UPI) -About 8,500 federal
civilian blue collar workers in central Georgia will
receive pay increases averaging seven per cent this
month, costing the government over $5 million annually.
Maj. Gen A. J. Beck, commander of the Warner
Robins Air Material Area, announced the increase, which
he said was approved by the Defense Department and
based on a survey of prevailing wage scales in this area.
The increases provided average 24 cents an hour for
nonsupervisory personnel, 26 cents for work leaders and
38 cents for supervisors in the 8,200-man civilian work
force at Robins Air Force Base here.
The new scale also applies to other government civilian
employes in agencies in Macon and Dublin and in the
counties of Bibb, Baldwin, laurens, Washington, Jasper,
Jons and Peach.
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Thursday, August 12,1971
‘Wasting time’
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Jimmy Carter thinks New
York Mayor John Lindsay is “asting his time” if he
shifted from the Republican party to the Democratic
party to boost his candidacy for the Democratic presi
dential nomination in 1972.
Carter said Wednesday “the Democratic party is big
enough to accommodate him but if he changed to try and
improve his chances of acquiring the Democratic
presidential nomination next year then I think he’s wast
ing his time.
“The Georgia people, includingy myself, have a feeling
of some distrust towards people who change political
parties simply to further their own political careers.”
The governor said that was the case in last year’s
elections when several Georgia Democrats tumed-
Republicans, including former Comp. Gen Jimmy
Bentley, were defeated. Bentley lost out in the Republican
primary.
‘Kingpin’ raid
ATLANTA (UPI) — Atlanta police Wednesday raided
the home of a man described as a narcotics “kingpin” by
Gov. Jimmy Carter and confiscated suspected drugs, a
pistol, needles and syringes.
Police said they did not find either Ben Pittman, a
convicted narcotics pusher, or his wife. But officers did
arrest a woman believed to be Pittman’s mother along
with Pittman’s son and daughter.
The raid stemmed from an investigation into the
circumstances surrounding the death of a Marietta man,
Willie James Blunt, 29, of an apparent heroin overdose.
Carter called Pittman a major narcotics distributor last
month in a speech to the Georgia Sheriffs Association.
At the same time police announced the raid, they
reported the city’s 10th drugrelated death in two weeks.
He was identified as Harvey L. Redmon, 21, home on
leave from duty with the Army in Germany. Officers said
he died of an overdose of heroin.
Redmon was married and the father of a 16-months-old
daughter. He died at a southwest Atlanta house Friday.
Make suggestions
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia Democrats will have a
chance to make suggestions for the party’s 1972 national
platform at a public hearing here Sept. 16 conducted by a
panel representing the Democratic National Committee.
The panel will represent the urban crisis planning group
of the committee. The hearing, one of a series to be held
throughout the country, is scheduled for 9 a.m. in the John
F. Kennedy School auditorium.
To replace bridge
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The U. S. Transportation
Department announced Wednesday a list of several
obsolete bridges to be replaced, including the Flint River
bridge on U. S. Rt. 27 near Bainbridge. Federal funds pay
for 75 per cent of the replacement costs.
Women escape
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (UPI)—Two women prisoners
at the Georgia Rehabilitation Center for Women escaped
Tuesday night by getting a lock off one fence and then
climbing another fence topped with barbed wire.
The fugitives were identified as Shirley Stewart, 27, of
Rome, serving 15 years for voluntary manslaughter, and
Sherry Marie Southwick, 19, of Atlanta, serving a year for
simple assault.
State paddles out
or river squabble
ATLANTA (UPI)—A superior
court judge completed a hear
ing on a controversial rezoning
plan along the Chattahoochee
River Wednesday after Gov.
Jimmy Carter announced the
state was withdrawing from the
case.
Fulton County Judge Ernest
Tidwell said after the comple
tion of testimony on the issue
he expected to issue a ruling
Monday but he left in effect
part of a restraining order
which bars developers from
working on parts of the project
n north Fulton County.
The case was launched by
'esidents who objected to the
Fulton County Commission re
zoning the river area for busi
ness and apartment develop
ment. They contended it would
destroy the ecological value of
the river.
Carter took the state out of
the case after reaching a com
promise with the developers
which he described as less than
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desired but the “best possible
solution under the circum
stances.”
“We have yielded nothing we
already had,” he said, and “we
feel that we have gained far
more through negotiations than
could have been obtained from
any forced legal settlement of
die suit.”
Included in the agreement is
a grant to the state of two
tracts of land—one on an island
lying in the river adjacent to
the development and another on
the east bank of the river.
The developers also have
agreed to leave undisturbed
green belts of not less than 150
feet and up to 300 feet along
the river, Carter said.
Measure of Power
Horsepower as a unit of
power measurement was
adopted by James Watts in
experiments with strong
dray horses, according to
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND—Seven new uniform designs
for possible use in the British Royal Navy are displayed to
some 400 sailors at the Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth,
State files brief
in Ludowici case
Atlanta (UPl)—The state filed
a “friend of the court” brief
Wednesday with the Georgia
Court of Appeals on the side of
a group challenging the elec
tion of a Ludowici City Council
member.
In the brief, Atty. Gen. Ar
thur Bolton noted the reluctance
of the courts to “take steps
which curtail the freedom of the
ballot” but said there were sit
uations “in which one’s right
must be abridged in order to
protect society as well as the
voter himself.”
The suit involves the chal
lenge of Gerald E. Nobles of
the certification of David R. Os
borne as winner of the council
race. Nobles charged absentee
ballots should not have been
counted in the race because the
voter-identifying stubs were
still on the ballots.
Nobles would have won by 31
votes without the absentee
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votes but including them, Os
borne was the winner.
The suit charged the Osborne
forces, which included the late
Long County political boss,
Ralph Dawson, had agreed to
discount the absentee votes at
the request of the State Elec
tion Board. After the board re
turned to Atlanta, however, the
absentee votes were counted
and Osborne declared the win
ner.
Bolton said in his brief that
under Georgia law and public
policy, an absentee ballot
“which has the numbered stub
still on it is void as it violates
the integrity of the secret bal
lot.”
Greatest Audience
The greatest number of
viewers for a television event
was an estimated 350 million
for the funeral of Sir Winston
Churchill in London on Jan.
30, 1965.
England. The sailors were given a chance to see and
comment on the uniforms. (UPI)
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