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Allen pushes rural
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Former Atlanta Mayor Ivan
Allen Jr. urged Congress Tuesday to provide more money
to revitalize rural areas and slow the massive migration
of unskilled workers from the farms to the crowded cities.
Expressing afar that Congress may have aited too long
to rescue the rural areas, Allen told the Senate rural
development subcommittee “you may be closing the bam
door after the horse left.”
Allen said metropolitan areas like Atlanta would be
helped as well as rural areas by pending legislation
providing grants, loans and credits to rural areas.
He said better job opportunities in rural areas would
keep many persons from migrating to the cities where
they are unprepared to work or live.
“Many of the rural poor do not want to move to crowded
cities,” Allen said. “They come only in hopes of finding
work and no matter what job prospects be, cities have no
control over the migration.”
Plan hurts, helps
ATLANTA (UPl)—While a reapportionment plan
drawn up for the state Senate is regarded by many as
potentially harmful for Gov. Jimmy Carter’s supporters
in the upper chamber, the governor said Tuesday “it hurts
some of them, but it helps some other also. ”
Carter said he had been involved in reapportionment
squabbles while in the Legislature and “they’re real
fights. If you don’t worry about fairness, 51 per cent can
draw up a plan which completely guts the other 49 per
cent, and the scramble is to get on the winning side.”
The Senate plan, approved Monday by the Senate Reap
proved Monday by the Senate Reapportionment
Committee, will be submitted to a special session of the
General Assembly starting Friday. The legislators also
will consider plans reapportioning the House and the
state’s 10 Congressional districts.
One senator, Republican Earl Patton of Fulton County,
said he would oppose the plan for his district both on the
Senate floor and in the courts.
“It’s the last gasp for the old county unit system,”
Patton said. “My district was the only one in the state
which had gained population which was chopped up like
that.”
Pierce trial set
JESUP, Ga. (UPl)—William J. “Junior” Pierce Jr.,
transferred here from Baxley Tuesday, goes on trial
today for the murder of Mrs. Vivian Miles, an elderly
rural storekeeper who was slain last January near
Baxley.
Appling County Sheriff J. B. “Red” Carter said Pierce
was taken to Wayne County without incident and said he
feels the accused murder is no longer in any danger from
assassins.
Pierce has been housed at the Appling County jail at
Baxley where six men, all relatives of one of his alleged
victims, tried to take him from the jail last month. The
attempt failed when Sheriff Carter took a sawed-off
shotgun away from one of the men.
The case was moved here after defense attorneys said
Pierce could not get a fair trial in Baxley.
The trial opening was delayed until today due to the
death of presiding Judge Jack W. Ballenger. Judge James
B. O’Connor of Mcßae has been appointed to preside in
Ballenger's place.
Pierce was paroled from prison in May of last
year against the advice of psychologists. He has been
charged with eight other murders.
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Mathis raps Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Declaring that President
Nixon was “ignoring my farmers,” Rep. Dawson Mathis,
D-Ga., has attacked the President for not proposing
removal of the excise tax on farm trucks as well as on
passenger cars.
Mathis, who introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the tax
on farm trucks, said he had urged Nixon last August to
include pickup trucks but received no reply.
“I don’t mind being ignored by the President but I
believe the time is past due when the President and this
administration must stop ignoring my farmers,” Mathis
said.
“The administration seems to be saying, if you can
afford a new Cadillac you’re chopping high cotton, but if
you are only a dirt farmer then you’ve got a hard row to
hoe.”
Fire at Cartersville
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —Fire destroyed three
buildings in downtown Cartersville early today despite the
efforts of firefighting units from Cartersville, Acworth,
Rome and Marietta.
Two firemen were overcome by smoke and given
hospital treatment.
Cause of the fire was not immediately determined.
Firemen said the flames were discovered around 1 a.m.
and firemen battled for two hours before bringing them
under control.
A ruptured gas line burned atop one of the buildings.
The burned buildings contained a beauty shop, shoe
store, men’s store and offices of the city attorney, Red
Cross and cable television.
Plane hits home
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — A small private plane crashed
into a home near an apartment complex early today,
killing at least one person in the aircraft and injuring an
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The plane, identified as a Piper Cherokee, had just
taken off from Daniel Field, a secondary airport here,
when it hit the top of a tree and crashed into the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Collier.
Authorities at the scene said a daughter of the Colliers,
whose name was not immediately known, suffered a
broken collar bone, but otherwise the family escaped
injury.
The plane, enroute to North Carolina, exploded and
burned on impact, setting fire to the Collier home.
One body, unidentified, was removed from the plane
wreckage. Authorities said “several” persons were
believed aboard the craft.
The plane crashed in an area known as the Valley Park
section of Augusta, located near the end of a Daniel Field
runway.
Peanuts harvested
ATHENS, Ga. (UPl)—Aided by favorable weather
conditions, Georgia’s peanut farmers harvested 80 per
cent of their crop in the past two weeks, the Georgia Crop
Reporting Service said Tuesday.
The service reported 85 per cent of the peanut crop has
now been harvested, compared to only about five per cent
two weeks ago. About 70 per cent has been threshed.
A backlog was reported at unloading points due to the
mounting harvest.
Wet weather has delayed the com and cotton crops, the
service reported. Only four per cent of the cotton harvest
has been completed and insect control operations were
still active on the “top crop.” Rank growth was causing
concern among growers.
About seven per cent of the com crop has been picked.
Soil moisture was adequate over most of the state and
county agents said crop and livestock conditions were
mostly good to excellent.
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4 killed on roads
Four persons were killed in Georgia traffic accidents
Tuesday, including a five-year-old Cobb County boy
struck by a hit-run driver.
The victim of the hit-run mishap was identified as Chris
Anthony Brown, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Jimmy Brown of
near Mableton.
Authorities said they were told that the boy was
standing beside a mail box near his home when he was hit
by a car. A lookout has been issued for a woman driver
between the ages of 35 and 40, accompanied by a man.
An 18-year-old Ty Ty youth, David Leon Dame, was
killed Tuesday when the car he was driving ran off the
road at Omega and struck a culvert. Dame was the son of
the Rev. and Mrs. Leon Dame of Ty Ty.
Park suit filed
ATLANTA (UPI)—An Atlanta woman has filed a
$240,000 suit in U. S. District Court against the Atlanta
police, alleging violation of her constitutional rights,
illegal arrest and other offenses during a ruckus in
Piedmont Park.
Mrs. Estelle Johnston, 43, named Atlanta Police Chief
Herbert Jenkins, Police Supt. Oscar Jordan, two
patrolmen and the City of Atlanta in the suit
She said she “observed a melee between young people
performing at the concert and police officers” while
attending a park concert with her husband and child two
years ago.
Mrs. Johnston said she approached one of the officers
named in the suit twice about intervening and “urged re
straint.” She said she was clubbed on the head, arrested
and taken to the police station.
Mrs. Johnston also said she was handcuffed to a
wheelchair for three hours without treatment for her head
wound which required several stitches.