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School tax
revamp eyed
ATLANTA(UPI)—Education
Commissioner Sidney P. Mar
land Jr. called upon state edu
cation officials Tuesday to de
velop new means of financing
public schools, and termed the
taxing of real estate to fund
education, “a rigged lottery.”
In remarks prepared for de
livery to National Association of
State Boards of Education,
meeting here, Marland called
the current reliance of school
boards on local property tax,
“regressive, anachronistic, and
resting upon inequity.”
The commissioner said he ap
plauded an August California
Supreme Court ruling that pro
perty-tax schoolfunding violates
the 14th Ammendment. “It is
within the states that school fi
nancing patterns are the most
unequal and unfair,” he said.
“From district to district and
state to state, the record shows
that the present system of rais
ing and allocating funds for the
schools adds up to a rigged lot
tery that cheats students and
taxpayers alike”, Marland said.
In cities, he said, 65 per cent
of municipal budgets go for non
educational while in suburbs,
the figures are reversed.
He said a rise in rejection of
school bond issues represented
the public’s “rejection, not of
our school system but of our
taxing systems.”
Marland said the main issue
in school financing was the
question of how money was to
be raised and equitably dis
persed at all government levels.
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earlier news conference, Mar
land said the “responsibility re
sides in the states” for coming
up with a more equitable sys
tem for raising school funds on
the local level.
Marland said “various for
mulas” were available to local
government through the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare for renovating their tax
structures, but “these usually
favor the wealthier areas.”
Marland said if current fi
nance methods were not
“significantly overhauled” a
student’s access to education
would continue to be left to “the
accident of his street address.”
He said the California deci
sion on property tax may spark
“federal initiative to obviate”
the practice in other states.
Marland said this could come
either through the federal court
system or congressional action.
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GLAMORGAN, Scotland
(UPI) — Mrs. Lily Parry
searched in the rough for her
lost golf ball and finally found
it in the hole—her third hole-in
one of her golfing career.
Now fellow members of the
Pontypridd Golf Club are
claiming a world record for
her. Mrs. Parry will be 82 this
month. They say she is the
oldest person to accomplish the
feat.
J-students
listen
to pros
ATLANTA (UPl)—High
school and college journalism
students met with professional
journalists and journalism
professors Tuesday during a
“Career Day” sponsored by the
Atlanta chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi.
More than 100 students
turned out to talk and listen to
representatives from every ma
jor news operation in the metro
Atlanta area.
They were advised on educa
tion, scholarships, job opportun
ities and the general responsi
bilities of news reporting.
“More people are needed who
can write a simple declarative
sentence,” Bob Brennan, news
director for WAGA-TV, told the
students.
“If you can’t do that,” Bren
nan added, “you might as well
go into hog calling.”
WSB radio News Director Au
brey Morris told the students
that an understanding of eco
nomics was essential in report
ing the news.
Hal Gulliver, associate editor
of the Atlanta Constitution, said
that the electronic portion of the
news media has helped newspa
pers increase their circulation
because “people will watch TV
or listen to the radio and then
turn to newspapers where they
can get more in-depth informa
tion.”
Other panel members includ
ed: Ron Manson of Southern
Bell Telephone Co.; George
Greiff, Georgia State Univer
sity; Albert Scroggins, Univer
sity of South Carolina; William
Winter, University of Alabama;
William Baxter, University of
Georgia; Allan Bussel, Clark
College; Charles G. Wellborn
Jr., University of Florida.
Dave Riggs, news director,
WSB-TV; Bob Neal, news direc
tor, WQXI-TV; Herb Gershom,
news director, WGST radio;
Steve Warren, former news di
rector of WGKA radio; Carroll
Dadisman, editor, Marietta
Daily Journal; John Crown, At
lanta Journal; William Scott,
Atlanta Daily World; Pat Pot
ter, DeKalb New Era and
Bruce Bakke, United Press In
ternational.
Education
panel set
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Jim
my Carter plans to name and
head up a seven-man committee
to coordinate all state education
programs.
But Carter told top officials
of the University System Borrd
of Regents and the State De
partment of Education Tuesday
that his government reorganiza
tion team will not recommend
any major shakeups in current
education agencies.
Neither will it call for one su
per agency to handle all educa
tion programs.
Carter said his reorganization
team has thoroughly studied the
operations of the Education De
partment and University Sys
tem.
“They’ve come to the conclu
sion, which I share, that we
have the cleanest, simplest and
most effective deliniation of re
sponsibilities’ ’ for education pro
gram possible,” the governor
added.
However, Carter said “it has
been obvious for a long time
that public education could best
be served through closer coordi
nation between the two boards.”
In addition to himself, Carter
Georgia suit is out
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Supreme Court has turned down
Georgia’s suit to have delegates
to national political conventions
elected on the basis of state
populations.
The high court rejected with
out comment an appeal from
the rulings of two lower federal
courts.
Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox, then
the state’s chief executive, in
structed Attorney General Ar
thur Bolton to initiate the suit
in the spring of 1970 on the
principle of “one man, one
vote.”
At issue in the suit was the
bonus convention delegates both
the Democratic and Republican
parties gave to states that fa
vored the party’s nominee in
the preceding presidential elec
tion.
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said the coordinating committee
will include as members Univer
sity Chancellor George L. Simp
son, School Superintendent Jack
Nix and the chairman and vice
chairman of the Board of Edu
cation and the Board of Regents.
Nix and Simpson also will des
ignate one of their staff mem
bers to work with the commit
tee, Carter added.
Creation of the coordinating
committee may end the contro
versy over a preliminary pro
posal made by the government
al reorganization team to re
move responsibility over post
graduate vocational - technical
education programs from the
Board of Education and place it
under the Board of Regents.
Nix resisted that proposal
with an angry statement.
The governor said the new co
ordinating committee “will
leave undisturbed the system
we now have in Georgia.
“I’ve had the strongest reluc
tance to shake up constitutional
boards,” Carter added. “This
gives us the chance to preserve
completely the autonomy of the
groups.”
Georgia couldn’t qualify for
bonus delegates in either major
party because the state’s elec
toral votes went to Alabama
Gov. George Wallace who ran
as a third party candidate.
Maddox said Tuesday he was
not surprised although he was
aggravated by the rejection.
“If it had been a racial mat
ter brought by some minority
group, the Supreme Court would
have accepted it,” Maddox
said. “The only place we don’t
have it (the one-man, one-vote
principle) is where people have
a chance to nominate their
president.”
Secretary of State Ben Fort
son said the bonus system
“doesn’t seem exactly right be
cause we are still in the party.”
Fortson is chairman of the state
Elections Board.
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Prisoner -
killed
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REIDSVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —
Guards in a maximum security
work detail shot and killed a
27-year-old inmate Tuesday
when he and another convict
broke and ran.
Officials said Richard R. Giv
ens was shot down from 323 feet
away when three of four guards
opened fire after Givens ig
nored their command to halt.
The second inmate, identified
as Barry A. Gray, was not in
jured.
State Board of Corrections of
ficials said Givens, of Atlanta,
was serving 11 years on convic
tion for robbery, burglary and
larceny of an automobile. He
suffered two buckshot wounds.
Givens and Gray were work
ing on a sewer and water pipe
detail inside the state prison
compound when they made
their escape attempt, officials
said.
Givens (Mice escaped for a
few days firom the Cobb County
public works camp on April 29,
1965 and broke out of the Put
nam Correctional Institution at
Eatonton on Feb. 25 only to be
recaptured the same day.
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5
Carter outlines
program for lawmen
MACONS, Ga. (UPI) — Gov.
Jimmy Carter, speaking to the
Peace Officers Association of
Georgia (OAG), said Tuesday
night his administration has
embarked upon a program to
provide law enforcement per son
nel with higher pay, better
training and improved status.
“I can promise you,” Carter
said, “that in all these areas
Ulis administration is doing and
will do more for you than has
ever been done in the past.”
The governor said he hoped
local governments would follow
the example of the state govern
ment in upgrading law enforce
ment.
Carter noted that the Gener
al Assembly passed last year a
bill guaranteeing minimum sal
aries for sheriffs and that state
law enforcement personnel were
the only state employes other
than school bus drivers to re
ceive raises last year.
The governor also promised
to support legislation to reform
Georgia’s judicial system to
“prevent a criminal from being
freed on the basis of some le-
gal technicality after you have
possibly risked your life to ar
rest him and have labored to
build a case against him.”
“We must redress the balance
in our judicial system. We can
no longer afford to provide ev
ery advantage to the criminal
and to a few unscrupulous and
disruptive defense attorneys at
the expense of law enforcement
personnel and the law abiding
citizens of Georgia.”
Earlier Tuesday, the PAG
members were addressed by U.
S. Sen. David Gambrell and
four other persons who have
been mentioned as possible op
ponents of his next year.
One of the speakers, Mrs.
Alice Conner of the Socialist
Workers party, was booed and
shouted down by the audience
after she declared “so-called
law and order is used to cover
up the reality that people are
being murdered.”
Others speaking were U. S.
Rep. W. S. “Bill” Stuckey,
State Labor Commissioner Sam
Caldwell and former Gov. Ern
est Vandiver.