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JONESBORO, Ga.—Mitzy, a three-year-old chihuahua, shows her battle wounds, a broken leg,
after an encounter with neighborhood youngsters. Mitzy ran away from home and was the victim
of some malicious mischief when she was set upon by some youngsters with a stick. Safe in the
arms of her owner, Angel Bishop, 9, Mitzy seems to be relaxed as she awaits the day when she can
run again. (UPI)
Channelization under fire
ATLANTA (UPI) - Dr.
Charles Wharton, a professor
at Georgia State University,
says that channelization of
streams is the “No. 1 threat
to the American environment.”
Wharton testified Wednesday
at a public hearing conducted
by the House Game and Fish
Committee’s subcommittee on
environmental protection.
He said projects to widen
and deepen river channels are
“the final assault” on the na
tion’s wetlands vital for ecologi
cal balance.
More than 100 persons testi
fied at the hearing. Chief
targets were stream channeliza
tion and watershed drainage
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projects conducted by the fed
eral Soil Conservation Service
(SCS).
But there were defenders of
SCS projects. One was J. B.
Clarke, district supervisor of
the Flint River Soil and Water
Conservation District.
“In Seminole County, the
channels have allowed us to
stay on our land by helping to
prevent flooding,” Clarke said.
Rep. Jack Gunter of Cornelia
said watershed projects are de
veloped on a voluntary basis.
“They are not rammed down
anybody’sthroats,” Gunter said. ~
Albert B. Herndon of the fed
eral regional Environmental
Actor sued
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -
Ernest Borgnine, 54, is being
sued for SIOO,OOO by a private
detective who said the actor
beat him up in Mexico.
Roger Leighton, 50, brought
suit in Superior Court Wednes
day, accusing Borgnine of
assaulting him when Leighton
served divorce papers on the
actor on behalf of Borgnine’s
fourth wife, Donna Ann, 38.
Protection Agency said, how
ever, that potential harm to the
land and water systems have
been shown by preliminary stu
dies of channelization projects.
He said they are destructive
of the food chain for aquatic
life, create sediment down
stream and cause permanent
changes in water temperatures.
“We recommend that the
the amount of channelization
be minimized as much as pos
sible in water resource areas,”
Herndon said.
Mrs. Herman Talmadge Jr.
of Clayton County, the daughter
in-law of the senator, also tes
tified against channelization.
Mrs. Talmadge said such
channelization tends to destroy
river swamplands which in turn
“destroys the ability of a river
or water system in nature to
cleanse itself.”
Mrs. Talmadge said such
projects also destroy education
al and historical sites such as
rock walls and fish traps fash
ioned by Indians along the ri
vers years ago.
Georgia
among
losers
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Fif
teen states will lose more than
$32 million in federal funds for
educating needy children this
school year, the U.S. Office of
Education disclosed today.
But nine states and the
District of Columbia will get $1
million more than they received
last year under the $1.5 billion
program of special school aid
for welfare and other poor
children. The money goes
primarily for special reading,
math and language instruction.
Whether a state gets more or
less is determined by changes
in welfare rolls and the costs of
education, plus a new formula
used for distributing money
under Title I of the 1965
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, a government
spokesman said.
The program is the largest
single source of federal aid to
education. U.S. Education Com
missioner Sidney P. Marland
Jr. said Wednesday it also
offers the greatest potential for
increasing federap aid to
nonpublic school children.
Mississippi suffered the shar
pest cutback among the 15
states —a loss of nearly $4
million. But close behind
were Alabama, $3.6 million,
Georgia, $3.7 million; Ken
tucky, $3.3 million; North
Carolina, $3.7 million and
Tennessee $3.1 million.
Other losers were Arkansas,
Ixiuisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, South Dakota,
Virginia, Washington and West
Virginia.
Many of these states in past
years had been assured by law
of receiving no less Title I
funds that they received the
year before; but that federal
floor was removed in this years
legislation, the spokesman said.
As a result states with fewer
eligible children this year —
possibly because of population
loss or decreasing welfare rolls
—no longer were guaranteed
last year’s funding level.
Three states that had antici
pated losses in the new money
bill ended up getting the same
amounts as last year: Florida,
New Mexico and Wyoming.
California led the list of big
gainers, receiving sl9 million
more for a total allocation of
$122 million.
Other $1 million plus gainers
were Colorado, Illinois, Michi
gan, New Jersey, New York,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas
and the District of Columbia.
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Walton County escapee
was free four hours
CARNESVILLE, Ga. (UPI)— A 35-year-old Walton
County fugitive, Andrew Tullos, had only four hours of
freedom Wednesday.
Franklin County Sheriff Jimmy Andrews said Tullos
left the county public work camp in a pickup truck. He had
been a trusty and weldef in the prison garage.
A routine state patrol roadblock checking licenses saw
Tullos scurrying into a wooded area. A team of 30 officers
and volunteers flushed him from the woods.
Tullos was serving a two-year term for theft.
The sheriff said a 38-year-old Greenville, S. C., woman,
Ruth Stanzil, was taken into custody in her car and
charged with aiding and abetting an escaped prisoner.
Medina trial judge
said case not strong
ATLANTA (UPI) — The presiding judge in the court
martial of Capt Ernest Medina said the “Yamashita
principle” was never applied in the Medina trial because
he felt it was toostrong for the case.
Col. Kenneth A. Howard made the disclosure in a speech
before the Federal Bar Association Wednesday.
Howard said to hold Medina totally responsible for the
conduct of his troops at My Lai would have been too harsh.
The “Yamashita principle” was handed down by the
Supreme Court in ruling that the Japanese commander in
the Philippines during World War II was responsible for
the total conduct of his troops at all times. Thus,
Yamashita was held responsible for atrocities at Luzon.
“They said he should have known what was going on
with his troops aU the time,” Howard said, “even though
he didn’t.”
Howard told the attorneys that the Army had to revise
its prosecution of Medina after the officer took a lie
detector test He said the Army maintained that Medina
sanctioned the killing of civilians at My Lai but the
“polygraph test showed he was telling the truth when he
said he did not want civilians killed.”
Howard said the Army’s case centered around the idea
that Medina had the duty to supervise his troops and since
he did not, he was guilty.
The military judge added that he further changed the
prosecution’s case because the Army failed to show that
Medina was involved in the killing of more than 100
Vietnamese civilians.
Finally, he said, the case was presented to the jury on
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the basis that Medina was negligent in not getting his
men to stop the shooting and it found the captain innocent
of the charge.
Conservation man
blunt on channel
ATLANTA (UPl)—Jade Wingate of Bainbridge, a soil
conservation supervisor who said he also made his living
fishing and hunting, had some blunt testimony Wednesday
against channeling out of rivers.
“We’ve got woods down there (in southeast Georgia) so
thick, you have to back up to catch your breath
sometimes,” Wingate said.
“But if this channelization keeps going, there ain’t going
to be no thick woods. There won’t be nothing but pine trees
and any wildlife that goes through there will have to take
his lunch.”
Vote ruled tie;
bond issue fails
POWER SPRINGS, Ga. (UPI) -Mayor Roy Kellett has
ruled that Power Springs’ $360,000 sewer bond issue has
failed.
Residents voted on the bond issue last Saturday. A vote
count showed a deadlock — 223 for the issue and 223
against.
A recount was ordered and held Tuesday night The
results were the same. .
Kellett ruled that the issue could not carry on a tie vote,
thus the issue had failed.
Burson, Carter
figures different
WALESKA, Ga. (UPI) — There’s an $lB million differ
ence between the estimates of Gov. Jimmy Carter and
state Treasurer Bill Burson as to the state’s expected
deficit in the current fiscal year.
Burson told students at Reinhardt College here
Wednesday Georgia would have a $75 million deficit by
next June 30. Carter has said it will be $57 million.
“The handwriting is on the wall and the day of fiscal
reckoning for Georgia is not too far down the road,”
Burson said.
The treasurer said the state had already paid out $45
million more than it has taken in this year. Burson said
this has cut deeply into carryover funds from the previous
fiscal year, and the sum was greatly reduced to start with.