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Griffin Daily News Sat. and Sun., Dec. 4-5,1971
Merit pay raises
in state unfrozen
ATLANTA (UPl)—State Merit System Director Edwin
L. Swain announced Friday that state employes’ merit
pay raises, which have been held up since Aug. 15 because
of the wage-price freeze were unfrozen effective Dec. 1.
About 6,000 to 7,000 state employes are due to receive
raises. Under the merit system employes receive an
increase after the first six months and after that on an
annual basis.
Swain said in a letter to the federal Pay Board that the
maximum increase for any employe would be about 5.4
per cent. He said that under the Phase II guidelines of
President Nixon’s wage-price plan, the Pay Board has
generally approved increases of 5.5 per cent.
“Since the continuation of our program of merit
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METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. Dumas Shelnutt
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Rev. and Mrs. Gerald Littierland
Co-director of Music and Youth
Morning Service 11:00 A.M.
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increases is considered essential to employee morale, and
the provisions of our plan meet the criteria mentioned
above, we are permitting state departments to begin
granting merit increases effective Dec. 1, Swain wrote
the Pay Board.
Teachers to push
for SI,OOO hike
ATLANTA (UPl)—The Georgia Association of
Educators (GAE) plans to ask its delegate assembly Dec.
11 to approve a political program seeking passage of a
sl,ooo-a-year salary increase and an annual minimum
cost of living pay increase for the state’s teachers.
The assembly was scheduled for today but was
postponed a week because of bad weather.
The GAE has scheduled the meeting to set up a Political
Action Committee for Education, which would serve as
the GAE’s political arm and gather money for political
candidates, something the GAE does not do.
In addition to the salary increases, the GAE wants:
—Reducations in the teacher- pupil ration to l-to-25 for
kindergarten through the 12th grade.
—An additional $250 per state allotted teacher for
maintenance and operation of schools.
—A change in law to allow a teacher to retire without
penalty after 35 years of service regardless of age.
—A state supported statewide kindergarten system.
— Comprehensive vocational high schools and funds
and standards for additional auxiliary personnel.
Gov. Carter names
screen commission
ATLANTA (UPI)—Gov. Jimmy Carter created Friday
a 16-member commission to screen porposed nominees
for appellate court positions in a move he hopes will
assure that “future appointments will not be made for
good service in a transitory election.”
The commission will be composed of eight members of
the executive committee of the State Bar of Georgia and
eight members appointed by the governor. Carter said
some of the appointees will not be lawyers.
The panel will review appellate nominees proposed by
“the governor, interested citizens and members of the
commission,” the governor said.
The commission will delcare each of those persons
proposed as either “well qualified, qualified or not
qualified” and recommend, by a majority vote, five
persons to the governor. The five will come from nomi
nees rated as either qualified or well qualified.
The commission which will lapse at the end of Carter’s
administration, was created by an executive order signed
by the governor during a speech to the State Bar of
Georgia.
Carter also announced the state has received a $129,567
federal grant to finance the work of the Governor’s
Commission on Judicial Processes.
Two women claim
to be Allman widows
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — Two women claiming to be the
legal widow of slain rock music star Duane Allman are
disputing who has the right to sue a Macon trucking firm
for negligence in connection with the singer’s death.
Allman, leader of the popular Allman Brothers Band,
was killed Oct. 29 when his motorcycle went out of control
and crashed on a Macon street.
A $6 million damage suit was filed in the state court of
Bibb County Nov. 12 by a woman claiming to be Mrs.
Dixie Allman. The suit charged the Sam Hall & Sons
Trucking Company, owner of a truck involved in Allman’s
accident, with negligence.
Thursday a woman claiming to be Mrs. Donna R.
Allman asked the court to intervene in the suit on grounds
that the original plaintiff “was not the wife of Duane
Allman, but was a person living with him in a
meretricious relationship at the time of his death.”
A hearing on the intervention motion has been
scheduled for Dec. 21 by State Judge J. Taylor Phillips.
The intervention motion alleges that the woman
claiming to be Mrs. Dixie Allman is instead Dixie
Meadows.
55 elderly
escape
from fire
IDEAL, Ga. (UPI) - About
55 elderly persons are being
housed in nearby Montezuma to
day after a fire damaged the
Ideal Nirsing Home Friday af
ternoon.
No injuries were reported, but
assistant administrator of the
home, Charlie Griffin, said the
fire damaged about a third of
the building.
Montezuma Fire Chief Buddy
Clark said the fire “obviously”
began in a faulty heater in the
building’s attic.
‘‘The old wing is pretty much
a complete loss,” said Clark,
“but the firewall separating the
new wing from the old kept the
fire from spreading.”
The blaze was extinguished
about 30 minutes after the call
was received, said Clark.
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Golda Meir renews plea for planes.
Golda Meir pushes
planes for Israel
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Prime Minister Golda Meir has
said the United States should
provide Israel with more
military aircraft because this
would tend to keep the Arab
nations from mounting an
attack.
“We want aircraft,” Mrs.
Meir told a news conference
Friday.
“Our neighbors are much
more apt to refrain from attack
if Israel is a strong Israel. A
weak Israel is no inducement
for peace or negotiations.”
The Israeli premier fielded
reporters’ questions one day
after conferring with President
Nixon and Secretary of State
William P. Rogers in Washing
ton.
High administration officials
said Nixon and Rogers told her
the United States would not
make large scale deliveries of
additional U.S. F 4 Phantom jets
to Israel immediately because
the United States believes this
would scuttle chances for
getting the Arab nations to
make a political settlement.
The officials said, however,
that the United States would
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Mahal, singer-instrumentalist from San Francisco performed before nine condemned men. His
singing and playing brought smiles and rhymatic foot-tapping from some of the men. (UPI)
prevent any military imbalance
in the Middle East and that the
Nixon administration would
swiftly come to Israel’s aid if
the Soviet Union started
furnishing more sophisticated
war material to Egypt.
“If the White House says
that, I am inclined to believe
it,” Mrs. Meir said when asked
about this point.
She said Israel was “never
happy about the necessity of
binging the subject (of addi
tional planes) up in the open.”
“I’ve done my best to explain
why additional aircraft are
needed for Israel and why, if
delivered, such aircraft would
not obstruct negotiations for a
final peace agreement or a
special Suez Canal agreement,”
Mrs. Meir said.
The prime minister said she
came away from her talks with
Nixon with the feeling that
“there is definitely an under
standing of the problems in our
area and the Israeli way of
looking at them."
Mrs. Meir said Israel has no
fear of a renewal of fighting in
the Middle East.
Hoarse Nixon
works on budget
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI)
—President Nixon, nursing a
cold, worked today on a federal
budget which will show a
whopping deficit for the third
straight year unless there is a
dramatic improvement in the
economy.
The President, his voice
hoarse, was spending the
weekend at his villa on
Biscayne Bay, going over the
spending program he will send
to Congress early next year.
White House Press Secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler said the
administration is committed to
hold spending to below the sum
the present tax system would
raise if the economy were at
full employment.
Almand suggests
court administrator
ATLANTA (UPl)—Chief Justice Bond Almand of the
Georgia Supreme Court proposed Friday that the state
appoint an administrator of its courts and adopt a uniform
judicial system.
Almand made the proposals in a speech to the State Bar
of Georgia which was read for him by Robert W.
Sutherland, an Atlanta attorney. Bad weather prevented
Almand from making an appearance.
The justice praised the work of judges and other
officials but said there was “one major deficiency in our
judicial system and that is the lack of information as to
the operation of all our courts.”
THE
FISHERMAN’S QUARTET
Will sing at evening worship service.
Sunday Night, Dec. sth
Fellowship
Baptist Church
Services Begin at 7:30 P. M.
The public is cordially invited.
Rev. Wayman Merritt, Pastor
The Public Is Invited
To Attend
Calvary Assembly Os God
Temporary Location-Home Os
Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Brannon
Sunday School 9*45 A.M
Morning Worship j j .qq
Sunday Evening j.qq pm
Prayer Meeting ’ Thursday 7:30 P.M.
Directions To Home Are: Turn Right On Woodlawn, Off U S.
19, Below Airport. Then Left On Laurel Drive Second
House On Left.
For More Information Call 227-6864.
Pastor, Rev. Everette Moore
For the upcoming fiscal year,
full employment revenues will
be about $250 billion. Nixon is
aiming for a budget of about
that amount. It will be a record
as usual.
Unless the economy picks up
sharply in the new year,
however, actual revenues will
be far below the full employ
ment mark, plunging the
budget once again into red ink.
The administration currently
estimates the budget for the
fiscal year that runs through
June 30 will show a deficit of
more than $27 billion, the
largest since World War 11.
The budget for the fiscal year
that ended last June 30 showed
a deficit of $23.2 billion.