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By Quimby Melton
Sunday, April 2, is Easter
Sunday; two Sundays earlier
than last year and will be
celebrated throughout the world
in memory of the Glorious
Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Four weeks later on Sunday,
April 30, Standard Eastern
Time will become Daylight
Saving time.
In between these two Sundays
other April dates of interest
include:
The birthday anniversary of
four Presidents:
April 13 is the birthday an
niversary of Thomas Jefferson,
3rd President, born on this day
in 1743;
April 27 is the birthday an
niversary of Ulysses Simpson
Grant. The 18th President was
bom on April 27, 1822.
April 23rd birthday anniver
sary of James Buchanan, 14th
President, bom on this date in
1791;
April 28th birthday anniver
sary of James Monroe. Monroe,
the sth President was bom April
28, 1758. His administration is
chiefly remembered for the
Monroe Doctrine, which said to
other nations “don’t meddle
with our business.”
Louisiana became the 18th
state in the Union on April 30,
1812.
National Arbor Day will be
April 22.
Big League baseball will
begin its 1972 season on April 6.
Atlanta will play a home game
with Houston.
And Georgia’s greatest sport
ing event — the Masters
Tournament —will begin the
same day. It is played in
Augusta.
There will be five Saturdays
and five Sundays in April.
April Fools’ or All Fools’ Day
is April 1. This day to pull tricks
on cithers probably originated in
France in 1564. Playing tricks
was the way many registered
their concern over a propose
change in the calendar.
April is Cancer Control
Month.
April is National Automobile
month.
Great Britian observes “Old
Lady Day” on April 6.
April 10th has special
significance to the Salvation
Army. Its founder, William
Booth, was bom in London on
April 10, 1829.
Dogwood Festival, Cherry
Blossom Festivals, and the like
will be celebrated in many
states and cities. Probably the
best known will be Cherry
Blossom Festival held in Wash
ington, D.C.
April is National Library
Appreciation Month. The
purpose of this event is to create
interest in the public in using
libraries more and enlarging
the library facilities in every
community.
The week of April 16th will be
National YMCA week with
special luncheon meetings
being held to honor secretaries
and their employers.
April 19 will be John Howard
Payne Memorial Day. He wrote
“Home Sweet Home.”
April 22 Iceland will celebrate
“the first day of summer.”
Here in America this day comes
later.
April 26 is Confederate
Memorial Day, celebrated in
many southern states.
The last week in April will be
♦‘Canada — United States Good
Will Week.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
72, low today 50, high yesterday
74, low yesterday 52. Total
rainfall .32 of an inch. Sunrise
tomorrow 6:44, sunset
tomorrow 6:47.
Spruce-up panel seeks
University assistance
The Downtown Improvement
Committee today turned its
eyes toward the University of
Georgia for some help in
planning a program to beautify
the business section of the city.
Wade Pierce, Mclntosh Trail
director, told the committee
yesterday afternoon that the
University of Georgia has a
contract with the federal
government which would allow
it to help with some preliminary
survey work.
He said he had been in contact
with the University about the
matter and they had agreed to
come to Griffin, if invited.
The Downtown Improvement
Committee voted to request the
help. Little or no expense to the
committee will be involved,
Pierce said.
He said the University would
conduct a survey, analyze it,
and make a report.
Engineer Alfred Bolton, a
member of a planning com
mittee for the spruce-up push
here, reviewed an ordinance
regulating signs and said it
appears to fit the needs of this
community. He said it was in
use in the county of Fairfax,
Va., and was a community
similar to Griffin-Spalding.
Bolton didn't believe the sign
control ordinance at Marietta
would be usefol as a guide to
Griffin.
The Improvement Committee
asked Bolton to work up a
suggested ordinance on sign
control and work with the city
and county commissioners in
getting into effect here.
The committee approved a
850,000 budget for its work as a
starter.
The money will be raised
through contributions.
Jimmy Mankin, a member of
the Improvement Committee,
stressed that the money would
go for the overall program and
would not be spent on any in-
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WEST PATM BEACH, Fla.—An unusual cause for a traffic jam but not at Lion Country Safari
where scenes like this are common. Fortunately while a giraffe in looking down on the campen, a
lion or two wfll climb the hood for a look through the windshield at visitors to this tourist
attraction. A similar tourist attraction is in works for Henry County, Ga.
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dividual businesses.
Felton Rainwater, chairman
of the Improvement Com
mittee, said the main thrust of
the panel at this point is beauti
fication of the downtown area.
He said the money will be
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WASHINGTON—Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) his head
still swathed in bandages as the result of hair transplant
treatments, listens to testimony before the House-Senate
joint Economic Committee which he chairs. (UPI)
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“After having spent 60 years
developing certain principles,
it’s shocking to discover they
won’t do now.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, Mar. 22, 1972
budgeted toward that end and
not to any individual busi
nesses.
Chairman Rainwater said he
hopes at least 200 of the 400
downtown merchants would
contribute to the campaign.
Income tax
reforms pushed
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Con
tending that the graduated
income tax has eroded to the
point that the average $50,000-a
--year executive pays taxes at
the same rate as his $9,000-a
--year secretary, a dozen Demo
cratic senators Tuesday opened
a new campaign for tax
Drug abuse panel
discourages ‘pot’
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The
National Commission on Mari
juana and Drug Abuse today
recommended removal of feder
al and state restrictions against
the personal possession and
private use of marijuana, but
said pot is not harmless and its
use should be discouraged.
“Throughout the commis
sion’s deliberations there was a
recurring awareness of the
possibility that marijuana use
may be a fad which, if not
institutionalized, will recede
substantially in time,” the 13-
member panel said in the first
of two scheduled reports to
President Nixon and Congress.
It will report next year on drug
abuse in general.
The report, “Marijuana: A
Signal of Misunderstanding,”
recommends a policy of con
finement of marijuana to the
home and official discourage
ment of its use.
reform.
Led by Sen. Gaylord Nelson,
D-Wis., they introduced in the
Senate a bill to attack 21 tax
“loopholes” and designed to
increase the taxes of the rich
by sl6 billion.
They said that money could
be passed along to low and
middle-income families to re
lieve the burden of rising
property taxes. President Nixon
also wants to make possible the
reduction of property taxes, but
his expected solution is the
imposition of a value-added tax
(VAT).
The VAT is a form of
national sales tax. Democrats
see it as adding to the burden
of low and middle-income
taxpayers, but Republicans say
it can be made equitable
through rebates for the poor.
Among the reforms proposed
were provisions to reduce the
oil depletion allowance by about
a third, to tax capital gains at
death, to tax income earned
abroad by U.S. corporations,
and to reverse Congress’ 1970
action in approving more
generous business depreciation
rules.
Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-
Minn., a cosponsor of Nelson’s
Nil, said a study by U.S.
Census Bureau economists
showed that in 1968 a worker
earning $9,000 paid about 30 per
cent of his total income in
taxes—and an executive with
$50,000 of income paid at the
same 30 per cent rate.
Distinctive voice
SEATTLE, Wash. (UPI)—
Officer Georger Herr wants
youngsters to get good driving
habits early, so he tickets them
for their bicycle offenses.
For instance, Carl Nelson, 12,
was ticketed for whizzing
through a stop sign. His family
must pay $lO bail and the boy
must face Juvenile Court.
Says Sgt. Bill Stanley of the
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It also said intermittent or
experimental use of marijuana
carried only a minimal risk to
public health and in general the
whole controversy has bal
looned out of proportion.
Panel Strikes Middle Path
The panel, chaired by Ray
mond P. Shafer, former gover
nor of Pennsylvania, appeared
to strike a middle path between
those who want complete
legalization of marijuana, and
those, such as the President,
who categorically oppose its
legalization.
Nixon told a news conference
in May that “even if the
commission does recommend
that it be legalized, I will not
follow that recommendation.”
Specifically, the panel recom
mended what it called decri
minalization,” which would
allow possession of pot for
personal, private use, but would
retain criminal controls on its
production, distribution and
public use.
At the state level, where
most criminal prosecution of
marijuana laws takes place, the
panel would impose only fines
for public use, except for
disorderly conduct associated
with marijuana intoxication
which would carry a recom
mended penalty of up to 60
days in jail and-or a $lO fine.
Uniformity Called For
The panel agreed with Nixon,
who called Tuesday for unifor
mity in state laws. It said the
cultivation, sale or distribution
for profit and possession of
marijuana with intent to sell
should remain a felony.
Private distribution of small
amounts of pot, and private
possession for personal use, no
longer should be offenses, it
said.
Public possession of one
ounce or less would not be an
offense but the marijuana
would be subject to seizure.
Public possession of more than
one ounce would be a criminal
offense punishable by a fine of
SIOO.
Public distribution of small
amounts of pot not involving a
profit, and its public use, each
would be punishable by fines of
SIOO.
Dial-a-scope
BIRMINGHAM, England
(UPl)—The British Post Office,
which runs the country’s
telephone system, introduced a
dial-a-horoscopeservice today.
A telephone call to the
Birmingham number 021-246-
8080 will get a tape recording of
astrologer Maurice Woodruff
predicting what the stars
foretell, plus a birthday fore
cast.
King County Police Depart
ment: “Officer Herr cares a
great deal about children in his
area. He has been very
conscientious in writing up
Ncycle traffic offenses.
“The purpose of a stop sign is
to save lives. A 12-year-old kid
can get killed just as dead on a
Nke as a 40-year-old man in a
car.”
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Muskie: clearcut winner.
Win revives
Sen. Muskie
CHICAGO (UPl)—Sen. Ed
mund S. Muskie revived his
faltering Democratic presiden
tial campaign in Tuesday’s
Illinois primary, taking more
than 60 per cent of the vote
over Eugene J. McCarthy.
Muskie headed for the next big
lowdown in Wisconsin saying,
“This has the taste of a dear
cut victory.”
But there was little or no
taste of victory for Mayor
Richard J. Daley of Chicago,
the Democratic party kingma
ker.
His candidate for the pivotal
post of Cook County state’s
attorney was soundly whipped
by the man Daley had dumped
as an endorsed candidate,
incumbent Edward V. Hanra
han. Annd his choice for the
gubernatorial nomination, Lt.
Gov. Paul Simon, was edged by
Maverick anti-Daleyite Daniel
Walker.
A massive crossover of
Republican voters to the
Democratic primary appeared
to be the key factor in
threatening Daley with a defeat
which could grievously affect
his stature as the Democrat
who calls the shots in Illinois
and speaks loudly in the
councils of the national party.
A Double Victory
But for Maine’s Muskie,
badly needing a comeback
victory after his Florida fiasco,
it was not only “a solid
victory” but a double one.
In separate voting for 160
national convention delegates at
stake, his candidates had an
impressive lead over those of
his chief rival in this race, Sen.
George S. McGovern, D-S.D.
The rundown of the voting in
Illinois:
With 10,195 of the state’s
10,858 precincts counted, Mus
kie led McCarthy in the
nonbinding preferential ballot
ing with 709,022 votes or 63 per
cent to 411,937 votes and 37 per
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Georgia
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cent.
With 8,010 precincts report
ing, returns indicated Muskie
had 60 delegates pledged or
favoring him against Mc-
Govern’s 14. Both Muskie and
McGovern conceded about 80 of
the 160 at stake to an
“uncommitted” slate commit
ted to the wishes of Daley.
Returns from 10,343 precincts
showed Walker, who coined the
phrase “police riot” in the
“Walker Report” on the 1968
Democratic convention disor
ders, leading Simon, 693,751
votes and 51 per cent to 659,006
votes and 49 per cent.
Hanrahan Clear Victor
Hanrahan was a clear victor
with 43 per cent of the votes in
a three-way race. Daley’s pick
to replace him as the party’s
choice, former Chief Traffic
Court Judge Raymond Berg,
got 31 per cent and independent
contender Donald Page Moore
27 per cent.
Rep. Roman Pucinski was the
only candidate carrying the
Daley banner who sailed
through. He had no trouble
defeating Dakin Williams, attor
ney brother of playwright
Tennessee Williams, for the
right to take on GOP Sen.
Charles H. Percy.
The governor and state’s
attorney’s races threatened
Daley’s usually unbeatable Chi
cago Democratic organization
with its greatest embarrass
ment in almost 40 years.
However, there were imme
diate indications Hanrahan and
Daley could get together again.
Hanrahan, Daley’s protege
until four months ago, said,
“No one should construe this
victory as any kind of defeat
for any political organization.”
Daley said he would support
Hanrahan and Walker, too, if
necessary. “There is no ma
chine,” he said. “The people
have spoken. You win them and
you lose them.”