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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, April 8,1972
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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
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THE SENATE will soon take up important rural develop
ment legislation that I have been pushing for more than a year.
The Rural Development Act of 1972, of which I was a chief
sponsor, won approval by the Committee on Agriculture and
Forestry by a vote of 13 to 1, indicating increasing support of
a program that will revitalize small towns and rural areas and,
at the same time, take some of the pressure off problem-plagued
cities.
This is the most far-reaching rural development legislation
ever to come out of a committee of the Congress. If enacted,
it will provide a comprehensive, new approach to the task of
building rural America, which has been on the decline for more
than two decades. It will help stem the tide of rural out-migra
tion, and hopefully even reverse that trend.
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OUR MAJOR CITIES are becoming choked with people to
the point that they very nearly will not function. This influx of
people mostly originates in rural America, where thousands of
smaller towns are barely clinging to life.
In a society such as ours, we must have balanced national
growth. That’s what this bill seeks to provide. Its major em
phasis is on jobs. People leave rural areas primarily because
they cannot find work or are underemployed.
The Rural Development Act provides incentives for rural
economic advancement through loans and grants. It will assist
small towns—defined in the bill as places under 50,000 people
—in providing community services needed to attract com
mercial expansion and industrial development.
The legislation would expand the lending authority of the
Farmers Home Administration. It would establish a new rural
development credit system. It contains revenue sharing features,
setting up a fund for distribution to State governments for rural
renewal programs. It gives the Department of Agriculture prime
responsibility in this field, and provides for an Assistant Secre
tary for Rural Development Credit.
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THIS IS LANDMARK legislation and I am proud of the
work of our committee on this issue. I commend it to the
Congress for adoption, for I believe it will be a magna carta
for rural America.
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SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press Intemtional
Today is Saturday, April 8,
the 99th day of 1972.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are
Jupiter and Mercury.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Aries.
Movie star Mary Pickford
was born April 8, 1893.
On this day in history.
In 1513 Ponce de Leon of
Spain landed at what is now St.
Augustine, Fla., in his search
for the Fountain of Youth.
In 1917 Austria and Hungary
severed diplomatic relations
with the United States, two
days after America declared
war on Germany.
In 1952 President Harry
Truman ordered government
seizure of the steel industry to
avoid a general strike.
In 1963 President John
Kennedy made Britain’s Sir
Winston Churchill an honorary
citizen of the United States.
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THOUGHTS
“The law and the prophets
were until John; since then
the good news of the king
dom of God is preached, and
every one enters it violent
ly. But it is easier for
heaven and earth to pass
away, than for one dot of the
law to become void.”—Luke
16:16, 17.
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The law, in its majestic
equality, forbids the rich as
well as the poor to sleep un
der bridges, to beg in the
streets, and to steal bread.
—Anatole France, French
novelist.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
$1,318 Billion State Budget
Calls For Efficient Gov't
The Moulti
Between inflation and development of
services, government has really become
"big business” in Georgia—and that kind
of annual expenditure calls for
maximum efficiency and good
management of funds.
The General Assembly has adjourned,
leaving behind an appropriations
measure totaling $1,318,323,996—a set of
figures which two decades ago would
have practically caused a revolution
among Georgia taxpayers.
Any way we look at the dollars, if they
were piled together like sawdust or cord
wood, the heap would be staggering in
size. But that’s what it is going to take in
the next fiscal year to run Georgia
government, its various departments
and agencies, and provide the services
which have been demanded by the
people.
A “freeze” placed by the General
Assembly on the public school
"chargeback” in fiscal 1973 amounts to
slls million in state expenditures, S7O
million has been granted to finance new
construction in the University system,
and over s6l million was appropriated
for giving salary increases to state
Great News For Upson
Thomaston Free Press
There is always a great deal more
satisfaction in success when the impossible has
been accomplished.
And we agree with the statements of our
area legislators — Representatives J. R. Smith
and Marvin Adams and Senator Turner Scott —
in expressing their satisfaction in seeing Gordon
Military College accepted into the University
System of Georgia.
We share in pride with our neighbors and
friends in Barnesville and Lamar county on this
big news for Gordon.
At the same time we would be less than
honest if we did not admit that Upson and
Thomaston will benefit in this change.
Barnesville will benefit from boarding
students at the Universitys System’s Gordon
College, but Thomaston will be able to send
students there and board them at home.
It brings junior college with fully trans
ferrable credits to other University Systems as
near to our doorsteps as could be humanly
possible.
In fact, because students like to “go out of
town” to attend college, we believe Thomaston
and Upson may benefit more than Barnesville
and Lamar.
The fact that the legislators shared by the
two counties worked tirelessly on this matter and
other hands of understanding, help and en
couragement should strengthen other bonds
between us.
We just can’t see anything bad in the action.
Lack of Good Manners
Much of what is wrong in the United
States today stems from a lack of common
sense and good manners. Because a new U.
S. generation was weaned on tastless,
mannerless television for profit, the typical
New York diet of screaming, yelling and
aggressiveness, millions no longer know or
admire good manners.
The dismissal of a professor in
Mother worries
about her past
I have been a good mother and faithful
wife for twenty-seven years, and taught
my children reverence for God. Now, after
all these years, the sins of my youth are on
my mind; I was promiscuous with many
men. My family know nothing of this, but
lately I have been thinking about it until I
believe that I am going out of my mind.
Will you please help me? 0.8.
I have scores of letters like yours in my
mail. First of all, don’t think for a minute
that you are very much different than the
average person. This kind of early
behavior is very common. You see, the
Bible teaches that we are all sinners by
nature, and we are. “We have all sinned
and come short of the glory of God.” Any
minister or psychiatrist could tell you the
trie Observer
employees, university personnel, state
troopers and school teachers.
Thus, we find that most of the $143
million increase in appropriations—at
least two-thirds—has been applied in the
area of education.
Reorganization of state government,
submitted by Governor Jimmy Carter
after months of committee study and
evaluation, and passage by the General
Assembly after a number of changes,
will provide an opportunity for effecting
certain savings—estimated at times to
be as much as $55 million to S6O million.
But appropriations for increased salaries
and permanent construction are not
things which can be effectively rolled
back and delayed.
The savings, therefore, must come
from efficiency, streamlined operations,
qualified, dedicated personnel, and use
of sound business practices.
Appropriations totaling $1,318 billion
call for careful handling of the
taxpayers’ monies, because they have
local obligations, too.
People who have a public trust must
learn to get a "dollar’s worth” from each
buck expended.
Vidalia Advance
California, the disgust of the nation over
the tactics used by young hooligans and
militants in* various areas, the loss of
momentum now being suffered by today’s
younger generation of reformers,
militants, hippies, etc., can be explained, at'
least in part, by the failure of so many to
use old-fashioned good manners.
most sordid tales of people, who com
mitted exactly the same sins as you, in
their youth.
What has happened is this: you saw the
error of your ways, and in your own
strength tried to make a new way of life.
And humanly, you have done a creditable
job, and are to be commended. But these
guilt feelings have built up in your life, and
will continue to build up, until you accept
the forgiving grace of Jesus Christ. Yes,
you have taught your children reverence
for God, but you, yourself have never done
what the Bible says to do: come to Christ
in repentance and faith, and let Him live
His life through you. When you cast
yourself upon His mercy, the weight of
guilt will be lifted from your heart. Then,
of course, you must forgive yourself, too.
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"Frankly, we don't care what other people think. If you
mother and I WANT to wear blue jeans and go arourr
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Parks Could Be
'2ooth' Memorial
By DON OAKLEY
The best way the nation could celebrate its 200th ann®
versary in 1976—next to solving all its problems an®
correcting its every shortcoming, of course—would pro®
ably be to leave something permanent for future gener®
tions to enjoy.
Not fancy words to be read. Not some grand mon®
ment to be looked at. But something that could be USE®
by people and which would enhance their daily lives.
The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission i®
studying an idea that seems to fit this specification: fl
proposed network of Bicentennial Parks, one in ever®
state to serve as the focal point of that state’s celebr®
tion of the Bicentennial and thereafter to remain as fl
permanent recreational facility .
The parks would vary in size from 100 to 500 acre™
and be built on federal surplus land or otherwise do®
nated land. Design and construction of the parks woulfl
be funded by Congress; the states would maintain anfl
operate them.
It is estimated the parks would cost from sls millior®
to $25 million each, with the total program running t<9
$1.5 billion—cheap for a system of parks of such widfl
scope and such potential value.
The main feature of each park would be a permanent]
pavilion, to be used for exhibits, entertainment an<9
public events during the bicentennial observance.
But except for this one feature in common, each parks
would be different. Each state would select its own archi-3
tects and the commission would impose no standards oil
restrictions. Any state could, in fact, choose not to par-3
ticipate in the program.
Fifty Bicentennial Parks. Let’s talk it up.
TIP on City Congestion
Operating on the theory that if you can’t lick ’em, join]
’em—in this case motorists—the city of Montpellier.a
France, is testing a unique transportation system aimed:;!
at reducing urban congestion. •;!
According to Traffic Safety magazine, the svstem is]
called “Transport Individuel Publique,” or TIP,
allows drivers to travel about the city in publicly ownedj
automobiles.
It works like this: A motorist pays a fee for an ignition:;
key that will start any of the system’s fleet of cars sta-;
tioned at various locations in the city. Plastic tokens >
purchased at local stores allow a driver 11 miles of inner-;
city driving on each token. <
Upon reaching his destination, the driver merely drops;:
the car off at a station for another driver to use. Later,'
he may return home in another TIP car.
The operators of the system claim that one-third of all
vehicles could be removed from city streets if traffic
were restricted to buses, taxis and TIP cars.
So, What Else Is New?
A Michigan State University professor has edited the
first textbook in the country to be published entirely from
recycled paper.
That’s not so new. A lot of professors have been re
cycling the same old lectures for years.
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
NEW ORLEANS—A hot dog
vender, describing how a stolen
car raced through crowded
Bourbon Street, killing one
person and injuring 18:
“All of a sudden here he
come—bam, bam—and all of a
sudden they were scattered all
over.
FT. Campbell, Ky.-Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew,
expressing his view on the
Vietnam war:
“I believe history will record
that (the war) was a very
worthwhile and moral accom
plishment, perhaps the most
moral that the United States
ever performed as a citizen of
the world community.”
DAI LY«? NEWS
Cary Reeves, General Manager
Bill Knight. Executive Editor
Quimby Melton.
Publisher
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WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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llPfeghi
Department of Justice
records reveal that between
1930-1970 some 3,859 per
sons received the death
penalty in the United
States. Michigan was the
first state to abolish capi
ta 1 punishment effective
March 1, 1847, The World
Almanac recalls. As of
February, 1972, there were
687 persons awaiting execu
tion in the United States,
as executions ceased in
1967 pending judicial deci
sion.
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