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A.F. rule on physical
triggers girl’s suit
SMYRNA, Ga. (UPI) —An 18-year-old woman believes
her constitutional rights have been violated because the
Air Force won’t give her a physical without a consent
letter from her parents.
Brenda Howard has filed suit.
Miss Howard, in a suit filed Friday in U. S. District
Court in Atlanta, said the United States, President Nixon
and the Air Force are depriving her of her right of
property by denying her training and education offered by
the Air Force.
Her suit seeks to strike down a regulation requiring
women to have parental consent to enter the Air Force
until they are 21-years-old. Men may enlist at 18 without
consent.
The suit says Miss Howard passed a written
examination but the service would not give her a physical
until she obtained a consent letter from her parents.
The suit asks that Miss Howard be allowed to enlist and
to declare the age requirements unconstitutional.
12 more firemen
suspended in Macon
MACON, Ga. (UPI) —Twelve more Macon firemen
were suspended Friday after calling in sick to protest a
raise given city policemen.
The suspensions Friday brought the total to 26 firemen
who were sent home as a result of the pay dispute.
Mayor Ronnie Thompson told the firemen either to show
up or furnish a doctor’s certificate attesting to their illness
to Fire Chief G. E. Schaeffer.
The mayor has set up a clinic and offered transportation
for any firemen to the clinic for examinations. Eight
firemen showed up at the facility Friday.
S.S. hikes could
hurt some Georgians
ATLANTA (UPI)-The 20 per
cent increase in Social Security
benefits could reduce or elimi
nate welfare and Medicaid ben
efits to several thousand Geor
gians, a state official said Fri
day.
Robert Friel, Georgia’s wel
fare payments director, said an
individual whose only income is
about SIOO a month in Social Se
curity payments, is eligible for
sll in state aid. If his Social
Security benefits were raised to
$l2O, he would get no state aid
—a net gain of only $9.
The effect on those receiving
Medicaid could be even strong
er, he said, because many of
Carter says bridge
to go, regardless
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI)-Gov.
Jimmy Carter intends to re
move the remains of an old
railroad bridge from the Savan
nah River by Nov. 1 with or
without federal help, his office
said Friday.
The U. S. Coast Guard said
it would not reopen its investi
gation of the bridge, as Carter
requested, until air pollution is
cleared from the area.
Several shipping firms, in
cluding three Japanese compa
nies, have threatened to boycott
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them receive only $1 to $lO per
month in state aid—and the in
crease would eliminate that
state aid entirely.
Friel said the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
(HEW) had advised him that
the 20 per cent increase—effec
tive in October—was approved
without instructions as to what
states should do in setting their
own standards.
He said HEW advised him to
take no action until Congress
reconvenes later this month—
when it could amend the new
act so that the increase will be
passed on to recipients without
reducing state benefits.
the Port of Savannah unless the
pilings of the Seaboard Coast
line bridge are removed.
The bridge was struck twice
by ships, first in 1966 and again
in April, 1971 when it was ren
dered useless.
In a statement released in Mi
ami Friday, the Coast Guard
said the collisions were due to
industrial air pollution around
the bridge and concluded “it
would be premature to conduct
any further study” until the pol
lution is cleared away.
No-fault hearing planned
ATLANTA (UPI) - Citizens
wanting to air their views on
no-fault insurance will have the
chance next Wednesday and
Thursday at the State Capitol.
Adjuster adjusted
QUEENBOROUGH, England
(UPI)— The circus cannon for
the human cannonball needed a
little adjustment so Tom Pretty
climbed into the barrel to have
a look.
The next thing he knew
Pretty was flying feet first 30
feet through the air over his
back garden. “The trigger must
have slipped,” Pretty said
later, a little the worse for
wear with a wrenched back and
a mild electric shock. “I
suppose it was partly my fault.
I should have made sure there
was no explosive capsule in it.”
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The House Insurance Commit
tee will hold the fourth in its
series of hearings on the con
troversial new method of han
dling auto insurance claims.
Scheduled to testify are Bob
Brock and James McKenzie,
representing the Georgia Asso
ciation of Independent insur
ance Agents; Hugh G. Head,
American Trial Lawyers no
fault committeeman and no
fault chairman for the Georgia
Association of Plaintiff Trial
Lawyers; William Martin,
American Insurance Associa
tion; Henry Kipp, Insurance
Company of North America;
and Dr. Leon Rechtman, a pri
vate citizen.
No-fault insurance provides
that insurance companies pay
the claims of their customers
without regard to who caused
the accident.
Police pay ransom
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI)—
Police negotiated desperately,
but wound up paying a $lO
ransom for the return of a
walkie-talkie radio worth about
SI,OOO. A lieutenant lost the
radio Tuesday.
Officers in squad cars were
mystified Wednesday when a
young voice kept breaking into
their radio network—until they
realized that a boy had found
the radio.
They pleaded with him to say
where he was. But for more
than an hour the boy held out,
having too much fun talking to
officers all over town.
Police finally offered a
reward.
“How much?” was the reply.
”$10.”
And that’s how the police
recovered their radio, and
Mitchell Waterbury, 13, made
$lO.
TV. K abortion law upheld in court
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPl)—New
York State’s liberal abortion
law was declared constitutional
Friday by the state’s highest
court.
The Court of Appeals voted 5-
2 to uphold the 1970 law, which
is the nation’s most liberal. It
permits abortion for any reason
during the first 24 weeks of
pregnancy for both residents
and nonresidents of the state.
Robert M. Byrn, the 40-year
old law professor at Fordham
University who filed the origin
al court challenge, said he
would appeal “immediately” to
the U.S. Supreme Court.
In his suit challenging the
law’s constitutionality, Byrn
had asked to be appointed
guardian of all unborn children
in the state and for the court to
decide whether embryos should
be legally recognized as hu-
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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, July 8,1972
mans.
In the majority opinion,
Associate Justice Charles D.
Breitel said, “The Constitution
does not confer or require legal
personality for the unborn; the
legislature may, or it may do
something less, as it did in the
abortion statute, and provide
some protection far short of
conferring legal personality.”
Breitel agreed that the
embryo is human “if only
because it may not be
characterized as not human,
and it is unquestionably alive.”
The real argument, Breitel
said, was “whether a human
entity, conceived but not yet
born, is and must be recognized
as a person in the law.”
This, he said, is a largely
religious and philosophical ar
gument and the answer cannot
be found in law.
The legislature, thus, has the
power to make the decision, he
concluded. “The issues are
outside the law unless the
legislature should provide oth
erwise.”
OBVIOUS REASONS
DRAPER, Utah (UPI)-War
den John Turner said Friday
inmates at Utah State Prison
got to see an X-rated movie
because he didn’t know it was
X-rated.
Turner said it was part of the
weekly film program in the
medium security section and he
didn’t learn its nature until it
was being shown. “Because of
obvious security reasons we
permitted the inmates to see
the remainder of the film
rather than to stop it after it
already started,” he said.