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ATLANTA—Representatives to the Miss National Teen-Ager
Pageant arrived here and were the guests of Six Flags Over
, Georgia. (1-r) Miss District of Columbia, September Swann;
Miss South Carolina, Pamela Rabon; Miss North Carolina,
• Georgia Power
• cites inflation
ATLANTA (UPI) -The Geor
« gia Power Co. pleaded Wednes
day for a $47.9 million rate hike
because “the financial integrity
of the company is being de-
* stroyed by inflation.”
However, a wide ranging
group of nay - sayers arrayed
themselves against the proposal,
* charging repeatedly that Geor
gia Power is charging consum
ers higher rates while favoring
* industrial users.
The power company is basing
a large part of its arguments
before the Georgia Public Serv-
* ice Commission on its needs for
money to build plants to meet
future power demands.
t Among the 21 persons signed
up as opponents of the rate
hike were the Georgia Textile
Manufacturers Association, the
» Socialist Workers Party candi
date for sheriff in Fulton Coun
ty, the U.S. Army and a repre
sentative of the American As-
* sociation of Retired Persons.
Former Gov. Carl Sanders,
representing Georgia Power
“ said, “Wages have increased,
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fixed costs have climbed, inter
est rates on debt have gone
higher, and construction costs
have gone through the roof.”
Company witnesses said a
$250 million bond issue would
be necessary in 1973, but in or
der to get a favorable interest
rate the company would need a
“rather dramatic increase in
earnings.”
Bob Hall, representing a
group called the Georgia Power
Project, said the company’s
rate structure should be re
versed to favor consumers, not
industries.
Average rates for the test
year ended June 30 show that
the power company charged in
dustrial users $1.06 per kilowatt
hour, residential users $1.86 per
kilowatt hour and commercial
users $2.08 per kilowatt hour.
Joe B. Browder, Georgia
Power vice president for mark
eting, said because electric
power is “ex tremely susceptible
to the economics of scale,” it is
cheaper to serve high-use indus
try than residences.
Teresa Rivera; Mi Georgia, Sharon Carter; Miss Florida,
Von Nell Wilkes; fiss Ala., Kay DeKalb; Miss Tenn.,
Beverly Wainscottnd Miss Virginia, Mandy Mundy. (UPI)
About peole
Mrs. Vallace cracks
ankle vhile skating
By United Press Inteational
MONTGOMERY, A. (UPI)
—Cornelia Wallace, 3, was
standing with the aid of
crutches and a heavr taped
and bandaged leg w>n she
greeted her husbam Gov.
George C. Wallace as 1 rolled
into the executive maion in
his wheelchair Wednesty.
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Cornelia
Wallace
Mrs. Wallace said she
cracked her left ankle Tueiay
night while roller skating nth
the children at a local rinl “I
could do things like that win I
was 18, but I don’t know wy I
thought I could do it at J,”
said the governor’s wife wh is
an accomplished water sler
and horsewoman. ]
LAS VEGAS (UPI)-If stte
gambling officials approe,
entertainer Sammy Davis c.
will become the first black o
receive a gambling license ina
major casino on Las Vegas
“strip.”
1 PJ
Sammy
Davis
Davis, who is applying for
permission to obtain an 8 per
cent interest in the Tropicana
Hotel, told newsmen he was
“as proud as punch and hope
this is the beginning of other
black investments in Las
Vegas.” Davis was accompa
nied by Minnesota banker Deil
Gustafson, head of a group
which recently acquired the
Tropicana for $35 million.
NEW YORK (UPI)-State
Supreme Court Judge George
Postel reserved decision Wed
nesday on a petition by
McGraw-Hill to have Edith
Irving reveal her financial
assets before she leaves for
Switzerland to face charges
there for her role in the
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Mrs. Norma Lenhart, Mgr.
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Howard Hughes written by her
husband Clifford Irving.
The publishing company is
seeking to recover $781,478
which it spent in advance
payment for the “autobiogra
phy” and wanted Mrs. Irving to
sign a sworn statement about
her financial standing before
her departure for Switzerland
scheduled for next Sunday.
MOSCOW(UPI)—Banker Da
, vid Rockefeller told a Soviet
national television audience
Wednesday that the recent visit
I of President Nixon and later
I visit of Commerce Secretary
Peter G. Peterson to Moscow
had "opened new fields for
cooperation and eliminated
previous obstacles.”
r
David
Rockefellei
Rockefeller, chairman of the
Chase Manhattan Bank, was
interviewed for about five
minutes by Soviet television in
his New York office. He was
introduced as the “number one
representative of the American
business world.”
Profs
get
raises
WASHINGTON (UPI) -While
their public school counterparts
bemoan their missing shekels,
college and university faculty
members in Georgia have been
given an average 7.5 per cent
pay boost.
The federal Pay Board ap
proved the increase for the cur
rent fiscal year which began
July 1.
During the past academic
year, Georgia faculty members
received no pay raises. In the
two years preceding they have
received only 2% to 3 per cent
pay increases.
The boost, however, is not an
across-the-board like and some
instructors will not profit at all
by the Pay Board’s approval.
Some faculty members will
get raises of 15 to 20 per cent,
because the salaries are based
cn merit, while others will get
nothing.
The University System Board
of Regents appropriates the
money to its 30 member institu
tions where the money is divid
ed up by no particular formula.
In one school at the Univer
sity of Georgia, the head of a
department will receive an in
crease from $27,300 to $29,250 a
year. Two full-time professors
in the same department will get
nothing.
news
Lockheed going after contract
MARIETTA, Ga. (UPI) —The Lockheed-Georgia Co. is
going after a contract to build a longer range transport for
the Navy to use in supplying its aircraft carriers.
Lockheed proposed to modify its Cl3O Hercules
transport in two ways in order to meet Navy demands.
The Navy now uses a small propjet aircraft with folding
wings. The Navy says it wants a plane with a range of
2,200 nautical miles, speeds of 330 knots and the capability
of transporting at least 10,000 pounds of cargo.
Abbeville soldier killed
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Defense Department
identified a Georgian who died in the Southeast Asian war.
He is Spec. 4 Thomas W. Staley Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas W. Staley Sr., route 2, Abbeville, Ga.
Independent Party to sue
ATLANTA (UPl)—The American Independent Party is
preparing to sue the state in an effort to gain recognition.
State law requires a party to have carried 20 per cent of
the vote in the last national election. The American Party
carried only 13.5 per cent of the vote in 1968 when George
Wallace was its presidential nominee, even though
Wallace carried Georgia with 43 per cent of the vote.
Secretary of State Ben W. Fortson said he will not put
the names of American Party candidates on the fall ballot
without a court order.
New center next to Omni?
ATLANTA (UPI) — A special committee charged with
finding a site for the proposed World Congress Center has
to decide soon if they want their center next to an Omni.
Developer Tom Cousins has offered a six acre site
valued at $6 million in downtown Atlanta for the center. It
would be next to the new Omni sports coliseum.
Other sites proposed for the center have been 13-acres
near the Atlanta Civic Center, a 21-acre tract near
downtown Atlanta and several acres in Hapeville
adjoining Hartsfield International Airport.
The committee is expected to make a site
recommendation sometime after its Oct. 18 meeting.
Cousins said he would have to have a lease-back
agreement for a 3,000 car parking lot underneath the
center.
A move will be made to have the General Assembly
appropriate $3.5 million a year for the center, which
b&ckers estimate would bring in $5 million a year in
additional sales taxes.
Bandits clean out bank
RENTZ, Ga. (UPI) — The Rentz Banking Co., founded
in 1914, had its first robbery Wednesday, and the bandits
took every dollar the bank had.
County Sheriff’s officers said two unidentified
black men held up the bank and fled with approximately
$20,000 with a third suspect waiting in a getaway car near
by.
Authorities have arrested one suspect driving a 1972
Chevrolet believed to be the car used in the holdup. They
also recovered part of the stolen loot.
Bank employes said the two men forced all the tellers
into the bank vault and then stuffed all the paper money
the bank had into four white pillowcases they had bought
moments earlier at a nearby store.
County Sheriff Rock Bussell said between
$20,000 and $25,000 was taken by the bandits.
Now he has something to do
ATLANTA (UPI) — A state employe who earned $60,000
during five years when he had noting to do now has
something to do.
Tom Hays reported to work Wednesday as a
management analyst in the personnel department of
Human Resources.
He said he had been earning $12,000 a year since 1967 in
a job with no duties or responsibilities because of a clash
with former state welfare director Bill Burson.
Hays, 45, said he will now be involved in writing
employe information material, handling employe
relations and similar duties.
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Nurses ask protection
ATI ANTA (UPI) — At least 40 nurses, frightened that
they might be hurt or killed by addicts or thieves looking
for methadone, have demanded police protection.
The nurses work at Fulton County Health Centers and
while methadone, the synthetic narcotic used to help
heroin addicts, is dispensed at only one center, several
centers have been broken into.
Fulton County manager Sam Brownlee said $7,000
worth of supplies and office equipment have been stolen
from the 23 centers.
“Our main problem has been the fear of our nurses who
believe something really bad is going to happen if they
don’t get protection soon,” said Brownlee.
Public schools show gains
ATLANTA (UPI) —The State Department of Education
says it believes students are deserting private schools to
return to the public system.
Assistant State Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Joseph
N. Edwards, said while there are no firm figures
available, reports indicate that public school enrollment
is growing and that students are returning from the
private schools.
“We have maintained during recent months that the
enrollment in private schools has possibly peaked, said
Edwards. “We have had a number of reports that the
students are returning to the public schools.”
The state surveyed private schools in the latter part of
1971 and found that approximately 250 were operating
with an enrollment of around 70,000 students. Some
1,060,000 students attended public schools last year.
A private school in Americus said Wednesday it would
not open this year because of a lack of students and
financial hardships.
A spokesman for the school said Heritage Academy had
an enrollment of 240 students when it opened two years
ago. The number of students dropped to 140 last year and
only 30 registered for the current term.
Costs for the school amounted to $65,000 during the last
school year. “We had $35,000 to raise above tuition last
year, and fortunately we made it,” the spokesman said.
“But we just didn’t want to chance it again this year.”
The state plans to run another survey of private schools
in October or November.
Thompson thinks Viet key issue
MACON, Ga. (UPI) —Mayor Ronnie Thompson
believes one of the key issues concerning the people of
Georgia’s Bth Congressional District is Vietnam.
The mayor, who says he is the only mayor to visit Viet
nam, said he is going back to Southeast Asia for a four or
five day visit before he begins his campaign against
incumbent Rep. Bill Stuckey of Eastman.
Thompson last visited Vietnam in 1969.
In a 10-point position paper issued Wednesday,
Thompson said he supports the President’s
Vietnamization plan and said Nixon should be given the
opportunity to see it through.
He also said he supports the President on the
neighborhood school concept of busing.
Other points in Thompson’s platform included national
defense, health, drugs, revenue sharing, rural
development and environment.
Thompson has been resting in a hospital while
recovering from a bout with depression. He said he will
return to work next week.
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