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— Griffin Daily News Friday, September 15,1972
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Plumbers average $7.52 hour
ATI .ANTA (UPI) — Plumbers are now averaging $7*52
an hour in the Southeat, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
said Thursday.
The rate is the best among six journeyman crafts in the
trades unions. Electricians are the next best paid, earning
$7.33 an hour.
The bureau said that the average hourly wage scales for
trades union workers rose from $6 to $6.11 during the first
month this year.
Average quarterly increases ranged from 3.1 cents an
hour for building laborers to 21.1 cents for painters, 6.3
cents for carpenters, 10.6 cents for plasterers, 18.2 cents
for plumbers, 18.4 cents for bricklayers and 20.5 cents for
electricians.
The average hourly scale in the Southeast as of July 3
was 46.1 cents above that of the previous year, an increase
of 8.2 per cent.
The hourly rate for plumbers ranged from $5.80 an hour
in Columbia, S. C., to $8.34 in Miami. The regional average
for other tradesmen were $5.75 for painters, $6.15 for
plasterers, $6.43 for carpenters and $6.94 for bricklayers.
Heroin prices going up
ATLANTA (UPI) — The price of heroin on the street is
going up and the quality going down, indicating illegal
flow of the drug is being controlled, a federal official said
Thursday.
Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe, head of the federal office for Drug
Abuse Prevention, said his organization is “making an
unprecedented effort to control heroin traffic.”
But Jaffe told the annual conference of the Alcohol and
Drug Problems Association of North America that it was
too early to judge the effectiveness of the program
although 60,000 addicts are currently being treated.
Jaffe also said that any reduction of penalties for mari
juana usage would create an increase in that drug’s
usage. He urged that laws against possession of
marijuana continue in force.
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TENT REVIVAL CRUSADE
With Evangelist Dehner Baldwin
From Olive Branch, Mississippi
Beginning:
The Big Tent Is Located On Highway
19 and 41 North Griffin, Ga. Next To
Griffin Lanes Bowling Alley.
Rev. John Calvin Lane, A Native Os
Griffin, Will Begin Thursday, Sept.
14. Brother Lane Is A Spirit Filled
Baptist, Whom God Is Using In These
Last Days.
Brother Baldwin Will Be hi
The Meeting Later. Listen To
WGUN Radio In Atlanta For
Exact Date.
Bring The Sick, Lost & Suffering.
All The Ministers Have A Special
Invitation
Everyone Welcome
Court rules against tax
ATHENS, Ga. (UPl)—Barring a rehearing leading to a
reversal, an Athens cigarette vendor has won a sizeable
battle to throw out Georgia’s “tax upon a tax” on
cigarettes.
The recent 5-2 decision by the Georgia Supreme Court
partially favoring M. L. Gilbert also could cost the state
an estimated $5 million annually in revenue.
Gilbert’s tax battle began two years ago when he
refused to figure in the federal and state excise taxes as
part of the total retail price on cigarettes for the purposes
of computing the state sales tax.
The State Revenue Department didn’t like the way Gil
bert figured and sued him in Clark County Superior Court.
But Judge James Barrow ruled in favor of Gilbert, who
operates a cigarette vending machine company, holding
that federal and state excise taxes should be “excluded
from the retail sales price of cigarettes... for the purpose
of computing sales taxes.”
The Revenue Department appealed to the State Court
of Appeals which reversed as to the federal excise tax but
ruled in favor of Gilbert on the state excise tax.
The Revenue Department took that decision to the
Georgia Supreme Court which upheld the Appeals Court
decision.
A Revenue Department spokesman said Thursday the
department’s legal staff had not yet decided to file for a
rehearing. He also declined to speculate the cost in
projected revenue for the state.
However, William T. Gerard, attorney for Gilbert,
estimated the state would lose approximately $5 million
annually as a result of the decision.
Boycott called illegal
SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —A special grand jury
looking into charges that blacks and whites not supporting
a civil rights boycott have been intimidated said Thursday
the boycott is an illegal continuation of 1968-69 campaign.
Dist. Atty. Reginald Thompson said the grand jury had
determined after four days of hearings that members of
two local black groups plus the local representative of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference were involved
in a continuation of the boycott.
U. S. District Judge W. A. Boodle issued a permanent
injunction in 1970 against the boycott.
Thompson said the special panel had directed him to
work with the U. S. Justice Department in providing the
jury’s findings to federal authorities.
Atlanta seeks more taxes
ATLANTA (UPI)—A one per cent income tax for
corporations and people who work in the city heads a list
of about 40 items the City of Atlanta would like to get from
the 1973 legislature.
City Finance Director Charles Davis said the income
tax could bring in S2O million a year in new revenue.
Moreover, the tex could be collected along with state in
come texes and would help spread the city’s tex burdens
among the suburbanites who work in the city without con
tributing to the city’s tex needs, Davis added.
“For people who are on fixed incomes this would be an
ideal thing,” Davis said. “This would shift the burden to
people who are actively employed.”
Quirks
SHE MADE IT!
PETERBOROUGH, England
(UPl)—Mrs. Margaret Cezman
stood proudly in the kitchen
Thursday looking at her brand
new electric range—then let out
a yelp of horror as the delivery
men left with the old one.
She rushed down the stairs
and stopped them as they were
loading it into their truck—just
in time to retrieve from the
oven the roast she had been
cooking for her husband’s
dinner.
SMOKING IN BED
TRENTON, Ohio (UPI)-
Firemen were called to the
home of Kay Smith Thursday to
put out a fire in the box where
her dog slept. Firemen said
they found two cigarette butts
in the box, and listed the cause
of the fire as “dog smoking in
bed.”
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the window of a light plane. The National Weather Service
has reported that Atlanta has been under an air stagnation
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manager for Sen. George
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