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Page 8 — Griffin Daily News Friday, September 15,1972 news 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. Griffin Headquarters For LA-Z-BOY Hreclina ROCKERS Large Selection Styles-Colors COVERS GOODE-NICHOLS 206-208 South Hill St. Phone 227-9436 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.” Restaurant TOOM By Ray Robinson If your WIFE wants to learn to drive the car . . . DON’T stand in her way. //I I Had To Shoot, He Wouldn't Go To Russell’s Restaurant Good Food Excellent Service 227-3308 On North Expressway jJKfIOR ' 1 7 ’ * - HMBK3BBBMBBBSF/ HHHB ATLANTA— A polluted Atlanta skyline graces the view from the window of a light plane. 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