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Notice
In respect to our friend and
fellow worker, Edwin
“Bulldog” Imes, the Griffin
Daily News will be closed
from 2:30 to 4 o’clock to
morrow (Wednesday) after
noon.
County issues
nearly million
in permits
Spalding County issued
nearly a million dollars worth of
building permits in September.
The total was $977,785 with 27
permits for single residential
homes totaling $597,000.
A total of 54 permits for
mobile homes scattered about
the county totaled $281,535.
State likely to reach
$1.25 billion estimate
ATLANTA (UPI) - State
Revenue Commissioner John
Blackmon said Monday it ap
peared the $1.25 billion revenue
estimate of Gov. Jimmy Carter
and the General Assembly
would be reached for fiscal
1972.
Blackmon said revenue col
lections were coming in at a
rate which might give the state
a surplus in state funds of S3O
to S4O million.
Collections for September
were nearly slll million, a 17
per cent increase over a month
It’s risk
to leave car
unattended
The Spalding Sheriff’s office
has cautioned residents who
have car trouble not to leave
their vehicles unattended for
long periods of time due to the
recent rash of car vandalism
and the theft of parts from
abandoned autos.
During the last three or four
weeks, officials said, windows
have been broken and batteries
and other parts taken from
autos which have given out of
gas or broken down and have
been left unattended.
Transplanted Southerner
with identity
Authur Blank heads
Daylin operation
With a payroll nearing three
quarters of a million dollars,
Griffin’s newest industry, the
Daylin Corporation, is an
economic shot-in-the-arm for
Spalding County.
As Daylin’s southeast region
al headquarters, the Carver
road operation is mainly con
cerned at present with distribu
tion of goods to 77 retail outlets
in Georgia and surrounding
states.
Primarily tied to distribution
of merchandise for Stripe and
Elliott Discount Stores, a
division of Daylin, the Griffin
office will serve as the hub for
all other Daylin operations in
the Southeast, according to
Elliot-Stripe President Authur
M. Blank.
At 30, Blank, assistant
treasurer of the Daylin Corp., is
die youngest corporate officer
in the nation-wide multimillion
dollar Daylin organization.
Elliott-Stripe, presently
employing 145 Griffinites, will
begin hiring additional em
ployes within nine months,
according to Blank.
Gary E. Parks, group vice
[resident for the Daylin Corp.,
will also be located with the
Griffin office.
Daylin also operates the
Diana Shops, Gulfmart
Discount Department Stores,
Commissioner Moss:
No county funds
for ambulances
“This thing is not going to hit
home until people need an
ambulance and can’t get one.”
So stated Jack Moss, vice
chairman of the Spalding
County Conmissioners today.
Chairman David Elder told
the board this morning that a
spokesman for the funeral
homes here had indicated they
definitely will end ambulance
service here Dec. 31.
The funeral homes here had
been coordinating their stand
ago. Net collections for the first
quarter of the current fiscal
year were almost $297.5 million,
or 19.1 per cent more than the
same period in 1971.
Blackmon said his revenue
estimate was based on SB7 mil
lion in collections, a 7 per cent
increase. “Our prosperity is
continuing,” he said.
Blackmon said he was partic
ularly pleased with the rise in
income tax collections, because
“that more than anything else
mirrors the small percentage of
unemployment in Georgia.” In
dividual income tax collections
were up 33.7 per cent over 1971
and stood at $66 million.
“We are now nearly 20 per
cent better than last year after
the first quarter,” he noted. “If
that holds up until January, we
could have a 20 per cent in
crease — even if collections
over the last six months of the
fiscal year are slow and slug
gish as usual.”
Last fiscal year the state re
ported close to S4O million in
surplus funds which came from
a surge in collections and $22
million in “windfall” funds. The
“windfall”’ money will not be
available this year.
September collections totaled
$23.5 million, and the sales tax
Miller’s Department Stores,
and a chain of customer —
oriented Home Improvement
Supply Centers.
Blank pointed out that there
are 75 Diana Shops within a 100
miles radius of Griffin.
“Whatever is happening with
Daylin in this section of the
country, it will be a spin-off of
Griffin,” Blank said.
Blank explained that 20-25
people would join the Griffin
staff of Daylin to handle the
regional office for Daylin’s
discount department store
operation.
Pointing to Daylin’s rapid
growth, Blank, a certified
public accountant, noted that
while Daylin grossed slightly
over $200,000 12 years ago, last
year’s figures report a gross of
more than 450 million dollars.
A New York native who
considers himself a transplant
ed southerner, Authur Blank
says he and his family believe
Griffin to be “the best of two
worlds”.
“When we came South we had
some reservation, but we have
found in Griffin a person can
have an identity,” Blank said.
Blank lives in Griffin with his
wife, Diana; son, three-year-old
Kenneth; and daughter, one
year-old Dena.
GRIFFIN
NEWS
Daily Since 1872
through the Chamber of
Commerce and has asked
Dewitt Simonton to be their
spokesman. Simonton is
executive vice president of the
Chamber.
He sent word from the funeral
directors that even though some
ambulance service regulations
proposed by the state had been
reported softened, that they still
planned to end the service at the
end of this year.
The funeral homes feel that
stood at $38.8 million. For the
quarter, the sales tax was slls,
up 17 per cent.
Only estate and property
taxes were down in the month
among the major categories.
They declined 29.2 per cent for
September, but were up 15 per
cent for the fiscal year.
On another topic, Blackmon
promised Georgia counties
would not be delayed in sending
out tax bills this year. There
had been some speculation the
bills would be delayed because
of new tax digests which went
into effect this year.
Blackmon said he had re
turned 50 or 60 county tax
equalization plans for revision,
but contended there would be
no trouble meeting the normal
ad valorem tax deadline.
The 1972 General Assembly
amended an earlier law to give
Blackmon the authority to send
back any tax digest needing
change to meet state require
ments.
All counties are required by
law to assess property at 40 per
cent of value. Some of the coun
ties, Blackmon said, had slipped
to 35 per cent in assessment be
cause of inflation and other
causes.
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Authur Blank wears a Griffin-type smile in his new home town.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, October 3, 1972
they cannot comply with the
program the state proposes to
put in force. The General
Assembly approved the am
bulance regulations at its last
session, it said, to keep federal
highway money coming.
Rep. Clayton Brown said that
the federal Department of
Transportation had approved
new ambulance rules for
Georgia that were less
demanding than those
originally proposed.
Chairman Elder wondered if
the problem had “hit home with
the commissioners.”
Moss and Commissioner
Sandy Morgan both agreed that
the county now faces a real
crisis in ambulance service.
They said they had written
one private company about
furnishing service here and had
not received an answer.
Moss said frankly that the
county didn’t have the money
with which to set up and operate
an ambulance service.
He said that the county has
some $43,000 now to meet
current county commitments.
Moss suggested that:
The state should take over
ambulance service for all
localities.
Or, the state should provide
the funds so local governments
could furnish the service.
Or the state should rescind
the ambulance regulations the
General Assembly provided for
at its last session.
Moss said the only hope he
saw right now of providing
emergency ambulance service
was through some sort of
agreement with the city to use
city Fire Department per
sonnel.
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FREMONT, Calif.—One of the Bay Area Rapid Transit
District (BART) new automated trains rests at an acute
angle in the parking lot at BART station here, after the train
failed to stop at the end of the line, smashed through a sand
Homemade
headstone
ordered out
DES MOINES, lowa (UPI)-
A young mother who could not
afford to buy tombstones for
the graves of her two infant
children spent 100 hours carv
ing and polishing concrete
headstones.
When she had finished her
work, Mrs. Cynthia Frederick,
21, put the handmade markers
over the graves. Last weekend,
the Park Board ordered work
men to remove them because
they did not meet the city
policy that all grave markers
be made of bronze or granite.
Richard Delmege, chairman
of the Park Board’s Cemetery
Committee, said Monday,
however, that publicity about
the case may force the board to
make an exception to the city
policy.
“I think in this case someone
should be a little sympathetic
for her,” he said.
Vol. 100 No. 232
IRS audit shows
‘shocking’ returns
ATLANTA( UPI )-Thelntern
al Revenue Service’s new audit
program is turning up “shock
ing” attempts by some big cor
porations to evade taxes, IRS
Commissioner Johnnie M. Walt
ers said Monday.
“It is unbelievable that large
publicly held corporations en
gage in such schemes,” Walters
said in a speech to the Tax Ex
ecutives Institute. “Yet they do.
This is flouting the law—delib
erate, willful attempts to avoid
and evade taxes with full knowl
edge of both what should be
done and the result of what is
done.”
Walters said the new IRS pro
gram allows the IRS to audit
in much greater detail. Some
1,600 corporations are included
in the program.
“We now look at records
that were untouched before,”
Walters said. “We’re raising is
sues never before raised. Some
embankment, and came to a halt. Note smashed housing in
front of the train. Three persons were hurt in the first wreck
on the new transit system which opened Sept. 11. (UPI)
are alarming — in fact, shock
ing.”
The IRS commissioner said
that in one case a corporation,
knowing that reserves for self
insurance are not tax deducti
ble, “set up an intricate scheme
to mislead the revenue agents.
“In another case, the corpora
tion, immediately upon agree
ing to a deficiency, filed over
stated claims for refunds. What
is astounding is that the tax
payer admitted knowledge of
the overstatement but indicated
lack of concern.”
The IRS recommended $2
County zoning
meet is set
Spalding County Com
missioners with zoning board
members will have a public
meeting with citizens interested
in the proposed construction of
some apartments off South
Sixth street extension.
The meeting will be held in
the Spalding Courthouse Oct. 17
at 7:30 p.m.
Some citizens in the Massey
subdivision area have express
ed concern about the proposed
apartment development.
Developers plan to construct
the units in an area on South
Sixth extension opposite First
United Methodist Church and
near the subdivision.
“A fellow’s lucky if he
already has accomplished his
task before his friends can
convence him it can’t be done.”
Man survives
22-floor fall
into garbage
HONOLULU (UPl)—Doctors
today called it “miraculous”
that a Honolulu man survived a
22-floor fall into a pile of
garbage.
Thomas Finney, 22, tumbled
down a garbage chute at the
Queen Emma Gardens but the
garbage at the bottom cush
ioned his fall.
He told police he was “fooling
around” when he plummeted
down the chute. He was
hospitalized with only cuts and
bruises.
Inside Tip
Taxes
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million in additional tax, plus
penalties, and suggested crimi
nal prosecution for the filing of
a false claim.
“We’ve uncovered other
schemes—some involving kick
backs and illegal payoffs,” Wal
ters said. “We’ve run across
situations where firms instruct
salesmen to pad expense ac
counts for the money to make
illegal payments. The intention
al covering up of these transac
tions are typical of evasive
planning.
Not all of the evasives
schemes are the result of the
corporations’ tax departments,
Walters added. Sometimes top
management is to blame.
“At times management, in its
effort to improve the corpora
tion’s financial record, decides
to risk a tax deficiency, plus 6
per cent interest, even though
the tax advisors point out po
tential trouble,” Walters said.
“Even the possibility of the 50
per cent fraud penalty may not
deter management when there
is a fair likelihood that the
scheme may go undetected.”
Walters told the tax men that
the IRS will seek to prosecute
any offenders.
“We must put an end to cor
porate avoidance and evasion,”
he said. “We must assure hon
est corporations, and their hon
est managers and tax directors
that other corporations carry
their share of the tax load.”
Revenue
sharing
cloudy
Spalding County Com
missioners said today that if the
county gets any additional
money through a federal
revenue sharing program, that
it should go into present local
programs and no new ones
should be started.
That was the concensus ex
pressed at the monthly meeting
of the commissioners today.
Should a House-Senate
compromise bill on the revenue
sharing plan finally become
federal law, Spalding Com
missioners estimated the local
share for the county would be
$420,972.04.
Chairman Elder said that
some federal and state funds
the county already is receiving
such as welfare and money for
other projects might be
deducted from the Spalding
allotment.
So he pointed the county, at
this point, didn’t really know
what to expect from the revenue
sharing proposal.