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ATLANTA—Collator operator Robert Bogle of Conley watches pages of Gov. Jimmy Carter’s
Amended Budget Report slide past him at the Department of Administrative Services printing
shop in Atlanta. The document is being prepared for presentation for the 1973 session of the
Georgia General Assembly which convenes Jan. 8. (UPI)
Homestead exemption
increase is studied
ATLANTA (UPI)- Education
leaders in the General Assem
bly are planning to seek a con
stitutional amendment which
would more than double Geor
gia’s homestead exemption ceil
ing.
Senate Education Chairman
Terrell Starr of Forest Park,
who served on an interim school
tax revenue committee, said
Thursday it was “the only way”
legislators could make sure the
average homeowner got a prop
erty tax break.
Starr said the proposal would
ask that the exemption limit be
raised from $2,000 to $5,000—
the first increase in 26 years.
Georgia’s present homestead ex
emption law went into effect in
1946 and it remained at $2,000
while property values skyrocket
ed.
If approved by the 1973 Gen-
Burglar steals nothing; leaves cash
TULSA, Okla. (UPI) —Jesse Hosey was
reluctant to call police the first time it
happened. But a month later when an
intruder broke into his apartment and, for
the second time, instead of stealing
anything, left cash, Hosey called
authorites.
“I told police it was so screwy I hated to
call them,” Hosey said Wednesday. The
intruder left sl6 Nov. 9 and sl2 Dec. 10 and
some mysterious writing. “I am
concerned about it,” Hosey said.
Police were concerned too, but not as
much about catching the intruder as what
they would do with him afterward.
“By law it can’t be classified as a
burglary,” said investigating officer Ken
Moser. “I suppose you could say he was
eral Assembly, the proposal
would go before the people at
the 1974 election.
The idea, worked out by Starr,
House Education Chairman Bob
Barrar of DeKalb County and
others, was the latest in a se
ries of plans aimed at cutting
down the homeowner’s tab. Un
doubtedly, property tax reduc
tion will be one of the hottest
items in the upcoming session.
Gov. Jimmy Carter has pro
posed several things, including a
possible 1 per cent local option
income tax and a rollback
through the use of SSO million
in state funds.
Starr said he sees no reason
why there should be a tax in
crease of any kind and a roll
back, he said, just can’t be done
from Capitol Hill.
“We cannot mandate a roll
back, that’s up to the local gov-
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ernments,” Starr said. “The on
ly way we can guarantee prop
erty tax relief for the average
homeowner is by increasing his
homestead exemption — and
going to propose a constitutional
amendment to that effect.”
Starr said the tax equaliza
tion program put through earli
er this year benefitted big bus
iness while the “little homeown
er bore the brunt” of stepped
up and not big business, Starr
said, “is the only way we can
grant meaningful relief.” And a
hike in homestead exemption,
he said, suits that to a T.
Starr said he felt the freez
ing of local effort payments for
education at $78.5 million in the
1972 session had brought en
couraging results and he saw no
reason for a change.
breaking and entering—and then
trespassing. That would take care of the
intent-tocommit-crime requirement. We
have a manhunt on, but I’m just not sure
what the charges would be.
“This is definitely a first for me,” Moser
said. He said Hosey is about 50, works for
McDonald-Douglas Aircraft Corp, and “he
has plenty.”
The intruder first broke into Hosey’s
apartment Nov. 9, kicking in the front
door. Hosey, who also has a home in the
country, was not in the apartment at the
time. The mystery persons took ice from
the refrigerator, shoved the coffee table
against the couch, placed the cash in the
room and left. Nothing was stolen.
“There was sl6—a ten, a five and a one-
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, December 14, 1972
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI) —Apollo 17’s astronauts
ended man’s first exploration of
another world today, their
moonship packed with secrets
of the past and a legacy left
behind for the future.
“As we leave the moon,” said
commander Eugene A. Cernan,
“we leave as we came—and,
God willing, we shall return—
with peace and hope for all
mankind.”
The three-day tour of the
dusty, washboard floor of the
Taurus-Littrow Valley was the
last U. S. manned expedition
now planned beyond the orbit of
Earth. It was perhaps the last
trip to the moon in the 20th
century.
Cernan and Schmitt were
scheduled to take off aboard
the trusty spacecraft Challen
ger at 5:56 p.m. EST to rejoin
Ronald E. Evans in the orbiting
command ship America. The
pilots will spend two more days
mapping the moon from orbit
before beginning their quarter
million mile journey back
home.
Cernan, a three-time space
veteran, predicted: “history
will record that America and
Challenger ... have forged the
destiny for tomorrow.”
Eternal Monument
Staying behind as an eternal
monument to man’s bold
venture out into the solar
system was the bottom, four
legged section of Challenger
with a black-rimmed aluminum
plaque fixed to its side.
“Here man completed his
first exploration of the moon,
December, 1972, A.D.,” the
plaque said. “May the spirit of
peace in which we came be
reflected in the lives of all
mankind.” It was signed by the
three astronauts and President
Nixon.
A 22-mile web of moon buggy
tracks etched in the coal-black
dust of the mountain-rimmed
valley remained as everlasting
evidence of the unprecedented
exploration by the final men of
Apollo. “This valley of history
has seen mankind complete its
first evolutionary steps into the
universe, leaving the planet
Earth and going forward into
the universe,” Schmitt said
before he and Cernan boarded
Challenger for the last time at
12:42 a.m.
“I can think of no more
agnificant contribution that
Apollo has made to history,”
said the first scientist to fly in
space.
12 Visited Moon
Twelve Americans have
walked the moon since Apollo
H’s epic landing July 20, 1969.
The United States has no plans
to return, but NASA Adminis
trator James C. Fletcher said
he hoped Americans will go
back in the mid-1980s, possibly
working side by side with
Russia.
lying under a chair in the comer,” Hosey
said. “With them was a calling card —but
without any names or anything on it. It has
some meaningless numbers written on it in
pencil. There was about SSOO in bonds on
the bedroom dresser which wasn’t both
ered.”
The second time the intruder struck,
Sunday, he left sl2.
“This time there was a bank deposit
envelope, from my bank, containing two
fives and two ones, next to the telephone
book on the dining room table. The
envelope had the initials ‘E.L.’ and a
number, ’23.91,’ written on it in ink,”
Hosey said. “I really have no idea what’s
going on.”
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WASHINGTON—President Nixon’s peace negotiator Henry
Kissinger is greeted at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. by his
deputy, Gen. Alexander Haig, on Kissinger’s return from
Paris and nine days of peace talks with North Vietnamese
DOI gets girl agent
Georgia’s first female DOI
special agent has been assigned
to the Griffin area post at
Thomaston, according to
Special Agent-in-Charge Capt.
Billy Darsey.
Miss Susan Findley, 21, was
one of two female agents hired
by the Division of Investigation
of the Department of Public
Safety at the beginning of
December.
Special Agent Findley is a
June 1972 graduate of the
criminal justice program at
Georgia Southern College in
Statesboro.
Capt. Darsey explained that
with the addition of Miss Fin
dley, the Region II Thomaston
office now has nine agents to
cover its 23 county area.
A Statesboro native, Special
Agent Findley will attend the
special agent’s school in March,
where she will receive the same
investigative training any male
agent would.
“Miss Findley is a badge
wearing, gun toten, special
agent who will be doing the
same type of field work as any
male agent,” Capt. Darsey
said.
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The attractive, 5-foot-7,
brunette, will be especially
useful in investigating crimes
where women are involved,
Capt. Darsey pointed out.
As for being the first female
agent in Georgia formerly all
male DOI force, Miss Findley
sees it as a golden opportunity.
“I am sure that I will be very
happy in this capacity because
it is the kind of work I have been
Corrections boss
defends invitations
ATLANTA (UPI) — Director
Ellis MacDougall of the Offend
er Rehabilitation Department
has defended his plan to have
legislators and judges spend a
night in jail as necessary to tell
the public and families of in
mates “what goes on behind pri
son walls.”
MacDougall drew sharp criti
cism for the proposal from
Chairman ames “Sloppy”
Floyd of Trion of the House Ap
propriations Committee.
Floyd said the invitation for
the Jan. 4-5 experiment at the
Jackson Diagnostic Center was
the “most ridiculous” one he
had ever received and accused
MacDougall of a “political char
ade,” using prisoners and tax
payers funds.
The veteran and influential
lawmakers called on Gov. Jim
my Carter to cancel the invita
tion, which also went to
newsmen, and suggested Mac-
Dougall visit “the families of
some of the people who have
been raped or brutally mur
dered by these felons.”
MacDougall replied, however,
he felt the program was neces
sary for “those who deal with
the public” so they can become
fully acquainted with prison con
ditions.
“The legislture represents the
families of inmates and by going
through this exercise, they are
Woman suspected
slim-slam attempt
A black Jacksonville, Fla.
couple discovered yesterday
that it does not pay to try flim
flam tricks in Griffin.
The pair, who police iden
tified as Fred C. Turner, 34, of
1317 McConile street, Jackson
ville, and Yvonne Mosley
Thompson, 25, of 1020 Rushing
street, Jacksonville, were
arrested but were released
after questioning due to in
sufficient evidence.
Officers said they had the
couple under surveillance as
slim-slam suspects when the two
representatives. Kissinger declined to speculate on when a
cease-fire will be arranged. Officer in center is unidentified.
(See page 22). (UPI)
trained for and the type of work
I want to do.”
In her capacity as special
agent, Miss Findley will be
working with many area law
enforcement agencies.
She added that the DOI
special agent jobs were a good
area for women to prove what
they are capable of doing.
better able to interpret to the
families and the general public
what goes on behind prison
walls,” the corrections official
said.
A similar plan was carried out
with “tremendous success” in
Connecticut where he had also
supervised the state prison pro
gram, MacDougall said.
In his letter to MacDougall,
Floyd charged the program
would force prisoners to move
to other quarters and cost the
taxpayers money.
“N othing in the appropriations
act or the governor’s reorgani
zation bill even suggests that
you (MacDougall) use these
funds to run some sort of legis
lative hotel,” he said.
MacDougall said just about
the only expenses would be a
couple of extra meals for the
visitors. He said they would be
housed in a separate wing in
individual ceils, and after a
night in the prison, they would
be able to talk with inmates
chosen at random about prison
conditions.
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tomorrow in low 50s, low tonight
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sunset tomorrow 5:29.
approached a woman on South
Hill street. The woman quickly
caught on that they were con
artists and when they realized
she knew, they tried to get
away. Police then moved in and
placed the couple under arrest.
They were taken to the city
jail and questioned, but were
released as there was in
sufficient evidence to hold
them.
Officers said they were
traveling in a 1972 Eldorado
Cadillac.
Inside Tip
JFK
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Truman
becomes
weaker
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) -
Former President Harry S
Truman, 88, slipped to “very
serious” condition today. His
heart was weak, he slept
restlessly and did not respond
when his doctors spoke to him.
“President Truman is very
serious, but vital signs remain
fairly stable,” said his personal
physician at Research Hospital,
Dr. Wallace H. Graham.
“Therefore, he is not critical.”
More fluid collected in his
lungs and he suffered advanced
kidney blockage.
Doctors did not say Truman’s
condition has deteriorated from
serious to critical, but said,
“He is beginning to show signs
of renal (kidney) impairment
and early pulmonary fluid
collections (lung congestion).
He has been semiconscious and
not as responsive as last night
(Tuesday night).”
At bedtime, Research Hospi
tal spokesman John Dreves
said the 33rd president “is
relatively unchanged, except he
is weaker. His temperature
continues to be elevated.” A
nurse said early today Truman
was sleeping without problems.
Mrs. Daniel, 48, made her
first appearance before the
press since Sunday.
“It’s a question of strength,”
she said. “Every little bit takes
its toll. He’s 88 years old, frail
and ill.”
She said Truman smiled at
her when she walked into the
room, but it was the first time
Mrs. Daniel had expressed
anything to the press but
confidence that her father
would recover.
She was uncertain about her
previously announced plans to
return to New York on Friday.
“I’ll have to wait and see,”
die said.
Truman’s lungs were congest
ed when he was hospitalized
nine days ago, and doctors had
the fluid cleared up for a time,
but the kidney blockage was a
new problem.
His wife Bess, 87, made her
daily trek to the hospital from
the Truman home in Indepen
dence, Mo., 15 miles away, with
Mrs. Daniel.
“Lots of folks spend more on
dog food than on the church —
maybe because the dog pays
them more attention.”