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Commercial Bank & Trust Company has announced plans for construction of
its second branch office. It will be a free standing building in the new
Spalding Square Shopping Center on U. S. 19 South. The building will be
located near the Zebulon road, Etheridge Mill road intersection. The 4,579
square foot structure will provide four drive-in teller windows and six inside
teller stations. It will be a full service banking facility offering a complete
Diesel fuel up in state
ATLANTA (UPI) —A survey
by the Georgia Motor Trucking
Association shows diesel fuel
prices up about 35 per cent in
the past three months.
The survey of 11 major truck
stops on Interstate highways
shows that though prices are
up in Georgia, they have not
reached the high levels report
ed in some other states.
The truckers reported that
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three cents from a month ago.
However, truck stop operators
say they are raising prices only
enough to offset wholesale in
creases they must pay.
All truck stops surveyed but x
one reported limiting the
amount of fuel per customer,
with limits ranging from 25 to $
50 gallons.
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security equipment. The building has been disigned by Bilbro, Spangler &
Manley, Architects. Jones Construction Company of Griffin has been
awarded the general contract. Work will begin in the next few days. The
expected completion date is May 15, 1974.
I Stranded liner party |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (UPI) -
Through binoculars trained from shore,
the signs of revelry on the stranded luxury
liner were unmistakable.
Many of the 500 passengers could be
seen, drinking, eating, dancing and
swimming on the 606-foot “Frederico C,”
which ran into a sandbar during a fog
early Saturday morning.
“They’re having a ball,” said a
spokesman from the Costa Lines, owners
of the liner. “I’d love to be on board with
them instead of sitting in this office.”
The 20,000-ton Italian vessel was
returning from a seven-day cruise to San
Juan, St. Thomas and Nassau when it hit
the sandbar about 2jW> miles from its
destination at Port Everglades.
Commercial tugs were unable to free the
ship, but apparently any passenger could
have disembarked on demand.
“No one wanted to get off,” said the
Busbee to support
teacher pay raises
ATLANTA (UPI) - House
Majority Leader George Busbee
an announced candidate for gov
ernor, says cost -of - living
raises for teachers and state
employes should have top prio
rity in the next General Assem
bly.
Speaking this weekend at a
convention of the Georgia School
Boards Association, Busbee told
the educators he will push for
the raises, which will cost an
estimated $45 million.
He predicted Go v. Jimmy Car
ter’s budget proposals, which
are expected Dec. 15, will run
into trouble in the legislature
if the raises are not included.
“If the governor does not
make this recommendation,”
Busbee said, “it is my feeling
that any new programs recom-
It’s just a comet,
Kohoutek shrugs
NEW YORK (UPI) - “It’s
just a comet,” shrugged Lubos
Kohoutek, the German astro
nomer who accidentally discov
ered the heavenly spectacle
that has caught the attention of
the world.
He and his wife, Christine,
were among the 1,200 passen
gers of the Queen Elizabeth 2’s
“hunt the comet” cruise, a
special excursion 400 miles into
the Atlantic that sailed Sunday
night “in search of good
Costa Lines spokesman.
And for good reason.
The ship’s owners ordered that all food
and drink be issued free. Four swimming
pools and seven nightclubs were opened
and three dance bands played
continuously.
On shore, another party also was going
on. The 500 vacationers scheduled to board
the liner for another cruise were housed in
Miami Beach hotels, at the expense of the
ship’s owners, and food and drink also
were free.
Tugboats, meanwhile, began taking off
the ship’s fuel to lighten the liner’s weight
so that it could be floated more easily.
About 1,000 gallons were taken off before
rough seas necessitated a halt to the
operation Sunday night.
Officials said the tugs would return late
this morning.
The consensus among the passengers
appeared to be, “no hurry.”
mended by him will be made
secondary when we start mak
ing cuts in the appropriations.”
State Rep. Robert Farrar and
Sen. Terrell Starr, co - chair
men of a blue ribbon commit
tee studying ways to upgrade
Georgia’s public education sys
tem, presented a summary of
the committee’s recommenda
tions to the educators.
The reaction to the report was
generally favorable, although
there was some criticism last
week of a proposal to consoli
date small school systems.
Calhoun banker Bert Lance,
also a gubernatorial candidate,
endorsed several of the commit
tee’s proposals, including ex
panded vocational education, a
statewide kindergarten program
and a 12 - month school year.
weather.”
“You see,” said Kohoutek in
halting English, “to an astro
nomer a comet is something
normal in the night. Perhaps as
many as 50 comets have been
discovered in the last 10 years.
I myself have discovered three.
“But there’s something dis
turbing in a comet to ordinary
people. Perhaps that is because
a comet appears suddenly as
something wild and extraordi
nary in the sky. It is not usual
to see the sky in motion.”
Kohoutek, a Czech-born scien
tist who works at the observato
ry at Hamburg, Germany, told
newsmen he was extremely
interested in the reports on the
comet Kohoutek from the
Skylab astronauts.
Tlie 1,200 passengers aboard
the Queen will have lectures
and programs about the comet,
which was named after Kohou
tek because he was the first to
report it. Those unwilling to
rise at the crack of dawn for a
good view will be able to see it
later on the ship’s television
monitors.
“For me,” said Kohoutek,
whose wife calls him a shy
scientist, “the comet is some
thing special. It has changed
me. The publicity is too large
for such a small object. I found
it by chance and now it has
brought me to America.”
He wore an old, white shirt, a
brown suit fraying near the
collar and a thin tie, and spoke
in a quiet voice. “I am happy
to be here to explain what I
know and see what I would like
to know,” he said.
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The ground around Point
Barrow, Alaska, is frozen to
a depth of 1,330 feet. The
deepest permafrost yet
measured—2,Bso feet—is in
Eastern Siberia.
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Panel to check
Nixon finances
By RICHARD LERNER
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
congressional committee and a
California tax panel begin
examining President Nixon’s
newly disclosed financial data
this week to decide whether he
owes some $300,000 in back
taxes.
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark.,
agreed to convene Congress’
Joint Committee on Internal
Taxation to go over the
President’s federal income tax
returns. A committee aide said
the first meeting would be as
early as possible this week,
perhaps Wednesday.
The California Franchise Tax
Board will discuss the question
of Nixon's income taxes in that
state in Sacramento Tuesday.
In his unprecedented disclo
sure Saturday of financial
information going back 5 %
years, Nixon invited congres
sional scrutiny of his taxes and
said that if the committee
decides he owes back taxes, “I
will abide by the committee’s
judgment.”
The White House said the
issues concerning the Presi
dent’s federal and state taxes
involve no possible wrongdoing
but only the kinds of questions
on which tax accountants and
tax lawyers often have honest
differences.
Meanwhile, with its work
done on Gerald R. Ford’s
confirmation as vice president,
the House Judiciary Committee
is expected to step up its
investigation this week into
whether grounds exist for
Nixon’s impeachment.
The 38-member committee is
organizing a staff of 45 for the
inquiry. It has narrowed more
than 100 prospects for the job of
special counsel for the investi
gation down to four.
Newly installed as vice
president, Ford said in a
broadcast interview Sunday
— Griffin Daily News Monday, December 10,1973
(ABC’s “Issues and Answers”)
he sees no grounds for
presidential impeachment or
resignation but that, since the
impeachment inquiry is going
on, it “ought to be moved
ahead very swiftly.”
White House sources said that
if both the California and
Washington hearings go against
the President on all tax issues,
he might have to pay $296,333
in federal taxes and between
$15,000 and $16,000 to California.
Nixon paid no California state
income taxes from 1969 through
1972, although he-voted there.
The White House says Cali
fornia law exempted him from
taxation because his “domicile”
was in Washington. The District
of Columbia also exempted him
from local income taxes, as a
federal elected official.
The Mills committee will
examine the legality of the tax
free sale by Nixon of land
adjoining his San Clemente
property for a profit of $117,370
and the deduction of $576,000 he
claimed for giving his vice
presidential papers to the
National Archives.
The Washington Post report
ed today that the President also
made a hitherto undisclosed
donation of papers from his
congressional years and his
participation in the 1964 cam
paign to the National Archives
on Dec. 30, 1968, the day after
they were appraised for SBO,OOO.
It said this resulted in a
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“substantial deduction” on his
1968 tax return, which was not
made public because Nixon was
then a private citizen.
The President’s financial
accounting Saturday showed
that he paid a smaller
percentage of his income in
federal taxes over the five
years than a family of four
with an income of SB,OOO. His
net worth tripled since he
became President and he is
now nearly a millionaire.
According to the financial
statement:
—The President over a four
year period spent only $63,029
of his $266,000 expense allow
ance and took the rest as
personal income, on which he
paid taxes.
—He borrowed heavily from
friends and $25,000 from his
elder daughter, Tricia Cox, to
buy property at Key Biscayne,
Fla. Mrs. Cox made a $111,270
profit on the transaction over
five years.
—The government spent $6
million to construct and main
tain the Western White House
office complex on adjacent
government property, $635,000
on the San Clemente grounds
for security purposes and
$68,000 on the home itself for
security-related reasons.
—The President said San
Clemente will be given to the
government after death of
Nixon and his wife.