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Tax notices
being mailed
t Tax payments were coming in
at a steady clip today at the tax
commissioner’s office in the
Spalding Courthouse.
* Some notices were mailed
last week and others were being
mailed today.
Tax Commissioner office
• workers were down to the “S”
section of the alnhabet in
mailing and expected to have
, all of the notices out shortly.
County taxes are due Dec. 20.
Notices have been tied up
with factoring, computer delays
• and other things that caused
them to be late in getting into
the mail.
The Griffin-Spalding School
* Board had authorized a loan if
needed in view of the late
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Trucking back to normal
The trucking industry appeared to be getting back to
8 normal today after an end to drivers’ shutdowns in
several states during the weekend.
The demonstrations in protest of lower speed limits and
I high fuel prices seemed to do little but get the attention of
the government .
Transportation Secretary Claude S. Brinegar said “we
are working on their problems.” Last week, however, the
Senate approved a nationwide speed limit of 55 miles an
hour although truckers said they use more fuel at such low
speeds.
Lawyer obtains tape
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A lawyer for Ralph Nader said
during the weekend he has obtained a tape of a presiden
tial meeting which could be important in Nader’s suit
charging increased milk supports were given in return for
campaign gifts.
William 0. Dobrovir said he had a tape of President
Nixon’s meeting of March 23,1971, with dairy leaders. He
also said he has obtained by subpoena diaries kept by
former Nixon aides H.R. Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman.
Picket lines set up
DETROIT (UPI) — Truck drivers, warehousemen and
dock workers struck today, setting up picket lines that
stopped delivery of food to 400 supermarkets, 80 per cent
of the Detroit area’s markets.
The walkout came three hours after a U.S. judge issued
an injunction against it.
Kissinger meets with Meir
JERUSALEM (UPI) — Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger began his last meetings with Israeli leaders
today.
He met with Prime Minister Golda Meir after holding
what he called “very constructive” talks with other
Israeli leaders. He was scheduled to fly to Lisbon,
Portugal, later today at the end of*his seven-nation Middle
East tour.
Ministers tackle oil problem
BRUSSELS (UPI) — Common Market foreign
ministers gathered today to tackle the problem of keeping
Europe in oil.
Officials said their first job would be to write a survey of
present supplies and needs.
Work on economic problems
LONDON (UPI) — British officials worked on a
package of tax hikes, credit curbs and government
spending cuts aimed at solving Britain’s economic
problems.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber was to an
nounce the program in an emergency statement to Parlia
ment today.
notices.
C. T. Parker, chairman, said
today the board would not
borrow any money unless
necessary, certainly not before
Jan. 1. He pointed out some
school bills were not due until
Jan. 10 and was hopeful the
board would be able to get by
without a loan.
Jack Moss, chairman of the
Spalding County Com
missioners, said the county
balance by the end of this year
probably would be zero. This
was expected, in view of the
delay in getting tax notices in
the mail.
Moss said the county does not
expect to have to borrow any
money.
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A city hall spokesman said
notices to city tax payers should
be in the mail in about a week.
Unlike the county, the city
taxes are due Feb. 20.
The city tax books are open,
the spokesman said, and a
person wishing to pay his taxes
now, even though he has not
received a notice, may do so by
coming by the city hall.
This will help people who
Booze raids made
State Revenue agents and
local police raided several
Griffin residences over the
weekend and confiscated large
quantities of taxpaid and non
taxpaid whisky.
Four raids were made Friday
night. Forty-two half pint
bottles of taxpaid gin were
found at the home of Douglas
Bevins, 420 Raybon street.
A quart of moonshine and a
gallon of Vodka were con
fiscated from the home of Oscar
Love, Sr., 411 West Oak street.
A raid on Boyd row at the home
of Annie Mae Brawner netted 49
half pints of assorted taxpaid
whisky including vodka, scotch
and gin.
About five quarters of taxpaid
whisky also was found at the
home of A. C. Andrews, 412
Raybon street.
Andrews’ house was raided a
second time Sunday night when
still more taxpaid whisky was
confiscated. Officers also
raided the home of Emmett
Smikes, 603 Circus street,
Sunday where a quantity of
moonshine was found.
Mattie Mae Brown of 424
Collins street was arrested
Saturday when officers raided
her home and found illegal
whisky.
All of the confiscated whisky
was taken to the evidence room
at the police station and will be
turned over to the State
Revenue Department.
Making the raids were State
Revenue Agents Bobby Imes
and Randall Johnson, Public
Safety director Leonard Pitts,
Words fly on budget
ATLANTA (UPI)-Gov. Jim
my Carter apparently is going
to have a fight on his hands if
he drops the SSO million proper
ty tax relief and bars pay rais-
Miller quits
parole post
to seek office
ATLANTA (UPI) - Zell Mil
ler today announced his resigna
tion from the State Pardons
and Paroles Board to run for
lieutenant governor next year.
Miller, whose resignation be
comes effective Dec. 31, said he
hopes to draw support from
backers of both Gov. Jimmy
Carter and Lt. Gov. Lester
Maddox.
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want to get their dty taxes paid
before the end of the year for
income tax deduction purposes.
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tonight in mid 20s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:40, sunset
tomorrow 5:30.
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Whidby and Agent Terry
Belvin, Lt. David Sherwood,
Sgt. Herman Parker and Of
ficers Dean Ray, D. J. Stewart,
Wally Brown, Ricky Careker,
Mark Foster, J. C. Jett, Earl
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to his parked jetliner during an attack at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport. In front of
them one injured passenger lied in his blood on the tarmac. (UPI)
es for teachers and other state
employes as planned.
“If this General Assembly
fails to continue the ad valorem
tax relief, we would be, in ef
fect, voting to increase property
taxes by SSO million,” Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox said Sunday.
“The state can continue to do
it. If we do not, local govern
ments will have no choice but
to raise taxes.”
“We would have to take a
good, long hard look at the gov
ernor’s proposal,” House Ma
jority Leader George Busbee
said. “If he takes the SSO mil
lion out, we probably will put it
right back.”
The key man in the upcoming
battle of the budget, however,
was a bit more cautious. House
Appropriations Chairman
James “Sloppy” Floyd, who did
not think much of the tax relief
plan in the first place, said he
would rather see it carried out
in a different manner. He
favors, as did the late Speaker
George L. Smith, the state
taking over more of the expense
of public education, thereby
enabling local governments to
cut back on property taxes. But
he figures money is going to be
so tight, there’s no telling now
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France plane) burns after Arab guerrillas bombed it at
just what can be done.
Floyd hopes to see Carter’s
proposed fiscal 1975 budget this
week, but he already has heard
that the governor wants to cut
back $44 million. Floyd says
Carter had better look first to
trimming the current budget.
“I have already urged the
governor to end all unnecessary
state spending,” Floyd said. “I
would imagine if he doesn’t cut
his supplemental budget re
quests, the General Assembly
will.”
Maddox, the presiding officer
in the Senate agrees and adds,
“He could cut back $25 to S4O
million from the present fiscal
budget and get almost enough
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there to take care of ad valor
em tax relief.”
Maddox and Bubsee, who
probably will oppose each other
in next year’s Democratic gu
bernatorial battle, both insist
state employes should get pay
raises, money crunch or no.
Busbee said the cost of living
increase sought for teachers
“will be my No. 1 priority.”
“It doesn’t make sense,” says
Maddox, to raise salaries for
state officials, yet deny raises
for other state employes.
Floyd said raises would be
meted out “if we possibly can,”
but he said he would rather see
every state employe get some
thing, not just teachers.
Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport.
Guerrillas
destroy jet
ROME (UPI) — At least 21
persons were killed in the Arab
guerrilla attack at Rome’s
Leonardo da Vinci International
Airport, Pan American World
Airways said today.
ROME (UPI) — Arab guerril
las destroyed a Pan American
jetliner in a grenade attack at
Leonardo da Vinci international
airport today, herded a group
of hostages at machinegun
point into a West German
Lufthansa aircraft and forced it
to take off for Beirut.
Airport and fire officials said
as many as 15 passengers may
have been burned to death
inside the bombed Pan Am
plane. Pan American officials
said “it is not inconceivable”
that between 30 and 40
passengers were burned fatally.
Lufthansa said later the
seized jet radioed it was headed
for Beirut.
A Lufthansa spokesman said
there were no passengers
aboard the hijacked plane. The
hostages included the plane
crew and several airport
employes.
The sequence that led to the
hijacking began when security
guards caught several Arabs
trying to take guns concealed in
their luggage aboard a depart
ing plane.
The Arabs began shooting
wildly inside the departure
lounge and grabbed several
hostages. Airport officials said
at least six of the hostages
were members of the public
security force at the airport.
One of the dead was shot in
the back as he was walking
down the stairs from the
Lufthansa plane which the
guerrillas comandeered, airport
officials said.
One wounded passenger lay
in his own blood only a few feet
away.
Airport and police officials
said a grenade or explosive
device went off aboard the Pan
Am 707, which was preparing
for takeoff for Beirut. Flames
billowed from the plane. All of
the guerrillas then converged
on the Lufthansa plane which
was preparing for a delayed
takeoff on a Rome-Munich
flight.
Police cordoned off the
airport and interrupted all
communications. Ambulances
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ran relay services, taking
wounded to hospitals in Rome,
18 miles away.
Witnesses said the sound of
gunfire broke out shortly before
1 p.m. and people ran from the
building shouting, “It’s a
bomb! It’s a bomb!”
A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
employe said he was standing
at a nearby arrival gate when
he saw security agents in the
act of discovering weapons in
the luggage of a group of Arab
passengers.
The Arabs grabbed the
weapons and started shooting
wildly inside the departure
area, the witness said. Passen
gers, some screaming and
weeping, dived for cover, he
said.
The Arabs shot plate glass
doors to pieces and fled down a
departure ramp with at least
six hostages.
The attack came on the
opening day of a trial of five
Arabs arrested last Sept. s—the
first anniversary of the Munich
Olympic Massacre—in posses
sion of two missile launchers.
Police accused the five of
plotting to shoot down an
Israeli El Al jet as it
approached the Rome airport.
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