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DEARBORN, Mich. — Mayor Orville Hubbard (c), who has been the chief executive of
Dearborn for 33 years — longer than any other mayor in the nation — pats Jim Dick (1) of
Dearborns’s Public Works Department on the stomach after Dick slimmed down 14 pounds
to 216 during staff weigh-in. Hubbard, who was the biggest weight loser, shedding 17 pounds,
had decreed earlier that everyone of his over-weight staff must lose weight or face
suspension. (UPI)
Mayor orders plumps
to stay hungry
DEARBORN, Mich. (UPI) — Nineteen
plump city officials who passed Mayor
Orville L. Hubbard’s weight test Tuesday
got some bad news today.
“We will continue to weigh in every from
now on,” Hubbard decreed.
“If you stay hungry,” he said, “you’ll be
more ambitious.”
Hubbard’s order came after heads of all
19 municipal offices stepped on scales
before taking their oaths of office—as
Hubbard instructed earlier this month.
Collectively, the 19 department heads
lost 172 pounds.
Earlier, in keeping with a campaign
promise, the 5-foot-ll Hubbard lost 10
pounds before starting his 33rd
consecutive year in office. He still weighs
266 pounds.
“I didn’t do anything dramatic,” said
Jim Dick, who heads the city’s
Department of Public Works and who lost
14 pounds. “I just cut out sweets, butter
and potatoes.”
The 70-year-old Hubbard, long a
controversial and colorful figure in
Michigan politics, said he got the idea
from a magazine article on corporate
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Enough heating oil
WASHINGTON (UPI) — There will be enough heating
oil too go around this winter, according to federal
officials, provided it does not get too cold and most
Americans turn down their thermostats.
Two persons drown
Two persons drowned and a third person was missing
and presumed drowned in southern Oregon as warm rains
lashed the Pacific Northwest today, causing much
flooding. Helicopters were put into use and the Arm Corps
of Engineers send teams to the Klamath, Smith, Eel and
Russian rivers in north California.
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physical fitness.
Hubbard threatened to suspend all
overweight officials, because, he said,
plump executives would drowse at their
desks and if they drank even one beer at
lunch they might fall asleep.
The closest call Tuesday came for
Maureen Keene of the city’s service
bureau, who said she was two pounds over
her goal when she went to bed. But when
she stepped on the scale, she was two
pounds under her goal.
“You can’t imagine the response we’ve
received,” Hubbard said. “Diet
suggestions were sent from Paris, Hong
Kong and West Germany by people who
wanted to help.”
Hubbard himself stayed pretty much on
a rice diet and said he intends to lose
another 58 pounds.
Despite his controversial policies,
Hubbard enjoys a solid support in this
Detroit suburb of 104,500. He captured 82
per cent of the vote last November, when
he won his 15th consecutive term.
That length of unbroken service is a
record for a major American city.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
70, low today 54, high yesterday
60, low yesterday 32, high
tomorrow near 70, low tonight in
lower 50’s. Sunrise tomorrow
8:44, sunset tomorrow 6:51.
Floyd sees chance for tax relief bill
ATLANTA (UPI)-A S7B mil
lion dollar “tax relief” plan
moved swiftly to the House to
day with many legislators ask
ing whCTe the money will come
from.
But the man who should know
—House Appropriations Chair
man James “Sloppy” Floyd —
seems pretty sure it can be fi
nanced. Tight budget or not,
Floyd thinks there is enough for
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, January 16, 1974
New building
Library board works
to meet deadline
The Flint River Regional
Library board is working
against a Saturday deadline in
efforts to negotiate a building
contract for a new library.
Library board represen
tatives discussed their
problems with the Griffin City
Commissioners yesterday.
They plan to talk with the
Rep. Brown
optimistic
on center
A tight state budget facing
this legislature may call for
some new tactics, but Griffin
Rep. Clayton Brown Jr., knows
how to play the game.
In a interview today, Rep.
Brown said that he will attempt
to join with other legislators in
gaining approval of $600,000 in
funds for construction of a
juvenile detention center in
Griffin.
The center would serve a
multi-county area, Rep. Brown
said.
After meeting with state
budget and appropriations com
mittee officials, Rep. Brown
added that he has decided to try
and get the project financed
through state bond monies.
“I doubt that we could get the
money from anticipated
revenues,” Griffin’s senior
representative said.
Brown said he has not yet
been before the House or Senate
appropriations committees with
his proposal.
“I have talked with (James)
“Sloppy” Floyd about this, and
several other of the powers that
be,” he explained.
If bond money is approved for
the construction of the center,
capital bonds would be sold to
raise the money.
“There would be no necessity
of passing new bonds for this
project,” Rep. Brown said.
Even if the item is included in
the appropriations package,
and passed by both houses, one
obsticle would still stand in the
way of the funding.
Gov. Jimmy Carter has ex
pressed his opposition to
building additional juvenile
centers, through the newly
organized State Department of
Human Resources.
Georgia governors may use a
special item veto to restrain
certain parts of a bill, while
signing other parts into law.
Carter could veto any part of
the appropriations bill without
sending the entire bill back to
the General Assembly.
“If I get it (the bill) through
(both houses), then I will go and
ask the governor not to veto it,
by showing him the reasons that
we need such a center,” Rep.
Brown said.
He remains optimistic for the
bill’s passage.
the plan and for cost-of-living
raises for all state employes,
including teachers.
“I know where I think we can
find $25 to S4O million—a mini
mum of $25 million—in the cur
rent budget,” said Floyd. “I’m
real astonished he (Gov. Jimmy
Carter) didn’t cut it out.”
After lengthy debate Tuesday,
the Senate approved a plan
38-17 by which the state would
Spalding County Com
missioners this week, too.
The library board wanted to
bring the city and county up to
date on progress toward a
building contract and see if the
local governing bodies can
assist in helping to get the
library constructed.
Newton Coal and Lumber
Company of Griffin was low
bidder with a quote of $822,500.
This was about 25 percent
higher than the library board
had allowed, even with a built in
inflation factor.
The library board working
with the low bidder and ar
chitect is seeking ways to trim
costs so a contract can be let.
The deadline for accepting
the Newton Coal bid is Satur
day.
The library board hopes to
work something out before then.
Gasoline
picture
brighter
WASHINGTON (UPI) - If
American drivers continue to
save gasoline and if domestic
refining holds up, the nation
can get through its energy
pinch without rationing gas
oline, federal officials said
today.
Not only this, they said, but
there will be enough heating oil
to go around this winter unless
the weather turns unusually
severe, and provided that most
Americans keep thermostats 6
degrees lower than last winter.
The officials said it is likely
the final decision on gasoline
rationing will not have to be
made until summer brings peak
demand.
John C. Sawhill, deputy
director of the Federal Energy
Office, outlined more details
today of a standby rationing
system, to be put into effect
only if and when needed.
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6,000 miles to avoid
wasting gasoline.
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assume virtually all of the cost
of public education which local
governments now pay, mostly
through property taxes. Tied in
with the proposal is a manda
tory property tax reduction.
If each school district agreed
to trim ad valorem taxes used
to pay for their share of the
basic minimum foundation pro
gram—not counting the “ex
tras” that large systems finance
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Double take
Janie Howie (1) and Bonnie Bonds did this “double take” as they practiced for a number in
“The Nutcracker.” It will be presented Saturday night at the Griffin High auditorium
beginning at 8 o’clock by the Griffin Civic Ballet.
City fire losses total
$65,628 last year
Fire losses in the city of
Griffin last year totaled $65,628.
The 365 alarms answered
during the year was 3.18 per
cent less than the previous
year’s 377 alarms.
These and other figures are
included in the annual report on
the Griffin Fire Department
from Leonard Pitts, Public
Safety Director.
A breakdown of the loss total
shows $31,370 for buildings;
$18,443 for contents and $15,815
in uninsured losses.
The value of the buildings and
contents involved in alarms was
listed at $6,062,450 and in-
through additional taxes —it
would cost the state S7B million.
There is apparently strong
sentiment for the idea in the
House where former Speaker
George L. Smith once backed a
similar proposal.
In other matters Tuesday,
Carter said Lt. Gov. Lester
Maddox’s move sending the
governor’s ethics bill to the
Committee on Economy, Reor-
surance on them was listed at
$5,571,650.
The firemen traveled 913.3
miles in answering alarms and
used 24,450 gallons of water in
fighting blazes.
The Fourth Ward had the
highest number of alarms with
106 and First Ward was second
with 103. Second Ward had 75,
Third Ward had 77 and four
alarms were answered outside
the city.
Seventy-six fires were listed
as cause undetermined.
Heaters, stoves, dryers, fur
naces, fire places and chimneys
ganization and Efficiency in
Government (EREG) was an
attempt to smother the pro
posal.
Sen. Culer Kidd, D-Milledge
ville, chairman of the EREG
committee and a longtime foe
of Carter, said “I would expect
such an asinine statement from
a governor who can’t be practi
cal or honest with the legisla
ture or the people.”
Inside Tip
Trial
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led the cause list with 37. Close
behind were defective car
buretors and fuel pumps with
35.
The department had three
arson or suspected arsons. Four
fires were blamed on
cigarettes.
There was a 29.41 per cent
decrease in false alarms last
year and a 26.98 per cent
decrease in non-residential and
business alarms.
The fire loss per person in the
city last year was $2.73 com
pared with $6.12 the year
before.
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“Education won’t make folks
more virtuous — just smarter
and richer.”