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No ‘break’ this year
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A high administration energy
official says President Nixon’s goal to “break the back of
the energy crisis” cannot be accomplished this year.
John Sawhill, deputy energy director, said Friday
“we’re still going to experience some shortages.
Controls have failed
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The President’s Council of
Economic Advisers said Friday wageprice controls have
failed. However, the council predicted the economy would
recover somewhat in the second half of this year.
Armies thinning out
Israeli military sources, optimistic that Egypt would
comply fully with the troop withdrawal pact, said today
the Egyptian 2nd and 3rd armies were thinning out on the
east bank of the Suez Canal.
Prepare for Nixon
LONDON (UPI) — Diplomats said today Soviet officials
are preparing for a visit by President Nixon to the Soviet
Union this spring or summer. The exact date is uncertain.
Washington sources said Nixon hopes to visit Europe and
possibly the Mideast sometime this spring.
Five-day lull ends
PHNOM PENH (UPI) — Communist-led Khmer Rouge
guerrillas fired a 100-shell barrage into Phnom Penh
today, ending a five-day lull in their artillery attack. At
least six persons were killed and 45 wounded, hospitals
and police sources reported.
Tax collections
up in Georgia
ATLANTA (UPI)-State Rev
enue Commissioner John Black
mon reported Friday that tax
collections in Georgia last
month were up 15.7 per cent
from January of last year.
Blackmon said the state col
lected $134,123,567 compared to
$115,902,065 for January, 1973.
He said net collections for the
first seven months of this fiscal
year were $808,035,908, an in
crease of 14.3 per cent over the
same period the previous fiscal
year.
Individual income tax collec
tions, which increased 29.9 per
cent to $29,150,209, showed the
highest jump as compared to
last January, 1973.
“Much of the increase in in
come tax was caused by faster
processing of returns,” Black
mon said. “Thus five to six mil
lion dollars of the increase re
ported this January does not re
flect growth.”
He said income tax collec
tions may decrease in the com
ing months, and that the outlook
for the rest of the fiscal year
was unpredictable.
Motor fuel collections for Jan-
Small part
DETROIT (UPI) — Natural
ist Euell Gibbons, a popular
authority on edible wild foods
since he began doing television
commercials for a breakfast
cereal, may have destroyed a
popular myth Friday.
Gibbons admitted over a
plate of bacon and eggs during
a visit to Detroit that wild foods
only play a small part in his
diet and that of his wife, Freda.
Murphy says House opposes daylight time
BREMEN, Ga. (UPl)—House
Speaker Tom Murphy, D-Brem
en, says the House members
will do “anything we can to do
away with Daylight Saving
Time.”
Murphy, at home during the
weekend adjournment of the
legislature, said, “The majority
of members are opposed to it.
(Daylight Saving Time).”
The time change, which was
made nationwide in January as
an energy conservation effort,
is responsible for many children
walking to school in early
uary were $18,384,144, down 2.3
per cent. Sales tax collections
were up 12.2 per cent to $50,242,-
561.
Corporate income tax collec
tions were $18,116,805, an in
crease of 27.2 per cent. Marta
collections were $4,132,896.
School
exemption
sought
ATLANTA (UPl)—Sen. Frank
Coggin, D-Hapeville, saying that
school systems “simply do not
have adequate funds” to meet
rising gasolinecosts, introduced
a proposal to exempt the sys
tems from the motor fuel tax.
Coggin said the Transporta
tion Department would lose
more money if the school sys
tems did not have to pay tax
on fuel bought exclusively for
school use, but “I think that
should be solved with general
revenue. The school problem
has to be dealt with.”
Currently, a seven and a half
cent state tax is paid on each
gallon of motor fuel.
Coggin released a list of 18
counties which reported a gas
price increase. The price range
went from 26.5 cents a gallon to
38.2 cents.
Based on figures of the 1972-
73 school year, DeKalb County,
which used 826,000 gallons of
gas, would save $61,950 if it did
not have to pay the tax. Cobb
County, using 800,000 gallons,
would save $60,000.
morning darkness.
It was blamed for the death
of an eight-year-old boy who
was struck down en route to
school Friday morning, becom
ing the first school child in
a traffic accident since the time
change.
Charles Gantt was killed when
a pickup truck struck him as he
darted across the street in a
north Atlanta suburba.
Gov. Jimmy Carter, who had
earlier asked the state legisla
ture to adopt a resolution ask
ing Congress to repeal DST,
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Supplemental spending
ATLANTA — House Majority Leader George Busbee, (D-Albany) reads supplemental
spending bill as J. M. (Pete) Hackney (r) of the Legislative Budget Analyst Office checks
his figures. The House later voted 165 to 1 in favor of the plan that included nearly $22-
million for state employees and teacher pay raises. (UPI)
Budget battle
Compromise is in the wind
ATLANTA (UPI) - Both
Gov. Jimmy Carter and the
House Appropriations Com
mittee are pleased with the
compromise worked out ■ last
week on the supplemental
budget for this fiscal year.
And both sides are hoping and
predicting guardedly that a sim
ilar compromise might be pos
sible on the big one, the fiscal
1975 budget, avoiding a long
court fight.
The House approved Friday
the supplemental budget, which
is enacted late in each fiscal
year after figures for state rev
enues and spending are more
complete and accurate. It is a
revision of the original budget.
The House cut sl4 million
from the 1974 appropriations for
the various state agencies, but
added about sl9 million bring
ing the total state spending this
fiscal year to $1,672 billion.
The legislators set aside $21.9
million to be carried over for
salary increases in the 1975
budget for state employes,
teachers and state highway
patrolment. Another S2O million
or $25 million will also be
needed, but leaders are con
fident they will be able to find it.
The compromise in the sup
plemental budget was two-fold.
The Department of Human Re
sources, Gov. Carter’s favorite
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, February 2, 1974
and also the one most criticized
lately by the legislature, lost
over $7 million. However, it was
given most, if not all, of the
money back, earmarked for
Medicaid, equipment for the 124
day care centers for the men
tally retarded and other pur
poses.
“We have most of our critical
needs met,” said Human Re
sources Director Richard Hard
en.
James “Sloppy” Floyd, D-
Trion, appropriations chairman,
and Majority Leader George
busbee, D-Albany, who are
heading up House study of the
supplemental and fiscal 1975
budgets, were able to set aside
money for the pay raises, their
“top priority.”
Busbee, buoyed by the supple
mentalbudget compromise, pre
dicted last week a similar give
and-take in work on the 1975
spending blueprint.
“I think we’re going to be
able to work out most differ
ences,” he said.
Right now, the differences are
formidable. Floyd, angered be
cause Harden set up area net
work human resources centers
last year even though the leg
islature had refused to fund the
program, has threatened to push
through a line item budget and
already is preparing it.
said in Atlanta that the accident
showed the “mistake that was
made in Washington in the last
couple of months...the loss of
one child obviously is not worth
any energy saving.”
In his message to both houses
of the General Assembly, Car
ter said he felt a joint legisla
tion “strongly endorsing” repeal
of DST might help spur
Congress into making the move.
After learning of the boy’s
death, the governor said that he
thought all of Georgia’s Con
gressional delegation would sup-
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port the action but added that
“the way Congress moves, the
sun may be back on regular
time first.”
Carter said he had talked with
18 governors about securing re
peal and a majority of them fa
vored the step.
He said switching to Central
Time would create more prob
lems and that repeal of DST
was the only answer. Some
school systems had changed
their hours, the governor said,
but that also created problems
for working parents.
Funds would be appropriated
not in large sums to be admin
istered as the department heads
believe to be best, but in “line
items,” for specific purposes to
be determined by the legisla
ture.
Carter has argued the legisla
ture would be violating the
authority of the executive
branch and threatened to go to
court Attorney General Arthur
Bolton has advised the House
and Senate to hire legal counsel
and be ready for a long, legal
struggle.
Carter said Friday he is
pleased with what was worked
out for the supplemental bud
get, but “I still have concerns”
over the upcoming budget work.
“We’re pursuing every possi
bility of avoiding a really dam
aging confrontation,” Carter
said. “We’re trying to work out
solutions to the problems.”
He met with House leaders
twice last week onfinancial mat
ters and also met with his de
partment heads twice.
Speaker Tom Murphy, D-Bre
men, said no further meetings
with Carter have been set, but
did not rule them out Murphy
believes some kind of settle
ment can be achieved.
“From our conversations with
the governor, and from the
comments of members of the
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Winds delay
balloon rally
High winds aloft this morning
delayed one of two balloon
events scheduled here today.
Semco Balloon of Griffin said
balloonists would play the
weather situation by ear and
make a decision around noon as
to whether to have an event this
afternoon.
If the weather clears enough
for balloon flying, Semco said it
probably would have the chase
event scheduled to be lauched
from the Griffin-Spalding
airport. Starting time was in
definite.
The weather forecast for
tomorrow looks more promising
for balloon flying, a Semco
spokesman said.
If weather permits, the
balloonists might attempt the
flights from the top of the
Commercial Bank downtown
parking building sometime
tomorrow morning.
Some 15 balloon pilots were
here this morning for the rally.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
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72, low yesterday 42, high
tomorrow in mid 60’s, low
tonight near 60. Sunrise
tomorrow 8:36, sunset
tomorrow 7:07.
House committee, I don’t anti
cipate a great deal of hassle,”
Murphy said.
There will be some line item
ing, he said, “More than there
has been.”
“I think we’ll go back to
where we were about three
years ago, before the zero base
budget.”
The legislature has line item
ed some appropriations for
years with no loud outcry from
administrators and little real
affect on agency programs.
Floyd remains the most in
transigent on line iteming, at
least outwardly, quipping he is
ready for a court fight and that
the governor had better be
ready.
But he did agree to major re
quests by the human resources
department in the supplemental
budget after blasting Harden al
most daily during the commit
tee hearings.
Restoration
Sens. Herman Talmadge and
Sam Nunn announced the,
American Revolution bi
centennial organization had
approved a $5,000 grant to the
Griffin Historical and
Preservation Society for
restoration of the Lewis-Mills
home on North Hill street.
The society has a restoration
project for the home under way
and a fund raising campaign is
being planned to help finance it.
Considering
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Jacob Javits, R-N. Y., is consid
ering a limit on the amount of
contributions he will allow an
individual to give to his re
election campaign.
“My belief is that I will,
when I announce (the candida
cy for re-election) or shortly
thereafter, establish some limi
tations,” Javits said Friday.
He estimated his campaign
might cost as much as $1.5
million.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield just prior to his response to President Nixon’s
State of the Union message. Speaking in behalf of
Congressional Democrats, Mansfield said Congress will
press to the end its inquiry into President Nixon’s possible
impeachment and the Watergate scandal. (UPI)
Mansfield says
impeach vote
could be this year
WASHINGTON (UPI) - De
claring “a solemn and urgent
obligation” by Congress to
clean up campaign financing in
1974, Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield is confident a
House vote on impeaching
President Nixon could come
this year.
In a nationally broadcast
response to Nixon’s State of the
Union address, on behalf of
congressional Democrats,
Mansfield said Friday night
“the question of impeachment
and the matters of the
Watergate hearings create on
erous responsibilities for the
Congress.
“They are also inescapable
responsibilities,” he said.
“They have had to be assumed
in order to cleanse the political
process of this nation.”
He urged Nixon to support
efforts to “clean up the
campaign financing mess.”
Nixon Wednesday night told
Congress, “One year of Water
gate is enough.”
Resignation Question Settled
In a question-and-answer
session with reporters after his
speech, Mansfield said a House
impeachment vote could come
within a few months, but that a
Senate trial, if Nixon was
impeached, could extend into
next year.
He said the question of
Nixon’s resignation was settled
by the President’s rejection of
such action Wednesday, and
that criminal aspects of Water
gate were for the courts to
decide. “Whether it is months
or years” he said, “there are
no judicial shortcuts.”
The government must “excise
Watergate” because the Ameri
can people do not want their
country run “by the whim or
the will of the most powerful
and influential,” said Mans
field.
“It is incumbent on us to
foreclose an excessive intrusion
of great wealth, whether
corporate, labor, personal or
whatever, into the electoral
process,” the 70-year-old Senate
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leader said. “That is a solemn
and urgent obligation.
“If it was in 1972 that
Watergate arose, and in 1973 it
was investigated, may it be
said that it was in 1974 that the
matter was finally ended in a
new system of open elections,
openly paid for.”
On other subjects, Mansfield
said:
Budget Will Be Cut
—Congress will give “full and
cooperative consideration” to
the President’s 1974 legislative
package. But he predicted the
$304.4 billion budget would be
cut and Congress will concen
trate on tax reform, national
health insurance, housing aid,
pension reform, minimum
wage, education, no-fault auto
insurance and federal cam
paign financing.
—Nixon should not hesitate to
ration gasoline, and has au
thority under a 1950 law to do
so now.
—He favors televising both
the House Judiciary Committee
hearings and any Senate trial.
—There should be some kind
of committee composed of
members of the executive and
legislative branches and busi
nessmen to deal with problems
created by the energy shortage.
—Congress can best help heal
the crisis of confidence in
government by acting and
moving decisively on the major
problems. He said he does not
blame the public for feeling
“cynicism, pessimism and
questioning” over the perfor
mance of government.
“I’d rather we could
transform folks than control
them — but a little control
might not hurt while we’re at
the transformation.”