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Knowles at Milledgeville
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.—Former Florida convict Paul Knowles is led to the Milledgeville
courthouse where a hearing date was set for Monday on murder charges of Carswell Carr
and his 15-year-old daughter, Mandy. Knowles is suspect in kidnapping a Florida Highway
trooper and a man from Wilmington, De. See story, page 7. (UPI) Story page 7.
Pike school tax
is 14.67 mills
The 1974 Pike County tax
digest recently was approved
'by the State Department of
Revenue.
A 13-percent factor was
imposed by the state to bring
• the digest up to the 40-percent
acceptable level.
Due to the increased net
• digest, it was possible for the
Pike County Board of Education
to set the 1974-75 school millage
rate at 14.67 mills.
This is a reduction of ap
proximately six mills from the
1973-74 rate of 20 mills.
• The 40-percent net digest was
assessed at $26,814,298.
It was explained that the
, $26,814,298 is the total against
which the county can apply
millage to raise money for
Juvenile court gets tough
on staying out of school
A special session of Spalding
Juvenile Court was heM yester-
• day to take action on 14 students
who have not been attending
school.
Fourteen were subpoenaed
’ and three did not show up. They
will be picked up by authorities.
The remaining 11 were placed
, on probation and warned that
* any violation of the probation
would mean a revocation and
that they would be declared
• delinquent.
If it is determined that their
absences from school is a
parental problem, then
* warrants will be issued for their
operating the county govern
ment and schools.
(Each mill is one-tenth of one
cent and will raise $1 of tax for
each SIOO assessed value on
property.)
“Citizens may figure his
approximate tax for schools by
multiplying 14.67 mills times his
40-percent property assess
ment.
“For example, if a tax payer
had a $15,000 property assess
ment the school tax would be
$220.05,” the Board of Educa
tion explained.
The Board of Education said
that state and local audits have
determined that the board has
responsibily used all money
received in a lawful manner as
did the four local schools.
parents.
Some of the students had been
absent more than 30 days.
A spokesman at the juvenile
office said some of the parents
were shocked to learn their
children had been absent so
much.
Judge Tom Lewis also
presided in a special session of
the court held Tuesday.
Juvenile Court Judge Andrew
Whalen, Jr., is recovering from
surgery.
Three boys, a 13 and two 15-
year-olds were committed to
the Department of Human
Resources and sent to training
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The Pike Board of Education
has passed a policy requiring all
purchases which total SIOO or
more to be placed on a bid
program. “This assures tax
payers that their tax dollar will
be spent effectively,” a spokes
man said.
The school system also enters
into consolidated purchasing
with several surrounding school
systems through CESA in order
to obtain the lowest price possi
ble on large items such as buses
and other equipment.
Pike citizens were invited to
the superintendent’s office for
an explanation of the school
system’s financial matters and
curriculum.
The board meets the second
Tuesday of each month and the
meetings are open to the public.
schools for robbery by intimida
tion at Spalding Junior High
School.
One of the 15-year-olds was
accused of writing threatening
letters, demanding money,
from another student.
The others were charged with
demanding money from
students. They also took a
watch from a student and a
cigaret lighter from another.
A 16-year-old boy was placed
on probation and ordered to
make restitution of $l5O to the
owner of a motorcycle and mini
bike he and some older boys
stole.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, November 21,1974
Atlanta-Macon fare
might be $7 to sl3
The one way fare on a rapid
transit system between Atlanta
and Macon probably would
range between $7 and sl3,
provided an average of 3,000
passengers used the service
daily.
That was one of the estimates
made during a public hearing in
Griffin this morning as a study
of a possible transit system
continued.
The session opened at 10 a.m.
at the Civil Defense building
with some 26 people attending.
A rapid transit link between
the two cities might be con
structed to serve Griffin.
Cost estimates of the system
ranged from $l5O-million to
S2OO-million.
The systems under study
include a bus service on 1-75
between the two cities, a rapid
rail system on Southern-Central
tracks already in use; a new
rail route and others.
Southern Railway people at
the hearing didn’t seem to favor
using the present Southern-
Central tracks already in place.
They pointed out that there is a
heavy schedule of freight traffic
already on the rails.
Some conversion that would
be necessary to adapt the tracks
for rapid rail transit also would
cause problems, the Southern
Railway people observed.
Allen Douglas of Southern
Railway said he didn’t believe
using the tracks for rapid
transit was feasible.
An attorney told the session
that new legislation would be
required to provide the rapid
transit systems under study.
The session here was one of
several being held to look into
the possibility of a rapid transit
link between the two Georgia
cities.
“To escape boredom folks
need some surprises in their
lives — even painful ones.”
A 1,3-year-old boy was com
mitted to a detention home for
threatening to kill a member of
his family, not attending school
and having a poor attitude and
being a behavior problem at
school.
A girl, 13, was placed on
probation for driving without a
license.
A boy, 15, was sent to a
detention home for burglarizing
a house and stealing a small
amount of money.
A 15-year-old boy was placed
on probation and ordered to
attend drug classes for possess
ing marijuana.
Rapid transit hearing
Prices
keep
going up
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Higher prices for food, cars and
housing raised the Consumer
Price Index by 0.9 per cent on
an adjusted basis in October,
the Labor Department said
today.
Consumer prices have risen
12.2 per cent over the past 12
months, three times faster than
the 1970-71 inflation that lead to
wage price controls.
Spendable income for work
ers after adjustment for infla
tion and higher payroll taxes
continued to erode in October,
the department said.
Real spendable income was
down 0.3 per cent from
September, despite pay raises
and was down 4.9 per cent from
October, 1973.
The Labor Department said
the October rise in the CPI was
led by an increase in food
prices, which traditionally de
cline in the month. Sharply
higher prices for sugar, cereal
and bakery products offset
declines in meats to send the
food segment of the index up
1.3 per cent.
Prices for eggs, soft drinks,
convenience foods, peanut but
ter and other fat and oil
products also increased in
October, although not so
rapidly as sugar and grain
products.
Cars also accounted for a
major portion of the increase,
the department said, because of
higher sticker prices for new
cars and unusually high resale
value of used cars.
The cost of buying a home
also continued to rise last
month because of interest rates
in the 9 per cent range. And
furnishings for new homes such
as ranges, refrigerators and
other appliances also went up.
The rise in interest rates for
new homes accounted for 40 per
cent of the increase in the
services sector of the CPI.
The department said rents,
utilities, costs for home im
provements and repairs also
increased in October.
A 16-year-old boy was placed
on probation for simple battery.
His mother and a neighbor were
fighting and he tried to help his
mother by hitting the other
woman on the head with a base
ball bat.
Two boys, 13 and 15, and a
girl, 14, were committed to the
Department of Human
Resources for skipping school
and violating probation. They
will be under the supervision of
the Spalding Community Treat
ment Center. They were placed
on probation in May and
violated that probation bwiot
attending school this
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KYOTO, Japan—Two Japanese women watch as President Ford uses chop sticks while
eating at a local restaurant during his visit to Japan’s old imperial capital. (UPI)
Ford sees first
tour protesters
KYOTO (UPI) — President
Ford encountered the first
protest demonstrations of his
state visit to Japan today while
touring ancient landmarks in
this former imperial capital,
now is a hotbed of Japanese
communism.
The President, accompanied
by Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger, heard shouts of
“Fuodo kaere” (Ford go home)
from groups of hecklers as he
drove in his White House
limousine for a visit to the old
Imperial Palace.
But thousands of other
Japanese lining the streets of
Kyoto, 300 miles southeast of
Tokyo, cheered the President.
Aides said Ford was “having a
wonderful time” sightseeing on
the eve of his departure for
South Korea.
Ford said farewell to Emper
or Hirohito in Tokyo this
morning, wrapping up the two
day official portion of his
Japanese visit, and flew aboard
Air Force One to Osaka. He
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HOPPING MAD, members of Britain’s Population Action Group demonstrate before
Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s residence in London to protest “poor public educa
tion surrounding birth control.” The group submitted a letter to the PM warning that
the world’s population will double within 30 years unless more effective birth control
methods are immediately put into use.
transferred there to a helicopt
er for the 17-mile trip to Kyoto.
After a quick lunch in his
SSOO a day suite in the Miyako
Hotel, Ford set out for a full
afternoon of touring this an
cient city which gives all the
appearances of having locked
the 20th century outside its
palaces, temples and gardens.
Small demonstrations were
mounted around the old Imperi
al Palace and at the Nijo
Castle, built in 1603.
Both the protest demonstra
tions and the flag-waving
welcome to Kyoto by thousands
of Japanese clad in kimonos
and other traditional forms of
dress were the first contact
Ford has had with large
numbers of the Japanese
public.
Even the bellboys grinned
and applauded when Ford
i arrived at his hotel.
The President did not see a
single demonstrator during his
stay in Tokyo, first stop on a
historic Far East tour.
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Heavy security prevailed
everywhere Ford went in Tokyo
and the President drove for the
most part through virtually
empty streets there.
“He’s having a wonderful
time,” White House Press
Secretary Ron Nessen told
reporters. He said Ford had
made no comment about the
demonstrators and was not
upset by the scattered protests.
Kyoto, 300 miles southeast of
Tokyo, was founded in the Bth
Century and was Japan’s
imperial capital until 1897.
It is dotted with Shinto and
Buddhist shrines and more
closely resembles the Japan of
story books than part of one of
the world’s great industrial
nations.
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