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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, January 16,1975
General Assembly
Prison measure
gets first push
By WILLIAM COTTERELL
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
George Busbee’s emergency
$4.6 million prison-construction
bill was poised in the House of
Representatives today to
become the major bill of 1975
clearing either chamber of the
Georgia General Assembly.
With approval by the House
Appropriations Committee Wed
nesday, the proposal was
scheduled to graduate to the
Senate today. The Senate
Appropriations Committee has
been similarly friendly to the
plan in joint sessions of the two
panels, but as an appropria
tions measure the Georgia
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Constitution specifies that it
must originate in the House.
The prisons package, intend
ed for clearance in the first two
weeks of the session that
started last Monday, recom
mends spending $2.29 million in
new funds and the transfer of
$2.3 million already allocated
for the Atlanta Correctional
Center.
In making his pitch for the
funds in pre-session budget
work by the two appropriations
committees, Busbee and Dr.
Allen Ault, head of the state
prisons system, said the jails
are critically crowded already.
Busbee said about 12,000
inmates will be housed this
year in a system intended for
7,500.
House Appropriations Chair
man Joe Frank Harris said
Wednesday he anticipated no
problems steering the bill
through the House.
The prison appropriation will
provide for two additional
wings at the Columbus and
Macon correctional institutes
and for an additional dormitory
at the women’s prison in
Milledgevile.
It also includes funds to
repair and renovate the Kemp
er Building at Central State
Hospital in Milledgeville, meet
rising food costs, hire addition
al personnel, make prison
repairs and acquire land for a
Chatham County correctional
facility.
The special prison appropria
tion was introduced on the first
day of the session Monday, but
did not then specify amounts of
each allocation.
In another prison-related bill,
the House was asked today to
prescribe 99-year prison sent
ences for capital felons sen
tenced to life in prison, with a
minimum 33-year requirement
for parole.
The Senate was asked to
grapple with the “lovebug”
problem in southwest Georgia
by making a plea to Congress
for U.S. Department of Agricul
ture help in eradicating the
tandem pests now swarming at
radiator-to-windshield height
across many highways.
Republican Rep. R. T.
Phillips of Stone Mountain
introduced the two bills dealing
with life sentences, the first
specifying the 99-year definition
of life imprisonment and the
second requiring a minimum 33
years served prior to parole.
During the routine assign
ment of bills to various
committees in the morning
House session, Rep. George
Petro, R-Atlanta, proposed a
bill to make it illegal for any
bank, loan company or other
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on the basis of sex in extending
credit.
Sen. Mell Traylor of Pem-|
broke drew up the anti-lovebug
resolution, asking the full
Senate to join him in petitioning
Congress for a federal eradica
tion program. Traylor said
Wednesday that he appealed to
Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, D-
Ga., but got back only a curt
letter from a Talmadge aide
saying he asked Agriculture
Secretary Earl Butz to look into
the possibility of research to
stamp out the menacing insect.
That insect is called “the
lovebug” for its mating habits,
which involve flying in tandem
over highways.
Traylor said Sens. Frank
Eldridge Jr. of Waycross and
Loyce W. Turner of Valdosta
had agreed to co-sponsor his
resolution to Congress.
Miller thinks
ERA measure
has good chance
ATLANTA (UPI) - Lt. Gov.
Zell Miller thinks the Equal
Rights Amendment has good
chances of being passed in the
Senate this session, but anti-
ERA forces are getting their
licks in early anyway.
Some 150 opponents of the
controversial ERA filled the
galleries of the Capitol Wednes
day, lobbying against what one
opponent called “this awful
amendment.”
The ERA, which states that
“equality of rights under the
law shall not be denied or
abriged by the United States or
by any state on account of
sex,” was rejected in the House
last year by a vote of 104-70.
Mrs. John Dunaway, a
spokesman for STOP ERA, said
her group would concentrate on
the Senate, where the amend
ment is expected to be
introduced first this session.
Miller, who presides over the
Senate and supports the amend
ment, said the prospects look
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ATLANTA—Governor George Busbee and his newly
appointed executive staff is shown after the Governor
administered each their oath of office. They are (1-r)
good, “although there is cer
tainly going to be a strong
fight.”
“I think most everybody
knows my position already,”
Miller said. “Certainly I’ll be
talking to the senators about it,
but at the same time I want a
fair hearing and for all sides to
be heard.”
Miller said the proponents
and opponents of the ERA have
hurt their causes by over
zealous tactics in the past, and
he urged both groups to
coordinate their efforts in
lobbying with the legislature.
“I think there are some
people, individuals and groups,
who sincerely favor this bill,
but have repulsed legislators by
the tactics they’ve used,” he
said.
“Legislators should be con
tacted, certainly, but they
shouldn’t be harassed,” Miller
said. “The legislations flinch
when you mention the ERA —
not that they mind taking
controversial stands, they do
that everyday —but because of
the tactics used in the past by
both sides.”
Mrs. Dunaway said her group
does not intend to harass, but
“to enlighten the senators about
the facts of this awful
amendment.”
She said she believes the
ERA will lead to the breakdown
of the American home.
Sen. Virginia Shapard of
Griffin, the only female mem
ber of the Senate, said she has
been heavily lobbied by anti-
ERA groups because she
supports the measure.
“They haven’t given me any
new information,” she said.
Come
long
way
ATLANTA (UPI) — Beverly
Adams of Macon, a spokesman
for a group called STOP ERA
and wife of former state Sen.
Billy Adams, sent a letter to
President Ford Wednesday
condemning his stand in favor
of the Equal Rights Amend
ment.
“I assume since you support
the amendment that you
support all it will accomplish:
legalization of homosexual mar
riages, wholesale slaughter of
unborn babes at any month,
dissolution of all laws which
require a man to support his
wife and children, the drafting
and equal combat requirements
for women and young girls, a
‘unisex’ government and the
abolition of states’ rights in
areas concerning women,” she
said in the letter to Ford.
“I do agree with your wife,
‘you’ve come a long way,”’ she
said. “I disagree with her about
the direction.”
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