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Jim Burns
Jim Burns wins
top 4-H honor
Jim Burns, son of Dr. and
Mrs. R. E. Burns, has been
named the State 4-H Achieve
ment Winner.
A win in achievement is one of
Georgia’s ultimate 4-H honors.
Unlike other projects, which
require outstanding work in a
single area, the achievement
program calls for excellent
performance in all projects.
Jim is a six-year 4-H member.
Much of his time has been
devoted to the poultry project
and boasts a long string of local,
Mountie ‘tricks ’ in manual
OTTAWA (UPI) — The Mountie always gets his man —
even if it means using brainwashing, lies, deceit and
sexism, according to a training manual.
In a 39-page manual used by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police’s training branch in Ottawa, officers are
instructed to start questioning with everything that is
“legal and right.”
But if this fails, “I suggest the rules go out the window
and the interrogator must open up his bag of tricks,” the
manual says.
The manual was brought before the House of Commons
by an angry lawmaker Tuesday who demanded an
investigation, and a copy was obtained by UPI.
The booklet advises special handling depending on
whether suspects are fat, short, skinny —or female. When
interrogating women, the Mountie should first find out if
she has any children.
“After this, praise the child. Tell her bow good looking
the child is. Tell her it looks like her. Speak of her love for
the child.
“Women are emotional and an emotional approach is
the best approach to use on women. We use the emotion of
love, jealousy and fear.”
“We then slip into the ‘heaven and hell technique.’”
The manual says the “heaven and hell” method of
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, March 26, 1975
county and district honors.
Outside the poultry project,
Jim keeps himself busy with
other 4-H activities. He is
currently president of the
Spalding County 4-H Club
Council and an active Junior
leader of younger 4-H Club
members.
As a result of this win, Jim
will receive a trip to the State 4-
H Congress in Atlanta and will
represent Georgia at the
National 4-H Congress in
November.
GRIFFIN
City tables
liquor license
Griffin City Commissioners
voted last night to table an
application for a liquor license
for Holiday Inn. A church and
two citizens objected to the
license.
Ed Harris read an official
objection from the congregation
of the Crestview Baptist,
located near the motel.
George Cox reminded the
commissioners they already
had received his letter of objec
tion. Tommy Whaley told the
commissioners he objected.
No one spoke for the granting
of the license at the meeting last
night.
After discussion, Commiss
ioner Preston Bunn made a
motion that the matter be
tabled until more information
“You can be pretty sure a
man is good if all his enemies
are bad.”
brainwashing can be used on men as well as women.
“In this approach we let the subject have a look at hell,
but also offer him heaven in exchange, or as an alter
native.”
“The subject is interrogated at all hours, day or night.
He has been kept in isolation and has had most of his
clothes taken away from him.
“He is dressed in a sloppy pair of coveralls. He does not
use his own shoes but instead is given a pair of shoes too
large for him so that they slop about. There are no
shoelaces. He has no belt to hold up his pants.
“In the brainwashing technique, this is an assault on his
dignity.”
At this point, when the suspect “feels completely for
saken and forgotten and is at the lowest depths of
despair,” the booklet said, the police interrogator “offers
him a glimpse of heaven” by offering him coffee, a
cigarette, more comfortable quarters or an offer to speak
to bis friends or family.
The booklet says officers interrogating sex offenders
should use the “everybody’s doing it” method and tell the
suspect:
“Girls are the same way. It is just human nature, that’s
all. There is no doubt in my mind that she was asking for
it Nine times out of 10 they are to blame.”
could be gathered.
Charlie Vaughn told the com
missioners property owners
were willing to donate land if
the city would agree to accept a
street near the Griffin Lanes as
a city street.
He said he was authorized to
speak for the property owners.
The commissioners had
received a request to improve
the road. They said they
couldn’t do it now because it
was on private land.
The commissioners asked for
a letter from the property
owners confirming their offer to
give the property involved to
the city.
Glenn Reid, head of the
Griffin Chapter of N.A.A.C.P.,
objected to the city’s appoint
ment of Clarence Bush to the
Griffin Tech board. He said
Bush, an educator,. could not
represent the black community
on the board.
Mayor Louis Goldstein said
the appointment was a joint one
with the county and already had
been made. He said he would
provide Reid a copy of city
appointments so he could be
informed about vacancies
which will be filled in the future.
Goldstein said this information
was available to the public.
Reid commended the com
missioners for their work on the
recreation program and said he
hoped the county would see fit to
By WILLIAM COTTERELL
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Georgia General Assembly fin
ished its 1975 session today with
adoption of a record $1.96
billion state budget, including
$35 million worth of property
tax reduction, along with
landmark consumer protection,
political ethics and local sales
tax bills.
Gov. George Busbee sent the
weary lawmakers home with a
diplomatic “thank you” speech
he read in each chamber —
marking his first speaking
appearance ever in the Senate
—and the presiding officers
rapped their gavels to end the
session for good at 1:56 a.m.
Several of the 56 senators and
180 representatives threw fist
fuls of blue and pink bills and
amendment forms into the air
and a loud cheer went up as
Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller
and House Speaker Tom
Murphy, facing each other
about 100 yards apart through
the Capitol rotunda, proclaimed
the session adjourned “sine
die.”
As tradition dictates at every
day’s adjournment, both men
then ran from the rostrums and
took a bow at the foot of the
chamber, under a shower of
bills converted to confetti.
Daily Since 1872
continue to participate in the
joint program.
The commissioners also:
—Approved payment of
$20,704.11 to Paul W. Heard &
Co., for work on modification of
the water treatment plant.
—Approved payment of
$6,841.70 to Arthur Pew Con
struction Co. for work on the
sewerage system improvement
project.
—Approved payment of
$19,730.75 to Raymond J. Pitts
for work on the Potato Creek
interceptor.
—Approved purchase of radio
communications tower for the
Fire Department for $6,385.40.
Approved purchase of a new
base radio station for the Police
Department at a cost of
$2,998.78 to replace one that has
worn out.
—Extended for a year a
contract with Service Uniforms
for Fire and Police uniforms at
$403.15 each.
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Bloodmobile worker gets plaque
David Clements (third from left) was presented a plaque
In appreciation of his leadership in the local bloodmobile
program last year. Participating in the presentation were
(1-r) Tyndall McMillan, current chairman of the local
“We all were confronted by
the challenge of adopting the
largest budget in our state’s
history in a period of economic
despair, uncertainty and out
right fear,” Busbee told the
legislators.
“We could have taken the
easy course and simply main
tained the status quo while
sitting on our hands to keep
them from trembling,” he said.
“But we accepted the challenge
of continuing and expanding
our efforts in the fields of
education and economic deve
lopment —and we have met the
challenge without building in a
tax increase.”
Some major accomplishments
of the marathon final day of the
three-times-extended session in
cluded:
—The $1.96 billion budget,
which covers state expenses for
the fiscal year starting July 1.
It had been settled by a joint
conference committee Saturday
night, and the committee report
was adopted in both chambers
late Tuesday.
—The $35 million property
tax reduction plan —grudgingly
approved in the Senate —which
would give landowners sl7 to
SI,OOO in income tax credits for
the property taxes they pay.
—A 1 per cent local option
sales tax, to be levied by cities
and counties through a public
referendum. This complements
a 1 per cent local income tax
authorized last year, with local
governments allowed one or the
other, but not both.
—lmposition of campaign
spending limitations for politi
cal candidates —5900,000 in
races for governor, $350,000 for
other statewide officers —along
with requirements that all
contributions and expenditures
above slOl be reported to the
State and that records be kept
on every transaction.
—Creation of a fair business
practices act, with an adminis
trator to act as consumer
troubleshooter and a 15-mem
ber commission to weigh
complaints of unfair or decep
tive trade practices.
—A bill bringing the State
Patrol under the State Merit
System, at a cost of about $1.6
million.
The Senate convened at 9
a.m. on the final day, and the
House followed an hour later.
They broke for lunch at noon,
but sent out for sandwiches
rather than delay for their
evening meals. At eight mi
nutes before adjournment, it
became obvious that too many
bills were still pending, so it
was mutually agreed to disre
gard the clock.
Ties and jackets —and in
some cases, shoes —were
discarded as the evening wore
on, and by 9 p.m. several
desktops sported paper cups
containing what the rule book
says must have been undiluted
soft drinks.
The tenor of debate was
mellow, lacking the sting that
marked many past floor fights
since the session convened Jan.
13, and much of the time waiting
for bills to go between cham
bers was spent praising the
governor, the presiding officers
and fellow members.
Here’s what
they did
By WILLIAM COTTERELL
General Assembly at a Glance
ATLANTA (UPI) — If death and taxes are the only
certainties in the political process, the Georgia General
Assembly took care of both — and much more —before
calling it quits for the 1975 session this morning.
The biggest money matter of the session, of course, was
the $1.96 billion state budget for the fiscal year starting
July 1. That austere-sounding document is not so remote if
you have children in school, as it includes $8 million for a
newly expanded public kindergartens program and
money for reducing the pupil-teacher ration in most
grades.
Among the major things the legislators did since
convening Jan. 13 were authorization of a 1 per cent local
option sales tax for cities and counties. You won’t be
paying it until next year, though —and not even then*
unless your local city or county voters authorize levying
the tax in a public referendum.
A bit of the sales tax bite could be eased if you own
property. The lawmakers approved a $35 million property
tax reduction, applying credits to a landowner’s state
income taxes, and localities opting for the 1 per cent sales
tax would further be required to roll back property tax
millage in proportion to their sales tax winnings.
The legislature also decided that you’re dead when your
brain stops working. The bill is intended to help doctors
avoid damages suits by providing a legal definition of
death —“the irreversible cessation of brain function” —so
doctors could not be sued for withdrawing artificial life
supports when all hope is gone.
Those who run afoul of the law might find prison life just
a bit more bearable because of a $4.6 million emergency
appropriation approved early in the session for a crash
program of prisons construction. Gov. George Busbee,
who asked for the bill, said it is needed to relieve crowding
in a prisons system designed for about 8,500 convicts and
already housing abut 11,000.
Citizens troubled by “adult” bookstores and theaters
springing up in their neighborhoods, or the spread of
“massage” parlors in some cities, could find solace in two
bills cleared late in the session. One installs the latest
Supreme Court definition of pornography into the Georgia
statutes, and the other defines “masturbation for hire”
and makes it illegal.
In a move of perhaps less importance than interest, the
General Assembly proclaimed the official state insect to
be the Georgia honeybee. This was done in the face of
goodnatured opposition from some University of Georgia
graduates who took it as an endorsement of yellowjackets,
and demanded equal recognition for bulldogs.
The major things the General Assembly did not do
included not ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment to the
United States Constitution, not approving a gun control
law, and not allowing large banks to acquire a major
financial stake in smalltown banks.
The Senate shot down two of those three—defeating the
ERA 33-22 and stopping the banking bill after it cleared
the House by one vote. The bank bill was held over in
committee for further study and possible approval next
year.
Several handgun bills— ranging from a universal
licensing requirement to a simple increase in license fees
from $3 to $lO — were consigned to the House judiciary
committee for father contemplation.
The House also decided to take another look at revising
Georgia’s rape laws next year. Rep. Nathan Knight, D-
Newnan, said he will make a few revisions in his bill for
resubmission. It basically classifies four degrees of
sexual injuries some discretion in fixing penalties—
rather than a life-or-death ultimatum.
The House ways and means committee bottled up a
“freeport” bill which would have let goods in transit pass
through Georgia without local taxation. It too was held for
review next year.
The House killed pari-mutuel wagering outright, not
even wanting to look it over some more. Backers of the bill
to let Georgians bet on horse races and at dog tracks said
it would generate badly needed revenue, but the multitude
of opponents argued that it would be a foot in the door for
organized crime, leading to casino gambling and
corruption of police and local officials.
program; Lin Thompson, chairman of die Griffin Chapter
of Red Cross; Clements; Mildred Honeman, chapter
executive for Griffin; and John Chartier, blood program
representative for the Griffin area.