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But trouble with his legs does not keep him from his daily stint in the garden. He has corn, butterbeans, squash and even some peanuts. “This is the only thing I own,” Mr. Ross said, pointing to his potato hoe. The maddock and another hoe nearby are borrowed, he said. He said he had paid $6 for his potato hoe. He likes to watch television at night and sometimes stays up late enough to catch the Johnny Carson show. “Depends on whether the Would women rulers mean an end to wars? By DONALD P. MYERS United Press International “Few little girls settle children’s quarrels with a fist fight,” said Sherry Chenoweth of Minneapolis. So she said women should have the chance to become world leaders and put an end to war. “Women haven’t had the opportunity to run the world. The jury is still out,” said the woman who is Minnesota state director of consumer services. “There’s no question historically that men have made a mess of governing and women should be given a chance to gain access to power centers. “Give us a chance.” The wives of the leaders of Israel and Egypt believe there would be no more wars if women ran the world. “Can you imagine battalions of women fighting among themselves?” said Mrs. Lea Rabin, wife of the Israeli prime minister. Mrs. Gihan Sadat, wife of the Egyptian (resident, said wars would end only “when women occupy the key posts.” They made the comments at the World Conference of programs are any good,” he said. He washes his own socks but some kin folks helps him with the rest of his laundry. He’s been a farmer and carpenter all his life. He had to drop out of school in the sixth grade. But his father told him he could succeed if he cultivated what he had. Friends and relatives celebrated Mr. Ross’ birthday last Sunday — father’s day with some gifts and a little party. He’s never been married. “But I tried,” he quipped, with a twinkle in his eyes, now dim with age. As two visitors were leaving his yard yesterday, they thanked him for the time he had taken from his gardening. “That’s all right, it’ll be there tomorrow,” he said. Rabies spreading nearby Although rabies seems to be spreading in two of Spalding’s adjoining counties, the sheriff’s department here said today it has not received any reports of the disease. Since the first of April, two Lamar County residents have been attacked and bitten by rabid foxes. Both victims are receiving anti-rabies treatment to prevent contracting the disease. Within the past month, two mad raccoons have been found Gov. Busbee to outline money pinch ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov. George Busbee, faced with one of the state’s “biggest financial crises ever,” will go on statewide television tonight to tell Georgians about the money pinch and spell out how he thinks it should be handled. Busbee, who has ordered legislators to convene in special session Monday, plans to propose the chopping of SIOB million from state the budget for the 1976 fiscal year —a move which is sure to bring sharp criticizm from pressure groups. Busbee instructed state de partment heads Wednesday to cut $35 million from their collective budgets for the new year, which begins July 1. He said he would slash the remaining $73 million to meet a SIOB million deficit. “If you can help me come forward with S3O million to $35 million, I can come up with the $73 million to S7B million,” Busbee told the officials. He said he would make the cuts without reducing critical ser vices. He will make the statewide broadcast explaining the cuts at 8 p.m. tonight. House Appropriations Chair man Joe Frank Harris called on the department heads to reduce their budgets by 12 per cent, compared to the 4 per cent cuts requested by Busbee. The officials were to have their proposals ready for Busbee by noon today. Harris gave them until Friday to come up with plans for 12 per cent cuts. Among programs which may be cut is the $35 million property tax relief program, which House Speaker Tom Murphy has already said he will fight to retain. Teacher and other state employe pay raises, scheduled to become effective in September, may be delayed until January. State hiring may be frozen, along with various capital outlay projects. The $10.5 million budgeted for the International Women’s Year, which opened today in Mexico City. American women aren’t sure that they could bring world peace. But they would like the chance to try. “Women are more attuned to keeping harmony,” said New York City Police Lt. Mary Keefe, 45. “They’ve been doing it for years in family life. It probably would be a better world.” “I think the world would be more peaceful if women ran it because I feel that many women are much more humanistic and much more nurturing and more concerned about feelings,” said Marilyn Shuler, 35, president of the Boise, Idaho, school board. “I think there would be some changes in foreign policy,” said Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 42, California’s first black congresswoman. “The idea of proving who is the strongest is not part of a woman’s philosophy.” Rhea Grossman, a Miami judge, said world peace has nothing to do with the sex of world leaders. “Any competent individual, male or female, who is placed in a position as head of state can avoid war and conflicts,” she said. “I believe avoiding war is a matter of GRIFFIN DAILYt’NEWS Vol. 103 No. 145 in Butts County in the Buttrill road area about a mile and a half from the Jackson city limits. Both Lamar County cases were in the Redbone District near the W. A. Sullivan farm and Zellner road at Sugar Hill Farm. The second case in Lamar County occurred on June 6. The victim’s small dog, which also was bitten by the fox, had to be destroyed as it had never been inoculated against rabies. The second rabid coon in statewide kindergarten pro gram may be chopped. The state’s largest education group has already thrown the first punch against any move to cut state employe salaries. Carl Hodges, executive secre tary of the Georgia Association of Educators, said Wednesday that employe salaries should not be tampered with. “All state employes are in dire need of cost of living raises granted by the General Assembly this spring,” he said. “Cutting their salaries instead of considering reductions in other areas would be a major mistake.” Officials of the 27,000-member GAE have already suggested the legislators eliminate the property tax rebate, saying it would afford “minimal if any relief to most citizens.” They called on the legislature to cut all new and “non essential” programs. Sen. Horace Tate, one of the state’s two black senators, has suggested the lawmakers raise taxes on “non-essential items such as cigarettes, whiskey and beer.” He said the special session should be used to find new sources of revenue instead of cut the budget. Busbee announced the money crisis Tuesday, saying it sprung up because the economy didn’t turn around as soon as expected. Only two weeks before, he had said the state faced a S4O million deficit by the end of the current year. The state would have the SIOB million deficit by the end of fiscal year 1976. Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 90, low today 64, high yesterday 91, low yesterday 69, high tomorrow in low 90s, low tonight in upper 60s, total rainfall at the weather station .23 of an inch. Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, June 19,1975 Butts County was discovered on June 6 also. It had been killed by dogs and dragged into the yard of a family on Buttrill road. Four days later when a report was received from the Com municable Disease Center in Atlanta that the animal was rabid, W. E. Essich, Butts County Sanitarian, obtained permission from the man who discovered the coon to have his nine dogs destroyed, since he lacked the funds to have them By ANDREW A. YEMMA AUSTIN, Tex. (UPl)—“The laser beam is perfectly harmless,” they told me. “The only possible danger is if you look directly into it up close. It could burn your eyeballs out.” Ray Stanford’s invitation to participate in an historical event sounded encouraging. Crazy Ray, as he’s called by some of the more skeptical news folk around town, was at it again, trying to talk to visitors from outer space. Stanford directs Project Starlight International, a group which for the past two years has been attempting to attract Unidentified Flying Objects to a 100-foot wide circle of blinking lights on a remote hilltop northwest of Austin. A month ago, Stanford announced his group had acquired $25,000 worth of scientific equipment to be used in an experiment which could result in man’s first communication with a UFO. The system, crudely translated from the highly technical jargon expounded by Stanford, involves the transmission of a television image of a test pattern through a neon-helium laser beam from the ground to a UFO. To show the system could work, Stanford dared me to go up in a helicopter with a television camera and point it directly into the path of the laser beam. The camera would record the television picture on video tape and the tape would be replayed when the helicopter landed. A check with a few authorities disclosed the laser was harmless from a distance greater than about 100 feet. The Gasoline higher, short CHICAGO (UPI) - The honeymoon is ending for American motorists, according to a petroleum industry expert. Herbert Hugo, senior editor of Platt’s Oilgram, a daily publication on the petroleum industry, warns gasoline prices will rise by three to five cents a gallon by the Fourth of July — just in time to catch holiday motorists. Keep education money-Christie D. B. Christie, superintendent of the Griffin-Spalding County Schools System, said today that he’d rather see the $35-million tax relief program deleted from the state budget than to see reductions in the educational budget. “It is my belief that the $35- million allocated by the General Assembly for tax relief should be deleted altogether, since the properly educating our young people, ridding ourselves of our prejudices and having competent people to lead us.” Some American women believe their role is still in the home. Mrs. Ann Knowles, 60, of the Detroit suburb of Lincoln Park, believes in the traditional role of women. “There’s nothing women can do to change the world,” she said. “They’ve got their own place —in the home —and there’s where they can change things.” Jean Dawson, mayor of Mahtomedi, Minn., said women might, make better world leaders than men because females are more sensitive. “But women also are liable to be more retaliatory, so it probably would all balance out in the long run.” “Women certainly have no comer on the market where doing right is concerned,” said Cynthia Vanda, 37, director of the University of Pittsburgh women’s center. “But if women have and take the opportunity to really develop their own abilities, rather than copying men’s way of running the world, I think that a more peaceful world would be possible.” vaccinated. A 10th dog belonging to a neighbor also was killed. The first rabid coon was discovered in the Towaliga District of Butts County on May 18. Residents in the areas of both counties were cautioned not to handle sick dogs, cats, cattle or other animals and to confine any strange acting animal for observation. Anyone bitten should im mediately consult a physician, county health department and a Frisbees, lasers only way to fly Hugo also says motorists could encounter short gasoline supplies by August, forcing them to queue to await their chance at the pumps. He says the high demand for gasoline could result in short supplies of fuel oil this winter. “The latest import tax plus increased operating costs will be passed along to motorists within 10 days,” Hugo told UPI amount refunded to most indivi duals would be insignificant and offer only token relief,” Mr. Christie said in a letter to Dr. Jack Nix, state superintendent of schools. “I feel that there should be no reductions in the educational budget which would be detrimental to the programs or services provided for the children enrolled in our public schools. I would also suggest Daily Since 1872 veterinarian. The best test known to deter mine if rabies treatment is needed for anyone bitten, even if there are no signs of rabies in the animal, is to confine the animal for 10 days to see if symptoms of rabies develop. In cases of wild or vicious animal bites where confinement is not possible, kill the animal, being careful not to damage the head which must be examined for the presence of rabies. All warm-blooded animals and humans are susceptible to helicopter would be at least 2,000 feet away. Reporters gathered on amid June night for the trip to the super-secret site where Stanford’s folks have been trying to attract the UFOs. While Stanford and seven or eight assistants garbed in white jumpsuits scrambled around adjusting the $25,000 worth of equipment, Neil Davis, a physicist from San Diego, Calif., entertained. Davis threw a frisbee with a magnet attached over a magnetometer —a device which can supposedly detect the presence of UFOs in the area. The frisbee caused the gadget to emit a warbling, high-pitched tone. Finally a two-seater whirlybird approached the site. Stanford’s jump-suited assistants displayed equipment I was to take up in the helicopter. It seemed simple. Just point this television camera into the laser beam and turn on the video recorder. Let the tape run for 30 minutes while the pilot hovers the helicopter. We took off and turned on the video recorder, pointing the camera into the laser beam. It was difficult to keep the camera in the path of the beam —a spot of red about five inches in diameter, but I know I got several direct hits. Thirty minutes later the helicopter landed. Stanford took the video tape and replayed it on a television screen. Nothing. The tape was blank. The next day Stanford called and said it might have been a low battery on the video recorder. He predicted a successful test will only be a matter of time. I can hardly wait until his next telephone call. Wednesday. “But the most critical period will come in August, which looks like the time we’re likely to have real problems with gasoline,” he said. The demand for gasoline is so great, Hugo said, that it could trigger a shortage of fuel oil during the cold weather months. that public elementary and secondary education receive priority over other educational and state agencies in budgetary matters,” Mr. Christie said. The letter to Dr. Nix ex pressed Mr. Christie’s views on proposed educational budget cuts necessitated by reduction in anticipated state revenue. Mr. Christie said the local school system had employed all staff members for the coming Cynthia Powers, 29, a Baltimore librarian, said “women are not as violent as men. Jacquelin Wexler, 48, (resident of Hunter College in New York City, disagrees. “I think if women look at some of the violent revolution ary movements in the very recent years, we certainly have seen as much violence from young women as men,” she said. Esther Saperstein, 72, Chicago aiderwoman and former state senator, said Israel did go to war under Prime Minister Golda Meir. But she said “women are less apt to resort to wars to settle problems. I don’t think women think in terms of war.” Joyce Ferguson of West Memphis, Ark., the state’s only woman mayor, believes cooperation is the answer. “Men and women have to work together for peace. We must love one another.” “I’m really not in favor of women running the world, and I’m not in favor of men running the world,” said Erma Greenwood, 58, a Knoxville, Tenn., attorney. “I’m in favor of a partnership between men and women. And that goes for everything, business, politics, the home.” rabies. Symptoms begin to appear after a long and uncertain period of inoculation, ranging from two weeks or less to many months. A change in normal behavior is usually seen. The Lamar County Board of Health is recommending action to reduce the fox population. A meeting has been scheduled July 2 to consider adoption of regulations requiring inocula tion of all dogs in Lamar County. wk “Often what must be done isn’t as important as how it is to be done.” year based on allotment in formation provided earlier. The local superintendent also suggested that teachers be given the salary increase ap proved and funded by the General Assembly. “A reduction in salary would seriously affect teacher morale and could bring about teacher strife and discord,” Mr. Christie wrote.