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Bill promises interest
on checking accounts
WASHINGTON (UPI) - In
terest on your checking account
— and a checking account
wherever you want, in your
bank, savings and loan associa
tion or credit union at work —
is the promise of a bill
Principal
accused
of theft
An elementary school prin
cipal has been arrested and
charged with unauthorized use
of school funds for his own use.
Griffin police said Ronald L.
Ellison, 50, of 314 Powell
avenue, principal of North Side
Elementary School, was taken
into custody last night on two
warrants charging him with
theft by conversion.
The amount involved totaled
1348.50.
Ellison was released under
bond.
Firefighters may arrive
in curlers and bikinis
MICANOPY, Fla. (UM) — This little
north-central Florida town has two shiny
firetrucks, a rescue unit and 10 lady
firefighters — who might show up in
curlers with bikinis under their jumpsuits.
Fire Chief Claue Polk’s only paid
firefighter is his wife.
The rest of the firemen are volunteers.
The women mind the fire house between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays while their
menfolk are off earning a living in nearby
Gainesville—about 15 miles north of here.
Carmen Polk, wife of town fire chief
Claude Polk, said the women were added
to the department two years ago after a
house burned to the ground because the
firemen arrived too late.
“They realized they couldn’t be here
during the day, so now we’re doing most of
the firefighting,” she said.
But Mrs. Polk, whose main job is to
You can’t get away from using the old cleaning rags while
working on locomotives as this trainee found out.
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approved Thursday by the
Senate Banking Committee.
The measure would bring
about .the most far-reaching
changes in the banking world
since 1933, when the govern
ment, shaken by bank failures,
moved to limit how much banks
could compete.
One step was to limit how
much interest banks and
savings and loans could pay
passbook savers. The ceiling
now is 5 per cent in banks, 5.25
per cent in savings and loans
associations. The ceilings would
vanish by 1981 under the bill’s
provisions.
Consequently, to attract
depositors, banks and other
institutions could offer higher
interest rates both on passbook
accounts and certificates of
deposit.
And money in checking
accounts, which now earns
money for the bank but not the
account holder, would be able
to draw interest.
The administration backs the
bill in line with its drive to
relax government regulation of
industry. The bill must still
sound alarms and keep the two trucks and
rescue unit clean, says there are times
when the women have to go out on a fire
and don’t exactly look their best.
“If you’ve got you hair rolled up in
curlers you’ve just got to go that way,” she
said. One night the alarm was sounded
while Mrs. Polk was wearing a bikini. She
grabbed her heavy protective canvas
jump suit and put it on over the bathing
suit.
“The times we’ve gone out we’ve done
the same things” the men would have done
and “I think we’ve done as well as they
could have done,” she said.
The women, most of whom are married to
male volunteers, have undergone a 40-hour
beginning course on firefighting at nearby
Santa Fe Junior College. Five of the
women also have taken a course in
emergency medical technicians training.
pass the Senate and House.
Consumer groups are expected
to welcome it.
Under the provisions:
— Starting Jan. 1, 1977, or a
year later if the Federal
Reserve chooses, savings and
loan associations, mutual banks
and credit unions could offer
checking accounts which will
probably pay interest rates of 2
or 3 per cent.
— Commercial and mutual
banks and savings and loans
will be free to offer negotiatia
ble order of withdrawal ac
counts which, similar to
interest-paying checking ac
counts. Only Massachusetts and
New Hampshire offer such
accounts now, and these gener
ally pay 5 per cent interest.
— Five and a half years after
enactment, federal agencies
will lose their authority to fix
ceilings on how much interest
can be paid.
Also, a tax credit of 1.5 to 3.83
per cent of earnings on
mortgages would be offered to
investors, including individuals,
who put at least 10 per cent of
their assets in mortgages.
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
More people working
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Rehiring of 180,000 laid-off
factory workers and the reopen
ing of schools dropped the
unemployment rate in Septem
ber to 8.3 per cent, its lowest
level in seven months, the
Labor Department reported
today.
The jobless rate in August
was 8.4 per cent in August, the
same as July but well below
the 9.2 per cent in May which
was the worst unemployment
statistic this year.
Young people returning to
high schools and colleges
caused the unemployment rate
among teen-agers to drop 1.8
per cent to 19.3, a significant
factor in the slight overall
decrease in the jobless rate.
Total unemployment in Sep
tember totaled 7.8 million
workers, unchanged from Au
gust when rounded off. Total
employment also was un
changed at 85.4 million. But
gains of 180,000 jobs reduced
unemployment slightly, result
ing in the small monthly
decline.
The Bureau of Labor Statis
tics takes two surveys for
determining the jobless rate.
One is a survey of households,
the other of employer payrolls.
The surveys merged in Septem
ber after showing discrepencies
in recent months.
As measured by the
household survey, which had
been the more optimistic in
July and August, the jobless
rate was unchanged. But
nonfarm payrolls “increased by
about 180,000 in September,
nearly all of it in the bellwether
manufacturing industries, ’ ’ BLS
said. Nonfarm employment
totaled 77.2 million in Septem
ber.
BLS said there were 100,000
new jobs in durable goods,
manufacturing of electrical
equipment, primary metals,
machinery and furniture. In
nondurable goods, there were
job gains of 80,000 in production
of clothing, textiles and food
processing.
Big ABC meeting
opens in Griffin
About 100 people are expected to be in Griffin tonight and
tomorrow for a Region One American Business Clubs
meeting. Activities will be centered at Holiday Inn. A
closing banquet will be held tomorrow night at the Elks
Club. Charles M. Blye of Peoria, 81., (at right) the current
national president, will attend. Discussing plans for the
meeting in Griffin (below 1-r) are Tom Nixon, Griffin ABC
president; his wife, Linda, ABC-ette president, and J. W.
Roberts of Griffin who is Georgia District Governor.
Region Three includes Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina.
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The bike boom has hit the Griffin High campus. The
student council is pushing a program to encourage more
students to ride bikes to school and save gasoline. It fits in
with the patriotic theme running through the school’s
bicentennial observance. A place to park the bicycles has
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“Bad times are what teach
people to be resourceful.”
Bike boom hits GHS
House panel okays
sending observers
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
House International Relations
Committee unanimously voted
today to send 200 American
observers to the Sinai Desert to
watch over the recent Arab-
Israeli agreement. The resolu
tion will go to the full House for
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been provided near Memorial Stadium. Among those
participating in the program today were (1-r) Anne Cook,
Janie Howie, Coach Tammy Weaver, Lucinda Crouch,
Bonnie Bonds, Kenny Roberts, Tommie Blalock and
Chuck Hammock.
a vote next week.
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger, working to break the
administration deadlock with
Congress over secret agree
ments for U.S. aid to Israel and
Egypt, was scheduled to testify
before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee later.
The House committee voted
24-0 for a resolution to send the
U.S. civilian technicians into
the Mideast to monitor the
interim Sinai accord between
Egypt and Israel.
The resolution calls for
removal of the technicians “in
the event of an outbreak of
hostilities” between Egypt and
Israel. It would give Congress
the authority to order their
removal if the technicians
become unnecessary or if their
Senate panel checking
on IRS information
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A
Senate panel is exploring the
extent to which personal
information about the 80 million
Americans who pay taxes to
the Internal Revenue Service
goes into a sort of “lending
library” for use by agencies
S such as the FBI and CIA and
even the White House.
Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho,
chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence
Thursday opened an investiga
tion into the IRS with a
blistering attack on past abuses
of the tax collecting agency,
which he said “is one of the
largest repositories of raw
intelligence information in the
g United States.”
Standing before him taking
the oath were IRS Commission
er Donald C. Alexander and a
:£ half dozen of his top officials.
“One wonders,” said Church,
“how an agency designed to
collect revenue got into the
business of defining and investi
g gating political protesters” and
:£ other groups.
He said that before late 1973,
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safety is jeopardized.
The House resolution is
expected to be forwarded to the
full House early next week for
a final vote by week’s end.
The sesolution specifically
states approval is granted only
for the use of American
technicians and “does not
signify approval of the Con
gress of any other agreement,
understanding, or commitment
by the executive branch.”
President Ford had asked
Congress to approve the moni
tors by today, but the controv
ersy over side agreements
between the United States and
the two Mideast countries has
delayed that approval.
Kissinger’s appearance
before the Senate committee
was his third in two days.
names of 8,000 individuals and
3,000 organizations were put on
IRS “Special Watch” lists at
someone’s request for informa
tion or meticulous audit.
Included were columnist Jo
seph Alsop; soul rock singer
James Brown; New York
Mayor John Lindsay; and Civil
rights leaders Coretta King and
Jesse Jackson. Also there were
the Civil Liberties Union; the
John Birch Society, the Ford
Foundation and the NAACP.
Alexander said that as soon
as he learned that a unit of IRS,
formed in 1969, was keeping the
lists, eh disbanded the unit in
August, 1973, three months after
taking office.
Such listings had “nothing to
do about tax collection, right?”
Church asked.
“Right,” said Alexander.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
65, low today 48, high yesterday
73, low yesterday 59, high
tomorrow near 70, low tonight
near 50.