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Gov. George Busbee at his weekly news conference Thursday, said his current budget
reductions will help eliminate more than 1000 state jobs without layoffs. He refused to rule
out firings of state employes to keep the budget balanced. (UPI)
Busbee wants state
to plug loopholes
IN LOVING MEMORY
In loving memory of our
Shirley Brooks Chason, who
passed away 6 years ago
Dec. 12, 1969. Your Lady face
and Patient smile, with
sadness we recall, you had a
kindly word for each and
died beloved by all. The
voice is mute and stilled the
heart, that loved us well and
true , ah, bitter was the trial
to part from one so good as
you. You ar not forgotten,
loved one, nor will you ever
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memory last we will
remember thee. We miss you
now, our hearts are sore as
time goes by we miss you
more. Your loving smile,
your lady face no one can fill
your vacant place.
Sons: Mac and Gene Chason
Mother: Annie Lou Ison
Fischer, Stepfather Robert
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Sisters: Linda Longona, and
Jeanette Chason
Stepsister: Becky Fischer
Brother: Jimmy Brooks,
Father : James Brooks
Stepmother: Helen Brooks
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ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
George Busbee says if General
Assembly regulations permit
legislators to bill expense
accounts for trips they do not
themselves make, loopholes
permitting such claims should
be plugged.
At his weekly news confernce
Thursday, the governor said
regulations on legislative travel
should be rewritten if they
permit the sort of “illegitimate
travel” which led to theft
charges against Sen. Roscoe
Dean.
Dean’s case ended in a
mistrial Tuesday night when a
Fulton County superior court
jury deadlocked 9-3 in favor of
acquittal. The Jesup Democrat
had been charged with 14
counts of theft-by-taking for
billing the state for $1,424 worth
of mileage on trips he admitted
not personally making.
Attorney General Arthur Bol
ton’s office has not yet decided
on whether to re-prosecute
Dean and such a decision is not
expected for several months.
Busbee declined comment on
whether Dean should be tried
again.
“I was in the legislature for
many, many years,” said
Busbee. “I’d like to say — and
I’m just a country lawyer, I’m
not one of these constitutional
lawyers in Atlanta — but as I
understood the law while I was
a representative, and as the
legislature as I know it
understands the law now, you
can’t get paid for making trips
that you don’t make, and you
can’t send somebody as a
substitute and draw it down.”
Passenger crunch
hits jets carriers
MIAMI (UPI) - A strike of
two major airlines which
regularly fly into Miami has
resulted in a passenger crunch
on other carriers for those who
want to escape to south Florida
for the winter season.
Strikes by National and
United Airlines have forced the
carriers’ regular passengers to
seek air transportation to south
Florida via other airlines,
meaning the scheduling of
extra flights.
Two principal carriers into
Miami — Eastern and Delta —
have added a number of flights
for the holiday season alone.
Eastern has scheduled 175
extra flights into and out of
Miami while Delta is adding
close to 100 flights into Miami
and Fort Lauderdale.
“We’re approaching max
imum utilization of our fleet
and pilot time,” said Walter
Jureski, a spokesman for Delta.
“The folks in reservations are
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That’s entertainment
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) — Ann-Margret, Wayne
Newton, Joan Rivers and Don Rickies received top spots
in the sth annual Las Vegas Entertainer Awards.
Ann-Margret and Newton were named entertainers of
the year Thursday, with Newton drawing more ballots
than Frank Sinatra and the award show hpst, Sammy
Davis Jr. Rickies was named comedian of the year and
Miss Rivers comedienne of the year.
CBS head: curb sex
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (UPI) - CBS Television
president Arthur Taylor urged broadcasters Thursday to
accept restraints on sex and violence in TV plots for their
own good.
Taylor, regarded as one of the prime movers behind the
controversial “family hour” concept, spoke to the
Hollywood Radio and Television Society.
“Only at its greatest peril” can the industry ignore
public complaints of sex and violence on television, he
said, and broadcasters must “impose self-restraint and
self-regulation” in their own “long-term self-interest.”
Such restraints do not stifle creativity, he argued, but
deprive writers of the easy plot solutions and attention
getting elements of violence, making nonviolent shows
more creative.
Urge deportation
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-
Calif., and Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y., have sug
gested deportation efforts be renewed against alleged
Nazi war criminal Andrija Artukovic.
The two legislators made their recommendation in a
letter to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Artukovic has been accused of executing nearly 800,000
Serbs and Jews in Croatian concentration camps during
World War H.
GIAP is back
BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) — North Vietnamese Gen.
Vo Nguyen Giap, who has seldom been seen in public for
the the past two years, has led a government delegation to
Cuba, the official Vietnam news agency said Friday.
The agency said Giap and other members of the
politburo and Communist party left Wednesday to attend
a Cuban Communist party congress.
Strike Hoover
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPI) — J. Edgar Hoover was
a “despicable man” whose name should not be honored on
the FBl’s new headquarters, said Rep. Richard
Vanderveen, D-Mich.
Vanderveen will cosponsor a bill to strike the late FBI
director’s name from the new building in Washington.
“J. Edgar Hoover was the most despicable man we’ve
ever had in government,” Vanderveen told newsmen
Thursday. “It is not proper to have a monument to a man
who ran the FBI the way he did.”
saying, ‘My God, the phones
are going crazy,”’ an Eastern
spokesman said.
All the extra flights do not
necessarily mean an easier way
to get to south Florida. One
Miami man trying to book a
daytime flight to Washington
Jan. 3 was told he was
passenger No. 562 on Eastern’s
standby list for that trip. An
airline spokesman said Eas
tern’s 3 a.m. flights to
Washington also have people
waiting in line for seats.
As a result of the crunch,
Eastern has urged travelers to
promptly cancel any reserva
tions they do not need in order
to free the seats for other
travelers.
Edwin Dean of the Southern
Florida Hotel and Motel As
sociation said holiday hotel
reservations declined after Uni
ted’s 16,700 machinists went out
on strike last week.
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GILS threatened by budget cuts
ATLANTA (UPI) - The head
of the Georgia Indigent Legal
Services program says cuts in
the funding of the program
would mean individual poor
persons could no longer be
represented by GINS attorneys.
John Cromartie said Thurs
day if the General Assembly
reduced his program’s budget,
GILS attorneys will be forced
by a lack of manpower to give
up individual complaints in
favor of wide-ranging suits filed
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on behalf of all poor people.
GILS is being threatened with
a loss of state funding because
a number of state legislators
believe it is being misused.
Gov. George Busbee Thurs
day charged some GILS law
yers are “philosophically out of
tune with society, and they end
up harassing people.”
Busbee told Capitol reporters
that he fully supports the GILS
program, but not all the
lawyers working in it.
“I think there’s a need for
defense of indigent people in
civil matters, but I think it’s a
program that has been abu
sed,” he said. “I think there
have been some harassment by
people working with GILS.”
Cromartie responded to the
governor’s criticism by saying,
“As a lifelong Georgian I feel
like I’m in touch with what’s
going on here...l don’t know
whether he approves of my
political philosophy.