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Marijuana, interest
measures approved
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Georgia Senate has voted to
abolish interest restrictions on
loans above 125,000 and the
House has soundly defeated a
bill to lessen and standardize
penalties for possession of
small amounts of marijuana.
The Senate Thursday voted
43-8 to limit interest on loans up
to $25,000 to nine per cent and
allow unlimited interest on any
principal above that amount.
The House, by a 105-64 vote,
defeated a proposal to set the
penalty for possession of an
ounce or less of marijuana to a
SSOO fine on first offense.
In Senate debate on the loan
bill, Sen. Don Ballard, D-
Oxford, failed to set the usury
threshhold at $50,000 and then
went along with the $25,000
limit in exchange for a ban on
“points” and “discounts.”
That prohibition would keep
the banks from adding charges
to the principal to get a higher
return while remaining under
the 9 per cent interest limit.
Present Georgia law limits
interest to nine per cent on
loans up to SIOO,OOO.
Sen. J. Ebb Duncan, a
Carrollton banker, said unlimit
ed interest above $25,000 would
greatly spur the housing
industry and provide more jobs.
But Sen. Ed Garrard, D-
Atlanta, warned repealing in
terest on loans above $25,000
might “kill the loan market
from that point down” because
banks would put all their
money into the bigger loans
with unlimited interest.
The House amended a bill by
Rep. Jack King, D-Columbus,
so as to provide for fines of
SSOO on first marijuana posses
sion offense and a SI,OOO fine
and one year in jail on second
and subsequent offenses. King
Censure vote
ATLANTA (UPI) - The 42-14
roll call by which the Senate
censured Sen. Roscoe Dean, Il-
Jesup, Thursday night:
Democrats for (37)
Don Ballard of Oxford, Peter
Banks of Barnesville, Ed
Barker of Warner Robins, Roy
Barnes of Mableton, Julian
Bond of Atlanta, Paul Broun of
Athens, Parks Brown of Hart
well, .Hugh Carter of Plains,
Nathan Dean of Rockmart,
Sam Doss of Rome, Ebb
Duncan of Carrollton, Frank
Eldridge of Waycross, Bill
Fincher of Chatsworth, John
Foster of Cornelia, Ed Garrard
of Atlanta, Hugh Gillis of
Soperton, Bert Hamilton of
Macon, Render Hill of
Greenville, Al Holloway of
Albany, Pierre Howard of
Decatur, Perry Hudson of
Hapeville, Jimmy Lester of
Augusta, Sam McGill of Wa
shington, Howard Overby of
Gainesvile, Steve Reynolds of
Lawrenceville, John Riley of
Savannah, Lee Robinson of
Levitas puts out word
DECATUR, Ga. (UPI) —
Rep. Elliot Levitas, D-Ga., is
having aides post notices to his
fourth district constituents ou
tlining services available to
them through his office.
Levitas has spent several
hundred dollars of his own
money to print the posters
being posted in shopping
centers, supermarkets and
other locations in his home
) MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITY
f/ 12 year record that shows it can be done, v
J) Last year's net was over $11,000.00.
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(/ parties write Box 99, c/o Griffin News.
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had proposed lower penalties.
The House defated the
amended bill, 105-64.
Supporters of the bill said the
current law is unclear regard
ing first offenses for possessing
small amounts of marijuana,
allowing judges to impose
widely varying punishments for
the same offense.
King made a plea for
“common sense in our courts of
justice.” He said there are
500,000 regular marijuana
smokers in Georgia, and he
estimated it would cost some $2
billion a year to keep them all
in jail.
Rep. Wilbur Baugh, D-
Milledgeville, an opponent of
the bill, called marijuana “a
dangerous, narcotic, hallcino
genic drug.”
The Senate also voted to
increase the size of the Pardons
and Paroles Board from five
members to seven, which Sen.
Culver Kidd, D-Milledgeville,
said would allow the board to
screen more inmates and
reduce crowding in the prisons.
The Senate passed a bill
forbidding the Revenue Depart
ment to identify motorists by
telephone. The bill responded to
reports that women had re
ceived obscene phone calls
from men who used the license
plate numbers to get addresses
from the department ,
The House postponed further,
action on a proposal to take the
lieutenant governor’s office out
of the legislative branch and
make it part of the governor’s
office.
The House was scheduled
today to take up a bill to
proclaim the birthday of the
late Martin Luther King Jr. a
state holiday. The bill is being
supported by 22-member Black
Legislative Caucus.
Macon, Virginia Shapard of
Griffin, Terrell Starr of Forest
Park, Jack Stephens of Atlanta,
Lawrence Stumbaugh of Stone
Mountain, E.G. Summers of
LaFayette, Franklin Sutton of
Norman Park, Joe Thompson of
Smyrna, Jimmy Hodge Tim
mons of Blakely, Mell Traylor
of Pembroke, and Loyce Turner
of Valdosta.
Republicans for (5)
John Bell of Atlanta, Haskew
Brantley of Atlanta, Paul
Coverdell of Atlanta, James
Tysinger of Atlanta, and
George Warren of Decatur.
Democrats opposed (14)
Roscoe Dean of Jesup .James
Hamilton, College Park, Gene
Holley of Augusta,FloydHudgins
of Columbus, Joe Kennedy of
Claxton, Culver Kidd of
Milledgeville, Beverly Langford
of Calhoun, Preston Lewis of
Waynesboro, Henry McDowell
of Savannah, Pete McDuffie of
Eastman, Norwood Pearce of
Columbus, Henry Russell of
Boston, Horace Tate of Atlanta,
and Martin Young of Rebecca.
district.
The posters offer help on
problems with Social Security,
Medicare and veterans benefits,
as well as U.S. service
academy appointments. Con
stituents are also asked to
expess opinions on legislation
and public issues to the
congressman’s offices.
Levitas is a freshman con
gressman up for reelection this
year.
Panel puts
no pass
on 47 bills
ATLANTA (UPI) — The
House Ways and Means Com
mittee has voted out 47 bills
and resolutions with “do not
pass" recommendations, mostly
due to a lack of money.
The 47 measures acted on
Thursday would have cost the
state some $550 million a year
in lost revenue.
Lt Gov. Zell Miller’s propos
al to create a blue-ribbon
commission to study tax reform
was among the bills given “do
not pass” recommendations.
The committee gave an
unfavorable recommendation to
a revenue raising measure that
would have allowed local
governments to impose a 10 per
cent tax on mixed drinks
served in restaurants.
The committee killed the
statewide “freeport” income
tax credit for industry that
would have cost an estimated
SIOO million to S2OO per year,
and a proposal to increase the
homestead exemption statewi
de.
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No reports of wide spread flu outbreaks
ATLANTA (UPI) - The U. S.
Center for Disease Control
reports no “major or wide
spread” outbreaks of influenza
in the country despite reports
of flu-like illness from a dozen
states.
“On the basis of our reports
on monitors of flu activity,
there does not appear to be any
major or widespread influenza
activity in the country at this
time,” a CDC spokesman said
Thursday.
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— Griffin Daily News Friday, February 6,1976
More gambling
CARSON CITY, Nev. (UPI)
— Gamblers lost a record sl.l
billion in Nevada casinos in
1975 and the club owners are
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