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Nuclear fuel debated
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) —
Arguments continue today on
whether Georgia Power Co.
should use nuclear fuel to
power its proposed generating
plant in Burke County.
The Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board opened three
days of hearings Tuesday on
modified construction permits
for the proposed Alvin W.
Vogtle Generating Plant.
Two persons spoke during
time alloted for testimony from
the public, and both were
against construction of a
nuclear plant.
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chiatric nurse from Augusta,
said she was concerned about
possible accidents and about
storage and transportation of
radioactive wastes.
“I do not feel that the
questions of safety have been
answered,” she told the three
man licensing board, chaired
by Thomas W. Reilly.
Atlanta doctor Victor Skorapa
gave similar reasons for his
opposition, and said, “If a plant
is going to be built in
Waynesboro, it should be a
coal-fired plant.”
Six arrested in alleged ring
ROME, Ga. (UPI) - Federal
agents arrested six persons
Tuesday and were looking for
six others indicted in connec
tion with an alleged prostitution
ring which operated in several
Southern states.
William Alonzo “Billy” John
son, 37, was charged with using
his business establishments in
Rome to recruit women for
prostitution. The indictment
said the women were transport
ed to truck stops and other
such locations in Georgia,
Alabama, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida
and Virginia.
James J. Dunn Jr., special
agent in charge of the Atlanta
FBI office, said the ring was
reputedly centered in a bail
bond office and nightclub
known as “B. J.’s” and
operated by Johnson.
The others allegedly carried
out the activities of the ring,
including transportation of the
women or operating the broth
els where the prostitutes
worked.
The 50-page indictment,
which included 44 counts, said
the fil persons conspired to
violate a racketeering law
enacted by Congress as part of
the Organized Crime Control
Act of 1970. Those convicted
could receive a maximum of 20
years in prison and a $25,000
fine.
Johnson, Mike Clemones, 30,
and Roger Franklin Holtzclaw,
30, were arrested in Rome.
Dunn said the FBI had also
arrested Gordon Sheets, 36, of
Johnson City, Tenn., Kathryn
Louise Hatmaker, 47, of Knox
ville, Tenn., and Edward
Raymond LeCompte, 47, Ro
gersville( Tenn.
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Those sought included John
son’s brother, Joseph Harold
“Butterball” Johnson, 43; Elec
“Doc” Samples, 60, Warner
Robins; Wanda Coburn, 26, her
husband, Charles Everett Co
burn, 35, and Pricilla Scott, 36,
all of Johnson City; and Brenda
Mae Gibson, 33, Winston-Salem,
N. C.
Johnson and Clemones were
released on $5,000 and $15,000
bond respectively while Holtz
claw remained in jail in lieu of
$15,000 bond.
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, February 11,1976
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Lieutenant governor bill
back for an
ATLANTA (UPI) - Thfe c
Georgia House and Senate i
make another attempt today at t
passing a pair of constitutional •
amendments — one altering the i
lieutenant governor’s duties, |
the other shortening terms of |
Public Service Commissioners
— which won wide support but «
fell barely short of passage. i
House Speaker Tom Murphy, i
who usually gets his way on the
House floor, was unable to
muster the necessary two-thirds
majority vote for the Senate
passed resolution removing the
lieutenant governor from the
Senate presidency and vesting
his office within the governor’s
suite.
The measure had 91-62
support Tuesday, but was 29
shy of two-thirds majority.
In the Senate, a proposal to
cut terms of the Public Service
Commission from six years to
four drew a 33-15 vote, five less
than the two-thirds needed to
amend the constitution.
Motions to reconsider the
narrow losses kept both bills
alive overnight. Murphy said,
on reconsideration, the return
Hunt named
to succeed
McCown
MAYFIELD, Ga. (UPI) -
James Hunt Jr. has been
named executive director of the
Hancock County anti-poverty
agency which had been headed
by controversial community
leader John McCown until his
death last month in a plane
crash.
Hunt had been deputy direc
tor of the East Central
Community Opportunity Inc.
His appointment was an
nounced Tuesday by the ECCO
board of directors.
McCown, 37, and two other
men were killed Jan. 30 when
their single-engine plane, flown
by McCown, nose-dived on take
off and crashed in a wooded
area near Mayfield. A fourth
man was injured.
Hunt praised McCown’s work
and said, “I only hope to be
effective in my own way in
continuing the work he had
begun in Hanock County.”
Authorities have said an
investigation of the crash
showed McCown was intoxicat
ed at the time of the incident
and was not licensed to fly the
plane.
Hunt accused the news media
Tuesday of engaging in “one
sided reporting of only the
sensational and negative as
pects of the circumstances
surrounding Dr. McCown’s
tragic death.”
ECCO, founded by McCown in
1965, had been plagued by
financial troubles in recent
months and three persons —
not including McCown — had
been indicted by a federal
grand jury investigating possi
ble misuse of federal funds by
the ECCO.
Hunt, a native of Hancock,
joined ECCO in 1970 and
managed the agency's catfish
farm before being named
deputy director.
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other look
of the 27 House members who
missed the lieutenant governor
vote — plus the defection of
some of the 62 opponents —
might put the amendment on
the November ballot for a
public vote.
Sen. Joe Thompson, D-
Smyrna, was less optimitic
about getting five of eight
absent senators to go along
with his amendment cutting
PSC terms by one-third. He
said, in trying to persuade
opponents, he found many
firmly fixed in favor of an
appointed commission—wholly
removed from politics.
Sen. Steve Reynolds, D-
Lawrenceville, one of the
opponents, said cutting terms
from six years to four would
inject more politics into utility
rate regulation, rather than
making the five commissioners
more responsive to public
sentiments.
In another utility-related
development, the Senate unani
mously passed a bill making it
a misdemeanor to circumvent
an electricity, water or gas
meter, to hold down monthly
bills. Sen. Ed Garrard, D-
Atlanta, said the current theft
of-services law does not cover
cheating utility companies.
In the House, Rep. Billy
McKinney of Atlanta started
gathering petitions on a resolu
tion ratifying the Equal Rights
Amendment, which has failed
twice previously in Georgia.
The ERA stands four states
short of the 38 required for
ratification.
Sen. Horace Tate, D-Atlanta,
said he too has an ERA
ratification resolution in his
desk, and will introduce it if
there appears any chance at all
of passage.
The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee approved a constitution
al amendment which would
allow non-profit organizations
to sponsor Bingo games, with a
$l,lOO ceiling on nightly pots
and a $2,200 limit each week.
The amendment would only
allow Bingo games for organi
zations certified non-profit by
the Internal Revenue Service.
The committee also ordered a
subcommittee study of an
alternative “blue law” proposal
which — instead of closing
businesses on Sundays — would
guarantee everyone the right
not to work on their normal day
of worship. The Georgia Su
preme Court has stricken past
legislative attempts at Sunday
closing laws.
The Senate defeated a bill by
Sen. Henry McDowell, D-
Savannah, which would forbid
income taxpayers to claim
fewer deductions than they
actually have. “Over-withhol
ding” is a common way of
ensuring a rebate at the end of
the year, but McDowell argued
unsuccessfully it takes about
sl6 million out of circulation
and leads to welfare fraud by
reducing net weekly paychecks.
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