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New state budget goes to conference ATLANTA (UPI) — Six men seeking to compromise House and Senat differences over Georgia’s spending priorities set to work today on the record $1.92 billion state budget in the hope of ending the 1976 legislative session in one week. The three senators and three representatives assigned as go betweens will work through the weekend to iron out the wrinkles — comparatively minor, in comparison to wealth ier budgeting periods — and have a “take it or leave it” committee report ready for final action next Wednesday or Thursday. Unlike other committee re ports, conference committee work cannot be amended on the House or Senate floor, and must be ratified for the lawmakers to go home on time next Friday. Two major Senate changes in the budget are expected to be 7 . mLH 1111111111111111111111111' i T 1111.11 J ; FIRST TIME EVER | AT THIS LOW PRICE! Z 'MI ffl v ** ' --A1 JOA< wflflMC a • W > . » , /? 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George Busbee’s 4 per cent pay raise plan for state employes be switched to a flat $450 raise for all. The House approved a constitutional amendment Thursday allowing 18-year-olds to run for public office, but added some provisions intended to keep college students from taking over university towns. The bill was amended so that cities and counties would have to adopt local ordinances lowering their age for public service, so a town with an unusually large segment of young adults could keep them ineligible for the mayor’s office or city council seats. The House also voted to lower the legal marraige age for men to 16 — the same as women — rather than making them wait until 18 before they can legally wed. The Senate adopted Lt. Gov. Zell Miller’s handgun bill, requiring pistol owners to have a three-year pemit from their County judge, but legalizing the carrying of concealed weapons. The bill would set prison sentences of one year for illegal possession of a pistol — with a minimum 30 days actually in custody on second offense — and one to five years for third and subsequent offenses, with a minimum of one year which could not be suspended. The bill would not require pistol permits for legitimate hunters using land with the owner’s permission, or target shooters using a pistol range. The state’s largest budget sailed through the Senate Thursday with comparatively little debate. TJie change in the AFDC program had been rejected when the budget was in the House, but the Senate decided it could cut administra tive red tape by raising the allowable average to $33 per month for each AFDC reci pient. Federal funding of the program is figured at an average $32 per person, and Appropriations Committee Chairman Paul Broun, D- Athens, said the Department of Human Resources is spending more on hearings for persons whose checks are reduced than it would cost the state to raise the average one dollar past the federal participation level. The House version of the SSO million pay raise package 30 \ (hV 30 24 ' ( I L. ntwy or k towtsi \ \\ { NEW OR! EANS MIAMI p— if Gfwo $0 N [/ / x )sNQW Iz/Z^SHOWt kS NOW u<’l W| AIMIR F OTOC AST ® - ■ FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—Sunny and warm through Saturday. High Saturday near 80. Fair and cool tonight. Low near 40. Ford unveils new energy plans WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford has unveiled two new plans for boosting his power to set U.S. energy policy. One would give him authority to set a deadline for federal agency review of how Alaska’s natural gas riches will be shipped to the lower 48 states and, subject to congressional approval, the authority to pick between two competing routes. That proposal requires a new law and will join 18 other measures that Ford is trying, with varying degrees of suc cess, to push through Congress. The other, which Ford can put into effect without congres sional action, sets a strict quota on imports of liquefied natural gas. would assure every employe at least a S4OO raise next year. Those making more than SIO,OOO would get 4 per cent — up to a maximum of SBOO. The Senate wiped out the sliding scale and used the same amount of money to give every employe a $450 raise, regard less of current salary level. Broun said he expects those two points to be major impediments to compromise in the weekend committee mee tings. 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He urged Congress to deregu late domestic natural gas prices, saying removal of federal controls would halt a two-year downward production spiral and boost output 25 per cent by 1980. He called for speedy passage of a new billion-dollar, 15-year program to aid areas where development of federally owned energy resources such as coal and oil shale threatens to turn small communities into over night boom towns. And he announced the United States will contribute $5 million in the next five years to spur development of stronger inter national safeguards against nuclear theft and terrorism. But the major new moves were the plans to speed development of Alaska’s natu ral gas riches and limit foreign liquified gas imports. Ford set an import lid of 1 trillion cubic feet of the gas a year by 1985 — less than the — Griffin Daily News Friday, February 27, 1976 total that would be supplied by projects already on the drawing board to bring it from Algeria and Nigeria. 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Zell Miller “to be brief.” “I decided to disobey the law and practice a little civil disobedience,” Abernathy, smi ling, told the state senators. “Brevity is seldom practiced by a Baptist minister.” And with that comment, the black minister opened a 20 minute sermon by saying he had been invited to address colleges and government meet ings all over the nation, but had never before been invited to speak in the Capitol. “It says we’ve come a long way in our struggle, but we still have not reached that utopia yet. There is still great work that we must do,” said Abernathy, the successor to Dr. Martin Luther King as head of SCLC. GENERAL AUCTION— GENERAL AUCTION— GENERAL AUCTION— GENERAL AUCTION— GENERAL AUCTION —