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Griffin Daily News Tuesday/ March 2,1976
House-Senate conferees unable
to reach agreement on budget
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
House-Senatebudget conference
committee must finish its work
today on the state’s $1,922
billion budget for the coming
fiscal year or risk another
extension of the General
Assembly session.
The conferees adjourned late
Monday without reaching
agreement on several key
language points, including whe
ther to lift the present $32 limit
on Aid to Families with
Dependent Children and the
method of allocating $lO million
in compensatory education
funds to local school systems.
The legislature is scheduled
to adjourn Friday, but a delay
on the budget bill could push
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adjournment into the weekend
or possibly next week. After the
six-member committee com
pletes its work, it will take 36
to 48 hours to run the massive
bill through a computer and get
it ready for each chamber to
consider.
Both chambers must approve
the report before it goes to
Gov. George Busbee for his
signature.
House Appropriations Chair
man Joe Frank Harris said the
conferees are “roughly close”
to agreement on many of the
money matters in dispute. The
House and Senate members
exchanged “packages” of
swaps during the day Monday,
but declined to release them to
the press.
The committee adopted the
House position on state employe
pay raises —a 4 per cent
increase with a S4OO minimum
and SBOO maximum. The Senate
version proposed a $450 across
the-board increase.
The committee also agreed to
put $2.5 million into the state
employes’ health insurance
plan rather than begin a new
health insurance plan for
teachers as the House propo
sed.
Sen. Al Holloway of Albany
said unless the committee
accepts the Senate proposal to
lif t the AFDC cap to $33 per
participant per month, welfare
payments “will drop sharply in
August.”
“We’re helping everybody
else, from the teachers right on
down the line,” he said. “But
these people who have the most
need we’re cutting, cutting,
cutting, and we’re lapsing
millions of dollars at the same
time.”
The Senate proposal would
authorize the Department of
Human Resources to go beyond
the average $32 limit if the size
of welfare families continues to
decline and state money is
available. Some $4.5 million
allocated for AFDC payments
has lapsed since last year
because of the $32 limit.
The AFDC program is 75 per
cent federally funded. Under
the complicated formula
Georgia uses for distribution,
the federal government does
not participate between the $32
and $36 range.
Rep. Marcus Collins, D-
Pelham, said he does not think
the state should authorize
payments beyond the level of
federal participation.
Airlines
to hike
tickets
GENEVA (UPI) - Airlines
serving the crowded transatlan
tic route between Europe and
North America have announced
fare hikes averaging 6 per cent
effective May 1.
The increases, subject to
approval of the governments
involved, will be the first since
last April.
The new rates will boost the
cost of an economy round trip
ticket between New York and
London from $764 to SBO6 during
the peak summer months and
from $626 to $666 in the off
season months.
In addition, a new 20 per cent
surcharge on first class fares
for the French-British Concorde
supersonic jet will go into
effect, making the cost of a
roundtrip ticket $1,510 between
London and New York.
Both British Airways and Air
France plan to inaugurate
Concorde transatlantic service
in April, barring legal and
other obstacles.
The fare increases were
announced Monday by the
International Air Transport
Association.
Obituaries
Chief Red Fox
By United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex.
(UPI) - Chief William Red
Fox, a 105-year-old Oglala
Sioux and member of the turn
of-the-century Buffalo Bill Cody
Wild West show, died Monday
of pneumonia.
Red Fox was bom June 11,
1870, at Pine Ridge, S.D., now
an Indian reservation. He
toured the world with Buffalo
Bill’s show and was a friend of
Theodore Roosevelt and other
presidents.
He settled in Corpus Christi
in 1932 and worked for many
years as a public relations
representative for a national
meatpacking company. He was
on television interview pro
grams numerous times.
Red Fox is survived by a son
and daughter. His wife died in
1967.
Abraham Savrann
BROOKLINE, Mass. (UPI) -
Funeral services were today for
retired cartoonist Abraham
Savrann.
Savrann began as a staff
artist for the old Boston Post.
He later went to the Boston
Traveler where he specialized
in cartoons of news and sports
events.
He also designed program
covers for college football
games and did other commer
cial art work.
Savrann, who lived in Brook
line, died Sunday at the age of
78.
Services were held at the
Stanetsky, Schlossberg, Solo
mon Memorial Chapel. He
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RICHMOND, Va.—Karen Kolb, 22, of Richmond, kicked off her shoes at the capital Monday
and settled down to the not unpleasant task of getting a tan during her lunch break
Unseasonably warm and sunny weather was experienced across the state. (UPI)
leaves his widow, Doris, two
sons, three brothers and five
sisters.
Jean Martinon
PARIS (UPI) - Jean Mar
tinon, a conductor-composer
who worked with famous
orchestras all over the world,
died Monday in a Paris hospital
at 66.
Martinon was the chief or
associate conductor of such
orchestras as the Concerts
Lamoureux Orchestra and the
London Philharmonic.
He also was artistic director
of the Israeli Philharmonic
Orchestra, Director of the
Duesseldorf city orchestra and
of the Chicago Orchestra and
lately of the National French
Radio-Television Orchestra.
Tom Olsen
OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI) -
Tom Olsen, 73, one of the
state’s pioneer radio broadcas
ters, died Sunday.
Olsen, owner-operator of
Radio Station KGY in Olympia
since 1939, was charter presi
dent of the Washington Associa
tion of Broadcasters. For a
time he also was part owner of
radio stations in Pasco and
Yakima.
He began his career in the
Seattle area as a sportswriter
for the old Seattle Star.
Olsen is survived by his
widow, Theresa, a daughter,
Mrs. Barbara Kerry, and a
brother, Dr. Paul Olsen, Miami.
At his request, there will be no
funeral services.
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Workers
disrupt
meeting
ATLANTA (UPI) - About
300 Atlanta school system
employes, demanding that
there be no layoffs in efforts to
trim the school system’s
budget, disrupted a meeting of
the city’s school board Monday
night
Benjamin Mays, school board
president, recessed the meeting
only 15 minutes after it began
when the employes, members
of the American Federation of
State, County, and Municipal
Employes union, began protest
ing plans to abolish 300 non
teaching positions next year.
The cutback is an attempt by
school officials to cut about $8
million from the current $lO5
million school budget.
School officials also plan to
close 14 schools and educational
centers. Superintendent Alonzo
Crim said the employe cut
backs would come from attri
tion and not from layoffs.
But William Bolden, a spokes
man for the AFSCME, said the
school closings would mean 172
AFSCME workers would have
to be reassigned or laid off.
“We’re not going to let you
railroad this,” Bolden said.
“Either I’m going to stand here
and talk or we’re going to turn
this .... meeting out.”
Mays then recessed the
meeting and officials said they
were not sure when the session
would be reconvened.