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Griffin Dally News Tuesday, March 2,1976
Weather
Cherry trees
are blooming
By United Press International
Washington’s prized cherry
trees were blossoming, but they
might take a lesson from elms
and maples in Chicago.
The elms and maples also
were in premature bloom when
March, in a leonine debut
Monday, coated them with four
inches of wet snow.
Lamblike weather prevailed
in the East and in portions of
the Plains Monday and early
today.
Springlike flooding was
blamed for three deaths Mon
day.
A car carrying a woman and
four young children went out of
control near Rosiclare, 111., and
plunged into the backwaters of
the flooding Ohio River. Three
of the children drowned and a
fourth was rescued. The
woman, who had been driving
the car, managed to swim to
safety and call for help.
A potent winter storm as-
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sailed the West, the Northern
Plains and the northern Mid
west.
Rain and snow stretched over
California and Arizona and
heavy snows socked Idaho and
the Rockies, occasionally ac
companied by freezing rain and
drizzle that stretched through
the Northern Plains and into
Nebraska, lowa and the upper
Great Lakes.
Six to eight inches of new
snow piled up in northern Utah
and eastern Nevada. Ely, Nev.,
reported six inches of fresh
snow.
Heavy snow warnings were
issued for the central moun
tains of Arizona and much of
the mountain areas of Wyoming
today. Other storm watches and
warnings stretched from Cali
fornia through Idaho and across
the Rockies through the north
ern Plains and portions of the
Great Lakes.
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Mrs. Loretta Hamilton helps taxpayer file federal income tax return at the Internal
Revenue Service office in Griffin. The office is in the new post office building. People
needing help with their returns can get it locally at the IRS office on Mondays and Tuesdays
8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Property tax bill on agenda
ATLANTA (UPI) - A re
vised approach to property tax
relief for farmers, timber
Getting help on tax form
growers and some elderly
homeowners is on the House
agenda in the waning days of
the 1976 legislative session.
House Ways and Means
Chairman Marcus Collins, D-
Pelham, Monday night won
committee approval of his
substitute proposal, steering a
sharp departure from the
original Senate intent of amend
ing the constitution for taxation
of land on the basis of its use —
instead of its potential use.
The Collins bill would give
property tax breaks to land
kept in agricultural or forestry
use for five years, and to
homeowners over 60 who agree
not to sell out for commercial
development of their property.
The Senate version would
have put a question on the
November ballot, asking
Georgia voters if they wanted
their constitution amended to
provide all land would be taxed
on the basis of its actual use.
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller had
proposed the measure, saying it
is unfair for a farmer or
homeowner next to a shopping
center or golf course to pay the
same commercial-or recreation
al-use tax rate as the profit
making property.
House Minority Leader Mike
Egan, R-Atlanta, voted against
the bill in the ways and means
panel, saying it would simply
lead to an increase of local
property tax millage to make
up for lost revenue.
"It doesn’t do anybody any
good to lower the property
taxes, and then raise the
millage,” he said.
Hopes of finishing the 1976
legislative session on time
Friday now hinge on comple
tion of a budget compromise in
a Joint legislative committee,
Magazine
selling firm
sued in Ky.
LAGRANGE, Ky. (UPI) -
The state Attorney General’s
Consumer Protection Division
has filed suit against Budget
Marketing, Inc., an out-of-state
firm selling magazines in
Kentucky.
The suit, filed in Oldham
Circuit Court, asks for a
temporary injunction to bar the
company doing business in
Kentucky until it complies with
an investigative demand issued
by the Consumer Protection
Division.
Assistant Deputy Attorney
General Robert Bullock, in the
suit, says his division has
reason to suspect the firm of
violating Kentucky’s Consumer
Protection Act and has request
ed certain business records.
The suit said the firm's
attorney had refused to supply
the records, saying he didn’t
feel the Kentucky law applied
to the company, an lowa
corporation with franchise of
fices in Georgia and Tennessee.
where three Senators and three
House members are going over
differences in the two cham
bers’ versions of the record
11.92 billion state spending bill.
The Senate Monday approved
an eight-bill package by Sen.
Sam Doss, D-Rome, intended to
wipe out sexually discriminato
ry laws and thus make the
Equal Rights Amendment un
necessary. Doss opposes the
ERA.
His bills would allow women
to be police officers and serve
in the state militia, and would
let men be prosecuted for
pandering. Women also could
be prosecuted for luring some
one into a motel for immoral
purposes —a crime which
applies only to men now — and
also could be charged with
using obscene language, which
only men can be arrested for
under current law.
The House defeated a consti
tutional amendment to legalize
bingo games in Fulton County
and the Senate threw a
proposal for statewide grand
juries back to its juridicary
committee. That bill would
Th* Board of Commissioners of Spalding County does certify that the following I
qualification fees have been fixed pursuant to Section 34-1013 (a) (1) of the
Georgia Election Code and apply to any candidate for County or Militia District
office, qualifying by fee with County or State political parties for the August
10, 1976 General Primary, and any non-primary candidate filing nomination w
petition and notice of candidacy and affidavit with the Judge of the Probate
Court for the November 2, 1976 General Election, said fees to be paid to the
County or State political parties by candidates qualifying to run in the General
Primary, and to th* Judge of th* Probate Court by non-primary candidates
qualifying for the General Election:
I OFFiCE SALARY 3% FEE I
Judge Probate Court $12,600.00 $378.00
Clerk Superior Court $13,200.00 $396.00
Judge State Court 11,100.00 $333.00
Sheriff $15,000.00 $450.00
Tax Commissioner $13,200.00 $396.00
County Commissioner $5040.00 $151.00
Coroner $1,728.00 $51.00
Justice of the Peace SIO.OO
District 490th, 1001st, 1065th, 1066th, 1067th, 1068th, 1069th, 1159th, 1825th,
1830th.
Attest:
People
Valery Panov
Junk, junk and more junk
DENVER (UPI) — Author James Michener says the
Bicentennial has become a “national tragedy” because
businessmen are taking advantage of the event by selling
items ranging from Minutemen salt and pepper shakers to
flagemblazoned cars.
“Junk, junk and more junk,” said Michener, a former
writer for the American Bicentennial Commission. “It is a
national tragedy that the Bicentennial could not be
celebrated properly. Things fell into cheap political hands
and everything went down the drain.”
No sunshine for Henry
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPI) — Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger and his wife Nancy stayed over an extra
day at the desert home of their host, actor Kirk Douglas,
but got no extra sunshine.
Cold rain fell throughout the day Monday on the usually
warm and sunny desert resort.
Leary won Y get out
SAN DIEGO (UPI) — Timothy Leary, the “turn on,
tune in, drop out” LSD guru of the 60s, must spend at least
the next two years in prison, the federal parole board has
ruled.
Leary, 55, who once escaped from a federal prison camp
at Lompoc, Calif., and spent months at large in Africa,
Europe and Asia, is serving a term for a 1970 drug
smuggling conviction at the Metropolitan Correctional
Center.
Star sidelined
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Russian ballet star Valery
Panov will be sidelined for a minimum of three to five
weeks because of a probable tom calf muscle, the San
Francisco Ballet said Monday night.
Panov was injured Thursday night while dancing in his
new ballet “Heart of the Mountains.”
S2OO a vote
CONCORD, N.H. (UPI) — That llth-hour campaign for
write-in votes for John Connally of Texas in New
Hampshire’s Feb. 24 primary cost S2OO a vote — not the
nearly SI,OOO first estimated.
have let the attorney general
petition the State Supreme
Court to empanel a statewide
grand jury to pursue organized
crime across the lines of
counties or judicial circuits.
A bill eliminating unemploy
ment compensation benefits for
persons voluntarily quitting
their jobs and refusing work
was approved by the Senate
and sent back to the House for
concurrence in some technical
amendments.
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Timothy Leary
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