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On the beam
Completing a hand stand on a balance beam seems easy for Becky Byerley. She
is a member of the Tumbling Club, Spalding Junior High. (More pictures on
page three.)
Bank debits
increase here
Debits at the three banks in Griffin
increased 12 percent in January over
the same month a year ago and three
percent over December.
Rounded off, they added up to
183,880,000 in January of this year,
$74,583,000 in January 1975, and
$81,675,000 in December 1975.
Debits are withdrawals from demand
deposit accounts, mostly checks, and
since most business is conducted by
check they are considered a reliable
business indicator. The higher the
debits, the more active business is
considered to have been.
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PRATT KANSAS—First time visitors to Pratt may do a double-take when they look up at
the city’s water towers. In very straight and businesslike letters, the city leaders
apparently have expressed some humor. On the opposite and seemingly serious side, the
towers say “Pratt”.
DAILY#NEWS
Daily Since 1872
People
—and things
Young woman driving pickup, big
German shepherd standing in open
back grinning at the wind.
Dead, not just pretending but very
dead, possum lying in Pine Hill Road.
Griffin High cadets preparing for
annual federal inspection scheduled for
Thursday.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, March 5,1976
End near
ATLANTA (UPI) - The Georgia
General Assembly began the final day
of its election-year session today with
Senate approval of a bill letting judges
be shuffled around among districts to
relieve crowded dockets.
Off the floors of the busy House and
Senate, a proposal to make welfare
recipients carry identity cards and pick
up their checks in person hit a snag in a
joint conference committee.
The judicial administration bill, sent
back to the House for concurrence in
technical Senate amendments, would
allow Gov. George Busbee to map
several districts, grouping a few
judicial circuits in each. If a judge
became sick or disabled, the governor
could assign a judge from another
circuit to fill in for the lagging jurist.
The bill provides the judge being
assigned temporary duty and the
judges of the circuit to which he is being
assigned would have to concur in the
appointment.
Sen. Beverly Langford, DCalhoun,
called the bill “a progressive step
forward, to let litigants in those circuits
get their cases heard in an orderly
manner.”
The joint conference committee
appointed to straighten out House-
Senate differences on the welfare bill
met briefly and quit still far from a
compromise. They agreed on the
identity card provision, but House
conferees were opposed to the Senate
proposal for requiring four meetings
between welfare recipients and
caseworkers each year, rather than
making the recipients personally pick
up each check.
A constitutional amendment to
forever deny parole to death row
inmates whose sentences are
commuted to life was sent to a joint
committee for compromising when the
Senate refused to budge from its
amendment requiring a minimum of 25
years behind bars before parole
consideration. The House had insisted
on mandatory life without parole.
The House passed 113-40 a
“policeman’s bill of rights” that
protects law enforcement officers from
arbitrary dismissal or demotion and
sets up procedures for hearings. The
bill, already approved by the Senate,
was amended in the House to make it
apply only to officers in the State Patrol
and the police departments of Atlanta,
Cobb County, Savannah and Chatham
County. It would be local option for all
other police organizations around the
state.
More people work
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Unemployment fell to 7.6 per cent in
February, continuing a rapid plunge
that brought the nation’s jobless rate to
its lowest level in more than a year, the
Labor Department said today.
The Febuary unemployment rate was
0.2 per cent below January’s 7.8 per
cent rate and 1.6 per cent below the
recession peak established last May.
The jobless figures, combined with
earlier news that wholesale prices had
declined 0.5 per cent in Feburary, lent
substance to President Ford’s
campaign claims that his conservative
economic policies are working.
The improvement in February
brought unemployment to its lowest
level since December, 1974, when it
stood at 7.2 per cent.
Unemployment declined by 150,000
persons to 7.1 million during Febuary
while total employment increased
only slightly to 86.3 million. Most of the
new jobs went to the so-called
“traditional breadwinners.”
There were continued declines in
Senate okays bill to permit judge shuffling;
welfare identity cards measure hits snag
Bolton
backing
Carter
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
Attorney General Arthur K. Bolton said
today he is supporting Jimmy Carter as
the “best qualified” candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination.
“He’s the best qualified man running
in the Democratic party,” said Bolton.
“I’ve worked with him for four years.
He’s not perfect. None of us are.
“From my experience with him on
the basis of goals and
accomplishments, I’d have to rate him
very high,” said Bolton, who has served
as attorney general since 1965.
He said he would take an active role
in the former Georgia governor’s
campaign “if I was asked to. If he
thought I could be useful, I’d be
delighted to help him.”
Bolton said Carter’s record as
governor “speaks excellently for him.
He didn’t get everyhing he wanted, but
he made tremendous innovations.”
He said “one could never be accurate
as to how much money was saved”
from Carter’s controversial reorgani
zation of state government, but “the
proof is in the pudding.
“I’ve not noticed the present
governor doing anything to dismantle
the reorganization. The greatest minus
is the Department of Human Resour
ces,” he said.
“I’ll be frank with you and say that’s
a mess. But, in all fairness, I’m not sure
that’s the result of Jimmy Carter.”
Bolton said he voted for former Gov.
Carl Sanders, Carter’s opponent, in
1971.
“I voted for Sanders. What I liked
(about Carter) was the bigness of the
man, the fairness of the man. He never
held that (his vote for Sanders) against
me and he could have punished me very
severely” through the budget process.
A spokesman for Carter said the
campaign was “very pleased” with
Bolton’s support.
“Gov. Carter has always thought
very highly of him, ’ ’ the spokesman said,
“He’s known throughout the state as an
honest and firm-minded man. We
certainly welcome his endorsement.”
joblessness amonth full-time workers,
white workers and heads of households.
In fact, the unemployment for heads of
households fell below 5 per cent for the
first time since late 1974.
The unemployment rate for married
men and adult women remained
unchanged. Blacks experienced an 0.5
per cent increase in joblessness to 13.7
per cent while unemployment among
teen-agers fell 0.7 per cent to 19.2 per
cent.
After falling 2.2 million, total
employment has now returned to its
ire-recession peak of 86.3 million
workers. Most of the recovery has
taken place among women.
Employment among men is still 700,000
below its high point.
Adult women also have accounted for
most of the 1.9 million increase in the
total labor force over the past year. The
labor force held steady at 93.5 million
during Febuary.
Non-agricultural payroll em
ployment rose 210,000 in Feburary,
capping eight months of steady
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Taking a tumble can he fun. Page 3
Kim gets word
from family
Kim Conkle of Griffin who is a native
of Vietnam received a telegram this
week from her family in Saigon.
The telegram said the family was all
right.
It was the first time she has heard
from them in many months. Her father,
mother and a brother and sister live in
Vietnam.
Kim married Joe Conkle of Griffin
while he was serving in the U. S. armed
forces in Vietnam.
She returned to this country with him
and is employed at Lowell Bleachery.
She was a feature story subject this
week in the Griffin Daily News.
The Country Parson
KIES
“Everybody could say what
they think if they’d be a little
more careful about their
thinking.”
increase. At 78.3 million, payroll
employment is still 490,000 below its all
time high set in September, 1974.
Agricultural employment dropped
170,000 while nonagricultural
employment grew by 300,000 in
Febuary.
Manufacturing jobs continued to rise,
but available jobs in the construction
industry dropped by nearly 60,000 after
a slight upturn in January. Jobs in
construction continues to hover around
their recession low.
Trade services gained 100,000 jobs,
most of them in retail stories.
Transportation and utilities provided
30,000 more jobs.
Indian campsite
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -
An undisturbed American Indi
an campsite, believed to be the
oldest in the Southeast and
dating back to 7,500 8.C., has
been unearthed by University of
Tennessee archaeologists.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 78, low
today 59, high yesterday 83, low
yesterday 54, high tomorrow in upper
50s, low tonight in mid 40s.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Cooler
Sunday with a chance of showers en
ding southeast portion. No rain Monday
and Tuesday with not much change in
mild temperatures.
News
summary
By United Press International
Reagan attacks
Ronald Reagan finally has
succumbed to advice from his backers
and mounted an attack on President
Ford’s performance, in his Florida
campaign. He told a news conference in
Orlando, “He (Ford) has neither the
vision nor the leadership necessary to
halt and reverse the diplomatic and.
military decline of the United States.”
Ford, in the meantime, will make a
swing through Illinois today and
Saturday.
Evidence admitted
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) —
Damaging documents found in the last
hideout of the Symbionese Liberation
Army have been allowed in evidence at
Patricia Hearst’s bank robbery trial.
Judge Oliver J. Carter, impatient
with delays that have stretched the trial
to six weeks, told both prosecution and
defense lawyers he would allow them 30
minutes today to clear up all
procedural matters before the jury
came into court. Most of the day
Thursday was used up in arguments
over specific items of the documents
Carter had agreed could be used by the
prosecution.
No help
CHICAGO (UPI) — Neighbors of
Mari-Gray “TinkerbeU” Jobes, heard
her screams Monday night, but none
bothered calling police. "Stop! Stop!
Stop!,” she cried. “You 5.0. b.”
Wednesday, after her boyfriend Mark
Dem ’trius had failed to show up for
work, and his father Andrew had failed
to get any answer to his telephone calls
to Miss Jobes’ apartment, the elder
Demetrius went to the apartment. His
son and Miss Jobes were found stabbed
to death.
Papers missing
WASHINGTON (UPI) - CIA
documents, including 13 top secret
papers on the strategic arms talks,
have been misplaced and new Director
George Bush apparently has placed the
responsibility on Rep. Otis Pike, D-
N.Y., chairman of the now-defunct
House Intelligence Committee.
Picking leaders
MOSCOW (UPI) —A special meeting
is being held today by Communist party
officials to announce the new
leadership of the Soviet Union. Western
diplomats anticipated no major
changes. Indications are that Leonid I.
Brezhnev will continue in his role as the
Soviet party boss.