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Norsworthy and Jones (top) vote. So do Goldstein and Head (middle).) And so does Mullins (bottom.)
Senate panel
eyes new taxes
ATLANTA (UPI) — A Senate sub
comittee has voted to recommend an
expansion of the Georgia sales tax to
include such services as haircutting,
advertising, photography and dry
cleaning as a means of raising SSOO
million for property tax relief.
“There can be little doubt that this
type of expansion of the sales tax will
result in that tax becoming more
progressive since the major portion of
revenue will be derived from those
service industries that are utilized
more by the affluent,” said a Senate re
search staff report to the tax reform
subcommittee of the Economy,
Reorganization and Efficiecy in
Government Committee.
Sen. Roscoe Dean, the Jesup
Democrat who chairs the sub
committee said while Georgians must
pay tax on prescription drugs, “they
don’t have to pay tax when they get
their hair done at a beauty parlor and
that don’t (sic) seem equitable.”
The panel agreed from SSO million
sloo million of the estimated SSOO
million which would be raised should be
directed to tax relief for the poor and
elderly.
Such relief may come in the form of
“circuit-breaker” tax rebates, the
details of which will be worked out next
week, the subcommittee indicated.
The rest — S4OO million to $450 million
Grocery group
cuts milk price
GADSDEN, Ala. (UPI) - The
president of Warehouse Groceries, a
chain which extends into western
Georgia, today reduced milk prices in
his Alabama stores below the minimum
set by the Alabama Dairy Commission.
It is the largest chain to defy the
Dairy Commission, which has been
ensnarled in several legal battles over
milk prices since early this month.
The president, Pete Gregerson, said
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— would be directed towards ad
valorem property tax relief and the
subcommittee planned to decide next
week whether to provide the relief
through rebates or to channel it through
county governments.
Dean said S4OO million of the ad
ditional revenue would be sufficient to
“knock out every bit of support people
pay on a local level for property taxes”
for education.
Because constituents were “hitting
us the hardest” on school taxes, Dean
said he would favor channeling the
relief through county governments.
EREG Chairman Culver Kidd, D-
Milledgeville, whose committee would
have to pass the subcommittee
proposals on to the General Assembly,
concurred in the recommendations,
saying, “That’s a good way to go.”
Dean called the proposals
“something for everybody, just about,”
and said “you’ve got to give them
something massive, permanent and not
a one-year rollback.”
Art Wacaster of the Senate research
staff said a 2 per cent sales tax increase
would be “more regressive” than the
subcommittee’s proposals, which
would “hit the affluent mostly.”
He said the services that would be
taxed under the proposals represented
only about 25 per cent of all such ser
vices. “No other states tax services less
than Georgia,” he said.
he was dropping milk costs to meet
those of his two Georgia stores in an
effort “to dramatize the differences in
prices.”
A price of 11.58 per gallon for whole
milk and |1.48 for low fat milk went into
effect at Warehouse Groceries* stores
in Gadsden, Hokes Bluff, Cullman and
Tuscaloosa and the affiliated BHF
stores in Huntsville and Anniston.
The Dairy Commission has set a fl .74
minimum per gallon price.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, December 29, 1976
People
...and things
Downtown Griffin merchant
commenting that dollarwise, his store
enjoyed the biggest Christmas business
in its long history.
Little girl on brand new bicycle with
brand new doll tied to handlebars.
Old friends gathered at funeral to pay
their respects to a man they all loved.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“It’s not easy to please folks
when you’ve promised them too
much.”
Gifts Shower massagers, video games and clothing popular
ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgians ap
parently were planning on showering,
getting dressed and settling down to a
video game if the 10 per cent increase in
retail Christmas sales was any in
dication.
Shower massagers were popular,
clothes sold “like hot cakes” and sales
of video games went well, said Bill
Mcßrayer, president of the 1,200-
member Georgia Retail Association
Inc..
“I swear I don’t know what it was,”
he said. “I hope it was because we did a
good job.”
Mcßrayer said Atlanta-area mer
chants, some with stores in other parts
of Georgia, recorded increases up to 10
Goodbye three to two;
hello two, two, one
No new chairman yet
Louis Goldstein will continue to serve
as city commission chairman and
mayor until the board can get together
on who will succeed him.
At last night’s meeting, the board’s
newest member, Dick Mullins, avoided
breaking a two-to-two tie vote between
Commissioners R. L. “Skeeter”
Norsworthy and Raymond Head by
nominating and voting for himself.
Mayor Goldstein asked each
commissioner individually who he
would nominate.
Commissioner Ernest “Tiggy” Jones
was first and nominated Norsworthy.
Commissioner Head passed, Goldstein
nominated Head, Norsworthy passed
and Mullins nominated himself.
None of the three received a majority
of votes when Jones and Norsworthy
voted for Norsworthy; Goldstein and
Head voted for Head; and Mullins voted
for himself.
A second vote was the same —two,
two, one.
“This can’t go on forever. Would any
commissioner like to change his vote?”
Goldstein asked.
When each answered “no", the
matter was tabled.
Gregory Head, a Griffin High student
who was sitting in the audience, asked
when the next vote would be. He was
told it would come at any future
Electric plant
to locate here
A firm which makes products for the
electric industry will build a plant in
Griffin.
A Griffin native will be its manager.
Initially it will have about 30
employes.
Sefcor, Inc., and Dis-Tran Products
of Alexandria, La., and Griffin, will
construct a combined office and
manufacturing facility in the light
industry park on Uniform road, off
Everee road.
Announcement of the new industry
was made at the Chamber of
Commerce this morning.
Phillip Williams, native of Griffin,
will manage the new facility. He was on
hand today to make the announcement.
Construction on the new facility will
begin in early 1977.
Both Sefcor and Dis-Tran are wholly
owned subsidiaries of Crest Industries
of Alexandria, La.
Crest is a diversified company with
holdings in manufacturing, distribu
tion, engineering, fabrication,
consulting, construction and aviation.
per cent and “last year was a record
year.”
“Nationwide I hear people were
struggling to do as good as last year —
here we’re doing great," he said.
Sally White, a spokesman for
Neiman-Marcus, said, “It’s the best
year we had in the Atlanta store.”
Company policy prohibits releasing
figures, she said.
An “unusual” item which Neiman-
Marcus sold out was s2l jumper cables
packaged in a canvas bag initialed with
the Neiman-Marcus sign.
While fur coats for men and women
were good sellers, Mrs. White said
designer clothes’ sales were —
predicably — poor Christmas items.
“Designer clothes are a fashion in-
Vol. 104 No. 308
Also
I.— Commissioners make annual
appointments.
2. — City hall building to get $174,000
face lift.
3. — Commissioners disagree on need
for architect for Fairmont Center.
4. — Traffic lights will continue to
blink late at night.
meeting when a motion was made.
Legally Goldstein cannot succeed
himself. However, the law states he
may continue to serve until he is
replaced.
Apparently the final decision will
continue to rest on Mullins, since the
other commissioners all later indicated
they were “standing pat”.
Mullins declined to comment when
asked if his choice was final.
Appointments
The city’s annual appointments to
commissions and boards were
announced last night.
Commissioner Ernest “Tiggy” Jones
will continue as an ex-officio member of
the Griffin-Spalding Recreation Board.
Former Commissioner Preston Bunn
was named to a five-year term on the
Griffin-Spalding County Planning
Commission or zoning board. He
replaces J. P. Jennings whose term
expires Friday.
Dis-Tran Products was incorporated
in 1965 and is engaged in the design and
fabrication of packaged high voltage
substations for the electrical industry.
The company is one of the major
package substation suppliers in the U.
S., covering domestic and export
markets.
Sefcor joined Crest in 1975 and has
gained a national reputation for design
and quality excellence. The firm
manufactures a line of standard and
specialty connectors in both bronze and
aluminum alloys for the electrical
industry.
Mr. Williams who will manage the
Griffin plant has years of experience in
dealing with the electrical switches
business.
For many years, he was associated
with Southern States in Hampton.
Mrs. Mildred Sawyer, executive vice
president of the Griffin Chamber of
Commerce, worked with the company
in locating the plant in Griffin.
This was the third industry which
announced plans to locate here within
the last few weeks.
vestment and people don’t usually buy
them as Christmas gifts,” she said.
Mrs. White said she believed shoppers
were willing to spend more money this
holiday season to “get a good value.”
But nobody in Atlanta bought the
$11,750 “his and her” Neiman-Marcus
holiday specialty —a pair of buffalo.
At Rich’s, the Atlanta-based
department store, Lynn Sokler there
was “no dramatic increase in
business.”
But, she said business was up and
attributed it partly to two extra
Christmas shopping days, resulting
from an early Thanksgiving and a
Saturday Christmas.
A cold winter prompted people to buy
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 45, low
this morning 31, high yesterday 59, low
yesterday 30, high tomorrow in mid 40s,
low tonight in mid 20s.
FORECAST: Fair and cold tonight
and tomorrow.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Chance of
rain south portions Friday and again
over the state Sunday. Colder Friday
with a warming trend Saturday.
Mrs. Theta Cowart will replace
Tilman Blakely on the Housing
Authority for a five-year term.
Mrs. Cowart was the only person
appointed who was on a list of
recommendations given the
commissioners by the Griffin League of
Women Voters.
The Griffin-Spalding County Library
Board will have a new black member,
David Walker, who replaces the Rev. O.
H. Stinson. The term expires Dec. 31,
1980.
Jerry Savage will succeed himself to
another four-year term on the hospital
authority.
Arthur Forrer, Dan Smith and Doug
Hollberg, Jr., will remain on the boad of
tax assessors for another one-year
term.
George Murray was reappointed to a
new five-year term on the Board of
Adjustments and Appeals.
The Board of Appeals of Construction
Standards will remain the same for
another year. Appointed to new terms
were Alyn Jones, Ed Whatley, Marshall
Smallwood, Leßoy Brown, and Joe
Ellis.
Annual appointments for one year
include John L. Dallas, tax collector;
Tom E. Lewis, Judge of the Criminal
Court of the City of Griffin; and the
Rev. Jimmy Chambers, city chaplain.
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Chamber President P.A. Bond (1) and
Phillip Williams turn a ceremonial
shovel to announce another new in
dustry.
furs, sweaters and coats, she said, but
“Rich’s refuses to comment on what
didn’t sell well.”
Roy Domingos, president of a Bur
den-Smith department store in Macon,
said sales were “perfectly terrific.”
The store’s vice president, William
Dannenberg, estimated Christmas
sales exceeded projections by 250 per
cent. “We sold out of sweaters," he
said.
Sales figures from the July-
September period indicated a 12.5 per
cent increase over 1975 to $5,003,474,000,
said the GRA’s Mcßrayer. In the first
quarter, sales rose only 2 per cent.
Dollar sales also increased each
quarter.