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* Changing Another Griffin landmark is coming down with the razing
of the Woman’s Memorial Clubhouse at Sixth and Poplar
streets. A child day care center will construct a building
on the site.
. Rabies worries federal health people
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health
officials are concerned about an out
, break of dog rabies reported in Laredo,
Tex., since Nov. 18.
Although only about one case of
human rabies is reported every year,
officials worry because there is almost
no chance of survival.
“We treat about 30,000 people a year
* in the preventive program,” said Dr.
82-billion state budget includes pay increases
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s first $2
billion budget, unveiled by Gov. George
Busbee today, includes S9O million for
• pay raises for teachers, university
personnel and other state employes.
The proposed fiscal 1977 budget is
, $2.13 billion, up $231.2 million—lo.B per
cent—from the revised budget Busbee
submitted for this year.
The chairmen of the House and
Senate Appropriations Committees,
Rep. Joe Frank Harris, D-Cartersville,
and Sen. Paul Broun, D-Athens, said
* they would like to see the proposal cut
by sls million to S3O million.
Rep. John Mostiler expects to see a
combined effort by Gov. George Busbee
and the General Assembly to make
government more efficient during the
coming legislative session.
“I don’t look for a lot of new
programs,” he said. “I think we’ll take
a lot of time to look at present laws that
might be out of date. There are over 200
boards in state government that we
don’t need.”
He added, “We won’t have a lot of
money to spend this year. Continued
programs will use most of the
anticipated revenue.”
Mostiler feels that the state budget
will occupy much of the General
Assembly’s efforts during the coming
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, January 6,1977
William Winkler, chief of viral zoonoses
at the Center for Disease Control.
Persons bitten by rabid animals must
be inoculated before the incubation
period of the disease expires. This can
be from three weeks to one year.
“The border is really our last
remaining program in dog rabies,’
Winkler said.
Dr. Everett Baker, veterinary
Under the plan, state employes would
get a 5 per cent raise, with a minimum
of SSOO annually.
Teachers, other instructional per
sonnel and school bus drivers would get
a 7 per cent raise.
University system personnel would
- get raises of up to 9.5 per cent.
Much of the new spending is for
education, with proposals to expand the
kindergarten program to reach 25 per
cent of the about 75,000 5-year-olds in
Georgia, and to provide money to
renovate old school buildings and build
new ones.
session.
“I think we’ll be able to cut the
budget by sls to S2O million,” he said.
“This cut would not be due to a cut in
services rendered but the money would
come from money applied to programs
that are physically impossible to
complete this year,” he said.
He added this year’s budget will
come close to $2-billion an increase of
S2OO-million over last year.
Mostiler said ne hoped to see the
beginning of funding for public
kindergarten for those children who
most need it.
He added, “We couldn’t physically
implement a full kindergarten program
‘I don’t look for a lot of new programs’
Talking back to Carter
One man thinks he should stand in hamburger line
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - Karl Olson of
Rockville, Md., thinks President-elect
Carter ought to eschew the swank
Washington eateries like Sans Souci.
Instead, Carter might dine occasionally
at McDonald’s, Olson thinks.
Standing in line for a Big Mac is just
one of 3,000 ideas the public has sent in
response to Carter’s call for
suggestions on how to stay in touch with
ordinary people and ordinary
experiences once he enters the White
House.
Carter has appointed five staffers
headed by Press Secretary Jody Powell
to sort through the responses, sent to
PEOPLE, Box 2600, Washington, D.C.,
20113.
Powell said Wednesday that most of
the respondents address themselves to
Hawkinsville gambles on tracks
HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. (AP) - This
small central Georgia town is gambling
half a million dollars on a daily double
bet against odds that would make most
gamblers flinch.
People
...and things
Man in bank scratching out 1976 and
replacing it with 1977 on deposit slip.
Two telephone repair men working on
installation in downtown business,
laughing about some of the “handles”
they have heard on CB radios.
Early morning riser passing up
second cup of coffee in restaurant,
apparently in sympathy for the growing
boycott.
epidemiologist at the CDC, said the last
major outbreak of rabies in dogs in this
country was in the El Paso-Ciudad
Juarez area from 1972 to 1975.
There have been no human cases of
rabies in the current outbreak, but
about 15 persons have been vaccinated,
said Dr. Paul Musgrave, regional
health officer at Hartington, Tex.
In social programs, the proposal calls
for $13.3 million to finance additional
medicaid claims and for an additional
$2.9 million to restore welfare benefits
which were cut last year.
Appearing to anticipate a fight over
his welfare proposal, which would
increase the average monthly grant to
welfare families by $2.08, Busbee told a
budget briefing Wednesday night, “I’m
for removing everyone from the
welfare rolls who’s not supposed to be
there. But there must be cost of living
increases to restore some of the cuts. I
hope this will remain in the budget.”
because the facilities are not available
in the school systems. I believe that a
statewide kindergarten will be phased
in by 1980.”
He said he believed teachers and
state personnel would receive about the
same amount of pay increase this year
as they did last year.
“People will also begin to hear more
about the Sunset Law which would
phase out bureaucracies
automatically,” he said. “I think many
agencies of the government should
come under the scrutiny of the Sunset
concept.”
Mostiler said the State Revenue
Department will propose a single auto
license tag law.
the problem of communication between
the public and the White House. They
want new ways to get their views across
to Carter, and they want better ways to
hear what Carter thinks.
Some, like Olson, just want Carter to
take care that he does more than carry
his own garment bag in an effort to
avoid being swept away by White House
pomp. They have suggested that he
make a point of driving in rush-hour
traffic or shopping for groceries in a
supermarket.
One of the most appealing ideas,
Powell said, was for the installation of a
toll-free telephone number through
which citizens could talk to White
House staffers and get help in dealing
with the government. Carter had a
similar telephone installed in Georgia
The $500,000 is going into two new
tracks, a blacksmith shop and stables
for more than 400 horses on 80 acres
about a mile south of town.
City Manager Richard Hogg says
officials hope the new facilities will help
expand Hawkinsville’s role as a trot
ters’ winter training ground.
Then again, if a bill legalizing pari
mutuel betting passes the state
legislature, the investment could pay
off big in new residents, tourist
business and thousands of jobs.
Last year, such a bill never made it
out of committee.
This year’s bill has one major
provision its backers hope will turn
conservative rural Georgians in favor
of legalized gambling.
The state’s estimated $36 million tax
income from three horse tracks and
three dog tracks would be split up
among all the counties of the state, says
Dr. Charles A. Hutton of the University
of Georgia, a coauthor of a study of the
economic impact of pari-mutuel betting
in Georgia.
That averages out to about $175,000
per county, Hutton said, while the total
annual budgets in some small rural
counties are about $250,000 a year. A
“yes” vote could mean a lot of local tax
relief.
Hogg contends the people of
Hawkinsville would approve a
referendum to turn the new winter
The state reached the $1 billion-a
year mark in budgeting just seven
years ago.
Busbee also proposed new ex
penditures of SIO.B million in bond funds
to increase the capacity of Georgia’s
prisons by 2,600 inmates over the next
four years, but he warned that the
program will not fully meet needs.
He said the money would also fund
construction of two new community
correctional centers, in Atlanta and
Savannah, housing 800 and 840 inmates
respectively.
Other funds earmarked for prisons in
“Under this law,” he said, “all
vehicles, from half ton pickups down,
would be charged $8.50 for tags
regardless of weight.”
He explained, “When a person buys a
new car, he would buy a tag and pay the
ad valorem taxes for one year. Each
year after, the taxes would be due on
the anniversary of the date of purchase
of the auto.”
“This would eliminate the long lines
to pay ad valorem taxes and it would
increase revenue,” he said.
“Now taxes are based on 40 percent
of the appraised value,” he explained.
“The increased revenue under this
system would reduce taxable
evaluation from 40 percent to 30
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when he was governor.
Preston Allison of Henderson, Texas
suggested “that Mr. Carter, Mrs.
Carter and Mr. and Mrs. (Walter F.)
Mondale, and the Cabinet members
devote one Sunday afternoon to calling
people all over the country for a three
minute conversation.”
Hugh Moore of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
suggested that “just plain people” be
invited to meet and talk with the
Carters over lunch and dinner at the
White House.
Robert Haney of North Brunswick,
N.J., suggested Carter and Vice
President-elect Mondale hold “old
fashioned town hall meetings” across
the country.
Aaron Shmulewitz of New York City
suggested a network of “ people
training grounds into a racetrack.
“I believe the locals will pass it,”
Hogg said, “because they know what
the horse people here now are like.
They own homes, they’ve bought
farms..they’re an asset to the coto
munity.”
The economic impact study, which
was commissioned by the Georgia State
Racing Association, also says em
ployment in the areas surrounding the
tracks would jump 15,000, and about 300
new horse farms would be established.
The area has long been a winter
training ground for some trotters, and
its one day of racing without betting
every spring is the only harness racing
in Georgia.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
“They say the truth hurts —
I’ve never seen it cause the pain
that lies do.”
the new budget will finance prototype
housing facilities for inmates in the Lee
County correctional institution, using
prison labor to construct the facilities;
begin a statewide prerelease program
for male prisoners and raise the
number of corrections department
employes by 402.
In transportation, Busbee proposed
using $6.7 million from general
treasury funds to launch a four-year
construction program that would add 48
miles to the Appalachian Highway in
North Georgia.
He also called for using $3 million in
percent.”
“I’m not sure that I would favor such
a law,” Mostiler said, “I haven’t
studied all of the ramifications.
However, I would favor some
corrective legislation that might help
us to reduce the line and to spread the
tax base.”
Mostiler said he hoped to see some ad
valorem tax reform legislation.
“Frankly, I don’t anticipate any
great changes in the present tax laws,”
he said.
“My main attention will be on
improved education in Georgia and tax
reform,” he said. “If we could correct
these two areas, the state would be in
excellent condition.”
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 55, low
33, high yesterday 48, low yesterday 34,
high tomorrow In mid 40s, low tonight in
mid 30s.
FORECAST: Occasional rain likely
tonight. Rain ending Friday and
turning colder.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Fair
Saturday. Rain Sunday, ending
Monday.
centers” in communities throughout
the country to serve “as a direct link
between the people and yourself.”
Edgar Dworsky of East Boston,*
Mass, proposed setting up a toll free
telephone hot-line to allow citizens to
ask Carter questions in a monthly tele
vision broadcast.
Thomas Ascard of Hasbrouck
Heights, N.J. suggested Carter hold a
people’s news conference periodically
in which ordinary citizens would ask
the questions.
Michael Daniels of Los Angeles
suggested a feedback system in which
Carter presents issues on television
with the viewing public invited to re
spond on preprinted forms available at
Post Offices.
Jaycees
want DSA
nominations
The Griffin Jaycees called for
nominations for the Distinguished
Service Award.
James A. Webb will be chairman of
the award again this year.
He said nominations could be sent to
him at 116 Laurel drive, Griffin.
Printed forms for making
nominations are available.
Letters of nomination will be ac
cepted.
The award will cover activities in
1976. The award will be for direct
outstanding service and will have no
relation to Jaycee membership.
Nominees do not have to be in the
Jaycees.
Men between 18 and 35 are eligible. If
a nominee reached his 36th birthday
before Dec. 31,1976, he will be eligible if
the activities for which he is judged
were performed when he was 35 or
younger.
Deadline for submitting the
nominations is midnight Jan. 15.
bond funds budgeted in the current
spending program but not needed, for a
S3O million program of resurfacing and
improving city and county roads.
Although the legislature’s chief
budget writers expressed concern over
his proposed spending level for fiscal
1978, which begins July 1, Busbee said
he feels confident about the proposal
and termed it “a conservative, safe
estimate.”
However, the governor this week
asked legislators to reduce present
spending by sl4 million, declaring there
were uncertainties over the national
economy.
