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Griffin Daily News Friday, February 4,1977 Page 8 State’s revenue collections up ATLANTA (AP) - Last month’s rise in revenue collec tions means Georgia probably will meet its current budget, but revenues could be hit hard if the energy shortage worsens, officials say. Georgia’s revenue collections rose 16.4 per cent last month, with January’s receipts of $177.2 million bringing collec tions for the current fiscal year to $1,014 billion, state Revenue Commissioner Nick Chivilis said Thursday. Those figures represented a 13.5 per cent increase over the People Barbara Walters NEW YORK (AP) — ABC-TV is not “actively” con sidering having Barbara Walters move to Washington this spring to cohost the evening news, says ABC News President William Sheehan. The Chicago Daily News had said that ABC was con sidering the transfer because of an “incompatibility” between Miss Walters and Harry Reasoner. It quoted Sheehan as saying, “We are actively considering the move.” Ronald Reagan TORONTO (AP) — Ronald Reagan says President Carter’s pardon of draft evaders destroyed the process of justice and may “haunt us later.” Reagan, in Canada for a speech to a local political asso ciation, told a news conference Thursday that draft evaders and military deserters broke the law and should receive no leniency. Carter’s pardon, announced last month, did not apply to deserters. Evel Knievel CHICAGO (AP) — Daredevil Evel Knievel has suc cessfully undergone a bone graft operation on his right forearm, broken earlier this week during a motorcycle crash, a hospital spokesman said. Doctors at Michael Reese Hospital performed the bone graft Thursday and placed a plate in the arm, fractured Monday during a practice leap over a 90-foot-long tank filled with sharks. Knievel was to have performed a similar leap that night on a television special. Claudine Longet ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Claudine Longet won’t enter the Pitkin County jail to serve her 30-day sentence until after a cell is remodeled to provide “more suitable” ac comodations, one of her attorney says. “The Pitkin County sheriff expects by June 1 to have a newly remodeled famale facility at the jail,” said at torney Ron Austin. The French-bom entertainer was sentenced Monday to serve the time for negligent homicide in the shooting death last March of her lover, pro ski champion Vladimir “Spider” Sabich. The term is to be served at her con venience between now and September 1. BELTS For Most All Washers & Dryers Bake & Broil Elements MILLER’S Griffin Appliance 612 W. Taylor St. * Special Clearance * { On All lambs J * oa< * 4k XiU7v Off Entire Stock We have ceramic, wood, brass, ginger jars, & others. We also have lamp shades. U. -Clip Coupon, *• 2-60 watt light bulbs I* Si. .--so- Ji { Griffin lighting { * 1138 W. Taylor St 228-4339 4 J Open Saturday 9-2 J same period last year. Gov. George Busbee said the collections make it appear like ly Georgia will match its budg et, but he warned that a revenue emergency could develop if the energy shortage worsens. Chivilis said the receipts showed no economic impact from layoffs or business clos ings because the collections were made before the energy crunch struck. However, he said, economists doubt the shortage will have a permanent effect. They predict Owners must pay STANFIELD, Ore. (AP) - An ordinance making it illegal for pets to mate in public has gone to the dogs, city officials say. Authorities haven’t enforced the celebrated May 1975 law which could land the owner of an amorous animal in jail for as long as 25 days, said Jim Dickason, recorder in this northeast Oregon community. When the law was adopted, Mayor Charles Huxoll com mented' “There’s a lot of that (pets mating in public) going around and besides, almost ev erybody here has a picture win dow in his house.” any revenue lost in the shut downs will be recovered quickly when businesses resume full production, Chivilis said. He said all major taxes showed increases. Sales tax collections rose $6.5 million, or 11.4 per cent; motor fuel tax collections increased $744,500, or 3.6 per cent; indi vidual income tax collections were up $8.3 million, or 23 per cent; and corporate income tax collections jumped by $5.5 mil lion, or 33 per cent. Residents protest power plant ROME, Ga. (AP) — The Fed eral Power Commission will be asked to rescind Georgia Power Co.’s license to build a 675,000- kilowatt facility on Rocky Mountain, says a spokesman for a group of residents. John Butler said Thursday the Texas Valley Association will seek a rehearing on the li cense for the $l6O million hydroelectric plant which would displace about 48 persons. The association also is pre pared to appeal the issue to the courts, where it feels it will have a better chance of blocking the plant, Butler said. One of the grounds his group will use in asking for the re hearings is Georgia Power’s statement that it doesn’t have funds to start the project im mediately, Butler said. A utility spokesman, Terry said the license, which was granted Tuesday, expires if construction does not begin by January, 1979, “and we hope to have the money by then.” Panel votes $3.5 billion to create jobs WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Budget Committee, after looking over President Carter’s economic proposals, wants to spend twice as much as Carter proposed for programs de signed to create jobs. The panel did agree with the size of the President’s $13.8 bil lion tax cut proposals. Carter proposed spending $l.B billion to create 760,000 public works jobs by Oct. 1, the end of fiscal 1977. But the Budget Committee voted on Thursday to spend nearly $3.5 billion on various job creation programs. The Senate budget committee slated hearings on the proposal today. Although the committee members agreed to spend sub stantially more than Carter proposed, staff economists said they could not tell for certain how many more jobs might be created because the President has not released details of all his jobs programs. They did estimate that the equivalent of more than a mil lion jobs could be established by the end of this fiscal year under the budget committee’s proposal. That would make a major dent in the ranks of the nation’s 7.6 million unemployed workers. The budget panel sets overall limits on both revenues and spending. However, it will be up to the Ways and Means Committee to write the actual tax legislation. Carter, in his tax break plan, proposed increasing the stand ard deduction, raising the busi ness tax credit and dis tributingsso-per-person tax re bates to give a quick shot to the economy. PRESCOTT'S BARBER SHOP College-Hill Shopping Center Now Has 3 Barbers To Serve You 6 DAYS A WEEK \ DOX AID SMITH HI GH HAY MEI \ IX I’KESCO rr ■W, f i AI i U 111111 HOMESTEAD, Fla.—Louis Lathan displays cucumbers and green peppers imported to Florida from the Bahamas. Lathan, a vegetable vendor in South Dade county was forced to replenish his supply with the foreign variety to prelace produce destroyed by the freeze here Jan. 18-20. Lathan is also selling melons from Ecuador and expects to purchase Bahamian tomatoes when his supply runs short. (AP) Amy to get same nursemaid ATLANTA (AP) - Convicted murderer Mary Fitzpatrick, who served as nursemaid to Amy Carter while Amy’s father was governor of Georgia, will do the same now that he is President of the United States. Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a nurse maid to President’s Carter’s 9- year-old daughter during much of his term as governor, was granted a reprieve by the Geor gia Board of Pardons and Pa roles to go to Washington, state officials said Thursday. The reprieve was granted after the pardons board re ceived a written request from the White House, said Rob Haworth, executive officer of the board. He would not say who Legislative summary House The House Industry Committee approved a bill Thursday which would allow Gov. George Busbee to close busi nesses and schools and order home thermostats turned down during an energy emergency. The full House votes on the bill today. A bill was passed which would grant immunity to wit nesses appearing before the state medical board. The measure now goes to the Senate. Another medical bill was passed permitting the courts to return a revoked medical license only if it finds the public would not be endangered. This bill also goes to the Senate. A proposed constitutional amendment to give Georgia lawmakers four-year terms beginning-in 1979 failed by just five votes. Supporters of the measure succeeded in getting the bill scheduled for a reconsideration today. A measure to cut off alimony for divorced women living with new mates outside marriage was approved. Senate A public hearing was scheduled Monday for a bill that could bar public access to many government records in Georgia. Sen. Al Holloway, D-Albany, introduced a bill which would impose broad financial disclosure requirements on lobbyists. A proposed constitutional amendment was introduced which would allow the General Assembly to set different rates for property taxes on different classes of land, a measure aimed at helping farmers and elderly persons. Sen. Ed Barker of Warner Robins introduced a bill that would require auto mechanics to give estimates of repair costs — if requested by car owners — and keep their charges within 10 per cent of those estimates. A measure that would have required electronic equipment repairmen to register with the state failed 29- 19. A measure defeated Wednesday which would have allowed drinking past midnight Saturday in unin corporated Fulton County got a temporary reprieve Thursday when the Senate assigned the bill to committee. Notice We have several reconditioned engines & crankshaft kits for older model cars at great savings. SPICIAL FOR THIS WEEKEMD Reg. Spark Plugs 69c Ea. Resistor Spark Plugs 89c Ea. AC - Champion Auto Lite Limit 2 Sets To Customer Cash & Carry Only GRIFFIN AUTO PARTS «0 E. Taylor St. Griffln,Ga. Machine Shop Service New Hours Mon.-Fri. 8 A.M.-6 P.M. Saturday 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Sunday 9 A.M.-4P.M. Imports signed the request. Mrs. Fitzpatrick, 33, was sen tenced to life in prison in 1970 after a Superior Court jury in Stewart County convicted her of murder in the slaying of Johnny Bynum. Under Georgia law she will be eligible for parole after seven years, on April 1, Haworth said. Stewart County Sheriff Bob Mitchell said Mrs. Fitzpatrick had been visiting friends in Lumpkin, Ga., the county seat, and was with a girlfriend when the shooting occurred. Mitchell said the two encoun tered Bynum and another wom an and Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s friend, who had dated Bynum, threatened to shoot him for A.* j * 1 M Until Saturday/Su KXXXXS Cold e , “= X Data from Shower, Stahonary Occluded 4 ° O NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE I <<^— e pt. of Commerc e J FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—Partly cloudy tonight with slight chance of shower and low in the upper 20s. Windy and turning colder Saturday with a high in the mid 40s. Cattlemen in crisis ATLANTA (AP) - Most cat tlemen are not solvent, but stay in business because of their equity in the land, says the president of the American Na tional Cattlemen’s Association. Cattlemen are caught in a fi nancial crisis which “is the worst in history,” Wray Finney being with another woman. 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