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Page 8 I — Griffin Daily News Safurday, February 5,1977 Committee to decide fate of S3O-million ATLANTA (AP) - A legisla tive conference committee meets this weekend to try and decide the fate of S3O million available in the fiscal 1977 state budget which the Senate voted Friday to save as surplus. Bootlegging arrests SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Eleven persons were ar rested in connection with bootlegging operations after sherif’s deputies and state revenue agents searched 11 Chattooga County homes Friday. A “huge amount” of liquor and beer was confiscated, Sheridd L. D. Ragland said. He said those arrested were charged with either possession or sale of taxpaid or non-taxpaid alcoholic beverages in a dry county. CBer charged ROME, Ga.(AP) — A Dallas, Ga., man whose Citizens Band “handle” is “lieatherlips" has been charged with violating the federal statute for broadcasting obscene language, the FBI says. A federal magistrate set bond of $1,500 Friday for Marshall Parson. The maximum penalty for using foul language on the air is two years in jail, a SIO,OOO fine or both. Man dies in fire GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Hall County authorities said a 76-year-old man died Friday in a house fire nine miles north of here. The victim was identified as Hadley Ball of I .atty Road. Authorities said the house was heavily damaged in the blaze. Rome man killed ROME, Ga. (AP) — A 26-year-old man was killed Friday when his motorcycle failed to negotiate a curve and struck a tree, police said. The victim was identified as Willaiam Coultier Jr. of Rome. Cattle value increases ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The value of Georgia cattle has ris en 11 per cent in a year while hog and pig values dropped 12 < per cent, the Georgia Crop Re porting Service says. EUCTROLUX World Famous Electrolux Vaccums & Floor Polishers. SALES & SERVICE 122 W. Solomon Street 228-6753 Call or Stop By Also Expanding the Area Representatives. 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George Busbee the power There were 2.3 million cattle and calves on Georgia farms Jan. 1, with a per head value of S6O and a total worth of $368 million, the service said. No voters HELENA, Mont. (AP)-A voting precinct without a single registered voter was carried on state records throughout 1976, the and Clark County recorder says. Recorder Helen Kovich said Friday that after Bill Wade, 89—only registered voter in Marysville’s Precinct No. 13— died in 1975, no move was made to reunite precincts divided in 1974. Marysville, site of extensive gold strikes in the 19th Century, has about 50 permanent resi dents but is listed in some Western guide books as a ghost town. to close schools and businesses and order thermostats turned down in office buildings and private homes during a state energy crisis. A measure giving the state Department of Natural Re sources control over surface waters in Georgia and requiring heavy water users to obtain a permit if they use more than 100,000 gallons of water per day also won House approval. The Senate approved midyear changes in the state’s budget but balked at the House plan adding S3O million to the budget for a road rehabilitation pro gram. Conferees on the joint legisla tive committee agreed Friday to meet again Sunday after spending 40 minutes reviewing their differences on the highway repair issue. Sen. Paul Broun, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Com mittee, argued that it would be “much better business” to have the state transportation depart ment make a thorough survey of roads that badly need repair than have the money ready to be spent beginning July 1. But Rep. Joe Frank Harris, chairman of the House Appro priations Committee, said the lower chamber feels that money will end up “in the candy bags” of other programs if left for next year’s budget. On another front, the Senate aproved a bill that would allow motorists to turn left against a red light from a oneway street to a one-way street and sent back to committee a bill that would require television repairmen and other electronics repair workers to register with the state. The House agreed to recon sider a proposed constitutional House A stand-by emergency powers bill that would give Gov. George Busbee control over all thermostats in the state during an energy crisis passed by a vote of 150-6. A measure giving the state Department of Natural Re sources control over surface waters in Georgia and requiring heavy water users, such as governments and big industries, to obtain a permit if they use more than 100,000 gallons of water per day won passage. Representatives agreed to take a new look at a proposed constitutional amendment to give legislators four-year terms. Rep. Douglas Dean, D-Atlanta, introduced a bill prohibiting landlords from “wrongfully” evicting their tenants or shutting off services to their rental property. A second bill introduced by Dean would allow a tenant to * * J I- \ / I r" X r 'i a « J'. O- ® . Q A ® © 6) . © 00 0 0 L I V V V V F ** MT Lwcuiibi mibte/mb' - 7823?jA rs- — m - * milk * Georgia State Senators Floyd Huggins (Columbus) and Hugh Carter (Plains) huddle at their desk Friday after the Senate voted unanimously to approve changes in the $1.9 billion budget. The act set up a confrontation with the House over the S3O million for road repairs. (AP) amendment that would give legislators four-year terms and an Atlanta representative in troduced two housing bills. Busbee requested the standby emergency powers legislation after studying current laws to determine the scope of his authority. Rep. 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Senate Senators voted to save S3O million in the $1.9 billion budget for fical year 1977 as surplus instead of spending the money for highway rebuilding and repair as the House voted earlier. A conference committee of the joint legislature meets Sunday to thrash out differences in the spending bill from the two houses. A bill allowing motorists to turn left against a red light from a one-way street to a oneway street was passed. The upper chamber sent back to committee a bill that would require television repairmen and other electronics repair workers to register with the state. lanta, introduced housing bills that would prohibit landlords from “wrongfully” evicting their tenants or shutting off services to their rental property and allowing tenants to make secified repairs that the landlord refused to make and to deduct the bill for those repairs from their rent. Dean said he planned to in troduce several other housing bills in the House next week. Young critical of lan Smith ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — Andrew Young, the black en voy who is on a fact-finding mission in Africa for President Carter, says he believes lan Smith’s white-minority regime in Rhodesia does not want a settlement with blacks in south ern Africa. “The people in Rhodesia will see Smith is leading them down a dead-end street,” Young said of the Rhodesian prime minis ter’s plan to work out an inter nal settlement with unnamed black moderates rather than guerrilla leaders who he claims are Soviet-backed. “I do not think Smith wants to settle—he never has,” Young said at a press briefing. “It’s just a question of how long it takes him to realize how long he’s got.” Part of Young’s mission is to assess the hopes for reviving the Rhodesia talks in Geneva, which broke down in December. month Smith rejected a British plan to create a black dominated interim government to oversee the transtion to majority rule in the former British colony of 6.4 million blacks and 270,000 whites. 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