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Newspaper Page TextTanker rips up bridge HOPEWELL, Va. (AP) — A tanker tore out a section of a bridge over the James River here during commuting time this morning, and a Coast Guard spokesman said four cars on the bridge 1 fell into the river. The spokesman said two persons had been pulled alive from the river, about , 25 feet deep at the point of the accident, but that it was not known how many others were in the cars that fell into the water. No bodies had been recovered. One end of the broken section of the Benjamin Harrison Bridge came to rest atop the tanker Marine Floridian, » which was immobilized beneath the bridge. 8 killed - as plane . explodes HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A twin engine plane exploded in flight today ' and crashed into a house, killing eight persons, including Pennsylvania’s state Transportation Secretary William ♦ Sherlock, police said. A. H. Childs, director of Penn Dot’s Bureau of Aviation, confirmed that * Sherlock, 36, and his chief of staff, William Smith, were among the dead. William Campbell, Penn Dot in , formation officer, said two other department officials may have been on the plane when it crashed outside Harrisburg in suburban Swatara ’ Township. The officials were going to Ridgway in northwestern Pennsylvania to > present a $52,000 check to the Area Transportation Authority of North Central Pennsylvania. The Country Parson by Frank (Hark fflwTl ■ “All you have to do to make • folks think you’re smarter than you are is keep quiet” Congress Cutting taxes; spending more federal money • WASHINGTON (AP) - Heavy majorities in both houses of Congress are now on record in favor of tax cuts • and increased federal spending to boost the economy. The next question is how • to do it. First the Senate, on a 72-20 roll call, and next the House, 239 to 169, voted to . amend the budget for the current fiscal year to allow tax reductions and • spending hikes. But those votes did not commit the lawmakers to any specific plan to prime the economy. • However, the House, before amen ding the budget on Wednesday to allow • a stimulus plan of up to $16.4 billion, in dicated it prefers a one-shot rebate plan, such as the SSO per person ad- • vocated by President Carter, instead of a permanent tax cut. • By a vote of 258 to 148, the House rejected a Republican plan to reduce “ individual tax rates permanently by 15 . per cent. The GOP, led by Rep. John Rousselot of California, argued that the • nation has persistently high unem ployment because “excessive tax rates .... deter employment and investment.” , Democrats called the GOP tax plan a classic example of the trickle-down GRIFFIN Daily Since 1872 >5 it / a w w Mr Bussey tries to get horse to ham it up for camera. Bill Bussey Academy STAR A Griffin Academy student who has a penchant for photography today was named STAR student at the school. He picked a former headmaster as his STAR teacher. Bill Bussey received the award at the noon meeting of the Griffin Rotary Club today. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bussey, 145 Milner avenue. He picked Walter Welsh, former headmaster at the school, as his STAR teacher. Welsh is headmaster at LaGrange Academy and came to the Rotary meeting today for the awards presentation. Bussey credits Welsh, his former science teacher, with encouraging his interest in that field. He entered Griffin Academy in 1973 as a ninth grader and has been active in many phases of school life. He has held membership in the National Honor Society, Key Club and the Griffin Academy Literary Society. He also theory of economics in which money spent by the wealthy is expected to eventually benefit low-income workers. The House budget amendment of $16.4 billion compares to $15.5 billion that Carter recommended and $17.2 billion approved by the Senate. There are two key differences bet ween the House and Senate versions: —The House plan envisions tax rebates or cuts for taxpayers and special bonuses to nontaxpayers totaling $12.7 billion, compared to $13.8 billion in the Senate. The House version accounts for changes in the Carter tax plan already approved by the Ways and Means Committee. —The House added $215 million more than the Senate in special aid to help offset tax revenues lost by states, cities and counties because of the lagging economy and bad weather. The House plan totals $1 billion, a figure that reportedly is supported by Carter. In addition to the tax cuts and special aid to state and local govements, here is how the plan envisioned by a majority of the House would work over the next seven months: Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, February 24, 1977 served on the annual staff for 3 years. By virtue of his having been a basket ball manager for 2 seasons, Bussey is a member of the Letter Club. He has participated in 2 Academic Bowls at Georgia Southwestern. Throughout his school career, he has had 2 main interests, science and photography. He has served as president of the Science and Photography Clubs, taken an overall first place in the annual Georgia Science Fair and has been involved in numerous ways in photography, both at the school and in the community. In the 1975-76 school year, he was co recipient of the Special Service Award presented by the Griffin Academy Board of Directors for outstanding contributions to the school in a par ticular area. The STAR award was given in con junction with the State STAR Student Awards sponsored by the Atlanta and Griffin Chambers of Commerce. —s7oo million for public-service jobs, such as in hospitals and jails. The aim is to expand from the current limit of 310,-000 jobs to 600,000 over the next seven months and to 725,000 in 1978. Carter and the Senate recommended the same amount. —s6o million for the job-opportunities program, which involves 12-month jobs on local economic-development projects funded partly by the federal government. Neither Carter nor the Senate recommended this. —ssoo million more to start con struction on such publicworks projects as schools and hospitals, the same as approved by the Senate. Carter asked for only S2OO million more. —s6oo million for special em ployment training and jobs targeted for young and old Americans, who are hardest hit by unemployment. The Senate figure is the same; Carter asked for only $300,000. —sßoo million for construction of antipollution and recreation facilities and railroad and highway construction. The Senate approved the same amount; Carter made no such request. Labor office helped fill 2,275 jobs The Griffin Office of the Georgia Department of Labor assisted employers in this area in filling 2,274 nonfarm jobs during 1976. The Georgia State Employment Service assisted employers in filling approximately 86,592 nonfarm jobs during the year. Jerry Buffington is manager of the labor office in Griffin. The average weekly earnings of insured workers in this area at the close of FY 1976 was $146, an increase of $12.00 over the 1975 figure. In FY 1976, 197,921 weekly benefit payments totaling $11,868 were made to unemployed workers in this area in cases of job loss resulting from no fault of their own. The Griffin Office serves Butts, Fayette, Henry, Lamar, Newton, Pike, Spalding and Upson Counties. It is at 122 East Poplar street. The information is contained in the 1976 edition of the Labor Department’s Annual Report, which Commissioner Sam Caldwell has submitted to Gov. George Busbee and members of the Georgia General Assembly. Buffington said that on a statewide basis, “We have been called upon to serve more persons than in any of the previous years of the department’s existence. In order to meet the unprecedented need for our services, we have reorganized, strengthened and increased staff and in many instances have expanded facilities. We have streamlined and upgraded our data processing operations, which have replaced outmoded methods and afforded faster and more accurate processing of claims. “Additionally, our staff has worked closely with employers in this area to help them retain qualified employees. “In spite of this extra work,” Buffington continued, “we were still able to serve the needs of our communities. We are always looking for ways to better use our resources for the public good. For example, during fiscal year 1976, statewide, we used more than $127 million from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to help almost 100,000 persons. The Georgia Department of Labor will continue its increased emphasis on job training and special assistance to the under-educated, unskilled and handicapped,” Buffington said, “and to place them in gainful employment as soon as possible.” “Your Labor Department will also help those whose skills are no longer in demand due to shits in national priori ties. These include skilled persons in several fields,” Buffington added. The Unemployment Insurance Divis ion experienced a decrease of 121,300 new claims filed during FY 1976 — to 428,200 — down from 549,500 the previous fiscal year. More than $193 million was paid out in FY 1976, compared with more than $202 million paid out the previous fiscal year. The Trust Fund, from which unemployment benefits are paid, reached an all-time high of $465 million in September of 1974. However now, because of the record payouts, the Trust Fund has dropped to about $206.2 million. The present unemployment rate in Georgia is 5.6, as of December 1976, down from 8.7 per cent at the same time last year. People ...and things Father and son preparing garden on Maddox Road. Acres of charred and blackened pasture and woodland. Someone careless with match or cigarette? Two men delivering sofa to home then going fishing, hopefully for bass. Vol. 105 No. 46 Kidney From Russia with love NEW YORK (AP) - In an episode that doctors dubbed “From Russia With Love,” a 32-year-old Brooklyn construction worker has received a new kidney only 48 hours after its original owner, a 16-year-old youth, died in an automobile accident in Moscow. “This is indeed a testament to the brotherhood of man,” said Dr. William Stubenbod, the surgeon who performed the kidney transplant on Jose Serrano at the New York Hospital-Comell Medical Center. Dr. Albert Rubin, who earlier had made the informal arrangement with a Soviet physician that led to the trans- Atlantic transplant, said it came about because Russia’s “brain death” law makes organs more readily available. Dr. Rubin said he learned during a trip to Moscow that organ procurement was “more advanced” there, and last September arranged with Dr. Valery Schumakov of Moscow’s Institute of Organ and Tissue Transplant to try the trans-Atlantic operation. He said an estimated 50,000 persons in this country are receiving dialysis machine treatment while waiting for kidneys to become available for trans- Their birthdays like Christmas LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (AP) — When a 7-year-old celebrates a bir thday, there’s excitement. When quintuplets celebrate, there’s five times the fun. “It’s like Christmas,” said Peggy Jo Kienast, the mother of quintuplets — three girls and two boys — born over a 10-minute span Feb. 24, 1970. There only have been about a dozen sets of quintuplets recorded in this country’s 200-year history. The gift-selecting process is carefully done, Mrs. Kienast says, because she and her husband, William, stress in dividuality. “We have to sit down and figure out what everybody is going to get,” she added. Cable TV They can stay home for town meetings THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) - Sheryl Christopher and her husband vote at village council meetings from the comfort of their easy chairs. A new cable-TV hookup allows citizens to tune in on meetings, register their opinions and tune out if the goings get dull. “We couldn’t get a baby sitter and either both of us had to stay home, or one could go to the meeting. This way we both had a voice in the affairs of our community,” Mrs. Christopher said. The Grogan’s Mill Village As sociation, which handles the affairs for several hundred property owners in a section of this new Houston suburb of about 2,500 in Montgomery County, has all its meetings made available to subscibers of WCATV. As discussions on dangerous in tersections or debates on gas rate in creases proceed, viewers can punch buttons on a handheld remote-control unit and say, “Yes, I agree; No, I dis agree; speak louder; go slower, I want more details; go faster, I want less I Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 70, low today 48, high yesterday 69, low yesterday 37, high tomorrow near 70, low tonight near 40. FORECAST: Fair and cooler tonight. Sunny with a high near 70 Friday. plants. The two doctors’ first effort three weeks ago failed because the kidney from Moscow arrived here infected. Then last Saturday, when the young man was killed in Moscow, his body was brought to the institute and his kidneys removed. One was tran splanted into a Russian patient, and the other put in a refrigerated preserving solution for shipment to New York. The kidney was put aboard an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Ken nedy Airport, and Dr. Shumakov telephoned Dr. Rubin to let him know it was on its way. When the kidney arrived on Sunday, it was taken to the New York Blood Center’s facility for preserving organs, and tissue samples were taken to be matched with someone on the waiting list for transplants. Later Sunday, Serrano got a telephone call advising him to come to the hospital Monday, when the tran splant operation was performed. The doctors said Wednesday that Serrano was doing fine. Serrano, asked how he felt about having a kidney flown from Moscow, replied: “It feels terrific!” Although the quints share the same fair features —blond hair and blue eyes — Mrs. Kienast says there are five distinct personalities. Sara is a “little flirt,” who enjoys people; Amy is quiet and reserved; Abigail “has a mind of her own”; Gordon, the efficient one, quietly completes school work with little fanfare and moves onto something else, while Ted is “just a dear and loving boy,” their mother says. “All the kids have good sense and are obedient. There’s some sibling rivalry but that’s perfectly normal,” Mrs. Kienast observed. “They fight and have good times together.” Besides the quints, the couple has two older children, Meg, 11 and John, 8%. detail.” The viewers’ opinions are counted by a computer and printed out and televised to the association members at the meeting within seconds. The system was given its first test Monday night during the monthly meeting. Don Rozak, manager of the cable television station, said the response “was pretty good.” “There were some problems, like one lengthy presentation that didn’t in terest the viewers, and they switched to another show but most came back later for the other discussions. “We feel it will be a tremendous success. There is no other environment where more than one person can ex press an opinion at the same time with out having chaos,” he said. Randy Hanselka, the Grogan’s Mill Association president, said, “To the best of our knowledge no local govern ment meeting has ever before been brought into homes for two-way communications.”