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Wagering scratched
ATLANTA (AP) — A proposal to legalize parimutuel
wagering in Georgia was scratched at the starting gate
Wednesday when a state House committee apparently
killed its chance for passage this session.
The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Hayward McCollum, D-
Albany, said the House Ways and Means Committee’s 14*1
defeat of the measure means “it’s dead for this session as
far as I’m concerned.”
The bill would have called for a statewide referendum
on parimutuel wagering during the 1978 election. If a
majority of the voters had approved parimutuel
wagering, racetracks could have been built in counties
that had backed the proposal in the referendum.
The measure also would have distributed a portion of
the racetrack receipts to Georgia’s cities and counties.
Bill aimed at boycotts
ATLANTA (AP) — Compliance with discriminatory for
eign boycotts would be outlawed in Georgia under a bill
introduced Wednesday in the state Senate.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Pierre Howard of Decatur,
mentions no particular nations, but Howard said, “We all
know that the Arabs have a boycott in effect against
Israel.”
One way such boycotts can work, Howard said, “is for
an Arab company to say ‘we’re willing to put money in
your bank as long as you have no Jews on your board of
directors.'”
Howard’s bill would declare any such contracts void
and would make companies that comply with such
requests liable for damages.
He said there is no federal law that prohibits com
pliance as his bill would in Georgia.
‘Sunshine’ loopholes
ATLANTA (AP) — Debate on a bill to close loopholes in
Georgia’s open-meetings law has been delayed until
Monday by the state Senate.
Sen. Ed Barker of Warner Robins, the bill’s spon
sor said he asked for the delay after several senators
indicated they wanted more time to study a substitute
version he presented Wednesday on the Senate floor.
Barker’s substitute would make the “sunshine” law
apply to quasi-govemmental agencies such as county
hospital boards in addition to major state, city and county
agencies.
The bill would eliminate current law provisions which
allow secret meetings when officials say they need to
discuss personnel matters, possible real estate purchases
or legal problems.
Hunting regulations
ATLANTA (AP) — A 174-page bill to put the force of law
behind many of Georgia’s hunting and fishing regulations
won easy passage in a Senate committee Wednesday and
headed for the Senate floor.
The bill, already passed by the House, is necessary be
cause of a Georgia Supreme Court ruling that Department
of Natural Resources regulations, which currently are
without statutory support, cannot be backed up by
criminal prosecution.
The legislature earlier passed a bill to prohibit hunting
of bear, deer and turkey before March 15. Supporters
called that measure a "stop-gap” remedy, fearing the
court ruling would lead to slaughter of Georgia’s big game
if there was no immediate legislation.
Extra energy powers
ATLANTA (AP) — A proposal to give the governor
extra powers during an energy crisis won final approval
in the state Senate Wednesday and headed for Gov.
George Busbee’s desk.
The Senate voted 47-1 in favor of a conference com
mittee version of the bill, approved Tuesday by the Houie,
which would allow the governor to order thermostats
turned down in all homes and most other buildings in the
state and to close down or shorten the hours of schools and
businesses.
The bill also gives the governor the power to allocate
any energy resources not regulated by the state Public
Service Commission and provides for a three-member
committee to permit exceptions to the governor’s
decisions on thermostats and business and school clos
ings. _
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LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo.—This minnow trap is
caught in driftwood left by receding waters of Niangua
Hollings says scrapping of dams
‘one of those unstudied things’
ATLANTA (AP) - Sen. Er
nest Hollings, D-S.C., says Con
gress will do its best to “explain
the facts to Jimmy Carter”
about the 19 water resources
Billy Carter
brings crowd
AHOSKIE, N.C. (AP) - BiUy
Carter, the President’s brother,
sweUed the crowd at the peanut
show here Wednesday to 10,000,
up from 3,500 the previous day.
Carter had been invited to at
tend the North Carolina-Vir
ginia Peanut Trade Show as a
guest, but he managed to up
stage the peanuts with his now
familiar country boy antics.
Among the highlights he:
—Accepted a pewter beer
mug as a gift but complained
the only thing wrong with it was
that it was empty.
—Laughed at Suffolk, Va ’s
claim to the title of Peanut
Capital of the World. “. . .
Dismissal overturned
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The Civil Service Board in
this north Georgia town has overturned the dismissal of a
local policeman who was charged with striking a hand
cuffed prisoner and, instead, suspended the officer for 30-
days without pay.
Manager Ray Keith’s action in dismissing Randall
Scroggs was “too severe under the circumstances,” the
board decided.
The board’s decision came after three and one-half
hours of testimony from 14 witnesses Tuesday night. The
suspension took effect Jan. 27, the date Scroggs was
dismissed.
projects the President scrapped
from the 1978 budget.
The action was “obviously
one of those unstudied things,”
man, we raise more peanuts in
one Georgia county than they do
in the whol state of Virginia.”
—Said his brother came home
from the White House three
weeks after inauguration
because “he was homesick.”
—Refused to change his im
age: “I think I’ve got a pretty
... good image. I’ve had it all
my life, reaUy. I just got into the
limelight lately. I’m not going to
change 40 years of image just
because Jimmy got elected
president.”
—Confessed he couldn’t eat
peanuts: “I break out and swell
up.”
—Made cans of beer dis
appear.
arm of Lake of the Ozarks, three miles west of Cam
denton, Mo. Lake is almost 13 feet below power pool. (AP)
Hollings told the annual meet
ing of the National Rural Elec
tric Cooperative on Wednesday.
“It is no good to come to us in
Congress and say we need to
stimulate the economy then
take approved projects and try
to shelve them,” he said.
Hollings said since all of the
projects have been approved by
Congress and have met pre
requisites to authorization, it
will be difficult for the adminis
tration to prove its case against
them.
Another speaker, Rep. Wil
liam C. Wampler, R-Va., said
he is hopeful Congress won’t be
asked to alter present law and
“take American agriculture
down either a new and untried
road or an old and obsolete
one.”
He told the 11,000 delegates
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that “it is from this record of
achievement (by the nation’s
farmers) that the Carter farm
policy must proceed if agricul
ture is to continue to prosper
and grow, and it is aganst this
record that the new adminis
tration will be measured four
years from now.
Wampler also said Americans
should oppose programs which
require massive international
stockpiles and government-held
storage of commodities. He said
such programs traditionally
have done more harm than
good.
However, he praised govern
ment educational programs in
stead, saying they “have pro
vided American farmers with a
promising way to meet the
challenges of food shortages at
home and famine abroad.”
— Griffin Daily News Thursday, February 24, 1977
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State bar exams
ATLANTA (AP) — A special board, established by the
state Supreme Court, soon will take over the respon
sibility of assuring that only applicants with favorable
backgrounds are allowed to take the state bar
examination.
Superior Court judges now make such decisions, but the
high court said this takes too much of the judges’ time.
The Supreme Court said in an annoucement Tuesday
that the new board will begin functioning April 1.
Police chief suspended
NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) — The police chief of this nor
theast Georgia town has been suspended without pay
pending grand jury action, according to Gwinnett County
Dist. Atty. Bryant Huff.
Huff said a proposed indictment charges Danny Sim
mons with theft by conversion. Simmons allegedly took a
bank withdrawal card from a city jail prisoner and used it
to get funds from the prisoner’s bank account, Huff said
Wednesday.
The proposed indictment will be presented to the grand
jury March 21, Huff said.
Norcross Mayor Lillian Webb said she and the city
council suspended Simmons and named Lt. Mike Davis as
acting chief.
Funeral for Ed Cook
ATLANTA (AP) — Funeral services for Ed S. Cook Sr.,
who served a record 36 years on the Atlanta Board of
Education, are scheduled for today with burial in West
view Cemetery.
Cook was the president of the board from 1933 to 1950
and from 1965 to 1967, during years in which school
desegregation and heavy building to cope with the post
war “baby boom” were crucial issues.
Cook’s son, Ed Jr., is superintendent of schools in Gain
esville.
Survivors include the widow, the former Willie May
Carter; a sister, Mrs. Mary Tuggle of Atlanta; brothers,
Howard Cook of Atlanta and B.F. Cook of Albany, and two
grandchildren.
Fire nears Gardens
PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Flames from wildfires
over part of the Pine Mountain Range burned some vines
Wednesday near Callaway Gardens but apparently
caused no damage to the resort, a spokesman said.
Harris County officials said five blazes were reported
along U.S. 27 near the recreation center.
The fires were brought under control after they had
spread over about 300 yards, officials said.
Four tractors from the local state Forestry Commission
outpost and an airplane along with a fire truck from
Cataula, Ga., were called in to stop the fires, which were
believed to have been set by sparks from trains at a local
railroad yard.