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— Griffin Daily News Friday, March 18,1977
Page 8
At the Carters 9 house
He wants
some privacy
By FRANK CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter, a private
man in a public profession, is jealous of time spent with
his family and does not encourage interruptions for less
then-urgent business.
“I guess it’s been at least a month since I’ve been over
to the second floor,” said Press Secretary Jody Powell,
referring to the Carter family’s White House living
quarters.
On the infrequent occasions when Powell has gone
there, he acknowledged, it has been with the implicit
advance approval of the President.
If Powell and other key aides feel they must talk to
Carter after office hours, they reach him by telephone
first and, whenever possible, transact their business that
way.
“After all, there’s only one of him and there are half a
dozen of us,” said Powell, suggesting that if aides felt free
to invade Carter’s privacy at will, he never would have
time to himself.
In trying to draw a demarcation line between office
hours and private time, Carter is mirroring the habits of
President John F. Kennedy who, if anything, was more
zealous about erecting an unseen but universally
respected barricade between the living quarters and the
White House offices.
Among recent presidents, only Lyndon B. Johnson in
vited regular visitations by favorite assistants, reporters,
new-found acquaintances and others. As the door mat at
I .BJ’s Texas ranch read: “All the world is welcome
here.”
Big sea, small boat
Carter has placed atop his Oval Office desk a bronze
plaque on a wooden base that reads, “Oh God, Thy sea is
so great and my boat is so small.” It’s the gift from his old
Navy boss, Adm. Hyman Rickover.
Blackbound Bible
Also on the desk is a blackbound Bible atop a typing-size
white memo pad, a small bottle of water from the North
Pole, collected last year by the nuclear submarine Gur
nard, a ceramic donkey presented by Georgia Democrats
during the party’s 1976 convention, and the celebrated
plaque, borrowed from the Harry S Truman Library, that
reads “The Buck Stops Here.”
*
Cigar in his mouth
A cigar in his mouth, Jody Powell began his daily news
briefing Tuesday with an announcement that the wife of
Carter’s 26-year-old chief speech writer, James Fallows,
had given birth to a son.
With good-natured sarcasm directed at Carter’s critics,
Powell said this was proof the administration “is not all
style but has some substance.”
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Taking a nap
WASHINGTON—An unidentified youngster catches a cat nap behind a statue of George
Washington in the Capitol rotunda. Tours of the Capitol building begin at the rotunda and
this lad is awaiting his turn. (AP)
Brown woos industrialists
SAN FRANCISCO -
(LENS) — In exasperation a
few weeks ago the Dow
Chemical Company aban
doned its efforts to get
clearance from California's
many environmental and
regulatory agencies to build a
SSO million styrene plant on
land it owns upstream from
San Francisco Bay.
Os the 65 permits needed for
the plant, Dow managed to get
only four, after two and one
half years, at a cost of $4.5
million.
The company's troubles
have helped to sharpen an old
conflict in California between
jobs and the environment,
with Gov. Jerry Brown caught
in the middle. His attempts to
hurry clearance along for
Dow came too late to stop the
company from pulling out
Complaints about the
state's supposedly un
favorable economic climate
already sound like the theme
of Republican efforts to
recapture the governorship
next year.
Sensitive to the complaints
of the trade unions (allied
with business on this issue),
the Democratic-controlled
state legislature is ordering
studies of its own.
The building workers rankle
at the state’s unique require
ment for environmental im
pact statements on private as
well as public building, at
coastal restrictions on tall
buildings, at delays in dams
and power plants caused by
concern about earthquakes
and at the slowing down in the
construction of atomic energy
stations.
In reaction to all this,
Brown is going out of his way
to court businessmen. He cut
short his time at the inaugura
tion of President Carter to
woo New York industrialists,
and gave the state's support to
a study by the California
Round Table — an informal
club of 60 businessmen — into
what may be hampering
growth in the state.
Most strikingly, Brown said
he would back a coastal site
for a terminal to serve
tankers carrying liquefied
natural gas, however strong
the protests.
A terminal needs to be
started soon, it is argued, to
be ready for deliveries in 1980
of Alaskan and Indonesian
gas. The Southern California
Gas Company began trudging
through the regulatory maze
seven years ago and has a
favorable ruling from the
federal power commission for
a site in Oxnard, south of San
ta Barbara. Local residents
are against this and four other
agenices at least have yet to
grant clearance.
Some of the gloomy talk
among businessmen in the
state has support from a study
by the Fantus Company, a
Dun and Bradstreet sub
sidiary, on sites for new
plants. The company's presi
dent, Maurice Fulton, told the
California legislature that on
his reckoning the state’s
appeal to new industry ranks
47th out of 48, considering
business taxes, strong unions,
environmental regulations
and stern planning standards
insisted on by local
governments.
The “next to last" label is
certainly misleading. A host
of recent reports on the
state’s economy suggest that
the prospects for 1977-78 are
far from poor. Unemployment
is still higher than in the coun
try as a, whole, but this has
long been true of California
and the gap is narrowing.
The drought will cause a
sharp drop in farm production
— as much as $1 billion or 10
per cent of most forecasts.
California has a good record
for creating new jobs at a rate
of 7.6 per cent over the past
three years, compared with
3.2 per cent nationally. There
is a strong increase in housing
starts (after an admitted
slump) and in incorporations
of new businesses. Business
profits failed to grow last year
as rapidly as they did in the
country as a whole, but in 1977
the rates are expected to be
more closely in line.
Little of this suggests that
California is, as the conser
vative business magazine.
Forbes, claimed on its
January cover, “paradise
lost.”
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Yoshimura
sentenced
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -
Wendy Yoshimura, sentenced
to 1 to 15 years in state prison,
claims past ties with Patricia
Hearst and the Symbionese Lib
eration Army led to her trial
and conviction in a weapons
cache case.
But Alameda County Superior
Court Judge Martin Pulich cited
the association with Miss
Hearst as one reason for grant
ing Miss Yoshimura bail after
he imposed sentence Thursday.
“It would be a little ano
malous that someone whose fi
nancial resources are $1.5 mil
lion gets bail and someone who
is dependent on welfare goes
into jail,” Pulich said.
He hiked Miss Yoshimura’s
bail from $25,000 to $50,000 but
allowed her to remain free
while she raises the bail money.
Miss Hearst is free on $1.5
million bail pending appeal of
her armed bank robbery con
viction.
Miss Yoshimura, 34, was con
victed on Jan. 20 of illegal pos
session of weapons and ex
plosives found in a Berkeley
garage five years ago.
During the trial, Miss Yosh
imura maintained she was una
ware of the contents of the ga
rage. The defense said her ac
tivist boy friend, who pleaded
guilty to weapons charages,
was responsible.
She stood calmly when Pulich
pronounced sentence. Her par
ents, gardeners from Fresno,
Calif., strained to listen and her
mother later wiped away tears.
It appeared likely she would
serve far less than the max
imum sentence, imposed under
a law that expires on July 1.
Under a new fixed sentencing
law, Miss Yoshimura would
face an average sentence of two
years, with provision for parole
after 16 months. The judge said
92 days served prior to the trial
would be counted as time
served.
“I believe I was convicted be
cause of the clear racism and
sexism of my trial,” a weary
Miss Yoshimura told reporters
after the all-day court session.
“Additionally, my trial is not
really about the charges
stemming from 1972.1 was tried
for my association with Patricia
Hearst and the Harrises ...”
Miss Yoshimura was arrested
with Miss Hearst in San Fran
cisco on Sept. 18, 1975. During
3% years as a figutive, she had
met and traveled with Miss
Hearst and with SLA members
William and Emily Harris.
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type mixed, female, 4-months
old; one tan with black face,
Shepherd type , mixed breed,
male; one black and white blaze
up m uzzle and half collie mixed
breed, female, Border collie
markings; one light red mixed
breed, female, resembles
Border Terrier breed; one
black, mixed breed male,
possible Labrador cross; one
small Chow type female, red,
with 3 babies, neck cut where
chained apparently; one female
black Poodle-Terrier type,
mixed breed, monkey looking in
appearance.
One white Samoyed type male
puppy, approximately 4-
months-old, two Chow type
female puppies, reddish brown
with darker mahogany
markings, approximately 3-
months-old, one Chow type
puppy male, redish brown with
mahogany markings, one
dachshund type mixed breed
male, one black with tan and
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