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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, March 22, 1977
Carter election system revamp
includes dumping electorial vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Carter administration is unveil
ing its proposal for revamping
the election system, including
plans to simplify voter registra
tion and to junk the embattled
electoral college.
Vice President Walter F.
Mondale scheduled a news con
ference today to give details of
the administration plan, which
is part of a comprehensive re
vision of election procedures
advocated by President Carter.
The proposal, to be sent to
Congress after the President
discusses it with congressional
leaders at a White House
breakfast, deals with both pub
lic financing of House and Sen
ate elections and a sim
plification of voter registration
procedures.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., a
leader in efforts to eliminate the
electoral college, planned to
attend the news conference.
His presence was considered
a sign of the administration’s
support for his efforts to replace
the electoral college with a
system that will more accu
rately reflect the popular vote
in presidential elections.
Under current law, presidents
are elected on the basis of elec
toral votes. Each state has one
electoral vote for each senator
and one for each member of the
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House of Representatives. All of
a state’s electoral votes go to
the candidate who wins the
popular balloting in the state.
Reps. John Brademas, Dlnd.,
and Frank Thompson, DN.J.,
planned to introduce the
proposal for a “universal voter
registration act” today.
Brademas, the majority
whip, and Thompson, chairman
of the House Administration
Committee, said in a joint
statement that the legislation
was “another step toward ex
tending the franchise and as
suring the involvement of a
greater proportion of the elec
torate.”
Their bill provides that any
one 18 years old or older would
be eligible to vote in a federal
Death
penalty
protest
ATLANTA (AP) — There will
be three days of demonstrations
and religious services here
April 8 through 10, in a national
protest to the death penalty, the
Southern Coalition on Jails and
Prisons announced Monday.
Georgia was selected for the
demonstration because it has
executed more prisoners than
any other state and has the sec
ond highest number of prison
ers, 46, on death row, said Mur
phy Davis, a spokesman for the
coalition.
The death penalty is a “much
more real issue than it has been
for 10 years” because there are
three states, Georgia, Florida
and Texas, which have had
their death penalty laws upheld
by the U.S. Supreme Court, she
said.
election simply by going to the
polls, identifying themselves
and giving their place of resi
dence.
However, voters could regis
ter in advance as well to speed
up the voting on election day.
To finance the paperwork in
volved, the legislation would
give each state 20 cents for each
ballot cast in the most recent
presidential election.
Minnesota and Wisconsin al
ready instituted such registra
tion procedures and the two
congressmen said the ex
perience in those two states
showed “fears of fradulent vot
ing are highly exaggerated.”
Cobb man arrested
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Roger Chaney, 30, of
Mableton has been arrested in Houston, Tex., on a fugitive
warrant and is being held in the slaying of his father, Cobb
County police said Monday.
A murder warrant was issued for Chaney’s arrest after
his father, Clarren R. Chaney, 48, was found shot to death
March 12 in a freshly dug grave, Cobb County Det. Lt. Lee
Moss said.
Moss said two detectives left for Houston Monday to
return the younger Chaney to Georgia.
Reginald Eaves cited
ATLANTA (AP) — A. Reginald Eaves, city public
safety commissioner, was cited for contempt of court
Monday and fined SIOO for violating a 15-month-old ban on
promotions in the fire department.
Fulton Superior Court Judge Charles Wofford also
sentenced Eaves to 10 days in jail, but suspended the jail
term on the condition that Eaves discuss fair promotion
schedules with white firemen.
Wofford ruled Dec. 2, 1975, that neither Eaves nor
Mayor Maynard Jackson could promote anyone in the fire
department because of allegations of “reverse
discrimination” brought in a suit by white firemen.
A firemen’s union later complained that Eaves circum
vented the order by placing some blacks in positions of au
thority without pay.
$1.2-million suit filed
MACON, Ga. (AP) — A Macon man who says he was
blinded in one eye in a mishap involving an ambulance
has filed a $1.2 million damage suit against General
Motors Corp.
William Poole 111 claimed in the suit filed Monday in
U.S. District Court that in 1975 he was checking a battery
under the hood of a Chevrolet ambulance when a
bystander lit a cigarette lighter, causing the battery to
explode and spewing debris and acid on Poole.
Poole claimed the bystander was far enough away from
the battery that it should not have exploded.
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HEW finds no fraud
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - An
investigation by the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare indicates no cases of
fraud or abuse among Georgia
physicians participating in the
medicaid program, the presi
dent of the Medical Association
of Georgia said Monday.
Dr. Fleming L. Jolley told an
Augusta civic club the investi
gation included a random
sample of participants in the
medical program for the poor,
including physicians, nursing
home operators and pharmac
ists.
The final copy of the report
has not been released, he said.
Meanwhile, Jolley said, the
association is “very pleased
with David Poythress,” direc
tor of the state medicaid pro
gram.
“He’s making every effort to
work with physicians,” Jolley
said.
However, Jolley said, about
half of the physicians in Georgia
do not participate in the
medicaid program.
Jolley also said HEW’s re
lease last week of a list of doc
tors, health care groups and
laboratories which receive
SIOO,OOO or more in medicare
Georgia
Yule seal
selected
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - “Me
and Santa in the Sleigh,” a
drawing by first grader Bobby
Scott, will be the official Geor
gia Christmas Seal in 1978, ac
cording to the American Lung
Association.
The drawing was chosen by
the association from six final
ists. Its creator attends White
head Elementary school here.
In 1978, there will be 50 offi
cial Christmas seals, one for
each state.
payments, was "just an atten
tion-getter. It was an effort to
put physicians in the limelight
and that doesn’t help us any.”
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Tanker containing
explosives righted
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) - A
toppled railroad tanker car con
taining explosive gas was right
ed Monday night and approxi
mately 100 residents, evacuated
when the car derailed Sunday,
returned to their homes, au
thorities said.
No injuries were reported.
“Everything is fine now,”
said Peter Morris, a police
spokesman. “All the danger is
over with.”
The derailment of three tank
er cars of a Louisville & Nash
ville freight train occurred un
der a highway overpass in
downtown Kennesaw, 30 miles
northwest of Atlanta.
Styrene gas, a colorless sub
stance used in production of
synthetic plastic and rubber,
was leaking from one of the
three 27,000-gallon cars.
An oil and gas emergency
crew from Texas and an expert
from Dow Chemical Co. in Ak
ron, Ohio, were flown in to
oversee the cleanup. A huge
crane was brought by truck
from Alabama to right the cars.
The cause of the derailment
was under investigation.
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