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Page 10 Griffin Daily News Tuesday, May 10,1977 Carter faces battle over Social Security WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres ident Carter may face a battle with key congressional Demo crats if he hopes to pass his So cial Security proposals, which will lead to higher taxes for most workers and their employ ers. The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Al Ullman, said Monday he saw no need to make the far reaching changes Carter wants in order to solve short-term Social Security financing problems. Russell B. Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, called Carter’s proposals a step in the right direction. But he added that the Senate is likely to "vote to do much of what the President is recommending .... We may find ways to improve on his recommendations.” The proposals were spelled out by Vice President Walter F. Mondale and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. Califano ar ranged to provide details today to a ways and means subcom mittee. Some lawmakers apparently see the Carter plan, including unprecedented use of income georgia news Radioactive waste ATLANTA (AP) - The state of Georgia is looking for a nu clear expert to monitor radio active waste. Leonard Ledbetter, director of the Environmental Protec tion Division of the Department of Natural Resources, said there are a growing number of nuclear reactors in the South To hire firemen ATLANTA (AP) - The City of Atlanta will begin hiring fire men this week for the first time since 1974, Public Safety Com missioner A. Reginald Eaves said Monday. But a plan involving oral ex aminations for prospective city policemen which Eaves an nounced last week already has Joins MARTA board ATLANTA (AP) - David O. Benson has resigned as execu tive director of the State Prop erties Commission to serve on the board of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Translty Author ity. By state law the director of 2 charges dropped MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Two of 13 felony charges of medicaid fraud against a Milledgeville dentist were dropped Monday and a Superior Court judge granted a one-week delay in the case. Superior Court Judge George Jackson granted the delay in the case of Sheldon M. Tuzman when Tuzman’s attorney Lee Dickens claimed he did not re ceive adequate time to review Hallmark Executive Timber ’-■^' A > writing instruments. L% • Handsome hardwood w* i> exterior. Precision cartridge > inside. If 4.5 million graduates could use this set, UEk iei EV'C fAPR chances are your graduates rlEN3uti 3 VX«* are among them. Select & GIFT SHOP from walnut, wenge, cordia, rosewood, tulipwood and teak. 121 West Solomon Street , Phone Mon.-Tues.-Thura.-FrL Wed.-Sat OpentAJH.toIPJH. OpeB>AJ4.toS:»PJIL taxes to feed the pension fund, as the least painful way to save Social Security from bank ruptcy. Senate Majority Leader Rob ert C. Byrd, without committing himself to details, said some action is needed to shore up the system. Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker said he would favor using taxes to save the fund if the alternative were bankruptcy for Social Security. Under Carter’s proposals, changes in Social Security would be felt starting in two years. Beginning in 1979, all employers and those workers who now earn more than $16,- 500 a year would pay more taxes into the Social Security fund. Lower-paid workers would begin paying higher taxes in 1985. In a message to Congress, Carter said SB3 billion in new revenue is needed for Social Se curity by 1982. Otherwise the fund that finances benefits for disabled persons will be ex hausted in 1979, while the fund from which old-age and survi vors benefits are paid will run out of money in 1983, he warned. Thirty-three million people receive Social Security benefits and Georgia is concerned that nuclear waste may be crossing state lines. Ledbetter said the $30,000-a --year salary may be too low, but added, “We are to the point that we are very desperate to get that individual (to fill the position).” been challenged in federal court. The problem of how to devise an impartial test long has been in dispute, and Eaves said a procedure conducted by a com mittee of personnel profes sionals should permit the city to begin filling the 50 openings in the municipal fire division. the properties commission is a member of the MARTA board, but Benson said Monday, “so many jobs got to be too much for me.” Benson will continue as exec utive director of the state Public Service Commission. the list of 59 witnesses and re view the state’s evidence which was presented earlier Monday. Former Fulton County Dist. Atty. Melvin England has been appointed by Gov. George Bus bee as special prosecutor. A Baldwin County grand jury originally indicted Tuzman on 41 counts but Jackson threw out 28 misdemeanor charges, say ing the statute of limitations had run out. while 104 million pay into the system. Mondale said changes are needed to assure workers they will receive the benefits they are paying for. "Older Americans shouldn’t have to live in fear that their benefits may be reduced or cut off,” he said. “Younger Ameri cans must be free to plan for their futures.” The proposed changes drew praise from organized labor and criticism from an organization of businessmen. AFL-CIO President George Meany said in a statement Car ter’s plan “would put the Social Security program on a sound fi nancial basis now and in the fu ture.” The United Auto Workers Union also praised the President’s recommendations. But Andrew Melgard, an offi cial of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said his organ ization “will strongly oppose the administration’s short-term measures to use general reve nues, that is, income taxes, and to increase only employer taxes to pay current benefits.” Patty given probation LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pa tricia Hearst has won five years probation on charges stemming from a 1974 shootout at Mel’s Sporting Goods Store. Some said Miss Hearst — who could have received 15% years to life in prison — suffered enough, but the store owner says he was stunned by the sentence. “I don't quite understand it. I don’t think it’s right, but what can you do?” said Carroll (Bill) Huett, 55. “It’s very obvious (that she should have been jailed). If it had been one of us we would have. I was a little stunned to say the least,” he said in an interview Monday after the sentence was an nounced. In addition to probation, Su perior Court Judge E. Talbot Callister ordered the heiresss to make financial restitution to Huett. A report filed by Miss Hearst’s probation investigator revealed that Huett is “ex tremely bitter and angry as to how this offense has affected his life and business.” Huett, who was struck in the arm by one of Miss Hearst’s bullets, has filed a civil suit against Miss Hearst, the report said, but was unable to get past her bodyguards to serve a sub poena. He has estimated damage to his store at $6,000. During the sentencing hear ing, Deputy Dist. Atty. 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The Bell School of Languages said the 8% week course costs $595, and that the princess “is a very hard worker and her English is fair to medium.” She boards with a family in this ancient university city. Marie-Astrid, 23, called “Asty” by Prince Charles, at tended the school three years ago for a similar course. gram is necessary to match the expected demand for elec tricity. If the rate increase is ap proved in full, the average resi dential customer would see his bill rise 19.6 per cent. But one of the PSC’s five members, Bobby Pafford, said the company “will have a very difficult time” winning more than half the increase. Pafford said using principles established by the PSC in the last Georgia Power rate case, the utility’s latest rate increase request would be based on its base rate and the boost would come to $94.8 million rather than $197.6 million. Georgia Power received its last permanent rate hike in 1974, receiving sll6 million of its $305 million request. 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