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KANSAS CITY — Sonya Riddle, 3, is crying because her
parents left her at home yesterday when they went to
make arrangements for the funeral of her 11-year-old
brother, Michael. That’s Michael’s bicycle, upper right.
Committee ready to kill rebates
on fuel-efficient automobiles
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House Ways and Means Com
mittee is ready to kill President
Carter’s proposed rebate on
fuel-efficient cars, but Demo
cratic leaders are trying to sal
vage his plan to tax big gas
gulping vehicles.
“The rebate doesn’t have any
support at all,” Rep. Al Ullman,
chairman of the influential
committee, said Wednesday.
But in an apparent effort to
delay a vote on the companion
tax on cars that get poor gas
mileage, Ullman postponed un
til today a formal vote on killing
the rebate.
The committee finished its
second day of work on Carter’s
energy-tax proposals Wednes
day. One opponent, Rep. Joe
Waggonner, D-La., said 20 of
the 37 members of the panel
were ready to vote against the
so-called gas-guzzler tax.
Ullman predicted the tax will
Voters
disband
school
COCHRAN, Ga. (AP) - Vot
ers in Cochran, shocked by the
sodomy conviction of their for
mer city school superintendent,
voted Wednesday to let Bleck
ley County assume the respon
sibility for the education of their
children.
By a vote of 530-325, the city’s
school system was disbanded.
Attempts at consolidation had
failed in two previous tests, with
the brunt of the opposition
coming from county residents.
Wednesday’s vote called sim
ply for the disbandment of the
city system and involved only
Cochran residents. Under state
law, the county must automati
cally assume the educational
burden.
About a week before the issue
was put to a vote, Cochran
School Supt. John T. Groover
pleaded guilty to charges of
sodomy, theft and furnishing li
quor to minors.
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be approved by the panel. But it
will not go into effect at least
until the 1979 model year, he
said, and some committee
members want to postpone it
until 1980.
But Waggonner said he was
advising against any delay.
“The votes are there to kill it
but it won’t be killed if they ap
prove the delay,” he said.
Working on Carter’s other
energy tax proposals, the panel
approved a tax credit of up to
1400 for persons who improve
the fuel efficiency of their
homes and a credit of up to $2,-
000 for purchasers of home
heating and cooling systems
powered by the sun or wind.
In both cases, the credits pro
posed by Carter were rejected
in favor of versions offered by
committee members.
The rebate and gas-guzzler
tax are key elements of the far
reaching energy program Car-
DeKalb teacher ready
to sail Atlantic alone
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla.
(AP) — Music teacher
Edward L. Lormand is
poised to make his second
attempt to sail alone across the
Atlantic Ocean.
He plans to leave on the esti
mated eight-week journey Sat
urday in his 28-foot sloop, “Lor
mand’s 2nd Folly,” one year
and a day after his first attempt
failed.
Lormand had to turn back
when his working jib was lost in '
a storm after he completed 500
miles of a planned 4,500-mile
voyage to Plymouth, England.
His sails reworked and his
provisions carefully stowed,
Lormand has planned for this
second attempt ever since his
failure.
He has indulged in one luxury
cargo, 600 cigars. He said he
will be encouraged to complete
the trip before they run out.
Police reported he was distracted by a baseball game
Monday night, ran a stop sign at the end of the block and
crashed Into a big truck on one of Kansas City’s high speed
through streets. (AP)
ter spelled out on April 20. An
other major provision —a
standby gasoline tax of up to 50
cents a gallon — also is in deep
trouble.
In an effort to reduce U.S.
gasoline consumption 10 per
cent by 1985, Carter asked Con
gress to impose a gradually in
creasing tax of up to $2,500 on
cars that get poor gasoline
mileage and allow a rebate of
up to SSOO for buyers of fuel
efficient models.
The tax and rebate would be
based on the fuel-efficiency
standards already in the law.
These standards require each
manufacturer to produce a fleet
of passenger cars that averages
18 miles per gallon for 1978
models, 19 mpg in 1979 and 27.5
mpg by 1985.
Current law already sets a
penalty on the manufacturer —
which would be paid ultimately
by the purchaser —of SSO for
That will be in about 60 days,
commented his wife, Fran.
Lormand believes he is much
better prepared than last year.
“This time I have 1,000 miles
of experience,” Lormand said.
“This time I’m an experienced
single-hander and I think I’ve
demonstrated that I’m a good
subject for insurance.”
He said Lloyd’s of London has
insured him for the same
premium as last year.
“The family knows that I’m
not afraid to come in in case I
SCLC leader
backs Young
ATLANTA (AP) - U.N. Am
bassador Andrew Young is only
saying out loud what blacks
each mile per gallon the fleet
falls below the standard. And
the penalty would be paid for
every car made by that com
pany — not just the ones that did
not meet the standard.
If, for example, a company
fleet of two million cars aver
aged only 18 mpg in 1979, rather
than the 19 mpg standard, that
firm would be penalized SIOO
million.
General Motors says it can
meet the 1978 standard; Chrys
ler and Ford are not sure.
Committee members who favor
the gas-guzzler tax are trying to
modify Carter’s proposals in a
way that will not reduce the
competitive position of any of
the three largest manufac
turers.
The fourth U.S. automaker,
American Motors, specializes in
small cars and supports the tax.
rim into trouble,” Lormand
said. “That may be the hardest
thing to do. Any fool can put up
a sail, but it takes a sailor to
know when to take a sail down.”
The 41-year-old solo skipper
teaches music at DeKalb, Ga.,
Community College.
His wife, an Atlanta school
teacher, plans to fly to Enrland
about Aug. 1 to welcome him
there.
“Chances are he’ll be closer
to England than the United
States by that time,” Mrs. Lor
mand said.
have always known about the
racist nature of the nation’s
leaders, according to the acting
president of the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference.
“Andy gets wide publicity on
what blacks have said and
known forever,” Dr. Joseph
Lowery said Wednesday.
Young has been heavily criti
cized for a recent interview with
Playboy magazine in which he
said he considered former
presidents Gerald Ford and
Richard Nixon “racists.”
Young later said he regretted
the use of he word racist, and
added that he had meant to say
the two former presidents were
“insensitive” to minorities.
Young said he also considered
former presidents John Kenne
dy and Lyndon Johnson in
sensitive.
Lowery accused the media of
“sensationalizing” Young’s
statements, and added “All
whites are influenced by an
historical racist posture toward
nonwhites, and particularly
toward blacks.
“We cannot eliminate what
we refuse to admit exists, and
the fact is that racism is firmly
entrenched in all our economic
and political structures,” he
said.
Regents
approve
addition
ATLANTA (AP) - The Geor
gia Board of Regents overrode
the objections of its Education
Committee on Wednesday, ap
proving an addition to the Uni
versity of Georgia Law School
and agreeing to defer action on
a challenge of the board’s man
datory retirement age of 67.
Members of the Education
Committee questioned the fund
ing of the new section of the
Athens law school, to be named
the Dean Rusk Center for Inter
national and Comparative Law.
University officials said the
center, which is to open in Sep
tember, will be supported by
private sources.
But Education Committe
members said they feared those
sources would dry up and the
state would be required to take
over financing.
“There are a lot of ramifica
tions of this thing that we don’t
know about,” said Regent
James Maddox of Rome. “We
are indirectly authorizing the
increase in the size of the law
school and we are already hard
put now for space in that facil
ity.”
Members of the board’s Fi
nance Committee, however, en
dorsed the center’s estab
lishment and Chancellor
George Simpson said the state
would be asked to contribute
start-up costs for only a brief
time before private funding be
gins.
The board also overturned an
Education Committee recom
mendation that it uphold the
termination of a Georgia Tech
professor who reached the
retirement age of 67.
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26 spellers survive
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
werds these kids can spel at the
Nashional Speling Bee cud
make groan peepel wiep.
One of the 12-year-olds mak
ing it into today’s final rounds
sailed through equivocate, bal
briggan, enswathe and osteo
sarcoma. Another of the 26 sur
vivors of Wednesday’s opening
rounds went through quar
antine, panegyric, aquanaut
and anaphylaxis.
It was a tough first day even
for the pre-teens'and 13-and 14-
year-olds who had gotten to the
50th National Spelling Bee by
surviving competition from an
estimated eight million others.
A record field of 94 started,
and 17 girls and nine boys were
still around for more today after
seven rounds and 536 words.
The spelling bee organizers
compile all manner of statis
tics: “The average number of
children in the family of a ’77
finalist is 3.2. The average fam
ily size last year was 3.4 ... It
required a total of 525 words to
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, June 9,1977
decide the ’76 competition ...
Sponsoring newspapers in this
year’s spelling bee represent 37
states, Puerto Rico and the Vir
gin Islands.”
Missing from that litany (one
of Wednesday’s words) is the
pressure, mounting with each
round, and the barely concealed
disappointment and self
reproach when a bell signals a
misspelled word and elimina
tion.
At what other event does au
dience applause go mostly to
the losers?
These were some of the
scenes Wednesday:
—Jana Schroeder of Van
dalia, Ohio, legally blind from
birth, walking confidently and
unaided to the microphone at
center stage five times to spell
correctly quilt, tepid, granule,
cicada and woofer. But then, in
the sixth round, she had “bum
mer” as “bumber.” At that
moment, she was everybody’s
disappointed 14-year-old.
—Stephen Glasgow, 13, from
Circleville, Ohio, getting the
bell for spelling “symbiosis” as
“symbioisis” only to get a repr
ieve when the judges ruled the
official pronouncer had mis
pronounced the word to include
the offending “i” syllable. Wide
grins in the room.
—Theresa Walla of Lewis
town, Mont., six rounds behind
her, beginning “flexuosity”
with “fleu” and walking off with
a disgusted “oh, shoot.”
Have You Heard?
Hammond Dr.
Baptist Church
Is Expecting Great Things
From God! In A Spiritual
Renewal Meeting June 12-17.
Rev. Y. Z. Gordy
“God Servant With
God’s Message!”