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— Griffin Daily News Friday, August 19,1977
Lance comes home to rest
after winning round in probe
ATLANTA (AP) - Federal
budget director Bert Lance
came home to Atlanta for a
brief visit after experiencing
what he called “a full day”
winning a round in his fight to
clear himself of allegations of
improper banking procedures.
“I’m gonna go home and go to
bed. I’ve had a full day,” the
embattled director of the Office
of Management and Budget told
newsmen a few hours after
federal investigators reported
that Lance had done nothing il
legal in his banking activities.
Lance entered the back door
of a hotel here Thursday eve
ning and avoided a crowd of re
porters waiting to interview
him before he spoke to a gath
ering of the National Associ
ation of Real Estate Brokers.
But he later agreed to hold a
brief news conference before
addressing the group.
“It was an in-depth, fair,
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complete inquiry and investiga
tion,” Lance said of the probe
by Comptroller of the Currency
John Heimann. “I think the re
sults speak for themselves.”
He said the report “was what
was to be expected.”
Lance also denied speculation
that his position in the Carter
adminstration was “crippled or
irreparably damaged” by the
probe.
“That was not the case at
all,” he said. “That was the
term used by the media...
‘To say that you can damage
somebody or cripple them with
an allegation found to be not
correct certainly is not good for
our system,” he continued. “So
I feel good about the situation.”
However, Heimann’s report
to the Senate Governmental Af
fairs Committee did say that
Lance’s activities while presi
dent of banks in Atlanta and
Calhoun, Ga., “raise unresolved
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acceptable banking practices.”
Heimann and Lance have been
asked to testify before the com
mittee next month.
Official says:
Educational opportunities
should be extended
TIFTON, Ga. (AP) - Pro
grams aimed at educating the
children of migrant agricultural
workers should be extended to
workers in other seasonal pro
fessions such as fishing, a fed
eral official says.
Michael Spradlin, director of
the federal programs in Pasca
goula, Miss., testified Thursday
at a public hearing on special
education programs for the
children of migrant workers.
Fishermen “have a seasonal
harvest just like farmers do,”
he said, adding that shrimp and
oyster industry workers espe
cially should be given aid.
Spradlin testified during one
of four scheduled hearings to be
held in the United States.
Thursday’s hearing was de
signed to set guidelines on how
Georgia should spend $1.25 mil
lion in federal funds to help
educate children of migrant
workers.
Witnesses included
educators, public officials and
private individuals from eight
states and Puerto Rico.
Carol Heide of Sarasota, Fla.,
told the hearing the definition of
agricultural activities should be
changed to include beekeepers,
Lance declined to say how he
would answer those unresolved
questions, saying he had “an
agreement” with the Senate not
to discuss banking legislation.
flower growers and other types
of seasonal workers.
Another witness, Frank
Dnunmmond of the Mississippi
Department of Education, said
present guidelines also should
include children who move from
one educational district to
another without their families
or guardians.
Desegregation guidelines
apply to black colleges
ATLANTA (AP) — New fed
eral desegregation guidelines
apply to Georgia’s three tradi
tionally all-black colleges as
well as white colleges, but will
not affect the black institutions’
“integrity,” federal education
officials said Thursday.
“Constitutionally, we cannot
and we should not enforce cri
teria that preserve any in
stitution as white or black,”
said David Tatel, director of the
Office of Civil Rights of the
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
“The theory is that if black
institutions are strengthened
and the opportunities for blacks
are increased at white in-
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stitutions, all these things will
play a part in the nonracial role
of education in the state,” Tatel
told the Georgia Board of
Regents.
The guidelines were issued by
HEW under court order for six
states including Georgia early
last month. The states must
present expanded
desegregation plans to HEW by
Sept. 1.
Tatel was part of a 10-mem-
Georgia Power
to get about half
of rate hike
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia
Power Co. will be given per
mission next month to raise its
rates an average of 10 per cent,
about half what the utility is
seeking, two members of the
state Public Service Commis
sion say.
Commissioner Ford Spinks
made the statement in a letter
to a land development com
pany, and Commissioner Bobby
Pafford agreed with the state
ment during an interview
Thursday.
The commission, which sets
Georgia utility rates, has not
voted formally, but it must act
before Sept. 18 or the company
will receive its full increase re
quest of $197.6 million, which
would raise residential electric
bills about 20 per cent a month.
The PSC has five members —
Spinks, Pafford, chairman Ben
Wiggins, Mac Barber and Wil
liam Kimbrough.
Spinks’ letter was directed to
Geoff Tyres, property manager
of an Atlanta development com
pany. Tyres gave it to news
men.
In the letter, Spinks said the
commission probably will de
cide the rate increase by Sept. 6,
and that the increase “will be in
the range of 10 per cent ....”
Tyres said the letter came in
response to one he wrote Wig
gins. Tyres said a friend who is
a Georgia Power Co. represen
tative had warned him earlier
to expect a 20 per cent rate in-
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Mary Ford: she’s in hospital
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) —Singer Mary Ford, who paired
with her guitar-playing husband Les Paul for such 1950 s
folk hits as “Vaya Con Dios” and “The World Is Waiting
for the Sunrise,” was in critical condition in a hospital
today with a neurological disorder.
Miss Ford, who is in her middle 50s, had been reported
in serious condition Thursday at Arcadia Methodist
Hospital, but a hospital spokeswoman announced today
that her condition had worsened.
She is being treated in the hospital’s intensive care unit
in this Los Angeles suburb.
Frank: he’ll be guest host
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer Frank Sinatra will fill in
for Johnny Carson as guest host of NBC’s “Tonight Show”
on Nov. 14.
The network said Thursday that Sinatra originally was
to appear on the show last March 15, but canceled that
appearance when Carson decided he didn’t want his
program telecast live.
ber HEW team in Atlanta to
answer questions about the
guidelines.
During his meeting with the
regents, Tatel said the guide
lines reflected “the court’s ad
monition that every effort be
made to strengthen these
(black) institutions,” but warn
ed that the desegregation
guidelines would apply to black
as well as white colleges.
“The purpose is to protect
crease Sept. 1.
The PSC was not dealing
openly with the public if utility
employes were announcing a
rate increase before the formal
decision had been made, Tyres
suggested in his letter to Wig
gins.
The land developer said he
also received telephone calls
from Wiggins and Barber.
He said Barber told him the
increase would be approved by
a vote of 4-1 and that Barber
planned to cast the only dis
senting vote.
However, Barber said in a
telephone interview, “Either I
didn’t make myself perfectly
clear or there was a misunder
standing. I think I told him I
hadn’t committed myself.’’
Barber also said he did not
predict a 4-1 vote.
Wiggins and Spinks could not
be reached for comment.
Spinks wrote Tyres that ■ 'hile
the commission had not yet of
ficially decided, the increase
“will be in the range of 10 per
cent and not 20 per cent.”
Pafford was shown a copy of
Spinks’ letter and he com
mented, “I’m inclined to
agree...l said to begin with that
I thought they had about S9O
million too much in there...l’ve
said that from the opening
gun.”
Pafford said he believed the
utility should receive a rate in
crease of between $95 million
and sllO million.
Most adults still
flu protected
ATLANTA (AP) - Most
adults between 25 and 51 years
old who received a swine flu
vaccination last year still are
protected against the disease,
researchers at the national
Center for Disease Control said.
A CDC survey showed 73 per
cent of those persons have kept
them as institutions without los
ing the tradition and value and
the unique role which they have
played,” he said.
The three historically all
black colleges in Georgia are
Fort Valley State College, Alba
ny State College and Savannah
State College.
Regent Erwin Friedman of
Savannah questioned the validi
ty of guidelines he said gave
apparently contradictory direc
tions both to eliminate the duel
system of higher education and
preserve the all-black in
stitutions.
Regent Elridge McMillan of
Atlanta said the guidelines ap
peared specifically to call for
the maintenance of black col
leges.
A five-member regents draft
ing committee is to meet today
to draw up its final response to
the HEW guidelines. The re
sponse will be presented to the
full board Aug. 26, then passed
on to the governor and for
warded to HEW.
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to protect them against the
disease.
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viral disease branch said
Wednesday the protection prob
ably will last for some time.
“This is about what we would.
have expected for this age
group,” he said.
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