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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 25,1977
Underwater advisory board sinking fast,
so are the federal tea sipping experts
< WASHINGTON (AP) - The
J Underwater Sound Advisory
: Board is going under.
i So is the Board of Tea Ex
' perts, the Advisory Commission
' on Hog Cholera Eradication and
1 the Lyndon B. Johnson National
' Grasslands Advisory Board.
! The Carter Administration,
saying it hasn’t been getting
“much of a bang for the buck it
was spending,’’ abolished these
and 172 other government advi
sory boards Wednesday.
In some cases, administration
spokesman Harrison Wellford
said, the panels haven’t been
bothering to meet or issue re
ports.
Business briefs
Cagle’s sales decreased
ATLANTA (AP) — Citing increased grain prices,
Cagle’s Inc. reported net first quarter sales for 1977 of
$34,646,329, a decrease of >1.04 million from the same
period in 1976.
The company said net earnings for the period that ended
July 2, 1977, were >490,832 or 21 cents per share. That
compared to first quarter earnings in 1976 of >691,071, or 30
cents a share.
“The company has continued to feel the pinch of higher
growing costs due to higher prices for grain,” said com
pany president J. Douglas Cagle. He added that market
prices for broilers were too low to make up the difference.
Reduced fares sought
ATLANTA (AP)—Southern Airways is asking the Civil
Aeronautics Board for permission to reduce air fares by
40 per cent on Saturday flights.
A Southern spokesman said if the discount program is
approved, passengers buying Saturday flight tickets
would be required to make the return trip on the following
Monday or Tuesday or on any other Saturday within 30
days.
The spokesman said the discount plan would be called
the “Saturday Special” and would be available on all
flights on Southern’s 14-state route system.
Southern officials said they hoped CAB approval would
enable them to institute the plan by Sept. 10. They said
they planned to keep the special fares in effect until Dec.
10 and then evaluate the program.
Man, 21, spends
night in chimney
GRANITEVILLE, S.C. (AP)
— A 21-year-old man spent the
night lodged in the chimney of
the Rainbow Falls Inn until he
was freed early today.
Aiken County officers said
Jimmy Montgomery, 21, was
charged with breaking and en
tering.
Woodroe Williams, who owns
the inn, said he heard cries for
help when he arrived for work
about 7:45 a.m.
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The General Accounting Of
fice said in April that 26 per cent
of the government’s advisory
boards didn’t meet in 1975,
while 59 per cent issued no re
ports on what they did, if any
thing.
Wednesday’s move, along
with the elimination of 304 other
boards in May, will save tax
payers >ls million, the ad
ministration says.
The advisory boards cost the
public an average of >56,000 this
year in salary, staff support and
printing plus travel and daily
allowances for committee
members.
Federal law allows persons
Williams said he found Mont
gomery’s head in a hole for a
stove pipe in the chimney. He
said Montgomery descended
the chimney, but came to an
old-fashion fireplace which was
too small to get out.
He said he called Montgom
ery’s father and the two of them
pulled the man from the
chimney with a rope.
Officers said he was taken to
the Aiken County sheriff’s of
fice, where he was booked and ,
bathed.
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for the Red Cross Bloodmobile visit to be here Monday at the First Baptist Church
Cheatham building. Mrs. Huckaby is in charge of refreshments.
District court expands
Albany’s ward lines
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - A U.S.
District Court judge has ex
panded Albany’s ward lines and
ruled that the post of mayor pro
tem must be eliminated from
citywide elections.
Judge Wilbur Owens issued
the rulings Wednesday in a suit
filed against the city by blacks
who claimed they were being
discriminated against because
of the city’s election system.
The suit sought to have the
Albany mayor and mayor pro
tem chosen from among the city
commission members. Both are
presently elected at large.
Owens ruled the number of
city wards must be expanded
from five to six and said the
mayor should continue to be
elected citywide and the city
commission should elect the
mayor pro tem from among its
members.
Owens earlier had ordered
the city’s Aug. 9 nominating
primary for mayor and city
commission postponed until
Oct. 4. A new mayor and three
commissioners will be chosen in
the November general election.
Mayor James Gray, who has
said he will not run for re-elec
tion, said he was pleased that
the judge allowed the mayor to
be elected by all the city voters.
serving on an advisory board to
draw up to >lB4 a day. While
some agencies and departments
generally do not pay members,
one, the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, pays an
average of >IOO for a day’s
service.
Officials said about 5,000 per
sons on the boards were notified
Tuesday and Wednesday that
the panels on which they serve
are being eliminated.
President Carter, in a memo
to agency and department
heads Wednesday, alerted them
to “continue to give your per
sonal attention to assuring that
committees are terminated
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Mayor Pro Tem Harry Gold
stein, however, was critical of
the ruling which prevents him
from running for re-election this
fall. Goldstein resides in a ward
whose commissioner will not be
up for re-election until 1978.
He asked Judge Owens to al-
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Os the 480 committees being
abolished, 261 are being killed
off outright while the rest will
be consolidated into 78 new
panels. At HEW alone, 100 com
mittees are being scrapped. But
another 252 still will be around.
The Agriculture Department
is losing 78 panels, including the
one concerned with eradicating
hog cholera. The department is
left with 32 advisory com
mittees.
In all, another 709 boards will
remain in business after the
cuts are made. The number of
advisory committees has been
shrinking since 1975, when there
were 1,500 such bodies.
low him to be made an ex-officio
member of the commission so
he could retain his incumbent
status for next year’s election.
The judge said he would hear
the request Tuesday at his Ma
con office.
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more likely Friday. Low tonight around 70; high Friday in mid 80s.
Plains sweeper
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - Presi
dent Carter’s hometown, de
luged by mountains of trash left
on the streets by floods of
tourists, has turned to the North
for help.
Mayor A. L. Blanton said the
four-man street-sweeping crew
will be aided by a >15,500 vacu
um-power sweeper purchased
from the Tennant Co. of Min
neapolis, Minn.
He said it should have been
delivered before Carter’s visit
to his hometown last month.
“But it didn’t get here,” the
mayor said.
The sweeper is due to arrive
next Wednesday.
Mayor Pro Tem Earl Godwin
estimated about 3,000 visitors a
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Hammocks
WASHINGTON (AP) -
About 10,000 hammocks will be
sold in the United States in
1977, according to a National
Geographic Society survey of
the >5-million-a-year industry.
The society says Christopher
Columbus and his men were
the first Europeans to see a
hammock, which was used by
the Arawak Indians. They
called it a “hamaca.” They
soon found that the highly port
able sleeping device was ideal
for island living as well as sea
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