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Newspaper Page TextDaily Since 1872 [ Enjoying Labor Day outdoors | *?*' ~===~ —----'^ ■~ : -~-^= = -"= HH*;- ; -/» k ißu- ' Mrs. Hattie Thompson of Forest Park spent Labor Day at the Griffin Reservior. She was on a fishing outing with her son. Georgia Capitol tarnished ATLANTA (AP) — Although Georgia claims to be the shining buckle on the sunbelt, the tarnish is beginning to show on some of the state’s public buildings. The gold on the gold dome of the Capitol is flaking off and the air con ditioning and heating units may be causing serious damage to the building. On top of that, the roof leaks. And Steve Polk, director of the State Building Authority, says things aren’t much better at the governor’s mansion, where the roof also leaks and the heating and cooling systems don’t work. When Jimmy Carter was governor, he sometimes complained that he froze in the summer and roasted in the win ter. President Carter may be more comfortable now at the White House, but the problems at Gov. George Busbee’s residence in the high-rent Buckhead section of Atlanta persist. The governor’s Office of Planning and Budget has asked the state legislature for money to make ex tensive improvements. The request may be considered by the Legislative Services Committee this month. Polk says it will cost about $150,000 to repair and refurbish the gold dome, but he says he doesn’t think anything per manent can be done about the leak in the Capitol roof. He said the metal roof is warping. In addition, massive air conditioning units in the roof are too much for the structure to handle. Carter resisting efforts to get Lance to resign FV Bert Lance DAI LY NE WS F I i / v M| Dr. Valdon Smith cools off during a break in tennis matches at City Park. Like many Griffinites, Dr. Smith spent his Labor Day enjoying the outdoors. (Tennis results, page 6.) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter is resisting efforts to get Bert Lance to resign as White House budget director, despite warnings by two lead ing senators that serious new allegations about Lance’s financial affairs have been uncovered. At a White House meeting Monday, Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., and Charles H. Percy, R-111., told Carter the new allegations are “of such a serious nature’’ that Lance should step down before trying to defend himself. But it was learned that Carter and Lance will not consider a resignation at this point. The President, it became known, still feels Lance has done noth ing wrong and will be vindicated by the committee’s investigation. Ribicoff and Percy are ranking members of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which confirmed Lance as budget director. The com mittee and two other congressional panels are investigating Lance’s ac tivities as the head of two Georgia banks before Carter appointed him to head the Office of Management and GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, September 6,1977 Budget last January. Among those scheduled to testify before the governmental affairs panel was Robert Bloom, who had been ac ting comptroller of the currency and had praised Lance before the com mittee during confirmation hearings. He reportedly planned to testify that he had not mentioned that he knew of Lance’s financial problems because he had assumed senators had been told about them by White House aides. The senators declined Monday to tell reporters what new information their staffs had uncovered about Lance’s financial affairs, but Percy called for appointment of a special prosecutor to handle the investigation. Ribicoff planned to brief the com mittee on the new allegations today as a House banking subcommittee was asking banking examiners how thoroughly they investigated Lance when he was first confirmed. Ribicoff had been a staunch defender of the budget director after previous inquiries into his finances. After hearings in July he asserted that Lance County gets word tax flak coming Tax assessors can expect to get some flak from a group of Spalding County citizens who think they see some inequities in property evaluation. Bob Brannon* business executive, came to the meeting of the Spalding Commissioners this morning to discuss the matter. He and a group of about 50 people concerned about assessments under stood that the tax assessor was to give a report on revaluation work. Brannon is executive vice president of an Atlanta based f inn and lives in the Griffin Country Club area. The commissioners told him only a progress report was expected on the evaluation work being done. Brannon indicated the group of taxpayers wanted to send represen tatives to a session with the com missioners to discuss assessments. Virgil Phillips, the professional tax assessor who runs the office for Spalding, sometimes gives an update on the work being done to com missioners when they meet. He was not at the session early this People ••• and things Seven-year-old girl, relieved she didn't catch bride’s bouquet at wed ding, exclaiming, “Thank goodness I didn’t catch it, I’d have been next (to get married.)” Huge athletic type man emptying his pockets at counter in county jail before being led away to drunk tank. Man around city hall commenting on how nice building looks after new sandblast job but, “The roof still leaks.” The Country Parson by Frank Clark “When I was a boy they were calling men henpecked if they respected women’s rights.” had been “smeared” by the press. But Ribicoff told reporters Monday: “I think it would be wiser for Bert Lance to resign. I don’t think Bert Lance can be an effective budget director while this is going on.” The only official White House com ment on the Monday statements by the two senators was that the President appreciates their plans to begin hearings without delay. Lance had no comment, but Ribicoff said he understands Lance is deter mined to remain in office. Comptroller of the Currency John G. Heimann cleared Lance of any crimes in a report to the committee Aug. 18. But Heimann has said his investigation did find unsafe and unsound — although legal — banking practices. The congressional investigations center on bank overdrafts by Lance and his family, Lance’s pledge of the same collateral for separate loans at dif ferent banks, his personal use of bank aircraft and whether he fully disclosed his investment holdings at his con firmation hearings. Vol. 105 No. 211 morning, however. A spokesman for his office this morning said he was not in but was expected, possibly by noon. The group of citizens apparently has done its homework in looking up property assessments in several county areas and is ready, through a few spokesmen to ask the county officials to explain wide discrepancies they say they have found. Members of the board of assessors are Tommy Johnson, A. Wayne Smith and Ray Barron. In other business before the com missioners this morning, the Spalding board indicated it would communicate with the Henry board about sharing paving costs on Jordan Hill road. Spalding and Henry will be respon sible and they want to find if any state help is available. The commissioners were informed that Wendell Bozeman who operates a lounge at Capri Restaurant had been given a state temporary occupancy ‘From-scratch’ trend continues in baking By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer The high prices of 1973 and 1974 which prompted people to cut down the use of convenience foods have left a legacy in the form of continued interest in baked goods and other “do-it-from-scratch” Lt. Gov. Miller Lt. Gov. Zell Miller will be the speaker for the Spalding County Democratic Party dinner tonight at Holiday Inn. The affair will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a poolside social hour and the dinner program will follow at 7:30. Other state Democratic leaders are expected to be among the guests. <*■* =• O IB Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D-Conn., right, and Charles H. Percy, R IH., chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, respectivly, face newsmen outside the White House Monday after a meeting with President Carter. They said that they recommended to Carter that Budget Director Bert Lance resign. (AP) Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Considerable cloudiness through Wednesday with chance of showers becoming more likely Wednesday. Low tonight near 70; high Wednesday in low 80s. LOCAL WEATHER — Low this morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 68, high Monday 86. permit of 60 days. The permit was to allow him time to meet state fire regulations. The commissioners also learned that the city and county boards are free to see what can be done about repairing the Health Center roof. They checked up and found the Hill-Burton Act money used in the building would not affect any agreements made for its repair. The commissioners said they still had under study a request to exempt ad valorem taxes on solar energy develop ments as an incentive to encourage them. No decision has been reached on the request. It came from Dr. Kit Weathers, a Griffin dentist, who is a pioneer in solar energy here. Warden Floyd Wilkerson who handles paving and road work for the county reported assessments work in the 26.9 miles of paving under a state bond program was nearly complete. He said some work still is to be completed on Carver and Shoal Creek roads but this should be finished soon. types of food. Government statistics show that per capita consumption of wheat flour in the United States declined steadily from 118 pounds in 1960 to 106 pounds in 1974. The trend was reversed in 1975, however, and estimated per capita consumption of wheat flour for 1976 was 111 pounds. Not all of the increase, of course, is due to more homebaked cakes and breads. A spokesman for the Wheat Flour Institute pointed out that Amer icans are eating more and more hamburgers every year. More ham burgers means more buns. And more buns means more wheat flour. It is too soon to tell what the picture for 1977 will show. But some industry sources predict steady interest in home baking and consumers will find that they can save money and time if they learn what types of flours are available and which ones do what. There are three parts to a kernel of wheat. The inner part, or endosperm, is the part which is ground to make white flour which accounts for more than 90 per cent of the flour milled in the United States. i The other two parts are the bran or outer layer and the germ — the part which would sprout. The bran and the germ are removed from white flour, but are left in whole wheat flour. They also are sold separately, usually in (Continued on page 3.)