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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1977)
- ' ■»’: ' * M 9«iP uff 90 - I £. ■* * 1 $ .jt, .£',"' 'jSsSs* JH I ■ w ; ■ uB ■•|r I . ■pr Bfe sir JJ ’■?•' .* * fc »<•; ~<* *fl -& 3ll§illi > **P T jfIHPBH -'if- ■ „ s|p* 4p| |k|L 0% SS URr X3*§ I | Ejfip. ', "* Vx' Jody apologizes Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-lIL, is surrounded by reporters in Washington Wednesday alter White House Press Secretary Jody Powell apologized for passing along a rumor that Percy nsed corporate aircraft daring his re election bid in 1972. Percy, who denied the allegation, serves as ranking minority member of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the panel probing past financial affairs of Budget Director Bert Lance. (AP) **" m • THI 'if St' ~ llf§|/ J|i‘ -Sr |f^ k \.' |^^B|jj f *mjr m I • • Jody Powell regrets spreading rumor. Busbee promises no new taxes DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - There will be no new statewide taxes next year if Gov. George Busbee can help it, the governor said Wednesday. Busbee said he has kept his campaign promise that there would be no such taxes for the first three years of his administration. “I have kept that promise,” he declared, “and I can assure you that I won’t be proposing additional taxes in the legislative session starting in January.” Legislators face election next year just a few months after the 1978 session comes to a close. Tax proposals generally are not passed during elec tion years. Busbee, who spoke to a joint session of the DeKalb Board of. realtors, home builders and development associations, can seek re-election next year under a 1976 amendment to the state con stitution. He used the speech to renew his charge that northern interests in Washington are seeking to curb economic growth in the South. “Jealousy and envy are threatening to recreate regional strife in a Sunbelt vs. Snowbelt confrontation,” the governor said. The nation, he said, “does not need another Civil War ... there is no room for regional separatism. But neither can the South tolerate what is happen ing now.” Seven lobbying coalitions were working in Washington in an effort “to devise schemes that would deprive the South of its economic surge,” he said. Busbee described as “one of the most nefarious” a proposal in Congress for changing the formula used to distribute community block grants from 1978 to 1981. The proposal, Busbee said, would give northern cities $528 million and southern cities only S6O million. “It can happen because those playing this silly game have ignored the in dicators normally used to establish formulas and have created a formula based on a pre-1939 housing census. You heard right — pre-1939 housing cen sus,” he said. Strange discovery MACON, Ga. (AP) - When the net caught onto something in the water, police thought they had found the mysterious body reported seen in Lake Tobesofkee. “It looked like the joint of someone’s arm at first; it was sticking straight up,” said offi cer Roger Stembridge of the Macon police. “When it came up we got close to it and started rolling,” said Stembridge, also a mem ber of the Macon Motorboat Club which assists in water res Read in', ‘Ritin’and ‘Rithmetic.. .or Art, Aerospace and Accounting. FIRST NATIONAL MAKES IT POSSIBLE. Low-cost Back-To-School loans from First National can be a big help whether your children are just learning the "Three R's” or going off to college to prepare for a career. We can help you pay for all the school clothes, tuition, supplies, equipment and whatever else your students might need. Just decide how much cash you have to get up, come buy and see us, and s' —\ we'll work out a convenient loan for you. After all, what's more important than our children? » “”“r™ FIRST NATIONAL RANK'S DOWNTOWN-318 S. Hill St. ___ /C SOUTHSIDE—IIO3 Zebulon Rd. OF GRIFFIN, GEORGIA MEMBER FDIC^ cue. “Then it looked like the arch of a back or the back of a head.” What it was was a large blob of jelly. “It came apart and it stinks,” said another officer. Police say they believe it was a fresh water urchin. They esti mate its weight at 35 to 40 pounds and are having it analyzed. Officers called off the search for the body, which was report ed in the lake Sunday. ‘Joggers’ captured TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two prison inmates on an outside work detail escaped by shedding their prison garb for jogging shorts and literally run ning away, authorities said. The two joggers, however, were recaptured when the mother of one of the inmates told police where they were hiding, officials said. Robert Lopez, 19, and Samuel Hampton, 21, were part of a five-man convict work detail which was moving shelving from the old Capitol to the new 22-story structure. Authorities said they had worn jogging shorts under their prison uniforms and soon they fled down an alley, throwing the prison uniforms into a trash can. Lopez was convicted of rob bery in Broward County and Hampton was convicted of bur glary and grand larceny in Tal lahassee. Vital excuse SALEM, Ore. (AP) - When Randy Hunsucker needed an excuse from school, Oregon Gov. Bob Straub wrote a note saying the 17-year-old was ab sent “on an issue of vital state concern.” The high school junior was one of 18 square dancers who performed for the state’s chief executive in his office Wednes day. The youths were celebrating Straub’s declaration of square dance week in the state. The Oregon Legislature passed a bill making the square dance the official state dance. Page 3 ! — Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 15,1977 Lance: No wrongdoing Turning to criticism of large over drafts allowed him and members of his family by the Calhoun bank, Lance said: “The Calhoun First National Bank for years followed a liberal policy with respect to overdrafts. I make no apology for this practice. It was believed by the bank’s management that a liberal overdraft policy was a valuable tool for the bank to use in attracting and retaining customers ... members of the Lance family were not accorded special favors regarding overdrafts. The liberal overdraft policy of the bank was available to all depositors.” Lance told the committee that “no evidence” had been offered to support suggestions that he used his relation ship with President Carter to exert improper influences on decisions of the U.S. attorney’s office in Atlanta to drop an investigation into possible violations arising from the financingof his 1974 gubernatorial campaign. He said the same applied to suggestions that he had used influence to bring about the lifting of restrictions placed on the Calhoun bank by the Comptroller of the Currency. Lance has said that the subject of these restrictions was discussed in a general way when he called on regional banking administrator Donafd Tarleton in Atlanta last November 22, but both men have said that Lance did not ask for the restrictions to be lifted. Lance said the restrictions on the bank were “essentially of no con sequence to me” because the bank had already complied with the (Continued from page 1) r«*rmirements imposed, including discontinuance of criticized overdraft practices. “The only matter of concern was the paperwork involved in filing monthly progress reports,” he said. This requirement was not lifted. “The sworn testimony of the persons involved is uncontroverted that at no time did I request or suggest to Mr. Tarleton that the agreement between the comptroller’s office and the National Bank of Georgia be rescin ded,” Lance said. In regard to the investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office, the budget director said, “once again, the false impression has been created that something sinister was involved.” After Lance’s unsuccessful campaign for governor in 1974 the office of the Comptroller of the Currency in vestigated whether there had been illegal overdrafts by the Calhoun bank to the Lance campaign committee, allowing Lance to benefit in the financing of his campaign from his relationship with the bank. The comptroller’s office referred the matter to the Justice Department, but former U.S. Attorney John Stokes closed the case without investigation last Dec. 2. Lance’s appointment as director of the Office of Management and Budget, which reviews the spen ding proposals pf government agencies, was announced the next day by Carter. Lance said that to the best of his knowledge the first time he learned about the investigation was in December when he was told of it by his attorney, Sidney Smith of Atlanta.
