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— Griffin Daily News Monday, September 19,1977
Page 12
Crew of icebreaker
gazes at warehouse
SEATTLE (AP) - Many
joined the Coast Guard to see
the world. Instead, the crew
members of the $52 million
icebreaker Polar Star have
spent more than a year gazing
at the backside of a warehouse
while tied to a dock in Seattle.
“Clean or not clean, you clean
it,” said Seaman Craig Barnes,
21, of Eugene, Ore. “The whole
ship has been repainted, some
parts more than once.”
The Polar Star, the United
States’ largest icebreaker, was
tied to a dock from July 1976
until last week with propeller
problems. The Star’s sister
ship, the Polar Sea, has been
tied to the same dock since
Percy •> Ribicoff still want Bert Lance to resign
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Senate committee investigating
the financial affairs of Bert
Lance is deciding whether to
continue its inquiry as two key
members say they still want
lance to resign.
The Senate Governmental Af
fairs Committee planned to call
witnesses from its own staff to
day to answer Lance’s assertion
that he told committee in
vestigators in January about
the financial troubles now under
investigation.
Sen. Charles Percy, R-111., the
ranking Republican on the
committee, said the staff mem
bers called to testify would con
tradict Lance’s contention that
he told investigators about his
financial dealings before being
confirmed by the Senate panel.
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-
Conn., chairman of the com
mittee, said members would
meet in a closed session later to
decide whether to end the in
vestigation or call more wit
nesses.
And he noted the committee
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March with similar propeller
problems.
Now in drydock, the Coast
Guard hopes the Polar Star will
be ready to weigh anchor and
start cracking ice in November.
All of the crew works on the
ship during the day and at night
one fourth of the crew is on
board.
“A ship of this size and this
complexity requires an elabo
rate maintenance and training
program,” said Capt. Robert
Smith, who took command of
the ship in June.
Hailed as the most powerful
and sophisticated conventional
icebreaker afloat, the Polar
Star has suffered sinking for-
can do little more than it has
done. “There’s no way a com
mittee can unconfirm an execu
tive official,” he said.
Ribicoff said Sunday night
that Lance’s three days of testi
mony last week did not change
his opinion that the budget di
rector should step down. In fact,
Ribicoff said, Lance’s position
was worsened by his testimony.
Ribicoff said in a telephone
interview: “My position hasn’t
changed as to my statement of
Labor Day. The hearings have
made it worse, not better. Per
sonally, I think he’s looking
worse.”
On Labor Day, Ribicoff and
Percy met with President Car
ter and urged that Lance quit
because of information com
mittee investigators uncovered
about his banking practices.
Percy said Sunday he still
feels Lance should quit. Percy
said the three days of testimony
by Lance “strengthened con
siderably my feeling that he
should leave government.”
President Carter dodged
tunes since it was commissioned
in January 1975. The vessel ran
aground two days after com
missioning and constant
mechanical malfunctions
allowed it to be at sea only six
days out of the first three
months in service.
Five months after commis
sioning, the Polar Star headed
north for ice trials, during
which the propeller problems
were discovered. Two of the
ship’s driveshafts malfunc
tioned and it limped back to
Seattle under escort.
With the shafts removed, the
Polar Star has sat at dockside
since July 1976.
"By no stretch of the imagi-
questions about Lance on Sun
day. Last Friday, about mid
way in Lance’s testimony, Car
ter said he thought his old friend
had “enhanced his position.”
But Carter added that he was
“keeping an open mind about
the entire subject.”
Two other members of the
committee, a Democratic sup
porter and a Republican critic
of Lance, said Sunday they ex
pect the budget director to re
main at his post at least for a
while.
“I see no reason Bert Lance
should resign or certainly be
fired,” Sen. Thomas F. Eagle
ton, D-Mo., said on the CBS
television program “Face the
Nation.”
Sen. William V. Roth, R-Del„
was asked on the same program
whether he expected Lance to
be retained as budget chief and
replied: “It certainly sounds to
me as though that is the current
intention of the President.”
Completing his testimony be
fore the committee at an un
usual Saturday session, Lance
nation do we have a lemon,”
insists Smith. “Compared to
past icebreakers, she’s incred
ibly better. Up north, what she
went through would have
stopped another icebreaker
cold.”
Nevertheless some of the sail
ors have rented apartments,
bought homes and set up all but
permanent residence in Seattle
with their families.
“It’s almost like shore duty
for most of them,” said Chief
Petty Officer Gary Moore, 28, of
San Antonio, Tex.
“It’s kind of embarrassing
sitting at the dock and hard to
justify our jobs,” he said.
said he would “return to my
duties ... with an even firmer
sense of responsibility and dedi
cation.”
Bakke case hinges on meaning
of 2 words...quotas, goals
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jus
tice Department officials are
doing the final proofreading on
a slim, gray paperback book
written for an audience of nine
but containing subtle messages
for the nation’s educators, em
ployers and civil rights leaders.
The volume is the Carter ad
ministration’s brief to the nine
Supreme Court justices in per
haps the most important civil
rights case in more than 20
years.
The case involves Allan
Bakke, a white applicant denied
admission to the University of
California Medical School.
Bakke contends he was the
victim of unfair discrimination
because the university reserved
16 places in the entering class of
100 for black applicants.
The Supreme Court agreed to
review the decision by a Cali
fornia court, which ruled in
Bakke’s favor. Its decision,
some weeks or months after
hearing arguments Oct. 12,
could profoundly influence gov
ernment efforts to assure equal
education and job opportunities
for blacks, Hispanics and wom
en.
Because of the probable im
pact on federal programs,
President Carter, Atty. Gen.
Griffin Bell and Solicitor Gen-
GRIFFIN-SP ALDING COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
GRIFFIN-SPALDING COUNTY HOSPITAL
Balance Sheet
March 31,1977
Assets Liabilities and Fund Balances
CURRENT ASSETS: CURRENT LIABILITIES:
Cash $100,731 Current port ton of long-term debt (Note I) $25,000
Receivables— 0% percent note payable to bank (repnid«ibeequenttoye*r«nd)-(Note4)30,000
Patient services, less reserve for allowances and uncollectible accounts of Accounts payable—
sß7B,o9o 1,183,424 Trade 188/14
Spalding County (Note 4) 7,978 Medicare program (Note 1) $87,748
Inventories, at lower of cost (first-in, f irst-ont) or market 171,981 Accrued liabilities-
prepaid expenses 20,502 Salaries and employee benefits 239,323
Investments, at cost, market value of approximately $37,000 27,401 Vacation pay (Notel) 11,711
Interest 15,558
Total current assets 1/21,815 Total current liabilities 807,210
REVENUE ANTICIPATION CERTIFICATES (Note 2) 1,000,000
CASH RESTRICTED UNDER REVENUE ANTICIPATION CERTIFICATES Less Current maturities (25,888)
(Note 2): 975,000
Sinking fund 50 DEFERRED REVENUE UNDER MEDICARE PROGRAM (Notel) 50,000
Renewal, extension and operating reserve fund 4,588
4/H
EQUIPMENT DEPOSITS (Note 3) 30,517
COMMITMENTS (Note 3)
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, at cost (Note 1):
Land and land improvements 104,100
BolkUDOUdaxora MJSH njND BALANCES (Note 1):
Equipment 2,(00.441 o-e-tf-gfund 7U ’ 88
SSSi
Less-Accumulated depreciation (2/81,880) n—trfH-atad
5,130,100 4/53/72
te.BBB.IBX $8,888,182
The accompanying notes are an integral part of tide balance sheet
The complete financial statements, as of March 31,1077 together with auditors’ report are
on fife with the clerk of Superior Court for Spalding County.
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For months the Coast Guard’s two new, super-icebreakers
sat tied to a dock in Seattle. Now one of them, the Polar
Star, has entered drydock for installation of retooled
As for the question of taking
further testimony, Eagleton
said Sunday the hearings should
eral Wade McCree decided the
administration should tell the
courts its views about the Cali
fornia system for recruiting
blacks into the medical school.
The government brief, though
heavy with legal terminology
and addressed largely to the
Bakke situation, is being per
ceived as a presidential policy
statement on the issue of racial
quotas and affirmative action
plans.
Unlike most government
briefs, this one has been cleared
with Carter personally and
draft copies were circulated to
White House aides and Cabinet
members for comment.
Justice Department officials
were keeping the final draft un
der wraps during the weekend,
but an earlier version dis
appointed black leaders and
some Cabinet members. The
tentative draft endorsed af
firmative action programs but
declared racial quotas uncon
stitutional.
Four Cabinet officers — La
bor Secretary Ray Marshall;
Housing and Urban Develop
ment Secretary Patricia
Roberts Harris; Health,
Education and Welfare
Secretary Joseph Califano, and
United Nations Ambassador
Andrew Young — thought the
stop. “They have gone on too
long and are becoming a three
ring circus,” he said.
endorsement of affirmative
action programs was far too
weak.
Leading civil rights groups,
including the NAACP, the Na
tional Urban League and the
Congressional Black Caucus,
publicly denounced the draft
statement.
The controversy hinges on the
definition of two terms, quotas
and goals, which became a part
of the lexicon of civil rights
after enactment of anti
discrimination laws of the 1960 s
and early 19705.
The theory underlying af
firmative action programs is
that employers and educators
must take positive action to en
sure fair treatment for minor
ities and women to compensate
for past discrimination, which
shut out those groups from
many jobs and schools.
Some affirmative action pro
grams, such as the one at the
California medical school, are
being called racial quotas. And
hardly anyone will publicly ad
mit to supporting quotas.
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propellers. The Polar Sea, shown in the foreground,
remains at dockside. (AP)
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