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Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 22, 1977
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The Democratic majority leader of
the Senate, Robert C. Byrd of West
Virginia, a key weathervane in the
Lance case, said: “The nation cannot
afford to have as director of the Office
of Management and Budget a man
whose personal problems are so great
that they detract from the performance
of his duties.”
From the Republican side, Senate
Minority Leader Howard H. Baker of
Tennessee, said: “I don’t think
President Carter will ever fully
recover. ... The damage has been
done."
After a last meeting with Carter,
Lance returned to his home in
Washington’s fashionable Georgetown
district. Moments after Carter’s news
conference ended, Lance’s wife,
Laßelle, stepped out of the house and
said:
“I didn’t feel my husband had to
resign. I still feel he could take a job
anywhere. He’s honest and good and
I’m proud of him."
New term, old disease
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP)
— The increasing use of citizens
band radio by prostitutes has
produced a new term for an old
disease. Officials call it “CBV
D” for veneral disease spread
by prostitutes using the air
waves to make dates.
“When you have a prostitu
tion house, you know where it is.
But with the CB, everybody
involved is more elusive,” said
Ronald Bryant, head of the
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The CB prostitutes have most,
of their encounters along inter
state highways — at truck
stops, rest stops and large
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Kiwanis honors Mrs. Hoskins
Mrs. Bess Hoskins (third from left) received the Layman
of the Year Award at the Griffin Kiwanis Club Wed
nesday. Ninety-three churches were asked to participate
and she was nominated by her church, The Seventh Day
Adventist on South 14th street. A retired Griffin High
City attorney thinks charter
could bind sales tax to relief
The city attorney believes
that the Griffin charter can be
amended to bind local option
sales tax money to property tax
relief.
That's what Commissioner
Louis Goldstein told the Griffin
Kiwanis Club Wednesday. He
and Commissioner R. L. Nor
sworthy gave their opposing
views on the local sales tax
option. City voters will decide
the issue Tuesday in a
referendum.
Goldstein who favors the tax
followed up a suggestion from
former commissioner Carl
Pruett on the idea of changing
Government to change
gas figuring system
WASHINGTON (AP) , - The
government is planning to change the
way it calculates the figures that tell
buyers how much gasoline mileage to
expect from their new cars because
owners don’t necessarily get the same
results.
Douglas Costle, administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency,
which furnishes annual auto mileage
projections, acknowledged Monday
that methods for calculating the figures
have left some new car buyers angry
and disgruntled.
The EPA’s new ratings showed that
the diesel-powered Volkswagen Rabbit
gets the best mileage of 1978 model cars
being offered for sale in the United
States. The Rabbit posted 40 miles per
gallon in city driving and 53 mpg in
highway driving for a combined
mileage of 45 mpg. Two Chrysler Corp.,
cars — the Plymouth Fury and the
Dodge Monaco — were at the bottom of
the fuel-efficiency list.
Some motorists are discovering their
fuel gauge hits the empty mark faster
than the government says it should,
Costle said.
The problem is with the methods used
by the EPA in forecasting new car fuel
efficiency, he said.
The mileage report, assessing the
fuel efficiency of foreign imports as
well as U.S.-manufactured cars, is
based on_ tests conducted under
laboratory-controlled conditions by
professional drivers. The results are
broken down into three categories: city
driving, highway driving and a com
bined figure.
The combined figure does not
represent an overall average of high
way and city driving, however. The
government gives more weight to the
Singing birds unmask big gambling ring
NEW YORK (AP) - The ca
naries and parakeets sang their
hearts out, but police say they
still unmasked the bookie oper
ation and broke up a $5 million-a
month gambling ring.
Officers said they arrested
three men and two women and
the charter.
City Atty. Bob Smalley told
Goldstein he thought the
charter could be amended to
make it binding that local option
sales tax money be used to cut
property taxes in future years.
The state law as written now
requires the relief for only the
first year.
Norsworthy said he was for a
sales tax but not this one. He
argued it would benefit the
large property owners.
Goldstein said the sales tax
would require everyone to share
more of the local tax burden
rather than putting more of it on
city driving figure. The combined
figure represents a weighted average of
55 per cent city driving and 45 per cent
highway driving to simulate average
driving habits.
Costle said discrepancies often occur
between government mileage forecasts
and motorists’ actual mileage because
present methods of calculating the
figures fail to take into account certain
variables.
Although nearly 50 per cent of all
motorists receive mileage as good or
better than the agency’s test, “there
are a large number who do not get the
advertised mileage,” he said.
Costle said government figures may
sometimes be misleading and overly
optimistic because of “wide differences
in driving habits and maintenance
practices and the varying road, traffic
and weather conditions which drivers
experience.”
Costle said the EPA will adjust 1989
figures downward with the possible
goal of taking off a certain percentage
to account for these variables.
But he defended the usefulness of the
EPA lists, saying they were a good
measure of the relative performance of
the tested cars.
Although the Rabbit won the fuel
economy ratings race, the EPA’s new
figures did not include the Honda Civic
CVCC, which was ranked No. 1 last
year. Honda was omitted because its
1978 model has not yet been certified by
the EPA.
The autos were evaluated in five size
classifications. Diesel-powered cars
ranked first in three of the
classifications, indicating the gasoline
engine may be losing ground as the
automakers battle to boost auto
mileage and conserve fuel.
seized $14,000 in cash and tapes
of telephoned bets in a mid
afternoon swoop on a Queens
apartment Wednesday.
They said they found about 20
twittering canaries and para
keets perched in cages that
lined one wall from floor to
School teacher, Mrs. Hoskins has been in charge of
Community Services, helping the community’s needy.
Also pictured (1-r) are Fred Wallace and Al Andersen of
the Kiwanis Club and The Rev. Paul Bomhauser, pastor
of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
property owners.
Norsworthy said people who
rent, share in property taxes
indirectly. He said people who
rent, figure taxes and other
expenses when they set the rent
price.
Goldstein countered that if he
rented Norsworthy some
property, he would cut the rent
if the local sales tax passed.
This brought some good
natured jeers from many in the
audience. They seemed to be
saying they didn’t believe
anyone would cut rent if the
local sales tax passes.
ceiling in the second-floor. The
birds were used to drown out the
ringing of five phones over
which bets were taken, police
said.
Neighbors in the building
agreed to take care of the birds
after the raid.
Views movie
100 times
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Mat
thew Miller has sat through
“Star Wars” 100 times. “I like
the movie,” he says.
Besides, the 19-year-old said
Wednesday that he may set a
world record if the Guinness
Book of World Records is inter
ested.
The film is 125 minutes long,
which means Miller has total
star-gazing time of 208 hours, 20
minutes.
Kenny Crockett, manager of
Mall Cinema which Miller pa
tronizes, said the theater is
keeping track of his attendance
and is letting Miller in free.
Miller, who is unemployed, said
he paid for his first 30 perform
ances at $3 a ticket.
“I came the first day and
came to all seven shows. After
awhile I cut that back to five
and now I’m down to only a
couple at a time,” said Miller,
who has two Star Wars T shirts,
a couple of posters, the book and
and the movie sound track.
“I’m not aiming at a specific
number now. At first I wanted
to try for 30 to break my old
record (He saw the original
“Airport” 27 times,) but when I
got there I thought, ‘What the
hell. Why not 100?”’
Red-handed
robber
EAST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP)
— The robbery of a bank here
may have brought a tear to the
eye of the hold-up man, espe
cially when he realized he prob
ably will get caught red-handed,
police said.
The gunman left the Franklin
State Bank with the bag of
money he asked for, police said,
but the bag also contained a
canister of red dye that he
hadn’t requested.
The canister is designed to
explode and emit a powder that
permanently stains anything it
touches.
And as an added touch, an
enterprising bank teller tossed
a vial of tear gas into the money
bag, authorities said.
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Blumenthal, Shultze
likely to be elevated
WASHINGTON (AP) — The departure of Bert Lance as
a key economic adviser to President Carter is likely to
mean at least a temporary elevation in the status and
influence of Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal
and Charles L. Schultze, chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisers.
The change may be significant because both Schultze
and Blumenthal have seemed much less committed than
Lance to fulfilling Carter’s campaign pledge of a balanced
federal budget by fiscal year 1981. They are both
economists, while Lance was a banker before coming to
Washington.
Lance was at the forefront of the administration in
pledging to reach the goal of a balanced budget, ap
pearing to argue for it even at the expense of other Carter
pledges, such as a sharply lowered unemployment rate.
Even before Lance’s resignation on Wednesday,
Schultze had begun to advocate a balanced budget in what
he calls “a high employment economy,” a strong in
dication that putting people to work will have priority over
balancing the budget if the administration has to make a
choice between the two.
Most economists, noting that unemployment has
remained stubbornly high since Carter took office, think
such a choice is inevitable.
Lance also played a big role in killing the SSO tax rebate
Carter had proposed for every American last spring.
Schultze favored the rebate, and had Lance not argued so
compellingly against it, the checks might already have
been mailed.
Lance was the most conservative of Carter’s top three
economic advisers, and without a Lance-type influence,
future administration economic policy could be somewhat
more liberal.
Lance will be missed by Carter because of the ties he
had established with the business community. Schultze,
an economist, has never been in business. Blumenthal so
far generally appears to have only low marks for his ef
forts to win business support for Carter.
Only Lance was meeting with any success in that area.
Coincidence though it may be, the Dow Jones industrial
average dropped nearly 11 points Wednesday as rumors of
Lance’s impending resignation circulated.
Several names quickly surfaced as possible successors
to Lance, even though Carter said at a news conference he
had not yet considered naming a replacement.
One possible new OMB director is James T. Mclntyre
Jr., a fellow Georgian who had been deputy director under
Lance. Mclntyre, 36, had direct responsibility for the day
to-day operations of the agency.
The President knows Mclntyre, having named him
director of Georgia’s Office of Planning and Budget in
1972 while Carter was governor. He brought him to
Washington and appointed him OMB deputy in February.
But Mclntyre is cautious and reserved in manner, the
opposite of Lance’s outgoing and gregarious personality,
and it appears unlikely he would develop the same warm
advisory relationship to Carter that Lance had. It also
seems likely he would not beat much help in winning
businessmen to the Carter side.
Another possibility is Robert S. Strauss, the former
chairman of the Democratic National Committee and
currently the U.S. ambassador for trade negotiations, a
key administration post.
Strauss, 58, played a big role during last year’s
presidential campaign in helping to unite the Democratic
party behind Carter. He has an outgoing personality, and
Carter already turns to him frequently for advice.
Strauss, a Texan, has earned high marks so far as a
trade negotiator, and would appear an ideal choice to win
points for Carter with businessmen.
But Strauss has said publicly he does not want the OMB
post. Furthermore, his personality could give him the •
same wheeler-dealer image at the OMB that proved so
damaging to Lance. Thirdly, Carter may be reluctant to
change trade ambassadors at a time when trade
negotiations are at an extremely sensitive stage.
Other names put forth include those of Alice Rivlin, di
rector of the Congressional Budget Office, and Hale
Champion, former finance director for the state of
California and currently an official at the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
It probably will not be especially difficult for a new
director to pick up at the OMB where Lance left off. Lance
seldom concerned himself with the day-to-day budget and
management operations of the agency.
The people who carried out these duties, Mclntyre, and
assistant directors Bowman Cutter and Harrison
Wellford, likely will remain, so that little continuity will
be lost.