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Page 2 Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 22, 1977 Search (Continued from page 1) 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 GIANT SAVINGS Cleaning tools included with both EUREKA uprights! 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SMM* 2M*SS veneral disease section of the state Health Department. The CB prostitutes have most, of their encounters along inter state highways — at truck stops, rest stops and large parking lots, he said. He said it is difficult to track down the women through their CB “handles.” The woman who is “Blue Feathers” one week may be “Easy Mary” the next. r 7 ’figssaaa—ar ■■ * JBHh 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. Il ROYCE 40 CHANNEL 11 Gyro-Lock Citizens Band Transceiver ; J k®*" s ao 9s I IBjh BEARDEN ELECTRONICS I IlWwillf *4B W. Solomon St am einn f| Open 9 A.M. 228-5400 II ■I | to 7 P.M. II ■I I Monday thru Ega IB II Saturday Bl IB Il IB ■ I See Us For All TV Accessorie? IB I Antennas, Home and Car Stereos IB Bfand All Electronic Needs. [B 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.
