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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1977)
Spalding County Fair catalogue in today’s edition ‘Undecided’ may decide option tax An unscientific and random sampling of opinions from Griffin citizens on the q. local option sales tax proposal shows sc the “undecided” people might decide S(the issue. w Nearly 50 people responded with 42 di percent favoring and 33 percent op- Ci posing passage of the tax. The other 25 repercent said they were undecided. 7 City voters will cast ballots Tuesday scfor or against the local option one percent sales tax. Interest in the vote s *had been dormant until this week when for and against began to speak j { The Griffin Daily News asked people on downtown streets and in shopping centers what they intended to do about Carter asks Congress for one-year delay on mandatory retirement legislation WASHINGTON (AP) - The White tyouse, under pressure from business h ind education groups, is asking s tongress to delay the effect of legislation prohibiting mandatory retirement at 65. Congressional sources disclosed 4 Friday that President Carter made the j *equest for a one-year delay in a letter I o the Senate Human Resources Com- |Six men arrested i in marijuana heist 1 MIAMI (AP) — A tip from a Georgia sheriff has led to the arrests of six men jin connection with the disappearance of 63 bales of marijuana from a U.S. Customs Service storage room in Miami. The arrests were made early Friday by agents in Georgia and South Carolina, said Customs Spokesman Jim Dingfelder. The marijuana, valued at about |750,000, was taken from an un derground storeroom Thursday. Officers said thieves may have entered the locked room by removing concrete >locks from a wall. Dingfelder said Miami police had Issued a description of two autos seen near the storage area. Camden County, Ga., Sheriff Jimmy Middleton told Customs agents in Savannah, Ga. Thursday evening that a car matching the description was in Woodbine, Ga. Sheriffs and Customs agents set up EEF M ■ rwS4 \ Enjoying game KeHy Smith, 5, the daughter of Chester Smith, and Mark Yevlck, 4, the son of John Yevlck, enjoy the show at Memorial Stadium, as the Griffin Bears foiled over LaGrange 14-0. DyXIIJY Daily Since 1872 voting. It seemed to be a general opinion among many of the undecideds that they were not as well informed as they would like to be. Others said they were inclined toward voting no but they were keeping their minds open, pending further information. Some of the voters with definite no’s are totally against any further taxes of any kind, even if it amounts to just a penny. Others opposed to the option sales tax have voiced distrust with government officials not to keep the initial objective of lowering ad valorem taxes after the first year. Those in favor of the tax feel it is a mittee. The panel is expected to complete work next week on a bill setting 70 as the age at which em ployers may force their workers to retire. The House passed a measure Friday to raise the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 for about 70 per cent of those employed in private businesses. The bill, approved 359-4, also would surveillance, then moved in Friday morning to make arrests as three men tried to leave the motel, he said. Six bales of marijuana were found at the scene, the Customs markings in tact, he said. Other agents arrested three men in Beaufort, S.C. early Friday. Dingelder said 13 bales of marijuana were found there. He identified those arrested as: Donald Ray Williams, 29; Raymond E. Mitchell, 33; Joseph N. Wakefield, 34, Joe Earl Eglesby, 35, Ronald Ray Young, 28, and Arthur Franklin Farr Jr., no age. No addresses were available. Dingfelder said he wasn’t able to determine immediately at which location each man was arrested. He said all six were being moved to a federal detention facility at Brunswick, Ga. No formal charges had been filed, Dingfelder said. GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, September 24, 1977 fairway for all the citizens to pay a share of the expenses borne by the city, since it provides services to all the people Others favoring the tax feel it is better to pay a penny on the dollar as a sales tax than have to pay increasingly higher dollar amounts as city services and ad valorem taxes skyrocket with ever present inflationary times. A number of persons surveyed said they would welcome some relief from high taxes and anything, even a one cent sales tax, would be helpful in reworking the whole taxing system. A majority of the elderly persons polled were solidly opposed to the one cent tax. The younger persons tended to ban mandatory retirement at any age in the federal government. Nearly all federal workers now are subject to mandatory retirement at age 70. The provision in the House bill af fecting those in private employment would go into effect 180 days after final approval. The portion of the bill af fecting federal workers would take effect immediately. The Senate proposal would not alter current law on federal employes. Business and higher education groups have mounted an intensive lobbying effort to head off the bill which had been expected earlier to breeze through the Senate and receive the President’s approval. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall and Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps have endorsed the measure, but word of their support was followed by reports that opponents were getting attention Three consider entering race for vacancy David Elder, former long-time county commissioner, is interested in returning to the board. Elder was a familiar face around the Spalding Courthouse for some 16 years or so, winning reelection every time he offered. He left the board after deciding not to offer. County election officials are scheduled to hold a special vote Nov. 8 to fill the unexpired term of Reid Childers who resigned this week. Childers cited health reasons. Gov. George Busbee accepted the resignation,* clearing the way for the special vote. Women and health “Women and Health” is a series of 9 articles which the Council on Family Health has prepared for distribution nationwide through NEA. The Council is a public service group funded by the manufacturers of medicines. The series will deal with such things as tension, cancer, home accidents, working mothers, medicine, pregnancy, child abuse and similar subjects. Watch for this interesting and informative series beginning Monday in the Griffin Daily News. NEWS lean more toward a positive yes. Many of the elderly persons said they were living on fixed incomes and any additional taxes would in essence pose a burden and hardship upon them. “I’m more apt to vote against it. I’ve got to figure it out. I live a fixed income,” said 70-year-old Joseph Williams. Mrs. De L’Etoile said she owned no property in Griffin but felt the sales tax was the best way for everybody to pay his fair share. “It’s a fair tax,” she said. “I own no property and I’m talking really against myself but it’s fair,” Mrs. De L’Etoile continued. Tax supporters have been stating from the Oval Office. A congressional source said the request for a one-year delay was a White House attempt to try to appease business. But he said business lobbyists apparently would like at least a two year delay. The House measure applies to private sector workers in companies employing 20 or more persons. It grants up to two years for man datory age 65 retirement provisions to be phased out of existing labor con tracts. The proposal still would allow most persons to begin collecting maximum Social Security benefits at age 65. But it is anticipated that the financial pressure on the Social Security system would be slightly eased because of the persons who would decide to work to age 70. Two other people said they also were considering running to fill the vacancy. Jack Moss, long time veteran member of the board, said he was considering making the race. He said numerous people and groups had asked him to consider running. He said he would and is considering it. Alton (Sergeant) Norris who has been a candidate for several offices said he was about 70 percent sure he would make the race. He didn’t say he would announce but was strongly leaning toward it. People ...and things Six-year-old, with peanuts in one hand, hotdog in the other and soft drink at his feet in Memorial Stadium last night, asking dad what inning it is. First leaves of fall tumbling to ground from large oak which shades blooming dogwood. Station wagon coming to stop in residential driveway as 2 dogs pile out of the back window, 5 youngsters out of back doors, 2 out of front passenger door, and tired looking mother out of driver’s door. Vol. 105 No. 227 that of an estimated $1,162,228 sales tax collected per year would mean that there would be a reduction of some $688,025 in property taxes now being paid by the taxpayers. Garbage fees per household would be reduced by S4B a year and there would even be a surplus fund for other services that would amount to $142,203. Georgia law requires that 2.381 mills be retained to repay prior bonds and the taxpayer will have to bear that part of the tax expenses. Under conditions of the optional tax structure, the city must apply a portion of the sales taxes collected to offset the ad valorem taxes only during the first year. ■r” 3” d' Cases of salmonellosis reported in Georgia ATLANTA (AP) — New cases of salmonellosis are being reported in Georgia as well as in several north eastern states, the national Center for Disease Control has reported. The CDC said Friday that more than 180 cases have been reported in the current outbreak of food poisoning related to the consumption of pre cooked roast beef in New York, Penn sylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. “The finding of cases in Georgia indicates that contaminated beef is not a problem limited to the northeastern part of the United States,” the CDC said in its weekly report. The CDC reported last month that some of the poisoning cases — which result in diarrhea, cramps, chills and fever — have been linked to beef im ported from Australia and packaged by at least two American firms. “The total number of cases in this outbreak is difficult to assess, since interviews, necessary to determine the association of a case with precooked Autumn beauty Fall is officially here and signs of the colorful season are showing up everywhere. The newly fallen (above) leaf resting on the surface water of a creek is indicative of the autumn beauty yet to come. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA— Mostly fair through tonight. Partly cloudy and slight chance of showers and a few thundershowers Sunday. High today in mid 80s. Low tonight mid 60s. High Sunday low 80s. After that time city officials would be free to direct the extra tax money into other directions. To quell the fears of this sort of thing happening, a proponent of the tax said in a recent debate that the city attorney believes the Griffin Charter can be amended to bind the extra taxes to property tax relief in the future. As the state law is presently written, it requires the property tax relief for only the first year. Opponents claim that once a tax is started, it s hard to stop and those voting in favor of the tax would be paying more for everything, including food, drugs, clothing, homes and even electricity. roast beef, have not been completed on all persons with Salmonella isolates,” the report said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said regulations for cooking prepared beef have been changed to raise the standard for the internal tem perature of cooked beef from 130 degrees to 145, hot enough to kill potentially dangerous bacteria. The Country Parson by Erank < '.lark Sa t “We never heard of energy shortages when I was a youngster — but in those days most energy came from muscles.”
