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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1977)
• ! Xx \ ft \ K '—. MM* ft ft t*>*3 S. z t<■ J c* ' K. ■ftm- •-, I .... 1 1 <Hi • Siamese twins separated MANHASSET, N. Y. — Mrs. Glenda McCall of Roosevelt, N. Y., poses Wednesday with her twin daughters Brenda and Linda after the Siamese twins were separated by successful surgery at North Shore Hospital in Manhasset, N. Y. The twins, born March 8, were separated by a team of 15 during five hours of surgery. (AP) Senate to consider natural gas compromise By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate is heading toward a pos sible breakthrough on a natural gas pricing controversy that has tied up Senate action for Bloodstained 2-by-4 GRAY, Ga. (AP) — Authorities have found a blood stained two-by-four which they believe was used in the slayings of two 63-year-old Macon women whose bodies were found near here. Bibb County Dist. Atty. Walker Johnson said Wed nesday the board was found near the spot where the bodies of Thelma Kalish and Ann Kaplan were found Monday, three days after they were abducted from their homes in an exclusive section of Macon. Jones County Dist. Atty. Joe Briley said he has filed murder warrants against two Macon men arrested in the case — Eddie William Finney, 20, and Johnny McWest brooke, 40. He said they will be brought before a grand jury Oct. 17. Mayor arrested FORSYTH, Ga. (AP) — Forsyth Mayor Richard Truitt was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault following a confrontation with another man in which three shots were fired, police said. Authorities said Truitt fired three shots from a .38- caliber pistol during an argument Tuesday night with Steven Underwood in a restaurant which Underwood manages. Underwood said none of the shots struck him, but that Truitt hit him on the head with the pistol before leaving the restaurant. Underwood swore out a warrant against the three-term mayor Wednesday. Truitt was arrested and released on 12,500 bond. Authorities said Truitt’s teenaged daughter, Ann, formerly worked at the restaurant. Underwood was kidnaped on a Macon street last year by two South Carolina prison escapees who abandoned him in the trunk of a car in MobUe, Ala. Boy returned home GRAY, Ga. (AP) — A 3-year-old boy and his small puppy, missing for more than a day, have been returned home, authorities say. Jones County Sheriff Lloyd Childs said searchers found Curtis Jackson Jr. in woods about two miles from his home in the Five Points community Wednesday evening. Childs said the boy, who suffered no major injuries, ap parently wandered away from home. The boy’s puppy stayed with him during the ordeal, authorities said, and was so protective that it tried to bite one of the rescue workers who found them. Hotel, motel tax ! MACON, Ga. (AP) — The Macon City Council and the Bibb County Commission have agreed to impose a 2 per cent tax on hotel and motel accomodations to raise money to bolster the area’s lagging tourist industry. The tax hike, expected to raise >130,000 a year, goes into effect Saturday. Mayor Buck Melton said the added revenue will be spent on programs boosting Macon as a tourist and convention site. Jerry Chadwick, director of the Chamber of Commerce convention bureau, said Macon’s convention business is substantially smaller than it was at this time last year. He attributed the decline to competition from Savannah, Augusta and Columbus, where he said similar motel taxes have been imposed to boost tourism. nearly two weeks. Senators faced a decision to day on a new compromise effort by Sen. Henry M. Jackson, Il- Wash., to allow natural gas prices to rise substantially while still under federal con- trols. Before voting on the plan, however, the Senate had to deal with a complicated parlimenta ry maneuver designed by Ma jority Leader Robert C. Byrd to brush aside some 400 proposed amendments to the bill. Jackson’s move was an at tempt to break the filibuster that has kept the Senate from choosing between President Carter’s proposal to retain price controls on natural gas and an industry-backed plan to lift them. But the compromise engi neered by Jackson and Byrd was fragile. While Senate lead ers were optimistic, there was no guarantee the impasse could be broken. Jackson, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, un veiled the plan Wednesday night shortly before the Senate recessed after meeting nonstop for more than 37 hours. The recess came as two sena tors opposed to any relaxation of federal price controls sus pended their filibuster to give the Senate a chance to study the Jackson proposal. But Sen. James Abourezk, D- S.D., said he and Sen. Howard H. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, were ready to resume their filibuster if necessary. Essentially, Jackson wants to raise the wholesale prices of some interstate gas from the present $1.46 maximum to $2.03 for each thousand cubic feet. To build industry support, Jackson proposed that gas eli gible for this higher price could come from both new wells and some older ones. Carter’s plan would raise the ceiling to $1.75 per thousand cubic feet but limiting the high er price to gas from new wells. Both the Carter and Jackson plans would extend price con trols to the now-unregulated markets within gas-producing states. The success of Jackson’s pro posal hinges on building a coa lition of Carter administration allies and enough defectors from the ranks of past deregu lation supporters to win. “We picked up some votes,” Jackson said. “We made some headway.” But he said the out come was still too close to call. Deregulation leaders said they planned to oppose the move. Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, said Jackson’s proposal was too great a concession. But senators, weary after their around-the-clock session, agreed unanimously to sleep on the matter and resume work to day. Byrd, calling the proposal a “workable compromise,” told the Senate it was time to break the deadlock. “We have now debated this bill for nine days,” Byrd said. “I have heard the world was created in seven.” Jackson said the White House is not opposed to his move. An administration official who watched Wednesday night’s session said the White House is hopeful a House-Senate conference committee will revive the original Carter plan. President Carter to sign Sil-billion bill WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres ident Carter is signing an sll - farm bill that boosts grain farmers’ incomes, re vamps the federal food stamp program and expands agricul tural research. While the bill’s food stamp and price support sections will be costly to the taxpayers, ex perts say the measure’s imme diate effect on prices at the su permarket will be minimal. The President planned to sign Carter resisting efforts to require both houses to vote on canal treaty WASHINGTON (AP) - The Carter administration is resist ing efforts to require both houses of Congress to vote ap proval before the Panamanian government can be given con trol of the Canal Zone. Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell was called before the Senate For eign Relations Committee today to present the Justice Depart ment’s official legal opinion that only the Senate needs to approve the Panama Canal treaty. The treaty calls for relin- 1... n * M Admiral IWe Promise You: b&wtv | l I Portables I IHHI I I . Reduced Prices s7n I I I On All Sale Merchandise. T ; I I *169 BSffl I Admiral Products. ■ 3 I Admiral p I I . Good Selection Os Color I I New 1977 Models. Portables I > M I I $287 kOmIL I . 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Treaty opponents are con tending that both houses of Congress must approve the transfer of any property owned by the United States. That would mean that if the United States actually owns the Canal Zone the House of Representa tives as well as the Senate would have to approve the por- Page 9 families with incomes under the poverty level. The sll billion estimated an nual price tag on the bill is about $2 billion more than Carter said he wanted to spend, but he said the bill will lead toward stability for the farm economy and farm programs. Price support sections of the bill, in which the government guarantees minimum prices farmers can get for their crops, will cost up to $4.4 billion a year tion of the treaty that transfers the zone to Panama. The administration contends that the 1903 treaty with Pan ama established the Canal Zone as a 10-mile wide U.S.-con trolled territory, but did not give the United States sover eignty, and that under the Con stitution, the treaty must be ra tified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. The administration’s plans do call for some House votes on separate legislation to imple ment certain sections of the ■ Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 29,1977 and the food stamp program will cost $5.6 billion annually, the administration says. The House completed con gressional action on the com promise version of the bill Sept. 16. The Senate approved it Sept. 9. Actual spending on crop-re lated programs depends pri marily on the weather in this country and in other major crop-exporting nations. Favorable growing weather, treaty. Meanwhile, critics of the pending treaty are pressing their campaign to have the Sen ate reject the pact. Retired Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, a former chairman of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a House committee Wednesday that ratification of the treaty would lead to indirect Soviet control of canal operations. Moorer’s testimony was in di rect contrast to that of Gen. George Brown. bumper harvests and slow for eign demand for U.S. grains would keep prices low, prompt ing higher government pay ments to help farm income keep pace with production costs. The farm bill will provide a record $1.2 billion in such pay ments for wheat farmers, who have harvested a surplus so far this year of 1.1 billion bushels. Under the bill, average food stamp benefits are not expected to be changed substantially. Presently, recipients receive on the average 81 cents per day in additional food buying power. But about 340,000 of the roughly 5.1 million families now receiving food stamps each month are expected to be cut from the rolls. New rules re quiring unemployed recipients to seek jobs have been added. The bill authorizes at least $1.27 billion in new and ex panded research programs, with the emphasis on solar energy and nutrition. The Food for Peace foreign aid program is extended for the four year period at roughly the same spending level of about $2 billion a year. But the measure contains new programs aimed at aiding agricultural develop ment in poorer nations.
