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—Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 11, 1977
Carter’s revision plan could
reduce taxes up to $22-billion
By JAMES GERSTENZANG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter’s tax revision plan could reduce
taxes by up to $22 billion, says Treasury
Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, and
may go into effect in 1978, a year earlier
than originally planned.
Blumenthal, emerging from a
meeting with Carter and senior
economic advisers on Monday, left
open the possibility that the ad
ministration might try to put the plan
into effect next year, depending on the
direction the economy follows.
But, walking out of the Cabinet Room
meeting that lasted nearly five hours,
Civil Rights Commission
defends affirmative action
By RICHARD CARELLI
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
today strongly defended educa
tion and business programs that
give preference to women and
minority members. It conceded
that such efforts may pose a
“disappointment” to ex-
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the treasury secretary insisted no final
decisions had been made.
His confirmation that the ad
ministration was considering tax cuts
that could reach $22 billion was the first
on-the-record administration comment
on the possible size of the reduction.
The $22 billion figure is “indeed one of
the options, but it is not necessarily the
number” that will be settled on, he said.
“We just went over the entire
program and the President has not
made up his mind on any of the op
tions,” the treasury secretary said.
Administration sources had said
earlier that the tax cut would be in the
range of sl7 billion to S2O billion,
pectations of white men.
The commission, an inde
pendent agency reporting to the
President and Congress, re
leased an updated “statement
on affirmative action” at a
news conference held on the eve
of Supreme Court arguments in
the so-called reverse
discrimination case of Allan
Paul Bakke.
“The justification for af
firmative action to secure equal
access to the job market lies in
the need to overcome the effects
of past discrimination by the
employers, unions, colleges and
universities who are asked to
undertake such action,” the
commission said.
Bakke successfully sued the
University of California, con
tending that he would have been
admitted to its medical school
at Davis had it not been for a
special admissions program for
minority applicants.
Bakke, who is white, said the
program made him a victim of
racial discrimination.
The California Supreme Court
agreed with Bakke, and the
university appealed its decision
to the nation’s highest court.
Essentially, the case asks two
questions: can race be consid
ered in a university’s admis
sions policy — and by extension
in an employer’s hiring policy
— to overcome past dis
crimination, and if so, was
Bakke the victim of an affirma
tive action program that went
too far?
The high court’s eventual de
cision could have a profound
impact on such programs begun
in recent years in education and
employment to help bring more
minorities and women into the
nation’s economic mainstream.
In a Supreme Court brief filed
in the Bakke case, the Carter
administration has come out on
the side of affirmative action
programs. But the ad
ministration carefully avoided
weighing Bakke’s rights against
those of the minority students
admitted to the Davis medical
school under the special pro
gram which guaranteed 16 slots
out of 100 in each class to mi
nority members.
More people
flying Southern
ATLANTA (AP) - More than
282,000 persons boarded South
ern Airways flights in Septem
ber, an increase of 9.3 percent
from 1976, the firm announced
Monday.
A Southern spokesman said a
40 percent fare reduction avail
able for certain weekend trav
elers was responsible in part for
the increase.
although some reports had placed it as
high as $22 billion.
The sources have forecast that one
third of the tax cut would be for
businesses and two-thirds for in
dividuals.
The sources have said the tax cut
would be introduced in 1979, although it
would be phased in over several years.
But Blumenthal said the timetable for
putting the tax.cut into effect remained
undecided and that decisions on any tax
cut in 1978 would depend on the state of
the economy.
He said further meetings were
planned and that it was likely Carter
would send the plan to Congress by the
end of the month.
Attack continues Amtrak
on ‘Gang of Four’ route
By LOUIS D. BOCCARDI
Associated Press Writer
PEKING (AP) — Wherever visitors go today in China —
newspaper office, middle school, factory, commune, uni
versity, fishing village — the one thing they are certain to
hear is an attack on the “Gang of Four.”
It is a national preoccupation.
In a 16-day visit, a group of Associated Press executives
and directors heard the purged radical leaders blamed for
almost every conceivable setback China suffered in
recent years, but particularly in the 13 months since the
death of Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
The format soon became familiar. Our host — perhaps
the leader of a factory — would outline briefly what the
factory makes, how large it is and so on. Then, quickly, a
reference to how the workers are “deepening the
criticism” of the radicals and trying to repair the damage
done by their supporters.
The Gang of Four, now apparently under a form of
house arrest, were Chiang Ching, Mao’s widow; Wang
Hung-wen, former party vice chairman; Yao Wen-yuan, a
former Politburo member, and former Vice Premier
Chang Chun-chiao.
These are a few of the things we heard them blamed for:
—Excessive earthquake damage last year, because
their interference retarded research into earthquake
prediction.
—Curtailed output at the Peking Arts and Crafts Fac
tory, where they convinced some workers that making
vases and other traditional objects was a waste of time.
—Poisoning the minds of workers and students with the
idea that there was no need to learn trades or work hard
and that all they needed to do was to study Mao.
The list goes on and on.
It is difficult to envision an American counterpart to this
aspect of the Chinese experience.
It had been reported in the Western press that Mao’s
successor, Chairman Hua Kuofeng, and the 11th Party
Congress in August ordered the criticism campaign.
But the scope of it, and the intensity with which China’s
leaders are pressing it, come clear only when one hears it
day after day at stop after stop through the length of
China.
Immediately after Mao’s death in September 1976, the
radicals apparently made their move to succeed him.
Reports from the limited number of Western
correspondents in China, and even reports carried by the
controlled Chinese media, told of armed clashes in some
of China’s cities between Hua’s supporters and those of
the Gang of Four.
The nature of the dispute between them is complex.
Mao’s widow and her allies claimed to be following Mao’s
true line. They stressed Mao’s thoughts while they ac
cused the other side of stressing material production, of
diluting the master’s teachings.
Hua’s side accused the radicals of trying to create chaos
so that with the government unable to cope, the radicals
could take over. And Hua’s side, too, covered itself with
Mao’s mantle, saying that what they were doing was
consistent with Mao.
Last October, a month after Mao’s death, Hua moved,
arresting the gang and setting the stage for the criticism
campaign.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A passen
ger train route from Atlanta to
New Orleans via Mobile, Ala.,
was proposed Monday by Am
trak officials as part of a five
year plan released in Washing
ton.
The route, which the plan said
would have “a high potential for
success,” was part of a long
range Amtrak plan calling for
an annual federal appropriation
of $695 million for operations
and $2lO million for capital
improvements to the na
tionwide rail system.
Georgia officials have urged
Amtrak to reroute its Chicago
to-Miami “Floridian” passen
ger train so it would pass
through Atlanta, Macon and Sa
vannah rather than through
Birmingham.
Amtrak hearing officers have
begun public hearings on that
matter.
The five-year Amtrak plan
did not say what effect the pro
posed Atlanta-New Orleans
route would have on Southern
Railways, not a member of
Amtrak, which operates pas
senger service three times a
week between Atlanta and New
Orleans via Birmingham.
Escapees leave
note for sheriff
CARNESVILLE, Ga. (AP) -
Two prisoners left a letter be
fore escaping from the Franklin
County jail, telling the sheriff
they were only human and “just
needed a taste of freedom.”
Sheriff Clifford Royston on
Monday made public a letter by
David Worley, 34, which was
also signed by Ricky Lamar
Hughes, 29. Serving 20 years for
armed robbery, they had
recently lost an appeal for a
new trial and escaped last week
by sawing through bars.
“You have been a most fair
man," they said. “We really re
gret these circumstances and
situation and it may be a foolish
move on our part but we need to
relieve some mental and
physical pressures. ”
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Electricity generated
from chicken litter
WEST UNION, lowa (AP) — Electricity generated
from chicken manure is lighting up the henhouse on a
northeast lowa farm.
An Agriculture Department spokesman says waste
from the 160,000 chickens contains enough methane gas to
provide power to 200 average homes.
The SIOO,OOO experimental operation “is to farming
what the Wright brothers’ airplane was to flying —a
beginning,” said one of the developers.
Engraved invitations were sent out, and there were
state and USDA officials present for the unveiling of the
hen-power setup Monday at the Keying Enterprises
Farm. Former lowa Sen. Hilarius Keying and his family
put up half the money for the experiment.
“This is a first,” noted Carl Larson, representing the
USDA Department of Rural Development. “We in
government are interested because we want to see far
mers use such farm wastes for the betterment of our
country.”
Rod Riggs, director of the lowa State Energy Policy
Council, pushed the button that sent electricity from the
methanefired generator into the laying house complex.
He said he hoped the production of methane gas from
lowa’s chicken manure could offset the nation’s depen
dence on foreign oil.
Manure, after it ferments, gives off methane gas that
can be used to fuel generators.
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Model train
sets record
FARMINGDALE, N.J. (AP)
— A model train collector says
his favorite train is setting a
new world’s record by running
273.85 miles non-stop — with no
end in sight.
At 10 p.m. Monday, about 12
hours after passing the old
mark, Henry Bodenstadt’s Ger
man Pacific engine was still
running. “We’ll go until some
thing breaks down,” he said.
Bodenstedt said his Macklin
train passed the old mark Sun
day night after 10 days — more
than 60,000 laps on a 5-by-8-foot
track.
The 1977 Guinness Book of
World Records lists the record
as 273.84 miles by a Rover-Hor
nby Princess in England in 1973.