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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 20, 1977
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Amy celebrates
10th birthday
WASHINGTON (AP) - Amy
Carter celebrated her 10th
birthday Wednesday with 15
guests at a Halloween-style
party at the White House.
Amy and her guests held a
pumpkin carving contest, en
joyed a private showing of the
original version of “Frank
enstein,” and ate hamburgers,
ice cream and birthday cake.
When President and Mrs.
Carter dropped by the China
room to watch the children
carving their pumpkins, the
President admitted creating a
Atlanta-to-Brussels
flight in making
ATLANTA (AP) - A White
House spokesman says an in
formal agreement with Sabena
Belgium World Airlines for non
stop flights between Atlanta and
Brussels has been reached.
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is a firefighter with a pumping
capability of 40,000 gallons of
water a minute — the equiva
lent of about 150 firemen with
hoses.
The vessel is longer than a
city block, is 10 stories high,
sleeps 150, contains an 18-bed
hospital and has a landing pad
large enough for a 26-passenger
helicopter.
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huge pumpkin with an eggplant
nose, turnip eyes and yellow
squash ears that served as a
centerpiece for a table laden
with presents.
Amy’s parents gave her a red
sled and her grandmothers and
three brothers gave her books,
two cards with $5 each, a bi
cycle pump and some paints.
Guests at the party included
some school friends, the chil
dren of congressional liaison
Frank Moore, Jody Powell’s
daughter, Amy’s violin partner
and two children of Mrs. Car
ter’s hairdresser.
But the spokesman said a for
mal agreement with the state
owned airline still is needed.
Atlanta officials have long
sought direct transatlantic air
service and several airlines are
competing for a possible direct
route between Atlanta and Lon
don.
Pierre Feller, Sabena’s North
American vice president, was
asked when service could begin.
“You’re asking me the $64,000
question,” he said. “My answer
would be, ‘As soon as possible.’
He added, however, that
service between the two cities
probably would not start until
early next year.
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Jack-O-Lanterns during a birthday party Wednesday at the White House. Amy celebrated
her 10th birthday. (AP)
Some lawmakers believe
era of revenuers has past
ATLANTA (AP) - Some
Georgia lawmakers believe the
era of the “revenuers” has
passed, and the manpower as
signed to bootlegging could be
better used against drug traf
ficking and fraud.
On Wednesday, state Rep.
Terry Coleman, the chairman
of a special Georgia House
committee, suggested that
many of the state’s 99 Revenue
Department agents should be
transferred to the Georgia Bu
reau of Investigation.
“In order to utilize them bet
ter we could transfer them to
the GBI and they could be
available to investigate all
crimes,” he said.
Revenue Commissioner Nick
Chilivis quickly voiced opposi-
tion to the idea, saying he
needed all his agents for inves
tigations of liquor stores and for
other duties.
The committee has been look
ing into ways to improve Geor-
DHR changing
retirement age
ATIANT (AP) — Beginning
Dec. 1, the mandatory retire
ment age for nearly 29,000 em
ployes of the state Department
of Human Resources will be 65
instead of 70.
The department’s board
voted unanimously Wednesday
to raise the retirement age and
to allow employes to continue
working past the age of 70 if
they possess critical profes
sional or technical skills.
Those over 70 would have to
be approved for continued em
ployment by the agency’s com
missioner.
DHR Commissioner Doug
Skelton said no legislative ac
tion is needed to put the change
into effect because current law
allows employes to continue
working to age 70, although
most departments have re
quired retirement at 65.
Human Resources Board
Chairman Boisfeuillet Jones,
64, noted that the issue of rais
ing the mandatory retirement
age had become a topic of na
tional interest.
“We feel that since we have
the responsibility for the aging
program and that to some, like
myself, this is a special interest,
we have a responsibility to
make our views known,” Jones
said.
More than half of Georgia’s
52,000 merit system employes
work for the DHR.
On another matter, Skelton
told the board there are “a con
siderable number” of investiga
tions under way in Georgia con
cerning welfare fraud. But he
added there is no evidence that
Motorists
using unfinished
route ticketed
LAGRANGE, Ga. (AP) -
The Georgia State Patrol issued
54 tickets last weekend to mo
torists using the unfinished por
tion of Interstate 85 between
LaGrange and Grantville.
That stretch of road, which is
scheduled to open Nov. 22, is a
quick way to get from Atlanta to
Auburn, Ala.
Troopers said the tickets,
which carry a $25 fine, were is
sued primarily to persons from
Auburn who had attended the
Georgia Tech-Auburn football
game.
gia’s law enforcement system.
Coleman said a major com
plaint by state law enforcement
officials is that they are short of
manpower.
persons on public assistance are
more likely to be dishonest than
persons in other segments of
society.
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Minimum wage bill
nearing a final vote
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bill
that would raise the nation’s
minimum wage $1.05 an hour by
1981 is nearing a final con
gessional vote that will prob
ably send the legislation to
President Carter.
The House was expected to
complete action on the legisla
tion today.
House leaders said passage of
the compromise bill apparently
was assured despite the antici
pated opposition of a Texas
congressman irate over
changes the House-Senate con
ference committee made in an
amendment he had tacked on
the original bill.
Rep. J.J. Pickle, D-Tex., is
upset that the conferees nar
rowed his provision by ex
empting more small companies
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from the wage floor.
The committee voted to ex
empt by 1982 firms with gross
sales of less than $362,500.
Pickle wanted to exempt by
mid-1978 companies with sales
under $500,000. The exemption
is now $250,000.
There was virtually no debate
as the bill won Senate approval
Wednesday on a voice vote.
Nearly five million workers
would have bigger paychecks
Jan. 1, under the bill, when the
wage floor goes to $2.65 an hour.
It would increase to $2.90 an
hour in 1979, $3.10 an hour in
1980 and $3.35 an hour in 1981.
In other action Wednesday,
the Senate passed an extension
of the mandatory retirement
age for most private employes
by a vote of 88 to 7.
Only tenured college profes
sors and high-paid business ex
ecutives could still be forced to
retire at 65 under the Senate
bill.
The legislation, which raises
the mandatory age to 70 for
about 70 per cent of the work
force, must now be meshed with
the House-passed version.
The conference committee
will have to deal with a House
passed prohibition that would
remove the age requirement for
federal workers. The Senate bill
lets stand the current provision
that forces such workers to
retire at age 70.
Another difference between
the two versions involves the
provision dealing with execu
tives. ▼