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Reorganization of state courts
runs into strong opposition
ATLANTA (AP) — Members of a
state constitutional revision committee
say strong opposition convinced them
to wait at least a year before asking the
legislature to consider a major
reorganization of Georgia's courts.
A rough draft of the committee’s
proposed revision, circulated this
month to stimulate discussion, brought
withering criticism from top legislative
leaders and from courthouse officials
around the state.
The judicial article revision com
mittee voted Monday to postpone its
plans after its chairman, state Rep.
Wayne Snow, D-Chickamauga, said
sharp opposition generated by the
rough draft made it “politically
foolish” to submit it to next year’s
legislature.
The judicial article was being revised
for presentation to the 1978 legislature
President Carter’s energy bill
called massive tax program
ATLANTA (AP) — The president of
the American Gas Association says the
Carter administration’s energy bill is
actually a “massive tax program which
will cost the American consumer much
more than the additional cost of new
gas deregulation.”
George H. Lawrence, in a news
conference Monday, said a study by the
association showed the ad
ministration’s energy program would
cost taxpayers an estimated $664 from
1978 to 1965, but lifting the federal price
ceiling on newly discovered natural gas
would cost homeowners less than S2OO
during the same period.
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Jeff Deans enjoy the simple life.
and eventually to the voters in the 1978
general election.
Snow’s committee proposed these
revisions:
—Superior Court judges would be
elected in bipartisan elections, serving
terms of six years instead of four.
—Justices of the State Supreme Court
and judges of the Court of Appeals also
would be elected in bipartisan elections
and would serve terms of eight years
instead of six.
—The State Supreme Court would
have jurisdiction only over con
stitutional questions and in capital
punishment cases, while the Court of
Appeals would assume many of the
Supreme Court’s other cases.
—Probate courts, juvenile courts and
various state courts would be merged
into the Superior Courts of their cir-
incorrect information or is not being
provided the facts,” Lawrence said.
Carter recently accused gas and oil
companies of trying to pull off “the
biggest ripoff in history” through their
intense lobbying for congressional re
jection of his energy program.
The administration proposal passed
the House with little trouble, but the
Senate has made drastic changes in the
plan. A House-Senate conference
committee is now trying to work out a
compromise energy package.
Lawrence said the study showed that
“new natural gas deregulation can
hardly be called a ‘ripoff,’” and warned
that continued federal regulation of gas
prices will inhibit production.
The American Gas Association
represents about 300 distributors and
shippers of natural gas, but no
producers.
“Our interest is based solely on being
able to have the gas we need to meet the
needs of the consuming public," Law
rence said.
On the matter of lAt winter’s fuel
curtailments, association Chairman
Robert E. Seymore said it was
economically unfeasible for the in
dustry to store enough gas to prevent
shortages if coming winters are as
harsh as the last one.
But Seymore said the odds are a
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cuits, and the judges of the lower courts
would become associate judges of the
Superior Courts.
Snow said much of the opposition
apparently came from persons who did
not know how a merger of the lower
courts and the Superior Courts would
affect them.
“I’d be politically foolish to suggest
that if you have the probate judges in
159 counties concerned about this and
various state court judges opposed to
our efforts, that we could pass this at
the next session,” said Snow.
Another committee member, Court of
Appeals Judge George T. Smith, a
former lieutenant governor, said the
panel would not be able to win approval
of its measures “until you come up with
a plan in writing about how you’re
going to handle the people in office
now.”
“hundred to one” against a repetition of
last winter’s freeze. He added that the
nation’s gas reserves are in “good
shape.”
In the event of another exceptionally
long and harsh winter, however,
Seymore said suppliers probably would
cut gas shipments to industrial cus
tomers sooner than they did last winter.
The earlier cutoff would be coupled
with an earlier resumption of normal
service.
He said an earlier curtailment of
shorter duration “doesn’t have nearly
the effect that that a long curtailment
does.”
People
...and things
League of Women Voters
representative attending city com
mission meeting this morning, wearing
red, white and blue scarf urging
“Vote.”
Candidate out hustling votes in the
rain.
Movie makers drawing crowd of
spectators while they filmed funeral
scene ih Griffin this morning.
NEWS
With artistic touch
Getting back to the simple things in
life is becoming a lifestyle for the Jeff
Deans. Their home even is like a
nostalgic paradise.
The home on Bobolink Drive looks
like most any modem one on the out
side. Inside it’s like walking into
yesterday.
The authenticity of the trans
formation is the result of the artisan
abilities of the couple to work with
several dying art forms.
They say their abilities complement
each other’s work.
Dean artistic abilities are evident in
the carved woodworks throughout the
house. Mrs. Dean’s talents can be seen
in the numerous stained glass pieces, in
paintings, and in tole paintings.
Mrs. Dean realized she could apply
•her talents to her artisan endeavors
primarily after a Valentine’s Day gift
from her husband.
She had become interested in stained
glass and was playing around with it
when she decided she could do a better
job if she had a soldering iron. That was
near Valentine’s Day. She suggested
the soldering iron rather than the
traditional heart’s day gifts.
“I was just tickled to death to get it,”
Mrs. Dean said.
Since getting the soldering iron, Mrs.
Dean has redirected her household
activities, which basically had been
devoted to sewing, to leading together
patterns in stained glass.
“It’s like being a new mom or daddy
Shop owner turns little angels
into Draculas, witches, wolves
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The harvest
moon of Halloween turns The Dancer’s
Shop into a ghoulish meeting place,
where Benita Allen can transform the
living into the living dead for $3 to $5.
Ms. Allen is manager of the shop, an
ordinary looking place which for most
of the year deals in leotards, dancing
shoes and other show business para
phernalia.
But when the autumn moon is full and
Halloween candy appears on super
market shelves, Ms. Allen starts to
work her bewitchery.
“It all began about three years ago,
when we started carrying theatrical
makeup,” she said.
“We didn’t realize how much makeup
sold at Halloween. We were amazed.
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They’re turning their home
into a nostalgic paradise
Paul Lee, 11, is transformed from mild-mannered
suburbanite into a vicious werewolf during a local store’s
demonstration on how to use makeup instead of masks for
because you did it all from scratch,”
she said.
Panes in the windows and doors of the
house have been replaced with the
stained glass patterns Mrs. Dean has
made.
Not that this would be enough for her,
she has begun to etch glass, an almost
forgotten art.
She had made a sign which she
displays at art and crafts shows which
names her and her husband as
exhibitors.
Having to sketch scenes veered off -to
taking 4 lessons in tole painting, the
Gilreath believes he qualifies
Bob Gilreath said today he believes
he meets the residency and other
requirements to be a candidate for
Spalding County Commissioner.
Georgia law requires a candidate to
live in a county at least 2 years in order
to be elected or appointed to an office in
that county.
Gilreath of radio station WHIE said
he thought he had had a post office box
at Orchard Hill longer than 2 years.
He said he lives in the county on
Rehoboth Road but did not know the
date he moved there.
Gilreath came to this area from
Peach County in South Georgia, he
said. He owned and operated the
Reporter, a weekly Pike County
Last year it was so big that we realized
how effective it was, really, so we de
cided this year to open a clinic,” she
said.
The “clinic” is a series of little
seminars each night this week in which
Ms. Allen and her sister, Jeanie Wilson,
provide free instruction on an as
sortment of bizarre transformations.
The werewolf was Monday’s exer
cise. It required about $3 worth of crepe
hair, spirit gum and black makeup.
Blond werewolves required ap
plications of dark hair spray to keep
from blowing their cover.
On Tuesday the sisters planned to
produce dogs and ghosts. On Wed
nesday they were to teach youngsters
how to use liquid latex to add about 70
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Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Rain ending tonight and lows in the mid
50s. Clearing and mild Wednesday with
highs in the upper 60s.
LOCAL WEATHER - Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
59, high Monday 71.
Halloween costumes. The shop also has makeup and in
structions for ghosts, Martians, witches and the ever
popular Count Dracula. (AP)
ornate decoration of household utensils.
Mrs. Dean now paints scenes of old
bams and places of nostalgia on boards
and other vesselware.
Os course, it was not long afterwards
that Mrs. Dean began to stetch on
canvas and to paint with oil. She has
several paintings of old homes and old
bams. She has not yet mastered the
painting of facial features but she has 2
attempts to her credit.
Prior to her artisan undertakings,
Mrs. Dean did a lot of sewing as a
hobby.
“I used to think I was a real busy
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newspaper with an office at Zebulon.
He established it then sold the
newspaper about a year ago.
Gilreath said he was unaware of
residency requirements.
Probate Judge John Snider said
Gilreath had signed a statement that he
was qualified to be a candidate and had
paid his qualifying fee.
Gilreath questioned whether the
residency requirement would hold up
under challenge in court.
He said no one had mentioned
anything about such requirements to
him before.
The residency requirement came up
when Gilreath appeared on a WGRI
radio talk show when he was in
terviewed about his candidacy.
years to their age. “Their faces will
actually be wrinkled,” Ms. Allen ex
plained. “This one costs a little more —
about $5.”
Thursday’s schedule gives the
changelings a choice: a witch, a clown
or a Martian. And finally on Friday, the
ever-popular Dracula lives again... and
again and again.
All of the necessary materials are for
sale at the shop, and there’s no denying
that the clinics will help move the mer
chandise. But there’s clearly more to
the service than profit, since the shop
also sells a pullover gorilla mask that
produces roughly the same effect as the
werewolf makeup —for $lB.
“I hope the idea catches on,” said Ms.
Allen. “The masks are really too bulky
and the kids can’t see out of them very
well.”