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-Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 25, 1977
Page 6
Carter nominees
spark GOP flap
By DONALD M. ROTHBERG
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen
ate Republicans are unhappy
with President Carter’s defini
tion of a political independent,
The minor flap occurred when
Carter submitted his nominees
for the five-member Federal
Energy Regulatory Com
mission in the new Department
of Energy. The agency replaces
the Federal Power Com
mission.
The legislation creating the
Department of Energy speci
fied that “no more than three
members of the commission
shall be members of the same
political party.”
Carter sent the Senate the
names of three Democrats, one
Republican and Charles Curtis,
whose voter registration lists
him as an independent.
The nominations require Sen
ate confirmation and Republi
cans on the Energy Committee
cried foul when they saw Curtis’
name.
They noted that not only had
Curtis spent five years em
ployed as counsel to the Demo
crats on the House Commerce
Committee, but he also sup
ported Carter’s presidential
candidacy and was a coordina
tor in the Carter transition of
fice.
“Mr. Curtis has been very
active in Democratic affairs,”
said Sen. Mark 0. Hatfield, R-
Ore. “Let’s face it, his com
mitment is to the Carter ad
ministration.
And Sen. Robert P. Griffin, R-
Mich., said, “It is questionable
that the nomination of Mr.
Curtis as an ‘independent’
meets with the spirit of the act.”
However, Sen. Henry M.
Jackson, D-Wash., chairman of
the Energy Committee, noted
that before he registered as an
independent, Curtis was a Re
publican.
The committee finally voted
unanimously to endorse all five
nominees, including Curtis.
During debate on a bill to
raise from 65 to 70 the age at
which corporations may force
employes to retire, the question
turned to whether teachers
should be included among those
covered by the bill. This
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prompted a discussion of aca
demic tenure. Once a professor
is granted tenure he cannot be
dismissed except for cause.
During that discussion, Sen.
John Chafee, R-R.1., offered
this nugget from the history of
Harvard University:
“I understand that in the his
tory of Harvard, 300 years-plus,
there has never been a profes
sor let go for cause, even though
one did murder his wife and did
go to the electric chair with his
tenure still intact.”
It took two large cartons to
hold the news releases Sen. Bob
Dole, R-Kan., sent to the press
gallery. Attached to each re
lease was a copy of a letter Dole
had sent to every member of the
Senate, asking them to “join me
in observing the National Day of
Bread ... We are delivering a
loaf of bread to you and your
staff, compliments of the wheat
growers, millers and bakers
President Carter is lobbying
hard for votes for the Panama
Canal treaties. He was de
lighted to get the support of
former President Gerald R.
Ford, the man he defeated in
the 1976 presidential election.
Apparently, Carter thinks
Sen. Dole is still Ford’s vice
presidential running mate and
obligated to support the stands
taken by Ford.
Dole recently received a tele
phone call from Carter, who
said he wanted to congratulate
the senator for his courageous
stand on the treaties.
Dole is one of the most out
spoken opponents of the treaties
in their present form.
A statistic you might have
missed if you don’t read Sen.
Gaylord Nelson’s newsletter:
There are slightly more than
one billion acres of farmland in
the United States.
The Wisconsin Democrat did
some long division and said that
comes to about five acres for
every person in the United
States. And for those who won
der just how much ground is five
acres, Nelson points out that a
football field is slightly larger
than one acre.
If you have no idea of the size
of a football field, you’re out of
luck.
Dear Abby
Is college education
an earning handicap?
By Abigail Van Buren
© 1977 by The Chicago Trlbune-N.Y.News Synd. Inc.
DEAR ABBY: My husband works long horns (without
overtime pay) in a position of importance with a large,
nationally-known firm. He’s had six years of college, but
some of the men who operate machinery make more
money than he does. This hurts.
For example, our neighbor never even finished high
school. He does manual labor, but because he belongs to a
union, he earns more and has more benefits than my
husband. It doesn’t seem fair that with all my husband’s
education he isn’t able to give his family as much as some
uneducated laborers.
I am not saying that common laborers should make less,
but in a society screaming for youngsters to get an
education, it’s ironic that uneducated laborers should make
more than college graduates. I hope you aren’t too
intimidated by big business to respond in your column.
RESENTFUL
DEAR RESENTFUL: I understand your resentment,
but perhaps those whom you label “common laborers” are
skilled laborers in their field. Many men who have never
seen the inside of a college (or high school) have a technical
knowledge equal in importance to some college educations.
I, too, would like to see higher education bring greater
rewards, but don’t confuse a man’s worth with his college
education—or lack of it.
DEAR ABBY: May I air my pet peeve? It’s people who
invite guests to their home to play cards and then bring
out decks of cards that are old and filthy.
To compound the insult, they moisten their fingers when
they deal. Ycch!
CANDY
DEAR CANDY: You may “air” your pet peeve, but
don’t expect results until you direct your compliments to
the offenders.
DEAR ABBY: I know you must get thousands of letters
every day, so this will probably go unread and
unanswered. It is really important, though, as I know lots
of teenage girls my age with this problem. It might even
help some of the boys who read it.
Whenever I walk down the street, boys in cars stop and
honk, etc. Some of them are very nice and quite cute, but if
a girl stops and talks to them, or goes for a ride with them,
she gains a reputation as a pickup.
On the other hand, if she doesn’t, the boys consider her a
stuck-up-snob. Which would be better, to stop and be
sociable, or to act like a snob?
WANTS TO BE SOCIABLE
DEAR WANTS: One of the first things a mother
teaches a little girl who is old enough to walk down the
street alone is, “Don’t talk to strangers or ever get into a
car with one!”
Whether the girl is 6 or 16, the advice is still good. To
refuse invitations to socialize from strangers in
automobiles is not snobbish, it’s sensible.
For Abby’s new booklet, “What Teen-agers Want to
Know,” send SI to Abigail Van Buren, 132 Lasky Dr.,
Beverly Hills, Calif. 90212. Please enclose a long,
self-addressed, stamped (244) envelope.
Pvt. Stewart
ends training
Private Jeb R. Stewart, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Stewart,
119 Woodmont Drive, Griffin,
Ga., completed a tracked
vehicle mechanic course at the
U.S. Army Armor School, Ft.
Knox, Ky.
Students were trained to
repair engines, transmissions,
and the fuel, electrical and
hydraulic systems.
Pvt. Stewart entered the
Army in April.
Local students
enrolled at WKU
Millard Lee Stewart and
Marty Vamadoe of Griffin are
enrolled for the fall semester at
Western Kentucky University
at Bowling Green, Ky.
Western Kentucky has a fall
enrollment of 13,521.
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Roll Call Report
Oil transport bill defeated
By Roll Call Report
WASHINGTON—Here’s how
area members of Congress
were recorded on major roll
call votes October 13-19.
HOUSE
CARGO PREFERENCE—
Defeated, 165 for and 257
against, a bill (HR 1037)
requiring that 9.5 percent of oil
imported by the U.S. be carried
by U.S.-flag ships manned by
American crews. Presently
about 3 percent is to carried.
This bill was particularly con
troversial because of charges it
rewarded the maritime in
dustry’s 1976 election year
support of President Carter and
key members of Congress. The
vote was a defeat for the
shippers and their unions.
Members voting “yea”
favored passage of the cargo
preference bill.
Reps. Bo Ginn (D-l), Dawson
Mathis (D-2), Jack Brinkley (D
--3)) and Billy Lee Evans (D-8)
voted “yea.”
Reps. Elliot Levitas (D-4),
Wyche Fowler (D-5), John
Flynt (D-6), Lawrence
McDonald (D-7), Ed Jenkins
(D-9) and Doug Barnard (D-10)
voted “nay.”
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Adopted, 215 for and 202
against, an amendment ap
propriating $9.1 million in
grants and $7.2 million in loans
for developing “intercultural
centers” at Georgetown and
Tufts universities. The
amendment was attached to HR
9375, an appropriations bill
later passed and sent to the
Senate.
The purpose of the Federal
money is to strengthen existing
international relations
programs at the two schools.
Georgetown and Tufts are
viewed by this bill as “models”
whose expertise in educating
career diplomats from
throughout the world should be
emulated by other schools
seeking to strengthen their
international-relations curri
cula.
Members voting “yea”
favored spending the money.
Levitas, Flynt, Evans and
Barnard voted “yea.”
Ginn, Mathis, Brinkley,
McDonald and Jenkins voted
“nay.”
FTC SUlTS—Adopted, 281 for
and 125 against, an amendment
in opposition to the filing of
consumer law suits in the wake
of Federal Trade Commission
findings against a buisness. It
was attached to HR 3816, a bill
changing certain FTC pro
cedures and authorizing
operating funds for the agency.
The bill was later passed and
sent to the Senate.
At issue on this vote was
whether individual and class
action suits could be brought as
an outgrowth of an FTC finding
against a company, so that
parties who lost money as a
result of the unfair trade
practice could seek financial
redress. With this vote the
House killed the section of the
bill (Section 7) that would have
allowed such suits.
Members voting “nay”
favored the filing of consumer
law suits.
Ginn, Mathis, Brinkley,
Flynt, McDonald, Evans,
Jenkins and Barnard voted
“yea.”
Levitas voted “nay.”
SENATE
RETIREMENT—Rejected,
45 for and 48 against, an
amendment on the issue of
whether college professors and
highly-paid business executives
should continue to face man
datory retirement at age 65.
With this vote the Senate said
they should. The amendment
was proposed to HR 5383, later
passed and sent to conference
with the House. It raised the
mandatory retiremtnt age to
70 years for virtually all
workers except executives with
pensions at least $20,000 an
nually and professors.
Senators voting "nay”
favored keeping 65-years as the
forced retirement age for
college professors and highly
paid executives.
Sen. Herman Talmadge (D)
voted “yea” and sen. Sam Nunn
(D) voted “nay.”
WELFARE—Adopted, 61 for
and 21 against, an amendment
eliminating a provision for so
called “two-party” welfare
checks. Under that provision a
recipient of Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC)
would be able to request that up
to half of his welfare payment
go directly to either his landlord
of utility. This amendment was
attached to HR 3387, a Social
Security bill later passed and
sent to conference with the
House.
Senators voting “yea” were
opposed to the two-party check
plan.
Talmadge and Nunn voted
“nay.”