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Senate moves toward final OK
of energy credit legislation
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate,
after cutting energy tax breaks for
industry by one-third is moving toward
final approval of the remaining energy
tax credit legislation.
Passage would allow a Senate-House
conference committee to begin ham
mering out a compromise version that
is expected to include some of the big
energy taxes proposed by President
Carter and passed in a modified form
earlier by the House.
Democratatic leaders hoped to get a
League pushes
organization
of workers
ATLANTA (AP) — More effort must
be made to organize non-union workers
and to set nationwide standards of wage
and working conditions, the executive
director of the National Urban League
said Friday.
“The existence of a large, low-wage,
non-union sector in our economy means
lower standards for all workers, espe
cially those in marginal jobs,” Vernon
Jordan told a convention of the
Industrial Union Department of the
AFL-CIO.
Jordan said organized labor must
“redouble its efforts to set national
standards of decency in wage and
working conditions by organizing the
unorganized.”
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“A tightwad is a fellow who
isn’t willing to spend a buck —
but he’ll pass IL”
DAILY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
Lt Col. Allen B. Imes will have a big Job when he changes
the time on his clocks from Daylight Saving Time to
standard Time tonight. Imes has about 200 clocks. The
Griffinlte is stationed at Fort McPherson in Atlanta and
makes his home on Cabin Creek Drive in Griffin. He
received many of the clocks from his father, George Imes,
final Senate vote today on its eight-year
tax break package, but there was no as
surance they would be successful.
Working well into Friday night, the
Senate slashed from 40 per cent to 15
per cent the tax credits allowed to
factories, business and power plant
wanting to convert from oil or gas
burning facilities to coal.
That vote was the heaviest blow yet
for the tax credit provisions, which the
Senate Finance Committee substituted
for Carter’s proposed taxes.
Although exact dollar figures were
not definite, the bill after the reductions
still was believed to carry almost >4O
billion worth of tax benefits, most of
them for business, over the next eight
years.
The major energy conservation in
centive for individuals in the measure
would allow a tax credit of up to S4OO to
help offset the cost of insulation and
other devices to save energy in the
home. It also would cover the purchase
of a woodbuming stove.
Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., finance
committee chairman and chief sponsor
of the bill, relayed word from Carter
that the bill should not be junked, but
should go to the conference committee.
The fight in the Senate Friday night
was led by Long on one side and Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., on the
other.
Kennedy wanted to remove a
provision allowing the federal govern
ment to pay half the cost incurred by a
company in switching from oil or gas to
other fuels. As approved by the finance
committee, the provision would have
cost about $27.5 billion over the next
eight years.
Kennedy called the credit a wasteful,
useless subsidy for big corporations at
the expense of the working people.
He tried to trim the 50 per cent credit,
which includes a 10 per cent credit
already in effect, to 20 per cent.
When it appeared that Kennedy
might win, Long said he would put off a
final vote on the amendment until today
because some of his supporters were
absent.
Kennedy then agreed to a total credit
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, October 29, 1977
and collected others on his travels over the world. All of
the clocks In Imes’ collection are American clocks.
Residents are reminded to set their clocks back one hour
before retiring tonight as the nation returns to Standard
Time for six months during the winter.
of 25 per cent, an increase of 15 per
centage points over the present credit.
Long agreed, and the Senate accepted
the compromise.
Approval of the Kennedy amendment
Firewood
Weekend thieves
stealing trees
ATLANTA (AP) — Owners of large,
undeveloped plots of land didn’t have to
worry about thieves in the past, but the
high cost of energy, which has made
firewood valuable, has changed that.
Now these owners, particularly those
in suburban Atlanta, worry about
finding their land stripped of valuable
hardwoods by weekend thieves who cut
up the wood and sell it to people with
fireplaces.
The thieves “pick your choicest
hardwood trees, the oaks and hickories.
I’ve just seen a beehive of chainsaws
and pickup trucks,” said Gwinnett
County Commission Chairman Wayne
Mason.
“We’ve got so many absentee lan
downers in the county I guess that’s
why they hit so hard here,” Mason said.
“Just the other day, I saw three big
pickup trucks come out of a friend’s
property and unless he walks all over
his 300 acres of land he’ll never even
know about it.”
Tree stealing is a business, Mason
said. “We have a lot of little en
trepreneurs going out on weekends to
make SIOO or so selling wood. On
weekends, it’s really a sight.”
Oak and hickory are the most popular
trees because they produce more heat
than pine for home fireplaces and
because they sell for $35 to $lO5 per
cord, said Francis Palmer of the
Georgia Forestry Department.
“In most cases, the land belongs to a>
development company or an absentee
landlord. And unless they’ve marked
the trees there’s not much we can do.
We tell them to call their law en-
and the industrial use tax brings the
Senate bill considerably closer to the
energy tax measure advocated by
Carter. That bill has passed the House
in a modified form.
forcement agencies and try to keep a
better watch on their property,”
Palmer said.
Forsyth County Sheriff Wesley
Walraven said landowners must
cooperate with authorities if they want
to keep timber thieves off their land.
“If the landowner doesn’t cooperate
with us, there’s not much we can do,”
he said. However, he said, “the guy who
is really dedicated will do it no matter
what you try to do to stop him.”
Richard Bertocci, who owns property
in Gwinnett County, tried to stop
thieves from coming on his land by
cutting down some large trees to block
the entrance.
Within a few weeks, someone had cut
a hole big enough for a truck to get
through, he said. “I’d estimate it’s just
thousands and thousands of dollars
worth of damage to the land.”
People
••• and things
Leaves falling from two big Oak trees
on West Solomon Street faster than
man can keep them swept off the
sidewalk.
Large dog startled when it barks at
small boy and the boy begins barking,
waving his arms and running at it.
Two women obviously on diets
stopping in ice cream parlor and asking
for a small dip of their favorite ice
cream.
Vol. 105 No. 256
Emergency
services may
cost more
One should expect to pay more for
emergency services at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital than from a private
physician, according to Dr. Selwyn
Hartley, Griffin Emergencies Service
Corporation contractor.
Dr. Hartley talked about the services
his corporation offers and explained the
internal structure of his company.
The corporation is contracted to the
hospital to provide emergency room
physicians on a 24-hour basis.
His company is also under contract
with Clayton General to provide the
same services. The service there is
called the Clayton General
Emergencies Corporation.
The home office is in Riverdale.
Dr. Hartley’s company has con
tracted with the local hospital to
provide physicians on a 24-hour basis in
the emergency room as well as ad
ministrative advice and assistance in
the operation of the emergency room.
His physician staff at Griffin-
Spalding Hospital consists of 6 general
’ practioners with experience in
emergency medicine. The staff never
includes an intern.
There are 2 doctors on the staff who
have practices in Griffin but the other 4
work specifically as emergency room
doctors.
Having been under contract with the
hospital since Oct. 1, Dr. Hartley felt
that some of the criticism the hospital
has been getting may not be justified.
In particular, he was concerned with
waiting times for emergency services.
He said the patient will be seen in
general within 15-minutes. A nurse will
have seen the patient immediately to
make an assessment of the particular
case.
There are other instances, however,
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Laughing time
Griffin High School junior Susan Kaplloff and her cousin Coleman
Clements 5, had a good laugh Friday night as they watched the Griffin High
Band perform during the halftime of the Griffin-Morrow game. During the
show, band members put down their musical instruments, whipped out kazoos,
and hummed the theme from Hogan’s Heroes. The Bears defeated Morrow 28-0.
Story on page 8.
Weather
Partly cloudy today and Sunday with
cooler temperatures Sunday. High
today in 70s, low tonight in 50s and high
Sunday in mid 60s.
Extended outlook: Mostly cloudy
Monday; warmer Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
which will require delays such as blood
tests and x-rays. He said they are
usually done very quickly. Some
patients may also be delayed services
because the emergency room doctor
has to wait for medical advice from the
patients’ family doctor.
“I’d prefer that nobody ever have to
wait,” Dr. Hartley said.
Dr. Hartley said the quality of nur
sing at the hospital is terrific and that
he was quite pleased with the prospects
of his year’s contract with the hospital.
With reference to his contract, Dr.
Hartley said the hospital was sub
sidizing the contract amount because
the emergency room is not handling
enough patients to take care of the
costs.
He said charges here in Griffin are
slightly lower than in Clayton County
and Atlanta. If the hospital worked on a
per patient pricing schedule, the
charges would be a lot higher, he said.
With reference to the emergency
room becoming a clinic, Dr. Hartley
does not want to discourage anyone
from seeking the services. He said
people use the emergency room for
many reasons. Some come after
working hours. Some want to be seen
that day and the family doctor is not
available or the emergency room is the
most convenient place for them to be
treated.
These services mean “they know it
will cost them more than at their
private physician’s," Dr. Hartley said.
Any person coming to the emergency
room is an emergency will not be
denied services, Dr. Hartely said.
In the case of an indigent person, the
services will be rendered as usual,
however, the hospital has a special
arrangement for such.
(Continued on page five )