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Congress trying to steer
motorists into small cars
WASHINGTON (AP) - Con
gress, convinced the automobile
is the chief cause of energy
waste, is looking for away to
steer American motorists to
ward gasoline-stingy cars.
But the lawmakers, who are
now considering the trans
portation part of President Car
ter’s energy program, cannot
decide whether to impose a tax
that will make inefficient autos
unattractive to buyers or to ban
them altogether.
The Senate planned to vote
today on the tax, similar to the
one recommended by Carter
and passed by the House.
Meanwhile, a Senate-House
conference committee that is
Bank opens
despite fire
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The
First National Bank of Athens,
despite sustaining “tremen
dously heavy” losses from a
Sunday morning fire, was
scheduled to open for business
today in another location.
The blaze apparently started
in apartments above Copies Un
limited, a printing shop, and
spread to the bank and the
Bulldog Lounge, firemen said.
Although the bank’s vault re
mained intact after more than
100 firemen fought the blaze for
over two hours, Fire Chief Tom
Eberhard said there was a
“tremendously heavy loss.”
Officials said the bank would
relocate in another building and
be open today.
The exact cause of the fire has
not been determined. No in
juries were reported.
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considering non-tax portions of
Carter’s program is hoping to
break a deadlock over a provi
sion, already passed by the
Senate, that would prohibit pro
duction of cars that get poor
mileage.
That ban, which House con
ferees have twice refused to ac
cept, would apply starting in
1981 to cars getting less than 16
miles per gallon, and rising to 21
mpg by 1985.
The auto tax is one of several
issues that remain to be consid
ered before the Senate com
pletes work on its energy tax
bill. Approval of the bill could
come late today, sending it to
the conference committee.
Another set of conferees rep
resenting the Senate and House
will try once again to agree on
conditions under which federal
Medicaid funds could be used to
finance abortions for the poor.
The dispute is tying up a $60.2
billion appropriation bill for the
departments of Labor and
Health, Education and Welfare.
Failure to act on that bill could
delay paychecks for thousands
of federal workers.
The House has voted to allow
federally paid abortions only in
cases in which the woman’s life
would be endangered by a full
term pregnancy and in some
rape cases. The more liberal
Senate position would require
that the health of the woman
and her fetus be considered.
In other congressional action,
House leaders planned a vote
today on a resolution aimed at
winning cooperation of the
South Korean government in
the investigation of alleged ef
forts by Koreans to buy in
fluence in Congress.
Gov. Thomson
criticizes treaty
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - The
Panama Canal treaty may be
tantamount to national suicide
i for the United States, New
j Hampshire Gov. Meldrim
Thomson said at a rally spon
| sored by the Coalition to Save
[ the Panama Canal.
I “I find it abhorrent to witness
i an American president rushing
I to give away a U.S. sovereign
territory to dictator
(Panamanian Leader Gen.
I Omar) Torrijos,” Thomson, a
| Georgia native, said Sunday.
“Carter would commit Amer
l ica to its lowest level of disgrace
i by surrendering without a
' whimper a territory essential to
our national security and well
; being,” he told the group
' composed of southeast Georgia
! members of the American Par
[ ty, American Legion and Veter
> ans of Foreign Wars.
! “This giveaway treaty smells
i of national suicide. On the out
s come of the canal issue could
Tuesday will bring House
consideration of a bill to imple
ment President Carter’s deci
sion granting Alcan Pipeline
Corp, the right to build a natural
gas pipeline to deliver Alaskan
gas to the 48 contiguous states.
‘Miss Lillian’
to appear
with Donahue
ATLANTA (AP) — Television
interview show host Phil Do
nahue said Mrs. Lillian Carter
told him he talked too much but
agreed to be on his show
anyway.
President Carter’s mother,
Miss Lillian, is scheduled to ap
pear Wednesday morning when
the show will be taped in At
lanta to accomodate her.
Donahue said he called Miss
Lillian at her Plains, Ga., home
to invite her to appear on the
show, and got an unusual, but
kind response:
“‘Miss Lillian,’ I said, ‘I know
you are very busy, but I’d be
grateful if I could get into your
schedule. I know you have a lot
of other things to do, and I
promise not to be a bother to
you, but if there is any way you
could possibly see your way
clear to ...’ I never finished the
sentence.
“She said, ‘Phil, you’re talk
ing too much.’ I said, ‘Yes,
ma’am, maybe I am. How about
doing our show?’ And she said,
‘Where?’ I said, ‘l’d like to
come to Plains, but it would be
very expensive.’ She said, ‘I
know it. It’s too expensive.’ I
said, ‘Why don’t you come to
Atlanta?’ And she said, ‘OK.’ It
was as easy as that.”
depend your personal liberty,”
said Thomson, a leading oppo
nent of the treaty which, if ap
proved by the Senate, would
give the 500-square-mile Canal
Zone to Panama by the year
2000.
A second document declares
the waterway a neutral zone
and allows U.S. intervention in
the event of a threat to its se
curity.
“The treaty denies in no way
the right of enemy vessels to use
the canal in times of war,”
Thomson charged.
He also said the formation of
a board of Panamanian and
American military representa
tives to plan the defense of the
canal would insure that “Russia
will know in advance what our
plans will be.”
He urged the 300 persons in
attendance to write their elect
ed officials to oppose the
treaties.
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Gerald Hughes, 33-year-old Highland Park fireman, gestures as he explains his joy-ride on
a $90,000 fire truck that cost him his job. On September 13 Hughes picked up his wife and
youngest daughter and went for an unauthorized two-hour spin on Detroit freeways. A
seven-year veteran of the fire department he says he took the fire truck only out of
frustration at his own plight and to draw attention to what he claims Is discord within the
tiny fire department. (AP)
Campaign on in congress
to regulate plant moves
CLEVELAND (AP) - After
43 years in tiny Garrettsville,
Ohio, the Polson Rubber Co.
announced it was stopping pro
duction, ripping out the equip
ment and shipping the guts of its
operation to Tennessee.
“The effect was traumatic,”
says Polson vice president Paul
Diehl, who stayed behind to run
the sales operation. “It put a lot
of people out of work and
wreaked havoc on our tax
base.”
Garrettsville lost about 40 per
cent of its tax base when the 400
workers lost their jobs.
“I’ve got no idea of the des
tiny of our workforce,” Diehl
said. “I'm sure some of them
found jobs, and some of them
are still looking.”
Faced with incidents such as
Polson and the nearby closing of
the Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Co. in Struthers, Ohio, there is a
campaign in Congress and
among some local officials to
regulate plant relocation to
cushion the impact on workers
and the community.
TO THE CITIZENS I
OF GRIFFIN AND
SPALDING COUNTY
November 8 you will be called to exercise your free right There is indeed some need of improvement in some of our
of voting. Please do so for your vote does count and is schools. For instance additional classrooms. However, we
important. Let’s make it 100 percent participation. simply do not need these vast proposals totaling over sl4
million with interest and principal and causing a tax
You are urged to vote against all bond proposals for they increase by possibly 20 percent Vote against these
are wholly unrealistic and passage will impose on all massive and unwarranted "needs’’ as claimed by the
property tax payers an enormous increase and heavier school administrators. Send them back to the drawing
burden. The State Department of Education and local board for the real necessities, such as additions and
school administrators have gone completely overboard in improvements. Property tax payers cannot afford these
wanting the world. These officials believe money grows on excessive plans. Insist that school authorities revamp all
trees and grandiose facilities will solve education proposals and come up with a reasonable and adequate
problems, whereas in fact they will only compound the P ,an and not this massi * e complex. Most of the proposals
picture more. Education all over Georgia needs a complete are i ust hi s h on the hog ” with no consideratlon
overhaul and get back to the basics in reading, writing whatever of the overburdened property taxpayer.
and arithmetic. It is a pity that we have continued to pour There is not citizen in our county who is opposed to better
great sums of tax money into education and without schools; we must insist upon quality education in a realm
desired results. Georgia ranks well below the national that the tax payers can afford. Insist that the school
average and it will not improve until we make changes at administrators go back to the drawing board for real and
the source in providing excellent education. actual needs.
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Pleasure ride
Proponents of regulation hope
to minimize the damage to a
community and its workers
when a company moves a pro
duction site.
In Ohio, the Conference of Al
ternative State and Local Pub
lic Policies, a group of public
officials, is calling for state leg
islation that would require com
panies to pay severance bene
fits for workers idled by a plant
movement.
A bill introduced in the Ohio
General Assembly last summer
would require benefits equal to
one week’s pay for every year
an employee has worked for the
company.
The bill also would require
that 10 percent of the gross an
nual wages of affected employ
ees be paid by the company into
a state fund for redevelopment
of the affected community.
Legislation introduced in
Congress by Rep. William Ford,
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DMich., would require two
years’ notice before relocating
a plant.
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Black Atlantans
support Young
ATLANTA (AP) - About 150
prominent black Atlantans pub
licly expressed support for U.N.
Ambassador Andrew Young to
day, while calling for majority
rule in South Africa and eco
nomic and arms sanctions
against the African nation’s
white-run government.
“We believe that the issue of
human rights in South Africa
cannot be compromised. We
cannot sit back and tolerate
apartheid in the South African
government,” reads an adver
tisement in today’s editions of
the Atlanta Constitution.
“The South African govern
ment has demonstrated a cal
lous oppression of the human
rights of its black citizens. Most
recently, it has silenced the
voices of moderation in that
nation by forbidding eighteen
moderate black organizations
to meet and organize for social
and politican change. They
have also stopped the publica
tion of three newspapers, in
cluding a major black daily,”
the petition says.
Signers include the Rev. Jo
seph Lowery, president of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference; Vivian Malone
Jones, the head of the Atlanta
based Voter Education project
and the first black woman to
attend the University of
Alabama, and Billye Aaron, wht
wife of home-run king Hank
Aaron.
Also signing were Hosea Wil
liams, longtime civil rights
leader and an SCLC official;
state Sen. Julian Bond and
Mayor Maynard Jackson and
his wife.
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