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Court to settle Georgia,
South Carolina dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
U.S. Supreme Court has agreed
to settle a dispute between
Georgia and South Carolina
over which state controls thou
sands of acres of potentially oil
rich territory at the mouth of
the Savannah River.
The court Monday accepted
jurisdiction over the case and
gave officials 60 days to file ar
guments. The case was for
warded to the high court last
summer by Georgia after its
Businessman predicts rerun of ’76
winter would bring more layoffs
By The Associated Press
A rerun of last winter's record
cold wave would bring more
layoffs and shutdowns because
few Georgia industries have the
money or the incentive to find
substitutes for natural gas, says
a business official.
“If it's as cold again this win
ter, it will be as bad as last
year,” said Gene Dyson, presi
dent of the Georgia Business
and Industry Association.
The winter of 1976-77 started
with an October cold snap and
went on to become one of the
worst in Georgia history. As
many as 54,000 workers were
left jobless by shortages of fuel
for heat or production.
Firms with “interruptible”
natural gas contracts — which
means they buy gas cheaply but
can be cut off when supplies are
short — went without the fuel
for more than a month. Supplies
to other industries and some
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negotiations with South Caro
lina broke down.
Georgia claims that a 1787
treaty gives it control of 3,000
acres of land and 10,000 acres of
water stretching from Savan
nah three miles into the Atlantic
Ocean. South Carolina claims
that natural and manmade
changes in the waterway have
brought the disputed territory
within its boundary.
The federal Constitution re
quires the Supreme Court to
schools were cut off.
“Natural gas is still the most
inexpensive fuel, so many man
agers see no need to move away
from it," Dyson said. “Some
industries find not too much
incentive to convert to another
fuel on a standby basis. It’s not
just like flipping a switch. It’s a
heavy capital outlay. But those
who can are converting, some
even to electricity."
One plant which did convert is
Chemical Products Corp, of
Cartersville, which had to trim
production for six weeks last
winter. The plant makes chem
icals for treating faceplates on
color TV tubes.
“We spent the whole spring
and summer converting to fuel
oil,” said company official J.L.
Gray. “We feel that we are in a
position now this winter that we
can operate at capacity with
fuel oil as a standby.”
Using oil will cost Chemical
settle disputes between states.
The disputed area is considered
a likely site for exploratory oil
drilling, which the federal
government has proposed to
finance, and for port and in
dustrial development.
“It’s going to be necessary
that we establish a definite
line,” said Georgia Gov. George
Busbee. “We have many things
dependent on this.”
“We are confident we have a
sound case,” said South Caro
lina Gov. James Edwards.
Products 2.5 times as much as
the gas.
Some firms, including South
wire Co. of Carrollton, are buy
ing the gas now and storing it.
“We anticipate we will have
an adequate supply of standby
fuel if it doesn’t get as rough as
last winter,” said Frank Holla
day, president of Southwire.
The carpet industry, severely
hit by last year’s cutbacks, has
done a “fair” job of preparing
itself for a replay, said Truett
Lomax of the Carpet and Rug
Institute in Dalton.
“Some went to propane or
oil,” he said. “But there is a
problem in transporting pro
pane in here. And in some in
stances, some people just can
not use anything else but natu
ral gas.”
The poultry industry is ready
to switch to alternate fuels, said
F. Abit Massey, executive
director of the Georgia Poultry
Federation.
“Most processing plants al
ready had an alternate fuel
source and more have added it
since last year,” he said.
Atlanta Gas Light Co., which
supplies most of the state, said
it doesn’t expect any problems
supplying its 750,000 “firm”
customers.
“Os course, the interruptible
customers will not receive gas
on certain days, as they histori
cally have not,” an official said.
“The difference will be the
frequency of interruptions.”
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
congressional conference com
mittee is continuing its wrangl
ing over federal funding for
abortions after failing for a sec
ond time to meet a deadline for
resolving the emotional issue.
But congressional leaders
said the dispute would not
threaten the paychecks of em
ployees of the departments of
Labor and Health, Education
and Welfare.
The paychecks are involved
because the abortion proposal is
attached to the $60.2 billion
appropriations bill for the two
agencies. The dispute has
stalled approval of the spending
measure, so the agencies are
working with makeshift finan
cial arrangements which expire
at each deadline.
After failing Monday to reach
an agreement on when the fed
eral government can pay for
abortions, the conferees
planned another meeting today.
Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., said
the overnight break would give
the conferees time “to re
group.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Charles
Mathias, R-Md., and Rep. New
ton I. Sters, R-Md., introduced
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Final energy bill could mean
higher prices for nearly everything
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
multibillion-dollar Senate pack
age of energy tax breaks is
headed for a congressional con
ference committee that is likely
to combine it with some of the
heavy new energy taxes passed
earlier by the House.
The final compromise bill
probably will mean higher
prices for just about everything
produced in the United States,
along with some tax breaks to
encourage conservation.
The Senate bill, approved 52-
35 Monday night, aims to en
courage fuel conservation and
increased energy production
with dozens of tax breaks. It is
Military, economic sanctions
against South Africa vetoed
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -
African delegations to the
United Nations are formulating
a proposed resolution that
would permit the two huge fed
eral agencies to pay their 240,-
000 employees even if the abor
tion issue remains unresolved.
The two agencies lost author
ity to spend money at midnight
Monday, when a similar Oct. 13
resolution expired. The resolu
tion had authorized ex
penditures by the two depart
ments through the end of the
month.
The abortion impasse devel
oped earlier this year when the
Senate insisted on legislation
that would authorize federal
funding of abortions under a
variety of circumstances, while
the House advocated much
stricter limitations. Each
chamber has refused to change
its basic position.
Senate conferees support
abortion payments in cases
where a woman’s life would be
endangered by full-term preg
nancy, in cases of rape or in
cest, or where a woman or fetus
would suffer serious health
damage.
On Monday, however, rhe
senators offered to soften their
stand. They suggested author
ization of abortion payments
when a woman’s life would be
jeopardized by a full-term preg
nancy, or where serious physi
cal health damage to the wom
an would result from a fullterm
pregnancy.
In adopting this proposal, the
Senate conferees abandoned
their previous demand that ex
ceptions be made for mental
health and the health of the
fetus.
But the compromise was re
jected by House conferees on a
6-3 vote.
“I think we’ve compromised
as far as we can," Sen. Warren
Magnuson, D-Wash., told House
conferees.
But some House members
maintained the Senate proposal
did not go far enough.
Conte said some House mem
bers had “grave doubts about
the health section being another
loophole.”
estimated they would cost the
federal treasury about $42 bil
lion over the next eight years.
The House measure takes the
opposite tack, relying on tax
ation to raise energy prices and
force conservation. President
Carter’s proposals were similar
to the House version
The conference committee,
which could tackle the tax bill
next week, faces the problem of
deciding which parts of the two
versions should be retained.
Most of the tax advantages in
the Senate bill would be for
business and industry. But
there’s a tax break of up to S4OO
for those who make their homes
their response to a Western res
olution for an indefinite arms
embargo against South Africa
introduced in the U.N. Security
Council after the Western Big
Three vetoed African resolu
tions calling for military and
economic sanctions.
A spokesman for the African
bloc, Radha K. Ramphul of
Mauritius, said his group “like
ly” would proposed amend
ments to the resolution.
The new resolution, in
troduced Monday night by West
Germany and Canada, would
call on all U.N. members to stop
shipments of weapons to South
Africa’s white government until
the Security Council lifted the
ban. But it omits a ban on
nuclear cooperation which the
Africans called for in their
vetoed arms embargo res
olution.
The council adjourned to let
the 49-nation African bloc con
fer on the new resolution.
One resolution did pass the
Security Council on Monday.
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more energy efficient; up to
$l5O a year for heating with oil
or propane and $75 a year for
most elderly Americans.
The Senate bill continues the
present income tax deduction
for state and local gasoline
taxes, and extends through
Sept. 30,1985, the current gaso
line tax of 4 cents per gallon.
The House version would end
the tax deduction.
The House bill would raise
taxes by about S4O billion over
the next eight years, but a big
share of that would be rebated
to consumers and business. The
only new tax in the Senate bill
would raise about $5 billion.
Oct. 19 on black organizations
and leaders still at large, it de
mands that the South African
goverment release all persons
imprisoned or restricted under
security laws or for opposing
the apartheid racial policies
and lift the bans on organ
izations and newspapers op
posed to apartheid.
The resolution, sponsored by
Benin, Libya and Mauritius as
African members of the 15-na
tion council, passed unani
mously.
Then came three triple vetos
by the United States, Britain
and France, the largest number
in one day in the history of the
council. They killed resolutions
that would have:
—Asked all U.N. member
governments to refrain from in
vestments in, loans to or en
couragement of trade with
South Africa.
—Laid on a mandatory arms
embargo and called for an end
to nuclear cooperation with
South Africa.
— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 1,1977
Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La.,
chief sponsor of the Senate
measure, said while the Senate
opposes new taxes, it probably
would accept some of them if
coupled with tax incentives.
The Senate’s incentives for
business, including some new
ones for oil and gas producers,
would save an estimated two
million barrels of imported oil
per day by 1985. The House plan
would save about the same.
Carter’s original plan was
built on four major taxes. The
House rejected one —a standby
gasoline tax of 50 cents a gallon
— and approved watered-down
versions of the others: on crude
oil, to force conservation; on
industrial use of oil and natural
gas, to encourage conversion to
coal, and on inefficient cars.
The Senate voted a reduced
version of the industrial tax,
applying it only to plants built in
the future and to the estimated
11 percent of existing facilities
that can convert to coal. The
other taxes were rejected.
Talmadge,
Nunn vote
with majority
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sens.
Sam Nunn and Herman Tal
madge, both Georgia Demo
crats, voted with the majority
Monday when the U.S. Senate
approved by a vote of 52 to 35 a
measure designed to collect
energy taxes and to extend tax
credits.
RECORD HIGH
CHICAGO (AP) - The Na
tional Council of Bar Exam
iners says bar admissions in
1976 reached a record high for
the seventh consecutive year.
The NCBE, an affiliate of the
American Bar Association, says
the total number of people ad
mitted to practice in 49 states,
the District of Columbia,
Guam, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands was 35,741.
Orkin
loses
appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mil
lionaire William B. Orkin and
his handyman have lost a U.S.
Supreme Court appeal to over
turn their convictions for mur
der conspiracy in an alleged
plot to kill the husband of a
woman who testified she had a
“confused” affair with Orkin.
The high court said Monday it
would not hear the case of
Orkin, a Sandy Springs, Ga.,
businessman and son of the
founder of the Orkin pesticide
firm, and Bobby Charles Bow
en, a caretaker on Orkin’s es
tate for some 25 years.
They were appealing 1974
Fulton County Superior Court
convictions on charges of con
spiracy to murder Gerald W.
Johnson, whose wife testified
that she had a “confused” affair
with Orkin while she was his
secretary.
Witnesses testified during
their trial that Bowen was a go
between for Orkin and an al
leged “hit man” — an under
cover police officer — who was
paid $12,500 to kill Johnson.
No attempt was made to kill
Johnson, an insurance execu
tive in suburban Atlanta.
The undercover police officer
recorded about five hours of
telephone conversations which
were used in court against Or
kin and Bowen.
The appeal claimed illegal
use of wiretaps and charged
that Georgia law was broken
when authorities allowed the
Johnsons’ lawyer to accompany
them when they identified the
voices on the tapes.
Orkin and Bowen were sen
tenced to maximum terms of
five years in prison, but have
been free on bond most of the
time.
3 mild
quakes
hit S.F.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Three mild earthquakes rattled
the San Francisco region Mon
day but there were no reports of
injury or damage.
The University of California
Seismographic Station in
Berkeley said the first shake at
approximately 4:04 p.m. was
centered about 40 miles north of
San Francisco, eight miles
northwest of Napa, and regis
tered 3.0 on the Richter scale.
Two minor quakes in the San
Andreas Fault, six miles out
into the Pacific Ocean west of
San Francisco, shook homes at
8:06 and 8:13 p.m. The first
measured 2.9 and the second 2.1
on the Richter scale.
Paul K. Lee, who lives in the
western section of the city, said
the evening shake “was defi
nitely a good one. The whole
house kind of creaked.”