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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 15,1977
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Busbee to ask
for 3 prisons
VIDALIA, Ga. (AP) - Gov.
George Busbee says he will ask
the 1978 legislature to finance
the opening of three more resti
tution-adjustment centers and
to hire more probation officers
to reduce the number of in
mates in Georgia prisons.
He said Georgia must expand
and develop programs to reha
bilitate criminals and must cut
prison costs.
“In 1982, it is estimated that
nearly 8,200 new offenders could
be sentenced to our prisons,”
Busbee said Monday night. “If
we are unable to divert 25
percent of these offenders, we
have no choice but to build more
prison beds. The cost to build
new prison beds for these of
fenders would be over S6O
million in capital outlay alone.
The cost to divert them would
barely approach $3 million.”
He said he would ask the leg
islature to hire more probation
and parole supervisors to hold
down rising caseloads, start a
pilot program to provide
nresentence diagnostic serv-
Visit by Sadat to Israel
appears almost certain
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Presi
dent Anwar Sadat said today
“as soon as the invitation ar
rives I shall be ready to go” to
Jerusalem to meet with the Is
raeli parliament.
Sadat’s remark came at a
meeting with a 14-member U.S.
congressional delegation. Sadat
later told reporters he put no
conditions on the unprecedented
trip to the Jewish state.
Israeli Prime Minister Men
ahem Begin said Monday he
would send Sadat an invitation.
Sadat proposed such a visit last
week. It would be the first pub
lic visit by an Arab leader to
Judge fines
mayor’s son
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -
Saying he would treat him no
differently than others, a Chat
ham County Superior Court
judge has fined the 17-year-old
son of Mayor John Rousakis
$350 and placed him on proba-
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ices, and finance four new pris
ons.
Busbee said he also would ask
for three new restitution centers
“where the inmate works and
compensates his victim and
pays for his room and board,
costing the state only SI,BOO per
year as compared to $5,000 to
keep him in prison.
“Also, by increasing the num
ber of probation officers for
closer supervision, we could
have additional numbers on
probation at a cost of only S2OO a
year,” he added.
He made his remarks to busi
nessmen during the Georgia
Chamber of Commerce’s an
nual Prelegislative Forum.
In a speech earlier Monday in
Dublin, Busbee announced that
he would ask the General
Assembly to approve funds for
two new prison facilities in At
lanta and two in Augusta to ease
overcrowding in prisons.
Busbee said the location of the
proposed facilities “represents
a shift in Georgia policy...
“Historically, Georgia
Israel since it was founded in
1948.
The Egyptian leader said to
day he expected the invitation
to be passed by Begin through
the American Embassy in Tel
Aviv to U.S. Ambassador Her
mann Eilts in Cairo.
“Whenever this invitation ar
rives I shall be ready to go be
cause ...we shouldn’t loose time
in procedural agreements”
Sadat said.
It was the third time in a week
that Sadat expressed his desire
to go to the Israeli parliament.
However, some congressmen
said afterwards they were still
tion for three years in con
nection with a drug charge.
Paul Rousakis pleaded guilty
Monday to a charge of posses
sion of marijuana in connection
with his arrest for allegedly
selling less than an ounce of
marijuana for $25 to an under
cover police officer in a high
school parking lot last March.
“I’m going to treat you just
like I’ve treated all the others,”
Judge Frank S. Cheatham Jr.
told the youth as he imposed the
sentence, which was recom
mended by the district attor
ney’s office.
Cheatham entered the sen
tence under the First Offenders
Act and said the case will be
dropped from Rousakis’ record
if he successfully completes
probation.
Assistant District Attorney
Michael Garner said the sen
tence was consistent with those
I given defendants in similar
cases.
prisons have been constructed
in rural areas,” he said. But,
“we have discovered that it is
better to have prisons located so
they have access to health,
education, vocational and
counseling services that are
available only in large
metropolitan areas.”
He called prison over
crowding “one of the most crit
ical (problems) in state govern
ment” and said Georgia’s pris
on population has risen 42 per
cent since mid-1973 to about 12,-
000 and is expected to approach
15,000 by 1981.
The two proposed Atlanta fa
cilities — one for males and one
for females — would increase
prison bed capacity by 420 each.
One of the Augusta facilities
would be the same type in
stitution. The other would be a
150-bed hospital to serve in
mates throughout the state
prison system — the first such
facility in Georgia history, Bus
bee said. The hospital would be
operated by the Medical College
of Georgia in Augusta.
doubtful whether he would
actually go.
“For sure, this Arab-Israeli
conflict contains 70 per cent
psychological problems and 30
per cent substance. So let us
overcome this psychological
problem and go to the sub
stance,” Sadat said.
“For that I shall be going to
the Knesset (Israel’s parlia
ment) and if need be I shall be
opening a discussion with the
120 deputies to give them the
real facts in the area here, not
from their point of view, but the
other point of view so they can
decide for themselves. 11
“I consider my visit to the
Knesset as part of the prepara
tion for Geneva,” Sadat told the
U.S. congressional delegation
and reporters in a one-hour
meeting. “Without good prepa
ration for Geneva, we shouldn’t
go because we would not reach
anything ...we shall sit and dif
fer and argue about this and
that.”
Truck tire
explodes,
kills lad
LOUISVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A
14-year-old boy died Monday
after a truck tire he was in
flating blew up in his face, au
thorities said.
Jefferson County officials
said Marion Raybun of Louis
ville was struck in the face by
the metal rim from the tire.
They said he died after being
admitted to University Hospital
in Augusta.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Gov. George Busbee listens as Sen.
Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) speaks on military preparedness in
Europe. The forum is part of a regular tour of Georgia
Cities to inform voters of policies and foreign policy that is
of interest. (AP)
Muldoon criticizes Congress
ATLANTA (AP) - The prime
minister of New Zealand says
the U.S. Congress could learn
something about efficiency
from his country’s parliament.
Prime Minister R. D. Mul
doon said Monday it recently
took the New Zealand Parlia
ment only 24 hours to pass a law
settling a nationwide truckers’
strike by insisting both sides
resume bargaining.
By contrast, Muldoon said,
this country’s national legisla
tive body is so slow moving that
the United States suffers
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economically.
Muldoon said that by the time
Congress gets around to passing
important economic legislation,
the bills already are outdated.
Despite his criticism, Mul
doon said he considers the
United States an important
friend to New Zealand, and he
said he was recently reassured
by President Carter that this
country will try to work more
closely with his.
Muldoon was in Atlanta to
meet with newspaper editors
and Mayor Maynard Jackson.
London firemen abandon
strike, help fight fire
LONDON (AP) - Dozens of
London firemen abandoned
their day-old national strike for
an hour early today to help in
experienced army firefighters
put out a blaze in a hospital and
rescue scores of helpless
patients from smoke-filled
wards.
“The soldiers were doing
their best, but they were out of
their depth,” said Jim Rogers, a
leader of the striking firemen in
the East End. “People would
have died if we hadn’t come in.
Our boys would have lynched
me if I’d tried to stop them
fighting the fire.”
One squad of strikers donned
breathing apparatus and made
their way through the choking
smoke to put out the fire in the
basement of the 400-bed St. An
drew’s Hospital.
Others took over hoses from
the 40 army troops manning ob
solete civil defense fire trucks
taken out of mothballs by the
government to meet the emer
gency.
There were no casualties, and
the firemen went back to the
picket lines after the fire was
under control.
The hospital fire was the most
serious blaze reported during
the first 24 hours of the strike
for higher pay by most of
Britain’s 33,000 fulltime fire
men. It is Britain's first nation
al firemen’s strike, and the
government mobilized 10,000
hastily-trained soldiers plus
thousands of part-time reserve
firemen and civilian volunteers.
A government spokesman
said the number of emergency
calls Monday was well below
the normal 2,000 although there
was an increase in false alarms.
“People are definitely being
more careful about fire pre
cautions,” said the spokesman.
However, he reported an in
crease in hoax calls.
Two fire deaths were report
ed, but police said the strike
was not to blame. "Even if the
firemen had been operational,
they could not have got to the
fires in time,” an official said.
The troops put out fires in a
cardboard factory in Glasgow,
in a furniture store in Leicester
Inmate’s death
ruled suicide
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP)
— A ruling of suicide closes the
case of a prison inmate who
died after spending several
hours handcuffed to a ladder
under the hot sun, according to
Texas Department of Correc
tions officals.
The TDC comment came
Monday after the circum
stances of the death of James
Elton Batts, 28, became public
following inquiries by his rela
tives in Georgia.
In the morning of Sept. 21,
Batts was sent to the cotton
fields with the other inmates.
But prison officials said he re
fused to work and was hand
cuffed to a ladder for several
hours until the crew returned to
and in a Birmingham scrap
yard.
The firemen are demanding a
30 percent pay increase, three
times the 10 percent anti-in
flation ceiling which Prime
Minister James Callaghan’s
Labor government is trying to
maintain for the third year. It is
the most serious challenge so
far to the government’s wage
restraint policy.
Richard Foggie, assistant
general secretary of the Fire
Brigades’ Union, claimed about
97.5 percent of the regular fire
men were on strike.
the main unit.
He was taken to the hospital,
given salt tablets and sent to the
dining hall at the Eastham unit
where he died about a half-hour
later, officials said.
An autopsy performed by Dr.
Ethel Erickson, assistant Har
ris County medical examiner,
revealed the cause of death was
a cerebral edema due to
asphyxia —a swollen brain re
sulting from impaired oxygen
supply.
Dr. Erickson said she ruled
the death a suicide using infor
mation furnished by TDC offi
cials concerning attempts by
Batts to take his life during the
week before he died.