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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 15,1977 Page 10 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- Imperial Showtime Weekdays 7:11&9:OOP.M. Sunday 5:22,7:11&9:WP.M. Carrie ® COLOR E Last House Part ** Qolor I rjn School Girl That COLOR I LJ Couldn’t Scream | Iris Drive In Showtime 7:00 P.M. I ITJI Wednesday Is I I Double I ■ * | S&H Green Stamp Day | In Spalding Square Shopping Center We Gladly Redeem : U.S. Govt. Food Coupons j • I————■——— —————■ * 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. '*- cihOKB ? ’ w Sfc if i 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 Replacement Time? Energy-Saving Gas Appliances Make Great Gifts in Any Season. Do any of your old gas appliances. 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I I**l fIHH: , c J Atlanta Gas Light Company 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.