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Barnett revises assistance bill
By Tom McLaughlin
Staff writer
At a meeting scheduled for 10 a.m.
Dec. 16 at the state Capitol, legislator
Bill Barnett will propose a revised
edition of his plan to enable law en
forcement and emergency personnel
to get assistance from neighboring
municipalities without going through
a lot of red tape.
Barnett, the District 10 state repre
sentative, initially introduced a mutu
al assistance bill to the state Legisla
ture last year after the Jan. 24 march
in Forsyth County in which over 20,000
people participated. Neighboring law
enforcement agencies originally
balked at the idea of coming into the
county to aid local law enforcement
agencies, the GBI and the national
guard because they claimed that they
didn’t have the same powers and pro
tection outside of their municipalities.
Barnett’s bill, if passed, would give
them those powers in an emergency
situation.
“This bill will say that when you
cross that jurisdictional line you’ve
got the same powers that you had in
your own jurisdiction,” he said. “This
will include the same arresting pow
ers, immunities and insurance cover
age. The whole ball of wax.”
Barnett said his bill was only for
agencies working on the local level.
“The governor has broad powers in
VCRs Continued from page 1
At Lanier, the minimum fee for gen
eral cleaning and alignment of a VCR
is $52.50, excluding parts. Pruitt’s ba
sic fee for cleaning the tape heads is
$59.95. A more extensive general ser
vicing runs around $69.95. But if it’s a
major repair, the labor charge is
$79.95, excluding parts.
Why Is it so expensive to fix these
electronic toys? Mainly because they
are very complex toys. Much like
compact cars, because so much gad
getry is confined in such a small
space, even the simplest repairs can
require major disassembly to get to
the problem. “With some models, you
have to completely reassemble them
just to check and see if the problem’s
been corrected,” Rice said. If it
hasn’t, the whole process has to be
done again.
Local service people interviewed
said a large proportion of the repair
work they do was caused by user neg
ligence or blatant abuse. Sometimes
this abuse leans toward the extreme.
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a statewide emergency situation; this
only pertains to cities and counties,”
he said.
Barnett said the bill is set up so that
the assistance mechanism is com
pletely voluntary, and an agency is in
no way compelled to respond.
“Local mutual aid will be fully dis
cretionary,” he said. “A contract be
tween two agencies wouldn’t say ‘they
shall,’ it would say ‘they may.’ ”
Barnett said the contracts between
agencies could be made in advance or
spontaneously. He also said that the
contracts would place no obligation on
any visiting agency to stay for any pe
riod of time.
The single major point that kept the
bill from passing the legislature last
year was one of liability, according to
Barnett. He said that last year he had
proposed that the state handle liabil
ity for agencies coming in from out
side in an emergency. This year he
has proposed that each municipality
handle their own.
“Some folks feel like the state
should accept the liability,” he said.
“But I don’t feel like that’s feasible.
This year we’ve introduced a proposal
to leave the liability with the respond
ing people.”
Barnett said there were still one or
two members of the five member sub
committee that has worked on the mu
tual assistance package who still be-
Hemingway remembered having a
woman bring in an obviously battered
machine with the front cover hanging
askew and some serious dents in the
rest of the box. Once he opened it up,
he found that the circuit board had
been cracked. He managed to repair
it, but couldn’t resist asking the wom
an what happened to the machine
when she came back to pick it up.
“She told me her and her husband
had gotten into a fight over the VCR
and he had picked it up and thrown it
at her,” Hemingway said. “The ma
chine hit her and fell to the floor. She
was laughing about it by this time, so I
guess everything worked out all
right.”
More common forms of abuse in
clude small children dropping items
into the front of the VCR. “I’ve pulled
everything imaginable out of them,”
Hemingway said.
Drinks spilled on top of the machine
with the liquid getting into the inner
workings through the outside vents is
lieve the state should take the
liability.
Barnett acted as chairman of the
special subcommittee of the House
Public Safety Committee that studied
mutual assistance. The group has met
four times, hearing the problems and
recommendations of members of
such groups as: The Georgia Sheriff’s
Association, The Georgia Association
of Chiefs of Police, the Georgia Fire
men’s Association, EMS and Ambu
lance Services, insurance experts, the
Georgia State Patrol and the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation, the State
Pardons and'Paroles Board, the De
partment of Natural Resources, the
enforcement division of the Depart
ment of Transportation and agencies
connected with the National Guard
and Civil Defense.
Though liability was the major con
cern, other questions were raised dur
ing the year-long series of meetings.
One such question was who would be
in charge during the emergency.
“The bill spells out who is responsi
ble and who is in charge,” Barnett
said. “The police chief or sheriff of the
county or city where the emergency
occurs is in charge. The reporting per
sonnel from other jurisdictions would
take their orders from their top law
officer present and lie would take his
orders from the municipality police
chief or sheriff.”
another common story. Roaches, that
ever present enemy of modem man,
have also been known to crawl inside
a VCR and gum up the works.
But dust and soot build-up on the
tape heads are usually the primary
causes of VCR problems, oftentimes
from sources a VCR owner may not
take into consideration. For instance,
a kerosene heater can increase the
soot build-up in a machine.
Dust and dirt problems, as well
drink spills and some of the other
common hazards, can be minimized
via a rather simple concept a VCR
cover.
An unfortunate irony, however, is
that the very thing that a majority of
V CR owners buy the machines to play
i.e. rental video tapes can be a
major source of dirt on the tape
heads.
Rice explained that the oxide coat
ing on what are often cheaply made
tapes comes off easily on the heads. In
addition, if the person who used the
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Bill Barnett
Barnett said firemen and emergen
cy medical technicians would have
the same type of ranking system.
Barnett said the mutual aid pack
age would cover a wide gamut of
emergencies, including civil emer
gencies such as the Forsyth County
Brotherhood Marches as well as natu
*al emergencies such as tornadoes
and hurricanes. He said he did not feel
that a county such as Forsyth, which
has experienced an unprecedented
year of unrest, would overburden sur
rounding counties where the situation
might not be so volatile.
“I realize that you can only call on
friends so much,” he said. “But I be
lieve that over a period of time it
would tend to even itself out.”
tape before you had a dirty machine,
the dirt from that machine is going to
be on the tape, and ultimately, on the
heads in your VCR.
According to Hemingway, the first
sign that it’s time for a cleaning is
when the rewind mode starts to go. If
left unchecked, the problem will even
tually effect the fast forward mode,
then the machine will just quit.
The second major problem, outside
general dirt and wear and tear, is the
foul-up of VCR’s delicate circuitry
due to electrical surges caused by
lightning or the power coming back up
after a brief outage.
Rice advised using a commercial
head cleaner twice a week and getting
a professional cleaning once a year. It
should be kept in mind, though, that
commercial, do-it-yourself cleaners
only clean dirt off the heads. They
won’t do anything to help other parts
that may start malfunctioning due to
dirt build-up.
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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1987-
Holiday hangovers
handled humanely
by advance planning
OK, it’s Christmas party time
where perfectly normal people not
only overdose on cheese balls, but
booze as well. How ’bout this holiday
hangover remedy from Pete the
Northside barkeep: 'Before you
drink, take a vitamin 812 shot, swal
low one gram of vitamin C and two
vitamin B complex tablets, and then
drink four ounces of com oil.' By that
time you’ll probably forget about the
party, but if you still make it, Pete
says drink a pint of pureed orange
squash don’t ask me what that is
then take another gram of Vitamin C
and a glass of water with two Alka-
Seltzer tablets and a tablespoon of
sugar in it. I think I’ll just order a
Shirley Temple ... Mentioned the oth
er day that I’m already overdosed on
cold weather. That’s why I had to
chuckle when I heard about Jimmy
Buffet’s Feb. 1 and 2 appearances at
The Fox. The man who sings Margari
taville music is calling it his Cheap
Vacation Tour. There’s irony there.
There’s no place colder than outside
The Fox on a February Atlanta
evening.
TODAY’S BUMPER STICKER
spotted on Highway 400 'Sail Naked.'
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sional athletes, but we’ve got a dandy
in Evander Holyfield. A genuine can
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the world ... Yes, I know the Falcons
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Associated Press sports editor Ed
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championship team when Bill Curry
cheats.' ... A friend recently plopped
down a $750 deposit for four of those
clubs seats in the proposed Georgia
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rhymes. At any rate, tonight at the
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pozzoli’s, whose Lindy’s restaurant in
Peachtree Hills is packed nightly, will
Bon
Hudsoeth
(j .if t o imini ■ t
open a second restaurant, Lindy B’s,
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next will be Vinings on Highway 41.
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one The weather is cool and the trees
are exceptionally beautiful this year.
I don’t even want to think about that
sad moment Dec. 26 when they’re
pitched out by the gar’ ~ans like
dead soldiers strewn on a battlefield
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on the outside, is packing ’em in on the
inside. Yes, it’s casual but as upscale
as you can stretch the word, diner ...
On down Piedmont the controversial
Gold Club is still playing to sparse
crowds and having trouble hiring
dancers ... Jim Killeen, who has just
opened Club Soda at Akers Mill, says
he’s hoping to have his second con
cept, the Sports Rock Cafe, opened in
time for a huge Super Bowl party. It’ll
be on Roswell Road in the new shop
ping center just north of 1-285. The
same shopping center will also house
a new Varsity ... Rupert’s, the new
club with the big band (10 pieces and
four singers) playing top 40 music, is
shooting for a February opening in the
location that was the Limelight.
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