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Senator Salter Is In
Butts Cos. Doghouse
BY DOYLE JONES, JR.
Sen. Bethel Salter of Thom
as ton is in the doghouse with
many of his constituents over
the 17th district but has proved
the courage of his convictions
and has stood by his campaign
promises on salary raises.
Butts County Commissioners
Dan Fears, Dave W. Bailey
and Robert W. (Bob) Taylor,
Jr. are angered because Sen.
Salter failed to support local
legislation bills that would
have provided for rotation of
the chairman for the Butts
County Board of Commis
sioners, and failed to support
legislation that would have
provided for an increase in the
salaries of commissioners
from S2OO to S3OO a month.
Sen. Salter was the subject of
an article in the Atlanta
Constitution of Thursday,
March 22nd, by Milo Dakin.
The writer pointed out that
other political officials in the
seven county district served by
Salter had also expressed
surprise and puzzlement over
the senator’s contradictory
votes on pay raises.
Mr. Salter skipped the only
recorded vote on a $3,000 pay
raise for himself and then
turned around and killed a $l5O
monthly increase for the chief
deputy sheriff in his home
county of Upson.
Because of this, Upson
County Sheriff Merrell Great
house declared angrily he will
openly use his political
influence against Salter.
The Upson senator also killed
bills that would have given
salary increases to the Upson
County Tax Commissioners
and the County Ordinary, a
position held by Freshman
Senator Salter for 24 years
before his race last fall for the
senate post.
A puzzled Marvin Adams of
Thomastoh, who represents
Butts County in Po6t No. 2 in
the 74th District, co-author of
Social
Securify
News
by
Kate M. McLaurin
Griffin Social Security Office
Every year, several folks in
our area who receive social
security checks and work on
the side fail to notify social
security of their earnings. Asa
result, later on in the year they
geta letter from social security
telling them they failed to file
an annual report.
Kate McLaurin, manager of
the Griffin Social Security
Office said, sometimes this
can cause you some financial
hardship. She said there are
three rules to follow and you
won’t get yourself in this
situation. First, if your
earnings were over SI6BO in
1972, you are required to make
a report to the social security
office. Second, this report must
befiledby April 15,1973. Third,
it’s your responsibility to file
this report personally.
If the report is filed late you
can be charged a penalty.
Frequently, this could amount
to giving up a full month’s
social security check in
addition to the amount you
were actually overpaid based
on your earnings. Don’t you be
a late filer! As soon as you get
your form W-2 from your
employer, or, if you are self
employed, as soon as you
complete your income tax
return, and either shows over
SI6BO, contact your social
security office and file your
annual report.
Your social security office is
located at 435 West Solomon
Street, Griffin and our repre
sentatives will be happy to help
you file your annual report.
The telephone number is
227-0183. You can make this
report by telephone if you
prefer.
the defeated legislation, said
all of the pay raises were
requested by the Upson County
Commissioners, which would
be responsible for paying
them.
“When I campaigned for the
senate, I said I was going to
vote against salary increases
and I meant it,” Sen. Salter
said emphatically. “And they
heard me say it.”
Butts County Commissioner
Chairman Alfred D. Fears was
upset at Salter’s action in
killing a bill that would rotate
the commissioner chairman.
Mr. Fears said that if the
chairman had been permitted
to rotate the post every 16
months it would have provided
the other two commissioners
vastly needed experience in
performing many of the duties
imposed on the chairman. The
defeated piece of legislation
also provided that the three
man commissioner board
would also have the right and
authority to elect its own
chairman. Mr. Fears contends
with much logic that he was
elected as chairman in the
general election since he
qualified as chairman to
succeed himself while the two
other successful candidates
qualified as members from
Post 2 and Post 3. In the first
meeting of 1973 Messrs. Bailey
and Taylor delegated Mr.
Fears to serve as chairman.
Mr. Fears, as quoted in the
Constitution story, said “I
don’t want to serve as chair
man, but he killed the bill. I
don’t know why. I’m really
curious.”
Chairman Fears also charg
ed that Salter voted for “his
own damn salary then got on
the radio down here and said he
didn’t. He also killed a bill
raising our commissioner’s
salary from S2OO-S3OO a
month.”
Neither did Mr. Salter turn
down several other pay raises
for local officials in the various
counties he represents in Pike,
A RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED AND ENACTED BY THE
BUTTS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, and,
it is hereby adopted by the authority of the same:
That from and after the passage hereof, it shall be
unlawful and punishable as provided herein for any person,
firm, corporation, partnership, association, of other entity,
whether charitable or otherwise, to:
1. Commence any building, edifice, structure, house,
office, warehouse, outhouse, barn, whether to be used by
people, animals, or wares
2. Locate any trailer, mobile home, mobile office,
or other structure (whether originally on wheels or not)
which has been placed in permanent location and attached
to utility connection (s) and is used to occupancy by persons,
as residence or business, or used as storage or otherwise
(a) This excludes such temporary trailers and/or
mobile homes to be used for less than one week.
3. Locate any re-moved house and/or building at
any location other than its original site without first
having applied for and received a written permit issued by
the Butts County Board of Tax Assessors, at and for a fee
of SIO.OO.
Any violator of this ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and subject to fines and/or imprisonments
as provided under Sec. 27-2506, Code of Georgia Annotated.
Adopted, this 27th day of February 1973
D. W. BAILEY
ALFRED D. FEARS
ROBERT W. TAYLOR, JR.
Board of Commissioners
Butts County, Ga.
Attest:
BILLY SUTTON, CLERK
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Butts, Talbot, Henry and
Lamar. There were at least
eleven salary bills passed for
his district, although none of
them were for Upson County.
Sen. Salter says he allowed
these bills to pass in order to
bring other counties up to the
level of Up6on County. “Some
of our officials here were
getting paid more than the
county people in the rest of my
district,” Mr. Salter said. “So I
equalized the salaries,” he
explained.
Sen. Salter said he killed the
salary increase for Upson
Ordinary Virgil Hemby, “be
cause it’s his first year in
office.”
“Besides that,” argued Sen.
Salter, “he isn’t a lawyer like I
was and he can’t type. I saved
the county legal fees and I was
a cleric-typist. He didn’t
warrant the SIO,OOOI got much
less a $2,000 raise.”
About four years ago, Sheriff
Greathouse recalled, Sen.
Salter as County Ordinary used
a private attorney instead of
the District Attorney to
represent him in a Federal
court case.
“His fee was exhorbitant,
and the County Commissioners
refused to pay it,” Sheriff
Greathouse recalls. The fee
was settled downwards and
Sen. Salter was mad at the
commissioners. Later, Mr.
Salter tried to get the
legislature to approve a pay
raise for him without first
going through the County
Commissioners for approval.
The pay hike was refused,
Sheriff Greathouse remem
bers.
Apparently Mr. Salter’s
anger at the commissioners
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has extended to the sheriff’s
office. ‘1 don’t know what he’s
got in for me,” Sheriff
Greathouse said. “But I am
through with him politically.
From now on, we’ll be on
opposite sides of the fence.”
“All I was trying to do was to
get my chief deputy a $l5O pay
raise,” says Sheriff Great
house.
Never a popular vote-getter
in Butts, Sen. Salter appears to
have many fences to mend
here and over the district. In
the August Bth primary the
current senator ran a poor
third, polling 474 votes to 1,266
for the then incumbent Sen.
Turner R. Scott and 939 votes
for Jim Steele of Henry County.
In the run-off on August 29th
Sen. Scott carried Butts County
by a vote of 1,623 to 1,027 for
Salter. However, over the
district Sen. Salter ran a strong
race defeating Sen. Scott 9,118
votes to 7,564f0r the senatorial
seat in District 17.
Christie To
Practice
Optometry
Dr. Dudley B. Christie, Jr.
will become the associate of
Dr. Leßqy S. Harris, of Griffin,
in the practice of Optometry in
June when he completes his
residency at the Southern
College of Optometry in
Memphis, Tenn.
A graduate of Griffin High
School and the University of
Georgia in 1969, Dr. Christie
entered Southern College of
Optometry in 1969. He is a
member of the American
Optometry Association and the
Georgia Alumni Society.
Dr. Christie is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. D. B. Christie, Sr. of
Griffin, his father being
superintendent of the Griffin-
Spa Iding County School Sys
tem.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1973
PERSONAL
Mrs. J. T. Harris attended
the 40th birthday anniversary
of the Cascade Garden Club in
Atlanta on March 14th. Mrs.
Harris has been a member of
the club for a long number of
years. The tables were
attractively decorated with
early Spring flowers with the
club’s colors, green and purple,
completing the color theme.
The birthday cake was
attractively embossed in the
club’s colors and was enjoyed
by everyone. A number erf the
club’s former presidents were
able to attend, coming from
many points in Georgia as well
as in Florida. A covered dish
luncheon was enjoyed which
was followed by the installation
of new officers for the coming
year. As each officer was
named, the incoming president
read a poem and showed slides
of trees used to represent each
individual office such as tall
stately oaks, maple trees, etc.
Miss Mary Ann Elliott spent
the weekend in Tifton with
Rev. and Mrs. Billy Ring, and
family.
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visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Alton Patterson.
Tommy Glidewell returned
to his studies at Auburn
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spending the Spring holidays
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Glidewell, and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse James
Usher have had as their guest
their daughter, Miss Lurlene
Usher, student at Albany State
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Miss Donnell Stodghill, stu
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ABAC student Kim Ruff has
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Mrs. Velma Webb has had as
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