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FOSTER LEVERRETT
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Secretary of State Fortson
Endorses 2-Term Amendment
I am holding this press
conference today because in
November we are going to
have to vote, all over the
state, on important constitu
tional amendments.
I am not running for
Governor now or at any time.
I will not be backing anyone
running for governor in 1978
nor have I ever backed
anyone, for governor.
I am talking about Amend
ment No. 2, which has to do
with the people re-electing a
governor if they desire to do
so. The lieutenant governor
of this state can be
re-elected, can have the
people re-elect him as many
times as the people want to
re-elect him. The Attorney
General of Georgia can have
the people re-elect him as
many times as they desire to
have him in that position.
The Secretary of State can be
re-elected, and has been
re-elected in many elections
here in the state and can be
re-elected again in 1978 if the
people would like to have
him continue.
That’s all that Amendment
No. 2 is -- an attempt to let the
people decide whether they
wish to re-elect a governor. I
think it’s democratic. I think
it’s something that is needed.
There are only a few states
that do not have this
provision. There are only
eight states that restrict the
right of the people to re-elect
a governor. So in voting for
this amendment, you are not
doing anything unusual, you
are not doing something that
has never been done before
(forty-two states do this),
you are not destroying
anything. You are merely
re-asserting the right of the
people to elect to office
anyone they desire to have
fill that office and, in the case
of the governor, have the
right to re-elect him.
I feel that I can speak
about this because when they
wrote the Constitution in
1943-44, I attended all the
Commission meetings and I
had the opportunity to
request this Commission to
include in the Constitution at
the time that a provision that
allowed the people to re-elect
a governor. Here we are now
voting on anew Constitution,
in a certain sense. By doing
so, we are reemphasizing
what a democratic form of
government should be.There
fore, if we are doing that, I
cannot see why there should
be any bar on the right of the
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The children going back to
school. After an active
summer most parents are
ready for a slower pace.
people to re-elect a governor
if they desire or re-elect
anyone else in Georgia who is
elected by the people, if they
desire.
The Governor of Georgia is
the only officer who can’t
even finish out his term of
office, because when he takes
the oath of office, he is
immediately on the way out.
Perhaps for the first year, he
can get along fairly well with
his programs. In the second
year, it gets a little more
difficult: And by that time,
everybody is running for
governor and, therefore, he
cannot even finish his term of
office with any assurance
that his programs and his
pledges to the people can be
carried out.
If the people are given the
right to re-elect a governor
and they do so, then that
governor has an opportunity
to finish his programs and to
serve out his first four years,
knowing that if the people
want him again, they will
elect him. If they don’t want
him, the people will vote him
out.
I do hope that we look at
this not from the angle of
political feeling but as an
amendment establishing, by
solid law, that the people
themselves have a right to
re-elect a man for governor
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GRIFFIN CO-TECH
WINS ACCREDITATION
Mr. Edwin V. Langford,
Sr., Director of Griffin-
Spalding County Area Voca
tional Technical School, in
Griffin, has received a letter
from the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Schools,
notifying him that “the
formal action of the Commis
sion was to recommend that
the School be reaffirmed as
an accredited institution for
a period of five years.”
B. E. Childers, executive
secretary of the accrediting
agency, noted that “ac
creditation is symbolic of
quality and commitment.”
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Presbyterians
To Celebrate
150th Birthday
Members of the Jackson
Presbyterian Church will
celebrate the Church’s 150
years of service with a
special program on Sunday,
October 10th.
The Sesqui-centennial cele
bration stems from church
records which show that in
1826 the Rev. Remembrance
Chamberlain formed a Pres
byterian society in Jackson.
The following year, 1827, the
Church was granted two
acres of land by the county
authorities.
The morning worship ser
vice will feature brief
addresses by several laymen
with the pastor, the Rev.
David Beville, coordinating
the program.
Following the morning
worship, dinner on the
grounds will be served at
12:30 p.m.
All former members and
pastors of the Church have
been invited to attend the
Sesqui-centennial celebra
tion, and many have indicat
ed their acceptance.
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Georgia Prisoners Pay Victims
As Well As State for Crimes
Offenders assigned to the
Divison of Community Faci
lities within the Department
of Corrections-Offender
Rehabilitation (DCOR) are
literally paying for their
crimes.
According to statistics just
released by A. L. Dutton,
Deputy Commissioner for
DCOR’s Community Facili
ties Division, some 2,000
offenders paid out more than
$62,500 in restitution to their
victims and in court costs.
These offenders, who are
under DCOR’s restitution
and pre-release program,
also paid out of their
earnings $113,135 for finan
cial support to their families;
$256,826 for room and board
assessments; $336,368 for
food, clothing, medical,
transportation and personal
items; and $172, 541 for tax
deductions.
In addition, DCOR requires
restitution and pre-release
participants to save a portion
of their salaries to be used
upon their release from the
community centers. Last
year, more than $61,600 was
saved by these offenders.
Monetary payments to the
victim is not the only penalty
the offender must bear. He
must also perform public
service tasks on weekends.
Some 3,600 hours were spent
by offenders in repairing“to
be condemned” homes of the
aged, cleaning streets, clear
ing vacant lots, working at
hospitals and nursing homes,
ai>d counseling with mentally
re'arded children.
The pre-release concept,
based on the 1969 legislation,
helps to gradually ease the
offender back into the
community at least three
months prior to the actual
release date. While assigned
to the pre-release center, the
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offender seeks employment
and locates a place to live. At
present, only 459 inmates of a
prison population greater
than 11,600 participate in the
pre-release program.
“There has to be a better
means of releasing offenders
than the traditional method
of $25, a suit of clothes, and a
bus ticket home,” said Dr.
Allen L. Ault, Commissioner
of DCOR. “The manner in
which we release offenders
probably has more to do with
his returning to crime than
the lack of meaningful
rehabilitation programs,”
Ault added.
For this reason, DCOR
hopes to expand the pre-
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1976
Gordon To
Offer Self
Defense Course
A basic course in self
defense will be offered by
Gordon Junior College begin
ning in October.
The six-week course is
open to men, women, and
children. The course in
structor is Don Ruffin of
Barnesville. The class meets
Oct. 14 through Nov. 18 every
Thursday from 7 until 9 p.m.
in the gymnasium at Gordon.
The fee is $15.00 per person.
Ruffin will teach basic
karate kicks, punches,
blocks, and throws. Partici
pants should wear loose
clothing.
Ruffin holds a second
degree black belt in karate
and is the Georgia Brown
Belt State Champion. He
placed second in the United
States Open Karate Champ
ionship and has been teach
ing private lessons at his
home.
To register for the self
defense course, call the
Office of Community Ser
vices at Gordon, 358-1700.
Registration will be complete
when the course fee is
received.
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release program to at least
some 1,500 beds so that every
offender coming out of the
system would be assigned to
a community center located
wi'hin a forty mile radius of
his home. DOCR releases an
average of 7,000 offenders
each year.
GOOD SCOUTS
Insect Detective Work
Pays "Ten Times Over"
TIFT ON—Some “good
scouts” headed back to
school this week, and they
left with words of praise and
gratitude ringing in their ears
from county agents, farmers,
and three Extension Service
entomologists.
“These young men and
women did an outstanding
job,” according to Dr. Bill
Lambert of the University of
Georgia.
College students for the
most part (some teachers
were also involved), they
spent the summer scouting
for cotton, soybean, and pea
nut insects.
“Many of the growers I
visited this summer were very
complimentary of the work
of their scouts and have asked
that they return next year,”
said Lambert, who worked
with 88 “insect sleuths” in
the cotton program.
About 50 scouts worked in
peanuts, and a like number
scouted for soybean insects.
Entomologists Herbert Wo
mack and Frank Suber, re
spectively, were in charge of
scouting programs for these
crops.
Lambert “made no bones”
about the worth of his cotton
scouts this year. “They paid
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8:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
on Friday.
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for themselves ten times over
in many instances,” he de
clared.
The entomologist ex
plained that there were un
usually light insect infesta
tions in many areas, and
growers did not have to apply
insecticides until late in t'he
season—if at all. “Without
scouting reports to guide
them,” Lambert continued,
“many of these growers
would have started control
programs way back in June.
They would have wasted a lot
of insecticide applications,
and created insect problems
rather than solve them.”
Lambert expressed the
hope that scouts and supervi
sors who worked in the pro
gram this year will return in
1977. “We anticipate a much
greater demand for scouting,
and would like to begin next
year with as many experi
enced scouts as possible.”
The Extension entomology
department works with coun
ty agents in recruiting and
placing the scouts.
Potential scouts go through
an intensive week-long train
ing program early each year
before beginning their “bug
hunt” in Georgia’s cotton,
peanut, and soybean fields.
