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SPEAKER AT EMC MEETING— O. Franklin Rogers, rate and power specialist with
Southern Engineering Company of Georgia, addressed the crowd of several hundred who
attended the 40th annual meeting of The Central Georgia EMC. Rogers warned of
continued increases in the cost of electricity but he said EMCs such as Central Georgia are
attempting to hold the increases in line. Staff photo—Whiten.
Higher Workers Compensation
Rates To Be Subject of Study
Twenty leading Georgia
businessmen are being asked
by Comptroller General and
Insurance Commissioner
Johnnie L. Caldwell to serve
on a committee he is forming
to study the workers’
compensation insurance
rating system used in
Georgia.
The committee, to be made
up of ten insurance industry
representatives specializing
in workers’ compensation in
surance and ten leaders of
the Georgia business com
munity, will review the
workers’ compensation in
surance rating system used
in this state. The review is
designed to determine the
reasons for the increased
workers’ compensation in
surance rates recently expe
rienced in Georgia and to
help find solutions to the
problems leading to these
increases.
Caldwell announced his
plans for naming this
committee in a July 13 news
conference where he cited
continued rising costs of
workers’ compensation in
surance as the needs for
forming the committee.
“I am assembling some of
the best and most qualified
insurance and non-insurance
businessmen available to
help my department in
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determining why we are
having the workers’ compen
sation problems that we have
seen in recent years and to
find what we can do about
these problems,” Caldwell
said.
The insurance commis
sioner initially planned on
forming an insurance indus
try ad hoc study committee,
but said that after reviewing
the situation further, he felt it
was necessary to have
business leaders who are
familiar with workers’ com
pensation insurance to assist
in the study.
“In order to get a complete
and thorough picture of what
is happening and what must
be done in the future,”
Caldwell said, “I felt that it
was essential to seek out the
viewpoints and knowledge of
both the insurance industry
and key members of our
business community.”
Workers’ compensation
rate increases of approxi
mately 7.8 per cent and 9 per
cent were approved by the
insurance department in
July, 1976 and March, 1977,
respectively. A proposed rate
increase of 26.6 per cent to be
effective July 1 of this year
was opposed by Caldwell and
prompted the formation of
his study committee.
Workers’ compensation
rates are formulated and
filed by the National Council
on Compensation Insurance.
After meeting with Caldwell
and withdrawing the 26.6 per
cent rate increase, the
Council pledged its support of
the workers’ compensation
study committee.
“I appreciate the assist
ance of the insurance
industry and business com
munity in our study of this
serious problem,” Caldwell
said. “And I know that the
committee and this study Will
prove to be very useful and
beneficial to my department,
the insurance industry, and
the insurance consumer in
Georgia.”
The insurance industry
representatives asked to
serve on the study committee
are: Joe Sullivan, Kemper
Insurance Company; Curtis
D. Padgett, Royal Globe
Insurance Company; Jim
Teuton, American Mutual
Liability Insurance Com
pany: Jack Krogdahl, Em
ployers Mutual Fire Insur
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ance Company; Les Senger,
Aetna Casualty Group;
Langdon Quin, Travelers
Insurance Company; Luke
Lassiter, Cotton States Mu
tual Insurance Company;
Burt Lenderman, Liberty
Mutual Insurance Company;
Bob St. John, Argonaut
Insurance Company; and
Charles Bentz, United States
Fidelity and Guaranty.
Georgia business leaders
asked to serve on the
committee are: John F.
Chambless, Georgia Branch
of Associated General Con
tractors; Frank L. Carter,
Georgia Textile Manufactur
ers Association; William C.
Mcßrayer, Georgia Retail
Association; James N. Park
man, Georgia Business and
Industry Association; Ed
ward Killorin, Gambrell,
Russell, Killorin and Forbes;
Truett Lomax, The Carpet
and Rug Institute; Penn
Worden, Jr., Georgia Cham
ber of Commerce; William
F. Morie, Georgia Automo
tive Dealers Association; F.
Abit Massey, Georgia Poul
try Federation, Inc.; and
Charlie Skinner, Georgia
Motor Trucking Association,
Inc.
AUGUST IS SALUTE
THE GUARD MONTH
GET YOUR GUARD UP. is
the national recruiting slo
gan for the National Guard.
People in the National Guard
aren’t just sitting around on
their hands waiting for things
to happen. They’re fighting
forest fires, and battling
blizzards, saving folks from
floods, even helping to
rebuild schools.
You’d better believe
they’re fighting for them
selves, too, learning skills;
learning to make life work.
You can learn different jobs
in the National Guard and
every one of them helps
somebody, including your
self. The Guard needs you,
the Country needs you, Get
your Guard up. August is
Salute the Guard Month. Call
775-5511, the Jackson Armory
will be manned by a recruiter
every week night until 9
o’clock and Saturday and
Sunday until 6 o’clock
throughout August.
"By perseverance the
snail reached the ark."
C. H. Spurgeon
Westbury
Volunteers
Mrs. Christine B. James
Westbury volunteers start
ed July off with a business
meeting on the Ist. Eight
members and the two
activity directors were pre
sent.
After the meeting some of
the volunteers helped with a
watermelon cutting. Mil
dred Smith and Christine.
James gave a 4th of July
memento, made by Flovilla
Not-Too Club members, to
each resident.
• Our bazaar on July 9th was
very successful thanks to
Sherrell’s Funeral Home for
the use of a tent; each person
that helped in any way,
including items that were
donated to be sold and ice
cream which really made the
day a success; and last but
not least to the general public
for each purchase made.
All of the activities
involving volunteers were
conducted during the month
plus many conducted by the
directors without volunteer
help.
We are selling chances, at
SI.OO each, on an afghan,
drawing to be held on
September Ist. Proceeds will
go into the activities fund to
be used on a very special
project that we are working
on for the enjoyment of
residents. Please buy ' a
chance from a volunteer or at
Westbury.
LOST-A BOY
Not kidnapped by bandits
and hidden in a cave to weep
and starve and raise a nation
to frenzied searching. Were
that the case, one hundred
thousand men would rise to
the rescue if need be.
Unfortunately, the losing of
this lad is without dramatic
excitement, though very,
very, very sad and very real.
The fact is his father lost
him. Being too busy to sit
with him at the fireside and
answer his trivial questions
during the years when
fathers are the only great
heroes of their sons, he let go
his hold.
Yes, his mother lost him.
Being much engrossed in her
teas, dinners, and club
programs, she let her maid
hear the boy say his prayers,
and thus her grip slipped and
the boy was lost to the home.
Aye, the church lost him.
Being so much occupied with
sermons for the wise and
elderly who pay the bills and
having good care for dignity,
the minister and elders were
unmindful of the human
feelings of the boy in the pew
and made no provisions in
sermon or song or manly
sport for his boyishness. And
so the Church and many
sad-hearted parents are now
looking earnestly for the lost
boy.
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WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS—(L to R) Christie
Branan, Renae Kinard and Ed Pinckney attended a 4-H
planning workshop on August 4th and sth. Nineteen counties
participated in the workshop held at Camp Fortson in
Henry County. 4-H Club members worked with adult
leaders and agents in planning the activities for the coming
year. The young people also had the privilege of sharing
ideas with 4-H’ers from other counties.
This fall the Veterans
Administration anticipates
that well over a million
veterans will be in training
under the GI Bill Education
Program. Many of these
trainees are residing in the
circulation area served by
your newspaper.
The VA needs your help in
communicating an important
message to these veterans.
Although I am convinced
the vast majority of the 5.5
million Vietnam era veterans
who have thus far trained
under the current GI Bill
have done so in an exemplary
fashion that will benefit the
nation for years to come,
there have been enough
exceptions to create a real
education overpayment pro
blem for the VA. To help
overcome this problem,
Congress enacted legislation
to change the way VA pays
GI Bill allowances.
Last Fall, for example,
when veterans registered for
school, they received an
automatic advance payment
covering the first six weeks
of school, and their regularly
monthly checks were pre
paid at the start of each
monthly training period.
This Fall, students will get
the same dollar amount as
before, and possibly even
more, for the Administrator
has recommended and Con
gress is considering a
cost-of-living increase in GI
Bill allowances. But the
timing of the payments will
be different, and veterans
should plan their personal
finances accordingly.
To smooth the transition to
the new payment procedure,
we are emphasizing to
students and to schools that
other forms of VA assistance
are available. Among these
are VA loans for education
that are interest free until
nine months after the student
leaves school. A work-study
program is also available
through which VA will pay an
additional $625 per semester,
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and $250 of this will be paid in
advance.
More details on the pay
changes and other VA
assistance programs may be
obtained by contacting the
VA or campus veterans
affairs counselors in your
area.
I would greatly appreciate
your publication of this
message as a public service
to the many veterans among
your readers. Thank you.
V. R. White, Director
Atlanta Regional Office
Veterans Administration
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