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GIA Says Teachers Favor
Repeal 200-Day Provision
ATLANTA—A poll of members
of the Georgia Education As
sociation Idicates that Georgia
educators overwhelmingly favor
repeal of the controversial 200-
day year provision of Senate Bill
180.
The GEA announced that 142
of its 218 local units across the
state participated in the poll
which was conducted between mid
September and January 5. GEA
members totaling 16,640 favored
repeal of the 200-day year re
quirement, while only 482 mem-
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bers said they would prefer to
keep the provision in the state's
new school law. A majority of
members tn all 142 participating
local units favored repeal.
Many of the 482 teachers, prin
cipals, superintendents and other
school personnel who said they
favored keeping the requirement
said they favored it only on the
condition that extra pay would be
provided for the extra days they
would be required to work.
The controversial provision,
written into the new school law,
Senate Bill 180, at the 1964
session of the Georgia General
Assembly, Increases the length
of the school year from 190
days to 200 days. Governor
Carl Sanders and the chairmen
of the education committees of
both houses of the legislature
have already indicated they will
push for repeal of the provision.
Repeal was discussed at a
series of “cabinet meetings’’ of
GEA leaders in each of the state
wide education organization's 11
districts in mid September.
Questionnaires were distributed
at that time to ascertain the
membership’s sentiment on the
issue. Deadline for returning the
questionnaires to the GEA office
In Atlanta was Jan. 5.
Os the 142 local units answer
ing the questionnaire, 86 voted
unanimously for repeal. In
another 20 units, only one mem
ber per unit voted against re
peal. In another 10 units, only
two members per unit voted
against repeal. Os the 482 votes
against repeal, a majority of
256 came from four local units
— DeKalb County, Atlanta, Walk
er County and Oconee County.
The remaining 226 votes against
repeal were spread out through
138 local units.
Less than three tenths of one
percent of the total GEA member
ship of more than 27,000 voted
to retain the 200-day require
ment.
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THE COVINGTON NEWS
State Average
Sales Tax Tables
Are Announced
' Georgia taxpayers may use a
state sales tax table as a guide
line when filing their 1964 Feder
al income tax returns. A. C.
Ross, District Director of Inter
nal Revenue said the table is now
available.
The table shows the average
amount of state sales tax paid by
Georgia residents and may be
used by taxpayers who itemize
their Federal income tax de
ductions. Similar tables have
been prepared for 36 other states
and the District of Columbia.
“For the first time since 1960
when the tables were originally
Issued, there has been a general
revision of the amounts,'* Mr.
Ross said. The latest tables are
based on summary data showing
the patterns of consumer ex
penditures developed by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics from
a 1960-61 study. Previous tables
were based on a 1950 study.
Previously, tables were re
vised only to reflect changes in
sales tax rates or the commodi
ties covered by the particular
state’s laws.
The recent study shows that
household operations, property
taxes, medical care, personal
care services, education, and
insurance have, for the most
part, comprised a larger part
of the total consumer expendi
tures In 1960-61 than they did
in 1950. These items are not
usually subjected to state sales
taxes.
The new tables omit the state
sales tax on automobiles pur
chased, thus providing a uniform
treatment of this Item for all
states. Now taxpayers who pur
chase an automobile may add the
sales taxes paid on the purchase
to the amount shown In the table.
The result of the revisions,
particularly the elimination of
the allowance for autos, has re
duced the amount shown on the
sales tax tables. The new tables,
however, are a more accurate
measure of the average sales
tax paid in the various states.
Internal Revenue reminds tax
payers that these tables are not
required to be used. They are
furnished as a guide for the con
venience of taxpayers who Item
ize deductions of their Federal
Income tax returns but who wish
to use a “standard” amount for
state sales tax which will not
require detailed substantiation.
Taxpayers have the choice, of
course, of deducting the actual
amount of state sales taxes paid.
Caladium bulbs will not over
winter out-of-doors in Georgia,
Horticulturist Gerald E. Smith
of the Extension Service remend
ed homeowners this week.
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