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¥ Be Seein’ Ye-With this thought: The year 1973 is over ¥
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TO AFFECT MOST GEORGIANS
Explanation of New Code of Public Transportation
(EDITOR'S NOTE This
article, one of a series on the
new Georgia Code of Public
Transportation, is presented as
a public service to our readers.)
During the last session of
the Georgia General Assembly,
a five-year effort finally
brought to life a measure des
tined to have significant impact
upon most, if not all, Geor
gians.
On April 17 that measure
was signed into law by Gov.
Jimmy Carter and became the
Georgia Code of Public Trans
portation (Title 95 A).
In this, the first of a series
of five articles on the interpre
tations and ramifications of the
new code, some of the more
general provisions will be
examined, along with the
code’s “reason for being.”
Studies aimed toward devel-
Observations I
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By ELBERT FORESTER
Editor, The Dade County Sentindx*
opment of a new set of laws
regulating transportation and
its needs in the state began as
early as 1968 when the General
Assembly established the Joint
Highway Interim Study Com
mittee to codify in one title all
existing highway laws and to
report proposals for needed
legislation. The committee was
re-created by 1969 and 1970
resolutions of the General
Assembly and was directed to
make its final report to the
legislature in 1971.
Behind these resolutions
was the legislature’s belief that
“present laws pertaining to
highways are incomplete and in
many respects contradictory,
overlapping, ambiguous and of
doubtful meaning.” Further,
some of the laws were “obso
lete and others not adapted to
the present demand for in-
She ^ummemtlle Nma
Ite******!
R. A. Duke (R), executive director of
the Housing Authority of the City of
Menlo presents a check for $ 1,400-plus
to Mayor George Payne during Tuesday
night’s City Council meeting. The
check represents the amount paid to
the city by the housing authority in
Rep. Floyd Restates
Position On Taxes
In a recent speech to the
Rome Jaycees, Rep. James
(Sloppy) Floyd reaffirmed his
“hold-the-line” policy on ad
ditional taxes for the state.
“It took 200 years to hit a
billion-dollar budget,” Floyd
reminded his audience, “and if
we don’t put the brakes on it’ll
take only about five years now,
maybe, to go to a two-billion
dollar budget.”
Floyd indicated that all sur
rounding states have raised
taxes in the last seven years—
cigarette tax, income tax, cor
porate tax, gasoline tax, “and
every other kind of tax. In
Georgia, we have only raised
gasoline tax by one cent and
cigarettes by four cents. We
have defeated every other tax
measure.”
He added that in the last
seven years Georgia has jumped
from $7,085,000 to
$1,664,279,169 in appropria
tions with just those two tax
increases.
“Fighting like we have,
taking those department heads
on, cutting this fat, driving
home, and trying to get good
mileage out of every dollar, we
have created a good industrial
and , business climate in the
state if Georgia.”
Floyd said he thought that
is the reason Georgia is having
greater economic growth than
any other Southern state.
“And I think the General
Assembly can take more credit
than the governor.”
Gov. Carter, Floyd said,
“used to believe in three
branches of government. But
now that he’s governor, he
wants to run it all.
“Well, the governor is not
creased highway construction,
maintenance and safety.”
To assist in modernization
efforts for the planned code,
the then State Highway De
partment contracted with the
University of Georgia School
of Law for recommendations
for a complete codification of
the public road laws of Geor
gia.
Originally submitted in
January, 1971, the code under
went additional revisions in
that year and 1972 as a result
of the Executive Reorganiza
tion Act, primarily because of
the establishment of the De
partment of Transportation to
replace the State Highway
Department.
By 1973, however, the time
was right, and the code became
a reality, making history in its
own right, for at no time since
CITY OF MENLO RECEIVES CHECK
going to run my committee
(House Appropriations), and
Gov. Carter knows it,” Floyd
said. “He can go back down to
Hains, Ga., and plant ’em.”
The veteran Chattooga legis
lator added that “we can’t find
out yet where state reorganiza
tion would save $1 million. We
have 378 people more on the
state payroll now than we did
when we passed reorganization.
I believe reorganization is going
to cost us money.”
In the speech to the
Jaycees, Floyd-apparently in
reference to whether he will
run for lieutenant governor or
remain as chairman of the
powerful House Appropria-
Gas Retailers Must
Post Price Ceilings
All gasoline and diesel fuel
retailers must now post price
control stickers on each pump.
Sept. 1 was the deadline for
station owners and operators
to comply with the posting
requirements.
The stickers must be used
by gasoline and diesel fuel
retailers to comply with Cost
of Living Council requirements
that they post on each pump
the Phase IV ceiling price and
octane rating, John W. Hender
son, district director of
Internal Revenue (IRS) said.
“Gasoline and diesel fuel
retailers must obtain one in
struction sheet per station and
one sticker for each pump,”
Henderson added. “If more
than one grade of gas is sold
from a pump, a separate sticker
must be posted for each
grade.”
lieu of city taxes. Others shown, left tc
right: Councilmen B. L. Bankston.
Larry Canada, Travis Money, Lonnie
Ward, and City Recorder Hester Hurtt.
Councilman J. P. .Thornberry was not
present for the meeting.
tions Committee-said: “I
don’t intend to get out of the
kitchen, and there’s lots more
cooking that needs to be done
at the State Capitol. I want to
be a part of it, one way or
another.”
’ Rep. Floyd also made it
Miat he is opposed to the
organizational arrangement at
Northwest Regional Hospital,
adjacent to Battey State.
“I’m bitterly opposed,”
Floyd said byway of emphasis.
“A regional mental hospital is
not like an ordinary hospital. It
takes highly trained people,
and this is a step backward
from what we’ve done over the
years.”
The district director said
price control stickers are avail
able at U.S. post offices
throughout the state. Post
offices will hand out the
stickers, together with instruc
tions.
On the reverse side of the
sheet is a form on which the
ceiling price, octane number,
grade of gas, pump serial
number, and sticker number
must be listed. The completed
sheet must be retained at each
station for IRS inspection.
“In general, gasoline ceiling
prices are based on the greater
of the dealer’s actual mark
upon Jan. 10, 1973, or seven
cents per gallon,” Henderson
stated. “This figure is added to
the price the dealer paid for his
gas on Aug. 1, 1973, to arrive
at the ceiling price.
the post-Revolutionary War
period and including the 1933
recodification of all the general
laws of Georgia had there been
any systematic consolidation
of the patchwork of Georgia
road laws. Moreover, the coher
ence that did exist in earlier
times had disappeared as a
result of the expansive develop
ment of the state’s roads and
highways.
Even by the early 70’s,
many of the state’s older laws
remained on the books, al
though they were completely
unadaptable to modern needs.
Such statutory anachronisms
reflected the needs of another
day, when roads served mainly
as feeders to the railroads,
when trips were made by horse
and buggy or Model T.
This situation, in fact, was a
major thrust behind the drive
Second Front
for a modern code: To abolish
anachronisms, and to establish
a workable code, not merely a
highway code, but a system of
regulations flexible and respon
sible enough to meet the need
of the public and to meet the
state’s future needs for coordi
nation and development of all
forms of transportation. A
complete new codification was
necessary.
What Georgia now has is a
coherent codification with
definitive organization, spread
over 12 specific chapters.
Defined are jurisdictional
responsibilities individually
and jointly for coordinating
county, city, and state road
nets into one well-planned,
efficient system for vehicular
and other modes of transporta
tion. Internal powers and
duties of each of the three
Won’t Retire
At 50 Years,
Barber States
Few men launch a 50-year
career in the same city and
meet their future bride all in
the same day. This was the
unusual experience of Summer
ville’s W. E. Turner.
The anniversary of these
two big events in his life was
this past Monday. He arrived in
Summerville at 2 o’clock
(Central Standard Time), and
went to work immediately for
Mark Ray with whom he had
worked previously in Centre,
Ala.
Children were enrolling in
school that afternoon and folks
were talking about the big sing
ing at the courthouse on the
previous Sunday (Two big sing
ings were held each year, one
on the first Sunday in May and
the other on the first Sunday
in September).
During the course of Mr.
Turner’s first afternoon here,
three girls came into the barber
shop, one wanting their bangs
trimmed. He especially took
notice of one of the girls. Soon
he double-dated with her and
the next year, in October of
1924, he married her-Vivian
Pledger.
He made $22 the first week
he worked here. Haircuts cost
25 cents and shaves 15 cents.
Now his haircuts are $2 and
almost everybody shaves at
home with electric razors.
He says he came to Sum
merville about a year and a half
before Georgia Power Co.
People were cooking on wood
stoves and burning coal in their
fireplaces.
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Recalls Ice Truck
The arrival of the ice truck
every morning was a big event.
Joe Scott and Will Finley drove
the ice truck, and everybody
was happy to see them coming
and chunking off a block of ice
and putting it in the ice box.
He said there was no pave
ment between Chattanooga
and Atlanta, with all the roads
and sidewalks being chert.
Fifty years ago there were
still plenty of buggies and
wagons in Summerville, and a
hitching rail behind Brittain
Brothers Store extended to the
blacksmith shop, where mules
and horses were hitched.
The city limits of Summer
ville extended a half mile from
the courthouse; now they ex
tend one mile, he said. The
population as he recalls was
932; it is now about 5,000.
Not more than a dozen
loaves of bread came into town
each Saturday. The bread was
not sliced or wrapped, just laid
down on the table. Also, ice
cream came in on Fridays and
Saturdays, and was always a
welcome treat to the kids at a
nickel a cone.
Brittain Brothers Store sold
live chickens then. Customers
walked out to the platform
behind the store and told a Mr.
Echols which chicken they
wanted. He’d take a crooked,
wire and pull out the chicken.
For ten or fifteen cents, Roose
velt Young would dress the
chicken; otherwise the legs
were tied together and the
customer took the chicken
home and dressed it himself.
The stores kept peas and
beans in big open boxes.
People would come in talking
and pull their hands through
the beans while they perhaps
asked, “Do you have any shot
gun shells?” Nobody thought
anything about germs.
Mixed sausage, half pork
and half beef, sold as a Satur
day Special for 8 cents a
pound. Pure pork sausage was
10 cents a pound and bacon
was on special for 15 and 16
cents a pound.
The first radio he listened to
belonged to the late Earl
Beatty. It had earphones for
the listeners, and the room was
half filled with equipment.
Others in the room asked him
from time to time how the
ballgame was coming along.
There was lots of popping,
cracking and slamming, he said,
as the interference hadn’t been
worked out.
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Trimmed Beards
For Centennial
He recalls trimming mous
taches and beards during the
Centennial at Trion.
Cutting children’s hair was
sort of a specialty with him in
his younger days as he had a
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W. E. Turner looks over a pair of hair clippers which
he said are more than 40 years old. Mr. Turner, who
has been a barber here for 50 years, said, “I won’t
retire.”
levels of governments are set
forth in extremely broad terms
and in a manner that is non
exclusive and cumulative.
Restrictions imposed on
these broad powers are found
in other chapters of the code,
organized with subject matter,
rather than to the particular
jurisdiction.
In recognition of the fact
that all three jurisdictions use
certain common procedures in
building and maintaining their
roads, the remaining chapters
set forth the law in these areas.
(For example: All govern
mental levels must be able to
contract. Therefore, Chapter
95A-8, “Contracts,” contains
in one chapter the contractual
law for the Department of
Transportation, the county,
and the municipality.)
It is important to note that
magic way with them. Perhaps
gifts of chewing gum had some
thing to do with it as he placed
the board across the chair and
draped the white and black
striped cloth around their
necks and grinned at them with
scissors in his hand.
“I used to have quite a few
women customers, too; a
number came quite a distance
to get me to cut their hair.”
Some of the styles they wore
were windblown, regular,
drooped back, boyish trims,
and most any type haircut.
His father, the late L. B.
Turner, cut hair in the neigh
borhood where they lived at
Lawrence, Ala., as an accom
modation for neighbors on
Saturday afternoons and
Sunday mornings.
I have been very well
pleased with my life totally
domestically and com
mercially,” he says. “Have
made a lot of friends, enjoyed
my friends. People have been
real nice to me. I have enjoyed
my work and found it fasci
nating.
The Turners have one son,
William, and one grandson,
Mike, who is a senior at Jack
sonville State College. Mrs.
Turner has operated a beauty
shop here for many years.
“I’m just a country barber,
who never intends to retire,”
he smiled. “I like people and
being out among them.”
STILL GOING STRONG
in the reorganized code, the
number of sections of previ
ously existing law has been
reduced substantially, since
many sections from other titles
have been consolidated under
this one Title 95A. Also signifi
cant is the fact that 180 obso
lete sections have been elimi
nated.
The new Georgia Code of
Public Transportation, with its
brevity, clarity, and organiza 7
tion into definitive parts,
should enable the public to
better understand Georgia
transportation laws and should
also facilitate future amend
ment of the laws, ensuring that
they are codified in their
proper niches, rather than
according to mere convenience.