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2-C THE ATLANTA Jan. 4, 19110 Survey Reveals Split Over City-County Police Department tion through public initiative; providing state funds for Grady Hospital; and allowing the therapeutic; use of marijuana for cancer Non-Atlanta voters in the Survey were against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, although residents of Atlanta were for the ERA. Pilewicz did a similar sample which predicted the outcome two Weeks before Fulton voters said no to a local-option sales tax. By Fran Hesser Comtitulion Staff Writ A state legislator's sample survey of 4,162 Fulton voters indicated that Atlanta residents are greatly concerned about crime and want a combined city-county police department, while non-Atlanta residents apparently don't want anything to do with the troubled city 1'ce bureau. State Rep.

Greg Pilewicz, D-East Point, sent over 20,000 questionnaires to registered voters in Fulton. Of the 4,162 person could purchase a handgun. About 77.2 percent also indicated they were in favor of the death penalty. About 45.1 percent of the respondents said they would support President Carter in his bid for re-election, with Ronald Reagan coming in second with 19.8 percent Undecided voters were next with 13.3 percent, while Sen. Ted Kennedy, and California Gov.

Jerry Brown did worse than Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn. In the upcoming race for the U.S. Sen respondents, about 54.8 percent of the city residents favored a unified county-wide police department, the legislator said. But 31 percent of the non-Atlanta residents turned thumbs down on a unified department an indication to Pilewicz that people outside the city "don't want any part of the city of Atlanta and its problems." He said written responses by Atlanta residents indicated that they "want some ate post held by Herman Talmadge, the incumbent senator received 30.7 percent of the sample.

5th District Rep. Wyche Fowler, who is considering a race for the Senate post, was second with 24.4 percent. The Fulton respondents were also in favor of raising the iniiuum legal age for buying alcoholic beverages from 18 to 20 years of age; increasing the state sales tax to 5 percent were food and prescription drugs exempted from the tax; allowing citizens the right to stop legisla kind of solution and want someone to get them out of the mess." Former Gov. Carl Sanders, who has been very critical of the Atlanta Police Bureau, noted that the survey results were "not entirely unexpected." Sanders said people in the city feel there is a need for a different type of leadership at the police bureau. Concern for crime problems also was apparent in a response by 83.9 percent of the respondents, who said they would favor a 10-day waiting period before a COMMITTEE HEARS PLEA Mayor Opposes Plan For Police Commission More Welfare Funds Sought authority to name the public safety commissioner, whose appointment must be ratified by the council.

But because members of the selection committee would be appointed, Jackson argued, the commission would not have the accountability to the public that current Public Safety Commissioner Lee P. Brown has. In addition, Jackson said the commission would have even more political control over the chief of police than the mayor and other, city officials currently have, because the commission could remove the chief at any When one combines an unaccountable commission with absolute, unchecked authority over the chief, the potential for abuse, rampant politics, and bad government is great," the mayor wrote. effect, the chief could be responsive to five bosses rather than only the public safety commissioner, as is presently the case, and he would have to be concerned with the practical and political problems caused by split votes," he added. Jackson noted his displeasure with a provision that would require the mayor and 75 percent of the City Council to have a firm cause before any commission member could be removed.

By TX. Wells Comlifullon Staff Wrllor Mayor Maynard Jackson has told officials of the Atlanta Bar Association that a bar proposal to create a five-man commission to oversee the troubled Atlanta Police Bureau is "negative, unnecessary, contrary to the best Interests of the city of Atlanta and potentially illegal." In a Dec. 19 letter to ABA President Neal Batson, Jackson roundly condemned the proposal, under which a mayor-appointed commission would be established to hire and fire the city's chief of police. Copies of the four- fage letter were released to reporters on hursday by Jackson. Jackson argued that the proposal would intensify, rather than lessen, political maneuvering within the police bureau.

Under the proposal, four of the five commission members would be selected by the mayor from a list provided by a 10-member special committee. Two committee members would be appointed by Jackson, two by the City Council and six by the heads of various civic organizations: The city's public safety commissioner would be the only paid member of the commission, whose members would serve four-year terms. The mayor Would continue to have By Fran Hesser Comtltutlon Stall Wrtttr Georgia's social workers would go without a raise this year if they could get an in- crease in benefits for needy welfare recipients who struggle to get by on average of $1.52 per day, the head of the 1 Georgia Welfare Association told an appropriations sub-tommittee Thursday. Mrs. Ruth M.

Lee, head of the Effingham County Department of Family and Children's Services, pleaded with the committee to consider giving $193 a month for a family of three. Families in Georgia who now receive aid for dependent children, currently get $145 a month for typical family of a mother and two children. Mrs. Lee, who said that payment would barely feed a family, called for an increase Staff Photo Chtrv) Briy Mayor Jackson: Commission Idea 'Negative, Unnecessary in aid to the welfare recipi- ents, even if it jneans social workers won't any raises this year. Mrs.

Lee "acknowledged that welfare workers would still get salary increases if all other state employees were given across-the-board raises. Other welfare advocates asked the' Senate-House Appropriations- Committee Thursday to go along with Gov. George. -Busbee's' proposal to add $3.2 million to the 1980 budget to fund the expected increase in the "number of families on the "welfare rolls due to the troubled economy. State Rep.

-Calvin Smyre, D-Columbus, a member of the appropriations committee, predicted thev legislature would approve-the $3.2 million increase provide welfare benefits to an additional 5,900 people. v- I "These are tough economic times and 'people who can't jobs have-to -go back on the welfare -rolls," said Smyre, who is 'chairman of. the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus. Smyre said the-state should also go to full' funding for monthly payments; to families with dependent children. The state now pays $143 a month or only .75 per cent of what a family-needed to live on in 1969, according to Mrs.

Lee, She suggested the state use a more realistic figure of $193 a month which would be 50 per cent of what a family of three needs to live on in 1980. "I don't care what percentages they use, as "long as they get more money to our chil- dren," Mrs. Lee explained. 1 Other speakers' appearing before the subcommittee urged the feed children rather than build more The Rev. Timothy McDon Eaves PatroPs Inspection Of Grady's Ambulances To End Friday carried out with the "full cooperation" of the hospital, which is not required by law to permit the state review, Nugent said.

Grady spokesman Del Yoder said such an inspection has "never been done before" and that there is no schedule for any future review. In its initial examination, the State Patrol found such deficiencies as burned-out lights, slick tires, a lack of current state inspection stickers on two vehicles, and a general lack of maintenance. Since the drivers' com- the Feb. 5 race would have come too early. Unless he thought a victory by Lomax on Feb.

5 would foreclose his chances at the mayor's election in 1981, the thinking goes, Eaves would have had little reason to seek the council presidency and risk a damaging loss. Obviously, as Eaves basically admitted, he has concluded that a victory for Lomax next month, will not necessarily give Lomax an insurmountable advantage in 1981. "I do not believe that one needs to be President of the City Council in order to mayor," he said. Eaves also clearly believes that if Lomax became acting mayor through a resignation by Jackson, the advantages of incumbency would be more than fully offset by voter resentment at the apparent deal "I don't think they (the voters) will take a sham on the part of anybody," he said. For now, Eaves said, "I have decided that I can be of greater help to the people of Fulton County" by staying on the commission.

i But one suspects his eyes will be on City Hall across the street Budget Continued From Page l-C going to need it next year," Guthman said. The license fee hike and the golf fee increases were both part of the 1980 budgetary recommendations of Mayor Jackson's administration. In addition to the license fee, the committee also agreed to recommend higher golf course fees on Thursday. The new golf fee schedule, which eliminates the non-residentresident fee schedule the city had been using, should bring in about $58,000 more than the old -schedule, parks Deputy Commissioner Rob Rivers told the committee. In general, the new schedule calls for :1 increases of 25 cents per 'nine-hole round for residents, with reductions of 25 cents a round for non-residents.

Thus, all golf-- ers would pay $2.50 for nine holes on weekdays and $3 on weekends and noli-j: days. The new schedule also sets up some I new fees, as well as some altered fees, for the use of golf carts, corporate mem- berships, senior-citizen memberships and other annual memberships. In other action, the committee is sug- gesting that the council turn down a resolution to put the question of pari-- mutuel betting on the Feb. 5 special election ballot. "If the state legislature wants to find out what the people will say, then let them go ahead" and hold a referendum, said Councilman Guthman.

Councilman Robb Pitts had asked earlier that a straw vote' of Atlanta voters be taken during the special election for council president But committee members Guthman and Q.V. Williamson argued that because only the state legis- lature can call a special, binding refer-endum, that a straw poll would have no plaints became public, the hospital has been hit with three lawsuits seeking damages for injury or death alleged to have been caused by ambulance conditions. In a suit filed this week, Essie Britt and Pearl Durham, daughters of the late Sallie E. Britt, charged that their mother died in August after a Grady ambulance and its emergency life-support system broke down while the patient was being taken to the hospital The suit blames "negligent, faulty and improper maintenance of the Grady ambu-i lance" for the breakdown and describes its failure as the "primary contributing factor" in Mrs. Britt's death.

It asks $750,000 in damages. Yoder refused comment on the suit In December, Grady was also sued by Roy Davis and Amelia Patterson, each seeking $500,000 in damages after a car in which the two were riding was struck from behind by a Grady ambulance. The suits allege that the hospital was guilty of "faulty and negligent maintenance" of the vehicle. Continued From Page l-C 5 special eLection for the council presidency, but Eaves expressed no doubts: "If I had gotten into that race, I would have won. 1 Eaves said that two "very persuasive considerations' tempted him to enter the race: Strong encouragement by friends and the suspicion "that some sort of deal had been cut" in which Mayor Maynard Jackson might resign before his term -ended, making the new council president an incumbent for the 1981 election.

"However," Eaves said, "after conversing with a large number of people concerning this (last) point, I am sure the public would resent this kind of action." Under questioning by reporters, Eaves said he has "no evidence" that any sort of deal has been arranged between Jack-Son and Lomax, or any other candidate, in which the mayor has agreed to resign. Nevertheless, analysts have thought for several weeks that the only substan- tive reason for Eaves to consider the 1 council presidency is the possibility that the mayor might earn a federal appoint-, ment of some kind from President Carter in exchange for his support during the presidential election. The council presidency, by itself, is not considered the sole staging area for an assault on the mayor's office. "It seems," Eaves noted, "that the prevailing theory is that the council (resident can easily leapfrog his way nto the mayor's seat I personally do not subscribe to that theory." Though he did not say so, it is obvious, that a major part of Eaves' thinking concerned Lomax, the front-runner for the council presidency who makes no secret of his intention to run for mayor. Eaves clearly needs time to develop his support among white voters if be can at all and most analysts believe' Feds Approve Importation Of By Sharon Bailey Constitution Staff Writer The Georgia State Patrol will complete its initial inspection of Grady Memorial Hospital's 15 ambulances Friday, ending an unprecedented state review of the fleet.

The fleet's condition became controversial after state officials said they found safety problems in all eight vehicles examined in their first inspection in late November. The inspection was initi-. ated, with the permission of the hospital, after Grady ambulance drivers complained that their vehicles" were unsafe. State Patrol Capt P.W. Nugent said Thursday that the state agency inspected five additional ambulances and re-inspected three in mid-December, finding the condition of the vehicles to be "very much improved." Friday, the state will re-check those examined once before and examine the two vehicles not.

yet inspected, be 1 "They've had their vehicles in the shop. I'm expecting to find them in rather good re-. pair," said Nugent, adding that no further inspections are likely to be held unless "severe deficiencies" are discovered. The inspections have been A iling Horses WASHINGTON. (AP) ald of the Ebenezer Baptist Church suggested the state use $20 million Busbee recommended for-the Department of Transportation's Local Assistance Road Program for the A welfare increase.

"We realilze'the DOT is facing inflation. McDonald acknowledged. "We must ask however, whether roads and bridges can take precedence over providing for the needy' children of our Breeding stallions infected with a "highly transmissible venereal disease of horses" will be allowed to be imported into the United States under certain conditions, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. The disease is contagious equine metritis, called CEM by animal health officials. Officials said stallions may be imported from countries in which there is CEM if the stallions are "first cleaned and treated with an Explosive Tagging Research Pressed WASHINGTON (AP) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says two of its top priorities for 1980 are to curtail use of illegal firearms and explosives and to research the tagging of explosives as an anti-crime measure.

The bureau is urging the addition of microscopic taggants to explosives to provide a method of tracing explosives used in crimes. state. n. 'r. I State News In Brier Strike fL ii filfii v-'-ift illiill Continued From Page l-C "We have to have an agreement in writing with them be-1 fore we will go back," said striker Dennis Madaris, an NTS driver for seven years.

"It has to be in writing because you can't trust them." Davis said the strikers have a certain amount of sympathy for students who were left stranded, but he said the drivers will continue to strike despite public criticism. "We feel very bad about that (stranded students), but we hope the parents understand that we have to work just like they do," he said. The picketers also charged that the buses are In poor oper-- ating condition, but Capt Paul Nugent of the Georgia State Pa- I trol, which is responsible for inspecting the buses, said the vehi-; cles were approved for operation in August, just before the 1" school year began. Kevin S. general manager, also said the buses are in "excellent condition." "We hope to have it (the strike) resolved as soon as possi-: ble," McGreevey said.

Many whose children voluntary participate in the busing program, which is aimed at desegregating Atlanta's north Fulton schools seemed resolved to make do with the Inconvenience caused by the strike, "It is all right for them to go on strike, but I feel they should have made an appropriate announcement," said Mrs. Bonnie Cloud, whose first-grade daughter was picked up at a bus stop and taken to Sarah Smith Elementary School by a Murder Charged To iMan In Forsyth Teen's Death Comlltulion Stat Ntwi Sarvlet MACON Police here Thursday charged" David Lee Thorpe, 26, of Macon with murder in the slaying 'of af 16-year-old Forsyth youth whose body was found Wednesday in a car at a south Macon apartment complex. Police said Thorpe was being held without bond in the Bibb County jail in connection with the death of Michael John Cafiero, who was killed by a shotgun blast in the'ehest Jan. 1. Police, however, said no motive or other information about the shooting would be released at this time.

body was found Wednesday after" residents at the Williamson Terrace apartments complained that "his" car appeared to have been abandoned at the complex. The youth had a small amount of marijuana concealed in his "socks, police said. r-. 9th Candidate Enters House Race SYLVESTER Candidate number nine for 'the 2nd Congressional District seat held by Dawson Mathis entered the race Thursday. David Halstead, 38, an agricultural supply company employee end a farmer, will seek the post being vacated by Mathis in his race for the U.S.

Senate. rr' Halstead, who described himself as a "grassroots" candidate, said he would represent farmers and workers in this Southwest Georgia district Halstead has never run for public office before Albany Man Dies In Explosion ALBANY A 20-year-old Albany man was killed Thursday when a barrel of flammable liquid he had been usin6 a workbench while welding with an acetylene torch exploded. Police identified the man as Phillip Rayburn-a'n employee of the Altman Pontiac and Cadillac Workshop. said Rayburn apparently was unaware that the closed drum was un-vented and that the barrel exploded wllfen the liquid expanded from heat generated by the torch. V.V'K-'wVj No fire erupted, but the force of the blast Shattered dows in the building, police said.

neighbor. mm laiiBiipiiwi mm "We didn't know anything about it," said Mrs. Minnie Tay-- lor, another parent of a Smith Elementary student "It was 35 or 40 minutes after we left the bus stop before we heard what had happened. Another mothertook my child to school" The Atlanta Board of Education's contract with NTS calls for payment of about $4,000 a day for 57 buses to transport the 3,000 students, plus a number of special-education students, to school. The board is billed monthly.

"So we will just not pay (for Thursday's part of the tract)," said Joe Travis, transportation coordinator for the School board. "No service, no pay." The school board is scheduled to hear a feasibility report on the prospects of the system's acquiring its own fleet of buses. Currently, $1 million annually is paid for MARTA to transport 40,000 Atlanta students to school. Photo Lanna Swin- and Johnny Davis walk into and dler) Bus Firm Official Kevin McGreevery (foreground), drivers (left to right) Dennis Madaris, Willie Styles,.