The Columbus Ledger from Columbus, Georgia • 11

4M llj 1 a1 4' Mb loyd Richards on hospital Phenix may Schook board counsel A State not rushing to grant tax breaks I claim on 69 acres of ort Benning property on which a new high school is planned Democratic mayoral candidate Jack Mickle charged Monday that incumbent Mayor Bob Hydrick the widening of Macon Road and a proposed bridge at 13th Street in return for dropping Gov Jimmy promise of four laning state highway 85 According to Mickel Hydrick By BERYL SELLERS Capitol Correspondent Chattahochee Valley Regional owned by the board Most of the debate on this President John Barrow of West The amendments cover areas of revenue certificates an increase in the debt limit authorized for city and county general obligation bonds redevelopment activity and revenue bonds Barrow said the amendments will be on the Nov 5 general election ballot Approval of them by a majority of Georgians voting will make the proposals Ledger writers (Mo White and Beryl SeDen take a leek at tax incentives mayor swallowed it hook line and Mickle told a group of about 100 Colum bus College students during a speech was the biggest horse trade I ever heard By CONSTANCE JOHNSON Ledger Staff Writer Phenix Hills subdivision rezoning recommended By OTIS WHITE Ledger Government Writer a Road 'horse trade' charged by Mickle Quitclaim OKd bn school site Augusta complained earlier this month that the reason Georgia trails other Southern states in attracting new industry is the lack of adequate tax incentives Lester head of the Industrial Tax Incentive Committee said dustry recruiter Truman has (Carter) off the after GovCarter did not follow through on his 1970 campaign promise to make Georgia 85 four lanes to Atlanta Sherry Henderson of the Auburn Department of Communi ty Development describes preliminary plans for the Chat tahoochee Promenade Park to the Columbus Bicentennial Committee during its regular monthly meeting Monday Plans call for the Promenade to have an upper level to be used as the center of major activities with a lower level hous ing an amphitheater a river walk and a steamboat display area It was decided Monday that the kick off for the bicentennial celebration will be a two night festival in March called which is to be sponsored by the Junior League "nouung couia be done to me property without the consent of HEW (Department of Health Education and Land also told the board that in the event of national emergen cy the federal government could bond issue of $4 5 million How much of that has been sold or spent was not known Gene Clack executive secretary of the board said that a total of 175374415 had been requisition ed and approved The money was disbursed by the Covington County Bank in Andalusia Ala trustee bank for the tomato plant Clack said that 12 greenhouses smaller site within the 69 acres nave taken the board's qualifying were "80 per cent complete test for rookie patrol officers Of those seven two have qualified for the eligibility roster he said A third woman passed the test but is overweight' Civil Service rules require new policemen be hired from the top three applicants bas ed on written test scores Right now the women are not near the top of the roster though that situation could change quickly he said far as offering tax incen fives is concerned Georgia is not even in the running having only its single property tax exemption i on pollution control he said As chief in If he is elected Mickle said are going to stop these credit cards (and) these private phone calls being paid for at public Later he added that only those city employes need will keep their telephone credit cards hopes can be kept lUbbtfb If 3 SU UDO IT I I at 5 1 1 'r 1 Bn ma a ua JLeu iv vny uiiiviiuinviild Elmer George pointed to the proposed amendment that would raise the debt limit of cities and counties as an important one proposed amendment would raise the debt limit of cities and counties from seven per cent to 10 per cent of the assessed value of all property in a city or George said critical need for this came from the requirement that municipalities assess property at 40 per cent of a fair market seriously restricted in so doing value under the present limitation of to l972 cities could seven per cent of the George said the GMA strongly supports a proposed amendment which would authorize the General Assembly to increase or i reduce the purpose for which revenue anticipation obligations may be issued by municipalities counties and political 1 subdiv isons Constitution now authorizes the use of revenue 1 bonds for only those purposes 1 which are set forth in the 1 Revenue Certificate Laws of 1937 as amended by the act approved on March 14 George said passage of this constitutional amendment would obviate the heed for a local amendment to the Constitution against the more than 300 investors some of them former prisoners of war Richard Marx the Miami at torney representing Alexander Allen and Diaz said that be has no idea what assets his clients have and would not disclose the Agreeing Commissioner information if he knew the trace will be the site of a belonging to other property center owners Jefferson sa the not 44 acres Chaue was made to assure ariia will be used for neighborhood cent property owners ob shops and the remaining 33 will ject THE COLUMBUS LEDGER Tuesday oct 22 1974 i and Harris abstained narns recommended mar board members be briefed on important issues prior to the mommy meeting In other action the board: architect Jack Letson the additions to the Columbus Area Vocational Technical School side of Catherine Drjve and a 60 a 3 (single and multi unit by tht foot building line homes) of Columbus for the use 0 Some 23 acres nf 68 nririnai the cafetonum and grounds of Another 77 acres fronting on planned for mixed single unit Pou Street School (textbook for commercial (C 2) use If 3) will instead be zoned 2 The organization considers of benefit sao UCVlgia Sa nnaaaMt aaAMMAM Maa tliA mHMIAinnlafiM ATLANTA The Georgia Municipal Association has thrown its statewide political influence behind ratification of Summerville Road will be zoned and apartment development (R rePository) for recreational pur constitutional amendments the and that tomato plants and materials were on the site He estimated that it would take another $7500 to $10000 just to get started Clack said it was his un derstanding that about $160000 was suu a construction ae 7 count for All Enterprises in the Covinton Bank which would be bce sufficient to pay operating ex penses and keep the project alive hi last meeting the board had asked the local congressional delegation to sub mit a resolution to 0ve the board ausuiuic uwuersnip oi any for construction of the school The resolution passed Monday night obliges the board to purchase a tract of on the larger site and to eventually build a school After the school facility has stood on the acreage for 30 years an agreement with EDITOR'S NOTE: In receut South Carolina property tax incentives falls State Sen Jimmy Lester yean Georgia nas lanei nenaa Gov Jimmy Carter said last aunosi entirety on me ciues some omer nootnen atares to week he remmim tha uarf awacuag aew nramry ine ncn of tax incentives has been cited these amendments would increase the' ability nf Inral i Blue Cross Blue people to determine their own Shield as carrier for hospitaliza needs and service part of the Georgia Constitution tion with increased rates declared GMA GMA Executive Director not the time to grant the incen tives because of sagging state revenues The state Department of Revenue reported that where the state had revenue gains of 12 to 13 per cent last year gains are now down to nine per cent Revenue officials said there was a comparable drop on the local level Much of the future of tax incentives will depend on the poatiotrof Danocratic guber each tin a n7w Ruihi i ndl! reluired for the issuance of ec ed 80 far revenue bonds In order for the ahnost cer General Assembly to respond to tain of winning the general elec the changing needs of local tion next month hae avnlriad Legislators interviewed said question of tax incentives in Ms lev were concerned that thi nbtfnrm passage or mBamenumeni is uigvu uy uinn however reveals that oassaee of the wide variety nf indncfrv Lt Gen (ret) Louis Truman incentives desired by Truman director of the Depart and Sen Lester appears ex ment of Community Affairs and ceedingly difficult to obtain in Planning told a state Senate the next session cumnuiiee revenuy ueonuas tax incentive offerings are they were concerned that this is platform: Tuskegee approved i unanimously after 1 Phenix Hills Inc president regional shopping Howard Jefferson presented Jefferson said' If not detailed plans for the project si fTwo weeks ago the board turn ed down the zoning proposal after dty county planner Jim Hill said development plans were so vague that approving the re quest would amount to see no problem with it as it stands Hill said Monday after looking over the revised plans 1 The 192 acres lying in Lee County between Summerville Road Catherine Drive and the Georgia Power Co transmission line is part or a 350 acre tract annexed last year that Phenix Hills hopes to develop over the next 10 15 years As approved Monday the proposal would: 46 acres next to Catherine Drive for 2 (single unit homes) development In response to complaints from some Catherine Drive property owners the new plans call for a 30 foot on the other ByOTIS WHITE aai BERYL SELLERS Ledger Staff Writers Despite admitted succesues by k)ad zssually more respon neighboring states in attractiiy rible" the governor said new industry local and state of ficials are in no hurry to grant damage suit PHENIX CITY Attorney Neal Pope said Monday he will ask the ifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to overturn a federal court ruling dismissing Cobb Memorial Hospital from a multi million dollar damage suit Pope represents a Columbus couple Mr and Mrs Richard Renfroe who blame a local obstetrician and the hospital for negligence in the death bf their infant during delivery at Cobb last November Montgomery ederal Judge Robert Varner ruled riday the hospital under the doctrine of governmental immunity is not liable for damages The obstetri cian Edward Strickland is still a defendant in the $3 million suit however The suit charges Strickland caused a brain hemorrhage in the infant by wielding the delivery forceps at the time of Under the centuries old doc trine of governmental immunity governmental agencies cannot be sued for negligence by their employes Governments can be sued for breach of contract however and many lawyers in damage suits have successfully argued that an negligence violated an implied contract Taking a similar approach Pope argued in Opelika District Court that the Renfroes had an implied contract for ser vice with Cobb Hospital Pope would not comment Monday on the appeal plans other than to say think Judge Varner was Mayor Bob Hydrick said the wide array of business inceo th fives availably fo Alabama and Ihkt the effect of granting assess up to 100 per cent of fair market value thus making it possible to expand the debt capacity through action of the' governing body and even though the 1972 act made an exception for those cities already increase the percentage Since local citizens determine through referendum what new facilities and improvements they wish to underwrite through a general government bond issue they are Photo by Allei Hom Promenade plans PHENIX CITY The Phenix City Planning 'Board recommended rezoning Monday for 192 acres in the proposed Phenix Hills subdivision nerhaM the biggest real estate rfpvplnnmMit pver nlAnnpri mans fnr The request was City north bypass materialize" Summerville Road or land agreement on the municipalities By WEYMAN JOHNSON JR restrictions placed on the school Ledger Stuff Writtr board by signing the deed 7 1 deadline for which was this mor ollowing Ulroinutes of con ning 'r 4 lusmg ueoaie me Muscogee County School Board voted Mon for others'' homeowners to bear the entire 1 Hydrick said the state grants only three of the been a consistent advocate of Carter said Georgia needs iib If the state legislature grants 10 legal breaks most preferred by more industrial incentives for dustry that is willing to its any new tax incentives for new industry Alabama South i Georgia fair share of the tax a industry Hydrick said it must Carolina and Tennessee each tie the incentives to a plan to offer eight of the 10 breaks A survey of state legislators These industries that are allow the cities to tap some other Lester said however reveals that passage of rauy tarry a uur snare ui me revenue murco tnrh as alp tax The outlookfor General Assembly approval of more tax incentives does not look good despite constant pressure from state industry recruiters and a few urban legislators Sulf Pboto Bv RicbarS ThoniiMa 1 i i 3' 1 i It a bus convention or a record poker game day at 6:20 pm to transfer passengers before the night bus Al IC rc frtnworif on a Pron Streets that drew eight (count routes begin ive minutes later there a bus to be DUO VII lyd Lzl CTII I IVII fcityijiisegQDareceDtafternoon Accordingto the city found Transportation Department all the city bus lines meet every Mayor Hydrick contacted Monday afternoon said that while he had the opportunity to approve the highway when he came into office last year rank Morast the local representative on the state tran sportation board did most of the negotiating while the late Allen was mayor 5 decision (to drop the state 85 project) was already made by the governor so there an opportunity to say we take Hydrick said He added mayor and the governor never sat down at any table and discussed dividing up any highway 4 i Mickle said if the next gover nor: reneged on any highway promises for Columbus will camp out on the doorstep until he keeps his promise rne Democratic cantuoate also chided the Republican mayor for his handling of the recent ind Ln dent where a nitv emninve imm a day night to execute a city credit card for personal long distance pnone calls Mickle said he was shocked to find the mayor still had Howard A Gudell the director of the Department of Community Development on the city payroll told me (Gudell) simply informed Board member Morton Harris about the city policy on phone argued that under the 20 year Mickle said waiting period he foresees that HEW could tell the school board what to do with the land and the school Board president Dr John Miller described the venture as a and School Supt Braxton A Nail repeatedly assured board members that federal authorities were actins in gooa lann Board member Dr Philin The court appointed receiver for a lorida securities firm whose officers and a salesman have been ordered to repay $45 million to investors said Monday it might take two to three weeks to determine the assets of the four defendants who sold revenue bonds in several companies including a tomato growing facility in Tuskegee Ala fl i 1 4 Officials in Tuskegee hope to tap some of those assets to try to salvage All Enterprises hydroponics plant on which more than $700000 reportedly has been spent David Hughes a Miami businessman whom District Judge Charles ulton ap pointed receiver for the Allen and Associates firm said he has been talking with the Tuskegee city attorney about try ing to keep the hydroponics pro ject alive understand the Hughes said Monday' However he explained that releasing any of the impounded assets for the Tuskegee plant not yet in operation would be up to the judge 1 said that he had not yet Judge written order and is not certain if assets i of all the companies involved in' the bond' sales have been im pounded Last riday to his decision issued from the bench Judge ulton ordered all the assets of the J' Allen and Associates firm and of the individual defen cunts to dc impoun(ieaa nAlirAUf AHI9H The four defendants in the llUllleV UIIIOII case were Robert Allen Howard Alexander and Charles Diaz company officers and PHENIX CITY Before long Thomas A Preston a former Phenix finest may salesman Judge ulton said the welcome a woman to its ranks four had carried out a "vicious Mayor rank Roberts said Monday lady police officer should be added to the local police force if the money is available in the coming budget just think we need a woman police the mayor said George Ivy said a woman could He also said that an appeal will' be hired as a jail matron or to be filed handle juvenile offenders One of the defendants Alex Police Chief loyd Richards ander also headed Ail Enter though voicing doubts about prises for which the Tuskegee women as line patrol officers industrial DwsiupBMnt Beard said a policewoman could be authorized an Industrial revenue Hired as soon as a qualified appli cant emerges We just recently started getting be noted A number of women have enrolled in police science courses at Chattahoochee Valley Com munity College and last May the local Civil Service Board voted to draw up hiring standards for policewomen Richards said seven women concern is that while we Incentives to bring in new in want industry in Columbus and dustry but is agaimt big tax we want Geor8ia to compete breaks for some industries as'' with South Carolina and' opposed to hardly any tax breaks Alabama we don want the 'f furan nmininan 4a kiraa 'I 'j i 1 I1 tlj Vi i I gel first ziW( 1 a 7 I.