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FUNERAL NOTICES Howard L. Carmichael and Sons DANIEL, Mrs. Claire S. BETTY GENE DAVIS WHITE COLUMNS 948-0113 chapel 944-8800 MANETOM, GA. UITHRA SPRINOS, DA.

McDUFF, Mr. W.M. Albert M. Dobbins MARIETTA, FUNERAL HOME 428-2636 I KIDD, Mrs. Rosalie Haugabrooks BROWN, Mr.

Willie A. JACKSON, Mr. James A. ROBINSON, Mrs. Minnie L.

Sons Four generations of service 761-2141 PHILLIPS, Mr. John C. Louie E. Jones PARK, Mr. Charles M.

Parkway Garden Chapel PIE 366-3522 Thomas L. Scroggs John B. Lee Jr. HASSETT, Mr. Glenn E.

Him son CASCADE HILL OGLETHORPE HILL SPRING HILL BELL, Mrs. Mattie JAMIESON, Mrs. Margaret JOHNSTON, Mrs. W. F.

MASON, Mrs. Claude C. MEANS, Mr. Paul H. WILLIAMS, Mr.

Orval E. TIM STEWART Funeral Home Lawrenseville, Ga. 962-3100 FORTNER, Rev. W.D. WARD FUNERAL HOME MARIETTA, GA.

WEAVER, Mr. Walter F. J. COWAN WHITLEY Funeral Home Douglasville, Ga. $42-2366 COOPER, Kenneth Shane Other Funeral Homes ALEXANDER, Mrs.

F. E. ANDERSON, Mrs. Elbert S. BARTLETT, Mrs.

Olivia P. COATES, Mr. James Il COHEN, Mr. Samuel B. CORBIN, Mrs.

Jim CROUCH, Mr. Robert M. EZZARD, Mrs. Maggie FOWLER, Mrs. Ludie LEE, Mr.

James E. ROSSER, Mr. Charles SUDDETH, Mrs. R. L.

WHITE, Mrs. Marie 0. WILLIAM, Mr. John W. WISE, Mr.

Willard H. service will be held Saturday, Aug. 15, 1981, at 1 p.m. at Haugabrooks Chapel, Rev. B.J.

Johnson, Jr. officiating. Interment, Washington Memorial Garden. Survivors are two sons, Mr. Raymond Brown, Mr.

Darnell Brown; four daughters Mrs. Ruby Mae Walker, Mrs. Gloria Gates, Mrs. Eloise Gray Brown, and Little Miss Latonya Brown; seven Grand-children, two, great grand-children, Mother and father-in-law Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Favors, brother-in-law, Mr. Frank Brown and host of neices, nephews, cousins and friends. Relatives and friends are asked to assemble at the resident at 11:30 a.m. Haugabrooks Funeral Home. COATES Funeral services for Mr.

James William Coates of 1372 Willis Mill Rd. S.W., will be held Saturday, Aug. 15, 1981 at 2 p.m. at Salem Baptist Church, 2283 Baker Rd. N.W.; interment Reshaven Gardens, Candler Rd.

The body will lie in state at the church from 12 noon. The family will assemble at the residence at 1 p.m. Survivors are mother, Mrs. Addie Coates Lewis; step-father, Mr. Bunney Lewis; brothers, Mr.

Kenneth Reyes, Washington, D.C.; two sisters, Mercedes and Rosalyn ReYes, Washington, D.C.; stepbrother, Mr. Bunney Lewis Pontiac, uncle, Mr. Allen M. Butts, Atlanta; four aunts, Mrs. Elizabeth Vasser, Mrs.

Julia Ingram, Milledgeville, Mrs. Lillian Foston, Atlanta; Mrs. Martha Simmons Bethea, Washington, D.C.; two nieces, Michelle Scott, Kisha Reyes, Washington, D.C., and a host of cousins and other relatives and friends of Washington, D.C. The family will meet and greet friends tonight from 8-9 p.m. at Alfonso Dawson Mortuary, 3000 M.L.

King Jr. Dr. S.W. COHEN Mr. Samuel B.

Cohen of Miami Beach, died August 12, 1981. Surviving are wife, Mrs. Fannie G. Cohen, three daughters, Mrs. Carol B.

Krems, Los Angeles, Mrs. Ruth Siegel, Atlanta; Mrs. Dorothy Kaufman, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 8 grandchildren, one great -grandchild. Graveside services will be held Sunday, August 16, 1981 at 11 a.m. at Crest Lawn Memorial Park.

Rabbi Dr. Harry H. Epstein, Cantor Isaac Goodfriend officiating. Greenlawn Funeral Directors, 1270 Spring N.W. Continued on 5C 14, 1981 The Atlanta Journal 3-C DeKalb senators: House won't go against Murphy By BO SPALDING Journal Staff.

I Writer Blaming state House of Representative members influenced by Speaker Tom Murphy, state senators from DeKalb County say a proposed state constitution will have a hard time gaining the approval of Georgia voters in its present form. The senators' complaints came as Gov. George Busbee announced Thursday that he at least temporarily has dropped consideration of the new constitution from a special session of the General Assembly later this month. "I don't think the public is going to accept what we've written so far," Sen. Bud Stumbaugh (D-Stone Mountain) said.

"I don't think I can support what we've written so far, and I'm not sure the Senate will." Stumbaugh and DeKalb's three other senators on the constitutional overview committee, Bob Bell (R-Tucker), Pierre Howard (D-Druid Hills) and Jim Tysinger (R-Dunwoody), said Murphy (D-Bremen) almost always gets his way in the committee since House members tended to concur with Murphy's opinions. "I have not seen them cross him on more than two of at least 120 votes we've taken" on the committee, Stumbaugh said. "It's blatantly obvious," Howard said. "The Senate vote will be 10-to-9, and the House 20-to-nothing. If he (Murphy) expresses his opinion (backing the constitutional revision), they go along with it." Noting the speaker's power to appoint House members to committee chairmanships, Howard said, "He (Murphy) has the power to chop their heads off, or leave them on." Murphy was in Bremen Thursday and could not be reached for comment.

Told of the senator's comments, a Murphy colleague, Marcus Collins (D-Cotton), said, "It sounds like you've got some people running for statewide office over there." Bell is an unannounced candidate for governor, and Howard frequently is mentioned as a possible candidate sometime in the future. One measure fruitlessly supported by DeKalb's senators on the overview committee was public initiative, or a method for voters to bypass an General Assembly and take a direct role in the lawmaking process. California's tax-cutting Proposition 13 was passed in such a manner. Stumbaugh said public initiative should require a strenuous effort to get such questions on a ballot, but he added, Revision Continued from 1C and 30 representatives of allowing special interest groups to take over "to a large degree the rewriting of the constitution." The only way he will allow the subject to be considered now, he said, is for the committee to remove the Collins maintain amendment from its present draft and uniformity of property taxation. The amendment would authorize the Legislature, by a simple-majority vote, to create special classes of property with varying tax rates.

Such changes now require approval by a two-thirds vote in the state legislature and further approval by voters in a statewide referendum. "This, I submit to you, opens up to every special interest group an opportunity of coming to the General Assembly of this state, with all the pressures they have to bear, and where the people will be treated differently on taxation without the people having any input by constitutional amendment, referendum or any other thing," the governor said. Lt. Gov. Zell Miller, a member of the overview committee with Murphy, also voiced hope that the issue could be resolved.

"I hate to see this one issue make the constitution go down the drain," he said. "I don't think it should live or die on this one issue." But Collins promised to fight on. He said special interests such as utility companies have had their way for years through a an existing constitutional provision requiring the state, rather than tax appraisers in each county, to set the value of utility property for tax purposes. "Special interests took over taxation several years ago," he said. "It's time for the people to take it over now." Collins, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he believes the Legislature would be very careful in granting tax breaks under his amendment.

"I'll put my trust in the Legislature," he added. "I'm trying to look after the poor people who feed this country." Busbee and Collins are expected to be busy between now and next Thursday's Slaying con Continued from 1C They tried to reach her boyfriend, but Sunday was his day off from work and they could not locate him, and none of her other friends had heard from her. Finally Tuesday the family contacted the young man. "Her boyfriend said she'd never showed up (at the preserve)," Mrs. Samples said.

"He wasn't her steady, they'd just gone out to dinner once. Then (her family) knew something was wrong." Also Tuesday, one of Lynn's sisters went to the nature preserve to ask if anyone had seen the missing young woman, but no one had. She noticed a strange odor, however, near the bridge, Mrs. Samples said. "By morning they'd started putting two and two together and walked over to the preserve," she said.

Her younger sister, Carol, 14, was the first to spot her sister. "They screamed for the guy at the preserve to call the police, "There are times when the General Assembly seems immune to public influence or asleep to public concerns." Said Bell, "I just wanted to say the General Assembly could set up a system for public initiative, but the speaker and others wouldn't pass even that general language." Bell had no more luck with an idea to require a two-thirds House and Senate vote, rather than a simple majority, to pass tax increases. "Tom Murphy opposed it and it didn't pass," he said. Nor did a provision to require legislacommittees, which often convene betive hind closed doors, to open their meetings to the public. Stumbaugh recalled a close vote among the overview committee's senators, but he said the House members voted overwhelmingly against it.

The committee approved a provision allowing legislators to give themselves cost-of-living raises if they increase employee salaries. The existing from constitution effect during the incumbents' terms of ofprohibits legislators' raises taking DeKalb's senators were against the fice. change. "I just think if you were elected for two years, you knew what (salary) you went in there for," Tysinger said. "If you want to vote the next group a raise, go ahead and pay the political consequences." Finally, the senators wanted to create a statewide juvenile court system, but it was opposed by the House members and failed.

House member Collins tried to offer rebuttal to the DeKalb senators' positions. Concerning public initiative, Collins said, "Public initiative is something we have every two years, when each one of us faces the people of the state of Georgia" at election time. Collins, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said voters also would take care of big-spending legislators, negating the need for a two thirds vote to raise taxes. As for open committee meetings, he noted that the governor's meetings with department heads were not open. The presof the press at such meetings inhibits ence candor and limits the meetings' effectiveness, he said.

Juvenile courts were unnecessary, he added. "Some of the best judges are Superior Court judges, and there's not a thing in the world to keep them from handling (juvenile cases)," Collins said. crucial vote, but Busbee clearly has the upper hand. If the committee sticks with its vote, then Busbee will leave constitutional revision off the special session agenda. If on the other hand the committee backs down, not an unlikely happening, then Busbee has promised to amend his agenda.

The constitutional revision process broke down Wednesday when the overview committee, of which Busbee is chairman, made several changes that he considered an indication that special interest forces were getting the upper hand. The tax-break amendment was simply the straw that broke the camel's back. Prior to passage of the amendment, the overview committee had already done such things as make it easier to give legislators pay raises, stripped the Supreme Court of its powers to discipline attorneys and placed that authority in the hands of the General Assembly, and agreed to fiveyear terms for Transportation Board members instead of four-year terms as proposed by a study committee. Busbee, after his news conference, signed the call for the Aug. 24 special session, People close to Busbee say the governor sees the Collins amendment as an invitation for special interest groups to write their own tax laws.

"It creates a situation where those with clout can come to the Legislature and carve out a special tax break for themselves," explained one state official, "and those without clout would pick up the tab." Another of Busbee's fears is that the amendment would damage the state's ability to attract industry. At his press conference, he said Industry and Trade Commissioner Milton Folds, as well as some "industrial prospects" interested in locating in Georgia, had expressed concern. "The first thing industry asks before locating in a state is, 'Do you have a stable tax said one source close to the governor. "Right now, we can tell them yes, but we couldn't if this passes." and kept Elizabeth from going near," Mrs. Samples said.

Miss Davenport's disappearance had not been reported to police before the discovery of her body, Rowell, the Clayton officer, said. younger sister wandered across the yard Thursday afternoon. Her eyes were puffy and her face drawn. "Last night all she did was cry," Mrs. Samples said.

"Just don't be a mother," Mrs. Davenport said, her eyes red from weeping. "And just tell any of her friends that want to come (to the funeral) can come. I don't know when or where it will be, but she had friends all over." For now, Mrs. Davenport can only wait for the medical examiner to release her daughter's body so it can be buried.

"The waiting will drive you crazy," she said. "All I can say is I hope they'll get who done it." (Obituaries The Rev. W.D. Fortner, Pleasant Grove pastor The funeral for the Rev. daughters, Mrs.

Joe H. W.D. "Bill" Fortner, 68, of Estes of Atlanta, Mrs. J.M. 1443 New Hope Road, Law- Cooper of Gorden, a renceville, will be at 3 p.m.

son, William B. Suddeth of Sunday at Pleasant Grove Atlanta; and sister, Mrs. Baptist Church, with burial George W. Mason of Colat the church cemetery. lege Park.

The Rev. Fortner, pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church for 20 years, died Mrs. Mattie Lou Bell Friday. The funeral for Mrs. He also served as pastor Mattie Lou Bell, 87, of the First Baptist Church Atlanta, mother of Sen.

of Youth in Walton County, Robert H. Bell of Tucker, Mount Calvary Baptist will be at 11:30 a.m. SaturChurch of Atlanta and day at H.M. Patterson and Marys Memorial Baptist Son's Spring Hill chapel, Church of Marietta. with burial at Westview Survivors include his Cemetery.

wife, Mrs. Lena Powell Mrs. Bell, a member of Fortner; sons, Bob Fortner, the Highlands Associate Kenneth Fortner, and Reformed Presbyteriandaughter, Mrs. Annette Church, where she taught Watson, all of Lawrence- Sunday school for more ville. than 50 years, died Thursday.

Mrs. Marion Alexander Survivors include her daughter, Mrs. Betty The funeral for Mrs. Hughes of East Point; sons, Marion T. Alexander, 66, of Lawson Bell of Tampa, 5089 Flatbridge Road, Richard S.

Bell of Stone Stockbridge, will be at 1 Mountain, Senator Robert p.m. Saturday at Ward's H. Bell of Tucker and D. Glenwood chapel, with Graham Bell of Griffin; burial at Parker Family and sister, Mrs.Marion Cemetery. Mrs.

Alexander Schane of Atlanta. died Thursday. Survivors include her sons, Edward F. Alexander of Stockbridge and Don Alexander of Atlanta; sisters, Miss Margeret Toner, Mrs. Elizabeth Vitner of New York, and Mrs.

Bert Kat of Dunedin, and brother, Bernard Toner of Conn. Robert M. Crouch Sr. The funeral For Robert M. Crouch 75, of 3431 Glensford Drive, will be at 2 p.m.

Saturday at Ward's Glenwood chapel, with burial at Crestlawn Memorial Park. Mr. Crouch, retired from Fort McPherson after 30 years, died Wednesday. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eva Brooks; daughters, Mrs.

Grady Young and Mrs. S.L. Brooks, both of Atlanta; son, Robert M. Crouch of Topeka, sisters, Mrs. Eva C.

Grogan, Mrs. Annie C. Chatham, both of Atlanta, and Mrs. Ethel C. DeBardelaben of Bradenton, and brothers, Charles L.

Crouch of Miami and Thomas Crouch of Stone Mountain. Mrs. Fannie Fowler The funeral for Mrs. Fannie Ludie Fowler, 78, of Union City, will be at 4 p.m. Friday at Herschel McDaniel chapel, with burial at Holly Hill Memorial Park.

Mrs. Fowler, retired as supervisor of the Tigue Brown and Co. after 20 years, died Wednesday. Survivors include her daughter, Mrs. W.T.

Tribble of Union City, sister, Mrs. Myrtice Stovall of Snellville; and brother, T.B. Wilson of Palmetto. Mrs. Bessie Suddeth The funeral for Mrs.

Bessie Otie Mitchell Suddeth, 90, of Buffington Road, College Park, will be at. 11 a.m. Saturday at Herschel McDaniel's chapel, with burial at the Concord Cemetery. Mrs. Suddeth, a life long resident of the South Fulton area, died Thursday.

She was a member of the Red Oak Christian Church. She is survived by her Close Tito friend, Yugoslavia leader Doronjski is dead The Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Stevan Doronjski, member of Yugoslavia's top collective leadership and a longtime Communist Party figure, has died at the age of 62, the government announced today. The announcement said Doronjski, who had reportedly been ill with cancer, died Thursday night. Doronjski served as acting president of the presidium of the Yugoslav Communist Party during President Josip Broz Tito's five-month terminal illness. He gave up the party presidency last fall when his term expired under the rotation system Tito devised before his death on May 4, 1980.

The plan was designed to guarantee succession of power without divisive political struggles. LEGAL NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to 42 CFR 447.205, the Georgia Department of Medical Assistance is required to "give public notice of any proposed change in the Statewide method or level of reimbursement if the change is expected to increase or decrease Medicaid payments for that service by 1 percent or more during the 12 months following the effective date of the The Georgia Department of Medical Assistance is proposing to reduce the amount, duration and scope of Medicald-covered services in order 10 Increase the cost effectiveness of the program and to provide benefits to eligibie persons within the amount of the agency's appropriation granted by the General Assembly, as required by Georgia law. The aggregate target for the propesed actions is approximately $67 million. The proposals on the following pages represent the options from which the final reductions will be made. Unless noted otherwise, all program reductions will be effective beginning November 1981.

Program limitations which ere "per fiscal year" are pro posed to be in effect from November 1901 through June 30, 1982 for Fiscal Year 1982 and from July 1 through June 30 of each subsequent fiscal year. The dollar amount indicated beside each service category represents the approximate dollar savings to be realized in Fiscal Year 1982 through implementation of the measures proposed for that category. Consideration is being given to the elimination of all services covered the following optional programs: Podiatry Psychology ($800,000) and Adult Dental Alternatives to full elimination are described as follows: PODIATRY ($53,000) 1. Provide reimbursement for nail debridement (removal of dead or damaged tissue) only if the patient is diabetic or has peripheral vascular disease. 2.

Limit the proposed increase in the maximum allowable payments to no more than three percent above current rates, not to exceed Medicare's maximum allowable. 3. Limit reimbursement for office visits to 12 per recipient per fiscal year. PSYCHOLOGY ($58,000) 1. Limit coverage to only one fivehour psychology services or evaluation and testing session per recipient per fiscal 2.

Limit the proposed increase in the maximum allowable payments to no more than three percent above current rates. ADULT DENTAL ($32,000) Require recipients 10 pay copayments on adult emergency dental services according to the following sliding scale based upon the cost of the service rendered: $10 or less 50c; $26-550 and $51 or more $3.00. The proposals under consideration for reductions in the other benefit programs include the following measures: EPSDT DENTAL SERVICES ($640,000) (Children under 21) 1. Limit reimbursement for dental procedures not to exceed the 401h percantile of charges submitted during Calendar Year 1979. 2.

Eliminate allowed charge for "Oral Examination." 3. Discontinue reimbursement for appliances to control harmful habits. 4. Discontinue reimbursement for the procedure "'Hospital 5. Discontinue reimbursement for the procedure "Management Time." DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT ($50,000) 1.

Limit all reimbursement for durabie medical equipment to existing Medicare rates and limit coverage to 75 items. 2. Limit reimbursement for delivery mileage to one-way. 3. Eliminate coverage for special payment category "Miscellaneous Medical Supplies" and reduce the maximum number of medical supplies covered per payment category "Miscellaneous Medical Supplies" and reduce the maximum number of medical supplies covered per month.

HOSPITAL SERVICES ($20,200,000) 1. Limit reimbursement to 20 inpatient hospital days per recipient per fiscal year, including administrative days awaiting placement in a Skilled Nursing Facility or an intermediate Care Facility (nursing home). 2. Limit to one the number of pre- I operative inpatient days allowed prior to siective surgery. 3.

Deny reimbursement for Friday, Saturday, and day-before-holiday admissions except for emergencies and those hospitals which have established weekend surgery programs. (Holidays: New Year's, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas). 4. Implement a 100 percent review of inpatient hospital claims prior to payment. 5.

Reimburse Emergency Room visits for minor illnesses at flat rate of $10 per visit. This is an all-inclusive rate. 6. Reimburse all outpatient hospital services according to fee schedule effective January 1982. The following three items pertain to the Hospital Alternative Reimbursement System.

7. Eliminate allowance for change in medical technology (intensity factor). 8. Reduce group limit to 100 percent of the mean for calculations of incenfives and penalties. 9.

Eliminate special allowance for price level depreciation (Growth and Development Allowance). INDEPENDENT LABORATORY ($23,000) 1. Limit the proposed increase in the maximum allowable payments to no more than three percent above current rates not to exceed Medicare's maximum allowable. MENTAL HEALTH ($1,000,000) 1. Limit reimbursement to the Community Mental Health Centers, not to exceed the 50th percentile of current rates.

2. Eliminate reimbursement for ing assessment, medication monitoring and medication administration. NON-EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION ($150,000) 1. Reimburse non-emergency ambulance transportation al a base rate of $30 plus 70c per mile. Eliminate in- and out-of-county reimbursement differences in reimbursement amounts.

2. Reimburse volunteer private automobile transportation according to scale rates for multiple passengers: 20c per mile for first passenger; 10c per second passenger; and 5c per mile for sach additional passenger. 3. Require prior approval for taxi transportation except for specified diagnoses, physical or mental conditions. NURSING HOMES ($30,000,000) 1.

Reduce payments for four cost centers: routine and special services; dietary; laundry, housekeeping, plant operation and maintenance; administrafive and general from the 75th percentile to the 50th percentile and decrease the overall growth allowance from the rate of 12.6 percent to 4.5 percent. 2. Recalculate grewth allowance and eliminate incentive payments and eliminate the usual rate adjustment at the and of the calendar year. 3. Reduce equally the per diem rate of each nursing home.

4. Freeze the acceptance of new Medicaid patients, if the facility's Medicaid residency percentage is above the statewide average, until the percentage In that facility drops to such average. 5. Reduce the Department's payment for hospital and therapeutic leave days to one-half the current rate. PHARMACY ($20,000,000) 1.

Implement a closed drug formuLimit the number of prescriptions to six per patient per month. 3. Co-payments for prescription drugs will be based upon follewing sliding scale, according to the price of the prescription: $10 or less 50c copayment; $1 ce-payment; $2 co-payment; and $51 or more $3 ca-payment. 4. Require evaluation of new drugs on the market before they can be considered for additien to the formulary.

5. Where possible, establish Georgia maximum allowable cost for highly utiNzed generic products. 6. Lewer the dispensing fee to $2.93. 7.

Adiust Georgia Estimated Acquisition Cost (GEAC) no, more than once per fiscal year. PHYSICIANS ($5,200,000) 1. Limit reimbursement for iniectable drugs administered in the office to no more than the generic cost of the drug. 2. Limit reimbursement of office visits for pure family planning purposes to no more than two visits per recipient per fiscal year.

3. Discontinue reimbursement to nonenrelled, out-of-state physicians for "term" obstetrical delivery. 4 Restrict reimbursement for ultrasound procedures in obstetrical care to only those maternity patients who are "high risk" patients (i.e., patient is under age 17 or over 35 or has certain medical complications supported by medical documentation). 5. Limit reimbursement to one preContineed in Next Columns LEGAL NOTICES operative hospital visit per recipient per hospital admission.

6. Limit reimbursement for office visits to 12 per recipient per fiscal year. 7. Reimburse for only those inpatient hospital visits made within the recipient's 20-day limitation. 8.

Limit the proposed increase in the maximum allowable payments to no more than three percent, above current rates not to exceed Medicare's maximum allowable. 9. Provide Incentive payment for. performing approved procedures on an in-effice or outpatient basis. 10.

Add to the list of procedures. currently requiring prior approval the following: cholecystectomy, hysterectomy, and excision of varicose veins. ELIGIBILITY ($120,000) Eliminate from Medicaid eligibility persons aged 18-20 who would be eligible for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) if attending school and those who would be eligible for AFDC but do not qualify as dependent children (AFDC foster care). The proposed program reductions are available for review at each local. county Department of Family and Chitdren Services office.

Citizens wishing comment on these proposals should do so before October 10, 1981, in writing Jacquelyn Foster, Director Division of Program Management Department of Medical Assistance 1010 West Peachtree Street, N.W. Allanta, Georgia 30367 The comments submitted will be available for review by the public at the address listed above Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. A public hearing will be held on Seplember 10, 1981, at 10:00 a.m. in con junction with the September Meeting of.

the Board of Medical Assistance. Both the Board Meeting and the public hearing will be held at the location listed below: First Floor Auditorium Georgia Mental Health Institute (GMHI) 1256 Briarcliff Road, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30306 All persons who wish to testify af this public hearing are urged to submit: if possible, a written summary of their testimony prior to the beginning of the hearing. Witnesses who have a common Interest are urged to consolidate their testimony and designate single spokesperson to present their common viewpoint orally, if possible. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ON THIS ELEVENTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1981.

Charles K. Pierce Commissioner Department of Medical Assistance Mrs. Amy Mason The funeral for Mrs. Amy Mason, 81, of Atlanta will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at H.M.

Patterson and Son's Spring Hill chapel, with burial at Westview Cemetery. Mrs. Mason, a member of the Morningside Presbyterian Church, died Wednesday. She was a member of the Morningside Garden Club and was retired from Western Union, where she was secretary to the president. She is survived by her daughter, Mr.

B.V. Vanderventer of Atlanta. Orval E. Williams The funeral for Orval E. Williams, 80, of 3660 Peachtree Road NE will be at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Westview Abbey chapel, with burial at Westview Abbey Cemetery. Mr. Williams, retired from Southern Railway, died Thursday. He was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at. Georgia Tech and the Landmark Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Katherine Reese Williams; daughter, Mrs. Tootsie Wayman of 4 Atlanta; son, Arthur E. Williams of Dunwoody, and brother, Ivan Williams of Urbana, Ohio. FUNERAL NOTICES ALEXANDER The friends and relatives of Mrs.

F.E. (Marion Alexander, Mr. Edward F. Alexander, Stockbridge; Mr. and Mrs.

Don Alexander, Atlanta; Miss Margaret Toner, Mrs. Elizabeth Vitner, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Kat, Dunedin, Mr. and Mrs.

Bernard Toner, one grandson, are invited to attend the funeral of Mrs. F.E. (Marion Alexander, Saturday, August 15, 1981 at 1 p.m. from Ward's Glenwood Chapel. Fr.

Paul Fogarty will officiate, interment, Parker Family Cemetery. Pallbearers assemble at the chapel by 12:45 p.m. Horis A. Ward, Inc. ANDERSON Mrs.

Elbert B. (Marie Anderson, Atlanta died Thursday. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the Chapel of A. S. Turner Sons.

Dr. Garnett Wilder will officiate. Interment, Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, at 2:30 p.m. A. S.

Turner Sons. Mrs. Olivia P. Bartlett of Stockbridge, passed away Aug. 12, 1981.

Surviving are daughters, Mrs. George (Elizabeth) Yarbrough, Atlanta; Mrs. Charlotte Cole, Syracuse, N.Y.; son, Mr. Harold Bartlett, Killen, Texas; brother, Mr. Otis Palmer, Rex; six grandchildren, six greatgrandchildren, several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held 10 o'clock Saturday at Carmichael Chapel, Rev. Richard Cole officiating, interment Bartlett Family Cemetery. Selected pallbearers will assemble at the chapel at 9:45. D.T. Carmichael Son.

BELL Mrs. Mattie Lou of Atlanta, died August 13, 1981. Surviving are her daughter, Mrs. Leon Hughes, East Point; sons, Mr. E.

Lawrence Bell, Tampa; Mr. Richard S. Bell, Stone Mountain; Sen. Robert H. Bell, Tucker; Mr.

D. Graham Bell, Griffin, sister, Mrs. E. D. Schane, Atlanta, three grandsons, 10 granddaughters, five great Funeral services will be held Saturday, August 15 at 11:30 o'clock at Spring Hill.

Rev. Harry Cain, Dr. Thomas H. McDill officiating, interment, Westview. H.M.

Patterson Son. BROWN: Mr. Willie A. Brown of 1490 Metropolitan Ave. S.E.

Funeral AUGUST 10, 1981. INVITATION TO BID Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Purchasing Department, Georgia Ports Authority, Garden City, Georgia up to 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 26, 1981, at which time they win be opened for the following: Requisition No. 170 one (1) new pickup truck Specifications are available and on file at the office of the Georgia Ports Authority Purchasing Department, Garden City, Georgia. Bids must be on Georgia Ports Aux thority bid forms to be considered. The Georgia Ports Authority serves the right to reiect any and bids and to waive all formalities.

Steve Weaver Purchasing Manager NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR BANK HOLDING CO. Allanta, Georgia August 14, 1901 Notice is hereby given by the Applicant; GRP, Atlanta, Georgia, that it wit apply to the Federal Reserve Board pursuant to section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act for permission to become a banking holding company. The Applicant intends to merge with First Cobb Bankshares, of Marietta, Georgia and to thereby acquire 1,500,000 of the outstanding shares of First Cobb Bankshares, Inc. First Cobb Bankshares, is the owner of 000 of the outstanding shares of First Bank Trust Marietta, Geor gia. The public is invited to submit ten comments on this application to the Federal Reserve Board at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, P.

O. Box 1731, Atlanta, Georgia 30301. The come ment period of this application will not end before September 15, 1981. Call Mr. Zane R.

Kelley, (404) 586-8715 at, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to find out if you have additional time for submitting comments on this application or I you need more information about submitting comments. The Federal Reserve will consider comments, including requests for a public meeting or formal hearing on the application, if they are received by the Federal Reserve Bank during the comment period. Persons wishing to comment on this proposal are also invited to submit their views in writing within thirty (30) days of the date of publication of this notice to the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, 2990 Brandywine Road, Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30341. Director of Contracts and Procurement INVITATION FOR BIDS METROPOLITAN ATLANTA RAPID TRANSIT AUTHORITY will receive bids for Contract Proposal Number 1121, the procurement of Supervisory and Maintenance Vehicles to be opened at 2200 Peachtree Summit, 401 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Allanta, Georgia 30365 al 2:00 p.m. August 25, 1981.

Full information may be obtain ed from the Authority's Division of Contracts and Procure ment, 2200 Peachtree Summit, 401 West Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30365 (404) 586-5145. The procurement consists of furnishing Supervisory and Maintenance Vehicles. This Contract is subiect to the requirements of a financial assistance contract between the Authority and the U.S. Department of Transportation. The bidding procedures, evaluation of bids, and award of the contract shall be governed by both applicable Georgia law and the federal law and regulations applicable to grants to State and local The contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations, the MARTA Resolution on Equal Employment Opportunity, prohibIting discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.

The Authority will take necessary and reasonable steps to insure that minority business enterprises have an equitable opportunity to compete in all contracting activities. All bidders will be required to certify that they are not on the Comptroller General's List of Ineligible Contractors; that the facilities to be utilized in the performance of this Contract have not been listed on the Environmental Protection Agency's List of Violating Facilities. The Authority reserves the right to reiect any or all bids, or any parts thereof, when necessary for the protection of the interests of the Authority. William C. Threadgill NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received for WHITEHALL REDEVELOPMENT, CLEARING AREAS 5, 6, AND 7 GARDEN CITY TERMINAL, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA in the Executive Conference Room of the Georgia Ports Authority until 2:00 p.m.

(Local Time) Sept. 3, 1981 al which time they will be publicly opened and read. The work under this Contract we iN consist generally of the following: The project consist of 14.5 acres of clearing and grubbing, 1.5 acres of underbrushing, and the disposal of "all materials resulting from these operations. The Plans and Specifications are available for inspection al the office of Hussey, Gay Bell, Consulting Engineers, 6605 Abercorn Street, (Suite 203) Savannah, Georgia; the F. W.

Dodge Corporation in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia. One (1) set of Plans, Specifications and other Contract Documents may be obtained by application, accompanied by a deposit check or money order in the amount of $25.00 payable to Hussey, Gay Bell, P. 0. Box 14247, 6605 Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia, 31406. No refunds will be made for.

Plans and Specifications, All questions concerning the Plans, Specifications and other Contract Documents should be directed to Hussey, Gay Bell, Consulting Engineers, P. 0. Box 14247, Savannah, Georgia, 31406, telephone (912) 354-4626. Bids must be accompanied by certified check or Bid Bond for ten percent of the amount bid. Performance Bond and Payment Bond in the of 100 percent of the Contract amount will be required.

To qualify to bid a certified statement from the Bidder's bonding company shall accompany the Bid Bond stating that the Bidder can submit Performance Bond to the Owner within ten days of award of Contract. The Georgia Ports Authority reserves the right to reiect any or all bids and to waive technicalities and informal; ities. Georgia Ports Authority P.O. Box 2406 Savannah, Georgia 31402 1C NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Take Notice hereby that at 10:00 A.M. on the 21st day of August, 1981, at 1600 S.

Slappey Rd. Albany, Georgia the personal property listed below which has been repossessed, and is being stored at the foregoing address, because of default in a Security Agreement dated 6th day of June, 1990, between the undersigned as Seller and Billy Bennett as Buyer, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. Fruehauf Corporation By Jeffery L. Spatz Credit Manager Property to Be Sold Description Serial Number MINIMUM amount to be bid by Fruehaut (1) 1971 Fruehauf flatbed trailer MEN 216521 $3750.00 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Take Notice hereby that at 10:00 A.M. on the 21st day of August, 1981 at 1600 S.

Slappey Albany, Ga. and 650 Forth Worth Avenue. Dallas, Texas the personal property. fisted below which has been repossessed, and is being stored at the foregoing address, because of default in a Security Agreement dated 18th day of March, 1990, between the undersigned as Seller and John Chomo as Buyer, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder. Fruehauf Corporation BY Jeffery L.

Spatz, Manager? Property to Be Sold DESCRIPTION SERIAL NUMBER MINIMUM AMOUNT TO BE BID BY FRUEHAUF (1) 1972. Timple Ref. Van Trailer 21688 $3250.00 (1) 1972 Timpte Ref. Van Trailer 26203 $3300.00 (2) Used NWD 30 Thermo King Ref. Units 0222104006 0912103001.