2, THE DAILY SENTINEL, SCOTTSBORO, ALABAMA, TUESDAY ME: BOX SIO The Daily Dentinel el JAMES K. HARKNESS, Editor and Publisher ADVERTISING-BUSINESS EDITORIAL STAFF Paul Dale Managing Editor Jerry Advertising Manager Peggy Ferguson City Editor Chuck Nelson. Advertising Sales Jeff Tryon. Sports Tom George Advertising Sales Carmen Wann. Women’s News Anita Bynum Classified Sales Nita Nichols General News Edna Kirby.
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to 1 p.m., Closed Sundays. MEMBER Alabama Press Association The Associated Press, Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and Newspaper Enterprises Association. VIEWPOINT AND EDITORIALS OPINIONS Juvenile home Money, the root of all evil, the cure of all ills. Jackson, Marshall and DeKalb Counties are about to lose a facility vital to the youth of the three counties–the juvenile detention home. Lack of money.
Board members sought help from state government officials, including Governor George Wallace. All to no avail. Now, our area is faced with the possibility of violent juvenile offenders being placed back on the streets. Not a very amusing situation to say the least. All it would take to keep the facility open is money–a great deal of money.
The three counties are small compared with other counties across Alabama and are operating a facility at an extremely high cost per juvenile. So, the board of directors have decided to close the home. But, could there not be a better solution to the problem rather than throwing in the towel? At present, 18 fulltime and two employees are going to be without a job when the home is locked May 31. Why not cut the staff to the bare minimum and keep the facility operating for the purpose it was designated. To turn the offenders back on the street again to return to their old ways is no solution.
It would seem that the board is taking the easy way out through closing the facility. Somewhere there has to be a solution to the problem. In the past, county governments have been coming up with the monies required to match the LEPA grants to keep the home in operation. Why not turn to the various cities and municipalities across the counties to lend a hand. Surely the cities can realize that the home is not just for county juveniles but is there to handle the city offenders as well.
Volunteer workers could be enlisted to assist in caring for the home residents. With a small staff and volunteers, services could be continued. The volunteers, could come from various civic organizations and even law enforcement personnel from the threecounty area. It might be worth a try. Surely it is better than completely giving up.
Paul Dale Common sense Common The Carter administration is firmly committed to cutting the. government red tape that frustrates businesses and complicates all our lives, says Bert Lance, director of the White House Office of Managemnt and Budget. “That alone will help restore public confidence in government,” says the former Atlanta banker. ‘Business is spending too much time fooling with government forms and government regulations.” Of which there is not end. Last year, the Federal Register contained 57,000 pages of notices, rules and regulations issued by government agencies.
The 94th Congress enacted 1588 new public laws, each carrying its own economic impact. The Commission on Federal Paperwork conservatively estimates that federal reporting requirements alone cost $40 billion a year. If the Carter people are really serious about tackling this problem, they might take a fresh look at an idea that has been kicking around Washington since at least 1974. Originally advanced by the National Canners Association during the economic summit meetings held that year, the idea is to require every proposed new regultion or law or to first undergo a cost-benefit to make sure the public gains more than it loses. but As an unnecessarily example of costly well-intentioned regulation, the Food and Drug Administration a FRI year ago proposed the labels on 01 canned foods bear drained weight information showing how much fruit or vegetable was in the container after liquid was poured out.
This would have involved taking samples off the production line, storing them for a month, opening them and then weighing and destroying the contents. The canners submitted data showing that the regulation would cost $104 million a year and add 19; about a cent more to each can or jar of food. Instead, they suggested a WHA voluntary program, costing only $10 AL million, in which the solid weight of raw food was weighed before it was put in the can. The FDA agreed to try out the simpler, less expensive plan. It was one small victory for common sense.
Now the canners’ idea of making cost-benefit analyses mandatory has been revived on Capitol Hill in the form of the Regulatory Cost Impact Act, which has been introcuded by bipartisan The Sentinel GERMANY Stock Market Report PM-Wall Street, 200 NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices edged upward today, bidding to reverse the decline of the past two sessions. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose a fraction in early trading. Gainers took a 5-4 over losers among New York Stock change-listed issues. Analysts said the market was still restrained by expectations of higher interest rates. But they also noted that the absence of any concerted selling pressure Monday seemed to have been taken as an encouraging sign by traders.
Today’s early prices included Beatrice Foods, down at Westinghouse Electric, off at UAL, up at and MGIC Investment, higher at On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average slipped 8.85 to 933.09 after a 6.70-point drop on Fridaders outnumbered gainers by close to a 4-3 margin on the NYSE. Big Board volume touched a new low for the year at 15.23 million shares, down from 19.37 million Friday. The NYSE’s composite index lost .16 to 54.15. On the American Stock Exchange, the market value index was up .23 at 114.17. PM-Livestock, 160 THOMASVILLE, Ga.
(AP) Georgia cattle auctions: Monday’s receipts 6 markets compared 4,200 previous Monday. Slaughter steers: good 2-3 500-700 lbs 30.00- 35.00, 700-900 lbs 34.00-38.00, 900-1100 lbs 37.00- 40.00. Heifers: good 2-3 500-700 lbs 28.00-33.00. 700-900 lbs 30.00-35.50. Cows: utility 2-3 24.00- 28.25, cutter 22.00-25.00.
Bulls: yield grade 1-2 1300-1700 lbs 30.00-34.25, 900-1300 lbs 29.00- 34.00. Calves and vealers: choice 250-350 lbs 37.00-40.00, 350-500 lbs 32.00-37.50. Good 150-250 lbs 33.00-40.00, 250-350 lbs 31.00-38.00, 350-500 lbs 27.00-34.00. Feeder steers: choice 200-300 lbs 38.00-44.00, 300-400 lbs 38.00-45.00, 400-500 lbs 36.00-41.00, 500-600 lbs 35.00-40.00, 600-800 lbs 33.00-37.00. Good 200-300 lbs 33.00-39.00, 300-400 32.00- 38.00, 400-500 lbs 32.00-37.50, 500-600 lbs 31.00- 86.50, 600-800 lbs 30.00-35.00.
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The representative from LEPA pointed out one reason for funds not being allocated to the facility further was an evaluation revealed that at present it was costing some $85 per day for each child held at the Scottsboro facility. “The state normal is around $30 and Scottsboro is much too high,” she said. Sebring said “money is the name of the game. We need money now. As for Jackson County, we have no more to give we are out.” Jackson County, as is the case with Marshall and DeKalb, has been allocating $8,000 in matching funds to insure the LEPA monies.
In encouraging the board to keep the facility operating on hopes that funds will be forth coming, Mrs. Barnard said there was a possibility that monies could come from LEPA through the DYS. “I will work to see that the Scottsboro facility is subsidized with the funds that may come available through youth services,” she said. However, the board members questioned her concerning the method the funds would be allocated and were told that it required YS board action. With this, the board members again expressed doubt in the DYS over past promises not being kept and made the final decision to terminate the employees and close the facility May 31.
Youth juries help community cut crime rate DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) When they say a jury of peers in Deerfield, that’s exactly what they mean. For two years, this growing affluent community northwest of Chicago has permitted teenagers to sentence other youths for minor offenses. The typical case of a 16-year-old accused of illegally shooting a firearm in a field goes something like this. After hearing the offender’s story and the judge’s instructions, the jury retires, then half an hour later renders a verdict: Six hours of washing windows.
Authorities say minor thefts and vandalism have declined more than one-third since 1975, and police, claiming teen-agers are involved in 80 per cent of the crimes, say. the youth juries may have contributed to the drop. “A lot of people still think it’s a joke, the idea of kids on a jury,” says one juror, a Deerfield High School sophom*ore. “But they’re thinking of giving us the power to put them into jail overnight.” As eager as students are to judge their peers, the village’s youth officials say, the program is limited. First, it is voluntary.
After a youngster is arrested for a misdemeanor possession of marijuana, vandalism and shoplifting are offenses commonly handled by the youth jury his case is heard by a real juvenile. judge who determines guilt or innocence. If found guilty and his parents agree, a youth can elect to get his sentence from fellow students, ages 13 to 17. Punishment is limited to no more than 50 hours of adult-supervised community work. Judicial authorities say the sentencing is legal as long as it is volun- designated parking space on the square for the taxi service.
The council agreed to allow the taxi service to occupy the area beside Word used car lot behind the post office as has been the custom in the past of all taxi services in the city; —Heard a request from Bill Woodall of the NDP program, for the city to cover half his health bill of $1,293.96, as laid out in the Neighborhood Development Plans codes, Chapter 6, Section 3. Mayor Roy Owens told councilmen he had spoken with those concerned with this, program and the city, he understood) was not obligated unless they chose to be. The council agreed to discuss this further; Bill Borden, representative of the railroad, present about any developments on the railroads actions on tiling request made by the city under tracks where flooding conditions exist. Borden said he had called Owens when he was not in, and would discuss this with him further; -Approved increases for the digging of graves at Cedar Hill Cemetery from the present $35 fee to $50, and from $15 for infant grave openings to $25; -Were informed that letters had been received from both the State Department of Conservation Game and Fish Division and the Division of Water Safety concerning their building boat launches at the City Park area. Both said at the present time there were no funds available, for this; -Was requested by Councilman Wayne Sims to consider getting the planning board to work on specifications to be required of new housing developments to meet for proper drainage and streets before providing city permits.
Sims also requested the city discuss and make a provision for home builders to pave their driveways up to the point where the city pavement is located. The council agreed to take both requests under consideration and act on them. Nabisco Nat Distill OwensIll Penney JC 37 36 37 PepsiCo 73 Pet Inc 31 Philip Morr 55 Phillips Pet Polaroid Proct Gamb Quaker Oat RCA RalstnPur Republic Stl Revlon Reynold Ind Rockwel Int RoyCr Cola StRegis Pap 36 Scott Paper SeabCst Lin 38 38 SealdPow 16 16 16 Sears Roeb Skyline Cp 14 Sony Corp Southern Co South Ry 57 Sperry Rnd Std Brands 26 StdOil Cal StdOil Ind Stevens JP 17 17 17 Texaco Inc TexEastn Texasgulf UMC Ind Un Camp Un Carbide 54 UnOil Cal Uniroyal 10 10 US Steel Wachov Cp Westgh El 21 Weyerhsr Winn Dixie 42 42 42 Woolworth 24 24 Wrigley 84 Marijuana helps sight for one man SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Each day Robert Randall smokes at least six joints. His dealer is the United States joints. His dealer is the United States government.
The large quantity of pot doesn’t help Randall get high, it helps him see. Randall became the only person in the United States legally entitled to use marijuana when a court agreed last November that the weed was a “medical necessity” for treating his glaucoma. “Marijuana has caused me to be able to see,” Randall, 29, told a news conference Monday sponsored by the National Drug Abuse Conference. “If I had not used marijuana, I’d be blind.” He said the 60 marijuana cigarettes he is given free each week rarely leave him stoned because he can “psychologically control” the effects. But he did say the medicine is “a pleasure to take” compared with the two conventional glaucoma drugs he uses.
He said the weed cannot cure his glaucoma, but it keeps the condition from worsening. Randall quit his teaching job at a Washington Community College after he won his case. He now writes and lectures on his experiences in hopes of marijuana being legalized for medical and social use. Randall said his medicine is grown at the University of Mississippi, rolled in North Carolina and dispensed to him by Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he lives. He must report to the hospital each week, at $20 a visit, to pick up his supply.
The grass itself is free. Other persons in research programs are given marijuana, but the National Drug Abuse Conference said Randall is the only person allowed to take it home. He is the first subject in a federal research program testing the link between marijuana and glaucoma, but would still be entitled to pot if he left the program, “There is a social prohibition against using marijuana, but it’s totally ineffective,” said Randall. “The only place the prohibition is effective is i in denying marijuana to physicians who want to do medical research and to people who have valid medical needs.” I NEWSWATCH Drug pleas BAY -MINETTE, Ala. (AP)Twelve men accused of trying to smuggle six tons of Colombian marijuana onto the Alabama Gulf Coast have pleaded guilty to state drug charges.
They received sentences ranging from six to 12 years. Court appearances were scheduled today for three other men charged in the March 31 drug smuggling case at Orange Beach, Ala. supporters. The act would require every federal agency to prepare a consumer cost assessment setting forth the direct and indirect costs, as well as the benefits, of any proposed regulation or legislation that may have a significant impact on costs to consumers. The Regulatory Cost Impact Act, would, of course, generate new paperwork of its own.
But in this case, more would really be less i in the long run. LOTS OF PARKING LOTS The average shopping center parking lot is more than 25 per cent larger than it needs to be, according to a study by a transportation planning organization. While most shopping centers are built with 5.5 parking spaces for each 1,000 square feet of gross leasable area in the center, the survey found that even on the busiest shopping days of the year-. weekends between Thanksgiving and Christmas-only a tiny fraction of the shopping centers needed that much room for customers’ cars, reports the national accounting firm of Coopers Lybrand. Unfortunately, the study doesn’t say how many parking spaces are taken up by people who park crosswise or who deliberately take two spaces to protect their fenders from their neighbors’ door edges, or how many spaces are occupied by abandoned shopping carts.
Seriously, though, the study points out that this excess parking space is simply wasted space that could be better utilized for landscaping or for other productive and profitable uses. Additional savings could be realized from lower maintenance costs for smaller parking lots. Don Oakley Berry’s World “Say, you’re not one of those ‘human rights’ creeps are you, buddy?” Not moving MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)-A ruling by Atty. Gen.
Bill Baxley apparently means the Alabama Surface Mining Reclamation Commission will not have to move out of its building in Jasper. Baxley ruled Monday there was no direct personal financial gain to the commission or its members as a result of the lease of the building. NATION Hearst probation LOS ANGELES (AP) Patricia Hearst has won five years probation on charges stemming from 1974 shootout at Mel’s Sporting Goods Store. Some said Miss Hearst who could have received years to life in prison suffered enough, but the store owner says he was stunned by the sentence. “I don’t quite understand it.
I don’t think it’s right, but what can you do?” said Carroll (Bill) Huett, 55. “It’s very obvious (that she should have been jailed). If it had been one of us we would have.” tary and the penalty is final. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Contest Garage sale MISS FHA contest will be Tuesday, 3-4 p.m., at Scottsboro High School WOMEN OF St. Jude’s Church will in the school auditorium.
Public is sponsor a garage sale on Thursday invited to attend. and Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Edgewood Dr. in Rolling Hills. AARP meeting Follow the signs to white elephants, used clothing and bargains galore.
JACKSON COUNTY Chapter 2042, American Association of Retired Persons, will have its monthly meeting on Wednesday, 1:30 p.m., Game set Scottsboro Recreation Center. Loyd Jones, Athens, will be guest DUTTON FARM League will hold a speaker. His subject will be on Mother-Son game Saturday at the brand name, generic name and Dutton ball field. The game will prescription drugs. All members begin at 7 p.m.
Admission is free, and non-members are urged to and the concession stand will be attend. open..
