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Show Page 20 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, March 17, 1983 Wants to Secede Georgetown Group - Some WASHINGTON (UPI) residents of Georgetown, home to diplomats, movie stars and senators, want their community to secede from the District of Columbia because they believe it isn't getting its money's worth. The secessionists, led by the community newspaper, say the city ignores Georgetown's needs and only is interested in the high property taxes and tourist revenue Georgetown generates. - Tiny Cat Takes Catnap the city's area. She decided to protect her food Although it may not be the most comfortable way to catch a by blanketing it with her body, The kitten lives in the Docktor catnap, this Persian feline isn't taking any Pet Center in Merritt Square chances about her next dinner. Mall, Merritt Island, Fla. three-month-o- ld Professional Association, said are real. "We have an awful lot of would like to some of that money returned to us, spent in term-- , of police protection, street cleaning, maintenance," Larsen said. carved out of Oeorg,'nwn -- R-Il- l,, on secession. The Citizen's Association of Georgetown says it is opposed to secession. Charles Poor, a former president of CAG, said, "I'm very proud that Georgetown is part of the Distict. And I'm very much afraid that if this foolish talk of secession goes any further, we are going to appear more foolish and more shrill than our worst enemies have Custom Cut Doors For Dasomonts And Othor Probloin Aroas! "Georgetown maintained own government and charted its own course for 120 years. The word 'secession' was in part used to draw attention. And it has done that," Roffman said. But he said the movement has at best drawn mixed reactions. Paint grade 2'4"kBO" & 2'6"x80" SO 95 Z5 Custom cuts V trict's black mayor, had no com- ment on secession. Will Foster, an aide to Walter Fauntroy, the city's delegate to (Trimcaiing not included) slightly moro. STANDARD GUILDERS SUPPLY 1410 non-voti- Congress, said, "We aren't ing the whole thing very Interior Hardbeard Doors In standard sizes Pre-hu- ng painted us." Roffman said some people complain the idea smacks of elitism and racism. In a city that is 70 percent black and has its share of poor people, Georgetown is almost entirely white and rich. Mayor Marion Barry, the Dis- its City officials say the city's loss would be significant. "It's impossible to give a total figure of revenues that would be lost, but the amount would be staggering," said Bill Cook, assistant director of the Department of Finance and Revenue. money coming into Georgetown being given to the city and we ., Georgetown be Georgetown." The newspaper recently baneditorial callnered a front-pag- e ing for the incorporation of Georgetown as a separate town in the District, or else "retrocession" to Maryland. Georgetown, designated a historic district in the late 1950s, is bounded by the Potomac River on one side and extends from lush Rock Creek Park to the Georgetown University campus. It takes up less than 5 percent of Maryland at the insistence of George Washington. It had its own charter and government within the District until 1871 when Congress revoked it in the name of community unity. his organization opposes secession. But he said the grievances Bank. Elizabeth Taylor lived there when she was married to Virginia Sen. John Warner. Diplomat Averill Harriman has a home there and so did Nelson Rockefeller. ..Sens- Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield, and John Heinz, live there, but aides say they have no opinion "Two decades of fruitless struggle for the consideration and respect of the District government lie behind us," says Randolph Roffman, managing editor of The Georgetowner and spearhead of the secession movement. "It's time to let 3 Norm Larsen, vice president of the Georgetown Business and residents are Georgetown some of the wealthiest and most powerful in the capital. John Kennedy lived there as a senator. So did Robert McNamara, former president of the World N. Stat 373-10- 63 Provo tak- High Court Justices Want Cases Relief (UPI) preme justices are WASHINGTON Two Su Court urging Congress to pare back prisoners rights to appeal in order to ease the court s mushrooming caseload. Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Lewis Powell, appearing this week before a congressional sub committee, said Congress could re duce the workload of all the courts, and especially the Supreme Court, by denying inmates multiple challenges to their convictions in fed- 1 Mmmmm mmmmmmmmmgmm nn mm in mm ff eral court. Testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the Supreme Court's proposed 1984 budget, Powell said he also hoped Congress would act to require prisoners with civil rights grievances to settle their problems administratively before filing suit in federal court. Noting that many challenges involved technicalities rather than the prisoner's guilt or innocence, Powell said limiting the number of such challenges would not violate prisoner's rights "as long as you allowed the prisoners eventually to come to federal court." While advocating curbs on suits brought under the 1871 Civil Rights Act, used by prisoners to bring suits against public officials for constitu-'- , tional violations, Powell stressed he did not want Congress to repeal the law. "By no means," Mrs. O'Connor agreed. She noted, however, that suits based on Section 1983, as the ' . ; ; ; ' ! ; DUTY DRYER LINT FILTER ABSOLUTELY KO DEALERS. JUST LOOK AT THESE V i ; With Mini-Bask- Delivery Optional hinting how the court would rule on a pending civil rights suit. . She said at that time Congress should require people bringing such suits to first exhaust state adminis-- .' trative remedies. The justices by--; passed a chance to order this them--; selves by later ruling that such exhaustion is not required before filing a federal lawsuit. . Mrs. O'Connor also endorsed : Chief Justice Warren ; Burger's call for a new national intermediate court of appeals to resolve conflict-- ; ing rulings among circuit courts. She called the proposal, now . pending in Congress, a "sound proposition," and said 23.7 percent of the court's written decisions last term resolved conflicts among the 13 circuit courts of appeal. The high court is requesting a ' $15.6 million budget for the 1984 fiscal year, an increase of $458,00 'over its 1983 budget, to pay the : salaries of the nine justices and 322 employees and to. maintain the 1 ! 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