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Gardening Is Year Round, Full
Time,Chore For President's Wife
BY DEBRA NEWELL
Some psychologists
recommend blowing police
whistles, keeping journals, or
beating chairs with news
papers. However, Mrs. Maurice
Townsend finds release from
the pressures entailed in being
married to a college president
by working in a four acre
garden containing trees,
shrubs, flowers, and
vegetables.
Although she describes
herself as a “city girl,” Mrs.
Townsend says, “I have always
enjoyed growing things.”
Presently flourishing in her
garden are lettuce, cucumbers,
tomatoes, radishes, corn,
cauliflower, butterbeans, and
Public Safety Denies Any Knowledge
Cheerleader Treated And Released
■nap beans.
She also grows a few items,
which she is told are “Yankee
food,” such as rhubarb.
From such traditional flowers
as azaleas, marigolds, and
daisies to rare Japanese shrubs
and mountain laurel which
usually grows only wild in the
woods, flowers and shrubs are
also plentiful. Several varieties
of holly can be found.
The unusually hard winters
and dry summers experienced
by Georgia recently have been
an impediment to gardeners,
but Mrs. Townsend, who has
indulged in this interest in such
areas as Minnesota, Indiana,
and California points out.
“Every area has advantages
Roberts Hall was then searched and people
questioned by Booth and Assistant Director of
Public Safety, Jody Hicks, according to
residents.
Some rooms were searched and the offices
around the building, were searched, the
residents said.
At presstime it was learned that no ooe has
ben arrested yet for the shooting.
According to Jody Hicks, while a gun was
discovered in a room, they have not yet been able
, to prove that it was the gun used to shoot Her
digree or that its owner was responsible for the
incident.
The pellet gun was found in a room wedged in a
mattress that was slit in the middle, according to
sources.
Hicks added that the suspect could be charged
on several counts including reckless conduct,
simple assault, simple battery and dforhMrgtng a
firearm within 50 feet of a street.
Hardigree was treated at Tanner Memorial
Hospital for a bruise on her hip and released.
I
Acting director of public
safety Marty Booth.
BY SCOTT FREEMAN
A cheerleader attending the Dynamic
Cheerleaders Camp was shot in the hip Monday
night with a pellet gun by an unknown assailant,
the West Cssrglas has learned.
The shot was fired around 8 p.m. by a resident
of Roberts Hall from a third story balcony and
struck Melanie Hardigree as a group of
cheerleaders were walking in the area, ac
cording to sources.
When first questioned, Wednesday, acting
public safety director Marty Booth said that no
arrests or other incidents had occurred so far
this quarter.
However, when confronted later, a spokesman
for Public Safety, night dispatcher Swain Harris,
refused to deny or affirm the shooting and also
refused to give out Booth's phone number for
further verification.
According to sources in the cheerleading
camp, Hardigree “felt something hit her” and
saw a hole in her pants.
After reporting it, she was taken to the hospital
for examination.
Athletics, Theatre Increased
Townsend Changes Budget
BY ROBIN STACY
The $258,200 student activities budget has been
finalized by the Board of Regents after
significant changes by President Maurice
Townsend and the West Georgia administration.
The budget, which was returned from the
Regents on Monday, July 10, was released by
Student Activities Director Mel Caraway on
Friday, July 17.
The athletics budget was increased from the
$86,067 originally appropriated by the student
finance committee of the student government
association. The administrative sub-category of
the athletics budget was increased from SII,OOO
to $14,000. Financial aid for athletes was in
creased from $37,500 to $39,000.
Those programs eliminated from the student
budget included the accompanying scholarship
($750), the accounting club ($566), the an
and disadvantages.”
Planting is only the beginning
of a gardener's tasks, and Mrs.
Townsend 1 says that the con
stant care her garden needs is
provided by West Georgia’s
Landscaping and Grounds
crews.
Although she does not believe
talking to plants is beneficial to
their development, she notes
that, “observation is im
portant.”
Mrs. Townsend also enjoys
canning and freezing
vegetables and making jam
which she sometimes enters in
local fairs.
In keeping with the idea that
one’s home is an extension of
Continued on page 8
Wendelschaf er Resigns
To Join U.S. Marshalls
West Georgia lost its second director of Public Safety in as
many months when John Wendleschafer resigned his
position at the first of this month.
Replacing him as the Acting Director is Marty Booth who
has been with the department off and on since 1972 and, until
his promotion, was a sergeant on the third shift.
According to Booth, Wendleschafer quit in order to be with
the U.S. Marshal’s office and is presently attending a
marshal’s school in Brunswick.
Booth said that this quarter has been “pretty quiet' ’ and so
far no arrests have been made.
However, he added that Public Safety is investigating an
attempted theft at Roberts Hall.
thropology club ($800), the Southern Literature
Guild ($220), the United Nations Club ($200), and
the Women’s Center ($200).
Those organizations receiving cuts from the
amounts appropriated by the student finance
committee included Art Exhibits (cut $120),
Instrumental Organizations (cut $2750), the
opera workshop (cut $1000), photography ($500),
speakers (cut $931), student government (cut
$850), The West Georgian (cut $2000), and
WWGC (cut $741).
Among those areas receiving increases from
the administration were Student Activities
Office Operation, (up $539), the student hand
book (up $1000), Phi Beta Lambda (up $250),
Student Center Operations (up $3874), Theatre
(up $2250), and student conferences (up $300).
The Black Cultural Resources Center was
funded for the first time at SSOO.
West Georgia Student
Killed By Train
TonyHaimes.a West Georgia student not attending school
this summer, was hit and killed by a train in Atlanta last
Saturday morning.
According to reports from the Atlanta Police Department
and the medical examiner, Haimes was lying < railroad
tracks at the 2200 block on Cheshire Bridge Road around 4
a.m. when a train approached and blew its whlstie. Haimes
did not move and the train hit him, killing him instantly.
According to sources, Haimes, a member of Pi Kappa
Alpha Fraternity, was at a Cheshire Bridge Road nightspot
when he wandered outside and passed out on the tracks-
The medical examiner has not determined if Haimes had
alcohol in his blood. The report has not returned from the
Georgia Crime Investigations.
Funeral services were held Sunday.
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Learning Will Coach Lady Braves .. p. 7
Soccer Camp Here •.. . p. 6
Mike Williams at Z-6 p.3