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By Quimby Melton
The first year of the Nixon ad
ministration draws near a
i close. Soon President Nixon will
stand before a joint session of
the Congress and deliver the
“State of the Union” address. In
• this he will tell what he believes
has been accomplished and will
outline what he hopes to ac
complish in the coming year.
* It is interesting to note some
of the things President Nixon
said he hoped to accomplish
# when he outlined his program
some 12 months ago as he took
office as President.
As we remember his in
• augural address and sub
sequent messages to Congress,
boiled down here is what he pro
mised the nation he would try
• and do:
Restore the nation’s con
fidence; encourage orderly dis
cussions of the needs of the
• government, (as we remember
he said something about
“lowering voices” when dis
cussing public affairs, thus
* lessening the tensions of the
times.) He also called for a unit
ing of the people of all areas of
e the nation, of all races, of all
groups that “what is best for
all” can be accomplished. This
unity, he stressed should elimi
« nate sectionalism such as “the
north, the south, the east, and
the west.”
He said he favored govem
• ment reform, “such as the na
tion has not witnessed in half a
century.” Half a century, 50
years before the time he spoke
• in 1969, takes us back to 1919,
the closing years of the Wilson
administration, a year before
the beginning of the Harding
* administration.
He also told how much he hop
ed to bring about an orderly
, solution of the war in Vietnam.
As the first year of the Nixon
administration nears the end it
• is interesting to note what com
ment is being made as to
whether President Nixon has
accomplished any of his aims.
•
If there was one thing the
President and his top aides
wanted to emphasize as they
• looked back at the year just
ended and began preparing for
the new one, it was that they
had proved that the nation was
• still governable.
“I think there has been a gen
eral lessening of tension around
’ the country because people
think some order and system
have been restored,” says one
White House aide. “They no
* longer think things are out of
control.”
Some who have “analyzed”
, the first Nixon year say there is
no longer “an hourly crisis”
that existed the Johnson ad
ministration with lights burning
« in the White House all night,
with limousines purring
through the night taking of
ficials to the White House for
* emergency sessions, and people
standing ready in the “Situation
Room” to call emergency meet?
ings if necessary.”
Os course, there are critics
who point to the fact that pro
blems still face America, and
• that the administration is in
dulging in ‘window dressing’ in
an attempt to lull the public into
a false sense that the crisis has
* passed. They hold the problems
of Vietnam, the cities, racial re
lations, welfare, education, en
, vironment, housing, and the
young are still no closer to solu
tion,
• The President, they contend,
is more concerned with politics
than policies, playing to the
South here, appeasing Northern
• liberals there, just buying time
for his Vietnam policy, zigging
and zagging with the political
winds.
•
However, in this senior citi
zen’s opinion, the coming of an
, other year, the beginning of an
other decade, calls for all loyal
Americans to hope and pray
that Mr. Nixon’s avowed aims ,
, will be brought about. He de
serves the support of all regard
less of party, race, creed or
whatever else might bring a
• divided people.
Patricia McDonald
Is Proud Os Griffin
Because - -
I am proud of Griffin because it gave me so
many wonderful memories. Griffin is my home
town although I have been away for 16 years, I
still hold a warm spot in my heart for all the won
derful, warm, friendly people there. No matter
how long I’ve been away, I still say Griffin is my
home town.
A person can hardly find a town with people in
it who care about the other people or how they
feel, but once in awhile you stumble over one and
Griffin is just that place. It has grown so much in
all these years it is a beautiful place.
But, what I remember most of all are all my
friends I went to school with, who I’m sure have
forgotten me; and the smell of a cotton mill when
you walk inside; or Griffin High School in the mid
die of a football game or maybe just riding
through the main part of town.
Oh! Yes, Griffin I love you very much and all
the people there, I always will, no one will ever
be able to erase these things from my heart and my
mind because when I have nothing to do, I can
close my eyes and remember you!
Patricia Hale McDonald
Brunswick, Ga.
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Consider Business Deductions
By RAY DE CRANE
Distributed by Enterprise Press
Whenever possible, deduc
tions should be taken as
gross income adjustments,
rather than itemized deduc
tions.
Gross income adjustments
serve a two-fold use:
By lowering the adjusted
gross income they offer the
opportunity for a bigger
medical deduction;
Even after being claimed,
the taxpayer has the option
of taking the standard de
duction which amounts to 10
per cent of adjusted gross
income, limited to a maxi
mum of SI,OOO on a joint re
turn or SSOO on separate re
turns.
Employe business ex
pense deductions are the
third opportunity to shift de
ductions from the normal
classification into the gross
income category. The other
two, explained in earlier
articles, are the sick pay ex
clusion and the deduction for
moving expenses.
For most employes, the
business expense deductions
which are considered Page
1, or gross income deduc
tions, are restricted to travel
and transportation expenses,
together with the cost of
meals and lodging while
away from the city of em
ployment at least overnight.
All other business ex-
Maps Os School Zones On Pages 6 And 7.
CREPT
DAI LY NE WS
Daily Since 1872
penses, such as nonreim
bursed entertainment, gifts
to customers, dues paid to
unions or professional socie
ties, may be claimed only if
deductions are itemized.
The transportation expense
includes in-town driving (but
not commuting to and from
work) in connection with
your employer’s business, as
well as airplane, railroad,
steamship, taxi fare or use
of a personal car on out-of
town business trips.
All the foregoing business
expense items are deductible
to the extent they were not
reimbursed by the employer.
If the reimbursement ex
ceeds the expenditures, the
difference must be shown in
gross income.
In determining your de
ductible automobile ex
penses you may use either of
two methods. Under one,
just list your total expenses,
including depreciation, gas
and oil, repairs, insurance,
car washing and lubrication.
Next compare your busi
ness driving for the year to
your total year’s mileage.
For example, if 50 per cent
of your total driving was
business mileage, then 50
per cent of your total auto
mobile expense is deducti
ble.
The second method per
mits a flat deduction of 10
cents a mile for the first
15,000 miles of business driv-
Griffin, Georgia 30223 Tuesday, January 13, 1970
School Board Okays
Zones For 1970-71
City Plans To Name
Davis City Manager
The City Commissioners plan
to name Homer Davis as full
time city manager, in the event
Jack Langford is not able, for
reasons of health, to return to
the post within 90 days.
Mayor Joe Dutton so declared
today in a “state of the city”
talk to the Griffin Excahange
Club.
Mr. Dutton recalled that Mr.
Langford offered his resigna
tion at the end of December be
cause of health. The com
missioners accepted with the
understanding that if he could,
he would return as city man
ager within 90 days.
The commissioners appointed
assistant city manager Homer
ing and seven cents for each
mile thereafter. Whichever
method you use, you may
additionally charge the ac
tual cost of parking fees and
toll charges incurred in con
nection with your business
driving.
Even more advantageous
treatment is accorded so
called “outside salesmen”—
those whose principal job is
selling away from the office.
In addition to the travel
and transportation, meals
and lodging expenses to
which other employes are
restricted, outside salesmen
may deduct from gross in
come all other ordinary and
necessary business ex
penses.
This could include, but is
not restricted to, tips, bag
gage charges and laundry
charges while in travel sta
tus; fees paid for secretarial
help; telephone and tele
graph charges; gifts to cus
tomers and prospects up to
a yearly limit of $25 each;
and all ordinary and neces
sary entertainment expense.
(NEXT: Medical
deductions.)
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 50,
low today 26, high yesterday 39,
low yesterday 30. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:43, sunset
tomorrow 5:45.
Davis as acting city manager.
The commissioners appointed
Mr. Langford city counsellor at
a salary of $250 per month,
Mayor Dutton said. This will be
in force until Mr. Langford’s re
tirement in December, 1970, the
mayor said.
“Mr. Davis has had good
training and I think he is highly
qualified. To be a good city
manager or an elected official,
a man must be honest, sincere,
have a genuine love for people
and have a thick hide,” the
mayor said.
“Mr. Davis has the first three
and each day his hide is getting
thicker and thicker”, Mayor
Dutton said.
The Country Parson
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‘lt’s only when he’s robbed
of hope that a man’s likely
»o rob for money.”
Copyright l»70, by Frank A. Clork
Air Conditioning
Set At Rushton
President Carl Richardson of
Rushton Mill announced today
that the plant would be air
conditioned by early summer.
The project will cost $562,000.
Contracts with several com
panies involved in the installa
tion already have been signed
and work will be under way
soon on the project so it will be
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Mayor Dutton said that if
Henry County didn’t get the new
Atlanta airport, it would not be
the end of the world for Griffin.
He said the community would
continue to grow, only not as
fast.
“I must add, a bit more or
derly,” he said.
The city’s drive to clear slums
and improve housing conditions
continues, Mayor Dutton said.
He said under a new ordinance
the city is able to condemn old
homes that have been empty for
years, and after notification to
owners, may hire them torn
down or use city employes to
tear them down and clean the
lot.
The city has 14 such con
demned houses at the present
and they will come down, the
mayor promised.
A new survey is being made of
city streets, he said, and noted
this year’s budget has $40,000
for resurfacing. He said the
budget allowed $80,850 for this
year’s interest on the bonds it
has not sold.
“I am hoping a great amount
of that will carry over to the
city’s general government and
can be used for the streets.
Plans call for all to get paving,
come spring,” the mayor con
tinued.
Mayor Dutton said a new
municipal building is a dream
of the board of commissioners
and will be for all future boards
until it is a reality.
He said a state constitutional
amendment is needed to permit
the city to borrow enough
money for the new building.
Private money is available if it
could be borrowed and the in
terest not taxable to the lender,
Mr. Dutton said. The city last
week was offered the money at
seven percent, he said.
Cook To Head
Dimes Drive
In Spalding
The annual January fund
raising appeal for prevention
and treatment of birth defects
will be headed by Ronnie Cook,
it was announced by R. A.
Simpson, chairman of the local
chapter of the National Founda
tion-March of Dimes.
In discussing the goals of the
campaign, Mr. Cook noted that
“when the March of Dimes
turned its energies and re
sources toward prevention of
birth defects in 1958, the
challenge was electrifying. It
was the first major attack on
diseases that affect a quarter of
a million of our newborn an
nually.
ready by the time hot weather
arrives, Mr. Richardson said.
Robert And Company
Associates of Atlanta has been
signed to handle the engineer
ing and other phases. Reddick
Company of Thomaston will
construct a building addition to
house the air conditioning
equipment. The addition will be
Jones Principal
Rest Os Year
The Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education last night gave final
approval to new school zones
which will go into effect next
fall when school opens.
The board had worked closely
with federal authorities in
working out the zones.
It said zones were drawn in an
effort to use the neighborhood
school concept and to avoid
bussing as much as possible.
The faculty assignments will
be about 70 percent white teach
ers and 30 percent black to con
form with the population make
up of the community.
This is the rule being used by
federal authorities and courts in
establishing integration.
Complete maps of the zones
are published today on pages
six and seven. School officials
urged parents to study the maps
and to refer any questions they
might have to the school prin
cipal involved.
In other action last night, the
board accepted a recommenda
tion from the combined student
Description
Os New Zones
In announcing school zones,
the Griffin-Spalding Board of
Education made this statement
and issued these descriptions of
the zones:
An attempt has been made to
establish elementary school
zones on a neighborhood school
concept and to avoid mass buss
ing of children out of their
neighborhoods.
Placement of the zone lines
was determined by the student
capacity of each school build
ing. Natural boundaries and
well-known streets form the
perimeter of the zones. School
faculties will represent a ratio
of about 70 percent white and 30
percent black. The system has
worked diligently to insure that
educational quality will be
maintained in each school.
Steps which are being taken to
insure continued improvement
include lowering the present
pupil-teacher ratio, adding
additional instructional per
sonnel and programs, and con
ducting a comprehensive teach
er recruitment program to at
tract the most qualified teach
ers possible.
Moore, North Side, Third
Ward, West Griffin and Fourth
Ward will be non-transported
schools since all students in
these zones live within one and
one-half miles of the school. Bus
schedules for the other schools
will be announced at a later
about 50 by 100 feet.
Bahnson Company of Winston
Salem, N.C. will install ducts
and other equipment. Auto
matic Sprinkler Company will
handle another phase of the
project.
Georgia Power Company will
cooperate with the relocation of
a substation.
Inside Tip
Legislature
See Page Two
councils of Griffin High and
Fairmont High concerning
names and school colors. The
new high school which will re
sult from consolidation of
Griffin High and Fairmont High
will be known as Griffin High.
The school colors will be
Forrest Green and Gold and the
mascot will be the Bears.
The board named Tommy
Jones as Griffin High School
principal for the remainder of
the present year. He will suc
ceed Bill Cody who resigned last
week, effective Feb. 1.
Jones is assistant superinten
dent of the system.
The board endorsed Griffin as
the site for a future junior
college.
It reelected C. T. Parker as
chairman, Russell Smith as
vice chairman and Supt. D. B.
Christie as secretary of the
board for another year.
The board accepted some
faculty resignations and elected
some new' teachers. Also the
board appointed school librar
ians and counselors for next
year.
date.
Questions concerning atten
dance zones should be directed
to the principal of the school the
child is now attending.
ATKINSON
Bounded generally on south
by the “old” Griffin city limits
from a point just southeast of
North Second street, intersect
ing North Hill street just north
of Armstrong street to Central
of Georgia railroad. Bounded on
the west by the Central of
Georgia Railroad to Pomona
and from Pomona by a line in
tersecting at the cross roads of
Teamon and Jordan Hill road to
the county line. Bounded on
north by Henry County and on
the east by a line drawn from
the county line south across
Teamon road and through the
intersection of East Mclntosh
and Hamil road and to a point
on the old city limits southeast
of North Second street.
BEAVERBROOK
Bounded on the south by a line
beginning at the Central of
Georgia Railroad just south of
Magnolia drive and extending
out through the intersection of
Mclntosh and Fayetteville
roads to the intersection of
Henry Jackson road and Ellis
road but not including Henry
Jackson road, then south and
west to include Ellis road west
to the county line. Bounded on
the west by Fayette County.
Bounded on the north by Clay
ton County and Henry County to
a point north of Teamon road.
Bounded on the east side ex
tending through the intersection
of Jordan Hill and Teamon road
and to the railroad in Pomona at
the Baptist Campground road
and following the Central of
Georgia Railroad downward to
a point just south of Magnolia
drive.
CRESCENT
Bounded on south by Lamar
and Pike County. Bounded on
west by a line from the Pike
County line between Carver
road and Lake Side road to the
Southern Railroad following the
railroad to a point intersecting
the new by-pass. Bounded on
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