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Weekend Notes:
Here in Griffin: The week
began with schools being closed
due to icy streets and roads that
made it dangerous for traffic.
They reopened Tuesday. The
day missed will be made up Fri
day, the day scheduled as a
holiday for pupils while
teachers made out report cards.
The annual Chamber of Com
merce dinner saw the second
largest number of people ever
attending one. Gene Cook, Jr.,
retired and Homer Sigman was
inauguarated president. Tom
Haggai was the featured
speaker. This is the third time
Haggai has been invited to
speak here.
Mayor Joe Dutton addressing
the Exchange Club said he
would ask for an additional two
mill tax to finance a program of
street pavement and im
provement.
Later in the week the city an
nounced that some errors may
have been made in setting busi
ness licenses. All required to
pay a license were told to do so
and that as quickly as possible
adjustments would be made.
The Board of Education an
nounced new school zoning
plans to comply with court
orders and elected Tommy
Jones, assistant superintendent
of schools, acting principal of
Griffin High to succeed Bill
Cody, who has resigned to
accept a position with the State
Board of Education.
Bad news of the week: The
Brown Company, manufac
turers of paper packaging
materials, announced it was
closing its Griffin plant Feb. 15.
The Georgia General As
sembly began the 1970 session
and heard the usual opening
week speeches. Governor
Maddox delivered two of them,
one on the State of the State, the
other on a proposed budget.
House and Senate then got down
to business spending most of the
time left on the proposed new
State Constitution.
The governor’s proposed
budget called for approproation
of $1.19 billion. If approved, this
will be the largest budget ever
for the state.
Atlanta Schools continued to
be the center of attention with
the deadline for following court
orders coming closer and
closer. Despite freezing
weather a group of students and
parents marched to the state
capitol and were greeted by the
governor. He gave them small
American flags and told them
there was danger that “a police
state will destroy our public
school.”
Atlanta and other cities
throughout the nation held cere
monies observing the birthday
of the late Dr. Martin Luther
King, born in Atlanta 41 years
ago.
President Nixon worked on
his State of the Nation Address
and his budget message which
he will deliver to Congress.
Meanwhile Congressmen began
gathering in Washington for the
1970 session. The president has
told department heads to cut
their request for funds even
more.
The civil war in Nigeria en
ded, the U. S. and other nations
moving swiftly to provide food
and medicine for the people.
New Zealand arrested a young
man charged with having
threatened to kill Vice-presi
dent Agnew; The veep continued
his way round the world coming
home to report to his chief.
And, finally, the mystery
billionaire, Howard Hughes
may be forced out of seclusion,
since his wife of 13 years, the
beautiful former actress Jean
Peters has announced in Las
Vegas she will sue him for di
vorce. If he wants to hold on to
the beauty he must do some
“courting” himself; and if he
wants to “make a reasonable
settlement” he had better not
leave it to some agent to
represent him.
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Demos Rule
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The
makeup of the 91st Congress
upon reconvention.
House: 245 Democrats, 189
Republicans, one vacancy.
Senate: 57 Democrats, 43
Republicans.
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School Aid, Inflation
Top Congress Problems
By FRANK ELEAZER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Democratic controlled 91st Con
gress returned for its second
session today to face an
immediate political struggle
with President Nixon on school
aid and inflation.
The House and Senate,
meeting at noon, also were
geared for later election-year
tests on hot issues from street
crime to the draft.
Nixon will deliver to a joint
session Thursday his first
formal report on the State of
the Union. Lawmakers specu
lated he will propose a
narrowly balanced budget for
the new fiscal year with little
room for legislative innovation.
Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield said he would call up
at once a $19.7 billion money
bill for the Labor and the
Health, Education and Welfare
departments which Nixon has
promised to veto as costing too
much.
In the House, only minor bills
were on the first week’s
agenda, but the Ways and
Means Committee was starting
secret consideration of Nixon’s
proposed welfare reforms.
Members said Nixon’s plan
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Kindergarten Planned
For Needy Students
for guaranteed minimum in
come for poor working people
faced nearly impossible odds,
partly because it would double
current $5 billion annual
welfare expenses.
Other major Nixon proposals
on postal reform, voting rights,
the end of most college
deferments from the draft, and
a new attack on organized
crime also face tough opposi
tion.
Leaders on both sides of the
aisle said privately the session
already was shaping up as
more political than legislative.
They were forecasting enact
ment of little in the way of
major new laws and were
shooting for a speedup in
handling of money bills, annual
authorizations, and other mini
mum necessities so the session
can be concluded not later than
early October.
For his part, Mansfield put
aside tradition that says
senators do nothing until the
President has delivered his
State of the Union address. He
planned to put the controversial
Labor-HEW money bill on the
President’s desk by Wednesday.
He also scheduled prompt
action thereafter on a commit-
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tee-approved version of Nixon’s
anticrime package; a bill to
reduce penalties for possession
and use of marijuana; an
antitrust exemption for failing
newspapers.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 50,
low today 34, high yesterday 54,
low yesterday 44. Total rainfall
over the weekend .30 of an inch.
Sunrise tomorrow 7:41, sunset
tomorrow 5:51.
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“A just cause doesn’t need
majority support as much as
dedicated friends.”
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Holan Votes
On Contract
Here Tomorrow
Firemans and Oilers Union
local 286 at Holan Company
here will vote tomorrow on a
new contract. Ballots will be
cast at the city hall between 1
p.m. and 8 p.m., a union spokes
man said.
He said indications were that
the union would accept the con
tract offer.
The plant has been out of
operation several months
because of a strike.
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BITTER LOSS
LIVERPOOL, England (UPI)
—Every year for 41 years
Harry Kendrick has tried to
win the Royal Nelson Angling
Club’s trophy for the biggest
fish. Every year he has lost—
but the 30-inch silver cup rests
today in his home.
But Hafry’s name is not on
it. His wife Kay won it.
“I felt sorry for Harry,” she
said later.
The runnerup this year—
Harry Kendrick, by one-half
ounce.
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Vol. 97 No. 15
Ist Baptist
School System
Start Project
The First Baptist Church
WMU and the Griffin-Spalding
School System worked hand in
hand today to get a kinder
garten program started here in
February for underprivileged
children.
Classes for students who will
enter the first grades next fall
will be organized at Moore, At
kinson and Annie Shockley
schools, according to Supt. D. B.
Christie of the school system.
He and Mrs. Elizabeth Cheat
ham of the First Baptist Church
are working together to get the
program off the ground.
MEETING
A preliminary meeting to
begin training of some 50
women volunteer workers was
held this morning at Atkinson
school. The volunteers will work
under one paid coordinator, Mr.
Christie said. The coordinator
still is to be selected.
The church expects to invest
$7,200 in the program. It will run
each school day from 9 a.m. till
12 until September.
No transportation will be
involved.
The three classes will have 20
to 25 students each and they will
be selected through principal
teacher recommendations and
on other information the school
system has, Mr. Christie ex
plained.
FEBRUARY
The superintendent said he
hoped the program could begin
in early February but that the
exact starting date has not been
decided.
The program will be flexible
since it is a pilot project, Mr.
Christie said. It might be possi
ble to split the Feb-Sept, project
into two sessions so more child
ren could be helped, he said. But
this willbe subject to review and
evaluation, he said.
HELP OFFER
The WMU at First Baptist
offered to help the school
system “any way it can” during
the consolidation and transition
period here next fall, Mr.
Christie said.
“We are indebted to the
church and are grateful for
their interest and feel that the
project will help raise the level
of education the system will be
able to offer,” Mr. Christie said.
He pointed that out while
some first graders have the
opportunity for kindergarten,
many others do not.
BEHIND
Some students come to the
first grade not knowing how to
hold a book or listen to a story
telling experience, Mr. Christie
said. This puts them behind
other students who have had
some preschool experience, he
pointed out.
Os the some 900 students the
system will have in first grades
next fall, some 300 of them come
from underprivileged homes,
the superintendent pointed out.
FEDERAL MONEY
Should any federal money be
come available this summer,
the system would take over the
volunteer program, Mr.
Christie said. But he frankly
said he didn’t think any federal
money would become available.
The $7,200 program will set
aside $3,150 for food and sup
plies and $4,050 for a paid super
visor, Mr. Christie said.
Can’t Punish
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Supreme Court ruled today that
draft officials have no authority
to declare a registrant delin
quent and order his induction
because he violated Selective
Service laws.
Dorothy Shockley
Is Proud Os Griffin
Because - -
I am proud of Griffin because of all the wonder
ful people that make up Griffin.
So many believe the Bible verse, “Be ye doers
of the Word and not hearers only.” James 1-22.
So many Griffinites are good Samaratians.
So many true believers that believe that “Jesus
is the Christ, the Son of God and that Jesus is the
only way to Heaven.”
So many good churches and preachers.
So many good schools and kindergartens.
And what other city is there that has a news
paper with an editor that writes and prints the
International Sunday School Lesson on the front
page as our own editor does on Friday nights.
Mrs. Dorothy Shockley,
Kindergarten Teacher.
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That Catchall
'Miscellaneous'
By RAY DE CRANE
Distributed by Enterprise Press
Don’t be deceived by the
heading on the final classifi
cation of deductions. On
Schedule A of your income
tax return, it is shown as
“Miscellaneous Deductions.”
There’s a gold mine of de
ductions here. Don’t pass it
over too quickly.
Here is the place to list all
of these:
• Child care or invalid
care payments.
• Storm, fire, auto acci
dent and theft losses.
• Unreimbursed work ex
pense, such as the purchase
and cleaning of required
work uniforms and special
work clothes, purchase of
rubber and asbestos gloves
used in certain occupations,
safety equipment, tools and
supplies, deductions from
your wages for damages to
your employer’s property.
• Union dues.
• Fees paid an employ
ment agency to obtain a new
job.
• Educational expenses, if
the training was to maintain
or improve skills required on
the job or to meet your em
ployer’s specific job require
ments, or if required by law
or regulations to maintain
your status. Such expenses
undertaken initially to qual
ify you for a job or to qualify
you for a better job are not
deductible, however.
• Alimony, if paid periodi
cally to your former wife in
accordance with provisions
of a court decree or written
separation agreement en
tered into after Aug. 16, 1954.
The former wife must in
clude such payments as in
come on her return.
• Unreimbursed enter
tainment expense, if ordi
nary and necessary in your
work.
• Expenses incurred in
connection with the collec
tion or production of income.
If you are an investor, you
may deduct the fees paid an
investment counselor or for
subscriptions to financial
publications or for the rental
of a safety deposit box for
the protection of your securi
ties.
• Tax counsel fees paid to
a tax adviser, or the cost of
tax books used as an aid in
the completion of your own
tax return.
CHILD CARE
Any woman — whether
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married, unmarried, wid
owed or divorced—may ob
tain a child-care deduction of
up to S9OO for the care of
children or disabled depend
ents under certain condit
ions.
The expenses must have
been incurred in order for
the woman to go to work or
actively to seek employment.
Unless the child being cared
for is physically or mentally
incapable of self-support, the
youngster must be under age
13 to qualify.
Where one child is in
volved, the maximum child
care deduction is the actual
expense or S6OO, whichever
is less. If two or more chil
dren are involved, the limita
tion is S9OO. In addition to
the care of children under 13,
care of a disabled person
whom you can claim as a de
pendent qualifies, if the chief
purpose is to permit the
woman to go to work or to
seek work.
A working wife who has a
huband able to work must
file a joint return before she
can claim the deduction. The
deduction is reduced by the
excess of their combined in
come beyond $6,000. This
would rule out a deduction if
combined income was as
much as $6,900 and two or
more children were being
cared for and as much as
$6,600 if only one child under
13 was involved.
For the widow, unmarried
woman, widower, divorced
or deserted wife, there is no
reduction in the allowable
deduction because of earn
ings.
CASUALTY, THEFT
LOSSES
Uninsured losses from
these causes are deductible
to the extent they exceed
SIOO. This means that the
first SIOO, after insurance re
imbursement, is on you. The
balance, if any, is deductible.
The loss is determined by
comparing the fair market
value of the item immedi
ately before the casualty
with its fair market value
immediately afterward. In
no case may the loss be
greater than the adjustea
basis, generally the pur
chase price, of the item.
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countdown.)