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Meet
new
commissioner
Tiggy Jones could shoot
marbles with the best of them
when he was a student at North
Side elementary school
He studied each shot, took
careful aim, and knew his
target before his taw (shooter)
blasted from his thumb and
forefinger.
The shot usually hit dead
center.
Jones always was a contender
for school and city champion
ship marble competition.
He usually had an overall
pocket half full of marbles and
was ready to take on any
challenger at the drop of a “pie
eye.”
His approach to that game for
youngsters in years gone by
may show up when he faces
some of the city government
problems just ahead.
Jones will be sworn in as the
Second Ward City Com
missioner Dec. 11 at the regular
Urug class
opens here
A drug education committee,
formed to help local young
people who have been arrested
on drug charges, held its first
meeting today.
The 13-member committee
was appointed by John God
dard, judge of State Court of
Spalding County.
Up until now, all drug viola
tions have been felony charges
and have gone through Superior
Court A new Georgia law
reduces the violation to a
misdemeanor, provided the
accused had one ounce or less of
marijuana in his possession
when arrested, or if it was his
first offense.
Those caught with more than
an ounce of marijuana and all
second offenders will be tried in
Superior Court on felony
charges.
Judge Goddard said some 25
drug cases will be handled
during this term of his court.
Monday, on plea day, several
guilty pleas were entered and
each person was fined SSOO and
given a 12-months probated
prison sentence. Those who
decided to plead not guilty, will
go on trial when State Court
convenes Monday, Dec. 10.
In addition to the fine and
probated sentence, each person
will be required to attend a
course of instruction on drug
abuse. The classes will be held
at least once a month for each
month of the sentence.
The first such class is
scheduled for Tuesday night,
Dec. 11, in the grand jury room
of the Spalding Courthouse.
The program will include a
talk by a former drug addict
and a film on drug education.
Goddard said other plans in
clude trips to the Spalding
County jail and Georgia
Diagnostic Center in Jackson.
The committee will counsel
with the offenders and will
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meeting of the board. He will
succeed Scott Searcy who was
not eligible to run for reelection
because he does not live in that
ward.
This will be the first political
job Jones ever has had.
He plans to do a lot of listen
ing in his early weeks and
months on the board.
Jones figures it will take him
maybe a year to learn the inside
workings of city government.
But he plans to make a con
tribution, even during the early
days.
Paving problems in some
areas will get his attention at
first. He said he knows they
can’t be solved overnight but he
plans to see what can be done on
some streets that need im
mediate attention.
Another thing that will be of
special interest to him is
promoting the recreational pro
gram.
organize the classes. Goddard
said at Tuesday’s meeting, all
of the committee will meet with
all of the offenders, but later
they will probably meet in
smaller groups.
Those appointed to the
committee are Mrs. Kenneth
Reynolds; John Francis,
Spalding Junior High School
teacher; Henry Sims of the
Griffin Recreation Depart
ment; the Rev. T. J. Davis,
pastor of the Teamon Baptist
Church; the Rev. E. W.
Carrigan, assistant pastor of
the First Assembly of God
Church; James Fortune, at
torney who has had experience
in Vietnam court-martials of
drug offenders; Morgan Harvill
and Dick Hyatt, local insurance
men who are interested in of
fender rehabilitation work; Sgt.
Glen Whidby, of the Griffin
Police Department’s narcotics
squad; Homer Williams of the
Police Community Center;
Lamar Conner of the probation
office; David Head, in
vestigator with the Spalding
Sheriff’s Department; and V.
Ray Howard, boy scout leader.
Georgia ‘gifted’program best
ATLANTA (UPI)-Quietly,
without fanfare, Georgia’s ef
forts to help develop the unique
talents of gifted school children
have fostered one of the best
programs in the South, accord
ing to a state official who co
ordinates the project.
The task, says Margaret By
num, of the special education
division of the State Department
of Education, is to develop “a
high level of thinking.”
Under legislative mandate,
the state hopes to have special
education teachers in all 188
school districts by 1976, Current
ly all but 87 districts have spe
cialteachers, though not enough
in most cases.
“We are one of three southern
states pretty well along in pro
grams for gifted children,” Miss
Bynum said. “We rank right
along with Florida and North
Carolina. We are making pro
gress, but we’ve got a long way
to go.”
Reception of the idea is good,
but it hasn’t always been that
GRIFFIN
DAILY''FNEWS
Daily Since 1872
They left a few for Tiggy’s taw
Jones believes the community
has one of the best to be found in
a place this size. He hopes to see
it continue to grow to meet the
needs of a growing population.
Jones said he knows first
hand the benefits of a sound
recreation program. His three
grown children all are better
citizens for having had re
creational opportunities, he
believes. And his youngest
child, Vincent (Harvey) is at
the age when Jones feels
recreation is important in
shaping one’s future.
Harvey is 14 and in the ninth
grade.
Jones and his wife, Rosalyn, a
Spalding High graduate, are the
parents of three other children.
A daughter, Linda Malone, is
married and makes her home in
Connecticut.
Then there’s Keith Jones who
is a senior at Georgia College in
Milledgeville and his brother,
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way.
“Programs for gifted children
are relatively new in the major
portion of the nation,” she said.
“The need has been there, but
people have been operating on
the basis that intellectually gift
ed and talented children would
get their education without spe
cial help.
“That’s just not so. Special
talents will not develop by them
selves. We’re talking about a
development of a high level of
thinking, of inquiry, flexible and
fluent thinking, conceptualiza
tion, generalization, analyzing
and evaluation.”
“If they get through without
special help, it’s miraculous,”
says Joan Goff, who works with
special education in the DeKalb
County school system. “These
children need, not extra but dif
ferent programs. They need
counseling.. .their positive could
turn to negative if no one lis
tens to them or understands
tnem.”
The need is for proper
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, December 6, 1973
Jumping into their work
motivation and, she says,
“open-ended inquiry.”
In DeKalb County, qualified
pupils take special education
training as part of their normal
school day. If there are no spe
cial teachers in their school,
they are visited by Mrs. Goff’s
“itinerate staff” of teachers who
journey about the district. The
same is true in many other
school systems across Georgia.
There are not enough teachers
to go around, only 193 in the
whole state. The Atlanta school
system, for example, has 12 and
needs 31.
Hopefully this gap will be low
ered now that formal special
education courses are being
taught at the University of Geor
gia, Georgia State, Valdosta
State and Georgia Southern.
The bright students are al
lowed, where programs exist,
to go beyond the regular curri
culum and delve into almost any
area that interests them.
There are projects, special
studies and a great deal of re-
Tiggy Jones
Stewart, who is a sophomore at
the same school.
Jones was educated in the
public school system here,
graduating from Griffin High in
1946.
A year’s illness caused him to
miss one grade but he still
finished on schedule. His birth
date is Dec. 28, 1927. This
permitted him to start school
when he was five. So the loss of
the year didn’t put him behind
schedule very much.
Jones spent about six months
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search.
“If they have the tools of re
search, they have the tools of
People mailing early
Postmaster James Chappell
reminded Griffinites that out-of
state Christmas cards should be
in the mail by this weekend.
The mail early campaign is
“Some folks are so busy with
their church work they don’t
have time to practice their
religion.”
in the Navy after high school.
World War H was over and the
Navy was discharging reserves
in the post war era rapidly.
That’s why Jones was out of the
service so soon.
He had worked for his late
father at the railway warehouse
in Griffin a little while begin
ning in 1944. That was the
beginning of his railroad
seniority. Mr. Jones’ father was
Mr. Felix Jones and his mother
is Mrs. Ruth Jones who con
tinues to make her home in
Griffin.
It was his mother who gave
him his nick name.
When Ernest Jones was a tot,
his mother began calling him
“Mr. Tiggy.”
It stuck and Jones has been
known as Tiggy ever since.
In his 30th year with Southern
Railway, Jones works at the
Atlanta office, near where the
old Atlanta terminal station
used to be.
education,” Mrs. Goff said.
“Once given those tools, they
may pursue any educational
area.”
part of a post office effort to
meet the energy crisis.
Chappell said that all Christ
mas packages should have been
mailed now but of course the
post office still is taking them.
Those mailed now may not
reach their destination by
Christmas but eventually will.
The post office was open here
yesterday afternoon and did a
busy Christmas business. It will
be open again Saturday mor
ning in an effort to get Christ
mas mail on the way.
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tomorrow in upper 50s, low
tonight in upper 20s. Sunrise
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tomorrow 5:27.
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He commutes daily to his job
and has been doing so since 1961
when he transferred to Atlanta.
Jones is a management level
person in labor valuation. His
title is time inspector.
He keeps up with pay for
extra work railroad employes
do.
Jones said he first thought
about running for city com
missioner a few months back
when some of his friends asked
him about it.
He asked some other people
what they thought and they
encouraged him to run.
His first move was to clear it
with Southern Railway. He did
and word came all the way from
the Washington, D.C. office that
the railroad would be pleased to
have him in this civic service
venture.
Jones said the railroad’s
policy is to encourage employes
to be active in civic and govern
ment affairs.
Empty Stocking
drive Dec. 16
The Griffin Jaycees will have
the annual Empty Stocking
drive Sunday, Dec. 16.
They will make a door-to-door
canvas of the community and
ask for contributions to finance
the Christmas toy project.
Money will be used to make
sure every child in Griffin and
Spalding County has a visit
from Santa Claus this year.
Charles Head who has been
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Jones said he made it clear
that the city commissioners
hold administrative sessions on
some Tuesday mornings and he
would need to attend.
This was all right with the
railroad.
So Jones decided to run and
was elected.
Even almost as the last ballot
was recorded, Jones began to
feel the weight of his office.
“Some people already have
called and told me how they
think the city should be run,”
Jones smiled the other night. He
was attending the city com
mission meeting as a spectator.
He got a good whiff of what
the action is like at city hall.
There was a heated discussion
about self service gas pumps
and raising wrecker service
fees.
The commissioners didn’t
solve all of the problems on the
agenda that night.
They left a few for Tiggy’s
taw.
chairman of the project for the
last several years again will
head the drive.
A goal of $2,500 has been set.
Dewey Vickery is president of
the Jaycees.
The Empty Stocking was
instituted by the Griffin Daily
News in 1927 and has been a
community project ever since
with the exception of a few
years during World War 11.