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Authority meeting
Hospital okays
suggestion box
Costs at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital are going up and
employees soon will have a new
way to voice their complaints.
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital
Authority has voted to set up a
suggestion box in which em
ployes may write opinions or
suggestions to help improve
conditions and patient care.
County Commissioner Jack
Moss, who made the motion
during last night’s meeting,
said he thought the box would be
a good way to open the door for
better communications between
the authority and employees.
He suggested the comments be
placed in the box in sealed
envelopes and given, un
disturbed, to a committee which
would study the comments, then
if necessary, take any helpful
suggestions up with the person
or department head concerned.
There was some discussion
about the box.
Mrs. Karen Harris, the
board’s newest member, said
the hospital has problems and
the board would like to hear
about them and do what it can to
help.
DANGER
Dr. Lamar King commented
that there may be danger in
taking the running of the
hospital out of the hands of
those paid to run it. Jerry
Savage added that the board
needs to be extremely cautious
not to usurp the authority of
those hired to run the hospital,
as “along with responsibilities,
Northgate, Spalding Square stores
plan to have grand openings tomorrow
Two stores will have grand
openings tomorrow in two of
Griffin’s newest shopping
centers.
Rose’s will open at Spalding
Square opposite the Griffin-
Spalding Airport. Eckerd Drugs
will open at Northgate center on
the North Expressway at
Mclntosh road.
Both will be the first major
outlets in the two centers.
Eckerd Drugs will be the
third business to open in Nor
thgate. A florist business and a
men’s clothing store already
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Wayne Betz, 12, examines a
mysterious metal ball which his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Antoine Betz, found in a wooded area on their property
north of Jacksonville Saturday. U. S. Navy tests show that
the ball is made of stainless steel and non-radioactive.
Mrs. Betz says she is flying in an expert to tell her whether
the ball is from this earth of extra-terrestrial. (UPI)
goes authority.”
Moss said his motion was
meant to help communications,
not to usurp anyone’s authority.
COMMITTEE
Chairman 0. M. Snider ap
pointed Moss as chairman of the
suggestion box committee, with
Raymond Head, who seconded
the motion, and James Head as
members.
Last month County Com
missioner Palmer Hamil at
tempted to present some
complaints to the hospital board
but was referred to the per
sonnel committee and was told
that complaints should go
through routine channels or a
chain of command before
coming before the authority.
He later issued a public state
ment saying that he thought the
problems could not be solved
through routine channels.
To also help improve com
munications, Hospital Ad
ministrator Carl Ridley said a
new employee opinion form is
being prepared. The employee
will not sign the form but will
identify his department, and
will answer some 75 to 100
questions. Ridley said it is
hoped they will find weak spots,
if any, in a department and how
the employee feels about his
work.
DISTURBED
Dr. James Dunaway, presi
dent of the medical staff,
reported the staff’s executive
committee wanted to go on
record as being “deeply
are doing business in the center.
At Spalding Square Rose’s
will be the first business to
begin operating.
The Rose’s store will be the
biggest in the center, covering
much of the center section of the
complex. Some of the other
sections still are under con
struction. However, parking
lots with outside lighting and all
other features of the center
have been completed and are
ready for use.
Roger Chester is the general
manager of the Rose’s
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disturbed” over the recent
resignations and firing of
nurses in key positions in the
hospital.
He said the doctors felt there
was too much unnecessary
paging which disturbed patients
and suggested that a “beeper”
type paging for the doctors be
considered.
The board also approved an
overall increase in gross an
ticipated earnings of seven and
one-half per cent.
The increases will go to those
departments with the greatest
operating deficits such as ob
stetrics, which lost some $34,000
last year, and hospital board
and room rates which Ridley
said are at least $lO per day
cheaper than other hospitals.
Under the law, Ridley ex
plained, the hospital is allowed
an increase of seven and one
half per cent in its charges,
even though other costs to the
hospital have risen 20 percent
and more.
WAGES
Ridley said it appears the
minimum wage of $1.90 per
hour for health care facilities
which goes into effect May 1 will
increase the hospital’s payroll
about $40,000 per year. This
does not include other salaries
that may have to be adjusted.
Some 117 employes will be
affected by the minimum wage
increase.
The hospital has a combined
nursing commitment of 217
people. The private duty nur-
operation here. He and his staff
of managers and sales people
have been busy for weeks
preparing for the grand opening
tomorrow morning. The
opening is expected to draw
thousands of people who will
come to the store to get their
first look at one of Griffin’s
newest retail businesses.
Rose’s will feature nationally
known brands in clothing,
furniture, hardware items, a
variety of notions and most of
the well known department
store type goods.
It will operate a cafeteria in
the store, too.
The store is a modern self
service organization but there’ll
be plenty of sales people on
hand to help guide shoppers to
whatever merchandise they
might be seeking.
A half dozen or more other
business firms are expected to
follow the Rose’s opening soon.
At Northgate, Eckerd Drugs
will be under the supervision of
A. L. (Al) Turner, a native of
Concord, Ga., who has some 10
Mrs. Pat Brown named
Young Woman of Year
The Griffin-Spalding
Jaycettes will honor Mrs. Pat
Brown Thursday night as the
Young Woman of the Year for
1973. The meeting will be held at
the Moose Lodge.
Mrs. R. Lee Pfrogner, 1642
West Poplar street, will receive
an honorable mention award.
Other nominees included Mrs.
Allie Gist, 646 Maple drive;
Mrs. Barbara Inman, 424
Pinelea road; Mrs. Diane S.
Maher, 1409 Dauset drive; and
Mrs. Gloria Neel, Route Four,
Box 133A.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday, April 16, 1974
sing roster now shows 10 RN’s,
six LPN’s, and 34 sitters. The
present nursing staff budget is
for 167 nurses and there is an
additional potential, since 24
LPN students were capped
Thursday.
The total payroll at the
hospital last year was more
than $1,967,000 and this year will
be in excess of two million
dollars, Ridley explained.
Even though the hospital,
with its heavy patient load last
month, showed a profit for the
month, the operations for the
year to date show a $34,000
deficit.
NEW SETS
The board voted to purchase
12 new television sets with
remote controls at a cost of
around $137 each. They will
replace worn out sets bought
some 10 years ago.
Thirty reclining chairs, which
can be converted to cots, also
will be purchased. They will
cost $250 each.
The Health Department
evaluated the hospital and has
increased its bed capacity from
146 to 157 beds. In case of an
extra heavy patient load before
the new hospital wing is com
pleted, the additional beds may
be placed in some private
rooms.
Ridley also reported the
Department of Human
Resources inspected the lab and
was well pleased with its equip
ment and the manner in which it
is operated.
years of experience with chain
drug stores.
A retired Army career man,
Turner has assembled a staff of
sales people and pharmacists
who are prepared to handle all
types of drug store services.
The Eckerd store will be open
for business beginning
tomorrow morning.
Turner expects thousands of
people to visit the store during
this week’s grand opening to see
how well equipped the store is to
handle drug store needs.
The Eckerd organization has
stores throughout the
Southeastern section of the
United States.
Several other types of stores
are expected to join Eckerd
Drugs at Northgate soon. A
major food store is nearing
completion of its section of the
center and expects to open soon.
Other types of businesses have
contracted for space at the new
shopping complex and are
expected to be open for business
soon.
Mrs. Lamar Scott served as
chairman of the annual award
this year.
Mrs. Brown’s husband is
Doug Brown, an official with
Dundee Mills here. They make
their home at 809 Hillcrest
avenue. They have two
children, Allison, six; and Amy,
two.
Mrs. Mary Ann Shapard and
Mrs. Elaine Bonds nominated
Mrs. Brown for the honor.
Supporting letters of
nomination were received from
the Utility Club, Jaycettes, the
Morning Glory Garden Club and
Exchange
to sponsor
blood drive
The Griffin Exchange Club
has kicked off a drive to get 200
pints of blood for the next visit
of the Red Cross bloodmobile to
Griffin, Thursday, April 25.
The bloodmobile will set up
headquarters at the Cheatham
building of The First Baptist
Church between 11:30 a.m. and
5:30 p.m.
Members of the Exchange
Club will sponsor the visit.
David Hightower is leading the
club effort and solicitation of
blood donors has begun.
Local Red Cross officials
report the volume of blood being
used by the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital and doctors of
this area is as great as it ever
has been.
Blood pressure,
diabetic
tests planned
The Spalding Health Center
will hold a diabetic and
hypertension (high blood
pressure) clinic Thursday from
2 p.m. till 4 p.m.
Checking people for high
blood pressure has been added
to the diabetic tests, according
to Jim Morgan, coordinator.
People wishing to be tested
for these two things may go to
the health center Thursday
afternoon.
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ATLANTA (UPI) r- Prison
authorities said Monday that of
the 606 convicts given three
day good-conduct furloughs for
Easter, only two failed to come
back.
The two who extended their
Easter vacations indefinitely
were identified as Maicon Man
gum, 40, of Griffin, serving 20
years for robbery at Calhoun
County, and John Leonard Wil
son, 34, Atlanta, doing 12 years
for manslaughter at Montgom
ery County.
Since the furlough program be
gan two years ago, authorities
said 3,013 inmates have been
permitted brief visits home and
only five have not returned.
Rustlers steal
650-pound bull
Lawmen were looking for
cattle rustlers who killed and
stole a 650-pound bull yester
day.
Howard Smith of Greenview
drive told deputies someone had
stolen one of his white bulls. He
said a blue and white truck was
seen leaving the scene.
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
67, low today 44, high yesterday
66, low yesterday 55, high
tomorrow in upper 60’s, low
tonight in 40’s. Sunrise
tomorrow 7:11, sunset
tomorrow 8:04.
the Rev. Forest Traylor of First
Presbyterian Church, her
pastor.
She is active in all of the
, organizations that sent sup
porting letters.
Mrs. Brown, is a registered
i nurse and is self employed at
her home in a drapes business.
Her hobbies are knitting and
cooking.
The public was invited to
submit nominations for the
Young Woman of the Year
award again this year.
Mrs. Yvonne Langford
[ received the honor last year.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Patricia Hearst (top left) was named as a material witness in the
robbery of a San Francisco bank yesterday. A complaint charging armed bank robbery was
issued against three other women, Nancy Ling Perry (upper right), Patricia Michelle
Soltysk (lower left) and Christine Hall (lower right). (UPI)
Material witness
Pat Hearst wanted
in bank robbery
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
The FBI today sought Patricia
Hearst as one of four rifle
toting women who held up a
San Francisco bank Monday,
shot two bystanders and es
caped with more than SIO,OOO.
Authorities said the 20-year
old kidnap victim may have
been forced to participate
against her will.
Miss Hearst was identified in
pictures taken by a hidden
bank camera. Kidnaped 10
weeks ago by the Symbionese
Liberation Army, Miss Hearst,
in a tape-recorded message,
renounced her parents and her
former life 13 days ago and
said she was joining forces with
her captors. She said she was
changed her name to “Tania.”
A warrant was issued for the
arrest of Miss Hearst, a
granddaughter of newspaper
publisher William Randolph
Hearst, as a material witness
in the robbery.
“She may have been acting
under duress and coercion,”
said FBI special agent in
charge, Charles W. Bates, in
explaining why she was sought
as a material witness instead of
a participant. Three other
women were named as sus
pects, and police said five men
apparently also were involved
—four of them waiting outside
in two getaway cars.
She May be Charged Too
Bates said if it were
determined that Miss Hearst
was a willing participant, she
also would be charged with
bank robbery.
The robbery took place
shortly after the 9 a.m. opening
of a Hibernia Bank branch in
San Francisco’s oceanside Sun
set District. The four women —
all young and white, wearing
dark coats and “waffle-stom
per” type boots and carrying
semi-automatic rifles —and a
man entered the bank with
militarylike precision, scooped
$10,690 from cash drawers after
ordering patrons and employes
to lie on the floor, then fled
through the front door, firing at
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SAN FRANCISCO — FBI has released Hibernia Bank
automatic camera photos showing the robbery of that
bank by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. A
photo of a girl resembling Patricia Hearst is shown above
caught by the camera with weapon in hand. (UPI)
passersby.
Two men were seriously
wounded, but both were report
ed in satisfactory condition at a
hospital. They were Peter
Markoff, 59, who operates a
nearby liquor store, and Eu
gene Brennan, 70, who lives
near the scene.
A hidden camera in the bank
took several dramatic photo
graphs of the gun-wielding
robbers, including one showing
the woman identified as Pa
tricia carrying a gun but with
another of the robbers appear
ing to be holding a gun on her.
It was because of this
picture, plus apparent efforts
by the robbers to go out of then-
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way to identify her as “Tania,”
that authorities speculated she
was forced to take part.
“There’s reason to believe
she was not a willing partner in
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is the kind everybody is willing
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