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School board buys
elementary land
The Griffin-Spalding School
board last night voted to pur
chase 20 acres of land on Cowan
road, off West Mclntosh road,
for the construction of an
elementary school.
An option on the property was
obtained before the school bond
referendum in May. The SI,OOO
option will apply toward the
purchase price of $60,000.
The board will pay for the
land with the SIB,OOO it received
from the sale last month of the
Vaughn School property, $12,000
received for new school con
struction from the state and
$29,000 which will be pulled
from this year’s operating
budget.
The motion to acquire the
property was made by Russell
Smith, chairman of the building
committee. He said his com
mittee had met with the finance
committee and both groups
recommended the property be
purchased and held for future
construction of an elementary
school.
Suitable sites for schools are
very scarce, Smith noted, and
his committee had a hard time
finding property which met the
stringent state requirements for
an elementary school. Water
and sewage facilities are
available at the site.
The option on the property
runs out Oct. 1.
The Spalding County Com
missioners are holding a site off
the Griffin By-Pass for a new
comprehensive high school in
the event a future bond
referendum is passed.
Supt. Ben Christie told board
members that the schools
opened unusually smooth this
year with few problems, except
for some overcrowded class
rooms.
The pupil-teacher ratio, he
explained, ranged from a low of
17 to one at North Side to a high
of 28 to one at Orrs Elementary j
School. He said there is no I
additional space at Orrs and the |
system has been warned by the i
Southern Association of Ac- I
creditation about the over- j
crowding there.
The fourth grade classes at ’
Orrs are most crowded with 36
students per class. There are
large classes also at Beaver
brook and Crescent.
Total enrollment for the
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BOSTON—Some irate mothers shout at Sen. Edward
Kennedy as he attended a rally of white parents at
Government Center yesterday to protest a federal
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1 system is 9,402, down 147 pupils
- from last year.
i Three schools show an in
, crease in enrollment. There are
i 91 more students at Spalding
Junior High Unit 11, 25 more at
5 Orrs, and 13 more at Crescent.
1 Enrollment is off some at all
) other schools.
! Mr. Christie said the open
house was a success as the
! greatest number of parents
1 ever visited the schools this
! year.
I Herman Lisle, coordinator of
federal programs, reported the
I system will receive a grant of
I $340,176 for the fiscal year 1975
through the Title One program.
This money can be used only
for salaries of reading teachers
and educational supplies at the
; following schools: Atkinson,
Moore, North Side, Fourth
Ward, West Griffin, Spalding
Unit II and Spalding Unit 111.
Its purpose is to give
educationally deprived children
assistance in reading.
The schools were selected by
use of the AFDC or welfare lists
and the majority of the children
are behind the average child in
educational advantages.
Mr. Christie explained that
Mrs. Anna Johnson, a reading
coordinator, will work with all
other schools. He said the
federal government will not
allow the system to spend Title
One monies in the schools where
the children rank higher in their
reading and are not deprived.
He explained all elementary
teachers are reading teachers
but the instruction is needed
more in economically deprived
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wrong, be sure he gets a chance
to speak — that’s the only way
others will find it out.”
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schools.
Mr. Lisle stated that last year
more than 465 youngsters were
served in the Title One program
on a daily basis in the schools
selected. The students were
evaluated by testing in Sep
tember and then given another
test at the end of the school
term. The average growth was
1.04 years, which was very
good, he explained.
A small bus, seating 20, has
been purchased by the school
board. It was first used yester
day to transport students in the
early childhood program to and
from Anne Street school, both in
the morning and afternoon
sessions.
Money to purchase the bus
was obtained from the state.
The board also approved a
long list of money making
Griffin 12th to get
bicentennial unit
Griffin became the 12th
community in Georgia yester
day to have an official Bicen
tennial Planning Committee.
Officials of local and federal
governments met with civic and
religious leaders at the restored
Lewis Mills home at 406 North
Hill street to make the Griffin-
Spalding committee official.
Chairman Douglas Hollberg
presided and presented A. K.
Johnson of Atlanta who is chair
man of the Georgia American
Revolution Bicentennial Ad
ministration. Mr. Johnson
emphasized that celebration of
the nation’s 200th birthday
belongs to the people of
America, not to the federal or
Saxbe forsees vigilante
groups fighting crime
CLEVELAND (UPI) — Attor
ney General William B. Saxbe
said today violent crime is
spreading so intensively that
vigilante groups may organize
desegregation order for the city’s schools. Some also
threw objects at the Senator...but missed. (UPI)
Griffin, Ga„ 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, September 10,1974
projects of some Griffin High
clubs and organizations to be
undertaken during the school
year.
A resolution to comply with
state standards was adopted
which will require that eye
protection devices be provided
in designated laboratory
courses for both students,
teachers and observers. The
goggles already have been
purchased, according to Asst.
Supt. Tommy Jones.
There are 56 Griffin High
students who also are taking
courses at Vo-Tech. They are
provided transportation from
the high school to Vo-Tech and
back.
The following teachers were
elected:
Miss Rachel Cole, learning
disabilities; Mrs. Mary E.
any state or local government.
He then presented Bryan
Cassidy of Atlanta who is
deputy regional director of the
American Revolution Bicen
tennial Administration.
Mr. Cassidy also emphasized
that the birthday celebration
belongs to the people of
America. He then presented an
official bicentennial flag to
President Billy Shapard of the
Griffin-Spalding Chamber of
Commerce.
Mr. Shapard in turn
presented it to City Commission
Chairman Louis Goldstein and
County Commissioner Palmer
Hamil “to be given in turn to the
people of the community.”
to take the law into their own
hands.
“If the present trends con
tinue, the prospect of where
America may be a decade from
Hunter, third grade, Atkinson;
Miss Ann Hardaway, primary,
Beaverbrook; Mrs. Diane
Faulkner, first grade, Cres
cent; Miss Mary Thomas,
second grade, East Griffin;
Miss Alexis Smith, fifth grade,
Moore; Mrs. Jean Melin, first
grade, North Side; Mrs. Dianne
Searcy Griffin, Science,
Spalding II; Lex Brown, social
studies, Spalding II; and Miss
Ina McDonald, EMR, Spalding
11.
The following resignations
were accepted:
Mrs. Linda Nash, music;
Mrs. Judy Jarrett, second
grade, East Griffin; Mrs.
Eugenia Clark, science,
Spalding III; Jacob McLean,
social studies, Spalding 11, and
Mrs. Berti Lu Nations, EMR,
Spalding 11.
Rev. Bruce Morgan, pastor of
the First Baptist Church,
opened the meeting with
prayer, and Rev. O. H. Stinson,
pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist
Church, dismissed it with
prayer.
The home in which the lun
cheon was held has been
restored and is being furnished
by the Griffin Historical and
Preservation Society. It was
built about 1850-52.
Congressman Jack Flynt also
spoke at the meeting. He said it
was good to be home during a
congressional recess and that
he was going to get some
boxwood plants for the yard of
the restored house.
1 now ... is enough to evoke a
shudder from even the most
- optimistic,” Saxbe said. “There
- could no longer be any place to
i hide —no safe zones, not for
anybody,” he said.
“In fact, we may be near
that point already.”
Saxbe used his strongest
language and portrayed the
darkest outlook he has ex
pressed thus far in comments
on the rising crime rate,
especially of violent crime, in a
speech prepared for delivery to
the Ohio Realtors’ Association.
The target of Saxbe’s concern
is a new FBI crime report that
shows the rate of crime
soared 16 per cent in the last
quarter of 1973 and for the first
three months of 1974 was 15 per
cent above the same period last
year.
The attorney general said
vigilante groups may begin
taking the law into their own
hands “if the terror of crime
becomes too great.
“In some parts of the country
we already have seen the first
faint inklings of such actions,”
he said. Saxbe did not explain
that point.
He denounced vigilante jus
tice as strongly as he has
denounced police state tactics.
“Outlaws are outlaws, wheth
er they break the law for
personal gain or whether they
use illegal means to fight
crime,” Saxbe said. “One is no
better than the other.”
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Henry Walker, chairman of the Griffin-Spalding School Board; D. B. Christie,
superintendent of the system; and Miss Anne Hill Drewry, secretary and board member;’
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Americans split sharply,
vehemently over pardon
By United Press International
The Watergate furor which
President Ford had sought to
quell raged anew today as
Americans spilt sharply and
vehemently over his decision to
pardon Richard M. Nixon.
The decision even split
households.
“The public wants it over
with,” said Loren Brush, 79, a
retired Marion, 111., coal miner.
His wife disagreed.
“I’m absolutely against it,”
said Ethel Brush. “Those other
poor guys who were in it are
suffering for it. He (Nixon)
should suffer too.”
Some of Ford’s initial sup
porters also decried his deci
sion to pardon his predecessor.
Jupiter is a spinning
ball of liquid hydrogen
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
colossal planet Jupiter is a
spinning ball of liquid hydrogen
with a turbulent interior and
raging atmospheric storms.
And the mysterious Great
Red Spot on the solar system’s
largest planet may be the
vortex of a 25-,000-mile long
tornado that has been towering
above Jupiter’s cloud belt for
1 hundreds of years.
1 This was the picture of the
- dense, brightly banded planet
' that scientists have pieced
together from the Pioneer 10
flyby of Jupiter last December,
an announcement said today.
“At best, Jupiter has only a
small rocky core, thousands of
miles below the heavily clouded
atmosphere,” the researchers
concluded in a report released
by the National Aeronautics
and Space Agency.
The scientists analyzed meas
urements and pictures radioed
back by the Pioneer 10
spacecraft which flew within
81,000 miles of Jupiter on Dec.
5, 1973.
A sister probe is due to pass
within 29,000 miles of the fifth
planet out from the sun on Dec.
3 this year.
The space agency said in
releasing the report that some
of the information appears to
confirm theories about Jupiter
while other findings contradict
earlier ideas about the planet.
Some of the major new
findings are that Jupiter
apparently has a much hotter
interior than previously
thought, its magnetic field is
larger than expected and its
radiation belts are even more
intense than predicted by many
scientists.
Much of the new picture of
Jupiter’s interior was based on
temperature calculations by Dr.
William B. Hubbard of the
University of Arizona, using
measurements obtained from a
Pioneer 10 gravity sensing <
experiment. <
“Jupiter is almost certainly a •
“We were all for the new
President until we heard the
news ...” said Mrs. Donnar
Parker of Niskayuna, N.Y. “We
fell sick that the man has let
him (Nixon) off so easily.”
Others defended Ford’s deci
sion.
“When a man’s been our
president, elected by a vote of
all the people, he should be
given the greatest honors that
the country can bestow, and
even if he’s found guilty he
should be given a pardon,” said
Elizabeth Bradford of Pied
mont, Calif. “And I think all
the people who’ve been found
guilty should be pardoned.”
Many felt Nixon had suffered
enough because of Watergate.
'■ liquid planet for it is too hot to
1 solidify, even with its enormous
1 internal pressures of millions of
1 atmospheres,” NASA said.
The agency said the atmos
phere begins to turn to liquid
1 hydrogen 600 miles below the
top of Jupiter’s colorful clouds.
At this transition zone the
temperature is calculated at
3,600 degrees Fahrenheit.
At a depth of 1,800 miles, the
temperature is put at 10,000
degrees and the pressure 90,000
times earth’s surface atmos
pheric pressure.
At this point, the weight of
Nixon’s health
not pardon factor
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A
White House spokesman says
the state of Richard Nixon’s'
mental and physical health was
not a factor in President Ford’s
decision to grant a pardon.
“The question of health was
never discussed” among senior
aides, said acting press secre
tary John W. Hushen.
On the other hand, an old and
close friend of Ford’s, Sen.
Robert P. Griffin, R-Mich.,
said: “I have no doubt in my
own mind that the condition of
the health of the former
president was a factor in the
President’s mind in reaching
his decision.”
All that was known officially
was that as Ford was telling
the nation Sunday that “serious
allegations and accusations
hang like a sword over our
former President’s head,” he
chose to depart from his text to
add, “threatening his health.”
The addition added fuel to
rumors already flying about the
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Kirk Sherwood, an 18-year-old
college student from Weston,
Conn., was among them.
Bike riders
are warned
Laws against riding bicycles
on downtown sidewalks will be
enforced more stringently from
now on.
The Board of City Com
missioners has had several
complaints about youngsters
who ride on the sidewalks en
dangering pedestrians.
They said they will instruct
the police department to en
force the city ordinance against
the sidewalk riding.
the Jovian atmosphere com
presses the hydrogen into a
liquid about one-quarter as
dense as water.
At a depth of 15,000 miles, the
pressure is 3 million atmos
pheres and liquid hydrogen
turns to liquid metallic hy
drogen.
The calculations indicate that
the temperature of Jupiter’s
center is 54,000 degrees —six
times the temperature on the
surface of the sun.
The temperatures decrease
steadily outward to 184 degrees
below zero at the top of
Jupiter’s clouds.
reports last week described him
i as “deeply depressed.”
City race
dates set
The Griffin City Commission
ers have set Monday, Sept. 23,
1 as opening date in which can
didates may qualify for a seat
, on the board representing the
second ward.
The closing date is Oct. 21 at
noon.
The seat, post two, currently
is held by Raymond Head. It is a
four-year term.
Candidates must live in the
second ward. They may file
their notice of candidacy with
John Dallas, superintendent of
elections, at City Hall. The
qualifying fee is $l5O.
Mrs. Frances Bolton was
appointed absentee ballot clerk
and secretary to the election
superintendent.
The election will be Nov. 5
during the general election.