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Clinic added
VD increases here
Venereal diseases have in
creased so much here during
the last three months that the
Spalding Health Department
will add another clinic.
Jim Morgan of the depart
ment’s staff told the Spalding
health board yesterday after
noon that the new clinic will be
on Monday afternoons from 3
till 5 o’clock.
This will be in addition to the
regular Wednesday morning
clinic 8:30-10:30.
Dr. Guy Woodroof, chairman
of the health board, had
authorized some funds shifting
for the Monday clinic for the
next three months.
Ten cases of syphilis have
been treated at the Health
Department since the first of
this year. There was a total of 14
during 1974.
Eighty-six cases of gonorrhea
have been detected at the health
department so far this year.
Last year there were 467.
The department saw 767
, venereal disease patients last
year. So far this year, it has
seen 186.
Morgan told the board that
through the clinics, he has
Saigon seeths in crisis
By BERT OKULEY
SAIGON (UPI) - Heavy
fighting broke out today in the
Xuan Loc region 38 miles
northwest of Saigon where
Communist forces cut Highway
1, the retreat route of govern
ment forces trying to halt the
Communist onslaught down the
coast.
Saigon seethed in a crisis of
leadership.
Government defenses were
reported crumbing around
Cam Ranh Bay, 188 miles
northeast of Saigon, and mili
tary sources said less than 5,000
government troops stood be
tween Saigon and the Commu
nist offensive that has swept up
16 provinces in a matter of
weeks. Some were already
committed at Xuan Loc.
President Nguyen Van Thieu
held a series of urgent military
conferences amid reports army
generals had given him three
days to resign. Gen. Frederick
C. Weyand, the U.S. Army chief
of staff, joined Thieu and high
ranking South Vietnamese
army officers at the presiden
tial palace at 5:30 p.m. for a
crisis meeting.
Government sources said
Premier Tran Thien Khiem had
submitted his resignation but
that it had not yet been
accepted. Khiem appealed to
the South Vietnamese people in
an emotional address not to
give up despite the overwhelm
ing Communist advance to
wards the capital.
Retiring teachers
Supt. D. B. Christie, Sen. Talmadge, and retiring teachers Joseph B. Campbell, Mrs. Ruth
Hickey, Miss Nellie Sanders, Miss Althea Smith, Mrs. Sara Manley, Mrs. Nelle Presley (1-
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Vol. 103 No. 78 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, April 2, 1975 Daily Since 1872
In this story.....
Covered in this story:
— Board concerned about insurance against
malpractice insurance protection for Health Department
personnel and themselves.
— Mental health fee approved.
— Drug abuse clinic equipped for 20 patients already
has 27.
—State piles on more work for local staff and provides
no additional funds.
— Board tables purchase of equipment.
gotten leads on other people
who might have been exposed to
the diseases. He said a follow up
increased malpractice suits. He
pointed out that it was causing
insurance rates for such
coverage to go up as much as
250 percent in some instances.
Louis Goldstein who
represents the city or. the health
board had posed the question as
to what would happen if health
board members or department
personnel should be sued
because of some treatment
given at the center.
The board approved a $17.96
per visit charge for mental
health services as recom-
The South Vietnamese Senate
unanimously passed a resolu
tion calling for a change of
leadership in the government
but not specifically calling for
Thieu to resign. It blamed the
staggering military defeats on
failure of the United States to
honor its commitments and on
the mistakes of the Thieu
government.
The first convoys of refugees
and soldiers fleeing the central
coast reached the outskirts of
Saigon late today, landing at
the port of Vung Tau 40 miles
southeast of Saigon and bypass
ing the fighting at Xuan Loc 40
miles to the north. They were
met by barricades and tough
military policemen.
The MPs disarmed soldiers
among the refugees and collect
ed them in groups. Only
civilians who could prove they
had addresses in Saigon were
allowed to pass the barricades
on a crossroads 8 miles
northeast of the capital.
Most could not meet the test
and were left sitting forlornly
in trucks, buses and cars
parked alongside the highway
as a heavy rain fell.
Several armored personnel
carriers and about 200 MPs
were manning the blockade at
the intersection of the Bien Hoa
Highway and the Saigon Belt
Road near Tu Due.
MPs held UPI photographer
Willie Vicoy at gunpoint and
pulled film from his cameras at
the roadblock. An MP major
Horror of war. Picture Page 6.
GRIFFIN
program tries to prevent their
spread.
Turning to other matters, the
health board members wanted
to make sure they and depart
ment personnel were protected
against malpractice suits.
The board directed that legal
advice be sought to find out how
personnel connected with the
department, including health
board members, were
protected.
Dr. Grady Duke, vice chair
man of the board, said this
should be done with dispatch.
He noted the national trend of
mended by Jerry Stevenson,
director of the program. He said
it would be among the lowest
ordered journalists to leave the
scene.
The 41 senators passed a six
point resolution which said,
“We urgently call for a change
of policy to solve the war and a
new leadership which will base
its policy on freedom and
justice.”
The resolution was passed
after an all-day meeting, the
Senate’s first session since the
Communist offensive began
March 4.
“There must immediately be
a new government, united and
effective, which will gather all
capable good will and clean
elements,” the senators urged.
“...We also call on the United
States to immediately honor its
commitments to South Vietnam
and we earnestly call on
signatories of the Paris peace
agreement to use their power
and influence to stop the North
Vietnamese aggressors.”
In a radio address earlier,
Prime Minister Tran Thien
Khiem called on the South
Vietnamese people not to
surrender.
“With your calm and with
your determination to fighU-all
the people and all the army—
we will concentrate our efforts
to stop the enemy,” he said.
Government sources said
Khiem already had submitted
his resignation to President
Nguyen Van Thieu but it had
not been accepted. They also
said a group of generals had
given Thieu 48 hours to resign.
rates in the state.
He reported that the new drug
treatment center on South
Eighth street was equipped to
handle 20 patients but already
has a case load of 27.
The health board members
said they were concerned about
the increased workload caused
by a state policy of having
people under the age of 21
screened there to be eligible for
state and federal money.
The policy came about after
the state began investigating
high payments to some doctors,
dentists and people who treat
eye ailments.
The health board feared that
with this toe in the door, the
next step will be to have all such
people, regardless of age, to be
screened at health departments
before they get Medicare-
Medicaid.
The board noted there was no
increased state funds for the
additional work.
Board members tabled the
purchase of a postage machine
and put off a decision on pur
chase of a new copy machine
until a service contract could be
checked out.
Fewer than 5,000 South
Vietnamese regulars stood in
the way of a direct Communist
assault on the Saigon area from
the coast today and government
defenses around Cam Ranh Bay
were disintegrating, military
sources said.
Tag lines
still long
Long lines were back at the
courthouse today, even though
yesterday was the deadline for
buying car tags. When the office
opened at 9 a.m., the line
stretched to the courthouse
door.
A spokesman in the tag office
said the lines usually remain
from three days to a week after
the deadline.
She said they are selling more
tags this year than last. So far,
more than 31,000 tags have been
sold, compared with around
30,000 during 1974.
Due to the rush, there is a
back log of mail orders waiting
to be handled. If they were
posted by yesterday, there will
be no late penalty, she said.
Many people who did not
include a 50-cent per tag
mailing fee when they ordered
will be asked to come by the tag
office and pick up their tags.
The penalty for late purchase
is 25 percent of the tag cost, plus
a 10 percent or one dollar
minimum charge added to the
ad valorem tax.
They’re retiring
Six teachers honored
Sen. Herman Talmadge said
he couldn’t agree more with
Supt. Ben Christie’s remark
that the “federal government
ought to stay out and let the
local school boards control our
schools.”
Mr. Christie made the
comment following an address
by the U. S. Senator at last
night’s annual teachers banquet
at Spalding Junior High School.
The event honored six Griffin
teachers who are retiring this
year.
Around 150 teachers heard
Sen. talmadge go over the
progress made in Georgia
education during the last 25
years.
He said many of the good
things started back in 1948
during his term as governor
when more was spent on educa
tion than in all of the previous
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Gets the feel
Lewis Leonard gets the feel of his new desk at the
Spalding Courthouse and checks out some of the work he’ll
be handling as the new county administrator. He attended
his first scheduled meeting of the county commissioners
yesterday.
Spalding GOP to meet
Republicans will hold their
Spalding County Convention at
the Griffin Area Chamber of
Commerce conference room on
West Taylor street Saturday.
Registration will begin at
noon with the business session
getting under way at 1 p.m.
Delegates chosen in the
precinct March 8 will
be eligible to vote at the conven
tion.
The meeting is open to the
public and all registered voters
are invited to attend.
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Five Griffin High students have been named finalists in
the 1975 Governor’s Honors Program. Two others were
named alternates. Pictured are (1-r) Laura Marian
administrations put together.
Sen. Talmadge credited a
“very dedicated” ninth grade
teacher with his success. He
said except for members of his
family, she was more responsi
ble for his achievements than
any other person.
“New teachers are embark
ing on careers in very difficult
times,” he said, “but some
things are better now than in the
‘good old days’ when the
buildings were so dilapidated
that the children studied
geology through the floor and
astronomy through the ceiling.”
The older teachers can
remember the lean days in
education, moneywise, when
there was more discipline and
order and more emphasis on
fundamentals, both scholastic
and philosophical, he continued.
Twenty-five years ago, the
“It seems the less reasonable
one’s opinion is, the more
stubbornly he defends it.”
Honor’s program
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Joseph B. Campbell
Mrs. Ruth Hickey
Miss Nellie Sanders
Miss Althea Smith
Mrs. Sara Manley
Mrs. Nelle Presley
status of Georgia education was
bad, with the average teacher’s
salary being $1,260 per year,
countless children being denied
an education because they lived
too far away from a bus route
and had no way to get to school,
and high schools with only 11
grades, he stated.
“That was the way education
was when I took over as
governor in 1948. Six years
later, it was not so, because I
determined to get Georgia out
of the backwoods” the senator
related.
He said he was very proud of
his administration’s accom
plishments in education and
that most of them have been
continued throughout the years.
Sen. Talmadge told the
teachers that America is suf
fering a depression of a dif
ferent kind than that associated
with the crash of 1929. He ter
med it a “great depression of
the spirit” when the people
don’t seem to care enough to
demand that something be
done.
“People are disillusioned with
a government too big to be
responsive to their needs.
Elected officials, along with
individuals must accept
responsibility for themselves
and their government to bring
about a strong society.
“Anything can happen in a
society if the people allow it.
The people get the kind of
government they want,” he
continued.
The senator called upon the
teachers to “Let your voices be
heard. The future of the nation
is in your hands,” he said.
At the end of Sen. Talmadge’s
speech, Mr. Christie agreed the
schools needed better discipline
and to get back to the basics,
but “after spending two hours
yesterday with HEW officials
and receiving a letter from the
ABC continues
interest in park;
avoids controversy
The American Business Club,
Griffin Chapter, issued a state
ment yesterday stating its
continued interest in the opera
tion of Patrick Park.
The club said it deferred a
commitment until the city and
county have reached a settle
ment on the recreation depart
ment funding.
Hunter (alternate), Mary Harris Stephens, Cyrus Wilburn
Daniels, Terry Eugene Johnson, Robert William Walker,
Gregory Phillip Head and Melinda Hattaway (alternate).
federal government concerning
civil liberties, I just wish the
federal government would stay
out of the schools and let the
local boards run things,”
Christie stated.
“I think the kind of world you
talked about could be accom
plished if that happened,”
Christie said.
Each of Griffin’s retiring
teachers was presented with a
large plaque by their principals.
The six teachers have taught a
total of 196 years.
They, along with the number
of years taught and schools, are
Joseph B. Campbell, 35,
Spalding Junior High, Unit III;
Mrs. Ruth Hickey, 29, Spalding
Unit II; Mrs. Sara Manley, 23,
Spalding Unit I; Mrs. Nelle
Presley, 35, and Miss Althea
Smith, 41, Griffin High; and
Miss Nellie B. Sanders, 33,
Jackson Road School.
The Griffin High school
chorus, under the direction of
Mr. John Kimbrough, sang
several selections.
Mrs. Margaret Kendall gave
the invocation and James R.
Cook, president-elect of the
GSAE, presided over the meet
ing.
President Calvin Hill went
over the increased teachers’
benefits passed in the General
Assembly this year. They in
cluded a seven percent pay
raise, better retirement bene
fits which were lowered to 30
years of service, more money
for special education,
assistance to slow learners, sick
leave, maintenance and opera
tion, instructional materials,
lower pupil-teacher ratio in
grades four through seven and
appropriations for a kinder
garten program.
Sen. Talmadge was in
troduced by Mrs. Peggy
Thrasher, teacher at Jackson
Road School.
The club said it did not take a
position pro or con in the con
troversy.
The club sponsored develop
ment of the park, put up money
to establish baseball and other
fields and to build a gym there.
(Text of statement is publish
ed today on page four as letter
to “We’re Listening” section.)