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This is a scene from the play “Don’t Wear Long Red Underwear Unless You
Want To Be A Hero” by Atlanta Children’s Theater which opened a three
day run in Griffin today. The first performance was at 12:30 at Griffin High
auditorium. There’ll be another tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. and one Wednesday
Broken brake cylinder
blamed at Woodbury
WOODBURY, Ga. (UPI) -
The State Patrol said today a
broken brake cylinder on an
Army truck that had been
converted into a fire vehicle
was the cause of an accident
that turned a joy ride on a
festive spring day into death
for four persons.
The joy ride was intended to
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be a present to the children and
adults of the small Cove
community who had worked so
hard to raise money at a
church auction to build a shed
for the new fire truck.
The day was bright and
sunny, and someone suggested
taking the kids for a ride on the
truck to celebrate.
“They were happy they had
made so much money and they
just decided they would get on
it and go for a joy ride,” said
Tom Beckham. “They were
going all over the cove blowing
the siren and waving at
everybody.”
The truck wound its way
along the rural roads Saturday
evening. Then, as it started
down a steep hill, driver Joe
Lane said the brakes gave way.
When the truck reached the
curve at the foot of the hill, the
weight of the water tanks and
the people hanging on the back
caused the truck to overturn.
Four persons — including
three children —were killed and
32 were injured, most of them
children.
Beckham, whose wife’s aunt
was killed in the accident, said
there were about six adults
at 9:30 a.m. Elementary students attending for an admission price of |1 will
be transported to the Griffin High auditorium from their respective schools.
The Griffin Utility Club arranged for the Atlanta Children’s Theater to bring
the play here.
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Busbee sees first step toward
improving education quality
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov.
George Busbee says he feels his
I administration has taken the
j initial step toward impoving
educational quality in Georgia
with the outlay for schools in
the state’s record $1.96 billion
budget.
Busbee said Sunday night in
a speech to the Governor’s
Conference on Education that
35 per cent of the budget for
the fiscal year beginning July 1
is earmarked for education. But
Busbee said money alone will
not provide quality education
for Georgia’s school children.
He said the state has “poured
money and more money into
education in hopes that the
qualitative advancements would
follow.”
The governor singled out such
items in the budget as the $8
million for statewide kindergar
tens, the $14.3 million to
improve the pupil-teacher ratio
in all 12 grades and the
approximately $5 million refund
to local school boards for some
of the additional transportation
costs they are incurring.
“But the results have been
aboard the truck and some 32
children.
The victims included brothers
Terry Wade Long, 10, and Ted
Ray Long, 9; Mark Young, 7,
son of Gary Young who had
acted as the auctioneer, and
Mrs. Virginia Elease Creamer,
52, all residents of the small
community about 60 miles
southwest of Atlanta. Six other
members of the Long family
were injured.
Two of the injured remained
hospitalized in critical condition
today.
“The driver said he applied
the brakes and they faded out
on him,” said state trooper
B.H. Crosby of Manchester. “It
was not going fast at all.”
Crosby said the fire truck,
which had just been acquired
Saturday, was an Army surplus
vehicle which had been outfit
ted with water tanks. An Army
specialist from Fort Benning,
Ga., was expected to examine
the brakes today.
Crosby said no charges had
been filed against Lane.
that our input has not
appreciably affected our output.
■ Money alone has not solved our
problem,” said Busbee.
“Our prolems will be solved
by people, dedicated people, all
of us, working together,” he
said.
“We have no more excuses,”
he added. “The population
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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga.
(UPI) — A Michigan doctor,
who described himself as an
“amateur climber,” was re
scued Sunday from the side of
Stone Mountain after he
became stranded on a hazard- •
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Dr. Mark Edward White, 28,
an internist at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, had
up the east side and
started down the north face.
He went down about 300 feet
of the 825-mountain but then
reached a point where he found
he couldn’t go up or down. It
was too sharp a drop to
descend and too steep to climb
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“I had a feeling I was in
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afterwards, he heard someone
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