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Alex Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Campbell, pulls fish from lake during Towallga
District Scout Camporee held on the farm of Dr. O. E. Sell in Lamar County. Some 200
Scouts and Scouters participated.
Atlanta board
breaks deadlock
ATLANTA (UPI) — The
Atlanta Board of Education has
agreed to a modified demand
for official recognition of two
school employe organizations,
breaking a deadlock that led to
last week’s one-day strike of
teachers and blue collar wor
kers.
In a closed-door meeting
Sunday night, the board passed
a resolution recognizing the
employe groups as representa
tives of their memberships for
further negotiations on issues of
wages, hours and working
conditions.
The board, representatives of
the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal
Employes and the Atlanta
Association of Educators, along
with five neutral observers met
Saturday night, where the
employe groups agreed to
modify their original demand
for exclusive recognition as
collective bargaining agents for
all of the school system’s
employes.
The board included in the
resolution an accession to a
demand by the employe groups
that the ultimate agreement
reached regarding issues of
hours, wages and working
conditions be put into writing.
“Members of the Atlanta
Board of Education were
We ’re getting older
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The average age of Americans
is rising and will be well over 30 by the year 2000, says the
Census Bureau.
The average age is now 28.6, and by the start of the next
century the flood of babies born between 1956 and 1965 will
be 35 to 44 years old and that segment will have increased
81 per cent over the current level.
The estimated average age of Americans in 2000 will be
between 31.4 and 37, the latest prediction said.
Population expansion is expected to run between 16 and
35 per cent during the remainder of the century, raising
the total number of Americans from 212 million to
between 246 million and 286 million.
Big catch
pleased to learn that represen
tatives of the AFSCME and
AAE have finally modified their
positions on the issues of
collective bargaining and exclu
sive recognition,” school board
president Dr. Benjamin Mays
said after the board meeting.
“Under the terms of the
resolution, the discussions now
occuring between the parties
will not result in a collective
bargaining agreement, and the
representation of AFSMCE and
AAE will extend only to their
members and no others.”
AFSCME representative Wil
lie Bolden said late Sunday
night, “We did ask for sole
exclusive recognition for all
employes of the Atlanta school
system and the board had
problems with the exclusivity
aspect of the recognition, so we
struck that and went with the
recognition.”
Bolden said the board and the
employe groups also disagreed
over what to call the ultimate
written agreement to be rea
ched, finally settling for the
label: “mutual statement of
understanding.”
He said “they had a problem
with ‘proposed contract’ and
the with ‘memorandum of
understanding’ as they had with
‘agreement,’ so last (Saturday)
night, we changed it to ‘mutual
statement of understanding.’”
Bolden said the unions
“backed down significantly in
our stance but we can live with
it for the time being. Our main
objective was to get into items
to benefit the employes.”
Both Bolden and Mays said
they were now ready to move
on to other issues in the
negotiations, with Nov. 20 as a
target date for agreement on
the “mutual statement of
understanding.”
The school board meets again
today to define its position on
the issues now to be dealt with
and a meeting is expected
tonight between representatives
of the employe groups, the
board and five neutral observ
ers in the dispute.
The strike of both employe
groups ended last Tuesday
when U.S. District Court Judge
Newell Edenfield issued a 10-
day temporary restraining
order and instructed both sides
try to reach an agreement with
five neutral observers acting as
referees. »
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
75, low today 40, high yesterday
61, low yesterday 39, high
tomorrow in low 70s, low tonight
near 40.
The report also estimates that blacks, who now make up
11.4 per cent of the population, will increase to 12.6 or 12.7
per cent. The number of persons 65 or older is expected to
grow from 10.7 per cent of the population to 12.5 per cent.
A major factor in the shift away from a youth
dominated population and culture, the report said, is the
fact that persons bom in the “baby boom” years between
1956 and 1965 will be passing the 30-year mark and not
having as many children as their parents.
In another report, the Commerce Department said for
the first time in several years, more persons moved to the
South than moved out of it, and mere Americans were
moving out of the cities than into them, reversing the
previous five-year trend.
griffin
DAI LY NEWS
Daily Since 1872
City Commission contest
develops on final day
Two last day entries for city
commissioner made it a three
man race today as the deadline
passed at noon.
Harold Ogletree, an
electrician, qualified early this
morning for the race. Henry
Miller, appliance dealer, quali
fied late this morning at city
hall.
The two will run against in
cumbent Louis Goldstein who
qualified a few weeks ago to
succeed himself.
The three will be candidates
in the Nov. 4 city election.
The at-large post which
Goldstein holds now is the only
one to be filled this year.
City voters will cast ballots
for a commissioner in the Nov. 4
elections.
Also to be decided in the
election are two questions on a
county-wide ballot.
Voters in the city and county
will cast ballots for or against a
five-member county com
mission board.
The board has three members
at present.
City and county voters also
will vote for or against a one
percent local option sales tax. If
approved, the county would
have to reduce property taxes
by the amount of money the one
percent sales tax would
produce.
Only city voters will cast
ballots in the city commission
election. The latest tabulation
available at the voter registrars
office showed 8,426 registered in
the city.
A total of 15,705 people were
registered in the county which
includes the city of Griffin.
Some adjustments in the total
number of voters are yet to be
made and figures will change, a
spokesman said.
Some 3,000 people were
purged this summer but about
half were reinstated.
Absentee ballots already are
available for the county wide
vote on the five-member county
board and local option tax
question.
They must be requested at
least three days before the
election is held.
“We’re ruled by custom — if
neighbors didn’t mow their
lawns I’d never know mine
should be mowed.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, October 20, 1975
GNP gains
11.2 pct.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
national economy measured by
the real Gross National Product
increased 11.2 per cent in the
third quarter for the fastest
growth rate in more than 20
years, the Commerce Depart
ment said today.
The GNP gains occurred
primarily because consumers
dipped into their savings to buy
durables like cars and home
appliances, while wealthy
Americans and business in
creased investment spending by
a stunning 18 per cent.
Consumers had been saving
at unusually high rates since
last October. Private sector
investment had been falling
steadily since the 1973 Arab oil
embargo.
Bullets end
police chase
Several traffic charges have
been placed against a Concord
man following a high speed
chase by Griffin police officers
late Saturday afternoon.
Police said Willie Lee Owens,
25, has been charged with
speeding in excess of 100 miles
per hour in a 45-mile-per-hour
zone, running a red light and
failure to stop for police of
ficers.
Officers Sam Batts and John
Sikes were patrolling on the
North Expressway about 5:50
p.m. Saturday and spotted a
speeding car near the U.S. 41
and 19 intersection. They
chased the vehicle but were
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Chief W. E. Dode Mclntosh, great grandson of Chief
William Mclntosh who ruled Georgia’s Creek Indians
during the early 1800’s, returned to the home of his
ancestors to participate in the dedication of a new outdoor
drama. “The Mclntosh Trail,” expected to open in
The real GNP was estimated
at $804.6 billion at the end of
the July-September quarter, up
from $783.6 billion in the second
quarter.
The 11.2 per cent increase
was the highest quarterly rise
since the 12.4 per cent gain in
the first quarter of 1955.
GNP measures the dollar
value of all the production of
farms, factories, mines and
utilities and the services of
government employes, doctors,
bank tellers, insurance sales
men, dry cleaners and other
nonproduction workers.
Contributing to the second
consecutive quarterly rise in
GNP was an easing in the
inflation rate which enabled
consumers and investors to get
more for their money.
unable to stop it after turning on
their siren and blue lights.
After about a 15-mile chase at
speeds in excess of 100 miles per
hour, the officers fired at the
rear tires of the speeding
vehicle.
The auto spun around in the
median and its driver at
tempted to head in the opposite
direction, back toward Griffin,
when he was stopped.
Owens suffered a slight
wound in the side from the
gunfire and was taken by the
officers to the Griffin hospital
emergency room. After
treatment there, he was carried
to the city jail.
Spaghetti champ
not a sprinter
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) — In the world of spaghetti eating,
lanky John Poole is a distance man, not a sprinter.
“I’m not a very fast eater,” he said. “You see those
guys eating a pound of spaghetti in 40 and 50 seconds and it
turns you off.”
Poole’s steady tactics paid off again Sunday. He ate
eight pounds, five ounces of spaghetti in three hours to
better his own world record and defend his world
spaghetti eating crown for the third time in four weeks.
Poole, who lives in Irving, Tex., and works for the City
of Dallas, ate nearly three pounds more spaghetti than
runner-up Polly Torrence, who weighed only 114 pounds
before the match.
“I eat quite a lot of spaghetti and I like it,” said Poole,
who stands 6-3 and weighs 190 pounds.
“In the contest you have to want to eat because when
your ol’ belly gets kinda full and wants you to stop eating,
you can’t listen to it. I try to go ahead and eat straight
through instead of stopping for a rest.”
Poole, 32, said he had been overeating to stretch his
stomach for the challenge matches. He said he ate seven
pounds of spaghetti at home last Friday night and
normally eats a half dozen eggs and six slices of bacon for
breakfast.
With Poole on the sidelines, Steve Weldon won the speed
eating contest by downing a pound of spaghetti in 48
seconds — six seconds off the world’s record.
Kissinger reviews
with China leaders
PEKING (UPI) — Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger and
China’s day-to-day ruler re
viewed the international situa
tion today in their first meeting
in the ornate Great Hall of the
People.
Kissinger attended the talks
for an hour and 40 minutes,
then knocked off for lunch and
an extra hour so he could show
his wife, Nancy, Peking’s
Museum of Ancent Art.
Kissinger then went back to
the table for a second session
Peace
Peachtree City, Ga., in June. Repeating an ancient Indian
custom, Mclntosh exchanged gifts of friendship with Rep.
John Carlisle who represented Gov. George Busbee at the
ceremonies.
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with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-
Ping.
A spokesman for Kissinger
said tiie talks were “cordial
and frank,” but described them
only as a “review of the
international situation.”
The Chinese staged their
most popular modem opera,
“The Azalea Mountain,” for the
Kissingers this evening. The
opera tells the story of peasant
revolutionaries faced with the
choice of saving their hideout
or a grandmother.