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Griffin battles Thomaston here tonight. Page 8
GRIFFIN
Most rate hospital here good
“I’ve been in other hospitals
and this one’s better than most.
It’s cleaner. The nurses care.
The food is good, The doctors
were good, I had a pleasant
stay. . . ”
“Those Atlanta hospitals are
so much better than Griffin’s, it
makes your head swim... If you
don’t need or ask for anything at
the Griffin hospital, then the
service is good and you’re a
good patient. . . ”
These were samples of
contradictory remarks express
ed during a survey of Griffinites
recently treated at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital.
Even though some expressed
criticism, all of the 44 people
had something good to say about
the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Some of the people who rated
the service as excellent had a
few criticisms, too.
Thirty-seven or 84 percent
rated the service good to ex
cellent. Five said it was satis
factory. Two who rated the
service poor made complimen
tary remarks.
As one woman put it, “I was
treated like a queen. I couldn’t
ask anyone to be any better to
me. The food was wonderful.
My sister-in-law was out there
and she complained about the
Spewrell Bluff
gets new life
ATLANTA (UPI) - A study
made by the state Environmen
tal Protection Divison projects
a water shortage in the year
2000 in the Coweta, Fayette and
Spalding counties.
Gov. George Busbee has
asked the U. S. Corps of
Engineers to make a report on
available water in existing or
Six perish, eight saved
in early morning fire
By ROD CLARKE*
RUTLAND, Vt. (UPI) — Before starting work on his
rubbish route, Ed Hayden stopped for an early morning
cup of coffee at his boss’s house. Because he did, he was
able to sound an alarm that helped save eight lives.
Six persons died in a fire at a two-story home Thursday.
Others managed to escape with aid from Hayden and his
employer, Edward Twenty.
“If I hadn’t just happened to come down here today,”
Hayden said, “nobody would have gotten out”
Hayden, 25, was the first person to spot flames and
smoke just before 6 a.m. “I banged and I banged and I
screamed” outside the burning bouse, he said.
Hayden raced across the street to Twenty’s house. After
summoning firemen, Twenty said he broke into the house,
led two persons out, then retreated in the face of intense
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food. But I can vouch for it when
I say, she got much better food
out there than she gets at home.
“Some people squawk about
everything. I read that letter in
the paper from the man who
said poor people don’t get good
treatment. I’m a poor woman
and I’ve worked in the mill and I
got excellent treatment out
there. The world is full of
squawkers. . . ”
Twenty-six people who were
dismissed during the past few
weeks were questioned, along
with 18 out-patients who had
gone for treatment in the
emergency room.
Their names were picked at
random from dismissal and
emergency room lists. The lists
did not include out-patients who
used the emergency room as a
clinic. Only those who came
for emergency treatment
were called.
Those questioned were
assured their names would not
be used and no questions about
their ailments would be asked.
They were asked merely to rate
the hospital’s service as ex
cellent or good, satisfactory or
unsatisfactory.
“I’d heard bad things and I
sort of dreaded to come, but
after being there, all I can do is
proposed reservoirs to meet the
projected shortage.
Busbee’s office Thursday
released a letter written by
Busbee to Maj. Gen. C. N.
LeTellier of the Corps of
Engineers, requesting the study
on the basis of a report of
water needs in 10 west-central
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, October 24,1975
“Some people squawk
about everything. I read that
letter in the paper from the
man who said poor people
don’t get good treatment. I’m
a poor woman and I’ve
worked in the mill and I got
excellent treatment out there.
The world is full of
squawkers •••••
praise it. The nurses were
excellent, just wonderful,” was
one woman’s comment.
In the next breath, she said
she’d have to rate the business
office as poor because they kept
her waiting more than two
hours for a dismissal slip.
A man who said he received
“fair treatment”, said the
hospital needs more help.
“They don’t look after you. A
member of my family had to
ask for what I needed because
nobody would check on me,” he
counties in the Upper Flint
Basin.
Busbee said that the forecast
coupled with the engineers’
announcement that no addition
al action is planned at present
on the proposed Spewrell Bluff
Reservoir prompted him to
request the evaluation of water
supply sources.
beat.
State police called the predawn blaze one of the most
tragic in the state’s history. They blamed it on a cigerette
which apparently was dropped unnoticed into a chair and
smoldered overnight before breaking into flames.
Police identified the dead as Cynthia Hooper, 29; her
sons T.J, 2, and Ronnie, 8; nieces Theresa Carlson; 11,
and Sharron Nasson, 7; and a nephew, Michael Nasson, 4.
The bodies of the victims were found on the second floor
of the wood-frame house, where they apparently were
trapped when flames blocked the staircase.
Four others were treated for injuries at a local hospital.
Four others fled unharmed from the burning building.
A woman broke her wrist when she climbed out a
window to the roof of an adjoining shed and jumped 12 feet
to the ground, holding her 11-month-old daughter in her
arms.
said.
Several said service in the
emergency room is improving
and the treatment is good even
though you may have to wait a
long time to get it.
One woman said she waited
three hours on a Saturday.
Another said they took her right
away.
Another commented that the
emergency room itself was
“great”, the doctor just gave
the wrong treatment and talked
rude and ugly.
“I wonder how folks managed
to sin in the old days before
most of the things we use to sin
with were invented.”
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“That’s not the emergency
room’s fault,” she added.
“I’ve been coming there for 10
years and they all know me. It’s
real nice,” was one comment.
One woman who rated the
hospital’s service good, termed
service in the emergency room
very unsatisfactory.
She said she suffered from an
ailment which requires
frequent injections. When her
doctor’s office is open, she can
go there and let his nurse give
her one for five dollars. When
the doctor’s office is closed, she
has to come to the emergency
room where she is charged $lB
for the same shot.
She said she does not see a
doctor at the hospital because
her doctor already has phoned
in the order and the injection is
given by an emergency room
nurse.
“It’s ridiculous... Sometimes
I’ve waited three hours to get
that shot,” she said.
Several mothers praised the
children’s ward on second floor.
“When I get sick, that’s where
I want to go,” commented one
mother.
“They were good to me, but it
took them 30 minutes to answer
the bell. I don’t think they have
Kidnap victim
screams for heln
MONASTEREVIN, Ireland
(UPI) — Kidnaped Dutch
industrialist Tiede Herrema,
now in his fourth week of
captivity, screamed for help
today from the upstairs bed
room of a besieged house where
his abductors are holding him
at gunpoint.
“Please help me!” he shout
ed in a voice that carried 150
feet to where a group of
reporters was standing. “Tell
the police to stay away! Please,
please save my life... They
have a gun at my head! ”
Shortly afterward, he ap
peared briefly at the bedroom
window, partially hidden by a
net curtain, but appeared to be
jerked away quickly.
The sudden screams for help
came within a few hours of an
Irish newspaper report quoting
a high ranking police officer
that the kidnapers, raw-nerved
after three virtually sleepless
nights, had vented their frustra
tion on their hostage by beating
and kicking him.
In the brief glimpse of the 52-
year-old Herrema, it was
Bank lowers prime
NEW YORK (UPI) - First
National City Bank, reacting to
the Federal Reserve’s latest
easing of money and credit
restraints, today lowered its
prime interest rate to 7% per
cent.
enough help. I had to wait a long
time to get something for
pain”...a former patient
recalled.
“I knew I was having a drug
reaction and I begged the nurse
to take my temperature for five
hours. Wien my wife finally
located the doctor, I had a 103
degrees and they had to work all
night to get it down,” a man
lamented.
The same man rated the
service during his last stay as
excellent.
“Those nurses were right
there everytime I needed them.
They were the best. I couldn’t
have received better attention,”
another stated.
Most who had been patients
more than once, said service
both on the floors and in the
emergency room is improving.
“People is people. Some
patients are easy to get along
with and some is grouchy and
complain about everything.
Some of the nurses is nice and
some of them is grouchy and
they complain, too. People is
people,” summed up one
elderly man.
impossible to assess his physi
cal condition, but his voice
sounded strong, if a little
hoarse.
The leader of the kidnap duo,
Eddie Gallagher, 27, a rene
gade from the outlawed Irish
Republican Army, made an
Tax committee
rejects Ford plan
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford’s tax cut
spending ceiling plans never
stood a chance before the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
In a wholly predictable series
of actions Thursday, the tax
writing committee quickly re
jected the Ford concept of
attaching a spending ceiling to
a tax cut. It then approved the
Democratic concept of extend
ing the current, already low
ered tax levies at almost
exactly the same level through
1976.
The two votes were identical
— 21-16. AU 21 majority votes
were Democrats. The losing
side was aU 12 GOP members
plus the same four Democrats:
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These cheerleaders urged the Griffin High “B” team on to
a 16-12 victory over Central of Macon in a game at
Memorial Stadium yesterday afternoon. More pictures
and story on page nine.
Consumer cost
textile concern
PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) —
The most important aspect of
federal regulations for business
and industry is the ultimate
cost to the consumers, textile
industry executives were told
today.
“It is the consumer who
ultimately pays the cost of
overregulation of business by
government,” said Murray L.
Weidenbaum, director of the
Center for the study of
American Business at Washing
ton University in St. Louis.
“Most of the time, proponents
of new or expanded government
abortive attempt Thursday to
swap his hostage for the
freedom of his woman accom
plice. Then, police sources said,
he began to talk of the
penalties involved if he
released Herrema.
Reps. Wilbur Mills, D-Ark.,
Omar Burleson, D-Tex., Joe
Waggonner, D-La., and Andrew
Jacobs, D-Ind.
If the same script is foUowed,
the Democratic Congress will
approve the Ways and Means
plan, Ford wiU veto it, and
there wiU be a showdown late
in the year when Congress tries
to override the veto.
In the middle is the public,
which could begin paying
higher withholding taxes on
Jan. 1 if no biU is enacted.
Current tax cuts expire at the
end of the year.
The Democratic plan,
proposed by committee chair
man Al Ullman, D-Ore., would
make permanent the current
increases in the standard
controls focus all of their
discussion on the alleged
benefits of new government
action,” Weidenbaum told
members of the American Yarn
Spinners Association. “They
usually overlook the large costs
which may be involved, costs to
both the taxpayer and con
sumer.”
He said society should take a
hard look at the existing array
of government controls over
business and an effort should
be made to eliminate those
controls that generate excessive
costs.
“Rather than blithely continu
ing to proliferate government
controls over business, alterna
tive means of achieving impor
tant national objectives should
be explored and developed,
solutions that expand rather
than reduce the role of the
market,” Weidenbaum said.
Weather
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deduction. In addition, Ullman
would enact only for 1976 a
special tax credit for each
famUy of 2 per cent of the first
$12,000 of taxable income —
$240.
A minimum credit would be
aUowed of S3O for each
dependent, meaning that a
family of nine or more would
get a larger credit than the $240
maximum. A credit is subtract
ed directly from taxes owed.
Ford’s plan would increase
the personal exemption for
each taxpayer and dependent
from $750 to SI,OOO and would
lower tax rates in addition to
making changes in the standard
deduction.