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Paul Anderson
Georgia strongman
Broun wants children
out of institutions
ATLANTA (UP!) — Many mentally
disturbed and problem children remain
in state institutions for years without
Mrs. Cole
teacher
of the year
Mrs. Jimmie Sams Cole, Griffin High
English teacher, is the 1977 Teacher of
the Year for the Griffin-Spalding
County School System.
The selection was made by a com
mittee of educators from nominees of
each school.
As the local winner, Mrs. Cole will be
entered in the state Teacher of the Year
program in October.
The state winner and runner-up will
be honored by the Georgia Board of
Education in Atlanta on Nov. 10. Both
winners will be awarded by the
Southern Educators Life Insurance Co.
and the Georgia Department of
Education, co-sponsors of the event.
Georgia entries will be judged by a
group of educators from across the
state. Finalists will be observed by the
judges during their actual classroom
teaching, according to State Supt. of
Schools, Jack Nix.
The Georgia Teacher of the Year will
be entered in the national Teacher of
the Year program, sponsored by
“Ladies Home Journal” magazine,
Encyclopedia Britannica and the
, Council of Chief State School Officers.
The national winner will receive
various awards and will be honored in a
White House ceremony in the Spring of
’ 1977.
Mrs. Cole is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ferrol A. Sams of Fayetteville.
She and the late Mr. Cole had three
children, Meredith Matter, who lives in
Des Moines, lowa, with her attorney
husband and two sons; Millie Thomp
son of Germersheim, West Germany,
where her husband is stationed with the
U. S. Army (they have one son); and
* Rachael Cole, a learning disability
teacher with the Griffin-Spalding
system.
GRIFFIN
DAI LY N EWS
Daily Since 1872
Paul Anderson gripped a big nail with
a handkerchief and slammed it through
a two by four with one blow.
Three little boys standing in front of
the stage gasped in popeyed awe.
Then the world famous Georgia
strongman picked up seven heavy men
sitting on a table with hardly a grunt.
Some 300 people in the Fellowship
Hall at First United Methodist Church
broke into applause.
Anderson was the featured speaker at
one of a series of family night suppers
the church is having this fall.
His voice booming throughout the
auditorium, Anderson said lifting 6,000
pounds and being an Olympic champion
weightlifter was not the biggest thrill in
his life.
He said being a Christian is.
And it’s a gift, he said. He said he nor
anyone else ever would deserve to be
called a Christian. There’s no way it
can be earned, Anderson said.
He told how he let Christian prin
ciples guide him in operating a Paul
Anderson Youth Home at Vidalia, Ga.,
and a new one just opened in Dallas,
Texas.
Anderson told the men in the
audience that strong leadership in the
home is needed in America. He said
loving care and tenderness are needed
from the mothers.
The home will run society or society
will run the home, Anderson said.
Either that, or the government will step
in and run everything, he said.
He said he didn’t like fathers to be
pictured as clowns on television
programs. He said they should have a
place of respect in the home and looked
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, September 30, 1976
getting the proper education and
treatment, and Sen. Paul Broun wants
to do something to change that.
The Athens Democrat, who is
chairman of the powerful Senate Ap
propriations Committee, has been
working for years to improve the
condition of disturbed children in
Georgia.
Now, he is trying to get the children
out of institutions and in to a better
environment.
“For many years, I have been real
concerned about the lack of emphasis
on early diagnosis and treatment of
troubled children,” Broun said in an
interview Wednesday.
“We know early diagnosis and
treatment can be of tremendous benefit
to both the children and their parents.”
Broun said the state spends 1100 a day
on each child in an institution, but many
of the children are not properly cared
for.
“Lots of them are not getting the
proper education, the proper diagnoses
and there’s no work being done in the
home,” the senator said. The home
environment must be changed in many
cases, he said, because it either created
the problem or nurtured it.
“In a big per cent of the cases, the
root of the trouble is the lack of un
derstanding on the part of the parent or
parents,” said Broun, who sat in his
Capitol office sipping a Tab and ex
plaining that the appropriations
committee takes up most of his time
when the legislature is in session.
Broun is chairman of a study com
mittee working on a plan to improve
diagnosis and treatment, to provide
“supportive services”—the services of
psychiatrists, psychologists and social
workers — and to keep children out of
institutions.
The Joint Troubled Children Study
Committee hopes to help children with
mental disorders and with problems
that could lead to “getting in trouble.”
The group, made up of three senators,
three representatives and four lay
persons appointed by the governor, will
present its plan to the 1977 General
Assembly.
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to as leaders.
He made it clear he believes in
spanking children.
Anderson recalled when he was a
youngster, boys wore short pants. He
said the mark of good parents showed
on the backs of bare legs where a peach
tree switch had left its marks.
Smiling throughout, Anderson said
Hi, there
Lance Taylor peered from train win
dow as steam engine chugged into
Griffin yesterday. He was among the
kindergarten students who boarded at
Forsyth and came to Griffin. He’s the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Taylor of
Maple drive. (More pictures page 9.)
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
“If you heard nothing folks
say but saw what they do —
you’d probably get a bad
opinion of mankind.”
Paul Anderson lifts about 1,800 pounds of manhood seated
on table. Those facing the camera are (-r) Kenny Hunt,
the Rev. Steve Winter, Doug Taylor, and the Rev. Lamar
the most fearful noise in the world was
that of peach tree switch being stripped
for action.
Anderson said he had operated a
youth home for 11 years before he had a
Jewish youngster to come there for
help.
The reason, he believes, is that in
Jewish families, the father is head of
Junior Achievement gets
more than it can handle
So many students at Griffin High and
Griffin Academy expressed an interest
in being in the Junior Achievement
program here, that its leaders will have
to revise their plans.
A total of 678 Griffin High students
signed up to participate.
In view of the response, leaders
decided to take this course:
—Accept juniors and seniors (428)
into the program this year.
Demos pushing for override
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Democrats
mustered votes today for efforts to
override President Ford’s 59th veto,
which rejected as too costly a |56.6
billion bill financing operations of the
Labor Department and the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare.
Democratic leaders, who accused
Ford of insensitivity and a lack of
compassion, scheduled a vote today on
Ark measured in meters
LONDON (UPI) — The metric system, imported from
Europe to Britain and soon to arrive in the United States,
has already made its way into the Good News Bible —
where God works miracles in meters, liters and
kilograms.
The new Bible, billed as “today’s English Version” and
touted as a runaway best-seller when it hits the book
stores next month, shows God is up on His metric
measures.
He told Noah, according to the updated version, how to
build the ark:
“Make it 133 meters long, 22 meters wide and 13 meters
high. Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 44
centimeters between the roof and the sides.”
In the book of Exodus, the Good News Bible has God
telling Aaron about the daily sacrifice of two lambs and
saying “with the first lamb offer one kilogram of fine
wheat flour mixed with one liter of pure olive oil. Pour out
one liter of wine as an offering.”
A spokesman for the publishers, Collins and the Bible
Society, said “converting measurements in the Bible to
the metric system seemed the natural thing to do for a
modem gospel.”
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Cherry. Three other men were on the opposite side of the
table.
the home and maintains discipline.
The physical size of a male does not
determine if he’s a man, Anderson
continued. He said he had seen some
men who weighed more than 250 and
were not men. On the other hand, he
said some who weigh less than 100
demonstrated manhood in their
character.
—Delay the beginning until Oct. 17 to
permit recruiting and training more
advisers.
—To seek more adult advisers.
—Plan to enlarge the program for
next year.
—Have open house Saturday and
Sunday at Dovedown center,
headquarters for the program.
Wayne Brown, manager of the JA
program, outlined the program for
overriding the veto. The measure had
passed both the House and the Senate
by voice votes, and the prospects for an
override were uncertain but leaders
were optimistic.
If the veto stands, the two depart
ments will get their funding through a
congressional resolution providing
funds until March 1, 1977, at a rate
slightly higher than in their last budget.
New Bible translation-
Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 79, low
today 51, high yesterday 82, low
yesterday 67, high tomorrow la mid 70s,
low tonight in low 50s.
FORECAST: Clearing and cooler
tonight. Sunny and mild tomorrow.
Physical strength is not the test of
manhood, he said.
Anderson travels over the country
appearing at seminars and on other
programs to tell about his work with
young people and to give his Christian
testimony.
He makes some 500 such appearances
every year.
students who signed up for it during an
assembly program yesterday.
Al Thrasher, president of Junior
Achievement in Griffin, said, “This is
an overwhelming answer to the
business and industry leaders of the
community that our youth of Griffin are
interested in the free enterprise system
and learning more about it. We know
that Junior Achievement offers that
opportunity.”
No longer will readers puzzle over the height of the
Philistine warrior Goliath, recorded in the old Authorized
Version as “six cubits and a span tall” while his armor
weighed “5,000 shekels of brass.”
The Good News Bible notes Goliath towered “nearly
three meters” with his armor a weighty “57 kilograms.”
Unleavened bread becomes “bread without yeast" in
further attempts at simplifying the Bible.
The new Bible also acknowledges Women’s Liberation
— but not very much.
The old Authorized Version quoted Job as saying, “Man
that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.”
The new Bible observes: “We are all bom weak and
helpless.”
Be that as it may, the Good News Bible still has God
forming woman from Adam’s rib.
“Woman is her name because she was taken out of
man,” the Bible says.
Also woman’s place is still spelled out by God after Eve
ate the apple:
“I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain
in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for
your husband, yet you will still be subject to him.”
Ford said he opposed the bill because
it cost nearly $4 billion more than he
recommended. He termed it “a perfect
example of the triumph of election year
politics over fiscal restraint and
responsibility to the hard-pressed
American taxpayer.”
The bill carried $lO billion for the
Labor Department and the rest for
HEW for the fiscal year that starts
Friday.