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Hospital ups rates
for intensive care
Room rates in the coronary and
intensive care units of the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital are going up to $175
per day.
The $65 daily increase was approved
unanimously by hospital authority
members during their meeting Monday
night.
According to Comptroller Vernon
Baker, the new rates are not out of line
with some other area hospitals which
charge as much as $275.
Officials were not certain what the
rates were in the nearby hospitals at
Thomaston, LaGrange and Newnan,
however.
During the past year the Griffin
hospital, with its sllO daily rate has lost
some $40,000 in operating costs of the 2
units.
Georgia Power’s proposal
drawing many complaints
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power
Co.’s proposed special electricity rate
for the poor and persons on fixed in
comes has drawn complaints from
some who call it a maneuver to get
approval for a |197.6-million-a-year
* rate increase.
Robert Scherer, president of Georgia
Power, said Sunday if poor and retired
. persons get a lower “life-line” rate
somebody is going to have to make up
the difference.
People
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Griffinite for five years commenting
over lunch in quick food place on the
town’s growth and how much he and his
wife like it here.
Pretty bank teller managing to smile,
talk and be pleasant all while counting
cash and entering deposit.
Carpenter neatly driving two nails
into 20-year-old cement after
companion advises him not to try
because, “It can’t be done.”
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The $175 rate is a “break even” cost
of nurses and supplies and does not
include depreciation of equipment,
other fixed costs or a profit, Baker
explained.
The coronary and intensive care units
have a nurse for every 2 patients or
about 16 hours of nursing care during
each 24-hour period per patient,
compared with 6 hours per patient in a
regular room, he said.
Most hospitalization insurance
policies cover the full rates of coronary
and intensive care units, it was brought
out.
The new rates will go into effect April
1 when the new fiscal year begins.
Patients already in the units will
continue to be charged the present fee.
Semi-private rooms for medical
But Mrs. Ethel Mae Matthews, a
spokeswoman for welfare recipients in
Georgia, said Monday, “It’s nothing but
a trick.”
“He’s looking for nothing but sym
pathy to get this thing (the rate in
crease request) passed. He’s going to
do like he always has, sock it to the ones
who can pay and the ones who can’t
pay,” she said.
Georgia Power asked the state Public
Service Commission last week to ap-
Low 30s predicted
Frost peach threat
Area peach growers today kept an
eye on the weather wondering if
scattered frost would hit tonight.
The forecast called for scattered
frost. If it comes, the peach crops could
be damaged some.
Dr. E. F. Savage, peach expert at the
Georgia Experiment Station, said the
peaches in this area could stand
temperatures down to 27 or 28 degrees.
At this point, there is a husk that will
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, March 22, 1977
patients soon will be available.
The pediatrics section in the south
wing of the second floor is being moved
to the front wing and 10 semi-private
beds in the old section soon will be
available.
Their rates will be SSB per day, a
$40,000 annual savings io the public
over the private room rates of S7O,
according to Executive Director
William Feely.
The new pediatric wing also will be
used by young adults.
The personnel committee is studying
additional fringe benefits for hospital
employes.
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prove the $197.6 million rate hike and
Scherer said Sunday the company
advocated a special rate for the poor
and persons on fixed incomes.
A Georgia Power spokesman denied
Monday that any trick is involved.
“We say some form of lifeline is
coming to Georgia,” the spokesman
said. “It is being used in other states.
The power company wants the same
rate of return. We want the state to say
who pays it and who gets the break.”
protect them up to a point, Dr. Savage
said.
The cold weather this winter gave
peaches in Georgia generally more
than enough cold hours to get the crops
off to a good start.
But there are lots of other factors that
could affect the kind of crop that 1977
will bring. AU of them concern peach
growers at some point in the season.
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Bunny
helpers
By MAY WINGFIELD MELTON
If the Easter bunny has helpers he
must be mighty pleased with Annette
Grubbs and Rae Johnson. The sisters
who moved here from Morrow two
years ago are making and decorating
sugar eggs.
Annette, who will be 23 years old in
April was bom in East Point and
graduated from high school in Forest
Park. She came to Griffin two years
ago as the bride of Doug Grubbs, Jr.,
and now attends the Griffin Beauty
School on Solomon Street. They live at
the Mt. Zion campground where Doug
is the caretaker. He also commutes to
Atlanta and works with the Oxford
Building Service Company there. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Grubbs of
Vaughn Road.
The couple met at the First Baptist
Church in Conley when Doug was in
junior high school. He had a job with the
church cleaning up to make extra
money. They both love living in the
country and Annette says that the
"quietness sure is better than
airplanes.”
Rae, 24, moved to Griffin after her
husband became co-owner of Spalding
Paint and Floor Covering Co. She helps
him select colors and carpets for houses
under construction. They live on
Hillwood Drive.
NEWS
88-year-old lady jogs mile a day
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eula Weaver isn’t as young as
she used to be, so she’s reduced her daily regimen of
jogging to just one mile a day. After all, she is 88.
When it rains, and she can’t jog the full mile around a
high school track near her suburban Santa Monica home,
she mounts the stationary bicycle in her living room and
pedals 10 miles or so.
She also goes to a local gym three times a week and
pedals 10 miles before dinner.
Mrs. Weaver suffered a stroke a decade ago and was
nearly paralyzed.
“I could hardly walk at all,” she said, explaining the
effects of the stroke combined with arthritis in her hands
and knees.
Doctors gave her two choices —spend the rest of her life
as an invalid, being hand-fed and clothed, or get out of her
rocking chair and start walking again, no matter how
painful.
It didn’t take her long to decide. She vowed she would
“try everything in this world to get back to normal.”
Following her doctor’s advice, she started slowly, walk
ing gingerly at first, pushing herself even though it hurt,
and deadening some of the pain with pills.
She moved from Illinois to southern California to be
near her grandson, went on a strict health-oriented diet
and started running. Soon, she was jogging two miles a
day.
Mrs. Weaver was induced in 1975 to enter the National
Senior Olympics held in Irvine, 50 miles south of Los
Angeles.
“I jogged there three years and got six gold medals, one
for Saturday and one for Sunday (each year),” she said.
“The first time I did it Sen. (Alan) Cranston (D-Calif.)
came out and hugged me and said, ‘l’m so proud of you.’”
She walks away from the contest every year as the fe
male champion of the 1,500-meter run for those over 80.
There’s no one else in the category.
Mrs. Weaver thanks her grandson, Jim Weaver of West
Los Angeles, for introducing her to the man whom she
credits for her recovery. She said Nathan Pritikin,
founder of the Longevity Research Institute in Santa
Barbara, is responsible for making her “able to walk — in
fact for being alive.”
She says he made her throw away her pain-killing pills
and put her on a diet of green vegetables and fresh raw
fruit, and less than three ounces of meat a day. She had to
say goodbye to salt, sugar and grease and says she doesn’t
miss them a bit.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“Ignorance enables a person
to be wrong with sincerity.”
She also graduated from Forest Park
high school and later from Clayton
Junior College. She and Mike met while
working in a gift shop at the Greenbriar
Mall. Rae and her mother, Mrs. Winnie
Dougherty, took a course in catering at
the Atlanta Area Technical School and
Mrs. Dougherty now has a shop,
“Everything Special,” in Morrow. She
teaches a cake decorating course at
Fayetteville once a week.
Even though the girls claim that their
mother “is so talented that she can do
anything she has ever tried,” Annette
hated it at first because her job as the
youngest was to “clean up the kitchen.”
Now she and her sister work together in
making and decorating birthday cakes,
wedding cakes and sugar eggs for
Easter.
The eggs are made by taking a
mixture of sugar and egg whites and
packing it into plastic egg molds cut in
half like stuffed eggs. This is allowed to
dry at room temperature for several
days and then the inside is hollowed out
and decorated with miniature figures,
usually rabbits and tiny eggs. A
peephole is cut in the end and the eggs
are put back together with icing and
decorated with flowers. They sit on
Easter grass and enchant “peepers” of
all ages.
Vol. 105 No. 68
Mrs. Gandhi resigns
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi resigned today
as two former leaders of her Congress
party, Morarji Desai and Jagjivan
Ram, jockeyed to succeed her.
With returns from the general
election last weekend nearly complete,
Mrs. Gandhi’s successful foes claimed
their new government would have a
majority of at least 126 seats in the
lower house of Parliament.
A spokesman for Desai’s Janata
These 2 sisters make
pretty eggs for Easter
Even though they had the usual “teen
aged squabbles” while they were
growing up, now the girls are
completely congenial. Annette says
that Rae “stretched” her clothes when
she wore them and Rae says that she
realized when she married that all her
clothes “belonged to Annette.”
Now the girls and their husbands go
camping together and cook out at each
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Weather
FORECAST: Frost warning tonight.
Fair and much colder tonight scattered
frost. Lows in the low 30s. Wednesday
mostly sunny with a high near 60.
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She used to jog two miles a day, after recovering from her
nearly-paralyzing stroke and arthritis, but now that she’s
88 Mrs. Eula Weaver (above) does just a mile a day. She
also goes to the gym three times a week, and peddles 10
miles before dinner on a stationary bicycle, at her Los
Angeles home. When she was stricken, a decade ago, her
doctor gave her a choice: become an invalid, or get out
and get going. (AP)
other’s houses. They jointly own 15
acres of land at Concord and look
forward to gardening this spring. They
go to Callaway Gardens and Lake
Lanier water skiing, and they snow ski
in the mountains. Now that they are
grown they both enjoy each other’s
company even while making cakes and
Easter eggs.
(People’s) party said its members in
the new Parliament and those of Ram’s
Congress for Democracy would meet
Thursday to elect a leader who would
become prime minister.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Gandhi submitted
the resignations of herself and the other
members of her cabinet to Acting
President B. D. Jatti. He accepted the
resignations but continued Mrs. Gandhi
and her ministers in office as a
caretaker government until a new
government is formed.