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around the firehouse
Especially if he can cook
“See how healthy they look. It’s the
same as in the military, it ain’t good but
its filling.”
This was the way Paul R. Harker,
chief cook, at Fire Station I, described
his job.
“It’s supposed to be called cooking
but its an evil we have to live with,” he
continued.
Harker has been with the Griffin Fire
Department six years. His culinary
artistry was discovered some 4 years
ago and since then he has been B shift’s
cook for the 2 meals the men get during
their working hours.
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Brighten the day
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—A woman out for a walk brightened an otherwise gloomy rainy
day for the geese and swan at Lake of the Isles, bringing them grain in two plastic pails.
(AP)
Jackson makes good
on threat to fire
ATLANTA (AP) — Mayor Maynard
Jackson has fired more than 1,000
striking bluecollar workers and told At
lantans they’ll have to haul their
garbage themselves until replacements
can be hired.
Jackson said at a news conference
Friday that he had not wanted to fire
the workers, but “We have turned the
other cheek so many times that we have
no more cheeks to turn.”
He said it was impossible to meet the
50-cent-an-hour wage increase
demanded by the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal
Employes, which struck the city last
Monday. About 1,300 workers had
struck, but 300 returned to work after
Jackson warned they would be fired,
city officials said.
Jackson said firing the 1,001 striking
workers workers —about 38 per cent of
the city’s 2,640 garbagemen, street re
pairmen and other workers — was “the
most painful and the most unpleasant
task I have had to perform” as mayor,
particularly because many of the
employes “are the most needy, the
lowest-paid of our employes.”
But Leamon Hood, AFSCME’s
regional representative, said he felt the
mayor wasn’t as concerned about the
workers’ welfare as he indicated.
“This is not a nickel and dime mat
ter; this is a matter of human dignity,”
Hood said, adding that the strike would
continue “as long as necessary.”
The union, which does not have a
formal contract with the city, is seeking
wage increases that would add S2O a
week to the average blue-collar work
er’s $l5O weekly paycheck.
fireman. He orders the ingredients for
his meals about 9 a.m. Lunch is served
about noon or on the half hour.
The evening meal is served around 6
p.m.
The eight men Harker has voluntarily
charged himself with feeding put $8 in a
pot every two weeks to pay for the
meals. Harker’s services are free.
He says the job gets a little boring at
times but he doesn’t mind doing it.
“It’s hard to satisfy eight men with
meals they always like,” he said. “I
don’t particularly like the cooking but I
don’t mind doing it,” Harker said.
He accepts the jokes from his fellow
firemen who were very vocal when
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, April 2,1977
Jackson said there were “no
guarantees of rehiring” the fired
workers but that he would not dismiss
that possibility should the union and
city reach agreement. No further
negotiating sessions have been sched
uled, however.
Little garbage has accumulated on
downtown sidewalks because com
mercial pickups have continued. But
there has been little garbage pickup in
residential areas since the strike
began.
Weather
FORECAST: Showers and a few
thundershowers likely tonight. Sunday
partly cloudy with a chance of showers
or thundershowers.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“No matter how much a
fellow learns, it will be his
common sense folks admire.”
Harker talked about cooking.
“We all eat together, we enjoy it and
we look forward to the evening meal,”
Harker commented.
Fellow firemen agreed.
They all felt it would be too much
trouble for the wives and mothers
involved to bring meals to the station.
They added they most assuredly
couldn’t go out to lunch during their 24-
hour shift.
When asked what his specialty was,
Harker conferred with his fellow
firemen as to their favorite.
Ham hocks, butterbeans, sweet
potatoes, cole slaw, combread and tea
won a resounding vote.
Vance in France
to talk issues
PARIS (AP) — Secretary of State
Cyrus R. Vance met with French
President Valery Giscard d’Estaing
today to discuss issues Including the
Soviet rejection of American nuclear
disarmament proposals.
The meeting agenda also included
New York landing rights for the Anglo-
French supersonic Concorde jetliner,
the Middle East, the upcoming eco
nomic summit meeting and the spread
of nuclear weapons.
The two men met in an elegant room
in the Elysee palace. Vance also met
with Foreign Minister Louis de
Guiringaud. The secretary returns to
Washington this afternoon.
British Prime Minister James
Callaghan reportedly told Vance in
London on Friday that it was taking
much too long for a decision on whether
to let the Concorde land in New York,
where residents are opposed to the jet’s
noise.
Lab grown skin could patch burn victims
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - A patient
burned over 50 per cent of his body
could be re-surfaced by skin grown in
laboratories from two skin patches the
size of 3-inch-by-5-inch notecards, said
doctors in a report to the American
Bum Association meeting here.
The doctors, from the Shriners Bum
Institute in Cincinnati, also unveiled a
new plastic coating, similar to that used
in soft contact lenses, that is poured
directly onto fresh bums to form a
shield against infection.
Some doctors here, gathered to
discuss new methods of treating bums
which kill 12,600 persons a year and
cause the hospitalization of 75,000, are
The men admitted that Harker does
not do too bad a job with his biscuits
made from scratch.
After the meal Harker is relieved of
his kitchen duty to keep the office while
the rest of the men clean the kitchen in
true fireman like fashion.
That includes keeping the stove
shining and looking like new.
On Sunday Harker and the rest of the
crew take a day off from the kitchen.
They usually have their Sunday meals
brought in.
Harker resides at 1320 Ruth street,
with his wife, Betty Ann; and their
three sons, Ricky, Rusty, and Jason.
Vol. 105 No. 78
League urged people
to have say on bonds
The league of Women Voters believes
taxpayers can have a say in what will
be in a school bond issue here in
November.
The League urged citizens of the
community to attend one of four public
meetings where school needs will be
discussed.
Basic proposals will be outlined then
citizens will have a chance to give their
ideas.
The first of the meetings will be
Monday at Beaverbrook beginning at
7:30 p.m.
Others will be at Moore’s April 18,
Crescent April 25, and Jackson road
May 2.
The League pointed out that the
Griffin-Spalding Board of Education
tentatively has accepted state
recommendations on the bond issue.
But Citizens will have a chance to have
their say at the public meetings,
according to the League.
Mrs. Yvonne Langford, a member of
the school board and public information
chairman for it, urged people to attend
one of the four sessions to learn what
was being proposed.
Outside heart baby has chance
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A baby
bom with his heart outside his chest has
an excellent chance of living because of
a unique operation. Less than two years
ago, the odds for survival were nil.
LaVar Lee Bordley is in stable
condition in Children’s Hospital here
after surgery Thursjiay, the day he was
bom.
The birth defect has only occurred 200
times since it first was reported in 1671.
The only child with the same defect who
lived more than two days, Christopher
Wall, was operated on at the same
hospital in August 1975.
“I really feel he will come out of it
okay because he looks so good,” said
the baby’s father, Sgt. Norman Bor
dley, after he visited the hospital
Friday.
“All I can do is hope. It’s up to the
overseeing the care of scorched sur
vivors of the Canary Islands jumbo jet
tragedy, said ABA President-elect Alan
Dimick.
The still-experimental cultivation of
skin in the laboratory was discussed by
Dr. Bruce MacMillan, chief of staff of
the Shriners Institute.
If a patient is so extensively burned
that there is little healthy skin for a
graft, a small piece can be nourished
until it is six to nine times larger, he
said. This takes from one to four weeks.
A section of skin a few inches square
is shaved from the body, then cut into
many tiny squares measuring only
about one-tenth of an inch square,
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She said the board wants to hear from
citizens on the bond issue.
The League said the tentative bond
issue proposal would include:
I.— A new high school. Board
appointed members are seeking a site.
2. A new elementary school on
Cowan road.
3. Merging the 7th, Bth and 9th
grades into two junior highs with one
student body at the present Griffin High
building and one at the present Bth and
9th grade campuses.
4. — Moore and North Side would not
be elementary schools. Students there
now would be assigned to the present
Unit 111 building which is the old
Fairmont High School. Moore and
North Side would be used possibly for
special education, kindergartens or
storage.
The new high school would cost an
estimated $8,690,280. The new
elementary would cost an estimated
$1,787,700. A central storage and
freezer building would cost an
estimated $167,000.
A new physcial education complex
including office would cost an
doctors now,” said Bordley, a 37-year
old Army recruiter from Trucksville,
Pa., some 111 miles northeast of here.
Doctors immobilized the baby with a
drug to keep him from moving around
and ripping the sutures from his chest.
He is hooked to a machine so he can
breathe. But doctors are encouraged
that he will recover to lead a normal
life.
Wall, the first baby with the
congenital defect to live more than two
days, needed four operations over a
year’s time before his chest cavity was
enlarged. He is still a patient at the
hospital.
The experience helped with the
Bordley baby, who was rushed here by
helicopter from Wilkes-Barre General
Hospital.
MacMillan said.
The bits of skin are attached to sterile
pigskin, a base for the grafts while they
are growing and expanding in a
nourishing solution.
“Theoretically,” said MacMillan.
“We could re-surface a patient burned
over 50 per cent of his body using two
pices of skin measuring three by five
inches each. The advantage is in get
ting more mileage out of the healthy
skin.”
Standard grafting techniques would
require 8 or 10 such pieces, he said.
The second new method to treat
bums, the plastic coating, works to
estimated $1,016,000 and the present
building on Poplar street would be
demolished.
Media center expansions at Orrs
would cost $86,000 and at Crescent
$66,000.
The building between the 9th and Bth
grade buildings would be demolished
and replaced with a connecting
corridor with a library. Renovation of
the auditorium for the band and choir
and the PE room for shop would be
included. These would cost an
estimated $588,200. The present Griffin
High auditorium renovation would cost
an estimated $34,000.
The cost of air conditioning schools
without it now would cost about fl
million. Building a new stadium would
cost about sl-million.
Should a bond issue like this pass,
state funds for the elementary school
would amount to $900,000 and for the -
high school $2,600,000.
State funds for vocational
construction or equipment would
amount to some $545,300.
The total state funds would amount to
$4,045,300.
The total program including options
would amount to $14,435,180.
Subtracting state fund of $4,045,300
would leave local bond needs at
$10,389,880.
Options of $2-million could be
deducted, leaving a bond issue of
$8,389,880, the League concluded.
People
...and things
Anxious mother wondering if her
child is making it all right on the hike
bike this morning.
House at South Hill and College
bursting into annual spring beauty.
Mother in store trying to decide
which dress to buy her tiny daughter for
Easter.
prevent infection, the main cause of
bum deaths. The coating “in essence is
the same as putting the patient in an
isolation area.”
The coating is formed directly on the
skin, by pouring on a solvent,
polyethylene glycol, and a powder, poly
2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate.
The result is a one-millimeter-thick
coating that fits the wound exactly and
prevents infection or the spread of bac
teria already on the bum. It’s prac
tically painless, said MacMillan, and is
considerably cheaper than constant
applications of antibiotic dressings
ordinarily used.
