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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1977)
Nice to have a ____ 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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(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 Hfigi “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, ..■IM. 19 V*' ? 1 j/ HMH1 F 1 Hi r f-Ss: x aK| • ***"" • ' st ■he a WTMii»ni '*••• FV FTRf Fishing report O Tl,e Department of Natural Resources’ fishing forecast I'vk for the week of April 3-9 Includes: J HIGH FALLS: Full, muddy. Excellent for crappie; fair to B *® w f° r °tf ,erß, JACKSON: Full, stained. Good for bass; fair for others. SINCLAIR: Full, dingy. Fair for all species. 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.
