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Mrs. Florence Marti (second from left) demonstrates quilting to Mrs. Cherie
Tidwell (1), Mrs. Susan Comer (c), Mrs. Stephanie Brouillard (second from
right) and Mrs. Mary Guth.
City pay raises included in early budget drafts
City of Griffin employes may average
getting pay raises of $750 each next
year.
Monday night the city commissioners
met for some 2 and a half hours in the
first of a series of budget hearings to go
over the city’s finances for the fiscal
year which begins July 1.
The proposed budget totals
$11,790,977, an increase of about
SBOO,OOO over this year’s budget of $10.9-
million. It includes provisions for the
city’s 323 employes to receive an
average pay raise of $750 at an
estimated cost of $242,000.
According to Comptroller Frank
Schofield, the smallest proposed salary
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
CC I
“I can understand better how
people fail in love than how they
fan out of it”
Drugs
‘lt’s as bad as you have read-maybe worse’
Marijuana probably is the most used
[legal drug in the Griffin-Spalding area
ight now, according to Sgt. David
lead of the Sheriffs Department. He is
ssigned to work on drug cases. He said
fie marijuana comes from Atlanta,
facon and some is grown around here.
Traffic in chemical type drugs has
ropped off in the last few months,
lead told some 25 people Monday night
t the League of Women Voters
rogram on drugs. It was held at the
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Flint River Regional Library meeting
room.
Atty. Howard Wallace said young
people and adults as well need to know
the risk they run when they use Illegal
drugs.
If they are caught, they are going to
be arrested and go to jail, he said.
“They have to start from this pit,” he
said.
People convicted of drug offenses in
felony cases lose their citizen rights, he
pointed out. They risk serving long
prison terms, he added.
Fernando Martin, Spalding Juvenile
officer, said many times parents are to
blame when their children become
involved in drug cases but not always.
Head, Martin and Wallace were the
panelists who discussed what happens
when a person is caught in a drug case.
Rita Thurston of the League moderated
the program.
One mother wanted to know if the
drug problem in this community is as
increase is $730.
The commissioners held individual
sessions with 3 department heads. They
were Pat Moore of the cemetery
department, Bobby Gatlin of the street
department and Alvin Waller, sanitary
department head.
Each discussed his department needs
with the commissioners, City Manager
Roy Inman and Mr. Schofield.
Each item in the rough drafts was
examined in an effort to determine
where it could be cut or eliminated.
They will be scrutinized more before
the budget is given final approval.
The cemetery department has 12
46 million workers to get fatter paychecks
By R. GREGORY NOKES
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - About 46
million workers will find their
paychecks a little fatter next month,
the result of the new tax cuts that begin
June 1.
The average reduction in weekly
withholding tax will be $2.13.
A family of four earning SIO,OOO will
pay S2OO less in federal income taxes a
year, a drop of about 30 per cent. At
$15,000, the tax reduction will be slll a
year.
President Carter, in signing the tax
cuts into law Monday, called them “a
very great benefit to the American
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, May 24, 1977
employes and a proposed budget of
$153,691, an increase of $13,764 over this
year.
Requests for the street department,
which has 29 employes, totaled $982,202,
compared with this year’s budget of
$699,930.
Included was $95,000 for the Eighth
street railroad crossing which
Commissioners R. L. “Skeeter”
Norsworthy and Ernest “Tiggy” Jones
opposed.
Also in street department requests
are a number of paving projects,
including the North road in the new
Industrial Park; Broad from Third to
average family.” He said 80 per cent of
the estimated $5 billion in tax cuts will
go to people earning less than $15,000
annually.
The reductions, a key part of the
economic program Carter proposed
shortly after taking office, will benefit
only taxpayers who claim the standard
deduction when filing their tax returns.
Taxpayers who itemize will not be
helped.
The new standard deductions are
$3,200 for married couples filing a joint
return and $2,200 for single persons and
heads of households. The old standard
deductions ranged from $2,100 to $2,800
big as it seems or if it has just been
blown up. She said she had had a drug
problem with one of her children and
knew the agony of it.
“It’s as bad as you have read —
perhaps worse,” Head said.
The mother whose daughter has
overcome her drug problem said she
thought more people should be con
cerned. She noted only a few people not
members of the League attended the
meeting.
Another mother asked Wallace what
a young person — or older person for
that matter — should do if he is in
volved in a drug case.
Should they answer police questions,
call a lawyer, or just what, she asked.
If they are involved in the incident,
they had better not say anything until
they get a lawyer, Wallace advised. If
they have done nothing wrong, then
they should tell all they know and help
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Quilter
By MAY WINGFIELD MELTON
Florence Marti has changed her life
style completely. After rearing five of
her six children in northern cities and
suburbs she moved to six acres near
Griffin four years ago and loves “being
in the country” in Georgia.
Married to Ed Marti who is chief
industrial engineer for Carter
Company, she moved to Griffin with
her husband and their youngest son
Matthew and live on Musgrove Road.
Moving from Norwood, Mass., which is
a suburb of Boston, the Martis had lived
in St. Joseph, Mo., Minneapolis, Minn,
and numerous other metropolitan
cities.
Bringing the old fashioned art of
quilting with her when she came
Florence estimates that she has made
almost 70 quilts. Last week she
demonstrated her quilt making skill for
the Newcomers Club here and says that
the most difficult thing for beginning
quilters to learn is how to put the top,
middle and bottom of the quilt together
because of its unwieldy size. Ed
adapted a quilt frame enabling
Florence to hold her work taut.
She has made many crib sized baby
Brawner and Brawner to Solomon;
McKneely street; and Slaton from
Second to Third.
Commissioner Louis Goldstein has
asked for a report of all unpaved streets
in the city. He said he thinks the work
should begin starting from downtown
and working out. Mayor Raymond
Head said he favors paving all the city’s
unpaved streets.
Goldstein also said he thinks North
Hill should be resurfaced before any
other work is done. Driving on it will
damage your car, he noted.
According to Mr. Inman, the state
Department of Transportation is
for couples and $1,700 to $2,400 for
single persons and household heads.
The new law will, however, raise
weekly withholding about $1 for 2.2
million single Americans who earn
more than $13,750 and claim the
standard deduction.
There are several other benefits to
the tax cut legislation. By stan
dardizing the deduction, about 3.3
million low-income families won’t have
to pay income taxes.
The law makes it advantageous for
6.7 million taxpayers who had itemized
deductions to use the standard de
duction.
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Panelists David Head, Fernando Martin, Rita Thurston and Howard Wallace,
Vol. 105 No. 122
quilts from Carter Company scraps
that are given to girls in the office with
new babies. Florence has stitched pink
ones, blue ones, yellow ones and even
the newest baby color, lavender.
Quilt designs are unlimited.
Patchwork is made by “piecing
together” scraps of material in a
specific design for the top. A layer of
polyester is used in the middle and the
bottom is often percale so the whole
thing washes and dries easily. Quilting
is done with a fine running stitch
through the top, middle and bottom
layers. For her own bedroom Mrs.
Marti made a velveteen quilt and is
working on a pink patchwork quilt
using a daisy or dresden plate design.
Gingham plaid with scalloped bound
edges is used in Matthew’s room with
matching curtains. A diamond
patchwork quilt dresses up the bed in
the guest room.
The Martis live in a house that was
built as the parsonage for the Central
Lake Church of God. Ed bought it from
the church four years ago and is happy
to be “back with the land” after years
of city living. He grows strawberries,
peaches and vegetables and specializes
expected to let the contract for North
Hill, along with other streets, soon. The
work should be completed by
December, he said.
The sanitary department has a
problem with its 66 employes failing to
show up for work every day, according
to Mr. Waller.
Sometimes there are 17 to 18 men out
in one day.
He also presented equipment needs
totaling $431,500.
“Sanitary trucks used 6 days a week
wear out in 3 to 4 years. The city’s
getting larger and we have 2 trucks
emptying more than 300 trash
And the new law extends temporary
tax reductions voted in past
congressional sessions, including lower
corporate taxes, the $35 per person tax
credit and the earned income credit.
The total amount of tax help, in
cluding the extensions of past reduc
tions, is estimated at $34.1 billion over
the 28-month period ending Dec. 21,
1978.
The bill contains simplified
procedures for computing tax liability
for nearly all taxpayers. The entire
package is retroactive to the start of
1977.
The law also contains a tax credit for
businesses to enlarge their work forces.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Variable cloudiness tonight through
Wednesday with chance of showers.
Low tonight in mid 60s. High
Wednesday near 80.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at Spalding Forestry unit 62,
high Monday 84.
‘Do not criticize
for at least a year’
in cantaloupes. Ed does all of the
outside work and Florence takes care of
the inside. She laughs and says that
works out especially well in washing
windows.
Prior to coming to Griffin Florence
took lessons in weaving in Boston and
has a loom at her home. Last spring she
spent two weeks at Rabun Gap, Georgia
studying this art and has woven
transparent linen curtains for her living
room as well as the sturdy material
used for a sofa she reupholstered. She
weaves rugs also, thus showing the
versatility of the loom.
Mrs. Marti has more to offer
newcomers than lessons in quilting and
weaving. Living in so many places has
taught her “not to criticize people and
things until you have lived in a place for
at least one year,” because no one likes
for you to refer to how things were done
“back home.” Wherever you go there
are assets and people must be given
time to know you, she says. Chances are
good that you will like where you are
after a year has passed. As for Florence
and Ed, they “love Georgia and
especially the country out from
Griffin.”
containers 6 days a week,” he
explained.
For the last couple of weeks
containers throughout town have been
filled and because of broken equipment,
the trash has been loaded into the
trucks by hand, Waller said.
Tonight, after the regular city
commission meeting, the commiss
ioners will hear needs of the water,
sewerage and electric departments.
They also have scheduled a meeting
Friday night and next Tuesday night.
According to Mr. Inman, the budget
hearings may be completed by the
middle of next week.
People
...and things
Elementary age girl in summer
attire sitting alone on hot paved
driveway at home enjoying ice cream.
Minister, asked what do you know
good, responding, “It’s raining.”
Chunks of cracked concrete near
sidewalk’s edge, removed so city repair
crews can replace worn out sections.
