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■HHVz r few -1/ «14. ! / rt/H J r/UVVpJHH .AjiKwM ■k . BHVi * iXgfc 9l / f; WM« Alice Renee Jett: thinking about story? kS! 7i EfiiSwJW £wM rZlff wfcjTTrwß-fa f fv& 1 WBShHmf 41 •*•• -J Wh IMwETi ■ ‘V* / W&MbmtWl <i* -g* -M •- • .•ajW ■ *' 3 ■w> C S| \' y '" ****** a Wwl HHHmSHk BBMsmLa -■ EMU Check solar progress Dr. Kit Weathers, (1) dentist who has 5 solar energy houses under construction in the Griffin area, consults with Dr. Harry E. Thomason of Ft. Washington, Md. on progress of the projects. He was in Griffin daring the weekend to make some suggestions to Dr. Weathers. Dr. Thomason holds patents on solar equipment Dr. Weathers is using. Dr. Weathers is one of the 30 people in the nation licensed to install the devices the solar expert developed. Thomaston police officer has pet cougar THOMASTON, Ga. (AP) — Who has green eyes, eats four pounds of food a day, and carries a cop at the end of her leash? Trina the cougar, that’s who. Trina doesn’t go on rounds with her owner, Alex Kent, a Thomaston police officer, but she does hold forth at his home. She lives in a fenced-in pen with a wooden shelter big enough to be comfortable for the 100 pounds she is now and the 150 pounds she will weigh when she is full grown. GRIFFIN Daily Since 1872 Kent bought Trina as a cub from an Atlanta zoo nine months ago. He had intended to buy a lion; but the zookeeper told him lions were too hard to handle. There have been a few rough moments since the graceful, green eyed Trina came to Thomaston. For example, her owner’s mother, Mrs. H. C. Kent “like to have had a heart attack” when she first saw Trina, Kent said. And ’here was the fuss the time Trina got out of the pen, although she didn’t leave the fenced-in yard. Kent, who “lets her know who’s Rejection slips don’t stop young Griffin writer One way to get into writing is to change the ending of somebody’s else book because you don’t like the way it ends. This was the way Alice Rene Jett became interested in the world of writing and since has been vying for a literary berth with other American writers. Alice, now a rising senior at Griffin High School, is devoting her energies toward getting some of her works published. She, of course, is experiencing the same sorts of obstacles as other writers but the main thing is she has her hat in the ring. With continued encouragement by her teachers and friends, the aspiring young Griffin writer with so great a potential may become the successful young writer. Alice says her first effort at writing Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, June 20, 1977 Foreman says grand jury will check on drug war High court relieves states of paying for abortions WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court today ruled that neither the Constitution nor federal law requires states to pay for abortions when the lives of mothers are not endangered. In a series of opinions on cases from Connecticut and Pennsylvania, the high court voted 6-3 that the Constitution’s assurance of equal protection under the law and the provisions of the Social Security Act do not mean that states have to pay for elective abortions — even though the states provide financial aid for poor women who decide to bear children. The court, in striking down the decisions of two lower courts, ruled that Pennsylvania officials did not violate the Social Security Act by refusing to pay for elective abortions. The court also said that Connecticut officials did not violate the equal-protection safeguards included in the 14th Amendment by refusing to pay for elective abortions for women on wel fare. The court’s decision, however, said states are free to supply such welfare payments for poor women if they choose to do so. Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. wrote the court’s majority opinion. He was joined People ••• and things Exhausted young man putting bike under shade of bank clock-therometer, sipping cold soft drink from can, as therometer registers in the 90s. Man from north Spalding community reporting on rainfall: “We had enough to dot the dust.” Adult member of church softball team still in uniform after game, shopping shoeless in department store. boss,” spends at least an hour a day with Trina, wrestling with her, walking her on a leash and feeding her four pounds of food, including at least a pound of raw steak. And Mrs. Kent has warmed up to the cat, sitting by Trina’s pen to talk to her and rub her ears. Kent paid S6OO for Trina, whose claws have been removed, and he says he won’t ever let her go. “I wouldn’t take >I,OOO for her now,” he said. “I just love her to death. was when she was in the seventh grade. She began a work which she never completed entitled “One More Rose”. The story was about a young girl who found parttime work in a doctor’s office and met a young man who was terminally ill with cancer. Though she never completed that particular story, Alice did complete a short story with a similar theme which she recently submitted to Harlequin Romance Company. She was later advised by Harlequin that they could not use the work. Alice’s spirit has not been undaunted, for history shows only a few in the world of writing have truly success stories from the beginning. Her latest attempt at publication will be with Seventeen Magazine. Alice is planning to submit a short story entitled “Something Special.” A 14-year-old retarded boy lives in by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justices Byron R. White, William H. Rehnquist and John Paul Stevens. Justices Thurgood Marshall, William J. Brennan Jr. and Harry A. Blackmun dissented. *The Constitution imposes no obligation on the states to pay the pregnancy-related medical expenses of indigent women or indeed to pay any of the medical expenses of indigents,” Powell’s opinion said. Welfare rights organizations and civil liberties attorneys had argued that if states pay for childbearing costs in curred by poor women they had a legal obligation to pay for abortions by poor women. The court rejected that argument. In another decision, the court, again voting 6-3 with the same dissenters, decided that public hospitals have no legal obligation to provide abortions for poor women. The Supreme Court in 1973 ruled that all women have a privacy right which entitles them to choose to end their pregnancy during its first three months. Congress currently is considering a bill that would outlaw any federal funds for abortions. The so-called Hyde amendment passed the House last week and now is heading for the Senate. The federal government currently pays for one-third of all abortions performed each year through Medicaid, the federal health service for the poor. This accounts for 300,000 abor tions annually at a cost of SSO million, with one-third of the Medicaid abor tions for teenagers, government figures indicate. jffe* % ’ll jll I Jb I Instead of owning a police dog, Alex Kent has a cougar. town across the street from two boys whose father drives a school bus. The boy because of his handicap has never ridden a school bus and that has become a preoccupation with him. He is hindered by the fact that the two boys make fun of him and unrelentlingly pick at him. The tables turn, however, when the two boys’ lives are endangered and they need help. Alice said she has written 14 short stories and some poetry. She says she is not that interested in poetry and does not devote much of her time to it. What she really has devoted a lot of time to is a full length novel for which she has to get a new title. “I had chosen ‘One Day at a Time’ but there is now a television series by that same title. I guess I’ll have to change that,” Alice said. Vol. 105 No. 145 The Spalding County grand jury which met for the June term this morning will continue to search for a solution to the drug problem in Griffin. Mark C. Kapiloff, foreman, said the jury would be looking into the recommendations made at the February term to see how many of them had been carried out. “We notice in the Griffin Daily News that some things have been done,” Kapiloff said. Kapiloff said he did not know if there would be any new recommendations from the grand jury until after the previous recommendations and accomplishments during the interim were reviewed. One of the recommendations of the grand jury was the Spalding County Commissioners provide funding for two deputies to work on the drug problem. Spalding County Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert made some adjustments in his department and assigned two deputies to a drug squad. Sgt. David Head is in charge of the drug squad and he is assisted by deputy Lee Oxford. No additional funds were provided by the Spalding County commissioners for the additional personnel, but Sheriff Gilbert made the transfers within the department. The grand jury is expected to get a report from the county commissioners at the June term. The presentments at the end of the The Country Parson by Frank Clark “Prejudice is what folks have when they listen to your argument and still aren’t convinced.” Her novel has some 400 pages. Writing once begun takes on an urgency for Alice. “Once I get started I want to get it finished,” Alice said. But Alice is young and with perserverance time will add enhancement to her skills as she makes her way to the top. Alice would like to attend either Georgia Tech or the University of Georgia where she “more or less” plans to major in journalism or mathematics. And still yet another year at Griffin High with the encouragement of her English teachers, Mrs. Sarah Ellison, Mrs. Virginia Bailey and Dr. Richard Beaton, Alice has only an open road ahead. Alice is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Jett of Dobbins Mill road in Griffin. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Partly cloudy through Tuesday with chance of mainly afternoon and evening thundershowers. Low tonight near 70. High Tuesday near 90. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit 68, high Sunday 92, trace of rainfall. Foreman Kapiloff February term encouraged the cooperation of the city and county law enforcement officers and cooperation of citizens in the battle to control the use and selling of drugs in Griffin and Spalding County. Several drugs raids have been conducted in the city and county and one of the major raids netted several arrests with the aid of out-of-county undercover agents. Grand jury recommendations, if any, are expected in the week. No word on prof ATLANTA (AP) — Ed Lormand, the Georgia man who is trying to sail a small boat across the Atlantic Ocean, has not been heard from since he put out to sea more than a week ago. But that is to be expected, his wife Fran said Sunday. “The way I feel right now is that no news is good news,” she said. Lormand, a music teacher at DeKalb County Community College in suburban Atlanta, did not take a two-way radio on his 28-foot sloop when he set sail June 11 from Fernandina Beach, Fla., en route to Plymouth, England. A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said no ships have reported sighting him. Hampton outage Georgia Power customers in Hampton will be without electricity Tuesday between noon and 1 p.m. The outage was scheduled so some work could be done on a substation involved in the supply of electricity to that Henry County city.
