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-Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 11,1977
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By JULES LOH
AP Special Correspondent
PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Like many other teen-aged
boys, Kevin Flood earned his summer money mowing
lawns and tending gardens. Unlike other boys, he liked it.
He thought of it more as fun than work, especially the
gardening.
Even then, Kevin Flood seemed to be a natural-born
gardener and now, at 23, the garden he tends is a most un
usual one.
“Not many other gardeners get to work in air
conditioned comfort. I’m lucky, I guess. Os course, I also
take care of the trees and plantings outside.”
Kevin Flood is the chief horticulturist at Paramus Park.
Everybody knows Paramus Park, or something very like
it.
Paramus Park is one of those huge shopping malls, one
of the really massive ones, the mobile society’s answer to
the general store. It has acres of diagonally lined parking
places, no fewer than 118 terribly clever stores, mossy
waterfalls, bubbling fountains, a United Nations of instant
souvlaki, instant tacos, instant crepes, instant bratwurst,
all under one glass roof, and with instant rriusic playing
every instant.
Oh well, at least the flowers are real.
“No, I couldn’t tell you how much room all the flowers
would take up if you put all the planters together. Enough,
that’s for sure. We have about 50 trees and all varieties of
tropical plants: gardenia, palm, schefflers, diffenbachia,
spathiphyllum. After a while you get to know every one.
Not every variety, every plant.
“Taking care of them is a full-time job, all right. The
biggest concentration is at the waterfall. That’s where I
spend a good deal of my time.”
The waterfall is a six-tiered, two-story confection
surrounded by greenery and escalators and people eating
off paper plates.
As with other such watery places in this land, the pools
at Paramus Park are full of coins. Somehow Americans
can’t seem to resist throwing money if it splashes but
doesn’t quite disappear.
“I clean them out about every six weeks and pick up
anywhere from S3OO to $500,” Kevin Flood said. “I don’t
mind that job because the money goes to local charities.
“What I don’t like is cleaning out the cups and napkins
and cigarettes and other junk. I have to do that every
right assignment.”
Police were led to Berkowitz by a
ticket written for parking too near a fire
hydrant. The ticket was issued the night
Miss Moskowitz and Violante were
shot, in the neighborhood of the
shooting.
Police said they found a note ad
dressed to them in Berkowitz’ car. The
contents of the note, printed in the same
style used in earlier notes to the police
and newspaper columnist Jimmy
Beslin, were chilling:
“Because Craig is Craig
particular, she had never heard before.
Miss Lang speaks English fluently.
Her mother tongue is German. She has
also studied some French.
In general Miss Lang said her idea of
America was a naive one.
“The only consolation I have is that
others in my country have the same
ideas,” the Austrian said.
She had expected to see skyscrapers
everywhere and extremes in every
thing everywhere.
With relation to the south she ex
pected a semblance of what she had
read in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin” and as in the works of
writer, William Faulkner.
Miss Lang said now she was very
happy that she started her tour of
America in the south because a lot of
the preconceived ideas have now been
eliminated.
Miss tang said the roads in this
country are larger and so are the cars.
She was surprised to learn that every
little town did not have access to a bus
or train. In Austria not as much
dependence is placed on the car as in
this country. They don’t have as many
cars so they use more public tran
sportation.
The Austrian said living standards
are higher here than in her country and
she feels a lot of emphasis has been put
on materialism. But it is because of that
materialism one in America has an
enormous selection of goods, say in the
supermarket.
Miss tang said one would expect to
find com flakes and honey pops as
cereals in the grocery stores in Austria.
Here one finds at least 30 different
kinds of cereals on a grocery shelf.
Miss tang, however, did not offer a
harsh indictment for such materialism.
She said she had noticed that
Americans are willing to share what
they have.
“As long as they share its no failure
to be materialistic,” Miss Lang said.
She said she has enjoyed the food
very much and feels that Americans
have been very clever by picking the
Lucky gardener works in comfort
Son of Sam
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“So must the streets
“Be filled with Craig (death)
“And huge drops of lead
“Poured down upon her head
“Until she was dead.
“Yet, the cats still come out at night
to mate
“And the sparrows still sing in the
morning.”
Police said Craig was a deputy sheriff
in Westchester County, where Yonkers
is located. They said he lived in the
apartment below Berkowitz.
There were conflicting reports as to
the origin of the name “Son of Sam.”
Police said Berkowitz, whose mother
Austrian visitor
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very best of the foods of the European
countries in particular. Their choices
are combined to make even better
meals.
Miss tang said she was surprised at
the amount of meat Americans eat.
Vegetables or sweets are alternated
with meats as the main dishes in her
country.
“I have eaten more steak in this
country than I have ever eaten in my
whole life,” Miss tang said.
Breakfast is also different in the
states than in Austria. A typical
Austrian breakfast includes coffee or
tea, bread, butter, and jam.
Miss tang has been collecting recipes
and she plans to try some of them when
she returns home.
Grits were not new to her in the truest
sense of the word because she eats
cream of wheat in her country. They
eat it with cream and sugar. The idea of
making the dish with com was new.
Miss tang had her first taste of okra
here and saw her first broccoli plants at
the Experiment Station. She also got to
see her first “herbal devils,” poison ivy
and poison oak.
She said she was happy to learn that
watermelons did not grow on trees.
Miss tang is a Catholic and has been
exposed to religious theology
throughout her formal education in the
Austrian school system. She was
surprised at the hand shakes, hugs and
kisses exhibited by worshippers during
mass here. A lot of emphasis is put on
theology and applauding and even the
occasional laughs in church are totally
unacceptable in her country.
“Its not so much what you know but
how you live,” Miss tang said.
Miss tang got her introduction to a
fast food establishment after an outing
with the Scouts. She asked the kids
where she could find silverwear in
order to eat her hamburger.
“I had never eaten like that before,
everything right out of the paper bag,”
the Austrian counselor said.
She said her countrymen would eat
fast food as a necessity and not for
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Kevin Flood, 23-year-old gardner at Paramus Mall Park,
Paramus, N. J. prunes plants in the area near a waterfall
next to a restaurant and shops. “Not many other gar
deners get to work in air-conditioned comfort. I’m lucky, I
guess,” says Flood. (AP)
is dead and whose father, Nat, repor
tedly lives in Miami, told them Son of
Sam was a 6,000-year-old voice which
had spoken to him over the years. They
said he told them he communicated
with Sam through a dog.
The ticket was issued to Berkowitz’
car near Shore Road along the
Brooklyn waterfront, where it was
illegally parked, police said.
The connection between the ticket
and the shootings of Miss Moskowitz
and Violante came from a middle-aged
woman walking her dog, police said.
She apparently came face to face with
the killer.
pleasure as is accepted by most
American youths.
“I don’t think Austria is ready for a
McDonald’s yet,” she continued.
With relation to what is considered
old in this country as opposed to old in
Austria, Miss tang said she has to
revamp her thinking.
The cathedral where she worships is
about 1,000-years-old and that is what
she considers old. Anything under 500
years old is considered new.
Miss tang said she had expected to
see some very great differences con
cerning the women’s lib movement
since all such news first breaks in
America and England.
She said the roles of man to woman
were the same in both countries. There
is the man of the house here as well as
there. Sometimes more or less for in
both countries there are the henpecked
and as they say in Austria there is the
one “standing under the slipper.”
Miss tang has been staying with the
Dale Carleys of 109 Greenwood Court in
Griffin while away from camp.
Her trip was arranged by the Girl
Scout Council and she is planning to
spend the next three weeks touring the
nation’s capital and New York City. She
is also scheduled to visit historic
Savannah, and North and South
Carolina.
Mrs. Nan Carley said the family had
learned more from Miss Lang than she
had learned from them.
Miss tang said Mrs. Carley had been
like a mother to her.
Her own mother works in a printing
company and her father is a tool
maker.
One thing Miss tang says she knows
for sure. The American people are very
hospitable.
Come September 12, Miss Lang will
begin teaching English and science at
one of the Austrian secondary schools.
She says she hopes to return to the
states one day for she has just seen
enough to be sad to leave it but happy
that she has seen it.
morning.
“It makes you wonder about people. Why would
someone want to spoil something pretty? Most of the
damage to the plants, all of it, really, is done by people.
“They pick at the leaves, pull them off. They break
branches off the trees. They carve their initials. Did you
know that Benny loves Mary? The people who do these
things aren’t just kids. I’ve caught ladies pulling up whole
plants and putting them in their shopping bags.”
But, he says the damage is done by just a few people,
and many others express their satisfaction at the beauty
of his works.
Woman willing to barter
with county for highway
UNIONVILLE, lowa (AP) -
Mrs. Clifford Burger says She’S
willing to barter after the coun
ty accidentally sold her part of
one of its highways for $5.
“I don’t want to just give it
back, so I proposed that if the
county would gravel our lane at
our farm, I’d give them their
highway back,” said the rural
Unionville woman.
Mrs. Burger bought the 300-
foot by 100-foot lot containing
part of the road near Mystic in
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south-central lowa at a tax sale
in July. A Missouri man has of
fered her $4,500 for it.
County officials say the sale
should be voided, since the road
is a farm-to-market highway.
But they can’t figure out how to
do it.
The county said it apparently
had bought the lot in 1965, but
that the sale never was deeded
to the county’s secondary road
department.
School System completes
plans for handicapped
The Griffin-Spalding County
School System has completed
its plan for the education of
handicapped children under
Part B of the Education of the
Handicapped Act, as amended
by Public Law 94-142.
The Plan includes assurances
that all handicapped children
have available to them a free
Mt. Pleasant
homecoming
Revival week at Mount
Pleasant Baptist Church will
start with a homecoming ser
vice Sunday at 3 p.m.
The Rev. J. H. Miller, pastor
of the Holly Grove Baptist
Church, will bring the home
coming message.
Revival services have been
scheduled beginning Monday
August 15 through Friday with
each evening services starting
at 7:30 p.m.
The Rev. J. L. Henderson,
pastor of the New Saint John
Baptist Church of Atlanta, will
be the revival evangelist.
The Rev. Horace Fuller, Jr. is
the pastor at Mount Pleasant.
appropriate public education,
emphasizing special education
and related services to meet
their unique needs. Also this
plan assures that the rights of
the child, parents or guardian
are protected and that
assistance will be provided to
state and local education
agencies in providing for the
education of all handicapped
children.
All interested parties may
view the plan Aug. 15 - Sept. 15
at the Hawkes Instructional
Center, located on the comer of
Sixth and Taylor streets.
Stork Club
MASTER GRIER
Mr. and Mrs. James Grier of
241 Valley road, Jackson, an
nounce the birth of a son on Aug.
10 at the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital.
LITTLE MISS JESTER
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lee
Jester of 110 Riley circle,
Griffin, announce the birth of a
daughter on Aug. 10 at the
Griffin-Spalding County
Hospital.
