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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1977)
*-■' aiibi *< <B al '■'*'' && L X 1 iKv ■ X .., ■; ' M<> , *• * ■»«£• J| S> • ■ B ‘« ' MTFKFx . B ’’f ; Mr. and Mrs. Sigman with memento of visit. GRIFFIN Daily Since 1872 Feely wants to protect privacy at G-S hospital Publishing exact salaries of hospital personnel would be an invasion of privacy, according to Griffin-Spalding Hospital Director William Feely. Feely, who has been under pressure from City Commissioner Louis Gold stein to publicize the salaries, said he will recommend to the Hospital Authority at its meeting tonight that the authority take the advice of County Commissioner Reid Childers. That advice, said Feely, is that anyone who wants to look at the records and is dissatisfied with Feely’s decision about them, can come to the authority meeting and “we will all as a working group determine if the request is valid,” Feely said. “Let them look at whatever records are necessary and which do not violate anyone’s rights,” Feely said. Feely said he has offered to make public the salary range, from the starting rate to the highest amount the Carter expresses Bert confidence WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter says he has confidence in , Budget Director Bert Lance but knows Lance will quit if government in vestigators prove there are any impro prieties in his financial dealings. ' The President’s statement was his first expression of personal confidence in Lance since the Treasury Depart ment, under the authority of the comp troller of the currency, began in vestigating loans Carter’s longtime friend obtained when he was a Georgia banker. Carter spoke in an interview with ABC News that was broadcast Sunday night. He was questioned Wednesday, Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Continued hot and humid through • Tuesday with chance of thun dershowers. LOCAL WEATHER — Low this morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 68, high Sunday 87. Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday Afternoon, August 15,1977 job pays, of any job in the hospital. He compared the state of hospital personnel during the last 2 weeks with Anthropologist Margaret Mead’s description (in the August issue of Redbook Magazine) of a person whose privacy has been invaded as “feeling insulted, outraged and denigrated.” “It should not be this way. We have a dual responsibility both to the public and the individual,” he said. “We want to give information to the public, not because we are a tax sup ported hospital, but because we are a hospital. The amount of taxes spent on a hospital does not determine its responsibility to th? public. Its function determines that. “However, individuals, both patients and employes, have rights that are to be protected. These protected rights do not interfere with public information when the information is documented in a correct and dignified manner,” Feely at the end of a five-day visit to his hometown of Plains, Ga. Since Wed nesday, there have been reports that the comptroller has broadened his investigation. The New York Times said Saturday that investigators for Comptroller John Heimann are searching the records for about 20 additional loans which might have been extended to Mrs. Lance, as well as other family members and business entities. In a story Sunday, the Times said “a potentially embarrassing agreement” between Lance and Robert Bloom, act ing comptroller before Heimann took office, was rescinded the day before Carter nominated Lance to be budget director. Under the agreement, signed Dec. 2, 1975, Lance pledged to correct a number of serious management deficiencies at his Calhoun First National Bank in Georgia, some of which violated the law, the Times said. Former fighter pilot who fought Japanese during World War II finds them friendly when he visits Homer Sigman and his wife, Willie, were impressed with the beauty of the Japanese islands and the friendliness of the people while there on tour. Sigman said the ancient country is showing sign of Westernism so much so that a customary friendly bow now also includes a hand shake as well. He said the Japanese people are a friendly and seemingly humble as exemplified by the customary bow. Sigman, a local car dealer, was awarded the trip to Japan with several hundred other dealers in the southeastern area for increased sales. The 10-day trip including travel time was eventful from the start, according to Sigman. They went from Atlanta to San Francisco to Anchorage Alaska. The stop in Alaska was not scheduled but Sigman said he was happy just to get the chance to land there to say he has also been to Alaska. “That was a treat,” Sigman said. “I was just impressed looking out the window at the low treelines of the Alaskan landscape,” he continued. Upon arrival in Japan the sponsoring company gave the usual tour of the company in Nagoya, home of the Toyota plant. The Sigmans spent the rest of their time between Nagoya and Tokyo. said. Feely’s statement which he will read to board members tonight in cludes sections of the Privacy Act of 1974, a law concerned with protecting the privacy of the individual. “Hospitals involve the most intimate parts of people’s lives. Most of us are born here and many of us die here. Not everyone wants these events publicized. This is why hospital records have been protected by law. This does not mean that hospitals are secretive,” he said. Feely said even though he thinks the hospital’s annual financial records should be made public, he is opposed to publicizing interim financial operating reports. They are incomplete and are misleading in that they represent a very short segment of the financial cycle, he said. He cited an example in the spring People ••• and things Sheep dog, obviously having climbed through open second story window of house, watching busy afternoon traffic on old U. S. 41 from roof. Five-year-old to older escort as he took a seat on floor of bank lobby, “I am tired; I’ve been on my feet all day.” Chain-link fence going up on East Broadway, along railroad tracks. The Country Parson In I .auk ( lark “Whcn people supplied their own energy they didn’t seqm to worry so much about shor tages.” The cleanliness of the countryside struck a lasting impression with both Sigmans. “It was a clean country, the people seemed to be obsessed with cleanliness,” Sigman said. It was hard for a car dealer not to notice the interest the Japanese people take in the care of their cars. He said they were washing them everywhere. “They are fanatics about keeping their cars clean,” Sigman said. Sigman said he was impressed with their energy and industriousness. “They all seemed to enjoy what they were doing and they were doing it in a hurry,” the Griffin car dealer said. Sigman could be considered a tour guide’s dream patron because he listened and ably rattled off cultural differences he heard while on tour in the country. One, for instance, is that a written Japanese word would begin with Chinese characters and would end with Japanese phonics. There are 48 Japanese phonics and 1800 Chinese characters. Five of the Japanese phonics are vowels which always have the same sound as opposed to the dif ferent sounds we give our vowels. As far as Western influences are concerned, English appears oc- Vol. 105 No. 192 when it was publicized that the hospital made a profit of SIOO,OOO for one month. The public probably still thinks the hospital is making a great deal of money. But this is not true. We will probably show about a $30,000 loss for the entire fiscal year, he explained. “Ideally we work to provide services and to break even. The estimated $30,000 loss is close to break-even, considering the size of our budget," he said. “The public is entitled to know the financial status of their hospital, however, I think it should be certified through a certified Public Accountant to be accurate and complete, he con tinued. Feely said he will recommend that the authority make available to the public an annual report which has been certified, stating the financial status. “I think the annual audit in which the hospital is reviewed by an objective outside accountant firm should be available for anyone in the community to review, he said. “For some reason, our committee meetings in the past have gotten the reputation of being secretive. I believe the authority needs to destroy this image,” he said. Feely said he will recommend that all committee meetings, except the executive committee, be made ad visory and that they meet for discussion (Continued on page 2) Gov. Busbee names McDaniel state school superintendent ATLANTA (AP) — The superin tendent of the Clarke County school system, Dr. Charles McDaniel, was named today as superintendent of state schools by Gov. George Busbee. He replaces Jack Nix who resigned two weeks ago. McDaniel, 54, began his education career as an elementary school teacher in Tucker, Ga., in 1946, later serving as a principal at 2 high schools and as superintendent of Thomasville public schools until he was appointed superin tendent in Clarke County in 1969. casionally among the characters. The Sigmans rode on a 130 mile per hour train called the “Bullet”. The Toyota company also spelled out Toyota in English on its cars destined for Japan. Sigman said the island once belonged to the Ainu Indians of which there are only some 13,000 pure Ainus left. “America and Japan have the same kind of background because they both got land from the Indians,” Sigman quipped. The Sigmans thought the food in the country was good and estimated one could feed two persons for an average good meal in the restaurants there for around S3O. They had one meal which cost them around SSO, tips included. The meal included Kobe beef which had been massaged and tenderized, according to Sigman. He said generally the Japanese eat a lot of fish and rice but more and more they are eating more beef. Mrs. Sigman tried some of the rice and was completely disappointed in the flavor. The rice was gummy and was not seasoned. “I was completely disappointed; it was void of flavor, the worse rice you could eat,” Mrs. Sigman said. The Sigmans did not worry about drinking the water as do most Bl ■ BggWßßis. B x A I' ■ ■KBe" f| B . ' Winner The camera caught Paula Westmoreland in the act of winning a trophy in the tournament at city park Sunday afternoon. More pictures and story on page 6. In accepting the appointment, which McDaniel said he had not sought, he said he was optimistic about public education in Georgia but has “no illusions about the pace or the price of real progress in our schools." At a news conference, Gov. Busbee praised McDaniel’s “rich diversity of public school experience and sufficient range of responsible positions to truly know the problems and potential of public education in Georgia.” “We have islands of high academic achievement in systems whose overall Americans in many foreign countries. They said the water was well treated like that in the states. Sigman said one carrying enough Japanese money, the yen, would have large denomination pieces in his possession. The value of the yen fluc tuates amounting to 269.9 yens to a dollar. Money, therefore, is printed in denominations such as 5,000,10,000 and others. “I never did get used to figuring the yen,” Mrs. Sigman said. Sigman, a naval aviator and dive bomber pilot during World War II against the Japanese, had a special interest in the Japanese city called Ota City. He asked a guide if they still have an aircraft factory there. The guide said there was one there but now its an automobile plant. “I never would tell him I bombed it,” Sigman quipped. Those things of war behind, Sigman feels the Japanese people are peace loving and do not want war any more. Night life in Japan is about the same as in the States. The Sigmans toured the Mikado Cabaret, a Las Vegas type club. They said the girls were not quite as bare, however, as they are in Las (Continued on page 3.) academic results are disappointing, and we have islands of disappointing academic results in systems whose overall record is excellent,” Busbee said. It will be up to McDaniel to try to improve both the weak systems and the weak spots in the strong systems. “My objective will be to build upon that which is sound and effective in our. educational system and to begin to change those parts which need to be strengthened,” McDaniel said.
