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'• - Ik v ■ I —Bl .. . Jr lb B ■ |r F A v. r ■ Robert Whitted (r) and his father Ray work on log home. Building log home Whitteds take trees rather than solar heat The Robert Whitteds feel the best way to get an edge on the energy crunch is to go at it in a natural way. Robert Whitted is constructing his own modem day log cabin in the true fashion of early pioneers, he is doing a lot of the work himself. In the middle of a dense stand of pines on East Mclntosh road, Whitted has cleared an area for his home. The felled trees are stacked carefully as logs to be used to supply the initial heating for the home. “I want the whole house to be wood and stone, the two most natural things I know,” Whitted said. And wood the home is, too. The walls vary between 8 and 11 inches of thick, solid, wooden logs. The ponderosa pine logs are cut flat on the top and bottom with a groove milled down the center. The logs are laid one on the other in a tongue and groove fashion with a polyethylene gasket between them to keep the winter air out. “It’s like triple protection because the tongue and groove will also keep the winter air out,” Whitted said. The logs are spiked every four feet with 12 inch metal nails which must be driven in with an eight-pound hammer. The Country Parson by Frank Clark I W I i —’<*-**** “A lot of Christians seem to think Jesus would have been more effective if he’d had ac cess to a B-l bomber.” Decline in board scores blamed on ‘traumas’ By MALCOIM N. CARTER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK(AP) — A steady 14-year decline in College Board scores was blamed today on national “traumas” such as the Vietnam war and Watergate, lower educational stan dards and the increasing number of minority, poor and inferior students taking the tests. A special 21-member panel, headed by former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, also blamed television and the DAI EV Daily Since 1872 “When you put them there, they are there to stay,” Whitted said. As far as insulating the house is concerned, Whitted said that wood is one of the best insulators in itself. “The thick wooden walls are three times better than 6-inches of fiberglass insulation,” he said. Whitted and his father who has come from North Carolina to help with the construction of the home, are doing so with a kit which he purchased some 10 months ago. While he was awaiting the arrival of the logs, Whitted expanded upon the total square area of the house by building a lower level which will now become his basement. He has laid the logs on the basement level and his home will now include three levels with some 2300 square feet. Two bedrooms will be included in the third level attic. Whitted plans to use stone to finish the outside of the lower level. Basement not included, the house will have 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, living room, baths and a fireplace. The basement area will be completed at a later date. The fireplace will play a most im portant role in the home because Whitted plans to heat his whole home with the fireplace in conjunction with a wood burning heater. During the first year of occupancy the Whitteds plan to heat their home with water which will be heated in coils in the special wood burning heater. The heated water will be piped throughout the house in a radiator-type heating system. After the first year, Whitted plans to purchase an oil burning furnace to be specially connected to his wood burning stove. The oil burner will have a special thermostat which will activate it only when water passing through the coils in the wood burning heater has dropped to a temperature too low to heat the house. The energy-conscious Whitteds said they would like to have had a solar nation’s divorce rate in its 75-page report on the results of a two-year study. The decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores constitutes “serious business warranting careful attention by everybody interested in education,” the group said. Since 1963, the average score in the Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal section has dropped 49 points, from 478 to 429. Mathematics scores declined 32 points, from 502 to 470. griffin Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, August 23, 1977 energy home but they liked the wooded area surrounding of their home too much. “I would like to go solar but I haven’t got the exposure for it. I want to keep my trees,” Whitted said. The densely shaded homesite will lend an air of authenticity to the modem day log cabin which Whitted even plans to cover at a later date with cedar shingles. “Wood just gives me a warm feeling,” Whitted said. That kind of warm feeling will be the theme of the house because wood will be evident everywhere. The logs that make up the outside wall will maintain their rustic look for the inside walls. Only the wall area to partition the rooms will be covered with wood paneling. The ceiling will be covered with Ixl2 boards which will be stained in order to keep the wood look. The maintenance of the house will be minimal, Whitted said. He will have to spray it every 5 years with pen tachorophenol, a wood preservative. “I just have to spray it every 5 years and thats it, live and enjoy it,” W ! tted said. Whitted and his wife, Jennie, and their 4-month-old son, Jason, will be moving into their new home by mid- October. People ...and things Truck with family’s furnishings passing through town with VW in tow; two boys and dog peeping from under canvas protecting furniture, family cat playing around in car. Griffinite who was stricken ill on a Caribbean cruise vowing he’ll never get sick away from home again... because he’ll never leave home again. College coed talking parents into letting her live in an off campus apartment, by telling what goes on in the dorm. Scores range from 200 to 800. The Wi hour test is given by the College En trance Examination Board to about one million high school students a year as a tool for colleges trying to gauge future academic success. The report noted that the 14-year period was divided into two seven-year time brackets by societal events. The report said the decline before 1970 was due largely to a change in the kinds of students taking the test. In the seven years since, with the test-taking group NEWS City votes tonight on sacking meters City commissioners will vote tonight on whether to do away with downtown parking meters for a trial period of time. Two opposing groups of merchants, one wanting to take down the meters and the other wanting to keep them, already have expressed their views to the board. Both sides are expected to be at tonight’s meeting, beginning at 7:30 at city hall. Opposition to removing the meters is based solely on keeping off-street parking lots, according to Felton Rainwater. He and 5 other merchants came to this morning’s commission meeting to ask that the city use tax money to pay rent on the parking lots if meters are removed. “I’m not a meter lover, but we can’t stand idly by and see the meters removed, if the lots are not going to be kept,” Rainwater said. According to City Manager Roy Inman, revenue from meters has been declining in the last 3 years. In 1975 the Carter to reimburse NBG for flights WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential spokesman Jody Powell, conceding that Jimmy Carter and his campaign committee owe more than $1,700 for flights on an airplane owned by a bank Bert Lance once headed, says a com plete review of Carter’s campaign records may take four years. Powell said Monday that the tab for flights in 1975 and 1976 on the plane of Nutritionist has answers Is it safe to eat matured lasagna? MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Whether it is safe to eat a recently deceased lobster or lasagna that has matured five hours in the trunk of a car falls within the expertise of Charlotte Dunn. Miss Dunn, who announces cheerfully she is “55 and over the hill,” is a food nutrition specialist with the University of Wisconsin Extension. She works from an office crammed with canning lids, notebooks and piles of the 43 food information pamphlets she has written for the Extension. She says she gets about 30 calls a day from people who have questions on nutrition and food. Miss Dunn, settling back casually with her right foot propped on the chair seat, recalls some of the questions. “There’s this one: ‘Grandma died and we’re cleaning out her basement. We’ve found food from umpteen years back and we can use it, can’t we?*” She grimaces. “I tell them, umpteen years you’ve lived without it and I want you to go on living.” She admits her telephone manner is occasionally abrasive. “I get a little impatient,” she says. “I always say if anyone talked to me like I talk to some of them, I’d hang up on me. But you’re taking such a chance. You have a product that could mean death and you’re being sloppy with it” stabilized, other developments in the schools annd society were held responsible. Between two-thirds and three-fourths of the decline until 1970 was related to the “notable extension and expansion of educational opportunity in the United States,” the panel said. With many more young persons staying in high school and going on to college, the panel said, there has been a greater proportion of test takers who i have lower high school grades and who I Vol. 105 No. 199 city took in $65,878; in 1976, $57,005; and through April 30 of this fiscal year, $42,150. Inman said he anticipates the revenue to total not more than $50,000 this year. The figures include money from meters, parking fines and contributions from merchants. “The decline in revenue indicates where the customers are going. Those businesses didn’t leave all those downtown buildings sitting vacant because they were making money. They’d have stayed if they were,” said Henry Lewis. He said he’d like to see meters removed and downtown parking con trolled with the lots retained for downtown workers. Rental and taxes on off street lots amounts to some $40,000 per year. “There’s no way merchants can raise enough to pay that," Rainwater said. The group also discussed how much the fines should be for parking on the streets longer than 2 hours. Commissioner Louis Goldstein said he thinks the fine should be high enough the National Bank of Georgia was 11,793.70. He said the Carter campaign com mittee would use leftover campaign funds to reimburse the bank at least $865.80. Carter could end up paying the remaining $927.90 if it is determined that the flights involved were not legitimate campaign expenses, the spokesman said. ic Charlotte Dunn, food nutrition specialist with the University of Wisconsin Extension, talks to about 30 callers a day, an swering queries on everything from canning to what steps to take when your freezer goes out. (AP) Miss Dunn says she thinks many callers’ problems arise from carelessness or inexperience, and “they want you to tell them it’s all right.” Often it isn’t all right — as in the case come from the low-income and minority groups which traditionally score low. The growing number of women taking thhe SATs contributed to a decline in the mathematics scores, the study also noted. Women have traditionally scored higher than men in the verbal section. However, the study rejected the interpretation that student makeup was the basic cause, using instead the ex- Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Chance of showers tonight becoming likely Wednesday. Low tonight around 70; high Wednesday in low 80s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 66, high Monday 90. to discourage people from abusing parking privileges. If it’s not more than a dollar, people will park on the street all day, he said. He said he favored a $2 fine. "The whole key is to increase taxes by one-half mill. We can’t just pick up $40,000 to $50,000 per year,” Goldstein said. Mayor Raymond Head suggested that if the local option sales tax passes, it be used to provide off street parking. "On street free parking is not the problem with downtown. It’s the land lord’s failure to keep up their facilities,” commented Inman. Inman also said he thinks the costs of controlled parking will be “greater than ever” and will require more people to enforce. “Costs can be kept to a minimum if all proprietors see that their employes use the lots and if the fines are high enough to discourage abuse,” Inman said. The commissioners agreed to vote tonight on not using the meters for a trial period. Powell said at the daily White House news briefing that “the President has decided he will personally reimburse any portion of the flights that were not campaign expenditures.” The press secretary said the five flights in the twin-engine Beechcraft airplane carried Carter around Georgia and into Tennessee for campaign events, meetings, a dinner with Lance (Continued on page 2) of a woman who wanted to be reassured that a lasagna casserole left in her car trunk five hours was still edible. It wasn’t. Miss Dunn, who has held her position since 1956, fires off answers like a drill sergeant surveying the troops. She seldom has to consult books for an swers. Many callers want to know if they can freeze a certain food. In most cases they can, although Miss Dunn advises them to freeze a small amount first to see if they like the quality of the thawed food. “I tell them you can always freeze your husband, too, but the quality may not be there when you thaw him out,” she says in her Oklahoma twang. With the pickle season waning soon — she and co-worker Mary Mennes get 7,000 questions a year on canning, pick ling and freezing — come ham and turkey questions. Then the January lull, followed by gardening questions. Occasionally she gets calls at home. She answers all questions, including one about a deceased lobster. “*We had two live lobsters in an ice chest. One passed away during the night. Is it okay to eat it?”’ she reads. “Oh no,” she says with a shake of her head. “We don’t know what time he died.” planation that lower scores resulted from “the incompleteness so far of the national undertaking to afford meaningful equality of educational opportunity.” The panelists — who were drawn from such institutions as the Ford Foundation, universities and high schools — said their analysis of causes since 1970 was based on “circum stantial evidence” because no clear causal relationships could be proved.
