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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1977)
j ■ ! M laiß I r ll i * All * i ‘ ■ ’-■ w p-" Mrs. Sara Basinger: Griffin has good system Open house (Continued from page one.) their homeroom number, and report to their homeroom where class schedules will be given each student. All 10th, 11th and 12th grade students will report to their homerooms at Griffin High School. Teachers, principals and other school personnel will be guests of the Chamber of Commerce Friday at noon at Junior High II cafeteria for the annual Business, Industry and Education day. Remley Harris, public relations specialist for Seaboard Coastline Railroad, will discuss free enterprise. Anti-burglary campaign planned Religious and civic leaders will meet tonight to map plans for a campaign against burglary and thefts in the city and county and to show support of local law enforcement officers. Leaders have called a news con ference for 6:30 tonight at the Muhammad Masjid at 315 North Third street to outline plans for the campaign. A spokesman said residents of the community will be urged not to pur chase stolen merchandise. “We feel this is one way the community can help to reduce the number of thefts and burglaries in the community,” he said. Trade deficit is improving By R. GREGORY NOKES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States had a deficit in its trade with other nations of more than $2.3 billion in July, an improvement over the June trade deficit but still the fourth worst trade month on record, the Commerce Department said today. Contributing to the improve ment in the nation’s trade pic ture in July was a decline of $307 million in imports of foreign oil during the month. Total petroleum imports in July were valued at just under $3.6 billion. The nation had an over-all record trade deficit of $2.8 bil lion in June. During the first seven months of this year, the total deficit in U.S. trade was more than $14.9 billion, far ecl ipsing the previous record an nual deficit of $6.4 billion in 1972. The small improvement in the July trade figures was unlikely to end concern that the con tinuing large U.S. trade deficit could contribute to a further How 2 teachers get ready decline in the value of the U.S. dollar in international money markets. Since the United States has been buying more than it has been selling, the nations’ trad ing partners are accumulating large surpluses in American dollars. The surplus dollars tend to decline in value as they continue to build. The Commerce Department said over-all exports in July in creased slightly to slightly more than slO.l billion, a gain of four tenths of one per cent over the June total. The Commerce Department said exports rose slightly during July to a total of $10,149 million, an increase of four-tenths of one per cent over June. Imports declined to $12,476 million, down 3.5 per cent from the record June total of $12,932 million. In addition to the drop in im ports of petroleum products, there were also reduced im ports of coffee, iron and steel, aircraft, and nonelectrical ma chinery. (Continued from page one.) Griffin. Mrs. Basinger applied at Griffin High because she had heard from several sources that “Griffin had a good school system.” She has been happy teaching English because she feels that she benefits from it and she enjoys helping people learn. “I really enjoy being around young people/’ she said. She classifies this week as a time of anticipation. “It is almost like an ex citement,” she commented. Mrs. Basinger thinks Griffin High will be a new experience. “Any new experience is good,” she said. “I will get to see new faces and meet different people.” She greatly encourages teaching as a career because of the benefits such as good hours and holidays. “It is a good profession because it isn’t stagnate,” Mrs. Basinger said. “You are associated with young people and through young people you keep up with what is going on in the world,” she concluded. She is really looking forward to a good year and is very optimistic about Griffin High. Both Mrs. Basinger and Miss Vaughn will be involved with Open House Friday from 1 o’clock until 6:30 p.m. They both agree it will be a good time to meet the students and parents. wW 'jl ■ ■ I ’ ■L qaJ I fit- mSSSSt ' ' i' a 88881 Reading ‘Ritin’and ‘Rithmetic.. .or Art, Aerospace and Accounting. 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In a brief newspaper notice published today in neighboring Nice, the rulers of the 350-acre principality on the French Riviera announced: "... Prince Rainier HI and Princess Grace are happy to announce the engagement of their eldest daughter, Princess Caroline, to Mr. Philippe Junot. Princess Caroline and Mr. Junot met in Paris through mutual friends in the month of December 1975.” No wedding date was announced. The couple were to pose for photographers at the palace later today. Red and white flags were flown today in the tiny principality to celebrate the engagement. Shopkeepers displayed portraits of the comely princess in their windows. Tall, slender and graceful, Caroline is eight years younger than her mother was when the former movie actress from Philadelphia married Monaco’s ruling prince in a fairy-tale romance. Caroline’s looks, like her mother’s, have made her a favorite of news photographers, and the active social life she has led for several years in Eu rope and America gave the gossip columnists much material for romantic speculation. Her name was linked to a number of eligible young men including Britain’s Prince Charles, but Junot has been her constant companion for some time. Nicknamed Sissi in childhood, Caroline was educated in France by Roman Catholic nuns, les Dames de St. Maur, and then at St. Mary’s in Ascot, England.
