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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1977)
Schools set for opening Bells in the Griffin-Spalding School System are expected to summon approximately 9,650 students to classes Monday morning. Including private schools, nearly 10,000 students in Griffin and Spalding will be enrolled. Junior high and high school students will begin classes in the public schools at 8:10 Monday morning. Classes for elementary school students will begin at 8:30. Monday will be a full day for all students. During the first two weeks of school, those first graders who will be picked up by their parents, will be dismissed at noon. Those who ride buses will remain in school the full day. Lunchrooms will be operating in all schools Monday and the menu calls for hamburgers. Student lunch prices will be 40 cents per day for elementary students and 50 cents per day for junior high and high school students. Teachers in the system concluded a week of pre planning with open house in their respective schools. The open house Friday af ternoon was termed a “big City safety patrol will be out in force Hundreds of youngsters will be crossing streets for the first day of * school Monday. Some even will be out , “on their own” for the first times in their lives and Griffin and Spalding « County crossing guards will be out full force to make sure the children cross I' the streets safely. The city will have 9 school patrols on duty at the respective schools and the county will have 2 patrols at the school crossings in the county. Captain Larry Howard of the Griffin Police Department traffic division is urging motorists to drive carefully watching for the youngsters who may step out into the streets before they look. He is advising motorists to obey the speed limits at each school which may vary between 20 and 25 miles per hour. Captain Howard is also warning drivers that the department will be ■ * doing spot radar checks of all the school areas to detect speeders. The school crossing guards will be on • duty each school day early enough to assist the earliest pupil across the street. During next week the city school L. patrol will return to the schools around c w F' ■ i F< j-j h t*? *'*•*“ ’ , *' ' \ / ii I z *iiM -■.-"..■1 BK'>- . • <-*4- > t < j®k<aß&?*'- ■ - •'"' I W' * - i' Mrs. Juanita Daniel of the school guard demonstrates what will be a familiar sight to Griffin motorists once school is in session. Motorists are cautioned to be on the lookout for school patrols when driving in the vicinity of local schools. Mrs. Daniel will be posted at North Side School. School bells ring Monday GRIFFIN DAI Daily Since 1872 success” by school officials. “We had more students and parents visiting the schools this year than we have ever had before,” one said. School buses will be running their regular routes Monday morning and Monday af ternoon. Students are asked to be ready when the bus arrives at their designated stop. Each bus was given a final check this week by mechanics to make sure they were operating properly. Approximately 6,000 students will be riding buses. While the enrollment in the public school system is ex pected to be 9,650, the enrollment at private schools in the area will account for nearly 350 other students. The largest private school enrollment is at Griffin Christian School where the enrollment is 280 in classes kindergarten through 12th grade. Classes at Griffin Christian will begin Monday. Classes at Flint River Academy began Thursday. Some Griffin students are enrolled there and commute by automobile and bus. Sixteen Griffin area students are commuting to Barnesville 11:45 a.m. to assist the first graders who will be getting out of school during the week around noon. After the first week the school patrols will return to the school area in time for the 2:30 p.m. dismissals or for whatever the school’s dismissal time may be. Captain Howard released the names of the city school patrols and the school areas where they will be stationed as follows: Mrs. Juanita Daniel, North Side; Mrs. Rozzie Belle Allen, Meriwether street; Mrs. Eleanor Baker, 15th and Taylor; Mrs. Alice Pounds, 14th and Experiment; Mrs. Jane Morris, Ray and Experiment. Miss Betty Crowddr, 15th and Poplar; Mrs. Doris Arron, Third Ward; Miss Beauty Mae Evans, Moore; and Mrs. Helen Miller, Crescent. Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert released the names and school locations of school crossing guards in the county. Mrs. Sylvania Adkins will be stationed at the Susie B. Atkinson crossing on Hill street and Mrs. April Kennedy will be stationed at the Jackson Road School crossing. Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, August 27, 1977 New additions at Griffin Tech expected to improve learning The first phase of expansion at Griffin Tech will be complete for the fall quarter session which is scheduled October 4. Director Edwin V. Langford, Sr., feels the new addition of 19,008 square feet will alleviate some of the crowding the school is experiencing while providing a more meaningful working experience for the students. “It will provide a more meaningful working experience for the students. In crowded condition we can’t do a good job and be fair to the students,” Langford said. Vo-Tech board member Ralph Gatlin said the school has been over capacitated by 180 percent. The ad dition will cut down some on the over crowded percentage but will not bring it to normal, he said. Marvin Brown, public information specialist, said the expansion will mean the school can expand its curriculum with 3 new programs as a result of the additional space. Brown said the new programs in cluded marketing and management; consumer and homemaking education and; residential and industrial elec tricity. As far as new facilities are concerned Langford is excited about the prospects of having a large adequatedly sized President still supports Bert Lance WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter places undiminished confidence in Bert Lance despite the disclosure that the budget director pledged the same stock as collateral on two separate loans, according to press secretary Jody Powell. But Powell acknowledges that despite adminstration efforts at ex planation in two White House briefings Friday, “How he acted and how he responded ... is still a question that remains to be settled and will have to be dealt with.” In fact, during the day, an aide to Sen. Charles Percy, Rill., said that the Senate Governmental Affairs Com mittee, which is planning early Sep tember hearings on Lance’s financial affairs, would add the latest disclosure to its agenda. The two briefings in one day, an occurrence seen fewer than a handful of times since the Carter administration took office, were devoted almost en tirely to questions and answers about Lance. Powell himself said in an interview Friday evening that some of Lance’s dealings represented “technical violations of law.” He was not more specific about what these were. People ...and things New first graders with sparkling new book satchels and lunch boxes, war ming up for big day on Monday. Men on sidewalk watching in disbelief as lady driver maneuvers into parking space on Taylor street at the expense of the bumpers of two cars on either side of the target. Neighborhood dogs enjoying dawn snooze in the middle of residential area street as drivers on their way to work carefully steer around them. student service area. More so, there will be a new job placement office located in that same area. Langford said the new person for the position has not yet been hired but the location of his office in that locale will mean he will be in constant contact with the students during the school day. He said one of the most important aspects of completing one’s education is finding a job. The job placement office will work toward finding jobs for Vo-Tech graduates. The new addition will also include a media laboratory and will provide space for the renovated heating and cooling system. In the automobile mechanics division, the addition will provide for programs and use in automobile mechanics, body and fender repair, drafting, and communications skills and mathematics. Funding the addition at a cost of $491,842 came from the sale of State Central Obligation Bonds. Brown said the floor plan for a second phase which would encompass some 100 feet on the south end of the building has been approved. The project has not been funded. The estimated $500,000 addition will provide office practice laboratories for business education. The new classroom space will provide for actual office and The Country Parson l>' Frank Clark Ji jrf. v ..!> y Map “Retirement is a plan worked out so folks can quit lying on their tax returns before they die.” Ex-Marine kills seven people HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. (AP) - “He had to have snapped,” a friend of Emil Benoist said today after the youth who didn’t make it in the Marines and left few marks as a boxer went on a shooting spree — leaving seven dead, including himself. Police say Benoist, 20, son of a former Hackettstown councilman in this community of 12,000 in northwest New Jersey, walked along a railroad right of way with a .44-caliber rifle late Friday, picking off hikers, joggers and bikers. Benoist lurked behind bushes near the railroad tracks and popped out to shoot his victims along the path, police said. Police received a report of shots fired at 5:36 p.m., but it took them nearly four hours to catch up with Benoist. At first they found three victims, all shot several times, behind an aban doned tannery adjacent to the railroad tracks. About 10 mintues later, the crew of a westbound Conßail train sighted three other victims, all riddled with bullets, alongside the track about a half-mile away in Mansfield Township. Police from surrounding com munities joined local and state police and canine units in a search for the killer. Vol. 105 No. 203 U I MF:-.; J| . a wf asi*- * W mb ii I -ZL• -Wk ■■ Brown, Gatlin and Langford check progress at Griffin Tech. business situations. The proposed addition includes spaces for a suite of administrative offices. Ogletree is named Gold Kist director Phil Ogletree Jr. of Griffin has been named director for Corporation District Number 2 for Gold Kist, Inc., one of the nation’s largest non-profit farmer cooperatives. The Gold Kist Board of directors appointed Ogletree to the board to fill the unexpired term of Delmar Lee of Gainesville. Gold Kist has four corporation District directors, 2 at-large directors and 8 district directors. Ogletree works with his son Bobby to operate Ogletree farms on a part nership basis. The operation which is centered around com, soybeans, and small grain started with Phil Ogletree Sr. This was also a father-son part nership until the senior Ogletree retired a year ago. “My father started farming with a one row Farmall tractor,” Ogletree said. “We had lespedeza, cotton and some other crops and livestock but we got out of the cotton business about three years ago when we found that for us it wasn’t a paying crop,” he said. Ogletree really got interested in staying on the farm following active membership in FFA in high school. From FFA com and cotton projects, he went on to receive his American Farmer degree in 1953. This is the highest honor bestowed upon a FFA member. Now Ogletree and his son own about 500 acres of land and rent 700 additional acres. They double crop small grain with com and soybeans, rotating to cut down on diseases and insects. Ogletree was the first farmer in Georgia to try no tillage. That was in 1967. He is completely sold on no till farming. “The mulch holds the moisture and we don’t have any erosion of our fields when it rains,” Ogletree said. He figures no till is cutting energy costs on his farm at least 65 percent. “Up until the severe drought this year, our com and beans seemed to get better every year,” he said. “We were making 50 to 55 bushels of com when we started no tillage and now we are up to 150 bushels on some fields,” Ogletree said. “On soybeans we will normally harvest between 25 and 50 bushels an acre and some fields have gone as high Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Cloudy with chance of afternoon or evening thunder showers today. Highs in mid 80s with lows tonight around 70. 50 per cent chance of rain today, 20 per cent tonight and 30 per cent Sunday. It also includes the paving of ad ditional parking lots. The old administrative office will be occupied by admissions personnel. as 70 bushels an acre,” he said. As on many farms over the Gold Kist territory drought hit Ogletree farms. “We have plowed up 150 acres of early com and planted beans on this land,” Ogletree said. The lesser com stalk borer was damaging soybeans in July and threatening the yield on this crop. Newest addition on Ogletree farms is an irrigation system which will cover 125 acres. “Irrigation is new to us,” Ogletree said, “but after this year’s drought we feel it will be a good in vestment.” Livestock has never been a big part of the fanning operation; however, they do feed some steers and hogs. With 70,000 bushels of storage on the farm, com and beans are stored and marketed year round. Mr. and Mrs. Ogletree (Peggy) have two children, Bobby who is fanning on the partnership basis and a daughter, Janet. Bobby lacks one quarter having his B. S. in Agronomy, and is going to school during quarters when things are slow on the farm. This winter quarter he hopes to get his B. S. from the University of Georgia. Ogletree has been a member of the board of directors of the Farmers Mutual Exchange at Griffin since 1957. His father, now 67, has also served on the Griffin board. Ogletree is a deacon in the Baptist Church at Orchard Hill. In 1966 the Spalding County Junior Chamber of Commerce named him Outstanding Young Farmer of the Year. The previous year he had been named Outstanding Young Farmer by the Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Ogletree is also active in Orchard Hill Baptist Church. She teaches a young adults Sunday School class and is president of the WMU. “My job now is really to go get everything and answer the phone,” Mrs. Ogletree said, “and that’s a full time job.” She has worked for the Georgia Experiment Station, for Tift College, and as clerk for the county commissioner in Lamar County. Gold Kist, Inc. has been named to manage the Carter family peanut Warehouse in Plains. See complete story on page 5.
