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Page 6 — Griffin Daily News Saturday, August 27,1977 it ft jlfib A dL. ;i ■ < wL 1 Rrc U ai*i| lllil nsr 1-? V v H rr' !* i | r / Mwn L 'J" ■■S5 I F ~ Stell Gray (1), vice president of Junior Achievement, talks with SIOO scholarship winners Randall Coleman and Charles Releford and with coordinator Wayne Brown (r>. April Ellis gets mail from Amy Carter April Eyvette Ellis, 7, has received a picture post card from Amy Carter, the President’s daughter. April, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William "Pop” Ellis, Sr. of 334 North Sixth street, began writing to Amy while a student at the primary school in Zebulon. “I wrote to Amy because we had a project in class on the candidates for president of the United States,” April said. She said they voted in class and Carter won. “I was glad Amy was going to Washingon to live. I told her the times I saw her on TV and in our local Griffin Daily newspaper,” April continued. The youngster kept clippings of the campaign and made reports to her teacher, Mrs. E. Dixon. April will be attending Moore Elementary School in Local law officers attend law seminar Judge John Clements, Judge Rita L. Thurston, Judge Mae Varnadoe, Constable Ben Thurston and Constable Jack Taylor, all of Spalding County attended a training seminar in Atlanta. The seminar was sponsored by the Georgia Association of Justices of the Peace and Constables and the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia. Judges, constables, Paid volunteers Old prison rock pile isn't the same now By BRENDAN RILEY Associated Press Writer CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - The old prison rockpile ain’t what it used to be. The arduous chore of making little rocks out of big ones, once a form of in mate punishment, is being done by paid volunteers at the state prison here. “I had to ask them for a month before they would let me go out there,” says Aleck Raby, one of 18 inmates assigned to the job of chipping away at sandstone in an old quarry used in years past for disciplining convicts. “It’s something to do instead of sitting around all the time,” he says. “There just aren’t that many jobs around here. It’s only four hours a day or so, and it keeps you in shape.” Raby says he’s dropped 20 pounds of excess weight and hopes to take off another 10 pounds or so. Charles Wolff Jr., the prison’s warden, says the rockpile was once “the least desireable work available,” a form of pun ishment which had disappeared from prisons for years. “But we revived it as an or ganized activity which gets in mat nut of their cells and may*, will even give them a sense of accomplishment. It beats doing nothing," he says. The problem at the aging Maximum Security Prison here is that it was set up for about 300 inmates and now has 470. The legislature has provided $8 XJlion tr> imnrove the prison Scholarship winners 3 ' •»» <r *n L I I APRIL ELLIS Griffin this year in the third grade. judicial and law enforcement personnel from across the state attended. The seminar’s itinerary consisted of criminal law, civil i law, search and seizure, i warrants, mock trials and hearings, legal fees and court > costs, contract law, garrish : ment, landlord-tenant I relationship, and the Georgia , Controlled Substances Act. system, but work on new facil ities is still in progress. Many of the inmates on the rock crew had been kept idle in lockup after a prison disturb ance last year. There weren’t enough jobs available to keep them busy. “Max” Supt. Boyd Marsing says the inmates were asked about six months ago whether they wanted to work in the old quarry, to chip rock for a deco rative wall around a proposed visitor’s park. About 30 inmates volun teered, but gradually the crew was thinned down to 18. in cluding a half-dozen who pound rocks daily, another six who do the work often, and others who “work when they feel like it,” Raby says. The pay is $lO a month for the full-time crew, below the average of sls monthly for other prison jobs. The men work bars into cracks and fissures in a rock cliff to break loose sandstone blocks, and then split the rocks with single jacks and sledge hammers — the standard meth od for old-time hardrock min ers. Sledges and chisels are then used to roughly square the blocks. No dynamite is allowed. “It’s not as hard as you might think,” says Raby. “We work at our own pace. I’m used to working hard anyway, so there’s nothing to it for me." “It beats laying around in a cell house or sitting around in the yard with nothing to do,” he adds Other scholarship winners were Tammy Stahl, Linda Thacker, Jamet Thomas and Stuart Ogletree. Sa Gm] F xaxx — -LfEgg Refuse to discipline visiting grandson By Abigail Van Buren 1977 by The Chicago Tnbune-N Y News Synd Inc. DEAR ABBY: When my husband and I and our 3-year-old son, Tommy, visit my husband’s parents, Tommy goes on a rampage. He races through the kitchen while my mother-in-law is cooking, opens cabinets and drawers, and begs for food. We try to discipline the boy, but his grandparents say, “Leave him alone, quit picking on him!" They claim that since it’s their house, they should have the say about how Tommy should act there. My husband and I feel that as Tommy's parents, it's our job to keep him under control, no matter where he is. Who is right? TOM'S PARENTS DEAR PARENTS: You are. Although he’s only 3, Tommy is hep to his grandparents’ leniency and is playing it for all it's worth. To throw discipline to the winds while visiting grandparents can breed discipline problems elsewhere. Explain this to the grandparents and ask them to cooperate. DEAR ABBY: Please print this for all fat wives: Do all you wives who have gained a lot of weight really believe it when your husband says, “It’s okay, Honey, there’s just that much more of you to love”? When hubby’s eye begins to wander, it’s not to another fat woman—it’s a gal with a nice trim figure. Don’t let yourself go! I did, and I nearly lost my husband, but thank heavens I woke up just in time. FORMERLY FAT DEAR FORMERLY: Why limit the suggestion to women only? Plenty of fat men have gone under for the third time while their wives are eyeing the lifeguard. DEAR ABBY: Your letter asking for consideration of the deaf prompts this letter. Please do as much for the blind. Blind people are frequently treated as though they were invisible! Some people will greet their guide, and not even say hello to the blind person. This is very rude, and makes the blind person feel that he isn’t even present. The blind feel, hear and have very acute perception. Ignorance is no excuse for rudeness. Please ask your readers to speak to a blind person when he enters a room. Remember—he is exactly like a sighted person, only he can't SEE. ARLENE DEAR ARLENE: Consider it done. CONFIDENTIAL TO “WHERE DO I START?”: If you sincerely want to be a success, get to work. The dictionary is the only place where “success” comes before “work." Hate to write letters? Send $1 to Abigail Van Buren, 132 Lasky Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif. 90212, for Abby’s booklet “How to Write Letters for All Occasions." Please enclose a long, self-addressed, stamped (244) envelope. Game and Fish Division needs info on coyotes For the past several years, the Game and Fish Division has received reports of losses of livestock and crops to coyotes. Game and fish biologists would like to document any such coyote depredation. Biologists therefore have started a survey to report coyote depredations in order to determine the seriousness of the problem. Through these investigations biologists hope to determine the magnitude and type of coyote damage which may be oc curing. Persons knowing of any ef fects coyotes may have had on Georgia farming or livestock operations should notify the Department of Natural Resources. Write to: Thagard R. Colvin, Rural Route 1, Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750, or get in touch with any Regional Game Management Office of the Game and Fish Division, in Albany, Fitzgerald, Fort Valley or Brunswick. Rev. Farrar to speak The Rev. Michael J. 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