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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1977)
Parents can help children learn Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA - Fair tonight with low near 70. Mostly sunny and warm Tuesday with highs in the upper 80s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit 68, high Sunday 89. . F JHI ** | ’ wßk jß ’v^ : W-Wr s*,*s? > ftv? Rob Bowen, first grader at Third Ward, with other classmates started the first day of school today with the Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag. He is a student in Mrs. Kathy Goldstein’s class and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benton Bowen, 914 Maple drive. Local option sales tax catching on in Georgia «■ ATLANTA (AP) - Property tax payers in Georgia have found a new way to pay the inevitable taxman: raise t local sales taxes. Voters feeling the pinch of rising ad valorem taxes on their homes have Elephant visits nursing home SAUK CITY, Wis. (AP) - Seventy ' one-year-old Tillie Nolden was having lunch in bed when she saw Barbara breeze by. A “I thought I was surely going mad," she said. “Did I really see an elephant?” She did. And so did many of the 90 other residents of the Maplewood Nursing Home, most of them 75 or older. * “Nothing much ever happens around here, but this was real excitement,” said nurse Marjorie Krause. . It all began when six-ton Barbara, who created a sensation in Fond du Lac on Aug. 8 when she ran loose for several hours, bolted as she and other elephants * helped raise the main tent at the Carson & Barnes Circus for a one-night stand Sunday at this central Wisconsin community. Despite chain shackles on her forelegs, Barbara, 38, which is late , middle-age for an elephant, out distanced dozens of pursuing spectators who had been watching the tent raising. DAILY Daily Since 1872 backed measures which raise the sales tax by one per cent to help finance local government. As a result, an estimated 31 per cent of Georgia’s population is either paying lower property taxes or soon will be “Everyone was chasing her. It made it worse,” circus manager D.R. Miller said. Barbara roamed four miles to Maplewood. There, she crashed through a four-foothigh plate glass window and the surrounding wall into an elderly woman’s room. Luckily, the woman wasn’t in the room. “She’s usually right in front of that window, but it was lunchtime so the rooms and the halls were empty,” said Mrs. Krause. The 10-foot-tall Barbara wasn’t content to stay put in the room. She smashed out of it, through a door and into the hall. Tiles and light fixtures from the nine-foot ceiling went with her. Then she raced down a hall past nurses who were so astonished they “couldn’t say anything,” Mrs. Krause said. Barbara left the same way she came in — smashing. She went through a hall door and An exclusive, 14-part newspaper series which tells how parents can help their children obtain better public school education begins today on page 6. “Parent Power!” by education writer John Douglas points out that unless parents involve themselves in the American system of education on the local level, where it directly affects their children, the dismal statistics on crime in the schools, reading levels and competence in basic mathematics may not improve significantly. And the net result, says Douglas, is a new generation of poorly educated citizens unable to cope with the com plexities of daily life. A special, 120-page paperback book, based on the series, has been made available to readers of this newspaper, The book, also called “Parent Power!”, Griffin, Ga„ 30223, Monday Afternoon, August 29, 1977 when new rates go into effect. The route to lower property taxes is through the local-option sales tax law passed by the legislature two years ago. The law requires that property taxes be (Continued on page 3.) ■ ■ [J il ■ dwinr ■ "I Hu SlnM - * fIES » * .W <- v --Sb. r _, >..£ ' * * ». Hwß -4. ■ paused in a nearby field. Behind her was what Mrs. Krause estimated to be “at least” several thousand dollars damage. GRIFFIN Circus workers, townspeople give chase. provides specific information on what parents can do to help their children learn. Douglas, a senior editor of Science Service in Washington, D. C., quotes a recent University of Texas study which says that less than half of all American adults “can really function proficiently in today’s society. Another third are only minimally functional. And nearly 20 per cent are incompetent or function with difficulty.” “If adults are in trouble,” Douglas reports, “the reasons are not hard to find when one looks to see how well school children are learning their lessons. The Education Commission of the United States has conducted ex tensive surveys of students and has found that perhaps one million teen agers have gone through school without learning how to read beyond the fourth- NEWS School enrollment soars on first day Enrollment in public and private schools hit a new opening day peak of 9,908 today. Assistant Supt. Tommy Jones of the Griffin-Spalding School System said there were no major problems in the opening of the 1977-78 school term today. “We have had a very smooth opening. Everything is going real well,” Jones said. Smooth openings also were reported at Griffin Academy and Griffin Christian School. The public school system reported a total enrollment today of 9,513, com pared to an opening day enrollment of 9,187 last year. Griffin Academy reported an enrollment of 94 and Griffin Christian School reported an enrollment of 293. Enrollment in the public school system is expected to follow the general pattern and increase each day through Labor Day. It will be sometime next week before school officials get an accurate student count. The major increase in the public schools was Griffin High School. The enrollment there is 1,830 today com pared with 1,596 last year. This is an increase of 234. Increases in opening day enrollment were reported in seven elementary schools and five elementary schools reported decreases. Spalding Junior High Unit 111 reported a decrease of 15 and Spalding Junior High Units II and I reported increases. The largest increases in the elementary schools were at Anne Street (Continued on page 3.) Sauk City policeman Roger Moon said authorities caught up with Bar bara in the field and coaxed her into a truck with the help of one of the circus’ grade level.” The series — and book — includes a special section on how the daily newspaper can be an enjoyable lear ning tool in the home. “If the home environment favors reading,” the series notes, “children will read. How, then, can such an en vironment be established if it does not now exist? How can the reading habit be transferred, without pain, from parent to child? Could any parent not take pride in seeing their 12-year-old race for the newspaper and im mediately sit down with the sports pages, or the comics, or the editorial pages, or the entertainment section? “This can happen, but only if you, the parent, cause it to happen.” The newspaper series and book have been prepared by Newspaper Enter prise Association. Vol. 105 No. 204 Atkinson Beaverbrook Crescent East Griffin Fourth Ward Jackson Road Moore North Side Orrs Third Ward West Griffin Anne Street Spalding 111 Spalding II Spalding I Griffin High Total Griffin Christian Griffin Academy Total People ...and things Husky football official dressed in uniform meekly accepting traffic ticket from State Trooper on North Expressway. Woman school bus driver greeting first day students with cheerful smile. Mother of first grader almost un willingly turning her son over to first grade teacher for his first day at school. other elephants. “We’re all making light of it now and joking about it,” said Mrs. Krause, “but it was a miracle no one was hurt.” School by school Today 696 709 626 208 490 490 416 281 579 194 195 242 857 903 797 1830 9513 293 94 9,908 HOW vol CAN HELP VOl K CHILD LEARN ■ MivißHniw KBSJI by John Douglas GET A BETTER EDI < ATIOS FOR VOl R I HII.DREN HOW TO EVAI.I ATE VOl R I <M Al M HIM*) WHAT DO 19 TEXTS REAU V TEH HOW TO MEET AND WORK WITH vol H I HDDS TEA! HER EM Ol RAGE JOVFI I I EAHNIM. AT HOME The Country Parson by Frank < lark “Life is a period during which we all make the transition from . promising young folks to * alibiing old ones.” Last Year 695 734 609 226 456 488 441 254 577 200 198 204 872 886 751 1596 9187 IF C |y Rev. Lacy Rev. Lacy new pastor at Mt. Zion BY JULIAN RUSSELL The Rev. Cleopatrick Lacy has been elected the pastor of the Mount Zion Baptist Church. Rev. Lacy succeeds the Rev. O. H. Stinson who served as pastor of the church for 33 years until his death in January. Rev. Lacy, the co-pastor of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, Texas will begin his tenure Sept. 18. He has spent the past 2 years as co paster of the inner-city church in Houston which has a complex system of Christian education, character building, and social service programs. He was the primary coordinator of programs at the church and is credited with a brilliant record of improving existing programs and the creation of new ones. The Mount Zion pastor is a native of Bladenboro, N. C. and is a graduate of Shaw University where he received the (Continued on page 3.) Change +1 -25 +l7 -18 +34 +2 -25 +27 +2 -6 -3 +3B -15 +l7 +46 +234 326
