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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1977)
* <^h|^^Hmp£*' s *'.’ 1 > Bl V ‘ 1 ■' tht ■ % It’s harder to find volunteer firemen Dundee unit built from flatbed truck Back in 1962 a county resident ex periencing the ravenous rages of fire consuming his home found some consolation when a flat bed truck arrived equipped with only water hoses. Meager as it was, the arrival of the Dundee Volunteer Fire Department was a gratifying sight to a homeowner caught in the devastating clutches of an all-out home devouring fire. Today that truck which was equipped to fight fires only where there was a fire hydrant has been transformed into a 38- man force with 3 fire engine pumpers. Notwithstanding the growth of the county and the widening territory for the Dundee volunteers to cover, the department has found it necessary to cease operations in a purely voluntary nature. Volunteer Chief Kenneth Roberts announced the fire fighting units are People ...and things Man wearing hardhat sitting in shade of tree beside “Men Working” sign at South Hill and Poplar. Youngster watching with fascination the making of sorghum syrup. Frsiky pup, interrupting his play, to watch leaf fall from tree. The Country Parson by Frank Clark “You can learn to trust a man you don’t admire but it’s hard to admire one you don’t trust” DAILY Daily Since 1872 Kenneth Roberts, volunteer scheduled to close down at the end of December, 1978. “It’s just getting too big for us to handle,” Chief Roberts said. What has operated as a purely volunteer system over the past 15 years is experiencing difficulty in securing volunteers. Every man who has worked for the Dundee Volunteer Fire Department has done so without any compensation at all. Even Chief Roberts who has held that position since the inception of the department has worked with no pay. “I get the same pay as the lowest paid fireman — nothing. We all get pleasure trying to help somebody,” Chief Roberts said. However, the department has faced up to reality that it’s hard to find volunteers like it used to and is en- (Continued on page 3.) Resignation would surprise Mrs. Lance By ANN BLACKMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Bert Lance has planted azalea bushes in his backyard here. “If it will give you a hint,” says his wife, “ we plan to be here to see them bloom in the spring.” Despite the controversy surrounding her husband’s financial dealings, Laßelle Lance says she would be surprised if he resigned his post as director of the Office of Management and Budget. “I don’t think it will even be talked about until after the Senate hearings,” she said in an interview Monday af ternoon. The Senate Governmental Af fairs Committee is looking into Lance’s financial dealings now and he is to testify on Thursday. “If Bert should ever decide that he would be less effective as budget director, then I think he would sit down with the President and talk about it. But I don’t think that time will come before the Senate hearings,” she said, adding: “Plus, the law says that a man should have a hearing before he is con demned.” Mrs. Lance was at home polishing GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, September 13,1977 Pupil-teacher ratio averages 22-1 here Even though some classrooms in the Griffin-Spalding School System are overcrowded, the pupil-teacher ratio averages 22 to 1 in both secondary and elementary schools. This is the ratio needed for accreditation. In a report to the school board Monday night, Supt. D. B. Christie said that the total enrollment of 9,897 is the largest ever for the first 2 weeks of school. And more students are ex pected. Enrollment may top 10,500, he predicted. As of Friday, Griffin High School with 1,960 students showed the largest in crease of 141, compared to the same C of C trying to get Amtrak route here The Transportation Committee of the Griffin Area Chamber of Commerce is trying to get Amtrak to re-route one of its trains through Griffin and other Georgia cities. Lee Roy Claxton is chairman of the committee which is working with other chambers in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah in an attempt to get one of the trains routed through Tennessee and Georgia. “We would very much like to see one of these trains come through Georgia and Griffin,” Claxton said. “Now is the time for the people to let Amtrak know they want the service,” he said. The transportation committee is urging residents of Griffin and Spalding County to call Amtrak’s toll free number and cast a yes vote for the service. The toll free number is 1-800- 424-7966. They’ll debate local option tax City Commissioners Louis Goldstein and R. L. (Skeeter) Norsworthy will debate the local option tax issue at the Sept. 21 luncheon of the Kiwanis Club. It will be held at the Moose Club. Goldstein backs the local option tax and Norsworthy opposes it. City of Griffin voters will vote on the issue Sept. 27. silver when a reporter called to ask if she would discuss her side of what has become known as “The Lance Affair.” She agreed immediately. An hour later she was sitting in her formal parlor in her Georgetown home, wearing a vibrant red dress her husband bought her this summer be cause he thought she needed some cheering up. And she passionately defended the man she married 27 years ago last week. “Bert has a tremendous intellectual mind and his mind grasps finances well,” she said. “His business affairs have been very complicated, which is why most people don’t understand them.” As she tells it, this ability to com prehend the complexities of his own financial dealings are assets to him as budget director. Then how, she was asked, could the Lances pledge the same stock dividends as collateral on two different banks for two different loans? Mrs. Lance’s brown eyes narrowed and she took a sip of iced tea from her crystal goblet. “Now, I’ll tell you one NEWS period last year. Spalding Unit 1 had a 27 increase and there were 13 more in Unit 11. Spalding Unit 111 or the 7th grade and all but 3 elementary schools, Crescent, North Side and Anne Street, have a decrease in enrollment. System wide, there are 95 more students so far this year. “The only problems are a shortage of a few books,” Christie said. The heavy increase in the secondary level apparently is due to several things, including an influx of new county residents and transfers from surrounding schools, such as Griffin Academy, he explained. According to Griffin High Principal Tascar Williams, some high school classes are large. “We’ll always have that problem as long as the federal programs continue with mandatory smaller classes,” he said. Math and English classes continue to be more overcrowded than others, even though an additional teacher in each field was added, he said. With the increasing enrollment, more money than was budgeted may be needed for instruction, Christie said. The board voted unanimously to hire the Robinson Humphry Co. as fiscal agent to handle the upcoming bond issue. The company will make recom mendations on how to finance and handle the referendum. Mrs. Yvonne Langford, public Attorney to use ‘tv intoxificati in defense of 15-year-old boy MIAMI (AP) — A defense attorney hopes to use a defense of “television intoxification” to prove that a 15-year old boy charged with shooting an elder ly woman to death was addicted to television crime shows. Principals to the case say attorney Ellis Rubin could break new legal ground with such a defense in the Sept. 26 trial of Ronald Zamora. “Without the influence of television... there would not have been any crime,” Rubin argued at a pretrial conference Monday. He claims Zamora’s constant ex posure to TV crime shows such as “Kojak” and “Police Woman” and a television film depicting the Charles Manson mass murders was responsible for “diseasing his mind and impairing his behavorial controls.” Rubin has often taken cases that attract publicity. He helped Watergate thing,” she said. “I feel very strongly that my husband has done nothing dishonest and nothing wrong. He’ll answer those things in the Senate hear ings.” Asked if she has sensed any weakening in President Carter’s support for her husband, Mrs. Lance said, “No. I think the President feels — very justly so — that the Senate com mittee should have their chance to hear Bert, and Bert should have a chance to speak before them and answer many of these misrepresented allegations and charges. “But basically I think the President has to go along with running the country, and I don’t think he has to spend nine-tenths of his time answering questions about Bert Lance. I think he’s probably just as secure and serene in his own mind as he was when we came because he knows us and we know him from a long time standing, not a fly-by night (friendship.)”. The past few weeks have been dif ficult ones, Mrs. Lance said. But she continues to attend prayer meetings, do vounteer work and housework and write poetry. Vol. 105 No. 217 relations chairman, gave a report on publicity planned for the bond issue. A slide presentation will be shown throughout the community many, many times, she said. A billboard also is planned and brochures are being prepared. Bumper stickers will be distributed and t-shirts will go on sale Oct. 3, she said. The system’s application for $312,000 in federal money has been approved for additional kindergarten rooms at Anne Street School. Supt. Christie said he received word on the matter Monday morning from U. S. Rep. Jack Flynt. The old Akin Elementary School property will be sold to Ed Wilson who owns adjoining land. His high bid of $15,000 was rejected last month because under state law, school property must be sold at the fair market value. That was set by 3 appraisers at a $22,500 average. This month the 3 reappraised the property at a $14,750 average. According to a school official, the board arrives at the fair market value and can set the price without ap praisers. The higher appraisals were based on the land being rezoned for commercial use. Presently it is zoned residential. The building is not being used and will deteriorate and decrease in value rapidly, he said. Approval was given the Optimist Club for rental of the Griffin High auditorium Nov. 30. According to President Frank Flora, a variety show burglar E. Howard Hunt win parole, and he has filed his own suit claiming Miami’s controversial homosexual rights law was unconstitutional. Zamora and Darrell Agrella, 14, are accused of breaking into the Miami Beach home of Elinor Haggart, 83, on June 4 and shooting her to death with Mrs. Haggart’s own gun and stealing $415 and her car. They are to be tried separately as adults. Agrella’s trial is set for Nov. 7. Rubin disclosed in earlier court briefs that he would show Zamora “became intoxicated with the TV dramas and lived them as if they were his own life.” “When his parents would come home from work they would find him on the floor watching TV,” Rubin said recently. “He would even skip school occasionally to go home and watch afternoon television shows. “His mother would hear a noise in the T I M I * 0 I- -qr Jf f S /jr- 1 - wfrw 4 JSI Laßelle Lance, wife of Budget Director Bert Lance. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — A good chance of thundershowers tonight and Wednesday with lows tonight in mid 60s and highs Wednesday in mid 80s. LOCAL WEATHER - Low this morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 85, high Monday 85. Also in this story I.— Bond issue company employed. 2. — Extension promotion of bond issue planned. 3. — Anne Street money approved. 4. — Akin elementary property to be sold. 5. — Optimist Club project approved. 6. — Only one faculty vacancy. 7.— Faculty changes announced. will be held with all proceeds going to youth activities. The Singing Henson Family, gospel singers, were turned down on their request to rent the auditorium Sept. 25. The group did not meet criteria set for rentals, as they are a money making group. An assortment of fund raising projects for all schools were approved. Each project had been approved by the administration and checked in dividually before being presented to the board. According to Assistant Supt. Tommy Jones, all teaching positions have been filled except one which was due to a last minute resignation. New teachers elected included: Systemwide — Mrs. Emily Burgess, behavioral disorders. Atkinson — Miss Pinkey Lucier and Mrs. Gail Nemyer, 3rd grades; Mrs. Gail Norris, 6th grade. Moore — Jack Norris, 6th grade social studies. North Side — Mrs. Nancy Locke, Ist grade. Orrs — Miss Janice Robertson, 2nd grade; Miss Gail Ward, Ist grade. Third Ward — Mrs. Louise Oxford, 4th grade. Spalding Junior High 111 — Kirby Starr, 111, science. Spalding Junior High I — Mrs. Reba Haygood, EMR; Miss Amy Wenzel, math. (Continued on page 3.) intoxification’ middle of the night and find it was her son watching television.” Rubin said that the parents had disciplined the boy for watching so much television but that he had defied them. A week before the killing, they sent him to a psychologist, Rubin said. The attorney quoted a psychiatric report he said was done for the prosecution that found Zamora con sumed by television programs, “as though he were to a certain extent living some of those experiences in reality. At times he would almost feel he was the character who played the ‘heavy’ role,” Rubin quoted the report as saying. “Even when the woman had been struck, there was doubt it happened — it seemed as though Zamora could wake up and find it never happened,” said Rubin.
