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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1977)
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Air Force crews using flares and lelicopter spotlights recovered at least 5 bodies in a predawn search. Senator sent back some money WASHINGTON (AP) - Freshman Sen. Edward Zorinsky, saying too many people in Washington feel com fortable spending other people’s money, is returning to the government $313,016 in unspent office funds. “I feel like one drop in a bucket helps," said Zorinsky, a Nebraska Democrat, whose unused funds will revert to the treasury on Sept. 30, when the current fiscal year ends. Feeding George not bad DOUGLAS, Ga. (AP) — George won’t sit up on his hind legs and beg to earn treats, but when his neighbor calls, the 12-toot alligator will climb out of his pond and delicately take the offered sausage or hot dog. “He’s never tried to bite me,” said Thorpe Worth, 66, who has lived next door to the 300-pound reptile for 25 years. Worth needed years to do it, but he’s trained the gator to come when called. Their relationship began a quarter century ago, Worth related, when three local boys were visiting Florida. They spotted a four-foot alligator on the high way, caught it and stowed it in the trunk of their car. By the time they got home, the alligator had gotten out of the ropes that held it and was banging its tail against the sides of the trunk. Afraid to tackle the gator again, but GRIFFIN DAI ur4p N E WS Daily Since 1872 Authorities said they did not know whether all of the victims were military personnel. The plane was assigned to the Tac tical Air Command and was used for command and control missions and to accompany fighter aircraft on long range deployment, a military spokesman said. An air traffic controller said he tried to warn the pilot the plane was in trouble. “The first indication we had he was in trouble was when the radar showed he was too close to the mountain and flying too low,” said the controller. “We hit him on the guard frequency and told him to turn right and climb ... but he never did,” he said. “Sometimes a bucket can get filled if enough drops fall into it,” he said in a telephone interview today. Zorinsky, who has been in office only nine months of the fiscal year, said he would be returning more money to the treasury if he had been in the Senate for the entire fiscal year. He said he simply didn’t spend all of his appropriation for administrative aide salaries as well as money provided wanting it out of the car, the boys ap proached Worth, who opened the trunk lid. The frightened gator crawled out of the trunk and dove into the nearest pond. The pond behind Worth’s general store has been its home since. Worth said the idea of handfeeding the alligator came to him while wat ching trainers at Florida’s Marineland. “I talked with one of the trainers,” Worth said. “He told me to get a simple name to call him by and then feed him. I decided to call him George. “We’d take food out there, but he wouldn’t come out for it until after we’d gone. Finally, he got to where he would eat in our presence if we tossed the food way out in the pond.” Worth said he called the alligator each day, and “I began to trick him by tossing the food a little closer to the bank each day.” Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, September 15,1977 for such items as telephones, travel, stationery and other office expenses. In addition, the senator is vowing to make his 19 staff workers earn the 7.5 per cent pay raise that will automatically be given to thousands of other federal employes in October. Zorinsky, who serves on the Agriculture and Commerce Com mittee, also refused to use $139,278 authorized for hiring committee aides. “Concealing the troth Invites rumors — which almost always are uglier than the truth.” People ••• and things Woman leaving church service abruptly, returning soon with raindrops on her dress; she’d forgot to roll up car windows. Young man practicing with bow and arrow aiming at target at least 6 feet in front of him on the ground. Two former college football players in shorts tossing football in front yard the way they used to do on campus. “After three years of that, we finally got George on the bank,” Worth said. “My daughter Junell had the idea that did it. We took one of those big, red-hot sausages — George is crazy about them —and tied a string to it. We tossed it out and every time he was about to chomp down on it, we’d pull it a little closer to the bank. “He followed it right up on the bank and gobbled it up, but then he dived right back into the water.” It took several more years to get George to take food from his hand, Worth said. “George is like a child,” Worth said. “He likes weinies best and then sausages. He won’t take something with a hard bone in it.” “He likes to cut up and bellow,” Worth added. “He sort of sounds like a boar hog when he does.” Reading What teachers doing to help Johnny Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles about reading and the problems the student encounters in learning and retaining the skill of reading. The two articles deal with the question, “Why can’t- Johnny Read?’’ but do not attempt to answer the question. Today, Mrs. Fronia Smith, a reading specialist in the Griffin- Spalding School System takes a look at the reading programs on the elemen tary level. Tomorrow, Griffin High principal Tascar Williams talks about reading in high school and the “graduate who can’t read.’’ Johnny enters the first grade and one of the first books he receives is a reader. This does not mean that Johnny has the skill to read what is in the book. Reading is a skill that Johnny will acquire when he is ready for it. Yet, one of the most often asked questions by parents and educators is “Why Can’t Johnny Read?” Parents and educators have agreed that each Johnny’s reading problem is unique and that a unique solution has to be found to solve his problem. Educators have been able to pinpoint some of the problems that are common among children with reading problems. Mrs. Fronia Smith, a reading Lance: no wrongdoing; says mistakes possible WASHINGTON (AP) - Budget Director Bert Lance told Senate in terrogators today he may have made mistakes in running his Georgia banks but allegations about his financial past have been “erroneous misrepresented., exaggerated and ... misunderstood.” “I do not contend that I made no mistakes when running these banks,” Lance said in his opening statement to the Senate Governmental Affairs Com mittee. “But to accept the assertion that I could not even manage a small country bank, one must ignore the objective facts,” he said. “Some of the claims are erroneous, some are misrepresented, some are exaggerated and some are completely misunderstood because those making the charge do not have all the facts,” Lance said. The committee, which recommended Lance’s confirmation in January, is investigating allegations arising from Lance’s activities with the Calhoun First National Bank of Calhoun, Ga., of which he was board chairman, and the National Bank of Georgia in Atlanta, which he served as president. Lance told the committee that although his discussions with the staff in January “did not include a microscopic review of my affairs,” he answered fully and accurately all questions and did not engage in any jygUm it. V <k W' l gV it***' ’ Mi . '* IZJ V?"' K vLg </ •* mr ' jk - tF * . Jjr - >Jr «mL "4b.s • . -***• "* • i kk: ■- ‘He’s never tried to bite me.’ Vol. 105 No. 219 specialist in the Griffin-Spalding County School System, takes a look at the elementary student and some of the problems he encounters in learning the skill of reading. She observed: Reading is a skill that is generally developed in the formative years of a student’s educational life — kinder garten through third grade. These are the years when the student learns the basics of reading, math and other subjects, Mrs. Smith says. Teachers are aware of the fact that Johnny can be a smart boy and still not be ready to learn how to read just because he is 6 years old, the legal age to enter school, Mrs. Smith said. “Not all children cut their teeth at the same time, but that doesn’t mean the late tooth grower won’t have a mouth full of teeth at a suitable time in his development,” she said. According to Mrs. Smith, reading readiness develops at different rates for different people, much the same as children do not learn to walk and talk at the same age as their brothers and sisters. “In a few cases, perfectly normal children can be 8 or 9 before they are able to absorb reading instruction,” she said. cover-up. In regard to loans which he received from banks with which his own banks had special relationships, he said, “in no instance was there a finding that the terms of my loans were more favorable” because of the business ties. Lance vigorously denied that he backdated any checks to allow him to take income tax deductions for 1976, a possibility suggested in a line of questioning last Friday by Illinois Sen. Charles Percy, ranking Republican on the committee. “I deeply regret that Sen. Percy saw fit to act in this regrettable matter in making a charge which has no merit whatsoever,” he said. He said checks numbered 919 through 921 in his checkbook were dated prior to checks 917 and 918 because the smaller numbered checks had been removed from the book while blank and kept in his briefcase for possible use later. “I frequently tear out checks from the checkbook in this matter, so that I will have checks with me when I need them,” he said. Thus did Lance begin the “day in court,” which he had said he so eagerly awaited. Earlier, he had declared his spirits high and his determination undaunted as he headed into the arena of his Senate critics and a future as clouded as his past activities have ap peared in the panel’s week-old hearing. (Continued on page 2) Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Cloudy, warm and humid through Friday with chance of showers. Low tonight in upper 60s; high Friday in mid 80s. LOCAL WEATHER — Low this morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 68, high Wednesday 86, rainfall .30 of an inch. Parents and teachers often pressure children when they do not develop reading skills according to time tables set up for classrooms. No matter how hard the student is pushed, he will not read until he is ready to read, Mrs. Smith said. “At no time in life is a child more eager to please than in the first year of school. Some go to school with fears as hard to bear as an adult’s bigger problems. He would read if he could,” she said. * Mrs. Smith feels that the answer for some would be to enter school at a later date. Kindergarten experience often reveals this need. Psychological tests can be given to determine whether or not he is ready to enter formal education. Meeting failure at the initial ex perience in school may have such a drastic effect on the child that his future learning can be hampered, she said. If a child reaches fourth grade not able to read, teachers have less time to devote to beginning reading skills because extra subjects are added to the curriculum and the schedule is even more crowded than that of the first (Continued on page 2) -W • ' m ■HEP* jfll BF TO 'sb \ : ' - j§! - >* • sjSf Bert has his say.
