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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1977)
’ k *'’ r ■■ Muscadine growers Dr. M. E. Ferree, horticulturist from the Cooperative Extension office in Athens, Ga., answered questions from muscadine growers this morning at the 1977 Georgia Muscadine Field Day at the Georgia Experiment Station here. The field day began at 10 a.m. and ended with a tour of the Experiment Station’s muscadine breeding plots. \Local option tax City is checking on charter idea The city of Griffin today planned to look into the possibility of amending its charter to tie local option tax money into cutting property taxes and garbage fees. Carl Pruett, former city com missioner, suggested the move in a letter to the commissioners. City Manager Roy Inman today planned to ask City Atty. Bob Smalley if it could be done. The present commissioners tried to write into law a stipulation that in future local option sales tax revenue would be used to cut property taxes. Smalley advised the commissioners they could not. ® ■ EXH i “Sometimes it’s good to admit you’re wrong — even when you’re right” Movie makers coming here American International Film Co. has chosen Griffin as the production site for a new movie and production is expected to begin October 10, according to Mildred Sawyer, executive vice president of the Griffin Area Chamber of Commerce. The movie will be made in the period of 1967 and revolves around a high school student who is on the track team and tries to win the state meet in order to obtain a scholarship. Vehicles, 1967 model and earlier, will be needed for the production. Mrs. Sawyer said more details about the movie and the film company’s office location GRIFFIN daily#news Daily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, September 20,1977 The charter change is a new ap proach that interested the com missioners this morning. Some of the commissioners had not received copies of the letter from Pruett but said they had read about it in the newspaper. Griffin voters will cast ballots in a Sept. 27 referendum on a local option sales tax. They would be bound to cut property taxes by the same amount of money the sales tax brought in the first year. However, under state law the commissioners are bound legally to do this only the first year. The commissioners wanted to make the property tax relief permanent. People ...and things King size dog enjoying ride in car trunk downtown with trunk held open with stick. Father and son proudly bringing home hornets nest for decoration. Beans, pork chops, fried potatoes and bread creating a mouth-watering odor at the fire department kithcen. will be known in a few uays. It is not known yet who will be starring in the movie or who the director will be. Mayor Raymond Head alerted city commissioners this morning that the community might be called on to assist in making the movie. He said the movie people had consulted with local leaders and planned to announce details at a press conference. Head said some scenes would be in Griffin and a final track scene would be shot at Newnan. He said the California film makers came to Griffin as a typical middle American town at the suggestion of the state industry division. Hospital won’t be fenced The Griffin-Spalding Hospital won’t be fenced after all. Reversing itself, the hospital authority Monday night voted 4-3 not to put up the fence as a security measure. Dick Hyatt said he still thought the fence was a good idea but in the face of overwhelming opposition from the public, he moved not to build it. He said there are too many instances of people being forced to buy safety devices they don’t want. He cited automobile seat belts as just one. During the discussion, Bill Feely, executive director, was asked what hospital employees thought about a fence. He said their opposition to it was the same as that of the general public. Board member Otis Head said he thought the public was not well in formed about the fence. He wondered what other security measures might be taken. Board member Larry Ballard who had secured bids on the fence at the direction of the authority asked Secretary Charles Wynne to review the minutes of three sessions in which the fence was discussed. Ballard said he justed wanted the authority brought up to date on where it stood at the present. Chairman 0. M. (Pete) Snider, Jr., went through a parliamentary tangle and finally announced a 4-3 vote against the fence. Hyatt, Head, Jerry Savage and Dr. Kenneth Reynolds voted against the fence. Snider didn’t call for a show of hands by those for it. He simply said the vote was 4-3. Ballard, Billy Wesley and Snider apparently were the 3 sup porting the fence. The authority had struggled with the matter for most of the summer. Dr. Valdon Smith of the medical staff reported steps were being taken to eliminate an apparent “double billing” misunderstanding on X-rays in the emergency room. He said signs had been posted there telling people they could refuse to have an X-ray read by a radiologist. The patient would assume responsibility for such a decision, Dr. Smith said. He said it was a matter of practice by doctors on the staff to insist that a radiologist read the X-rays. Such reading requires special training and a doctor not specializing in this might miss some fracture or something else in reading a negative, he added. Sometimes when a person gets a bill for reading an X-ray, he thinks he already has paid it when he actually hasn’t, Dr. Smith explained. Dr. Smith also pointed out that Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance which now requires varification of hospital charges had forced the hospital to hire more part-time help to do the job. In effect, the insurance firm is for cing the hospital to hire more clerical ‘lt’s the love of people that makes me tick’ Mrs. Domineck’s hobby is caring for others Though they don’t remember it, hundreds of Griffinites have been petted and loved by Mrs. Sallie Mae Domineck. And Mrs. Domineck is quick to admit she doesn’t remember all of them either, but she loves them just the same and still keeps up with quite a few. Most of the time since 1943, she has worked and cared for new babies and their mothers at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital. She first started in the old Strickland Memorial Hospital at College and Eighth streets and has been there ever since except for a few years when she quit to work for Dr. Charles Releford and a Barnesville doctor so she could be with her small children on weekends. Presently Mrs. Domineck works the 3 to 11 p.m. shift on the hospital’s third floor. “That’s the happiest place in the hospital,” said Mrs. Domineck, whose “first hobby is doing things for others”. —Also in this story I.— Doctors take steps to eliminate misunderstandings on so called “double billing” for X-rays in the emergency room. 2. Insurancecompany won’t help pay for extra clerical work it caused by requiring RNs to confirm work the hospital does when a patient claims coverage. 3. — Authority votes to pay for own unemployment compensation rather than into a general state labor fund. Authority figures it’ll cost some $16,000 to $20,000 this way rather than up to $60,000 or more the other way. 4. — The authority adopted an income table under which patients can be classified as charity or non-charity. This table should help hospital eliminate a backlog of uncollectable bills as well as avoiding such billings in the future. 5. — Executive director announces an audit is on file in the Clerk of Court’s office available to the public. 6. — The hospital had a good month financially in August which normally is a “down” period. work but refuses to pay for it, Dr. Smith said. Reporting for the Personnel Com mittee, Otis Head recommended the hospital follow a plan of paying for its unemployment compensation as charged by the Labor Department rather than paying into a general Labor Department fund. He said the com- City deals with petitions on parking problems Griffin City Commissioners told a Southern Bell employee they were working with Tom Hamby, local telephone manager, about parking problems downtown. Some 80 telephone employees had petitioned the commissioners for relief of their parking problems at the Hill and Poplar area. A group of employees at Southeastern Textile on East Solomon street also petitioned the city for parking relief. The petitions came after the city went to no-meter parking last week on a trial basis. The commissioners said they would respond to the Textile employees by letter. Commissioner Dick Mullins “It’s amazing how busy I can be, yet I love every moment of it. Instead of getting tired, I get over anxious. I feel if I stop, I couldn’t get started again. It’s the love of people that makes me tick”, she said. And “tick” she does from morning to night. She cares for her 92-year-old mother in-law, Mrs. Sarah Ann Domineck, who has lived with Sallie Mae and Robert since their wedding day. Robert, 65, has never spent a night away from his mother and when he married Sallie Mae, she moved in with them. Later, when Robert and Sallie Mae bought their home on Spellman avenue, the elderly lady moved in with them. Sallie Mae goes out of her way doing things for “Mama” and on her last birthday, gave her a party with 260 guests. Since the first week in August, Sally (Continued on page 3.) Vol. 105 No. 223 mittee felt going this route might limit such annual obligations to some $16,000 to $20,000. Under the other plan, it might run as high as $60,000 annually, Head said. Head and Dr. Reynolds with Mrs. Josephine Pollard are on the personnel committee. Mrs. Pollard was not able to attend the committee meeting held before the authority meeting. She was in the intensive care unit of the hospital being treated for an apparent heart attack. Chairman Snider reported the latest information on her condition was that it had stabilized. The authority approved an income range table which the hospital can use in determining if a patient is a charity case. This table will help clear up a backlog of bills that apparently cannot be collected and avoid such billings in the future, the authority reasoned. Executive director Feely announced that a thorough audit of hospital finances had been completed and was on file with the Clerk of Superior Court here. He said it is available for public inspection at the courthouse. The financial report showed that the hospital had a good month financially during August. A staff member noted hospital census usually is down during the summer and particularly in August. But this was not the case here this summer, he said. suggested some special consideration be given to handicapped people who work downtown. He said a permit issued for a fee might be a possibility. The commissioners also wanted to know if the downtown lots were lighted well enough. They also said they wanted to follow up the idea of having a policeman make security checks of lots on a regular basis day and night, using some sort of small electric car. The commissioners will try the no meter plan through Dec. 31 then decide if they want to keep it longer. Tickets are being issued to people who park longer than 2 hours in one place, the commissioners were told. The system is working as planned, they learned. Mrs. Sallie Mae Domineck (1) with 2 of her “babies”, Randy Crane (born Nov. 12, 1952) holding his new son, Chance Johnson Crane, who was born on his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Crane’s, 38 wedding anniversary, Sept. 9. Chance was the first boy in 5 generations on his mother’s side. She is the former Lynn Johnson of Griffin. Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA- Fair and cooler tonight with lows in low 60s. Fair Wednesday with highs in mid 80s. LOCAL WEATHER-Low this morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 64, high Monday 82. Mystery of stock is solved Chairman O. M. (Pete) Snider, Jr., has solved the mystery of the Griffin- Spalding Hospital stock holdings. The finance committee turned it up at a recent meeting. The committee didn’t know how the hospital had come to have the stock in the first place. Snider reported that J. M. Cheatham, Dundee president, telephoned him about the matter after reading about the stock. He said Dudley Cannafax of Milner had donated the stock years ago to the hospital in appreciation for the ex cellent care his wife received while a patient. Mr. Cheatham’s late father was chairman of the hospital board at the time. The stock was in a food concern in Houston. Jerry Savage with Dick Hyatt and Ballard who make up the finance committee at first had recommended that the stock be sold now and the money used for hospital expenses. The first information to the com mittee indicated the stock was worth about $27,000. But at the authority meeting, Savage learned the value had slumped to $17,000. Savage took a quick pool of Hyatt and Ballard and all three agreed to with draw the recommendation to sell now. Savage smiled and said the committee would study the matter. Discrimination charged and denied here The Griffin NAACP branch has asked the Postal Service to look into alleged racial discrimination in the promotion of a white employee here over a black man who had more service. President Gary Reid of the local chapter sent a copy of the complaints directed at Postmaster James Chappell to postal officials, local and congressional elected people. Reid said the local chapter feels Robert Jones, with 24 years of service in maintenance here, was the victim of racial discrimination. Postmaster Chappell said today the complaint would be settled within the service. He said when all the facts are known, it will be brought out that there is no racial discrimination. Some postal personnel people in the Atlanta office which were in on the decision were black, Chappell said. He said they were convinced there was no racial discrimination.
