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Sapelo Island dig is uncovering
structure of pre-historic society
SAPELO ISLAND, Ga. (AP)
— The structure of a prehistoric
society is beginning to emerge
as archeologists dig through the
dirt of an abandoned island
plantation off the Georgia coast.
In the past, bits of pottery and
primitive tools have been useful
in drawing a picture of the
Indians who inhabited Geor
gia’s coast 4,000 years ago. But
state Archeologist Dr. Louis
Larson says the digging at this
remote island in Mclntosh
County is producing the first
Thrift shop bargain hunting is art
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — It takes a certain breed of
person to shop a thrift store — but those who do say the
extra time and effort pay off.
Thrift shop buying “takes more time than going to the
department store, but when you’ve found something, you
feel like it was worth the time,*’ said Doug Vinson of Au
gusta.
“You’ve beaten the system,’’ he said.
Freda Dean of Augusta said it is her personal style that
allows her to wear a ‘4o’ style suit that cost $8 and gives
the impression of being the latest thing.
“I don’t care what people think,” she said. “My friends
like me for what I am, not what I wear.
“Wearing old clothes is, if not really an art form, at
least an outlet for creativity.”
She said the best way to shop thrift stores — which
range from small, private shops to larger Salvation Army
stores — is to dress in grubby clothes and go alone.
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picture of what the Indian vil
lages looked like.
According to Larson, the or
ganization of the village struc
ture can lead to an under
standing of the social organ
ization of the Indian society.
During the summmer, Larson
and his team unearthed the out
lines of six structures on a 125-
acre site. The archeologists es
timate that between 1,500 and
2,000 Indians lived in the vil
lage.
One of the structures being
stidied is between 80 and 100
feet wide and appears to have
contained three hearths.
Ray Crook, a graduate stu
dent at the University of Florida
and part of the project team,
says an absence of bones
around the hearths indicate
they were used for heating
rather then cooking.
Four of the five other units in
the village appear large enough
to accommodate several fami
lies, leading the archeologists to
speculate the Indians may have
“You need to dress respectably, not look like you’re
about to rob the place,” she said. “Besides, most of the
stores are pretty dusty. And if you dress up, you feel bad
about paying $3 for something."
She offered a couple of other tips:
“It’s not goo to go with someone who’s impatient or
doesn’t like to shop, because you have to take your time
and go through every rack in the store.
“Just go in expecting to find nothing, and don’t get
disgusted if you don’t. Thrift shopping is a hobby; you have
to constantly keep going back, keep discarding things as
you find others, and eventually you’ll end with a decent
collection of old things.”
Vinson’s forays in thrift shops date from his student
days at the University of Georgia.
“I found a pair of shoes for $1.25, and I must have 25 or
30 shirts which cost from 75 cents to |1.25,” he said.
Kathy Ireland of Augusta “specializes” in flea markets,
where, she said, jewelry and accessories often go for
much less than in antique shops.
Her collection includes a clutch bags, a silver mesh
purse and two ‘2os style dresses.
“One dress is a gabardine shirtwaist that looks like
something Ives St. Laurent might have designed,” she
said. “I paid $6.25 for it and I’ve gotten more compliments
on it than anything else I own.”
Power failure
darkens 4 blocks
ATLANTA (AP) - The kind
of power failure that blacked
out about a five-block area of
downtown Atlanta at noon Mon
day is not likely to happen
again, a spokesman for Georgia
Power Company said.
“The chances of a recurrence
are close to zero,” said Bob
Rutherford, explaining that an
underground cable at the Butler
had a communal society.
The team also has discovered
a series of depressions in the
earth on the one side of the
island not protected by water.
According to Crook, the area
may have been the site of a de
fensive wall.
Larson says that he hopes the
site will eventually reveal much
about the food eaten by the
early Georgians, their mi
gratory patterns, religious
practices and social order.
Street substation had an
equipment failure.
Normally, he said, the system
would switch to an alternate
circuit without a noticeable
difference.
“Obviously, the equipment
failed to switch rapidly enough
today causing the loss of power.
Many times when the switch is
made the public is unaware of
it.”
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A hug for Muriel
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey gives his
wife Muriel a hug after finishing his address Monday to
the Minnesota AFL-CIO Convention. The appearance was
Humphrey’s first in public since leaving the hospital Sept.
2. (AP)
GAE seeking
pay raises
ATLANTA (AP) - The Geor
gia Association of Educators is
promoting a multifaceted plan
which it hopes will “insure that
Georgia pupils rank among the
top in the nation.”
The plan, announced Monday
by the GAE’s executive secre
tary, Dr. Horace Tate, calls for
teacher pay raises, reduced
teacher-pupil ratios and a pol
icy of refusing to promote third
graders who have failed to
master basic skills.
“As the following educational ,
imperatives come to pass, chil
dren in the schools of Georgia (
will receive top quality educa- ,
tion and will measure on a level ]
with other pupils throughout the {
nation,” Tate said in outlining j
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the five-year proposal.
The plan’s key proposals are
that:
—Starting salaries of teach
ers should be raised >6OO a year
by 1980, or from $7,989 at
present to >IO,OOO.
—The ceiling for the state’s
highest paid teachers — those
with the longest service and the
highest degrees — should be
raised from $14,000 annually to
SIB,OOO.
—The pupil-teacher ratio
should be cut in half, to no more
than 15 pupils per teacher.
—Third graders who cannot
display the necessary reading,
writing and computing skills
must not be promoted to the
fourth grade until they have
mastered those skills.
— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, September 20, 1977
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Jones bank robbed
HADDOCK, Ga. (AP) — The Jones County Bank was
robbed of an undertermined amount of money Monday by
two men who hit L.M. Woodcock, executive vice
president, on the head, the sheriff’s office said.
The bandits escaped in a car.
Charged with murder
NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) — William H. Dennis, 55, has been
arrested and charged with the murder of Christine Wells,
45, whose body, riddled by shotgun pellets, was found in
her home in nearby Sargent Sunday night, authorities
said.
Bank ups interest
ATLANTA (AP) — The First National Bank of Atlanta
has announced it will increase its prime interest rate from
7 per cent to 7% per cent effective today.
The prime rate is the interest rate charged by the bank
on loans to its most credit-worthy corporate customers.
The bank said the rate increase follows recent moves by
the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit.
Worker crushed
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Thaddeus C. Bumy, 20, of Au
gusta was killed Monday when he was crushed in a waste
paper bailing machine, police said.
Bumy was wearing a safety belt while trying to clean
out a paper chute at Consolidated Fibers Co., but the belt
apparently broke and he fell down the chute, police said.
The body was found under about 2,500 pounds of waste
paper.
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