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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1977)
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. REVIVAL CHURCH OF GOD Hampton, Ga. Wednesday Sept. 21 thru I Sunday Sept. 27 Services 7:30 PM Each Night PRAYER FOR M ' THE SICK Herb Winegar, EACH NIGHT Evangelist H GRIFFIN REALTY “GREAT AND GROWING WITH GRIFFIN” W ReAITOR HELP US REDUCE OUR INVENTORY V • . i < BL rfWF ■bKh LI >3 RIB ite r iiMMt fliMjTB Hhj 366 N. Hill St. Reduced >50,000 1481 Gloria St Reduced >43,500 Crescent School District. >79 500 311 S. 12th St Reduced >20,000 Completely renovated. 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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.” K’l Si ' ■** iL/i Z 4" k * . j '' Im 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 Page 7 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 newsj 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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