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special education
Special education needs in the
Griffin-Spalding County School System
were pinpointed Wednesday afternoon
for a fact-finding group who will seek
additional funding from the General
Assembly to meet the needs.
The group consisting of members of a
Governor’s Committee and Sub
committee on Special Education, the
State Department of Education and the
Georgia Education Improvement
Council toured special education
facilities in the system.
Mrs. Margie Britt was spokesman for
the group and said the needs pinpointed
in the Griffin-Spalding System and
those in other systems visited by the
committee, subcommittee and others
would be evaluated. The evaluations
will be presented to the General
Assembly for possible action at the 1978
session which begins in January.
Clyde Poole, a member of the sub
committee and Superintendent of
Emmanuel County Schools, praised the
dedication of the special education
teachers here. He said their work had
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Cindy Jimmerson placed in ambulance.
been a contributing factor to the suc
cess of the special education program
in the Griffin-Spalding County School
System.
Griffin-Spalding Supt. D. B. Christie
said additional facilities were needed.
Special education instructors attending
the meeting agreed.
Assistant Supt. Tommy Jones asked
the committee to request capital outlay
funds for buildings and materials for
special education programs.
Poole said in the past the capital
outlay funds had been parceled on a
basis of population increase or con
solidation.
“Some areas have consolidated as
much as possible and other areas are
not experiencing growth. This does not
mean they do not need capital outlay
funds,” he said.
Christie said the Griffin-Spalding
County School System is providing
educational opportunities to every child
possible.
(Continued on page 3.)
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, September 22, 1977
Roof
mishap
kills man
Mark David Cams, 23, of 224 West
Central avenue, was killed Wednesday
when a piece of tin he was holding
touched an electric power line at
O’Kelley’s Furniture Store on
Experiment street.
Cindy Jimmerson, 18, of Milner, a
friend who was helping, suffered bums
about the feet and hands and cuts and
bruises to her head.
Police said Cams was employed by
his father, owner of Cams Roofing Co.,
and was putting metal facings on the
roof when the metal touched a power
line with 7,200 volts of electricity,
knocking Cams 25 feet to the pavement
below.
His neck was broken in the fall and
apparently he died instantly, they said.
Miss Jimmerson was standing on a
section about 12 feet from the ground
and also was thrown to the pavement
below. She was taken to the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital for treatment, then
transferred to Northside Hospital in
Atlanta where she was reported in good
condition today.
The accident happened at ap
proximately 1:15 p.m.
The roofing work was part of
remodeling at the store.
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“It’s hard to believe the steps
of the ladder of success could be
so close together — and so far
apart coming down.”
People
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Panic stricken housewife finding she
had used starch instead of hairspray on
her head.
Sale sign upside down in store win
dow.
Workers giving shrubbery fall trim at
downtown building.
Search begins
for OMB boss
By RICHARD E. MEYER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter is trying to replace a man he
says is irreplaceable.
Stunned by the resignation of
longtime friend Bert Lance as his
budget director, Carter began the
search today for a successor.
“There will be an orderly transition,”
the president told a news conference
Wednesday when he announced Lan
ce’s resignation. “I will decide
beginning after today on who a suc
cessor might be.”
Among names that quickly surfaced
were:
—James T. Mclntyre Jr., director of
Georgia’s budget office in 1972 while
Carter was governor and now deputy
director of the Office of Management
and Budget, which Lance had headed.
—Robert Strauss, a former chairman
of the Democratic National Committee
and now the U.S. ambassador for trade
negotiations.
—Alice Rivlin, director of the
Congressional Budget Office.
—Hale Champion, former California
finance director and now an official at
the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare.
Carter said the task of finding a new
budget director won’t be easy.
“I don’t think there is any way that I
could find anyone to replace Bert Lance
that would be, in my judgment, as com
petent, as strong, as decent and as close
to me as a friend and adviser as he has
been,” the President said.
“Obviously, the government will
continue,” Carter declared, “and I
hope to do a good job as President, and I
am sure a successor will be adequate.
“But there has been a special
relationship between me and Bert
Lance that transcended official
responsibilities or duties or even
governmental service of the last six or
seven years.
“So he has occupied a special place in
my governmental career, in my
political career, and in my personal
life. I don’t think there is any way
anyone could replace him now.”
Carter hinted that he might have an
additional problem because of the
controversy that finally forced Lance to
resign.
Asked if the Lance affair had
damaged his own credibility with the
American people, the President
replied: “I can’t say. I’d guess to some
extent.”
In a letter to “My Dear Mr.
President,” Lance quit “because of the
amount of controversy and the con
tinuing nature of it” surrounding his
Heroic Scout
to get medal
A Griffin Eagle Scout will receive the
coveted Honor Medal of the Boy Scouts
of America for helping rescue an in
jured and unconscious man from his
blazing apartment last June and then
giving him first aid.
William T. Scott IV, 17, of 532 South
Hill street, a member of Troop 77
chartered to the Southside Community
Fellowship, will receive the medal and
accompanying citation Sunday at St.
George’s Episcopal Church.
The National Court of Honor of the
Boy Scouts of America cited Scott’s
“coolheaded action” which saved a life
“and reflected the highest credit upon
him and his Scout training.”
Scott, a junior at Woodward
Academy, College Park, Ga., had just
returned from a day at Camp Thunder
and was relaxing in his Griffin home
June 11 just before going to bed. He
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President Carter became emotional at
times during his press conference when
he announced he had accepted the
resignation of Bert Lance.
At right Lance returns to his
Georgetown home shortly before
President Carter announced his
resignation.
personal financial affairs and his
business dealings as the head of two
Georgia banks.
Lance’s business and banking
practices have been under in
vestigation for several weeks by the
Senate Governmental Affairs Com
mittee, Justice Department, Securities
and Exchange Commission, Federal
Election Commission and Internal
Revenue Service.
They are looking into large over
drafts at Lance’s First National Bank
of Calhoun, Ga., by Lance, members of
his family and the committee that ran
his 1974 campaign for governor of
Georgia; two multimillion-dollar
personal loans at banks where his
National Bank of Georgia had special
accounts; his use of the same collateral
for two loans at separate banks and
allegations that he used bank-owned
aircraft for his personal and political
travel.
In three days of testimony last week
before the Senate committee, Lance
said he might have made some mis
takes but declared that his conscience
las clear of any wrongdoing.
He said the same to Carter.
“It was, and is, important that my
spotted a fire in a 4 apartment dwelling
across the street. He immediately
called the fire department and then
raced to the house.
He learned that at least one man was
still in the fire area. Joined by Pike
County Deputy Donald Buffington who
had been passing in his car, Scott ran
upstairs.
Braving intense heat, Buffington and
young Scott found Gary Cleveland, 60,
lying unconscious and injured in a
hallway. Together they carried him
outside to safety and went back to make
sure no one else was in the flaming
building.
Scout officials say Scott, pending
arrival of an ambulance, then assisted
Cleveland in breathing while firemen
fought the blaze at 515 South Hill street.
He also gave first aid for a facial
laceration.
The Honor Medal of the Boy Scouts of
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Fair and cool tonight with lows around
60. Fair and mild Friday with highs in
mid 80s.
LOCAL WEATHER - Low this
morning at Spalding Forestry Unit 55,
high Wednesday 84.
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name and reputation be cleared, for
me, my wife, my children, my grand
children and those who have trust and
faith in me. And I believe that this has
been done,” Lance wrote in his
resignation.
“As I said at the Senate hearings, my
conscience is clear.”
As Carter read Lance’s letter to
reporters on national radio and
television, he stumbled on the word
“resignation.”
An aide said the president was as
close to tears as he has been since his
wet-eyed victory statement the mor
ning after his election last November.
“Bert Lance is my friend,” Carter
said.
“I know him personally as well as if
he was my own brother.”
Question after question at the news
conference was about Lance.
Carter cast his eyes down from time
to time, tightened his Ups and
responded to the questions, one by one.
After 34 minutes, he ended the news
conference himself, without waiting for
the senior news service correspondent
to say, “Thank you, Mr. President.”
(Continued on page 2)
William Scott IV
America is awarded to youth or adult
members of the organization who have
“demonstrated unusual heroism in
saving or attempting to save life at the
risk of their own.” Only 27 such awards
were granted throughout the country
during 1976.