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GRIFFIN
DAI LY NT EWS
Daily Since 1872
They want to stay tops
James Johnston regards his job as a
challenge to surpass the previous
year’s first place ranking Griffin High
School Yearbook.
Since he and his yearbook staffs
entered national yearbook competitions
in 1974, the yearbook advisor has
worked with 3 national first placed
entries out of a total of 4 entries.
“It’s a challenge to make every
yearbook different and come up with a
top book,” the annual staff advisor
said.
But coming up with a top book means
many hours of dedicated work long
after the last school bell has rung.
Johnston said he has been trying to
put into practice most of the comments
made by judges on each of his
preceeding yearbook entries. That
coupled with 8 years of experience, he
and his staff keep looking for higher
goals.
It all started in 1969 when the year
book advisor resigned and the ad-
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Disclosure
MINNEAPOLIS — Dr. BiUy Graham
told a news conference Thursday his
evangelistic organization would make
public the sources and disposition of its
S2O-mlllion to $24-million in con
tributions each year. The Better
Business Bureau had criticized him for
not doing so. Graham said such
disclosure has not been required of
religious organizations in the past but
the mood of the country called for it
now. Graham was in Minneapolis to
receive recognition from the Chamber
of Commerce. (AP)
People
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| Pigeon shopping around for a bit of
food in parking lot of grocery store.
Large gardenia bush blooming in
Sast CoUege street yard.
Little girl in green dress with high
school senior on her way to school to try
out for class mascott.
Here’s what would happen if bond issue passes
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in
i series of answers to questions from
he public about the school bond issue.
1 citizens committee called Education
H will accept questions and answer
them each Friday in the Griffin Daily
Mews. Questions must be in at least 10
lays prior to publication to allow time
for researchers to find answers.
Q. If the bond referendum passes,
what changes will occur in our school
system?
A. Three questions will be asked on
November 8 pertaining to the school
bond referendum:
1. “Shall School Bonds for a High
School and other School System
Additions and Improvements in the
amount of $5,955,000 be issued by the
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, September 30, 1977
visorship was up for grabs. Johnston
gave up the advisorship to the high
school newspaper which he had held for
2 years to become the yearbook ad
visor.
He has attended several yearbook
seminars sponsored by the respective
yearbook publishers and visited their
plants to get ideas.
Johnston has been spreading some of
his own ideas, too.
He has been an instructor for two
yearbook seminars. This past summer
he taught a course at the University of
Georgia and last year he taught a
yearbook course at Kennesaw Junior
College.
The Griffin High School yearbook
was even used as a national sample by
the Intercollegiate Press 2 years ago.
Other schools in the nation used the
book to determine good yearbook style
and layout for their respective year
books.
Johnston said he sometimes has to
push his yearbook staffs really hard but
City signs
for money
to build tank
City of Griffin represen
tatives signed a grant ac
ceptance for $587,000 for con
struction of an elevated water
tank.
The money will come from
the federal Economic
Development Agency.
The grant still must be ap
proved In Washington. Con
struction must begin within 90
days from today.
City Manager Roy Inman and
Mayor Raymond Head
represented the city in signing
the acceptance.
Inman said word had been
received from Rep. Jack Flynt
the EPA has granted $59,048 to
finance another phase of the
sewer system survey. No
beginning date was specified.
The Country Parson
by F rank Clark
H
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“Today is your second chance
to do what yon intended to do
yesterday.”
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Considerable cloudiness tonight with
chance of showers and thundershowers.
Partly cloudy and warmer Saturday
with chance of thundershowers. Low
tonight in low 60s; high Saturday in low
80s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
58, high Thursday 76.
Griffin-Spalding County School
System?” *
2. “Shall School Bonds for an Athletic
Stadium and Facilities in the amount of
$1,000,000 be issued by the Griffin-
Spalding County School System?”
3. “Shall School Bonds for a Central
Food Storage and Cooler-Freezer
Facility in the amount of $160,000 be
issued by the Griffin-Spalding School
.System?”
If the first question is approved, the
following changes will take place when
new buildings are completed:
Moore and North Side students will
attend classes on the current 7th grade
campus. The Moore and North Side
schools will house Adult Education
classes, alternative education classes
for suspended students, and overflow
that is what it takes to turn out a top
notch book.
“I push them mostly, but they push
sometimes, too,” Johnston said.
He said that he and the students must
maintain a special closeness and a
dedicated spirit to successfully make a
good book.
Judging of the Griffin High Yearbook
is done by advisors throughout the
country. The scoring is done on a point
basis and to rate first place a school
must score more than 859 points. From
859 to 1,000 points score a first place.
Johnston said there may be several
first place scoring yearbooks in the
country.
The Yearbooks are judged by the
National School Yearbook Association
of Lubbock, Texas.
Johnston’s book is also judged in
other contests by the Columbia
Scholastic Press Association in New
York and the Georgia Scholastic Press
Association at the University of
Georgia.
New DHR boss wouldn’t
encourage marijuana use
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Hijacker wounds stewardess ,
PARIS (AP) — A hijacker shot and
wounded a stewardess and com
mandeered a French jetliner with 107
persons aboard today, forcing it to
return to-Paris and land at Orly Air
port, authorities said.
The plane had been bound for Lyon on
a domestic flight.
The pilot radioed the control tower
that the hijacker, said to be armed with
a grenade and pistol, wanted to
broadcast a message over Radio
Europe No. 1 and Radio Monte Carlo
and threatened to execute a passenger
if the request was not granted.
There were reports at Orly that the
gunman, described as about 45 years
old, big, blond and with blue eyes, had
called for the plane to be given a
maximum fuel supply.
Police and firemen took up positions
600 yards from the Air Inter Caravelle
after it was parked at the end of a
runway 500 yards from the terminal.
The stewardess, reported to have
classes for kindergarten and special
education.
A new elementary school will be built
on Cowan Road, off West Mclntosh
Road, to relieve crowded conditions at
Beaverbrook, Orrs and Atkinson.
Two Junior Highs will be formed,
each to house approximately one-half of
our seventh, eighth and ninth grade
students. The present high school
campus will serve as one Junior High
and the other will be located on the
present eighth and ninth grade cam
puses.
A new high school will be con
structed, centrally located in the
county, on the south side of Highway 16
West, between Carver road and Pinehill
road.
If question number 2 is approved, a
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One would think planning and
executing first place yearbooks would
take a sizeable chunk of time with not
much left for doing much of anything
else.
Not so with Johnston.
He teaches 3 classes of French as well
as a journalism class at Griffin High.
The Albany native started his
. teaching career as an English major in
the cities of Albany and Forsyth. For
the past 16 years he has been in the
Griffin-Spalding system.
He said he likes teaching French
because its very interesting and the
classes don’t have to get into a
classroom methods rut.
Johnston and his wife, Sally, have two
daughters, Beth and Mary.
He was the music director at the
DeVotie Baptist Church for the past 11
years. He is presently music director at
the First Baptist Church in Hampton,
where he has been for the past 4
months.
been shot in the arm when she did not
move quickly enough on the hijacker’s
orders, was removed from the plane.
Her injury was not believed serious,
although some reports said she had lost
blood before the plane landed.
Air Inter is the French domestic line.
All departures from Orly were canceled
but incoming planes were permitted to
land.
First word of the hijack came in a
radio message received at Orly. The
flight had left Paris for Lyon in east
central France at 11:28 local time (8:28
EDT).
The plane circled Paris and was
visible from the Champs Elysees, a
main thoroughfare, for about 30
minutes before it landed at Orly.
The drama over Paris took place as
five hijackers held a Japan Air Lines
plane and most of its passengers and
crew hostage for the third day in
Dacca, Bangladesh.
new stadium will be built on the
grounds of the proposed high school.
If question number 3 is approved, a
new food-storage and cooler-freezer
will be constructed to accommodate
large quantity purchases of food for our
cafeterias, as well as, free surplus
commodities provided by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Q. When was the last school bond
referendum approved in Spalding
County? For what?
A. 1962 — Junior High Unit 11, Fourth
Ward Annex, Atkinson, Beaverbrook,
Kelsey Addition, Bus Shop, Fairmont
Gym and Orrs Cafeteria.
A. Has enrollment increased in our
schools?
A. Yes. Average first grade
enrollment for first four months 1973-74
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Yearbook Editor Pam Hammond and Johnston edit pictures.
ATLANTA (AP) - The com
missioner of the state Department of
Human Resources says Georgia should
treat the possession of small amounts of
marijuana like a traffic offense, but
wants the state to do nothing to en
courage the drug’s use.
“I hope my children won’t use it. I
wouldn’t want society to do anything to
particularly encourage its use. I don’t
agree it’s okay ...” said Doug Skelton,
the 39-year-old head of the DHR.
Asked which he would choose if he
could ban either alcohol or marijuana
from society, Skelton said that “based
on what I know at this point, the scien
tific knowledge we have aboit the
proven effects of alcohol, I would ban
alcohol.”
But the soft-spoken psychiatrist who
oversees 28,000 employes, administers
a sprawling agency and spends S6OO
million a year in state funds has little
time for hypothetical problems.
Skelton, a Hall County native, has
been a high school student leader,
scouted by the New York Yankees for
his pitching talents, a psychiatrist, but
always a workaholic.
He set out in his career to help
wealthy people with their emotional
problems, but he soon changed his
mind.
“I’m really not sure what happened. I
grew up in a family where we always
had — not rich, by any means — what
was needed ... But my experiences
working with the prison population
after my psychiatric training, dealing
with the kids in the 10th Street area
when it was where the hippies were,
working with drug addicts — they
touched me.
“It’s always seemed to me that if you
have an opportunity to make a con
tribution, that there’s some obligation
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school year — 850.
Average first grade enrollment for
first four months 1976-77 school year,
972.
Average enrollment for system for
first four months 1973-74 — 9618.
Average enrollment for system for
first four months 1976-77 — 9916.
These facts reflect an increase of
approximately 300 students over the
past three years.
Q. How will schools be zoned if the
referendum passes?
A. This cannot be determined at this
time. It will be. 2 to 3 years before these
new buildings will be ready for oc
cupancy. Meanwhile, shifts in housing
patterns and undetermined growth can
Iceberg
. will cool
their drinks
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — As
scientists ponder the use of icebergs at
a conference in lowa next week, they
will be watching their subject melt in
their cocktail glasses.
Wet-suited divers planned to slip into
the icy waters of a lake at the foot of
Alaska’s Portage Glacier south of here
today to commandeer a 2,500-pound ice
slab from a floating glacial iceberg.
The ice will be used at the First
International Conference on Iceberg
Utilization at" lowa State University
Sunday through Thursday. Representa
tives of 18 nations are expected to at
tend.
After the divers wrap a three-cubic
meter hunk of ice in nets, the chilly
package will be slung from a helicopter
and flown to Anchorage International
Airport. From there, a commercial
airliner will fly it to Minneapolis, and
then it will be trucked the last leg of* its
journey to Ames, lowa.
“They’re using ice from up here
because it’s the most available fresh
water ice,” said Ed Cronick of
Anchorage, coordinator of the
operation. “It does make the best
cocktail ice.”
Glaciers winding up in salt water
tend to be porous and the salt tang could
be an unwelcome addition to some
drinks, he said.
He said Portage Glacier is a
relatively small, young glacier, with ice
in the small lake at its foot about 200
years old. Ice from larger glaciers is
thousands of years old, he said.
The $7,500 cost of the conference’s
centerpiece is being underwritten by
Youssef Elakeel of Saudi Arabia, ac
cording to conference spokesman
William Berkland of lowa State.
Berkland noted for the record that
lowa is “about as far from a glacier as
you can get.”
occur making new zoning possibly
obsolete by the time construction is
completed. They will be zoned as fairly
as possible when rezoning does take
place.
Q. How much will my taxes increase
if the entire proposal is approved?
A. Approximately 10.07 percent of
your county taxes, based on the current
tax digest. Example: If your county tax
was S3OO last year, add 10.07 per hun
dred ($300.00 + $30.21). Total tax of
$330.21. This is based on an estimated
levy of 3.20 mills.
Mail your signed questions to
Education 77, P. O. Box 711, Griffin,
30224. Every effort will be made to see
that they are clearly answered in this
column each Friday before the election.