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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1977)
Ph ' * X ?*>' ~~* X ■ 'kWE ' MHI w v \\aflß: w ■ Am 7 j| t.J R/ y ... W lbk\ ' :■BMBB®® ’ l ll k /SBI A IwMI ■L Rm/Z*p« ■ KS& iSmuunVil ■-■/jB: ■< PEXflg ilrWnrt • 11 ?t VvERHBBtj /HH Papa John: Guy Haisten gave him his nickname at a football game. Papa John Willis During a Griffin High football game in the early ’3os, a spectator rose to his feet and yelled a message to the quarterback. It had a lasting effect on the life of the player’s father. “Run, George, run, Papa John is looking for you,” yelled Guy Haisten. Thus was born the nickname for Griffin restauranteur John Willis, better known as “Papa” John. Papa John, 89, is an American suc cess story of a Grecian immigrant who was born in April of 1888 in Greece. In 1907 he left his sheep-herding family and came to the United States for the “good life” during the depression of the President William Taft era. Why educators believe elementary school is needed > Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of questions and answers about ( the school bond issue, prepared by Education 77, a citizens committee. Questions may be addressed to the group at Box 711, Griffin, Ga. 30223. ‘ They should be submitted 10 days prior to publication. The series will be published in the Griffin Daily News on '« Fridays until the bond issue. Q. Do We Really Need Another , Elementary School? If So, Why? A. Yes, an elementary school is definitely needed to relieve the over crowded classroom conditions that presently exist in the Atkinson, Beaverbrook and Orrs Schools. The GRIFFIN Daily Since 1872 Greek who made good in Griffin “People were sleeping on the Post Office steps; they had no money, no jobs,” Papa John said. But he had $9 in his pockets and at least he had an uncle in Camden, S. C. Upon his debarkation in New York harbor, the 19-year-old who spoke no English made his way from New York to Washington, D. C., via train to Camden. Because he spoke no English, he had shown the ticket to the train conductor at every stop, even when it was to take on coal or water. It just so happened the one stop when he should have asked the conductor, he neglected to do so. When the train made the next stop to take on coal, Papa John State Department of Education’s comprehensive study noted that classroom space at these three schools was inadequate to house the number of children enrolled in each of them. It was for this reason that the state recommended that we construct an eighteen classroom elementary school on Cowan Road since the Board of Education already owns this property. Construction of this elementary school would permit Atkinson, Beaverbrook and Orrs to shift enough students from their enrollment to the new school thus providing adequate classroom space for the children who would be enrolled in each of these schools. Beaverbrook has earned 4 teachers Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, October 7, 1977 showed his ticket and the conductor let him off the train some 10 miles past his Camden stop. Papa John said he just stood there looking up and down the tracks. Luckily for him there were laborers in the fields near the supply station. After having stood there for a long time not saying anything but looking up and down the tracks, Papa John got an offer of help from the field foreman. In Camden he lived with his uncle and washed dishes in a restaurant for $3 a week. Later his uncle went back to Greece, and Papa John was to fend for himself. He moved into a room with 4 persons who do not have individual classrooms in which to work. Special education teachers who travel to the elementary schools and work with students in the area of behavioral disorders, learning disabilities and speech impaired have no classroom space in which to work because the facilities are overcrowded. Teachers of music, art and physical education must meet in areas such as cafeterias and on stages in order to conduct their programs since no rooms are available. Construction of the elementary school would reduce the number of students in these three elementary schools thus providing for a better student-teacher ratio and in suring an atmosphere more conducive ‘Great, growing’ The latest estimate is 67,600 by 2010 The latest population guess for Spalding County is 67,600 people by the year 2010. That’ll be 33 years from now. The population figure includes the city of Griffin as well as Orchard Hill and Sunny Side. They are in a population projections study from the state Office of Planning and Budget. If the estimate holds, Spalding County would rank 23 in the state in terms of population. That would represent a slip from 24th which is where the county is supposed Soviet ships concern admiral ATLANTA (AP) — Soviet warships along the U.S. Atlantic coast are in a position to destroy cities in a nuclear war while their merchant vessels are winning weapons in a continuing economic war, high U.S. Navy officers said Thursday. Vice Adm. William Read, com mander of the Atlantic Fleet’s Naval Surface Forces, said the growing presence of Soviet submarines, destroyers and cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico and off the East Coast is an indication of the growing size, power and aggressiveness of the Soviet navy. In July, Read said, the Soviet navy showed up in the Gulf with a task force of various types of ships armed with missiles and other weapons. “It used to be a rare sight to see Russian warships on the high seas,” Read said. “Now we see them in every part of the globe — well armed and in large numbers.” Read and several other officers were attending the Southeast Seapower Symposium here. and spent the next 2 years there. He then moved to Charlotte, N. C. where he worked as a bus boy in a restaurant for 3 months. Afterwards in 1910, Papa John bought a restaurant for SSO which he operated for 2 years. “I accumulated as much as S6OO in two years,” Papa John said. In 1912 he went into the restaurant business with another Greek in Macon. He spent 9 years there. Marrying his first wife, Blanche, the couple was blessed with a son, George Willis, who is now a state employe at the Stone Mountain State Park. In 1923, he entered into half-interest partnership with Vick Poulos in a (Continued on page 2) to a quality education. Q. Why Not Construct New Buildings Where The Eighth and Ninth Grades Are Now Located, Use This As The High School, and Have The Present High School As A Junior High Instead of Buying More Land and Building A New High School? A. The comprehensive study, con ducted by The State Department of Education, considers recom mendations in 4 different categories; those being organization, curriculum, physical facilities and finance. The comprehensive study members recommended that our junior high organization be on a 7-8-9 grouping rather than the method under which we Vol. 105 No. 238 to be by 1980 when an estimated 44,100 people will live by 1980. The study says the G-S population will climb to 47,200 by 1985 and to 50,400 five years later. It is supposed to reach 54,400 by the year 1995 and rise to 58,500 when the year 2000 arrives. By 2005 the population is supposed to be 62,900 and reach 67,600 by 2010. The projections are subject to all sorts of things that could affect the present growth pattern. The figures are based on data available to the Budget and Planning Office which would be the first to say that the estimates are only good guesses at the best. Spalding’s population is supposed to reach 44,100 by 1980. The study said the community has 42,200 now which is a 6.8 percent growth over the 1970 census figure of 39,514, Pike County is supposed to reach 8,000 by 1980 and 10,800 by 2010. Fayette County, if on schedule, will reach 19,800 by 1980 and 29,700 by the year 2010. Henry County is supposed to reach 31,900 by 1980 and 54,900 by 2010. Lamar will climb to 10,700 by 1980 and 14,600 by 2010. Butts will reach 14,200 by 1980 and 24,000 by the year 2010. People ...and things Traffic at Hill and Taylor attempting to avoid several large plastic sacks filled with bags of flour and meal which apparently fell from grocery truck this morning. One high school boy to another as they walk on downtown section of South Hill street sidewalk and try to avoid stepping on the cracks: “I’ll bet you used to do this when you were a kid.” People in courthouse complimenting female ambulance driver for refusing male offers to help carry her end of stretcher, which held a fat woman who had passed out in the tag office. The Country Parson by Frank Clark I fifßl gw ■Ka. “When you talk about others, say things you’d like them to overhear.” presently operate. There are 2,723 students in grades 7, 8 and 9 at the present time and if we follow the recommendation of the comprehensive study and have two junior high schools (grades 7-9), we would have ap proximately 1,360 on each campus. One junior high school would be located at the present Bth and 9th grade campuses and the other at the present Griffin High School campus. It is impossible to place the 1939 high school students on the present Bth and 9th grade campuses and use the facilities at the vocational technical school because of inadequate space and due to Vo-Tech being a post-secondary school built to serve students from Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Increasing cloudiness tonight with low in the mid 50s. Good chance of thun dershowers Saturday with highs in the low 70s. LOCAL WEATHER — Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit 50, high Thursday 78. Dayan says confidence partly back ATLANTA (AP) — Relaxed and smiling, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said Thursday that Israel’s confidence in President Carter has been at least partly restored by U.S. agreement to a “working paper” for new Mideast peace talks in Geneva. Israeli leaders were jolted last weekend by a joint American-Soviet statement which Dayan said Israel interpreted as “a change leaning toward the Arabs.” That led to a five-hour, late-night meeting among Dayan, Carter and top State Department officials resulting in the working paper. Contents of the document have not been publicized, but Dayan said in Atlanta that “we could go to Geneva tomorrow” if all parties to the proposed talks would go on the basis of the paper. Dayan was here on a tour of several big U.S. cities to discuss Israeli policies with prominent American Jews. Those meetings are private, but Dayan told reporters he has recom mended that the Israeli government adopt the working paper. Earlier in the day, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said in New York that “things are moving" concerning possible peace talks.” The American-Soviet statement spoke of Palestinians’ “legitimate rights” in the Mideast rather than “legitimate interests,” as has been the custom. Israelis quickly interpreted that change in wording as a possible step toward giving their most bitter enemies — the Palestine Liberation Organ ization — more clout in the ne gotiations. Dayan said his current under standing with Carter and other American leaders is that the talks could resume on the basis of the working paper, “ignoring completely the American-Soviet statement.” He said he was disappointed in the new public wording from the President, but added that it wasn’t clear yet whether it was “a shaking change.” “I can’t really measure the vibrations yet,” he said. Dayan said he believes Carter is sincerely seeking peace in the Mideast and is not trying to hurt Israeli in terests, “but I’m afraid some of his views and some of his plans will be harmiul to Israel.” He did not elaborate beyond the matter of the American-Soviet statement. Spalding and surrounding counties who have either completed their high school education or who seek definite skills for the labor force. Q. How Will New Facilities Help Our Children Get A Better Education? A. The new facilities which are proposed to be constructed, if the bond referendum passes in November, will reduce overcrowded conditions that exist in our schools and provide ad ditional programs and an atmosphere conducive to academic excellence. Adequate classroom space will insure a better pupil-teacher ratio thus providing for more individual attention for the students. On the high school (Continued on page 10)
