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.' .J? JBAt AAR • ri ■tA-~ •>« ■■ ■ w .. z ■•- ■ y K Bk t ~"• - &\%y fi IA -JT- flirt safflg r*""-"-, g£.ft fgRMIH' V ' Zr~ >. Mrw Ml [WRMtfT — qm» br u I Ar<r \Aaa "~ a —f p® Mr B I ’ rJJXT ■ —— - ipg uuj DI >■ i R ■RFp*n(rrj f<f.> JX ’ ■i'|lK3®afiM| r Billy Engle of The Rock shows power of his tractor. Tractor pull pulls crowd Billy Engle of The Rock, Ga., drove off with 2 of the 7 trophies awarded Tuesday night in the annual Tractor and Truck Pull at the Spalding County Kiwanis Fair. Engle won the 7,000 and 9,000 pound classes driving a Deutz. He won the 7,000 class with a pull of 276 feet and came back to win the 9,000 class with a pull of 293 feet. Chandler Chasteen kicked off the tractor pull by winning the 5,000 pound They’d rather fight than switch WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) - Nine- • year-old Sean Robert Shipman doesn’t know it yet, but a Cherokee County school board policy may force him to „ leave his fourth grade class. Sean, who has been living with his grandparents for four years, has not been told that Cherokee County school • officials say he will have to be with drawn from class if his grandparents can’t establish him as a county • resident. “How will we tell him? I don’t know,” said Mrs. Robert Malaussena, who has . been caring for Sean since his parents divorced and decided the boy would be better off living permanently with his grandparents. • The Malaussenas, who have kept the actual custody arrangements informal, were told last week by Cherokee County • school officials that an informal custody arrangement, no matter how permanent, did not establish Sean as a county resident. Milford Mason, an officer in pupil attendance placement cases, said Sean’s attendance at a Cherokee • County school runs counter to a school board policy which insures that county residents get first priority in county • schools. The policy was designed to prevent parents from sending their children across county lines should they decide a certain school was better than one in Stuart Eizenstat has the facts WASHINGTON (AP) - As a child, Stuart Eizenstat crammed his brain with facts and figures from the backs of baseball cards. Now he’s switched to ’ position papers and memos which shape the nation's domestic policy. As the President’s top domestic as , fairs adviser, Eizenstat drafts and polishes memos which outline policy alternatives and affect the President’s decisions about billions of tax dollars and about federal policies which have impact on the lives of most Americans. DAI LY 4r N EWS Daily Since 1872 class with a distance of 147 feet. He was driving a Massey-Ferguson. Keith Kimpson of Hollonville won the truck class with a pull of 276 feet. He was driving a four-wheel drive Ford. John Deere tractors ran away with the 12,000, 16,000 and super stock Tuesday set record at fair their own county, Mason said. To keep Sean in a Cherokee County school, the grandparents must pay $415 in out-of-county tuition or go to court to secure legal custody, school authorities said. their own county, Mason said. To keep Sean in a Cherokee County school, the grandparents must pay $415 in out-of-county tuition or go to court to secure legal custody, school authorities said. “We aren’t rich and I don’t think we should be forced to pay tuition (above the local taxes they pay) or pay to go to court in order for a child to go to school,” the grandmother said. The custody proceeding would be “very unfair to our daughter,” Sean’s mother, because it would make it ap pear as if she had given away her child, Mrs. Malaussena said. “You really can’t help your own family without going to court, that’s what this means,” she said. “It’s like the school is saying to our boy, ‘You don’t belong with your grandparents. Get your bags packed and go to Florida (where the mother lives).*” School officials said the Malaussenas would receive a letter soon saying that if they did not secure legal custody or agree to pay tuition, steps would be taken to withdraw Sean from school. Mrs. Malaussena said she would not go to court to get custody, but she was unsure of exactly what she and her hus band would do. “This is the first time in my life my country has come into my home and told me who I can help in my family and how I have to do it,” she said. “You can ask Stu about any domestic issue and he can immediately tell you the background and the correct status of legislation or pending legislation and policy changes,” marveled a colleague. “It’s amazing what he has a grasp of. He has an unbelievable capacity to store knowledge.” Eizenstat, 34, called “my brains” by the President, begins his workday each morning at 5:30, reading what is left from the stack of papers he brought home the night before. His early work Griffin, Ga. 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, October 12, 1977 GRIFFIN classes. Charles Rucks won the 12,000 category with a pull of 278 feet. Billy Christopher took the 16,000 division with 281 feet and Hugh Don Thames won the super stock with 297 feet. A fair spokesman called the tractor pull the biggest and best ever. “It attracted a record crowd,” the spokesman said. There were 25 entries in the show. ■ST* K. k 1 Alberta Malausenna with grandson Sean. Goolsby plans to seek post in county Jimmy Goolsby, photographic and movie man, said he would qualify for the county commission race Thursday. He would become the fifth candidate. Others who already have signed for the race are David Elder, Frank Gunnels, Bob Gilreath and Tom Bearden. The special election will be held Nov. 8 to fill the unexpired term of Reid Childers who resigned because of his health. schedule frequently gets him away from the office in time for a family dinner hour and allows him to spend more time with his wife and two sons at night, he explains. The long hours are worth it, he says, when he sees policies turned into “real, tangible laws and benefits to people.” Eizenstat said he’s had an interest in public affairs since his college days. He first began to read about public policy while maintaining a near straight-A (Continued on page 3.) Griffin is going to quota hiring The city commissioners have adopted a racial quota system which will put blacks in 40 percent of the city’s job vacancies, until the racial make up of city employees is proportionate to that of the community. Two out of 5 policemen and firemen hired will be black until the ratio is reached. After than, 1 black to 3 whites will be hired. According to the last census, some 27 percent of the city’s population is black. Commissioner Dick Mullins proposed that one-third instead of 40 percent of the new employes be biAck. “We don’t know what the results of the current law suit over reverse discrimination will be and we don’t know if a quota system will be legal. What’s past is past and all job ap plicants, both black and white, should hfAre equal opportunities. This new generation had nothing to do with the past.. .The real thing is that everybody out there looking for a job ought to have the same opportunities,” he said. Mayor Raymond Head disagreed. “We are leaving ourselves open when we fail to atone or adjust for the past, then try to pick up. It’s obvious we’ve been lagging in this area,” Head said. He asked each commissioner and the vote was 3 to 2 with Commissioner R. L. “Skeeter” Norsworthy agreeing with Mullins on the one-third ratio. Head, Ernest “Tiggy” Jones and Louis Goldstein said they thought the 40 percent figure would be fairer until the ratio is reached. Mullins also called the plan to bring in out-of-towners to evaluate job ap plicants “a bunch of marlarky.” “I think we should use the testing procedure we have now with our new quota system before we create a monster,” Mullins said. Instead of relying on written tests, on which some applicants do poorly, the city is looking into a plan which would evaluate their on-the-job skills. A workshop on such assessments is being offered to city officials at the Univer sity of Georgia. City Manager Roy Inman said he will present a plan on job evaluations at next week’s meeting. Also: I.— Street lights for Pinetree ap proved if citizens will pay for them. 2. — Rezone request tabled. 3. — Rent Assistance program en dorsed 3-1. 4. — Parking meter restoration request delayed until January. The commissioners approved the installation of street lights in the Pinetree Hills Subdivision, provided residents there pay costs of installation. The city will pay the operating and maintenance costs. A group from the subdivision had petitioned for the lights 2 weeks ago. Some 14 street lights are needed to accommodate about 41 homes in the area. Installation costs would total SB4O, with more than S3OO required in yearly upkeep. It was agreed that requests from any other subdivision in the county would be considered on an individual basis and that installation will be done after the residents come up with the money. City Commissioner Louis Goldstein who developed Pinetree Hills Sub division, abstained from the voting. (Continued on page 3.) People ...and things Senior citizen tugging to hold dog nearly as big as she to keep it from running into street to chase car. Little girl at fair holding teddy bear nearly as big as she, waiting for her parents to come get her at the fairgrounds. Vol. 105 No. 242 . R ?' 0 nil i. . <x " Here’s how MILWAUKEE — Dana Putnam, 2, (r), looked to an older boy for pointers while participating in a young people’s arts program in Milwaukee. Pre-school through high school students took part. (AP) Surprise: Emily Emily Harris has played the piano at programs many times when people of note were being honored. It was her time Tuesday night. Griffin Rotary Club members and their wives honored their “sweetheart” at the country club with a surprise party. Though printed invitations were mailed and lots of people were in on the planning, somehow they all managed to keep the party a secret. Billy Shapard made the arrangements. He checked with Emily to be sure she would be there for a party. Mrs. Harris had cooked up a little sing-along program with Cary Jones, the banker. The two planned to lead the group in some singing. Mrs. Harris a few days ago remarked to her son, Frank, the outdoor ad vertising man, “What time does the program start? They didn’t send me an invitation.” She even asked her sister, Mrs. Florence Barker who lives with her on North Second Street, if she’d like to go to the party. Mrs. Barker made an excuse and declined. She was in on the surprise, too. She showed up with Mrs. Eclipse of sun catches the eye NEW YORK (AP) — People who wanted to observe today’s eclipse of the sun were warned to avoid viewing the solar disc directly because of a risk of blindness. Although ear light of the sun dims as the moon moves between it and the earth, some rays get through and can bum the retina, the delicate back layer of the eye that transmits images to the brain, according to the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. “Sunglasses, goggles, smoked-glass filters, or homemade viewing devices cannot give the eyes 100 percent pro- Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA - Clear and cool tonight with lows around 40. Sunny and continued cool Thursday with highs in the low 60s. LOCAL WEATHER — Low this morning at the Spalding County Forestry Unit 50, high Tuesday 70. Harris’ daughter, Emily of Atlanta, who brought along her daughter to make the night complete for Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Harris vowed she knew nothing of the surprise until she arrived at the country club. She was met at the door and given one of the printed invitations announcing the surprise party in her honor. Mrs. Harris was flabbergasted. This is one of the few times in her life she was caught off guard completely, she said. Jim Owen, long time Rotary mem ber, reviewed some of the highlights of Mrs. Harris’ life during the party. Mrs. Harris graduated from Griffin High and went to work for the Griffin Daily News in the mid 19205. Soon thereafter, the late Quimby Melton, Sr., bought the newspaper and Emily stayed on. She did business of fice work. Mrs. Harris used to substitute for the late Mrs. Frank Pittman playing the piano for Rotary meetings. After her marriage in 1936, Emily became the regular at the piano and has been the “sweetheart” of the club since. tection," according to Virginia Boyce, executive director of the society. Today’s partial eclipse could be seen, depending on how clear the skies were, from different cities in the United Sates at slightly different times. In New York, for example, it was to begin at 4:44 p.m., EDT and end at 5:52 p.m. In Los Angeles, it was to begin at 11:58 a.m., PDT, ending at 2:30. The eclipse would be more extensive in Western states, according to New York’s Hayden Planetarium. It would be seen as a total eclipse in the Pacific ocean, more than 1,000 miles south of Los Angeles.