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What other costs will bond issue okay mean?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third 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. 30224.
They should be submitted at least 10
days prior to publication to allow
researchers to find the answers. The
series will be published every Friday in
the Griffin Daily News until the bond
issue is decided.
Q. How many more teachers will be
required, how many more school buses,
how many additional personnel for
operations of new facilities, how many
new buses will be required, how much
more for insurance on buildings and
buses liability, utility costs, gasoline
and maintenance costs? What is
maximum rate of interest will the
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Members of the Griffin Lions Club observed world service
day Thursday by serving a meal to senior citizens at the
Golden Age Club. Serving (from left) are Lion President
Marvin Crutchfield, Louis Ellis, chairman of the world
service day here; Maudell Van Zelen. Being served (being
Suit challenges wealthy edge
some children have in schools
MACON, Ga. (AP) — An Abbeville,
Ga., family has filed federal suit
against the Wilcox County Board of
Education, accusing school officials of
refusing to provide workbooks when the
impoverished family’s children
couldn’t afford to buy them.
The suit, filed Thursday in U.S.
District Court, asks that school officials
be ordered to provide such school
Tax notices
going out here
Spalding County ad valorem tax
notices were mailed today and should
be in the hands of property owners
Saturday or Monday, depending on the
U. S. Postal Service.
According to Tax Commissioner
Ruby Hill, the amounts are about the
same as last year.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Cold again tonight with good chance of
frost and lows in the upper 30s. Sunny
Saturday with highs in the low 00s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
34, high Thursday 01.
schools pay for selling bonds? How
much more will the schools expend for
additional retirement contributions,
health insurance, social security
contributions?
A. There will not be a significant
number of teachers added once the new
high school is constructed since we will
be receiving additional state paid
vocational teachers because of the state
formula for allocating these in
structional personnel. We will be in a
position to decrease the number of
teachers needed in other elective areas
since students have indicated, on a
vocational interest survey, rather than
some of the present offerings.
It is presumed that additional
transportation will be required if the
high school is constructed west of the
Griffin-Barnesville By-Pass, however,
it is a known fact that a large per-
Griffin, Ga. 30223, Friday, October 14, 1977
Lions helping out
materials to poverty-stricken families,
that the children’s poor grades be
removed from their records and that
the family be awarded SIO,OOO for at
torneys’ fees.
Maggie McCray and her nine
children, who range in age from 7 to 17,
also ask in the suit that the children be
provided remedial instruction to make
up for education they say they have lost
because they weren’t furnished the
workbooks and other supplies.
School Superintendent William
Brooks, one of the defendants in the
case, said he was not aware of any
complaints such as those of the
McCrays.
“I have not been notified of any suit,”
Some voting ‘hodgepodge’
ATLANTA (AP) — Taxmen may
know their tax laws, but too many of
them are registering voters when that
job ought to be left to regular election
officials, two legislative committees
• were told.
The committee chairmen agreed.
Election machinery in some rural
counties is “a hodgepodge” with dif
ferent types of officials taking a hand,
said state Rep. Mobley Howell, D-
Blakely, chairman of the House State of
served, 1-r) are Don Townsend, Frank Knox and Luella
Smith. Lion Club members were with the senior citizens
throughout the noon hour fellowship and shared in several
activities.
centage of Griffin High students
provide their own transportation to and
from school. We realize, that in all
probability, we will be transporting
more Griffin High students than we are
presently transporting but it should be
noted that with one Junior High School,
being located on the present Griffin
High campus, many of the students who
are presently being transported would
either walk or provide their own
transportation to this campus;
therefore, we do not predict a
significant increase in the number of
students being transported.
We do not anticipate any appreciable
increase in the number of custodial
personnel needed since they are
allotted based upon the number of
teachers assigned to each school. It is a
certainty that less personnel will be
needed in some of the older buildings
he said. “I have no knowledge of any
children being neglected. I haven’t re
ceived any complaint as far as I know.”
According to the suit, Mrs. McCray
and her children are struggling to
survive on $436 per month in welfare
payments out of which $126 goes for
food stamps.
Her husband died in 1975.
At the beginning of the school year,
the children enrolled in grades 2
through 11 and were told to provide $5
each for supplies, including workbooks
necessary for classroom assignments,
the suit said.
The suit contends the children told
officials they couldn’t afford the work
books and were told they would have to
work without them.
the Republic Committee.
‘‘lt would be better to put it all under
one election superintendent,” Howell
said after a joint hearing conducted
Thursday with the Senate Govern
mental Operations Committee.
Sen. Culver Kidd, D-Milledgeville,
chairman of the Senate committee,
predicted his group would approve a
bill to put voter registration under
authorities already charged with con
ducting elections in Georgia’s counties.
because of a reduction in the number of
teachers and students at these cam
puses.
The Griffin-Spalding County Board of
Education insures all of its buildings
and the new school will be added to this
policy. Fringe benefits, paid by the
Board of Education, will be increased
only for the few additional personnel
added.
The utilities and maintenance costs of
the new buildings will be less per
square foot because of energy savings
construction. A new physical education
facility will replace the old high school
building, resulting in a savings in the
costs of maintenance operation and
utilities on the present Griffin High
School campus. The maximum rate of
interest, authorized by the Griffin-
Spalding County Board of Education for
the bond issue, has been set at 6.5
Vol. 105 No. 244
Freezing weather nipped Griffin a
little early this year.
Some downtown and shopping center
bank thermometer showed 31 degrees
this morning just before sunrise.
The official temperature at the
Spalding County Forestry Unit was 34
degrees this morning.
The forecast for tonight was for frost
and more cold in the 30s. Sunny and
readings in the 60s was on tap for
Saturday.
The borderline freezing was surprise
to most Griffinites.
The forecast had called for lows in the
37 degree range.
Some people left their potted plants
out overnight, thinking they would not
be in danger. Many were checking this
morning to see if the plants had been
damaged.
Cause of the cold was Canadian air
flooding the South.
“We had record lows all over the
place, just about every station in
Georgia,” said Harold Cummins of the
National Weather service.
He blamed a mass of Canadian cold
air brought to the South with a
vengence by a two-fisted low pressure
system, one low over the South and the
other off the East Coast.
“The low off the East and the low
over the Southeast acted like a trigger,
a pumping mechanism, just pulling
that cold air down here,” Cummins
said.
People
...and things
Fire ant hill on East Solomon street
between sidewalk and street growing
larger each day.
Early riser doing double take at
downtown therometer reading 31
degrees this morning.
Meter reader, clipboard in hand, with
puzzled look on his face, wondering if he
was going to get close enough to a house
to read the meter with a huge chained
dog ready to pounce on him.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“A smart fellow is one who
realizes how little he knows.”
percent and the maximum amount of
taxes to be paid by the taxpayers for
retiring these bonds was based on this
figure.
It is apparent, based upon the above
information, that there will be some
increase for maintenance, operation
and personnel costs, however, the
Board of Education will make every
effort to keep this increase at a
minimum and apply state and federal
funds whenever possible.
Q. Why Was The Site, West of Griffin
on The Newnan Highway, Selected For
The Proposed New High School?
A. The Board of Education and a
citizens committee searched diligently
for several months in an effort to locate
a site that would be suitable and meet
the criteria set forth by the State
Department of Education and other
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Scott Brown, son of Ray and Judy Brown, had a happy fifth birthday after all.
His father was in Philadelphia on a construction project and couldn’t spend the
day with his son. So he sent him a 5-pound lollypop by air mall from
Philadelphia to Griffin. Scott had a big time today showing off the gift to fellow
students at Kandy Kane Kastle on East Poplar Street.
Hugh Carter 9 Jr.
‘Cousin Cheap’
WASHINGTON (AP) - The efforts of
Hugh Carter Jr. to whittle away the
trappings of the imperial presidency
quickly earned him the nickname
“Cousin Cheap” when the Georgians
first invaded Washington.
But, the range of responsibilities
delegated to the president’s 34-year-old
cousin extend far beyond pinching
pennies and cutting frills.
As assistant for administration, he
serves as the White House military
liaison and the administration’s link
with former presidents and their fami
lies.
He also manages about one-half of the
permanent White House staff and
oversees special political projects
assigned by the president.
His duties as military liaison are
most demanding when the president
travels frequently, he said. Carter must
make sure that military helicopters and
regulatory agencies and this was the
only site that met all of the
requirements and the only site
available that fulfills and meets our
needs. The site is large enough (ap
proximately 80 to 90 acres) so that the
buildings can be arranged in an orderly
and pleasant fashion. The P. E.
facilities, athletic fields, and parking
lots, will be so arranged as to com
plement the campus rather than
destroy some of its natural beauty. The
site is located as near possible to the
center of town where a large enough
tract could be located that had an
adequate water supply, gas and elec
tricity, accessibility to sewage lines
and police and fire protection. There is
also easy access to and from the site on
Highway 16 West and the Griffin-
Barnesville By-Pass, running north and
south.
airplanes are “properly coordinated
and efficiently used.”
According to Hugh Carter Sr., his
son’s work with travel dovetails with
his boyhood fascination with trains.
Once, when he was 5, Hugh Jr. dis
appeared, the older Carter relates.
His worried parents found him hours
later sitting on the platform at the depot
talking to an engineer.
Working with ex-presidents and their
families is a growing responsibility, the
younger Carter said.
Former President Ford is helping the
present White House staff learn things
which may be of help to the president
when he leaves office, he added.
Carter says he sees himself assuming
more and more responsibility in the
“day-to-day political things” as his
management duties diminish as the ad
ministration’s operation becomes more
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