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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, October 25, 1977
Page 14
Students, teachers offered gifts
MIAMI (AP) - Pupils who play hooky from two local
schools may miss out on Frisbees, hamburgers, T-shirts
and yo-yos as well as readin’, writin’ and ’rithmetic.
Children and teachers at Brownsville Junior High and
Douglas Elementary schools in Dade County are being
offered gifts in an effort to curtail sagging attendance.
The prizes for the teachers include gasoline, record
albums and dinners.
The two schools have the worst truancy and teacher ab
senteeism rates in the school system, and that is costing
the schools state funds.
The state pays $824 annually for every student enrolled,
but only if the student is in school during an annual census
count. That count was taken earlier this month, and gave
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Brownsville and Douglas the poor records.
Brownsville averaged 13 per cent absenteeism last year
and Douglas 8 per cent. But both schools reported im
provement this year after school officials began putting
pressure on parents to send their children to school.
School officials hope their campaign will help pupils
even if it doesn’t solve the money problem.
The gifts, called “attendance incentives” are being
donated by local businesses.
Brownsville principal Walter Oden says the program
won’t eliminate the problem.
“With some kids, nothing is going to help them,” Oden
said. “They’ll still be out on the street no matter what we
do. But this is something we haven’t tried before. If it
works for five kids, it has been a help.”
State employes may lose 3 of 12 paid holidays
ATLANTA (AP) - Top Geor
gia lawmakers say they want to
take three paid holidays away
from state employes and boost
the $36-a-day expense al
lowance for some legislators.
Members of the Legislative
Services Committee decided
Monday that state workers’
paid holidays should be cut
from 12 to nine, and they agreed
to consider raising the
legislature's allowance scale
because some lawmakers feel a
financial pinch when they stay
in Atlanta while on legislative
business.
The committee, which in-
eludes members of the House
and Senate, considers matters
affecting the legislature’s oper
ation. The chairman is House
Speaker Tom Murphy, D-Bre
men.
State employes’ 12 paid holi
days a year include New Year’s
Day, Robert E. Lee’s birthday,
George Washington’s birthday,
Confederate Memorial Day,
national Memorial Day, Jef
ferson Davis’ birthday,
Independence Day, Labor Day,
Columbus Day, Veterans Day,
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The panel was told each paid
holiday costs the state $5 million
in salaries.
The committee agreed to rec
ommend that the General As
sembly limit state employes’
holidays to New Year’s Day,
national Memorial Day, Inde
pendence Day, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and the fol
lowing Friday, Christmas and
Cochran case
in jury’s hands
AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) - A
jury of six blacks and six whites
has a choice of four possible
verdicts in the case of Buddy
Cochran, charged with driving
a sportscar into a crowd at a Ku
Klux Klan rally in President
Carter’s hometown.
The panel of nine women and
three men deliberated eight
hours Monday without reaching
a verdict on eight counts of ag
gravated assault brought
against the white former Ma
rine after his sportscar plowed
through a KKK rally in Plains
last July and injured 30 specta
tors.
Deliberations were to resume
today.
In charging the jury, Superior
Court Judge William Blanks
said it could reach one of four
verdicts — guilty of aggravated
assault, guilty of simple as
sault, innocent or innocent by
reason of insanity.
Cochran’s lawyer asked the
jury to find the 30-year-old
Americus mechanic innocent by
reason of temporary insanity,
saying the rally’s racist atmos
phere caused him to lose control
of his senses.
The prosecutor, however,
said Cochran was drunk.
“Racism is as much a part of
this trial as the air that per
meated that rally,” defense at
torney Robert Bryan said in
closing remarks. He said rac
ism has “a place in the trial
because it has a place in Bud
dy’s mind.”
“The real issue is what state
Cochran’s mind was in at the
time,” he said. “Buddy’s state
of mind was certainly not the
behavior of a normal person.”
Bryan also said Cochran felt
guilty about the incident, in
which no Klansmen were in
jured.
“Buddy Cochran certainly
has guilt feelings about this,” he
said. “He knows he was behind
the wheel of the car and he did
it.”
Sumter County District Attor
ney Claude Morris said Cochran
was not insane, but drunk, and
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for horses
NEW YORK (AP) — Cosmet
ics for horses is a thriving busi
ness, reports Chemical Week
magazine, which estimates that
money spent annually on
“horse cosmetics” and other
hors e-care products totals
about $lO million.
Today, the publication says,
“chemical specialty products
not only clean the horse, but
shine his coat, polish his
hooves, cure his dandruff and
untangle his tail.”
Grooming aids for horses in
clude such products as sham
poo coat shiners, hoof black
eners, hair conditioners — even
eye wash.
There are now about 8.5 mil
lion horses in the United States
with the figure growing 10 per
cent annually, the publication
reports.
up to two additional days for
that occasion. That would trim
the number of legal holidays to
nine.
State employes also are eli
gible for up to 15 days annual
sick leave, 15 days of vacation
and 30 days of military leave.
State employes in the military
reserve currently are paid by
the state and by the federal
government while on military
duty.
The panel voted to recom
mend a restriction of this
“double-dipping” by requiring
the state to pay nothing to em
ployes whose military pay ex
ceeds their state salaries while
on military leave.
An employe on military leave
would receive only enough pay
from the state to bring his pay
up to his normal salary level.
As for legislative allowances,
the panel agreed that lawmak
ers who live near the Capitol
he disputed the argument of
racism.
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since Claxton's opened
la October 1950.
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and can go home at night don’t
need the $36 a day allowance as
much as legislators who must
use hotel rooms.
But the panel made no deci
sion about that.
It also agreed that $36 a day
does not pay for food and lodg
ing in Atlanta.
Murphy said some younger
legislators may not run again
next year because they have
trouble making ends meet in
Atlanta.
Instead of a $36 per diem rate,
"As your county commissioner my
committment would be a tool in
volvement in assuring a dollars by-
worth of service for a dollars worth
of our tax.”
ELECT
Jim Goolsby mTA
County Commissioner UH W J|
Nov. 8
New Ideas For A Changing Community p,,ld Po,Hical Ad -
he suggested that lawmakers be
reimbursed for the actual cost
of lodging up to a fixed
maximum, and that a fixed
amount be paid for meals and
mileage.
Lawmakers currently draw
$7,200 a year in salary and $36 a
day for expenses during legis
lative sessions and committee
work. They receive 10 cents a
mile for travel.
Murphy said about 80 law
makers live near the Capitol
and do not need hotel rooms.
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