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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 - GUARANTEED CHOICE STEAKS AT FAMILY PRICES - AY & WESTERN SIZZLIN STEAK HOUSE 1411 SORTH EXRRESSWAV • BRITFIH. GEORGIA 38113 Did You Know? We Have Two Banquet Rooms Available For Your Private Parties. 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Mobile homes welcome. $895 per acre 4.8 ACRES - Pike County. Paved road, hardwoods and pines, S3OO down, bank financing. $495 per acre 3 to 4 ACRE TRACTS - N.E. Spalding County, just off Ga. 14 East - Wooded, mobile homes welcome, will clear for homesite. $1(500 per acre 4.58 acres - Lamar County, beautiful wooded tracts 3 miles off 41 By-Pass. $1,300 per acre 4 ACRES - 5 miles West of Griffin. Paved road frontage on two sides. SISOO per acre 12 ACRES -7 miles southeast of Griffin, all open in permanent pasture, paved road fron tage. $1,400 per acre 12 acres tracts 8 miles N.E. Spalding County, half open and wooded, good home site. Only $995-acre Larger Tracts 20 acres, 7H miles West of Griffin, paved road frontage, all wooded in timber $825-acre. 20 Acres, 8 miles NE Spalding County, half open and wooded. $895 acre 34.104 ACRES of beautiful farm land in Spalding County on paved road. Property is half open and wooded with large pines and hardwoods. Large stream on back of property and has 1,873 feet of road frontage. Excellent buy at $l,lOO per acre 38 ACRES • Spalding County, fenced, cross fenced, beautiful pasture, paved road, excellent building site, 8 miles south of Griffin. $1,350 per acre RIVER FRONTAGE on this 50.003 acre tract in N.W. Spalding County. Paved road and mostly wooded for privacy. Will subdivide. $llBO per acre Lots FARM HOME TRACTS-Ethridge Mill Rd. Patterson Rd., HoUonvflle Rd. $1254-$3444 Commercial Properties NORTH EXPRESSWAY • 1 and 2 acre commercial tracts, excellent visibility and access. Commercial tracts, Griffin 4 Lane By-Pass from 1 to 8 acres, good exposure for service stations, warehouses or other service businesses. 125x250 lot, U.S. 41 North of Griffin. SUNNYSIDE -1 acre front, adjoining Minit Maa Mart 2 acres * up. Expressway Frontage north of Griffin on UJ. 41. Km Fletcher 2222 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 I mW.Teyter k Griffin. Ge. 30223 J. / Phone 227-3204 ZjSfX P “Scene for all your family insurance needs.” ’ »"y» | Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. iNtuiAMct S«e«e Fettn tosorance Companies Home Offices Bloommqton Illinois Cosmetics 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. • * A lot of things have changed since Claxton's opened la October 1950. IM/ * ' ~ ——~-r 1 — '■ *'*’ '* Some things at Claxton's have changed too. Hatad. Iffia Pinkham's awl banana qU* an m longer best sellers. But important things are still there I Claxton's started a tradition when it opened twenty seven years ago-oee of large soleetions, bargain prises and, most important of aH, a sincere interest in the well-being of its cnstomors. It's roassaring to know that those virtaos have not changed and will not change at the store whore the man who owns it rans H, where easterners are never jast another noiabor. You can believe in Claxton's. That's what tradition is all about. Fewer Problems For Claxton’s Customers ™ claxton’s I PHARMACY Drug Store _____________ 131 West Taylor St. Phone 227-2428 » ■ _ I X ■ Until Fl orrios X. f | j-X* - !° * roy'L\n \ temperature B *** 50 area, rrrrra Cold Worm 1 ■■■■■■■ =£££■=■ SO Data from 70 Shower* Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA—Rain ending tonight and lows in the mid 50s. Clearing and mild Wednesday with highs in the mid 70s. 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. Imperial Showtime Weekdays-7:22 & 9:00 P.M. Sunday-5:44,7:22&9:00PJW. Bruce Lee The Myth, The Man ® COLOR Showtime 8:M PJH. Pink Panther Strikes — Love And Death IB color
