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Sketch of comprehensive high school. It would be just off Highway 16 west (Newnan highway) near the Griffin By-pass.
Chairman Walker suggests
Figure 10 percent of tax bill
for estimate of bond costs
Homeowners can get a close idea of
what the school bond issue will cost
them if they add about 10 percent to the
county tax bills they received a couple
of weeks ago.
That’s how Chairman Henry Walker
of the school board explained it to the
Kiwanis Club Wednesday.
He said he couldn’t give average
because average home values were
hard to figure.
Bob Thomas of the Education *77
Committee reminded citizens they
would get an indirect break on their
federal income tax returns if they
itemize property taxes as deductions.
This will, in a sense, lower the school
bond cost, he suggested.
Thomas reviewed basic information
about the bond proposals then he and
Walker answered questions for about 15
minutes.
Walker said the bond issue for
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Tammy Morris and Kathy Stewart open the doors to the public for Griffin
Tech’s Open House tonight. Guests will get the opportunity to view the new
additions to the building and talk to faculty and staff. Door prizes will be given.
Campus police tough on bikes
ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) - Cars
are banned on the tidy campus of
Central Washington University, but
college police are peering into a radar
screen and planning to issue tickets.
Student bicylists are speeding.
“We had a hit-and-run just last
night,” CWU police chief Adolph
Brickley said Wednesday. A 64-year-old
man suffered cuts and a bloody nose
when a bicyclist knocked him down and
then disappeared into the darkness.
Two students have been injured in
collisions over the past two weeks. One
sustained a broken collar bone.
Brickley said there have been
numerous bump-and-bruise accidents
in the past, but the hit-and-run forced
the crackdown.
The radar program, two weeks old, is
just in the “warning” stages on the one-
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refrigerating food supplies would be a
2-year issue. It will pay for itself in
savings in about 2 years, he said.
He said the million dollar stadium
issue was a 20-year commitment and
the high school complex would be
spread over 25 years.
But Walker said the yearly payments
would be constant.
He said the company handling the
issue had projected a maximum 6.5
percent interest rate for selling the
bonds. This figure could run 5.6 to 5.8
percent now because the bond market
is favorable.
Walker said out-of-county students in
the system would amount to around 54.
A third of these are high school children
of employees in the system, he said.
The others wouldn’t amount to 3 or 4 at
the most in elementary schools, he said.
The number of students from out of
county are almost negligible, he
and-a-half square .mile campus,
Brickley said, but in another week
police will begin handing out tickets.
“We want to publicize it pretty well so
there won’t be any claims of a trap,”
Brickley said.
“We want to use it as a deterrent, to
slow people down, just like you lift your
foot off the gas when you see a police
car parked along 1-90,” he said. The
radar unit is in police cars parked on
campus.
Although the campus population is
only about 9,000, including faculty and
staff, Brickley said bicycles number at
least 2,000. Only university and
emergency vehicles are allowed on
campus, and the uniform speed limit is
5 miles per hour.
“Short of banning bikes on campus
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, October 27,1977
suggested.
Asked about the possibility of 2 high
schools here in the future, he answered
that was not likely for up to 8 or 10 years
or so.
Walker said Griffin High is the
largest high school in the state (grades
10-12) and the growth rate was about
one percent systemwide now. ,
Asst. Supt. Tommy Jones said
educators recommend today that high
schools have a minimum of 1,000
students.
Walker said some high schools in
other states have 4,000 to 6,000 students.
But he said he personally thought they
were too big.
He said if the bond issue didn’t pass,
then the system would have to redraw
districts to shift some students and lose
its neighborhood concept. HEW and the
Justice Department would come into
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Tonight
Griffin Tech
open house
Griffin Tech will be opened to visitors
tonight from 7-9 o’clock. The annual
open house provides the opportunity for
high school students, parents and other
interested persons to learn about the
school.
The faculty and staff will be present
to help guests with information about
courses or enrollment. The fall quarter
began Oct. 4. Applications are still
being taken for all courses.
Griffin Tech is fully accredited by the
Southern Association of Schools and is
one of Georgia’s 26 area vocational-
all together — which I don’t like doing
— I think we must regulate their
speed,” said Brickley. “We have
clocked riders moving as fast as 22
miles per hour during the first week we
experimented with the unit.
“When you are going that fast the
impact can be pretty drastic on a two
wheel vehicle.”
Brickley said citations and bail
schedules will carry the same penalties
on campus as with any other moving
violation occurring on public streets.
For example, a speed of 10 m.p.h. over
the posted limit carries a S3O fine.
Student reaction to the radar is 85 per
cent positive, said Brickley, “but there
are always a few malcontents who
maintain we’re infringing on their
rights.”
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“Money’s funny — the less
valuable it gets, the more of it
people want”
People
••• and things
White ducks swimming rapidly
across pond on West Solomon Street
early this morning.
Bank guard standing alone in empty
parking lot, awaiting the arrival of
employees and customers.
Tot in high chair at fast food
restaurant showing more interest in
man changing garbage bags than in
hamburger and french fries.
technical schools. A public, tax-support
institution, Griffin Tech is under the
supervision of the State Department of
Education.
Serving 9 counties, Griffin Tech
provides full-time day programs,
evening classes and in-plant training
for many Georgians.
Applicants must be at least 16 years
of age. High school graduation is not
necessary for admission. There is no
tuition; however, students pay for
books and supplies.
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Checking bike speed with radar.
Vol. 105 No. 254
Meet candidates
program tonight
City and County Commission can
didates will face questions from
citizens tonight at the League Os
Women Voters meet the candidates
night. It will be held at city hall
beginning at 7:30 in the courtroom.
The public is invited.
Candidates will be allowed to make
opening statements then answer
questions from the audience. People
will write out the questions and hand
them to a moderator.
City Commission candidates will be
featured in one segment of the program
Prof critical
of GWTW author
ATLANTA (AP) — A literary critic
says Margaret Mitchell didn’t have the
soul needed to properly portray the Old
South when she wrote “Gone With the
Wind.”
In a study of seven American authors
to be published next month, Emory
University professor Floyd C. Watkins
calls the blockbuster best-seller a
“stereotyped, shallow, sentimental
romance” and charges that Miss
Mitchell “lacked the depth of soul” to
describe the South of Civil War days.
He said she was sloppy with her facts,
prejudiced and superficial.
For example, he said, she depicted a
number of Clayton County plantations
as large enough to support more than 50
slaves when in fact there was only one
such plantation. Miss Mitchell also
wrote of cotton flaring in a warehouse,
but Watkins said cotton only smolders
when it bums.
(See editorial page 4.)
The Cherokee County, Ga., native
said Miss Mitchell, an Atlantan, was
biased in her description of people,
making “every Yankee ... a villain
(and) every true Southerner ... almost
perfect.”
She “wrote about an older culture,
but she simply didn’t have the depth of
soul to portray it,” he said in an inter
view, and the book has “the falseness of
romance rather than the depth of
human nature.”
Watkins termed “Gone With the
Wind” a “good book to read but not a
great book to admire. The book simply
does not explore the complexities of the
human heart, of human character, of
human decisions.”
In his book “In Time and Place,” to
be published Nov. 15 by the University
of Georgia press, Watkins, author of
several other literary studies, put Miss
Mitchell at the bottom of his list.
He said he had no qualms about at
tacking Georgia’s bestknown author.
“Except for popular literature and a
few scholars who say she’s a good tale
teller,” Miss Mitchell has never rated
They’ll face
questions
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA —
Fair tonight with lows in the low 50s.
Sunny Friday with highs again in the
low 70s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
61, high Wednesday 71.
and County Commission candidates in
another so the races can be kept
separate.
City Commission candidates for Post
One (First Ward) include incumbent
Ernest Jones, Mrs. Perry Manolis and
Emmitt Cone.
Candidates for Post Four (Fourth
Ward) are incumbent R. L. Nors
worthy, Sid James Beeland and Bobby
Dunn.
County Commission candidates in
clude David Elder, Tom Bearden, Bob
Gilreath, Frank Gunnels, Jim Goolsby,
and Al Norris.
very high, he said.
In his book, Watkins rates William
Faulkner as the best of the seven
authors for “As I Lay Dying.”
A spokesman for the publishers said
the study was accepted routinely as the
work of a proven scholar previously
published by the press.
Tractorcade
to protest
low prices
ALMA, Ga. (AP) — Bacon County
farmers are angry about low farm
prices, and they plan a “tractorcade”
Friday to let government officials
know.
“If farm prices don’t change, there’s
really no reason for me to plant next
year,” said Tommy Carter, an unof
ficial spokesman for the farmers.
“With the low prices we’re getting for
our products, we’ll all just lose a mess
of money,” he said. “There’s not much
sense in us sweating just to go busted.”
Carter said about 500 farmers will
ride their tractors to the county
courthouse here to show western and
midwestem grain farmers who are
members of the National Farmers
Strike that they have the support of
South Georgia tobacco, com and hog
farmers.
“We’ve listened to Washington and it
got us in a mess,” said Carter. “A few
years ago Secretary of Agriculture
Earl Butz told us to tear down the fence
rows and plant them and to make ready
the new ground to feed the world.
“That’s what we did, but what has it
got us?” he said. “We’re all broke.”
Carter cited rising interest rates, an
expected rise in the minimum wage, a
recent 6 percent hike in steel prices, the
upward trend in nitrogen fertilizer
prices and the possibility of further fuel
hikes as part of the reason farmers are
concerned.