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•:■?:.< HL ~" X- |H ■M /g^Myltr \ j Aj .< A * JJ dJ^^Mwßl^^HMMMMMMSMfeaife...j^- ag JgVLii 'X.*.*., »j*\ k - '-.M? *“ i lj! a th-F- ■" "?» • •"? • jpjß ■ ? 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 1K ®r nHH« SSfIMI Ki 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- dailyßnews Daily Since 1872 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 (Continued on page 2) 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.” fl y u “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. Jg y — 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.