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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 1,1977
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By Roll Call Report
WASHINGTON—Here’s how
area members of Congress
were recorded on major roll call
votes October 20-26.
HOUSE
SOCIAL SECURlTY—rej
ected, 196 for and 221 against,
an amendment to prevent
“standby authority" under
which general Treasury money
could be used to pay Social
Security benefits. Defeat of the
amendment left intact proposed
authority for the Social Security
fund to borrow from the
Treasury if its reserves fall
perilously low. The amendment
was proposed to HR 9346, a bill
increasing Social Security taxes
on employes and employers and
making several other changes
in the pension program. It was
headed for final passage and
consideration by the Senate.
Members voting “nay”
favored putting the U.S.
Treasury behind the Social
Security fund.
Reps. John Flynt (D-6),
Lawrence McDonald (D-7) and
Ed Jenkins (D-9) voted “yea.”
Reps. Bo Ginn (D-l), Dawson
Mathis (D-2), Jack Brinkley
(D-3), Elliot Levitas (D-4),
Wyche Fowler (D-5), Billy Lee
Evans (D-8) and Doug Barnard
(D-10) voted "nay.”
SOCIAL SECURlTY—ado
pted, 286 for and 38 against, an
amendment to prevent com
pulsory Social Security
coverage for federal, state, and
local government employes and
employes of non-profit
organizations. The amendment,
attached to the bill making
changes in the Social Security
system (see above vote) set a
two-year study of how to bring
about universal Social Security
coverage.
It eliminated a proposal that
universal coverage begin in
1982, in order to bolster the
Social Security trust fund.
Government and non-profit
workers covered by pension
plans other than Social Security
were to have their equity safe
guarded in the integration
procedure.
Members voting “nay”
favored universal Social
Security coverage beginning in
1982.
Ginn, Mathis, Brinkley,
Levitas, Flynt, McDonald,
Evans, Jenkins and Barnard
voted "yea.”
BUSING-adopted, 230 for
and 186 against, a resolution
instructing House conferees to
insist on anti-busing language
when they meet with Senate
conferees on the Legal Services
Corporation Act (HR 6666).
Both chambers have passed
the bill extending the life of the
agency, but disagree over
whether Legal Services at
torneys can participate in
school desegregation cases.
Gordon to begin
Christmas season
Gordon Junior College’s
annual “Christmas with the
Singers” will inaugurate the
Christmas season Dec. 8-11.
The program will be held in the
Student Center Auditorium at
8:15 each evening, and in ad
dition a full matinee per
formance will be given on
Sunday afternoon, Dec. 11, at
3:00.
On Saturday afternoon, the
Legend of Toyland portion of
the program only will be
presented for children at 3:00.
This year’s program will
consist of three sections: (1)
Christmas music from the
baroque, including Bach’s
cantata “For Us a Child Is
Born” and selections from
Lyons is in
operation
Airman First Class Kenneth
L. Lyons, whose mother is Mrs.
Mattie P. Thurman of 313
Richardson St., Barnesville,
participated in “Operation Red
Flag,” a Tactical Air Command
training exercise conducted at
Nellis AFB, Nev.
Airman Lyons is a fuel
specialist at Moody AFB, Ga.,
with the 347th Tactical Fighter
Wing.
The airman is a 1974 graduate
of Lamar County High School.
Roll call
report
The Senate said participation
should be allowed and the House
is opposed to it. This vote
reaffirmed the House’s op
position.
Members voting “yea”
favored reaffirming the House
position.
Ginn, Mathis, Brinkley,
Levitas, Flynt, McDonald,
Evans, Jenkins and Barnard
voted “yea.”
SENATE
OPlC—passed, 68 for and 12
against, a bill (S 1771) ex
tending the life of the Overseas
Private Investment Cor
poration (OPIC) until Sept. 30,
1981. OPIC insures certain
foreign investments by U.S.
campanies, guarantees loans by
U.S. banks to developing
countries, and provides direct
loans to developing countries.
Although a wholly-owned U.S.
government corporation, it
requires no appropriations out
of the Treasury because it turns
a profit. S 1771 was sent to the
House.
Senators voting “yea”
favored continuation of OPIC.
Sens. Herman Talmadge (D)
and Sam Nunn (D) voted
“yea.”
PANAMA VOTE—tabled, 69
for and 13 against, an amend
ment indirectly related to the
Panama Canal treaties issue.
The amendment was proposed
to 51771, the bill extending the
life of the Overseas Private
Investment Corp. (OPIC) until
September, 1981 (see above
vote). It was directed as an
understanding between U.S.
and Panamanian negotiators
that OPIC would loan S2O
million to Panama for starting
up a Panamanian government
development bank, and said
that any such loan would need
Senate approval. The S2O
million is part of about S3OO
million which Panama would
receive through international
lending agencies; although
treaty negotiators agreed on
that financing, it is not written
into the treaties the Senate
eventually will debate.
Senators voting “yea”
favored killing the amendment.
Talmadge and Nunn voted
"yea.”
ABSENTEEISM—directed,
77 for and four against, the
Sergeant at Arms “to request
the attendance of absent
senators.” Due to conflicting
business elsewhere on Capitol
Hill, only 11 senators were able
to answer a quorum call. That
prompted Majority Leader
Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) to call
this vote, the effect of which
was to populate the chamber
and expedite action on an
energy bill. There was no
debate.
Talmadge and Nunn voted
"yea.”
Handel’s ‘’Messiah;” (2) a
collection of Christmas
spirituals, and religious and
secular carols featuring the
newly organized Gordon band;
and (3) the Legend of Toyland
featuring the subjects of the
happiest kingdom on earth.
The program us under the
direction of Lanny McAlister.
Play
Tickets are now on sale for
Gordon Junior College’s
production of “A Doctor in Spite
of Himself’ November 9-11 in
the Student Center Auditorium
at 8:30 p.m.
Seating space is limited;
therefore, reservations should
be made in advance through the
Dean of Students’ office at
Gordon. Tickets are $2.50 each.
The cast includes Paul Salter,
Thomaston, as Sqanarelle;
Suzette Fviinr Griffin, Mar
tine; Monty Long, Kennesaw,
Mr. Robert; Tom Sullivan
Thomaston, Valere; Carl
Pickering, Covington, Lucas;
Bobbie Knott, Barnesville,
Madame Geronte; Laura
Hunter, Griffin, Lucinde; Billy
Johnson, Griffin, Leandre;
Mary Horton, Talbotton,
Jacqueline.
The production is under the
direction of Mrs. Mary Mullins,
dramatics instructor, of Griffin.
School’s first
VGA’s
got his
BY LEE PILGRIM <
Back in the 1880’s, when the I
country doctor came to his i
house, young Robert Wilson |
loved to poke through the I
physician’s black bag, i
examining the calomel tablets,
quinine powder and ointments. I
Twenty years later, Robert '
was teaching young men at the i
University of Georgia how to j
mix and roll pills, measure i
powders and concoct ointments.
And 70 years after that—on i
Oct. 27, 1977—Dr. Robert C. |
Wilson, first dean of the
university’s School of Phar- i
macy and one of the pioneers of
pharmacy education in i
Georgia—celebrated his 99th i
birthday. |
Dr. Wilson—the title refers to i
his being a pharmacist rather
than a doctor of medicine or
philosophy—has a diploma in I
pharmacy but said he really I
learned how to mix and ,
dispense drugs by doing it in a <
small drug store. i
But hundreds of practicing <
pharmacists and former ;
pharmacists in Georgia and I
throughout the country got their
start in Wilson’s classroom. One 1
of his former students is his son, i
Robert C. Wilson Jr. of i
Thomasville, who is a l
representative for a phar
maceutical company. i
As a youth, Wilson attended I
Sparta Academy in Sparta, 1
where he read Caesar, Virgil i
and Cicero and studied i
geometry, algebra and
trigonometry. But times were
hard when he graduated, and
after a fruitless try at farming,
he went to work in a Sparta dry
goods store.
The store owner agreed to pay
Wilson at the end of the month
on the basis of his value to the
store. Wilson received no pay.
So he went to work in a Sparta
drug store, where his classical
education enabled him to read
the Latin labels on medicine
bottles. He dispensed Coco-Cola
flavored with lemon or cherry
as a headache remedy and sold
opium to help ease diarrhea.
“When I came to Athens
seven years later, there was not
a house in the city that didn’t
havesomeopium or laudanum or
morphine to relieve pain,”
Wilson said. “We would sell any
amount of morphine to
anybody. Nobody thought about
its being habit forming.”
But as it became obvious that
people were becoming addicted
to the drugs, Athens phar
macists moved to enact nar
cotics laws, Wilson said. In 1907,
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Halloween fun
Mothers of some of the kindergarteners at the Hammond Drive Baptist Kindergarten got
the children into the Halloween spirit by entertaining them with Halloween surprises and
fun. The celebration concluded with a school social. The mothers, pictured with some of the
kindergarten are on the back row: (1-r) Ginger Harper, Vickie Manley, Susan Chapman and
Salley Gregory.
Griffin native to represent U.S.
A native of Griffin, Dr.
Samuel Dußois Cook, president
of Dillard University, New
Orleans, is one of four
university presidents selected
by the U.S. State Department,
The American Council on
Education to represent
American higher education in
seven African countries.
Since 1950 the Bureau of
Educational and Cultrual
Affairs of the Department of
State, through its American
first pharmacy dean
training in drug store
Georgia pharmacists wrote the
first law prohibiting the sale of
narcotics without a doctor’s
prescription, and in 1912 the
federal government passed a
similar statute.
Wilson said opium was the
first drug dispensed in pill form.
The extract was shipped as gum
and the pharmacist either
pinched off bits to roll into ball
or pills, or rolled the gum into a
slab and cut off pills. Hence the
nickname “pill rollers” for
pharmacists.
Prescriptions sold for 35 cents
in those days and druggists
worked hard rolling pills,
making tablets, mixing and
measuring powders folding
paper for powders and making
ointments and emulsions,
Wilson recalled.
He left the S9OO-a-year job in
the Athens drug store for a
$1,200-a-year job as a pharmacy
professor at the University of
Georgia. He had no college
degree, but the university
chancellor told him, “Forget
about a degree. Experience is
far more valuable.”
Still, he felt he needed more
training, and he tried to enroll
in some chemistry courses at
the university. But the head of
the chemistry department
admonished him, “Get that out
of your mind, boy. You would
be wasting your time. They
have already discovered
everything in chemistry that
can be discovered. We know all
there is to know.”
So Wilson began teaching in a
basement room equipped with a
roll-top desk and a chair. He
had four students but no budget
and no equipment.
During summers, he went to
the University of the South in
Tennessee, which had both
medical and pharmacy schools.
He went to study, but because
he had more experience than
most of his instructors, he
wound up teaching pharmacy
and chemistry to medical
students. He eventually
received a diploma in phar
macy from the school.
The University of Georgia
had a garden, called the
botanical garden, where plants
were grown to produce drugs
for general knowledge. Among
the plants indigenous to Georgia
that grew in the garden were
sassafras, rhubarb and gensing.
Wilson recalled the two worst
days he ever spent in class. One
was when he decided to forego
his customary austere
professional attire and appear
in shirt sleeves. “I never suf-
Specialists Program, has
arranged visits abroad for a
limited number of Americans
who possess unusual
qualifications for exchanging
knowledge and ideas in fields of
their specialization. These
visits are intended to promote
mutual understanding and
strenghten the foreign relations
of the United States by building
channels of communication
with important individuals and
institutions overseas.
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Dr. Robert Wilson is shown taking his daily two-mile
walk. He is the first University of Georgia pharmacy dean
and recently celebrated his 99th birthday.
sered so much in one hour," he
smiled.
The other was when the first
female student came to class.
“My classes had been about
12-15 boys, and when we
reached the study about the
drug ergot—used for treatment
of women’s troubles—l talked
serouisly of marriage and
things of that kind—the facts of
life,” he remembered.
“With a young woman in the
class, I just couldn’t consent to
talk on the subject. The boys
insisted that I go through with
it. That hour was the hardest
hour I ever spent.
“The next day,” he continued,
“I asked if there were questions
on the lecture. And the little girl
spoke up and said, ‘Yes, Dr.
Wilson, I’d like for you to repeat
everything you said yester
day’.”
Wilson became dean of the
pharmacy school in 1914 and
held the post until he retired in
1949. His successor was his son
in-law, Dr. Kenneth Waters,
who had been a chemistry
professor. Waters retired this
year after 28 years as phar
macy dean.
Dr. Cook and Dr. C. Peter
Magrath, president of the
University of Minnesota, as a
team, will visit Cameroon,
Nigeria and Liberia during Oct.
25 —Nov. 11. Dr. John A.
Peoples, Jr., president of
Jackson State University, and
Dr. Roland C. Rautenstraus,
will visit universities in Nigeria,
Kenya, Zambia and the Sudan,
Oct. 28—Nov. 18.
Wilson still gets dressed
every day as if he were going to
class and he daily walks about
two miles on a route that takes
h im “up and down hill, because
it uses different muscles and
tires one less than walking on
dead level ground.”
He said he also takes the
same king of medicine he once
dispensed and taught others to
prepare, including cascara,
sulphur and cream of tartar as
laxatives. And he still likes
sassafras tea, which he believes
is “good for the stomach.”
Jerry Davis
ends course
Pvt. Jerry E. Davis, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Luther W. Davis,
421 North 13th St. Griffin, has
completed a tracked vehicle
mechanic course at the U. S.
Armor School, Tort Knox, Ky.
During the course, students
were trained to repair engines,
transmissions, and the fuel,
electrical and hydraulic
systems of the Army’s tracked
vehicles. They also learned to
perform recovery operations
for abandoned, damaged,
disabled or mired vehicles.
Pvt. Davis entered the Army
in April of this year.
R.D. Studdard
is promoted
Roger D. Studdard, whose
wife, Katrina, is the daughter of
the Rev. and Mrs. James D.
Lester of Route One, Zebulon,
has been promoted to airman
first class in the U. S. Air Force.
Airman Studdard, a weapons
mechanic, is assigned at Moody
AFB, Ga., with a unit of the
Tactical Air Command.
The airman is a 1976 graduate
of Spring Garden, Ala., High
School.
Flies out-of-hand
VISTA, Calif. (AP) - Flies
had gotten out of hand, Nellie
Barber figured, so she filled a
bag with two pounds of dead
flies and presented them to the
county Board of Supervisors.
They promptly appointed the
66-year-old retired school
teacher to the county fly board.
“I have no compassion for
flies,” says Mrs. Barber, who
has rigged up a backpack in*
secticide sprayer to stalk flies
in her yard.
The problem, she says, are
the chicken ranches near her
home. Thousands of flies breed
in chicken manure left beneath
chicken coops.
Largely because of Mrs. Bar
ber’s efforts, the supervisors
will consider a new fly-control
ordinance in November.
How did she collect a sack of
flies?
“I can vacuum them off a
living room window,” she said.
“Then I squirt insecticide into
the vacuum.”
She said things are so bad that
neighbors always ask each
other, “How are your flies?”
Wt Dear Abby
Man much ashamed
of slovenly wife
By Abigail Van Buren
© 1977 by The Chicaflo Tribone-N.Y News Synd. Inc.
DEAR ABBY: My problem is my wife. She could be a
nice-looking woman but she doesn’t care how she looks.
She never dresses up anymore, and I’m tired of seeing her
in the same sloppy jeans, ratty sweater and run-down
sandals. She doesn’t even look clean to me. I’m ashamed to
take this pig anyplace.
Abby, do you think it’s possible to make a silk purse out
of a sow’s ear? „
DISGUSTED
DEAR DISGUSTED: If you could (which I doubt),
where could you take a sow with one ear and a silk purse?
Sorry, but you married the whole sow.
DEAR ABBY: My husband held a very important
position at a bank. Last week he was fired because a
woman customer told his boss that my husband had made a
pass at her. (Instead of being “fired,” they asked for his
resignation so it wouldn’t appear on his work record.)
They refused to tell my husband (or me) who the woman
was. My husband swears that he didn’t make a pass at
anybody. I called his boss, and he assured me that my
husband had propositioned this woman. Abby, my husband
is a fine man; it’s hard to believe he’s guilty of these
charges.
I have tried to get this out of my mind, but I just can 1.1
must find out who the woman is so I can confront her and
get to the bottom of this.
What do you advise?
ILL AT EASE
DEAR ILL: If your husband was fired on the basis of a
false accusation, and if his record at the bank is otherwise
above reproach, he should retain a lawyer. Whether or not
your husand is rehired, he has a right to protect his good
name.
DEAR ABBY: Thank you from the bottom of my heart
for publishing all those letters from women who admitted
that they didn’t enjoy sex all that much. I thought maybe
there was something wrong with me until I heard that lots
of women felt the same way.
I raised four children (all married now), and my husband
and I have really had a good marriage. But as far as sex is
concerned, I have been living a lie for 25 years. I have
never really enjoyed sex, but I have learned to fake it so
well, believe it or not, my husband thinks I’m oversexed!
NO NAME, PLEASE
DEAR NO NAME: According to my mail, if all the
women who deserve an Academy Award for convincing
performances were placed end to end, they’d reach
Masters and Johnson’s in St. Louis.
For Abby’s new booklet, “What Teen-agers Want to
Know,” send 81 to Abigail Van Buren, 132 Lasky Dr.,
Beverly Hills, Calif. 90212. Please enclose a long,
self-addressed, stamped (244) envelope.
jWI Happy
o birthday!
Mrs. Lizella Jordan of
Molena, celebrated her 82nd
birthday with a party.
Mrs. Lucille Passmore, Mrs.
Eula Shurman and Mrs. Picolla
School interest pays
DETROIT (AP) - About 170
parents and teachers turned out
for parent-teacher day at
Northwestern High School. It’s
possible they really wanted to
meet each other. It’s also pos
sible they wanted to pick up
some cash.
Parents were offered |ls,
teachers, S3O, to participate.
The money came from a spe
cial federal grant for the one-day
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Mrs. Jordan
Eppinger served as hostesses.
A cake for the celebration was
baked by Mrs. Ruby Lowe.
Many friends and relatives
were present for the occassion.
affair.
Invitations offering the cash
bonus were sent to the parents
of all 3,000 students.
Those who came heard sev
eral speakers, conferred with
their children’s teachers,
toured the building and watched
a program staged by the
school’s drama and music
departments.