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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 1,1977
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Teachers honored
Members of the Junior Co-ed Y Club at Griffin High
honored the two teachers on their campus with the highest
number of years of service. They are Mrs. Ida Cecil and
Lem Watkins.
Volunteers needed
for reading program
The Adult Education Program, in cooperation with
Literacy Action, is organizing a volunteer tutorial
program to teach the adult non-readers of our community
to read. Everything is set to get started except for one
thing — the volunteers.
Larry Dunn, director of the Adult Education Program,
is hopeful that many will volunteer to give at least two
hours per week of their time to teach a non-reader to read.
“There is a tremendous need for a volunteer literacy
program in our community,” Dunn stated.
“We’ve stirred up more interest in basic reading in
struction than our staff can handle, but we don’t want to
lose this momentum. A volunteer literacy program seems
to be the answer,” Dunn continued.
The 1970 census reported that 625 Spalding County
adults have no schooling at all and as many as 2,500 adults
may not possess the literacy skills necessary to become
functional readers.
Literacy Action will conduct a training workshop in the
Griffin area during the weeks of Nov. 14-25. The eight-hour
workshop will be divided into three sessions and will be
held at flexible times so that anyone who wants to
volunteer can do so. The volunteers will be asked to give
two hours per week and agree to at least a six month
commitment.
Persons interested in becoming volunteer tutors or
acquiring additional information should contact the Adult
Education office here in Griffin.
Three show up for hospital information meeting
If the size of the crowd at
Monday night’s public in
formation forum at the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital is any in
dication, the hospital has very
few if any problems.
Three people showed up and
none of them voiced any
criticism.
They heard Tommy
McDougald, assistant comp
troller, go over the hospital’s
relationship to the patient and
its billing procedures. Three
other hospital employes also
were on hand. They included
Mrs. Jean Calvert, head of the
business office; Mrs. Marjorie
Perdue of the insurance
department; and Jimmy
Blalock of the computer
division.
“We are not here to make
money, but to provide the best
service for the least money and
our first concern is the patient’s
well being. But we can’t stay in
business without money and we
must collect it to keep from
having to charge more,”
McDougald said.
Admittedly charges at the
local facility are high, but they
are a bargain compared with
elsewhere, he explained.
Private room rates at the
nearest other hospital, Clayton
General, are SBS per day,
compared to S7O at Griffin-
Spalding. Semi-private rates
are SB3, compared with SSB in
Griffin, he said.
One of the causes of the rising
medical costs are the bad debts.
During the last two months the
number of people from other
counties who did not pay their
bills at the Griffin hospital has
shot up. Negotiations are in the
works with governments of
surrounding counties to help
reimburse these costs for their
residents.
The hospital is changing for
the better and has increased its
services in the last few months,
adding coronary and intensive
care units, respiratory and
physical therapy divisions and a
new nuclear medicine depart-
Church burglary among
juvenile court cases
Twenty-one children were
involved in cases handled in
Spalding Juvenile Court last
week.
The cases of two boys, 13 and
15, were continued until the next
term of court. The younger boy
was accused of stealing and
possessing stolen bicycles and
skipping school.
The 15-year-old was charged
with possessing stolen bicycles.
A 13-year-old girl who has
been absent from school 33 days
so far this year was placed on
probation.
A boy, 16, charged with
possessing marijuana and
drinking under age, was placed
on probation.
Another boy, 15, charged with
the same offenses, will have his
case reviewed in November
court.
An 11-year-old who
burglarized East Griffin Baptist
Church and broke out windows
at East Griffin Elementary
School was placed in temporary
custody of the Spalding
Department of Family and
Children Services until his case
is heard in November.
A 14-year-old charged with
the same burglary and of
violating the compulsory school
attendance law was placed on
probation.
A girl, 14, and boy, 16, who ran
away from home were placed
on probation.
HoSpital
report
Dismissed trom the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Monday:
Janie Coleman, Betty Goude,
Thomas Casto, Josephine Reid,
Betty Johnson, Henry Doggett,
Anita Lynn Smith, Barbara
Feltman, Annie Brown, Mrs.
Mary Pless and baby, Cloenie
Hudgins.
Stork club
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MASTER GOSSETT
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gossett of
Griffin announce the birth of a
son, Justin Earl, at the Clayton
General Hospital, Oct. 28.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Edmondson of Griffin and
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. (Buck)
Gossett of Hampton.
MASTER ELDER
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Elder of
Box 193, Sunny Side, announce
the birth of a son, Jeffrey Scott,
Oct. 29 at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital.
ment which will open soon. It’s ]
not possible to increase the ,
services and decrease the costs, |
he said.
More than 43,000 patients visit
the hospital per year, including
about 650 per month who are
admitted, 2,000 who are treated
in the emergency room each
month and an additional 1,000
out patients who use the lab or .
x-ray departments monthly.
If errors were made with only (
one percent of the 43,000 people, (
they would amount to 430, he ]
said. |
Most misunderstandings
about a patient’s bill are caused (
from a lack of communication. i
The hospital is trying to correct
this and has asked anyone with
complaints to come talk about
them, he said. |
McDougald went over several i
new procedures at the hospital, i
The admissions office |
presently is open 16 hours per
day and soon will be open round
the clock. This is necessary
because two out of every three (
Ex-drug user
to speak
at church here
Shari Holley, a former drug
user, will speak at the First
Congregational Holiness
Church Wednesday night at
7:30.
Mrs. Holley was on drugs for
about 7 years, was involved in
an armed robbery and served 2
years of a 15-year sentence
before being released on
probation.
She is from the Mt. Paron
Church of God in Atlanta.
The Rev. James Lewis is
pastor of the church which is at
Highway 92 and West Mclntosh
Road.
A girl, 15, who ran away and
violated her informal ad
justment status also was placed
on probation.
The case of a girl, 14, who
violated her after-care status by
skipping school 18 days was
continued until the November
court.
A 15-year-old girl who ran
away from home in July after
violating her after-care status
by shoplifting cosmetics at Buy-
Rite was found delinquent and
committed to the Department of
Human Resources, Division of
Youth Services. She was ap
prehended in October.
A 14-year-old who shoplifted
at Cook’s was placed on
probation until further order of
the court.
A 16-year-old boy who stole a
car from Car Craft last week
was turned over to Clayton
County Juvenile Detention
authorities. A 15-year-old
charged with the same offense
was released to the custody of
his father.
A 16-year-old boy found guilty
of simple battery in September
court was committed to the
Department of Human
Resources.
Custody cases involving four
children resulted in their being
placed in temporary custody of
the Spalding County Depart
ment of Family and Children
Services.
Crime roundup
Two men accused of theft
Two Griffin men have been
charged with theft by taking in
connection with the theft of
household items from a county
residence.
According to Spalding
Sheriff’s officers Henry Lee
Miller, 34, of 833 East Wall St.,
and Amos Charles Smith, 37, of
1308 Boyd Row, were arrested
when they allegedly returned to
the residence of Paul Head on
Vaughn Road where several
hundred dollars worth of goods
had been stolen earlier.
Two injured
in accident
Two people were Injured
around noon Monday in a
collision at Poplar and Eighth
Streets.
Police identified them as
Terri Skjold, 16, of 113
Amberwood Lane, and Mrs.
Velma McKibben of 814 Bieze
St. Both were treated at the
local hospital.
patients admitted are
emergencies and come in at all
hours.
The collection department
has been eliminated and a new
position, financial counselor,
created to work out a plan of
payment with patients who are
not covered with insurance.
The emergency room patient
gets a bill upon leaving.
Patients with no insurance
receive statements within 10
days after dismissal. If it has
not been paid within 30 days, a
past due notice is sent. After
another 30 days or a total of 70
days, the account is turned over
to the courts or a collection
agency if no arrangements have
been made.
If a patient is covered by
insurance, his claim is filed by
the hospital. If within 45 days,
the insurance company has not
paid the hospital, a letter of
inquiry is sent to the company,
with a copy going to the patient.
If after 60 days, the insurance
company still has not paid, a
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Mrs. Emily Claxton (c) presides at an organizational
meeting for board members of the Griffin-Spalding
University of Georgia Alumni Association. Participating
were (1-r) Davis Muia, Lucy Reynolds, Mrs. Claxton,
What’s
happening
Call meeting
American Legion Post 546 will have a call meeting
Wednesday evening at 7:30 at the Post home.
Pioneers
The meeting of the Life Member Club of the Pioneers of
the Telephone Co., will be held on Thursday at noon at the
Western Sizzlin’.
Hospital Auxiliary
The Griffin-Spalding Hospital Auxiliary board will meet
Wednesday morning in the hospital library at 9:30.
Kiwanis Club
William Feely, executive director of the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital, will be speaker at the Wed
nesday meeting of the Griffin Kiwanis Club, held at the
Moose Lodge at 12:15 p.m.
Area ministers
The Griffin Area Ministerial Association will hold its
monthly meeting Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at Western
Sizzlin’ Steak House. All area ministers are invited.
An electric welding machine,
valued at 8200 was stolen from a
site at North 18th Street and
Lyndon Avenue where equip
ment owned by Griffin Ready
Mix Concrete Co. of 960
Memorial Dr. was being stored.
Mrs. Ophelia Burnette, 815
North Ninth St., reported the
theft of clothes from a line at the
Hitler's son?
LONDON (AP) - Did Adolf Hitler have a son?
The Sunday Times of London quotes Dr. Werner Maser,
55, a respected historian of the Nazi era, as saying Hitler’s
son is a 59-year-old Frenchman named Jean Lorret.
Maser says he has known for 12 years that Hitler had a
son, located Lorret two years ago and has been working
since then to authenticate that he is Hitler’s son.
The newspaper said Lorret is seriously ill and willing to
talk about his parentage.
According to the Times report, Hitler met Lorret’s
mother in 1918 while serving in World War I. The boy was
given her name and not told his father’s identity until 1952
when his mother was dying.
second letter is sent, along with
a copy to the patient.
Then, in 70 days, the patient is
sent his first notice, with the
second notice sent at 100 days
and the final notice sent at 130
days or four months after the
patient leaves the hospital.
Patients receive six notices
before accounts are turned over
to the small claims court or a
collection agency. The hospital
has waited more than four
months.
“I don’t feel too sorry for a
patient who after receiving six
notices and never contacting
the hospital, has his account
turned over to a collection
agency,” said Mrs. Calvert. He
knows he owes the bill and if he
can’t pay it, all he has to do is to
contact us to make some
arrangements,"she said.
Some insurance companies
wait as long as possible to pay
the larger accounts. Multiplied
by thousands of hospitals
throughout the country, it
Planning big year
rear of her home Monday.
Albert Browning, 633 Moody
St. reported that a rock was
thrown through the windshield
of his company car, owned by
Alenco Corp, of Peachtree City.
The rubber seal around the
windshield also was damaged.
Damages amounted to some
8200, police said.
means the companies can
collect interest on millions of
dollars by waiting, McDougald
said.
The Rev. Otis Raybon
suggested the administrators
and and concerned people get
with the comptroller general
and state legislators to see what
can be done about such prac
tices.
It also was noted that many
doctors are demanding cash
payments for their services.
“The hospital does not
practice medicine. Everything
the hospital does or gives the
patient is ordered by the doctor
and no patient can be admitted
without a doctor,” McDougald
said.
The hospital is sorry for the
problems which we believe
mainly are due to a lack of
communication. We are willing
and ready to help people solve
them, he continued.
Malvina Beal, Bates Bowers and Maggie Campbell. Other
board members include Tom Hamby, Bob Forte and
Blake Brantley, Jr., Ph.D. The board plans many ac
tivities during the year.
He wants to be lawyer
then run for office
Editor’s Note: This is one of a
series of articles by Griffin High
students written for the
Optimist Club In connection
with a youth career week the
club is sponsoring.
By Tommy Robinson
From the beginning of the
eight grade, until now, I have
had the following ambition: to
be a criminal lawyer for a while
and then be a politician. Thank
fully with our school system on
the quarter system, I have been
able to take classes which would
help me with my future career.
To help me in the political
sense, I have written letters to
various national and state
politicians and asked them
questions and their opinions on
various topics. Thus far, my
collection consists of about forty
letter, with letters from such
people as Gerald Ford, George
Wallace, Ted Kennedy, Bar
bara Jordan, and Henry
Jackson.
Since I made my decision to
enter law, I have accomplished
many things which may in
crease my possibility of ac
ceptance to a prominent law
school. I have been in Program
Challenge since the eighth
grade. This program is
designed to let accelerated
students study things which
they could not study otherwise.
In my sophomore year I was
elected to the American
Association of Distinguished
High School Students. Thus far
in my Junior year, I have been
elected vice-president of the
Junior class, have been invited
to become a member of the Beta
Club with a 4.1 average, and
have been nominated for
Governor’s Honors in English
and Music.
To get away from everything,
I indulge in music. At home, I
pass the time playing the piano,
organ, or the electric piano
at school I play the clarinet in
marching band, the bassoon in
symphonic band and the
keyboard and tenor saophone in
stage band. I have belonged to
the Griffin High Band of Gold
since my sophomore year. Last
year we had some 175 members
in our band and this year we
have about 180. Any time the
band wants to practice inside,
we all have to pack into the
bandroom, which was originally
built to hold around ninety
students, and play. This is not
very enjoyable.
Even though we are now on
the quarter system and we are
able to take just about any
subject we want, I have tried
every quarter to stay with the
four major subjects, match,
science, history, and English.
Though science is not my best
subject, I have a special liking
Flu hits Puerto Rico
ATLANTA (AP) — Health of
ficials say it’s too early to tell
the extent of a flu outbreak in
Puerto Rico, the first apparent
outbreak of influenza this sea
son in the United States or its
territories.
The national Center for Dis
ease Control said Monday that it
had sent epidemiologists to
investigate the outbreak after
confirmed influenza cases were
discovered in eight cities in
Puerto Rico while health offi
cials were testing for a dengue
fever-like illness.
“It’s too early to tell if the
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Tommy Robinson
for chemistry. I sometimes can
not wait to get into the lab but,
once again we have the problem
of space. A lab built to hold
twenty-four can not possible
hold thirty-five students, which
is the size of our chemistry
class.
In the long run, Griffin High
has helped me very much in my
preparation for college and law
school, but there have been a
few hindrances, such as the
small size of the chemistry lab,
the cramped quarters in the
biology lab, and there are'too
many students in each
classroom for each to get the
full benefit of the class.
Great pumpkin
BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va.
(AP) — George Mumma has
something in his backyard that
is orange, weighs 232 pounds
and would have made a dyna
mite Jack O’Lantem.
It’s a pumpkin, of course.
A retired vocational agricul
ture instructor, Mumma says
he’s been growing giant pump
kins for three years.
“A fella gave me the seeds,”
Mumma said. “He just said
they were from a big pumpkin. I
didn’t even give it any special
care. It just kept growing on its
own.”
Mumma likes to eat the raw
seeds from a smaller variety of
pumpkins he grows, but there’s
one thing he likes better —
pumpkin pie.
“My big pumpkin is just sit
ting out behind the house right
now. I don’t know what I’ll do
with it, but I’ll probably cut it up
and make a few pies. Those big
pumpkins make awful good
pies.”
Puerto Rico outbreak will be a
mild or severe outbreak,” e
CDC spokesman said. The fit
season generally runs from late
autumn to early spring.
The spokesman said it was
difficult to determine the extent
of influenza on the island be
cause dengue fever — with
somewhat similar symptoms -
also has been occurring.
Thirteen of 56 persons being
checked for dengue fever in
Puerto Rico have been con
firmed as having either the A-
Victoria or A-Texas strain oi
flu, the CDC said.