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Chart of city, county and bond election results on page 2.
What now? Opinion divided
Opinion was divided today on what
should be done in the wake of the bond
issue defeat Tuesday.
Supt. D. B. Christie said he thought it
would be a waste of time and effort to
try to have another bond referendum
soon.
Mrs. Jean Boggs of Education 77 said
petitions already are being circulated
for the school board to call for another
vote as soon as possible and as often as
possible.
Airlines Pilot Ivan Taylor, one of the
few people who was willing to oppose
the bond issue publicly, said the
referendum was a “bad issue at a bad
time.”
He emphasized again he was for
quality education but said he thought
there were other ways to accomplish it.
As to those who want another vote
right away, Taylor suggested that a
school board recall vote be put on the
same ballot with a bond issue.
School Board Chairman Henry
Walker was at a loss to say what could
be done in the wake of the bond issue
defeat.
“We’ll have to do the best we can with
what we have,” Walker said.
Somehow the community is going to
have to get a new high school, he said.
Christie issued this statement this
morning:
“I would like to express my ap
preciation to the citizens of Spalding
County for their interest shown in the
bond issue. Naturally, I am disap
pointed it did not pass, however, the
people have spoken and I deem it un
wise to pursue the matter at this time.
Most of us have spent many hours in
recent months attempting to answer all
the questions and concerns of the
people. But it is time to devote all of our
energy toward the improvement of
education in this system.”
Christie said the effort to improve the
education was a continuing one. It was
going on before the bond issue and it
will continue, he pointed out.
He said ultimately the community
would have to pass a school bond issue.
Walker expressed concern that the
system might lose some of its best
teachers. He said some were waiting
for the results of the vote before
deciding what to do about their own
careers.
Christie suggested it might be
possible to add some classrooms at
Jackson Road Elementary. But he said
the critical area where relief is needed
the most is in the Beaverbrook, Orrs
and Atkinson schools.
He said it might be possible to add
some classrooms on the Beaverbrook
campus but additional sewerage lines
would be needed.
He said about all that can be done at
Orrs has been accomplished. He
pointed out that some mobile
classrooms are at Atkinson which he
said the state didn’t recognize as
classrooms as far as standards go.
Taylor said he didn’t think the series
of ads opposing the bond issue last week
was a deciding factor.
He said the opposition already was
there and that the outcome would have
been the same.
Taylor said that school board now has
an opportunity to get a handle on the
situation and do something about needs
and not to rely on Education 77 or
similar groups which he said didn’t
have an open mind in the first place.
Orchard Hill
voters elect
J.D. Goggins
J. D. Goggins is the new Orchard Hill
city councilman.
He polled 18 votes, four more than his
opponent, Mrs. Patricia Chambers,
who took 14.
Only six of the city’s 38 registered
voters failed to turn out in yesterday’s
election.
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Tim Moore and other students at Griffin High went about their school work on schedule this morning.
People
••• and things
Man dating check Nov. 7 and com
menting, “Why, it’s Pearl Harbor Day”
which actually is a month away.
Sofa, tables, chairs, other household
goods on back of pickup truck with set
of drums on top, moving slowly along
darkened city street.
Large Halloween pumpkin still on
Griffin house.
Sa
“Old age, like bad breath, is
something you notice only on
others.”
Carter didn’t sway many votes
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter probably swayed few votes in
Congress with his bid for public support
for his energy plan, administration
supporters and critics agree.
Key lawmakers of both parties said
the problems of reconciling the vastly
different energy bills passed by the
House and Senate remain, despite
Carter’s statement Tuesday night that
he would not sign a final compromise
bill failing his tests for fairness and
energy conservation.
Carter has threatened before to veto
an unacceptable energy bill, and a
White House spokesman confirmed
after Carter’s speech that the president
was standing by those threats.
Democratic congressional leaders
praised Carter for his address to the
nation, but generally doubted his
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday Afternoon, November 9,1977
Busbee wants more money
CLAYTON, Ga. (AP) — Gov. George
Busbee said today he will ask the
legislature next year to raise spending
in the current budget by SSO million to
S6O million, but he added that none of
the money will go for continuing
programs.
Busbee did not detail the items he
plans to recommend for funding, saying
only that the money should go for “one
shot capital outlay type items” that
would not require funding year after
year.
The comments came in a prepared
text of Busbee’s remarks to a group of
businessmen here on the first stop of
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s
annual prelegislative forum.
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., was the other
featured speaker on the tour. Both men
face re-election next year.
Busbee said he is encouraged by the
performance of the Georgia economy
and plans to raise his estimate of
available revenues for the current state
budget by $25 million to S3O million
when the legislature convenes in
January.
He said that means the state will end
speech would make the battle, now
raging in House-Senate conference
committees, any easier.
And Republicans accused Carter of
trying to turn the nation’s energy crisis
into a partisan issue. They said his talk
could even hurt his position in
Congress.
“He didn’t have a program to begin
with,’’ complained House Republican
Leader John Rhodes of Arizona. “He
still doesn’t have one, and he’s trying to
convince the American people he
does.”
“He’s trying to solve the problem on a
partisan basis,” added Assistant
Senate Republican Leader Ted Stevens
of Alaska. “That’s a strange way to
approach a difficult problem.”
In an essentially low-key defense of
his energy plan, Carter urged Congress
the current fiscal year with an unap
propriated surplus of more than SIOO
million, when combined with the sur
plus from the 1977 fiscal year which
ended last July.
However, Busbee warned it would be
unwise to use the SIOO million for new
programs in the next fiscal year
because economists warn that the
growth rate of Georgia’s economy will
slacken over the next several years.
Busbee said his proposal to use about
half of the surplus on non-recurring
items during the current fiscal year will
avoid laying the groundwork for a tax
increase in future years.
The governor said the expected
slowdown in the economy makes it
crucial for state officials to avoid
spending money on frivolous programs
during the next several years.
He said state departments have
asked him for budget increases ex
ceeding S6OO million and a total of
-nearly 3,500 new employees for next
year.
“Both requests are exorbitant and I
am now in the process of whittling them
• down to match our anticipated in-
to “resist pressures from a few for
special favors at the expense of the rest
of us."
And he invited Americans to help
persuade Congress to pass his energy
plan — one which he said promotes
energy conservation while being fair to
both consumers and producers and
protecting the federal budget.
Carter said he would use those
standards to judge the final legislation
produced by Congress. “I will sign the
energy bills only if they meet these
tests,” he declared.
That statement apparently surprised
few members of Congress.
“I would not expect him to sign a bill
he thought was unfair and didn’t con
serve energy,” said Sen. Bennett John
ston, D-La. “I don’t think Congress
would pass a bill that failed to meet
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come,” the governor said.
Busbee said that although education
is his No. 1 priority, massive problems
remain. He said too many children are
failing to learn basic skills and more
emphasis on teaching basics must be
applied.
He said the state must take another
stride forward in building a statewide
kindergarten system and in improving
remedial education programs. He said
he will recommend additional
education funds next year, but he added
that they must be used more imagina
tively.
Butts County
defeats
bond issue
Voters in Butts County defeated a $3.3
million school bond issue for im
provements to the county’s high school
and junior high.
A total of 1,694 people voted against
the bond issue, while 1,125 voted for it.
those standards.”
Sen Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash.,
chairman of the Senate Energy
Committee, said the president “is
telling it like it is. There are no easy
choices in energy policy.”
But Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-
Ohio, an administration ally, said it is
“very doubtful in my mind” whether
the talk would have the effect Carter
intended.
And Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho,
said it would take “an extraordinary
feat in gymnastics” to bring the con
ferees to agreement.
A second conference unit was to begin
work today on tax aspects of the energy
package. Meanwhile, the first con
ference panel, which has been meeting
now for three weeks, continued work on
non-tax parts of the plan.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA -
Showers and few thundershowers likely
tonight with lows in the lower 50s.
Thursday cooler with chance of
showers and high in the mid 60s.
LOCAL WEATHER - Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
52, high Tuesday 75.
Tiggy Jones,
Manolis
in runoff
R. L. (Skeeter) Norsworthy easily
won reelection over his two opponents
for the Fourth Ward seat on the Griffin
City Commission in Tuesday’s voting.
Even though First Ward Incumbent
Ernest H. (Tiggy) Jones got the highest
number of votes, he failed to get a
majority and will face Mrs. Charlotte
Manolis in the Nov. 29 runoff.
Os the 3,806 votes cast in the First
Ward election, Jones took 1,701,
followed by Mrs. Manolis with 1,133 and
Emmitt B. Cone with 971.
There was one write-in vote among
the absentee ballots for Jack Langford,
Jr. He would not be eligible as he is not
a registered voter in the city, according
to John Dallas, superintendent of
elections. Langford is a superior court
judge in Atlanta, son of the late Jack
Langford and Mrs. Virginia Langford,
of Griffin.
Jones led both opponents in all
precincts except Orrs East where Mrs.
Manolis led with seven votes, 184-177.
Norsworthy, with 2,130, took 54
percent of the 3,926 votes cast in the
Fourth Ward race.
Sid James Beeland, his nearest op
ponent, followed with 1,238 and Bobby
Dunn brought up the rear with 559.
Norsworthy led in all eight precincts.
There were 69 absentee votes
counted. Os the 74 issued, three were
not returned and two were voided
because the people who had them
returned to the city to vote in person.
Absentee ballots for the Nov. 29
runoff already have been ordered and
should be ready for distribution by
Monday, according to Mrs. Frances
Bolton, absentee ballot clerk.
Goolsby
faces Elder
in runoff
Businessman Jimmy Goolsby and
David Elder, an ex-county com
missioner, will be in a runoff for a seat
on the Board of County Commissioners
on Nov. 29.
Goolsby polled the most votes in
Tuesday’s 6-man county commissioner
race but did not receive a majority.
David Elder finished second in voting
and will be in the runoff with Goolsby.
Goolsby led the field with 3,667 votes.
Elder ran second with 2,921.
Thomas Bearden was third with 491,
Bob Gilreath received 405, Al Norris 234
and Frank Gunnels 187.
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Visits
J. D. (Dan) Reed, Rotary District
Governor, is in Griffin to make an of
ficial visit to the Griffin Clnb. He will
talk to the club at its Thursday noon
meeting. Today he met with President
Otis Blake, Jr., and Secretary Jerry
Walker to discuss the local club’s
programs.
