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Lamar Conner, Eddie Freeman and Carter Waller (1-r) discuss needs of a probation officer.
No shortage of ‘clients’
Probation officers kept busy
The Spalding County probation office
never lacks for business.
There are enough “clients” to keep
the three probation officers, Lamar
Conner, Eddie* Freeman and Carter
Waller, busy every minute.
“I doubt if things will improve til
Gabriel blows his horn,” quipped
Conner, who’s been on the job since the
department was created in 1956.
He’s seen a lot of changes. The latest
was in July when the parole boards took
over supervision of all parolees, leaving
his office to supervise only those on
probation.
The difference in parole and
probation, Conner explained, is that a
person on parole has served a portion of
his prison sentence and is released to
serve the remainder under supervision.
REMAINS FREE
A person serving a probated sentence
also has been convicted of a crime, but
instead of going to prison, remains free
and under the supervision of the
probation office for a specified period of
time.
The offenders don’t get as much
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
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“Tl>e key to success is ex
pecting to win.”
GRIFFIN
Daily Since 1872
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday Afternoon, November 10,1977
surveillance as in years past. Instead,
the officers work to determine in
dividual needs and how they can best be
helped.
The Spalding office also handles
Fayette County probationers, which
are included in Eddie Freeman’s case
load.
As soon as a person is given a
probated sentence, he leaves the
courtroom and climbs to the third floor
where he is interviewed and his
responsibilities are explained.
A case history and in-depth study of
the offender is taken.
Details of his life are recorded, such
as his physical appearance, education,
work experience, criminal record and
other more personal information.
NEED HELP MOST
High need cases, or those who need
the most help, often are given
psychological testing. This is part of
Waller’s job.
“A lot of our people are mentally sick
and we try to recognize the symptoms
and help them get the proper treat
ment. Sending them to prison would
compound the problem because they
would be out with the same troubles
within a few months... .Maybe he can’t
find a job. Whatever his needs, we are
here to find them and to see what we
can do to help. We rely heavily on
community resources and often call on
local businesses to help out,” Conner
said.
All information goes into a computer
at GBI headquarters in Atlanta.
COMPUTER RECORDS
Keeping records on criminals is
nothing new, since every conviction of
both state and superior courts is
recorded permanently with the clerk of
superior court.
But Conner views computerization of
so much information “a frightening
thing.” Many look on it as an invasion
of the rights of individuals, he said.
It proved to be helpful recently when
law enforcement officers rapidly ob
tained information on the plane high
jacker in Atlanta, he noted.
Often when a person is on probation,
he has to pay a fine and make
restitution to his victim.
Some $56,854 has been collected in
fines and restitutions through October
this year.
The fines are filed in the clerk of
court’s office, while restitutions are
forwarded to the victims.
None of the money remains in the
probation office. Its books are audited
twice yearly and very strict records are
kept of all monies handled.
INSTALLMENTS
Sometimes fines and restitutions may
be paid on installments.
If the person has no money for the
fine, instead of going to jail for failure
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People
••• and things
King size acorns blown from trees on
Meriwether Street early today, making
a hail like noise as they hit car tops.
Woman shaking head in disgust as
more leaves fall from trees to lawn
where she had just raked on West
Solomon Street.
Man, hunting cap sticking out of his
jacket pocket, looking over thermal
underware display in department store.
Doctor defends diet
WASHINGTON (AP) — The doctor whose book
popularized the liquid protein “last chance” diet says his
method is still the only effective treatment for obesity,
despite government claims that it played a part in the
deaths of 10 women.
Dr. Robert Linn, the 43-year old osteopath whose diet
book has sold two million copies, said Wednesday he
agrees with the Food and Drug Administration that people
who embark on his diet should be watched closely by
physicians for potentially dangerous complications.
But he said the health risks of obesity outweigh the
dangers of the so-called “protein-sparing fast” if it is
properly monitored.
FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy told a news
conference Wednesday that government health
authorities have “every reason to believe that the liquid
protein diet was at least a contributing factor or a cause”
the sudden heart attack deaths of 10 women under age
45.
Farmers planning
1-75 tractor cade
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia farmers
have announced plans for a 60-mile
long tractorcade on Interstate 75 next
month to culminate a protest of poor
crop prices and delayed disaster aid.
State officials, meanwhile, said farm
disaster loans should begin flowing next
week.
Tommy Irvin, state commissioner of
agriculture, said Wednesday the U.S.
Department of Agriculture was helping
the Small Business Administration
staff its offices in order to get loans
quickly into farmers* hands.
“Loan disbursements should begin
accelerating rapidly next week and,
hopefully, many farmers who have
been awaiting loan payments will
receive them in the near future,” he
said.
Protesting farmers Wednesday
announced a series of tractorcades,
including one Nov. 25 in President
Carter’s hometown of Plains. The
motorcades will culminate Dec. 10 in
what farmers hope will be a massive
parade of 10,000 tractors on the in
terstate from Valdosta to Atlanta, said
Tom Kersey, state director of the
protests.
Farmers all over the nation will
converge on their state capitals on that
day, said Kersey, a middle Georgia
farmer.
Georgia farmers are using motor
cades to try to push the government
into awarding them 100 percent parity
— or full market value —for their
crops. Without the higher prices, the
state’s farmers have threatened to join
a Dec. 14 national farm strike.
To dramatize their plight, farmers
have driven their tractors on state
highways at Statesboro, Alma and
smaller towns. Kersey said more trac
torcades will be held Friday and
Saturday in middle Georgia to prepare
for the 234-mile Valdosta-to-Atlanta
trek.
A parade, including an expected 2,000
to 5,000 tractors, will begin in Reynolds
Friday and will move to Perry and
Hawkinsville for Saturday, he said.
Kersey said the farmers want 100
percent parity but “aren’t getting
anything near it... only about 60 per
cent right now.” Farmers also com
plained that the federal government
had not delivered what it offered in
disaster aid after last summer’s
drought.
Irvin said the SBA has more than
8,000 loan applications on hand and has
approved about 4,000 loans for a total of
almost S2OO million.
He said the Farmers Home
Administration, which also is making
disaster loans to fanners, has approved
960 loans totalling more than S7B
million. About 260 have been closed at a
total of $22 million, Irvin said.
But Irvin said the SBA would hold to
its policy of granting 50 percent of the
loan amount now and 50 percent next
spring.
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Peck for peck
Four-year-old Kelly Sullivan exchanges pecks with Otis, the parrot, at pet shop
here. She’s the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bishop, 217 South 11th Street.
Another freeze
is due tonight
Temperatures are expected to drop
below the freezing mark here tonight. If
the forecast proves to be correct, this
will be the second time freezing
weather has prevailed.
Readings on downtown therometers
were just below the freezing point
during October, a very unusual thing in
Griffin.
Normally the first freeze comes
during the first or second week in
November in Griffin.
Discouting the earlier flirtation with
winter, the freezing weather is about on
time.
Another school bond vote
on agenda for Monday night
A request to hold another school bond
referendum in December will be on
Monday night’s school board agenda.
In a called meeting at the courthouse
late Wednesday morning, Chairman
Henry Walker said he had received a
petition from Education ’77 requesting
the board call a special election on the
earliest possible date in December to
ask the voters to reconsider approving
bonds for a new high school.
There were 45 signatures with “more
“We expect to find others,” he said. “We only have what
we’re afraid may be the tip of the iceberg.”
Kennedy urged weight-conscious consumers not to go on
the liquid protein diet without close supervision by a
doctor skilled in its use.
And those now on it, he said, should “get themselves
into the hands of a physician” who can spot signs of
danger.
Kennedy said warning labels will soon be required on
liquid protein bottles. If evidence against the substance
continues to mount, he said, “We will use every
regulatory tool at hand to get it off the market.”
After the news conference, Linn said in a statement
issued by his office that he has had no deaths in his own
practice, “and further, I understand that when using this
obesity treatment properly, several hundred doctors
treating several thousand patients have had no deaths.”
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Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA -
Clearing and much colder tonight with
a light freeze. Low near 32, Mostly
sunny Friday with highs in the mid 50s.
LOCAL WEATHER — Low this
morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit
45, high Wednesday 73.
The National Weather Service in
Atlanta predicted that partly cloudy
skies and freezing temperatures would
blanket the northern and western parts
of the state tonight. The temperature
may tumble into the 20s in the northern
part of the state. The mid section and
southern portions can expect readings
of around 30, the Weather Service said.
Temperatures are not expected to
climb above the 50s in the north and
central postions of Georgia nor the 60s
in the southern portion Friday.
A cold front with westerly winds is
expected to roll in later.
coming”, Walker said.
He appointed Russell Smith and Dr.
Tom Hunt to get together and deter
mine what the costs of a new election
would be, along with other information.
The purpose of the called meeting
was to approve a resolution of
Tuesday’s bond issue results to be
certified by the probate judge.
The cost of Tuesday’s election will be
paid by the school system and was
expected to run around $3,000.