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F. A. “Shoe-Booty” Goodrum salutes veterans.
Legionnaire Goodrum
liked old Armistice
America and its allies had the Ger
mans against the wall just before the
signing of the Armistice that ended
World War I and they should have
whipped them good a little longer,
contends Griffin veteran, Fred Addis
(Shoe-Booty) Goodrum.
Goodrum, now 84-plus years of age,
remembers the day, November 11,1918,
when the Armistice was signed, ending
the war.
He was in the service at that time
stationed at Fort Wayne in Detroit,
Mich, when he learned the pact had
been signed.
Since that time Goodrum has been
observing Armistice Day as one to
honor veterans. He is not in accord with
changing the name of Armistice Day to
Veterans Day. He is even more so
disenchanted with changing the day the
holiday falls on to Friday just to please
a “bunch of government workers.”
Gov. Busbee pushes
for kindergartens
DALTON, Ga. (AP) - Gov. George
Busbee said today he will ask next
year’s legislature to expand the state
kindergarten program to reach half the
estimated 78,000 5-year-old children in
Georgia.
The governor also said he will
recommend funds to hire teachers’
aides for the early elementary grades
of school.
Busbee did not say how much it would
cost to expand the kindergarten
program as he proposed, but a source in
the state Office of Planning and Budget
said a program reaching half the 5-
year-olds in Georgia would cost about
$24 million annually.
The existing kindergarten program
reaches about one-fourth of the 5-year
old children and costs the state about
sl2 million a year.
Busbee commented in remarks
prepared for a breakfast meeting with
businessmen here during the
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“Armistice Day is what it’s supposed
to be on the 11th, to change would
be changing the history,” Goodrum
said.
Upon his discharge from the Air
Force Jan. 19,1919, Goodrum returned
to Griffin to begin living as a civilian
again.
That civilian life began September 16,
1893 when he was bom in Monroe
County. When he was 12 years old his
family moved to Spalding County.
Between gathering crops, the
youngster had some schooling.
His real break in education came
when his father gave him 1% acres of
land on which he made a bale of cotton.
The cotton brought $65 and with a SSO
loan from an aunt, Goodrum studied 2%
years at Berry School in Rome, Ga. He
lacked only one unit when times dic
tated he quit his schooling.
“I couldn’t eat that unit,” Goodrum
Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s an
nual Prelegislative Forum.
The governor has been a strong
supporter of the kindergartens since
taking office, and he pushed for the
funds last year which allowed the pro
gram to expand to reach 25 percent of
the 5-year-old children.
“We know kindergarten works
because the first-grade failure rates in
the school systems with kindergarten
for all children are about half that of the
systems without full kindergarten
programs,” he said.
Several school systems have
operated kindergarten programs on
their own for many years.
On the subject of teachers’ aides,
Busbee said some school systems have
* found the idea of extra help so valuable
that they have encouraged volunteers
to serve in this role.
“The presence of an aide enables the
teacher to give each child far more
individual attention and help,” he said.
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday Afternoon, November 11,1977
quipped.
It was Jan. 10, 1918 that Goodrum
volunteered and entered the Air For
ce’s 607 Air Squad stationed at Fort
Wayne — Detroit.
“I didn’t like the idea of being
drafted. I wanted to pick the branch of
service I went into,” Goodrum said.
There were no planes at Fort Wayne
and Goodrum did not get a chance to fly
any of the planes which he referred to
as crates. He said the Air Force was not
as refined as it is today and the
“crates” were just apt to crack up at
any time.
Following his discharge, which ended
a year and six days of service,
Goodrum moved back to Griffin and
took on his old job at the H. V. Kell
Company. He worked there until 1931
when he went into business for himself.
He bought the Connor Grocery Store
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NEWS
Idaho town
raises money
for Toccoa
TOCCOA, Ga. (AP) — An Idaho town
that survived a 1976 dam burst has
started a fundraising drive to help
victims of Sunday’s dam disaster here
which killed 38 persons.
“Our people can fully understand the
traumatic experience the residents of
Toccoa, Ga., are now faced with,” said
John Porter, mayor of Rexburg, Idaho,
which was flooded when the Teton Dam
burst June 5, 1976.
“Thousands of people from all over
the nation responded in various ways
when we needed help,” he said Thurs
day. “The least we can do is offer any
financial assistance we can.”
In St. Marys, Pa., Thursday, the Rev.
Williams Mullins, who convinced
William Ehrensberger and Ronald
Ginther to quit their jobs in St. Marys
two years ago and attend the Toccoa
Falls Bible College, helped officiate at
the funeral for the five Ehrensberger
family members who died in the
disaster.
Vol. 105 No. 267
New vote
opposition
swells here
A groundswell of opposition to
another vote on a school bond issue
anytime soon developed today.
Supt. D. B. Christie of the Griffin-
Spalding System reiterated his op
position to calling for another vote for
at least six months.
Russell Smith, senior member of the
school board with 22 years of service,
said he opposed another vote anytime
soon.
“The people have spoken and it is not
time to call for another vote now,”
Smith said.
Smith is vice chairman of the board.
BROWN OPPOSED
Former state representative Clayton
Brown said he thought calling for
another vote now would tear this
community completely apart.
Brown said he would push as a citizen
next year for state legislation to reform
the way schools are financed and to
shake up the administration on the
state level.
He said unless something is done, he
planned to run for the legislature again.
“My platform will be to tear up these
bureaucracies and any regulations and
policies imposed on school systems,
etc. be submitted to the General
Assembly for approval...” Brown said.
COST |4,000
The cost of the school bond
referendum this week has been
estimated at $4,000.
The 1974 school bond referendum cost
$2,965 just to hold the vote and the one
this week probably will cost a SI,OOO
more than the 1974 vote, Christie
estimated.
“I feel the earliest possible time to
come back is May. If we go back now, it
would question the intelligence of the
people who voted ‘no.’ Circumstances
will not change dramatically in a
month’s time but to go back to the
people, there needs to be a change and
People
••• and things
Young man forcing wire between
window glass and rubber stripping in
effort to unlock car parked on down
town block of South Hill Street.
Rubbemeckers gawking at movie
makers at old Triangle Case on Zebulon
Road.
Bank thermometers reporting 36 and
29 degree temperatures at same time
this morning.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA -
Clear and very cold tonight with freeze.
Lows in the upper 20s. Sunny Saturday
with highs in the mid 50s.
by May the vote might be favorable,”
Christie said.
The circumstances which might
change, he said, is that the system is
scheduled for a 10-year study by a
committee from the Southern
Association of Secondary Schools and
Colleges, the association which ac
credits all schools.
“We need to wait on their recom
mendations. I don’t know what they will
recommend. They may say we don’t
need anything. They may say in order
to be accredited we may need ad
ditional schools. If they do, we’ll cross
that bridge when we get to it.
LEFTALONE
“I think we should be left alone so we
can do our job. We’ve done a pretty
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It’ll be
even colder
tonight
Colder weather was forecast for the
Griffin area tonight after the tem
perature tumbled to 29 degrees
downtown early this morning.
The forecast tonight was for readings
in the upper 20s.
A low of 27 degrees was reported at
Calhoun and Dublin this morning. At
Homerville it was 30.
Several communities reported 31-
degree readings.
The National Weather Service said a
hard freeze is likely tonight in north
Georgia with scattered frost expected
as far south as the Georgia-Florida
state line.
The cold weather in Georgia was
caused by a low pressure system over
New England and a large high over
Texas.
The Country Parson
by Frank Clark
“The church is for sinners —
non-sinners don’t need it.”
Five people
perish
in wreck
MACON, Ga. (AP) — Five persons
perished in roaring flames as a pickup
truck and a station wagon collided in a
rural area 10 miles south of Macon.
The state patrol said the pickup truck
was making a left turn off U.S. 129 late
Thursday when the vehicles collided
and burst into flames.
It was hours before the victims could
be identified.
The patrol said they were Ray
Hullett, 20, driver of the pickup truck;
and Laura G. Chiles, 64; James F.
Rock, 56; Mary Frances Rock, 54, and
Mary Comer, whose age was unknown,
all from the Gray community.
Although the accident happened only
four miles from Gray, authorities said
firemen from Macon were summoned.
It was necessary to cut the top off the
station wagon in order to remove three
of the bodies.
