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An era of football rivalry may come to an end
R. E. Lee’s switch from Class AAA to Class A for the
1978-79 terms and the entrance of two new teams into 6-
AAA may mean the end to an era of football rivalry.
No one knows exactly how many years Griffin and R. E.
Lee have played each other during the regular season.
The rivalry is one of the longest-lived and best known in
Georgia.
R. E. Lee Coach Tommy Perdue and Thomaston Board
of Education this week agreed to remove Lee from Class
AAA competition. Lee had been playing in the higher
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Fun in the leaves
Stan Allen, 8, left, and Matt Storey, 9, found this week
that a pile of leaves can be a lot of fun. It appears that
Matt is one up on Stan, but the battle with the leaves came
Authorities to decide fate
of boy in school sniping
People
...and things
Child after parent had purchased
model car for him to build: “Hey,
Daddy, aren’t you going to get you
one?”
Deer hunters backed up early this
morning from traffic light on square in
Jackson to the city limits on West
Georgia 16.
Lady arguing with service station
attendant that leaded gasoline will
work in her new car “just as good as
that the government recommends.”
GRIFFIN
DAI
Daily Since 1872
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - Juvenile
court authorities say they will decide
next week the fate of a 14-year-old boy
charged with aggravated assault in last
month’s sniping incident at Dodgen
Middle School.
The youth, whose name cannot be
revealed under Georgia’s Juvenile
Court law, testified that he shot at the
school because he disliked the principal
“and I was sort of mad at him.”
“I couldn’t understand why he gave
me a detention just for throwing a pen
at him,” said the Cobb County boy in
testimony disclosed by James Morris,
an assistant district attorney.
The student testified that he took a
younger brother’s ,22-caliber rifle to a
knoll overlooking the school and fired
several times in the direction of the
school Oct. 11.
classification at its own option.
The classifications are determined by average daily
attendance and Lee’s attendance is such that it is of
ficially classified as A.
This means Lee would be in the same classification as
Pike County, Lamar County, Manchester, Jackson and
Mary Persons. Lee most likely would be in the same
subregion with these schools.
The Griffin-Lee game is one of the highlights of the
schedule each year for both teams.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday Afternoon, November 12,1977
out a draw. Stan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Allen
of 830 Forrest Ave. and Matt is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Storey, 836 Hanover Dr.
Principal Dale Pass, a security guard
and a janitor were attracted by the
shots, and Pass testified that one of two
shots which followed barely missed his
head.
However, the boy denied that he tried
to shoot anyone.
He has undergone a psychiatric
examination and has been ordered held
pending the disposition of his case,
which is expected to come Nov. 16.
The youth ran into nearby woods and
was found three nights later when he
accidentally shot himself in the leg.
Two other 14-year-old boys were
arrested on charges of providing aid
and shelter to their friend. One was
given a year on probation and a hearing
for the other is scheduled next week,
police said.
The game has been switched on the schedule several
times. At one time the teams opened the season and at
another, they closed the season. It is believed that at one
time they played a Thanksgiving game.
Lee’s powerhouse teams have been a nemesis for teams
in the region. Lee was the team that was capable of up
setting the division leaders.
Lee’s move to Class A and the entry of Fayette County
and Heritage of Conyers is expected to force Griffin into
an all-region schedule.
Vol. 105 No. 268
Troubled children
Their growing number is concern
of Spalding Cental Health staff
Treating the increasing number of
troubled children in Spalding County is
a major concern for the staff of the
Spalding County Mental Health Clinic.
The county shares in figures for the
state from the State Department of
Human Resources that show 25,549
young people found growing up so
difficult they were classified as
delinquents.
There were 9,900 children and
adolescents whose emotional problems
were so great they needed professional
help from community mental health
centers and regional hospitals.
Some 3,800 young people whose
family life was so unstable they were
placed in foster homes.
How Spalding County and the seven
county Mclntosh Trail Area (MTA)
stacks up in light of the state figures
and what is being done to help troubled
youths was discussed by Will Hart,
coordinator of the Child and Adolescent
Mental Program at the Spalding
County Mental Health Clinic.
Hart feels that more is not being done
for these troubled children because
children’s rights is not a cause fought
for as ardently as other factions who
represent themselves in their quest for
equal rights.
Because there’s little push for
children’s rights, needed services for
them go neglected, he said.
“It’s a lack of communication on the
part of the general public because they
are unaware of the difficulties children
get themselves into,” Hart said.
Giving assistance to troubled youths
in Spalding County and the Mclntosh
Trail Area is a “big and complex pic
ture” and requires the cooperation of
several agencies working with the
Mental Health Clinic, according to
Hart.
His mental health network works to
provide care in cooperation with the
juvenile court system, protective
services, Department of Family and
Children Services, foster care, com
munity treatment, the school system
and those agencies dealing with per
sons with specific learning disabilities.
Hart said working with emotionally
troubled children is not as simple as
giving medicine. Rather it is important
in terms of establishing a relationship
with a therapist. This may take months
or even years to do, he said.
Hart said he would just like to ad
vertise the services of the clinic but due
to the special nature of the client
therapist relationship, there would not
be staff enough to take care of them.
The clinic had 15 new evaluations last
month.
The staff is administering out-patient
treatment as an alternative to sending
children to a state hospital or to one of
the regional treatment centers.
The Spalding County Clinic at 610
South Eighth St. is treating children
suffering from hyperactivity,
depression, aggressiveness, family
problems and in some of the less
serious cases, schizophrenia.
Hart says sending troubled children
away to institutions helps only society
by making the problem disappear from
sight. This doesn’t do anything to help
the child who may not really need that
extreme treatment, he said.
He says the public does not realize it
costs up to |l2O a day to institutionalize
some mental health patients. Those
amounts of money could be spent much
wiser by local governments to provide
more services to more people through
local out-patient treatment centers,
However, that will not be decided until the region
meeting in January.
In a couple of years, Riverdale is expected to enter
Region 6AAA, further complicating the schedule.
When coaches and school officials meet in January,
schedules will be established for the next two years. If
Griffin has an option to play a non-region team, Lee most
likely will be included on the schedule.
Coaches have indicated the teams will continue to play
each other in the Spring Jamboree at the end of spring
football practice in March.
Weather
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA -
Hard freeze tonight. Low is the upper
20s. High Sunday in the middle 50s.
Mostly sunny today and Sunday, clear
and cold at night.
Hart said.
Hart thinks there could be more
specialized foster care. There are many
children with problems that could be
alleviated if they were in better home
environments, Hart said.
He believes the area would also profit
from a group home where troubled
children could be taken away from the
unpleasant home atmosphere to live in
a place not isolated like most in
stitutions. There the child will still be
able to participate in the community
‘Miss Lillian’ shakes
chill, feeling fine
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - “Miss
Lillian,” President Carter’s 79-year-old
mother, was feeling better today after a
good night’s rest dispelled the chill she
caught on a rainy Friday.
Miss Lillian woke up “in great form
and full of the joys of life and showing
no signs of a cold,” said Dublin attorney
Tim Ryan. He is her host during her
stay in Ireland as part of an unofficial
exchange program, the Friendship
Force.
As a precaution, she planned a light
day. A dinner party at the Ryan home
and a late night television talk show
appearance were her only scheduled
activities today.
On Friday, Miss Lillian went to bed
after braving a harsh wind and cold
rain to plant a spindly Norwegian
maple tree in Dublin park.
Wearing only a lightweight coat and
sandals, she quickly shoveled some
mud around the base of the tree, told it
to “keep on living now, you hear me,”
and dashed back to a waiting limousine.
The episode lasted less than a minute,
but with the vigorous schedule Miss
Lillian has been following, it was
enough to make her cancel attendance
at a Dublin fashion show and call it a
day.
“It’s not really a cold,” said her
bodyguard, George “Ray” Hathcock, a
Georgia state trooper from her home
town of Plains.
“She’s hoarse and has a sore throat
and since she has a TV talk show on for
(Saturday) night, she thought she’d
better stay home,” he said Friday
evening. “She’s in bed resting.”
There was no indication that a doctor
had been called to Miss Lillian’s bed
side, but officials involved in planning
her schedule expressed concern that
she was not getting enough rest.
“We hope that Saturday will give her
time to recuperate a bit from the pace
State Bar adopts
advertising
regulations
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The State Bar
of Georgia, in response to a U.S.
Supreme Court ruling last summer, has
voted to allow Georgia attorneys to
advertise for routine services and fees
in print.
Rules adopted Friday by the bar’s
Board of Governors to regulate the
advertising must be approved by the
Georgia Supreme Court.
Under the rules, lawyers can ad
vertise fees for uncontested adoption,
uncontested name change, uncontested
divorce, voluntary bankruptcy without
assets and contingent fee collection.
environment in which he grew up, Hart
observed.
Hart feels a group home for the
emotionally disturbed child in the
Mclntosh Trail area is a prime need.
Because mental health officials are
trying harder to keep more and more
children from becoming in
stitutionalized, there is going to have to
be an offering of more services by the
clinics, he said.
Spalding County so far is one of the
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and relax more,” said one official.
Miss Lillian flew to Ireland earlier in
the week with 254 lowans as the guests
of Irish families participating in the
unofficial friendship exchange
program. They will stay until Nov. 18.
Her three days here have been full of
courtesy calls to local politicians and
prominent businessmen. Lunch Friday
was with the new American am
bassador, William Shannon, and his
wife.
But there are no Friendship Force
activities planned next week, and Miss
Lillian is expected to make a few ex
tended daytime trips into the coun
tryside.
Temp in 20s,
heavy frost
blankets area
A heavy frost covered the area this
morning as the temperature dropped
into the upper 20s overnight.
More of the same is expected for
tonight and Sunday night.
Thermometers about town this
morning were showing a temperature
range from 26 to 31 degrees with three
or four reading 26 and 28.
The forecast for the Griffin area calls
for clear and cold tonight with a low in
the upper 20s. Sunday is expected to be
sunny and cool with a high in the middle
50s.
Scattered frost is expected as far
south as the Georgia-Florida line.
Temperatures in North Georgia are
expected to be in the low 20s tonight and
in the middle to upper 30s in extreme
South Georgia.
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