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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 k '/▼ * >fjß ißßrj ’ & jflMßf '«a % ®k x jKM|MflKj|*J n ; * :i fc\ >■- •SSSISS «. X 3r » W B 3fc»*-?3 K •*w • - obvvrhhi ’Ci Kt Ki&o <K beMSo bmmb gKKgjPMB| HR - Js3x v gBjHfHHiBIHHHBMHIiHHHHHHBHr 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 (Continued on page 2) 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. The Country Parson by Prank ('lark 1 Hl “What’s wrong doesn’t become right simply because most people favor it”