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No bond referendum soon Education ’77 asks petition be tabled Another school bond referendum will not be held soot. However, the school board will proceed with plans to pur chase the 82% acre tract for the proposed new high school. The decisions were made in com mittee meetings attended by all 10 board members Monday afternoon and were formally approved unanimously at the regular meeting Monday night, which was attended by a standing room only crowd of some 40 people. During the committee meetings, presided over by Dr. Tom Hunt, in structions chairman, and Russell Smith, building chairman, Supt. D. B. Christie said the “best thing is to drop it now, then come back in a few months and take another look after the board receives a report on the system to be made by the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges in April. TABLE PETITION Monday night, Mrs. Jean Boggs, president of Education ’77, asked that the petition for another referendum in December be tabled but that the board Georgia Baptists map assault on new government regulations ATLANTA (AP) - Delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention today begin mapping strategy for an assault on a new government regulation they say threatens the constitutional separation of church and state. The delegates, from 2,956 churches throughout Georgia, are to vote on a resolution passed by the convention’s executive committee calling on the Internal Revenue Service to withdraw a regulation that went into effect last January. The regulation makes a distinction between “integral church work” and auxiliary church organizations. Under the new rule, certain church- Birth rate increases WASHINGTON (AP) — The birth rate in America increased during the first eight months of this year com pared with the rate a year ago, but scientists say the change does not necessarily indicate a trend. Robert Heuser of the National Center for Health Statistics said there was an average of 15.3 births per 1,000 population for the first eight months of 1977 compared with 14.5 per 1,000 for the same time period in 1976. But Heuser said the reason for the change is unknown. And, other statisticians cautioned against drawing sweeping conclusions. Meanwhile, the latest Vital Statistics Report published by the center showed there were 3 percent more marriages during the first seven months of the year than during the same period a year ago, while divorces increased only 1 percent. ■LfeyO “We sure waste a lot of time learning the right way to do the wrong things.” GRIFFIN DAI Daily Since 1872 not delay in its actions to find a solution while state funds are still available. According to her, the |4 million will be available upon passage of a bond referendum until July 1. The League of Women Voters was represented by Mrs. Elaine Farr, president, who read a statement commending the board upon its efforts toward passage of the bond issue and stating the League’s stands on education. Education ’77 challenged the people who opposed the bond issue “to become involved with us and the board in trying to solve the problems of the school system.” GO WITH US “You have admitted that there is a problem of overcrowding and asked that the board go back to the drawing board. We urge you to go there with us. Give us your ideas, your objections, your thoughts, help find the answers,” Mrs. Boggs said. Chairman Henry Walker also asked for cooperation from the opposition. He invited Ivan Taylor and anyone affiliated organizations, such as hospitals and nursing homes, must file income tax returns like all other non profit, tax-exempt groups. Although the “nonintegral" church groups would not have to pay taxes, Baptist leaders argue that the filing requirement is unconstitutional and the definition of “integral church work" arbitrary. Although various denominations publicly have disapproved of the new regulation, the Baptists have been the most vocal opponents. Last year, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a similar resolution Tillllll I Mr B 3 I ill J T SgJB Griffin, Ga., 30223, Tuesday Afternoon, November 15,1977 Also in this story I.— Board votes not to accept any out of county students beginning in August, 1978. 2. — Bids to be opened Thursday on new Anne Street Classroom additions. 3. — Basketball tickets 75 cents at the gate. 4. — Seven school buses or dered. 5. — Talent night in auditorium gets okay. 6. — Attendance shows in crease. else to visit school facilities and secure any information, then to make positive suggestions and constructive criticism. “Call and arrange for a meeting. The schools belong to all citizens and we’d like to hear from the entire com munity," Walker said. HARD KNOCKS Taylor answered that he would be glad to meet with school board mem- Jail improvements will take years. Opposing the regulation. Also on today’s agenda was con sideration of the convention’s sl2 million 1978 budget, an increase of $2 million over last year’s budget. Part of the money will be used to continue the Georgia Baptist relief ministry. That program, begun in 1974, received its first real test last week in the dam failure at Toccoa that took 38 lives. A 39th person still is missing. Dr. Searcy S. Garrison, executive secretary-treasurer of the convention, said the relief ministry provided im mediate help for homeless victims of the disaster. bers but he “will not meet with Education ’77 or anybody else who does not have the responsibility of making policy or accepting the hard knocks along with the good,” he said. Mrs. Joan Burns, mother of two children in the system and two Griffin High graduates explained why she voted ‘no’ on the bond issue. “Mr. Taylor has taken the rap for many of us, but I can assure you that he did not pay for those newspaper ads himself. People were standing in line begging for the opportunity,” she said. “Interested citizens comprised a small army, she said. Mrs. Bums said she was “vigorously opposed” to such a large high school and suggested Griffin High be divided into two campuses, each more easily administered and with twice the op portunities for all activities. She also said she “deplores in creasing emphasis on vocational (Continued on page 2) People ...and things Young man on nearly deserted downtown street early today hands stuffed in pants pockets in 28-degree weather, stopping for second or two to look at warm jacket in store window, shurgging shoulders, then moving on. Several hundred Griffin High students enjoying warm afternoon sun as they wait in front of building for buses to take them home. Deer hunter having good laugh after friends had been hunting area for weeks and he kills big buck after having been there only a few minutes. Spalding County improving jail Federal courts recently ordered the jail in Henry County to cease accepting prisoners as of Feb. 1, 1978. Spalding County has not been ordered by the courts to cease using its jail. The county is not under a court order and Sheriff Dwayne Gilbert believes the county will not be told to close the jail. “Our jail at present does not meet the criteria for jails set forth by the federal courts. “However, I do believe we could show the courts we are moving forwaid with a plan to make our jail meet their criteria and to meet the needs of the community for the next 25 to 30 years,” Gilbert said. The offices on the first floor of the courthouse will move into the building currently used by the Extension Ser vice and other county agencies when the renovations of the Grant building are completed and those offices can be moved there. Sheriff Gilbert said the im provements will take several 'years to complete. “I would say that it will take us no longer to complete the improvements than it would to build a new facility,” he said. The Spalding County jail is just as old as some of those jails being ordered to close by the federal courts, but the Sheriff feels he could get an extension of time if necessary because plans are in the works for improvements. Vol. 105 NO. 270 V*\ I 1 AUGUSTA, Ga. — It would seem that Tony, an Airedale belonging to Pleas C. Faglie, would appear to be a very smart dog. After all, any dog that can fetch the evening newspaper from the delivery box across the street from his home is not dumb. Even smarter would be his master who taught him to retrieve the paper, saving time and energy. Now to teach him to answer the doorbell. (AP) Experiment Station helped with mushroom problems Good technical management with production and shipment would have solved problems a Japanese concern had in trying to produce mushrooms in Griffin, according to Dr. Curtis Jackson, director of the Georgia Experiment Station in Griffin. Dr Jackson explained: “The backers of this venture sought and received scientific help from the Georgia Station on six or so occasions. We were able to accommodate all requests from this group and to offer sound advice. The fungus con tamination problem and mushroom deterioration during shipment were the apparent causes of the failure of this venture,” Dr. Jackson explained in a letter to the Griffin Daily News. “Our research indicated that these “We are moving forward at this moment,” he said. Gilbert said the improvements would include renovation of the upstairs jail facilities to include eight maximum security cells, library and study area facilities. The “bullpen” would be renovated and improved. The “bullpen” is an area where several prisoners are housed in the same cell. First floor renovations would include facilities for women prisoners, an electronics center, kitchen facilities, trusty facilities, a contact visiting area for lawyer client conversations and visits by social workers and a non contact visiting area where family members could visit prisoners. The kitchen facilities would remain much as they are now. One improvement for the first level would be an area where deputies could drive in cars carrying prisoners. Doors would close in front and back of the area. This would help eliminate the possibility of escape during the transfer of a prisoner from a car to the jail. “I believe we can complete the renovations to the jail for ap proximately $750,000. A new jail facility would cost approximately $3.5 million,” Sheriff Gilbert said. He said the county commissioners had agreed to include the im provements to the jail in budgeted (Continued on page 2) Weather FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN AREA — Fair and not so cold tonight with lows around 40. Increasing cloudiness and mild Wednesday with highs in the mid 60s. LOCAL WEATHER — Low this morning at the Spalding Forestry Unit 28, high Monday 50. sawl ■ j'S’ehl ’ ihk sßkw ; 7 r y : WpnMj Paper dog problems could be overcome with good technical management during mushroom production and shipment,” he said. Dr. Jackson wrote the letter after a story was published last week in the Griffin Daily News that the mushroom building and property were up for sale. Dr. Jackson said he presented further information because the article might suggest to some readers that the Experiment Station ignored the Fukaishi group’s problems. The Fukaishi group from Japan had purchased land off the Everee Inn road in an industrial park area to try to get the business going here. The Bank of Griffin put the property on the market after it was abaodoned. Late news Sadat invited JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Menahem Begin today of fically invited Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to visit Israel. Begin sent his written invitation through U.S. Aambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis. In Cairo, Sadat said he is ready to go as soon as he receives the invitation. He called the trip, that he proposed last week, his “sacred duty”. Begin declined to show the content of the message to reporters, saying it would be discourteous to divulge it before it reached Sadat. See page 10 Protestors clash WASHINGTON (AP) — Competing forces of demonstrators awaiting the White House arrival of the Shah of Iran rushed one another on the Ellipse be hind the executive mansion today Shouting “Down with the Shah, Down with the Shah,” masked Iranian students threw the sticks from their placards and debris at mounted police. Mounted police charged into the crowd. There was a charge of the anti shah people into main group of pro-shah demonstrators. Tear gas was fired. The police cleared the original spot of the anti shah demonstration which was im mediately on the left hand side of the Ellipse. See page 5