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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, November 15,1977
Page 2
Henry County women pushing
for handicapped art shows
Ruth Harper stopped in
Griffin the first of this week to
talk with residents about
organizing an art exhibit for
handicapped and under
privileged Georgians.
Mrs. Harper, a one-time
Henry County resident now
living near Cochran, is a petit
woman with the determination
of a giant. She is traveling
throughout the state on her own
promoting the idea of bringing
recognition to artists who would
remain out of the limelight
under normal circumstances
because of physical disabilities.
Still in the formulative stages,
Crime report
Hubcaps
stolen
Dale Chapman, 1517 Teak
wood Dr., reported to Griffin
police that four wire hubcaps,
valued at $225, were stolen from
her vehicle while it was parked
at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital.
Someone used a drink bottle
to break the plate glass on a
sign in front of Ed’s Carburetor
and Ignition Service, 123 North
12th St. Damage was set at S2OO,
police said.
Someone entered the home of
Betty Shivers on Drewry
Avenue but apparently did not
take anything.
A 15-year-old girl was
.arrested for shoplifting at
Clark’s Grocery on East
Broadway. She was charged
with taking a package of candy
valued at 86 cents.
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The family of Mrs. Elizabeth
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appreciation to Haisten
Brothers Funeral Home for
their kindness. We also wish
to express thanks to the
Orchard Hill Baptist Church
and the Rev. Bennie Rhodes,
members of the church
WMU for the food, flowers
and expressions of sym
pathy.
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Griffin, Ga.
her plan calls for an exhibition
(including virtually all art
forms) in each of Georgia’s 159
counties based on the theme
“Georgia: Yesterday, Today
and Tomorrow”. From these
showings, representative
selections would be sent to a
grand showing in Jeffersonville
for evaluation.
A statewide tour of these
artistic works or a televised
program would then be staged
to spotlight the talents of
Georgia’s veterans, senior
citizens, underprivileged and
handicapped people.
“I have talked with your
county administrator and city
administrator,” said Mrs.
Harper, “and they seemed very
interested. Now it is up to the
good people of Spalding County
to get behind me in this and
organize a county exhibition."
Mrs. Harper has met with
associates of Gov. George
Busbee to explain her endeavor
and has learned that in order for
the art exhibition to be declared
a statewide affair, interest and
participation from a sizeable
number of counties must be
shown.
To publicize the undertaking,
she is traveling through the
City Commission meeting
Director gives good grade
to non-drunk program here
The round the clock
alcoholism treatment center is
succeeding, according to
Director Roger Scott.
Scott came to the city com
mission meeting today to give a
report on the first month’s
operations of the Mclntosh Trail
Clinic which is operated at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital nights
and weekends and at the South
Hill Street headquarters during
week day business hours.
Griffin is participating in the
first program of its kind in
Georgia which decriminalizes
public drunkenness. Since the
program, which is financed
with state funds, started Oct. 1,
no one has been arrested for
public drunkenness, but more
people are being taken into
protective custody and treated
state promoting the exhibitions.
She contacts local officials and
news people in her stops and
attempts to secure a “business
manager” in each county.
“The project can work only if
the people in each county are
willing to cooperate,” she said.
“It will be financed and
operated by the people, with the
judges of the art show also
being county residents.”
She emphasized entries must
be done by non-professional and
entrants will have the option to
sell their art at the grand
showing in Jeffersonville.
Her interest in the project
stems from several factors.
Mrs. Harper’s late husband,
Ralph Harper, was han
dicapped himself, operating the
blind concession at McDonough
Power Equipment Co. when
they were living in Henry
County. Mrs. Harper was
stricken last year with disin
tegrating bone disease and is
now an out patient. She has now
turned 65 and qualifies as a
senior citizen.
“I’ve always been a dabbler
in art, and I think it’s time we
let some of our less fortunate
people become recognized
through their talent,” she said.
for alcoholism.
The average number of
arrests for public drunkenness
and drunk and disorderly
during the previous 12 months
was 27. During October, 43 were
taken into protective custody,
not arrested.
Scott said Griffin police,
although most were hostile to
the program at first, now feel
that the new law has positive
affects on their jobs. Only 15
percent of those officers in
volved had negative feelings, he
said.
Police spend an average of 10
minutes from the time they pick
up a drunk until the time he is
left at the clinic. The police
department has been most
cooperative, Scott said.
He gave each of the com
missioners an 18-page report on
the first month’s progress.
City of Griffin sewerage rates
are expected to increase soon.
City Manager Roy Inman said
the city is losing “more and
more money on its sewer
charges.” Under EPA federal
regulations, if the city receives
federal monies to improve or
expand its sewers, correct user
rates must be in effect.
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What’s
happening
Benefit movie
Circle K of Gordon Junior College will collect canned
goods at the showing of “Bugsy Malone” Wednesday night
at 7 and 9 o’clock for the benefit of the Empty Stocking
Fund. Admission to the movie will be two cans of food.
Garden Club
The Camellia Garden Club will meet at 3:30 o’clock
Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Marcus Jinks, 655
Beverly Lane.
Kiwanis Club
There will be a Kiwanis Club roundtable meeting at
Western Sizzlin’ Wednesday at noon.
The Fair appreciation Night will be observed at the
Moose Club Friday night.
Revival services
Revival services are in progress this week at the
Friendship Congregational Holiness Church, 2 miles east
of Brooks on the Friendship Road. The Rev. Vernon Miller
is the evangelist and the Rev. Gene Middlebrooks is
pastor. Services begin each night at 7:30 p.m.
The loss on sewerage rates
last year was $149,108, while the
operating profit on water rates
amounted to $470,700. The city
owes $338,000, which leaves a
difference of some $17,000
Inman explained.
Proposed revised water and
sewer rates will be presented to
the commissioners Nov. 29 by a
representative of Arthur
Andersen and Co., a CPA firm.
A city ordinance of no bicycle
riding on downtown sidewalks
will be enforced and signs to
that effect will be erected on
utility poles.
The commissioners noted that
riders on sidewalks are creating
hazards to pedestrian traffic.
The commissioners ad
journed their meeting to take an
eyebaU inspection of the city’s
sewer lines. They viewed the
sewer’s insides by television on
Hudson Road, off East College
Street.
The inspection is part of a
study being made to find where
repairs are needed.
Southern
to fly
to Jackson
ATLANTA (AP) — Southern
Airways has announced that it
will begin four daily flights be
tween Atlanta and Jackson,
Miss., on Dec. 1.
A Southern spokesman said
Monday that the new service
will compete with Delta Air
Lines, which already has flights
between the two cities.
Southern’s new Atlanta-Jack
son route also will provide the
first direct service between At
lanta and Greenville, Miss., he
said. One daily round-trip flight
will be made between those two
cities after a stopover in Jack
son.
Hospital
report
Dismissed from the Griffin-
Spalding Hospital Monday:
Fred Moore, Minnie Kitchens,
Gabriele Martin, Louise
Statham, Abraham Scott,
Franklin Gordy, Jimmy Daniel,
Shelby Cook, Linda Reynolds,
Betty Hinson.
Bobby Hancock has been
dismissed from Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta.
9 schools
get lunch
certificates
Principals of nine schools in
the Griffin-Spalding County
schools have been awarded
certificates of Merit for par
ticipation in the School Lunch
Program.
D. B. Christie, superin
tendent, said the State
Department of Education has
commended the schools for the
high student participation in the
lunch program.
The schools feed ap
proximately 7,500 lunches each
day and some 1,200 breakfasts
at a cost of $5,566.10. Last year
the total expenditure, excluding
government commodities,
exceeded $1 million.
Schools receiving certificates
of merit include: North Side, 99
percent; Anne Street, 98 per
cent; Moore 98 percent; West
Griffin, 96 percent; Fourth
Ward, 95 percent; Atkinson, 92
percent; Jackson Road, 92
percent; Third Ward, 89 per
cent; and East Griffin, 88
percent.
Inmate
flees
ROME, Ga. (AP) - A 22-
year-old inmate escaped from
the Floyd County Correctional
Institution on Monday by climb
ing over a fence, a spokes
woman for the state Depart
ment of Offender Rehabilitation
said.
The spokeswoman identified
the inmate as Michael D.
Myers, convicted in Cobb Coun
ty of armed robbery and sen
tenced to 15 years.
Education
training.”
TEACH ENGLISH
“Instead of concentrating on wheel
aligning, brick laying, etc., let us teach
our young people how to speak the
English language, how to read
magazines and newspapers, how to
keep books and live within their means.
Let us teach them about free enterprise
and about the history of this great
nation, our republican form of govern
ment and what it means to be a good
citizen,” she said.
The college bound will be exposed to
all of these things again, but those who
are terminating their education are the
ones who need these courses — “their
last chance to enrich their lives beyond
the mundane humdrum of making a
living,” she continued.
She asked the board to present a
reasonable proposal which could win
approval, such as increasing the local
supplement to keep good teachers,
building more classrooms, repairing
leaking roofs, paying custodians more
and demanding more of them. . .all of
the things the citizens “so desperately
want” for our children but “which the
board and administrators are denying
us by putting before us only these
tremendously high and unrealistic
proposals.”
BRIBE MONEY
She referred to the $4 million in state
funds as “bribe money” and compared
it with a barefooted person who would
go deeply into debt to purchase a
bargain mink coat, provided a free pair
of shoes were thrown in.
Mrs. Bums said she wanted to refute
a letter in last week’s Griffin Daily
News from a college student who was
having trouble in his studies because of
a poor high school foundation.
She said her sons had good teachers
at Griffin High and were well ahead in
their college studies, especially
chemistry and physics.
"Let us mend our old coat, clean it
up, sew on an extension if the sleeves
are too short. Then let us buy the shoes
we can afford. Please give us a bond
issue which can pass. You have left us
barefooted too long,” she said.
BUY LAND
The board approved a motion from
Dr. Tom Hunt that the site and finance
committees look into acquiring the
property for the proposed high school
and bring back their recommendations
to the board.
The land is located west of Griffin off
Ga. 16. The board has an option on 66
acres owned by Homer Sigman. The
option is good until Feb. 15. Prices will
be negotiated for 11 acres owned by the
Georgia Experiment Station, five acres
owned by R. L. Beam and %ths of an
acre owned by J. D. Butler.
“We’ve been looking for a site for
years and this is the best and is most
centrally located,” Dr. Hunt said.
Hunt said he thought Griffin High was
on the worst site a high school could
Spalding making
said.
He said one of the problems in some
counties was that they had failed to
take positive action toward eliminating
their problems even though granted
court order extensions.
Voters of Henry County twice
rejected bonds for a new jail facility.
“I don’t know what they are planning
to do in February, but it is going to be a
bad situation,” Sheriff Gilbert said.
He said if the Spalding County jail is
closed, several surrounding counties
each could accommodate two or three
of Spalding’s prisoners, but not enough
to be effective.
Expense of transporting prisoners to
1 and from outside jails for hearings and
trials would be astronomical, Sheriff
Gilbert said.
“We don’t want to see such a thing
happen in our county and this is why we
are moving as rapidly as possible to get
the improvements under way in our
jail,” he said.
"Too many of our young people .jßfiOlhk
have left and are leaving Spalding
County to work and live J
elsewhere. We must provide the I
opportunities and facilities to
keep them at home. I will work
I for that goal."
ELECT I
I Jim Goolsby
County Commissioner 41
X. Nov. 29th Piid Political Ad. I
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have and “as long as I’m on the board,
if the voters vote down 100 bond issues,
I will still fight for a new high school,”
he continued.
TUITION
In other action, the board voted not to
accept any out of county tuition
students beginning in August, 1978.
Dr. Hunt said the action was an
outgrowth of input from the public on
the bond issue.
The new rule affects 27 students from
Henry, Butts, Fulton, Clayton and
Fayette counties. (Under HEW rules,
no students are accepted from Pike and
Lamar counties.) Twelve are at
Beaverbrook and six at Griffin High.
Others are scattered over the system.
Teachers’ children, along with those
of other school employees, will still be
accepted tuition free. Many teachers,
including some of the best, live outside
of Spalding County, Christie said.
The new rule will not affect special
education students from systems which
are too small to employ such teachers.
These include children with speech,
sight, and hearing problems.
Bids on construction of eight new
classrooms at Anne Street School will
be opened Thursday.
Work must begin by Dec. 12.
The project is being financed with
$312,000 in federal public works funds.
RESTATE POLICY
The board restated its policy of not
allowing teachers to give private music
lessons on school grounds or to use
school equipment.
Tickets to basketball games will be
reduced to 75-cents at the gate, the
same price for which they are sold at
school.
Bill Westmoreland, athletics
chairman, hopes student participation
will improve with the reduced gate
prices. He also announced that profits
from state play-off games last year
were used to purchase a new athletic
bus.
Seven new school buses will be or
dered to replace seven old ones, ac
cording to Dr. Fielding Lindsey,
transportation chairman.
The system uses a total of 54, he said.
TALENTSHOW
Approval of use of the Griffin High
auditorium for Feb. 16 by the Griffin
Kiwanis Club was approved. A talent
show will be held.
Attendance systemwide at the end of
the second month was 10,056, compared
with 9,948 a year ago, Christie reported.
Two additional teachers will be added
to Griffin High next quarter, he said.
Teachers elected were Mrs. Dawn
Eastin, math, Griffin High; Mrs. Susan
Sprague, second grade, Fourth Ward;
Miss Patricia Harris, to be assigned.
Resignations included: Mrs. Shirley
Mobley, reading, Fourth Ward; Mrs.
Marian Smith, math, Griffin High;
Mrs. Gail Nemyer, third grade,
Atkinson; and Mrs. Anne Westmore
land, chemistry, Griffin High.
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items and not have to call upon the
taxpayers for a bond vote for the
renovation.
“I don’t believe the voters of the
county would pass bonds for a new jail
facility now. They have just defeated
bonds for schools and it is unlikely they
would be willing to approve bonds for a
jail,” he said.
Architect’s drawings are expected to
be completed by the end of 1978 and
actual renovation is expected to begin
in 1979. Some work will be done before,
but it will be minor.
Some renovation of the building at the
rear of the jail will be necessary, but
not a complete renovation.
“When we complete the im
provements, we will have a facility that
will compare with some of those people
are paying $3 and $4 million for.
“We may find ourselves in court, but
I believe we are in a position to show the
courts we are progressing toward
meeting their criteria,” Sheriff Gilbert