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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. CARD OF THANKS The family of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Webb wishes to express 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. Jimmy, Jim & Mike Webb 'WRAP-SESSION' KOMAR And Jjj Vassarette* 4 k ROBES /|W Os Dacron Kn Polyester That's JK Soft And Plush. Machine Washable J||iwk And Dryable Velvelour Stays ■ Special Looking Everyday. / A Sizes - Petite, Small, Medium, Large. Jl’B||ra Colors Red. Royal -A Green, Brown, Navy. Burgundy, Pink, Lt. [ Blue, Burnt Orange. /••.■' i EBEim Short Robes Begi« s 2o°° Long Robes «•««• $ 22 00 * Long & Short Gowns to Match. dufldn'3 115 South Hill Street 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. JUST RECEIVED Good Selection Heavy Duty dog irons Different styles ■ Different sizes. Great for the fireplace logs this winter. FIREPLACE - SETS 3 pc. Sets ■ 4 pc. Sets. Screens. Excellent selection in brass or black. BUCKLES HARDWARE CO. 409 West Solomon St Phone 227-5501 FREE PAVED PARKING CM ® BUILDS IT YOUR WAY 3 bedrooms, 2 Full both*, activity room with rock fireplace, large kit- bM k ‘ F chen, double garage. Total Price of House $36,500 OBLJs■ llLiJjLi.b 'C * Roughed In Price . $18,350 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, single car port, buil-in kitchen, large living ® r ~ m ’ |a9 V&XmmJL L— Total Price of House $36,400 -—G-J * Roughed-in Price. . $18,950 fete • — «7s t i c* Buddy Stone • 228-9895 Brok.r.' Im\£>M7AMS A *^ ,= «.»■»**»«>■ tSHMI 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 (Continued from page 1) 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. (Continued from page 1) 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