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CHAMPION SIGHT SAVER —The Georgia Society for the Prevention of Blindness at
its January 27annual meeting presented a special resolution to Jasper Dorsey, right, vice
president and chief executive officer of Southern Bell’s Georgia operations and Georgia
Sight Saving Chairman for 1975 and 1976. Making the presentation was Harrison Jones, 11,
senior vice president of the Fulton-National Bank of Atlanta and president of the Society.
The resolution commended Dorsey for his outstanding leadership during 1976 in statewide
education on causes of unnecessary blindness.
Lt. Gov. Miller Says Public
Kindergarten Is Most Vital
The establishment of a
state-wide, public kinder
garten program is the most
important education issue
facing Georgia today, Lieu
tenant Governor Zell Miller
told a group of educators in
Atlanta Sunday night.
Speaking to the Winter
Conference of the Georgia
Association of Educational
Leaders, Miller also said that
other ways must be found to
finance education besides the
local property tax.
“’Presently, local property
owners are footing 38 percent
of the education bill. Not only
does that place a dispropor
tionate burden on property
owners, including the elderly
and those on fixed incomes;
but it also produces wide
disparities in school quality.
People have begun to ask if it
is fair to tie the quality of
schools to a community’s
ability to raise property tax
revenues,” Miller said.
“I think some general tax
source must be found for
local school support. The
property - tax - for -
education concept has been
challenged in court, both
here and in many other
states. I think we must look
at changing it before we’re
forced to; and we must do it
as a part of a comprehensive
tax reform and revision,
which I’ve been advocating
the whole time I’ve been in
office,” he added.
Pointing out that two
thirds of a person’s learning
SENIOR CITIZEN S CORNER^
HELPFUL IDEAS FOR SUCCESSFUL RETIREMENT T*
One of the major factors
determining where a couple
live and how they spend
their time in retirement is
monthly income.
For many in the northeast
or midwest, the ideal situa
tion is “home” in spring,
summer and fall, winters in
Florida. Some people plan
this arrangement years be
fore retirement; purchase
property in Florida which
they occupy during the cold
est months, lease the rest
of the year.
Some couples with ade
quate resources don’t bother
to buy property down south.
They lease condominiums
for four-month periods, say
December through March.
This arrangement suits
many retired couples who
have no children or grand
children; they find friends
in both communities and
look forward to each north
INVITATION TO BID
City of Jackson will accept sealed
bids on the following vehicles:
1 1974 Chevrolet Bel Air
1 1973 Ford Torino
Bids will be opened March 7, 1977
at 7 p. m. The City reserves the right
to accept or reject any and all bids.
CITY OF JACKSON
capacity or intellectual po
tential is established by age
six, Miller said that it is
vitally important that we
provide pre-school education
for the children of Georgia.
“Some children - those
whose familes can afford to
send them to private kinder
gartens; children from lower
socio-economic strata who
qualify for federally-funded
programs; or children lucky
enough to live in school
systems where kindergarten
programs are provided by
local funds -- are being given
the head start they need
toward an adequate educa
tion. Many, many children do
not receive that head start,”
Miller said.
Noting that almost 9,000
children failed to pass the
first grade last year, Miller
said that each of them cost
the taxpayers almost SIOOO to
send them back through the
first grade for the second
time.
“That $9 million could have
been used to fund a good part
of the kindergarten pro
gram,” Miller said.
Miller, a long-time advo
cate of state-wide kindergar
ten, said, “I believe that a
good, sound program, avail
able to all the children of
Georgia, will serve to
alleviate many of the other
problems we face in educa
tion. Of course, it will take
some years before we begin
to see the benefits but the
longer we wait to begin the
ward or southward migra
tion.
For some, the ideal retire
ment home is the cabin or
cottage on the lake which
served as a weekend vaca
tion spot during the working
years. People who enjoy the
outdoors, who like to fish,
for example, sell their
“city” home at retirement
time and use some of the
proceeds to “upgrade” a
summer home or lakeside
cabin for year-round living.
These examples may be
exceptions to the rule. Many
retirees cannot afford to
move anywhere; many have
no inclination to do so. Don’t
feel sorry for them. Retire
ment gives them the time to
pursue hobbies, to garden,
to putter about here and
there and to reap the real
benefit of retirement do
ing whatever one wants, or
doing nothing at all.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA
further down the road those
benefits lie.”
The Lieutenant Governor
also called for better adult
education and warned that
the public may soon demand
more competency-based
teacher certification.
He noted that enrollments
and average daily atten
dance have been decreasing
for the past six years and
called for a well thought-out,
coordinated plan to best
utilize capital outlay money
to eliminate unnecessary
building of educational facil
ities.
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it takes a hundred trillion
cells or more to make a hu
man being.
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Calling Colleen
Part-Time Friend
Seems To Want Out
BY COLLEEN DUDGEON
I’m engaged to be married
in June and 1 have a sticky
situation 1 hope you can help
me deal with. I’m really in
love with my
fiancee and /h
I’m looking . M-m
forward to /JRjf
a happy life
with him.
That’s not
the problem!
The bad thing is that my
husband to be is working in
St. Louis which is about a 5
hour car ride away from me.
I can only see him on week
ends and during the week I
get so lonely I could die.
Before I got the engage
ment ring both my fiancee
and I dated other people.
We agreed it was best to
just go out with friends
and that everything would
be better if we did that. I
never got seriously involved
with anyone but I did go out
with one guy quite a bit.
When I told this other guy I
had gotten engaged during
Christmas he was furious.
He hasn’t called me in a
month and I would like to
see him. Don’t think I want
to get anything started with
him I just want to remain
friends. He’s known about
my fiancee since the begin
ning, so I wasn’t tricking
him. Should 1 call and ask
him over for dinner? My
fiancee says I can do what
ever I want but I don’t know
what to do.
Confused
Dear Confused:
Since you are engaged I
don’t think you need to date
other people. And because
you can see your fiancee on
weekends, I shouldn’t think
it would be that hard to busy
yourself with other activi
ties during the week. It’s
fine if you want to see your
“friend” but remember that
he is probably hurt over
your engagement even if
you did tell him. Give him
some time to get adjusted to
the idea and then give him a
cSll. Maybe a friendly phone
call would be better than
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dinner —at least until you
and your new husband are
settled. Then you both could
invite him to dinner.
*** * *
I hate to be writing you
about such a silly thing but
I’m so mad right now I just
need to release my frustra
tions. Last night this guy
I’ve dated occasionally (and
really like a lot) called me
to ask what I was, doing. I
told him I was going to a
party that a mutual friend
of ours was having and he
asked if he could meet me
there. I said okay and we
agreed to go out for some
thing to eat after the party.
It was not a formal date but
I at least expected him to
show up at the party. He
never bothered to call with
an excuse and several of his
friends were there so I know
he wasn't out with the boys.
What should I say to him the
next time I talk to him. I just
think it was a mean thing to
do especially since he
made the effort to ask me to
meet him in the first place.
Stood Up
Dear Stood Up:
There isn’t a girl alive who
likes to be forgotten. The
guy was wrong in not show
ing up or calling with an a
pology. However, don’t play
games. Perhaps he has a
perfectly good reason for
not being there and will
tell you the next time you
see each other. If he does
n’t, ask him to please re
member that you don’t ap
preciate him breaking plans
without at least notifying
you first. If he respects you
at all, he’ll be more cour
teous in the future. Don’t act
upset or angered, just tell
him you’d like a bit more
consideration. This way he
won’t get the idea that you
’re sitting home moaning a
way over the fact that he
didn’t show up.
(If you would like Colleen's comments
on your particular situation or problem,
write COLLEEN. Box 639, Frankfort, Ky
40601 )
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1977
SIXTH GRADE AT TUSSAHAW SCHOOL—Pictured above are members of the sixth
grade for the school year 1932-33. Front row, left to right, Natoma Lummus, Ruth Cook,
LaDelle Pope, Allene O’Neal. Second row, left to right, Elsie Faulkner, Hilda Godsey,
Frances Hardy, Grace Thompson, Mary Willard, Anna Cleveland. Back row, left to right,
Rufus Vaughn, Russell Cawthon, Levie Maddox, Wilson Standard, Carl Mauldin, Woodrow
Chapman, Boyd Swint, Stacer Washington, Alvin Vaughn, and M. L. Hodges, Jr. The photo
was furnished by Mrs. Hilda Godsey Maddox.
Though soybeans were being cultivated in China before 3500 8.C., they were virtually
unknown in Europe and America until 1900.
Federal Spending
Federal spending has been
growing faster than the rate
of expansion of the economy.
In the past 20 years, federal
spending has risen by nearly
375 per cent, and the Gross
National Product-(GNP) the
nation’s total output of goods
and services —by 275 per
cent. In the two fiscal years
1975-1976, federal outlays
are rising about 38 per cent.
That’s almost double the
GNP increase of 20 per cent.
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