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CAIRO, GEORGIA
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VOLUME XLVI.
Grand Jury Presentments
Generaily Favorable Here
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general assistance and that she re
ceives $100 or more monthly from
the Grady County Community
Chest for general assistance and
emergency welfare aid. She said
the department is operating well
within its $13,250 budget for the
1948-49 fiscal year because anoth
er needed welfare worker has not
funds been are available needed but to fully that finance more J
the program and to meet the min
imum needs of the county. For
the first nine months of the de
partment’s fiscal year she said ex
penditures m the county were
$104,181, of which the.county sup
plied only $8,785, including
monthly contributions for gener
al assistance. Miss Maxwell ex
plained fully the plainly speci¬
fied qualifications under which
persons may receive assistance
and that need Was carefully veri¬
fied in each case in accordance
with regulations, some of which
are established to some extent by
the County Welfare Board. She
said there is great need in this
county for homes for boarding
children but that there are no
homes and no funds for this pur¬
pose, although some local children
are being boarded in approved
homes in other counties. She said
the department personnel and
Counity Welfare Board members
•are at all times anxious to ex¬
plain the program and its activi¬
ties to anyone and expressed grat¬
itude for the opportunity of dis¬
cussing them with the Grand
Jury. We find the Ordinary is
handling six Confederoate Wi¬
dow’s pensions at $50. a month.
COUNTY SCHOOL AFFAIRS:
County School Supt. Connell,
reporting on the county school
finances, said the County Board
of Education recently had to re¬
new $15,000 in notes for money
borrowed for 1948 operations, for
which no funds are currently
available, and that the county
will wind up the 1948-49 school
term : n May “about $32,000 in
debt.” ' He explained that not
one dime will be available, even
with such a deficit, for major re¬
pairs or improvemenst, and that
conditions of the school property
and facilities in the county are
in many respects deplorable. He
said the county badly needs
eight new school busses, which
cost about $3,500 each, and that
buildings and equipment are de¬
teriorating badly. Fixed month¬
ly expenditures, he said, include
$2,400 per month for bus driv¬
ers; $1,000 per month for gas;
$325 per month for lights and
water; $275 per month for janit¬
orial services; $307 per month for
mechanics servicing busses; and
$260 per month in fixed mainten¬
ance charges. He said the county
sqfcools received $79,400 in coun¬
ty tax revenues for 1948 as com¬
pared to about $63,000 in 1947,
with the remamder coming from
the state funds and other sources.
He figures the average cost per
pupil per year for education is
$103. On the brighter side of the
school picture, he said full fi¬
nancing of the Minimum Founda¬
tion Program for Education in
Georgia, if approved by the peo-•
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are carried on in an able and
ficient manner. She pointed out
that 95 percent of the grants for
old age assistance and assistance
to the blind and to dependent
children are paid from state and
Federal funds and that 95 percent
of the administrative costs of
this porgram, with some in
tion, are paid from state and
eral funds, leaving the county
only a five-percent participation,
except for general assistance. Miss
Maxwell said currently 506 per¬
sons in the county are receiving
Old Age assistance amounting to
$9,384 monthly; that 27 persons
are receiving Blind assistance
amounting to $518 monthly; and
that 66 are receiving Dependent
Children assistance for 185 child¬
ren amounting to $2,505. per
month. This does not cover the
other important activities of the
agency including child welfare,
aid for crippled children, vocat¬
ional rehabilitation referrals, cer¬
tification for free cancer treat¬
ments, child adoption proceedings
and handling of patients for the
state sanitarium. She said the
county pays $250 monthly for
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CAIRO. GRADY COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1949,
pie in the April 5 state referen
dum and by the Legislature, will
be almost a panacea for the fi
nancial and other ills of the
schools, and that there is defi
nite hope for some financial re
lief from Federal Aid ;to Educa
tion now pending in Congress,
He declared the full financing of
the Minimum Foundation Pro
gram would provide some $138,
000 in additional school funds for
this county annually, including
about $20,000 annually for build
ings. He also brought the re
freshing assurance of State
School Supt. M. D. Collins that
if the Minimum Foundation Pro
gram is fully financed on a state
basis it is entirely reasonable to
i aniticipate that levy' the county-wide
school tax can be reduced
by next year from the present
15-mill levy, the constitutional
limit, to about eight mills. Mr.
Connell declared that only Miss
issippi now is below Georgia in
per capita support of education
and that in other respects Gear
gia is near the bottom as to edu
oation'al standards, etc., but that
with full financing of the Mini
mum Foundation Program the
state will more, nearly assume a
favorable position which will
bring untold benefits. He urged
a full vote of the people in the
state «oferendum on April 5 and
declared that he sees absolutely
no hope for school betterment if
the school program is not fully
financed.
COUNTY HEALTH WORK:
3 r- Stillwell gave a thumbnail
review of the broad program of
activities of the Health Depart
>nent which convinced the Grand i
lury 0 f the great value and im-’
portance of this work. He out
n ne d that during 1948 the de
partment gave 121 triple vaccine
treatments for diptheria, tetanus
whooping cough - 141 shots
g f nr whnrmirne SSSSltSSf couch - 465 dint he-
793 smallpox
vaccinations - 5 807 Itypoid im
rnunizations; 64 chest X-rays; and
tmaltments for 20 DeoDle at the
m03t l y for syphilis. Just these
^rviees, he said, had a minimum
commercial value of $37,000, sev-
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eral times the total cost of the
health work. Still, they did not!
include 527 visits by nurses to
to pregnant women; 367 visits by
nurses after babies were born;
1,022 pre-natal consultations; in
spection of 4,267 school children;
and complete examinations for
370 per-school children. Also not,
included, he said, were close sup
ervision of eating and food hand
ling establishments, many in
spections of motor courts and
other places for sanitation con
ditions; hundreds of visits to the
schools to improve sanitary con
ditions and provide safe water
supplies; TB treatment of more
than 125 cows; inspection of pub
lie slaughtering of 4,037 meat
animals; and hundreds of other
animals; supervision of construe privies -
tion of many sanitary
and hundreds of other ser
vices on which there is no ef
lort to place the dollars-and
cents value. Dr. Stillwell said
defective vision among children
in certain schools had been found 1
extensive and praised the Cairo
Kiwanis Club for its aid in geft
ting glasses and corrections for
such children. Lighting conda
tions in the Cairo Schools are
greatly improved, he stated. In
enswer to a question, he reported
typhus fever almost nil in the
county but said jf there should
the be any department new cases would or an go outbreak into ac- j
tion at once. He mentioned for typhus that |
the new treatment
fever is a great improvement.!
However, he disclosure startled the Grand]
Jurywith his that child- gen- j
eral examination of school
'ren undertaken since the first |
of this y ear has vindicated from
?0 to 80 Percent of the children
m SQme schools have hookworms. ;
This program will be ^followed j
through to completion as steadi
^ as Possible, he stated, adding; |
that hookworm eradication is new
a simpler process than heretofore
ainc * that sanitary conditions
schools can be improved j
to aid m keeping the number of;
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COUNTY GOVERNMENTAL
AFFAIRS: Chairman Walker and
Vice-Chairman Williams, of the
GRADY COUNTY
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'County Commiissioners, submit
ted mimeographed copies of a fi
nancial report for the county for
the period Jan. 1-March 1, 1949,
which was reviewed in detail and
discussed at length. The report
included 14 different accounting
departments as provided in and the
new book-keeping system hand,
showed cash balances on
altogether, totaling $57,017 in re
gular or general funds and $3,-
169 in the county bond sinking
fund. Except for about $3,800
monthly received from the state
in state gas tax funds, he said it
will be necessary for the county
(to operate on this amount until
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the new tax money begins to
come In next December. With the
allocations set up for each de¬
partment, he said the outlook is
very dark and that several de¬
partments will not have enough
money, with a mere pittance
available for such things as roads
and bridges and public buildings.
He said more than 90 percent of
the 1948 county tax money is in,
that county taxes are at the 39
mill limit, and that the county
has bonds outstanding of $94,
000. Special inquiry was made
of these officials as to the possi
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