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Memorial Gifts
May Be Made To
Leukemia Victims
Individuals wishing to make
contributions in memory of vic
tims of leukemia may do so at
the office of the only Georgia
chapter of the Leukemia Society
of America, according to Joe
Torre, the chapter’s funds cam
paign chairman.
Torre, the popular catcher for
the Atlanta Braves, has served
as funds chairman for the Greater
Atlanta Chapter of the Leukemia
Society for the past two years.
He said the chapter received
frequent calls from persons
wanting to know the procedure to
follow in making memorial gifts
when a relative or friend has suc
cumbed to the always fatal dis
ease.
“The point most often inquired
about,” he explained, "is whe
ther gifts can be directed to an or
ganization engaged in an efficient
and aggressive program of re
search Into the causes and ways
of preventing and treating leu
kemia.”
"Research projects supported
by gifts to the Leukemia Society
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Donald P. Groth, Ph. D., of the
Emory University Medical
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Research scholar of several
years’ standing.”
Torre said memorials gifts
will be acknowledged promptly
to the donor and to the bereaved
family. He pointed out that the
Greater Atlanta Chapter also
carries out programs of public
education about leukemia, as well
as counsel and referral service
for patients and their families.
The Society’s address Is: Suite
•407, 1776 Peachtree Building, At
lanta, Georgia 30309. The tele
phone number Is 872-4368 and
Miss Alice Simmons is executive
director.
Applications For
Veterans Nursing
Home Now Accepted
ATLANTA—Preliminary ap
plications for admission to the
Georgia War Veterans Nursing
Home, Augusta, Georgia are now
being accepted from Georgia vet
erans. Pete Wheeler, Director
of the Georgia Department of Vet
erans Service said, "These early
applications will provide a basis
for establishing priorities for
later medical evaluation toward
admission.”
According to Mr. Wheeler,
there are only 192 beds available
and the plan is to phase in pa
tients on a gradual basis as
staff is recruited. A statisti
cal evaluation more than a year
ago showed a requirement for
over 500 nursing care beds for
Georgia veterans. "Obviously”
said Mr. Wheeler, "all our vet
erans cannot be accommodated.”
The Georgia War Veterans
Nursing Home is not expected
to open until late fall of this
year. Even though opening is
scheduled for the future Mr.
Wheeler observed that "early
application might well be the
key to later admission.”
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Covington’s Ficquett School’s Eighth Grade Graduating Class
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E. L. FICQUETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL’S Eighth Grade graduating
class of 1967-68 Is shown in the photo above at the school Covington
cafetorium. There are 139 members of the class this year in the
Public School Costs Climbing
And So Is Quality of Education
Education—one of the best
things in life—isn’t free. In fact,
it gets more expensive each
year. But despite rising costs,
reports the Institute of Life In
surance, it’s well worth it. •
Surveying the costs first, the
Institute found that ten years
ago the average local school
system was spending about $374
in Uday’s dollar values to send
Johnny through a year of pub
lic grade school or high school.
Last year, the average sys
tem spent $569 for Johnny’s
THE COVINGTON NEWS
five sections. They will receive certificates during the program
next week. Principal George Hutchinson said that this is the largest
class to graduate from the present school.
little brother. This school year
just beginning, the Department
of Health Education and Wel
fare estimates the average
school system will spend $583.
And by the fall of 1970, the cost
will be up to $633.
Those are just the "current”
costs, like salaries for teachers,
expenditures for supplies, school
maintenance and so forth. Con
structing new schools or reha
bilitating older ones will increase
these costs. Complete forecasts
are not available, but to cite an
example, the average school
system spent $lO9 per pupil in
1965-66 to build and equip schools
and to borrow the capital for it.
Naturally parents alone don’t
bear this entire burden. All tax
payers, including unmarried
persons, and business taxpayers
carry a share of the cost as
part of their investment in the
next generation.
But one way or the other,
parents bear a substantial por
tion of these expenditures and
they might wonder occasionally
if they are getting their money’s
worth. The answer, in general,
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has to be that they are.
“Nothing is immune to im
provement, of course, but by
many objective standards of
performance, our public school
systems are doing quite well,”
reports the Institute. “Moreover
they are improving.”
Teachers are better qualified
today, as is evidenced by their
higher levels of educational at
tainment.
School facilities are becoming
more conducive to learning as
architects and school planners
become more familiar with the
learning processes and the en
vironment that aids those proc
esses.
Teaching materials are better
and becoming more so as sci
ence and technology gain ex
perience in designing aids to
learning.
Curricula are richer, and
goals are higher—as evidenced
by the greater number of high
school students going on to col
leges and universities. And the
level of learning in the United
States is on the rise.
But there is another measure
of effectiveness that might be
applied and that is what school
ing means in additional earning
power.
A year ago, using government
statistics, the Institute reported
that a youngster with eight
years of schooling could expect
Rate Increase Sought
In Veterans’ Compensation
ATLANTA-If recommenda
tions of the U. S. Veterans Ad
visory Commission on veterans
benefits are followed, veterans
may see a major increase in the
basic compensation rate paid
those who were totally disabled
in military service.
These are the hopes of Pete
Wheeler, Director of the Geor
gia Department of Veterans Ser
vice and a member of that Com
mission which also recommended
major improvements in compen
sation for the veteran whose dis
abilities are service-connected
but not of a total nature.
Mr. Wheeler said the present
level of S3OO a month for the to
tally disabled veteran just isn’t
enough money to allow the vet
eran an equitable standard of
living and that this amount is far
below the average national in
come. He said the Commission
recommends a rate increase in
the basic amount from S3OO to
S4OO a month.
Other suggestions and reco
mmendations which resulted
from a year-long nationwide stu
dy of the veterans’ benefits sys
tem proposed an increase of S2O
monthly for each child be made
to widows receiving Dependency
and Indemnity Compensation
(DIC) without regard to other in
come they receive from Social
Security or Railroad Retirement;
an Increase in the basic DIC rate
from $l2O to $l3O a month; lib
eralization of entitlement to DIC
for widows; improvements in the
compensation program relating
to compensation during a period
of hospitalization; and that the
disabled Vietnam war veterans
have the same eligibility stan
dards for assistance in purchas
ing specially equipped automo
biles as World War II and Ko
rean veterans.
Ihe Old limu/t
“The only people I know
who appreciate a miser are
his inheritors.”
to earn $219,000 over his work
ing lifetime. With four addi
tional years, he could expect to
earn an average of $84,000 more.
The comparison leaves little
room for doubt that the rising
cost of education is returned
many times over to those who
take advantage of it. In fact,
says the Institute, it can be
considered one of life’s best
bargains.
May 30, 1968
On a medical level, the Comm
ission recommended a study be
made on lengthening the period
for which the VA will presume
service-connection for all chr
onic diseases.
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