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May 30, 1968
Half Os High School Students
Remained In School For 12 Yrs.
ATLANTA—Less than half of
Georgia’s boys and girls who
started school in 1954-55 stay
ed to graduate and only 55 per
cent of those are continuing their
education beyond high school.
The exact figure - 45.6 per
cent - who stayed through high
school comes from a new study
by the Georgia Educational Im
privement Council, reported at
a meeting of the Council Thurs
day in Atlanta.
The 1966 High School Graduate
Study, as it’s titled, polled 1850
seniors in the class of 1966
from over the state. It will
be published in mid-June for
distribution to public school of
ficials and other educators.
The need for stronger high
school curriculums in the vo
cational-technical and academic
fields, more financial aid for
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Congratulationsand
sincere best wishes.
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Newton High School
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1968
And as you enter a new world we
extend our best wishes for happiness
and tremendous success. Friends and
neighbors join us in this expression.
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young people seeking a junior
college or vocational-technical
education and stronger school
guidance programs are other
conclusions of the study. Find
ings were presented Thursday
by C. O. Smith, Jr., Moultrie
business leader who chaired the
Council’s study committee, and
Dr. Thomas F. McDonald of the
Council staff.
The Council also heard a pro
gress report on a new Nursing
Education Study seeking to
analyze and find educational so
lutions for the state’s nursing
shortage. State Sen. Paul Broun
of Athens, chairman, and Mrs.
Pat Malone of the Council staff,
made this report.
Educational assistance was
paid to 446,000 veterans during
FY 1967.
Junior Girl Scout "Investiture”
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Hut. Shown, left to right: Mrs. Wally Hastings, Leader of Troop 207; Sharon Halstead, Rhonda Mobley,
Cathy Freeman, Kim Hagood, and Mrs. Joe Croom, Cadette representative.
Girl Scouts "Bridged” Into Cadettes
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Scout Hut Monday afternoon. Vickie Short (left) and Anita Bailey
(right) were invested by Mrs. B. D. McCoy (center) during the
ceremony. Not present for the picture, Peggy /Arrington.
Improvements
In VA Home
Loan Program
ATLANTA-Veterans may find
home mortgage money easier to
come by in the months ahead as
a result of high level actions to
improve the Veterans Admini
strations’ home loan program.
A congressional measure recent
ly signed by President Johnson
raises the interest celling and
amount of guaranty on VA loans.
Pete Wheeler, Veterans Ser
vice Director, said, “With these
GI loan modifications the interest
rate celling Is now at 6 3/4 per
cent on guaranteed or direct home
loans with a provision for theVA
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to keep the rate competitive with
the market by adjusting it if the
need be. The VA will now guar
antee up to $12,500 or 60% of a
home loan, as compared with the
previous guaranty of $7,500.”
Mr. Wheeler emphasized that
the changes were designed to
make more money available for
the program and stimulate more
rapid growth of the number of
veterans using the program. In
recent months lenders have been
hesitant in purchasing the VA
morgages because they could get
higher interest yields through
conventional financing.
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NEW VETS
PROGRAM
ANNOUNCED
COLUMBUS- Plans were an
nounced here (tonight) Saturday
night by a state veterans’ official
to inaugurate a new program in
cooperation with the VA to seek
out and assist some 15,000 vet
erans returning to Georgia each
year from the armed services.
Pete Wheeler, Director of the
Georgia Department of Veterans
Service, told a conference of Vet
erans of World War I that his de
partment would begin, within the
next few days, making contact
with every Georgia service man
being discharged in an effort to
advise and assist him in receiv
ing his rightful benefits.
Wheeler said the assistance
would be in all phases of veterans
benefits, on both the state and fed
eral levels, and would be directed
toward those veterans serving,
and having served, during the
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He said particular emphasis
would be placed on assisting
young returning servicemen to
complete their educations, either
high school or college. Also,
strong emphasis will be placed
on providing every service poss
ible to the disabled veterans.
On 'ther veterans’ benefits
programs, Wheeler told the group
that he expects new directions to
be taken on the compensation pro
gram for the service disabled'
veterans as a result of recomm
endations by the U. S. Veterans
Advisory Commission of which
he is a member. He also fore
cast improvements in the Nation
al Cemetery Program.
Wheeler also told the Colum
bus group of the new VA pro
gram of one-stop veterans’coun
seling centers recently estab
lished nationwide. The first such
program ever held in the United
States was sponsored by the
Georgia Department of Veterans
Service in Columbus, in 1966 and
drew such acclaim that eventually
President Johnson ordered it
adopted nationally.
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"School’s out” but you’re
"In” with us, Best Wishes.
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NEWTON FEDERAL
SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
1182 Washington St., SW Phone 786-7088 Covington, Gci.
MOTHER’S DELIGHT
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three words: “All for Mother”.
LONG TALL MAMA
The tallest woman of all time was probably the Greek girl
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