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Houston Girl Scouts Visit Capitol
“Involvement ■ The Golden Key” is the theme of
Middle Georgia Girl Scout Council’s 50th An
niversary. A group of Senior Girl Scouts had an
opportunity to become more involved in the
government of their country by serving as pages
to the House of Representatives during a recent
PINK
LADIES
SCHEDULE
Pink Lady Meeting will be
Tuesday, April 4th at 8 p.m.
Fri. March 31
9-12:30 I»is Medlock
9-12 Eunice Hulsey
12:30-3:30 Carmen Smyth
3-6 Lei,ta Boterweg
6-9 Thelma Collier
Candy Stripers
Betty Ann Walker
Teris McKenzie
Sat. April 1
1-5 Gloria Ragin
Sing Halleluia! Christ is
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fib THE BANK OF PERRY
1001 CARROLL STREET . PERRY, GEORGIA
1 “Personalized Service With Modern Banking Since 1889 ”
Sun., April 2
2-6 Betty Gray
Mon., April 3
9-1 Evelyn LeVan
2-6 Helen Rickett
2-6 Eunice Hulsey
6- Doris King
Candy Striper
Brenda McCoy
Tues., April 4
9-2 Lorraine Funk
9-12 Dora Beckley
2-5 Mabel Rainey
2-6 Martha Mac Michael
7- Nancy Golder
Candy Striper
Alice Johnson
Wed., April 5
9:30-12:30 Mary E. Helm
session of general assembly. The girls were
sponsored by Representative Sam Nunn. Pictured
above are: (1-r) Deborah Sylvester, Sharon
Futrell, Representative Nunn, Nancy Mabus,
Linda Cole, Mary Hazen and George L. Smith, 11,
Speaker of the House.
9-12 Jewel Hay
12-2 Pansy Gordon
2-6 Ruth Taylor
5-9 Mary Johnson
Candy Stripers
Betty Brown
Ethel Mae Everett
Thurs., April 6
9-12 Caroline Brown
1-5 Jean Brewster
7-9 Marjorie Daniels
Candy Stripers
Jacqualine Davis
Marjorie Billings
HOUSTON COUNTY
AGENT, EMMET
WHELCHEL KEEPS YOU
UP TO DATE WITH LOCAL
FARM NEWS EACH WEEK
IN THE HOME JOURNAL.
Security Federal
Gives Away 15,000
"Free Tree Packs"
If all of the trees given
away in Security Federal’s
recent “free tree pack”
program are planted, the
ecology of Middle Georgia
will have taken a sizeable
step forward. It has been
announced that 15,000 trees
were given to visitors at the
four Security Federal offices
during the effort which
ended on Firday.
“The interest of the public
in securing these trees was
most rewarding,” com
mented Malcolm Reese,
Security Federal president.
Official Tells Exchange Club
Houston Schools Controversial
Four Quarter System Outlined
“Students will not be
forced to attend school all
year long under the Houston
County Schools Four
Quarter Plan”, Glen Hit
chcock said last Friday at
the weekly meeting of the
Exchange Club of Perry.
Hitchcock is co-ordinator of
the controversial plan, which
goes into effect this Sep
tember.
“Our only purpose is to
improve the education of our
pupils” Hitchcock stated. He
added that the new system is
designed to fit the needs of
the individaul student better
than the carnegie unit,
semester plan now in effect.
Under the new plan, the
school year will consist of
four quarters of ap
proximately the same
length. The first quarter will
begin in late August or early
September. The pupil will be
required to go to school three
of the four quarters each
year. At the beginning of the
program, the student will be
required to attend the first 3
quarters, the fourth or
“summer” quarter being
optional. When the program
is fully implemented with the
use of state funds, the
student may exercise an
attendance option to go all 4
quarters or any 3 of the 4
quarters.
All subject areas
(example: American
History) will be reorganized
into quarter long courses
independent of each other.
For example, American
History could be divided into
several courses such as, The
Revolutionary War, Early
Economic Expansion, The
America West, the Civil
War, etc. Wherever possible,
the courses would be
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designed where a student
would not be forced to take
courses in sequence. As
Hitchcock said, "The new
course structure will enable
the students to have some
say-so in their choice of
courses within a given
area." More in-depth course
study will be made possible
by the new plan.
In the past, students were
scheduled at the beginning of
a school year for the entire
year. Under the Four
Quarter System there would
be pupil rescheduling at the
end of each quarter.
Under the Four Quar
ter plan, the carnegie Unit
system would be abandoned.
The carnegie unit plan gives
Action Council Here
Offers Housing Aid
The Heart of Georgia
Community Action Council,
Inc., is presently seeking to
assist low-income in
dividuals and families who
are interested in better
housing.
The Agency is operating a
federal grant from the Office
of Economic Opportunity to
develop a non profit Housing
Solution Corporation to
combat the area’s acute
housing problem The pur
pose of this program is to
help provide adequate
housing for low-income
families. Personalized
counselling service will be
offered to individuals,
families, and interested
public and private groups to
a student one unit for one
year’s work. Most students
now graduate with anywhere
from 18 to 22 units. The Four
Quarter plan would replace
one unit with 15 quarter
hours credit. Five quarter
hour credits would be earned
for each course completed
satisfactorily. A maximum
of six courses per quarter
could be taken, thus limiting
maximum quarterly credit
to 30 hours. “You can im
mediately see the flexibility
made possible by this change
in credit policy, Hitchcock
stated.
The Four Quarter plan is
presently in use in Fulton
County and Atlanta schools
and students polled there
obtain new or better housing
for low-income families.
The Houston County
Neighborhood Service
Center has been designated
to find qualifying low-income
families and assist them
in preparing a loan ap
plication package to submit
to Farmers' Home Ad
ministration. Another role of
the Neighborhood Service
Center is to counsel the new
home owners on matters of
maintenance, housekeeping
practices, and credit traps.
Anyone wishing in
formation or assistance in
obtaining housing for the
low-income may contact
Houston County Neigh
borhood Service Center, or
call 923-8194.
listed several advantages
they saw from the new plan.
They include: a variety of
courses from which to
choose, a chance to make up
work at the end of a quarter
rather than at the end of the
year, a chance to have in
dependent study, an op
portunity to graudate at the
end of any quarter, and
others.
Glen Hitchcock was ap
pointed co-ordinator of the
Houston County Schools
Four Quarter Plan on July 1,
1971. He obtained his B.S.
degree from Georgia
Southern and his Master of
Education degree from
Mercer University. He has
taught in both the Houston
and Fulton County School
Systems. He is very en
thusiastic about the new
plan, which will involve
grades 7 through 12.
Judge Armitage
To Speak To
Robins Gun Club
The Ist regular meeting of
the Warner Robins
Recreation Department Gun
Club will be held this
Saturday, March 25th at 10
a.m, in the Civic Room of the
Recreation Department. The
first class will consist of
explanation of gun parts and
their function. Judge Paul
Armitage will be the guest
speaker. This will be the first
of six classroom meetings to
be held before actual
shooting is started. In
structors for the course are
Butch Lunceford, Bedford
Smith, and Barney Nelson.