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Singing
A benefit gospel singing is
scheduled June 10 at Rhine
hart School in Jamestown, Ala.
The Messengers, Temple
aires, faith Temple Quartet,
Fred Green and Green Family,
Oak Hill Trio, and other groups
are expected to be on hand to
furnish music.
Admission is one dollar for
adults and fifty cents for chil
dren. All proceeds will go to
Boy Scout Troop 245.
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Maddox Sees a Better
Country Through Youth
ATLANTA (GPS) Lt. Gov.
Lester Maddox, speaking at
Echols County High School’s
commencement exercises in
Statenville the other evening,
had a timely, provocative mes
sage not only for members of
that graduating class but for
others throughout Georgia and
the nation.
Maddox told the graduates
he was confident “that you
will take advantage of the great
opportunities before you and
be the producers and achievers
that you know you can be and
that you want to be.” He
added:
“Young people such as you
constitute the only real hope
that the United States of
America, as a nation and as a
people, will turn back in force
to the principles which guided
generations of Americans
before us to meet challenge
after challenge and, without
exception, emerge victorious.
“You can turn back the
rampaging tide of lawlessness,
drug addiction and immorality.
“You can put the brakes on
a runaway Supreme Court and
make ours once again a govern
ment of laws rather than a
government of men.
“You can open the doors of
our public schools and once
again let God come in to over
see the training of impression
able minds such as your own.
“You can reclaim lost
streams, strain the filth from
the air which we breathe and
wash the poisons from our
soil.”
But Maddox warned the stu
dents that they could “make
these great changes in the
world which my generation
leaves you only if while you
hold the tools of science in one
hand, you also hold the hand
of God in the other
“If you depend entirely
upon man’s solution, man’s
ideas and man’s way, you will
fail, just as those of my genera
tion who have tried to play
God have failed.”
“And so I urge you,”
Maddox continued, “to step
across the truth gap which so
often separates generations and
learn from our errors. Don’t do
as we have done, but do as we
might have done had we
listened to our own hearts and
heeded the lessons of history.
“And although we have left
you what must seem an im
possible task, I ask that you
not judge us of my generation
too harshly. For, in spite of all
our failures, we have left you
one jewel from the treasure
chest of our American heritage
which, if used properly, can
help you to reclaim all the ones
that we squandered.
“We have retained for you
the precious right to make
your own mistakes and learn
from them.
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The Summerville News, Thurs., June 8, 1972
School Bus Safety
Law to Have Little
Effect in Chattooga
New school bus safety regu
lations passed late in May by
Congress will not drastically
affect the Chattooga County
public schools transportation
system, according to Supt.
James Spence.
The new federal law, known
as Standard 17, was strongly
endorsed by the U. S. Depart
ment of Transportation (DOT)
Secretary John Volpe “to
reduce, to the greatest extent
possible, the danger of death or
injury to school children while
they are being transported to
and from school.”
The new regulations, which
deal with vehicles that carry
more than 16 pupils or school
personnel exclusively, cover a
number of equipment specifi
cations including the standard
ization of color, markings,
maintenance, the training of
drivers, and the elimination of
standing passengers.
Supt. Spence said the state
already has a rigid set of regula
tions pertaining to school
transportation systems. He
added that the regulation
applying to standing passengers
would most effect the local
system.
“If one compared the new
federal law with Georgia’s
school bus regulations, he
would think DOT had adopted
our regulations,” Paul Wills,
director of administrative serv
ices for the Georgia Depart
ment of Education, said.
“Due to the efforts of the
Georgia General Assembly with
its laws and appropriations,
and the State Board of Educa
tion’s policies and specifica-
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portation services are practi
cally in complete compliance
with the new regulations.
“Because pupil trans
portation is an integral part of
the elementary and compre
hensive high school unit, local
school officials have worked
hard to provide a safe and
economic transportation
system,” explained Wills.
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supervision of John C.
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portation for the department,
Georgia provides and requires
annual school bus driver train
ing, and monthly inspection of
school bus equipment. The
training program has been so
praised nationally that it has
been inspected by local school
system transportation directors
from across the nation, and
recently by DOT officials.
“Some of the local school
systems will have to make ad-
justments to meet one of the
new rulings which requires that
no student be allowed to stand
while the vehicle is in motion,”
said Wills, “but since the law
was just passed, the govern
ment isn’t requiring immediate
compliance to it.”
He noted that some schools
will need to purchase extra
equipment to provide trans
portation for students who
travel less than a mile and a
half to and from school.
“The new ruling indicates
school officials will need to
follow school population
trends in order to be prepared
to purchase additional school
buses just as officials now keep
current of trends which predict
when a district will need addi
tional classrooms,” Wills con
tinued.
Currently 599,216 children
are being transported to school
by local systems, 50,541 of
whom were moved at local
expense.
The Chattooga County
school system transports an
average of 2,300 students by
bus annually, according to
Spence.