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Editorials
Nursing Home Expansion
Should Be Approved
The prognosis that a state panel will
withhold a certificate of need for the pro
posed expansion of Oakview Nursing
Home (see story, Page 1), is one that is
bound to upset a lot of Chattooga
residents, and for good reason.
There is clearly a need for additional
in-county nursing home beds.
Consider:
* The U.S. Census Bureau found that
1,889 county residents were age 65 or
older in 1970, or 9.2 percent of the total
population here.
* It is projected by the area planning
and development commission that fully
12.1 percent, or 2,952 people, are in that
category as the new decade begins.
“Hard" figures won't be available until
after this year's census.
* For as long as anvone can
remember, Oakview has maintained an
occupancy rate of between 95 and 99 per
cent, generally at or closer to the higher
Ga. School Supt. Says
Teacher Pay Raise Is
Top Priority This Year
State School Supt. Charles
McDaniel put priority on a
“substantial"’ teacher salary
increase as he presented the
State Board of Education
Fiscal Year 1981 budget re
%:mst Monday afternoon to
the joint House-Senate Ap
pm&rfiations Committee.
cDaniel and the State
Board of Education are re
questin& a raise of $1,594
across-the-board next year,
which would raise the beginn
ing teacher salary to SII,OOO.
Governor Busbee's budget
recommendation, alse releas
ed Monday, was for a SI,OOO
across-the-board teacher raise,
which would put beginning
teacher salaries at $10,641 in
1980-81.
“I think it is significant
that the Governor has made
this his major recommenda
tion for improvement in
education,”” McDaniel said.
“From this action it should be
(Sl‘me clear that the governor,
the state board and the state
superintendent all put top
priority on a teacher salary in
crease during this period of in
flation.”
In support of his request
for an across-the-board raise,
McDaniel told the legislators
that Georgia faces a very com
petitive teacher recruitment
situation in the next few
vears, and "It is urgent and
critical that we raise beginn
ing teacher salaries "
“Education has always
been able to attract the best
women into the profession,
but other professional areas
and business are competin
for the talents of qunlifit‘s
women with higher starting
and career salaries,
McDaniel said. “Teaching is
going to have to compete for
the %xfist people—both men
and women~—arong with other
careers. We cannot afford to
slafilgur schools only with the
people who can't get the best
Jobs in other fields. And there
are just not that many ple
around who will teach Qi():othe
joy of it.”
McDaniel ecknowlegged
that the state is in a period of
fiscal restraint and that
legislators are faced this vear
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There are important emotional issues
that cannot be ignored, also. How fair is it
to an elderly person who has lived here all
his life to be forced to enter an out-of
county nursing home because of a lack of
beds at Oakview? And how fair is it to
that individual to be cut off from his
friends and relatives who previously were
only a few minutes away, at most, from
him while he lived in the county? And
with gasoline prices soaring, won’t the in
dividual who is forced to move away from
his native county be even further cut off
from family and friends who will want to
visit him?
Perhaps a 56-bed addition now is inad
visable from a statewide point of view.
But common sense dictates that the local
nursing home—the only one in the coun
ty— be allowed to add some beds to
satisfy the projected need that the 1980 s
are bound to create.
with a tight budget. "For this
reeson,"%w said, "I would like
to stress that a salary increase
is our top priority.” The
superintendent told the
legislators that better than
two-thirds—2,o7l of 3,181 —of
teachers new to Georgia
school systems this current
vear had to be recruited from
out of state,
“Georgia is second from
the bottom, Lust above
Mississippi, in the beginning
teacher salary paid %‘y the
state,”” McDaniel said.
“Georgia colleges are not
graduating enough beginning
teachers, and witli\ a low star
ting salary, the sup(rly is cer
tain to continue to decline.”
The request for a teacher
salary raise across-the-board
this year is a departure from
the state's historic %ractice of
ap{:lying raises to the teacher
salary index. But it is coupled
with the appointment by the
State Board of Education of a
Salary Study Commission to
review and recommend possi
ble changes in the current in
dex.
“1 have always supported
the index schedule,"’
McDantel told the legislators.
“And 1 know of your support
for the index. But | foeru 18
urgent that we move toward a
beginning teacher salary of
$12,000 if we are going to
staff our schools with capable
teachers in the next few
years.'’
Supt. McDaniel presented
the state board's request
amounting to more than $1
billion and containing $278
million in improvement re
quests. His priorities, outlined
at the end o? his presentation,
are teacher salaries, an in
crease in maintenance and
(»Emuon funds, funding of
the vocational education
salary schedule, expansion of
services to 17-and-18-year
olds in the statewide psycho
educational centers and
renovation of the Vineville
Campus of the Macon
Academy for the Blind in
order ta) consolidate slud;nrtis
: y housed on the Shurl-
McDaniel also outlined for
the legislators a problem
school systems are experienc
ing in providing
kindergartens under YFQVI'
sions (5 last year's legislative
session.
The joint House-Senate
Agf)mpnations Committee
will hear budget requests
from each state agency this
week prior to convening of the
full legislature on Jan. 14. The
governor's recommendations
and agency requests will be
considered by the legislators
in formulating the 1981 ap
propriations bill to be
presented later in the 1980
session.
McDonald: ‘Front Group’
Heads Up Effort To Get
Him Defeated In 1980
Congressmen Larry
McDonald held press con
ferences Monday and flooded
7th District weekly
newspaper editors with a
16-page %:ess packet in an ef
fort to label an anti-McDonald
effort as an “attempt by a
radical national organization
and its local front group to
take over the 7th District on
behalf of outside nationdl in
terests.”
McDonald identified the
“controlling force'’ of the anti-
Mc[)onam; lobby as the
Washington-Based National
Committee for an Effective
Congress (NCEC), and its
“local front group' as “Con
cerned Citizens for Regmsen
tative Government (CCRG),”
based in Marietta. McDonald
said that the ‘‘front group” is
composed ‘“almost solely of
supporters and activists'' of
his runoff opponent of two
vear's ago, Smith Foster. He
accused the Marietta group of
usinfi"swmr tactics,” but did
not elaborate.
Cogice of a Federal Elec
tion Commission document,
dated Oct. 9, 1979, which
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Off the Newsdesk
Gasoline-Related Changes Coming
Experts agree that the focus of the
1980 s will be on the energy crisis.
Everyone from soothsayers to
economists have in recent days been
outlining their predictions for the new
decade— especially in connection with
the energy outlook. From this vantage
point, here’s some changes we might ex
pect in the 1980 s as a result of the
developing energy problems:
* Like the move to increase the
drinking age in Georgia (and in several
other states) to 21, we can look forward
to an effort to boost the driving age.
Teen-agers are notorious wasters of
gasoline, and public policy in many
states is likely to try to curb their usage.
Insurance people say grades plummet
when a teen-ager owns his own car and is
working to pay for it. So, in addition to
gasoline saved, such a policy might curb
after-school work and help grades be im
proved.
* The death of true ‘‘service” sta
tions appears certain. In the 19705, the
country has seen a dramatic shift
Misconceptions Develop
About Newsman’s Role
Today's guest column was
penned by Jim Wood,
nublisher of the Jonesboro
ews-Daily. —Editor
A Superior Court judge
ruled that the Sumter County
Board of Education must hold
open meetings for its transac
tions in the future and thus
ruled in favor of the suit filed
by two citizens who protested
the board’s closed sessions.
The judge said that only
real estate transactions and
professional personnel mat
ters could be closed to the
public.
Interestingly, the suit was
McDonald distributed to the
press this week, showed the
group's stated goal is to
efeat McDonald in this bid
for re-election this year. The
group said it is not affiliated
with other groups or can
didates.
Marietta businessman Cor
win Robinson, according to
published reports yesterday,
called McDonald's charge's “'a
total falsehood.” Robinson is
affiliated with the group.
The Marietta group seeks
to show McDonald's ultra
conservative stance and
voting record and to help
replace him with someone
more moderate, he said.
Although the two groups
are not strictly supporting a
candidate, McDonald said,
they are not covered by usual
campaifin-fundinf restric
tions. The national group, he
said, ‘‘stands to fiam a
representative in Washington
sympathetic to its interests.”
McDonald produced a record
showing the Weshin&on
grou&hed contributed SSOO to
mith Foster two years ago.
toward self-serve stations; as the cost of
fuel soars, more and more stations will
be forced— for competitive reasons— to
follow the trend.
* Legislation requiring such self
serve stations to provide certain conve
niences— an air pump, paper towels for
window washing, etc.— can be expected
to be adopted in many states. Con
sumers, miffed by station owners who
decline to offer such basic will support
such laws. .
* More and more companies will
begin offering, as a special service to
their employees, van pools. The cost of
the service, in most cases, will be shared
by participants.
* A shift toward the four-day work
week, which in theory would reduce
gasoline needed to drive to and from
work by 20 percent, seems likely in
many industries. But if studies show
that employees use the extra off day to
travel, such gains will be offset.
* And, finally, more people will
begin riding bicycles.
filed by two citizens, concern
ed over the plight of the public
schools in tKis home county of
Jimmy Carter, President of
the United States.
This is a significant court
rule by the Superior Court
jurist because of its true
meaning in reasserting the
public’s right to know. Most
of us take this right for
granted.
The judge's ruling follows
attendance at a news and
editorial seminar of the
Georgia Press Association
which was held at Columbus,
Ga., recently. We appeared on
a panel concerninq open
mms. and school board
pr ings were one of the
subéect.s under consideration.
eorgia's “‘sunshine’’ laws
opened fllexcblic meetings to the
public ause the General
Assembly wanted to make
sure that the public’'s business
was rublicly open. That is a
simple statement of fact. Too
often, however, we are likely
to take these considerations
for granted.
g;rhaps even worse is the
Public's assumption that
‘open meetings'’' are special
E::\'ileges granted to the press
ause the press must attend
such meetings in the course of
reporting the news. That is
just not true.
Practice usually shows
that the press is the most
regular attendant to public
meetings but it is because this
is its business. The press at
tends open meetings on the
basis of the public's right to
know, not the press’ right to
know alone. There is a big dif
ference.
Likewise, open access to
public records is a right of the
people, not of the press alone,
and this is often confused, too.
Again, the press exercises this
right in its business pursuit
but its right of access to
records is based upon the
public’s right to access.
Public business is public
business. And informeg 0
ple of our nation are our &:t
guarantee that this freedom
shall be preserved.
Problems arise, however,
when public apath¥l seeps into
situations when these rights
are challenged. Too often
press representatives are the
only ones who attend public
meetings regularly, wgether
they be city council meetings,
county commission meetings,
or the various sessions of
planning and zoning boards,
water and hospital bodies, and
numbers of other public-type
organizations. Too often a
member of the public attends
only as long as the subject
matter concerns him personal
ly, and when this item of
business is resolved he leaves.
The members of the press,
working to report all of the
public meetings, sit through
to the end, no matter how long
the deliberations sometimes.
This kind of routine Fublic
indifference gives people the
mistaken idea that attending
public meetings is the press’
idea, and not the public's. Or
their right. From normal prac
tice, this is easy to assume.
Thus, when the public
bodies take exception to press
reports (rightly or wrongly)
they first react as if it is a
privilege for the press to be at
tending their meetings, and
this privile’ge likewise can be
rescinded. This is not the case
at all because the press at
tends public sessions as a part
of the public, and for no other
expression than the public's
right to know.
We are glad that citizens
made the point before the
courts in Sumter County. Too
often it is the press which is
pushing the legal right, len
ding another practice point to
the belief that it is the press’
sole interest and not the
public’s.
n meetings of public
bus(i)n;;ess are the public's right
to know, and basically that.
And the public and the press
need to keep this distinction
in the forefront all the time. It
is better for all of us.
R T T TR
Facing South
a syndicated column
voices of tradition
in a changing region
PLAIN BUT BEAUTIFUL
GREENVILLE, S. C.—Today many girls are sent off
to charm schools to learn the finer points of beauty and
manners. This was not the case back in the 1920 s and
19305. We learned our beauty secrets right at home, for
the Great Depression was on. =
For me, it all started in 1928, when /e
I was 13 and my sister was 11. %
My sister, brother and I had moved ‘k\ln:'f”—‘ -
from Atlanta to live with Aunt May e {
and Uncle David on their farm near Al ‘»«1
Greenville, S.C. At that time many 4 Lo
were losing their farms, so besides " f/ i
boarding us Aunt May taught in the ) { /
local two-room schoolhouse and also! |/. / |
boarded the other teacher—known to m‘ “\t I
us as “Miss Willie.” Twenty-three fili\ 2% /i |
years old, and pretty, Miss Willie was to become our first
source for learning about beauty. - -
Sister and I at that time had our hair cut in the
economical ‘‘Buster Brown” style of that day—straight
around with straight-across bangs. We had naturally
straight brown hair so this gave for a very straight look.
Why we deserted this carefree hair style I'll never know,
for what happened next started us on the never-ending
trail of beauty rituals.
One night, all of us children were down on the floor in
our room teaching our little cousin Susan how to play
paper dolls, when Miss Willie asked us if we'd like to
come into her room and talk while she rolled her hair. We
filed in and sat in a half-circle behind her. We could see
her face, for she looked into a huge dresser-mirror as she
did her hair and talked to us.
This was a revelation—Miss Willie’s beautiful long
curly hair was actually straight! She rolled it each night
on kid rollers to make those lovely curls!
I was ready for new adventures, and so was Sister. On
ly we had no curlers or money, or prospects for either. But
Miss Willie explained that ordinary rag strips, about 10
inches long, torn from an old sheet, would give the same
result. Even the Depression yielded an old sheet, and
Sister and I were in business—for life!
Miss Willie showed us how to dampen our hair and
mark off rows, and then how to divide the rows into
squares, rolling each square on a rag strip and tying the
ends in bow knots as we went along. Just the novel effect
from all those bows made it worthwhile. Of course, we
had to sleep on those knotty bows, something like sleep
ing on rocks. But in the morning, when we took the rags
out, our heads were covered with beautiful fat curls.
As time went by, we learned that there were even
quicker ways of getting curls. For 25 cents you could buy
a pair of metai curling irons. These were lowered into a
glass lamp shade until hot. Then the hair was wound
around it and left for a few seconds until the curl formed.
When the room smelled of burning hair you knew the iron
was too hot.
But I wasn't always lucky in my hair experiments.
The summer I was 15, my hair fell in glossy curls below
my shoulders. I needed a haircut. I went to a barber shop,
and became the very first customer of a novice barber.
I had told him to cut a good bit off, but he kept cut
ting an inch off one side, and then an inch and a half off
the other side. Then he would cut some more, trying (as
he put it) to make the sides match. I was too shy to say
anything so when he finished my now straight hair came
only midway down my ears!
When I got home Uncle David exclaimed, ‘‘Why,
Anita, your hair made you!" I felt the same way.
It so happened that I had a date that, night, and could
not break it. Tams were stylish then, and so I pulled a
black wool one low on my head. Although it was a hot Ju
ly night, and we did nothing but sit in the parlor the
whole evening, I did not take that tam off. The impres
sion given, 1 guess, was that I was dying to go out
somewhere. The boy must have wondered at my strange
looks and behavior, but he kept his thoughts to himself.
The evening finally ended, and so did my dating for about
a year afterwards.
Nowadays most young girls care not a fig for curling
their hair or any of that kind of beauty. They just let it all
hang down (hair) and out (shirt-tails)—and they seem just
as happy as we were.
—ANITA M. SIMS
housewife and writer
Hartsville, S. C.