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Tales Out Os
School
By Bernice McCullar
Director of Information
State Department of Education
THAT S3OO FOR YOUR
TEACHER — Your teachers will
all get a S3OO raise next year, and
your bus drivers will get a S2OO
raise. That brings the average
teacher salary in Georgia to about
$4,100, which is still more than
a thousand dollars below the na
tional average, which is $5,389
for 1960-61. California’s average
teacher salary is $6,900. Dr.
Claude Purcell, state superinten
dent of schools, who asked two
years ago for a thousand dollar
teacher pay raise for Georgia
teachers, said, “Once we get the
salary up to the point that we
can compete with industry and
with other states for teaching
talent, we will not be always
moving from crisis to crisis in
education and this constant agita
tion will cease. There was evi
dence this year that legislators
were genuinely interested in rhis-'
ing teacher salaries. We are grate
ful to the governor, the lieuten
ant governor, and the legislators
for all they did for education at
this session.”
“DON’T CUT OFF THEIR
AID,” SAYS THEIR CHIEF — j
State Schcol Supt. Claude Pur
cell is not in favor of the idea
of cutting in half the money that
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BETTER SMILE when you ask her that! Washday
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is really a workday for her. She strains to
carry out loads of wet clothes, stretches to
hang them up and take them down, strains to
carry them back into the house. And she’s bur
dened with worry about the weather.
When she gets an electric clothes dryer—and
she will!—she’ll simply pop the clothes into it
and turn a dial. Clean and gentle electric heat
will dry her clothes quickly, completely.
The cost? That’s the happiest part. Through
the years the trend in the price of electricity
has been downward. Today you get nearly
three times as much electricity for your money
as you did 30 years ago.
High in value, low in cost, electricity is the
biggest bargain in your family budget, by far I
TAX-PAYING • INVESTOR-OWNED
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A CITI Zf N WHEREVER WE SER V I
the county boards of education
in federally impacted areas get
under Public Law 815 and 874,
even though the federal govern
ment plans to increase the gen
eral education fund. “We can af
ford to keep that money going
to them from federal funds and
increase our general federal
funds, too. We have in America
; money to educate our children
I and it is the best money we in-
I vest,” says Georgia’s 14th chief
I state school officer.
ANXIETY WITH THE OR
ANGE BLOSSOMS—Don’t miss!
the PTA Magazine article, “Can
[Teen Agers Make a Go of Mar- ■
| riage?” Georgia teen agers are
I marrying in alarming numbers— :
and heading for divorce courts 1,
too often. The State Board of ;
Education asked the legislature to
look into the matter. The PTA
will discuss it in Albany at its ]
state convention April 13 and ;
14. How many teen agers in your ’
high school are married? What ■
is your school or community do
ing to help them take a look at
the wisdom ot folly of teen mar
riages?
FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY —
H. D. Hatchett, our Department
of Education supervisor of the
distribution of free foods to school
lunchrooms, hospitals, and other
institutions, tells me that Ken
nedy’s food-to-the-hungry plan is
| already in operation in Georgia,
I through our own Department
distribution facilities. We work
with the .welfare people and the
county commissioners in distribu-
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
ting 11 foods to them: flour, meal,
rice, dried milk, dired eggs, dried
beans, lard, peanut butter, can
ned pork and gravy, catmeal, and
creamery butter. Already 38
counties have set up these pro
grams, and we will have about
140,000 people getting this food
in the next thirty days.
HOW MANY IN YOUR SENI
'OR CLASS? The experts say
that a good comprehensive high
school should enroll enough pu
pils to have one hundred in the
graduating class. Georgia had, in
1959-60, 103 high schools this big,
but 52.65% of cur seniors were
in these 103 high schools. But
we had 111 school systems that
did not have 100 seniors in the
entire system.
BOTH KIDS NEEDS SYMPA
THY — Don’t waste ALL your
sympathy on the key-around-the
neck kid whose mom it not at
home when he gets there in the
afternoon because she’s working.
I hear of plenty of children
whose mammas dance and play
bridge or golf all the time, and
whose children go for days with
out ever seeing them. One child I
told his teacher that the maid
had to help him with his home
work.
CROW ZIGZAGS NOW — We
have been measuring our mile j
। and a half bus distance by the j
! nearest “way the crow flies.” But ’
now they’ve asked us to measure!
it the length of the actual road, |
the way the crow would go if he |
had to go down the road instead I
lof across the field and stream
and trees.
HOW MANY DON’TS? Did you
know' that the average person
speaks about thirty thousand
words a day. How many of them
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Hospital $3,500.
$20.00 per day for seven days
SIO.OO per day thereafter
Surgical SSOO.
$25.00 to $250.00 per operation
as outlined in schedule of op
erations
Anesthesia SIOO.
Not to exceed $35.00
per operation
X-ray & Radium Therapy,
Radio Active Isotopes SSOO.
Usual and Customary Charge
Nursing $250.
At $12.00 per day—when
required
Attending Physician $l5O.
$5.00 per day
Blood Plasma $l5O.
I Usual and Customary Charge j
Ambulance SSO.
Usual and Customary Charge
Transportation $250.
Usual and Customary Charge
Up to
$5,450.00
for only
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EASTMAN, GEORGIA
are “Don’t,” which you speak to
your children?
GIVE HIM A THOUGHT — If
। you happen to be riding along
i that road between Savannah and
i Brunswick during Modern For-
I eign Language W eek, March 19-
25, get out there in front of Mid
way Church and read the marker
that tells about old Schoolmaster
William McWhir, who taught
Latin for fifty years and ran one
of the nation’s finest academies
down there at Sunbury, now a
ghost town. Maeterlinck says in
his story The Bluebird, “The dead
live again whenever we think of
them.” Give a thought to the old
Latin teacher. He did Georgia
good. (We now have 43,810 pupils
in Georgia language classes; 13,-
413 are studying Latin.)
ICHABOD HAS VANISHED —
I sat looking at and listening to a
group of Georgia school princi
pals and superintendents not
long ago, and I was impressed
with how handsome and well
dressed they are, how well they
speak, and how professionally in
formed they are about education
J matters. Ichabod Crane of the
[ shabby suit and the limited vision
has all but disappeared from the
school ranks in Georgia. The only
place you can find an Ichabod
these days is in Washington Ir
j ving’s old story.
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; TUCK A LITTLE LOVE INTO
■HER LUGGAGE — Next week
; your child’s teacher may be leav
l ing your town for Atlanta to at
tend the GEA Convention. Tuck
a lovely handkerchief or a bottle
of perfume—or a ten dollar bill I
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Btscaynes and six wonderful new Chevy wagons—all
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i to buy a hat or see a show —
into her luggage as she leaves.
How about it?
; ! LINE I LIKE — The writer,
I Mary Webb, recalling her child
■ hood, said, “It made me glad
• some to be getting an education.
■ It was like a window opening.”
■ j LETTER FROM A CAMPER—
; ] Child at camp wrote home, “I am
■ i tired of doing everything to whis
; ties and gongs. I would rather j
. : come home and have Mom yell I
. at me.”
’ ORCHIDS TO THIS LIBRARY
' —I walked into the downtowm
library i n Atlanta recently —
j where they do clever, creative
' promotion for reading — and I :
| picked up something that was
i wonderful. It was a little blue I
booklet designed to take the blues !
out of term papers. Titled “Term >
Papers Without Tears,” it pro- j
vided help for those who have
| to meet these bug-a-bears every !
। end -of - term. Reminded .me of i
i those amusing lines from a novel, ‘
■ “The students waited until the j
I very last minute to write their j
, term papers. Then they came in :
; with great anxiety in search of I
I words and wisdom. So it was no '
, wonder that the results sounded ■
! distressingly like the Encyclopedia j
; Britannica copied by an anxious ;
! lunatic.”
BACHELOR BALDWIN — Did
you know' that Yaleman Abraham i
■ Baldwin, who came to Georgia in !
I 1784 from New England—nobody !
j knows why—planned the educa- :
: tional system of Georgia? He re- j
i mained a bachelor to the end of I
!his days, despite the hundreds ।
iof pretty Georgia girls he could',
have married. He worked hard,
for the education of other peo
ple’s children. He was also one
cf our two signers of the Consti
tution.
Wheeler Coußiy Training School
Beleases Ils Honor Roll For 4-6 Weeks
HONOR ROLL ,
j 2nd Grade—Mrs. D. D. John
!son, Teacher — Alexzean Wood
ward.
2nd Grade — Miss L. Burnett,
Teacher — Lee Anner Jackson,
i Robert Bellamy, Etheriedge Cecil,
iPhelica Howell, Lloyd Johnson,
George Stevenson, Helen Kin
‘chen, Jacquelyn Simmons.
i 3rd Grade—Mrs. R. P. Walden,
j Teacher—Mozell Conaway, Chris- :
I tine Conaway, Mary E. Power,
i Ruby J. Lee, Aaron Woodward,
I Joe Randall Griggs, Alfred Wil
!cox, Luella Roberson.
3rd Grade—Mrs. B. B. Harvey,
I Teacher — Laura Mae Gibson,
i Barrington Jones, Bennie James,
! Gregory Spearman, Sheila Stan
iley, Jacqulin Strong, Patricia
! Wright, Diann Wooten.
4th Grade—Mrs. E. P. Spear
! man, Teacher — Kenneth Harris,
Sammy Jackson, Melvin Strong,
' Maxine Mackey, Raynita Wright.
4th Grade—Miss E. M. Coats,
I Teacher—Eddie B. Hayes 87, Bev
• erly Allen 89, Lucille Nesbit 89. j
sth Grade—Mrs. G. Williams,'
I Teacher — Lutricia Smith, Paul
j Edward Moss, Ozell Coats, Bar- ■
j bara Ann Smith, Willie Frank
Wright, Wilbert C. Travis.
sth—Grade Mrs. P. R. John-
I son, Teacher — Conyues Batten,
Mary Ann Gibson, Elijah Lee,
Willie Lee Stevenson, Albert T.
Johnson, Jr., Dollie Mae Culver,
Mae Anna Bonner, Beaulah Har
vey, Joyce Troup, Pearlie Mae i
Culver, Josephine Wooten, Dossie!
Smith.
6th Grade — Mrs. L. B. Cie-j
ments, Teacher—Mae Lois Burns, i
7th Grade—Miss J. M. Wright,
Teacher — Mary Nesbit, James
Power, Bishop Moss, Jr., Esco
Hall, Jr., Vertis Mackey.
Sth Grade — Mr. H. Batten,
Homeroom Teacher — Maggie
Burns 96, Barbara Wright 96,
Janet K. Wilson 92, Joan Nesbit
91, Delcres Strong 91, Charlie
Lee 88, Leroy Nesbit 88, Doris
Wright 86.
9th Grade—Mr. A. T. Johnson,
Teacher—Barbara K. Johnson 86.1
9ih Grade—Mr. W. W. Wilson, I
Jr., Homeroom Teacher — Eulai
Mae Hall 89, Georgia Hollaway
87, Jackie Smith 86, Brenda Jack-
1 son 93, Wille M. Lee 95.
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1961
! NEW BUDGET - Our school
> budget for 1961-62 is $184,000,-
I 000. You know where 95% of it
goes? Right on out to yours and
197 other local school systems in
Georgia.
, 10th Grade—Mrs. K. C. John
son Homeroom Teacher—Bertha
Bennett 93.
Uth Grade—Miss P. P. Wilson,
Hemeroom Teacher — Jean New
kirk 93, Roosevelt Smith 90.
James Bennett 86.
12th Grade—Mrs P. P. Moss,
Homeroom Teacher — Dorothy
Moss 90, Arthur Geter 90, Charles
j Wright 89, Opry Mcßae 86.
G. A. Weatherspool, Principal,
Wheeler County Training
School.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wilson.
Pansy and Woodrow spent the
. week end in Jacksonville, Florida
visiting relatives and friends.
Maudecca Wilson spent one
week at home recuperating from
illness. Her many friends wish
her a speedy recovery.
Mcßae Jaycees
Sponsoring Wrestling
Matches March 31
Wrestling fans in this area are
in for a big night Friday, March
31, when the Mcßae Jaycees
will bring nationally known fig
f ures in this sport to Mcßae. The
1 event will be in the old Mcßae-
Helena gymnasium sponsored by
the Jeycees, and is expected to
bring out a large crowd of spec
tators.
Wrestlers to be here on this
। night include “Gorgeous George
i Webb,” the Hollywood glamour
! boy, with long golden hair, the
! beautiful orchid robe, and the
i golden bobby-pin that he calls
“Georgie Pins.”
“Julius Carpenter,” champion
of France; “Georgia Strong Boy”;
“Violet Ray,” of Knoxville,
Tenn., the girl who has defeated
directly or indirectly every girl
wrestler in America, and “Mar
lene Schmidt,” the German cham
pion, undefeated in Europe.
Starting time will be 8:00 p.m.
The months of February and
i March are a go:d time to cut
। back overgrown plantings of
I home grown ornamentals that
have become bare at the lower
limbs, says Extension Landscape
Specialist T. G. Williams.