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By Jj JOHNSON
Times-Journal Editor
WARNER ROBINS
Members of the Houston County
Library Board are waiting news
this week they will receive fund
ing to enter the information high
way.
A part of the fiscal year 1996
budget to receive approval late
this week by the Georgia
General Assembly is funding for
several public libraries to link to
the University System internet
computer communications net
work.
Library System Director Judy
Golden told members of the
board here March 9 money for
the project was in the budget
which would go through confer
ence committees during the final
week of the legislative session.
Should the money clear the
budget, the library system will
receive money for equipment to
link computers at die Warner
Robins library to the University
System network at Macon
College.
Perry and Centerville would
be linked into the system through
modems which would enable
users at those libraries to dial
into the system without paying
long distance tolls.
Golden said she was excited
about the prospect of being able
Schools
improve, senior night recognition at
football games, hospital home
bound instruction, very helpful
counselors, teachers always willing
to help, most teachers honest in the
grading systems, teachers made
learning less difficult, school system
has quality education and school
system has a great deal of diversity.
Some of the negative experiences
listed included teacher that yells a
great deal, teacher that calls a stu
dent stupid, takes too long to evalu
ate a student for a disability, rezon
ing of schools, child had to be
Tribble
but Democrats are leery of that.
With deficit spending running an
average of about S2OO billion a
year, we all know something has to
be done. A balanced budget that
does not tamper with Social
Jails
will be created following a formula
from the General Assembly. Each
sheriff would have to give approval
to the concept,
“Once the decision is made, the
authority is created and the first
funds are used, the project will
move forward with no way to back
out,” Talton said.
He believes there would be some
efficiency gained in operating just
one jail as opposed to several jails in
the three counties.
Talton said the crime problem in
the United States is continuing to
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to offer library patrons access to
the internet computer network
known as Peachnet
Patrons would be able to uti
lize the University System
research files through the com
puter network, Golden said.
In other business, members of
die library board agreed to relin
quish their rights to the Houston
County history book authored by
Bobbie Nelson for the
Bicentennial celebration 20
years ago.
Nelson told board members
she hopes to republish the book
at a later date.
The book was published
through a joint arrangement with
Nelson, the library board and the
Houston County Commission
which allowed the library system
to participate in profits generated
by sale of the books.
Board members re-elected
Jane Gramley as chairman of the
group. Other officers for 1995
include Jane Perfect, vice chair
man; Mike Gray, treasurer; and
Dottie Stafford, secretary.
Members also approved
spending $370 to have Ambient
Fence Co. of Perry install a fence
around the satellite dish at the
Perry library.
Frances Worrall of Perry was
welcomed as a new member of
the board.
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retested for the gifted program and
the dress code.
Suggestions for improvement
included better control of discipline,
teach phonics, reduce teacher/stu
dent ratios, weed out weak teachers,
improve racial relationships
between students, get more parents
involved in the schools, carry fewer
children per each school bus, inform
students when a child is failing,
more financial support for extracur
ricular activities, a later starting
time, a nine-week reporting system
and consistency in discipline.
(Continued from page 4A)
Security benefits is the only clear
answer.
(Bob Tribble is president ofTrib
Publications, owners of the
Houston Times-Journal.)
(Continued from page 1A
grow, with many criminals leaving
jail early for various reasons and
committing crimes again.
He admitted to a frustration with
the court system which allows so
many appeals to sentences for
heinous crimes. He said Carl Isaacs,
who was tried in 1973 for the Alday
family murders, and retired in
Houston County in 1989, still sits
on death row.
“I believe in fair trials, but it
sometimes seems the criminals are
running the justice system,” Talton
added.
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less than 500 days away. The events will be held in Atlanta and
are expected to bring many visitors to the state during the two
week run of the games during the summer of 1996. This is the
100th anniversary of the Olympic movement.
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