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Mt de Sales 14 Monroe 21 Dodge Co Johnson Co 7 Windsor 7 Cochran Stratford 19 Tattnall Sq 19 Savannah Chr Southland 8 McDonough 13 Jonesco 10 7 pkep VfootbaliIf RESULTS! 21 Yj SrTffjSa 9 wVva Jir £77 Macon Co Calhoun Jeff Davis Dublin 20 Central 34 Westfield 20 7 Perry 21 Robert Toombs 14 8 Brookwood 26 Other Scores 6 Bakqr 0 Page IB aturhay Nma OUR149TH NO 242 Weather Hot MACON GEORGIA SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST 30 1975 GEORGIA EDITION 2 18 15c Private Schools Change To Meet Challenges By LEE RAMBO Telegraph StaH Writer Goodbye Mr Chips It has been a long time since the proper image of the American private school was ivy covered walls knee pants crested blazers and grim faced 7 year olds at the train station No where could the death of this stereotype be more evident than in the metropol itan Macon area with its 11 private day schools serving more than 5000 children These youngsters from 4 to 18 come from several coun ties and from backgrounds as diverse as those of the 27000 children in the Bibb public schools With one striking ex cep tion There are only a handful of black private school pupils all confined to one school It is the diversity of the students that prohibits one label for all the private schools serving Bibb In stead there are three cate gories of schools often shar ing the same characteristics Closest to traditional picture of the private school but scarcest in Macon is the true college preparatory school which caters to the intellectually talented and the well to do A group born of the tumultuous racial inter gration of the public schools in the late '60s is the inde pendent school It often has no definitive educational phi losophy inally there is the Chris tian academy a reaction against the increased secu larism public education and the fastest growing type of private school in the na tion A school that falls into one 4 1 4 LEE RAMBO 4 About This' Story This is the first in a series of five ar ticles on area private schools by Telegraph education writer Lee Rambo On Sunday the series article will probe the question of why some parents enroll their children in private schools of these categories while sharing the traits of the oth ers is located within min utes of every home in Ma con They are located along busy commercial and in dustrial thoroughfares valuable former forestland and on quiet residential streets Nine of the 11 are located in Bibb County with one each in Jones and Monroe counties The oldest private school is Mt de Sales High School on four acres on Orange Street in central Macon ounded in 1871 and chartered by the state five years later it is operated by the Roman Catholic order of the Sisters of Mercy It became a coed ucation day school in 1960 after almost a century as a boarding school Mt de Sales with an en rollment of 455 is the only school attended by blacks who make up 10 per cent of its student body It is gov erned by a 13 member board of trustees Stratford Academy found ed in 1960 and governed by an independent board is the second oldest and the largest private school in the Macon area Total enrollment of second ary and elementary pupils is 980 The secondary division is housed in new facilities on 64 a on Peake Road w'ith the elementary grades and kindergarten remaining at the original Bond Street location No other private schools exist in that Macon were not founded after the late 1960s when the federal court ordered desegregation of the Bibb schools spurring flight Officials of some of the schools of this era insist that an escape from integration was not a founding principle of their schools Others con that it was but add that the direction of the school has changed to a more positive aim for superi or education The membership of Tatt nall Square Baptist Church formed their own school Tattnall Square Academy in September 1960 Ties with the church have remained despite a mass withdrawal of dissenting par ents and enrollment is now near 400 The school is locat ed on 15 acres on Lake Crest Road in the midst of a resi dential section River North Academy with a present enrollment of 250 in kindergarten through 12th grade was formed by the splinter group from Tatt nall Square in September 1974 Policy for the independent non sectarian school is set by a board of governors individ (See PRIVATE Page 2A) ord Proposes Cut In Salary Hike Bill Busbee After Medicaid Talks (See MEDICAID Page 2A) nomic stability for all Ameri ord said com JERUSALEM (U I) Technical problems of word i delayed completion of the interim peace accord be tween Israel and Egypt ri day But Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger said af ter a meeting with Israel's foreign minister that he was "very optimistic oreign Minister Yigal Al ton said he believed Israel ATLANTA (UPI) Gov George Busbee returned from Washington riday at the recep tion his proposals for bailing out Medicaid pro gram with $2 a i re ceived from Health Educa tion and Welfare Secretary David Mathews but unsure whether HEW will allow him to make his cost cuts day of reckoning is here" said time has come to make a de He said that if HEW will not let the state make Medi caid patients and their fam i 1 shoulder some cost of the program would be a parability pay at this time is inconsistent with my course of action to build a strong and stable economy and to bring inflation under control" ord strongly urged Con gress to support the 5 per cent pay boost he proposed This annual pay increase does not affect federal blue collar workers or Postal Ser vice employes Under recently passed leg islation however the annual pay boosts are extended to judges members of Con gress and officials under the executive salary schedule including the vice president Members of Congress thus face a political dilemma If the increase is held to 5 per cent their $42500 annual sal a i would be boosted by $2125 if the raise is 866 per cent they would get $3680 a year more On the other hand they may be wary of voting a big ger increase than that rec ommended by ord at a time of inflation and unem ployment The AL public em ploye department assailed ord's proposal as a violation of the intent" of the 1 a President Howard McClennan of the depart ment comprised of 29 unions which represent some 25 million workers i federal state and local governments said action is er a 1 of the callous economic strategy of the ord administration" A total of 13 million feder al employes are affected plus 21 million in the mili tary Congress now has 30 days in which to counter action If Congress takes no action recommenda tion of 5 per cent increase would stand total disaster" The $292 mil lion current state appropria tion for Medicaid is project ed to run out early next year plight was com pounded by a legal ruling from Attorney General Ar thur Bolton who said it is illegal for the state to pay one year's leftover Medicaid bills with the following year's appropriation aced with a backlog that began accumulating before he took office Busbee said had to fund 14 months of Medi caid with 12 appro Secretary was very understanding of our prob lem and he showed a very positive attitude of not say ing he help us but of looking for ways that he is to achieve national eco could said Busbee I don want to say I feel confident but I was very elated by the reception I had with Busbee said Mathews will advise him next week wheth er Georgia faced with a $614 million Medicaid deficit that could force the state to pay doctors 64 cents on the dollar can be an experimen a 1 grounds for suspending HEW rules which forbid states to charge Medicaid WASHINGTON (AP) President ord told Congress riday he wants to pare down a pro posed pay increase for federal workers including members of Congress and judges to 5 per cent instead of a proposed 866 per cent ord urged Congress to ac cept his alternative recom mendation saying that size of the proposed pay raise must be temporarily restrained for the economic well being of the nation as a whole" Under provisions of the ederal Pay Comparability Act the President annually adjusts the salary rates of federal employes effective Oct 1 so that they will be comparable with pay scales in the private sector The director of the Office of Management and Budget and the chairman of the Civ il Service Commission had advised ord that an 866 per cent increase would be need ed this year to achieve com parable pay The law gives the Presi dent authority to propose an alternate pay scale if he deems it necessary because national emergency or economic conditions affect ing the general welfare The law also allows either the House or Senate to reject the recommenda tions by a simple majority vote a 1 1 i the higher scale to take effect That happened a year ago when ord proposed to delay a federal increase for three months his effort was overwhelmingly rejected by the Senate and the raise went into effect on Oct 1 ord said in a message to Congress that the proposed 866 per cent increase in fed eral white collar pay would add more than $35 billion to federal expenditures The 5 per cent increase which he proposed in his budget ord said would reduce these ex penditures by about $16 bil lion "My overriding objective Israel Egypt Pact Hits Sudden Snag 100 Years Not Long Enough By RUDY HAYES Tlgraph Nwi Correspondent AMERICUS ew people ever receive a communica tion from the President of the United States Eas terlin of Americus did it the hard way by becoming 100 yeafs old And the congratulations have continued to flow in this week from Gov George Busbee Sens Eu Talmadge and Sam Nunn US Rep Jack Brink ley Americus Mayor Johnny Sheffield and many other friends and interested per sons And on Saturday members of Mr Easterlin's family will have an open house for the gray haired gentleman who has resided in the same at tractive two story Colonial residence at 818 Lee St since 1913 A large portrait of the centenarian was placed in the Easterlin home by his family in honor of the occasion A member of one of Sum ter County's pioneer a 1 lies Mr Easterlin was en gaged in business and farm ing during most of his life was still fairly active until three or four years ago and he still likes to be driven regularly around town and the county and to took at his said Miss Jose I 1 18' I A Z' 4 'dZ4 Aa I Easterlin and Daughter phine Easterlin a daughter who resides with Mr Easter lin Born in Andersonville on Aug 30 1875 Mr Easterlin lived in the small Civil War renown village until 1913 when he i he wanted to move to Ameri 10 miles away He obtained a Columbus architect named Lockwood to construct his six bedroom home built on Lee Street what was then and remains one of the main thorough fares in Americus Questioned on whether he actually worked on construc tion of the home himself Mr Easterlin smiled and said "I supervised Asked if he had in mind the type house he wanted the architect to plan the twinkling Mr Eas terlin said: He helped me a lot more than I helped The lumber used in con struction of the house came from the Sumter a i 's family timberlands He said that at the time the house was completed 62 years ago were a few homes on the opposite side of the street but mine was about the only one on this (the east) side" The prominent citizen is particularly proud of build ing the first full blooded Hereford cattle herd in Sum ter County He also planted one of the earliest pecan or chards in the area and was an early grower of peaches Mr Easterlin owned one of the first cars in the county He reflected that was a lot better than a horse and buggy I wanted one right away the first time I ever saw one and sometimes the family would scrap over who was going to ride in it after we got it" The highly respected gen tleman received his educa i in an Andersonville School and at Long Branch (See 100 YEARS Page2A) would decide to sign the agreement with Egypt within three days Kissinger said he was now aiming for both sides to initial the accord early next week arrived at the last stage of Alton told a television interviewer "In two or three days we'll know if it is possible to sign or not I believe we'll sign" Emerging from eight hours of negotiations with Rabin and his aides Kissinger said very optimistic it will be concluded we're aiming for the early part of next The pact was originally ex pected to have been initialed sometime this weekend Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said in Alexandria Thursday night that his country is ready to initial it But Kissinger in the pro cess of getting agreement on the draft of the settlement said: "There's an enormous a of paperwork that has to be done in terms of the basic agreement and various annexes all of which are progressing well and in a very good atmos Alton said making every effort to finalize clari fications in the text in order to report to the cabinet on He said he was sure the Is (See PACT Page 2A) Photo by RUUS JAMES Driverless Car I 7 7 IT'' him Jimmy Lee Elder of 1252 River side Drive was lightly injured when he was knocked over while chasing his car riday Elder was changing the transmission fluid when the car jumped cut of gear rolled down a hill tumbled over a wall and landed on its top in the street police said emale Skeleton ound Knowles Believed Killer Parts of a female skelton believed to be a gunshot vic tim of slain mass murder suspect Paul John Knowles has been found near the Ap 1 i Bend subdivision in Crawford County A prospective property buyer found a skull with two bullet holes and parts of a young skeleton near old Knoxville Road the office Macon Judicial Circuit Dist Atty red Hasty Sher iff Lucius and a rep resentative from the State Crime Laboratory found scattered skeletal remains when they searched the area Hasty said the remains be Debbie The officials also found a and beads that were de scribed by Hasty as type State Crime Lab officials are processing the material to determine the identity of the young woman An intensive search for Mrs Griffin was launched after authorities learned she had accompanied Hillard clothing a bracelet (See KNOWLES Page 2A) GOOD MORNING! Wednesday evening Authorities believe it is the body of 20 a I Mrs Debbie Griffin of Gainesville 1 a the hitchhiking com panion of Edward Allen Hil lard whose bullet riddled body was found last Novem ber inside Bibb County about five miles from the subdivi sion A BLOOD SOAKED shirt believed worn by Mrs Grif fin was found near Hillard's body Hillard 23 also of Gainesville la and Mrs Griffin were hitchhiking from Gainesville to Love Valley NC They were last seen at a Commerce motel Nov 2 Crawford County Deputy Sheriff Arnold Robinson said the skull was found late Wednesday and reported to Bridge 8A Classified 6 9B Comics 8A 10B Dear Abby 10B Deaths 6B Editorials 4A Entertainment 6 7A Guinness 5A Health 8A Horoscope 8A Markets 4 5B Minit Doodle 2A Nation in Brief 5A Joe Parham 4A People Quotes 7A Sports 1 3B Theatres 6A TV 6A Weather 2A World in Brief 5A Chuckle Someday science may be able to explain why a child walk around a puddle Capertori Watson Named To Macon Posts The appointment of two veteran newspapermen key editorships at the Macon newspapers was announced here riday They are: rank Caperton 38 now Broward bureau chief for The Miami Herald who be comes executive editor of The Macon Telegraph and The Macon News Caperton will have full responsibility for the news and editorial operations of both papers Billy Watson 36 for the last three years managing editor of The Telegraph be comes editor of The Tele graph reporting to Caperton Caperton succeeds Don Carter who is moving to Lexington Ky as president and publisher of The Lexing ton Herald and The Lexing ton Leader Carter had been executive editor of both Ma con papers for the last four years He also had served as editor of The Telegraph The appointment of Caper ton and Watson was an nounced by James Bat ten a vice president of Knight Ridder Newspapers Inc the Macon papers' par ent company Caperton 38 a native of West Virginia has been with RANK CAPERTON i "Wr fig ij Li The Miami Herald for six years or the past three years he has been editor of The 28 man bureau in Broward County The bu reau produces a dally section of local news about the ort Lauderdale area Earlier he was an assistant city editor in Miami Before joining The Herald Caperton had worked as a reporter for the Richmond (Va) News Leader the St BILLY WATSON "Sil Ml Petersburg (la) Times and the Tampa (la) Tribune He was capital correspond in Tallahassee for the Tampa newspaper During those years he was cited for reporting excellence by the American Political Science Association for a series of articles about new state constitution Caperton also won a sec (See EDITORS Page 2A) i 9.