The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 11

Slw Ularon oWegraplj TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 14 1978 Metro Page IB lEaM ML' SfeW ilT Ak 'Jt 3 3 HHk Charles McDaniel Seriously His Pay Tops By Deborah Blum Telegraph Education Writer When Georgia state school su perintendent Charles McDaniel's daughter graduated from college as a civil engineer she found a job with a starting salary of $12000 Her father a long time educa tor was both pleased and dis turbed His best in structor a math teacher with more than 15 years experience was making $10000 a year is something seriously wrong with our McDan iel told a gathering of the Macon Rotary Club Monday is something very wrong when we pay a little girl in shirttails with no work experience more money than a really outstanding math teach McDaniel cited a low pay scale as one of the major problems in the state education system today are not getting the best peo ple" he said "We just pay enough" YOU know that except in some big metro areas a beginning physics teacher in this state makes less than $8000 a year? We get any Phi Beta Kappa physics graduates they can make twice as much somewhere McDaniel who became head of the state's education department last August warned that the school system could be out of if it failed to stay up to date and attract flight" people kind of people we hire as teachers today will reflect on the kind of society we have 50 years from he said In a 30 minute speech McDaniel also spoke in praise of an educa tional swing back to stressing bas ic skills in the elementary schools NEED to be sure we stick to fundamental skills in the early grades like reading writing and he said "We have to give the young people those skills early and we let them leave the grades until they know McDaniel said teachers should be responsible for holding children back until they were reading or writing at their grade level and not pushing them up to another grade "We have to recognize too that there are children that will never be able to read he said we find them we need to be sure there are other ways we can help them in the schools" The state superintendent said schools should begin concentrating on life in the working world as well as academic education need to understand our economic system McDaniel said need to realize the necessity of making profits and making a living" MCDANIEL told the Rotarians that a good education sj'stem can benefit the state financially in an other way it attracts industry talked to the president of a big company which recently closed a plant in lorida" he said said they had to close the plant because the schools were so bad they couldn't get any of their executives to go there and put their children in the schools Inci dentally that company is moving to Georgia" Committee Says Yes To Raises By Robert isher Telegraph Staff Writer A council committee voted Monday to give most firefighters a 4 percent pay raise The increase would narrow the disparity in pay between the fire men and policemen a long standing sore point with firefighters Some firemen have been paid less than their police counterparts since 1972 a difference which fire and city officials have said has hurt morale in the fire department The unanimous Appropriations Committee vote Monday would give all men the rank of lieutenant and be low a 4 percent increase effective Oct 1 More than two thirds of the de partment would get a raise if both the full council and the mayor approve the committee suggestion and money is budgeted City officials said the total cost of the pay raise and its impact on other routine salary increases would be about $136000 a year BESIDES GETTING both full council and Melton's approval before the raises become an actuality fund ing for the salary increases must be approved during the upcoming budget discussions The raise suggestion calls for the Oct 1 effective date be cause that is the first day of the new fiscal year Although the raises would equalize pay between the fire department pri vates and their equivalent rank at the police department higher ranking of ficers still would work under different pay scales ire Chief JE Hinson said the pri vate rank pay level is the major sore point Lieutenants and sergeants still would be paid about 8 percent less than the same rank at the police de partment he said Photo by BILL BOYD A Bunny jor Clegg IflKraE MBHIlMflUBBMBiBi Bk Clegg Griggs old enough to pull it yet but he got a wooden bunny in time for East er The gift came from sister Christy 8 while they were at the Country Roads Arts and Crafts air in Vienna last weekend Clegg and Christy are the children of Mr and Mrs Billy Griggs of Unadilla Allman Stay In Hospital Is By Steve Burns Telegraph Staff Writer Gregg Allman's stay in a suburban Atlanta hospital is apparently part of a yearly routine Allman the 30 year old former leader of the Allman Brothers Band checked himself into Brawner Hospi tal in Smyrna last riday as part of a according to Ca pricorn Records President Phil Wal den is a private hospital which specializes in alcohol treat ment had talked about it a week or so Walden said Mon day his (recording) schedule begins there will be no time for When asked about reports that All hospitalization was alcohol re lated Walden said don't know not to my knowledge" A former Allman Brothers Band member said Monday it was common that Allman has had to be hospitalized for alcohol re lated treatment in the past spent two weeks with him in Buffalo one time for that" Butch Trucks a for mer Allman drummer said Allman who has been in Macon to make recording plans for himself and Allman Brothers Band reunion was seen at two different Atlanta night clubs late last week Last Wednesday and Thursday All man played with a band called the Night Hawks at Cantina in downtown Atlanta played until 4 am both the manager said gained a lot of weight but he looked Gregg Allman Having Allman made reservations last ri day at the Great Southeast Music Hall to see Butch Trucks play club officials confirmed Trucks said Mon day he never saw Allman "I under stood he was going to be there but I seen him since the band split up (in Walden said that hospital ization was not for drug abuse no emergency he said would be more concerned than anybody if it were 1 spoke to Gregg today and he sounded Walden added that liminary" recording plans would not be interrupted Allman could not be reached for comment at the hospital Monday Group Hires Lawyer to ight or Preservation of Houses By Brenda Camp Telegroph Staff Writer A local preservation group Mon day hired an Atlanta attorney to help with its efforts to save three houses in the historic district from destruction The In Town Macon Neighbor hood Association voted unanimous ly to obtain Richard Hubert as legal counsel The action came during a special meeting of the group in City Hall The three houses on Orange Street are to be torn down under the terms of a sales agreement reached between Stratford Acade my and Mercer University Mercer purchased the property for the expansion of its Walter George School of Law Hubert told the nearly full coun cil chambers that the group has viable course of action that can be He said federal statutes should be examined if federal funding is to be spent in the acquisition and development of the property Hubert said he was able to old Sycamore in At lanta when the Metropolitan Atlan ta Rapid Transit Authority wanted to put an underground network be neath it He said the case is now in the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals HUBERT SAID THE recent en actment of the National Environ mental Protection Act and a his toric preservation act requires that certain requirements be met for use of federal funding if histor ic property a park or an ronmentally area are in volved An environmental impact study would have to be made Hubert said "I will be trying to trace where federal funds will come from and find out what provisions may have been dealt with or ig nored" he said Hubert said what may be hap pening is that the two schools have made a contractual agreement that avoids obligation to the feder al statutes an obvious subterfuge the federal court could inquire he said Hubert said In Town is against a stacked deck because editor (of the local paper) is on the board of trustees" of Mer cer and because of the potential political ramifications of what the group is trying to do The Hubert alluded to is Bert St ruby publisher of the The Macon Telegraph and News Struby is also chairman of Mer cer's Board of Trustees Hubert said he regards the situ ation a thinly veiled attempt to circumvent the provisions of the law and accomplish indirectly what could not be accomplished directly" "I just want to see that the fed eral law is complied Hubert said Diana Siege president of In Town said Mercer would need federal funds to build on the land She said Mercer officials were told that In Town is "adamant" that it should have a say on what goes on the property acquired by the school MRS STEGE SAID Mercer re fused to reconsider the request She told the group that John Hol ley executive director of the Ma con Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission has up to five days following a public hearing riday to make a decision on whether destruction of the houses can be delayed She said the group has 10 days to file an appeal it would come before planning and zoning and as a body it would decide to grant a permit immediately to tear down the houses or impose a 90 day stay" Mrs Stege said She said plans for construction in the historic district must be giv en a certificate of appropriateness before demolition stand to lose Mrs Stege said is a price to be paid the probability that Overlook Mansion be turned over to the city we scrap too much Mercer could withdraw from the purchase of the property and the city could withdraw the money for the Over look House" Nancy Brown who is president of Macon Heritage oundation and a member of Mercer's Board of Trustees said there is a basic mis trust on both sides "We ask not wait until you have Mercer answers we will have the same hue and cry that we have Mercer asks not trust us to put something there com Although Mercer refused to eli minate the stipulation from the property sales agreement that the houses be razed first Mrs Brown said it was agreed that an eight member advisory committee be formed to look into the develop ment of the property Mrs Brown emphasized that it would be advisory only because Mercer would not agree to any thing that was binding She said the city stands to lose $250 OCMJ in federal money if the De 260 Orange Street im i in nil 286 Orange Street WiliS Mr 5 296 Orange Street partment of Housing and Urban Development hears that use of the money is contested In Town passed a resolution stating its opposition to "un planned intrusion of institutional facilities into residential areas of the historic The group said it favored devel opment in the area that would not change the residential character of a neighborhood and spawn un wanted congestion Radio irms Seek Switch In Stations By Sherry Howard Telegraph Staff Writer Radio stations WDDO and WBML are asking the ederal Communica tions Commission (CC) to switch their frequencies WDDO wants to be heard on the higher frequency 1240 dial how held by WBML WBML would take over that 900 dial The stations filed the application with CC on March 3 The commis sion is expected to act on the re quest by May 1 WDDO is owned by Piedmont Com munications Corp Network Inc owns WBML Officials at both stations would say very little about the changes They of fered to make a full announcement if the request is granted by CC THEY DID SAY that there would be no change in ownership of the sta tions if CC okays the request Nei ther will there be a change in format they said With the exchange of frequencies between the two stations will come a change in the time both will be on the air red Newton vice president of Piedmont said plans are to run WDDO 24 hours a day The station is now on the air from dawn to dusk WBML is on 18 hours a day "Ours is a move to extend the ser vices of WDDO as far as we are said Ben Porter Jr president of Piedmont WDDO with its soul music aimed at black audiences came to the air ways early last year The station was created when WCRY AM changed its music" format to The change was made after the CC ruled that a station could not broadcast identical programs at the same time on both AM and fre quencies.