Page 8 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1970
Foster grandparents feel young again
Elderly paired with handicapped kids
United Press International
ATLANTA — Mrs. Massie Tap-
len, 68, drags herself out of bed be
fore 4 a.m. five days a week so she
can be at the Georgia Retardation
Center in time to wake her two fos
ter grandchildren for breakfast.
Mrs. Taplen has six children, 17
grandchildren and two great
grandchildren of her own, but says
the two handicapped girls — who
call her “mama” — represent one of
the most important parts of her day.
Mrs. Taplen is one of 400 elderly,
low-income people paired with
lonely, handicapped children in
several facilities in Georgia s foster
grandparent program.
The program — in its 13th year
under the Georgia Office of Volun
teer Services — matches low-
income people over 60 with chil
dren who have “special or excep
tional needs,” Director Cassey
Wilhelm said.
She said foster grandparents, who
are paid an income supplement of
$6.40 a day for four hours of work
five days a week, are based at sev
eral Georgia institutions where they
provide companionship for emo
tionally, physically and mentally
handicapped children.
Lattie Smith, 81, has been a fos
ter grandparent for 11 years and said
the relationship has rejuvenated her
life.
“I think the program does more
for the grandparents than the doctor
ever could,” Mrs. Smith said. “I get
up in morning and think, ‘Oh, I
don’t want to do this.’ But by the
time I get down here, I feel great. I
think it does more for the grandpa
rents than the children.”
Mrs. Taplen said her children
tried to discourage her when she
began the program six years ago,
“but I said I think I can make it. I
have faith in myself and faith in
God. I had to have faith, and now
I’m still making it.”
Mrs. Taplen said some people did
not "have the nerve to work with
the children. You can’t pity them.
You have to work with them.”
Gussie Mae Jackson, 73, said her
foster grandson, who has been been
with her for the past two years.
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could not talk when they first were
paired.
“Within a year, he was speaking
23 words and singing ‘Hey Bobba-
ree-bop, ” she said.
Gordon Hill, 74, has been trek
king to the center to visit a ram
bunctious small boy, who has called
him “daddy” for more than two
years.
Even though Hill has eight
grandchildren and two sons, one
still living with him, he became a
foster grandparent because he
wanted “to give love to someone
who did not have it.”
$150 battle
wins victory
over red tape
United Press International
RIVERDALE, Mich. — The fed
eral government’s loss was the tele
phone company’s gain, but Larry
Brooks still thinks he won his battle
against bureaucracy.
Brooks, 23, is unemployed and
decided several months ago that his
$668.69 federal income tax refund
was overdue. So he started making
telephone calls from his mobile
home near Riverdale in central
Michigan town.
He called the Social Security
Administration in Maryland, his
congressman’s office, then the In
ternal Revenue Service in Detroit
and Washington, the Treasury De
partment and anywhere else that
seemed logical.
"I got to thinking somebody has
to be in charge,” he said. “Then I
called the White House. I got a
woman in the comments depart
ment. She said she’d look into it.’
In all, he made 20 long distance
calls before striking it rich with a call
to a Social Security office in Mount
Pleasant, 12 miles away. It turned
out he and another man had the
same social security number, com
plicating the situation.
The check was forwarded, and
Brooks got his money and, he said, a
victory against red tape.
"I feel I’ve shown that the little
man really can do something and get
results,’’ Brooks said.
“My wife doesn’t agree. She says
I lost because of the phone bill.”
It came to $150.
ALTERATIONS
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper
Wet Rat Patrol
The newest game on campus seems to be “Wet Rat Patrol.”
The object is to avoid looking like a drowned rat. These stu
dents have found only a partial solution. Players still may be
called wet rats, even if they have umbrellas, upon discovery
of a puddle too late.
Ex-ambassador
has Viet papers
United Press International
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —
Graham Martin, former U.S. am
bassador to South Vietnam, said
Wednesday, he planned to give
top-secret intelligence documents
found in the trunk of his car, to the
Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
The Washington Post has re
ported that the Justice Department
is attempting to determine who
owns the documents. The news
paper said the Justice Department
has been considering whether to
prosecute Martin under a seldom-
used statute dealing with the misuse
of classified documents.
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The documents were discovered
when Martin’s car was stolen in
Winston-Salem and later recovered
just outside the city.
Martin, who is in Baptist Hospital
recovering from lung surgery, said
he hadn’t talked to authorities since
late last year when his car was reco
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Martin said he wanted to give the
papers to the LBJ Library at the
University of Texas in Austin.
"I thought the historians might be
able to do a better job at telling the
story than has been done so far,” he
told the Washington Post.
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Police said Martin’s car was re
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of his home Dec. 22 and was reco
vered on Christmas DaJ.
The documents were taken to the
FBI office in Greensbao. Martin
has said he regards all th* papers as
his personal possessions.
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