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THURSDAY. JULY 19. 2007 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 3A
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Today,
Thursday,
July 19, at
10 a.m., the
Tennessee
Aquarium
will present
the program,
Creepy Crawlies, of which, spi
ders and bugs are the stars. This
afternoon, at 2 p.m., they will
present a second program,
Insects Around Us. These
informative and educational
Vacation Reading Club events
are also fun and free entertain
ment.
There will be a Vacation
Reading Club Party at the
library at 2 p.m. on Tuesday,
July 24. Tickets to this event are
earned by those who have com
pleted their first level reading
goal.
Sign-up for the Vacation
Reading Club runs until July
31. Reading logs need to be
turned in by closing time (9
p.m.) on Tuesday, the 31st to
claim rewards.
We want to thank the dedi
cated members of the Lions
Club of Jasper for their hard
work at sprucing up the land
scaping of the library grounds
with new pine straw. This is a
twice yearly donation of time
and effort from the Lions and
they do a wonderful job.
The library will hold a Bible
& Book Repair Clinic
Thursday, July 26 from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. If you have a family
Bible or any other books that
need to be rebound, bring them
in and Jack Kyle, a representa
tive of the National Library
Bindery, will give you free esti
mates of the cost of repairing or
restoring your books, maga
zines and other printed material.
This month the topic for the
Genealogy Explorers meeting is
Immigration, Emigration and
Migration. The group meets at
the library on the last Saturday
of each month at 10 a.m. This
free program is open to anyone
interested in doing family
research.
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Bailiff William Cantrell and the Progress camera bag he
scanned to demonstrate the new courthouse X-ray machine.
spray), plus pocket knives and
chains—even decorative chains.
"Chains that are attached to
wallets are considered a
weapon," Adams said. Scissors,
knitting needles, similar sharp
objects are also no-admittance
items, he said, and are subject to
be confiscated when detected.
Signs on the courthouse lawn
near the main entrance to the
building list contraband items
and warn visitors to leave such
things at their vehicle to avoid
confiscation by law enforce
ment.
Turning back at the court
house steps to stash your six-
shooter under the truck seat
might be OK, Adams said, but
step inside the door with it, and
you've got trouble.
"If it comes through that
machine, it's ours," Adams said.
And depending on what the item
is, you might have some
explaining to do. But the stricter
rules and tighter security should
keep the courthouse a safe place
for court officials, defendants
and visitors.
"This is mainly a deterrent,"
Adams said. Seeing the X-ray
machine and metal detector at
the courthouse entrance should
stop anyone from even trying to
bring a weapon inside, he said.
And for that assurance, the rest
of us put up with the inconven
ience.
"I think everybody realizes
it's just part of security now that
you have to live with," Adams
said.
Between the Bookends
By Donna Harrington
Pickens County Librarian
We’ve had a great response
to our call for used-books for
our Community Used-Book
Sale to be held in September,
but we still need your book
donations if we are to make it
the biggest and best ever. We
welcome your contributions of
books that you no longer read or
want to keep. This year quite a
few used videos and books on
tape have been donated and per
haps you might weed your col
lections of these materials too.
Items that you wish to donate to
this sale may be brought to the
library at any time. What a great
way to recycle and support your
Big Fish Winner
— Summer nights are hot and
muggy in Georgia and folks
looking for a way to cool off
might consider this:
A few miles from Jasper in
Fairmount each Saturday night
J.W. Beals hosts a fishing tour
nament. Entry fees are used to
determine the size of “the pot”
and the more folks the more
money. Great concept, great
family fun and a great way to
cool off on a hot summer night.
Well, maybe not the perfect way
to cool off.
Bass Pro Shop 2006 Angler
of the Year Lonnie Fountain
loves taking her family to fish
ing tournaments. Lonnie loves
the family spending time
together doing something he is
crazy about. He loved every
thing about the tournament. It
was close to home, it was fun
for his family and it was nice for
his young step-son David to fish
alongside Mom and Lonnie.
Everything about this little tour
nament was going great. Lonnie
is a great fisherman and loves to
see folks have fun doing some
thing his dad taught him many
years ago.
Lonnie loves to win and
thought he had a pretty good
shot at this one. Wrong. His
wife Dawn took 1st Fish,
Biggest Fish and Biggest Fish of
the Month. Boy was she tickled
and boy was he shocked. Dawn
was thrilled to win all three
spots and won $810. Not bad for
a nice Saturday evening with
your family.
Lonnie is fishing in a tourna
ment in Mississippi this week,
but Dawn said she would stay
home and show up in Fairmount
Saturday night. Close to home,
nice folks and a nice way to cool
off on a hot Georgia Saturday
night. Well, maybe a good way
to cool off unless you expected
to win and your wife beat you.
In Ranger, Ga. life is good.
Dawn is shown with her win
ning fish.
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By Jeff Warren
There are new rules down at
the courthouse.
"You can't bring in any kind
of weapon, including pocket
knives," said Pickens County
Sheriffs Deputy Jim Adams.
Used to be you could carry a
pocket knife in if you weren't
headed to a courtroom, but
tighter security has ended that
leeway. Adams said a state court
order now requires increased
scrutiny of all individuals enter
ing a courthouse and further
limits on what can be brought
inside. It is a state of Georgia
mandate for all courthouses, he
explained.
Nowadays all entrances to
the Pickens County courthouse
remain locked except the front
entrance where anyone entering
the building must pass through a
metal detector and submit car
ried items for X-ray inspection.
Bailiffs began using a new
X-ray machine to scan carried
items Monday, July 9, Adams
said. Chief Deputy Allen
Wigington said the county paid
$23,000 for the Smiths Heimann
4200 machine that uses low-
level X-ray to screen objects.
"It uses 10,000 times less
rads for this than what you get
on a chest X-ray," Adams said.
You could pass your hand inside
the machine without hurting
yourself, he said. The X-ray
emitting part of the device is
lead shielded, he added.
"There's no X-rays actually
escaping from the machine
itself," Adams said.
And the operator has an
emergency kill switch (actually
three) to immediately de-ener
gize the device, quenching the
X-ray emitter and stopping the
conveyor that draws bundles
through the machine.
That kill switch saved the
day during the first week of
operation, Adams said, when a
child carrier, set down on the
conveyor, started toward the X-
ray tunnel with baby on board.
A watchful bailiff hit the kill
switch with no harm done.
Briefcases, cameras, camera
cases, women's purses—any
thing you carry, even cell
phones—must pass through the
machine, Adams said.
"There are guns out there dis
guised as cell phones now,"
Adams explained. Another law
man rolled computer video
demonstrating a James Bond
like cell phone pistol firing mul
tiple rounds.
The X-ray machine's color
display and strong contrasting
feature make metal objects easy
to spot. Organic-based materials
(like the leather of a purse or
briefcase) show up orange,
Adams said.
"Metal shows up blue to
black," he said, "depending on
the hardness of the metal.
There's a lot of contrast, so it's
really easy to pick something
out—a metal object—because
of the contrast."
To demonstrate, lawmen
dropped a replica two-barrel
derringer (actually a cigarette
lighter) into a Progress camera
bag and conveyed the bundle
through the X-ray machine. The
bailiffs display screen revealed
the derringer profile, blue and
obvious.
Adams said the X-ray
machine is especially helpful
searching a woman's purse
because of standard difficulty
sifting through purse contents
by sight well enough to tell what
is or isn't inside. The machine
makes it plain.
"It lets us see everything
that's in there," Adams said.
Technicians have found that
objects hidden under other
materials actually show up bet
ter, he said.
"The more you try to hide it,
the more it will show up any
way," said bailiff and X-ray
machine operator William
Cantrell.
The list of not-allowed con
traband items includes firearms,
of course, obvious weapons of
any kind (including pepper
Detail from bailiff’s display screen shows a ghost outline
of the camera bag with derringer visible at top right.
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