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VOLUME 73—NUMBER 13
STATE, LOCAL OFFICERS f
Meeting Called This Week On
Reckless Teen Age Driving
Arch Farrar, Juvenile Court probation officer, recently
has had some harrowing experiences with teen age drivers.
As a result, a meeting will be held this week in Sum
merville between Sergeant Sweat, Georgia State Patrol;
Chief W. G. Tallent, Sheriff Fred Stewart and Farrar to
work out plans for correcting a “dangerous” situation.
“I am alarmed about the reck
lessness and disregard of teen
age drivers for traffic laws,’’
Farrar said.
“Driving dangerously and
‘scratching off’ as they do en
dangers the lives of everyone on
the road.
“A complete investigation by
Juvenile Court authorities and
law enforcement officers is being
made.”
Mr. Farrar said that the state
patrol and Governor’s office are
being brought into the investiga
tion, as many incidents show the
need for some drastic action.
He declared that cases are go
ing to be made and offenders
punished.
“We call on all citizens who
see these traffic violators to take
tag numbers and report them to
the proper law enforcement of
ficers,” Mr. Farrar urged.
He said that the concentration
of reckless and dangerous driv
ing seems largely on Bolling,
Menlo and Lyerly Roads.
Teen agers drag race outside
of the City in a manner that
demands immediate action, and
that action may be expected to
come out of this week’s meeting,
it was stressed.
THE ONLY WAY
BOND ELECTION
SEEN NECESSARY
FOR RECREATION
In 1955 Mayor E. C. Pesterfield
and the council called together a
committee composed of repre
sentatives from all civic clubs in
the area. From this group a com
mirtee of directors was formed
under and functioned under the
leadership of Rev. R. C. Pooley.
In 1955 this committee operated
John's Poof at Pennville on
$1,500.00 which the city had ac
cumulated from an assessment
on Sunday movies.
Last year the mayor and coun
cil appointed a new Recreation
Committee to study the needs of
tin city. Mrs. Ed Gay carried out
a program at the high school
gym last summer which was
limited because of lack of funds.
This group has been in the
process of acquiring land and
I studying a means of raising
! monies for the building of re-
I creational facilities for the people
of this community.
After exhausting all other pos
sibilities it has been decided that
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FLUORIDATION
ADVANTAGES
ARE DESCRIBED
Dr. Berlon Lovingood. one of
ji many professional men and or
| ganizations who have recom-
I mended the fluoridation of the
[City of Summerville's watersup-
I ply, quoted the Georgia Depart
| ment of Health in an Interview
"Dr. T. F. Sellers, Director,
| has told us that the Georgia De
partment of Public Health is
I convinced that fluoridation of
public water supplies for the
| partial control of dental decay
I has passed the experimental
■ stage.
i "He says that adequate evi- '
Idcncc has been obtained through
■controlled and epidemiological
Ist tidies to prove that it is an of-:
■cctive, safe and practical pub-1
lie health procedure
"On the basis of this evidence," I
br. Lovingood said, "supported
by the opinion of every major
health organization in the state
and nation, the Georgia Depart*
ment of Public. Health urges the
fluoridation of the fluorlde-de- j
ficient water supplies in this
state as rapidly us they can lx- i
approved by the local dental
and medical professions, the lo
cal health department officials
and the Georgia Department of
Public Health."
The city agreed last week to.
Iluoridatc the city's water sup
pily on the recommendation of,
ill organizations concerned.
I Dr. Lovingood added, for pub-1
■ic information, that approval
Jins been given for fluoridation
■>f the drinking water at 21 army
nosts located in various parts of
■he United States. Hawaii and I
VucrU) Rico.
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DAPHNE BUSBY, graduate
of Summerville High School,
has earned three honors as a
freshman at Alabama College,
Montevallo. She has been
elected sports editor of the
Alabamian; she was in the
Gold Production College night,
and she has been elected
basketball captain. She also
was in the top five in the
popularity contest.
LOYALTY DAY
!VFW AND LEGION
TO HEAD PARADE
SATURDAY WEEK
1 A number of years ago the
1 Veterans of Foreign Wars
' adopted the idea of counter-de
-1 monstration—parades of loyal
Americans on May 1 to challenge
1 the world-wide May Day celebra
tion of the followers of com
• munism. Too long the VFW
* realized had patriotic Americans
1 stood by while the disciples of
communism staged their parades,
' conducted their rallies and gave
their annual demonstrations de
' signed to glorify their atheistic
( beliefs.
The need for a special day that
would accent the differences bc
-1 tween the American w'ay of life
’ ■ and the vicious principles of
communism was agreed upon by
‘ । all service organizations. Gener
-1 ally throughout the United States
■ these organizations beginning
’ the last of April and running
through May 1, will hold parades
or stage other types of patriotic
■ programs in cooperation with all
civic and educational groups.
In Summerville the Mason-
McCahley VFW Post and the
i American Legion will sponsor
I and head a parade on Saturday,
April 27. The Summerville High
| School Band will march and all
civic and other organized groups
are being asked to join in a
powerful democratic demonstra
tion of loyalty to God and coun-
I try—in a show of our concern
; for the security of America’s
peace and freedom.
i An annual Loyalty Day affords
the opportunity for every Amer*
> lean to publicly demonstrate
their faithful affection for our
system of government and to
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NO C OF C WORK
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GOOD PUBLICITY
FOR SUMMERVILLE
COMES NATURALLY
The City of Summerville has
been making the wire services
and receiving editorial comment
on a number of mutters in re
cent weeks.
Summerville area suddenly has
। become news lor many reasons.
Past highway fatalities have
been reduced to nil. In spite of
reckless teen age driving.
The crime rale, through
vigilant efforts of the police de
partment, has been sharply cut.
There have been a couple of
.■■bootings since a relatively!
'crime-free three months jierlod.
But in. fatalities
Summerville has been reeciv
jng so much good publicity in
other cities and slates thal it
might be charged to the efforts
of a Chamber of Commerce. But I
It has just come about naturally.'
since the city has no such organ-;
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 18, 1957
Georgia Law
is Vague On
Any Curfews
SOLICITOR SELF FINDS
NO BASIS FOR HAVING
OR NOT HAVING ONE
Solicitor Earl Self has ex
haustively checked Georgia law
this past week and can find no
case where a curfew has been
challenged in the State.
Curfews have been imposed all
over Georgia and the records
fail to show that any test case
has ever been made.
There is nothing in the state
laws about curfews under Geor
gia decisions, he pointed out.
The only way to determine the
legality of a curfew for adults
or teenagers would be to test it
after someone had been con
victed and the case carried to a
high court.
Solicitor Self said he cannot
find any basis for having a cur
few or not having one.
Crufew has been the leading
topic of conversation in Chat
tooga County during the past
week.
Council met for an hour and a
half last Saturday and the cur
few was still on the books when
the meeting ended.
Mayor E. C. Pesterfield said,
however, that he has told Chief
W. G. Tallent not to Enforce it.
Pesterfield said: “Our police
department is doing one of the
finest jobs I have ever seen. If
there was a need for an adult
curfew I’d be for it. But the
court records bear out that we
have a good law-abiding com
munity.
“I just don’t feel like imposing
restrictions on the citizens of
this county when there is no
need for it. I think any law
abiding person has the right to
come and go as he pleases at
any time of day or night.
The mayor added: “If we were
having a wave of law breaking,
assaults or robberies, I’d say
yes. Give a curfew a whirl. But
that is not the case.”
Citizens seemed to be taking
the curfew in stride. There was
nothing on the surface to indi
cate otherwise. There were some
protests and complaints of a
general nature by citizens.
The Atlanta papers played the
story on the front page.
Sheriff Fred Stewart said he
would have no part of enforcing
an adult curfew in the county.
DANCE TO HELP
BLIND PROGRAM
A number of statb officials will
be on tlie guest list at a dance
next Saturday evening to help
raise funds for Abilities of the
Blind, at the Rome Marine
Armory.
The guest list from Summer
ville includes Sen. and Mrs.
Bobby Lee Cook.
The dance at the Marine
Corps Armory is part of a fund
raising program to provide capi
tal for new equipment at Abili
ties of the Blind factory in Floyd
County.
It is announced by sponsors
that tickets can be purchased at
the door.
New Miniature Golf Course
Opens to Public Here Tonight
Charley Hollis and Jack Wof- ;
ford announce the opening to- I
night of their colorful new 18-
hole miniature golf course on i
North Commerce.
Par is 42 for the attractive !
layout which lias hazards for Ilie !
unwary. There are concrete ap- 1
proaehes to the holes. Felt is ।
placed around the holes.
Players will use regular score- :
cards, clubs and golf balls will |:
be provided Each player will use (
a different colored golf ball. I:
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RECREATION seekers of the urea can enjoy ministurr golf
again In Summerville when the new 18-holc course of Charley
Hollis and Jack Wofford opcu^ louigbl on North Counucrct.
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SUMMERVILLE High Future Farmers are shown building lawn chains and book cases as one
of their projects. Left to right, Ted Bridges, Jerry Bridges, Ray Smith and Glenn Packer.
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IN THIS Summerville High FFA project the boys are building cedar chests and night stands.
Left to right, Robert Smith, Billy Cargile, Sonny Yancey, Jerry Worsham and Wayman Howard.
| INTEGRAL PART OF PROGRAM
Vocational Agriculture
Shop Promotes Boys’ Skills
Every vocational agriculture pupil in Summerville High
: School has access to a school shop as a place to learn shop
skills in connection with his construction and repair pro-
jects.
Shop work is an integral part
of the training program.
Among items built or repaired
as a result of tHV shop program
are cedar chests, lawn chairs,
book cases, dining tables, self
feeders for hogs and farm tools,
trucks and tractors.
Lee A. Segars, FFA advisor and
shop instructor, finds that the
shop program stimulates inter
est among the FFA members and
helps them in getting prepared
for an occupation in an industry
or for farm work.
During the six years that Mr.
Segars has been in charge of
this work the items built in the
shop have grown from very
simple projects to projects that
require more skills and interest
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It’s presented as a fine new
I enterprise for recreation, and
fun for all.
Tlie course will be open every
night, including Saturday, and
Saturday and Sunday aiernoons.
The operators have followed a
color scheme of orange and
green tor the attractive sur
roundings. Anyone can play
miniature golf, and the owners
extend an invitation to area citi
zens to attend their opening
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PAM, 3, and Kay Mills, 2,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Billy It. Mills. Summerville.
Grandparents are the A. F.
McCurdys, Summerville, and
Hal Mills, Subligna.
AT MUSIC FESTIVAL
I LEE AND DEAN
TO REPRESENT
SCHOOL BAND
1 Tlic annual Tri State Music
■ Festival and Clinic, held at the
i Chattanooga City High School
I each year, will be attended by
■ two of Summerville’s top band
t students, Jimmy Lee and Jerry
i Dean.
The Tri State Band Festival is
held each year to assemble the
outstanding band students from
throughout the Tri State Dis
trict to play in a bund that will
accompany a professional. The
members that play in the band
I go up on several different days
to practice for the concert that
will highlight the festival. The
| guest artist for this year will be
Rafael Mendez, a world-famous
. trumpet player, and guest con
ductor will be Nilo W Hovey,
conductor of the Butler Univer
sity Conceit Band
The clinic will be held on April
: 10. will also have a "Musicram#"
lor, in other words, a Music Jam
| borer. The Jamboree «ill hat m e
dance bands, soloist, trios, and
various other groups. There will
। also be special clinics, conducted
by experts, for till the different
| instruments. Mr. Mendez will
I teach the classes for brass and
Mr. Hovey will handle the wood-
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SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 PER YEAR
MP'S CALLED IN
AWOL PRIVATES
ARE PICKED UP
AT HIGH SCHOOL
1 Police Chief W. G. Tailant said
i that two army privates AWOL
. from Ft. Jackson were picked up
at Summerville High School,
where they said they were going
to enroll and start school again.
Checking their papers, Chief
Tallant found that Billy Gene
Jones. Lyerly, and George Sidney
Smallfield. Ft. Sill, were absent
j without leave.
He notified Ft. Jackson, and
military police there contacted
Ft. McPherson, Atlanta. Two
MP's came yesterday to take the
privates there, before returning
them to Ft. Jackson.
NEW FILMS FOR
EDUCATION USE
Chattooga County teachers
will be offered some new Niagara
Falls, Grand Canyon and other
sound-color motion pictures, in
addition to woods lire preven
tion films, it was stated in Sum
merville Saturday by W. L
Shaddix. representing the South-,
i era States Forest Fire Commis
sion. The new movies add in
terest to assembly programs, in-
I eluding the elementary schools,
Mr. Shaddix stated while in the
News Office. He is a former
teacher of Alabama, but has
been helping the Commission In
dependent Forestry Education
agencies for the past ten years
in Georgia and other slates. Ap
plication for the free films
should be made to the Commis
sion Distribution Center. 918 S
17th Street. Birmingham S. Ala
The groups are alarmed about I
the possibility el recurring for
est fires in the mountain areas
due to accumulation of needles,
leaves, and dead limbs This
| may become another California
; without the continued co-opcra-
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Plaudits for Commissioner
On Courthouse Appearance
County Coninils.4oncr Jolin
Jones has been receiving many
complinienls on the bright new
appcaraiicc of the interior of the
courthouse. All oniecM down
stairs except his own will have
been painted by the end oi the
week.
I The county school superin
tendent's office and the sheriff's
office were paliihd ixfoir Hie
clean-up program began
! Paiuling ul the courtroom up-
1 EDITORIAL
©ibes' Counties ©on'i
Eat 'Higher On the Hog'
Chattooga still has the highest per capita income of the major
I county group, Gordon, Floyd, Polk and Bartow. It’s $533 against
1 Floyd’s $477. Bartow is at the bottom of the list at $203.
And yet every one of these other counties makes a better show-
I ing in spending and keeping the money at home.
We know that people in these other counties do not eat any
| better than Chattoogans do. So, when you see that for Chattooga’s
I 21,208 population, the average spent for food is slls, against Floyd’s
I $267, you get the idea somebody is eating out—of Chattooga. A
I lot of somebodys.
A lot of somebodys are buying, banking and possibly borrowing
. out of Chattooga. We only bring it up, with substantiating figures,
। to deplore so much patronizing other areas that don’t deserve it
as much as Chattooga does.
You get down to brass tacks when you study industrial income,
! retail sales and money spent at home. Chattooga, with the largest
| per capita income, turns inventories only once—sl.o9. In Gordon
j and Bartow the money is turned into trade channels three times,
i and in Floyd and Polk twice.
There is one thing to consider about the single turnover-in
I Chattooga. You can go broke that way. Your city can shrink. And
• yet, as we well know that highway 27 is going to be the No. 1 access
route to Florida for tourists, we ought to get on the ball.
A prominent merchant said this week: “We don’t advertise
I enough. Maybe, too, we don’t offer customers everything they
! want.”
The only way merchants can afford to do the latter, we know,
। is for increased patronage to warrant carrying complete stocks,
i It takes money to do it: talk is cheap. Trade at home, and you'll
I see a big difference in many things in the due course of events.
You can't hide your light under a bushel. Advertising pays,
i The prominent merchant was right. The great enterprises of today
I were built on the solid foundation of advertising. Nobody can
guess' what you have to offer if you don't tell them.
You might be surprised how regular advertising of some items
I worth while will pay dividends. Past performance of companies
i that made advertising their steady diet is reflected in their vast
- and steady earnings. Hasn’t advertising done it for Coca-Cola?
But to get back on the original track, here are figures of the
j five-county area that prove Chattooga merchants, while rptail
। sales were higher in 1955, need to explore any means of persuading
! their fellow citizens to spend more where they live.
Spent Per Cap.
Pop. ' Food Drugs Income
Chattooga 21.208 slls $17.50 $533 00
Gordon 18,957 $154 $27.10 $215.00
-Floyd 62,917 $267 $29.00 $477.00
j Polk 30,976 $l9O $21.30 $303.00
Bartow 27,370 SIBO $21.30 $203.00
Indust. Retail Spent
Income Sales, ’55 at Home
! Chattooga $11,274,000 $12,288,000 $1.09
! Gordon $ 4,072,000 $13,013,000 $3.17
i Floyd • $30,021,000 $67,260,000 $2 24
I Polk $ 9,411,000 $22,890,000 $2.47
Bartow $ 5.570,000 $16,719,000 $3.00
Employed Employed Per
Industry Payroll Cap. Income
Chattooga 4.329 11,274,000 2,600
i Gordon 2.223 4,072.000 1.832
j Floyd 10,353 30.021.000 2.900
’ Polk 3,669 9,411.000 2,565
: Bartow 2,273 5,570,000 2.405
Miss Georgia Will Visit
Summerville on May 22-23
Miss Georgia of 1956 has accepted an invitation to pay
•Summerville a two-day visit May 22 and 23, Jaycee Charles
Farrar said today.
Jane Morris. Atlanta, will visit businesses, townpeople
and manufacturing concerns on the two days.
She will be at the Summerville
Hospitality Station with the girls
who are going to help out in
routing out about 1,500 Jaycees
and their wives through Sum
merville to the state convention
on May 23, 24 and 25.
The hospitality station will be
at the intersection of Lyerly
Highway and U. S. 27. Soft drinks
and coffee will be served to the
! convention delegates.
As official hostess of the Jay
cees, Miss Morris will go to the
convention from here Miss
Georgia is 19. blond and blue
eyed She placed in the Miss
America contest.
Her visit, and the large dele
gation of Jaycees coming
through Summerville, will be one
of the highlights of the spring
season.
Mrs. Fred Stewart
Enjoys Birthday
Mrs. Fred Stewart, celebrating
her birthday Tuesday, showed
how It is with homefolks
Sheriff Stewart, daughter Mar
tha and a newspaper friend sat
down to a birthday luncheon of
stew, corn, beans, cornbread and
iced tea.
A candle was lighted in the
cornbread, which took the place
of cuke. That’s real Southern
style.
PT A MEETING
IS POSTPONED
The Chattooga County Council
of Parents and Teachers Asso
ciation has been postponed un
til April 30
The meeting will be held in
the High School Cafeteria at
7:30 p.m.
stairs will be held up until the
court session ends and necessary
repairs are made.
Commissioner Jones may wait
until all other rooms are com
pleted before getting around to
i his own.
The job has been done in a
most efficient and speedy mm
ncr by Public Works Camp per
sonnel and painters
Thr thorough clean-up, paint
up program deserves commenda*
lion and praise.
CABINS TARGET
OF VANDALS,
SHERIFF SAYS
Sheriff Fred Stewart reported
that Rome contractor White’s
j cabin on Lookout Mountain, and
two nearby cabins, were entered
by vandals with resultant pro
perty damage of about S3O to a
cabin.
At White's cabin glass was
knocked out of the door and
window glasses broken. Property
damage at the other cabins was
braken glass. Some canned food
was taken from the White cabin,
the Sheriff said.
This "malicious mischief" was
termed deplorable by Stewart,
who warned of the consequences
if vandals are caught in the act,
FIRE DAMAGE
LESS THAN SIOO
IN CITY FIRES
Summerville’s award-winning
( Volunteer Fire Department lias
been fighting fire with the usual
effectiveness in the first tnree
months of this year, limiting
। damage within the city to less
than SIOO. There were 14 calls
during the period, ranging from
grass fires to homes.
Principal damage was s.<o in
volving u home and S2O to a
garage
Calls included such things ns
the burned out tail light wire of
an uuto, and the Summerville
Grammar School The fire was
out when they got there.
Chattooga has had, for the
period, about half us many fires
us a year ago. There were 27 culls
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SHOTS SCHEDULED
AT HEALTH DEPT.
There will l»r no immunization
clinic nt the Health Department
next week < April 251
Those who have “ahota" dug
on April 25 will please come to
the following week’s clinic,
Thursday, May 2.
Immunizations will be given all
day today (April 18* al the
Health Department, beginning
at 8 45 am to 11:45 am. and
Irum 1 0U pjp to 4.45 p.m.