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Official Chattooga County
Publication For 75 Years
VOLUME 75—NO. 22
Acreafl And Building Offered In Industry Bid
State Agents Confiscate Beer . . .
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More than 700 cases of beer were confiscated near Trion Tuesday and stored in the Chattooga
County Jail. Workmen are shown unloading the beer which was in case lots. In the right fore
ground is Chattooga Count}' Sheriff Fred Stewart. Sitting on the truck at the right, is Joe Frank
Thomas, Summerville officer.
Warrants Charge Brothers
For Attack Against Mayor
Pair Charged With Assault and Battery
In Fight al Mayor Copeland’s Residence
In an attack against Mayor M. H. Copeland and a
member of his family late Saturday night, Ralph Deberry
and his brother, Ray Deberry, were lodged in City Jail on
disorderly conduct charges and later transferred to the
Chattooga County Jail on a warrant charging assault and
battery.
The assault and battery war
rant was sworn out by the
Mayor's son-in-law, Joe Lively.
The pair also face charges of
destroying public property.
City Police Sergeant Harold
Cody and Corporal Charles Gay
lor answered a call to Mayor
Copeland’s residence about 12:30
a.m. Saturday night. When the
police arrived at the Mayor’s
home on Congress street, they
found the city’s chief executive
in the front yard defending
himself against the Deberry
brothers. Mayor Copeland was
wielding a crutch, the property
of his father-in-law, J. W.
Mitchell, who resides with the
Copeland family.
The Mayor’s son-in-law had
already tangled with the broth
ers, first on the front porch and
again in the yard.
Prior to the assault on the
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Georgia Rug Mill Readies Lyerly "Open House" . . .
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This striking view of the Georgia Rug Mill’s new warehousing
facility at Lyerly depicts the size of the operation visitors will
inspect at “Open House” ceremonies set tor July 7. Officials of
LOAN ASSOCIATION
REPORTS DIVIDEND
FOR SHAREHOLDERS
The Dalton National Farm
Loan Association of Dalton,
Ga., has declared a 3 per cent
dividend, according to an
nouncement of J. Ed King, presi
dent.
The dividend is payable on
stock of the association out
standing as of the close of busi
ness June 30, 1959.
According to T. W. Price, sec
retary-treasurer. “the National
Farm Loan Association is a co
operative and it is an estab
lished policy that savings in
operation costs, after providing
for necessary reserves, are to be
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County-Wide Chorus
io Start Rehearsal
All Chattooga County singers
have been invited to participate
in an All-County Chorus with
the first rehearsal scheduled for
the Summerville High School
Auditorium on Thursday eve
ning, July 9, beginning at 7
o’clock.
The chorus will be under the
direction of Darry L. Pilkington,
recently named music director
at Trion High School. It will be
sponsored jointly by the Sum
merville Music Club and thei
Trion High School.
Pilkington said today that the
chorus will be open to any per
son with former choral or
church choir experience. He said
that five or six concerts will be
given with proceeds going into
a musical scholarship fund for
a deserving high school senior.
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—Stafl Photo by McConnell
Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company will be in Summerville to at
tend the event and a luncheon given by the Summerville Retail
Merchants Association.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GA. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959
July Term Superior
Court Is Scheduled
Grand Jury Named Here* This Week;
Criminal ami Civil Sessions Set
Chattooga County Superior Court has been scheduled
for July with Judge John W. Davis presiding over Civil
Court sessions to get underway at 9 o'clock on Monday
morning, July 13.
Beer Shipment
Nabbed By Law
Tuesday Night
A large shipment of beer was
nabbed by the law near Trion
Tuesday night when State Reve
nue Agents Davis, Crawford and
Evans confiscated 724 cases.
The State men were accom
panied by Chattooga County
Sheriff Fred Stewart, who car
ried a search warrant. The beer
was taken by the officers at the
residence and garage of R. C.
Minor, north of Trion, it was re
ported.
Sheriff Stewart said that 324
.cases were located in the garage.
Four hundred cases were on a
rental truck operated by Burl E.
Causey of Rome, the Sheriff
said.
It was reported that the Reve
nue agents followed the truck
from Rome to the Minor resi
dence.
The beer shipment was stored
in the Chattooga County jail.
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Criminal Court will begin the
following Monday morning, July
20. at 9 o’clock.
Twenty eight members of the
July term Grand Jury were also
announced this week. They are
as follows:
Lester White. James A. Ham
mond. W. A. Bowman. Jr., Wood
row Elean. Rowland Henry, Carl
Dooley, Lon Davis, Walter J
Mitchell. Harris Edwards, James
R. Cherry, Hubert W. Johnson,
L. H. Ward, T. W. Gilreath,
Jesse L. Alexander.
Kelly Norton, W. R. Serritt,
Malcolm Gayler, Charles S. Fow
ler, Jr., G. G. Whitley, Joe Reed.
Hugh Henderson. Lee G. McKen
zie, L. C. Scoggins, Sr., C. C.
Fink, J. C. Bramlett, Roy E.
Brasil. A. D. Inman, Henry E.
Chappelear.
CIVIL COURT
The following iurors for Civil
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FFA-FHA Chapters To
Send Camp Delegates
Twenty-Four Local Members Slated
For Week-Long Slay Near Lovington
Twenty-four members of the Summerville High School
FFA and FHA chapters will depart Summerville Monday
for Covington where they will attend the annual State
' FFA-FHA Camp.
Annroximately 5,000 FFA
FHA’ers will be at the camp this
year.
The joint camp is located on
a wooded, 352 acre site over
looking Lake Jackson in New
ton County. At the camp the
boys and girls will participate in
arts and crafts, music, dramat
ics, folk games, leadership
training, waterfront safety and
wholesome play.
Jerry D. Purser, FFA adviser,
will accompany the following ‘
youths to the camp: Ira Hen- 1
derson, Lamar Martin, Jimmy
Wells, James Hughes, Ralph ;
Kellet, Cecil Dooley, William
Jarrett, Jimmy Smithson, Bob
Barker and David Espy.
The FHA girls will be accom- i
panied by Mrs. Sanford Allen,
Jr. They are Gwynne Cline,
Patricia Rutherford. Nellie Jo
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Little Leaguers To
Select "Star" Team
A tournament play “All-Star”
! Little League team will be
picked here next week by man
: agers of the four teams now en
| tering a final series for the sea
son.
i Tonight. Little League Presi- j
, dent Malcolm Thomas, accom
panied by the secretary, T. J.I
. Espy, Jr., will attend a district [
meeting in Rome to select a site :
and pairings for the district
tournament.
The date of the tourney will
also be set at tonight’s meeting.
, In tonight's baseball action,
■ the Giants will oppose the In
j dians in the first game. The I
j closer will see the Giants against i
| the Yankees.
The final game of the regu
lar season will be played on
: Thursday night, July 2, with the
I first-half winn i n g Dodgers
i against the Giants and the In
dians against the Yankees.
STANDINGS
! Team Won Lost
i Dodgers 4 2
Giants 4 2
Yankees 2 4 ,
; Indians 2 4:
RESULTS
Thursday, June 18:
Indians 9, Dodgers 8
Giants 19, Yankees 4
Monday, June 22:
Indians 4. Yankees 3
i Dodgers 19. Giants 11
TOP 10 HITTERS
Rocky Tate, Giants .564 j
: Ray Busby, Giants .535
■ Frank Parham, Giants .517 j
! Rodney Hardeman, Dodgers .51(1
I Charles Norton. Dodgers .442
' Bill Mann, Yankees .429 :
Johnny Dempsey, Indians .422 ;
! Buddy Barnes, Giants .412 j
: Guinn Hankins, Dodgers .404 I
1 Wallace Clark, Dodgers 400 ,
Commerce Group Suggested
To Assist In Development
RAPE CHARGE PUTS
LOCAL MAN BEHIND
BARS HERE MONDAY
Bill Rider, a local business
man, was placed in Chattooga
County jail late Monday night
following issuance of a warrant
charging him with rape.
The warrant was obtained by
the alleged victim’s mother.
Rider was arrested at his
home in Trion and returned to
Summerville by City Police
Sergeant Harold Cody and Cor
poral Charles Gaylor. The local
officers were accompanied to
Rider’s residence by Trion Po
lice Chief C. D. Cooper and
Patrolman B. F. Wallin.
The identity of the alleged
victim has been withheld ac
cording to Georgia law'. Rider
has been released from custody
on a 85,000 bond.
Draft Hoard
Resist ran Is
Seeked I lore
Miss Mae Earle Strange, clerk.
1 said today that the local Selec
| tive Service Board No. 28 is
seeking seventeen registrants for
I the purpose of obtaining a cor
| rect address.
The men being sought are:
; Gilbert Flave Crider, Bobby
Eugene Chappelear, John How
j ard Silmon, Samuel Cornelius
Tucker, Bobby Lee Richardson.
Adrain Max Pickle. William
Joseph Gardner .Harold Ray
' mond Bailey, George Hubert
Rinehart, Guy Ray Williams.
Arthur L. Lovell. Harold H
Byran, Clarence Daniel Eller.
Jr., Willie J. Kitchens, Howard
E. Lecroy, Robert Talmadge
Kinsey and William L. Hender
son.
Miss Strange said that these
men should report to the Selec
tive Service office immediately.
Teenage Trio Arrested After Jail Break . .
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1 oilowing their escape from the Habersham t ount> jail last week, three teenagers were arrested
near here and returned to face charges in Line In County. Missouri. Shown shortly before their
departure from the Chattooga County Courthouse, the youths are pictured with, left to right,
Chattooga County Sheriff Fred Stewart, Lincoln County Deputy Sheriff Jack Steward and. far
right, Lincoln County Sheriff Melvin Starkey. The three youths are, left to right, Rayinond E.
Reynolds. Jack Carr and James Dennis Plunkett The three were implicated in thefts here last
year Reynolds and Carr are from this vicinity. The other youth was born in Georgia but has been
living in Missouri. Sheriff Fred Stewart made the arrests in the Teloga Community where the trio
had gone to visit girl friends.
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Leaders (Jie Couniv Ouaiilications;
Av adabilil) of Skill Workers Cited
A thirteen acre tract near the
Summerville city limits on the
Menlo Road has been offered for
possible industrial development
by C. R. Downey of Cloudland.
Downey said that he would
erect a building cn the property
to contain up to 30 thousand
square feet. He said he would
meet requirements of any type
of manufacturer desiring to lo
cate in this area.
The offer cam* following last
week’s statement’s by Chattooga
County Representative Joseph
Loggins that several possibilities
exist for new' industry to move
into the county.
Along with Downey’s offer, an
other was made by local busi
nessman. Rice Morgan, who said
Railroader Killed Here . . .
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In an accident here yesterday, Jimmy Dovle Queen, a brakeman
on the Central of Georgia Railroad, lost his life when he evident
ly fell between cars of a moving train being shuttled near the
local depot. A five year veteran with the railroad. Queen was
from Cedartown. He was 21 years old. Viewing Queen's covered
body is Reverend Wrathburn Cash.
Javcees To Install Officers
Local businessman Kelly Jordan will be elevated as
president of the Summerville Junior Chamber of Com
merce in a ceremony tonight at 7:30 o’clock at Riegeldale
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Tavern.
A banquet will highlight the
evening’s event when prominent
Jaycee, John Pelfry, of Dalton,
will install the new officers.
Following the Invocation by
Rev. Roger McDonald, outgoing
Jaycee president, Sanford Dun
son, will make the welcoming
that a 40 acre tract east of Sum
merville would be made available
lor industry. Morgan said that
the acreage fronts on the Chat
tooga River and that water
power and needed improvements
are available.
Both Downey and Morgan said
that a Chamber of Commerce
for Chattooga County was an
immediate need. They pledged
support to such an organization.
In a statement today, Repre
sentative Loggins said that he
would welcome assistance from
all quarters to entice additional
industry to the area. He also
said that formation of a Cham
ber of Commerce should be
taken into serious consideration
by businessmen throughout the
county.
address to the group which will
include Jaycee wives. Will Hair
is slated to introduce guests and
subsequent to installation of of
ficers by Pelfry. Jordan will in
troduce Judge John W. Davis as
principal speaker of the cve-