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Official Chattooga County
Publication For 75 Years
VOLUME 75—NO. 35
Train Knifes Through Trailer
In Trion; Driver Unhurt
If Powell W. Fountain lives to
be a hundred, he’ll live every
hour of his life on borrowed
time.
Last Wednesday evening at
7:45 Powell left the Riegel Mills
in Trion in a brand new semi
trailer loaded with seventy bales
of cotton material. Three min
utes after he left the loading
platform his huge trailer, owned
by the Great Southern Trucking
Company of Rome, was sliced
through by a Central of Georgia
Freight Train.
The accident occurred at the
main plant entrance in Trion.
Fountain said he didn't see or
hear the train. The traffic light
caught him and the train hit the
trailer which was protruding
over the track. Four engines and
thirteen cars went through the
trailer, before the train came to
a full stop.
The impact slammed the cab
of the trailer around and
threw Fountain out the door on
the driver’s side. He suffered
slight bruises and was not taken
to a hospital.
The thirty eight foot trailer
was a complete loss.. The seventy
bales of material were thrown
up and down the track.
Fountain said he had been a
truck driver for over twelve years
and had driven the last six years
without any kind of accident.
He considered himself very lucky
to get out of this one alive.
The accident scene, has been
the scene of several accidents
involving trains over the past
several years, according to a
Trion police officer. It’s a haz
ardous corner, because a mo
torist leaving the mill and ap
proaching the traffic light at the
highway is blinded on his right
by a building that allows noth
ing but a very short view of the
tracks, and there is no stop sign
before he approaches the track.
The Central of Georgia has in
stalled a modern warning system
at another crossing several
blocks south of the accident
scene. Had a similar system been
in operation at the scene of this
accident, chances are it might
not have happened, it’s some
thing to think about.
Convicted Official
Reported Dead In La.
Charges against a former of
ficial of the Greater Georgia In
vestment Corporation will likely
be dropped if his reports of his
death are true.
Lee Curtis, Sr., the official, is
reported to have died Monday in
Shreveport. La. He was con
victed in Chattooga County
Court on charges that he vio
lated the Georgia Securities Law.
Curtis and four others were
arrested last December, when
some 15 county investors in
Greater Georgia Stock, got to
gether and swore out warrants.
CUB PACK 73
AND PARENTS TO
MEET SEPT. 29
All Cub Scouts, their parents
and committeemen of Cub Pack
No. 73 of Summerville are urged
to be present at the regular Pack
meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 29, in
the basement of the Presby
terian Church at 7:30 p.m.
Any boys from ages 8-10, who
are interested in becoming Cub
Scouts are asked to be present
with their parents at this meet
ing.
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train at a crossing in Trion. J 1
Vandiver Proclaims
Farm Bureau Day’
Governor S. Ernest Vandiver,
in a salute to Agriculture, has
officially proclaimed September
29th “FARM BUREAU DAY” in
Georgia’s 159 counties.
“It is essential that our farm
people co-ordinate their interest
by supporting the new program
so ably outlined by the member
ship of the Georgia Farm Bu
reau Federation”, the Governor
declared, “and I, S. Ernest Van
diver, Governor of Georgia, do
hereby proclaim and set aside
September 29, 1959 as ‘Farm
Bureau Day’ in Georgia, and call
upon the people of our State to
work together for the best inter
est of Agriculture and our State
and Nation”.
Governor Vandiver commend
ed the Georgia Farm Bureau
Federation, the American Farm
Bureau Federation, and the
various County Farm Bureaus
declaring the Farm Bureau units
have “contributed much to the
progress, prosperity and happi
ness of the farm people or tne
State”.
The Governor added, “I am
confident this organization will
continue to serve the best in
terest of farmers and other
groups when sound thinking is
demanded of our leaders when
all segments of our economy are
affected by these decisions”.
Governor Vandiver said “this
organization can do more effec
tive and constructive work and
render greater service to our
commonwealth by substantially
increasing the membership in
each of the one hundred fifty
nine counties.”
The proclamation came in ad
vance of Farm Bureau Day when
thousands of farmers will be in
viting their neighbors to join
their local Farm Bureau chap
ters and assist in determining
the policies of the organization.
The Annual Coosa
Valley Fair Opened
Monday In Rome
The 11th annual Coosa Valley
Fair opened in' Rome Monday
and will continue through Sat
urday night, with thousands of
visitors from Northwest Georgia
and Northeast Alabama expected
to attend.
The event is being staged once
again by the Coosa Valley Fair
Association, an organization
composed of members of the
Rome Exchange Club which
sponsors and operates the Fair
each year.
Fair officials announced Sat
urday that a special added at
traction this year will be the
“appearance” of the Army’s
“mule”, which will be brought to
the Fair from Fort Campbell,
Ky.
A total of $14,526 in premiums
will be offered participants in
the various shows and exhibits.
Flying Enthusiast
To Meet Tuesday
There will be a meeting of
flying enthusiasts at the court
house Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m.
The purpose of the meeting is to '
form a Flying Club for Chat
tooga County to inspire enthu- 1
siasm in flying and establish
flight facilities, including an air
port in the county.
^umnwrutlk New
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1959
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In tlie pictures above you see scenes at the Industrial Workshop held at the Memorial Home
last week. The above picture shows the speaker s table, the bottom is a general view of those
attending the workshop.
Listening Post
By LEE BLAINE
Mayor Copeland said last
Tuesday, "All we need is a little
reminder sometime and then we
can get things done.”
So let’s remind the people
first, of their civic duty to clean
up around their homes. Let’s
remind all property owners to
drive by their unoccupied build
ings and vacant lots. If the
buildings are in a delapidated
"tate or n°ed a coat of paint
let’s paint ’em up and fix ’em up.
If the vacant lots are clut
tered with debris, let’s clean it
up!
If the yard is covered with
high weeds and grass, let’s cut
it down!
The Mayor suggested this
would be a good idea. It is an
excellent idea.
Some of the people in Sum
merville have a further sugges
tion to make. This one concerns
the mayor and city of Summer
ville.
Mr. Mayor, while we the people
are cleaning up our homes and
property, how about the City do
ing the same with theirs?
How about getting the street
sweeper out each week, say Sat
urday night or before dayligh!
on Sunday morning. How about
having a crew of men sweep the
sidewalks downtown, sweep all
the week’s accumulation to the
curb or gutter. Then let the crew
wash down the streets and sweep
them clean. Then we wake up to
go to church on Sunday, our city
would be clean and fresh. It
would help a lot too. Mr. Mayor,
if you would see that that little
patch of grass between the curb
and edge of the sidewalk was al
ways kept neat and smoothly
trimmed.
The people will do their part:
how about the City doing theirs?
Gore (oinmuiiily Gliib
Wiener Roast Friday
The Gore Community Better
Neighbor Club will sponsor a
community wiener roast at the
club cabin, Friday, September
the 25th, at 7:00 p.m.
Editorial
If you’ve been doing any listening lately, you might
have gathered that an important industry “might” locate
in Summerville. Before reading any further let me explain
that this industry might not come to Summerville.
If the industry decides not to locate here, then let us
not give up the ship, but go right out and look for another.
It has been proven time and again, that only through genu
ine effort can anything be accomplished. At least once in
the past five years the people of Chattooga County had
high hopes of a large industrial plant locating here. This
fell through, doubtless many other unpublicized cases have
■ also fallen by the wayside.
Not much can be said of the “feeler” put out by this
prospective industry. Ibis .much cui be said. A proposal
has been made by the company officials. It has also been
made to a couple of other cities. A counter proposal by in
terested local parties is being made while this article is
oeing written (Wednesday).
If the new plant does locate here it will mean about
150 jobs for power machine operators. It will mean an ad
ditional yearly payroll in the county of about $400,000.
It is assumed that Summerville is acceptable as a
plant site to the company, since they made the offer. We
also assume that there must be quite a bit of negotiations
to take place before a decision is made.
We can rest assured that the negotiations are in good I
hands, and that everything is being done, and will be done, I
to get this new industry for Summerville, but if all fails, |
let’s not give up.
A high representative of the Georgia Power Company, i
last week at the workshop made this statement.
“More industrial plants asked about sites in Georgia :
in the last three months than ever before in our history.” i
This means Georgia is growing, and Chattooga County
must and will grow with Georgia, it has to come!
summervFlle girl
ENTERS WARM SPRINGS
Lynn Tudor, two- year -old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nor
man Tudor, of 105 McGinnis
Circle, Summerville, last week
became a patient at the Geor
gia Warm Springs Foundation,
i Lynn was stricken with polio
j last month and was left with
' impaired use of her legs.
At the Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation she is receiving the
I attention of a team of medical
specialists who are directing the
i course of treatment designed to
gain maximum recovery from
the disability for the patient.
Lynn’s treatment at Warm
' Springs is sponsored by the
I Chattooga County Chapter of
The National Foundation.
Founded in 1927 by Franklin
[ D. Roosevelt for the treatment
, and rehabilitation of polio after
j effects, the Georgia Warm
Springs Foundation is now de
[ voting much of its facilities to
patients suffering from other
paralyzing conditions or dis
abilities.
The medical institution, famed
as a pioneering center in the
new science of physical modi- j
cine, examined 3,136 patients:
last year and admitted 300 for
treatment or surgery Os the 800.,
less than 80 per cent wefe polio!
patients while more than 20 per i
cent suffered from amputations i
of arms or legs, rheumatoid |
arthritis, traumatic paralysis or
other disabling neuromuscular
disorders.
Situated some 75 miles south- j
east of Atlanta, Ga., the Foun- }
dation has a capacity of 120 pa- !
tients. Last year its patients [
came from 30 states, Puerto Rico
and 13 foreign countries.
About 80 per cent of the cost
of all patient care at the insti-
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COUNTY ESCAPEE
BROUGHT BACK
Sheriff Fred Stewart last week
brought Howard Wayne Boa
; man, back from Miami, after he
i was captured there by Miami
j police.
Boatman had escaped from the
| Chattooga County Jail with
■ three other prisoners last May.
। He had been under indictment
. on six counts of forgery, nqw he
I will face additional charges for
escape.
As the News went to press,
nothing had been heard from
James Kulkey Anderson who is
still at large after his second
escape from Chattooga County.
JAYCEES JO?N IN
INDUSTRY WEEK
Summerville Jaycees this week
have placed displays of Georgia
made products in the windows
of Trion Department Store and
the Georgia Power Company in
Summerville.
Jaycee President Kelly Jordan
said Ilie Jaycees were doing this
to bet ter acquaint area citizens I
with the many products which
are made here in Georgia. Many ,
of these products are sold
throughout the world.
Mr. Jordan said this was a
“fitting climax to Georgia In
dustry Week.” Industry Week
has been sponsored by the In
dustrial Association of Georgia,
the Georgia Department of Com
merce and the Georgia Jaycees.
Industrial Workshop Tells Citizens To
Clean Up, Wake Up and Start Planning
Area Citizens Given Chance
To I ole For National Flower
A national flower election is to be conducted October 1,
through the 31st for the purpose of naming a national
flower. The FTD, Florist Telegraph Delivery Association,
was named by Congress as the official voting headquarters.
Merchant Wins
San Juan Trip
Will Stephenson, of Royal TV
& Appliance, lias been awarded
a free trip to San Juan, Puerto
Rico, according to Clyde V. Har
well, president of Harwell Dis
i tributing Company, the Chat-
I tanooga area distributor of Gib
; son Refrigerator Company prod
ucts.
Mr. Stephenson will leave
Chattanooga airport for
Juan September 24th with 93
other Chattanooga area Gibson
dealers. They wm travel uvu
stop. aboard charter Eastern
Airliner. While in San Juan, the
group will stay at the new Caribe
ililton Hotel.
Highlights of the trip will be
a one-day side trip to St. Thom
as Island, and the premier show
ing of the 1960 line of Gibson
appliances.
Mr. Stephenson .was awarded
the trip for outstanding sales
performance during the past
year.
Mrs. Holland's Death
Accidental Says Jury
A coroners jury found that
I Mrs. John Holland, 83, died of
; natural causes. The inquest was
' completed last Monday after
noon after having been carried
over for two days to permit a
medico-legal autopsy to be per
formed.
I Mrs. Holland had been found
dead on Tuesday morning, Sep
tember 15. Dr. W. P. Martin, the
physician who performed the
| autopsy told the jury of five
| that he had found that a blow
1 apparently sustained by Mrs.
I Holland about the head had not
i been of sufficient force to cause
| her death. He said she might 1
have been nudged or brushed:
। by a cow she was tending. This |
I could have caused the lick on
I the head. Dr. Martin told the {
| jury, further, that Mrs. Holland ?
j was suffering from a severe!
I ease of hardening of the arteries I
I and that his findings convinced I
[ him she had died of natural j
: causes.
Investigating officers were in i
I concurrence with tire doctor's:
I findings. They said their own in- ,
■ vestigations showed Mrs. Hol-'
land was apparently alone at'
the farm when she died at about
8 p.m. on Monday night, Sept.
14.
Her body was found by a son, |
Harvey Holland, at about 5:301
1 on the following Tuesday morn- j
j ing.
Xnirrican Legion
Merts Friday Night
The American Legion Post 129 j
j will meet Friday night, 7 o’clock ।
lat the Chattooga Memorial j
। Home. All members are urged to
; attend by O. R. Fletcher, com
mander,
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store window display showing sonic of the more than 14.000 products made in Georgia by our
industrial manufacturers. The window was trimmed by the Summerville Jayceea,
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Duff Flowers and Hammond
■ Flowers, local members of the
FTD will have ballots for use
by local citizens in expressing
1 their choice for a national flow-
I er.
; After all the balloting is com
pleted, results will be turned
over to Congress and that body
will formally declare the na
tional choice to be the official
flower for the country.
Twenty flowers are listed on
I the official ballot, but accord-
I ing to the rules you may write
[ in your favorite if the name does
not appear. The voting is open
I to every man, woman and child
in the country. Following is a
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1 Gladiolus, Goldenrod, Grass,
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Ballots are obtainable at both
Duff Flowers and Hammond
Flowers in Summerville.
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IRION SCHOOLS GET
$30,000 DOLLARS
A $15,000 appropriation for
Trion City School will be match
ed by the City of Trion. Coun
cil voted last week to equal the
sum granted under the National
Defense Education Act.
Mayor W. B. Simmons says
the $30,000 will be used over a i
three year period to greatly
strengthen the classroom equip
ment and program for foreign j
languages, science and math.
Bond Sales at 65%
01 Goal For 1959
Chattooga County citizens!
have reached 65.8'; of their 1959
goal for the purchase of United
State Savings Bonds. The goal
for the year is $380,000.
During August, Chattooga citi
zens bought $27,299 in Series “E” I
Bond and $2,000 in Series “H"
Bonds. Total sales for the year,
through August amounted to
$250,302 or 65.8% of the goal.
“No industry takes a second
look at any city or community
which has not laid long range
plans for industrial develop
ment”. These were the words
; heard by thirty representatives,
from every community in Chat
tooga County, who attended an
industrial workshop at the Me
morial Home last Thursday and
j Friday.
The workshop, which was
! sponsored by the Georgia Power
1 Company, was attended by di
j rectors of the twelve county
' Coosa County Development As
i sociation. Chattooga County Di
rectors J. W. King. Jr., and John
| Bankson were hosts for the
! meet. Both Mr. Bankson and Mr
King were very enthusiastic in
1 their appraisal of the success of
: the meeting, and high in praise
! of the splendid co-operation re-
I ceived from everyone.
Late Tuesday afternoon John
j Jones. Chattooga County Com
: missioner, told your reporter he
; was delighted with the meet and
1 was ready to meet with Sum
' merville Mayor M. H. Copeland
: and Chattooga Directors King
! and Bankson and name a joint
: City-County Planning Commis
j sion. He said the Planning Com
mission was a sensible approach
toward securing industries for
the county and was highly in
favor of it.
Mayor Copeland said, “I am
heartily in favor of a joint City-
County Planning Commission.
It’s something we've needed for
a long time”. The mayor said
further, “I’ll meet anytime, any
where, and carry the idea of a
Planning Commission through
as recommended. After all, we
are looking forward to the
growth of the city and county,
and if we can all work together
that growth will surely come”.
Dr. Kenneth C. Wagner, head of
the Industrial Development De
partment at Georgia Tech, laid
it on the line to those attending
the meetings. He and ills assist
ant, Dr. George I. Whitlatch,
wondered why retail sales in the
county were so low in compari
son to the county's industrial
payroll.
“Retail sales in the county in
| dicate your people are going
.; elsewhere to spend most of their
money”. Dr. Wagner said. He
| recommended a survey be made
। of perhaps every fourth person
! in the county, to find out if they
| thought the merchants wares
were what they wanted, and if
they were going to other, per
haps larger cities to spend the
money they earn in this county
■ He said that his staff would fur
i nish a sample questionnaire to
I be used in the survey.
Dr. Wagner evaluated some of
: the county’s liabilities and as
sets. Under assets, climate, ex
i cellent; water supply, plenty of
i it; labor, enough of it.
He said that the tax structure
in the City of Summerville was
most excellent. "Nowhere in
Georgia have I ever encountered
i a city tax structure that is more
! ideal for industry, or any one
! else for that matter. The city
I tax evaluation of 100 per cent
। with low mileage rate is just per
fect”.
As for the county tax rate, the
attendants at the meeting were
I told it is better than that in
I some other counties.
It was pointed out that indus
. try will locate where there are
J good schools. Chattooga County
: schools must prepare the people
! they teach for the job needs of
industry.
Both Dr. Wagner and Dr.
। Whitlatch said that Summerville
was in a very favorable position
for securing a sewing plant
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