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MAN INJURED AT CLOUDLAND
... Riley Hawkins Pinned in Truck Monday
Man Injured
When Truck
Brakes Fail
A Cloudland man suffered ex
tensive injuries early Friday
when the lumber-laden truck he
was driving went out of control
on the side of Lookout Moun
tain.
Riley M. Hawkins. 31, was hos
pitalized briefly at Chattooga
Hospital and then transferred to
Floyd Hospital, Rome, for treat
ment of back and internal in
juries, a broken wrist and brok
en leg.
The State Patrol said the ac
cident occurred about 6:30 a.m.
Friday as Mr. Hawkins’ brakes
gave way while he came down
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Ridge Repairs In Full
Swing; No Opening Set
No date has vet been set for the opening of U.S. High
way 27 across Taylor’s Ridge, the State Highway Depart-
ment said this week.
However, the repairs are pro
gressing “as rapidly as possible,”
it was stated.
The cost of repairing the
damage caused by the landslides
along the route has not yet been
determined, Sam Caldwell, di
rector of public relations for the
Highway Department, noted.
The original project of im
proving the road from Sum
merville to the Floyd-Chattooga
line cost around $1 million. Led
better - Johnson Construction
Company of Rome, the original
contractor, is doing the landslide
repairs.
Cause of the slides were large
water deposits some 45 feet be
low the road bed, Caldwell said.
“This is a phenomenon which
has occurred from time to time
on similiar projects in mountain
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Rolling Singing'
Is Tradition Here
Every Tuesday night, gospel singing fans all over Chat
tooga County assemble at some church for what has be
come a tradition here and has been copied in other areas.
It is the “Rolling Singing.”
The term comes from the fact that the singing “rolls”
from church to church weekly.
Most of the 25 churches participating are in Chattooga
County, but a few are in Alabama.
The singings began some 10 years ago by a group of
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Rolling Singing' Lures Many County Gospel Music Fans Weekly
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WOMEN, AS WELL AS MEN, LEAD SINGING
. . . Scene at Wayside Baptist Church Last Tuesday Night
Davis Barbecue Saturday to
Draw From Over District
John Davis supporters from all over the Seventh Dis
trict will come to Chattooga County Saturday for a fund-
raising barbecue. i
The event will be at 1 p.m. at
| Memorial Home.
Preparations are being made \
for some 500 persons, A. A. Far- i
rar, chairman of the barbecue, j
| said this week. Ross Thomas, j
i Gene Wilbanks and Luke Young ;
I will have charge of the actual
I preparation.
Judge F. H. (Pete) Boney,
i chairman of the finance com
mittee of the Davis organization,
' will present a check to Davis for
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WOMAN CHARGED
WITH SHOOTING
TWO SUNDAY NITE
A Summerville Negro woman
has been charged with assault
with intent to murder in the
shooting of two persons Sunday
night on Seventh Avenue.
She is Essie Lee Christopher,
and the victims were Robert
Earle Miller and Pauline Coving
ton, both Negroes, according to
the Summerville Police Depart
ment.
The Christopher woman is in
| Chattooga County jail on two
■ separate cases. Bond has been
; set at $750 on each case, the
(sheriff said.
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Electors Question
No Issue in His
Race, Says Davis
Congressional Candidate John
Davis said this week he did not
believe the elector question is
an issue in his race.
Davis made the statement in
response to an Atlanta news
paper’s report that he would not
express himself on the subject.
“Frankly, I do not consider
this question of the electors an
issue in my race at all,” he said.
"Furthermore, the people will
vote on the matter of whether
electors should be pledged at
the same time they vote on the
Democratic candidates for Con
gress. Therefore, I do not think
I. as a candidate for Congress,
should attempt to influence
their vote by giving a public
opinion on the subject.”
Davis said he thought the
people should decide the matter
themselves, without influence
from people seeking public of
fice.
Candidate Milton Grubbs of
Marietta said he backs the Dem
ocratic ticket but thinks a ref
erendum on the issue is “unnec
essary.”
George Bagby, candidate from
Dallas, said he intends to sup
port the nominees of the party.
John Pickett, candidate from
Cedartown, said he thinks the
electors should be pledged “right
down the line.”
Jail Break
Attempted
An attempt to break out
of the new Chattooga County
jail was made by a prisoner
or a group of prisoners dur
ing the week-end, Deputy
Sheriff Paul White saidi
Wednesday.
He said the attempted break I
was discovered Monday. A piece |
of metal had been torn from one j
of the bunks, he said, and the
culprits had used it to dig into
the wall.
In addition, two hack saws
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SUMMERVILLE. CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1960
Smoke DOESN'T Mean Fire,
Avow Summerville Firemen
They say that “where there’s smoke there's bound
to be fire.”
But a Summerville merchant and the Summerville
Fire Department don’t believe a word of it.
Seeing a mass of smoke inside the Economy Auto
Store late Sunday, a passerby called the fire depart
ment. Arriving at the scene, firemen hurried with
hose to the smoke-filled building ready to douse the
flames.
But there were none.
Smoke was everywhere but there wasn’t a flame in
sight. Firemen searched every nook and cranny but no
fire did they find.
Finally, the smoke subsided somewhat and the
puzzled firemen, thwarted in their efforts to put out
a fire, left, scratching their heads.
Officials still aren’t certain what happened.
But this week when an electrician repaired an elec
tric fan (which doubles as a heater in the winter) at the
store, he told Hobart Jennings, owner of the business,
that the shortage in the fan could have caused the
smoke.
At any rate, the incident kills the old adage for
once and all.
Trion School System Gets
$2,540 Less From State
The Trion school system will get about $2,540 less from
the state this year, Supt. A. J. Strickland has disclosed.
The total from the state this year will be $133,926.98,
as compared with $136,470.48 in — ■
1959-60.
Total Minimum Foundation
Program budget for the Trion
system for 1960-61 will be $183,-
898.98. Os this, $49,972 will be
contributed by Trion.
The Trion system gets no con
tingency, (equalization) fund.
Its current operating allotment
is $450 per teacher or a total of
$16,200.
The reason Trion lost funds
was because it earned one less
state-paid teacher than it had
last year. Teachers are allotted
on the basis of the average daily
attendance (ADA) and during a
siege of mumps last year the
ADA dropped considerably.
Most of the allotments given a
system by the state are based on
the number of teachers the sys
. tern has earned.
Scoggins Tells
01 Jamboree in
Rotary Talk
A national jamboree, such as
that just held at Colorado
Springs, Colo., has as its purpose
more than giving the Boy Scouts
a good time.
It is designed to promote bet
ter understanding among youth
so that there may be better un
derstanding in the world of to
morrow, Evans Scoggins told
members of the Summerville-
Trion Rotary Club Wednesday
at Trior..
Mr. Scoggins was on the na
tional staff of the jamboree this j
year, the first Northwest Geor- I
gia Scouter to have this honor.
The jamboree was a tempor
ary city of 56,800, he noted. The
camp site, only 32 miles from
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Man Returned to Floyd
Un Auto Theft Charges
Larry Potts was arrested in
Chattooga County Wednesday on
a charge of auto theft, Sheriff
Fred Stewart reports.
He was returned to Floyd।
I County. The arrest was made by !
Stewart, Herman Evans and |
Dennie Davis.
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• . . Miss Sue Lynn Glass Renders Solu
Lyerly Ups Wafer
Rale Io Finance
Well Drilling
A water shortage at Ly
erly has forced the Town
Council to raise water rates
' to finance drilling of an
' other well.
1 The residential rate will be a
flat $3 per month and the busi
ness and commercial rate will be
, $3 for a minimum of 4,000 gal
lons, the extra to be charged at
the same rate.
i The former rate was $2.50 for
a minimum of 4,000 gallons.
Unanimous action was taken
by the Council Tuesday night to
raise the rates.
Mayor Bill Bishop pointed out
that the single well in use by the
town simply does not provide
enough water. There has been
a shortage for the past two sum
mers, he said. Just where the
. new well will be drilled hasn't
' been determined.
Improving Revenue, Garbage
Storage Aim of Summerville
The City of Summerville is cracking down on three
things this week—delinquent taxes, improper garbage
storage, and past due gas and water accounts.
Plans for action were made
Tuesday night when the Council
met at the City Hall.
Appointment of Summerville’s
three members to the Chattooga
County Planning Commission
was another highlight of the
session. Named were J. T. Mor
gan, O. G. Morehead Sr. and
Everett Lunsford.
Orders were given for the
cutting off of gas and water to
some 30 customers whose ac
counts were far past due. This
ties in with the current program
of trying to keep gas and water
customers from becoming de
linquent.
In addition, plans were made
for additional levies against
S ville, Lyerly Name Men
To Co. Planning Commission
Four more members have been named to the Chat-,
tooga County Planning Commission, making eight of the I
12 needed.
Lyerly has named Grover Jackson as its appointee, i
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while Summerville has selected
Everett Lunsford, O. G More- .
head, Sr., and J. T. Morgan as
its members.
Earlier, O. L. Cleckler, George
Collette, Leroy Massey and J. C. 1
Woods had been named to the
Commission. Cleckler was named
by the Menlo Council, Massey by
Commissioner John Jones and
Woods and Collette by the Trion
Council.
Commissioner Jones is to
name the other four, two of
whom will be from the Penn
ville-Dickeyville area. The oth
er two will be from the county
at large.
He is expected to do this in
the near future. The commission
will be formally organized as
soon as all the members are
named.
Mr. Morehead, who is in the
Amoco service station business
in Summerville, retired two years
ago as textile superintendent of
the Harriet and Henderson Mills
at Berryton. A native of Shelby,
N. C., he had been in the tex
tile business 48 years. The More
heads came to Summerville in
1945 from the Carolinas. They
have five children, Joe, of Jack
sonville, Fla.; James, of Detroit,
Mich.; Bill, a student at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, where
he is studying to be a scientist,
and O. G., Jr., and Mrs. Winston
McWhorter, both of Summer
ville. Mr. Morehead teaches a
men’s Bible class at the Sum
merville First Baptist Church
and is a Rotarian. He and Mrs.
Morehead live at 114 East First
Street.
Mr. Jackson, of Jackson Bros.
Grocery, Lyerly, has resided in
Lyerly all his life. He is a grad
uate of Lyerly High School and
a veteran of World War H, hav
. ing served four years in the
medical administration corps,
emerging as a captain after
1 service in Europe. He is super
' intendent of the Lyerly Meth
odist Sunday School and is a
member of the Veterans of For
eign Wars. Mrs. Jackson is the
1 former Miss Rose B. Benedict.
Mr. Lunsford is Soil Conserva
tion Service technician for Chat
tooga County. He is a native of
Fayette County, a graduate of
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persons whose city taxes are far
past due. Collection of these
taxes has been underway for
some time.
Strict enforcement of the city
ordinance concerning garbage
disposal was ordered and City
Engineer Tom Coats and County
Sanitarian Tom Fox will work
together on this, officials said.
Improper storage of garbage
before it is picked up by the city
creates both a health and a fire
hazard and gives the community
an untidy appearance, it was
noted. Metal containers, which
can be handled easily and hav
ing tight covers, should be pro
vided for all perishable garbage.
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Trion Man Dies
From Burns at
Trash Heap
A Trion Negro, Odell Chris
topher, 40. died Tuesday of
burns received on July 26 when
he fell into a burning pit at
the city dump near Trion.
The man was an employee of
Riegel Textile Corp, and resided
at 286 Allgood Street in Trion.
He reportedly had entered the
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Menlo Council Digs That Spring,
Saves Town From Water Shortage
The Menlo Councilmen, faced with a possible
water shortage, weren’t content to sit back and wait
for rain.
They determined to do something concrete--or
muddy, if you will —about the situation.
So they started digging for springs.
After work, the men donned old clothes, got picks
and shovels, went near the spring which was the pres
ent supply and started digging. Several times the dig
ging went on after dark
But there was success. The councilmen found
enough clogged up springs to increase their city water
supply by at least 50 per cent.
And getting the water to the pumping station
won’t be expensive either. The newly-found springs
are at a higher altitude than the original supply, lo
cated in Lawrence Grove, and thence can be moved by
gravity to the station.
Mayor J. P. Smith admitted he and his councilmen
looked like anything but staid city fathers when they
emerged from the grove each night.
Rather, they resemeled coal miners, he laughs.
“You don’t find many councilmen who’ll go this
far to help their community,” he said.
The Menlo city fathers are Hill Hall, Max White,
John Thomas, Julius Spraggins and J. P. Thornberry.
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State Plans New Signs
At Trion Intersections
New and more noticeable signs will soon be erected
at the intersections to the Trion by-pass, the State High
way Department has disclosed.
“Keep Right", "Stop” and
“Yield” signs will be located at
the Intersections, along with
arrows. In addition, the ends of
all traffic islands at the inter
sections will be painted with
reflectorized yellow paint and
amber reflectors are to be placed
on the posts supporting the
signs.
This work is to be done “as
soon as practicable,” Roy A.
Flynt, State Highway Planning
Engineer, has pointed out His
orders to J. O. Bacon, State
Highway Maintenance Engineer,
were sent on July 28, and Mr.
Bacon’s orders to J. N. Richard
son, field division engineer in
Gainesville, were sent on July 29.
Mr. Flynt noted that the pres
ent signs "are not proper signs
nor are they properly located.”
He said at least one person has
been killed at each of the three
area intersections since the road
was constructed.
The July Chattooga Grand
Jury, noting the accidents at the
intersections, requested that
caution lights be erected at the
Isites.
LYERLY CRACKS
DOWN ON TRAFFIC
VIOLATORS
Lyerly is cracking down on
traffic violations, Mayor Bill
Bishop announced this week.
Scratching-off. reckless driv
ing and teen-agers driving with
out a license are going to be
stopped, he said.
Policeman Homer Mitchell was
instructed by the Lyerly Town
Council at its Tuesday meeting
to crack down sternly on vio
lators of the traffic ordinance.
Fair Set For
October 6-8
Dates for the annual Chat
tooga County Fair have been
announced.
The event will be on Oct. 6,7
and 8.
Work is expected to begin
shortly, Fair Association offi
cials have announced, on re
modeling the exhibit building.
The floor will be cherted, grav
eled and oiled to eliminate the
dust.
Re-arrangement of the exhibit
areas is another plan of the as
sociation this year.
A highlight of the exhibit
phase will be an egg exhibit by
commercial producers. Each pro
ducer may exhibit one dozen
eggs. Further details will be an
nounced later.
The premium list is now be
ing worked up and should be
ready within a few weeks, it was
noted.