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VOLUME 76--NO. 31
Welfare Checks Total
More Than Half-Million
Some 1,000 Chattooga County persons received money
through the Chattooga County Department of Public Wel
fare during the past year, Mrs. M. M. Allen, Jr., director,
has reported. , — - •
Over half a million dollars was
paid these people.
They received it because they
qualify under one of these pro
grams: Old Age Assistance: Aid
to the Blind; Aid to Dependent
Children; or Aid to the Perma
nently and Totally Disabled.
The average monthly grant to
old age recipients was $47.30; to
the blind $53.45; to the disabled
$44.56; and to the aid to de
pendent children families $86.89
or $33.80 per child.
The $551,292 paid out under
the programs was about SIO,OOO
more than that paid last year.
The state and federal govern
ments finance most of this, with
the county putting in only four
per cent.
In addition, the county itself
paid out $579.81 for general as
sistance (monthly emergency
grocery orders) and paid $14,-
381.16 to Chattooga and Riegel
Hospitals for 131 persons who
had been certified as medically
indigent. The physicians of the
county gave their services free
for these patients, it was noted.
Another program of the wel
fare department is that of child
welfare. Under this, the depart
ment maintained 10 children in
foster homes and rendered other
services in child care which cost
$4,821.17. Os this, the state re
imbursed the department sl,-
007.19, leaving a net cost of $3,-
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Industrial Station at Rome
May Be Open By January 1
Chattooga and other counties of Northwest Georgia
may have the full-time services of an industrial expert
available after Jan. 1.
The industrial development
branch experiment station pro
posed for Rome may be in oper
ation by that time, Harley Har
per, chairman of the Coosa Val
ley Planning and Development
Assn., told the Summerville-
Trion Rotary Wednesday.
He said Dr. George I. Whit
latch, senior research scientist
for the Georgia Tech industrial
development branch in Atlanta,
well known in this county, has
Candidate John Davis
Releases His Platform
Congressional Candidate John Davis this week re
leased his platform, including in it his opinions on such
topics as education, veterans, medical aid for the aged, the
farm program, the textile industry, national security, for
eign aid, the “Southern way of life” and existing and po-
tential industry.
Davis declared that this coun
try must “see to it” that the
military might of the United
States is the greatest in the
world.
“A strong nation can negotiate
but a weak one must retreat,” he
said. “From this position of
strength, we must help the peo
ple of improverished nations to
raise their own standards of
living, taking care we do not
disrupt our own economy or
liquidate elements of our own
productive force while we are
accomplishing this.”
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busy time not only for students and
teachers but also for school bus drivers.
Chattooga County buses were checked
out to the drivers Tuesday morning after
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FIRST COTTON BOLLS —
Fred McDonald holds cotton
bolls which he brought to The
News office last week-end.
They were the first bolls pre
sented at the office this year.
Mr. McDonald and his father,
Jim, raise cotton on the Hugh
Webb farm at Chattoogaville.
He said theirs is Empire cotton
and they expected to pick
some this week.
agreed to move to Rome and
; serve this entire area.
Working with him will be a
Coosa Valley technical planning
staff, if present plans mate
rialize. The planning staff would
include a graduate planner for
; every two counties in the valley.
“You’ll know more about
what’s going on in your county
than you ever dreamed of be
, cause you'll have this technical
I assistance,” Mr. Harper said.
, He noted that Dr. Whitlatch
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| Here are other phases of Judge
-1 Davis’ platform:
e I TEXTILES—The textile in
i dustry must have protective
b j legislation in Congress to save it
from being liquidated by For
e eign competition. Foreign textile
e makers can buy world cotton, in
f eluding America growths, 25%
- cheaper than our own textile
o mills must pay. With the small
f cost of foreign labor this
t threatens to ruin textile indus
r try. Federal laws are needed to
i correct this.
e LOCKHEED — I am acutely
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Schools Need More Money
What kind of an education will your child get this year
in the Chattooga County schools?
How much do you care what kind of an education he
gets?
The state has given Chattooga County $44,000 less
money this year.
There may be a s^ght increase in local tax funds —
perhaps around $4,00.) to $6,000. But this would obviously
be only a drop in th? bucket against the $44,000 loss.
Where is the otner money coming from? Already the
system was in debt and barely getting by. What will it do
now? Will the scbjols be able to operate all the year?
Ciiattoogu. County School Supt. Lowell Hix says they
wil’ —“by borrowing”. But he says nobody yet knows just
hr w much the system can legally borrow.
Board of Education Chairman O. L. Cleckler said there
will have to be “some curtailments”.
Where will these curtailments come in? Already nine
extra teachers —teachers paid for exclusively out of local
funds—have been hired. This will cost at least $20,000.
Although the school budget is close to $700,000, most
of the funds are earmarked—for state-paid teachers’ sal
aries, transportation, textbooks, to pay off the new build
ings, etc. So only about SIOO,OOQ is left for covering the
actual operation of the schools—paying for such things as
supplies for all the schools, money already borrowed, sal
aries of the extra teachers, salaries of the superintendent
and his secretary, maintenance of all the buildings, util
ity bills, etc.
Chattooga County had a cut in state funds because
its economic index — retail sales, effective buying power,
motor tag taxes, public utilities, tax digest, etc. —was up.
This means that although we are losing population in
Chattooga County we apparently don’t have less income.
The state says we can afford to put more money into
the schools from the local level.
And apparently we are going to have to if we aim to
educate our children.
Rome Radio Official Tells
Os Plans For Station Here-
A veteran Rome radio official has announced plans to
establish a radio station in Chattooga County.
Marvin (Cap) Hicks, who has been associated with
Rome radio station WRGA for 22 years, Jack Kent Jr. and
Hugh J. Martin, Rome attorneys, have petitioned to in
corporate as “Chattooga County Broadcasters, Inc.”
Both radio and television
rights are asked, but Hicks an
nounced only plans for a radio
station at this time.
Hicks said this week he ex
pects to file within the very
near future an application with
the Federal Communications
Commission for a license to op
erate in this county.
Preliminary plans call for a
500-watt station operating in
the daytime only and on 1360
kilocycles. Other details are yet
to be worked out, he said.
However, Hicks noted, he
plans to personally operate the
station, devoting his full time
to it.
He is now news editor of
WRGA. He also has been Rome
city recorder for nine years. Mr.
Hicks was an executive aid to
former Gov. Marvin Griffin, and
was a member of the Floyd
Board of Roads and Revenue in
1947-48. He toured for Broadcast
Music Inc. of New York several
years ago, addressing state radio
conventions.
Big 'Ga. Industry Week'
Event Planned in County
“What Georgia Makes Makes Georgia”.
That’s the theme the Summerville Junior Chamber of
Commerce and The Summerville News will use to promote
“Georgia Industry Week” Sept. 25-30.
Don Stultz has been named
chairman of the Jaycee’s pro
motion of the week and The
News is planning a special edi
tion in connection with the
event.
The Summerville Retail Mer-
vehicles were checked by state troopers
and drivers were tested. Above, Trooper
Jack Knott (left) shows driver George
H. Nichols the report on Nichols’ bus. It
says the bus should be replaced.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1960
Rome Man
Hospitalized
After Wreck
One man was hospitalized as
the result of a car-truck collis
ion at 8 p.m. Monday on the
Wayside-Spring Creek Road, the
U.S. Highway 27 by-pass south
of Summerville.
William Ernest Tuggle, 67, of
Rome Route ■ 2, was released
from Chattooga Hospital
Wednesday after treatment.
The State Patrol said Tuggle’s
car and a truck driven by Oxen
dine Herbert Arnold, 35, of Pa
ducah, Ky. collided. No charges
were made, the Patrol said.
Another accident occurred on
the same road Tuesday after
| noon but no injuries were re
ported. Involved were Brantney
W. Romine, 24, of Trion, and
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chants Associations, schools, in
dustries and other groups are
expected to join in promoting
the week.
Posters, billboards, window
displays and other media will be
used to focus attention on the
value of industry to our com
munity and to all of Georgia.
The News will carry stories
and pictures about local indus
try, the prospects for new in
dustry and people employed in
this field.
Driver Sought
In Hitting of
Pedestrian Here
A Summerville woman pedes
i trian was hospitalized late Mon
day after being hit by an auto
mobile on East Washington
Street, Summerville Police Chief
Griffin Pledger reports.
She was listed as Mrs. Ethel
Bishop, and was still hospital
ized Wednesday.
Pledger said that while this
1 was not a hit and run case, he
was trying to locate the man
whose car hit Mrs. Bishop. He
said the vehicle only bumped
the woman, according to her
statement, and that the driver
I inquired twice as to whether she
was hurt. She said that she re
; plied she didn’t believe so, but
later became nauseated, had hip
pains and had to be hospital
ized.
Chief Pledger said that if the
man would report he would ap
, predate it.
Only Slight Changes Expected in
Trion, County School Enrollments
Trion Teachers, Students
Relax Before Monday Start
Trion teachers and students are enjoying a few last
days of the summer period, but things will pick up in a
big way Monday. this summer attended two Na-
Teachers will report on that
day for the beginning of the pre
school planning week. Students
also will begin registering on
that day and classes will begin
Thursday, Sept. 1.
Here is a schedule of the Trion
registration: Seniors, 2 p.m.
Monday; juniors, 9 a.m. Tues
day; sophomores, 2 p.m. Tues
day; freshmen, 9 a.m. Wednes
day; Bth graders, 2 p.m. Wednes
day; elementary students enter
ing that school for the first
time, 9 a.m. Wednesday.
The Trion faculty has been
completed, Supt. A. J. Strickland
has announced.
Highlighting the Trion school
program this year will be a
stepped-up science program. The
new high school chemistry-phys
ics laboratory, financed with
federal and local funds, is ex
pected to be in use with the
opening of the new year. In ad
dition a new demonstration sci
ence desk will be installed in the
elementary school.
Arthur Prince, who holds a
master’s degree in science and
Lyerly School
Well To Be Used
The town of Lyerly is going to
call into use the well formerly
used by the Lyerly School in
order to supplement the towns
water supply.
Mayor Bill Bishop said this
week plans have been made to
drill the 100-ft. well deeper and
connect it to the city water sys
terq. He said he didn’t yet know
when the work would begin be
cause the town hasn’t decided
on a driller.
The single well used by the
town doesn’t supply enough
water during the summer sea
son and the Council recently de
cided that another well should
be added to the system.
LOUD MOTOR SCOOTER
CRACK-DOWN SET
A crack-down on loud motor
scooters was announced this
week by Summerville Police
Chiej Griffin Pledger.
Cases will be made hereafter
when drivers of loud motor
scooters are apprehended, he
noted.
There have been complaints,
he said, and driving such ve
hicles is in violation of the
anti-noise ordinance.
Fines could run as high as
SIOO.
AUTO BURNS ON
TUESDAY NIGHT HERE
An automobile burned in West
Summerville Tuesday night,
Summerville Police have dis
closed.
It belonged to Grady Allen,
colored male, and the incident
s occurred off the Dry Valley Road
! in West Summerville.
Chattooga County
Chosen For 'Big M’
Pasture Program
Chattooga County has
been selected as one of 32
counties in the state to carry
on a Big M Pasture Program,
County Agent M. H. Purcell
announced today.
A meeting on the subject is
set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
1, at the county Extension Serv
ice Clubhouse fold South Sum
merville School) in Summerville.
J. R. Johnson, extension agron
omist, will present the pasture
program at that time.
This program follows the Corn
Program conducted last year and
the Soil Fertility Program con
ducted two years ago in this
| county.
Pastures are the basis for the
beef and dairy Industries, the
I county agent pointed out. It is
estimated that Chattooga Coun
ty has 1200 acres of improved
pasture that can be made to pro-
I duce 200 pounds of beef more per
acre than at present. Six thou
i sand acres of unimproved pas
| tures are in the county that will
produce 100 pounds more beef
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tional Science Institutes, will
have charge of the science de
partment, Mr. Strickland has
announced.
Jim Mosely of Summerville
will teach social sciences and be
tennis and B football coach at
Trion High. New elementary
teachers in the Trion system are
Mrs. Ann Mewburn, who taught
at Decatur last year, and Mrs.
Aileen Duncan, who taught in
Florida last year.
The entire Trion System fac
ulties are as follows:
Elementary School:
Mrs. Betty Bandy. Mrs. Duncan,
Mrs. Clara Eubanks, Miss Jewell
Gordon, John W. Greenwood,
Mrs. Mary Hill Hardeman, Miss
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SCHOOL REGISTRATION TIME AT
SHS—These are scenes Wednesday as
Summerville High transported students
registered for the 1960-61 year. In the
Wilkie and Hines,
Wanted on Kidnap
Charges, Not Caught
Two men wanted on kidnap
charges haven't yet been ar- |
rested, Deputy Sheriff Paul 1
White said Wednesday.
The men are Donald Wilkie
and Brintz Hines, both of Chat
tooga County.
Families of two 14-year-old i
Chattooga County girls took war-.
rants out against the two men
after the girls left home and
were found in Tampa, Fla. three
weeks ago.
Sheriff Fred Stewart said'
earlier he understood the FBI
was handling the case. But this |
week a FBI spokesman said the i
office is only checking into the I
matter at this point to see |
whether there is any federal,
violation.
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County Teachers
Busy; Students
Report on Monday
Vacation is already over for
the Chattooga County teachers
and it’ll be over Monday for the
students. ।
County pre-school planning
week began Monday. Classes be
gin next Monday.
Summerville High bus stu
dents registered Wednesday and
the non-bus students register
this morning.
All other Summerville students
will register on Monday. Those
in the first grade may register
at any time between 9 a.m. and
3 p.m. Monday, Mrs. F. H. Boney,
principal of the Summerville
Elementary School has an
nounced. They must take their
birth certificates, she noted.
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Subligna Patrons Say They
Do Not Hold Board Items
Patrons who took various items from the recently
l consolidated Subligna School this week contended they do
not hold any items which belong to the Chattooga Board
of Education.
They say the Items are things
which the school's Parent-
Teacher Association or patrons
j themselves bought.
Listed by County School Supt.
1 Lowell Hix as items which the
patrons have in their possession
are a piano, folding chairs, ping
pong table, microscopes, a Geor
gia flag, movie screen and pro
jector, mimeograph machine, rip
saw, clocks and several other
j things.
The patrons, speaking through
their attorney, Joseph <Bo 1 Log
gins, say that instead of their
'holding items which the board
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SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 PER YEAR
Students, teachers, par
ents — in fact, just about
everybody — realized fully
this week that the summer
vacation was over.
Tnere was even a touch of
autumn in the air at mid-week
to herald the arrival of the new
school year.
College, public school and pri
vate school students are busy
getting ready for another nine
months of classes, their parents
are getting geared for the extra
expenses and teachers are pre
paring for their work.
Although no big increases in
enrollment are anticipated in
any of the county and Trion
schools, there may be some slight
increases.
Both systems have obtained
the necessary teachers but both
will also suffer under the strain
of less state financing this year.
The county system expects at
least one major change during
the year and there could be
more. A new school superin
tendent is expected to take of
fice Jan. 1 and there’s a possi-
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(Staff Photo by McConnell)
top photo, Bth graders fill out question
naires. In the bottom picture, 10th
graders are shown.
owns, the reverse is true. The
s board of education, they say, has
- four typewriters which belong to
< the people of the community.
Meanwhile, the deadline set by
. the board for return of the items
■ is approaching. It will come on
1 Saturday.
> Board of Education Attorney
T. J. Espy, Jr. said the board has
- not yet said what action it con
> templates in the event the items
r j are not returned.
The patrons said the board
1 owes them four typewriters be
- cause of this situation: Several
r [ years ago, they said, 10 type
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