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VOLUME 76—NO. 35
Rash of Auto Accidents
Kill Two, Injure Eight
The second traffic death in Chattooga County within
a week occurred last Saturday.
In addition, a 12-year-old boy was killed Saturday in
a traffic accident in nearby
Broomtown, Ala.
The dead are Bonard Clayton
Burton. 51, of Summerville,
killed in a collision on the Men
lo-Summerville Road early Sat
urday, and Billy Glenn Stancell,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Stan
cell, killed when struck by a car
as he started to cross the road
near his home.
In addition, four persons were
injured in other accidents oc
curring in the county within the
past week and four Trionites
were injured Tuesday in a wreck
near Ooltewah, Tenn.
Injured in the Chattooga
wreck were: Gordon Weathers,
40, and Leonard Eugene Weath
ers, 27, both of LaFayette, and
Gaynell Croft, 23, and Wanda
Barrett, 18, both of Trion Rt. 1.
Injured in the Ooltewah acci
dent were: Troy Pope, 40, driver
of one of the cars involved; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pope,
and his son, Terry Pope, 4, all
of Trion. The driver suffered a
cut on the forehead; his father
was treated for a severe fore
head cut and hospitalized at
Erlanger; Mrs. Pope had a left
arm fracture and a cut on her
left leg and also was hospital
ized; and the child had back
abrasions. The Pope car collided
with one driven by John Mc-
Donald, 61, Athens, Ala., and
both McDonald and his wife
were also injured.
Mr. Burton was killed at 12:25
a.m. Saturday three miles west
of Summerville on Georgia 48
when his 1949 sedan struck the
rear of a tractor trailer truck.
The truck was driven by Charles
Junior Stines, 49, Cowan, Tenn.
He was not injured, according to
the Georgia State Patrol. Both
vehicles were going toward
Summerville when the accident
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LEAD CHEEKING FOR BULLDOGS—
These pretty lassies from Trion High
will urge the Bulldogs along Friday
night when they host the powerful West
Rome Chieftains. Game time is 8 o’clock.
Mew Hope U. Charter
Revoked Here Monday
The New Hope University charter was revoked Monday
in Summerville on grounds that it had been obtained
fraudulently.
Ernest S. Sinclair, who had obtained the charter, did
not appear in court.
Superior Court Judge S.
W. Fariss revoked the charter
upon a petition filed by Sol. Gen.
Earl B. Self, who had charged
that the document was obtained
fraudulently.
Self, who was unable to appear
in court because of duties at La-
Fayette Monday, had declared
that it was his belief the names
of some of the people listed on
the charter as applicants were
used without their knowledge.
He also charged that the ad
dresses of the applicants were
not given in the charter as re
quired by law and that the ap
plicants did not have a State De
partment of Education certifi
cate which is required of all
firms planning to confer de
grees.
occurred, and the Burton car ran
up under the trailer’s rear, it was
stated.
The Stancell boy, a sth grader
at Rhinehart School in Cherokee
County (Ala.), was killed in
stantly when struck by a car
driven by Jack Hickey, 34, of
Summerville.
Alabama Highway Patrolman
L. F. Taylor said young Stancell
had been a passenger in a car
operated by his father and was
accompanied by a brother, Da
vid. The father reported the
lads got out of his car and
started across the Jamestown-
Menlo road toward a friend’s
house. The elder Stancell said
he saw his son was about to run
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GAS CUSTOMERS TO GET
PAY TOWARD APPLIANCES
The Summerville Gas Department has announced a
new plan under which customers who add gas appliances
can receive reimbursements toward installation expenses.
In addition, the Department has announced reduc-
tions in cut-in fees.
Under the reimbursement
plan, those adding a 30,000 BTU
or larger first heating unit will
receive $25. Those adding
smaller, but first heating units
will receive sls, and each addi
tional heating unit will give the
customer $12.50. The addition of
a gas water heater will mean a
reimbursement of $25; the addi
tion of a cooking range or a re
frigerator will mean sls to the
customer; the addition of a
clothes dryer will mean $10; and
the addition of a combined heat
ing and air conditioning unit
will mean $125.
Applications should be made
The Bulldogs, fresh from a 13-0 victory
over Chattooga High, will be out to make
it two in a row. Chattooga goes to Ring
gold Friday night.
An offer of Sinclair to surren
der the charter or dissolve it was
not acted on by the judge. Judge
Fariss said he was in doubt as to
his authority to take such action.
Although Sinclair was not offi
cially represented at the hear
ing. Attorney Joseph B Loggins
said he had been asked to tell
the court of Sinclair’s desire to
surrender the charter.
Sinclair had obtained the char
ter in June and had announced
plans for a fund-raising effort
for the proposed University. He
said at first he wanted to locate
the Institution in either Chat
tooga County or Florida but said
later he wanted to purchase the
Castle In the Clouds in Dade
I County for the University.
She Nms
Car Carrying B reck
Victims Collides On
B ay to Hospital
A car transporting two wreck
victims from Menlo to Chattooga
Hospital was involved in a wreck
Friday in Summerville but no
further injuries ensued, accord
ing to Summerville police.
The car was driven by Dr. V.
F. Shull of Summerville and the
injured passengers were Leonard
and Gordon Weathers of LaFa
yette. Both men were later
transferred to Erlanger Hospital
in Chattanooga.
Colliding with the Shull car
was one driven by David Huskey.
The accident occurred in front
of Denson’s Store on North Com
merce Street.
' with the City of Summerville.
The cut-in rate change is as
follows:
Fees for customers in “low
pressure” service areas will be
reduced from $65 to $45 and
those for customers in "high
pressure” areas will be cut from
SIOO to $65.
“High pressure” areas are
those where service is directly
from the main, such as many of
those along the main highways,
and “low pressure” areas are
those where service is not di
rectly from the main line. This
includes most of those in Sum
merville, Dickeyville and Penn
■ ville.
Sinclair On
Hand at City
Council Meet
A former schoolteacher who
was denied a permit to solicit
funds in Summerville for a
Chamber of Commerce protested
to the Summerville City Council
Monday night.
At the conclusion, however,
he said he was not now asking
for a permit.
Ernest S. Sinclair spoke for
some 30 minutes, during which
time he read a prepared state
ment. In the statement. Sinclair
charged that the Summer
ville Retail Merchants Assn,
did not have the same (sollcita-
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961
REV. M’DONALD
McDonald to
Head NW Ga.
Church Group
The Rev. Roger McDonald,
pastor of the Summerville First
Baptist Church, Tuesday was
elected president of the North
west Georgia Baptist Ministers’
Conference.
The election came at the con
clusion of a one-day meeting of
the Conference held at Shorter
College in Rome. The organiza
tion covers 22 counties.
The Rev. Mr. McDonald has
served the Summerville Church
for three years, and has been
active in the civic life of the
community.
Named as publicity chairman
for Chattooga County was the
Rev. T. A. Wallace, pastor' of the
Lyerly Baptist Church.
Dr. George F. Brown, pastor
emeritus of the Marietta First
Baptist Church, spoke at the
Tuesday meeting. His subject
was: “Reflections of a Retired
Pastor.”
The Conference is a fellowship
and inspirational organization
for pastors, ministers of educa
tion, music and youth and other
Baptist denominational workers.
Educators to
Attend GE A
Meet Monday
Trion and Chattooga educators
will attend a Seventh District
Cabinet meeting of the Georgia
Education Assn, at 4:30 p.m.
Monday in Calhoun.
A. J. Strickland, Trion school
superintendent and district GEA
director, will preside.
School system leaders and
GEA leaders will attend.
Among the topics to be dis
cussed are the GEA insurance
plan, the Minimum Foundation
Program, the GEA legislative
committee program, teach er
welfare, public relations, Na
tional Education Week, teacher
education and professional
standards, teacher recruitment
and the proposed European GEA
tour.
Surplus Food
To Be Given
This Week
Distribution of government
surplus food will be today and
Friday, it has been announced.
The distribution, made to low
income families, will be at the
Chattooga Fair Grounds.
The September distribution is
early because of the forthcoming
Chattooga County Fair, set for
Oct. 5-7.
Pennville School
Recently Burglarized
No arrests have yet been made
in connection with a recent
Pen nv 111 e School burglary.
School Principal Peter Mattis
said this week.
The school adding machine
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Ordinary RoFinishes
Huge Wood Cabinet;
Is Fine Antique
No, that isn't a new cabinet
in Ordinary Paul Weems of
fice.
It’s been there all the time.
The huge wood storage cabi
net is just being rejinished.
It had been covered with
heavy black paint. Using a
paint remover, Mr. Weems
found that the piece of furni
ture was actually made of fine
walnut.
He is sanding it and when
this is finished he will put oil
on the wood to bring it back to
its natural finish.
The cabinet is more than
100 years old, says the ordi
nary.
S’ville Telephone Co.
Purchased By GT & E
A telephone company which serves customers in six
Southeastern states has purchased the Summerville Tele
phone Company and other Kirk system companies.
It is the General Telephone and Electronics Corpora-
tion. with headquarters in Dur
ham, S. C.
The firm is larger than the
Kirk system, having 200,000 cus
tomers, compared to Kirk's 70,-
000.
The effective date of the ac
quisition will be Dec. 1.
The purchase price offered by
GT&E, one of six offers received
under competitive bidding, was
not disclosed.
Donald C. Power, GT&E chair
man and chief executive officer,
said that the Kirk properties
would be closely coordinated
with the operations of General
Telephone Company of the
Southeast, a GT&E subsidiary.
The firm presently serves 200,000
telephones in portions of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Geor
gia, Tennessee, Virginia and
West Virginia.
Mr. Power said that applica
tion for approval of the transac
tion will be made promptly with
Civil Cases
To Be Heard
In October
Only civil cases will be heard
during the October term of Chat
tooga Superior Court which
opens at 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 9.
Judge S. W. Fariss will pre
side.
Jurors for the one week of
court were drawn Monday. They
are as follows:
R. S. Westbrooks, Willie Evans,
Malcolm Gaylor, Cornelious
Williams, T. S. Starkey, Rice
Morgan, Lamar Allmon, L. B.
Cook, Sr., Lloyd E. Sprayberry,
R. Donald Wofford, J. J. Gil
reath, Russell Crouch, Charles
Farrar.
Corbin H. Whitfield, Robert B.
Moore, D. F. Howell, Hill Cald
well, Archie C. Brown, Deed
Murphy, Claude H. Ratliff, Gor
don D. McCollum, Wallace
Thomas, Carl M. Webster, Walt
er Adams, William Mullins, W.
L, Crouch.
Robert L. Martin, John G. Rog
ers, George Carter, J. A. Clemons,
W. R. Chappelear, Leonard Scog
gins, E. H. Willingham, Paul
Crouch, Alfred E. Hughes, Wood
row Abernathy, William T. Hen
drix, George A. Kling, Eddie
Cooper, Y. M. Gilmer.
Clifford Raines, C. B. Bricker,
Lonnie Baggett, Edgar Byars, J.
M. Reynolds, E. A. Tudor, Elbert
Hayes, J. Thomas Langston,
Eugene Wilbanks, Clifford Mc-
Collum, H. A. Snow, Mrs. Vera
Green, D. L. McWhorter.
Heavy City Court
Docket Concluded
Gaming, possessing liquor, larceny, driving under the
influence and a wide variety of other cases were handled
last week in Chattooga City Court here.
Judge F. H. Boney presided over the week-long session.
Many “rules of nisi” and or
ders f^>r re-arrest were issued
because a large number of per
sons didn ot appear in court as
had been ordered. When a "nisi”
is issued, it means that party is
oidered to appear at the next
term.
Several cases were continued
until the December term of City
Court, including some drag rac
ing cases.
Results of the week of court,
which included both trials and
pleas, are as follows:
Possessing liquor cases—Jean
Ann Padgett, $200; Raymond
Gayler, 9 months or $250; San
ders Ratliff, nisi, order for re
arrest; Ollie Dan Koonce, nisi,
order for re-arrest; Donald
Searles, nisi, order for re-arrest;
Juanita London, not guilty;
BUly G. Gentry, nisi, order for
re-arrest; Fred H. Flnister, not
guilty; Melvin Goss, not guilty;
Marshall Clayton, nisi, order for
re-arrest; Eula Goss, not guilty;
Pearl London, nolle pressed (?);
Grady Brock, four months or
SSO; Grady Brady, nine months.
Possessing beer cases—Eula
Goss, not guilty; Melvin Goss,
not guilty; Billy G. Gentry, nisi,
order for re-arrest; Donald
Searles, nisi, order for re-arrest;
Charlie R. Morris, nisi, order for
re-arrest; Patsy Wheeling, nisi,
order for re-arrest; John H.
Wooten, nisi, order for re-arresj,;
James Buford Shankles, nisi, or-
appropriate authorities.
Aside from shifts which might
take place in management due
to the new ownership, no per
sonnel changes in the companies
being acquired are presently con
templated, Mr. Power stated.
The Summerville Telephone
Company serves all Chattooga
County, and is one of several
companies in the Kirk system.
The Summerville firm switched
to dial several months ago after
considerable controversy over
poor service. The matter was
climaxed when municipal auth
orities in the county appealed to
the Georgia Public Service Com
mission for relief. Rates were
cut for several months, awaiting
the transfer to dial service.
The Kirk properties are owned
by Elmer E. Kirk, of Douglas;
Carl E. Kirk, of Dothan, Ala.; J.
Ernest Kirk, of Dalton, and Mrs.
Marie Kirk Ferguson, of Colum
bus, Ohio.
All of the facilities are dial op
erated with the exception of one
small exchange in Alabama,
which is now in the process of
conversion.
Contract to Be Let
In Near Future On
Low-Rent Project
Construction of a $1 million low-rent housing project
in Summerville may start in early 1962, it was learned this
week.
Jack Frost, executive director of the Summerville
Housing Authority, told the
Summerville City Council Mon
day night that the Authority
hopes to let a contract before
the first of the year.
He said construction should
start shortly after the first, or
as soon as weather permits after
the letting.
Mr. Frost appeared before the
Council in connection with the
opening of Henry Street, near
the Union Street project. He
said the Authority would like to
erect a duplex for elderly people
on the street.
Options have been obtained on
most of the property where the
new units will be located, he
said.
Summerville has been ap
proved for 75 additional units,
many of which will be designed
for older people.
der for re-arrest; Charles Por
ter, nisi, order lor re-arrest; Ted
F. McNair, nisi, order for re-ar
rest; Lon Freeman, nisi, order
for rc-arrest; B. E. Causey, not
guilty; Fred Reed, six months to
run concurrent to another term.
Driving under the influence
Henry Larkin Hays, four months;
Tommy Louis Shropshire, 4
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Commission and Planners
Asked Aid On School Site
Selection of a site for the proposed new Chattooga High
School was discussed Thursday night at the Chattooga-
Municipal Planning Commission meeting.
Representatives of the Chattooga Board of Education
met with the group and asked
their advice and the professional
advice of the area planners in
Rome.
Grady Ramey was named head
of a committee to work with the
school board and architect and
Planners Sid Thomas and Glenn
Woodward, of Rome, were asked
to provide their professional
services. Both planners were
present Thursday night.
Named to the Ramey commit
tee were: O. L. Cleckler, Grover
Jackson. Mark Strawn, O. O.
Morehead, Sr., Bill Mitchell and ;
Leroy Massey.
The group was to have met ;
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Univ of Georgia
Retail Sales Climb
Upward in County
Retail sales in Chattooga County continue to climb
this year.
They increased some $117,000 during the second quar
ter this year as compared with the second quarter in 1960.
Sales were up from $4,179,937
to $4,297,485.
This was in contrast to the
state as a whole, which showed
a decrease. The state figures for
the second quarter last year
were $1,291,733,100- but this
year they had dropped to $1,276,-
461,099.
Surrounding counties to Chat
tooga also showed increases.
Walker was up from $10,878,000
to $11,000,000. Floyd jumped
from $24,900,000 to $30,000,000.
Gordon went from $4,900,000 to
$5,200,000.
The retail sales figures are
based on the actual bank de
posits of the Georgia State Sales
and Use Tax collections.
Chattooga also showed an in
crease for the first quarter of
this year.
CD RADIO
ORGANIZES
Radio communications for
Summerville in the event of a
disaster or enemy attack were
planned Monday night at a
civil defense meeting held at
radio station WGTA.
Henry Duke, chief of com
munications, made several ap
pointments.
They were as follows:
Paul Hardeman, deputy chief
of communications; Roger Alli
son, Conelrad coordinator; Al
fred Mitchell, wire and radio
service chief; Boyd Coker, Citi
zens Band radio coordinator;
David Herrod, radio officer for
RACES and MARS; Donnie
Espy, radio chief; J. L. Strick
land, wire service chief; James
Stowers, supply and mainte
nance chi«f.
This communications unit of
the Civil Defense organization
will work directly with the mili
tary in keeping the public in
formed in the event of disaster
or attack.
COOSA PLANNERS
MEET NEXT THURS.
The regular monthly meeting
of the Coosa Valley Area Plan
ning and Development Commis
sion will be held at 10:30 am.
next Thursday at the Aloha Res
taurant in Rome.
Several matters of routine
business will be before the Com
mission at this meeting.
yesterday for further discus
sions. Target date for selection
of a site is October 3. The school
board will make the final deci
sion.
The board said at its Septem
ber meeting that it would confer
with the planning commission,
inasmuch as one of the duties of
the commission is to aid in plan
ning orderly growth for the com
munity. •
J. T. Morgan, president of the
commission, presided.
Mayors and councils of the
municipalities in the county will
be special guests at the next
meeting, it was announced.
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Trion Dept.
Store to Close
September 30
The Trion Department Store
will close on September 30.
Only the Bargain Loft will re
main open and this only until
the Riegel Bargain Loft is opened
in the Triangle Shopping Center.
The drug prescriptions will be
transferred to Horton’s Phar
macy, located one mile south of
Trion. Horton’s will soon move
into the Triangle.
An office will be maintained
in the store for handling pay
ments on accounts. No check
cashing service will be available
except to those desiring to pay
on their accounts.
Plans for shutting down the
Trion Department Store were
made several months ago when
plans for the Triangle Shopping
Center were formulated. The
store building will eventually be
used for manufacturing pur
poses.
The Triangle is expected to
open in October. It will house
JO stores, including Lessie’s
Beauty Shop, Pickle, Hardware,
McWhorter Jewelers, J o y c e’s
House of Flowers, Hendrix Bar
ber Shop, Abney’s Department
Store, Horton Pharmacy, Riegel
Bargain Loft, Redford’s 5 and
10, and Hurley Food Center.
Towns Streets
Being Paved by
County, Stale
Several street improvement
projects are underway in Chat
tooga municipalities.
County Commissioner John
Jones noted this week that in
addition to the several road im
provement projects underway on
rural roads through state aid,
several municipal streets are
being Improved through county
and state aid.
Each of the four municipali
ties--Summerville, Menlo, Trion
and Lyerly—received one mile of
a four-mile paving grant given
the county by the state some
months ago. The county fur
nished the equipment and labor
for putting down this paving.
In addition, a four-mile paving
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REV. TALLENT
Revival to
Start Sunday
Al S. Seville
A 10-day revival series will be
gin Sunday at the South Sum
merville Baptist Church, the
Rev. Truman Woods, pastor, has
announced.
The Rev. H. J. Tallent, pastor
of the Allgood, Tenn., First Bap
tist Church, will be the guest
speaker. Services will be at
7:30 p.m.
Wayne Groce will have charge
of music.
The Rev. Mr. Woods invites
the public to attend.