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VOLUME 77 —NUMBER 52
Representative Floyd
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Here are the results of an
interview this week by The Summerville News with
Chattooga Rep. James H. (Sloppy) Floyd.)
Is your proposal to take the Chattooga officers off the
fee system and put them on a salary basis the only local
legislation to be ■ introduced from Chattooga County this
year?
Yes.
What reaction are you getting from the public to this
proposal?
It’s good. Everybody seems to be in favor of it and most
say it should have been done years ago. I think the figures
proposed for the salaries are fair to the taxpayers and fair
to the office holders. I could only estimate what the of
ficers are now making under the fee system. Some have said
I was high. They themselves know what they make. And
if they want the public to know they can make a statement
to The Summerville News. I think it would be of interest
to the people of the county.
What will be the effect of Chattooga County’s dropping
from a two-representative to a one-representative basis?
As I said earlier, it means we will lose one voice in state
government. But so far as our getting our share of state
services, I think we will continue to do so.
You ivouldn’t deny, ivould you, that it is an advantage to
Chattooga that her one voice in the legislature is one who has
had a decade of experience in the House?
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S’ville Branch
Os Ga. Glove
Starts Monday
Production should start next
week at Georgia Glove Co.’s
branch in Summerville, Otis
Tanner, superintendent, said
Tuesday.
Close to 30 persons will be em;
ployed at the start, with 20 ma
chines in operation. In about
two months, 12 more machines,
with 12 operators, will go into
production at the Summerville
branch, Mr. Tanner said.
This will make the total em
ployment of Georgia Glove
around 100 persons.
The branch is located on Dry
Valley Road in a building for
merly used by Montgomery
Knitting Co. for warehouse pur
poses.
Some of the persons employed
at Summerville will be trans
ferred from the Lyerly plant,
which is headquarters, and some
will be new employes.
The third glove training class,
operated on the Lyerly School
campus by the State Dept, of
Education, Chattooga Board of
Education and Georgia Glove,
will start Monday. Twelve per-
Reneiv Driver s License
On Or Before Birthday
When’s your birthday?
That's when you must renew your drivers’ license. Legisla
tion passed last year provides that, effective Jan. 1, one-year
drivers’ permits must be renewed on or before the holder’s birth
day anniversary.
Holders of five-year permits come in a little different cate
gory. Those with licenses expiring March 31, 1963, if their birth
date is prior to that time, may renew on their birthday but have
until March 31.
Any five-year license expiring in 1964 or thereafter must be
renewed by the holder’s birthdate or may be renewed up to 90
days prior.
Veterans license holders are not affected by the new regula
tion. Neither are the age requirements changed. A learner per
mit may be issued at age 15 and a regular driver’s license at 16.
A state trooper is at the Chattooga courthouse on the first
and third Mondays in every month for the purpose of renewing
and issuing drivers’ licenses.
Tax Collector, Tax Receiver
Get ‘Cuts 9 Out of County Taxes
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of stories
about the fee system as it works in Chattooga County and
about the proposals of Rep. James (Sloppy/ Floyd for
changing county officers to the salary basis. An earlier
article discussed the Clerk of Court office. This week, the
tax collector’s and tax receiver's offices are discussed.)
The tax collector of Chattooga County grosses
about $20,000 and the tax receiver about $6,000, ac
cording to the estimate of Rep. James H. Floyd.
The office holders have not disputed the figures.
In fact, neither the present tax collector nor the
present tax receiver has made any statement for pub
lication about the matter.
A majority of the income of these two officers
comes from the tax monies paid by Chattooga Coun
tians. The amount they receive is set by law and it
depends on the tax digest of the county.
As in the case of the fees for the clerk of the court,
the thing that impresses the layman is the fee sys
tem’s complexity. This is true is the case of the tax
collector and receiver. A sliding scale is used. It starts
out stating they receive six percent “on all net digests
sons will be in training.
Georgia Glove began opera
tions in Lyerly last May with
about 20 employes.
Inquest Set
In Death of
J. C. Tucker
An inquest in the death of
J. C. Tucker, mechanic, of Sum
merville, was expected sometime
today, Coroner Roosevelt Young
said this week.
Mr. Tucker was found dead
about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday near an
automobile in Hookey’s Cleanup
Shop at Dickeyville. The car
switch was on and the gas tank
dry, the coroner said. A buffer
was nearby. Acquaintances said
Mr. Tucker frequently worked
late at the shop and that he
was alone in the building when
discovered. The door was said to
be unlocked.
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Tax reform. Medicare. Foreign aid. Federal aid
to education. Creation of an Urban Affairs Depart
ment. And reorganization of Congress.
These are the main items to come before the U. S.
Congress in 1963, as Rep. John W. Davis of Summer
ville sees it.
And what will be the outcome, in the legislator’s
opinion?
He thinks the tax reform measures will pass;
medicare’s future “hangs in the balance”; federal aid
to education is “in doubt”; creation of an Urban
Affairs Dept, is in doubt; and changes in foreign aid
are certain.
Discussing the world situation, Congressman Davis
told The News this week that he isn’t especially op
timistic just because the United States forced Russia
to back down in Cuba.
“I don’t believe we will have ■war,” he said. “But
I do think the cold war will continue and we will al
ways have to be on guard against tactics by Russia
to push us back.”
In a telephone interview from Washington, Con
gressman Davis noted that he will continue on the
highly-important science and astronautics (space)
committee, moving to 10th place on the 18-man com
mittee.
Rep. Davis said he will introduce some legislation
relating to space and possibly some other bills.
The congressman said that in a caucus Monday
Group to Visit
February 4
On Watershed
Another step toward the de
velopment of flood prevention
measures on Little Armuchee
Creek will be taken Feb. 4 when
a group of experts come here
from Athens to do preliminary
investigations.
Some 45,000 acres in Chat
tooga and Floyd Counties are
involved.
Hugh Clark will head the
“planning party” which will
visit the two counties for the
field survey, Everett Lunsford,
Soil Conservation Service tech
nician, said this week.
After this survey, the plans
for prevention of floods and
possibly for recreation purposes
will be presented to the people
whose land is involved. They
will decide whether the program
should proceed, Mr. Lunsford
explained.
Application was filed in 1958
for the project, it was stated.
Menlo to Get
New Post Office
A new Post Office is being
planned for Menlo.
Congressman John Davis an
nounced this week that adver
tising for bids will start Jan.
17. Construction is expected to
be finished by June.
The Post Office Department is
asking that private capital pur
chase a site (which the Depart
ment must approve) and erect
the building. The Department
will then sign a five-year lease
agreement with two-year re
newal options, Rep. Davis said.
The structure must have 1,100
feet of interior space and 96
feet of platform space. The
paved area must include 5,800
square feet.
Bids should be submitted to
William H. Allen, 202-M Federal
Annex Building, Atlanta 4, Ga.
Harold Toles is the Menlo
postmaster.
up to and including $6,000”. The sliding scale con
tinues until it drops down to one and three-fourths
per cent on all over $76,000.
The matter is complicated, however, by the fact
that the collector gets an additional sum on the last
part of the taxes collected.
The tax collector apparently collects the money
and then pays to the receiver his share, which also is
set by law.
In addition to the income? from commissions on
taxes collected, the office holders get a commission
for selling automobile tags. It is said to be a relatively
minor part of their income.
Out of the income of the tax collector and receiver,
they must pay their clerical help. They have one
woman who works full-time and another who assists
occasionally. This seems to be the principal expense
of these two office-holders. The county furnishes of
fice space, utilities, office supplies??, etc.
Rep. Floyd has suggested a salary of SB,OOO for the
tax collector and a salary of $6,000 for the tax receiver.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. 1963
Daylight
Robbery Hits
Supreme Oil
A mysterious daylight rob
bery occurred at Supreme Oil
Co.’s North Commerce Street
station about 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday.
Some $330 was taken.
Station Manager James
Hunt said he saw no assailant
but was hit on the back of the
head as he went to a store
room at the side of the station
to pick up a case of soft
drinks. Two attendants, Mar
vin Gentry and Charles Tapp,
were at the front of the sta
tion, waiting on a customer
when the incident occurred, it
was stated. They said they
saw no one and did not hear
anything unusual.
Hunt told officers he came
to on the ground and called
for help. It was then dis
covered that $330 of company
money which he carried in a
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Rec. Center
Burglarized
The Summerville Recreation
Center was broken into Friday
night but nothing of value was
taken, officials said.
The building was entered by
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Chattooga Superior Court to
Open in Summerville Monday
Trial of civil cases and considerations by the Grand
Jury will highlight the first week of Chattooga Superior
Court which opens at 9 a.m. Monday. Criminal cases will
be tried the following week. Judge S. W. Farris will preside.
The calendar of civil cases has been released. However,
i some of the cases on the cal- ।
1 endar may be settled prior to
Legislators Speak
Congressman John W. Davis
afternoon, all 10 Georgia congressmen decided they
would vote to keep the House Rules Committee at 15
members instead of having it drop to 12. He said the
primary reason they made this decision is that they
believe Rep. Phil Landrum of Georgia will have a
better chance of getting on the Ways and Means Com
mittee under such an agreement. There are now two
vacancies on it, he said.
On federal aid to education, Rep. Davis said he
rather doubts it will get through because of the pa
rochial school angle.
“I favor federal aid to education myself,” he
said. “But I am not in favor of using tax money
to support religious schools.”
On medicare, one of the president’s prime bills,
Rep. Davis said he fears the proposal would put too
much burden on the social security system.
“You know,” he said, “our social security taxes
will go lip every year until 1969 as the law now reads.
At that time, these taxes will comprise 10 per cent of
the payroll. That’s without medicare. I’m afraid that
if we add medicare it will go up to 15 or 20 per cent.
“But I do think we have got to do something for
our older people. The life expectancy has gone up and
yet the earning power is not there. At the same time,
hospital expenses have gone up. I do not think we
should turn our backs on them. I hope, however,
that we can come up with a comprehensive voluntary
program of some kind.”
Good Year Forecast
By Business Leaders
Expansions,
Construction
For ’63 Cited
Employment and business
in general in Chattooga
County should be at least as
good in 1963 as it was in 1962.
That’s the concensus of a
group of county business
leaders questioned this week.
Reasons: Expansions of sev
eral industries; a $738,000 hous
ing project and over $700,000
worth of school construction; a
possible federal tax cut; an ap
parently stable economic situa
tion in textiles, the industry on
which Chattooga so heavily de
pends.
Here are the comments of
some of the leaders quizzed:
Daniel Lee McWhorter, presi
dent Farmers and Merchants
Bank:
“I think 1963 will be a good
year. Compared with 1962 it
should be bstter. It looks like
we will have inflation again
although a lot of people say we
won’t. There seems to be an'
upward trend nationally. If we
have a tax cut, that should be
helpful. And I think the indus
trial outlook here is good.”
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the opening or court and It Is
not therefore definite that they
will be considered.
These cases are on the cal
endar:
Miss Mabel Aldred vs. City of
Summerville; Mrs. W. F. Aldred
vs. City or Summerville; J. R.
Watkins Co. vs. W. R. Hendrix
and E. R. Wells; J. M. Sellers vs.
O. H. Perry, Mrs. O. H. Perry
and Doyle Lenderman; Mrs.
Lois Huckaby vs. Grady Allen;
J. E. Cooper vs. Leonard Thom
[ as, doing business as Leonard
Thomas Ford; Mrs. Ray Hen
derson vs. Crawford Hardware.
Walter S. Hamby vs. L. A.
Harris; Pearl Johnson vs. B. D.
McCauley; Chattooga County
vs. 2.4 acres of land and Ralph
Cook; Chattooga County vs. 2
I acres land and Nancy Hubler;
: Chattooga County vs. 7 acres of
; land and Sarah and Willard
Jackson; Bessie Ramey vs. Lon
nie Ramey, Continental Alum.
Corp, and North American Ac
ceptance Corp.
Clifford J. McClure vs. Leon
ard O. Prosser; Jack B. Allen vs.
Katherine <Kathy) S Allen;
Mrs. Clifford J. McClure vs.
L. O. Prosser; Nationwide Homes
Corp. vs. John B. Willingham;
Mary Hartline Daniel vs. Max
[Wilson; Benny Joe Wade vs.
Lemous O. Dempsey; Mary Rice
Holt vs. Paul B. Holt; Maxwell
Bros, of Rome, Inc. vs. Mildred
1 (Mrs. B. A.) Turner.
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GRADING, CLEARING FOR NEW
HOUSING—A bulldozer is shown at
work clearing an area west of North
Commerce Street where some units of
the new low-rent housing project will be
located. The graded area in the fore-
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SITE FOR NEW SCHOOL SHOWN—
County School Supt. James Spence
(left) and Chattooga High Principal
A. L. Clark stand in front of the site
where the new Chattooga High School
April Eyed As Date
For Starting CHS
Construction of the new Chattooga High School may
start in April, School Supt. James Spence said this week.
A year may be required for completion.
In the meantime, the preliminary plans for the build
ing were mailed to Atlanta this week by Architect M. G.
Turner, Mr. Spence said. State
officials will look them over and
then notify local officials as to
whether or not they approve
them. With the exception of
minor details, the state is ex
pected to approve the plans, it
was stated.
A meeting of the Chattooga
Board of Education is expected
to be held after word is received
from the state. At that time,
the architect is expected to
present cost estimates on the
proposed new building and on
Its utilities.
The preliminary plans call for
a radically different type struc
ture from most schools built in
the past few years. It will be a
SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 PER YEAR
State Senator Loggins
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Here are the results of an
interview this week by The Summerville News with
State Senator Joseph E. (Bo) Loggins of Trion.)
Have you decided yet whether you will support Rep.
Floyd’s bill to put the Chattooga officers on a salary sched
ule?
No. I haven’t seen the bills yet and he hasn’t discussed it
with me.
You have no doubt read of his proposed salaries for the
county officers. What do you think of them?
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
What reaction from the public are you getting on the sub
ject?
Very little, really.
You haven’t served in the Senate before. But what do
you think the reapportionment measure will mean insofar as
the poiver and influence of the Senate are concerned?
I think it will raise the influence of the senate due to the
fact that It will be a perpetual body like the House has been
All the time. This way, you can have more experienced sena
tors.
What do you think the major items of general legislation
will be?
The number one item of interest to me, and I think to this
area, is the establishment of a juniqr college. Chattooga
County alone cannot qualify under the criteria set up by the
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ground will also be used for the project.
The street shown is Ross Street, going
west from North Commerce. This is one
of the major construction projects for
1963 here.
will be located It will face Lyerly Road.
Construction of the school will be one of
the major building projects of the year
1963 in Chattooga County.
simple rectangular shape with
crosswise corridors and many
interior rooms. Little glass will
be used and the air will be
"climate controlled".
Supt. Spence said he visited a
Catholic school building of sim
ilar construction last Friday in
Atlanta. Officials there said
student and teacher efficiency
was high, that the cost of
heating was low and that they
were generally well pleased.
In addition, Supt. Spence,
Chattooga High Principal A. L.
Clark and Board Member O. L.
Cleckler visited Red Bud Thurs
day to view their coliseum type
gymnaslum—the type being
considered for Chattooga High.
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Mrs. Lowry
Hurt in Wreck
Wednesday
Mrs. Charles Lowry, of Maf
fett Street, Trion, was hos
pitalized after an automobile
accident near her home late
Wednesday afternoon.
Details of her condition were
not available by press time.
However, employes of Trion
Hospital, where she was ad
mitted, said she was conscious
upon arrival and that X-rays
weie planned. A friend said she
hud a shoulder injury.
It was reported that Lonnie
Teague was the driver of the
other car involved and that
Donnie Reynolds and Teague’s
sen were passengers in that
vehicle. However, preliminary
reports were that there were no
injuries, or only slight ones, to
those in that vehicle,
Mrs. Lowry is secretary to
County Commissioner John
Jones.