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VOLUME 78 —NUMBER 6
Floyd Questions
Connection Between
Sheriff and Senator
Chattoga Rep. James H. Floyd strongly suggested this
week that Sheriff Fred Stewart helped Sen. Joseph E.
Loggins frame a salary schedule three years ago which
would have paid the sheriff $12,500 and given him a chief
deputy, two other deputies, a clerk, a jailer and a cook.
Floyd said Loggins made the
proposal but added that he,
Floyd, would not go along be
cause he felt the salaries sug
gested were too high.
Floyd tied the sheriff and
Loggins together as a heated de
bate over the salary system
raged between the two legis
lators. Floyd has passed in the
Georgia House bills which would
switch the sheriff, clerk of court,
tax collector and tax receiver
from the fee to the salary basis.
But Loggins says he will not put
the bills through the Senate.
Floyd accused the senator of
“a falsehood” in connection with
the senator’s statement last week
that the Floyd salary bills were
devised “ in concert” with The
Summerville News.
“Senator Loggins is still hedge
hopping, making false state
ments and trying to deceive the
people,” Rep. Floyd said.
“When he said I formed a coa
lition with the owner and em
ployes of The Summerville News
to establish the salaries of the
county officers, it certainly is a
falsehood and a completely mis
leading statement,” declared
Floyd.
“But I have a question for the
senator: Three years ago when
he proposed a salary schedule of
$12,500 for the sheriff, plus $4,-
800 for a chief deputy, $3,600
each for two deputies, $3,000 for
a clerk, $3,000 for a jailer and
SI,BOO for a cook, who helped
him propose those salaries?”
Floyd went on to state that
he knew Loggins was the at
torney for the present sheriff
and questioned whether the
sheriff had helped him arrive at
those figures.
“I am doing what I sincerely
ibelieve is best for the people of
the county,” said Floyd. “But
who is the senator considering
in this matter?”
Heart Drive to Reach
Climax Sunday Afternoon
Heart Sunday will be observed in Chattooga County
Sunday, with O. G. Morehead Jr. in charge.
A road block by the Summerville Junior Chamber of
Commerce in Summerville from 2 to 4 p.m. will be one
feature.
Another will be the residential
calls from 2 to 5 p.m.
Heart literature will be dis
tributed and those visited or
stopped in the road block will be
given an opportunity to con
tribute to the drive.
The Chattooga High Future
Homemakers of America will
sponsor residential solicitations
in Summerville and the Boy
Scouts will do the calls in Menlo.
Other community groups will
work in other areas, but details
hadn’t been worked out by press
time.
A. L. Lawson heads the colored
division, with Mrs. Ruth Johnson
in charge of Heart Sunday.
Dr. J. J. Allen is the Heart
Fund chairman for the county.
Heart Sunday is the highlight
of the drive.
Here is the way the money is
spent:
Research. 36.3 per cent; educa
tion, 19.1; community services,
19.2: fund raising, 9.9 per cent;
administration, 5.2 per cent.
Offset Job Press
Installed at News
The increasingly-popular off
set printing method has been in
troduced into The Summerville
News mechanical department, D,
T. Espy, publisher, announced
this week.
An offset press, the American
Type Founders Chief 17, is now
In use.
The press will considerably
speed up the production of job
work. Mr Espy said
In addition, it will provide a
greater variety in the type jobs
wfiich can be done at The News.
Illustrations and photos can be
easily duplicated for use on
handbills, tickets, statements and
all types of job work.
“Offset” printing is becoming
more and more popular in the
printing industry, the publisher
noted.
Photographic equipment plays
a vital role in this type printing,
because negatives must be pro
duced and from them an alumi-
Floyd has proposed legislation
which would put the sheriff on
a salary of $8,500, the clerk of
court and tax collector on SB,OOO
each and the tax receiver on
$6,000.
Floyd declared that Loggins
has had “plenty of time” to
study the salary matter, having
brought the matter up himself
three years ago. “He could have
the present proposals passed in
30 minutes in the Senate if he
wanted to,” said Floyd.
The representative said he
noted that Loggins did not deny
he was offered copies of the
Floyd bills as early as December
17.
Floyd continued:
“I also want to clarify a
matter which the senator
brought up last week in his
statement in The News. He said
that I made a proposition on
Feb. 1 that we pay the officers
$2,000 each. In reply to that, I
would like to state that I called
him on that date and that we
had a very heated conversation.
He had just said in a public
statement that he had not seen
the bills prior to the time I in
troduced them and I wanted to
call to his attention the fact that
I had offered him copies on
Dec. 17 and that he had refused
them. During the telephone con
versation, he said that if what
I wanted to do was save the
county money why didn’t I set
the sheriff’s salary at $2,000.
And my reply to him was: ‘Now,
Senator, you’ve got all my bills
over there and if you want to
amend each one of them to read
$2,000 you go ahead and amend
them and send them back and
I will pass them.’ When I said
this I knew good and well he
would not amend the bills to
read $2,000 because he was too
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ESCAPEE
NABBED IN
MURRAY CO.
Chattooga C oun t y Warden
John Frank McConnell led a
group which captured an
escaped Chattooga Public Works
Camp prisoner about 11:30 p.m.
Monday near Chatsworth.
The prisoner was Claude
Rogers, who had escaped Jan.
13, while doing duty as a trusty.
Rogers, serving 20 years for
rape, was convicted in Murray
County in 1958.
He was captured at the home
of his father, Earl Rogers, two
days after returning from Ohio.
Accompanying Warden McCon
nell in the capture were Deputy
Warden J. W. Pettyjohn, Guards
Fred Tucker, Luke Lecroy, Cot
ton Vinyard and Bert Tucker
and Murray County Sheriff
Pogue.
num plate is made. The alumi
num plate, which bears the im
print of the job, is then placed
on the press. The image is
transferred tor offset) from the
plate to a rubber blanket and
then from the blanket to paper.
It is based on the old lithograpic
principle that grease and water
do not mix readily. The plate’s
image picks up ink and the
background areas pick up water,
repelling the greasy Ink The
balance of water and ink must
be carefully controlled.
The ATF Chief 17 can turn out
work at speeds up to 7,200 im
pressions every hour.
“Installing this modern piece
of equipment is a part of our
continuing program of keeping
the best equipment available on
hand so that we can do a su
perior job,” said Mr Espy.
He invites interested persons
to visit the shop and see the new
piece of equipment in action.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1963
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MONEY FOR SCIENCE FAlß— Daniel Lee McWhorter
(left) president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Summerville presents a SIOO check to Lamar Parker,
chairman of the Chattooga Schools Science Fair Com
mittee. The money will be used for prizes for the
first annual fair, scheduled for Feb. 27-28. Individual
schools are having preliminary fairs. Mr. Parker is
principal of Lyerly School.
County Science
Fair Planned
For Next Wed.
Some 200 entries are expected in the first annual
Chattooga County Science Fair, scheduled for next Wednes
day and Thursday at the Summerville Recreation Center.
Each school in the county system is expected to sub
mit entries, Chairman Lamar Parker said. The schools
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Springlike
Weather
Follows Snow
It was “like spring" Wednes
day afternoon in Chattooga
County.
But snow had covered the
ground in the Cloudland-Menlo
area Tuesday morning. In
fact, there were still spots of
snow in the Cloudland area
Wednesday. There were re
ports that four or five inches
of snow covered the mountain
during the night Tuesday, but
by Tuesday dawn it had melt
ed some and there was only an
inch or so. Menlo also had a
nice blanket Tuesday morning.
The formal arrival of spring
is still a month away. But
countians were glad to see the
preview Wednesday, having
undergone the worst winter
of the century.
Ceramics
Class to Meet
The ceramics class will meet
only on Thursdays, beginning
Thursday, March 14, it has been
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have held science fairs of their
own, selecting the best for the
county event.
Judging will start at 3:45 p.m.
Wednesday and open house will
be held from 7 to 9 p.m.
Wednesday.
First place prizes of sls will
be given in the three categories
—Grades 1-5, grades 6-8, • and
grades 9-12. Second place win
ners will get $lO and third place
winners, $5. The Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Summerville
is furnishing the cash awards.
Mr. Parker invites all parents
and friends to see the Fair on
Wednesday evening.
Top Units,
Scouts to Be
Named Tonite
The most outstanding troop,
pack, den mother, Boy Scout
and Cub Scout will be chosen
at the Chattooga District Boy
Scout Court of Honor tonight.
The event will be held at
1 the Summerville First Baptist
Church at 7:30 p.m.
Troop 101 will have charge of
the opening and closing cere-
;’ monies.
. James Abney is chairman of
1 the Chattooga District.
Mayor Dowdy Says
I
No Gas Cut Expected
City of Summerville natural gas users are not expected
to benefit from the rulings handed down this week to
Southern Natural Gas Co., Mayor J. R. Dowdy said Wed
nesday.
He noted that the amount of refund or cut which would
Menlo Seeks
I
Low-Rental
Housing Units
Menlo has begun plans to get
government low-rent housing
units.
The first step is changing the
legal title of the community
from “Town of Menlo” to “City
of Menlo”.
Mayor J. P. Smith said offi
cials had learned that “towns”
were not eligible, but that
“cities" were.
Rep. James H. Floyd has in
troduced legislation to change
the community’s legal name
from “town” to “city” for this
purpose.
Mayor Smith said plans for
the housing will proceed as
rapidly as possible.
The shortage of rental hous
ing in the town and Best Mfg.
Corp.’s expansion have brought
about the realization of the
need for such housing, Mr.
Smith said.
Salary Schedule and
Budget Set By S’ville
HAIR PROPOSAL AIMED AT
SAVING THE CITY $15,000 YEAR
An employes salary budget and schedule has been
adopted by the City of Summerville. It should save the
city about $15,000 a year, officials said.
The schedule sets a limit on the number of employes
in each department and specifies that no additional em-
ployes can be hired without the
approval of the Council.
The water department will be
limited to four employes—the
foreman, helper, filter plant
operator and a meter reader;
the gas department to the fore
man, a helper, a machine oper
ator, a welder-mechanic and a
meter reader; the street de
partment to a foreman and
helper; the sanitation depart
ment, a foreman and two help
ers; the police department, a
chief, sergeant and five patrol
men; administrative, city clerk,
secretary-office manager, ac
counts payable clerk, billing
clerk, collections clerk, judge,
mayor and council, attorney,
dump attendant, dog catcher
and janitor.
The proposals should trim
about $3,000 from the water de
partment; $9,000 from the street
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be involved in the City of Sum
merville, would be “very minor,
if any,” He said he had talked
on Wednesday with Joe Register,
Southern Natural Gas Co. engi
neer, about the matter.
Southern Natural supplies the
City of Summerville, which in
turn sells the gas to consumers
in Chattooga and Floyd Coun
ties.
The Federal Power Commis
sion in Washington has handed
down a ruling to Southern Nat
ural which will bring about a
$lO million refund and $3.6 mil
lion per year rate reduction to
natural gas users in four south
ern states, it has been an
nounced.
The FPC ruling affected two
rate increases instituted by
Southern Natural, a wholesale
supplier. Summerville City Clerk
Sam Sitton said the City of
Summerville absorbed one of
the rate Increases.
A wholesaler Is allowed to go
ahead with increases, pending
final okay, if the FPC has not
acted 1 within six months after
it applies. Southern went ahead.
Now, it has been ordered to a
partial reduction of the two in
creases and to make reimburse
ments.
department; and about $3,000
from the police department.
Less than SIOO would be saved
in the gas department.
The proposal was adopted at
the February meeting of the
Council after having been pre
sented by Councilman Will Hair.
Councilman Hubert Palmer sec
onded Hair's motion and Hair,
W. P. Selman and Palmer voted
for the measure, while Council
men Charles Wright and Will
Stephenson did not vote.
The action was a preliminary
to adoption of a 1962 budget,
expected in the near future.
One Summerville restaurant
is not being included among
those allowed to supply meals to
the city jail prisoners, Council
man Stephenson charged in the
meeting. He said the city is
buying no jail meals from The
State Restaurant.
Mayor J. R. Dowdy admitted
that he was aware of this and
said he had “so directed” the
police department, accordingly,
as a result of extreme criticism
(by personnel of that restau
rant) of elected city officials
and adverse publicity given the
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BULLETIN
A 17-year-old Chattooga
County boy, Danny Ray Floyd,
was seriously injured at mid
afternoon Wednesday in an
automobile accident in Walker
County.
Herbie Skelton, also of
Chattooga County, who was
with Floyd, also suffered inju
ries but was not believed in
serious condition, his physi
cian said Wednesday night. He
is at Trion hospital.
Erlanger Hospital, where
young Floyd is a patient, said
at 9:30 pm. Wednesday that
the youth was in the intensive
care unit, indicating he was in
critical condition. No further
information was immediately
available, but a Chattooga
County physician who treated
Floyd before sending him to
Erlanger said he apparently
suffered internal injuries.
The two boys reportedly
overturned several times in a
small convertible vehicle in
which they were riding.
Floyd is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Smith Floyd and Skelton
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Skelton.
Gala Trion Follies
Set Tonight, Friday
It will be show boat time in Trion tonight and Friday
night when the annual Trion Follies are presented.
The “Trion Show Boat” will dock at 7:30 p.m. each
day at the high school auditorium.
The Trion Band Boosters sponsor the event, which is
SOME FLU
HERE, BUT
NO EPIDEMIC
Chattooga County is having
some influenza, but officials say
there is nothing like an epi
demic here.
School absenteeism has been
a little higher than usual during
the past few days in both the
Trion and Chattooga systems.
But some of the absentees can
be attributed to mumps and
chicken pox, as well as to in
fluenza, school officials said.
Trion School Supt. A. J.
Strickland said the situation
was a little better this week in
Trion than it was last week.
Chattooga Visiting Teacher
Clarence Gilley said Wednes
day that absenteeism in the
county was higher than it
should be at this time of year.
He noted, however, that most
of those absent because of flu
are out only two or three days.
Whether there is any “Aslan
flu” here or not remained in
question. One physician said
there is some Influenza but that
they do not attempt here to
diagnose the various strains be
cause that can be done only in
an elaborate laboratory.
Colorful Program
On Founders Set
Two women representing the founders of the Parent-
Teacher Assn, will be featured in an 11-person skit on the
Menlo P.-T.A. Founders Day program at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The women will represent Alice MeLellan Birney and
Phoebe Apperson Hearst, who founded the P.-T.A. in 1897.
The entire program will be
colorful and informative, said '
Mrs. Emory Alexander, Menlo j
P.-T.A. president. '
All past presidents of the or
ganization and all teachers are I
urged to attend, she said, so 1
that they may be recognized.
Special music will be pre- i
Menlo Version of P.-T.A.
Going Early in Century
Dedicated Menlo parents and teachers may have form
ed their own brand of “Parent-Teacher Association” about
the time that Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson
Hearst founded the national organization in 1897.
At least there was a “live” organization called “The
Menlo School Improvement ।
Club” functioning In 1907 when
Mrs. O. L. Cleckler came to
Menlo to teach.
"Everyone In the community
participated in whatever the
club attempted to do for helping
the school,” she recalls. “We did
various things to make money
held bazaars, rummage sales,
local talent plays, and musi
cals.”
A festive "College Supper”
was held In September, 1908, as
a money-raising project. Tills
unique and colorful event was
held in a grove north of the
Polk place, then known as “The
Laurence Grove”. Bright Jap
anese lanterns adorned the area
and there was a bounty of
home-cooked foods. The cakes
which were not used were auc
tioned off. The entire project
was a great success.
One project which today only
communities such as Rome and
Chattanooga attempt was that
of community concerts and lec
tures, featuring noted musicians
and speakers. This program,
called “The Alkahest Lyceum
Course,” brought to Menlo out
standing pianists, vocalists, lec
turers and other musical groups.
One evening was devoted to
harp music.
Over the years, the Menlo
P.-T.A. has remained “live”,
contributing much in time,
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highlight of the year in the
community.
Festive music, colorful scenes
and laughs aplenty are on tap.
The program will open with
“Mississippi” as the overture,
followed by the fanfare by the
Trion High School Band, the
Glee Club and majorettes.
The junior mascots will then
be presented with the winners
to be announced Friday night.
Captain Hornblower, captain
of The Trion Show Boat, will
give a brief synopsis of the pro
gram. Dickie Buckalew has this
role.
Other features will include
music by the first grade rhythm
band; a minute by the second
. grades; a hilarious song and
dance routine by the Flora Dora
i Sextet, comprised of a group of
town men; the Virginia Reel by
• a group of students; singing of
• “Happy Little Hobo” by a group
s of 20 lads; “The Petzel Tree
t Sermon,” by Captain Horn
. blower; a ballet by Beth Thom
t as; selections by the Show Boat
i Chorus, comprised of 40 Trion
. men and women; a medicine
i show, by the faculty of the
i school; selections by the Trion
i School Band and the Trion Jazz
t Band; the Charleston dance by
J Diane Allmon and Nancy Jim
- Floyd; and selections by the
i Show Boat Band, comprised of
men of the town.
sented by Warner Wilson, vocal
ist, and others, and there will
be refreshments.
An exhibit at Maxey’s Sundries
in Menlo this week emphasizes
the Founders Day program
which Is coming up, Mrs. Alex
ander said.
money and effort to the child,
school and community.
This year, for Instance, the
organization, headed by Mrs.
Emory Alexander, young moth
er of two children, has done
such things as sponsor the or
ganization of a Cub Scout Pack;
buy ten electric fans for the
school; sponsored a science ex
hibit for the school; distributed
food and clothing to numerous
children and their families;
helped organize the first Chat
tooga County Parent-Teacher
Council.
In addition, the Menlo group
has held a community Christ
mas caroling, attained the Gold
Leaf Honor Roll, sent a repre
sentative to the District P.-T.A.
meeting and to all county coun
cil meetings; observed “Ameri
can Education Week” with open
house at the school; and ob
tained a remarkable 154 paid
members.
Mrs. Birney and Mrs. Hearst
formed the National Congress
of Mothers in 1897 and it later
became the National Congress
of Parents and Teachers.
Mrs. Birney, a native of Mari
etta, presented the idea of an
organization of parents in 1896
to the General Federation of
Women’s Clubs. In 1897, she met
Mrs. Hearst and together they
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