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Former Chattoogan Dines With Queen Elizabeth of England
Few Chattooga Countians ever hope to even see
the queen of England, much less dine with her.
But that’s just what happened to Mrs. Mary
Marks Major, formerly of Summerville, recently.
The auspicious occasion occured during Queen
Elizabeth’s visit to the Fiji Islands where Mrs. Major
resides with her husband, an official of the Britist
government.
The Majors sat about ten feet from the queen,
whom Mrs. Major described as “lovely”.
In a recent letter to relatives here, Mrs. Major
said:
“The queen’s visit doesn’t seem real after all
our preparation and such excitement. It went off
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VOLUME 78 —NUMBER 9
Area Has Tools
To Develop,
Countians Told
No other county in the Coosa Valley area has more
prospective industrial sites “nailed down” than does Chat
tooga, with nine.
Chattooga is served by 34 certificated motor freight
carriers, an unusually high number for a smaller county,
making it attractive to prospec-~
tive industry. Rome, for in
stance, has only 40.
Consideration is being given to
putting on a full-time traveling
professional industry solicitor
for the Coosa Valley area.
These were among the inter
esting facts brought out Tues
day when close to 100 Chattooga
leaders met at Riegeldale Tav
ern, Trion, to hear from the
professional planners and in
dustrial experts of the Coosa
Valley Plamiing and Develop
ment Commission and the In
dustrial Development branch of ।
Georgia Tech, Rome.
The professionals expressed
delight at the huge turnout for j
the Dutch luncheon meeting,
noting that the downpour of
rain did not dampen the inter
est of countians in this matter.
In this connection, it was em-
COOSA COMMISSION PREXY WELCOMED— Bernard
Storey, (left) president of the Coosa Valley Planning
and Development Commission is greeted by the Chat
tooga members of the Commission, John Bankson
(center) and J. C. Woods. The welcome was made at
a meeting of county leaders Tuesday in Trion when a
report on the progress and plans of the Commission
was made.
'A . H ‘ ;
PLANNERS CHAT WITH MINISTER—The Rev. W. E.
Hotchkiss, (center) pastor of the Summerville Presby
terian Church, was among the 100 Chattooga leaders
attending the Tuesday session on the Coosa Valley
Commission. Here, he chats with Glenn Woodard (left)
and Sidney Thomas (right), professional planners of
the Coosa Valley Planning and Development Com
mission.
phasized over and over again
that the professionals cannot do
the job alone. In fact, it was
stated, the local effort “makes
the difference between progress
and non-progress.” It was
stressed that the professionals
are to serve the communities
and not the other way around.
. . . Sidney Thomas, executive
director of the Coosa Valley
Commission, and Jim Wyatt,
director of the Georgia Tech
IDD branch at Rome, were the
two keynote speakers. Bernard
Storey, Armuchee, president of
I the Coosa Commission, Glenn
Woodard, Coosa professional
planner, and Ted St. Clair, Tech
IDD engineer, Fred Starr, Geor
gia Power Company community
development director, Rome Di
vision, were also on the pro-
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beautifully. Bob (husband of Mrs. Major) was pre
sented to her on her arrival. I’ll send a photo of his
shaking hands with the duke. After that, Bob joined
me at the fabulous Fijan ceremony of welcome, the
first time it has ever been done for the public to see.
We were amongst the seated guests to that and sat
about ten feet from her.”
Mrs. Major noted that an Air Force bus then
collected a group of those attending and took them
to Government House where they formed a U-shaped
line around the ballroom, “not according to protocol,
thank goodness, because I would have been fourth”.
“We just walked by, being presented by the
governor,” said Mrs. Major. “I don’t know what my
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1963
Man Dies of
Gun Wound
A coroner’s jury found Wed
nesday afternoon that Leonard
Jackson Cody, 51, Dickeyville
community, died of “brain dam
age from gunshot wound of the
head.” It did not state whether
the wound was self-inflicted or
otherwise.
Mr. Cody died at his home
Tuesday afternoon. The jury
foreman was Hubert Palmour.
Mr. Cody was born in Cherokee
County, Alabama, March 24,
1911, but had spent most of his
life in Chattooga County. He
was an employee of the Plant
Engineering and Maintenance
Department of Riegel Textile
Corporation, Trion Division,
where he had worked for the
past 22 years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Effie Mae Cody; two daughters,
Miss Dorothy Sue Cody, Sum
merville, and Miss Betty Ann
cody, Atlanta; two brothers,
Harold Cody and Gordon Cody,
both of Summerville; two half
sisters, Mrs. Bessie Jenkins,
Rome, and Mrs. Alma Carter,
Riverside, Calif.; one half
brother, George Cody, Detroit,
Michigan. Several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services will be held
today (Thursday) at 3 o’clock
from the Erwin. Chapel with the
Rev. Darty Stowe officiating. In
terment will be in West Hill
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers are: Man
uel Hayes, Jimmy Hughes, Roy
Hughes, Mont Milligan, Harvey
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City Has First Reading
On Revised Business Tax
Revision of the city business license schedule highlight
ed the Summerville City Council meeting Monday night.
The first reading was held and the proposed schedule
is published in this issue of The News. Action on the
proposal is planned for the April 8 meeting of the Council.
The deadline for payment would
be April 15.
A primary purpose of the re
vision is to set rates for future
firms, it was explained. Most
existing firms will find their
rates are approximately the
same as in the past, it was
stated. The city attorney noted
that the correct term for these
fees is “business tax” or “occu
pation tax,” not business “li
cense.”
Audits for the general and
water-sewerage funds were pre
sented, and it was stated that
the gas fund audit is expected
this week
The $2,870 bid of Wilson Mo
tor Co. for a two-ton truck chas
sis was accepted. In addition,
Sales Up for
Year, But Slow
Final Quarter
Chattooga County had an increase in retail sales in
1962.
But the increase was relatively small during the final
quarter when it would normally have been highest.
At the same time, Floyd County suffered a loss for the
year but showed a remarkable
gain for the final quarter.
Some Chattooga observers said
this is an Indication that a great
deal of Chattooga County money
was spend in Rome and Floyd
County during the pre-Christ
mas period instead of in Chat
tooga County.
Sales for 1962 in Chattooga
were $20,550,722 as compared
with $18,434,052 in 1961—a gain
of some $2 million.
However, the gain in the final
quarter was only $187,827. If
each quarter had had only this
gain, the total Increase would
have been well under $1 million
instead of $2 million. The gain
for the quarter was from $5,-
Dramatic Development
Os Downtown Area Eyed
A dramatic development program for downtown Sum
merville will be discussed at a meeting of property owners,
merchants, county and city officials March 21.
The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Summer
ville Recreation Center. Every interested person is invited
to attend.
Sidney Thomas, executive di
rector of the Coosa Valley Plan
ning and Development Commis
sion, and Glenn Woodard, pro
fessional planner with the Com
mission, who were asked to draw
proposals for such a develop
ment, will be present.
. . . Their preliminary propo
sals were presented Tuesday aft
ernoon to a group of Summer
ville Retail Merchants Assn, di
rectors and city and county offi
cials. The proposals last week
had been presented to the Chat
tooga-Municipal Planning Com
mission.
The proposals have two majo’.“
parts:
1. Re-routing of traffic and;
street changes.
2. Renovation of the fronts
and backs of stores.
The downtown Summerville
area, if the plan is carried out,
the $965 bid if Truck Equipment
Co., of Atlanta, for the flat steel
dump body, including a spread
er gate attachment, was ac
cepted.
Lambert Jones was re-ap
pointed by Mayor J. R. Dowdy
to a five-year term on the Rec
reation and Parks Board.
Plans to sei) by negotiation
two old dump trucks and a pick
up truck were made.
A recent proposal by some
taxi drivers for the city to set
minimum tax rates was tabled.
In addition, it was noted that
only nine of the 16 taxi drivers
complied with an ordinance re
quiring all taxi drivers to sub
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333,307 to $5,521,134.
The figures were released this
week by the Georgia Chamber
of Commerce. They are based on
sales tax collections,
Floyd County droppe d from
$lO7 million in 1961 to just
under $lO3 million for 1962
However, it still had a $2 mil
lion increase for the final
quarter.
Walker County had something
over a $1 million gain for the
year and much of it came in
the final quarter
Gordon County had about a
$2 million gain for the year,
with about half of it coming in
the final quarter.
curtseys were like but the people who saw them said
they were excellent. Actually, I can’t seem to re
member doing one at all.
“After that, we went into an especially built
Fijan house for lunch—it was gorgeous! The table
was T-shaped and so beautiful. Vanda orchids, our
common one, with pink exora and purple asters in
white vases. In front of the queen was a somewhat
larger one with vanda orchids and a deep wine-color
ed spray of orchids which I have never seen before.
“We sat as near as from here to there from her.
She’s lovely but the pictures don’t do her justice.
The duke looks exactly like his pictures.”
would have a dramatic new ap
pearance and parking space
would be about doubled. The
parking could be metered or un
metered.
The preliminary proposals call
for one-way north traffic along
the present Economy Street, with
three lanes, and one-way south
traffic along the present Cox
Street with three lanes.
. . . Comments made at the
Tuesday meeting included these:
Such a step would “overhaul”
downtown Summerville.
If it is started, it should be
done all the way, not half-way.
It would be “a terrific adver
tising gimmick” and, together
with better merchandising and
[better advertising, should bring
in many more dollars.
Knoxville, Tenn., has recently
done a similiar sort of thing.
Something like this is neces
sary if Summerville is to avoid
becoming a suburb of Rome, so
far as trade is concerned.
It would create a “new image”
of Summerville.
The major cost might be the
rights of way for the highway
re-routing if it were approved.
The physical development
would be one-half of the proj
ect and the rest would be up to
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Easter Seals
Mailed Out
This Week
Chattooga Countians this
week received their Easter seals,
Chairman James Spence an
nounced
The Easter Seal Society is of
ficially known as the Georgia
Society for Crippled Children
and Adults, Inc. and is the or
ganization which receives the
Easter seal money.
The organization avoids dupli
cation of other existing services
to the handicapped, Mr. Spence
pointed out. Its philosophy is to
provide prompt care and treat
ment of all kinds of crippling
disabilities, regaidless of the
patient’s age, race, cause of dis
ability or ability to pay for
services received.
Rehabilitation services are
high on the priority of the pro
gram.
Daniel Lee McWhorter Is
county treasurer of the drive.
Uncle Ned’s j
I Noles
/ noticed where a bunch of
Georgia school folks is gona
have to explain to the state
why they ain’t consolidated
their schools like they wuz
supposed to do. They had said
they would when they first
got state building funds.
But thank goodness Chat
i tooga ain’t gona be involved
in this one. Our neighbor Dade
i is, I noticed. Not only are we
I not gona be involved, but we’re
gona git $327,000 from the
I state because we did consoli
; date. And before long we
j oughta be seeing some new
I building goin’ up at Carter
and on the Lyerly Road where
1 our new high school’s gona be.
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DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT STUDIED— Here is a
scene Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of county, Sum
merville, merchants and planning leaders on the
possibility of an overhauling of the downtown Sum
merville area. In the foreground (bending over the
plans) is Sidney Thomas, executive director of the
Coosa Valley Planning and Development Commission.
The others are (left to right) Mrs. Billy Allen, Ed
Bryant, directors of the Summerville Retail Mer
chants Assn.; John Jones, county commissioner; F. H.
Boney, county attorney; and J. R Dowdy, Summer
ville mayor. The proposals were made as a result of
requests by the SRMA. A mass meeting on March 21
will explore the matter further.
Menlo PO to Start
In Week Or 10 Days
Construction of the new Menlo Post Office is expected
to start within a week or 10 days and be finished by late
spring.
It will be located two doors from the present Post
Office, on a vacant lot adjacent to the "Cleckler Building."
Gene Ballard, Menlo business
man, will be the owner of the
building and he, Harold Bishop
and Buddy Busbin will do the
construction on a joint basis.
Congressman John W. Davis an
nounced last week that the Post
Office Department had accepted
the bid of Mr. Ballard for the
construction project. The busi
nessman already owned the lot
on which the building is to be
erected. (He also owns the ad
jacent building known as the
“Cleckler Building” which form
erly was owned by O. L. Cleck
ler.)
The building will have an in
terior space of 1,100 square feet.
There will be 96 square feet of
platform space and 5,704 square
Countians to
Attend Cub
Seoul Meet
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Duke and
Mrs. Robert Floyd, of Summer
ville, will have charge of games
Saturday at a Cub Scout Pow
Wow in Rome.
A number of other Chattooga
Countians are expected to at
tend.
This will be a training work
shop tor adult leaders through
out Northwest Georgia.
Mrs. Major noted that the meal consisted of
avocados stuffed with prawns, cold supreme turkey
with mixed salads, pineapples on the half-shell stuff
ed with pineapple and sherbert, dry sherry, white
champagne and port were used for the toasts, after
which coffee and cigarettes were served.
An interesting sidelight was the fact that Mrs.
Major’s dress was pointed out in newspaper stories
about the social festivities of the queen’s visit.
Mrs. Major is the sister of James, Charles and
Stuart Marks of Summerville and the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Harry Marks. She was reared in
Chattooga County.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 PER YEAR
feet of paved area.
Tile rental will be sllO per
month and the Post Office De
partment will sign a five-year
lease with two two-year renewal
options.
Harold Toles is the postmaster.
This will be the third new
post office in Chattooga County
within the past year. Both Trion
and Lyerly have new facilities,
the Trion Office now being in
the Triangle Shopping Center.
Voters’ List Being Purged;
Must Re-Register By April 1
Will you be able to vote in the next election?
Some 2,000 Chattooga Countians who are now
registered will not be able to—unless they re-register
by April 1.
They are the ones who have not voted in the past
two years. The law requires that their names be re
moved if they do not re-register.
The Chattooga Board of Registrars office is lo
cated on the second floor of the courthouse and it will
be open next Monday through Friday and also during
the following week. The telephone number is 857-1846.
Letters have been sent all whose names are to be
removed but some of the letters haven’t been deliver
able for various reasons. Therefore, if you are in doubt,
call the office to find out your status.
And if you have received a letter and have not
re-registered, be certain that you do so. The deadline
is April 11
Freak Accident
Kills Child
The six-year-old grandson of
a Menlo couple died from a
freak accident Saturday after
noon in LaFayette where he
lived.
Ronald Jeffrey Langston, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lang
ston Jr., stumbled as he ran
across a street and his head
struck a curb, officials said,
causing death. Although the in
cident occurred between two
vehicles, the child was not hit
by either, it was stated.
The child was the grandson
of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Langston, of Menlo, and Mr. and
Mrs. Jeff Swafford, of La-
Fayette. He also is survived by a
sister, Llbb, and two brothers,
Tommy and Mackey.
Funeral services were held at
2 p.m. Monday at the Lynnwood
Baptist Church, LaFayette. In
terment was in Ami Cemetery
near Menlo.
HitWßun^
Whiskey, Beer
Cases Filed
A hit ’n run case against James
W. Stringer in Chattooga City
Court has resulted in his being
fined $250.
The fine was levied by Judge
Bobby Lee Cook after Stringer
entered a plea of guilty.
These other cases have re
cently been handled in Chat
tooga City Court with the follow
ing results:
Ernest Elem, possessing dis
tillery apparatus, $250; Ernest
Elem, possessing liquor, $150;
David Mitchell, simple larceny,
six months probation; Chester
Conaway, driving under the in
fluence, two months or $100;
Jessie James Hathorn, possessing
and selling beer, $300; Henry
Wooten, 12 months probation,
probation revoked; Howard L,
Marsh, possessing liquor, SSO;
Edward Thurman Lamar, aban
donment, probation, sls weekly
support; another Lamar case on
abandonment, same result; Er
nest J. Lederc, possessing liq
uor, $500; Robert A. Johnson,
driving under the influence,
$100; Hubert Joe Barnes, pos
sessing liquor, $1,000; William
Webster, driving under the in
fluence, SIOO.
These cases have been nolle
prossed: C. B. Stowe, assault and
battery; Louise Avery, abandon-
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