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VOLUME 78 —NUMBER 11
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People Filed By Casket;
Occupant-to-Be Stood By
The casket rested on its bier and the lid was raised.
The people filed by.
But there was no one in the casket.
Instead, the man who will someday occupy it
stood by' its side.
The occasion was what is perhaps the most un
usual “open house” ever held anywhere —an open
house for a casket.
Chattooga County Coroner Roosevelt Young had
the coffin made of fine grade cedar. And in response
to many inquiries about the facility, the coroner just
held “open house” Sunday afternoon at the Henson
Community House so everyone could see it. About
150 people came.
In the “receiving line” with the 61-year-old Young
were his wife and the man who made the casket, Harry
Powell, a former Chattooga County Public Works
Camp warden. Mr. Powell completed the cedar casket
to the last detail, buying and installing handles and
adding the usual interior. He used white.
Refreshments of soft drinks and cake were served
after visitors had passed through the “receiving line”.
Mr. Young, who also is janitor of the Chattooga
courthouse, began saving buffalo nickels nearly two
years ago to buy himself a steel vault for use at his
death. However, he soon had more than enough and
decided to have a casket made. Since he has the soft
drink consession in the courthouse, Young had ample
opportunity to look for the coins.
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Smith, Jones Say
County CD Plan
Can Be Arranged
Both the county commissioner and Summerville civil
defense leaders were optimistic this week that a county
CD organization can be arranged.
A meeting between County Commissioner John Jones,
Summerville Mayor J. R. Dowdy, CD Director Luther Smith
and Summerville City Clerk |
Sam Sitton is being planned.
The proposed session was the
outgrowth of a meeting betweenJ
Jones and Smith on Monday at
which time both agreed plans
should proceed for a county CD
organization. Smith had earlier
been named by Jones to serve
as county director and Smith
had tentatively accepted. How
ever, a disagreement about the
legal aspects of such a program
had appeared in the making
and action had slowed.
Smith said this week he will
submit a tentative budget at the i
proposed meeting and noted
that it would be only tentative
and could be changed. He said
he expects the county and city
to agree at that time on other
details, as well.
Commissioner Jones said he
Cancer Crusade
Opens Next Week
Band Uniform
Sample to Be
Shown Tonight
A sample of the proposed new
Chattooga High band uniforms
will be shown when the Band
Boosters Club meets at 7:30 p.m.
today (Thursday) at the school.
Further plans to raise money
for the uniforms will be dis
cussed.
Leaders urge every member
and every other interested per
son to attend.
AT CASKET ‘OPEN HOUSE’
it belongs to Roosevelt Young (with tie)
is anxious for the county to
have a CD program and is anx
ious for Mr. Smith to head it.
Smith also would continue to
lead the Summerville program,
which he has led since last
summer.
County P.-T.A.
Attend Confab
A Chattooga County delega
tion of Parent-Teacher Assn,
members will attend the 15th
District spring conference in
Adairsville Saturday.
Attending will be members
from Menlo, Lyerly, Trion and
Summerville.
Mrs. Marlin Payne and Miss
Carol Johnson will lead the 1963
cancer crusade in Chattooga
County.
Mrs. Payne is from the Sum
merville Woman's Club and
Miss Johnson is from the Chris
tian Youth League. Both organ
izations are working on the
drive, which opens April 1.
Mrs. Payne's committee in
cludes: Mrs. Herbert Gilkeson,
Mrs. Will Hair and Mrs. Sanford
i Dunson.
The crusade is two-pronged—
to distribute life-saving litera
! ture on cancer and to solicit
donations for the research and
‘ service programs of the Cancer
; Society.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1963
Trion Mayor
Simmons to
Return Friday
Trion Mayor W. B. Simmons
will return to his home Friday
following extended treatment at
Warm Springs.
The mayor has shown con
siderable improvement during
his stay at the treatment center,
according to his sister, Miss
Ethel Simmons.
Mayor Simmons suffered an
attack several months ago and
was hospitalized at Riegel Me
morial Hospital for several
weeks before going to Warm
Springs. He will be at his home,
2 Myers Avenue, upon his re
turn, however, Miss Simmons
said.
The mayor resigned his posi
tion as director of the Riegel
Hospital and that post is now
held by Sam Cook.
THS Joins in
Volley Ball
Tournament
Trion High had teams at the
intra-mural volleyball tourna
ment in Rome this week.
The boys were to play last
nieht. Trion girls lost Tuesday
night.
The Rome Kiwanis Club spon
sors the event and trophies will
be presented Friday to the
winners of each division.
The boys from Trion partici
pa''.ng are: Billy Hyden, Rich
ard Westbrooks, Larry Smith,
Pete Pettyjohn, Larry Stephens,
Larry Campbell, Wayne Parker,
John Michael, Harold Bryan,
Terry Witt, Gary Brewster, Gary
Buice, Pug Nix and Ronnie
Hayes.
Girls included: Juanelle
Ramey, Cheryl Brown, Diane
Gray, Dianne Orr, Sandra Scar
let, Susan Cavin, Shirley
Pritchett, Sammy Hall, Mildred
Smith, Brenda Palmer, Elaine
Greenwood, Vickie Baker, Ann
Owens and Jan Greenwood.
County Board
Os Education
To Meet Tues.
The Chattooga Board of Edu
cation will meet at 4 p.m. Tues
day at School Supt. James
Spence's office.
Plans for the new building
and for the new school year will
be among the matters discussed.
e presented Friday to the The f a t e o f a p rO p OSe d overhauling of downtown Sum
' ThTLws Tom Trion n nartiei mervill e remained up in the air this week following a gene
a™ g are X Hyden P Rich- ial meetin ß last Thursday night.
rd Westbrooks Larry ’smith Some 50 Summerville people turned out for the ses
'ete Pettyjohn, Larry Stephens’ sion, which was presided over by Summerville Mayor J. R.
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DISCUSSING CANCER CRUSADE
. . . Mrs. Marlin Payne, Miss Carol Johnson
Last Call On
Registering
To Vote
Last call!
This is the last week for
those who haven’t voted in
two years to re-register. If
they fail to do so, their names
will be removed from the
voters’ list.
The Board of Registrars, lo
cated on the second floor of
the courthouse, will be open
until 5 p.m. today, tomorrow
and Saturday for the conven
ience of those who work.
Go by or telephone 857-1846
and get re-registered before
the deadline! It’s this Satur
day.
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Watch Out for
Deadlines On
Tags and Tax
A few deadlines are coming
up.
Saturday is the last day to
file tax returns, re-register to
vote if you haven’t voted in two
years and to get your tag.
Under a new law, you renew
your drivers’ licenses by the
date of your birth.
Pony League
To Be Formed
Wed. Night
The organizational meeting of
the Chattooga County Pony
League will be held at 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the Georgia
Power Company office.
The League is sponsored by
the Summerville Junior Cham
ber of Commerce.
Fate of Project
For Downtown Area
Still Up in Air
Dowdy.
Sidney Thomas and Glenn
Woodard, of Rome, professional
planners for the Coosa Valley
Area Planning and Development
Commission, were present to
explain their proposals. The
planners had drawn up some
suggested plans following a re
quest by the Summerville Retail
Merchants Assn.
The SRMA had been inter
ested in doing something to
better compete with other towns
and shopping centers. The de
velopment proposed would about
double downtown parking and
would give the area a shopping
center look.
Questions brought up at the
meeting included these: Do we
n£ed this extra parking space?
Would the result be worth the
cost? What else could we do to
compete?
The planners noted that bet-
I ter merchandising, well-trained
clerks and constant promotion
1 through advertising are good
Marble Products to
Add Bagging Plant
Chattooga County’s newest industry, Marble Products,
Inc., a mining firm, will soon expand.
A bagging plant and other facilities will be erected
near the crushing plant east of Summerville.
In the meantime, tunneling is expected to begin this
week on opening of a mine on
the side of Taylor’s Ridge
about a half mile from the
firm’s Chattooga headquarters.
“Facing” of the mine has been
finished and diversion of a
stream was all that remained
this week before actual tun
neling could begin. This mine
produces red levanto (reddish
green) marble, chips of which
are used for terrazzo.
Tunneling already is underway
at the Trion mine, located about
a half mile north of Trion at
the site of the old county rock
crushing plant. Miners have
gone about 40 feet inside at that
location. The marble from the
Trion mine is “smokey rose”.
Operations began a few weeks
ago at the crushing plant, but
the material had to be hauled
out in bulk. With the comple
tion of the bagging plant, the
material will be shipped out
both in bulk and in 100-pound
bags.
Waste material from the op
eration will be sold as agricul
tural lime.
The marble chips produced at
Bids Sought On New
Rooms at Carter
The first phase of the Chattooga County school con
struction program will soon get underway.
Advertising began this week on bids for the construc-
Uoil of a two-classroom addition at A. C. Carter High School
in Summerville. The bids will be opened at 4 p.m. Tuesday r
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ways to compete.
Another meeting on the sub
ject was discussed but no date
was set.
SCOUT PACK 73
TO MEET FRIDAY
Cub Scout Pack 73 will meet
at 7 p.m. Friday at the Summer
ville Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. M. M. Allen to Retire
From Welfare Department
Mrs. M. M. Allen Jr., who has
been with the Chattooga County
Public Welfare Dept, for 35
years, will retire, effective July
1.
Her successor has not yet been
named.
Mrs. Allen submitted her res
ignation at the March meeting
of the Chattooga Welfare Board
which is headed by H. L.
Abrams, of Lyerly.
She has been with the De
partment since 1928 and has
served as director since 1940.
Mrs. Allen is a Baptist and a
former member of the Summer
ville Business and Professional
Women’s Club. She Is the
mother of three children, Mrs.
Sherman Lindsay, of Chatta
nooga, who is employed by the
Public Welfare Department
there, and Middleton Allen 111
and Jack Allen, both of Sum
merville. Her husband is in the
insurance business, bering man
ager of the Northeast Georgia
Division of Combined Insurance
Co. of America.
Mrs. Allen says she and her
husband plan to build a new
home on their farm near Gore
and move there to live. They
now reside at the corner of East
Washington Street and High
land Avenue. After retirement,
she hopes to fully indulge in one
of her favorite hobbies, flower
gardening.
Mr. Abrams was named chair
man of the Welfare Board sev
eral weeks ago after the death
the mines are used for flooring
and roofing, largely in commer
cial type construction.
The flooring is said to have a
“100-year life” and the roofing
is said to be “life-time”.
The office building at the
Chattooga headquarters has
terrazzo flooring from marble
produced in this county.
Although some marble had
been mined or quarried here
over a quarter of a century ago,
little had been done until Mar
ble Products located here early
this year. This is the only ap
preciable mining of any kind
underway in the county.
Some 15 local men are em
ployed directly or indirectly by
the plant and plans call for a
gradual increase. The bagging
plant is expected to require
three or four additional workers.
Luke Teague of Jasper is su
perintendent of the Chattooga
operations and J. D. Miller is
assistant.
Marble Products has its head
quarters in Atlanta and has
facilities in both Georgia and
Missouri.
April 23, at the courthouse.
The two classrooms will be
located at the rear of Carter
School, south of the shop build
ing. They will provide greatly
needed space at the school,
Supt. James Spence has an
nounced.
This Is one of three construc
tion projects planned by the
Chattooga Board of Education.
The other projects Include a
gymnasium at Carter School
and a new Chattooga High
School.
The classroom addition will
. be financed entirely by State
School Building Authority funds.
. In the meantime, Supt. Spence
; has disclosed that Architect
M. G. Turner, of Rome, who Is
working up the plans for the
new school, and state officials
were to have conferred in At
lanta Monday on last-minute
plans for the new facility. Ad
t vertlsing on bids for this project
- and the gymnasium is expected
to begin in the pear future.
MRS. ALLEN
of R. N. Trimble, who was chair
man. Mr. Abrams had previously
been vice chairman and that
post is now held by Oren
Blesidng. Ira Walters is the
other member of the board
There are two board vacancies
at this time. Mr. Abrams, who
is Central of Georgia Railway
agent at Lyerly, has been on the
board 10 years.
Mr. Abrams said this week he
does not yet know how the re
organization of the State Wel
fare Department, provided for
in recent legislation, will affect
the local board.
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PRODUCT OF CHATTOOGA — Luke Teague, Superin
tendent of Marble Products Co., Summerville, points
to Chattooga-quarried terrazzo which forms the floor
of his office. The terrazzo was quarried and crushed
at the new plant which Marble Products, an Atlanta
mased organization, has opened here. Further ex
pansion of the firm is anticipated shortly. Colors in
the floor are smokey rose, red levanto ( a reddish
green), Bardigelo (bluish-black) and white. (See ad
ditional photos on page 15.)
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• Uncle Ned’s
Notes
A good many folks in Chat
tooga County ain't voted in
two years. And that’s sur
prisin' to me, what with all the
elections we’ve had. It looks
like they coulda got down al
least one time.
But that’s over and done
with now. The only thing is
that these folks have only
through this week to re-regis
ter or they'll have their names
taken off the voters’ list.
The Board of Registrars sez
you don't even have to come by
and sign anything if you don't
have time. Yom kin jest give
them a ring at 857-1846 and
git it straightened out. I’d
shore do that if I wuz one of
them that hadn’t voted in two
years.
New Rule Aimed at
Better Sanitation
A plan to provide better sani
tation in the Summerville area
was approved by the Summer
ville mayor and council Monday
night.
In the future, all persons
wishing to hook onto the city
water system must first have
their sewage systems approved
Fashion Show
Tonight Is
Trion Highlite
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WENDY SNYDER
... to model tonight
Some 65 outfits will be
modeled at the fashion show
presented by the Trion High
junior parents and Abney’s to
night (Thursday).
The event will be at 8 p.m. at
the Trion High School cafeto
rium.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wilhelm
will narrate and entertainment
will be presented by the Trion
High Glee Club.
A special feature will be the
modeling of “ancient” beach
wear “by appropriate models".
In addition, 19 members of
the junior class will model.
Costumes for children, teens
and adults will be presented,
ranging from swim suits to
formals.
Twenty valuable door prizes,
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by the Chattooga Health De
partment.
The action came after a
meeting of the mayor and coun
cil with Dr. M. K. Cureton, La-
Fayette, district director of Pub
lic Health; L. C. Williams, dis
trict sanitarian; and Tom Fox,
Chattooga County Public Health
Dept, sanitarian.