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P-TA Council
Installation
Set for Mon.
The newly-elected officers of
the Chattooga County Parent-
Teacher Council will be installed
at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Men
lo School.
A. J. Strickland, superinten
dent of the Trion school system,
will conduct the installation.
The officers are: Mrs. Henry
Duke, Summerville, president;
Robert Shigley, Menlo, vice pres
ident; Mrs. Bob Brison. Lyerly,
secretary; and Jim McKenzie,
treasurer.
The public is invited.
Red Book Sing
To Be Held in
Trion June 15
The annual Trion Red Book
Singing will be held at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 15, it has been
announced.
Preliminary plans for the
event were disclosed by L. W.
(Red) Bulman, president.
Profesor Charles E. Bell, who
was principal of Trion High
when the sing was instituted,
will be present, it was stated.
The 1936 and 1943 classes are
planning class reunions at Rie
geldale Tavern in connection
with the event.
Officers for the event in
clude: President, L. W. (Red)
Bulman; Vice-President, Mar
garet Howell; Secretary, Syble
Williams; Treasurer, Carl Rag
land.
Serving on the program and
Entertainment Committee are:
Willie B. Hix, Chairman, and
Lenora Buice and James Mc-
Kenzie; Publicity, Mary Jo
Logan and T. Emmett Nunn;
Welcoming and Reception, Sara
Myers, Chairman; Refreshment,
Mildred Allen, Chairman; Deco
rating, Joyce Hammonds, Chair
man; Telephone Committee,
Doris Floyd, Chairman; Scrap
book, Minnie Ethel Webster;
Nominating, J. C. Woods, Chair
man, John Knowles, Henry
Bankey and Hillman Hix; Fi
nance, Jane Massey, Chairman,
Hoyt Williams, Jeanette Milli
can and Buddy Hammond.
The public is extended a cor
dial invitation to attend this
event.
Enjoy Trion Band Concert
In Air-Conditioned Comfort!
You can enjoy the Trion High School band con
cert tonight (Thursday) in air-conditioned comfort!
Band Director Dairy Pilkington has announced
that he has been given the use of several air con
ditioners for the occasion.
The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. at the school
cafetorium and there will be no charge.
Music from the movie, “El Cid” will be featured.
The concert band, a dance band and the junior band
will perform.
Selections will include such numbers as “March
Prelude,” “Blue Jean Blues,” “Design for Autumn,”
“Sing, Sing, Sing,” “Trumpets Ole,” “United States
Steele Suite,” Belmont Overture” and “Theme for
Tomorrow”.
7th District to Get Funds As
Result of Storms, Floods
Seventh District Congressman
John Davis has announced that
the Office of Emergency Plan
ning has been authorized to
allocate $75,000 for use in re
pairing severe storm and flood
damages inflicted upon the
Seventh and Ninth Congres
sional Districts in March.
Representative Davis said the
federal assistance stems from
How should a civil defense program be financed?
Discussions have been underway in Chattooga County for months
regarding the establishment of a county or a county-city CD organiza
tion. Details remaining to be worked out include.primarily financing.
How much of the cost should the county bear and how much should
the municipalities bear? And how much will the federal government
put into the program? Should private funds be sought for CD?
To find out how the financing is handled in other places, The
Summerville News this week contacted Chattooga’s neighbors, Walker
and Floyd Counties, to see how they pay for the cost of civil defense.
The Rome-Floyd Civil Defense Organization is financed half by
the city of Rome and half by the county of Floyd, points out Ted Donath,
CD director. The budget is “in excess of $10,000” a year. In addition,
the federal government matches much of the expenditures made through
the city and county contributions.
In Walker County, the CD program also is financed half and half
by the city and county but each contributes only $25 a month. This
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YOUNGSTERS WATCH ‘GREATEST
ADVENTURE OF ALL’— These fourth
graders in Mrs. Mary Ann Neal’s room
at Summerville Elementary School often
enjoy a good television adventure in
their homes. But Wednesday they* had
Ga. Glove to Mark
Anniversary Mon.
With Employes Fete
The Georgia Glove Mill of Lyerly will celebrate its first
anniversary Monday evening.
A festive dinner for all employes will be held at 7:30
p.m. Monday at the Lyerly School gymnasium, it has been
announced. . ————
Several officials of the firm
will be present, including Sid
ney Babit, Newark, N. J., vice
president, and possibly Sam
Bronstein, also of Newark, pres
ident.
The employes are planning
the entertainment program and
details nave not been announced.
The firm has some 100 em
ployes, and Otis Tanner is su
perintendent.
It is located in the old hosiery
mill building near the Central
of Georgia depot at Lyerly. Op
erations began a year ago with
some 20 persons. A majority of
the employes are women.
President John F. Kennedy's
March 26 declaration of a
“major disaster” in the state.
Engineers in the Bureau of
Public Roads reported a survey
of the Seventh and Ninth Con
gressional Districts indicated
damages to roads and bridges in
the two areas made the state
eligible to receive the funds, Mr.
Davis stated.
How Should Civil Defense Be Financed?
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 16. IHG3
Journalism
Scholarship
Announced
The newspapers of Georgia,
through the Georgia Press As
sociation, are offering a SSOO
scholarship to a high school sen
ior who intends to study journa
lism, D. T. Espy, publisher of The
Summerville News, has an
nounced.
High school seniors should
submit a letter of no more than
100 words, stating why they wish
to study journalism. The letter
should be brought to the office
of The Summerville News.
Judging will be based on the
student’s ability to express his
reasons for wanting to make
journalism a career and scholas
tic achievement. To be consider
ed, the applicant must be in the
top 25 percent of his class in
scholastic grades.
Interested applicants should
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Ceramics Show, Sale
Scheduled Monday
The first annual ceramics show and sale will be held
Monday at the Summerville Recreation Center.
The doors will be open to the public from 2:30 to 8
p.m. Door prizes, consisting of items made by the class,
will be given.
All pieces must be in place by
11 a.m. Monday and judging will
start at 1 p.m. The judges will
be from Atlanta.
There will be two divisions,
adult and children’s.
Classes in the adult division
will be as follows:
A—Everglazes, metallics, lus
ters.
B—Decorations.
1. Raised, recessed, pieced
or cutouts'.
2. Built-up or attached.
3. Clay carved or water
etched.
the opportunity of watching the great
est adventure of them all and at school,
too. They spent much of the day watch
ing the progress made by Astronaut
Major Gordon Cooper as he tried for 22
orbits around the earth.
School Year
Nears End
At Trion
The 1962-63 school year will
soon be a part of history at
Trion.
Classes end Monday, May 27;
students return Wednesday,
May 29, for report cards; and
teachers end their post-plan
ning session Friday, May 31.
The graduation exercises will
be held at 8 p.m. Monday, May
27, and the baccalaureate ser
mon will be at 8 p.m. Sunday,
May 26.
In the meantime, the Trion
High School students are get
ting set for final exams which
start a week from today, on
May 23, and go through Mon
day, May 27.
IDTags
Recommended
The purchase of identification
tags for students was recom
mended Tuesday night by the
Trion Parent-Teacher Assn.
The cost will be 25c each. The
tags, which the children would
be advised to wear at all times,
would contain the child’s name,
address, date of birth, blood type
and telephone number. They
would be extremely useful in the
event of emergency, it was
noted.
School Supt. A. J. Strickland
installed the officers who will
serve for the coming year. Jim
McKenzie will continue as presi
dent.
C—Figurines.
1. Glazed.
2. Stained.
3. Underglazed.
D—Lamps
1. Ceramic.
2. Stained.
E Miscellaneous.
F—Swirls.
Classes in the children’s divi
sion will be as follows:
A—General.
B—Handmold.
1. Coil.
2. Pinch.
3. Slab.
gives the program a budget of S6OO a year. The Walker unit has not
yet qualified for federal reimbursements but hopes to do so later.
Here is the way the Rome-Floyd CD financing works:
The director submits his budget to both the Rome City Commis
sion and the Floyd County Commissioners. Although some “trimming”
is done, Mr. Donath states that his CD organization is “very fortunate”
in getting the essentials it needs. Each of the two governments sends
Mr. Donath its share of the budget on a quarterly basis and he deposits
the money in a CD bank account: In addition, Mr. Donath submits
to the two governmental bodies a yearly activities report, showing just
how the money is spent. He and an intermediate clerk are full-time paid
employes, with half of their salaries being reimbursed by the federal
government.
The Rome-Floyd unit is eligible to purchase surplus equipment at
extremely low rates, but Mr. Donath states that no large pieces of
equipment have been purchased under the plan. All equipment must
be used for training purposes and must be retained by the CD organiza-
County Shows Keen
Interest As Cooper
Orbits About Earth
Chattooga waited anxiously with the rest of the na
tion Wednesday the outcome of the 22-orbit Gordon Cooper
space flight.
Although the interest didn’t quite match that shown
when John Glenn made his r r-
flight, most countians were
keeping fully abreast of the
situation. Interest was expected
to mount today as the astronaut
neared the end of his orbiting.
Televisions were kept on most
of the day Wednesday in schools
which have them and teachers
reported keen interest on the
part of the students.
At Menlo, Principal Robert
Shigley said one TV was in the
cafetorium and another at the
end of the one hall so that stu
dents could view the reports as
often as possible. “They are very
interested and thrilled by it
all,” he said.
Most of the children at Trion
Elementary School watched the
proceedings early this morning
shortly after school opened, said
Adidt Education Classes
| Now Available Here
Are you an adult who would like to improve your
self through a better edueation?
An opportunity may be just around the corner
for you do to so.
j Adult education courses in Eiglish, math or
1 other subjects will be offered if there is sufficient in
terest, it has been announced. They will be given in
the day or evening, depending on which is more con
venient for the greatest number. A nominal fee would
be charged, depending on the number taking the
course.
Anyone interested in such classes should contact
Mrs. John D. Taylor, a teacher at Chattooga High
School. The deadline is Friday, May 24
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PAST MASTERS HONORED — These
past masters of Chattooga Masonic
Lodge were honored Friday night by the
lodge. They are (front, ‘left to right)
Dave Houston, E. C. Pesterfield, Hubert
Johnson, Grady Henderson; (rear, left
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Miss Ethel Simmons, principal.
After television coverage became
less constant, classes resumed,
but the students and teachers
kept in touch with the situation
throughout the day.
At Trion High, the television
set in the auditorium stayed on
and students showed much in
terest, said Principal R. H.
Miller. Teachers were allowed to
let the students watch the pro
ceedings in lieu of class if they
desired.
Chattooga High has no TV set
and none were brought in for
the event as was done during
the Glenn flight. But Principal
A. L. Clark said interest was
keen and that the students
“seemed excited” about it. They
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to right) Paul Kinsey, Gene Tucker,
Durward Pettit, Joe Hammond. Not
shown are three other past masters, J
T. Morgan, Leath Miller, Arch Warren.
Plans call for this to become an annual
occasion.
tion, he said. It cannot be used indiscriminately by the city or county
for road repairs for instance, he said.
Mr. Donath stated that in the early stages of the establishment of
a CD program in Floyd the project became “very frustrating”. How
ever, he said, both the city and county fathers are now sold on the
project and are generous in their support. He worked as an unpaid
volunteer from 1954 until 1961.
In Walker County, CD Director W. L. Abney says the program is
financed “from the hip pocket”. He states that the SSO a month he
receives to carry on the program will scarcely meet the telephone bill
which runs from S4O to S6O a month.
Special money-raising projects such as a road block and raffles,
etc., supplement the small budget. In addition, CD volunteers put
their own money into helmets, etc. and Mr. Abney, who is county or
dinary, said that he himself had put S7OO into it personally In addi
tion, he devotes from 30 to 50 hours a week to the program.
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Other Space Work
Keeps Davis in D.C.
SAYS HE FAVORS PROJECT APOLLO,
THE TRIP TO THE MOON PROGRAM
i Congressman John W. Davis, of Summerville, a mem
ber ol the House Science and Astronautics Committee did
not go to Cape Canaveral for the Cooper launch because of
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Trained to
Aid Recovery
Airman First Class Hugh M.
Bullard, of Summerville, was a
member of a specially-trained
Air Force search and rescue
crew which was on station, ready
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other space work.
His subcommittee was to start
work Tuesday on the weather
satellite program, a program
which has been made his par
ticular responsibility.
In the meantime, Rep. Davis
has joined in the debate on the
trip to the moon, stating that
he is in favor of it.
Some scientists are calling it
a stunt and saying that the
manpower and money involved
could be put to better use on
earth.
But Rep. Davis thinks that if
Project Appollo didn’t exist, it
would almost have to be in
vented.
’’There are many things in
volved that would need to be
done whether we sent a man to
the moon or not,” he said. “It is
completely inaccurate to think
of this only in terms of putting
a man on the moon.”
The congressman said the
United States has "a practical
necessity of developing a rocket
booster with the Thrus I Russia
has exhibited and may be ex
pected to exhibit at any time.”
The United States also needs
to develop a spacecraft that can
maintain human life for an ex
tended period, Rep. Davis said.
It needs tracking facilities
that can keep tab on objects in
outer space and tell what they
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Unde Ned’s j
Notes I
We here a lot about the
schools and the civil defense
and the ■planning folks in our
county. The good things.
But we don’t here much
about all the things our crimi
nal element is a doin’. They’re
there all the same as most of
us knows. They ain’t even
"underground” either much ov
the time. And they got a good
bit of influense too if the truth
wuz known. Some mity good
intenshoned folks is influ
ensed by ’em and never even
know it.
Yep, we got our crimnal ely
ment. 1 ain’t got a measurin’
stick to measure how bad it is,
but from all the little things
being added up it looks like
things ain’t a gettin’ no better
and maybe they’re a gettin’
worse. ]
When the peeple decide they
don’t aim for this bunch to run
anything and only then kin
1 we see any emprovement.