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VOLUME 77—NUMBER 40
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M. M. ALLEN SR.
M. M. Allen
Dies Thursday
At Age of 94
Middleton Miles Allen Sr., 94,
prominent in the business, re
ligious and civic life of Chat
tooga County for over half a
century, died at 2:30 a.m. Thurs
day at his home in Summerville
following a lengthy illness.
Mr. Allen was born in Chat
tooga County, the eldest child
of Confederate Lieut. Alonzo and
Martha Harper Allen, pioneer
Chattooga Countians. They died
while he was in his mid-teens
and he was left with the respon
sibility of rearing his seven
brothers and sisters. Only one,
Mrs. Julia Loop, of Summerville,
survives him.
Mr. Allen owned and oper
ated a hardware store in Sum
merville for many years, was a
dealer in real estate and was
president of the Summerville
Cotton Oil Mill.
He had been a deacon and
elder in the Presbyterian Church
for over 50 years. He also had
served on the Chattooga Board
of Roads and Revenue.
Mr. Allen was preceded in
death by his wife, the former
Miss Carrie Powell, and one
daughter, Mrs. Cicero Broome
who lived in Atlanta.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. R. O. Storey, Rome; Mrs.
W. F. Broome, of Atlanta and
Santa Monica Beach, Fla.; Mrs.
S. B. Stevens, Loganville, and
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Ga. Author
Visits News
Wednesday
The Summerville News’ ob
servance of “National Newspaper
Week” was highlighted Wednes
day by the unexpected visit of
one of the state’s best-known
authors, Davenport Steward.
Mr. Steward also is a former
newspaperman, having worked
for nine years with The Atlanta
Journal. He also has been asso
ciated with The Augusta Herald,
the Charleston iS. C.) Evening-
Post, the Associated Press and
Acme Newspapers which is now
United Press - International
Photos.
He is now public relations
representative for the Georgia-
South Carolina District of the
Portland Cement Assn.
Mr. Steward has had eight
books published, his most recent
being “Black Spice,” a story
about the black pepper trade.
Another recent book of his is
“The Battle Ax of God,” a book
about the first crusades.
The author resides in Atlanta
and has two college-age daugh
ters who are students at the
University of Georgia.
Revaluation
Questions and Answers
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This will
will be a continuing column
over the next few weeks. If
you have a question, please
send it. if we do not have the
ansicer. we will attempt to get
it for you.)
I have a SIO,OOO house. How
much will my taxes be after
the revaluation program is
finished?
There is no way to determine
this until (1) the Board of Tax
Assessors decides on what per
centage to assess taxes and *2)
the county commissioner gives
some idea of what the 1964 levy
will be.
Newspapers Make a Big Difference in People’s Lives
Five Held
Ou Burglary
Charges Here
Five Summerville men, includ
ing a juvenile, have been ar
rested by Summerville police in
connection with recent bur
glaries here.
Arrested were Robert Leon
Siffles, J. C. Edgeworth, Her
man J. D. Hunter Jr., Ernest
Blackman, and a 16-year-old|
youth whose name cannot be
published, according to Georgia i
law.
Siffles, Edgeworth and the:
16-year-old were arrested by I
Sgt. Harold Cody and Patrol- j
man David Starkey Sunday
night. The other two were taken
Tuesday.
Here, say the officers, is what
happened:
The 16-year-old was appar
ently the “lookout” at the Magic
Wash Sunday night and he must
have seen the officers riding up
and warned the other two. All
three left by a back door, ran
to a car and left in it. They were
stopped by Starkey and Cody on
Economy Street and taken to
police headquarters for ques
tioning. They were formally
charged Monday.
Hunter was arrested at 3:55
p.m. Tuesday and Blackman was
picked up at 4:05 p.m!
Several soft drinks had been
taken at the Magic Wash and
some money had been taken at
the Laundermat. In addition,
officers said, the trio is being
held in connection with breaking
in a juke box at Toles Drive in.
New Column
Starts in
S’ville News
A column of light chatter,
“Coffee Break,” will begin this
week in your Summerville
News.
Everyone is welcome to read
it, of course, but we especially
invite the ladies to take a
break and join us. The column
is written by Mrs. Herman
Buffington of The News staff.
Few Turn Out
ForSRMAMeet
On Christmas
Less than half a dozen per
sons showed up Monday night
at a proposed membership meet
ing of the Summerville Retail
Merchants Assn.
The meeting had been called
to discuss a Christmas promo
tion in the city.
President Marshall Lowry said
Tuesday he didn’t know what
the next step would be. Another
meeting may be planned, he
said, or the board of directors
of the organization may proceed
with plans. Whether the board
would meet again before the
regular meeting November 6 has
not been decided, he said.
Riegel Adds
Telephone
Exchange
A new inter-plant telephone
exchange has been installed at
Riegel Textile Corporation’s
Trion Division.
The exchange number is
734-3011.
All one needs to do is simply
call this number and ask for the
proper extension number. A
complete listing of the exten
sions appeared this week in The
Trion Facts.
Will taxes be levied against
the full “fair market value” of
my house?
No. The Board of Tax As
sessors will decide at what per
centage it wants taxes levied.
This must be no less than 30 and
no more than 40 per cent, ac
cording to the contract under
which the county borrowed
funds from the state for the
revaluation project.
They say the tax rate will be
cut. Why?
Because all taxable property
will be on the books and all will
be at fair market value instead
of the present hodge-podge.
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Trio of Inquests
Held Here Tuesday
Summerville Adopts
New Fiscal Year
The City of Summerville has decided to change its fis
cal year from November 1 to October 31, effective imme
diately. It had been on a calendar year basis.
The action was taken at the October meeting of the
mayor and council Monday
night.
The city auditors, Read, Mar
tin and Slickman, of Rome, were
to be asked this week to begin
an audit immediately of the cur
rent “year” which will be a
10-month “year”.
One reason given is that the
auditors won’t be as busy at this
time of year and can thus do
the annual audit more economi
cally, saving the city money.
A new budget will be adopted
when the audit is finished, it was
stated.
High on the agenda for discus
sion of the new budget will be
a raise for policemen, it was
agreed at the council meeting.
A raise has been under discus
sion but the administration says
the general fund, from which
such a raise would be paid, sim
ply cannot stand this additional
strain at this time.
The council and mayor Mon
day night also:
Adopted the new taxi ordi
nance which requires, among
other things, dome lights desig
nating taxis as such.
Agreed to discuss with city
employes and a representative of
the Social Security Administra
tion the possibility of putting
employes under social security.
It would cost close to $4,000 a
year, according to an estimate
given.
Accepted the resignation of
City Engineer Tommy Coates,
who has accepted a position in
Dalton, and voted to write him
a letter of commendation.
Voted raises for several em
ployes.
Agreed to help the county and
other municipalities pay the
cost of hiring a full-time person
to keep the tax records up to
date after the current revalua
tion program is completed. The
city will utilize these new rec
ords.
Made plans to meet with
CHS Band Invited to Play
At Tech-Georgia Frosh Game
The Chattooga High School Band has received an invitation
to play at the Georgia Tech-University of Georgia freshman
game on Thanksgiving Day in Atlanta.
Jack Raines, director, said the band would definitely accept.
The group will be in the parade and will play at half-time
ceremonies. They were invited by the Yaarab Shrine Temple
which sponsors the event.
In the meantime, the band will leave at 4 a.m. Saturday for
Murfreesboro, Tenn., to participate in the Middle Tennessee
State College Open Competition Marching Contest. Some 25
bands will be in this event. Rating will take place at pre-game
exercises prior to the Middle Tennessee State-University of
Chattanooga game.
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OCTOBER 13-19
SUMMERVILLE. CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1963
others interested in a celebration
in 1964 of the 125th anniversary
of the city at 5 p.m. Monday,
Oct. 28, at the Georgia Power
Company office.
Adopted an Emergency Pro
cedure Plan to become active in
the event of any emergency in
the gas system. Under this plan,
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State Studies
Revised Plans
For Schools
I Uncle Ned’s
I Notes ।
I been thinkin’ about how
little we’d relly know if it
wuzn’t fer the newspapers and
seein' as how this is newspaper
week I thought I’d mention it.
We’d hear a lot but rumor
and fact is two different things
lots uv times. Most ov us here
somethin’ on the street and
then tur?i to our newspaper to
find out the straight ov the
thing.
Thank goodness our news
papers ain’t controlled by the
government, too.
HENDERSON DEATH ‘ACCIDENTAL’;
JONES WOMAN HAD HEART ATTACK
In an almost unprecedented event, three inquests were
held Tuesday afternoon in Summerville. One jury con
ducted all.
The inquests concerned
Negro women, Mrs. Juanita Lon
don and Mrs. Mary Lee Jones,
and a white woman, Miss Alice
Henderson.
The coroner's jury ruled that
Miss Henderson died of “an un
avoidable accident inflicted by
herself with a pistol, the body
having been removed from her
residence, the place of the acci
dent ... to the hospital where
she died.’
It ruled that Mrs. Jones died
of a “heart attack,” basing its
ruling on the autopsy report
from the State Crime Labora-
The state is studying this
week the newly revised prelimi
nary drawings for the Chat
tooga High School and A. C.
Carter gymnasium.
If the state gives its okay,
work will begin on the final
drawings of the revised plans,
School Supt, James Spence says.
The plans are having to be re
vised in an effort to come with
in the money available for the
two projects. And the state must
put a stamp of approval on any
changes.
The Chattooga Board of Edu
cation is hopeful of negotiating
a contract with Bishop and
Busbin on the A. C. Carter gym
but states that it will have to
re-bid on the CHS project.
School,
Residence
Burglarized
GBI officials were investigat
ing this week two burglaries in
(he north end of Chattooga
County.
The Welmyer School was en
tered over the week-end, with a
television set and a large quan
tity of government commodities
being stolen. Included were 50
pounds of potatoes, 25 pounds of
sugar, 65 pounds of cheese, 32
pounds of butter, several cartons
of milk and a big garbage can,
says Principal John Gilreath.
In addition, a big safe was re
moved from a closet in the Bus
O’Neil residence Friday night
while the O’Neil’s were away, of
ficers said, and taken to the back
porch. It had not been broken
open. The safe weighs about
1,000 pounds, it was stated.
the unrelated deaths of two
tory.
And the jury ruled that the
London woman died "as a result
of a stab wound intentionally in
flicted by Ernestine Driver.” The
Driver woman has been bound
over to the grand jury on a
murder charge.
In the Henderson case. Police
man David Starkey testified that
Miss Henderson told him shortly
after the incident that she had
shot herself but she did not say
whether it was intentional. Miss
Henderson’s sister-in-law, Mrs.
Ira Henderson testified that four
days after the shooting, Miss
Henderson rallied and told her,
“I’ve shot myself.”
“But you didn't do it on pur
pose, did you?” Mrs. Henderson
said she replied.
“Oh, no,” was Miss Hender
son’s response, she stated.
Miss Henderson was shot on
October 1 in the home where
she lived alone. Her brother
said she had kept his gun since
prowlers had first frightened her
some 18 months ago.
The Jones woman was found
by a railroad track in Summdr
ville Sept. 9 and the London
Woman died Sept. 8.
Coroner Roosevelt, Young, who
conducted the inquests in Ordi
nary Paul Weems office, said the
last time he recalled three in
quosU at one 'time was when
three persons were found dead
in an automobile near Trion.
Young, who has been in office
nearly 16 years, said he didn’t
recall ever before having a trio
of consecutive inquests on sep
arate incidents.
The foreman of the coroner’s
jury, which heard all three eases,
was Paul Kinsey and members
were Harold Cody, Robert Gam
ble, Sam Sitton and J. D. Wees
ner, Jr.
Presbyterian Women
To Meet in Trion Tues.
Presbyterian women from over
Northwest Georgia will come to
Trion Tuesday for the 56th an
nual session of the Cherokee
Presbytery Wom e n of the
Church. Over 30 churches are
expected to be represented.
The Trion Presbyterian Church
will be host, and Mrs. Preston
David is president of the Trion
Women of the Church.
Theme of the meeting will be:
"Christian Worship”.
Dr. Harry K. Holland, pastor
of the Marietta First Presby
terian Church, will be the morn
ing inspirational speaker. He is
a past moderator of the Synod
of Georgia and is a trustee of
both the Presbyterian Church
for the Aged at Quitman and
Presbyterian College, Clinton,
S. C. His topic will be: "Serving
God Through Worship and
Work”.
The new plan of women’s
work in the church will be dis
cussed at the afternoon meeting
by Mrs. Charles N. Hodgson,
Washington, president of the
Synod of Georgia Women of the
Church. Her topic will be: “He
Goeth Before Thee”.
The 1964 birthday objective,
“Perspective on People,” will be
presented by Mrs. Kirton W.
King, Rome, Immediate past
president, WOC, Synod of Geor
gia.
New officers will be elected at
the morning session and will be
installed during the afternoon
by the Rev. Robert C. Pooley Jr.,
Rome, moderator, Synod of
Georgia. Appointments of stand
ing committees will be an
nounced at the time of the in
stallation. Mrs. A. R. Lovvorn,
Rome, is chairman of the nomi
nating committee.
Luncheon will be served at
12:30 p.m. at Riegeldale Tavern.
Reservations are to be made in
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. . . burn victim Vick Simpson
Autumn Easter Egg Hunt
In Making for Burned Tot
An autumn Easter egg hunt may be in the offing in Chat
tooga County.
It, will be for Vick Simpson, a little boy who was severely
burned on the eve of Easter this spring and missed the egg
hunt which he had long been anticipating.
Vick has been hospitalized since, with the exception of
two brief periods. His father has promised that when he is !
able to return home and hunt eggs, an egg hunt will be held, .
regardless of when that is.
It may be soon.
A patient at Scottish Rite Hospital, Decatur, Vick can now
walk and is expected to be released within weeks, said his
father, Eugene Simpson, this week.
In the meantime, he will celebrate his sixth birthday
Saturday.
Physicians told the Simpsons 10 days ago that the little
boy might be able to return home by this week-end. How
ever, he said last Sunday that he would like to "wait a few
days” before saying exactly when he could release the tot.
Vick was home on two occasions in July, but was unable ■
to hunt eggs. A well-wisher, reading of Vick’s anticipation i
of the Easter egg hunt, sent him some chocolate Easter eggs
which the Simpsons have put in their freezer awaiting the day
when Vick can have his hunt.
The little boy was at Floyd Hospital in Rome until July 23
when he was transferred to the Scottish Rite, which is spon- |
, sored by the Shriners.
' The Simpsons go to Decatur every Sunday to visit their
son, usually taking their other three children along.
It was Vick's 11-year-old brother Quinn who doubtless «
saved his life. The child caught fire while playing outside
with matches and the older boy, hearing his screams, ran to
him and rolled him in the dirt to extinguish the flames. Other
members of the family were too far away to hear him.
Although Vick suffered severe burns on his legs, and has
undergone much grafting, his parents are certain that he
would not have survived had it not been for Quinn’s heroic
efforts.
advance through the hostess
church chairman, Mrs. Samuel
H. Orr, Trion, by today. Those
who do not make reservations
and find they can attend are
urged to come and bring a sand
wich and eat in the fellowship
hall or, if they prefer, go to a
nearby eating establishment.
The program will start at 10
a m. with the call to order by
the Presbyterlal president, Mrs.
Charles A. Cowan Sr., Carters
ville.
Mrs. Vance Cathey, of Lindale,
will lead a period of meditation
and greetings will be extended
by Mrs. David. The Rev. Paul
O. Kapperman, moderator of
Cherokee Presbytery and pastor
of the Calvary Presbyterian
Church, Marietta, will bring
greetings from the presbytery.
The Rev. Earl Wood Hall, pastor
of the Trion church, will teach
a study from the Psalms.
The WOC chairmen of the
four districts within the pres
bytery will have a roll call of the
churches. The chairmen are:
Mrs. William Martin, Summer
ville, the LaFayette District;
Mrs. Doyle Wardlow, Midway,
Marietta District; Mrs. Glenn
Elder, Calhoun District; and
Miss Johnne Williams, LaFay
ette, Business Women’s District.
Mrs. Harold N. Florence, Trion,
will give the credentials report
and Mrs. John D. Bankson, Sum
merville, will give a program
committee report.
Mrs. Cowan, the Presbyterlal
president, Mrs. Bankson, the vice
president, and other general of
ficers and cause chairmen will
be introduced. The others in
clude: Mrs. T. G. Kress, Mari
etta, recording secretary; Mrs.
Pryor Fitts, Dalton, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Ivey Under
wood, Cartersville, treasurer;
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THS Band
Acclaimed
‘Excellent’
The Trion High School Band
received a Division 11, or “excel
lent”, rating at the annual Chat
tanooga Tri-State Band Festi
val last week-end.
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Summerville
Taxes Due
Next Monday
Summerville taxpayers will
get one day of grace.
Because October 20 falls on
a Sunday, the city has ex
tended its deadline until Mon
day, Oct. 21.
Taxes will be due that date
and those not paid will be sub
ject to an interest charge, it
has been announced.
Schools to
Be Closed
This Friday
Schools in the Trion and
Chattooga County systems will
ail be closed Friday.
The reason: Teachers will
be attending the Seventh Dis
trict meeting of the Georgia
Education Assn, in Rome.
J. F. Murdock, of Rome, is
the district GEA director and
will preside.