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VOLUME 79 — NUMBER 25
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BULLETIN!
A Chattooga grand jury late
Wednesday called upon the
present hospital board to re
sign if that is necessary in
order for certain, recommen
dations to be met.
“We . . . feel that the whole
financial structure and opera
tion of our county hospital
should be re-evaluated and
new policies and methods be
substituted for those presently
used where they would result
in a more economical and bet
ter operated hospital,” the
jurors said in their present
ments.
“We realize that our citizens
need a hospital, but feel that
we are entitled for the same
to be operated in an economi
cally but up-to-date manner.
We also feel that should our
hospital be completely air con
ditioned that we would attract
enough extra patients to pay
for its installation and up
keep. We also feel that if
needed to carry into effect the
previous recommendations, the
present board resign and a
new board be appointed.”
Uncle Ned's j
Notes
•
I kinda liked that editorial
carried from The Christian
Index in the Summersville
nej.es last week.
Sumetimes we leave our re
ligion outside the votin’ booth
and go in there and support
folks that we know ain’t gona
do nothin to help make our
community a better place to
live in and raise our childrun
in. In fact, we sumetimes vote
for them that makes it a worse
place to live in. There’s them,
fer instance, that buys votes
and passes out liquer and sich.
Yep, I shore think Christ
ianity belongs in the votin
booth as much as enywhere
else. Ain’t no use in us talking
so big about religion and then
not practicin’ it.
fetMK yg. i
MR. PILKINGTON
Pilkington
Accepts
Dalton Os fer
Darry L. Pilkington has re
signed as band director of Trion
Schools to accept a similar posi
tion in Dalton.
He had served at Trion since
1959. During tnat time, the band
had won a total of five first di
vision trophies and five second
division trophies.
Mr. Pilkington is married to
the former Miss Sue Lynne
Glass, who also is a musician
and vocalist. They have three
children. Stuart, Tesa Lynne and
Dana Lee.
Runners to Set Speed Rules
Members of The Ridge Run-,
ners, Chattooga County hot rod i
club, will soon be asked to abide I
by certain rules on speeding.
Plans for the rules were made'
Tuesday night at the weekly'
meeting and they will soon be
formally drawn, John Groover, ।
president, states. He said theyl
will be publicized so that the !
public will know the sincerity
of the club.
In the meantime, a benefit
dance has been slated for 7:30
p.m. Friday, July 24, at Thei
Hitching Post, Cloudland. The ।
Contract Let
On Roofing Schools
A contract was let Friday for roofing repairs on four
buildings in the Chattooga school system—the Menlo main
building, Menlo gymnasium, Lyerly gymnasium and Chat
tooga High School main building.
Bishop and Busbin of Lyerly was the low bidder, with
a bid of $8,436. Cherokee Supply
of Rome had a bid of $9,621.
Work is expected to get under
way immediately.
The contract was let Friday
at the July meeting of the Chat
tooga Board of Education.
The board also decided to
adopt a new system of purchas
ing milk. In recent years, the
matter had been left to the in
dividual principals. However,
under the new board ruling, the
school system will divide its milk
business on a pro rata basis
among processors which buy
raw milk from Chattooga dairy
men. The percentages will be
based on the prior year’s record
of raw milk purchases.
Although this rule will be ad
hered to as closely as possible,
Plan Group Hears
Senator Russell
JOHN BANKSON INSTALLED
AS NEW COOSA VALLEY PREXY
Georgia Sen. Richard Russell
spoke in Rome Wednesday at a
meeting attended by a large
delegation of Chattooga Coun
tians and other Northwest Geor
gians.
Another highlight of the an
nual meeting of the Coosa Val
ley Area Planning and Develop
ment Commission was the in
stallation of the new officers.
John Bankson of Summerville
is the new chairman. Fred Starr
of Rome is the new vice chair
man. Mr. Bankson succeeds Ber
nard Storey of Floyd County.
A barbecue lunch followed the
meeting, which was held at
Berry Schools.
Agnew Studies
Forestry
First Hand
John Agnew, of Summerville,
has accepted a position in
Elsinor, Calif, for six months in
connection with his forestry
major at Auburn (Ala.) Univer
sity.
He is working with a forestry
crew, having accepted the op
portunity on the advice of his
counselor. Agnew will return to
his classroom in January.
He called his parents, the
Frank Agnews, Monday on the
occasion of his birthday and
said he was enjoying his work.
The student noted that he had
just returned from four days
fire fighting.
Next Monday Last Day For
Registering To Vote Sept. 9
Ycur vote counts as much as the next person’s.
So be sure you are registered prior to the Monday dead
line. Unless you do, you will not be able to vote in the Sept.
9 primary.
The Chattooga Beard of Registrars office, located on the
second floor of the courthouse, will be open Monday from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 857-7792 if you are in doubt about whether
you are registered.
If you are still 17 but will be 18 by Sept. 9 you may regis
ter. And if you will have lived in the county six months and
the state a year by that time, you can still register.
Vote this September.
i Rockettes, Summerville musi
cians, will supply the music.
I Proceeds will go toward the
| Runners’ efforts to establish a
drag strip. The musicians and
Louis Tate are contributing
their services.
The club now has about 25
honorary members at $5 per
I year, Groover said, and he noted
that more are being sought..
Efforts are continuing toward
getting a strip in the county, he
। said, and details will be an-
©h? Snnuitmnllr Nms
the milk for a particular school
will not be split, it was decided.
The board action ' was unani
mous.
The board okayed the pur
chase of eight new standard and
two new electric typewriters for
the high schools, deciding to ac
cept the Royal bid. It had been
recommended by an evaluation
committee that insteal of the
present single brand of type
writers (Underwood), various
brands be used so that students
could become familiar with the
different types.
Supt. Spence announced that
bids would be taken at the
August meeting for the purchase
of bus insurance, tires and gaso
line.
Woman Said
To Have Shot
Herself
A Summerville woman, Mary
Jo Smith, reportedly shot her
self about 12:05 p.m. Wednesday
and there was an unconfirmed
report that a Trion woman shot
herself at about the same time.
Summerville Police Chief Grif
fin Pledger confirmed that Miss
Smith, 28-year-old resident of 12
Union Street, said she had shot
herself in the chest. She was
taken to Chattooga Hospital.
Pledger said Miss Smith’s sis
ter, Eloise Middleton, came to
the station and told him Miss
Smith had shot herself. He said
he went to investigate and found
the woman sitting on a divan
with an apparent pistol wound
in the chest. Miss Smith told
him, he said, that she had done
it herself because she “had
nothing to live for”. The gun
used was a .22 pistol.
The Middleton woman said
she had taken the gun into an
other room because her sister
had threatened to “finish it up”
by shooting herself again.
Details of the reported Trion
area shooting were not available
by press time but an officer con
firmed there had been a
1 shooting.
nounced as early as possible.
The manager of the Green
Valley Drag Strip in Gadsden,
Ala. was a speaker to the Run
ners at their July 9 meeting,
noting that if a strip is run
properly it can be highly profit
able. He said the Green Valley
made $17,000 during the two
' i years he ran it.
Some 35 members attended
1 Tuesday night’s meeting, held
at the Summerville Recreation
1 Center. Meetings are now being
: held on Tuesday nights, Groover
i said.
SUMMERVILLE. CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1964
State Backs Up
On Consolidation
The State Department of Education admits that the
Chattooga school board has taken no action to consolidate
the Holland and Welmyer Elementary Schools and that
the state itself cannot do it.
An article appeared in Atlanta newspapers last week
listing “approved consolidations”
over the state. It listed consoli
dation of Welmyer with Penn
ville Elementary and Holland
Elementary with A. C. Carter,
quoting Alfred L. Davis, chief of
the state school plant services
division.
However, a spokesman for the
state immediately apologized,
noting that the Chattooga board
had not taken any action and
that the state board “does not
consolidate schools”.
O. H. Joiner, director of the
Division of Financial Services,
State Department of Education,
in a letter to Chattooga School
Supt. James Spence date July 10
said:
“I notice from an article that
appeared in the paper this
morning that it was antici
pated that you were proposing
some consolidation in Chattooga
County.
“I do not know how the article
got to the newspapers, but I am
assuming that the information
was taken from a list that was
compiled by the State Depart
ment of Education Area 'Repre
sentatives on some desirable
consolidations based on recent
policies and procedures de
veloped by the State Board of
Roy Wimpee, Mrs.
Watson Cleared;
Shropshire Billed
Roy Wimpee and Mrs. Ollie Mae Watson, Chattooga
Countians who had been charged with murder, were cleared
by a grand jury this week.
Deliberations were still underway Wednesday in an
other case where murder was charged—Charles Johnson,
Negro, who had been accused of
murdering Cicero Jones.
The grand jury, however, re
turned true bills against Tommy
Lee Shropshire, charged with
kidnapping and larceny of
an automobile. Shropshire is
charged with abducting a
17-year-old white girl, who later
escaped unharmed, and with
taking her automobile.
Criminal cases start Monday
in Chattooga Superior Court and
Shropshire is likely to be tried
at that time. Civil jurors called
Monday were released the same
day after one case.
R. N. Crawford, of Lyerly, is
foreman of the grand jury,
which convened Monday.
Deliberations were expected
to continue at least through
Wednesday and perhaps into
today. Among the matters to be
decided was the appointment of
members of the recently re
organized Chattooga Board of
Health.
Nine no bills had been re
turned by Wednesday morning
and 20 true bills had been re
turned.
In addition to the no bills in
the Wimpee and Watson cases,
others were these: Johnny Sims,
Jackie Ellis, Tommy Ellis Jr. and
Leon Abernathy, robbery; Wes
ley Willingham, Metz Don Cook
and Charles H. White, burglaries.
True bills returned were:
Ernest Franklin Blackmon and
Lee Roy Blackmon, assault with
intent to rob, in connection with
a May 15 incident in which Carl
Broome was allegedly assaulted;
Herman Junior Hunter, Ruby
Nell Nixon, George Baggett, Billy
White, Edward Arnold McGuire,
Carol Climer, forgery: Herman
i (Rusty) Wesson, Fred Rich, Ed
■ ward G. Anderson, W. L. Mc-
Whorter, burglary; Buster
Hughes, assault with intent to
murder: Bobby Cagle, molesting
a minor child; Raymond Phillips
। and William Lawson Smith,
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Friday
Education. It is regrettable that
this information got to the
newspapers when the Chattooga
County Board of Education had
not taken any action to indicate
that this procedure was being
followed.
“I hope that the information
that went to the people will not
be construed to mean that the
Department of Education is
going to consolidate the schools
because the State Board does not
consolidate schools.
“Let me commend you on the
progress that has been made in
Chattooga County in recent
years. The Chattooga County
Board of Education is to be com
mended on the excellent manner
in which the schools are oper
ating there.”
The Chattooga Board of Edu
cation, belatedly holding its July
meeting on Friday, also pointed
out in a resolution that it had
taken no action concerning con
. solidation of the Holland and
Welmyer Schools.
i The story from the state’s Mr.
■ Davis also listed state funds “for
• consolidation” in various sys
: terns but listed no such funds
; for the Chattooga system. The
■ total figure was about $4.9 mil
: lion.
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G. W. COLLETT
; Moves to S. C.
COLLETT
PROMOTED
BY RIEGEL
I
George W. Collett has been
: appointed Personnel Director of
. the Johnston Division of Riegel
Textile Corporation. The an
l nouncement is being made
i jointly by Robert Schultheiss,
i Vice President of the Johnston
I Division and P. H. David, Gen
eral Manager of the Trion Divi
' sion. Mr. Collett succeeds Fred
' W. Murff, who resigned. He will
, assume his new duties August 3,
i 1964 and will report directly to
■ Mr. Schultheiss.
Mr. Collett joined Riegel in
• 1938. His first job was in the
> Weaving Department. Later he
; i was transferred to the General
> Office as a Cost Accountant.
, I After his discharge from the
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YOUTH LEAGUE OFFICERS— Four of
the new Christian Youth League officers
are shown as they made preparations
Tuesday for the day camp which they
will co-sponsor with the Summerville
Recreation Center next week. Shown
are (left to right) Jerry Money, Sum
merville Methodist Church, vice presi
dent; Mary Alice Doster, Pleasant Grove
Baptist, publicity chairman; Vicki Wil
liams, Summerville First Baptist, presi
dent; and Carol Johnson, Summerville
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The drawing will be at 4:30
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will drop to SSO.
Register now!
CHS Student 1
Chosen for
Special Study
Steve Thomas, 16 - year -old
Chattooga High School youth,
is one of 25 students in the en
tire south selected to study ge
ology under a National Science
Institute grant at Appalachian
State College, Boone, N. C. this
summer.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Mal
colm Thomas of Summerville, he
will have five weeks of intensive
classroom work and field trips.
Thomas was selected after ex
tensive tests given a few weeks
ago by Mrs. Joe Pitts, who was
guidance counselor of Chattooga
High School, and Mrs. O. G.
Morehead Jr. Mrs. Morehead’s
brother-in-law, Dr. Marcus B.
Morehead, is the professor in
charge of the class and will be
one of the instructors.
A similar class in mathematics
will be held simultaneously, in
cluding 25 students.
Seville to Host
Swim Meet Fri.
Summerville’s swim team
emerged in third place last Fri
day night in a Seventh District
meet held in Dalton.
The local swimmers made 241
points. Calhoun was first with
347 and Dalton was second with
323.
First place winners included
Mike Turner, Guinn Hankins,
Bill Elrod and Rodney Harde
man.
Summerville will host a sim
ilar swim meet at 7 p.m. Friday.
The pool will close at 5 p.m. Fri
day in order for preparations to
be made.
WORSHAM TELLS
PLANS FOR Cl)
POLICE CLASS
A civil defense police class is
being planned by the Chattooga
| County Civil Defense, W. E.
(Bill) Worsham, director, an
nounced this week.
T. B. Peacock, former FBI
agent and former Rome police
chief, can be obtained to teach
the class if a sufficient number
I of persons enroll, Mr. Worsham
I said.
He urged those who are inter
j ested to be at the Lyerly School
gymnasium at 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Methodist, secretary. Jon Payne, North
side Church of Christ, is treasurer and
Marcia Boney, Summerville Methodist,
is chairman of the board of directors.
Other members of the board are: Nancy
Marks, John Turner and Bob Agnew,
Summerville Presbyterian; Mike Par
ham and Steve Thomas, Summerville
First Baptist; Merle Edwards, Summer
ville Methodist; and Donald Pledger,
Northside Church of Christ.
CYL Day Camp
To Open Mon.
A one-week day camp will be held at the Summerville
Recreation Center next week under the auspices of the
Christian Youth League and the Center.
The Recreation Center-sponsored two-week day camp
has been cancelled and those who had paid their reservation
fee should obtain their refund,
states Grady McCalmon, direc
tor.
The camp will be for ages five
through 12 and will be from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through
Friday. A limited number will be
accepted.
Mrs. Henry Duke will be camp
director and members of the
CYL will be counselors.
Those planning to attend may
now register and consent forms
should be obtained from either
Mrs. Duke or Mr. McCalmon.
A talent show and junior
Olympics will be held Friday
night, July 24, to conclude the
Lyerly Seeks
Natural Gas
Lyerly has put in its bid for natural gas service.
The request was filed Monday night at the City of
Summerville Council meeting by Lyerly Mayor Roy Gayler,
W. H. Smith, James (Buddy) Busbin and George Reese.
Plans were made to survey the town and the area be-
tween the end of the present
line (near Berry ton) and Lyerly.
If providing service to Lyerly is
found feasible, City of Summer
ville spokesman said, it will
probably be provided. The City
of Summerville operates a natu
ral gas utility in this area.
A curfew ordinance for Sum
merville was discussed and plans
were made to obtain a copy of
Rome’s new ordinance on this
subject.
Several small gas. line expan
sion were approved, covering
areas in the Eilenburg Sub-Di
vision, Elizabeth Street, Penn
ville near Trion Heights and
Sixth Street.
City Attorney T. J. Espy
discussed the Appalachia pro
gram proposed by the federal
government but noted that
changes are being made and
there is nothing definite at this
time.
The mayor and council also:
Approved the addition of sev
eral street lights.
Discussed plans for a meeting
of employes and the council
with a Social Security repre
sentative.
| Study Duties, Candidates and
Then Make Up Your Mind
Read it this week—read it every week between
now and September 9.
The column, “The Offices ... The Candidates ...”
is designed to inform you about the offices and can
didates involved in the September 9 primary.
I,earn what the duties of the officers are, study
the qualifications of the candidates, and then make
up your mind as to which one you think can best per
form the duties required.
A Prize-Winning
Newspaper
1964
Better Newspaper
Contests
camp.
Crafts, swimming, special
events, movies, athletics, games
and other events are planned.
Jeanette Ponder is in charge of
special events.
Those in charge of planning
activities for the various age
groups are as follows:
Ages 5-6: Jerry Money, Wanda
Lewis, Carolyn Butler.
Ages 7-8: Mary Alice Doster,
Jeanette Ponder, Sandra Ver
non, Danny Strickland.
Ages 9-10: Jeanne Lenderman,
Nancy Marks, Gary Duke.
Ages 11-12: Carol Johnson,
Bob Agnew, Richard Amos.
Accepted the resignation of
Policeman Charles A. Worsham
and instructed Mrs. E. B. Self,
city cleric, to write a letter of
commendation for his service.
Revoked two taxi licenses held
by Pioneer Grocery for failure
to maintain insurance.
And tabled three new applica
tions for taxi licenses.
Present were: Mayor J. R.
Dowdy and Councilmen Hubert
Palmer, Hugh Shamblin, O. G.
Morehead Jr. and Oscar Perry.
ROTARY CANCELS
MEET TO HEAR
SENATOR RUSSELL
The Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club cancelled its Wednesday
meeting because so many mem
bers planned to be in Rome for
Sen. Richard Russell’s address.
Congressman John W. Davis,
the scheduled speaker, also had
planned to hear Senator Russell.
The Georgia senator spoke at
the annual meeting of the Coosa
Valley Area Planning and De
velopment Commission.
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