Newspaper Page Text
16 Pages
Two Sections
VOLUME 79—NUMBER 41
New Policies of
Hospital Announced
A deposit policy aimed at helping the Chattooga Hos
pital operate “in the black’’ has been established, Adm.
Barry Collins announced this week.
Persons with hospiial insurance will not be asked to make
a deposit, he said. However, those who have no hospital in-
surance will be asked to make
entrance deposits on the follow
ing basis: Obstetrical patients,
$75: regular medical patients,
$100; surgical patients, $l5O.
In addition, everyone will be
asked to clear his account on
dismissal. Those having hospital
insurance will be asked to pay
on dismissal the difference, if
any, between what the insurance
will pay and the total bill.
The hospital also has estab
lished admission and discharge
hours. Admissions may be made
between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Discharge hours are from 8:30
to 2 p.m.
“We feel our new policies are
extremely necessary at this
time,” said Mr. Collins. “We
don’t want to make anyone mad.
But the hospital itself belongs to
the people and it is to their
benefit, in the long run, for us
to try to run it on a business
like basis.”
Legion to Conclude
Membership Drive
With Tire Give Away
Chattooga County Post No. 129
of the American Legion has
opened its membership drive,
“Roll Ca 11—1965” for the coming
year, Post Commander Loray
(Buddy) Byars has announced.
Chairman of the special com
mittee which will lead the 1965
enrollment campaign is Don Cox
Sr., vice commander of the post,
Commander Byars reported.
Other members of the special
committee will work with Vice
Commander Cox on Saturday.
To conclude the 1965 member
ship drive, a set of four U. S.
Royal Safety 806 whitewall tires,
size 750-14 (or can be traded for
size to fit your car for plus or
less value) will be given away
at 2 p.m. Saturday in front of
the old American Legion home
in Summerville. You may donate
SI.OO to the American Legion
Post No. 129 Child Welfare pro
gram. You do not have to be
present to win.
Commander Byars explained
that the ”Roll Call” theme of
this year’s drive was to remind
all war veterans of their service
to their country which makes
them eligible to become Legion
naires.
“We’re hoping to conclude our
drive with a report of ‘All pres
ent and accounted for’,” he
added.
The local post is joining some
16,500 other community organ
izations of the Legion through
out the United States, various
overseas territories, and several
foreign nations in the world’s
largest annual membership en
rollment campaign undertaken
by a veterans’ organization.
“We plan to have the bulk of
our 1965 membership drive com
pleted by Saturday to permit us
to devote as much time and
effort as possible to our commu
nity service programs,” Com
mander Byars stated. "We are
(Continued On Page 6)
Final Election Results
g«a£e*m 5 b § b I 3
K. » ? 8 — ° s 3 ।
5=532- I S’ * 5 3 I
i i i & । i
I , I I I Illi*
I I I I I
»
Chopin' 74 17 26 0 38 12 94 96 20 32 466 23 187 1085
Doiis 248 118 79 48 151 11 201 150 34 56 2091 87 910 4184
Goldwater 96 19 34 0 47 17 120 111 24 32 680 28 268 1476
Johnson 248 119 71 41 157 7 191 142 36 57 1940 80 877 3986
Amendment 34 ___
p™ 21 9 11 5 38 8 53 35 3 10 568 13 165 939
Against 128 ~13 8 7 ~3~j 12 54 47~ 11 11 294 31~ 164 811
About $60,000 is owed the hos
pital by people who have used
its services and not paid. This is
an accumulation over the past
several years.
The hospital itself owes about
$50,000.
A Chattooga grand jury this
year called for more efficient op
erating of the hospital, demand
ing that the Hospital Board re
sign if it couldn’t correct the
situation.
Mr. Coliins last week succeeded
Herbert Gilkeson who announced
several weeks ago he would re
tire as soon as the Hospital
Board could find a replacement.
The new administrator says
the hospital staff has in mind
not only getting in better finan
cial condition but also broaden
ing services and “modernizing”.
“We intend to be just as good
a hospital as, say Floyd Hospital,
if somewhat smaller,” he de
clared.
Menlo to Name
3 Coimcilmen
On December 5
Menlo will elect three council
men on December 5, Mayor Lon
nie Ward has announced.
Qualifications are now open
and will remain open until 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 25. Candidates
may qualify with Mr. Ward, A.B.
Day, mayor pro tern, or Hester
Hurtt, recorder. No one had
qualified at mid-week.
The terms of Robert William
King, J. P. Thornberry and Hill
Hall will expire at the end of
this year.
Mayor Ward said that in the
meantime the Council is con
tinuing work on its efforts to get
low-rent housing in Menlo and
to increase its water shortage
capacity.
Only 133 Countians Required
Help in Voting November 3
Only 138 of the more than 5,000 Chattooga Coun
tians who voted in the general election Nov. 3 required
assistance in marking their ballots.
This is far under the number who asked for and
got assistance in the Democratic primary and run-off.
Os the 138 getting assistance Nov. 3, 93 were in
Summerville. Despite the fact that so few required as
sistance, only 15 of the 2.463 Summerville ballots were
spoiled, states Ordinary Paul Weems.
Ordinary Weems said that when prospective voters
asked for assistance they were reminded that they
weren’t entitled to it, under the new Election Code, un
less they couldn’t read or write. Many then marked
their own ballots, he said.
Snmini'rutllr Nms
State Group OK’s
$104,000 for New
County Classrooms
Approval has been given by one state agency for grant
ing Chattooga County another $104,000 in school building
funds.
The matter will now be taken up by the State Board of
Education but officials foresee little if any holdup there.
The money will be used to
build approximately 10 new
classrooms somewhere in the
system. It cannot be used for the
proposed gymnasium at the new
Chattooga High School. The lo
cation for the proposed new
classrooms hasn’t been an
nounced, but it is understood
that some of them may be
built at Summerville Elementary
which is overcrowded. The school
board has not consolidated any
schools in contemplation of get
ting this money, officials stress.
It was State School Plant
Services which approved the ap
plication this week, Supt. James
Spence announced. The matter
will probably be brought before
the State Board of Education at
its November meeting late this
month.
The funds are available under
the first and second of four pro
posed state-wide bond issues.
Only a relatively small number
of school systems can qualify for
the funds. For ohe thing, the
system must be bonded to 75 per
cent of its capacity. In addition,
it must have a shortage of class
rooms created by the consoli
dated of small schools. Summer
ville Elementary would qualify
because its overcrowding could
be attributed to the merger of
Gore School with SES.
The Chattooga Board of Edu
cation decided to apply for the
funds on October 27, noting that
the deadline for application was
November 1. It was felt, Board
Chairman W. P. Selman said,
that if it didn’t apply at this
time it stood a chance of losing
the money.
In the meantime, no date has
been set for occupancy of the
new high school. It had been
hoped it could bo occupied early
in January, but this still isn’t
certain.
Supt. Spence has announced
that the teacherage at the old
Gore School sold this week to
Mabel O. Skene for $3,500.
SUMMERVILLE. CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1964
Yule Parade
Slated in
Summerville
A gala Christmas parade will
be held in Summerville Satur
day, Nov. 28, Jimmy Woodard,
president of the Summerville Re
tail Merchants Assn., announced
this week.
The parade chairman will be
Mrs. Emory Alexander.
In the meantime, Summerville
merchants will soon be giving
tickets on a color television and
several SIOO cash prizes which
will be given away during the
j holiday season.
The give-aways will be held at
’ i
; 3 p.m. on the two Saturdays^jre
l ceding Christmas, Dec. 12 and
I 19, and on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday immediately before
Christmas. The television will be
given at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.
23. You must be present to win.
A carol sing led by Wayne
Groce will accompany the De
cember 23 event.
In the meantime, Jimmy Duff
is making final plans for getting
the Christmas street lights and
decorations put up. They are ex
pected to be ready by the time of
the parade.
Average $ 162
Quarter Million
To Be Paid in
Christmas Savings
Presbyterians
Os S’ville
Slate Revival
The Rev. Virgil L. Bryant Jr.,
pastor of the Bainbridge First
Presbyterian Church, will lead a
series at the Summerville Pres
byterian Church next week.
The times for the services will
be 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
The Rev. W E Hotchkiss is
pastor of the church.
UK"! mwP**-*"
Wrecks at Slides Kill
Two, Injure Three
Two persons were killed and three injured in two sep
arate auto accidents at the landslides oh Taylor’s Ridge
during the past week.
Two Chattanooga Negro men were killed there Satur
day night and a Summerville white man, James Hill
Knowles, and his 14-year-old
son were injured in the same
wreck. The Negroes were iden
tified by the State Patrol as
John E. Gipson, age 52, driver
of one car, and Fred Doyle, 44,
a passenger in the Gipson ve
hicle.
In the other accident, James
Talley, 3z-year-old Crossville
iAla.) white man, was Injured
Wednesday night, Nov. 4. The
car he was driving was the only
one involved and he reportedly
had cuts, bruises and several
teeth knocked out.
Rodney H. Knowles, the lad
involved in the Saturday night
wreck, suffered head injuries
and his father had head lacera
tions, cuts and bruises. The
State Patrol said the accident
occurred about 6:30 p.m. Satur
day as the Chattanoogans drove
north and lost control of their
vehicle at the fallen roadbed,
sliding into the other car which
was southbound.
It was only October 31 that
two other persons were injured
at the landslide site when their
car pitched down the mountain
side. They were William Frank
Ledford, of Rome, and Bessie
Williams.
Chattooga Countians will have
over a quarter of a million dol
lars in “Christmas savings” this
year, D. L. McWhorter, president
of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank, announced this week. Pay
ments will start Friday, Novem
ber 20.
The average amount per check
is $162. The total is $256,609.
Mr McWhorter said the total
slightly exceeds that for last
year and includes 1,578 accounts.
A large majority of the ac
counts were handled through the
Riegel Textile Corp.'s Trion Di
vision. The employes saved
$254,908 and the savings were on
a payroll deduction basis. The
employes may save from $1 to
$lO per week under the system
for the 44-week annual period.
Do You Have School Child?
I f So, Read New School Series
Do you have a child in school? Or will you have
one of these days?
If so, you’ll be better informed about schools by
reading a new series starting In The Summerville
News on an inside pag° this week. Entitled "Georgia’s
Schools,” it is written by Bernice McCullar, Director
oi Information, State Department of Education.
This series explains the teacher salary system,
how the budget is clivid-d between state and local gov
ernments, the school bus system and its rules, school
building programs, libraries, functions of the local
school board, curriculum and many other topics of in
terest to parents.
The News is starting this series to coincide with ,
“American Education Week," now being observed. The
series will continue through December. Read it this
week and every week.
SCENE AT TAYLOR’S RIDGE WRECK
. . . two killed Saturday night
(Photo by Earl McConnell)
KEV. FRED WHITE
Baptist Series
Al Trion to
Open Sunday
The Rev. Fred White, pastor of
the Rome Second Avenue Baptist
Church, will lead the revival
series at the Trion First Baptist
Church next week.
Services will be held at 7:30
p.m. and 10:30 a.m. (Monday
through Friday).
James Carraway, recording
star, of Shreveport, La., will be
the song leader.
The Rev. Mr. White became a
minister in Dalton in 1948 and
since that time has served
churches in South Carolina,
contract. Mr. Carraway is mar
ried and has a teen-age daugh
ter.
A church nursery will be pro
vided during the series.
Mr. Carraway was for a num
ber of years a locomotive engi
neer for the Kansas City South
ern and the Louisiana and
Arkansas Railway and is often
called “The Singing Engineer”.
He is an ordained minister who
has served in Texas and Loui
siana, but is now under record
Texas and Georgia. For five
years, he was associate secretary.
Georgia Baptist Department of
Evangelism He is married and
has three children.
E. Trion Church
Os God to Host
Bolling Singing
The East Trion Church of God
will be host to the rolling singing
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The Rev. J. R. Whitley, pastor,
Invites the public to attend.
A Prize-Winning
Newspaper
1964
Scrap Rolls
Os Newsprint
Available Here
Attention: Teachers.
The Summerville News has
on hand some 20 scrap rolls
of paper which it must dis
pose of in the near future. In
the past, many teachers have
requested them.
If you’d like one, come by.
They’re free.
Lyerly Taxes
Due Dec. 1
Lyerly property owners are re
minded of the December 1 dead
line for payment of taxes.
Miss Gwen Williams, city clerk,
issued the reminder this week.
In the meantime, county prop
erty owners are reminded of the
December 20 deadline for pay
ment of county taxes.
Unde Ned’s
Notes
Seems the Russians and
Chinese may be gettin’ to
gether agin, to sum extent
anyway.
But whut toe fergit is that
they ain't never been apart on
one thing—they want the
United States to be communist.
They want the whole world to
be communist. They may have
different ideas on the way it
oute to be done but they’re
agreed that it oute be done.
It may be jest a question ov
time until all Southeast Asia
becomes "neutral" and then
communist; and West Europe
becomes neutral; and most ov
Africa and Latin America be
comes communist; and China
invades India; and then where
will we be?
'F JIU II UMMUi f
mE . jkl
I
•fa i.•• Im ■
j -- Lt \
GOT YOURS'.’—Miss Marsha Lowry, "Miss Chattooga
County,” holds a sheet of the Christmas seals which
are being sent out this week to Chattooga Countlans
by the Chattooga TB Committee. Countians are urged
to send a donation for the seals as quickly as possible,
before the Christmas rush sets in. Proceeds are used
to help finance the tuberculin skin tests in the county
schools and to aid needy TB patients.
PRICE 10c
S4OO in Cash
To Be Given
At Triangle
Cash prizes totaling S4OO will
be given away at The Triangle
Shopping Center during the holi
day season, Bill Morgan, presi
dent of The Triangle Merchants
Assn., has announced.
The prizes will be given at 4:30
p.m. on Saturdays, Nov. 28, Dec.
5, Dec. 12 and Dec. 19. A SIOO
cash prize will be offered on each
date but if you aren’t present
the prize will drop to only $25
and the remainder will go into
a final, larger award.
Tickets will be given out,
starting Monday, Nov. 23, Mr.
Morgan said.
Trion Cooking
School Slated
For Tonight
A school of cooking will be held
ut 7 p.m. today (Thursday) at
the Trion High School audito
rium, sponsored by the Trion
Business and Professional Wom
en’s Club.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Smith,
Georgia Power Company home
equipment specialist, will con
duct the school. She will be as
sisted by Mrs. Eva Collins, dis
trict Power Company home
economist, and Tommy Jones,
Power Company salesman.
Admission will be 75c.
Davis Speaks
To Municipal
Group in Rome
Congressman John Davis ad
dressed the Seventh District di
vision of the Georgia Municipal
Assn, in Rome Wednesday morn
ing.
The organization is comprised
of city councilmen, mayors, city
clerks, city recorders and other
city officials of the Seventh Dis
trict.
Several Chattooga Countians
planned to attend.
(HUM MMMI
*36 ’
SHOPPIM ‘
DAYS
luw >
MB ■