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DESTROYING BEER — Chattooga
Sheriff John Frank McConnell
(center) and State Revenue Agent
Herman Evans (left) watch as
Courthouse Custodian Roosevelt
Young destroys can after can of beei’
Indictment of
Two Hitchhikers
Could Come Monday
Two West Virginia hitch
hikers may be indicted in
Summerville next week on
charges of murder.
They could be tried the
following week.
A Chattooga Grand Jury
will convene at 9 a. m. Mon
day for the regular January
term and one of its most im
portant tasks is expected to
be deciding whether to in
dict Roy Dale Chatterton
and Woodrow Whisman in
connection with the death of
LaFayette’s William (Bill)
Copeland on December 15.
If Whisman and Chatter
ton are indicted they could
go to trial in Summerville on
Monday, Jan. 18.
Lookout Superior Court
Judge Robert Coker, a new
junior judge, is expected to
be presiding during that
week. Court officials say
Judge S. W. Fariss, the senior
judge, will preside next week
when civil cases will be pre
sented here.
Whether the West Virginia
men would have a court-ap
pointed attorney or whether
they would hire one was still
in question at mid-week.
There were reports that rel
atives of one of the men
were interested in hiring an
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NEW CHATTOOGA LODGE OFFICERS— These
men have been elected to head the Chattooga Ma
sonic Lodge for the current year. Shown (front,
left to right) are: Ray Davis, secretary; Ira Hen
derson, senior warden: Winston Evett, worshipful
master; Virgil Chastain, junior warden; and Ted
by hitting it on a pick. The 150
cases of beer had been stored in the
jail and Sheriff McConnell moved it
out and was having it destroyed. He
assumed his duties last Friday.
County
Tops State
In Seal Sales
Chattooga has become the
first county in Georgia to go
“over the top” in the sale of
Christmas seals this season.
Mrs. Bob Brison said Tues
day she had received a letter
from the Georgia Tuberculo
sis Assn, announcing this
fact and congratulating
countians.
At the time the letter was
written, Chattooga had re
ported a total of $1,388
whereas last year at this
time it had only $896. This
record surpassed that of all
other counties in the state,
the GTA said.
Mrs. Brison expressed her
appreciation and that of
other members of the Chat
tooga TB Committee to
Chattoogans who responded
so readily to the Christmas
seal appeal. Some of the
money is sent to the state
and national TB associations
to aid in research and edu
cation projects, but most of
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WELMYER P-TA
TO MEET MON.
The Welmyer Parent-
Teacher Assn, will meet at
7 p.m. Monday, it has been
announced.
The session will be held st
the school.
War in Viet 'Nam Topic
Os Sensing This Week
What to do about the war in Viet Nam.
That is the question being posed across the
nation today as Americans die in that fight
against communism,
communism.
Thurman Sensing, columnist for The Sum
merville News and other newspapers, says the
men fighting there are worrying that their sac
rifices on the battlefield will be ignored “by the
same people who have successfully opposed
strong action against the communists in other
areas of the world.”
Turn now to Th? News editorial page for the
remainder of Mr. Sensing’s comments on this
vital subject.
Bridges, treasurer; (rear, left to right) Billy Joe
Simpson, senior deacon; Wayne Hall, junior ste
ward; Durward Pettit, senior steward; Herbert
Head, junior deacon; Earl Nix, chaplain; and Jack
Ragland, tyler.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1965
Mergers, Construction
Set By New Schooled.
150 Cases
Sheriff
Destroys
Beer
Some 150 cases of beer
which had been stored in the
jail were destroyed Tuesday
afternoon.
Sheriff John Frank Mc-
Connell and State Revenue
Agent Herman Evans pre
sided over the disposal which
took place on the west side
of the courthouse.
A pick was lodged in the
ground and Courthouse
Custodian Roosevelt Young
dashed the tins of beer into
the exposed side. Later, the
empty tins were carted off.
The new sheriff assumed
his duties Friday, assisted by
Chief Deputy Randy Roberts
and Deputies Elbert Tucker
and Gary McConnell.
The McConnells are pre
paring the sheriff’s residence
for occupancy and expect to
move within a few days.
Health Board
To Be Sworn
In On Friday
The new Chattooga Board
of Health will be sworn in
at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the
Chattooga Health Depart
ment.
Members are: Harry
Powell, James Spence, Dr
Hugh Goodwin, J. R. Dowdy
and Roy Camp.
A meeting of the board
will follow.
Two small Chattooga County elementary schools,
Welmyer and Holland, were merged with larger
schools Tuesday by the new Chattooga Board of Ed
ucation.
At the same time, steps were taken to build, at state
expense, new classrooms at
Lyerly, Pennville, A. C. Car
ter and Summerville Ele
mentary.
The merger will take place
at the beginning of the next
school year. Welmyer stu
dents will go to Pennville.
Holland students will go to
A. C. Carter.
The consolidation was nec
essary in order for the
county to get a $136,738
grant available from the
state. This grant, and an
earlier one from the state,
will provide a total of $241,-
615 for the construction of
the 16 new classrooms.
An Atlanta architect was
hired to begin drawings on
the new construction. Plans
call for about four new
classrooms at each of the
sites. It is hoped they’ll be
ready for occupancy by Sep
tember.
The vote on accepting the
state money by merging the
schools was divided, with
Board Members Johnny Bry
ant and Robert Hendrix fav
oring the move, Jimmy
Strickland opposing it and
W. M. Jackson abstaining.
The latter two are new
Oldsters
Get New
Tax Break
Property owners over
age 65 who make less than
$3,000 a year will get a spe
cial tax break this year.
Tax Return Receiver Ray
Van Pelt announced this
week that instead of a
$2,000 homestead exemp
tion, this year these per
sons for the first time will
receive a $4,000 homestead
exemption.
Other persons will re
ceive the $2,000 homestead
exemption as usual.
The filing of property
tax returns began on Jan
uary 1 and will continue
until April 1. The tax
notices will be sent out in
early fall and taxes will be
payable by December 20 of
this year. The 1965 taxes
will be used to handle 1966
expenses.
P-TA Council
To Meet at
Lyerly Tonight
All local Parent-Teacher
officers and representatives
of the Chattooga County
PTA Council are invited to
the regular meeting of the
Council at 7 p.m. today
(Thursday) at the Lyerly
School.
Miss Ethel Simmons,
Council president, labels this
meeting as “most important”
and asks all members to be
present.
A report will be given from
the newly-formed Council
PTA Scholarship Committee.
Details for scholarship ap
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Uncle Ned’s
Notes j
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Summersville don’t look
the same since Godwin’s
Corner's been torn down.
But it looks a whole lot
better.
Think about it. We got
one ov the plumb purtiest
little cities around. We got
nice wide streets with
modern lights and lotsa
modem store fronts. And
it fest set our city off when
they fixed up the grounds
around the courthouse
with shrubbery and grass
and sandblasted the out
side walls.
Summersville people got
plenty ov room to brag
about their city. Makes me
wish I lived there sum
times.
members of the board.
. . . SCHOOL SUPT. James
Spence reported that occu
pancy of the new high
school is not expected to be
immediate. Noting that he
had talked on Tuesday with
Architect M. G. Turner of
Rome, who declined to esti
mate an occupancy date,
Spence said he believed it
would be perhaps 90 days.
The heating, wiring and
floor work remains to be
done, he said.
The board also:
Changed its meetings to 1
p. m. on the second Mondays
of each month and specified
that no called meetings be
held without 72-hour notice
to the members.
Named W. P. Selman
chairman.
Named T. J. Espy attorney.
Decided to sell the Cloud
land School property after a
further check on the title
situation.
Decided to let the state
order two new school buses
and two new bus chassis for
the coming year.
Both Mr. Selman and Mr.
Bryant were nominated as
chairmen but Mr. Bryant
pointed out that he felt he
couldn’t properly serve Inas
much as he was away from
Summerville much of the
time, and the board chair
man is often needed for con
sultation with the superin
tendent. Mr. Strickland, who
had nominated Bryant, and
Jackson, who had seconded
the nomination, voted for
Bryant anyway and the de
ciding vote was cast by Sel
man who described himself
as “embarrassed” over vot-
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Chattooga Tot Follows
D °g, Gets Lost in Woods
A four-year-old tot who got lost In a wooded south
ern Chattooga County area about noon Wednesday was
found unharmed late Wednesday afternoon.
She is Judy Elaine Knox, who lives between Lyerly
and Menlo.
The Chattooga Civil Defense was called out about 3
p. m. and Director W. E. (Bill) Worsham and six other
men started the initial search. However, the child had
about that time wandered into an area where pulpwood
men were working and was returned bythemtoher
home.
Judy had left about 11 a. m„ following a pet dog
Into the woods. Later, the dog returned without her and
the family became alarmed.
The pulpwood operation into which she stumbled
was some two miles from her home.
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TO BE ON TV SATURDAY — The
Pennville Glee Club (above) will be
among the Chattooga County
4-H’ers appearing on Channel 5 tel
evision at 7 a.m. Saturday. The Club
director is Mrs. R. E. Snow (right,
rear). The children are (front, left
to right) Marie Dillard, Steve Dun-
S’ville News
Has Top Ga.
Readership
The Summerville News has a higher readership,
percentage-wise, than any other weekly in Georgia.
So shows the 1965 Georgia Newspaper Directory
just published.
It lists The Summerville
News as the 11th largest
weekly In the state in cir
culation, although the coun
ty is far down the scale in
population, being 41st.
Only weeklies in and
around Atlanta, Gainesville
and Carrollton were listed
as having more circulation
than The News which goes
into 4,193 households.
Weeklies listed as larger
than The Summerville News
were The (Fulton) Weekly
Star, Southern Israelite, Bu
ford Advertiser and News of
Gwinnett, Carroll County
Georgian and Carroll Times
Free Press (twin weeklies),
Tri-County Graphic (Cham
blee), Atlanta Suburban Re
porter, Forest Park Free
Press and Clayton County
News and Farmer (one news
paper), Gainesville Tribune,
Lawrenceville News-Herald
and Smyrna Herald.
The latest edition of the
Georgia Newspaper Direc
tory also contains data in
dicating that Chattooga
County had a steady eco
nomic growth in 1964.
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(Photo by T. Emmett Nunn)
can, Judy Wright, Mike Flippo,
Amelia Payne; (second row, left to
right) Sandra Smith, Debbie Dunn,
Eddie McCauley, Angie Gardner,
Bobbie Ann Pettit; (third row, left
to right) Sammie Smallan, Faye
Mattis, Larry Mann, Gail Strickland
and Mrs. Snow-
PRICE 10c
Bentley
Surrenders
A Jamestown, Ala. man
wanted in connection with
the Christmas Eve slashing
of a 38-year-old Birnfingham
man surrendered to Chero
kee County (Ala.) officers
Monday.
Dwayne Bentley, 19, was
then released under SI,OOO
bond on assault with intent
to murder charges. His
alleged companion, Alvin
Earl (Bud) Smart, 19, also
of Jamestown, who had
earlier been charged, also
has been released on SI,OOO
bond.
The cases are likely to be
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Chattooga
4-H’ers to
Be On TV
A group of Chattooga
County 4-H Club members
will appear on WAGA-TV,
Channel 5, at 7 a. m. Satur
day.
Included will be: Nelson
Wilson, Mike Hutchins, Mary
Alice Doster, Sharon Ledbet
ter and the members of the
Pennville Glee Club who in
cluded: Bobbie Ann Pettit,
Judy Wright, Amelia Payne,
Gall Strickland, Angie Gard
ner, Marie Dillard, Larry
Mann, Steve Duncan, Eddie
McCauley, Faye Mattis,
Sammy Smallan, Sandra
Smith, Debbie Dunn and
Mike Fllppo.
The show was taped ear
lier and at that time a selec
tion of the Glee Club was
chosen to be used as the in
troduction of future 4-H
programs on the station. It
was “Give Me A Place In the
Sun”. Other numbers ren
dered by the choral group
were: “God Bless America,”
"Over the Meadows” and
"Home on the Range”.