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Shown above is the 1955 Ford sta 7
tion wagon in which Clifford Tuck
er, 31. Route 2, Summerville, re
ceived extensive burns last Sunday
Rome to Host
Commission
Meet Today
The regular monthly
meeting of the Coosa Valley
Area Planning and Develop
ment Commission will be
held Thursday, January 20,
1966, at 10:30 a.m. at the
Aloha Restaurant in Rome.
Dr. Vernon Hurst, Head
of the Geology Department
at the University of Geor
gia, will be present to dis
cuss the Minerals Study for
the area. Anyone who is in
terested in this project is in
vited to attend.
P. H. David First
T o Have Check-U p
Straight talk deserves at
tention, at least that is the
way P. H. David, General
Manager of Riegel Textile
Corporation, Trion Division,
feels. Mr. David also served
as the Chairman of the re
cent Early Education Cru
sade in Chattooga County. J.
Arch Avary, Jr., President of
the Georgia Division of the
American Cancer Society,
spoke in Trion last week'
warning of the dangers of
cancer, colon-rectal cancer
in particular and touted the
“complete annual physical
examination” as the best
protection against incurable
cancer.
Avary offered a double
bonus in his plea for an
alertness to cancer—a free
suit donated by the Warren
Sewell Clothing Company
and a $25 Savings account
with the Farmers & Mer
chants Bank in Summerville
to any man present to hear
his talk who would go with
in thirty days for the check
up as outlined by the Pro
fessional Education Com
mittee of the Georgia Divi
sion. David went the same
day to his doctor and got
the complete check-up de
clining the suit and savings
account offer, however.
“Avary’s suggestion is just
plain common sense and I
prize myself in being able to
recognize good advice",
David explained. He gave
his suit privilege to the So
ciety to be used in encour
aging some other persons to
act in their own self protec
tion. The Farmers & Mer
chants Bank will contribute
the $25.00 to Cancer Re
search.
Avary laid it on the line
to members of the Trion-
Summerville Rotary Club in
a fast moving twenty min
ute talk, relating his own
experience with cancer in
1963 and how a protoscopic
examination revealed early
cancer of the lower colon in
time for adequate treat
ment.
Brandishing a casket han
dle in one hand and a sig
moidoscope in the other, the
Atlanta Banking Executive
challenged each man pres
ent to “make a choice."
“If cancer does strike you
like it did me this proto
scopic can save your life as
it has mine," he said. "I
can’t understand why so
many are scared to death of
this thing.”
At this point, Avary tossed
two or three of a new type
disposable plastic proto
sigmoidoscope into the au
dience and quipped, “here
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(Photo By Earl McConnell)
just off the Menlo Road. Tucker died
in Erlanger Hospital Monday morn
ing.
Fire Marshall’s Office
Investigates Accident
Herman Scoggins, of the
State Fire Marshall's Rome
office, is investigating the
Sunday accident in which a
Pennville man received in
tensive burns before being
taken from his burning au
tomobile just off the Menlo
Road, according to the
Chattooga County Sheriff’s
office.
Clifford Tucker, 31, was
discovered Sunday after
noon just outside the Sum
merville city limits in his
blazing 1955 Ford station
wagon. Tucker’s body was
take this to your doctor and
ask him to use it on you.”
The Georgia Cancer cru
sader said that colon-rectal
cancer developed annually
in 73,000 Americans and
killed more than 43,000. De
tected and treated early,
however, it could be as high
as 70% curable according to
the American Cancer So
ciety. “If you don’t get ade
quately examined though
you are just wasting your
time and adequate means a
protoscopic check for both
men and women, particu
larly when you are over
forty years of age”, Avary
said. “It saved my life and
it may save yours.”
He distributed examina
tion certificates to each
member at the Rotary meet
ing to be taken to his doctor
and completed at the time
of their check-up. These are
sent to the American Can
cer Society and verified for
the bonus offers.
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J. Arch Avary, Jr., (left) President
of the Georgia Division of the Amer
ican Cancer Society, is shown dis
cussing the Crusade against can
cer with P. H. David, General Man
ager of Riegel Textile Corporation,
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1966
reportedly in the back seat
of the vehicle. He was
rushed to Chattooga County
Hospital and then trans
ferred to Erlanger Hospital,
Chattanooga, where he died
Monday morning at 11:45
a.m.
Tucker was an employee
of Bishop and Busbin, Con
tractors, Summerville. Fun
eral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at 2
I p.m.
The Sheriff’s office re
ported that the Fire Mar
shall's investigations were
made and an autopsy per
formed after the possibility
of foul play was suspected.
Final investigations had not
been completed at a late
hour Wednesday.
Cooper On
Dean’s List
At Ga. Tech
A Summerville student
has been named on the Fall
quarter dean’s list at the
Georgia Institute of Tech
nology, Atlanta.
Paul Weber, dean of fac
ulties at Georgia Tech, has
announced that Ronald J.
Cooper, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Darty Cooper, of 501 Con
gress Street, Summerville,
was included on the latest
list.
“The dean’s list is one of
our ways of giving tribute to
those students who have
made an outstanding record
in their studies,” Dean
Weber said in making the
announcement.
To be included on the
dean’s list, a student must
achieve an overall scholas
tic average of 3.0 or better
out of a possible 4.0.
Trion Division. A $25.00 savings
account and a tailored suit were of
fered to any member of the Rotary
Club having a complete cancer
checkup and Mr. David was first to
have his.
City Granted $253,400
For Sewage Facilities
Summerville took its first major step toward
an adequate sewage treatment system, Congressman
John Davis announced yesterday.
The city received a grant of $253,400 from the
Health, Education and Welfare Department toward
the building of a secondary
sewage treatment plant. And
while the grant was being
announced, Summerville of
ficials and engineers in
volved in the project, were
meeting in Atlanta in quest
of a second grant.
The size of the sewage
project hinges on whether
or not the second grant is
available. This system would
cost around $1,135,000 and
would provide adequate
treatment for all the area
south of Trion. However, it
would be necessary for the
second grant to be approved
if this system were built. If
the second grant were not
forthcoming, the city would
have to limit itself to just
the secondary treatment
plant. Total cost of that
project would be $859,800.
The grant already received
cam under the Water Pollu
tion Control Act. The grant
the officials were seeking
Wednesday comes under the
Appalachian Regional De
velopment Act.
Congressman Davis said
he was delighted with the
Lyerly Installs
City Officials
Officials of the Lyerly
Town Council, chosen for a
two-year term in the recent
election, met for the first
time Tuesday night in the
Lyerly Town Hall.
Grover C. Jackson, Jr., lo
cal businessman who was
re-elected without opposi
tion, presided at the organ
izational meeting.
Eight men sought the five
council posts to be filled,
three being incumbents.
Paul Smith, Jr., a newcomer
in politics, led the council
ticket. Others elected were
Eugene Mitchell, J. J. Brady,
G. C. Pickle and L. B. Whise
nant. Brady was the only in
cumbent re-elected and he
was serving an unexpired
term of a resigned member
of the council.
Gwendolyn W. Bentley
was renamed city clerk for
the Town of Lyerly, having
served for the past four
years. Mrs. Bentley is also
employed by the Floyd
County Board of Education
as a faculty member of the
Coosa High School System.
W. H. Smith, Jr., was re
named fire chief and Rob
ert Blackmon was retained
as Town policeman.
latest development in the
sewage program. “This plant
promises to provide adequate
treatment of the raw sewage
from Summerville,” he said.
“It will eliminate untreat
ed waste from the Chattooga
River at this point and will
help curb a public health
hazard.”
“Os course,” he added,
“what we really want is the
bigger program. I am keep
ing my fingers crossed that
the second grant will be pro
vided also.”
Congressman Davis prais
ed city, county and state of
ficials on behalf of the pro
ject. “This kind of energy
and initiative is local and
state government at its
finest,” he stated. “No mat
ter how much money Con
gress makes available to
help cities and counties, It
is all in vain unless local
and state officials cooperate
to the advantage of pro
grams such as this. The
residents of Summerville owe
their local officials a big
vote of thanks for taking the
project this far.”
When built, the treatment
plant will be able to handle
2 million gallons of sewage
a day. It will include a mix
ing pond, pumping station,
primary classifiers, digestors
for solids, sludge drying
beds and chlorine treatment
facilities.
A secondary treatment
plant is the most effective
of the two types of purifying
systems. The project will
also include an interceptor
and outflow sewers and will
eliminate the need for a
large number of septic tanks
in the area.
Dental Survey Shows
Reduction in Caries
A dental survey, con
ducted by the Department
of Public Health, Health
District 27, comprising
Walker, Chattooga, Dade
and Catoosa counties, has
shown a marked reduction
in the number of caries in
a 6-10 year old group of La-
Fayette school children.
In 1960 the LaFayette
City Water System officials
began adding a small con
trolled amount of fluoride to
the water. A dental survey
conducted at that time on
250 children between the
ages of 6 and 10 years
showed 66 had no caries in
their permanent teeth but
the remaining 184 children
had a total of 612 decayed,
missing, or filled permanent
teeth.
Recently the District Di
rector of Dental Public
Floyd New
Chief of
Press Group
W. B. J. (Bill) Floyd, re
tired shop superintendent of
the Rome News-Tribune,
was elected president of the
7th District Press Associa
tion Sunday.
Mr. Floyd, 73, began his
newspaper career 60 years
ago with The Summerville
News. He worked for the
News-Tribuune 56 years be
fore retiring recently.
He succeeds Jim Wynn, for
mer editor of the Marietta
Journal and now capitol re
porter for the two Columbus
newspapers, who resigned.
Rip Whitfield, Jr., report
er for the Dalton Daily Citi
zen-News, was re-elected
vice president; Jerry Staley,
of the Rome News-Tribune,
was named secretary and J.
Roy McGinty, of the Cal
houn Times, was selected
chaplain.
Meeting in Marietta, the
association members toured
the Lockheed-Georgia plant
and saw part of the model of
of CSA plane.
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NEW POLICE CRUlSEß—Summer
ville Police Chief Griffin Pledger
stands beside the new 1966 Ply
mouth cruiser obtained by the City
of Summerville last week. The new
Salary Increase Recommended
For Sheriffs Department
The Grand Jury met last
week at the courthouse in
Its January 1966 term of
Chattooga Superior Court.
The jurors, with Roland
Ransom serving as fore
man and Charlie Williams
as clerk, found 20 true bills
and nine no bills.
The Grand Jury recom
mended that the salaries of
the sheriff’s deputies be
raised to $5,000 per year for
the chief deputy, $4,200 per
Health conducted a Dental
Survey in a similar manner
as the 1960 survey on 248
children between ages of 6
and 10 years In three local
schools. The 1965 survey
showed 146 had no decay in
their permanent teeth and
the remaining 102 students
had only a total of 157 de
cayed, missing, or filled per
manent teeth.
A comparison of the con
ditions of the deciduous or
primary teeth showed that
In 1960 there were 21 carles
free children and the others
had 1,245 decayed or filled
deciduous teeth. The 1965
survey showed 64 carles free
children and the others had
691 decayed or filled decidu
ous teeth. This again proves
controlled fluoridation to be
an effective means of re
ducing dental decay. Dental
surveys carried out before
fluoridation and after five
or six years fluoridation in
Rome, Cartersville, Marietta,
Gainesville, and Monroe
have all shown considerable
reduction In dental carles.
The addition of fluoride In
small controlled amounts to
city or community water
systems is endorsed by the
American Medical Associa
tion, American Dental Asso
ciation, Association of State
and Territorial Health Offi
cers, U. S. Public Health
Service, American Academy
of Pediatrics, Commission of
Chronic Illness, American
Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations, American Phar
maceutical Association,
American Legion, U. S. Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce
and many other recognized
groups interested in the
health of the people.
The initial cost of equip
ment necessary to begin
fluoridation in a city the
size of LaFayette Is usually
between $1,500 and $2,000.
The present cost of adding
fluoride is about $3.50 a day
or 13 cents per person per
year. The City of LaFayette
officials are to be com
mended for carrying out
this economical method of
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car replaces one that was wrecked
weeks ago. This vehicle includes the
latest in police equipment and is a
valuable addition to the Police De
partment.
year for other deputies and
$3,600 per year for the jailer.
The jurors asked that Chat
tooga County’s senator and
representative introduce
legislation which will cause
this recommendation to be
affected.
The members of the Jury,
realizing the value of pic
tures as evidence, recom
mended that the County
Commissioner purchase the
Sheriff’s Department suf
ficient cameras and supplies
so that, In criminal investi
gations, photographs may be
taken to better Inform our
juries.
Also in connection with
the Sheriff’s Department,
the Grand Jury requested
that the Commissioner’s
Office purchase liability In
surance covering each ve
hicle operated by the
Sheriff’s Department in an
amount which will protect
our citizens financially In
case one of these vehicles
causes injury or damage to
any citizen as if allowed by
law.
A statement from D. L.
Snow Possibility Very
Definite in North Ga.
The Weather Bureau has
predicted increasing cloudi
ness with occasional rain,
very possibly mixed with
light snow, for the Chat
tooga County area for
Thursday.
Continued cloudiness will
continue Friday with a
slight warming trend. An
other cold front, however, is
expected to move into the
area on Saturday, keeping
temperatures below normal
for this time of the year.
The forecaster says that
the possibility of some snow
is very definite for the area
north of Rome.
High temperature Thurs
day is expected to be 42.
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BIRTH DEFECTS!
MARCH OF DIMES
MOTHERS MARCH
PRICE 10c
McWhorter, president, shows
that the Chattooga County
Commissioner of Roads and
Revenue has on deposit in
the Farmers and Merchants
Bank $352,000.80 in regular
checking account and $33,-
860.09 in the bond account.
The recommendation that
Max Stowe be appointed as
Notary Public and ex-officio
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Fine Arts Club
Features Debate
The Fine Arts Club held
its regular monthly meeting
Monday, January 17.
The main topic of the pro
gram a debate by the Chat
tooga High Debating Team.
The subject was: Resolved:
that the Federal govern
ment should prohibit indus
try-wide collective bargain
ing.
Debating the question for
the affirmative were James
Marks and Everett Lunsford.
The negative team consisted
of Michael Driver and Alan
Turner.
Trion Prepares
Annual Follies
Plans are underway for
Trion’s annual Follies. Miss
Ethel Simmons has again
been named director of this
yearly event. She will be as
sisted by Alene Baker, Betty
Bandy and John Carruth.
Miss Simmons and her co
workers are busy gathering
talent for this year’s pres
entation which will have as
its theme "Trion A-Go-Go
of 1966.
The advisory committee
will meet Tuesday night to
select the various commit
tees and to make final ar
rangements for the pro
gram.