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VOLUME 81 _ £ HER 27
Juve J les Confess
To Mailbox Crimes
Two juveniles confessed
Wednesday to having taken
part in destroying three
mailboxes on Sunset Drive
in Summerville last week.
Another case involving
siphoning of gas was also
solved Wednesday with the
arrest of two suspects.
The destruction of mail
boxes belonging to Mayor
J. R. Dowdy, G. J. Raugh
ton and H. F. Swanson was
initially solved Tuesday
when the first of two juve
niles involved in the incident
was brought to police head
quarters. where he signed a
confession admitting that
he had taken part in tear
ing down two of the three
mailboxes. He said, however,
that he had not torn down
the third mailbox, but
named the person who had
helped him tear down two
of the boxes as a possible
suspect.
Wednesday, the other sus
pect was arrested and signed
a confession stating that he
had been involved in tearing
down all three mailboxes.
Officer Alfred Henderson,
who obtained the confession
from the two juveniles, said
that there was a possibility
that several other juveniles
were involved in the inci
dent, and that the matter is
still under investigation.
The two juveniles will be
turned over to the U. S.
Commissioner in Rome, fol
lowing issuance of warrants
by Postal Inspector H. K.
Campbell.
Edward Arnold McGuire,
22, and his wife, Kathryn
Trion Schools
Set to Open
August 29
Trion School children will
begin the 1966-67 school year
Aug. 29.
Teachers are to report for
pre-planning on Aug. 22.
Schools will end next
spring on May 31.
Trion will have Thanks
giving holidays on Nov. 24
and 25. Schools will close
down for Christmas holidays
Dec. 16. and students will
return to school on Jan. 2.
Spring holidays will begin
on Wednesday, March 22 and
end Monday, March 27.
Baccalaureate sermon will
be given on June 4. Gradua
tion has been scheduled for
Monday, June 5.
Students will return to
school for their report cards
on June 5.
All children entering the
Trion City Schools for the
first time must have a birth
certificate, be vaccinated,
have received DPT shots and
boosters, have had polio vac
cine and have had a TB
skin test.
This year, students will
not be allowed to leave the
campus for lunch. All stu
dents will be required to
stay at the school during the
lunch hour. Any student
may eat in the cafeteria,
bring his lunch or go to the
community center.
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STADIUM GOES UP— The Chattooga High School
football stadium is quickly becoming a reality. Five
rows of concrete seats have been poured already,
with only six more rows to be added. The concrete
seating will serve the home crowd, while bleachers
will be provided on the other side of the field for the
opponents’ fans. Putting up of stadium lights has
3he Bunutwrutllr Kima
Betty Sue McGuire, 21, were
arrested Wednesday for their
part in siphoning gasoline
from trucks owned by James
Crowe of Alexander Dr. Mon
day night.
The couple, police said,
did not actually siphon the
gasoline, but had several
juveniles to do it for them.
McGuire was charged with
larceny of gasoline and
contributing to the delin
quency of a minor. His wife
was charged with larceny of
gasoline.
Civil Service
Lists Local
Vacancies
The United States Civil
Service Commission has an
nounced examinations for
substitute clerks and substi
tu t e carriers for Georgia
post offices, including two
openings in Chattooga Coun
ty.
The openings are in the
Menlo and Lyerly post offi
ces. The job in Menlo will
pay $2.26 per hour and the
job in Lyerly $2.64 per hour.
To be eligible for either of
these positions, a person
must take the Civil Service
Examination.
A person may apply by
submitting card form 5000-
AB, showing the title of ex
amination, number of the
announcement, and the post
office for which he is apply
ing. Forms may be obtained
from the Postmaster or the
Atlanta Region, U. S. Civil
Service Commission, 275
Peachtree St., N. E. Atlanta,
Georgia, 30303. Applications
will be accepted until fur
ther notice.
The minimum age limit
for these positions is 18;
however, this age limit is
waived for high school grad
uates.
Filling of these vacancies
is based entirely upon the
Civil Service Test results.
| Local Man Escapes |
lAs Bull Tries Gore i
It was a narrow escape for
Hubert Strickland of the
Pennville Community when
some quick thinking by Lar
ry Durham saved him from
the malice of an angry bull
Monday.
The incident occurred
while Strickland was look
ing for a Shetland pony
that he had lost. He found
the pony in the pasture of
John M. Durham, along with
Durham’s bull.
Strickland went into the
pasture after the pony be
lieving that the bull was
harmless. It was not.
As Strickland approached
the pony, the bull ap
proached Strickland. The
bull attacked Strickland
from behind and tossed him
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1966
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ANXIOUS FOR WORD FROM AUS-
TIN— Mr. and Mrs. George Day’s
Live Near Tower
Trionites See Results
Os Whitman Rampage
By T. EMMETT NUNN
Big bold headlines and the
frequent television and ra
dio bulletins meant much
more to Mr. and Mrs. George
Day of 33 Sixth St., Trion,
than just news reports Mon
day.
The Day’s daughter, Mrs.
Magalene Higgins, her hus
band Bill and children,
over his head.
Strickland, who later said
that he thought the bull
was only playing, got up
only to be thrown to the
ground by the bull again.
This time the bull made
clear that he meant business,
as he attempted to gore
Strickland while he lay on
the ground. And the bull
might have succeeded had k
Larry Durham not picked up
a nearby fence post that was
lying on the ground and
struck the bull in the head
just before his horn made
contact with Strickland.
The bull backed off, and
Strickland went home with
only a few bruises. The bull,
on the other hand, almost
lost a horn in the incident.
also begun, along with construction of a large
press box which will have a solid glass front. A
name has not yet been chosen for the stadium,
but Head Football Coach Ed Hicks says he likes
the nickname “Little Big Horn” because that’s
where the Indians always win.
daughter, and family, live in rifle dis
tance of Texas Tower at University.
Lynne, 11, and Stacy, five,
live less than a mile from
the University of Texas
where Charles J. Whitriiafr
massacred 15 people Monday
and wounded 30 others.
First hearing of the inci
dent came from another
daughter here, Mrs. Char
lotte Hall, and then it was a
continuous vigil by the whole
family as the gruesome
story “15 Killed, More Than
30 Wounded” continued to
come in.
The Higgins family moved
from Route 1, Trion, last
fall as Bill Higgins, a fore
man for Chattanooga Linen
Supply Co., moved to a pro
motion job with the Capital
Linen Supply Co. of Austin.
You might call it a twist
of providence that another
of the Day’s daughters, Mrs.
Christine Googe of Atlanta
and her daughter, Ann, were
supposed to have gone to
Austin last week-end for a
week’s visit, but did not get
to go.
A telephone call from Mrs.
Higgins on Tuesday morn
ing, as all of Monday night’s
communications were
clogged, revealed the situa
tion in Austin.
Mrs. Higgins said, “Bill
and I rode out to the scene
Monday night a few hours
after the shooting ended.
The campus was jammed
with people. We saw a num-
ber of the places where peo
ple were killed or wounded.”
“Had Christine and Ann
been here, we all might have
been involved in it, since a
sightseeing highlight is al
ways a visit to the Longhorn
Campus and the stately Uni
versity Tower,” she added.
Mr. and Mrs. Day, cele
brating their Golden An
niversary during the Christ
mas Holidays, visited the
Higgins family. They recalled
that the distance from their
daughter’s home to the Uni
versity Tower was about as
far as from Sixth Street in
Trion to Dickeyville.
Davis Urges President
To Help Control Riots
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The
following is the text of
Seventh District Congress
man John W. Davis’s
speech delivered on the
floor of the House of Rep
resentatives on July 27
urging President Johnson
to use his presidential
powers to put an end to
rioting in northern cities.)
Mr. Speaker, I rise to in
vite the other Members of
this House to join me in
urging the President to use
the powers of his office
upon the rioting elements in
our northern cities.
On some occasions in re
cent years, the very possi
bility of violence has been
enough to call the executive
powers down upon our
States. But now, when the
fact of violence explodes in
the streets of our cities,
those same executive powers
lie strangely dormant.
If curses and threats and
an atmosphere of tension
generate the need for execu
tive force, then what should
we say of beatings and
burnings and rapes and
murders?
Those who speak for these
lawless elements say they
riot because they are angry
and frustrated or because
their lot in life Is less than
Two Injured Wed.
Ah Car Overturns
A car driven by Jimmy
81ms overturned Wednesday
night on Lyerly Highway, in
juring Betty Young and
Kathryn Abernathy, passen
gers in the car.
81ms reportedly swerved
off the road and overturned
while trying to avoid col
lision with another car.
Miss Young and Mrs. Ab
ernathy were rushed to the
hospital, but were not be
lieved to be seriously injured.
Better Auto Laws
Urged By Bentley
Views Arson, Car Theft
In Rotary Address, Wed.
James L. Bentley, state
comptroller general and in
surance, small loan and fire
commissioner, pointed to the
need for stronger auto safe
ty laws and more effective
traffic laws in his address
to the Summerville-Trion
Rotary Club Wednesday.
Os the present auto in
spection law, Bentley said,
“By the time the bill got to
the senate, a car didn’t even
have to have a windshield
Rome Police
Arrest Two
Local Men
Two Summerville men
were charged with the bur
glary of a Floyd County
business early Tuesday
morning, following a chase
into Chattooga County.
Jackie Ellis, 21, and Jackie
Hunter, 25, both of Route 1,
Summerville, were charged
by Floyd authorities with
burglarized Studdard’s
Drive-In, located on U. S.
Highway 27, north of Rome.
Rome police reported that
they received a call about
1:40 a.m. that Studdard’s
was being burglarized. How
ever, the burglars had es
caped when police arrived.
Police then overtook a car
speeding toward Summer
ville at the base of Taylors
Ridge in which Ellis and
Hunter were riding. Ellis
and Hunter were arrested,
but a third man in the car
escaped. Bloodhounds from
the Floyd Public Works
Camp failed to pick up his
trail.
The car in which Ellis and
Hunter were riding con
tained 20 cases of beer and
a quantity of cigarettes, in
vestigators reported.
Detective Bill Riley and
Officers Nedsel Acker, Hen
ry Brooks and Lynn Garner
of the Rome Police Depart
ment, joined the Chattooga
County Sheriff’s Department
in making the arrest
JOHN W. DAVIS
what they wish. This seems
to have engendered sym
pathy in some quarters, and
seems to be regarded by
some individuals as contain
ing reason and logic.
I do not wish to make
light of the misery and
wretchedness that weigh
upon those in grinding pov
erty. My heart goes out to
those who must live in such
circumstances hour by hour
and year by year. But my
heart goes out also to harm
less, lawabiding citizens who
are killed and maimed and
violated daily. And my sym
pathy for the victims of
poverty is outweighed by my
concern for the victims of
the mob.
My sympathy might be
greater were it not for the
record of the 89th Congress.
This Congress has done
more than any other in his
tory to relieve those condi
tions which the mob cites as
grounds for its rebellion. I
know of no supporting con
dition for poverty that this
Congress has not attacked
with all its might. And I
might add that some of our
to be declared safe.”
He pointed to the lack of
sufficient control over safety
of drivers as one of the main
reasons for increased in
surance rates, and said that
until effective laws were
passed, traffic accidents
would continue to mount.
Bentley noted that 1,300
Georgians were killed last
year and 51,000 were injured.
“These accidents are cost
ing the state $243 million
each year,” Bentley said.
He also pointed to the
problem of auto theft, and
the fact that stronger laws
had decreased it considera
bly.
“Last year, auto theft in
Atlanta dropped 27 per
cent,” he said.
Assuming the role of fire
commissioner, Bentley
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HUNGRY
BURGLARS
Sunday evening’s burglary
of the Summerville Ele
mentary School was just a
little bit different from the
average run of the mill bur
glaries.
First of all, it was per
formed in broad daylight.
Police received the call on
the burglary at 7:05 p.m.,
and they reported that they
had just checked the school
at 5 p.m. that evening and
everything was all right.
But this did not make the
burglary unique. What was
truly unique were the Items
taken. Money was not taken,
books were not destroyed,
nor were windows broken
out. Instead, the burglar es
caped with three dozen eggs,
three loaves of bread, four
packs of hamburger buns,
some bologna and 22 cartons
of milk.
Police are still looking for
the burglar and are hopeful
that he hasn't eaten the evi
dence.
number risked political ca
reers to do It.
However, the majority of
lawabiding citizens in this
Nation stood firmly behind
the efforts of their elected
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Mrs. Cicero A. Johnston
Mrs. Johnson
Set to Lead
PTA School
Mrs. Cicero A. Johnston, a
former teacher and Georgia
State President of the Par
ent-Teacher Asso ci a tion,
who resides in Atlanta, will
be in Summerville next
Thursday night, Aug. 11, to
lead the School of Instruc
tion which is being spon
sored by the Chattooga
County PTA Council.
Mrs. Johnston has a long
record of service in school
and school related organiza
tions, and has held offices
on the local, county, district,
state and national level in
PTA work.
The team of PTA leaders
who will assist Mrs. John
ston in the instruction at
the meeting will come from
all sections of Georgia. They
have much experience In
the Parent-Teacher organ
ization and will elaborate on
program planning, effective
projects and membership
enrollments. Many other
Items of Interest and im
portance will also be pre
sented.
Representa tlves from
Menlo, Lyerly, Pennville,
Trion and Summerville are
involved in plans for this
school, which council offi
cers have expressed the hope
to be the most successful In
Chattooga County history.
Local unit officers, mem
bers and interested persons
are invited and reminded of
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Correction
Chief Griffin Pledger has
pointed out that The Sum
merville News was incorrect
In stating that riding bi
cycles on the streets of Sum
merville is a violation of a
city ordinance. While riding
bicycles on the sidewalks Is
a violation, riding on the
streets is not.