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VOLUME 84 —NUMBER 33
Mr. Packer
Appointed to
FHA Group
John N. McDuffie, state
director of the Farmers Home
Administration has announced
the appointment of W. C.
Packer to the Chattooga
County FHA Committee. Mr.
Packer’s appointment is for
three years and he replaces
James H. Hunter, whose term
expired on June 30.
Mr. Packer is a native and
lifetime resident of Chattooga
County. He is a prominent
farmer and businessman. He
serves as a deacon and treasurer
of the Unity Baptist Church.
He has served on many com
mittees in the county and is
presently a member of the
Chattooga County Hospital
Authority.
He is married to the former
Miriam High and they have one
son and one daughter.
Other members of the FHA
Chattooga County Committee
are Henry Chappelear and J. C.
Martin, both of Summerville.
The Farmers Home Admini
stration makes farm operating
loans, farm mortgage loans,
rural housing loans and water
and waste disposal loans.
Mr. Packer will assist the
other members of the county
committee in determining eligi
bility for all applicants for
FHA loans. The committee
also helps determine the
amount of each loan and, in
addition, performs other duties
related to the Farmers Home
Administration program in
Chattooga County.
James E. McCoy is acting
county supervisor of the local
FHA office, located on South
Commerce Street.
Library Bid
Openings Set
For Tonight
The bids for the construc
tion of the Chattooga County
Library will be received and
opened by the executive com
mittee, Cherokee Regional
Library board of trustees Sept.
17. The bid opening will be
held at 7 p.m. in the office of
Harry Powell, commissioner of
Roads and Revenue, Chattooga
County. The construction com
mittee, Harvey McCollum,
chairman, will make recom
mendations concerning the
bids to the library board of
trustees.
The executive committee,
Cherokee Regional Library
board of trustees is the govern
ing body for the member
libraries in the regional system.
Mrs. Baker Farrar of Summer
ville is chairman of the
Regional Library board of
trustees, as well as chairman of
the Chattooga County Library
board of trustees.
Others attending the bid
opening will be the architect,
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Junior High School Need
Still Present—Stephenson
The inadequate conditions
that exist at Summerville
Junior High School was again
pointed out this week at the
regular meeting of the Chat
tooga County Board of Educa
tion.
Bill Stephenson said he
would like to remind the board
that the “problems” at the
junior high school “still exist,
and have existed since the
school was partly destroyed by
fire.” He urged the board
members to seek a settlement
of the problems “in regard to
this school.”
Mr. Stephenson said he had
heard rumors that the insur
ance money from the junior
high school might be used for
other schools.
After the • meeting, Mr.
Stephenson was asked to
elaborate on his statement. He
said he thought this insurance
money “rightfully belonged”
to the junior high school, and
that he was opposed to its
being used for buildings or
classrooms at other places.
“This money should be kept
for the junior high school and
tied in with other funds to
make as many improvements as
possible,” Mr. Stephenson
added.
Don’t Be a Political Dropout —Exercise Your Right to Vote Sept. 23
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I unoff Scheduled September 23
C |= ttooga
Votes for
Sanders
In the race for the Demo
cratic gubernatorial nomina
tion, Carl Sanders won a size
able majority of the votes in
Chattooga County. The former
governor received 1,780 votes
to 1,389 for his nearest oppo
nent, Jimmy Carter.
Other candidates receiving
votes in the governor’s race
were: Cox, 6; Hargrett, 6;
Irwin 10; King, 32; Matthews,
19; Stoner, 46; and Swintt, 5.
Gov. Lester Maddox greatly
outdistanced his opponents in
the county vote for the nomi
nation for the office of lieute
nant governor. Maddox re
ceived 1,989 votes; incumbent
Lt. Gov. George T. Smith
polled 1,047; Jones, 263; and
Glover, 62.
Statewide, Lester Maddox
received more than 50 per cent
of the total vote to capture the
nomination without a runoff.
HATCHER ON TOP
Al Hatcher was the top
vote-getter in Chattooga
County in a three-man race for
comptroller general, polling
846 votes. Mac Barber was a
close second with 839. Johnnie
Caldwell was third with 746.
Barber and Hatcher will be
opponents in the Sept. 23 run
off.
Jimmy Carter’s impressive
vote in the general primary
came as a surprise to many
candidate-watchers in Georgia.
It had been expected that
former Gov. Carl Sanders
would be the front-running
candidate although few be
lieved that any candidate could
win without a runoff in the
nine-man race.
Meanwhile, the two top
gubernatorial candidates, who
will meet each other in the
Sept. 23 primary runoff, con
tinued on the campaign trail.
Carter called Sanders a “bad
loser” and said he had no in
tention of debating him pub
licly before next Wednesday’s
runoff. Commenting on the
former governor, Carter said:
“There are good losers and bad
losers. I ran against a bad
loser.”
Sanders met Sunday with
supporters from all over the
state at an Atlanta hotel in an
attempt to overtake Carter dur
ing the next few days. He re
nounced Carter for refusing to
debate him on television.
POSITION CLEAR
“This man Carter is robbing
the people of Georgia of the
right to see the two Demo
cratic contenders side by side.
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The board approved the
hiring of the following
teachers: Tom Jones Jr., Terry
Mahan, Billie Ann Starnes,
Chattooga High School; Peggy
A. Collins and Charlotte
Chi monides, Lyerly; John
Robert Simmons, North Sum
merville; Bennie Donahue,
Morton Allen Hayes and
Charles Keown, Pennville; Lois
M. Harvey and Maxine West,
Summerville Elementary;
Danny Strickland, Summerville
Junior High School.
Approved as teachers aides
were Brenda Warren, Shirley
Fisher, Mrs. Jack Taylor, Irene
Davis Sweeps to Victory
Congressman John Davis
polled almost 75 per cent of
the total votes cast in the
Seventh Congressional District
in the Sept. 9 general primary.
Davis received 72.3 per cent of
the vote to 27.7 per cent for
his Democratic opponent, Sam
Hensley.
Rep. Davis said the primary
response was “very heart
-warming,” and that he was
happy over the vote.
He congratulated Mr. Hens-
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747,THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1970
Official Returns - Democratic Primary
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Board Seat 2
HALL 163 28 24 45 22 7 88 61 22 7 446 23 125 1061
E. JACKSON 43 21 17 25 9 \ 12 43 32 3 4 390 29 53 671
TUCKER 70 14 24 61 9 8 73 77 7 28 579 12 123 1035
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Board Seat 3
JACKSON 230 52 26 84 26 10 122 76 27 23 634 58 173 1541
KLING 82 23 45 48 16 8 85 80 11 17 789 18 121 1343
Governor
CARTER 174 44 18 59 25 9 99 75 18 21 593 48 206 1389
COX 00 1000000030 2 6
HARGRETT 000200 2000200 6
IRWIN 100010 1100510 10
KING 1062003000 17 03 32
MATTHEWS 001 10 00 0100502 19
SANDERS 126 33 54 72 16 8 100 85 19 23 819 26 399 1780
STONER 4121015100 26 05 46
SWINT 0010000100400 5
Lt. Governor
GLOVER 33431 05 201 36 04 62
JONES 12 17 8 4 / 0 12 >l4 11 140 4 59 263
MADDOX 198 52 34 71 23 17 119 109 29 31 912 39 355 1989
SMITH 90 17 32 53 14 1 72 40 8 11 478 30 201 1047
‘Stop Speeders, ’ Police Ordered
Summerville city police
were given orders this week to
“clamp down” on speeding,
drag racing and “loitering” at
service stations here.
These subjects were dis
cussed at the regular meeting
of the mayor and council
Monday night after several of
the council members said they
had received numerous com
plaints.
Mayor J. R. Dowdy, who
has direct supervision of the
police department, ordered
Chief of Police Griffin Pledger
Bishop, Mrs. O. A. Stone,
Imogene White and Judy
Palmour.
Mrs. Carolyn Turner,
director of the Parent-Child
Center here, and Bob Mitchell,
director of the Northwest
Georgia EGA, appeared before
the board to explain the activi
ties and operation at the
center. The board had asked
that the program be spelled out
in detail before re-approval
could be made for use of the
old South Summerville school
building. The board granted
tentative approval for the con-
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ley on the type campaign he
ran. He called it a campaign in
which his opponent and his
supporters could be “justly
proud.”
The Summerville congress
man said he was looking for
ward to the general election -
and victory-in November.
Rep. Davis will be opposed
in the general election by the
Republican nominee, Dick
Fullerton.
to stop excessive speeding up
and down the streets, loitering
at service stations and, above
all, “to slow down speeders—
day or night -but especially at
night.” The mayor also ordered
a silencing of loud mufflers.
“We expect to see a dif
ference within the very near
future,” Mayor Dowdy told
the police chief.
The meeting was one of the
shortest on record for the
council, lasting less than one
hour. There were only five
items on the agenda. Another
unusual feature of the meeting
was that no visitors were on
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A 7.148-mile stretch of highway through Subligna
along the Villanow Road to the Walker County line
and along State Highway 143 to the Walker County
Une will be completed in approximately three
weeks. The road is being built by the W. L. Cobb
Construction Co. of Decatur, Ga., and Tampa, Fla ,
who was-the low bidder on the $933,542.37 project.
A secondary federal aid project, it is being financed
hand to present comments or
complaints.
The council approved a new
radio unit and a walkie-talkie
unit for the police department.
Sloppy Tops List
Rep. James “Sloppy” Floyd
polled the highest number of
votes in last week’s Democratic
general primary.
Floyd’s, who was unop
posed for the nomination, re
ceived a complimentary vote of
2,753.
Congressman John Davis re
ceived the next highest number
of votes with 2,725.
SUBLIGNA ROAD ONE OF COUNTY’S BEST
The total cost of the two units
will be $1,750. A federal-state
grant has been approved to
provide $915 of this cost. A
balance of $835 will be paid by
the City of Summerville out of
general funds.
In other action the council:
• Reappointed Harry Mc-
Ginnis to the Summerville
Housing Authority for a period
of five years. The new term
will expire Aug. 15, 1975.
-Voted to allow rebates of
$25 on gas appliances for 90
days from Sept. 15. The re
bates would cover dryers,
water heaters, ranges, space
heaters, gas incinerators and
jointly by the federal and state governments. The
lower end of this road, which begins at U.S. High
way 27 at Gore, is being rebuilt for 5.5 miles under
a separate contract. The cost of this nrolect win be
$398,670.37. When these projects are completed,
Chattoogans will have a 23-foot wide road lor ap
proximately 13 miles. Both projects were obtained
for the county by Rep. James. "Sloppy” Floyd.
gas lights. This is an annual
project of the city to encour
age those customers who are
not now using gas appliances
and those who may be inter
ested in converting to gas.
-Tabled a discussion on a
proposed contract with the
Motorola Co. for radio repairs.
Present for Monday night's
meeting were Mayor Dowdy,
Councilmen O. G. Morehead,
Hubert Palmer, Jack Ledford,
O. H. Perry and Jess Mitchell.
Others present were City Clerk
Bert Self, Chief Pledger and
J.C. Barkley, general superin
tendent for the City of
Summerville.
PRICE 10c
Tucker,
Hall Vie
For Seat
The voters of Chattooga
County will go to the polls
again next Wednesday in a
Democratic primary runoff to
decide the winner of Board of
Education Seat No. 2 and to
express their preference in the
runoff races for governor and
comptroller general.
In the Sept. 9 primary,
neither of the three candidates
for Seat No. 2 received a
majority of the votes cast,
making a runoff necessary.
In that contest, Ray Hall
barely edged out H. K. Tucker
to become the front-runner in
the three-man race. Edward
“Cotton” Jackson trailed the
other two candidates.
Hall received a total of
1,061 votes; Tucker polled
1,035; and Jackson received
671.
LOCAL RACE
In the only other locally
contested race, W. M. Jackson
defeated Tommy Kling by a
narrow margin for Seat No. 3.
The winner polled 1,541 votes
to 1,343 for his opponent.
Kling, who was running for
political office for the first
time, outdistanced the incum
bent in the Summerville box,
the county’s largest, by a vote
of 579 to 446.
Joel Cook was unopposed in
his bid for renomination to
Seat No. 4. Cook polled 2,385
votes.
Out of a total registration of
some 8,500 voters, only about
3,200 voters turned out for the
general primary. This amounts
to less than 40 per cent of the
registered voters who cast bal
lots in the primary.
DAVIS WINS
Incumbent Congressman
John Davis soundly thrashed
his Democratic opponent in
capturing most of Chattooga
County’s votes in the race for
U.S. representative from the
Seventh Congressional District.
Davis received 2,725 votes to
401 for Hensley in the 13
county precincts.
Unopposed local candidates
receiving large complimentary
votes included state Rep.
James “Sloppy” Floyd, 2,753;
Judge Paul W. Painter, 2,597;
Judge Jerry Westbrook, 2,544.
State Sen. Billy Shaw
Abney polled 2,527 votes in
the county.
Only six names will be on
the primary runoff ballot. The
local race will contain the
names of Hall and Tucker. In
the runoff for the governor’s
race, Cari Sanders and Jimmy
Carter will pair off for the
nomination. Mac Barber and
Johnnie Caldwell will vie for
the nomination to the office of
comptroller general.
RUNOFF PRIMARY
Polls will be open from 7
a m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 23 for the
runoff election. Only those
persons who voted a Demo
cratic ticket in the general pri
mary, or those who did not
vote at all, will be eligible to
vote in the primary runoff.
By law, the primary runoff
must be held fourteen days
after the general primary for
those offices where no candi
dates received a majority of the
votes cast.
All those who were quali
fied to vote in the first pri
mary, even though they may
not have voted in that primary,
are eligible to vote in the pri
mary runoff. However, no per
son who voted in one party's
primary may vote in the other
party’s runoff
Persons who were eligible
but did not vote in the first
primary may vote in either
party’s runoff, but not in both.
Only a Democratic primary
runoff will be held in Chat
tooga County.
Plan Saturday Meet
The monthly meeting of the
Royal Arch Masons, Trion
Chapter No. 19, will be held at
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19.
Work will be in the mark
masters and past masters de
grees. All Royal Arch Masons
are invited to attend.
Refreshments will be served.
Lodge officials said a new air
conditioner had been installed
for the added comfort of the
members.