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LOCAL ACS UNIT ORGANIZES FOR 1973-74 CAMPAIGN
Officers and directors of the Chattooga County Unit
of the American Cancer Society held an organiza
tional meeting here Monday to discuss plans for the
1973-74 year. Harvey McCollum was elected chair
man of the board to succeed Willis James, who has
headed the group for many years. C. W. McCollum
was elected president. He succeeds Don Gordon. The
Chattooga Cancer Group
Organizes for New Year
Officers and directors of
Chattooga County’s American
Cancer Society Unit met
Monday afternoon to hear a
final report on the 1972-73
campaign and to make plans
for the 1973-74 year.
Willis James, board chair
man for the local unit,
welcomed the volunteer
workers. He cited the “out
standing work” the local group
did during the past year, and
Mayor, Two Councilmen
To Be Elected By Local
Voters Saturday, Nov. 3
Summerville voters will go to the polls on Nov. 3 to elect
a mayor and two councilmen, according to information
received this week.
The election is scheduled for the first Saturday in
November at the City Hall.
Candidates can begin qualifying at 9 a.m. on Oct. 6.
Closing date to qualify is noon on Oct. 20.
Qualifying fee for mayor is SSO and for council seats,
$25. Seats No. 1 and 2, now held by Jack Ledford and
O. H. Perry, will be up for grabs. Both councilmen have
indicated they will not be candidates for reelection. Mayor
JR. Dowdy has not officially announced whether he will
seek reelection or not.
Other members of the City Council, whose terms will
not expire for two more years are Charles Brooks, Sewell
Cash, and Jess Mitchell.
It is widely rumored that at least one candidate for
mayor and several candidates for council seats are ready to
enter the ring soon after the qualifying date rolls around.
Support Growing
For Trion Center
Trion voters will go to the
polls Wednesday to decide
whether to approve the is
suance of some $400,000 in
general obligation bonds to
construct a new community
center.
The proposed 19,994
square-foot building would
replace the old YMCA building
at Trion that was erected in the
1920’5. The new facility would
include a gymnasium, meeting
and game rooms, arts and
crafts shop, office area, dress
ing rooms, kitchen area, and a
40-foot by 22-foot stage.
This will be the first general
obligation bond issue that the
Town of Trion has ever at
tempted.
The pro^scd community
center has gained support from
Trion city officials, civic clubs,
churches, and other interested
groups, as well as many citi
zens.
Trion’s voters were sent a
letter informing them the
amount of increase in their
taxes if the bond issue is ap
proved. For most of them, it
was pointed out, the increase
would only amount to pennies
a day.
When the announcement
was made to call the bond
election. Mayor J. C. Woods
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attributed most of the success
to “good committee chair
men.”
Reports from the various
committee chairmen revealed
that last year the local ACS
unit reached approximately
3,000 Chattoogans with educa
tional literature, gave assistance
to more than 70 cancer
patients, and provided trans
portation and pain-relieving
drugs to 18 local residents.
said, “This program is extreme
ly needed in Trion, especially
for the community’s young
people. We ask the cooperation
of every citizen of Trion to
help us in building this most
needed facility.”
Voting in the bond election
will be in the Town Hall at
Trion. Polls will be open from
7 a m. to 7 p.m. Persons need
ing transportation to the polls
are asked to call the following
numbers: 734-2939; 734-2453;
734-2991; 734-7316, or
734-2431.
In a message to Trion resi
dents this week, Clyde C.
Cobb. Riegel’s vice president of
the Apparel Fabrics Division,
said: “A new community
center building will be another
step toward making everyone
even more prideful of our
town .... The new building as
presented will be a real asset to
Trion, and will be in keeping
with its history of having
things just a little bit nicer.”
Cobb asked that voters of
Trion give the new community
center their wholehearted
support.
“By doing so,” he added,
“you will, as in the past, con
tinue to be a part of the pro
gressive improvement of our
town.”
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1973
various committee chairman made reports on the
1972-73 campaign drive, which exceeded its fair share
goal by several hundred dollars. The local unit con
ducts its Education-Funds Crusade each April, and is
considered one of the most active units in the state.
The group is shown during the meeting.
C. W. McCollum received an
ovation for the “splendid job”
he did during the 1972-73 year
as Education-Funds Crusade
chairman.
The Chattooga County Unit
collected $9,300 during this
year’s education-funds drive,
some S3OO above its fair share
goal of $8,985.
Don Gordon presented the
President’s Report. He pointed
out that the local unit has the
best memorial program in the
region. He attributed this suc
cess to the memorial fund
chairman, Mrs. Sue Spivey.
Most of the committee
chairmen received certificates
of appreciation for their con
tributions during the 1972-73
campaign. A special award was
presented to Willis James for
his dedicated service through
out the years.
Phil Chandler, service repre
sentative for the region, said
the Chattooga County Unit
was the fourth in Region 1 to
exceed its goal for the past
year.
Local Officials Will
Attend Fall Meeting
School board members from
Chattooga and other counties
in the Georgia School Boards
Association’s seventh district
are scheduled to attend the as
sociation’s annual fall district
meeting in Calhoun Monday,
Oct. 1.
All members of the Chat
tooga County Board of Educa
tion are planning to attend the
session. They will be accom
panied by Supt. Bill King and
Joseph E. (Bo) Loggins, school
board attorney.
The meeting will begin at
7:01 p.m. at the Calhoun High
School Cafeteria.
School systems included in
the district are Bartow, Carters
ville, Catoosa, Chattooga,
Chickamauga, Cobb, Dade,
Dalton, Floyd, Gordon, Mari
etta, Murray, Paulding, Polk,
Rome, Trion, Walker, and
Whitfield.
Frank S. Lyndall of Look
out Mountain, seventh district
director, said the meeting “will
provide all board members in
the area a chance to propose
any change or make any addi
tion they would like to see in
the association’s tentative legis
lative program.
“Also,” he added,
“members of the Minimum
Foundation Program for Edu
cation Study Committee-the
Burglary Reported
The Chattooga County
Sheriff’s Department reported
that a 29-year old Summerville
man has been arrested and
charged with burglary.
He was reportedly seen
coming out of the residence of
Rodney Hardeman Jr. in the
Gore community.
Sheriff Gary McConnell said
the arrested man had been re
leased on $15,000 bond.
Chandler discussed the
different programs sponsored
by the American Cancer
Society and issued a challenge
to the local volunteers to
inaugurate additional programs
in the war on cancer.
Harvey McCollum, who has
been active for a number of
years in local ACS work, was
elected to suceed Willis James
as board chairman.
Other officers elected at
Monday’s organizational
meeting are C. W. McCollum,
president; James Payne, vice
president-M.D.; James E.
Meredith, vice president’lay;
Mrs. Mary Humphreys, secre
tary; and Mrs. Madelyn Lowry,
treasurer.
A breakdown of the
1972-73 contributions shows:
Memorials, $2,568; residential,
$3,000; special contacts, S6O;
trades and industry, $2,000;
public employees, $125; in
dependent business, $1,412;
and supplementary income,
$135.
Blue Ribbon Committee-will
be present to give progress
reports on activities of the
finance, supportive services and
instructional program subcom
mittees and to receive sugges
tions for consideration by the
committees.”
Lyndall said that all school
administrators, board attorneys
and legislators are invited to
attend the meeting.
“We will be open to any
suggestion that can help us
write a better legislative pro
gram for presentation to the
i 1974 General Assembly,” he
said.
Police Arrest
‘Tipsy’ Cyclist
The Summerville Police
Department recorded a “first”
this week when they arrested a
bicyclist for driving under the
influence. On one previous
occasion, city police arrested a
। person for driving a tractor
within the city limits while
intoxicated.
The city experienced a rash
of house burglaries during the
week. At least a half doz.en
reports came in to the police
department about breakins at
private residences.
Among the items taken
were a tape recorder, two
cameras, three sleeping bags, a
color television set, a set of
wedding rings, a gold wedding
: band, a portable television set,
record albums, country and
western tapes, and an alarm
clock.
Police advised local resi
dents to keep doors locked, get
neighbors to watch their homes
while they are away, and to
call the police station if they
see suspicious-looking persons
: in the area.
Planned Tollway
To Be Discussed
At Local Meeting
DOT Personnel
To Detail Plans
Proposed alternate routes
for the West Georgia Tollway
will be discussed at a meeting
here next week, according to a
Department of Transportation
(DOT) official.
The meeting, one of 20 in
formational meetings sched
uled across the state, is sched
uled to begin at 1:30 p.m. Oct.
4 in the grand jury room of the
Chattooga County Courthouse.
Downing Musgrove, DOT
commissioner and State Toll
way Authority (STA) chair
man, explained that the meet
ings’ main purpose will be to
prepare affected Georgia citi
zens to participate in the six
formal public hearings to be
held in late October and in
early November.
“Personnel will be available
at the informational meetings,”
Mosgrove said, “to explain the
environmental, socio
economic, local engineering
study processes, decision
making processes, progress
achieved to date, arid how the
location public hearings wou’d
affect the decision to be made
concerning alternate routes.”
For residents who can
attend the informational meet
ings but cannot attend the
public hearings, blank forms
for written comments and a
tape recorder for oral com
ments will be available.
STA Administrator Frank
Harscher 111 said, “Any
comments concerning the
various alternatives, or the
West Georgia Tollway in
general, would be accepted and
made a part of the record.”
At a recent meeting in
Atlanta of the Georgia Trans
portation Board, it was an
nounced that the Environ
mental Impact Statement for
the proposed tollway has been
completed and will soon be
available for board review and
distribution.
The statement for the toll
way, 620 pages in length, was
prepared by the consulting
firm DeLeuw, Cather & Co. of
Chicago and Atlanta, and goes
into considerable detail and
depth.
According to the firm’s vice
president, Larry Dondanville,
“Every conceivable discipline
was involved in reviewing all
proposed corridors and alter
natives” for the tollway.
After completion of the
hearings, appropriate, reviews
of the Environmental Impact
Statement and completion of
other studies and inputs, a
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THREE PERSONS INJURED AT MOUNTAIN VIEW INTERSECTION
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three persons were injured last week in a two-car
accident at the Mountain View intersection on U. S.
Highway 27. State Patrol records show the driver of
the 1968 Chevrolet was Yvonne. Gill, 17, of 60
Fourth St., Trion. The driver of the 1967 pickup
truck was listed as Faye Lee Brown, Route 1,
recommendation for the
definite tollway corridor will
be presented to the board for
final approval.
Other area informational
meetings are scheduled Oct. 4
at Rome and Oct. 5 at La-
Fayette and Rossville.
After the 20 meetings are
held throughout the state, the
next step in the process,
Harscher said, will be a series
of six public hearings to be
held beginning the last week in
October. The hearings, all open
to interested citizens, will be
conducted in Bainbridge,
Albany, Cuthbert, Carrollton,
Rome (Nov. 7), and LaFayette
(Nov. 6).
The tollway administrator
said, “The better informed the
public is concerning the entire
West Georgia Tollway pro
posal, the better able they will
be to offer constructive com
ments at the public hearings.”
Concern
Nursing
Nursing homes throughout
the state are showing extreme
concern over a decision of the
Board of Human Resources to
reduce Medicaid payments by
six and one-half percent to
Medicaid patients residing in
nursing homes in Georgia.
This decision is “catas
trophic, and could deal a re
sounding blow to patient care
and the nursing heme program
in Georgia,” said Labe B. Mell,
president of the Georgia Nurs
ing Home Association.
Continuing, Mell added that
“state and federally imposed
regulations with regard to
physical plant requirements,
services provided, and addi
tional personnel costs keep our
industry in an unending
upward cost spiral.”
It has always been the
position of the Georgia Nursing
Home Association, he added,
to improve services as required
by state and federal author
ities.
“A reduction of this nature
and amount would cripple serv
ices to Medicaid recipients
throughout the state,” Meli
said. “Attempts are being made
to contact the governor and
Two Inmates Escape
Monday; Elude Posse
In Remote County Area
Two inmates of Chattooga Correctional Institution were
reported to have escaped Monday by jumping off the rear
of a bridge crew truck on Lookout Mountain near the old
Gilreath Mill, just off Highway 239.
They are:
Marvin J. Norman, 26, of Dalton, white male, weighing
195 pounds, light complexion, dark hair, serving 10 year
sentence for forgery.
-Arthur Mathis, 30, black male of Atlanta, light colored
skin, neatly trimmed moustache, weighing 160 pounds,
serving 10 year sentence for burglary.
Anyone having any information as to their whereabouts
is asked to notify the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Depart
ment or the Chattooga Correctional Institute.
Commissioner Harry Powell and a number of other
citizens formed a posse to scour the remote area Monday
night. “It was like hunting for a needle in a haystack,” one
said.
Commissioner Powell reported Gary Lee Arrendale, one
of the five prisoners who escaped from the Correctional
Institution on Aug. 1, was captured last week in Cobb
County and has been transferred by the State Transfer
Officers to Reidsville.
Mounting Over
Home ‘Cutback’
related officials in an attempt
to head off implementation of
the 6.5 percent reduction
before Oct. 1."
Administrator Steve Snapp
said the cut in Medicaid pay
ments would reduce income at
Oak View Nursing Home by
some $2,000 a month. “If they
cut us,” Snapp said, “we may
have to curtail our patient
Bank Branch OK'd
Farmers & Merchants Bank
has received Department of
Banking and Finance and FDIC
approval to establish a branch
facility at Menlo, according to
T. W. Walker Jr., F&M pres
ident.
Walker said plans for
groundbreaking would be an
nounced at a later date.
Grocery Robbed
The Smith Grocery at
Mountain View was robbed by
force about 9 a.m. Tuesday,
according to Sheriff Gary
McConnell.
The robbery was reported
to have been carried out by
two white males.
Trion. Both drivers and a passenger in the Brown
vehicle received cuts and bruises and were carried to
Trion Community Hospital. No charges were made.
Cpl. Victor West of the Georgia State Patrol investiga
ted the accident.
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Under present regulations,
he added, the nursing home
would have to accept the
Medicaid patients at the re
duced figure since families of
patients cannot now be billed
for the difference.
“I just don’t know at pre
sent what effects it will have
on us. I will probably know
more about it after I attend a
meeting in Atlanta this week.”
In commenting on the
board’s decision, Mell added
that “implementation of this
reduction, following on the
heals of a rate freeze imposed
April 1, will force some (nurs
ing) homes to close. This could
place 18,000 citizens of Geor
gia in a position that would
remove them from the nursing
homes and the friends they
have grown to love.”
Snapp said he “could not
foresee the possibility” of Oak
View Nursing Home being
closed.
More details are expected.to
be given out following an emer
gency meeting Wednesday of
the general membership of the
Georgia Nursing Home Associa
tion.