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1950’s Return to Menlo
Menlo Elementary teachers Mrs. Becky Young (L)
and Mrs. Sandra Morrison ham it up during “50’s
Day” at the school Friday. Teachers and students
alike got into the swing of things with long dresses,
slicked-back hair, and bobby socks dominating the
dress at the school for the day.
Sum-Nelly Slated
For Saturday at
Rec. Center Site
This year’s edition of Sum-
Nelly gets under way Saturday
in Summerville with several
thousand persons expected to
attend the seven-hour arts and
craft festival and bake show.
Some 22 individuals, church
groups and families have signed
up to display and sell a wide
variety of handcrafts, accord
ing to County Extension Agent
Pam Echols, a coordinator of
the annual event.
“We have a good many
people signed up who will have
food table displays set up this
year,” said Mrs. Echols. “This
will give local residents a
chance to buy items to put in
their freezer where they
normally could not.”
Local residents will be on
hand to display macrame,
Christmas ornaments, tole
painting, baked and canned
goods, crocheting, and
knitting, to name a few items.
Also to be sold at the Sum-
Nelly will be plants, hanging
baskets and tatting.
A wide variety of food
including sandwiches and hot
dogs will also be available
during the day.
It’s not too late for
interested persons to sign up to
reserve a spot on the grounds,
according to Mrs. Echols.
Persons interested in
registering may do so by con
tacting Mrs. Echols at
857-1410. There is no exhibit
fee or percentage taken from
sales, said Mrs. Echols.
There is no admission
charge to the festival, which is
sponsored by the local Georgia
Extension Office and the
Summerville Recreation
Department.
GSP Arrests 267
During September
Sgt. J. E. Gossett of the
Rome State Patrol Post reports
his post investigated 26 traffic
accidents, made 267 arrests
and issued 330 warnings in
Chattooga County during Sep
tember. Os the 267 arrests, 138
were for speeding.
Sgt. Gossett said 17 persons
were injured in the 26 acci
dents, with one fatality.
Trionite Dies of Injuries
Twenty-year-old Mark Allen
Shadrick of Trion died Satur
day of injuries he received in
an, automobile accident on
Highway 27, north of Rome
two weeks ago.
The Berry College student
was Floyd County’s 18th
traffic fatality this year.
Shadrick collided head-on
with an automobile driven by
78-year-old Ben F. Johnson,
Armuchee, on Monday, Sept.
19. Police said Johnson’s car
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As in past years, Sum-Nelly
will be held next to the tennis
courts near the Summerville
Recreation Center. This year,
however, it will be held rain or
shine, said Mrs. Echols. If it
rains, the exhibits will be set
up inside the Recreation
Center.
The festival opens at 10
a.m. and continues until 5 p.m.
Some of the people and
organizations participating in
the Sum-Nelly and the type of
table display they will have are
listed below:
Dorothy Johnson, a plant
and hanging basket display;
Mrs. S. G. Palmour, a tatting
display; Mrs. Susan Black,
crafts; Martha Bishop and Idell
Vaughn, baked and canned
goods; “Young at Heart club,”
baked and canned goods; Peg
Osgood, one table display; Rita
Howell, handcrafts and baked
goods; Mrs. David Massey,
crochet and handmade items;
Jackie Barnes, tole painting
and crochet; Pennville Gospel
Tabernacle, cakes and food;
and Carrie Ann Simpson and
Darlene Scoggins, macrame and
crochet.
Also, Belmont Young
People, baked goods; Margaret
Williams of Alabama, knitting
and crocheting crafts; Mrs.
Harold Vaughn, baked goods
and handmade items; Berry ton
Church of God, food and
crafts; Kathleen Sims, hand
made items; Cathi Dunson,
Christmas ornaments and baby
items; Vicki Jarrett, Indian
corn and dried flowers; Irene
Teague, quilts; and Marilyn
Hunt, crafts and crocheted
items.
The post commander said a
total of 360 pending traffic
cases were disposed in the
courts with the following dis
positions: 185 guilty pleas, 73
bond forfeitures, 44 dismissed,
and 58 nolo contendere pleas.
Fines and forfeitures
amounted to $12,602.50
which was paid to the county
courts for the month.
crossed the centerline into
Shadrick’s lane, causing the
accident. Johnson was killed
instantly.
Funeral services for Mark
Shadrick were held at 3 p.m.
Sunday at the Pennville Church
of Christ north of Summerville.
Survivors include his widow,
Karen Shadrick; his two-year
old son, Joshua; and parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shadrick,
Trion.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGI A 30747 ... THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1977
County Water System Eyed;
Could Merge Rural Systems
By TOM KIRWAN
Representatives of Lyerly,
Menlo, Cloudland and Chat
tooga County Water District
No. 1 met Thursday with
County Commissioner Pete
Denson in what was
described as the “first step”
towards the possible creation
of a county-wide water system.
Denson said he called the
meeting to discuss mutual
problems of the county’s rural
water systems to see if such a
plan was feasible. Discussion
during the hour-and-a-half
meeting showed that the repre
sentatives were generally in
favor of the proposal if the
details could be worked out.
With the exception of the
City of Menlo, representatives
of the water systems present
said they thought it might be
possible for a county-wide
water system to in effect “take
over” the operation of the
individual systems, possibly
resulting in the reformation of
County Water District No. 1.
Under the tentative proposal
the new water district would
be run by a board of repre
sentatives of each community
served by the system. The new
water district, it was discussed,
would also inherit any long
term indebtedness the smaller
systems currently have.
Menlo Mayor Lonnie Ward,
cautioning the group that he
was speaking for himself and
not the Menlo City Council,
said it didn’t appear feasible
that Menlo would be in favor
of giving up its system in order
to become a part of the pro
posed system. “We’re just at
the point with our system
where we are just starting to
make some money,” he said.
But at the same time he
explained Menlo might be
Two Qualify for
Nov. 15 Election
Two former Summerville
officials are the only
candidates to date who have
qualified for the Nov. 15 city
election.
Charles “Jack” Ledford, a
former city councilman,
qualified Saturday at city hall
for the mayor’s post, currently
held by Fred Stewart.
Ledford, 45, is a resident of
205 Jones Street who is
employed at Georgia Rug Mill.
James E. Crouch, another
former councilman, also quali
fied Saturday.
He is running for council
seat No. 2, currently held by
Earl “Red” Parris. Crouch is
Chattoogan Is
Arrested On
Rape Charge
A 26-year-old Summerville
man remained lodged in jail
Wednesday afternoon under a
$25,000 bond after being
charged with raping his 13-
year-old niece over the week
end.
Donnie Kennedy, a resident
of Vaughn’s Trailer Park, was
arrested on a single charge of
statutory rape after he
allegedly attacked the teenager
at her home late Saturday
night, officers said.
According to reports filed in
the sheriff’s office, Kennedy
was allegedly drinking that
night and beat up his mother.
While she was away at the
hospital, it is alleged, Kennedy
attacked his niece.
Upon Kennedy’s mother’s
return from the hospital, the
young girl reported to her what
had happened and she was
taken to the hospital and the
sheriffs department was called.
Reports said the young girl
was later taken to Rome where
medical tests showed evidence
of intercourse.
A warrant was taken for
Kennedy’s arrest and he was
picked up Sunday.
A person is charged with
statutory rape in the State of
Georgia when he is alleged to
have had intercourse, with or
without consent, of a female
under the age of 14 who is not
his spouse.
It carries a penalty, upon
conviction, of from one to 20
years in prison.
willing to buy water wholesale
each month, on a guaranteed
fee basis which would require
the city to pay for a certain
amount of water whether it
was used or not, from the pro
posed system. He explained
that during the summer the
city had become low on water
and that additional water
would be needed if Menlo ever
hopes to bring more industry
into the area.
Meanwhile, representatives
of Cloudland, Lyerly, and the
existing city water district said
their merging into a single
water system would be in their
customers’ best interests.
The single most important
problem the entire county
faces in upcoming years is
possible water shortages,
Denson said. By working
together, he continued, the
problem most likely can be
solved.
Dee Johnson
To Participate
In Pageant
Dee Johnson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Johnson of
Summerville, will be among 48
girls from all over the state of
Georgia participating in the
Miss Georgia Teenager Pageant
to be held in Atlanta Friday
and Saturday.
Miss Johnson, a 15-year-old
junior at Chattooga High
School, was crowned Miss
Chattooga County in April.
She will be sponsored
locally for the pageant by the
Farmers and Merchants Bank,
Lowry’s and the Piggly Wiggly.
The winner of the pageant
will go to the national contest
later in October.
64, a resident of 111 Union
St., and a retiree of Barwick
Mill in LaFayette.
The qualifying period ends
Oct. 15.
City residents who are not
registered to vote have until
that date to sign up in order to
vote in the election.
Sheriff’s Report
A total of 69 charges was
made in the county throughout
the week ended Wednesday,
according to the docket in the
Chattooga County Sheriffs
Department.
Speeding topped the list of
charges with 29 charges made.
Six charges were made for
passing worthless checks, four
for public drunkenness, four
for driving under the influence,
three for driving without a
license, and three for driving
with an improper tag.
Two charges were filed for
each of the following: driving
without insurance, failure to
yield the right of way, and
theft by taking.
Single charges were made
for the following violations:
passing on a yellow line, im
proper passing, improper back
ing, permitting a driver under
the influence to drive, statu
tory rape, simple assault, per
mitting an unlicensed person to
drive, reckless driving, im
proper exhaust, running a stop
sign, and leaving the scene of
an accident.
EARL ‘BILL’ SELF
“We’re going to have to
have more water,” he said.
“That’s a fact. We want
‘Muddy Water 9 in
Lyerly Blamed On
Old, Rusty Pipes
Lyerly water customers
complaining their water is
“muddy” have little to
worry about from a health
standpoint, according to a
state environmental engi
neer who says the “red
water” problem is linked
to rusty pipes, not dirt or
mud in the system.
Environmental engineer
Charles Paulk Jr. of the
Department of Natural
Resources said Tuesday
samples of water he tested
a month ago showed iron
oxide is getting into
Lyerly’s water from rusty
pipes, estimated to be 25
to 30 years old.
State standards allow
up to .3 parts per million
of iron in drinking water.
Paulk said tests run on
Lyerly’s water showed
deposits of from two to
six times that amount in
the system.
“It’s not dangerous,”
he said. “We’re just talking
about an aestetic problem.
Personally, I wouldn’t care
to drink the water every
day. It stains your clothes,
stains the bathtubs and
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Seniors at Chattooga High School recently elected
“Senior Superlatives” for the year 1977-78. Those
students elected were (L-R) Mark Fisher, most likely
to succeed; Freddy Hughes, most school spirit; Myra
Teems, wittiest; Dale Gentry, most dependable;
Tammy Eilenburg, most school spirit; Anthony
Bryant, most attractive; Joanna Lanier, most athletic;
Eugene Brown, wittiest; Dawn Ludy, most attractive;
Hundreds Attend Funeral Services
For Former Prosecutor ‘Bill’ Self
An estimated 300 persons
attended funeral services Tues
day for Earl Burdell “Bill”
Self, who served as prosecutor
of the Lookout Mountain
Judicial District for 24 years
and was a resident and
attorney in Summerville for
many years.
Self died Saturday at age 53
following an extended illness.
Self, who served six terms in
office before being defeated
last year, successfully
prosecuted a number of widely
publicized cases in Northwest
Georgia, including the case of
two West Virginia men who
were found guilty of the slay-
industry in the county and if
we don’t have water we won’t
get industry.”
sinks, and (iron) builds up
in your hot water heater.”
The most serious prob
lems, he said, have devel
oped along the Lyerly
Highway where a handful
of residents are served by
an old two-inch Une.
Paulk recently sent a
letter to Lyerly Mayor Ben
Ragland discussing the
problem, suggesting that
perhaps the customers
along the highway could
be hooked up to a six-inch
Une which runs along the
other side of the highway.
But that solution is expen
sive, as it would involve
digging under the highway
to lay the hook-up pipes.
“We have got to do
something about it,”
Ragland said Tuesday.
“What it wiU be I don’t
know yet.” He said the
problem wiU be discussed
at a meeting of the mayor
and council next week.
Paulk said the two-inch
line might be flushed regu
larly to alleviate the rust
problem along the high-
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Chattooga High Senior Superlatives
ing of LaFayette’s Billy Cope
land.
Summerville attorney T. J.
Espy was one of many local
residents expressing sorrow
over news of Self’s death. Espy
recalled that in 1949, after Self
had graduated from Berry
College, Self joined Espy’s law
practice in Summerville. It was
only six months, however,
before Self was elected to the
prosecutor’s post.
Espy called Self “one of the
best prosecutors the State of
Georgia has ever had. He was
recognized as ‘Mr. Solicitor’ of
the state. I was in his office
many times when solicitors
The key to solving the proo
lem, he said, is developing one
or more of the county’s many
springs, a point the group
I expressed agreement on. Spring
I water would not require the
I building of a treatment plant,
: Denson noted, which would be
, a very expensive project.
Meeting with the group was
Herb Barnum, the president of
a Rome engineering firm.
| Barnum reviewed with the
group springs in the area which
might be developed, but he
noted that the county does not
have one central spring which
could serve the systems in
j question most economically.
At the same time Barnum
noted that the Farmers Home
Administration might be
willing to provide a grant for
the proposal, up to 50 percent
। of the project’s cost.
“I think the FmHA will like
this (proposal),” said Barnum.
“They like it when you band
these (small, rural) systems
together and operate them
right.”
Representatives of the
Cloudland water system, the
| smallest in the county, were i
■ highly in favor of the proposal.
! Col. John O’Connell and
! Lucien Desilet reviewed with
the group Cloudland’s serious
water problems, noting that
efforts to drill new wells to
| date have been unsuccessful.
I Cloudland experienced severe
water shortages throughout the
summer, and at times water
■ had to be carried to the com
i munity’s reservoir so that its
80 or so customers could have
sufficient water. Currently an
old well which has been
cleaned out is providing water,
but officials doubt that the
well can contintre tt> do so for
long before clogging with
sediment again.
John Hammond, most talented; Kia Evans, best
dressed; Ralph Price, best dressed; Molly Henry, most
dependable and friendliest; Wally Price, friendliest;
Lejean Gilmer, most likely to succeed; Dan Cleveland,
best all around; and Mamie Clarkson, best all
around. Not pictured are Lynn Smith, named most
talented; and Preston Cash, most athletic.
around the state called him
seeking procedural and investi
gative advice. He was a great
investigator.”
Espy continued,
“Personally, he was a very,
very close friend.”
Self was a native of
Subligna, born on Nov. 19,
1923, the son of Eric Basil and
Cora Manning Self.
He attended Subligna High
School, Berry College and the
University of Georgia, receiving
the L.L.B. degree in 1949 and
the J. D. degree in 1969.
He was a graduate of First
National College for District
Attorneys, Executive College
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Lyerly Mayor Ben Ragland
said he too was in favor of the
plan, noting that he was speak
ing only for himself. He said
Lyerly’s water system is in
need of many renovations and
that a county takeover would
possibly allow those improve
ments to be made. He also
noted that, like the other rural
system in the county, the
Lyerly system has no fulltime
maintenance man. A
county wide system, it is
believed, would be able to hire
a maintenance crew.
Representatives of Chat
tooga County Water District
No. 1 said the plan sounded
good and that an additional
water source would allow it to
grow.
With the group’s consent,
Denson said he would be
willing to use county funds,
most likely from a federal
source but not from the
general fund, to hire Barnum
to work up a report on the
feasibility of the program.
His study will focus on
springs which might be
developed and the details of
how a county-wide system
might be implemented. Denson
agreed to pay a maximum fee
of $2,000 for the study, which
Barnum said possibly could be
issued within three to six
weeks.
Honda Stolen
Mrs. Linda Tapp of 544
Orchard Road, Summerville,
reported to the Summerville
Police Department that some
one had taken a 1970 Honda
from her backyard Friday.
The Honda is valued at
$ 1 50. The incident is still
under investigation by the
police.
for District Attorneys,
National College, and senior
faculty advisor, all at the Uni
versity of Houston, Bates Law
School.
He was a member of Phi
Kappa Phi, Lion’s Club, Elk’s
Club, American Legion, Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, Georgia
Bar Association, Lookout
Mountain Bar Association,
serving as president in 1961,
and was a Mason.
He served as president of
the Solicitor General Associ
ation, chairman of the Chat
tooga County Democratic
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