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VOLUME XCIII - NUMBER XLIII
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Only 56 dogs have been
registered at City Hall through
Monday of this week, city
records show, with the dead
line for local residents to have
their dogs properly collared,
inoculated and registered only
a week away.
In mid-October Councilman
Boyd Williams, who as the
councilman in charge of dog
control, spearheaded the con
struction of a $6,669 city dog
County Tax Notices
To Be Mailed Mon.
County property owners
can expect to find their adva
lorem tax notices in their mail
boxes sometime next week,
according to Chattooga Tax
Commissioner Larry Durham.
“They’ll be mailed out
Monday,” said Durham in an
interview Tuesday.
Ad valorem taxes must be
paid by Jan. 20, Durham said.
After that deadline, taxes
on holdings not paid will be
Woods Tells Council
Dike Plans Progressing
Announcements, a few
decisions, and general
discussion on mostly minor
items filled the 75-m inute
meeting of the Trion Town
Council and Mayor Jake Woods
Thursday night.
Action during the meeting
saw:
* Woods reported the
town lacks only three ease
ments before bids can be let on
dikework designed to halt the
periodic flooding of Riegel
Textile Corp, and Frogtown.
Woods said he hopes the U. S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Soil and Water Conservation
Unit, which is responsible for
the project, can let bids by Jan.
1.
* The Rev. David Autry,
pastor of Trion United
Methodist Church given tenta
tive permission to reroute
traffic on old U. S. 27 to pre
vent “distractions” during a
q i Emmett McCamy Finds Joy
S Repairing Toys for Drive
Os Saint Nick has helpers
all over the country, but
nowhere is he likely to find a
more willing and able assistant
than Ch attoogan Emmett
McCamy.
The spry 72-year-old county
native is heading up the fix-up
activities of this year’s toy
collection for the needy, spon
sored by the Chattooga County
Inter-Agency Council.
According to Hub Young,
president of the organization,
McCamy was the logical choice
when the group began looking
for someone who could
methodically take charge of
the cleaning, repairing and
mending of thousands of toys
which have already been
donated to the effort.
Young first met McCamy a
couple of years ago when!
Young was launching the local
food and nutrition project for
the elderly. The Civil Defense
building had been donated as a
site for the program, but a
whale of work lay before
Young before the building
could be utilized as the center
for several dozen aged residents
to meet each weekday for a
hot meal and fellowship.
“When we started Mr.
McCamey came in and wanted
to know about the nutrition
project,” Young recalled. “He
looked around and saw the
site ... he and I worked on it
for a long time and it was only
through his expertise in repair
ing things that made it an
easier job for me.”
“He has always been willing
to make the contribution when
one was needed,” he said.
McCamy has the credentials
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pound, announced that by
Nov. 30 all city dogs must be
registered at City Hall. The
registration fees are $1 for
female dogs and 50 cents for
males.
After that date, Williams
said in making in the an
nouncement, the animal con
trol officer will be under orders
to pick up any dog within the
city limits which is not
i properly collared, vaccinated
considered delinquent.
A delinquent account is
“open for legal proceedings”,
Durham said, and a landowner
must pay a 9 percent late fee,
plus any other costs which
might be involved in processing
the delinquent tax bill, by not
paying by the deadline.
Durham said his office will
be mailing out an estimated
10,500 tax bills in all.
Eve nativity scene to be spon
sored by the church from 7
p.m. to 8 p.m. Dec. 23 and 24.
Mayor Woods noted that Autry
would have to obtain the
county commissioner’s per
mission to reroute the traffic
around the site of the Christ
mas scene, expected to be held
in the vicinity of the Riegeldale
Tavern.
* The council approved
the transfer of a truck from the
sewer to the recreation depart
ment.
* Woods said Ed Surles,
town attorney, had suggested
the revision of two small
passages in a 30-year franchise
agreement being proposed with
General Telephone Company.
Woods said it was not yet
known if the company’s
lawyers will approve the
changes.
* The mayor said bids for
repairs on the swimming pool
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new life to a broken
mas toy drive for the
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Department of Family
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY., GEORGIA 30747 . THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1977
and registered.
In a more recent interview
Williams indicated he is urging
residents to get their dogs regis
tered, but that there would not
be a wholesale clearing of un
collared and unregistered dogs
from the city streets.
“We’re not just trying to
pick them up by the droves,”
the councilman said. “We’re
going to ease into this. We will
pick up some if they don’t
have collars and tags like
they’re supposed to have.”
According to Williams, the
city cannot pick up a properly
collared and tagged dog, unless
“he’s sick or creating a
nuisance.”
Meanwhile, only a small
fraction of all the city’s dog
owners have complied with the
city dog ordinance. “They are
coming in regularly (to buy
tags),” one city employee
reported Thursday.
Dog owners must present a
vaccination record and pay a
registration fee before a tag is
issued.
Councilman Williams has
previously stated that after the
deadline set for Nov. 30, the
city’s dog ordinance will be
enforced. He has suggested that
will be open Nov. 29.
* Woods also reminded the
council of the “Mayors’ Motor
cade to MilledgeviEe,” to be
held Dec. 14. Woods has urged
local residents to donate
wrapped gifts—personal items
and other gifts adults would
enjoy-at Christmastime.
Chattooga residents and groups
wishing to donate gifts can do
so by leaving them at the Town
Hall.
* Councilman Don Hayes
suggested the council adopt an
ordinance prohibiting the
drinking of beer and Uquor in
pubhc. He also proposed the
council pass an ordinance to
control the abandoning of
vehicles on Trion’s streets and
roads. The mayor said he
would check with the town
attorney for advice about the
proposed ordinances.
* Councilwoman Robbie
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Young at Work
and Hub Young prepare to give
tricycle donated to the Christ
needy. Persons with donations
Civil Defense Building or at the
and Children Services.
at a later date some provisions
in the ordinance need revision
or updating.
The Summerville Code,
Chapter 4, Article II provides
for the impounding of un
registered dogs in the city
limits. The ordinance reads as
follows:
Sec. 4-13. Definitions.
“Whenever used in this arti
cle, unless a contrary intention
is clearly evident, the following
terms shall be interpreted as
herein defined:
(a) Dog. The term “dog”
shall mean and include all
members of the canine family,
three (3) months or more of
age, and also pet foxes, wolves,
etc.
(b) Owner. The term
“owner” shall mean and
include any person having a
right of property in the dog, or
who keeps or harbors a dog, or
who has it in its care, or acts as
its custodian, or who permits a
dog to remain on or about any
premises occupied by him.
(c) Inoculation against
rabies. The term “inoculation
against rabies” shall mean the
injection, subcutaneously or
otherwise as approved by the
Georgia Department of Public
Health, of canine antirabic
vaccine approved by the
Georgia Department of Public
Health. (Ord. of
6-30-58,. .. E)
Sec. 4-14. Inoculation
and tag required.
Prior to July first of each
year every owner of a dog not
confined at all times to an
enclosed area or on a leash or
muzzled shall cause such dog
to be inoculated against rabies
by the rabies inspector, or by
his deputy or by a competent
veterinarian, and said dog so
inoculated shall wear a serially
numbered tag bearing the same
number and year as the certifi
cate bears, which tag shall at all
times be attached to a collar or
harness, worn by the dog for
which the certificate and tag
have been issued. (Ord. of
6-30-58,... A)
Sec. 4-15. Registration
required.
The owner of any dog or
dogs shall, on or before July
fifteenth of each year, register
the dog with the city recorder,
clerk or office personnel of the
city, who shall keep a book for
that purpose, which regis
tration shall give the name of
dog, the breed, the sex, the
owner and the address of the
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fitting a top-notch Santa
helper. He retired at Riegel
Textile Corporation eight years
ago, after working in the
maintenance department for
35 years. His skill for tinker
ing-whether it involves wood
working, refining the operation
of his toy train, or any other
number of projects where a
mechanical mind is needed—is
well-known in the community.
He has little time for such
activities now, however,
because he and his wife,
Mattie, have thrown themselves
into the toy fix-up project.
Each afternoon he makes his
way up the 25 steps to a
makeshift work-and-storage
area on the second floor of the
Boney Building in downtown
Summerville to continue the
massive repair operation. He’s
had some help-as the food and
nutrition project, as well as the
local mental retardation center,
have been active in the
effort-but much of the organ
izing and the bigger tasks have
been left in his hands.
He comments he’s stayed
busy “patching the fire out of
them (toys)” and that “I’ve
enjoyed all of it.”
The toys coming in, he said,
in general don’t need much
work. “They've all been fair,”
he said. “The majority of them
have been in good shape.
There’s been a few not worth
fixing, but even some of those
we can take the parts off of
and use them someplace else.’
Dolls, he said, have domi
nated the toys coming in. “The
dolls are the biggest thing,” he
commented. “Good gosh
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Basketball Compromise Reached
Suppoaers of the county’s
youth basketball teams say
that following a meeting in
Trion last Wednesday the
possibility of the proposed
formation of a new county
league, in which Summerville
teams would have been
ineligible to take part, now
appears remote.
In recent weeks a group of
basketball supporters had
threatened to start their own
league after they had com
plained they did not have
enough say-so in the formation
of rules and regulations.
Under their plan a county
wide basketball league would
be formed, to be governed by a
rules committee made up of
representatives of the com
munities which have teams.
But according to Clyde
Davis, Summerville’s recreation
director, the meeting Wednes
day ended on an optimistic
note and a tenative agreement
almighty, we’ve had a lot.
We’ve got 108 packed in boxes,
and 40 or 50 more to go.” Mrs.
McCamy has had an active roll
in the repairing of dolls.
McCamy’s impressed with
the enthusiasm residents have
shown for the project. He went
out to Pennville to see Howard
Finster, the bicycle repairman
who also runs his own unique
museum in that community, to
find some needed parts. After
McCamy told him of his
mission, Finster “just turned
me loose and said to go to it.”
He got the parts free. A
number of other local business
men and businesswomen have
also contributed money and
materials for the project.
Although he said he’s
enjoying the work, there’s
much to be done and he said
he’s scouting helpers. “It’s
going fine, but if we just had a
little more help ...” he says as
his voice trailed off. Persons
interested in getting involved in
the fix-up campaign can call
Juanita Ham at 857-3041.
Asked why he took on the
job, he smiles and says: “I just
like it. I like the curiosity of it.
I like to see what causes a thing
Ito work, and see if I can get it
I working again."
I That hist for fixing broken
things-in this case toys-will
no doubt be translated into
wide smiles when hundreds of
county youngsters find oodles
of toys under their Christmas
trees come Dec. 25, compli
ments of McCamy and the
dozens of people involved in
the toy project.
to establish a new advisory
committee for the Summerville
league, instead of the
formation of a new league, was
reached.
The Summerville Recreation
Board had previously ruled
that the city charter prohibited
it from giving up its control
over the city league to the
proposed league. It termed
such a proposal as “not work
able,” at the same time
promising to work quickly
towards setting up an advisory
council to review all rules and
hear protests in order to
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Head-On Collision Hospitalizes One
A head-on collision early Thursday
morning hospitalized Chattoogan Carl
Shipman, who was still in Redmond
Park Hospital as of Wednesday. A
Six Treated Following
Head-On Accident Here
A Chattooga County man
was still hospitalized in Red
mond Park Hospital as of
Wednesday following a head-on
collision at the intersection of
the Back Berryton Road and
the Menlo Highway early last
Thursday morning.
According to reports filed
by the investigating Georgia
State Trooper Bill Pledger,
Travis L. Downer, 55, of
Henegar, Ala., driver of a 1967
Chevrolet Caprice, collided
head-on with Carl Shipman,
compromise with residents
urging new league here.
“Wednesday night we went
over rules and regulations and
we’re not finished with that,”
said Davis. “We have another
meeting planned before this is
finalized.”
Under the advisory com
mittee set-up, the recreation
directors (or designated
replacements) would serve on
the advisory board, along with
representatives of Menlo,
Lyerly, Gore, Pennville, and
possibly one at-large member.
The advisory board would
spokesman for the hospital said she was
unable under hospital rules to state his
condition.
63, of Cloudland, driver of a
1969 Ford F-100 pickup truck.
Reports stated that Downer
was traveling west on the
Menlo Highway when he
apparently applied his brakes,
skidded into the other lane and
collided with the Shipman
vehicle, which was traveling
east.
Downer and Shipman, along
with four passengers, were
carried to the Chattooga
County Hospital for treatment.
Downar and two passengers in
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be charged with setting policy
and rules for the league.
Another change as a result
|of the meeting will be the
inclusion this season of two
boys’ teams from the Gore-
Subligna community.
Traditionally, basketball
teams have been alligned by
school districts, and the
formation of the Gore-Subligna
teams contradicts that policy.
“This (new poEcy) may
include some more boys that
will take an interest in basket
ball,” said Davis. “I can’t see
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his vehicle, Michael Dukes, 22,
and Quentin Terrell, 32, were
all treated and released.
Two passengers in the Ship
man vehicle, Richard Shipman,
30, and Lester Shipman, 27,
were treated and released but
Carl Shipman was transferred
to Redmond Park Hospital in
Rome where he was admitted
for future treatment.
Downer was charged with
driving on the wrong side of
the road and driving with a
revoked license by the investi
gating officer.