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Park Ranger Bob Chisolm gives the finishing touch to
some extras that have been added to the shelters at
Sloppy Floyd State Park. Electricity and water have
been run to the two shelters this week. Chisolm advises
that the shelters are still first-come, first-serve and
rent free. The park also received 20 new picnic tables
for day-users.
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Constructs New Fountain
CETA worker Mark Weaver (L) and Joe Chesteen, a
member of the Department of Natural Resources
maintenance crew, adds the final touch to one of two
new water fountains installed at Sloppy Floyd State
Park this week. Park Superintendent Derrell Rush also
advised that work on the new campsites should begin
Monday, weather permitting.
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New Rotary Club Officers
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1979
outgoing president Hugh Henderson, international ser
vice director Frank Prince and secretary Jerrell Mc-
Cool.
Kindergarten Teacher Shortage
Is Possible: Early Sign-Up Urged
Area school systems are now
registering children for
kindergarten classes but may
lack enough teachers if local
parents don’t pre-register their
children before school begins next
month.
“We started registering
children for kindergarten the first
of May,” explained Chattooga
Superintendent Bill King. “We
don’t have as many children
registered at this time as we had
last year. There is a possibility
that if parents wait until school
starts to register their children,
CHS Paving
Authorized
State Transportation Commis
sioner Tom Moreland announced
today authorization of a county
contract for Chattooga County to
cover the paving of a parking lot
at Chattooga High School.
This project has been
authorized for funding under the
Ga. DOT County Contract Pro
gram, and will begin as soon as
the contract has been duly ex
ecuted and a work order issued.
"The viability of local roads
and streets is as important to the
social and economic welfare of
Georgia as are the interstates and
other major routes,” Commis
sioner Moreland said upon
authorizing the contract. “I ap
preciate the cooperative efforts of
the local authorities in their work
with the DOT to make these con
tracts possible.”
The County Contract and
Local Assistance Road Program
are two of several programs utiliz
ed by the Georgia Department of
Transportation to assist local
governments in providing ade
quate transportation facilities for
all of Georgia.
Luis Solivan Spends Month
Here Under MCG Program
The Medical College of
Georgia in Augusta in conjunc
tion with the American Academy
of Family Practice and the
Georgia Academy of Family Prac
tice is offering Family Practice
Preceptorships for qualifying
students. The grant is made
possible by the State of Georgia.
Dr. Herman Spivey of Sum
merville is currently serving as a
MCG Preceptor for the program.
“It is a means to encourage
young physicians to go into fami
ly practice and into rural areas.
Spivey said. "It is a young pro
gram and we will have to wait to
see if it works.”
Luis A. Solivan, a junior
medical student at MCG, spent
the past month working with Dr.
Spivey in his office and in the
hospital.
“There were sixty positions
available for this entire year for
all students from freshmen to
seniors. We work for one month
with no academic credit. More
students applied than there were
positions available.” Solivan ex-
we may not have enough teachers
for all of them. The state has only
allotted us (the school system)
three kindergarten teachers.
“I urge parents to register
their children now so there will be
enough teachers for all of the
Chamber Discusses Wide
Range Os Topics At Meet
A wide range of topics was
discussed at a breakfast meeting
of the Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce directors’
meeting held last week.
At the meeting:
* David Tidmore, president of
the Chattooga County Inter-
Agency Council, asked that the
Chamber underwrite the full cost
of printing the agency’s directory
of social service and related local
services. The cost of printing has
been estimated at $350 for 200
copies, and at a previous meeting
the directors voted to contribute
SIOO to the project.
The directors suggested that
the Inter-Agency Council contact
other agencies in the soon-to-be
printed directory to seek financial
help. A motion was passed com
mitting the chamber to con
tribute the balance of the printing
bill (up to S3OO, including other
contributions, if necessary.
The Inter-Agency Council,
well-known locally for its annual
Christmas toy drive for the elder
ly, is made up of representatives
of area social service agencies.
Their directory is designed to in
form the public of the many ser
vices local agencies offer as well
as a wealth of other information.
♦ Chamber President Henry
Watson said he met earlier this
plained.
“Our professor announced to
the class that the program was
available and that we could ap
ply. When I applied two days
later, there were only three open
ings. Everybody wanted to
apply”
Solivan was enthusiastic
about the program.
"The Medical College of
Georgia is strengthening its pro
gram in community medicine.
This Family Practice Preceptor
ship is a perfect adjunct to this
strengthening. Seeing Dr. Spivey
in action—He is not independent
from his community, and the
community services agencies. He
works with the community and
state service agencies to insure
optimum care. He has to work
through a large number of agen
cies. (In a large community you
do not do this as much.) For ex
ample we sent a bat off to the
Center of Disease Control to
check for rabies, worked with the
county health center to procure
x-rays, mental health center, and
Board Approves Purchase Os
Trailer To House TMR Center
The county school board ap
proved the purchase of a double
wide trailer to house the TMR
Center at the Pennville school
following a long deliberation
Monday night.
The school board met in a
special called session Monday
night to discuss relocating the
TMR Center from Trion to the
old South Summerville School
building, which presently
bouses the Chattooga County
Parent-Child Center. Fifteen
local residents representing the
center were present for the
meeting.
Board Member Ray Hall ad
vised the board and center
representatives that last Friday
he and Superintendent Bill King
went to Atlanta in hopes of pur
chasing a vacated trailer from
the Atlanta School Board to use
along with two classrooms at
the Pennville school for the
TMR students. However, after
examining the trailer, Hall said,
they felt it would not be worth
the estimated $12,000 to
$15,000 it would cost to pur
chase the trailer, move it up
here and restore it. They did not
examine any other trailers, said
Hall, as they were told this one
was the best of the trailers for
sale.
Superintendent King told
students,” continued King. “We
are allotted teachers according to
the number of children we have
enrolled. At this time we are runn
ing a little bit behind (on the
number of children registered for
k'ndergarten) compared to last
month with representatives of a
German firm that is seeking to
develop a spinning mill. The old
Fabrics America building was
looked over as a possible site for
the proposed plant, but no com
mitments were made, Watson
said. Hugh Henderson, who
heads up the industrial develop
ment committee, said a second in
dustrial prospect has also been
contacted.
♦ The board of directors
agreed the Chamber of Commerce
should be incorporated as soon as
possible.
* Director Butch Eleam sug
gested that the Chamber check
into the cost of buying an adver
tisement in “Brown’s Guide to
Georgia” to help promote this
area. Other local organizations
wrilling might be able to help the
expense, he said.
* It was agreed that the
chamber should take a poll to find
out from local industrial represen
tatives what related industries
should be sought for this
area—specifically ths types of
firms they deal with and could
benefit from if located here.
* The chamber directors
learned the chamber currently
has a balance of $7,509 according
to the treasurer’s report.
the alcoholic center at Tri-
County. That in my mind is the
concept of community medicine.
We get a first hand look at the
tremendous responsibility that a
local physician has toward the
community. 1 can really see the
need for physicians in this area.
That is what the program is all
about."
Solivan was also impressed
with our local hospital and staff.
“You have some terrific
nurses and they were a great deal
of help to me.”
When asked whether he would
consider working in a rural area
after this preceptorship, Solivan
answered:
"To be honest, when I first
came, I wondered what I would
do for a whole month in Summer
ville. But the month is gone and I
have not done all I wanted to do. I
wish the course could have been
for two mo.’ths. It is beautiful up
here in the mountains. I could be
perfectly happy living and prac
ticing medicine in Summerville."
the group they had also checked
on the cost of a new trailer. A
new double-wide trailer, in
cluding the purchase, delivery
and set-up; would cost approx
imately $26,500, King said.
At this point Hall stated the
board really didn't have the
money to spend for a new
trailer. But, they (the school
board) still needed a place for
the TMR Center, he said.
“We have got to have a place
in a hurry to relocate them
(TMR Center) before school
starts,” Hall explained. “The
old South Summerville School
building is the ideal place for it.
I hate to see the parent-child
center put out because they do a
good job. But, we don’t have a
choice. We have to do
something.”
Board Chairman Joel Cook
then commended the center on
the wonderful job they have
done at the center.
Win Stephens, director of
the center, explained to the
board what terrible condition
their trailers were in when they
purchased them from the
Dalton School System several
months ago. She told them how
they had been vandalized and
torn up before they got them.
She also explained how they
were able to restore them into a
year.
Meanwhile, Trion Superinten
dent Bill Kinzy said about 80 per
cent of the number of
kindergarten students he had ex
pected to be enrolled have been
signed up.
“We are doing fairly well as
far as enrollment for
kindergarten,” said Kinzy. “We
have about the same enrolled as
we did last year at this time.
However, we urge parents to still
register early. We need to know
how many children we will have
so the two teachers can do their
planning and we can purchase
enough materials.”
For the first time in Georgia,
all eligible 5-year-olds may attend
public school kindergarten this
fall because of full-funding of the
half-day kindergarten program
by the 1979 Georgia General
Assembly.
According to the statistical
unit of the state education
department, there are fewer
children enrolled for this fall's
kindergarten now that it is fully
funded than there were enrolled
last year with only 50 percent fun
ding of the program.
However, part of the problem
stems from some systems
deciding not to have pre
registration sessions. These
systems decided just to take the
teacher allotments already given
them through projected
kindergarten enrollment rather
than determining actual enroll
ment. If the system finds that
more teachers are needed, they
will ask for more when midterm
adjustments in teacher
allotments are made.
So far in Georgia, according to
the department of education, spr
ing pre-registration is 52,114. The
enrollment for the last four mon
ths of the 1978-79 school year,
when only 50 percent of the pro
grams were funded, was 57,791.
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Studies Under MCG Program
Dr. Herman Spivey (L> looks on as Luis
A. Solivan studies a specimen in the
microscope. Solivan, a junior medical
student at the Medical College of
lovely clasroom and office for
less than SI,OOO.
Several questions and sug
gestions were then heard by the
board from the different center
representatives.
Mrs. Stephens then ap
proached the board and said,
"I'm fighting for something
we've worked on for 10 years. I
see all the things we’ve done for
I the children, the 60 families we
serve, and the community. I
don’t know where we'll get the
money to rent because we are
operating on less money this
year than we had last year.
“1 don’t know what HEW
(Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare, which helps
sponsor the center) will say.”
continued Mrs. Stephens in
despair as she paced from her
chair to the board’s table wring
ing her hands. “I really don’t
know what they’ll say. We ap
preciate the board letting us use
this building. It’s taken a lot of
work and a lot of money to make
it as lovely as we have. They
(HEW) may say you’ve (the
center) failed. I just don’t know.
The program may just disap
pear out of this county.”
Several other represen
tatives from the center voiced
their opinion on the subject as
j to why they felt the center was
needed in the county.
Superintendent King told
the representatives that the
board was not critical of the
! center’s program and they all
felt it was a good program for
the county.
Chairman Cook then asked
the board to go into executive
session to discuss the matter
further.
Some 15 minutes later the
board returned to the room and
I Board Member Hall made a mo
tion to purchase a new double
wide trailer to be placed at the
Pennville school and to leave
the center where it was. The mo
tion was seconded by Cook and
unanimously apprised by the
board.
The representatives, relieved
by the board’s decision, gave a
Interagency
Council To Meet
The Chattooga County Inter
; Agency Council will meet today,
July 19, at noon at B's Round
Table.
The Chattooga County
Library will present the program.
Summerville Nursing
Home Project Is
Under HSA Review
The State Health Planning
and Development Agency
(SHPDA) has received an applica
tion from the Ryhar Corporation
of Hawkinsville, for a Certificate
of Need to construct a 120-bed
long-term health care facility in
Summerville (Chattooga County).
The nursing home, to be
known as Heritage Inn of Sum
merville, would be located at
Memorial Drive and Back Penn
ville Road. Development of the
project would cost approximately
$722,000, according to the ap
nlication submitted by Edward J.
Georgia, has spent the past month with
Dr. Spivey, a MCG Preceptor, working in
his office and at the hospital.
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round of applause and their
hearty approval. They thanked
the board individually and left.
In other action the board:
* Approved a 10 percent pay
increase for non-professional
personnel effective Sept. 1.
* Discussed taking school
property insurance with the
Puritan Company from Rome.
The board advised Superinten
dent King to have all school
buildings reevaluated and the
amount they are insured for up
dated and present it to the
board at the next regular mon-
I thly meeting in August.
Juror Names
Picked For
Second Week
Sixty local residents have
been chosen for possible traverse
jury duty during the second week
of civil hearing of the Superior
Court Aug. 13-17, according to
: Lann Cordle, clerk of the court.
The following persons have
been selected for jury duty and
should report to the Chattooga
County Courthouse at 9 a.m.
; Monday, Aug. 13. (Abbreviations
used here are: S., Summerville; T.,
Trion; L., Lyerly; 8., Berryton;
M., Menlo; C., Cloudland; and A.,
Armuchee).
Prospective jurors include:
Betty Jo Bagley. L; Johnnie
A. Matthews, Route 3, Box 109,
S.; Richard F. Smith, Route 3, S.;
Mary A. Cooke, Route 4, Box 67,
S.; Marvin Perkins, 202 Fourth
St., S.; Jimmie E. Phillips, Route
3, S.; E. Jane Massey, Route 1, T.;
Herman Jr. Hunter, 134 McGin
nis Circle, S.; Wanda D. Hunter,
Route 2, S.; Deborah D. Hurley,
57 Shady Rd., B.; Mary P.
Chamlee, 110 Scoggins St., S.;
Noah B. Hall, Route 1, T.; Hubert
। K. Tucker, Route 2, S.; Yvonne
W. Mundy. 201 Scoggins Ave., S.;
and Annie Ruth Romine. Route 2,
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Also, Bobbie C. Runyan, 10
Given, S.; Edna Lee Shiver, 3
: Penn St., S.; Terry C. Money.
Route 3, S.; William J. Mull, 101
Bitting St., S.; James E. Ayers,
M.; Gene N. Rounsaville, 125 E.
Sixth St., S.; Jerry L. Thomas, 55
Moore St., T.; Louise Williams,
Route 4, S.; Robert E. Wesson,
Route 3, S.; James H. Meredith,
13 Kirby, S.; James W. Shireman,
113 Ramey St., S.; Willie T.
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Bond of Macon, for Ryhar.
The application has been sent
to the Appalachian Georgia
Health Systems Agency (HSA)
for review at the area level. Upon
completion of its review, that
agency will submit its findings
and recommendation to the
SHPDA, which is responsible for
making the state decision.
Information on the HSA
review of the project may be ob
tained by contacting the Ap
palachian Georgia office in
Cartersville (404/386-2431).