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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. 1! MM I I If li I Nil A fH»l। u I nlii| . ibwwb I li Ji» I I ■ fi® «. I fl ■■ ■ 19 Wf f i II f1 ■ I I I j I I* ■ ■ llrrl 1 I IM 111 a*" JM*-* 111 ** * * * 4H Svß*- «« ^r - ■ *Bi K^Z'^W I tifTi jff *v^ ’ Fh 1 P AT k' * z T k~£* o- k> >■ - x ' / b. Wil j* -. i ’‘i *• ***■ ' r . iwa -•*’■*? /-*<• r ■ 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. ®he ^ummerutUe Nma 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. ! d" < W ■l* Ji . ■ ■Mik JI 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. PRICE 20c 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, I s - 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. (Continued On Page 3) 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).