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Increase On Fees
Announced By Local
Ambulance Service
Chattooga County
Emergency %4edical Service
fees went up effective Jan. 1,
according to Mike Carmon,
director.
Under the new guidelines,
the flat-rate charfie levied for
an in-county ambulance run
was increased to $35 from
S3O.
He noted that ambulance
service provided outside the
county will cost $1.50 per mile
5 From Here
Ye
Are Cited
At Jax State
Five Summerville
residents were among 62
Georgia students at Jac%(son‘
ville State University who
achieved academic excellence
during the fall semester of
31979.
Students earning a perfect
3.0 average were Jesse Ralph
Carpenter, Jeffrey Gorman
Gilley and Frances Ellen Will
ingham.
Cited among those who
achieved between a 2.5 and 2.9
average were Stanley L.
Carpenter and Darlene
Sullivan.
Hub Cap Thefts
Continuing Here
The Trion Police Depart
ment is investigating the
theft of three sets of hu% caps
from separate vehicles parked
near Riegel Textile Corp. Fri
day night. The incidents are
the latest in a rash of such
thefts.
L.C. Price of 900 Hemlock
St., Summerville, reported to
Trion officers that sometime
during the night someone
took a set of wire spoke hub
caps off of his 1974 Mustang.
The vehicle was Tarked on the
Riegel parking lot. The hub
caps were valued at approx
imately S2OB.
Officers also received a
report Saturday morning from
Claude Stoker of 26 Tenth St.
in Trion that during the night
someone had taken a set of
wire spoke hub caps off of his
1978 Chrysler. The vehicle
had been parked on 11th
Street. The hub caps were
valued at $216.
Willie Edward Arnold of
Route 3, Summerville,
reported to Trion officers
Saturday morning that so
meone had taken a set of wire
spoke hub caps off of his 1977
Oldsmobile Cutlass during the
night. The vehicle had ieen
arked on the Plaza parking
E)t. The hub caps, valued at
S3OO, were taken sometime
between 11:30 p.m. Friday
and 8 a.m. Saturday, accor
ding to the report.
As of Monday no arrests
had been made and the hub
caps had not been recovered.
Tidbit
COOP BUYING: Local
governments looking for
new ways to cope with in
flation might consider a
tactic " which is savin
money in villages ang
counties in the Chicago
area. According - to
Budget/Tax Report, a
governmental publica
tion, the cooperative ef
forts in Illinois are saving
costs on everything from
office supplies to dog
license tags. ‘‘The Nor
thwest Municipal Con
ference, for example,
reduced the price of copy
ing machine paper by 20
percent and vehicle
stickers by 60 percent,”
the magazine reported.
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CONSUMER TIP: Elder
ly and other residents
who have trouble opening
“child resistant’’ gottles
for l:;rescribed medicine
should be aware a regular
plastic top can be pfiuced
on the bottle by simply
asking your Pharmacists.
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QUOTABLE: ‘‘The na
tion must use no more gas
in 1980 than it did in
1979. We want to avoid
gasoline lines...''—
Energy Secretary Charles
W. Duncan.
beyond the county line (Plus
the $35 in county fee).
Previously, the mileage
charge for out-of-county am
bulance travel was $1 per
mile.
The EMS ‘‘waiting time
fee'' has also been increased,
he said, being doubled to S2O
per hour. The fee is assessed
a%‘ainst the bills of ratients
who require an ambulance to
wait to return them to the
county ‘ after being treated
elsewhere. An initial 20
minutes is allowed the patient
(as part of the refi'ular am
bulance fee) before the S2O J)er
hour rate goes into effect, Car
mon said.
Carmon said the increases
were put into effect to help off
set ex*aenses—particularly the
cost of gasoline “‘and inflation
in general.”” Despite the hikes,
he said, the local ambulance
service rates compare
favorably to those charged by
other area ambulance ser
vices.
Revenue Sharing
Allocations To Be
Announced Friday
A public hearing to present
the bucget for the county’s
planned use of the federal
revenue-sharing funds will be
held in the courtroom of the
Courthouse tomorrow, Jan.
18, at 10 a.m.
The hearing will also give
residents of the county the op
portunity to ask questions
concerning the budget and the
purpose for which the funds
are being allocated, according:
to County Attorney Arch Far
rar Jr.
At a revenue-sharing hear
ing held in December, 13 for
mal requests—both oral and
written—were presented to
Commissioner Wayne Denson
by several individuals, groups
and organizations.
This year's federal funding
is estimated to be $231,201 for
the entitlement period which
began Oct. 1, 1979, and will
continue through Sept. 30.
This figure compares to
$170,976 the county received
for a nine-month period in
1978, according to F'a)arrar.
24 Participate
In Welding
Clinic Here
The loeal Chattooga
Young Farmers Chapter spon
sored a welding clinic during
the week of Jan. 7 at the Chat
tooga High School agriculture
department.
Attending the clinic were:
Paul S. Hosmer, Dennis Mec-
Cary, David Matteson, Frank
Fleming, Douglas Moseley,
Wayne Hurley, John McPher
son, Lathaniel Dunaway,
Wayne Pritchett, Jimmy Hix,
Steve Scoggins. Allen Cumm
ings, Eddie Massey, Steve
Ayers, Mike Hutchins, Rick
Green, Leonard Smith, Ran
dall Selman, Jeff Owings,
Dewey Brewster, Lynn Hall,
John Kendrick, John
Crawford and Kennith
Moseley.
11 Tractor Trailer
Tires Are Stolen
That theft of wheels and
tires from Riegel trailers dur
ing the Christmas holiday has
been reported to the Trion
Police %epartment and is
under investigation.
Trion police officers receiv
ed a report Monday morning
that sometime between Dec.
23 and Jan. 1 someone had
stolen 11 wheels and tires
from tractor trailers parked on
Fourth Street at tge Riegel
cloth warehouse. The wheels
and tires were valued at
81617
The report was turned over
to the Trion Police Depart
ment this week.
AID TO MOSLEM REBELS
Two former U.S. in
telligence officials, William E.
Colby, former director of the
CIA, and retired Air Force Lt.
Gen. Daniel O. Graham,
former director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, have
urjged that the United States
aid the Moslem rebels fighting
the Soviet-backed regime in
Afghanistan.
Druggists Tell Of Incidents
Involving Masked Man
Two Trion druggists, in
separate incidents, said they
believed they narrowly
escaped being the victims of
robberies Sunday night by a
masked man.
Tommy Thomqpson of
Trion Drugs told The News
Monday that he received a call
at his home around 9 p.m.
Sunday from a female, aszing
him to come to the drug store
to fill a prescription for her.
“The girl said she was call
in%from a pay phone at Bub's
Cab,” Thompson explained.
“She said she didn't have a
car to go to Summerville to
have the prescription - filled
and it was an emergency; she
needed it right then. I waited
about 10 minutes to give her
time to walk to the store, then
my wife and I went to the
store. We made a swing by the
store and didn't see anyone."
At that time, Thompson
said, assistant druggist, Joe
Cook, pulled up to the store on
unrelated business.
“We were sitting in our
cars t,alkinfi," Thompson said,
““when this guy walked
around the corner of the
building wearing a black ski
mask fiulled down to his neck
and a brown jacket zipped up
to the mask. He looketf Eind of
startled to see the two cars sit
ting there. He didn’t run, but
did start walking faster. He
walked behind our cars,
around Piggly Wiggly and in
to the niiht. We thought it
was peculiar, but didn’t do
anything. ;
“We waited a few more
minutes and I decided the girl
might be waiting at Triangle
Drug instead,” continued
Professor To Run In GOP
Race For McDonald Post
A Southern Tech professor will be throw
ing his hat into the ring in early February as
the Republican candidate for Larry
McDonalxc)i's seventh district congressional
seat.
Having lived in Marietta for six years,
New York born Richard Castellucis says ‘‘he’s
tired of McDonald'’s ineffective representation
in Washingtion” — something he &els could re
remedied in November, he said at a Rome rally
of Floyd county Republicans last week.
Though political analysts have been
speculating tfie hour is already growing late
for any unknown candidate to amass a serious
threat against the McDonald stronghold on
the district, Castellucis says he has been busy
garnering support among fellow Republicans.
His elafi' in going public with his can
didacy is the result ofp Board of Regents’
regulations on college professors within the
university system taking leave of absence to
run for political office.
Castellucis, awaiting official clarification
from the Regents, says he doesn’t feel the
delay has hurt his chances against McDonald
or any other possible opponent.
The 45-year-old professor of electronic
engineering expects cfiarification by the end of
the month andx:’e as a result, will not make his
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Examines New Map
Secretary Barbie McCollum examines
one of the 5,000 Summerville/Chattooga
County maps the Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce is distributing.
Chamber Distributing Maps
The Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce an
nounced this week that 5,000
Summerville/Chattooga Coun
ty maps have been received
from its printer.
The' two-tone maps of
brown and white can be pick
ed up at the Chamber Office
free of charge by local
residents.
Companies that advertised
on the maps will also receive
certain allotments, according
to Chamber Secretary Kathy
Bailg{y.
“The purpose of the maps
will be to he'fi,)onewcomers and
passers- by find their way
around,” said a Chamber
sfiokesman. “We also hope
they will assist us in bringing
in new people as well as new
businesses.”’
The maps contain a large
picture showing the streets in
side the city fimits of Sum-
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Thompson. ““Joe went on in
the store to get the things he
had come after, and we left to
make a swing by the other
drug store. There was no one
at Triangle Drug so we came
back to our store. As we pull
ed up this guy in the ski-mask
was coming around the same
corner of the building again.
When he saw us he picked up
his pace and went the same
way he had before. Joe came
out of the store about then
and we all left."”
Thompson said at that
time he (s)idn't think much of
the call or the masked man,
other than maybe the call was
a prank. Monday morning,
however, he said he had dif
ferent ideas when he learned
that another Trion druggist
had had a similar experience
with the masked man.
candidacy official until early February.
However, Castellucis said though he
doesn’t forsee any problem with the Regents,
he will, if necessary, resign his teaching post
at the Marietta college to enter the race.
Jack Bade, a Cob% County teacher and a
Democrat who Castellucis doesn't feel is a
serious candidate, is the only other hopeful to
announce with McDonald in the geventh
District.
Castellucis says he supports social security
reform, an overhaul on t,ge income tax rate
structure, a balanced federal budget, stronger
local government, and a better s%:ake for the
elderly and those on fixed incomes.
He says he feels he's more qualified than
McDonaid to understand the needs of the poe-
Eze and become an effective voice in Congress
cause of a diverse background in education
and professional life across the United States
and abroad.
He's spent several years working with the
Federal Aviation Administration and has
served as an educational consultant overseas.
A graduate of the University of Oklahoma,
Castefi:)cis holds a doctorate in adult educa
tion. He and his wife Nita have a 21-year-old
daughter and a 20-year-old son.
The maps are available to the public
from the Chamber office. The maps also
include a history of Summerville,
merville and a smaller one of
the entire county.
The maps a{so contain a
history of Summerville, tell
ing when and how it was form
GSP Issues Dec. Data
The Georgia State Patrol
at Rome reports it in
vesti(gabed 18 traffic accidents
in Chattooga County in
December wgich resulted in
11 injuries and one death.
Sgt. J.E. Gossett of the
Rome Patrol Post said proper
ty damage in the 18 accidents
amounted to $20,125.00.
In the area of enforcement
by the Post, Sgt. Gossett said
his officers had made 154 ar
rests and issued 237 warnings
during the month.
Herman Haygood ot
Triangle Drug tol({ %‘he News
he received a call at home
around 10 p.m, Sunday from a
man who said he immediatel
needed a prescription filleg.
Hay%sod agreed.
“When 1 arrived at the
store there was no one there,"
explained Haygood. "1 was
sitting in the car waiting when
this guy wearing a black ski
mask and a brown corduroy
jacket walked up on foot. He
said his car had broken down
in town and he had had to
walk. It wasn't cold enough to
wear a ski-mask and I could
tell he wasn't going to pull it
off. 1 became suspicious and
asked him for the prescrip
tion. He started Exmblin
around in his pockets. He saig
he'd left it in the car and ask
ed me to wait until he went
after it. He walked down the
sidewalk toward the bank and
I went inside the store and
called the police.”
The man never returned
with the prescription, said
Haygood, and the police
coukfn't locate him,
“I believe the guy was in
his late teens or early 20s by
the sound of his voice,” said
Haygood. “He was tall and
slender. He acted like a ner
vous kid."”
ed, and how the local govern
ments operate.
For more information
about the maps, contact the
Chamber at 857-4033.
Various courts in Chat
tooga County disposed of 290
pending Lra{fic cases during
the month with the following:
120 guilty pleas, 46 bond
forfeitures, 40 cases dismiss
ed, and 84 nolo contendre
pleas.
He also pointed out that
fines ang‘ forfeitures
amounted to $11,538.50 for
the month of December which
was paid to the courts of Chat
tooga County.
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District Honor Band Members
All-District Band auditions were recent
ly held at Chattooga High School. Ap
proximately 500 band students from 21
schools participated in the audition.
Some of the 16 local students accepted
for the band are shown here. Chosen
from the high school were: Janet Lowry,
Rhonda Hegwood, Sheila Smitf":.
Michele Allison, Lynn Jones, Ruth
Fulton, Patsy Donovits, Angela
General Assembly To Mull
Several Education Area Bills
Education items being con
sidered by the Georgia
General Assembly, which con
vened in Atlanta Monday, in
clude budget requests featur
ing teacher salary increases
and capital outlay funds, plus
legislation concerning the
teaching of creation and
evolution in the schools and
hearings for handicapped
students.
According to State School
Supt. Charles McDaniel, two
major requests in the more
than $1 billion education
budget are SB6 million for
Leacier salaries in Fiscal Year
'Bl and $79 million for capital
outlay funds in Fiscal gear
'BO.
“The teacher salary in
crease would raise a beginning
teacher's salary to SII,OOO,
ranking Georgia in the top
half in beginning salaries in
the Southeast, wiile giving a
$1,694 raise to all teachers.
The capital outlay funds
would go to loca{ school
systems for ‘much-needed
school renovation and con
struction,” McDaniel said.
Concerning the proposed
leiislation that would require
schools to teach both creation
and evolution theories to
students (H.B. 600),
Associate State School Supt.
for Instruction Lucille Jordlt)m
said, “The State Board of
Education and the Georgia
Department of Education op
pose attempts by national or
state legisr])ative bodies to
legislate school curriculum.
The state board and local
boards of education, by
Georgia law, are designated to
make curriculum ggcisions,
On the list of textbooks
adopted by the state board for
use Y)y local systems are books
which teach creation or evolu
tion or both. Local systems
can then decide whic{l type
book they wish to use in Lg,eir
County Photographers Will
See Cost Of Hobby Rise
As Silver Prices Soar
Chattooga shutterbugs are
finding the costs of their hob
by zooming, and rising silver
prices are to blame,
Eastman Kodak Co., the
world’s largest film producer,
says it will raise film prices by
as much as 75 percent later
this month to compensate for
the sharp increase in silver
prices.
The increase comes on top
of one imposed in October and
replaces one announced two
weeks afio. before the latest
leap in silver prices.
“What we have done is to
revise the previous increases
to reflect the even higher
;)(rices of silver” said Henry J.
aska, a Kodak spokesman.
As a result of the in
creases, the retail price of
12-exposure roll of Kodacolor
I 1 com print film, size 110,
will rise from the current
$1.85 to $2.15.
A 36mm roll of
Kodachrome slide film, with
20 exposures, will rise from
$4.95 to $6.20.
The price of silver, $6 an
ounce a year ago, had risen
above $lB by early last
month, then soared to almost
%40 after the first of the year.
Last week it slipped back to
$31.91 in trading on New
York’s Commodity Exchange.
Silver is a key component
of the photosenitive emulsion
on film. Kodak uses 50 million
ounces of silver a year.
There were no price in
creases for photo printing
papers, which also use silver,
Whaley, Melodye Busbin, Mike Dean
and Peck Spivey; Picked from the junior
high school: Martha Anne Bennett, Lisa
Price, Kevin Morrison and Brannon
Burnley; from Menlo school: Sherri
Gilreath. These students will participate
in the District Clinic Honor lgands Jan.
17-19 at Covenant College on Lookout
Mountain.
schools.”
A bill attempting to
remove placement hearings
for hangicapped students
from before local school
boards will be in the
legislature this year (S.B.
271). The State Department of
Education and the State
Board of Education support
passage of the bill.
According to Allan Gurley,
director of the state depart
ment's Division of Special
Programs, the bill is con
sidered necessary so that next
year's state plan for education
of the handicapped will be ap
proved by the !}(:deral overn
ment, from which éeor ia
receives some S2O million 70r
special education. Officials
with the Federal Bureau for
the Education of the Han
dicapped have stated that
Classes Allow Adults
To Gain High School
Equivalency Certificate
Adult education classes
are available for the new year
in several locations
throughout Polk, Floyd and
Chattooga counties as well as
nei,ghboring counties.
sponsored by local school
systems, the classes are free
and open to any out-of-school
adults, 16 years of age and
older, who lack their high
school diplomas or who wish
to sharpen educational skills
to meet the demands of 1980.
Special programs are
designed to prepare adults to
take and pass the GED Test
for their high school
equivalency certificates, to
earn an adult high school
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Kaska said.
The price increases are in
suggested list prices, but
retailers are free to charge
either higher or lower prices.
They are to take effect Jan,
26.
Kodak is bfl far the largest
producer of film and its pric
ing actions are often followed
by smaller producers, who are
af;o feeling the pinch from ris
ing silver prices.
The largest price increase
came in photo-tg'pesetting
papers, used by many
newsg:cpers. They rose 75 per
cent because thefy are relative
ly heavy users of silver, Kaska
Georgia law, which currently
allows local boards to hear
these type cases, is in conflict
with their interpretation of
P. L. 94-142, Education of All
Handicapped Children’s Act.
Other education legislation
which will be carried over
from last year's session in
cludes duty-free lunch periods
for teachers, and legislation
which would amend Lfie “Fair
Dismissal Law'' to do away
with the three-year proba
tionary peried which now ex
ists for teach s.
1f this pas ses, all teachers
would have the right to an ap
peal if the local system does
not renew the teachers’ con
tracts. Presently, local school
boards do not have to give
reasons for not renewing the
contracts of teachers witfi less
than three year’s experience.
diploma (in certain counties),
to qualify for vocational
technical training, to learn to
read or read more effectively,
or to learn English as a second
language.
Most of the instruction is
individualized to meet the ob
jectives of each particular stu
dent.
For information on adult
education programs, call: the
Adult Learning Center in
Cedartown, 748-2528; the
CVT Learning Lab in Rome,
235-1142, ext. 20; or the Chat
tooga County Board of Educa
tion, 857-3447.
said.
The Kodak increases were
disclosed to dealers on Tues
ggy but not publicly announc-
The new price list replaces
one announced Dec. 26, which
also was to take effect Jan. 26.
In many cases, the increases
are twice as large as had been
planned. Photo-typesetting
gaper, for example, was to rise
y 35 percent.
Most film bought by
amateur photographers— for
movies, color prints and
slides, had been s?ated to rise
by 7.5 percent.