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Fall Festival Draws Residents
Local residents turned out this week for
Summerville's Fall Festival held in the
downtown area. Susan Black (top photo,
seated) talks with a shopper while
another resident inS{)ects some of the
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Rainfall In September Tops
Summer Months Combined
Slightly more rain fell in
Chattooga County during the
month of September — most
of it in the past week — than
durin%the prior three months,
rainfall records show.
A continual drizzle of rain
began last Wednesday night,
and skies didn't fully clear un
til Tuesday afternoon. The
rainy period, accompanied
with cooler temperatures,
marked the end of one of the
worst droughts in recent
memory.
According to Evan
Bowman, a local weather
observer for the county,
7.31-inches of rain fell in the
county during September.
That compares to a total of
5.24-inches received in the
county from June to August
of this year. Three-inches of
rain fell during the month of
September of 1979, said
Bowman, 4.27-inches less
EOA To Demonstrate Solar Greenhouse Concept
Chattoolfia County
residents will get a first-hand
opportunity this week to learn
how to build an energy
efficient solar greenhouse
which allows vegetables to be
grown in the winter and cir
culates warm air through the
home to which it's connected.
The solar greenhouse pro
ject is being administered
through the Northwest
Georgia Economic Opportuni
ty Authority (EOA) and is
aimed at showing residents,
particularly the elderly and
gersons in low-income groups,
ow the structure can lower
their energy consumption
(and power bills) and allow
them to become more self
sufficient, an EOA staffer
said.
The EOA is overseeing the
roject through a $14,000
gommunity Service Ad
ministration grant it was
awarded. The fi::em money is
being used to hire a technical
advisor who will show
residents of Chattooga.
Catoosa, Dade and Walker
counties how to build the solar
unit at five sites in the four
county area, and to pay for
most of the materials.
The Summeruville News
(bottom photo, C) and Rodney Anglin
(bottom photo, R) set up their woodcraft
display while local shoppers stop by to
watch. The festival was sponsoreg by the
Chamber of Commerce.
than this year.
A comparison of the mon
ths of June through Au§ust of
this year to the rainfall figures
from last vear, Bowman said,
showed a significant decrease
this year, however. The total
rainfall for June of 1979 was
1.86-inches compared to
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In Chattooga County, the
site will be in gummerville at
the home of Lillie Mae
Walker, 616 Highland Ave.
An orientation program
open to everyone in the com
munity, to be held Wednesday
at Fairway Recreation Center
at 7 p.m. will be led by Joe
Hultquist, executive director
of Tennessee Solar-Ener§y
Association, the non-profit
outfit which is acting as the
technical advisor for the pro
ject. Hultquist, at this general
meeting, will give residents an
overview of what the project
is about, using a slide sl{’ow for
much of the presentatin.
Actual work in what Hult
quist is calling an ‘‘on-site
workshop”’ dt the Highland
Avenue site of the greenhouse
will ;bffm Thursday, Oct. 9,
and will continue through Fri
day, Oct. 10.
‘“The design of the
workshop is such that we will
be doing as much as can take
place at the site with hands-on
involvement b{l people in
terested in or who would like
to learn more about building
solar greenhouses.” He re
quested that persons in
terested in joining the
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1980
.94-inches this year, said
Bowman. In July of 1979 the
county receivedy a total of
4.64-inches of rain, while this
f'ear during July there was on
y 1.53-inches of rainfall
recorded. During the month of
August 1979, Bowman added,
the county received
6.38-inches of rain. This year,
however, during August there
was only 2.77-inches of rain
recordedy in the county. This
also compares slightly lower
to the August 1978 figures of
2.83-inches and the August
1977 figures of 3.14-inches the
county recorded.
In reviewing the overall
rainfall figures for the two
years (1979 and 1980), the
county received 3.37-inches
more of rain during the ?eriod
of June to Sept.em%)er of 1979
than in the period of June to
September of 1980, according
to Bowman.
workshop pre-register by call
ing EOA staffer Kathy Reed
at 857-3641.
Chattooga High School
teachers Will Hair and Lee
Toles have offered their voca
tional students for the project,
he added.
The greenhouse’s dimen
sions are 10 by 22 feet, Hult
%\‘xist said. It is attached to
the south end of the house,
where with its sloping front
glass wall it can “‘pick up as
much of the winter sun as
possible,” The sloped front
wall is made of thermo-pane
replaceable panels, while the
end walls and roof are for the
most part solid and insulated,
he said.
The heart of the solar
greenhouse concept is fifteen
55-gallon drums, usually
painted black, which are filled
with water and are located on
the back wall. The sloped
glass surface collects the
sun’s rays which in turn strike
and warm the drums during
the day. Then they slowly
release their heat at night.
“The warmed air circulates in
to the house throufh high and
low vents,” e:f ains Hult
quist by natural convection,
Riegel’s Operation At Trion
In Good Shape, Group Told
Riegel Textile Corporation’s Trion operation is in
the migst of an “‘exciting"’ geriod of modernization,
impressive Profits and a backlog of orders, Vice
gresident of Trion Grey Mill H. 1.. Peek said Mon
ay.
Peek’'s comments came at the end of a luncheon
at the Riegel Lodge attended by local pastors and
journalists Monday. A group of over 30 toured the
filant shortly before noontime and ate lunch with
iegel officials in conjunction with National Textile
Week, Sept. 29-Oct. 5.
Noting that Monday was the first day of the cor
poration’s new fiscal year, Peek said that the fiscal
year just ended ‘‘looks like it will be a record year”
for profits at the Trion facility. The apparel Fabrics
Division (of which the Trion plant is a Eart) earned
an estimated $33 million before taxes, he said.
The mill and the finishing plant, he said, were
responsible for a significant share of the total pro
fits of the corporation, he estimated, for the fiscal
Energy Loans:
Many Chattoo¥a County
residents are eligible to
receive energy loans,
repayable over several years,
and in many cases interest
free.
Scores of countians, all
customers of Northwest
Georgia Electric Membership
Corp. which runs three energy
programs in all, have already
taken advantage of the loans
in the last two years, reports
“Cotton”’ Greeson, supervisor
of the Energ{ Conservation
Department of NGEMC.
Under one program, a
customer can borrow up to
$2,000 — interest free — for
weatherizing his home — ad
ding insulation and storm win
dows, caulking, and wrapping
the hot water heater, for ex
ample. According to Greeson,
the first step in the loan pro
cess is to request an enel{fé
audit in which a NGE
employee inspects the agpli
cant’s home to see where
energy-relat,ed im?rovements
can be made. The loan can be
used for whatever projects the
energy inspector will approve,
he explained.
As far as the actual work, a
homeowner can either do the
work himself or hire a contrac
tor from a list of approved
companies NGEMC provides.
Part of the loan can go to
cover the cost of the contrac
tor, but the individual who
does the work himself cannot
draw pay for his own work,
Greeson explained.
The homeowner must sign
Jobless Rate
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Growth Seen
Chattooga County’s
preliminary unemployment
rate for July increaseJ’ by 5
percent over the previous
month, from a revised 12.2
percent in June to 17.2, the
Georgia Department of Labor
reported this week. Chattooga
County’s jobless rate was 10.1
percent in July of last year.
According to State Labor,
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Solar Greenhouse To Be Built
This solar greenhouse’s design is similar
to the one which will be used at the site of
an EOA demonstration greenhouse to be
built on Highland Avenue next week.
a repayment agreement which
allows him to repay the loan in
monthly insta“ments. The
rePayment is part of his power
bill, and he can take up to
seven years to repay a
weatherization loan.
So far the utility has loan
ed nearly $2.5 mil)l,ion under
its weatherization program
(through July), Greeson said,
throughout its seven-county
service area.
A second pro%ram also in
volving interest-iree loans is
the power company’s wood
heater program. Bnd‘;r it eligi
ble N(E:EMC customers can
borrow up to SBOO, repayable
in f[ive years in months); in
« 2l'ments. To be eligible. the
noineowner must have an
energy audit and have the
home’s attic insulation rated
at least R-19 or better (the
e%uivalent to six inches of
fiberglass batt).
Under this program, a loan
will be given only for an ap-
Eroved, airt(ifht wood heater,
e explained. A Franklin or
open-type stove isn’t eligible,
for example.
Installation must be
followed to certain specifica
tions. Following installation,
the unit must pass a NGEMC
Autopsy: Nulurulr Cause
Resident Dies In Alabama Jail
An autopsy report con
cluded that a localp resident,
found dead in a Fort Payne
(Ala.) jail Sunday mormng.
died as a result of a heart ail
ment, according to Alabama
authorities.
William “Bill”” Hamby,
afif 66, of Route 3, Summer
ville, the Dry Valley communi
ty, was found dead around 9
a.m. on Sunday in the Fort
Payne Police Department Jail.
He died as the result of a car
diovascular disease, the
autopsy performed in Birm
ingham (Ala.) showed, accor
ding to Detective Wayne
The public is invited to visit the site and
to learn how to construct the unit, which
can warm an entire house by natural con
vection.
year '}ust ended.
“That gives you an idea of what it (the Trion
operation) means to the whole corporation,” he said.
During the new fiscal year, he said, a three-year
program will be launched in which total expen
ditures of $26 million in the spinning, winding, warp
preparation, and weaving rooms is planned. ‘“‘ln
three years,” he predicted, ‘‘those departments
won't look anything like what you saw today.”
He called the current period an “‘exciting time
for us,” a time of projected growth and prosperity.
He asked Ramf{] Snyder, finishing plant
manager, to update the group on activities in the
finishing plant. '
Snyger told the group that $2 million has been
spent recently in a modgrnization program in the
preparation room of the finishing plant and that
another $2.5 million is planned tgis year. And
another $1.5 million will %e spent for new tenter
frame equipment, he said. After two or three years,
insgqection.
onthly payments work
out to about sl3, but are off
set by the savings in energy,
Greeson noted. “You're sav
ing more than what your
payments will actually be,”’ he
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Police Department.
Hamlr))y had been arrested
in Fort ag‘ne a little after 9
am, on Friday, Detective
Parker said, for driving while
intoxicated (DWI). He proved
positive for intoxicated on the
intoximeter, added Parker.
Hamby, a retired auto produc
tion worker, was then placed
in a jail cell in lieu of a S3OO
property bond to be released.
Parker said that Hamby
did not complain of sickness
to any oip the officers.
However, Parker added, Ham
NGEMC Has Three Programs
Including Two Interest-Free Plans
he said, the entire bleaching, dying and finishinfi
operations will be con&rollefi by computer, whic
will translate into energy and water savings.
“There will be a lot g{challenges to be presented
many Riegel employees,” he said, because the new
technology represents the first major change in
those departments in many years.
Government contracts, much of it involving the
[)roduction of background cloth to be used eventual
y as camouflage, is ensuring a five-and-six-day
workweeks ‘‘for at least six months’’ in the finishing
plant, he said.
In the Trion plant, Peek noted, the firm's largest
customer, Blue %ell, is assurin s'/I~daK schedules
in the Grey Mill (through Decem%)er) with a contract
calling for 700,000 yargs of finished denim per week.
Peek added that Riegel management hopes ‘‘to be
able to fill out the other halgday with our other
customers,”’ aiming for a 6-day workweek.
said.
The third program
NGEMOC runs is its heat pump
program in which any amount
will be loaned to a customer
for 10 years for purchase and
installation of such a unit. For
by did tell the man in the f'ail
cell next to him that he ‘“‘felt a
little sick” around 9 p.m. on
Saturday.
Sunday morning around 9
a.m. when the jailor went back
to the cells to give the
?risoners their breakfast he
ound Hamby dead, explained
Parker. Hamby, who was in a
cell alone, hady died sometime
during the night, added
Parker.
Funeral services for Ham
by were held Wednesday, Oct.
1, at 11 a.m. from the chapel of
Lane Funeral Home witfiethe
or sometimes with the help of
a small fan,
The materials’ cost of the
greenhouse is about $1,600, he
explains,
The News asked Hultquist
how persons who are poor
and/or elderly, the group that
the EOA is striving to en
courage with the project,
could afford to build one'i’
He replied that its proven
desil;gn is "‘so cost-effective in
application that someone can
go out and borrow at, say 12
percent and pay it off within
the term of the note,” solely
from money saved in their
winter power bills.
He added that the
greenhouse is ‘‘not a cure-all”’
ut that it will %o a long way
in helPinE peopie who build
them. ““They are cheaper than
paying for electricity,” he
commented.
“Our i)rogram is supposed
to be a self-help gro am,”’ ex
plains Frances mnflra&. EOA
enerq coordinator. ‘‘We want
to help peogle become self
reliant,”’ she said. ‘‘The
indeor-gardening aspect of the
Erogram ties in nicely with
OA’s summer gardening
program.”
PRICE 20¢
this program only, however, a
8.5 Kercent interest is levied.
heat pump, despite its
name, works as a central air
conditioning system that
operates in reverse cycle dur
ing the winter to transfer heat
from the outside air into the
home. It can draw some heat
efficiently from the air out
side, even at 10 degrees below
zero, according to Borg-
Warner Corp., a manufac
turer, which says ‘‘add-on
heat pumps currently make
the most economic sense
where there is an oil or electric
furnace, liquid propane
gystem or in areas where
natural gas rates are high and
electricity rates are relatively
low.”
According to the Borg-
Warner, their costs ranges
from $2,000 to $3,000, in
cluding installation, with a
three-to five-year payback.
Since late in 1977, a total
of $313,610 in heat pump
loans have been made in the
NGEMC service area,
Greeson said.
More information about
the three energy programs can
be obtained g{’ calling or
visiting the NGéMC office in
Trion, phone 734-7341.
Rev. Johnny Tinney of
ficiating. Interment was in the
Summerville Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Ruby Hamby of Route 3,
Summerville; two sons, David
Andrew Hamby of Flint,
Mich., and Randall Dean
Hamby of Summerville; two
sisters, Mrs. Cora Garner of
Attalla, Ala., and Mrs. Margie
Mooney of LaPorte, Ind.; two
brothers, Hewlett E. Hamby
of LaPorte, Ind. and Steve
Hamby of Flint, Mich.; one
grandgaught,er; and several
nieces and nephews,
According to Hultquist,
with a few minor differences
the actual construction work
is fairly traditional, using a
standard foundation and a
wood frame, masonite
sideboard and a plywood roof.
Mrs. Walker's home was
selected by a five-member
energy committee from
among four ?plications. It's
a central and highly visible
home, Hultquist noted, and
has a good south-facinfi side
which will be easy to build on.
““She has quite a green
thumb and she’ll be a E(ood
one to manage it,”’ Mrs.
Smalle{ said.
A follow-up workshop,
Hultquist said, will be con
ducted by a horticulturist who
will advise the community
residents how to ensure that
vegetables stay healthy and
productive in their' solar
greenhouse,
Hultq]\;ist is conductin
the workshop along witg
Perry Conkle, on-site super
visor for the Department of
Energy of Northwest Georgia
EOA.
‘“People who get involved
will learn a great deal,” Hult
quist promised.