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VOLUME XCV — NUN & & CLIV
Sumn ;rville High Rise
Will Be Opened Soon
By TOM KIRWAN
Public housing officials
say that Summerville’s high
rise facility for the elderly and
handicapped, which has been
under construction for a little
more than a year, should be
opened in the near future.
Everett Lunsford, who has
sgearheaded the Kroject and is
the agent for the non-profit
cor{)oration which owns the
building, said Monday it was
uncertain whether the
targeted Dec. 1 openin% date
would be met. He explained
that the building’s final in
spection is pending and as &
result the exact opening date
is not known.
According to Andrew
Williams, executive director
Democrats Elect
County Officers
The Chattooga County
Democratic Committee met
Saturday at the county cour
thouse for the election of
1981-82 officers.
Those elected were A.B.
Day of Menlo as chairman;
Shirley McDonald of Summer
ville as vice chairman; and
Katherine Camp of Summer
ville as secretary-treasurer.
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Summerville Mayor Sewell Cash (second
from left) presents Coach Ron Williams
with a Eroclamation Monday declaring
the week of Nov. 17 as ‘“Chattooga In
CHS Indians Earn Spot
In Local Sports’ History
Face Cedartown Friday
The Chattooga Indians
carved out a spot for
themselves in loca? sports
history Friday night by nar
rowly defeating the galton
Catamounts in an action
packed game that went into
two overtime periods.
Neither team was able to
score after Dalton tied the
sub-region game in the second
3uarter at 7-7. CHS was
eclared the 8-7 winner at the
end of the second 5-minute
overtime pericd ‘‘by penetra
tion,”” meaning that it had
pushed deeper into enemy ter
ritory than its opfionent.
Chattooga had pushed to
Dalton’s 14-yard line while the
Catamounts had only driven
to Chattooga's 42-yard line.
The upset victory &romp
ted Summerville ayor
Sewell Cash to proclaim this
week ‘‘Chattooga Indians
Week.”” The action was an
nounced Monday at a meetinlf
of the ma&)r and council.
Coach Ron Williams accepted
the congratulations of the
mayor and council at that
meeting.
The Indians face the only
team that has blemished their
record this year, Cedartown,
Friday night at Cedartown.
Game time is 8 o'clock.
The Indians, who
displayed a ferocious hitting
defense against Dalton and an
opportunistic offense in the
overtime period, must put it
together again to meet the
highly-regarded Bulldogs.
of the Summerville Housing
Authoritd\;. as of Tuesday his
agency did not have enough
applicants to fill the building.
“We're in the process of
filling it up,” he said. “We
don't quite have enough ap
plications to fill it up. We're
desirous of more
applications.”
Accordin%l to Williams, all
but one of the eight ground
floor apartments set aside for
handicapged residents have
been applied for and are ex
pected to be rented. That
unassigned unit is a
2-bedroom apartment (there
are only two two-bedroom
units in the buildini. the other
58 apartments have one
bedroom) and Williams said it
would be leased to a handicap
ped individual who requires
the attention of a nurse or
companion. Anyone con
sidered disabled under the
Social Security Act would be
eligible for consideration
;ggardless of age, he explain-
The 52 apartments on the
top four stories are designed
specifically for the elderly;
residents must be at least age
62 in order to qualify to live in
one. Of those apartments, An
drew said, his office has 37 ap
plications, meaning that at
Indians Week Proclaimed
Cedartown advanced in the
region playoffs by virtue of a
14-0 win over Rossville. They
will line up virtually the same
as the first time tKey played
except their starting quarter
back is out for the season.
Coach Ron Williams in
talking about the upcoming
game said, ‘““We must stop our
mistakes and play another
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Mayor’s Proclamation
WHEREAS, the Chattooga Indians, in a fine-spirited,
all-out, team effort, defeated the No. 1 Dalton Cata
mounts Football Team in Class 7-AAA, Friday, Nov. 14,
1980; and
WHEREAS, this defeat put the Dalton Catamounts
out of the running for the 1980 7-AAA Football Cham
pionshj%; and
WHEREAS, this placed the Chattooga Indians in a
“run-off”’ contest witfi the Cedartown Bulldogs on Nov.
21, 1980 for the State entry; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Council of the City of
Summerville wish to congratulate and endorse the
coaches, all members of tfie team, cheerleaders, sup
porters and fans;
THEREFORE, the Mayor and Council of the City of
Summerville hereby firoclaims the week of Nov. 17, 1980
as CHATTOOGA INDIANS WEEK; and further con
gratulates the Chattooga Indians, and all associated with
their efforts, for the hardwork, incentive and determina
tion to carry CHATTOOGA HIGH SCHOOL to the State
Plagoffs. and further hereby wishes the CHATTOOGA
INDIANS a State Championship.
This 17th day of November, 1980.
Sewell Cash, Mayor
(Signed)
City of Summerville
The Summerville News
least 15 units have yet to be
applied for. “Those 37 have
applied for a unit,” Williams
explained. ‘“We have to recon
tact them and see if they still
desire to move in.”’
The apartments are unfur
nished, except for the kitchens
which each have a stove,
refrigerator and garbage
disposal. The one-bedroom
apartments have some 520
square feet of living area,
w(Lich includes the kitchen
dinette section, living room,
bedroom and bathroom. The
building’s apartments are
heated by natural gas, con
trolled by thermostats in each
room. The building is not air
conditioned, however.
All utilities are included in
the rental fee, according to
housing officials, and the
building has been wired for
telephone and cable-TV ser
vice, which can be obtained
for separate fees if desired.
Laundries are housed on
the fourth and fifth floors. A
beauty shop and barber shop
will be leased out on the third
and second floors respective
ly. The first floor has a recep
tion area and community
room.
The apartments can be
leased by either individuals or
couples, he explained. Rent is
dians Week”’ in recognition of the team’s
victory over Dalton Friday night. Also
shown are Councilmen Dennis Cox (L)
and Hubert Palmer (R).
great defensive game, par
ticularl?' stopping their ‘big
play’ offense.’
The only loss on Cedar
town’s record was a 7-0 set
back to Carrollton.
The Bulldogs field the
area’s top defensive team
from their 5-3 defense and
have an outstanding tailback
in Clarence Calhoun.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980
fixed at 25 percent of gross in
come, he explained, with a
maximum rent set at $lB5 for
individuals and $212 for
couples. Most residents eliii
ble for the housing would
most likely pay much less
than that because they are on
fixed incomes and make less
than the maximum gross earn
ings, he indicated.
According to Williams, he
and other officials initially
thou(fht the housing authority
could fill the building by tapp
ing elderly applicants amor;fi
the 100 applications receiv
for the housing authority's
conventional pu%alic housing.
It was later learned, however,
that separate applications for
the high rise are required
under government regula
tions. Residents a%:ad 62 and
older can make application for
an apartment by contacting
the Summerville Housing
Authority, located on Ross
Street (w{ich intersects North
Commerce Street near Joe's
Grocery).
The total pricetag of the
project, accorcflng to officials,
18 nearlg $2 million. The non
rofit Summerville Housing
‘C’ori»oration. the owner of the
bui dinfi. was formed
specifically to construct the
building, according to of
ficials, and presently has the
same membership as the Sum
merville Housing Authority.
The association received a
$1,116,000 Appalachian
Regional Grant a(fministered
through the Georgia Residen
tial Authority for the
building. The balance of the
$1,968,000 needed to cover
every aspect of the project
was done by selling tax
exempt bonds. Under the ar
rangement, the authority is
leasing the building (and v%!
operate and manage the pre
perty) for the 30-year period
during which the bonds will be
paid off.
The facility is located on a
2.85-acre lot on Marvin Street.
The dprima? contractor was
Buddy Busbin. Some 10 sub
contractors were also involved
in the project.
Theft Probed
The theft of a truck and
trailer from a local construc
tion company Sunday night is
under investi%ation by the
Summerville Police Depart
ment.
James Busbin of James W.
Busbin General Contractors,
L{verly Highway, reported to
officers Monday morning that
he had had a truck and trailer
taken from his business Sun
day ml'zght. The truck, a green
1973 Ford F6OO, and a yellow
lowboy trailer were taken bet
ween 9 p.m. Sunday and 7:45
a.m, Mondaz, said the police
report. The keys to the truck,
said the report, were under the
floor mat. The vehicles were
valued at an estimated $6,000.
Sports Banquet
Menlo Recreation Depart
ment will hold its annual
sports banquet Saturday at 6
p.m. at the elementary school
cafeteria there.
Courthouse Earns Historic Recognition
The Chattooga County
Courthouse is one of 95 cour
thouses in Georgia to be listed
as a group on the National
Re%'st,er of Historic Places.
he recently renovated
courthouse, according to the
state Department of Natural
Resources (DNR), was part of
a ‘‘thematic’’ nomination
which was approved by the
National Register Office of
the Heritage Conservation
and Recreation Service in
Washington, D.C., on Sept.
18. The approval was an
nounced on Nov. 4 by the
DNR.
Thematic nomination, ac
cording to the state, allows
congideration of all eligible
sites in an area that are
related to each other by a
clear, central theme. Georgilia
is the second state to use the
thematic nomination for
recognizing its historic cour
thouses.
“County courthouses in
Georgia are significant in ar
chitecture, politics, com
munications, economics and
law, and have been important
features of their communities
since the first were built soon
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The housing authority says it lacks tenant applications
for over two dozen of its 52 one-bedroom apartments at
the high rise (shown here) which are designated for per-
City Aims To Cut Gas Losses
The Summerville City
Council Monday night voted
to buy $4,000 in natural gas
leak detection equipment in
an effort to find out how the
City is losing large amounts of
the gas it distributes and
sells,
The action will allow City
employees to eSerform
wannually-required federal and
#tate inspections of the
w'-m Tn the past the City
hired cdfitractors (o per
form such inspections —
typicalg' at a cost of a couple
of hundred dollars a day ?or
rou%hly 20 to 30 days.
he council also voted to
purchase a truck to carry the
new equipment and will solicit
bids for the vehicle.
The decisions came at the
end of a nearly-two-hour-long
meeting in which Mayor
Sewell Cash and Councilman
Earl ‘““Red”’ Parris crossed
verbal swords several times.
Cash was critical of what he
termed as Parris’ attempts to
interfere with aspects of the
daily ?eration of the natural
gas egartment., Parris
countered that the depart
ment was mismanaged and
“nobody knows what he's do
ing."”
Cash strongly took excep
tion to that remark, saying
that the gas department was
being run as efficiently as
Fossxble and that he personal
y had invested numerous
hours to ensure its operation
is ug to snuff.
arris charged that the
last available city audit show
ed that the gas department
had lost $96,000 worth of gas,
which he said proved his point
of alleged mismanagement.
The mayor countered that the
City has experienced heavy
natural gas losses for several
years and that he (Cash) and
others within the city have
been working or conferring
diligently with the city's
natural gas engineers, the gas
after the Constitution of 1977
established Georgia’'s first
eight counties,”” the DNR
said.
The 95 recently approved
i'oin 19 others J)reviously
isted either individually or as
part of a historic district.
Out of the 159 counties in
Georgia, 114 have cour
thouses listed on the National
Register. The National
Register is the federal govern
ment’s official list of fiistoric
buildings and other cultural
resources worthy of preserva
tion.
Along with providing
recognition of a &roperty’s
significance, ational
Register Listinf identifies
properties for planning pur
‘poses and in doing so assures
they will be taken into ac
count in the planning of
federally-funded or licensed
projects. National Register
designation also makes
owners of National Register
properties eligible for federal
grant assistance for preserva
tion purposes.
The local courthouse was
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Apartments Still Available
supplier, the Georgia
Municipal Association and
other groups and cities in an
all-out effort to solve the pro
blem,
“Frankly, I think the
sKstem is in pretty good
shape,” the mayor said at one
point.
Eventually discussion
focused on the proposed pur
chase of a “flame pack” and
related equipment used to
aelect' gus leaks und other
tests. Veit,h little discussion,
council members two months
ago failed to second a motion
by Councilman James Crouch
who proposed the purchase
then. Pl‘he motion was backed
by the mayor at that meetin’.
but he cannot vote except i
Court Orders Town To Rule
On Clear-Vu Rate Request
Superior Court Judge Paul
W. Painter last week ordered
the Town of Trion to act upon
a rate increase request being
sought by Clear(-l\’u Cable,
Inc.
In a six-page order signed
Nov. 13, Painter said the order
“...is a proper remedy to
compel the municipality to
perform its contractual obliga
tions.”
Clear-Vu filed a civil court
complaint earlier this year
after the Trion Mayor and
Council took no action on a
rate increase Clear-Vu sought
from the Town late in 1579
and again early this year.
Although a corporate audit
was provided the mayor and
council, the Town advised the
company that until more and
better information was pro
vided, it would not approve
the rate increase (which would
boost the monthly service
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sons age 62 and older. A federal grant and the issuance
of bonds paid for the building and grounds, with a total
cost set at nearly $2 million.
the case of a tie. The other
council members’ reservations
to that move — that the equip
ment was dangerous and the
city lacks the employees to
run it — were answered by
Crouch and the mayor Mon
day night. They said that
other cities have reported
great success with the equip
ment; that it is not dangerous
to use; and that the city has
the personnel to operate it.
The mayor called it “siviple
enough for a 7-year-old to
operate.”’
By ‘‘sniffing’’ out gas
leaks and allowing the city to
do its own leak surveys,
Mayor Cash said, the equip
ment will more than pay for
itself in a matter of months.
charge in Trion to $7.95 per
month).
A 1970 agreement
franchise gives the Town the
right to approve “fair and
reasonable’’ rate increases set
by Clear-Vu.
The Court said: "It is true
that the plaintiff (Clear-Vu)
has the burden of proving
what ‘fair and reasonable’
charges would be under the
terms of the contract but
there is a legal duty on the
part of the defendants (Town
of Trion) to act upon the re
quest and if the pgintiff sub
mits what it contends to be a
fair and reasonable charge, af
firmative action by the sefen
dants is required . . . Since the
plaintiff furnished the finan
cial information upon which it
based its re?,uest for rate in
crease, it has carried its
burden and the question is
now one to be determined by
PRICE 20¢
In related action sug
gested by Parris, the Mayor
agreed to see if the natural %as
pressure in the city's distribu
tion lines can be lowered from
the current 300 pounds of
Eressure. That pressure was
oosted at the request of
LaFayette as needed by E. T.
Barwick Industries, which
now is closed. The City agreed
to the increase contractually,
the mayor said, and such a
change would have to be ap-
Eroved by Trion a}:d
aFayette. The thfee
municipalities built the
distribution system from
Rome in the 1950 s and a
related contract remains in ef
fect between them,
see CITY AIMS, page 16-A
the defendants.”
It is up to mayor and coun
cil to determine a fair and
reasonable charge, he noted.
The judge said that as a
matter of law the defendants
“by their failure to act have
been arbitrary and capricious
in failing to perform their of
ficial duties as officials of the
Town of Trion.”
Judge Painter further
noted tiat the court is not
legally authorized to set or
make rates, ‘‘but it is clear
that those who are, namely
the Mayor and Council of the
Town of Trion, must be
prepared to deal with the
g‘lamtiff and the people of the
own of Trion in a proper
fashion.”
The judge gave the
munic\iyality 30 days to act on
Clear-Vu's rate increase pro
posal,