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CITATION
STATE OF GEORGIA
CHATTOOGA COUNTY
PROBATE COURT Sl
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To: _A.II Parties at Interest: e
VP’“‘-' upon amended application
of W.W. McDaniel, widow of Annie L.
McDaniel, for a twelve months' support for
himself and no minor children, having filed
their return; all parties at interest are Lnby
cited to show cause, if any they have, at the
next regular JANUARY, 1981 term of this
court, why said/amended application should
not be granted.
Jon M. Payne, Judge, Probate Court
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: CITATION
GEORGIA,
CHATTOOGA COUNTY
PROBATE COURT
December 2, 1980
TO: All Parties at Interest:
The apfinlurl ?on nwlicnion of Viola
Ferfulon yatt, widow of Oliver Hyatt, for a
twelve months’ support for hem{l and no
minor children, having filed their return, all
parties at interest are hereb{' cited to show
cause, if any they have, at the next regular
January, 1981 term of this court, why said
application should not be Er.med,
/s/ Jon M. Payne, Judge, Probate Court
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NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
GEORGIA, CHATTOOGA COUNTY
Because of default in the payment of the
indebtedness secured by a deed to secure
debt executed by JAMES A. WAGNER and
REGINA J. WAGNER to FIRST
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF
NASHVILLE. dated February 12, 1980,
recorded in Deed Book 175, Page 124 of Chat
tooga County Deed Records, the undersign
ed, First American National Bank of
Nashville, pursuant to said deed and the note
thereby secured has declared to the power of
sale contained in said deed. will, on the first
Tuesday in January, 1981, during the legal
hours of sale, at the Courthouse in Chattooga
County, sell at public outery to the highest
bidder for cash, the property described in
said deed, to-wit:
Located in the 6th District and 4th Sec
tion of Chattooga County, Georgia: BEGIN
NING at an iron pin on the west right of way
of the Gore-Subligna Public Road at its in
tersection on the north line of Land Lot 298;
thence south 33 degrees 06 minutes west,
459.0 feet to an iron pin: thence south 35
degrees 14 minutes west 150.58 feet to an
iron pin: thence south 41 degrees 30 minutes
west 222.17 feet to an iron pin; thence south
49 degrees 42 minutes west 161.75 feet to an
iron pin: thence south 57 degrees 23 minutes
west 230.85 feet to an iron pin: thence south
61 degrees 45 minutes west 1197.54 feet toan
iron pin; thence north 09 degrees 40 minutes
30 seconds west 1488.11 feet to an iron pin;
thence south 89 degrees 11 minutes west
2075.08 feet to the point of beginning,
Subject to an governmental zoning and
subdivision ordinances or regulations in ef
fect thereon.
NOTE: Prior title is in Deed Book 167,
Page 552, in the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Chattooga County,
Georgia. 5
Being the same property conveved to
James A. Wagner and Regina Y. Wagner, by
deed from Bobby Lee and Carolyn Lowry
Lee, and recorded in said Registers Office in
Deed Book 167, Page 552.
Said rrnp«-rl v will be sold as the property
of JAMES A, WAGNER and RE(E:I!\'A J
WAGNER and the proceeds of said sale will
be applied to the payment of said in
debtedness, the expense of said sale, all as
provided in said deed. and the undersigned
will execute a deed to the purchaser at said
sale as provided in aforementioned deed to
secure debt.
First American National Bank of
Nashville, as Attorney in Fact for
James A. Wagner and Regina J.
Wagner
William U. Hyden, Jr
Attorney at Law
P. 0. Box 468
Summerville, Georgia 30747
Telephone: (404) 857-2415
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CITATION FOR
SUMMERVILLE NEWS
GEORGIA,
CHATTOOGA COUNTY
Whereas, Billy Frank Mitchell, Ad
ministrator represents to the Court in his
petition, duly filed and entered on record.
that he has fully administered the ODIS L.
MITCHELL estate; This is, therefore, to cite
‘all persons concerned, kindred and
creditors, to show cause, if any they can,
why said Administrator should not be
discharged from his administration, and
receive letters of Dismission, on the first
Monday in January, 1980.
s Jon M. Payne, Judge of Probate
Court, Chattooga County
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NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
GEORGIA, CHATTOOGA COUNTY:
Because of default in the payment of the
indebtedness secured bE a deed to secure
debt executed by FRED HARDIN and
SUSAN HARDIN to FIRST NATIONAL
BANK OF CHATTOOGA COUNTY dated
August 12, 1978 and recorded in Deed Book
167, Page 262-263, Chattooga Counl¥ Deed
Records, the undersigned, FIRST NA
TIONAL BANK OF CHATTOOGA COUN
TY %ursuum to said deed and the note
thereby secured has declared the entire
amount of said indebtedness due and payable
and pursuant to the power of sale contained
in said deed, will, on the first Tuesday in
January, 1981, during the legal hours of sale,
at the Courthouse in Chattooga County, sell
at Kublic outcry to lhebte\ifhest bidder for
cash, the property described in said deed, to
wit: All that trac’ or parcel of land lying and
being in Land Lot 52 in the 14th District and
4th %ection of Chattooga County, Georgia
and being more particularly described as
follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the north line
of said Land Lot 52, which point lies 1,320
feet north 88 degrees 55 minutes east as
measured along said north line of said Land
Lot 52 from the northwest corner of said
Land Lot 52; thence along said north line of
said Land Lot 52 along a fence north 88
degrees 55 minutes east 680 feet to a point;
thence south 1 degree 05 minutes east 1,399
feet along a fence to a point; thence south 88
degrecs 55 minutes west 875 feet to a point;
thence north 26 degrees east 440 feet to a
poin.: thence north 1 degree 5 minutes west
Drought Insurance
Offers Hope In 1981
tempted. Policyholders with
no loss will see their premiums
come down in succeeding
years.
For further information on
1980—Some Highlights Of An Unforgettable Year
by the Summerville City Council.
* T'ornado-like winds roared through
parts of the county toppling hundreds of
trees. At least 300 trees were blown over
in James H. ‘‘Sloppy "’ Floyd State Park.
* A $20,000 matching-grant from the
state for construction on the Angus
McLeod Memorial Park was rejected b
the Lyerly Town Council and the parfi
committee, concluding that too many
restrictions and controls would be im
posed.
~ *City of Summerville water
customers received an increase in their
bills, the second in two years.
' * A Vietnamese refugee family mov
ed to Summerville with the help of the
Summerville Presbyterian Church. The
family includes Neuyen Van Thach, his
wife Thu, and daufihter Hum.
* John Henry Hudgins, son of Mrs.
Alice Hudgins of Menlo, was selected as
the Governor’s Honors Program finalist
from Chattooga High School. Mike
Barbee and Susan Fletcher were
selected as alternates.
* The Menlo City Council purchased
a 1975 Chevrolet Malibu at a cost of
81,600 for the city’s new patrol car.
* The 1980 gensus questionnaires
were distributed the last week in March.
The Census is held every 10 years.
APRIL
* Search for oil deposits along county
1,010 feet to the point of nnlNg on the
north line of said flnd Lom. b:::l 2248
acres, according to a Plat by H. L. Canb-11.
Gw‘l Registered Land Surveyor No. 1154,
da &Emmbu 10, 1978.‘"' .
: property being ved propert;
with a former mobile honnp:?uch-d honuyv
and S:\l:lde a part ol‘hh;. ml'lav
roperty w sold as the rflaun
of FREB mR%)IN and SUSAN HA Dlfi
and the proceeds of said sale will be applied to
the payment of said indebtedness, the ex
pense of said sale, all as provided in said deed,
and the undersigned will execute a deed to
the purchaser at said sale as provided in
aforementioned deed to secure debt.
First National Bank of Chattooga
County, as Attorney in Fact for Fred
Hardin and Susan Hardin
William U. Hyden, Jr.
Attorney at Law
P. 0. Box 468
Summerville, Georgia 30747
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NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
GEORGIA, CHATTOOGA COUNTY
Because of default in the payment of the
indebtedness secured by a deed to secure
debt executed by CAROL SMITH and
ELIZABETH F. COOK (o FIRST
FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION OF SUMMERVILLE,
GEORGIA dated March 4, 1975 and record
ed in Deed Book 150, Page 725, Chattooga
County Deed Records, the undersigned.
FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION OF SUMMERVILLE,
GEORGIA pursuant to said deed and the
note thereby secured has declared the entire
amount of said indebtedness due and payable
and pursuant to the power of sale contained
in said deed, will, on the first Tuesday in
January, 1981, during the legal hours o! sale,
at the Courthouse in Chattooga County, sell
at fiublic outery to the highest bidder for
cash, the property describe(fm said deed, to
wit:
All that tract or parcel of land lving and
being in Land Lot No. 56 in the 6th District
and 4th Section of Chattooga County,
Georgia, being part of Tract 20 as shown on
Plat 1 of the glurdivam Estate by N.B.
DelLoach dated April 29, 1969, recorded in
Plat Book 4, Page 217 in the office of the
clerk of Superior %‘nurl of Chattooga County,
Georgia and being more particularly describ
ed as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the north side
of South Crest Road. said point being 400
feet north 58 degrees east from the intersec
tion of the east side of Power Line Road with
the north side of South Crest Road: thence
north 17 degrees west 200 feet to a point:
thence north 58 degrees east 200 feet to a
point on the west side of an unnamed road:
thence south 17 degrees east along the west
side of said unnamed road 200 feet to a point
on the north side of South Crest Road: thence
south 58 degrees west 200 feet along the
north side ofg:mlh Crest Road to the point of
beginning, according to a Plat by H.L.
Campbelfdated ()cufi)er 8, 1973.
Said property bei:s improved property
with a residence erected thereon.
Said property will be sold as the %rorerlv
of CAROL SMITH and ELIZABETH F.
COOK and the proceeds of said sale will be
applied to the payment of said indebtedness,
the expense of said sale, all as provided in
said deed, and the undersigned will execute a
deed to the purchaser at said sale as grm’ided
in aforementioned deed to secure debt.
First Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Summerville, Georgia
as Attorney in Fact for Carol Smith
and Elizabeth F. Cook
William U. Hyden, Jr.
Attorney at Law
P. O. Box 468
Summerville, Geolrgia 30747
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PUBLIC NOTICE
OF BLASTING SCHEDULE
Notice is hereby given that Luma, Inc.
will be using blasting materials or explosives
in a designated area at Land Lot 52, Walker
Co.. Georgia, between Cove Road and Ga.
157.
Blasting will be daily from 7 a.m. to 11
a.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Guards will be
used to control lE(‘ blasting area. Before each
blast or explosion a horn will sound twice. Ac
cess roads will be guarded during the
blasting operation. ¢
Blasting will not be conducted at times
different from those announced in the
blasting schedule except in emergency situa
tions where rain, lightning or other at
mospheric conditions or operations or public
safety requires unscheduled detonation. §
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MOON REFLECTOR
Using the moon as a
reflector, a message record
ed by President Eisenhower
in 1959 was transmitted from
Massachusetts to Canada’s
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
in Saskatchewan.
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FASTEST DOG
While not the fastest
thing on four feet, the dog
that can outrun all other
canines is the greyhound.
This species has been clock
ed at 39.35 miles per hour.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our
sincere thanks to all our
neighbors and friends who so
generously gave of their time
and for all the lovelly plants
and flowers and for all the food
furnished during the sudden
illness and death of our loved
one, Mrs. Virgie Morrow.
Mr. and Mrs. James
Morrow, Mrs. Mazie
Pearson and family
the Federal Crop Insurance
Act, check with participating
agencies, your insurance
agent or your county Exten
sion agent.
highways began this month with three
separate Texas companies sounding for
the fossil fuels.
*A 12-year-old Chickamauga
younfister. James Whited, accidentafiy
shot himself in the hand Saturday after
noon, March 29, while handling a gun in
a parked car in downtown Summerville,
He was treated at the hospital and
released.
* Civic leader J.T. Morgan passed
away Friday, April 4, while on a Fishing
trip with friends in Winchester, Tenn.
* Senator E. G. Summers announced
plans to run for his sixth term in the
Georgia State Senate, representing the
53rd district made up of Chattooga,
Dade and Walker counties, He was re
elected to his office in the August elec
tion.
* Chickamauga attorney Gary B. An
drews announced his candidacy for
judge of the superior courts of the
Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit
vacated by retiring Judge Robert E.
Coker.
* Summerville resident Eugene
McGinnis described his fascinating
three-week tour of China.
* The Chattooga County Chamber of
Commerce declared April ‘‘Clean-Up
Month” in the county.
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Lyerly Lions Girls Basketball team are
(first row, L-R) Ladelphia Wiggins,
Yolonda Green, Marie Cook and Angie
ANNUAL
from front page
in the accident.
- DouFlas Edward Bryant,
age 16, of 201 Farrar Drive in
Summerville was killed in a
two-car accident on the Boll
ing Road around 10 p.m. on
Thursday, June 5. Six other
young local residents were in
jured in the accident.
* Mickey Robert Ham
monds, age 22, of 616 S. Con
gress St., Summerville;
Rickey Paul Hankins, age 15,
of 118 Trion Road, Summer
ville; and Ira Mastin “‘Runt”
Henderson, age 60, of 7
University Circle, Summer
ville, were all killed in a three
car accident shortly after mid
night Saturday, July 26, on
Georgia Highway 48. The ac
cident occurred just inside the
city, limits of Summerville.
Two other (s)eople were injured
in the accident.
* Hinton Logan, age 72, of
714 S. Commerce St., Sum
merville, died early Tuesday
morning, Aug. 5, from injuries
sustained in a pedestrian
truck accident around 2:10
p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2. The ac
cident occurred in downtown
Summerville in front of Mor
ris Jewelry.
* A Trion couple died
Thursday, Aug. 7, after a
pickup truck ran into them as
they crossed U.S. Highwa
27 in front of the Tom Thumg
Food Store south of Trion.
James Laneil Barnes, age 29,
of 329 Penn St., was pro
nounced dead on arrival at the
local hospital following the
10:55 p.m. accident. His wife,
Gail Romine Barnes, age 21,
died at Floyd Medical Center
some four hours later.
* Wendell Cornelious
Hudgins, age 18, of the
Holland community died
Wednesday, Sept. 3, due to
severe head injuries received
when a pickup truck, ran over
him while he was lying in a
rural road. The accident occur
red around 6:20 a.m. on Tues
day, Sept. 2, on the Holland-
Chattoogaville Road.
» Ric%]ard Larry Thorn
berry, age 25, of 105 Maple
Drive, Summerville, was kill
ed in a one-car accident Thurs
day morning, Dec. 4. The acci
dent occurred near the Chat
tooga River Bridge on U.S.
Highway 27 in Trion around
12:10 a.m.
HISTORIC
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asked.”” Also stolen along with
the bell was the gavel used to
conduct meetings.
“We're asking that the
person who is responsible for
the theft to return it, since it
is of so little value to him and
so much value to us,”” he said.
“We hope he will call us or the
authorities or the newspaper
and tell us where it can be
found.”
Also stolen in the break-in
was the miniature Trion Lions
Club bell, it was learned
yesterday.
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11-Wonderland 33-Daydreaming: 19-Meat or meg
girl 3 wds. 20-Cereal grain
13-In disgrace: 36-Pretend: 22-Column
3 wds. 2 wds. 23-Flexible
15-Excavate 37-Anything of armor
16-Cyprinoid value 2414 .....
fish 38-Linear units 25-Contest
17-Western 39-Swamp 26-Lady soldier
redskin growth 27-Habitation
18-Is aware of 28-Concluded -
20-Beasts of DOWN 29-Take a
burden 1-Idaho product breather
21-You and 1 1-Stimulant 31-Writes
22-Family mem- 3-Chain of 34-Fuel holder
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1-Strum 22-Pa 1-Spuds 20-Oat
6-Pisa 23-Mast 2-Tonic 22-Pillar
10-Poise 26-Wither 3-Ridge 23-Mail
11-Alice 30-Abe 4-Use 24-Abner
13-Under a 31-Pal 5-Merits 25-Setto
cloud 32-One 6-Pace 26-WAC
15-Dig 33-In the clouds 7-111 27-House
16-Ide 36-Let on 8-Sioux 28-Ended
17-Ute 37-Asset 9-Acute 29-Rests
18-Scents 38-Rods 12-Eden 31-Pens
20-Oxen 39-Reeds 14-Ads 34-Hod
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OF LI FEYour contribution
~ to the American Cancer Society in memory of your loved
- one will help support a program dedicated to the con
quest of cancer. Your memorial gift will not only do
‘ honor to the dead. It could help provide a gift of life.
} Memorial gift funds may be sent to your local American
Cancer Society office.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY %
* Two of three young men sentenced
to i)rison two years a%z after pleading
guilty to robbing the Menlo Branch of
the Farmers & Merchants Bank were
paroled, it was learned. Teddy Horton,
20, of Flat Rock, Ala., and Danny
Charles Pardue, 21, formerly of Trenton,
are on parole. The third man, Ozell
Bethune, 25, also of Flat Rock, Ala., re
mains in jail.
MAY
* The Chattooga County Library
Board, citing ‘“fiscal necessity,” voted
to withdraw%rom the Cherokee Regional
Library system.
* Billy Ray Beaver, 19, of Ellenburg
Subdivision f};ces 10 traffic violations
and one felony charge following a high
speed chase througfi the soutfi end of
Summerville. Georgia State Troopers
from LaFayette post fired three shots at
the Beaver car, causing the right rear
tire to go flat. Beaver wasn’t injured.
* Marine Captain Jim Lenderman, a
former Chattooga High School football
star, piloted one of the helicopters on the
ill-fated mission to rescue 53 American
hostages held in Iran. Fortunately, he
was not one of the eight men who lost
his life in the operation. He was reported
safe and uninjured.
* Insurance man Malcolm Thomas
Cranmore; (back row) Karen Edwards,
Jan Tudor, Coach Bob Dover, Kim
Henderson and Kelly Henderson.
was presented the 1980 Liberty Bell
Award in recognition of community ser
vice which strengthens the effectiveness
of the American court system. Thomas
retired later in the year,
* Eight traffic lights were installed
at the intersection of Sixth, Kelly and
North Commerce streets near the Sum
merville Piggly Wiggly Store. The in
stallation enged a five-year effort to get
the lights installed at what supporters
characterized as a dangerous intersec
tion.
* A cave-in of a ditch at a construc
tion site in Villa Rica claimed the life of
Brad Hawkins, age 19, of Route 1, Lyer
ly, on May 8.
* Oscar Lee Lawrence, age 42, of 309
E. Seventh St., Summervfile. was ar
rested and charged with the murder of
James Carlton (E;OFeland, age 38, of 709
Glenn St., Rossville. The shooting occur
red after an argument at the Lawrence
residence, Edward Johnson, age 27, of
4515 Fagan St. Chattanooga, was
wounded in the incident. Lawrence was
released under a SIO,OOO bond.
* Miss Denise Fisher, daught,er of
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Fisher of Summer
ville, was crowned Miss Chattooga
County 1980.
* Public Health Sanitarian Thomas
Inauguration Day
Drips With History
By DAVID M. MAXFIELD
g’mlthaonian News Service
When Ronald Reagan is
sworn in as the 40th presi
dent of the United States on
Jan. 20, he and the notables
Fathered on the filatform will
ook out over the swe:sing
federal city vista design b{
Pierre L'Enfant in 1791, It will
be a new Inauguration Day
view,
For the first time in
American history, the in
augural ceremony will be
held at the West Front of the
U.S. Capitol, with its
panoramic view down the
mile-long National Mall to the
Washington Monument and
the Lincoln Memorial
beyond.
This will mark a long
awaited switch from the
traditional swearing-in site at
the East Front, a location fac
ing a paved plaza and a loop
of access streets.
The change will give
many thousands more
Americans than in the past a
direct view of the
ceremonies. At best, 100,000
or so could be crowded into
the East Front area whereas
an estimated half-million or
more will be able to gather on
the slope of Capitol Hill and
the Mall for the oath-taking
and speeches.
There is practicality in the
re-location as well. T{e new
site causes fewer construc
tion demands than the old,
and, says Sen, Claiborne Pell
(D-R. 1.), member of the Joint
Congressional Committee on
Inaugural Ceremonies, the
United States will ‘‘save a
good deal of money’’ as a
result.
Beginning with Andrew
Jackson's great day in 1829
when the pi:nners decided to
move the ceremony from in
side the Capitol to the steps
outside, 35 inaugurals have
been held at the East Portico.
The last was Jimmy Carter’s
in 1977. To explain why it
took so long to move around
to the more handsome and
spacious setting on the west
requires a word about the
changing appearance of the
nation’s capitol.
Quite simply, until the
20th century, the National
‘Mall was a mess. Railroad
tracks crisscrossed the area
only a few yards from where
the next president will be in
augurated, a shanty town
once existed nearby and a
neighboring redlight district
completed the seegy scene.
In 1901, Congress decia
ed it was about time to clean
things up and return to the
master design for
Washington, D. C. envisioned
by L’Enfant. But even by the
19305, the Mall rejuvenation
was far from finished. Then
World War I 1 came along and
up went rows of dreary “‘tem
porary”’ office buildings that
once again altered the in
tended ceremonial land
scape. Through all this, the
East Front kept its special
honor until the decision to
move west was made in 1980.
Of course, since the first
inauguration in 1789,
presidents have taken the
simple 35-word oath of office
prescribed by the Constitu
tion in a variety of places —
the Senate and House
chambers (the last time in
1912), the East Room of the
White House (Gerald R. Ford,
1974), on board Air Force One
(Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963), a
farmhouse in Vermont
(Calvin Coolidge, 1923) and,
oddly, at Brown's Hotel in
Washington (John Tyler),
following William Henry Har
rison’s death in office in
1841.
George Washington
himself took the oath on the
balcony of Federal Hall in
New ¥ork City, the first
capital of the United States,
W. Fox Jr. was honored with a retire
ment party. Fox was named Chattooga
Countf"s first sanitarian on May 1,
1952, He held that position for 28 years,
*The body of 16-year-old Marty
McGuire, missing since May 18, was
recovered Sunday, May 25, by rescue
workers in Little River Canyon in
Alabama. McGuire drowned while swim
ming with friends at the Blue Hole
swimming area near Little River Canyon
Falls.
JUNE
* Graduation exercises were held
with 169 students graduating from
Chattooga HiEh School and 53 from
Trion High School.
* “Summerville Sunday in Rome,” a
day of special tours of Rome’s points of
interest and many other activities in
honor of all Chattooga County residents
was held.
* Sixteen-year-old Douglas Edward
Bryant of 201 Farrar Drive in Summer
vilf; was killed in a two-car accident on
the Bolling Road Thursd:g. June 5. Six
other %le were injured in the acci
dent. %elo teen-year-old Gary Eufene
Battles o% Route 1, L{erly, driver of the
car which collided head-on with the
Bryant car, told investigators his car’s
headlights were inoperative at the time
The Summerville News, Thurs., Jan. 1, 1981
By his own account, the
retired general was reluctant
to leave his Mount Vernon
home when called by the na
tion's first voters to serve as
Wesident. He felt,
ashin%(ton wrote a friend,
not unlike “a culprit who is
going to the place of his ex
ecution.”
But Washington's rendez
vous with history was set. As
inaugural historian Francis
Russell has written, whether
the newly adopted Constitu
tion and its new Congress
would endure or fall apart
seemed to depend on the
seneral. “Washington was in
eed the father Egure. more
revered and honored than lov
ed familiarly, a republican
with the dignity of a
monarch, standing above
shifting opinions and part.
strife, a symbol OF afi
Americans."
Congress, meanwhile,
had been working on the in
augural arrangements, and
on Afi)ril 30, 1789, a week after
Washington arrived in New
York, the ceremony originally
scheduled for March 4 but
delayed for one thing or
another, at last took place.
““All the bells in the city rang
out a peal of joy,” a 17-year
old girl reported after the
ceremony, “and the
fmultitutf; before us sent
forth a shout as seemed to
rend the skies."
What the general was
wearing that day is of par
ticular interest to historians
and collectors. He was at
tired in an American-made
brown suit trimmed with
metal buttons stamped with
an eagle in relief, white silk
stockings, low shoes and
silver buckles with a steel
sword to the side. It is the
buttons that set a style for
future years; they were the
forerunner of aIY later in
augural special mementoes
— ribbons, badges, medals,
buttons.
If later generations were
to adopt this style, they soon
‘departed from another. The
first inaugural address was
delivered — not in public as
it is today — but begind clos
ed doors to the combined
Houses of Congress meeting
in the Senate chamber. It was
Jackson, the frontier
populist, who moved the
ceremony outside in 1829,
The content of the later
addresses also differed from
Washington's largely
because of his unanimous
electoral support in 1788 and
again in 1792,
Something of a catharsis
for the American people, in
auguration speeches usually
serve as an act of political
healing, helping to restore
national unity following hard
fou;f_ht campaigns.
his precedent was
established when
Washington decided to leave
the scene and, for the first
time in U.S. history, there
was a seriously contested
presidential election. John
Adams, who defeated
Thomas Jefferson, was not
fiersonally a poEular figure,
istorian Russell notes, but
in his inaugural address in
1797 he dedicated himself to
work for a reconciliation of
“various political opinions.”
Perhaps the most familiar
of all words of reconciliation,
however, were those of
Abraham Lincoln in 1865 just
before the Civil War’s end:
“With malice toward none,
with charity toward all . . . let
us strive on to finish the work
we are in, to bind up the na
tion’s wounds.”
Beginning with
Washington's walk from
Federal Hall to St. Paul's
Church for s%ecial services,
parades have been a favorite
art of most inaugurations.
Yndeed. when Jimmy Carter
surprised the nation by walk
ing to the White House in
1977, he was reviving an old
custom,
Thomas Jefferson, it now
seems incredible to report,
walked back to his
Washinfiton boarding house
after his swearing-in to
receive the citizens who
came to call. Later, ‘‘to the
distress of his fellow
boarders,”” Louise Durbin
writes in ‘‘lnaugural
Cavalcade,” ‘‘Jefferson in
sisted on taking his old seat
at the foot of the table —the
farthest away from the fire —
at a dinner attended by civic
and military leaders.”
The ballyat the end of the
inevitably exhausting in
augural day has always been
a special event, but its pur
pose has changed over the
past 200 years. During the
1800 s, “theK were ver{ social,
rather like cotillions,”’
Margaret Klapthor, political
history curator at the
Smithsonian’'s National
Museum of American
History, says, but today
‘‘they have become
political,” another reward for
people who have worked on
the campaifns.
They also have become
much larger. In fact,
nowadays, several locations
to be visited b{ a weary presi
dent during the evening are
required for the thousands of
celebrants. Though they may
look glamorous from afar,
one social observer cautions:
“It’s wall-to-wall people. You
don’t ever see anyone you
know. And at most there's
'not even ang' room to dance.”
_ While the inaugural ball
now seems here to stay, dur
ing the 1910 s and then the
19205, of all decades, no
wlas were held. Woodrow
ilson felt they were incom
patible with the seriousness
of the day, the Hardings and
the Coolidl‘gles were in mourn
ing and Hoover, a Quaker,
wasn't interested.
Some inaugural balls
have been bigger hits than
others, of course, with
William Henry Harrison,
James Buchanan and Grover
Cleveland, amoni others, the
hosts at what history con
cludes were elegant occa
sions. But Andrew Jackson's
White House reception for
‘“his fellow citizens” was
another matter, now legen
dary for the rout that occur
red. For starters, ‘‘men with
muddK boots stood on
damask satin-covered chairs
and orange punch drenched
the furniture to the accom
paniment of breaking china
and crystal,” Durbin writes.
How do the presidents
themselves view these
festivities? Jefferson, who
had arrived early at James
Madison’s ball on March 4,
1809, asked a friend to “tell
me how to behave, for it has
been more than 40 years
since I have been to a gnll."
John Quincy Adams reported
that the “crowd was ex
cessive —the heat op
pressive and the entertain
ment bad.”” And host
Madison confided to a friend:
“1 would rather be in bed.”
OIL FACT
It is estimated that im
proved 1979 earnings will
enable the oil industry this
!y;ear to spend more than SSO
illion on domestic capital
projects and exiloration -
26 percen‘t mor;e t a-n in 1979,
LOTSA RUNNERS
It is estimated that 1.6
million Americans compete
in road races of all l.engths.
*
BATS ARE 60 MILLION
YEARS OLD
Bats first appeared nearly
60 million years ago.
of the accident.
* U.S. District Judge Harold Mur
phy sentenced former local banker Dan
ny Ray AT to five years in {)rison after
the defendant pleaded guilty to two
counts of embezzlement.
* The ChattooFa County Board of
Education, in a split vote, decided to re
tain the $285,130 in state tax rebate
monies instead of passing it on to area
residents in the form of a tax decrease.
The money was earmarked for school
renovation projects.
* Trion li'llementm'y Principal Tom
my Dyke resigned after five gears'
employment. He relocated to the Burke
County School ?{stem as an elementary
principal. Sue Hayes was approved to
replace Dyke.
* Rita Linker, a reference librarian
with the Tri-County Regional Library in
Rome, was named as the new librarian at
the Chattooga County Librarg. Mrs.
Linker replaced Mrs. Jean Pless, a
17-and-a-half year veteran of the local
libralg system.
* Bighteen-year-old James Curtis
Choate of Vatighn's Trailer Park took
his own life rid%y. June 20, at his
grandmother’s residence in Trion with a
self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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