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Nicole Alexandria Johnson became the
first local newborn of 1981 when she was
born at Floyd Medical Center in Rome
Saturday at 3:27 a.m. Shown with her
when she was brought home Monday are
her parents, Frankie and Julie Johnson,
Wine Sales Legalized
In Chattooga County;
Will Generate Revenue
The legalization of wine
sales in the county should
generate thousands of new
ollars in revenue, according
to County Commissioner
Wayne ‘‘Pete’’ Denson.
Commissioner Denson
adopted an ordinance on Fri
day, Dec. 5, legalizing the sale
Dog Catcher
Hired By City
Sewell Cash, mayor of
Summerville, said Tuesday a
fulltime animal control officer
has been hired by the City.
Cash said local insurance
representative Freddy Dowdy
was hired by the mayor and
council by unanimous vote.
““He started Friday and
has been coming in and get
ting used to t%e job,” the
mayor said. ‘‘We've obtained
the equipment for the tran
%uilizer gun and he's gone to
ouglasville today for orien
tation and a class on the
equipment.”’
In all, he said, there were
“a lot"” of applications but
that only about five or six
were seriously considered for
the job. ‘lt was a unanimous
decision to grant him the job,"”
Cash said. “We were looking
for someone who has worked
with the public, and being a
?erson living in the city, we
elt that would be convenient
also.
The mayor advised city
residents to get their pets in
noculated and to register
them at City Hall.
“We told him (Dowdy) to
use good judgment and to
fulfill the (newly-passed
animal control) ordinance the
best as possible,” Cash ex
plained. ““We want him to go
after the strays, to get the
dogs that aren't properly in
noculated and tagged that are
bothering neighborhoods.”
When a dog is picked up,
he said, Dowdy has been in
structed to find out who the
owner is and return it, if possi
ble. But if the same dog is cap
tured, he said, Dowdy has
been told to impound the
animal.
The new city employee has
also been instructed, the
mayor said, to post a descrip
tion of captured dogs, along
with the date, time and place |
of capture, in the Summer- |
ville Police Department. )
To date, he said, only 10
dogs are registered in the Ci
ty. :,
Days, Place Changed
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For Driver’s Licenses
The time and location that Georgia driver’s licenses are
issued has been changed, according to Sheriff Gary McConnell.
Georgia State Patrol will now be issuing driver’s licenses on
Wednesg:iys and Thursdays from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., said
Sheriff McConnell.
Licenses will be issued at the Summerville City Hall on
Georgia Avenue beginning on Jan. 14.
Driver’s licenses will no longer be issued on Tuesdays at the
Summerville Recreation Center, Sheriff McConnell added.
First ‘Bl Baby Comes Home
of wine in Chattooga. The or
dinance went into effect on
Thursday, Jan. 1.
“The beer board made the
recommendation to sell wine
in the county,” Commissioner
Denson saidyj explaining why
he adopted the ordinance.
“We (the county) needed the
extra revenue the sales would
bring in. So I adopted the or
dinance.
“The sale of wine is not a
step toward legalizing liquor
sales in the county as far as
I'm concerned,” continued
Commissioner Denson.
“There would have to be an
election to legalize liquor sales
here."
To be granted a wine
license an annual license fee
must be paid and the request
must be approved by the Malt
Beverage é)()mmission, which
meets on Tuesday night. The
fees are SIOO each for
wholesale, retail and private
club licenses. The county will
imf)ose a 60 cent tax on each
gallon of wine sold in the coun
ty.
The City of Summerville
also imposes a 60 cent tax on
each gallon of wine sold in the
city, said Mayor Sewell Cash.
Since wine sales were
legalized in the city in May of
1979, Mayor Cash said, the Ci
ty has received $6,606.91 in
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GSP Probed
246 Accidents
During 1980
The Georgia State Patrol
this week announced it in
vestigated 246 traffic ac
cidents in Chattooga County
during 1980.
The accidents led to a total
of nine fatalities and 157 in
juries. (In all there were 10
motor-vehicle-related
fatalities in the county last
year; one fatality accident was
grobed by the Summerville
olice Department).
Troopers from Post 38 in
Rome, said Sgt. Joe Gossett
made 2,145 arrests in Chat
tooga County during the year
and issued 3,716 warnings.
In all 1,824 cases were
disposed of, which included
758 guilty pleas, 284 bond
forfeitures, 293 dismissals
and 489 nolo contendre pleas.
Bonds and forfeitures from
the arrests amounted to
$79,952 for the year, he said.
The Summeruille News
her 2-year-old brother Brandon and her
1-year-old sister April. Grandparents are
the Rev. and Mrs. Mason Johnson of
Summerville and Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Jackson of Los Angeles.
revenue, including license fees
and taxes. Mayor Cash said
that from May until
December of 1979 the City
took in $1,940.14. For the year
of 1980, he added, the city col
lected $4,666.77 in wine tax
revenue.
McDonald Aide
In City Today
Ann Toles, an aide to Rep.
Larry McDonald, will be at
the Chattooga County Cour
thouse today to meet with
county residents who are ex
eriencing problems with or
fiave questions about federal
programs.
She is scheduled to be at
the Courthouse from 2 to 4
p.m.
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Menlo Cuts
Millage Rate
Menlo City Council install
ed its new officials and
lowered the City's millage rate
by one mill durin%l its first
regular meeting of the year on
Tuesday night.
Incumbent council
members Tommy Luther,
Tommy Ballard and Lonnie
Ward were installed into office
at the belfinning of the
meeting. All three members
were re-elected to their posts
in December.
Following the installation,
the council discussed the 26
percent factor recently placed
on the county tax é)i est.
Councilman Tommy Bal%ard,
after a short discussion, made
a motion to lower the City's
millage to 4 mills, a mill lower
than last year, to help offset
the valuation increase. The
motion was seconded and ap
proved.
The council also discussed
water meter problems. Coun
cilman Lonnie Ward told the
council that some people were
using pliers on the inside of
the meter boxes and “‘it gets
uite expensive'’ to repair the
aamage. The council agreed
that anyone destroying,
damaging or interfering with
the inside of the boxes or
meters will have to pay for the
damages.
In other action the council:
* Approved setting
business license fees at the
same rates as they were last
year.
* Re-hired Tiny Brown as
water commissioner and
William Bell as the City's
policeman.
* Approved re-hiring Mrs.
Pat Shipley as the city clerk.
After a short discussion, the
council agreed to give Mrs.
Shipley a S4O a month raise.
They also agreed to extend
the city hall office hours to 6
p.m. from 5 p.m.
* Re-appointed members
of the council to the same five
committees they served on
last year.
* Tentatively agreed to
meet on Tuesday night for a
budget meeting be;finning at
7 o’clock at city hall.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1981
1,500 County Textile Workers
Will Have To Wear Dust Masks
If New OSHA Rules Go Forward
The government's on
again, ofgaqain rules forcing
certain textile workers to wear
respirators — more
commonly-known as face
masks — took a new turn in
recent days.
Workers exposed to cotton
dust, under Sme new rules,
must wear the masks only for
as many hours each day as is
required to keep their ex
posure within federal limits,
according to the Occupational
Safety and Health Ad
ministration.
According to information
gathered by The News, about
1,500 textile workers in two
count{y mills will be forced to
comply with the dust mask
standards, or over 15 percent
of all the workers in tfig local
workforce.
The new policy came about
as a result of meetings bet
ween OSHA ofgcials.
representatives of the Na
tional Institute for Occura
tional Safety and Health
(OSHA) and of labor and in
dustry. The sessions took
place during a 75-day ad
ministrative stay (which end
ed Dec. 5), by OSHA of the
respirator provision of its cot
ton dust standard.
“The stay became
necessary after it became
clear that there was
widespread misunderstanding
in the textile industry of how
an effective respirator pro
gram should work,” accor(fing
to an OSHA press statement.
“Agency of?icials believed
that many workers were being
burdenedy with unnecessary
respirator wear while others
were not being fully protected
against the dangers of cotton
dust.”
According to Dr. Eula
Bingham, who heads OSHA,
the new rules mean that
“workers may need to wear a
respirator for part of a work
day deFending on the protec
tion offered by the respirator
and cotton dust levels. gor ex
ample, a worker might need a
respirator for only g)ur hours,
cutting exposure in half dur
ing that time, and could then
breathe higher levels for the
balance of the day, since the
level is expressed as daily
eight-hour average.”’
She noted that the agency
was extending the stay to give
employers and employees a
chance to become familiar
with the new policy.
According to H);rold Peek,
Riegel vice president in
charge of the Grey Mill, some
1,400 mill employees in Trion
‘Jimmy’ Jackson
Dies At Age 75
Funeral services for retired
Summerville pharmacist
James ‘‘Jimmy’’ Robert
Jackson Jr. are scheduled to
day at 1 p.m. at Summerville
First Baptist Church.
Jackson, 75, died at 8:30
p.m. Monday following a brief
illness.
The Chattooga County
native, born on Oct. 25, 1905,
was the son of the late James
Robert Jackson Sr. and the
late Pauline Ellington
Jackson,
He was a well-known Sum
merville businessman, having
a five decade career as a phar
macist that began in 1923 and
continued untfi 1974.
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are affected by the rules. "'ln
general terms, employees in
some areas will have to wear a
respirator half a day; in some
areas as much as six hours;
and possibly in one area
(where cotton bails are open
ed) they might possibly have
to wear them all day,” he said.
A disease commonly
known as ‘“brown lung' —
byssinosis — lies at the heart
of the government’s move to
force the wearing of the
masks. The respiratory ail
ment is caused by inhai,ation
of invisible dust particles
released by raw cotton pro
cessing.
Textile emplorees. for the
most part, complain that the
masks are hot, uncomfortable
and unbearable because the
user is constantly rebreathing
his own air. The masks are
similar in appearance to
operating room masks, cover
ing both the nose and mouth.
“We've found that they ac
tually interfere with people’s
breathing and that people
with a severe cold, it's pretty
tough for them to breathe
through, particularly when
they are working hard and are
perspiring,”’ saifi Peek.
Peek, and many other tex
tile reiresentatives. dismiss
any link between their cotton
oYerations and brown lung.
“In practically all cases where
this has been diagnosed, the
victim was a heavy smoker,”
he said.
Only one case of the
respiratory disease has ever
. been diagnosed at the Trion
all, he said. That worker was
at retirement age and went in
to retirement, he noted.
“While that employee was
not a heavy smoker (he hadn’t
smoked in 20 years),” Peek
said, ‘‘the two seem to go
together. 1 think plants can
verify this on the basis of their
own records.”’
Peek noted that the mill's
card room was remodeled 5
years afio, with much of the
$4.5 million spent going to
beef up dust control units. He
expressed frustration in that
upon the completion of the
work, the card room complied
with OSHA's cotton dust
level rules. But since then
OSHA revised its permissible
dust levels, making the card
room not in compliance, he
said.
The current dust levels are
so stringent, he charfied. they
are '‘akin .to ospital
operating room conditions.”’
If you had a cube that
measured a meter in each
The senior Jackson bought
the drug store from its
previous owner in 1909,
renaming it Summerville
Drug Co. Following his
graduation from Stuby gchool
of Pharmacy, his son joined
him in 1925. The elder
Jackson died in 1952.
In 1974 the drugstore —
believed to be the oldest conti
nuing business in Summer
ville (previously operating as
Arrington Drug (?: prior to
coming into the Jackson fami
ly), saw the tradition continue
as James Jr. retired and his
son “Bud” (James I1I) took
the helm as president of the
company.
Jackson was active in the
community. He was a member
of Summerville First Baptist
Church and served as a
deacon there for many years.
He was a charter member
of Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club and was named a Paul
Harris Fellow in that
organization. He was also a
director of the First Federal
Savings and Loan of Summer
ville.
Besides his son, he is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs.
Eleanor Jyackson of Summer
ville; one daughter, Mrs.
Carolyn Jackson Tannen
baum of New York City; one
sister, Miss Elizabeth
Jackson; and two grand
children.
Dr. Jack Colwell will of
ficiate the funeral. Interment
will be in Summerville
Cemetery.
direction and inside you plac
ed a single grain of salt, then
that contamination level
would exceed the air quality
levels demanded by OSHA, he
said.
Harriet & Henderson's
comptroller, Wayne Burnley,
agreed with many of Peek’s
comments.,
About 100 of the Berryton
{arn mill's employees will
ave to wear the face masks
under the new OSHA rules, he
said.
‘“‘Because of medical
Mineral Rights Sought
Here By Oil Company
A Louisiana lease broker
has begun combing parts of
northwest Georgia area seek
ing large landowners willing
to lease their mineral rights.
Bill Kerr, a broker with
Freeport Oil Company in New
Orleans, says his company is
willing to negotiate with area
landowners who own 50 or
more adjoining acres.
Kerr declined to say how
much his firm is offerinf;.
“The company specifically
told me not to say. That is
negotiable,” he said. He did
reveal that the term of the
leaaes is 10 years, with Lhei
oWner regeiving annua
{?&m‘ams; :fa\ tlge initial
rayment being heftier than
ater payments.
wé:ch a lease would allow
the firm to come on the pro
per? to test for oil and
natural gas, which Kerr said
the company is exclusively in
terested in,
“We're not after coal,” he
said.
Should paydirt be struck,
Fires Plague Chattooga
The Summerville Fire
Department had a busy 7-day
period through Wednesday,
answering 10 fire calls in afi.
three of which involved struc
tures that were gutted.
Firemen answered a call to
the Pennville Building Supply
business in Pennville around
11:40 p.m. last Wednesday.
Firemen battled the blaze for
almost two hours before br
inging it under control. They
were assisted by the Trion
Fire Department. The
business, owned by Jerry
Blackmon, receive({ heavy
smoke damage, said the fire
report,
Firemen returned to the
fire hall at 1:20 a.m.
In a little over three hours
firemen received another call
to the Pennville Building Sup
ply. This time firemen battled
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The Voice of Democracy contest was
held recently at the Chattooga County
Memorial Home. Nine people conv:})eted
in the event, sponsoredg tfie VFW Post
6688. Will Hair, son ofy Mr. and Mrs.
William Hair of Summerville, woen the
local title and went on to win the district
title. He will now compete for the state
title. Ray Giles (second from left),
testing, dust level monitoring,
good work practices and the
investment and installation of
new equipment, the problem
of byssirosis is almost licked
today,” Purnley said.
“TThe fact is that this is an
agricultural problem -~ the
cotton dust is hauled into the
mill in bales and it's a problem
for which the textile industry
is bearing the blame of
publicity and the brunt of
millions of dollars "it must
spend. Because of the impor
tance of cotton to the farmer
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the landowner would be entitl
ed to one-eighth of all
royalties, Kerr said,
He estimated that perhaps
as much s 656 to 70 percent of
the area of Chattooga Count
would be eligible for sud‘\,
leases. About 20 percent of
the area is divided up into
small parcels, he sui(r, and
about 10 percent is already
under contract with at least
one other firm.
Kerr said he is seekin
rights in Chattooga, Floy(f
Walker, Catoosa, Gordon and
the blaze for an hour, but were
unable to extinguish it. The
building was a total loss.
The cause of the two fires,
the report said, is niot known.
The incident is under in
vestifiation by the state fire
marshall's office, said the
report,
Sunday morning around
10:26 Summerville firemen
assisted the Trion Fire
Department at a house fire in
the Mountain View communi
ty. The house, listed on the
fire report as ‘‘the Sills
residence,” was a total loss.
No one was at home at the
time of the fire, the report
said, the the cause of the b?aze
was not listed.
On Monday night Sum
merville firemen assisted the
Trion Fire Department again
at a house fire near Dry Vflley
Voice Of Democracy Winners
and the nation, the United
States Department of
Agriculture recognized this
ead is providing funds to
assist in extensive research ef
forts."
His firm's card room, he
said, should meet dust level
standards within six months,
and that then “our people
won't have to wear them at all
except in one or two isolated
jobs."”
The new respirator rules
will go into effect Jan. 19, he
said.
Whitfield counties.
This area is part of the
Eastern Overthrust Belt,
which runs nor
theasterly/southwesterly on a
diagonal from New York to
Alabama, stretching a
distance of almost 1,000
miles. Some geologists believe
the area could have natural
gas or oil deposits.
Kerr said his company
hopes to drill a
12,000-t O-30,000-foot deep
well,
His firm has "high expec
tations," he said, "‘but we may
come up empty handed.”
“Conscientious oil com
panies suc¢h as Freeport are
aware of the landowners’ con
cern for the environment and
want to reassure them that
the natural beauty of their
land will not be dyisturbed."
according to a company press
release.
Interested landowners can
contact Kerr by calling him
collect in room 218 of the Lee
Inn, Dalton, at 278-7115.
Baptist Church. The
residence, owned by Robert
Mcßay, was destroyed.
At the time of the fire no
one was at home, said the
report. The cause of the fire is
undetermined.
Firemen responded to a
trailer fire at the residence of
Glenn Reed on Martin Street
in Summerville on Saturday.
Firemen battled the blaze for
sometime before they were
able to extinguish it. The
trailer received extensive
damage at one end, said the
report.
The cause of the fire was
also unknown, said the report.
No one was at home at the
time of the fire.
On Thursday firemen
responded to a truck fire on
East Street in Summerville.
see FIRES, page 5-A
district commander of the VFW, con
gratulates Hair on his winning. Looking
on are (L-R) Mary Giles, president of the
local VFW ladies auxiliary; John
Hudgins, first runner-up in the event;
Jerry Reese, second runner-up; and
Frances Ellis, who helped the boys
prepare for their speeches.
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