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Members of the Trion High School graduating class
participated in services June 7 at the Community
Center. Graduates are, first row, L-R, Pat Covington,
Janis Gill, Lance Stowe, Holly Meadows, Kathy Stiles,
Patty Hughes, Jimmy Hardin, Karen Henderson,
Steve Willingham, Cristi Willingham, Beth Haygood
and Simone Hollis. Second row are Angie Garner,
David Bohannon, Dawn Sweatman, Tammy Peace,
Hush Teague, Linda Clark, Tracy McWhorter, Connie
Williams, “Butch’’ Carver and Deana Hawkins. Third
Underwood Speaks Monday
Georfi'a gubernatorial can
didate Norman Underwood
will address the Chattooga
County Chamber of Com
merce booster breakfast Mon
da{) at 7:45 at The Round
Table Restaurant.
Underwood, considered by
many to be one of the top can
didates for the state’s highest
office, is a native of Red Bud
in Gordon County. Under
wood, 40, received his law
degree from the University of
Georgia and has served as a
key political advisor to Sen.
Sam Nunn and Gov. George
Busbee.
In 1979, he was appointed
by Gov. Busbee to the
Georgia Court of Appeals and
served until he resigned in
1980 to run for the United
States Senate.
Underwood, who toured
Chattooga County in April as
part of fiis statewide tour to
every county, is considered to
Council Sets New Fees
For Lyerly Residents
The Lyerly City Council
raised water deposit rates to
SSO and announced a S2O fee
for residents who must recon
nect their water lines after
failure to pay water bills.
Members of the Lyerly Ci
ty Council Tuesday night an
nounced that delinquent
customers will be cut off
without further notice beginn
ing tomorrow, June 11, accor
ding to City Clerk Gwen
Bentley.
The council also voted to
cut off water from ‘‘hereafter”’
within one day after a delin
quent water customer receives
Cleland Visits Summerville
Former state senator and
national ' administrator of
Veterans Affairs Max Cleland
visited Summerville last week
as part of a northwest Georgia
tour for his candidacy for
secretary of state.
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Cleland Tours Locally
Max Cleland, the former state senator and chief ad
ministrator of the veterans Affairs under the Carter
Administration, toured northwest Georgia earlier this
week. His tour brought him to the streets of Summer
ville, where he shook hands and talked to pedestrians.
Cleland, 39, is seeking the secretary of state position in
the upcoming elections.
The Summeruville News
Trion High School Class Of 1982
be a top contender for the post
aloxl?3 with Joe Frank Harris
and Bo Ginn.
“Understanding peogle's
problems is half the job of
solving them, and complete
understanding requires a per
sonal involvement that cannot
be achieved thoufih the one
way mirrors of ém lic opinion
golls." said Underwood in his
latform For The New
Statehood.
“The new federalism pro
posed by President Reagan
calls for a transfer of many
fundamental governmental
responsibilities from the
federal level back to the
states,” he continues.
‘“For this reason, the job of
éoverning the State of
eorgia is about to become
both more important and
more difficult. For years,
Georgians have railed against
waste and inefficiency in
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notice, said Mrs. Bentley.
In other action, the council
received notification from the
state Department of
Transportation that Lyerly
will receive funds to repave
.27 miles of streets beginning
within a few weeks.
Also:
* Final notices are being
mailed for delinquent proper
ty taxes. Those not respon
ding to the notice within 15
days will be Fi-Faed.
* Cable customers have
been connected within the city
and crews are now working on
areas bordering the town.
Cleland, a triple amputee
as the result of a hand grenade
explosion in Vietnam, is a
native of Lithonia.
The 39-year-old qualified
for the position held by David
Poythress, who took over
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1982
row are Vicki Wood, Stacy McWhorter, Terri Crawford,
Mark Spraggins, Marie Brown, Jay Palmour, Donna
Tudor, Ginger Gardner, Cheri Bethune and Susan
Smith. Fourth row are Randy Steward, Buster Bynum,
Roger Wood, Sherri Mullican, Lori Henderson, Dana
Watson, Barbara Locklear, Sheila Williams and
Darlene Dyer. Back row are Luther Flarity, Robb{
Hayes, Fitzgerald Christopher, Alex Johnson, Mar
Waters, Dennis Thomas, Pflil Crider, Greg Baker, An
nette Tinney and Doug Holt. .
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Uncle
Ned
Dear Mr. Editor:
I seed where Trion had
anuther counsil member to
resign. Then I heered that the
council in a ‘‘special called
meeting’' elected a new
member. Mr. Editor, leaving
personallitees aside, I believe
that the recent election gave
the mayer and council a man
date to appoint the thurd
place finishur in the election
to the post of councilman.
Becausing if the council
member who resigned had
anown before the election that
he would be promoted, he
could have resigned and the
third place man wuld have
won anyhows.
Yores Truly,
UNCLE NED
after Ben Fortson died.
Cleland was elected to the
Georgia State Senate in 1970
as its youngest member. In
1974, after serving two terms
in the state senate, he became
the youngest candidate ever
to run for lieutenant governor
in Georgia. He placed third in
a field of 10 candidates, com
ing within one percentage
point of making the runoff.
In 1977, while serving on
the staff of the United States
Senate Veterans Affairs Com
mittee, Cleland was agpointed
by President Jimmy Carter as
the youngest man and the
first Vietnam veteran to head
the Veterans Administration
since its inception in 1930.
“The citizens of Georgia
know me,” Cleland said, “and
they know my record of beinfi
open and fair. They know I’
be accessible to them.”
“It is time to once again
ogen the door to the office of
the Secretary of State,”” he
continued. ‘‘Government of
ficials must be responsive to
the needs and experience of
Georf'ians."
Cleland’s opponent,
Poythress is a native of
Macon and has been working
in Georgia government for
more than 10 years.
Poythress was appointed
in June 1979 by Gov. George
Busbee as the state’s 18th
secretary of state.
Money Announces Plans
For Representative Post
Orchard Grove resident
Jerry Money has qualified for
the District 5 Georgia House
of Representative post.
Money, who was District 5
representative from 1977-78,
is the fourth candidate to an
nounce for the position. In
cumbent Johnny Crawford,
Gary Gordon ang Earl “Red”’
Parris have announced.
Money, 36, is a special
education instructor at Chat
tooga High. He has also serv
ed as the Chattooga County
Tax Commissioner and was an
instructor with the Trion
School system.
Money predicted that local
legislators from throughout
the state will have touiher
battles to fight for their
districts because of the so
called ‘“‘New Federalism’’
policies of the Reagan Ad
ministration. ‘‘The states will
have more responsibility for
programs, so each legislator
will have to fight %(;r his
district,” said Money.
Money said he favors the
establishment of a state court
in Chattooga ‘‘to alleviate
some of the problems we're
having.”” The court was
abolished in the early '7os.
Money further stated he
would support construction of
a state prison in the county.
“I think it would be a boost
for our county,”” he said.
During his last term as
representative, Money served
Trion Has Secret Balloting
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Wreck Closes Highway
A 21-year-old Floyd Coun
a; man escafied injury last
ednesday when the gasoline
tanker he was driving over
turned on Hwy. 337 five miles
north of Menlo, spilling
several thousand gallons of
fuel onto the road.
According to Trooper Den
nis Tucker of the Georgia
State Patrol, the driver,
21-year-old Rex Moore of
Shannon, was northbound on
Hwy. 337 when he rounded a
curve and was met b{ a
pulpwood truck traveling
southbound at 9:30 a.m.
Moore apparently pulled
the right tire of the tanker off
the rogdbed, causing the truck
Resource Center Ok’d
The Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce has
been designated a Small
Business Administration
Resource Center, according to
Atlanta SBA District Direc
tor Clarence Barnes.
Burton Scott, assistant
director for SBA, presented
the certificate of designation
to William B. Farrar, presi
dent of the Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce, at the
chamber’s board of directors
meeting Tuesday morning at
The Round Table Restaurant.
‘“The SBA Resource
Center concept represents a
major new-efl%rt to meet the
needs of small businesses at
the local level,”” said Scott,
speaking before the chamber.
‘‘Helping small business to
frow strong and more pro
itable is the top priority of
both our district off?ce an! the
SBA office in Washington.”
The program enables
business persons to obtain in
formation and referrals at a
convenient local site. At the
resource center, located in the
chamber’s offices at 106 West
Washington St., persons may
receive SBA pubfigations and
Plans Underway For July Fourth
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JERRY MONEY
on the Highways Committee,
the Game and Fish Commit
tee and the State Institutions
and Property Committee.
He is president of the Sum
merville Lions Club, chairman
of ' the Chamber of
Commerce’s governmental af
fairs sub-committee and is
vice president of the Chat
tooga Linebackers Club.
He is a graduate of Chat
tooga High School and
Jacksonville State University,
with a degree in political
science.
A hastily-called special
meetinlf of the Trion Town
Council met Saturday morn
ing and agpointed Riegel com
ptroller Bobby Haygood to
the council by a 4-2 margin
with secret ballots.
Haygood was aptpointed to
fill the vacancy left by Roy
Bowers, who resigned Thurs
day to take a position at
Riegel's Ware Shoals, S.C,,
operation.
The appointment marks
the third new councilman to
take over after a council
resifination this year. Just one
week prior to the resifnation
of Bowers, s%gcial elections
were held in Trion and Don
Hayes and Frank Morton
were elected.
_ There was some specula
tion that the third highest
to overturn, according to GSP
reports.
The truck spilled several
thousand gallons of fuel onto
the highway, forcing the clos
ing of the road until 5 Sm ac
cording to reports. Officials
from tfie State Department of
Transportation, the GSP and
the Summerville Fire Depart
ment arrived on the scene for
the cleanup. No fire was
reported.
“The Summerville Fire
Department put down foam,”
said Tucker. %Io charges were
filed in the incident. Tie truck
was owned by D&D Qil Co. of
Rome.
information about free
business counseliri%e from the
Service Corps of Retired Ex
ecutives volunteers, about ser
vices provided by the Small
Business Development Center
at Floyd Junior College and
about gBA financing, procure
ment and management train
ing l{:rograms.
ita B. Duke, executive
director of the chamber, said
the concept is an ‘‘excellent
examgle” of positive partner
ship between the private sec
tor and the public sector to
meet the needs of small
businesses.
““Small business persons
freqfuently have expressed
confusion because of not
knowing where to go to get
needed information,”’ said
Mrs. Duke. “The resource
center will make a wide varie
ty of such information accessi
ble to at least one place in the
downtown area.”’
In other chamber news, the
U.S. Labor Department has
designated Chattooga County
as an area of ‘“‘labor surplus”
due to the high rate of
unemployment locally.
The designation gives
Chattooga Countians are
gettinf ready for the second
annual Fourth of July Parade,
which will be held this year on
July 3. However, on Sunday,
July 4, a gospel singini com
plete with fireworks is
scheduled at the Chattooga
High School football field.
The organizer of the
parade and other festivities,
the Rev. Carl Hadlefi'. said he
is especially looking for
county-wide band to par
| ti&i&ate in this year’s parade.
‘ “What I would like to do is
get as many of our kids to set
up a band,” said Hadley.
“Ple parade; which will be
held in the downtown area of
Summerville, will offer free
balloons for the kids, prizes
for the best decorated bicycles
in the parade, floats and
several clowns and animals.
~ The Fort McClellan Mar
ching band, the Shriners, old
cars and wagons will be
featured. “We're hoping to
%ft a mule train going,’’ said
adley. ‘“Anybody with a
horse is welcomed to par
ticipate.”
Other participants will in
clude The Kings Messenéers
from LaFayette and the Cen
tral Avenue Baptist Church’s
Council Meeting
Is Postponed
The regular meeting of the
Summerville Citg' ouncil
has been postponed until June
21 at 7 p.m.
The council, which normal
ly meets every second Mon
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vote-getter in the special elec
tion, John Drennan, would be
appointed.
According to Trion Mayor
Jake Woods, council members
who wanted to apcfoint Dren
nan could have done so by
writing his name on the secret
ballot.
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A gasoline tanker carrying several thou
sand gallons of gas overturned on Hwy.
337 last Wednesday five miles north of
Menlo. Rex Moore, 21, of Shannon, was
not injured in the mishag, accordinfg to
the Ci!nattooga County Sheriff's Office.
The driver was northbound when he
county businesses priority
rights in bidding for federal
fi:)vernment contracts, accor
'nito Mrs. Duke. ‘‘Because
of the designation, we will be
allowed preferential treat
ment,”’ she said.
Chattooga is one of three
counties in the 7th Congres
sional District to be
designated as an area of high
unemdployment.. Walker and
Floyd counties have received
similar designations.
According to U.S. Rep.
Larry McDonald, published
information concerning
federal contract availabilit
will be offered at his Rome o{
fice. “Before a firm can sub
mit a bid to obtain a federal
contract, obviously, it must
know what opportunities are
available,” saild McDonald.
“This information is contain
ed in the Commerce Business
Daily, published by the U. S.
Department of Commerce. It
features a daily list of U.S.
government procurement in
vitations, subcontracting
leads and foreign business op
portunities.”’
The subscription is $l5O
per vear, but concerned
orchestra from Trion. Other
gospel singers from the area
will be participating in the
singing set for Sunday.
“We're still looking for dona
tions for fireworks,” said the
pastor.
Hadley said last year’s
parade drew about 3,000 spec
tators and he said, “‘I hope
this year's is even bigger.”
The parade will begin at 2
gl.m. at the intersection of
wy. 27 and Lyerly Hwy.
north through town to the
Piggly Wiggly Shopping
Center.
Tentative plans calls for
B. S Rep. Larry McDonald to
be the grand marshall of the
parade.
Hadley said he hopes to
top last year’s 30 floats that
included firetrucks, patrol
cars and other civil groups.
Payne Announces Plans
For School Board Post
Menlo resident George
Payne has ?ualified for tfie
Menlo School District post on
the Chattooga County Board
of Education.
Payne will seek the post
occupied by incumbent Leroy
Massey, who has also
qualified.
Others to qualify for
school posts in Lyerly and the
Pennvine-Trion District in
clude incumbent Joel Cook
and William ‘‘Fuzz’’ Anderson
from Lyerly, and Gary Brown
will seek the aglOSt formerly
held by Ray Hall in Trion.
Payne has lived in Menlo
since 1968 and is a salesman
at Brimp Warren Ford in
Summerville. He is a past
mayor and councilman in
Menlo and is a gast county
PTA president. “‘l'm for pro
gress with no waste,”’ said
ayne. “I'm concerned about
taxes in Chattooga County.”
Payne is married to the
former Ann Bailey of Sum
merville. The couple has six
children, four of whom have
graduated from Chattooga
Gas Tanker Overturns
residents can read the bulletin
at the 301 Federal Building in
Rome.
In other action, the
chamber announced this
{\;:ar's Christmas Parade will
Dec, 5.
* The chamber is continu
ing with plans to seek installa
tion directional sign off
Interstate-75 at Adairsville
toward Summerville.
* Announced a HUD
Block Grant Hearing June 15
at 7 p.m. in the courthouse to
seek monies for a county in
dustrial park.
* Directed letters to be
sent to members clarifying
the local option sales tax ques
tion on the upcoming Aug. 10
ballot.
Voters will decide if they
want the local option sales tax
to be used for county
maintenance and operation in
August and will respond to an
amendment by Rep. Johnny
Crawford in November,
deciding if the tax should be
used f%r the local school
system rather than the county
maintenance and operation.
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High School.
Payne is also a member of
the Chelsea Baptist Church,
where he teaches Sunday
School. He is a member of the
Shriners and is a Mason.
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rounded a curve and was met by a
R/}llpwood truck traveling southbound.
oore pulled the right tire of the tanker
off the road, causing the truck to over
turn, according to Sheriff's in
vestigators. No charges were filed.
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