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Incumbent Representative John Crawford, Ileft,
receives a handshake of congratulations for a battle
well-fought from his campaign adversary Gar%uGordon.
Crawford amassed 54 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s
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sth District
House of Rep.
Crawford 198 86 63 10 | 287 77 61 32 924 53 371 42 2,291
Gordon 126 16 155 | 52 98 4 61 836 71 457 15 1,946
Governor '
Ginn_ 66 19 10 52 2 71 39 31 432 22 192 11 1,106
Harris 255 - 60 41 167 1=118" 266 136 62 11,331 | 102 639 4_7 i 3,220 4
U. S. House
7th District ;
Democrat
Bade 25 7 12 49 o 1 22 16 9 150 17 94 412
Jenkins b 7 11 15 44 0 44 14 12 327 3% 122 683
McDonald 230 57 72 149 20 | 269 145 72 | 1,266 78 588 3,063
Republican !
Castellucis o 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 10
Sellers - 6 1 1 0 1 15 10 64
Secretary of
State
Cleland 160 40 32 | 104 13 | 192 92 32 46 949 60 405 2,202
Poythress 133 31 14 98 6 | 120 72 25 44 2 58 386 1,782
Georgia Supreme
Court
Bell 137 38 53 27 88 13 11786 86 39 55 968 65. 484 37 2,266
Dorsey 131 33 |32 17 54 8 | 122 67 17 31 659 49 283 15 1,518
Crawford Third In Expenditures
Incumbent Rep. John
Crawford, victorious Tuesday
for his fourth term in the
Georgia House, trailed third
behind challenges Earl “‘Red”’
Parris and run-off candidate
Gary Gordon in campaign ex
penses, according to his Aug.
20 campaign disclosure
report.
Candidate Parris, who was
defeated by a wide margin in
the Aug. 10 primary, led the
pack of four candidates in ex
-Benses, trailed by Gordon,
rawford and J egg Money.
Parris repor expenses
of $1,878 to be the biggest
srender. despite an apparent
clerical error in his latest
report with the state. A check
of the Chattooga Probate
records revealed that Parris
filed two cover sheets for the
report and one contribution
sheet with local officials. Or
dinarily, the report would
Trion Lowers Tax Rate
The Trion Town Council
lowered the 1982-83 millage
rate Thursday after Mayor
Jake Woods informed the
council that an amended tax
digest received from the coun
ty would mean Trion residents
could pay 10 mills and pay out
the same tax as the previously
set 11.5 mills.
During last month’s town
council meeting, the council
set a 11.5 mill tax levy and a
$2.6 million budget.
Wood said the 10-mill rate
would include 3.5 mills for the
general fund, 5.5 mills for the
town school system and 1 mill
for the community center
bond. The new tax millage will
mean a $4 to $5 reduction in
taxes for residents compared
to last year.
Last year's millage rate
was 11.5 mills compared to
the 1980-81 rate of 18.5 mills.
Woods said the state sac
The Summeruille News
It’s All Over Now
have one cover sheet, a con
tribution sheet and one expen
diture sheet. 4
Probate Judge Jon Payne
speculated that Ig>arris sent his
two exgenditure sheets to the
state board regulating elec
tions without a cover sheet.
The report in the Probate of
fice was missing an expen
diture sheet, but had two
cover sheets. S
The $1,878 figure for Par
ris’ exj)enses was reported on
his June 26 campaign
disclosure report.
Gordon reported total ex
penses in the campaign of
$1,527 with new expenditures
from June 26 to Aug. 20 of
$145 for newspaper ads. Gor
don reported no contributions.
Rep. Crawford reported
total expenditures of $1,212,
including new expenses of
$l6O for billboards, $l7O to
WGTA for ads, $204 to
tored last year's digest by 7
¥ercent, raising the digest
rom $24,791,000 in 1980 to
more than $26 million last
year. Earlier reports from the
state indicated in May that
the town would need an 11.5
millage rate, but the higher
than expected tax digest
meant the town could get by
with a lower millage rate.
In other action, Mayor
Woods said the town swimm
ing pool lost $15,959 this year
compared to a loss of $2,471
hst‘}a'ear.
oods said the loss could
be attributed to an SII,BOO ex
gense to hydro-coat the pool
or sealing, an $867 pump and
an $Bl2 expense for repairing
tiles. He said the income
generated by the pool was
$2,000 less than last year,
possibly attributed to this
year’s cool, rainy weather.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1982
run-off, though Gordon took seven of the county’s 13
precincts. Crawford will begin his seventh year in the
Georgia House of Representatives from District 5.
WADX in Trenton for ads and
$lO4 to the Dade County Sen
tinel for ads.
Crawford amassed a total
of $1,150 in contributions, in
cluding a new contribution of
S3OO from the Georgia
Realtors Association, a
Eolitical action committee
eadquartered in Atlanta.
Crawford has also received
contributions from the Eagle
Forum, an anti-ERA political
action committee, the Georgia
Nursing Home in Atlanta, l:%'lne
Good Government Committee
of Georgia and the Georgia
Murder Trial Underway
The trial of Terry D{er.
charged with the June 27 slay
ing of his stepfather, Charles
“gurly" Hunter, in the
Wayside Community, got
underway in Chattooga Coun
a; Superior Court at 1 p.m.
ednesday with Judge
Joseph E. Loggins presiding.
Assistant District At
torney Ralgh Van Pelt called
Chatt;oo?a ountg' EMT Don
ny Fowler to the stand to
testify when he arrived at the
Hunter residence off HWX. 2%
he found the 47-year-old vic
tim dead at the scene from
gunshot wounds.
Dyer, 24, is accused of
shooting his stepfather with a
.30-.30 rifle on the evening of
June 27.
The victim’s wife, Delores
Hunter, took to the stand late
Wednesday, testifying to the
events prior to the shootix;f as
she recalled them. rs.
Hunter testified that she did
not see her son shoot her hus
band, but that she did see her
son with a gun in his hand
after she heard a second shot.
As of press time Wednes
day, no further details were
available.
Chiropractors Association, all
political action committees.
Defeated candidate
Monegr. who lost his bid for
Crawtord’s seat in the Aug. 10
primary, reported total ex
penses of $1,048 and contribu
tions of SI,OOO.
Defeated school board can
didate George Payne reported
total expengitures of $6Bl to
be the only candidate for the
school positions to report any
expenditures over SIOO.
The next campaign
disclosure report is due
Oct. 18.
Uncle
Ned’s
Notes
Dear Mr. Editor,
That time of the year is
upon us again Mr. Editor,
football season. I do love to
watch high school and college
football teams kick that ole
ball around . that pasture. I
always thought that football
was a great charictur builder
in our younguns. I do wish
more boys would participate,
not only for the charictur it
builds but for the exersize and
body-building that it gives our
young boys. It also teaches a
team-spirit approach, an agz
proach that maybe cannot be
achieveed anywhere but
sports, and can ge carried and
;wed thruout this here life we
ive.
YORES TRULY,
UNCLE NED
Crawford Edges Gordon,
Wins Fourth House Term
By JAMES BUDD
Surging on the momentuia
!:hna‘:u:e him the 2-1 leader
in ug. 10 primary, in
cumbent Johnp Crawford
defeated challenger Gar{ Gor
don in Tuesday’s run-off to be
seated for his fourth term in
the Georgia House of
Representatives.
The Democrat from Lyerly
wred 54 percent of the
‘ote Tuesday, outdistancing
Cordon by 345 votes in Chat
tooga County’s 13 precincts.
Crawford received 2,291 votes
to Gordon's 1,946.
Chattooga voters gave a
decided victory to northwest
Georgia's victorious
Democratic gubernatorial can
didate, Joe Frank Harris of
Cartersville.
Though Harris collected 54
gercent of the vote statewide,
hattooga voters gave the
45-year-old veteran of the
Georgia House a 76 percent
margin over Bo Ginn, a U. S.
Céniressman from Millen in
south Georggia. .
Incumbent 7th District
Congressman Larry
McDonald routed Democratic
challengers Sadie Jenkins and
Jack Bade by 3,063 votes to
683 and 412, respectively in
the special congressional elec
tions locally.
Crawford Qutlines Legislative
Possibilities During Next Session
Incumbent Rep. John
Crawford said his successful
bid for a fourth term in the
Georgia House of Represen
tatives was a fair campaign
with his seniority anff ex
perience being the main issue.
Crawford, who received 54
percent of the District 5 votes
to defeat challenger Gary Gor-
Gordon May Start Radio Station
Though defeated by a
345-vote margin in Tuesday’s
run-off election for Rep. John
Crawford’s seat, Chattooga
County businessman Gary
Gordon says he may return in
two years to fight again, but
first he will explore the
possibility of starting a new
radio station in the county
and expanding his exter
minating business.
“I've got two years to
think about it,"” said Gordon,
after his defeat Tuesday
night. “If my friends and
family want me to (run again),
Chattooga Jail Suit Is Delayed
A class action suit aimed
at improving conditions at the
Chattooga County Jail in
Summerville has been
rescheduled from Sept. 7 to
Sept. 13 in U.S. District
Court in Rome, according to
Arch Farrar Jr., attorney for
the suit’'s defendants, éhat
tooga Commissioner Wayne
“Pete’’ Denson and Sheriff
Garl.x McConnell.
arrar indicated there is a
possibility the non-jury civil
case may be postponed fur
ther because U.S. District
Judge Harold Murphy said he
wanted to ‘‘talk over some
issues that have to be resettl
ed before the trial,’”’ said Far
rar.
The suit, filed in July 1981
on behalf of inmates Joe
Moore and Gregory Shrop
shire, both convicted of armed
robbe;r. is expected to come
to trial, as attemrts to settle
the matter out of court have
apparently failed.
Pressing the suit is a bat
tery of attorneys from the
Georgia Legal gervices pro
gram, a federally-subsidized
service that provides legal aid
to indigents in civil matters.
““We've (Farrar and
Georgia Legal Services) talk
ed some,”’ said Farrar, ‘‘but as
far as I know there will be a
trial.”’
The 30-page suit names
Denson and McConnell as
defendants in the suit, both in
dividually and in their
capacities as county officials.
Geor&a Legal Services at
tomefy endy Glassbrenner,
who filed the orifiinal suit last
year, said regardless of recent
improvements at the jail, the
issue at stake is the future
condition of the Summerville
McDonald will face Mariet
ta attorney Dave Sellers in the
Nov. 2 General Election.
Sellers defeated his
Republican opyosition.
Richard Castellucis, a
Southern Tech professor, by
64 votes to 10 in Chattooga
County.
In the closest race
statewide, former state
senator Max Cleland nipped
incumbent Secretary of gtate
David Poythress by 3 percen
tage points. Chattooga voters,
however, gave Cleland 55 per
cent of the vote to Poythress’
45 percent.
Cleland will face
Refl)ublican Nick-Reagan
Belluso in the Nov. 2 General
Election.
In the race for Associate
Justice Robert Jordan's
vacated seat, Richard Bell
defeated Jack Dorsey by
garnering 60 Igxercem: of the
vote locally. Bell, a DeKalb
Superior Court judge, easily
won statewide and faces no
opposition in November.
The evening’s most heated
race was between Rep.
Crawford and Gordon, a
businessman from Gore. Gor
don, who carried seven of the
13 county boxes including
Trion, was noticeably weaker
than Crawford in the southern
don, will start his seventh
year in the House next
January.
“1 think it was really a
campaign of personali%'ies
more than issues,” said
Crawford. “‘I think one issue
was my seniority, but on other }
issues we weren't really |
apart.” ]
I might. I was trying to hel
Chattooga County and the st£
District. I wasn't running just
to run.”
Gordon, who will be 30 in
November, said he harbors no
ill will or bad feelings about
the campaign. ‘I don’t know
what I could have done dif
ferently,”” he said. ‘‘He beat
me fair and square.”’
“If he (Crawford) imflroves
as a representative then I
won't be back, but if Chat
tooia County continues to
decline then I'll be back,” Gor
don said.
facility.
The jail was recently given
one of its highest health
ratings ever by the Public
Health Department and the
last session of the ChattOOfia
County Grand Jury found the
jail operating under inmate
capacity and ‘‘in good order.”
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Missing Man’s Car Abandoned
The blood-soaked car of Wayne Brad
ford, a Dade County native, has been
missing since Aug. 18, was found just off
the State Line Road near Cloudland
Thursday, Au% 19. The 1980 Ford
Mustang was found parked between a
tree and a rock chimney of an old house,
end of the county. In the
boxes Gordon won the margin
was generally slight, while
Crawford’s boxes were
decidedlz in his favor.
In Lyerly, Crawford's
home box, voters gave their
favorite son 287 votes to Gor
don's 52. In Gordon's own
district, Dirttown voters gave
him 155 votes to Crawford’s
63.
Crawford held a slight
edge throughout the evening.
By 8:30, when the Summer
ville tabulations were official,
the race was decided in
Crawford’s favor and Gordon
shook hands with the incum
bent, conceeding defeat.
“He dominated the lower
end of the county,”’ said Gor
don, after conceeding. ‘I
wanted to win. He beat me fair
and square. I don’t know what
I could have done
differently.”’
Crawford said he was
“somewhat surprised”’ that
the margin was not bigger. “‘1
think this was a campaign of
personalities rather than
issues,”’ Crawford said. “We
were pretty close on the issues
— we were both conser
vatives. The issue was ex
perience. There wasn't much
difference on the issues.”
Locally, 4,237 voters par
The incumbent candidate
said his close victory this year
and in 1980 when he defeated
Jerry Money by 53 percent of
the vote could probably be at
tributed to his lack of name
recognition in the northern
end of the district. ‘I think
it's irobably that I'm not as
well-known in the north end of
“I'm going to concentrate
on my business, spend some
time with my famify and I'm
looking forward to our second
child in November,'’ he added.
“Also, myself and some
other people in the county are
looking into opening a new
radio station in the county,”
he continued. ‘I feel like Chat
tooga County is ready for a
good radio station. I'm real in
terested in that. I think the
people would support it, too.”
Gordon said he learned
The suit charges, among
others, overcrowding, lack of
adequate lighting and ‘“‘an
ongoing failure to provide pro
tection against disease
carrying agents, including in
sects and roaches.”’
Glassbrenner, who said she
was ‘‘surprised to see the case
with the right front tire in a small ditch.
The car was locked with the windows
rolled up and was pulled in toward the
wooded area. Bradford was last seen two
miles from where the car was found. For
gmre information, see this week’'s Second
ront.
PRICE 20c¢
ticipated in the regreaontative
election, compared with 4,450
who participated in the Aug.
10 primary. The county had
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JOE FRANK HARRIS
Cartersville native Joe Frank
Harris carried the state by a
54 percent margin. Chattooga
residents gave Harris a 76 per
cent margin of victory over
south Georgia’s Bo Ginn.
|the county as I am in the
| southern end,” said Crawford.
“If you look at the south end
where I'm pretty well-known,
1 got 90 percent of the vote in
some boxes. They don't see
’me as much in the north end
i=_ I'm Just not »
| well-known.”’
\! see OUTLINES, page 3-A
“several things'’’ about cam
paigning. “I think possibly
my biggest mistake was going
door. to door,” he saig. 5
should have spent more time
at mill shifts and in shoppin,
centers. I probably woulg
have spent less time in Dade
County.”
Gordon praised the hard
work his opponent put forth
during the campaign. ‘“‘He
worked hard and I think
that's the hardest I've ever
seen him work,”” said Gordon.
I felt him coming on.”
on the trial calendar,”’ said she
is hoping for a decree that will
be enforced in the future.
“At this point, I am still
expecting a trial and J)refilar
ing ftor at, " =Bl S.
Glassbrenner.