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St. Valentine’s Day Observed
Today marks a very special celebration
for sweethearts of all ages as tokens of
affection are exchufir’vl‘his fout-flur
old pair joins the o ance as little
Matt Cnrg‘o‘nm shyly offers his heart to
Prison Opposition Meeting
Draws 263 To Courthouse
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
A prison opposition
g By g e
persons the upstairs
Courtroom of the Chattooga
!:lz(.uu is impossible if
Coun“ courthouse ible i
min Lhcaht. ' attorney
y Lee Sr. told the
residents. “We need to find a
legal and decent way to end
Prison opposition leader
Richard Greeson stated,
“What is ahead is a hard
fight. We u'e.fl tls“null comi
munity wer O
iy Sapg 4 ego
Of the 263 in attendance,
74 were from Pennville, 756
were from Summerville; 73
were from Trion; one was from
Gore; two were from
Cloudland; 10 were from Lyer
lsyomt were from Menlo; and
not register their ad
dresses.
Greeson condemned the ac
Fire Destroyed Historic
Church Tuesday Morning
Firefighters from Summer
ville and Lyerly braved snow
and hazardous roads early
Tuesday morning to fight a
fire at the Perennial Springs
mfiu Church, but there was
the men could do to save
the church as it was complete
-3 engulfed in flames upon
ir arrival, according to
Summerville Fire Captain
Johnny Edwards.
The church, which
celebrated its 100th anniver
sary last fall was totally
duuoyod.hblnn the :jenrby
fellowship hall was saved from
destruction.
g The church, located on
erennial Road, ex
plodedinfl;my after 3
am. Tuesday, -ccorditgow
pastor Jerry Pope. ““Some
neighbors called me a little
after 3 am. and said they
heard an explosion and saw
flames over the trees,” said
Pope. who theorized that
something went afoul with the
church’s heating system,
causing a propane ung to ex
plode. 5
The Rev. PoY:a said
$30.000 was spent year
The Summerville News
tha and O. W, Carpenter of Summerville.
Amanda is the daughter of Donna and
Michael Slayton of Trion, “‘Pepper,’’ a
two-year-old Schnauzer, to Dale
Peppers of Summerville. ( ‘photo by
‘K"tmw‘flo‘wn» SF R s i
tions of an unknown person
who placed a rose and a
bizarre note at the home of
State H.z:‘:hn Crawford last
week. lunatic has un
fortunately &md a nasty
note on the of one of our
citizens and tnparrl."
Grenonuuuid. ld 'll)'e ere's
i t cou more
m%wmmnm action
of that type.”
“If we sit and do nothing
there is sfiu to be a prison
built in Chattooga County,”
uxldu(z‘moonpol . "“You .J;m in
itics, politics put rrhon
r: Pennville Iflgui! be a
political decision if it is remov
ed. We hope to provide
political pressure for the pro
mmw action. We
are f here and now a
committee to save Chattooga
County from Gov. Joe Frank
Harris."”
Greeson urged residents to
create and photograph signs
(l)if protest ltw‘;heir ruidencuh.
e sugges captions suc
as "Gov. Joe Frank Harris
Prison,” and “‘Sonny Huggins
remodeling the church, but he
roofr boA o e
t lowshi s
are alr?d{ underway to gegn
a new building program.
Services were held at the
church Mondauy nht at the
fellowship ha officials
decided to put the church’s
music equipment in the sanc
tuary for security reasons.
The Rev. Pope said several
zew.musiul instruments l‘::t
a new were
inudu:en’lre. i
The original church, which
was built of hand-hewn
timbers and remodeled
through the years, dates back
lOOAy wrsdmg C Ed
ceordi to o o
wards, two trucks fr:z Sum-
P
tot at
3;%5 z.n onsd o;uy.d cén the
scene 08 a.m. during
the h:li‘gt of Tuesday’s
nnowuotu'lfid Ofx;e htruck
reportedly off the road
coming back from the call.
An investigator from the
state’'s Fire flunhl office is
expected to check into possi
ble causes of the blaze.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA 30747 — THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1985
Hotel: 250 rooms, burglars
“Please take pictures and
mail them to me,"”’ he asked.
‘At the proper time, we will
forward the pictures to all
state representatives. We will
fi the message through to
the state of Georgia that we
are dourmmlcl;:d not wcl;ve a
son ttooga County.
Whon the time comes we wfil
have a candidate for every of
fice heldunla"gonom who in
tend to a riwn off on
Chattooga County. We can
ax'l this J: two years, kirp ‘::
ore people until t!
next election.”
Bobby Lee Cook Sr. reveal
ed doulfi of recent meetings
with state officials and hinted
at possible legal actionis aimed
at stopping construction of a
state prison in Chattoosn
County. “On Jan. 2, we made
an appointment with David
Evans of the Dormment of
Offender Rehabilitation to
find out what was foinß:n in
selling the site. During
this with an ap
pointed I was appalled
at the poucitml information
we &.o:k‘from "' According
to Evans stated that he
did not remember who first
brought him to the Pennville
site and did not remember
where the other sites were
located in the county. “We
were startled to find t.t:t .:,)hl;
pr y was going to
-t%ns.ooo for ll‘gG acres of
farm land; including 40 acres
R tntin: sppeaiecis vabued
t appraisals v
the land at $195,000 and
$281,000, Cook stated.
“It is also interesting to
note, there is not a single
prison location in the state,
either a ltl;t.e or a federal blc:.w
tion, in the same phi
proximity to a rum area
with churches and schools and
;bomulsu'::.h as this. It is a
irst. It has been mfigsud
that the prison in this tion
will be glg:: for Chattooga
County. tit will bring
cmpb‘}:eee and it will bring
jobs. Then I say, so would a
toxic waste dump or such
would be any number of
odious things which would
diminish h:cnd ohe:tainly l:
catastrophic to the quality
life,” Cook said.
“In order to put a prison in
this location the state requires
thlttheymultbuyor:iceby
condemnation ;sroport’rfi'e from
people in Pennville. y are
see PRISON, page 9-A
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Prison Utility Hookup By City
Gets Mixed Council Reaction
By JAMES BUDD
News Editor
A delegation of Chattoo{:
County ::?tizonl opposod
the cor_ut.r'\:'ctionu I: a state
prison in Pennville appeared
at Mondnfi’s meeting of the
Summerville City Council re
questing that the city not fur
nish the proposed facility with
utih"rtli\oc.s -
e State ment
Offender Rohnbmuflon is ex
pected to construct the $21.5
million rrison on 191 acres in
Pennville and has indicated
thtm' will use Summerville's
utilities includin? water and
sewerage if the city approves
a contract,
Ooymonent W. P, Selman
and others opposed to the site
warned the council a &rioon in
Pennville would be detrimen
tal to Chattooga Countl{. “It
will ruin the %uuuty of life for
a majority of Chattooga Coun
ty,” said Selman,
Several councilmen, in
cluding Councilman Clint
Agnew, who in May 1982
made a motion before the
coundil endorsing construc
tion of a pumrilon in the
county, indicated they are op:
pondy to the prison site, "1
was one of the first ones that
spoke for the prison,’ said
Aww. "AnKone would have
believed in t:d e"fniryhnd that
was .
mlmnn Phil Cavin
said DOR should have talked
with public officials ebout the
K:opoud prison. “Could we
ve not had some hm’t: he
questioned. “'I don't it's
being handled in the correct
manner. It's been crammed
down our throats, I can't say
bowlm:dmwnw“ o
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text, this ) outlin? the
city's lnvovvomont the
issue. ‘'The council and myself
have never said that we
wanted a prison in Pennville
and at this time a meeting is
set to talk to a representative
of the DOR about the utilities.
The council has legislative
authority to a%ove the
utilities with the R. I only
have a vote when the legisla
tion is tied. But looking at the
business venture of tfie city,
the growth and progress for
DOR, City
Discuss
Utilities
Georgia Department of Of
fender Rehabilitation
Mnoen met with Summer
ille city officials Wednesday
morning at city hall to discuss
the possibility of Summerville
oontncthw with DOR for sup
ztl‘ving utilities to the propos-
Pennville state Erilon.
City Manager nd( Mc-
Calmon said DOR is re
questing a maximum 135,000
fallom of water per day and
20,000 gallons in wastewater
treatment capacity. In
somewhat of a surprise
Wednesday, DOR ::!inoer
Clyde Stovall indicated that
the prison would need natural
gas during the warmer mon
ths of the year for hot water,
cooking and other uses, “We'd
ceru:fl' y like to have a sum
mertime load, I can tell you
that,” said McCalmon.
The city manager said it
would mean 880,000 plus” in
revenues for the city, in
cluding gas, water and sewer.
Ep:fineef Stovall explained
the prison would switch over
to a wood chip heating system
d\;;iflf the winter months, but
wi need gl:s during the
warmer months for energy
p ;
Roo: Harris with Welker &
Auociates.fh:.‘he“éity’;:
o il
prison w:fld require a 10-inch
water main for 4,300 feet at an
estimated cost of $112,000
and sewer lines run from ex
hfinlfi lines to the prison
would cost $263,000.
However, expansion of
Summerl::lllz's wat.eru treat
ment t is virtually pro
hibilur by the State %n
--vironmental Protection Divi
sion because it is currently
operating p:cti its two million
gallon ca ty.
Harris ecu’l'naud it would
ci:gamnmm' i umoftzg.w;)w
ease ity at the plant
and ponib%y $250,000 max
see DOR, page 14-A
Chattooga County, my vote
would be 3‘:;' ihf t.l}:\;);:‘ouncil
can agree the upon
the cost of the utilities."
Mayor Cash estimated the
prison would increase
revenues by about SBO,OOO per
year from water and sewer
revenues and would ‘‘open the
door’’ for the city to get
).i:n“ to expand the sewer
nt.
Councilman Ira Pollard
said he is opposed to the
prison in Pennville, but if the
state builds the Frioon there
despite opposition Pollard
stated he wanted Summerville
“to ?t the most out of it" in
obtaining grants and increas
od revenues. :
Councilmen Ronnie Pilcher
“and Guinn Hankins expressed
the opinion after Monday's
meeting that if the city does
not authorize the utility
hookup for the site, it might
jeopardize future grants from
the state lavel.
“Although I've taken no
stand for or against the Krioon
1 was diuprointed in the site
| for its location,” said
Pilcher. "However, as a
: tative for the Citi/ of
Summerville I must take into
account the ldvmu’u its ex
istence would ngfily or the ci
ty. The fina aspect not
only in terms of our budget
County’s
Jail Is
Now Open
Chattooga C‘:‘untg‘l ne\;rl
ol s egt
g:und by an inadequate
ating ?mwn
Sheriff's deruties were
moving inmates into the facili
-3' lurtic& Monday. Sheriff
ary McConnell said 24 in
mates will be housed initially.
“It will be lulliioccupied by
tonight,”” said McConnell on
Monday.
The sheriff said the in
terior of the jail is 95 percent
co:?lete and the outside
needs a fence around the
recreation area.
McConnell said the
engineering firm had agreed
to pay the additional cost of
the extra heating unit and the
extra cost of housing
prisoners in other jails during
the delay.
The f;il was poorly heated
during January's sub-zero
cold, leaving temperatures
cold enough to freeze toilets
inside the structure,
En%neers decided to nurlfi
double the jail's 250,000 BT
heating system to supply ade
quate warmth.
Pair Netted
For Trion
Robbery
Chattooga ' County
Sheriff's officials arrested two
Trion men :iurly h;londayhmor'
ning approximately two hours
after.&ay ullegedli held up a
store manager robbing him of
a substantial amount of
money and receipts.
According to Sheriff Gary
McConnell, two men iden
tified as Marty Monroe Mur
q‘hy, 23, of 16 10th Street,
rion, and Timothy Howard
Brown, 20, of 133 Getg;gia
Street, Trion, were arrested at
3:09 a.m. Monday at the
Brown residence and charged
with the armed robbery of
Benny's Tri-Sum Foods on
U. 8. 27 in Trion.
According to McConnell,
the two men, who were wear
ing ski masks, confronted
night manager Lamar Lo%:n
at 12:49 a.m. with a .22-caliber
automatic rifle and demanded
money.
Sheriff's investigators and
members of the Trion Police
Department tracked the
suspects down about two
hours later at the Brown
residence. All the money, the
holduge:reapon, the ski masks
and checks were recovered by
lawmen at the scene, McCon
muM"id'h has been charged
urphy has been char
with armed robbery and
Brown was charfizd with arm
ed robbery and being a g:lny
to a crime. Both were being
held under a $50,000 bond in
the Chattooga County Jail.
but also jobs must be con
sidered as a means of con
tinued progreu and im
provements for the city."
Pilcher went on to aa¥ that
donfing the state utilities
would “demolish the relation
ship between our city and the
state."
Mayor Cash told the au
dience that “it looks like this
is l7oln¢ to rest with Summer
ville."" *‘l hope {ou don't
blame Summerville if it is
decided to tie on the utilities. I
hgge this council doesn’t get
100 percent of the blame."
In other action Monday,
the council turned down two
separate ro?uesta to rezone
gurcola of land on Selman
treet from R-1 (residential,
linFlo family) to R-2 (residen
tial, multi-family). More than
a dozen residents of the area
“turned out to express their op
posg,ioflm the*request,
roperty owner Jimmy
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Mayor & Council ‘Hotseat’
Members of the Summerville Mayor and
Council must now consider whether to
contract with the Georgia Department of
Offender Rehabilitation for e:l‘lpandlng
utilities to the proroued Pennville prison
site. Opponents of the site are lobbying
hard for the council to reject DOR's re-
City’s Part In Prison
Issue Outlined By Cash
Summerville Mayor Sewell
Cash issued the following
statement Monday night dur
ing the council meeting outlin
ing the city's involvement in
the state {prioon issue.
The ollowlnfi is Cash's
statement: ‘‘ln May of 1982,
the City;Council voted
unanimoulf;' to endorse a
prison being located in Chat
tooga County.
3 «fi::u from the Minutes
of the Regular meeting of the
Mayor and Council held on
May 10, 1982:
‘Mr. W. B. Farrar, County
Commissioner Wayne Denson
and Sheriff Gary McConnell
asked the Mayor and Council
to endorse the attempt t.cgfet
a State Prison constructed in
Chattooga Count?'. They
stated that State officials had
advised that four would be
built in the future and one
could be approved for Chat-
Looia County by endorsement
of the Community and no ogr
position from the citizens. The
prison would be a medium
security ltfipe. 500-bed, 17
million dollar facility with ap
proximately 180 emfiloyou,
and an annual payroll of six
million. Funds would have to
be appropriated b{e the
General Assembly in the spr
ing of 1983, Following discus
sion, motion by Clinton
Agnew, seconded by Hubert
Palmer, the Council
unanimously voted to send a
letter to State officials endors
ing this pro))osal"’
“In 1984, three new Coun
cil members were elected to
the Council. We have discuss
ed the &rison and all agree and
wish the site selected could be
in a glace that would be
Egreea le to everyone in the
ountfi.ee Summerville has
never n approached until
the Underwood site was
selected as the possible loca
tion of the rrison. The Council
and mi’sef have agreed in
discussion to talk with the
DOR about utilities being con
nected to the Summerville
Duff, who asked the council to
rezone nearly 10 acres on
Selman for multi-family use,
said he has "held on to the
property’’ for about olfht
years and thought it was time
to develop it. After the
unanimous denial by the coun
cil, Duff said he ml[v":ffor the
land to an Ohio f which
builds low-income single fami
ly homes — homes that would
comply with current zoning
restrictions,
A. W. Headrick, who owns
26 acres of land in the Selman
Street area, requested the
council to rezone nine acres of
the total parcel for multi
family homes. “I would not
build anything to jeopardize
the neighborhood or count{,"
said Headrick. However, the
council voted unnnimouuiy to
den( the request.
n other action Monday,
the council:
* Tabled a rezoning re
quest. for utilities in hores of stopping
construction of the 750-inmate ca&acity
facilit{. Above, from left to riglht. ayor
Sewell Cash, Councilmen Clint Agnew,
Phil Cavin and Ira Pollard. Not lrictured.
but present at Monday's council meeting
were Guinn Hankins and Ronnie Pilcher,
system, In January of 1985, I
wrote a letter to the DOR and
gave each Council member a
copy of said letter,
‘No Councilman has told
me they disapproved the
writing of this letter. We have
talked to our Engineers in
Atlanta about utmties and
estimated cost. The Council
and mg'self had a meeting on
Thursday morning to discuss
Sen. Sam Nunn Speaks
Here Wednesday Night
Geo;gla Sen, Sam Nunn
said Wednesday night in Sum
merville Congress will likely
fi: along with President
agan's proposal to make
drastic cuts from U.S.
domestic programs, but the
state’s senior senator balked
at the president’s proposal to
increase defense spending by
S3O billion,
Sfeaking at the annual
meeting of the Chattooga
County Chamber of Com
merce at Chattooga High,
Nunn sajd America will
become a ‘‘debtors nation’’ for
the first time in post World
War 1 hiaw?.
“TOd.g,f 0 g::::ent of our
deficit is ing owed from
funds abroad,” said Nunn,
“Next y:var, lf:lor v&he {il;;t time
in post Wor ar istory,
we will become a debtor na
tion; that is there will be more
foreign investment in this
country than Americans have
invested abrvad, Over the
long haul, that will erode our
standard of livi:s."
Sen. Nunn said the Presi
dent proposes cutting SSO
billion from domestic ?ro
grams and at the same time
groposes an increase of S3O
illion in g:{etaubnnd increas
ing natiol ebt payments
by 820 billion. “So ir;ou take
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quest by Mablel ’Bmonmr to
rezone a parcel of property on
Hwy. J:'nw the Sonic
Drive-In from R-2 to C-2 (com
mercial),
* Heard a presentation
from two officers from the
Calhoun-based battalion of
the Georgia National Guard.
Sgt. John Manis said there are
98 units of the Guard in
Georgia unqlng in size from
90 to 226 soldiers. He said a
community such as Summer
ville could reap annual
benefits totnlinf $125,000
from a 90-man unit.
* Voted to authorize City
Attorney Ben Ballon%er to in
vestigate whether Clear:-Vu
Cable is violatln%ita contract
with the citg y chnrzinfi
customers $10.60 per mont
inside the clt{umitl when the
average of the three closest
systems is $9.48. According
to Mayor ('ash, the contract
see UTILITY, page 19-A
our industrial park. After the
meeting we discussed the City
Managr and myself going to
Atlanta on Friday, the day the
Land Acquisition Committee
was to meet. All the Council
was present except Coun
cilman Pollard. All the Coun
cil afireed to tell the DOR we
would not make a‘n& commit
ment but would talk to them
see CITY, page 19-A
the 850 billion in bud%et cuts
and then you add the S3O
billion in increased defense
smmh’t:fi; the S2O billion on
the national debt and we're
really nmnlng on the rug —
we're not getting anywhere,”
he said.
The lowest deficit projec
tions the President proposes
over the next three years
soo SEN. NUNN, page 19-A
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