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Miss Chattooga County, Junior Miss
Hope Miller of Trion was crowned Miss
Chattooga County and Amber Tallent of
Summerville was crowned Chattooga
County’s Junior Miss during the annual
county beauty review Saturday night at
Chattooga High School. Approximately
400 persons attended the event, which is
sponsored by the CHS Future
Women Alcoholics In State
Estimated At 120,000
*“I was like a wild animal
caught in a trap’ is the way
Jane Marvell (not her real
name) describes her 15 years as
an alcoholic.
Jane is one of an estimated
120,000 women alcoholics in
Georgia, nccordingl to
Margaret Cone, health pro
éram consultant for the
eorgia Department of
Human Resources Division of
Mental Health and Mental
Retardation. Nationwide,
women represent one-third to
one-half of all alcoholics, yet
they make up less than 20 per
cent of those seeking treat
ment. In Georgia they make up
18 percent of those being
treated b‘i the state.
Jane didn't start drinking
until she reached her 30s.
Caught up in her husband's in
creasingly successful career,
she began to drink socially. ‘I
had lived a protected life and
when this social life was put on
me I didn't really feel like I
belonged till I had a few
drinks.” ;
Her daughter's suicide at
age 22 followed by her hus
band’'s death of cancer 15
months later at age 48 trig
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Register Through Friday,
March 28 At First Federal
Homemakers of America. There were 21
contestants in the Miss Chattooga Coun
ty Pageant and 33 competing for the
Junior Miss crown. Pictured are Hope
Miller, Miss Chattooga County; and
Amber Tallent, Chattooga County’s
Junior Miss. Staff photo by Kay Abbott.
gered Jane's downward spiral
into alcoholism. “I felt so
alone. 1 was scared and in
secure, like I was in this big
world and didn't know
anybody.”
Jane tried to stand on her
own feet but her work life was
inconsistent. One company she
worked for closed down; other
jobs ended because of budget
cuts. Another job ended when
she developed cataracts and
had to have eye surgery. ‘“That
really triggered my drinking
again because I feared 1 was
goinfi blind."”
A thou?h she hated the life
she was leading, Jane felt
powerless to stop it. ‘I used
alcohol like other people use
medicine. As you drink fiou
give up the good things in life.
ou lower your standards in
every way. | was running
around with people I didn’t
even trust.” During her years
of heavy drinking Jane says, ‘1
didn't seem to have enough
geople who cared yet I was
locking people trying to ap
proach me.,"” i
~ Cone observes that women
alcoholics are often reluctant to
seek treatment because ‘‘there
is still a greater stigma attach
ed to alcoholic women. Many
people, including doctors and
ministers, are uncomfortable
about confronting a woman
who has a dnnkmi problem.”
Confronted by her son and
daughter in January 1982,
Jane went into a hospital for
detoxification “‘to get them off
my back.” She was to have 10
hopsital stays that year. Final
2'. in desperation, Jane's
aughter and son-in-law got a
court order and placed her in a
nursing home. “I was com
pletely helpless, everything
was gone,”
Tfien Jane discovered the
DeKalb Addiction Clinic, a
metrggolitan Atlanta clinic
funded in part by DHR. She
began attendinf daily treat
ment sessions. ‘‘l went there on
mmlown. By that time I was
willing to surrender x.ng'self to
anything that worked.” She
was able to move out of the
nursing home into a halfway
house and after three months
of successful treatment moved
again to an intermediate com
munity residence. She shares
this private apartment with
three other recovering alcoholic
women moving toward full
independence.
fier since December 1982,
“my sobriety date,”’ Jane has
worked hard to help herself and
others overcome the comq‘ul
sion to drink. She says, ‘“The
desire to drink comes and goes
but when it comes I just use
my flashback memory to
remember how bad it was.”
Sobriety is a whole new ex
ferience for Jane. ‘‘You don’t
eel the guilt and shame and
you see new beauties. When I
was drinking I used to walk to
a nearby liquor store. I could
hardly make it so I would just
focus on the sign aayin&i‘;‘ki
quor.” When I stopped .
ing a friend asked me to take
that walk again. When I did I
saw flowers and shrubs and all
the beauty I had never seen
before.” b
Cone says, ‘‘People may
start drinkingl while under
stress but while some people
can stop drinking, others
devegor _aa“rhys:ical a:llii
sychological dependency call
l:d uddicgilon. Addiction is a
treatable illness. Treatment
lc_an hglp people lead productive
ives.”
Cone says that new services
for alcoholics will be in opera
tion in 1986 in the southwest,
central and northwest areas of
Georgia. These services will
range from short-term detox
ification to 28-day treatment to
extended residential care. Per
sons admitted to the intensive
residential programs will spend
vy s merriuy the Skl
therapy an e
they need to lead sober and
productive lives.
Thursday, March 27, 1986
County School Board Approves
Program For Unruly Students
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
The Chattooga County
Board of Education establish
ed a new in-counta' school pro
firam for students with
ehavioral Disorders (BD) and
discussed per-student funding
worries associated with a new
attendance formula during two
called meetings held Monday
and Tuesday mornings.
During the two meetings,
the board visited all the schools
in the count{eand voted to
rehire all teachers currently in
the school system.
During the Monday
meeting, the board voted
unanimods}y to establish a new
grogram or children with
ehavioral Disorders in
cooperation with the Rome
Psychoeducational Center. The
center will provide fundu: fi for
the prodg‘:nam which will allow
BD students to receive services
in the county. At present, the
18 BD students are bused to
the Rome Psychoeducational
Center in Rome five days a
week at county exé)ense.
The Board of Education’s
only responsibili?' in the pro
gram is to l{:’x‘ovi e classroom
space. The Rome Psychoeduca
tional Center will provide com
plete funding for two teachers,
two student support personnel
and equg)nment for the
students. One BD classroom
will be located at Summerville
Elementary School and the
other will be at Chattooga
High School.
As a result of the change in
Fer-student funding formulas
rom Ave:nlife Daily Atten
dance to Full-Time Equivalen
cy, the county will no lon%:
receive funds for children w
reside in Alabama but attend
Chattooga County Schools, ac
i:{ording to Superintendent Don
ayes. ,
“I want to make the board
aware that we are not receiving
any money from the state fer
these out-of-state children,”
Hayes stated. ““On down the
road, we may have to look at
this more carefully.”
The schools currently
receive $2,200 per resident
child per year from the state.
Approximately 40 students
City, Authority
Work Out Agreement
Summerville City Manager
Grady MiCalmon said t::;
agreement has been negotia
between the city and tfi: Chat
tooga Development Authority
for part interest in the spec
buflSing at the industrial gark.
The authority will pay Sum
merville $30,000 for one-sixth
of the building and will receive
a return of investment based
on any profit the city makes
when an industrial prospect
purchases the building.
McCalmon said, for in
stance, if the building sells for
$6,000 over cost, the authority
would receive one-sixth, or
SI,OOO as a return. v
The city manager said the
authoritfi' would also receive
one-sixth of an{ rent should
the building be leased.
~ The city had borrowed its
constitutional limit of $150,000
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Three Chattooga High basketball stars
and a coach were honored by the Chat
tanooga News Free Press and selected for
Tri-State accolades. Girls Coach Craig
Parrott was named Coach of the Year by
the newspaper in the Tri-State area for
who live in Alabama attend
various schools in the county,
according to Hayes.
In other business, the board
discussed equipment needs for
the new Summerville Middle
School with David Jones,
school principal. Jones was
given permission to seek bids
on equipment and furniture for
the school, which is scheduled
for comg:,etion this summer.
The board voted to change
the allotment of accumulated
sick leave days for school
secretaries from 30 to 45 days.
The board decreased the
number of accumulated sick
leave da¥rso for central office
workers from 90 to 60 days.
Superintendent Hayes told
board members that he had
asked grincipals Alma Lewis,
David Jones and Mike Poole to
work out a slan to move the
fourth and sixth grade
classrooms and teachers when
the new middle school opens.
Plans call for movi.nlg the cur
rent fourth grade classrooms
from the Summerville Elemen
tary School to the North Sum
merville Elementary School.
The sixth grade will move from
the North Summerville
Elementnfi School to the new
Summerville Middle School.
Hayes asked the Kerincipals to
work on making the transition
as smooth as possible for the
teachers involved and to reiort
back to the board on their
plans.
The board apf)roved the hir
ing of Alex Fowler as a janitor
for North Summeérville
Elementary School.
Tllx:l:h boar(} d{‘scussed tge
possibility of changing the
regular Aflpril meetslglf date
from April 14 to April 15 so
that the sulferint.endent can at
tend a QBE leadershifi con
ference. Hayes stated that he
would contact the Georgia
School Board Association to
determine the legality of
changing the regular meeting
'date this month. v
The ‘board visited all the
schools in the countz system
and reported that they were
pleasezr:ith conditions in each
school.
The board a%proved the use
of six school buses bK area
Shriners to transport children
to the annual Shrine Circus in
Atlanta April 5.
for the SIBO,OOO project cur
rently underway and needed an
additional $30,000 to complete
it. The authority had original
ly promised the citg that no in
terest would be charged, but
later decided to charge the
commercial interest rate. The
announcement that the
authority was planning to
charge interest angered some
council members at the regular
meeting March 17.
INSULATION
Insulation is important in
controlling moisture problems
because it increases the
temperature of the inside sur
faces of walls, ceilings and
floors, preventing condensa
tion on those surfaces, say
Georgia Extension Service
specialists.
CHS Basketball Honors
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Amber Tallent was crowned Chattooga
County’s Junior Miss at the annual coun
tywide beauty review held Saturday night
at Chattooga H‘ijgh School. The 13-gear
old winner attends seventh grade at Sum
merville Junior High School. She is the
daughter of Mr. ang Mrs. Jerry Tallent of
Summerville. First runner-up is Heather
Schram, 13, a seventh grade student at
Trion Hifix School. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Schram of Summer
Berryton
Fundraising
Scheduled
A Bike-a-Thon, Tryke-a-
Thon, Walk-a-T k
a-Thon will be hele at
10 a.m. at the Berryton Com
munity Center for Cystic
Fibrosis.
Fund-raising events are
conducted by the Cystic
Fibrosis Foumi,at.ion on behalf
of hundreds of children in our
state who suffer from the fatal
hereditary disease, cystic
fibrosis.
Cystic Fibrosis as yet in
curable, is a respiratory and
digestive disease which is in
herited when both parents
carry the recessive gene for
Cystic Fibrosis. One of every
28, persons in the United States
is a Cystic Fibrosis carrier,
usually without knowing it.
Medical treatment has
helped many Cystic Fibrosis
patients live into their teen
years and you.ng adulthood. All
children with Cystic Fibrosis
are eli?ble for treatment at
Cystic Fibrosis Centers in the
state affiliated with the Cystic
Fibrosis foundation.
Sponsor sheets available at
Mary's Record Shop and Sum
merville Recreation Center, For
more information, call Frances
Gilreath at 857-5640 or Donna
Hogue at 857-1771.
| Some fabric finishes will
| last the life of the garment or
fabric, while others may need
to be renewed after cleaning.
The care instructions should in
dicate this, say Georgia Exten
l sion Service home economists.
leading his girls to a 22-3 record in 7-AAA
competition. Trac’FnPerry, a sosphomore.
was named to the Tri-State All-Star team,
nl:ng with boys Kim Adams and Eddie
Harris. Above, left to right, are Adams,
Coach Parrott, Miss Perry and Harris.
Junior Miss And Court
FINISHES
ville. The title of second runner-us was
tied between Jerrilyn Hudgins, 14, of
CHS, and Michelle Glass, 15, of THS.
Miss Hud%i.ns is the daufimer of Alice
Hudfii.ns of Summerville. Miss Glass is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Glass of Summerville. Pictured from left
to right are Jerrilyn Hudgins, Amber
Tallent, Heather Schram and Michelle
Glass. Staff photo by Kay Abbott.
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Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser
The Bengt.on Communitfi Center will host a Cystic
Fibrosis Bike-a-Thon, Tryke-a-Thon, Walk-a-Thon, and
Rock-a-Thon Saturday, April 5, beginning at 10 a.m.
The Chattooga County Civil Defense and Rescue Squad
kicked off local Cystic Fibrosis fund-raising this week
with a donation of SIOO. From left, Bike-a-Thon Co-
Chairman Donna Hogue receives the donation from
Dairl Price, Director of Civil Defense and Rescue. Staff
photo by Kay Abbott.
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