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Countg firefighters battled a EeSkY blaze
early Friday morning at the Lyer }%' Fer
tilizer Plant. Lyerly Fire Chief Robert
Marshall said he believes the blaze, which
sent a pall of smell{ smoke to nearby
homes and the sample plant of Bigelow-
Arson Suspected In Fire
At Lyerly Fertilizer Plant
County firefighters battled
a stubborn blaze at the Lyerly
Fertilizer Plant early Fridgfi
mominfi that sent a smelly p
of smoke into nearby homes
and a factory.
Lyerlf' Fire Chief Robert
Marshall suspects that the
blaze, which was within 200
feet of several homes and 500
feet from the Bigelow-Sanford
sample plant, was deliberately
set.
Marshall said he suspects
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ty limits since last November.
Firefighters from Lyerly,
Summerville and Trion were
called to the fertilizer plant Fri
day at 2 a.m. to battle the
blaze. Marshall said the
Big Celebration Is Planned
For Armed Forces Weekend
Chattooga County will
celebrate Armed %orces
Weekend in royal style starting
Friday and highlighted bé’ a
massive parade Saturday
through downtown
Summerville.
Grand Marshal of the
event, which is sponsored by
vhe Chattooga County
Veterans of Foren{a Wars Post
6688, American Legion Post
129 and Disabled American
Veterans Chapter 49, will be
World War ll's hero and **Dir
ty Dozen' survivor Duff
Matson.
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World War 11 hero Duff Matson, pictured abo i
his wife, will be Grand Marshall fo‘r, a parad: S:teu:vdl:l;
startmg at 1 p.m. in Summerville highlighting Chat
tooga County's Armed Forces Weekend. filataon serv
ed as a paratrooper and combat bodyguard to Major
General Robert T. Frederick who commanded the
“Devil's Brigade'’. Matson is one of the men on whom
t,h% jmotvnef the Dlrg;Dobz:gk v;:s ibasl:d and is also the
subject of an upcomin . He is the
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Arson Suspected In Blaze
firefighters could only contain
the glaze and keep it from
Epreading to nearby dwellings.
otton seed and fertilizer was
smolderiniat the site as late as
Tuesday, he said.
The fire chief said the blaze
burned out around 5 a.m., but
erupted again at 8:30 a.m.
Workers at the nearby sampl
ing plant complained of
headaches and Bigelow-
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local officials said the smolder
ing fertilizer did not contain
toxic chemicals,
special memorial supper and
other events are planned to
highlight the weekend for
veterans and their families.
On Friday, Matson who
served as a World War II
ggéatrooper and combat
yguard to Major General
Robert T. Fredrick, will .?),eak
at the noon meetins of the
Summerville-Trion Optimist
Club and later will be the guest
of WGTA-radio’s “Feedback”
program.
dinner is planned at 7
Kim. at the Chattooga County
emorial Home to honor
former Prisoners of War and
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Sanford, was deliberately set. The State
Fire Marshal’s office is investigatinf the
blaze. The Lyerly fire chief said at least
nine blazes in Lyerly since November are
suspected arson fires.
“The EPA said there would
be no hazard,” said Marshall.
“Nl(‘me of the firefighters got
sick.”
Marshall said the
firefighters were mainly con
cerned with saving nearby
homes. ‘“We were hosing down
the homes and the plant,” he
said. “There were three houses
that fire baked everything in
the yard.”
The fire chief said the State
_Fire Marshal's office wasat the
“scene Friday, but the ruins
'were too hot to investigate. Ar
son investigators were ex
pected to return this week.
‘Somebody set it, but we don’t
know who,” said Marshall.
their families alons with the
county's Voice of Democracy
winners. In addition to Mat
son, local POW's and elected of
ficials will be present at the
Memorial Home dinner Friday.
On Saturday at 9 a.m. there
will be a memorial service at
the World War I Doughboy
statue in Trion and at 10 a.m.
there will be a parachute jump
at the field near the Memorial
Home. The garachute jump is
(sfi‘onsored 1?' Jimmy Black
evrolet, The Summerville
News and David Hartline, the
Lxerly author of the book,
“Vietnam: What A Soldier
Gives."
Also on display at the
Memorial Home durin%{ the
Parachut.e jump will be a Huey
‘Slick” (unarmed) medivac
helicopter similar to one used
in Vietnam.,
The weekend's big event,
the Farade. will get underway
at 1 p.m. starting at Brad
Ragan Tire Co. on Commerce
Street and workin% south to
the Dick Dowdy City Park
near the Farmers and Mer
chants Bank. The Huey
helicopter will swoop low
across the parade route to
kickoff the parade.
Among the dignitaries
featured will be Congressman
Geovxipe “Buddy” Darden, ex-
POWSs and their families, the
Marine Corps Color Guard
from Rome, vehicles from the
Marines in Rome, vehicles from
the National Guard in Calhoun,
representatives from the
Amvets Post 34 in Chat
tanooga, Tenn.,, Vietnam
Veterans of America from
Chattanooga, the 82nd Air
borne Division Association
from Chattanooga, local
veterans, Bob Price, the onli
man to escape from a Nort.
Vietnamese grison camp, and
Jim Fullbright, VFW l'flput.y
Jr. Vice Commander.
Also, VFW Seventh
District Commander Richard
Willis, Past VFW Deputy Aux
lliu?' Past Commander Mrs.
Willis, American Legion
Seventh District Commander
Hartwell Nolan, VFW Post
6688 Commander Ray Hall,
VFW Past State Commander
Ray Giles of Trion, American
Legion Post 129 Commander
Lewis Haney, VFW Post 6688
soe CELEBRATION, page 7-A
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1986
Hwy. 27 Utility Removal Costs
‘Shock’ Summerville Officials
By JAMES BUDD -
News Editor )
The City of Summerville is
faced with paying a staggering
$700,000-plus cost for
relocating city utilities along a
4.3-mile stretch of U.S. 27
%lanned for widening by the
eorgia Department ‘of
Transportation (DOT) this
summer.
Bids were opened Thursday
at city hall for relocating gas,
water and sewer lines alonfict:g
highway. Low bid was p
by Cary Harbuck, Inc. of
Americus, for a combined tatal
for all three utility lines for
$1,032,949.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris an
nounced last week that Sum
merville will receive a 6 percent
interest loan of $453,460 and
an Environmental Protection
Division grant of $99,540 for
the project. In addition, DOT
has pledged $200,000 toward
the city’s cost of relocating the
utilities. :
In total, $753,000 in state
funds have been pledged for
the $1,032,949 project. The ci
ty will, however, have a
$279,949 cash shortfall due on
the Eroject and will have to pay
back the $453,460 low-interest
loan from the state.
“We're in shock,” said City
Manager Grady McCalmon,
who has already begun sear
Sam Finster Sworn In
As New Reeorders Judge
_ Summerville &tmgx;k;.
‘Finster was sworn in as th
new 3ud%e of the city's
Recorder Court in Monday's
meetinlf of the Summerville
Council.
Finster, 45, will take over
court duties when Judge Ralih
Brown retires at the end of the
month.
Judge Finster said that his
first court will be held June 4
at 9:30 a.m.
Recorder’'s Court will be
conducted on the first and
third Wednesdays of each
°
Prison
Roadway
Approved
Georgia Degartment. of
Tramigortation ommissioner
Tom Moreland announced this
week a county contract for
Chattooga County to construct
a new road to the proposed
Chattooga County Correc
tioxfil rl:?cil(iity. L
oreland said t eprgposed
road to the prison would be .7
miles and would cost an
estimated $66,852 for grading,
drainage and putting down a
base.
In addition, Moreland an
nounced that surfacing of .4
mile of roadway in Menlo has
been a'pproved at an estimated
cost of $7,365. The ?roject calls
for resurfacing Fifth Avenue
and Morse Street in Menlo.
The projects were authoriz
ed for funding under the
Georgia DOT County Contract
Program,
Qualifying For Primaries
Set To Begin May 28
Qualifying for dozens of
state am{ local elected seats
ogens May 28 and closes June
11.
In local races, Rep. John
Crawford and State Sen. Ray
mond “Sonny" Hugsina are
both up for re-election for their
General Assembly posts.
On the Chattooga County
School Board, Chairman Joel
Cook, Leroy Massey and Leon
King face the voters in the
Auij 12 primary. ’
n thexc‘Chattooga County
Democratic Executive Com
mittee, 15 seats are up for
grabs in the 1986 elections.
The seats are: Summerville
posts 4, 5 and 6, all four-year
ft.em'u; 'l‘rimslt‘s 3 :ynd 4, ugl
our-year ; Lyer t 3,
four years; Alpine post g?;our
{eau: Haywood post 1, which
s a two-year unexpired term;
and Haywood post 2, four
d:bg for additional state funds
1o defray the cost of the
“project. gt
i ‘»manwhfle. lw
wem ] g mfluidgid for
‘the 4.3-mile wi ening project
‘between Trion and Summer
wille has been delayed from
" June 27 to the end of July. The
Qlirec beceuse right &t way
‘ Ly use way
“had not been eomnpm
" “McCalmon l:i‘d!d that %
“delay in DOT’s bid opening
mfifl]y give Summerville
~mametosec~ifloml
.. On Thursday, three bids
mo submitted for the reloca
-v.fi.-of water and sewer lines.
3 ttoogaComoteghad an
s:muent low id of
- $467,305.69, but McCalmon
"said errors were found in
tabulations on the bid, which
“made Carz Harbuck’s
| $592,403.23 bid the lowest.
“Another bid of $635,494.83
" was also placed by Beacon In
“dustries, Inc.
% For removal of 5:9 lines,
“low bidder was Cn:{.charbuck,
~lnc. of Americus, which placed
" a bid of $440,546.55. Another
bid of $525,681.77 was placed
by Roland Pugh Construction
| 02' Cobb County.
. Summerville was one of 28
local governments across
“Georgia to receive a low
-interest loan from the Georgia
+Environmental Facilities
0w i at 9:30 a.m.
;fl:iiemw
o R k' s
on ay evenings in the
- police chief’s office.
On the first Wednesday of
each month arraignment will
be conducted, whereby a per
son malyl' plead innocent or guil
ty. If the person pleads guilty
he or she may then pay any fine
or qg:alty.
ose pleading not guilty
will return on the third
Wednesday of the month for a
YF. " ledged “to do
inster “to do my
best” to g&)_rg residents the
same level of justice they
would expect in Chattooga
County state or superior court.
Finster said he will not act
uamafistrateorjusticeofthe
peace for the purposes of
swearing out warrants.
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years; Dirttown post 2, four
years; Coldwater ms:“ 2; Dirt
seller post 2; Seminole post 2;
Teloga post 2; and Sufigm
post 2, all four-year terms.
Qualifying will begin at 9
a.m. Ma)%S and close at noon
June 11. Persons may gualify
on opening and closing n&: at
the Chattooga County Cour
thouse and on other days per
sons may qunlifg with
Katherine Camp in_Summer
ville, Bennie Fnlfie Martin in
Trion or with Hill Caldwell at
Lyerly.
In other races, 7 t.h“lß)iotric'g
Dmon fmgmflm%
X{u.r along with U.S. Sen.
ack Mattingly and Gov. Joe
Frank Harris.
The state . i:cht;::
superintendent's up
re-election in 103%?.
Authority te expand water and
sewer capacities. Approximate-
St 00l et 9wt &
to governments
S2O million nlppropnmyd in the
’i".id‘he Year 1986 aug gudget.
Department atural
Resources committed another
$3.5 million statewide for
e
The loans will be repai
with intuutandthefundsm:ligl
be available to be loaned to
other communities in the
future.
In Monday’s city council
du;.Appro_vedaJmotionboin-
Brown on t‘u Employees’
""-“&?‘?mx* vy Willingharm o
poin as
secretary of E: i
Holiday for ¢ erpioy B
y for cit ees
May 26. City o{fieas ill be
closed for the holiday.
* Authorized mosquito
Ambulance Service Director
Charged For lllegal Taping
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ing after an investigation by
the Georgia Bureau of In
vo_sti;ati&n;t (hG;Bl) showed
evidence taped phone
service h
~ Donny Fowler, 34, of Sum
merville, was arrested Monday
SIO,OOO bond. He was tem
porarily as director
of the afim‘d service Tues
day by Dr. Hugh Goodwin, the
service's medical adviser.
Fowler allegedly began t.?
ing some conversations at the
headquarters on North Com
merce Street around Arl.l 28,
m:cordinsql to a Chattooga
County Sheriff's spokesman.
Fowler, who was inted
director in March, ‘mfly
taped a phone conversation
between ambulance service
worker Johnny Enflnnd and
Barbara Howell, the former
secretary to Commissioner
Harry Powell.
A tape of the conversation
between England, who was
fired May 7, and Mrs. Howell
was reportedll{ left taped to a
tree on Powell’s &roperty over
the weekend of May 2.
The taped conversation bet
ween Mrs. Howell and Enflnnd
took place on the night of May
1
Powell fired England the
following week and the GBI
started an investigation on
how the tele?bone conversa
tion of England and Mrs.
Howell was taped.
Fowler when contacted by
Thefl;ldewh: % week hf:édhedid
not id anything wrong.
The suspended director s:fd
the Whitfield County Am
bulance Service, where he
formerly worked, routinely
taped conversations. “Thay‘ve
fOt the same system at Whit
ield Count{.' he said. “I
didn’t think I was doing
anything wrong. I'm more
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Spec Building Almost Ready
The Summerville apec b% at the in
dustrial park on ol.l.lncf is nearly
complete, accordinilto ty officials, City
Manager Grady McCalmon said the
building, which is over 40,000-square feet,
spraying to bigin as soon as
possible. ¥
* A:Kprovi’d purchase of
$564.90 in uniforms for the
police department.
* Approved Chief Arlen
Thomas n% the man
datory Police Chief's Seminar
in St. Simons Island in July.
* Authorized the switching
of a coun'tz.:onm to a city
contract theDO'l‘for%:
mwyl’ckwumuflym
nexed into the city and is no
gAm bid of $11,500
a y
from Brimp Warren Ford for a
mwfoliuwtobepufloutof
the 1986-87 budget.
* Voted to extend a six-inch
water line on Fish Hatchery
Road to Wayne Hurley and
Bob Pledger at a cost of
310‘8:0. o &4
pproved a request from
DOT to close Curran and Lyer
ly streets during bridge
sorry for the people of the
county for having their am
bulance service (in constant
turmoil).”
Fowler said he was limiting
his disclosures about the inci
dent pending a conference with
his attorneys.
Dr. Goodwin, who has head
ed up the service as medical ad
viser since January when Com
missioner Powell took it w&
'j Ehfin (Fowler) I would
have to suspend him until I
found out what was going on,”
said Goodwin.
Goodwin, who noted the
turmoil at the service since
Janu.‘lz,.:aid he will recom
mend Powell turn the ser
vice over to another agency,
possibly Tri-County Hospital
mthftm Oglethorpe or some
ol group.
Goodm% said it was a
Possible Program Here
To Curb Drunk Drivers
Chattooga County has been
chosen as a candidate location
for a grant to establish a com
prehensive alcohol counter
measures %m by the
Governor's of Highway
Safety (OHS).
oo Frod S
sioner
saying t.h:%hnttooga &unty
is eligible for the program
which is aimed at reduccueng the
number of alcohol-related ac
cidents and the associated in
juries and fatalities.
The OHS provides ‘‘seed”
money where most of the funds
to establish the program are
iven by the state for the first
tnhree K::n in preparation for
local funding after the three
year initiation.
Director Minuard C.
will be ready to show prospective clients
in the very near future. In a related man
ner, preparations are now underway to
snvo the roadways inside the city's in
ustrial park.
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construction.
jus' «!:;tm g'
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cil on customer sewer charges
when water is not going into
the sewer system and instead
is used for swimming pools or
other reasons.
* Approved purchase of
$1,784 gpa'th of tires for two ci
ty fire trucks.
* Authorized purchase of
water plant chemicals ex
ceeding SSOO without council
consent.
oof iy o) perking
control of city
lots, incluflf the recreation
center, to include a tow-away
provision.
* Appointed Harold Tucker
as sueerintendent.
* Voted to spend $390.08
for the Georgia Municipal
Association’s study of gas lines
and systems in the state as
they affect municipalities.
mistake for the county to take
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ML:;‘W officials
i taping a conversation
party knows that it is being
taped is legal. Hmm
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either party knowing is con
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ping can legally occur.
Conversations between
callers to law enforcement
agencies and ambulance and
rescue agencies are frequently
taped, but a beeper sounds at
intervals during the conversa
tion and at least one party, the
, knows of the taping.
j;‘i‘e beeper is used to warn the
caller that the conversation is
being taped.
McGuire wrote Powell saying,
“Based on a rating l{;tem
utilizing accident data, DUI ar
rests, population ratios, etc.,
your county has been chosen as
a candidate location for a grant
to establish a comprehensive
alcohol countermeasures pro
gram-"
Whether or not the county
Ecrficiputes in the irogmn is
ft up to Powell who was re
quested by the director “to pro
vide us a written response in
dicating whether or not m
want to be considered.”
deadline for the notice was to
day, Thursday.
Chattooga County Sheriff
Gary McConnell said in a May
6 letter to McGuire that the
sheriff's urged
t.icipnt’.iogei’;l.lt".t:hrz.lt program.w