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Old Timers Game
The “Old Timers Memorial Baseball Field” will be
dedicated July 12 at 1 p.m. prior to the “‘Old Timers”’
ball game. A marble monument will be erected in
memory of the deceased ‘‘Old Timers’’ who played tex
tile league, pro ball, or organized lea?ue baseball.
Anyone desiring to put the name of their loved ones on
the monument can see Ralph Stanley at the Summer
ville Recreation Department or Mayor Sewell Cash. It
will cost $1 per letter. The deadline for submitting
names for this monument is June 27. Above, Roy
Williams, seated, and Isaiah Walker are shown during
the Mayor’s First Old Timers Game last July.
Shuttle Tragedy Letter
Prompts Glenn Response
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
A Menlo sixth grade stu
dent has corresgouded with
U. S. Sen. John Glenn as part
of an English assignment.
Brian Keith, a student of Mrs.
Barbara Reece, wrote to
Senator Glenn following the
tragic ex%losion of the sgace
shuttle ‘“‘Challenger’’ on Jan.
28.
‘The student’s assignment
was to write a business letter.
Keith said he was moved by
the shuttle accident and
wanted to know Senator
Glenn's thinking on the issue.
In his reply to the student,
Glenn emphasized the impor
tance of continuing space ex-
E!oration. and also expressed
is sorrow.
“We are not likely to forget
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1986, for it
was the first of 56 manned
space mission to end in
tragedy,” Glenn stated. "It is,
however, necessary to
remember that triumph is
sometimes accomg)anied by
tragedy. Our hope had been to
avoid such tragedy, and we did
so for more than 25 years. But
it was not to be so for;ve{l. The
crew was carrying the hopes
and dreams of this country and
of the free world as we advanc
ed in the space grogram. We
must now carry the memory of
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Student Writes To Former Astronaut
Brian Keith, a student at Menlo School, is proud of the
letter he recently received from U. S. Senator Joe Glenn
of Ohio. Keith wrote to the former astronaut following
the explosion of the space shuttle, ““Challenger’ on Jan.
98. Keith is shown with the senator's response. (Staff
photo by Kay Abbott).
Che Summeruville News
the crew with us.”
The letter continued with a
statement of the former
astronaut’s confidence in the
future of space travel:
“My commitment to the
manned space proiram is as
stronq as ever, the senator
said. ‘Amuica’s?«p‘oglp‘"vf
research in space must con
tinue. From the day this coun
try was founded, we have put
more effort into inquiry into
the unknown than ang' other
peo%l:ein history. And it has
not been just to take a chance.
It has been for the benefit of all
humankind. If there are pro
blems and risks alonithe way
it doesl not mean the quest
stops. It means we try again
andp again and again. Tfixgs is
our history, and it is the legm
of the Challenier crew. We wi
not forget the price these
heroes %aid; rather, we will
honor them by finding out
what ha;:{)ened, fixing the pro
blem, and getting on with the
journey thi{ began."”
As a final note to the letter,
Glenn enclosed a cosly of a
poem called, *“The Ch enEe."
written by Ohioan William
Johns on the day of the shut
tle explosion.
Brian said he was honored
to have received a prompt rep
g of such length from Senator
lenn. He will enter the
seventh firade at Menlo School
this fall. The student is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Keith,
Cloudland.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY. GEORGIA — THURSDAY, JUNE 19. 1986
Agency Recommends Oak View
For Nursing Home Expansion
By JAMES BUDD
News Editor
The Appalachian Georgia
Health Systems Agency ap
proved by a 19-7 vote a recom
mendation that the Chattooga
County Hospital Authority be
allowed to add 70 beds to the
Oak View Nursing Home with
a construction cost of $1.4
Powell Awards Jail Food
Bid To Jim’s Drive-In
Chattooga CountK Commis
sioner Harry Powell has award
ed a contract to a Summerville
restaurant to provide two
meals a (ifi' to prisoners in the
county jail.
The six-month contract was
awarded to Jim's Drive-In,
L{erly Highway, Summerville.
The restaurant submitted a
low bid of $4.49 for both meals
per émsoner.
ommissioner Powell
received bids on the proposed
food contract Tuesday morn
ing. Other bidders included
R&M Cafeteria, Highland
Avenue, Summerville, $4.65;
The Round Table, Pennville,
$5.00; and Wometco Food Ser
vice, Trion, $5.24.
Powell said at the bid
opening Tuesday that he would
ask for a 'r:{)ort from the Chat
ttohggn Health Department on
3 odias b ing
a dezon‘ on awarding a con
tract. He said then he expected
to make a decision by 10 a.m.
today.
RESTAURANT OKAY
Althou%h health depart
ment sanitarian Jim Pinion
was on vacation this week,
Powell said Wednesday that he
had checked with other health
department officials. Jim's
Drive-In was inspected in
February and received a clean
bill of health, Powell said he
was informed.
Before opening the bids
Tuesday morning, the commis
sioner said, “I'dfike to make it
very plain and very clear to
everyone the reason we are get
ting out of the food business —
I know th(;lrrisoners are con
trary as hell; if they weren't,
they'd be out working for a liv
ing. A lot of our trouble is com
ing from other sources than the
prisoners.”’
Commissioner Powell
Bartow Firm Receives
Prison Road Contract
Although the Georgia
Degartment of Transportation
(DOT) has awarded a contract
for construction of a roadway
into the site of a proposed state
rrison at Pennville, work like
y won't begin on the project
Trion Board Gives Okay
To $2.7-Million Budget
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
The Trion Board of Educa
tion Monday unanimousl af
?roved a budget of 82.73({8 b
or the 1986-87 school year.
The board will now await final
budget amval from the
Trion City cil. Local effort
on the budget is anticipated at
$376,294, or 10.5 mills, the
same rate as last year,
“It's a budget we can make
pro%'eu on and not be too
much of a burden,” said School
Suglg. Bill Kinzy.
" The June meeting was call-
B lowing & cloosd seseion
0 a session
that began at 5 p.m.
Superintendent Kinzy
raorud that the fiscal year
1987 high school renovation
moct is scheduled for comple
b{h.Au‘. 20, two days
before the beginning of school
million.
The Hospital Authority
received the agency's approval
over anpther applicant from
Rome who proposed to build a
76-bed nursing home in the
county and had the backing of
Chattogfa County Commis
sioner Harry Powell. ;
Chattooga Hospital Ad
ministrator Betty Wollstein
said the agency, which met
Thursday in Cartersville, will
criticized the legal requirement
he said allowed %risoners to use
the phone at the jail, saying
they could complain about the
food to whichever restaurant
received the contract.
The county plans to pay for
the food on a month%vbasis,
Powell said, adding. “We had
some trouble the first of last
year about some extra bills
that had been turned in. We are
bidding today on inmate food
only.”
Powell said Wednesday
that he expected Jim's Drive-
In to supply the first meal
under the contract to the
prisoners by around 5 p.m.
today.
At the time of the biddins.
the jail food was being |E)rovi -
ed from the county work camp.
PRISONERS COMPLAIN
A number- of prisoners at
Chattooga Teen Raped
At Floyd Medical Center
An 18-year-old Chattooga |
C(::fiy woman wkal:rgol;bed and |
ra on a parki ot near |
Floi"d Medical Center Sunday |
ni{l t, according to Rome |
police. |
Lt. Mike Reynolds, chief of (
detectives, ami Deputies Bill
Kinney and Bill Sims said the |
teen-ager and a 20-year-old |
friend, also from Chattooga
County, had been visiting a pa
tient at the hospital and left to |
go to their car around 11 p.m. |
unday. It was Rarked in alot |
adjacent to the hospital's new
par‘liinghdeck. ‘
s they were getting into |
their car, i')olice sgied. a%lack f
until mid-summer.
Frank Pinson, scheduling
enfiineer in the DOT District
Office, Cartersville, said a
$58,664.95 contact has been
awarded to Bartow Paving of
Cartersville. The Cartersville
for Trion students.
Air-condit.ioninf for both
Trion High School and Trion
Elementary School will be
operable at that time, accor
dmg to Kinzy.
oard members were con
cerned over minor damage to
the vocational wing of theghigh
school June 12 when a wooden
rafter began to smoulder as a
welder was cut.fl a conduit
hole through a steel beam. The
workman was unaware that
the interior wooden structure
‘fif;gfi&""fi wflar: near the kindl
t. alarm was trig
gered by the smoke and heat,
summoning the Trion Fire
Department to the scene.
Aword:)nlf' to Kinzy, several
hundred dollars in dun:fe oc
curred during the incident.
Firemen had to chop several
holes in the roof to reach the
rafters, and water damage oc
grred in the hallway below.
M'ri-City Construction Com
see TRION, page 8-A
recommend to the State Health
Planning Agency that the ap
plication be approved.
" Officials here believe that
‘the expansion will be com
pleted at Oak View by July,
1987.
Mrs. Wollstein said she
believed the agency approved
the hospital authorit{v‘s ap
plication over that of Rome
real estate agent Charles
Williams because Oak View is
the jail signed a letter to the
editor of The Summerville
News in May c(:,xgglaining
about the county food.
Commissioner Powell, in an
ad last week that sought the
food bids, said, “‘I do not feel
that we should be aggravated
with lies that have been grmted
concerning the food that we
lg::ebeenmmg. vi ...“l/ehavs
n furmshmfi ample an
staple food for the inmates and
intend to do so whether we in
tend to keep furnishing the
food or let bids out.”
The flsoners had claimed
in their letter that “‘the even
ing meal stinks.” They also
said, ‘‘We have in the past 10
days been served meat twice
which was burnt bologna and
hot nde?." The inmates com
gl;i that the corn bread has
n burnt most of the time
i Vet POWELL., page 8-A
man riding a 10-speed bicycle
rode up and engt’:&ed the gmr
in conve;sation. hie l:nafi a:g
a paper bag over his han
JE the women that he had a
fun. detectives said. He then
orced the ZO-Kfiarold to lie on
the ground while he raped the
18-year-old on the parking lot,
offi}x':ers reported.
After the incident, the man
took a small amount of money
from the teen-afr’s purse and
sped away on the bicycle.
Detective Reynolds said
police have some leads in the
case but no arrests had been
made by mid-week.
firm was the low bidder on the
mject last month and had
n expected to receive the
contract.
Ed McDaniel, q)eneral
manefr of Bartow avingl:
said that although the DO
“has awarded the contract, the
state has 30 days to issue a
work order for the .7-mile g:'o-
Le:ett.‘Once the work order has
received, McDaniel add
ed, Bartow Paving would take
two to three weeks to coor
dinate all aspects of the
project.
No work is expected to
begin on the roadway for
another four to six weeks,
McDaniel said, or sometime
around the end of July or the
first of August. The contract
requires the work to be com
pleted by Nov. 1.
The roadway will enter
U.S. Highway 27 north of
Pennville Element.arK School
and travel east into the prison
property. The ("2? of Summer
ville is expected to use the
road’s nght-of—way to serve the
site with utilities.
Bids to construct the pro
posed prison may be advertis
ed this fall, according to an
oElrlior mnt by Davig}
vans, i %fl’mto
Corrections ( ) commis
sioner, Construction would
%two to three years, the
has ml?)'c
Plans to locate a prison in
the Pennville community have
mm.bumiw»
gy over the last several years.
connected with the county’s
hospital and has quick access
to emergency room facilities.
Williams proposed to build
a 76-bed private nursing home
at a cost of $l.B million. An
wreement was made between
illiams and Care More, Inc.,
to ?erate the Chattooga Coun
ty facility along with 17 other
nursing homes the company
operates in the southeast.
The Chattooga County
Hospital Authority proposes
to expand the current nursing
home from 90 beds to 160, in
cluding 34 semi-private rooms
and three new private rooms.
A new kitchen and dining
area will be constructed to
meet the increased demand
resulting from the bed addi
tion.-New construction will pro
vide 21,177 square feet of
space. Additional nursing per
Opinions Vary Among Area
Baptists Over Convention
By TOMMY TOLES
Differences that marked the Southern
Baptist Convention in Atlanta last week
remained evident this week in Chattooga
County among local Baptist leaders.
The disagreements involve issues such
as “inerrancy,” “‘diversity,” whether the
divisions are political or theological in
nature and even over the meaning of the
terms, ‘‘moderate,”” ‘‘conservative,”
Some local pastors are luw with the
outcome of the convention, which saw the
election of the “conservative” the Rev.
Adrian Rogers of Memphis, Tenn., as
president, while others said are
disappointed in the annual get- of
the nation’s largest Protestant
denomination.
Dr. Jack Colwell, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Summerville, said he
was “very disappointed” in the conven
tion, adding that he didn't see much dif
ference between the religious gathering
and a political convention.
i 4 NOT POSITIVE
“My i are not very positive
about the m Baptist Convention,”
he said. ‘‘ln the last cou;f:le of years, it's
become very political. I feel the conven
tion this year was the most political and
the least inspirational.”
Describing himself as ‘‘moderate,” Dr.
Colwell said he viewed the divisions as be
ing caused by political reasons. “I view it
as prium-'ill’{l a power struggle,” he
asserted. ‘“There’s been an open declara
tion for about seven years by a group call
ing itself ‘fundamentalist’ or ‘conser
vative." "
But the Rev. Willie Bearden, pastor of
Trion He.ights Baptist Church, said, “'I
felt we had a good convention.” Describ
ing himself as a ‘‘conservative,” the Rev.
Bearden said the am;gEle involves the Bi
ble. “‘Conservatives believe in the total in
spiration of the Bible, that it's totally
without error.” And he said media
references to ‘‘fundamentalists’ are inac
curate. “You couldn't be a fundamentalist
and be a Southern Baptist. The word fun
damentalist means ind‘e.?endent or
separated ...’ And he said that the
group generally referred to as moderates
or conservative — moderates ‘‘actually
e e e
r. Colwi i t ispute
within the Convention is theological in
nature. “They (conservatives) will telll (ou
iti; sa docptrmd'mu.lnrimt.er but ;té;:'::gykfe% li‘ng
that it's ily a power . They
see it as a cleanxng of liberalism. Peorle
who are moderates — and I put myself in
that cateiory ~ have just not had
o:g:nizat on like the fundamen
talists ... The group in power made
tremendous efforts to get poz'h to the
convention and moderates in self-defense
have done this too in the last two years."
POLARIZED
The issues and personalities have been
figlanzed‘ in recent years, weordmi to the
v. Owen Davis, pastor of Central
Avenue Baptist Church, Trion. Commen
ting on remarks by “‘moderates’’ that the
convention has been politicized, the Rev.
Davis said, b(l’&u.u the issues have kind
of polarized sides. A lot has been said
bfi’ both sides and has polarized them and
the issues. There always has been some
politics included in it &ho convention),"
The Rev. Davis was B:“‘d with the
convention, however. ‘“The main l.hh‘ I
K:stkmkmlforwuthodnction:'l:h‘
v. Adrian Rogers as president
oi S e
tal, pastor.”
he felt the outgoing Dr. Charles
Stanley of Atlanta's Church,
conducted the convention in a fair
manner.
od in the Wflq ith palirie
con
tion, the Rev. Davis said; “It's m
sonnel would include 1.5
?iuumd_ nurses, nmemhmss
practical nurses
nurses aides.
Mrs. Wollstein said no tax
money would be used for con
struction or Operafion& of the
expanded facility as the project
would be fundeg by a commer
cial loan.
Mrs. Woll;::lein';l‘uihue the
county co-si with the nur
sin, gomeng'll:en it was first
buift 12 ye:r:i lago. but ti:l}e
authority is solely responsible
fim.ncinfly for O:k View.
N ShfisAppllachian Georgia
ealt! stems Agency is set
up to tzurmine needs for
health care in the northwest
Georgia area. Recommenda
tions of applicants are made to
the State Health Planning
Agency after the need is deter
mined and the applications are
a W difference; that's the real
issue. (moderates or liberals) may
not admit it is, but it is.”
CONCERN EXPRESSED
MW-&“?M .d......z“"’“ ledp.
ed concern over the issue of politics in
denomination. “I'm V%M concern
ed about that,” he said, but added that he
didn’t expect it to be as evident next year
as it may have been this &nr
tisan about the convention. And he said
he was “‘very much impressed that there
was a concensus on part of the messengers
represented, that they felt comfortable
with the positions taken.”
t.heThm was ‘‘very liuhtfigm uenoe"thn:
vote margins on issues
convention and only one vote that he said
involved “the veg conservative ';xl?" of
the convention. He, too, said he did not
feel reports using the term “fundamen
talist’’ were correct. ‘“The old classic fun
damentalist position is not that of any
Southern Baptist, not even the most con
servative Southern Bagtiat." He said the
term, “‘fundamentalist,” should be applied
to the late John R. Rice and his followers,
not to Southern Baptists.
REAL ISSUE
Southarn Baptkt st ST i
ut tist ical missionary for
33 years w?o retired two-and-one-half
years ago, said he was asked to be a
messenger to the convention but declin
ed because “‘I didn't want to take sides.”
““The real issue is not who controls the
convention or some subtle doctrinal thing
but the real issue is how we're living,” Dr.
Brown said. “There's a dearth of mvc
who are 100 percent dedicated to Christ.”
The Rev. Bearden of Trion said he
doesn't think that Southern Baptist in
stitutions are controlled by “'liberals.” He
feels “‘there's an element of liberalism. I
don't think they (liberals) control
them . .. I really don’t know how deep it
goes or how much control they have over
the seminaries . .. "
The Rev. Charles Keith, pastor of New
Hope South Baptist Church, who owns his
own upholstery shop in Pennville and
didn't attend the convention, received his
Master of Divinit{ do;fl'u from
Southeastern B;pt. st eological
Seminary at Wake Forest, N. C., in 1984
and “I can report first hand that the
rerorts of liberalism at Southeastern are
false,"”
DID RESEARCH
. }fleslnidheddfidhi‘;:;nmmhinto
the faculty and foun: one ~time
rofessor who m.ifht be hg*d amd"
gutpersounflyf t that the professor was
“‘an ecumenical.”
The Rev. Keith said he was “‘very
much concerned” about the convention
and ‘“‘very much disappointed” in the
gathering.
The factional flfil;t. he t:d.d' is “‘not
a theological thing" but rather “a
power push to control the mmm
said there ‘‘is no such thlng:nn liberal
in the context of the Sout Baptist
Convention."
But the Rev. Bearden, when asked
about claims that the convention had been
politicized, said, “It md- on whether
they're talking about we did or what
they did.” He said he had not received any
moun from conservatives to vote a cer-
Agh Al moeg e pectiast
a split may
bhitti: pa;t&-n. hdocuin;tt&kfilm
vention come apart M’M
- dAo:;think th.t. s the trend.’
whether he sees w
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see OPINIONS, page 8-A
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receiving state approval.”
55';:' bids will be let on the
project.
Williams had to
operate a 76-bed m‘?:tl
called Windy Hill Health Care
Facility. The home would have
had 52 skilled beds and 24 in
:finmdinte care b:l: X
staffing would have :
ed 1.4 registered nurses, 5.
licensed practical nurses,
nurses uga and other profes
sional staffing.
i di includ
ed F:ng;nxgmercill loan of
$1,458,000 and the owner
would have contributed
$364,936.