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Barbee First County Resident
To Graduate From West Point
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
A Chattooga High School
graduate has become the first
hattoogan to graduate from
the United States Military
Academy at West Point, N. Y.,
Wednesday, May 28.
The graduate, 2nd Lt.
Michael fiarbee, aae 22, had
been interested in West Point
since the sixth lfrade. when he
wrote to the military academy
for information on a school
Accident Hurts Trio
Two Chattooga County
residents remained in Floyd
Medical Center at Rome at
mid-week after being injured in
a traffic accident west of Sum
merville last Sunday afternoon.
A third person was kept over
night at Chattooga County
Hospital and dismissed
Monday.
Trooper Karon Pace of the
Georgia State Patrol identified
the injured as Timothy E. Hat
chcoci(, 20, Joan Hatchcock,
18, and James Colbert, 15, all
of Summerville. All were taken
to Chattooga County Hospital
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Giant Lily Blooms In Lyerly
Mr. and Mrs. J oi.mni; Bryant of Lyerly are shown with
a Regale Lily which has grown to 89 inches tall in their
Earden. The Bryant's raise a variety of flowers as a hob
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duced growth of normal height (three to four feet) until
this year. (Staff photo by Kay Abbott).
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Operation Loveseat Donation
The ladies’ Auxiliary of VF'W Post 6688
has g\urchased a new child safety car seat
for the Operation Loveseat Program. In
an attempt to reduce the hifh rate of child
injury and death due to local auto ac
cidents, the Georgia Cooperative Exten
sion Service sponsors Operation Loveseat
project.
“The military has always
fascinated me,” said Bavbee.
“It's a good way to get an
education.”
The student's interest in
the academy began to pay off
during his junior high school
war. when he was invited to
est Point for a one-week
militardy workshop.
“I decided then what I was
going to do,” he stated.
Barbee's fulfillment of a
series of strict mental, intellec
tual and physical requirements
was the key to his appointment
of West Point. However, bring
after the accident and both
Hatchcocks were then transfer
red to the Rome facil:;?, where
they remained Wednesday.
Colfiert was released from the
Summerville hospital Monday.
Trooper Pace said a 1973
Chevrolet Nova driven by
Timothy Hatchcock was
traveling west on Highway 48
about 6.5 miles west of Sum
merville when the accident
took place. Reports said the
Hatchcock vehicle was passing
a truck when the right front
tire blew out and the car left
the road and struck a tree.
as part of its passenger safety education
program. Above, Beth Hall, VFW Aux
-Iliar¥ Vice President, gives the donation
to Priscilla Hammond, Chairman of
Operation Loveseat in Chattooga Coun
ty. (Staff photo by Kay Abbotg.
ing all those attributes to the
attention of the academy
nomination committee was
equally imgortant and at times
difficult. Barbee credits his
high school guidance
counselor, Clarence Gilley, with
spearheading the nomination
and admissions process, which
took over a year of persistent
effort.
“The admissions process
took all of ;13/ senior year,”
Barbee stated. “Mr. Gilley
wrote a whole lot of letters and
filled out a lot of f*)apers."
The young officer stated
that he was also grateful for
the efforts of severa! others
who assisted in his nomination
and acceptance into the
military academy, includin%
the teachers who sent letters o
recommendation, principal
Jack Herring, senators Sam
Nunn and Mack Mattingly,
and the late Congressman
Larw McDonald.
hen Barbee was accepted
to West Point on July 1, 1982,
he faced a number of
challenges.
“The hardest thing at first
is beirelg away from home,” he
recalled. “You only Fet to go
home twice a year. After living
here in Summerville all my life,
I was used to the small town
atmosphere. West Point is real
isolated, almost in its own lit
tle world.”
During his first months at
the acadgemy, Barbee went
throu‘fh ‘‘Beast Barracks,"
roughly the equivalent of basic
training, with the added
challenges of West Point
tradition.
‘“‘Beast Barracks is rough
Sheriff’s Department
Probes Area Burglaries
Several thefts and
burglaries ~are being in
veshguted by~the Chattooga
County Sheriff's Office, in
cluding one in which more than
$1,700 in items were taken.
A riding lawnmower,
toolbox with tools, 3/8-inch
two-speed drill, Skil saw and a
saw sall, all valued at $1,705,
were reported stolen Mond‘w
from the residence of G. W.
and Jo Koonce, Route 5, Box
556, Summerville, according to
Deputy Patti Norton.
An 18-inch 14-carat gold
necklace valued at S3OO was
reported stolen from a jewelry
box at the home of Pat Scog
gins. Route 4, Summerville,
tween last Friday and Tues
d\a){; reported Deputy Tammy
sh.
De;,)uty Jadie Price said a
.22-ca ibe}r‘e pistol t;lnd a
.12-gauge Remington shotgun
werg stglen fi'omm reside%‘::e
of Tames Scruggs Jr., Route 5,
Colossal Lily Dominates
Lyerly Couples’ Garden
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
Although it was given no
special attention, a Regale lily
has grown to an extravagant
mentally,” he stated. ‘‘You get
used to{eing low man. Seniors
more or less run the corps of
cadets and hold the leadership
gositions. When you're in
east Barracks, you always
walk along the outside wall,
and Wu walk as fast as you
can. When you meet an upper
classman, you ask, ‘Sir, may I
pass? "’
During his senior year, 2nd
Lt. Barbee has had many or
portunities for leadership. In
the summer of 1985, it was his
turn to preside over Beast Bar
racks as he served as a cadre
for the new cadets coming in
to the school. i
“Being in charfe of a pla
toon is where I learned the
most about leadership,” he
s%)at.ed.h “It taught me ‘l:he most
about how to get people to per
form. In my very limited ex
perience, the two most impor
tant qualities in leadershig;r‘e
these: You have to care about
your subordinates above all
Area Forestry Officials
Monitoring Pine Beetles
No smoke, no flames, and
no heat, but as damaging as a
forest fire. That’s what
Southern pine beetles can be to
our trees.
The tiny insects that caus
ed so much timber loss in
Texas and Louisiana during
1985 have foresters in Georgia
worried. The beetles are grma—
nent residents of the state, and
Box 913, Summerville, last
Sunday. Entry to the mobile
home was gained by removing
a screen from the window at a
rear bedroom, reports
indicated.
A 1985 black Ford F-250
truck was reported stolen from
the residence of Sandra
Teeters, Route 3, Racehorse
Drive, Summerville, between
last Thursda%and Friday, ac
cording to Deputy Charles
Latta.
A battery, stereo and
booster were reported stolen
from a car parked at Price’s
Garafi Alred Street, Summer
ville, between June 11 and 12,
said Sheriff's Investigator Ron
Turner.
Turner also said an AM/FM
stereo-cassette player and
power booster were reported
stolen Monday nifix)t at the
home of Ronnie Helms, Route
2, Box 60, Trion.
89 inches tall in the garden of
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Bryant
of Lyerly. The bulb was
planted three seasons -fio and
produced normal-sized flower
ing plants until this year. The
Fiant-sized plant has 14
avender blooms, :(iight of
which are fully opened.
“I don't know of anything
fl)ecial we did to it,” said Mrs.
atherine Briant. “but it is
much taller than any of our
other lilies."”
l The :tlavan-fo:ltl. fivo—}ntfil;
ant is only a sm: o
gryant flower ganf;:t which
has become a:Jvear-round hob
by for the g eninfi pair. Mrs.
Bryant has long had an in
terest in growinf flowers and
arranEing them for the altar of
the Lyerly First Baptist
Church. Mr. Bryant has caught
his wife's enthusiasm over the
past flevr yea{ e:ind has gecome
greatly involved in gardening.
With the addition of a
greenhouse, the couple is able
to provide fresh flowers and
greenery for their home church
almost year 'round. A number
of larie ferns are kept in the
greenhouse for the winter
months, d::f with a variety of
filomd geraniums which are set
to the ground, pots and all,
The Beyant's imply dig up the
ant's
pots wrgon it is time to u'n':': the
geraniums inside for the
winter.
Sasuiesies
spring, t 0
even more time to their hobbg".
Mrs. Bryant retired from t
U. S. Postal Service, Lyerly of
fice, in March after 33 years of
service. Mr. Bryant retired
from Bryant and gon- Lumber
Company in May.
else and you have to be flexible
in any situation. You have to
show the soldiers respect and
be sure they are always taken
care of.
“In the Army, things are
always changing. You learn to
change your plans at the last
moment, and you get {our peo
ple to accept those changes.”
As part of his training,
Barbee attended Airborne
School at Fort Benning and
spent six weeks in Germany
with a regular tank unit. He is
majoring ind luerospace
engineering, and plans to pur
sue graduate work in that f?eld
This year he will attend sur
vival school at Fort Bragg,
N. C., and then enter hehcozter
gifht school at Fort Rucker,
Ala., to become a helicopter
pilot.
He is the son of J.B.
Barbee of Summerville and
Mrs. Janet Barbee of Camden,
Tenn. His gl;ndmot.her is Mrs.
Stella Barbee of Summerville.
periodically their populations
m to egidemic proportions.
memics often follow
outbre in sister states to
the West.
Southern pine beetles do
kill trees, but they themselves
do not damage the wood.
Because they tunnel through
inner bark, much of the bark
galls off as treea;fr dlf:ngx Then
amage comes from car
ried in with the beetles and
other insects which come in
after them. Wood moisture
content decreases rapidly, in
;:ccts chew holes into it, and
ay begins.
At sawmills, loose bark
from beetle-killed trees can
overload conveyors, dried logs
curé cause esaws to overheabt.!
and decayed lumber cannot
sold. However, we can salvage
much good wood from these
trees, making them far from
valueless. %uclfessful‘use fi
quires ra arves
good mar&t.ing. Forgfifp and
paper, dead trees remain
satisfactory raw material for
many months. Construction
lumber can be sawn from trees
dead for as lmf as three or four
months. Panel products, such
as construction plywood and
particleboard, can be made suc
cessfully from trees dead as
long as six months. Even so,
the supply-demand situation
will determine timber prices.
Because (ixf uipreg;fitable
strength, though, w pro
ducts used in hazardous loca
tions such as power ;f)oles
should not be made from
beetle-killed wood.
Most forest products in
dustries want to maintain good
relations with current and
future timber sugpliers. So
m&r’xz of them will buy “beetle
wood” until their Sroduct
quality suffers, or until timber
supply exceeds their demand.
They also like the inevitably
lower stumpage prices for
beetle-killed timber. However,
during the height of an
epidemic, more wood becomes
available than can ti)ossibly be
used. Then we can do little but
“cut and leave” control efforts,
hopinimMother Nature will
stoi:d’ gs.
ucmg:he risk of beetle
dfiage to Southern pines re;
es proper management o
?imberrans:. Many Irofes
sional foresters provide such
service. In addition, foresters
from the Georgia Forestry
Commission can help lan
downers manage their own
forests. County Extension
agents working with Extension
foresters can supply informa
tion on the latest control and
utilization tochnolog{.
So timber owners have con
siderable ‘‘equipment’’
available to try to put out this
flameless fire. And all of it may
be necessary before things cool
down this year.
Menlo Park
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Singing
The 24th annual In
dependence Day celebration
3onnond by the Menlo Lions
ub will be held Saturday,
June 28, in the Menlo City
Park.
Barbeque will be served
from noon to 2 p.m.
Barboquepa&nndchicken
will be $3 per rlnwinadvnnce
and $3.50 at the door.
Entertainment will be
ospel and Fopular music
L&:‘ at 10 am.
will be Sven away
and arts and crafts will be
available.
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The first Chattoogan to attend the United
States Military Academy at West Point,
2nd Lt. Michael Barbee, graduated from
the academy Wednesday, May 28. The
youngeofficer recently visited with staff
members at Chattooga High School, who
4,800 Georgia Children
Reside In Foster Homes
A two-year-old has been
sexually abused and must be
removed from her home. A six
year-old i:‘fsy(:hotic and needs
supervised treatment in a
home environment. A teen-age
girl is acting out sexually and
fethar. Whet Bogutoatataaes
or her. at pens to these
children, all of whom need a
substitute home &fiickly?
All of these children, and
thousands more like them,
have been placed in foster
homes or grouß residences by
the Georgia Department of
Human Resources Division of
Family and Children Services.
Forty-eight hundred children
are in foster care in Georgia.
While not all of the clulflen
who are temporarily removed
from their homes are seriously
affected by their family's pro
blems, an increasing number of
severely disturbed youngsters
are coming into the system, ac
cording to JoAnne Godwin,
chief of DFCS’' Foster Care
Unit. She says, “Twelve per
cent of the children in foster
care are either severely mental
ly ill or have serious emotional
or behavioral qroblems. Some
of these problems began at
birth but most are cfirec tly
related to the way they've been
treated by their parents.”
There is more emphasis be
ing placed today on working
with troubled families to pre
vent a child bein%t,aken from
the home. DFCS’ Child Protec
tive Services Unit works with
families where abuse or neglect
has occurred and makes an
assessment of the risk to the
child in the home. Some DFCS
g;ograms, such as the Family
eservation Project in the
Augusta area, have reduced
foster care placements by 25
percent by offering a broad
range of services, including
fam:l{) thernp&; to families that
have broken down. However, if
a home situation does not im
prove and the child is in dni%er
of more maltreatment, DFCS
petitions the court for tem
porary custody.
Godwin notes that most
children, 46 percent, in foster
care have been removed from
their home because of neglect.
Twelve percent are removed
because of physical abuse;
seven percent because of sex
ual abuse.
Godwin says, ‘‘We seem to
be seeing more cases of sexual
abuse lately and I think we're
just seeing the tip of the
iceberg. 1 can't say whether
there's more sexual abuse now
than in previous years or
whether we're just more aware
:{ wluvu‘t'a been happening all
ol:fimoat }ulf of the
youngsters in temporary
cultody are black. The large
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numbers of black children in
the system can be attributed to
the stresses of urban life, in
cluding uuemployment‘.i teel:l
age pregnancy and the
bgeaktg)wg of the black extend
ed family network, accordmfi
to a m by the Nation
Black Child Development In
stitute. In addition, the report
cites the child welfare system’s
former emphasis on uflaung
white infants in adoptive
homes and the lack of informa
tion in the black community
about the need for black adop
tive families as some reasons
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Miss Fitness Chosen
Connie McCurdy of Summerville has been chosen as the
new Miss Fitness at the Summerville Fitness Arena.
She has lost over 16 pounds while garticifiiutin%in ex
ercise and fitness gggrams at the facility. Dann
Helms of Trion has been chosen Mr. Fitness. Pict.
from left to right are Sherry Reeves, Manager of the
Fitness Arena; and Connie McCurdy, Miss Fitness.
" (Staff photo by Kay Abbott).
helped in his apgointment to the
academy. Pictured, from left to right, are
Clarence Gilley, 2nd Lt. Barbee and Jack
Herring, principal. (Staff photo by Kay
Abbott).
why black children remain in
foster care longer than white
children.
Ofs the children in foster
care, 4,400 are in private foster
homes. Godwin sm. “We try
to put a child in situation
that is the least restrictive and
the best for him or her.”
However, children who have
been damaged by cruelty or
neglect may require a more
structured environment. For
some, this may mean a
home where as mn;i;: lg
children live; for , it
see CHILDREN, page 10-8