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\VOLUME CI — NUMBER XXVI
SBOO,OOO WORTH AUTHORIZED
Massive Paving Given Okay
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
Almost 30 miles of paving
or resurfacing worth over
SBIB,OOO is unfier way now or
has been authorized ז(יֶנֵּ Chat
tooga County this year under
two state Department of
Transportation (DOT)
pro%rams.
hat total could reach near
ly 40 miles and possibly be
worth over $900,000 this year
if two more anticipated paving
projects are includeg. one
county-financed and the other
to be funded by the state.
Whether all the projects
will be completed this year will
depend on several factors, in
cluding the weather later this
fall. But many of the state
financed resurfacing projects
are already in progress.
‘Old Timers’
Game Saturday
The baseball ‘‘stars’ of
yesterday will shine Saturday
afternoon at the Mayor's se
cond annual Old Timers’
Baseball Game.
Location for the 1 p.m.
game is the new ball field just
off the Lyerly Highwa {)et
ween Chattooga HiFh gchool
and the Summerville Recrea
tion Center.
The new field will be of
ficially dedicated as Ole
Timers' Field during pre-game
ceremonies Saturday.
For the comfort of elderly
fans and others, there will be
several tents to provide shade
for spectators. Ppans are asked
to bring their lawn chairs as an
overflow crowd is expected.
Admission is free.
Former Braves pitcher Rick
Camp is just one of more than
a hundred pro and semi-pro
players who will articipate in
two games schesuled or the
afternoon. The first game,
following opening ceremonies,
will feature the ‘‘old timers”’ of
yesteryear, some with careers
datin% back to the 1920’5. The
102 players will be divided in
to the American League,
managed by David Koonce,
and the National League,
managed by Fred Stewart. |
The second llFame, beginn
ing at 3 p.m., will feature Camp
and the younger former pros,
New Chattooga Map Arrives
A new map of Chattooga
County and its incorporated
towns has been completed and
will be available at (filamber of
Commerce offices, it was an
nounced at Tuesday morning's
breakfast meeting of tie
organization's board of direc
tors at The Round Table.
Former Chamber president
Will Hair displayed the map,
describing it as “an excellent
map" and ‘‘something we can
be very pleased with.”” He said
it will {el the county in its in
dustrial (fevelopment efforts.
The Chamber’s magazine
GILLELAND VS. McCONNELL
Lawsuit Delay Continues
No further action is likely
until the end of this month in
a federal lawsuit involvin
Chattogfa County Sherifgf
Gary McConnell and his
former chief investigator, Tony
Gilleland.
Theodore Freeman, Atlan
ta, the sheriff’s attorney, is out
of the state until near the end
of July, and the time for
discoverX in the case has been
extended through July 29 by
U.S. District Court Judge
Harold Murphy.
Freeman had indicated in
court documents in May that
he would be out of the state
from at least June 13 through
Che Summerville News
The DOT is financing the
bulk of the work under its
Local Assistance Road Project
(LARP) and with county
contracts.
Charles Law of the DOT
District Office, Cartersville,
said the state awarded a coun
ty contract for 2.68 miles of
plant mix resurfacing to Chat
tooga Countly Commissioner
Harry Powell last April 21. A
total of $59,103.30 was z:;)prov
ed to be spent on six roadways,
including the following:
— Bethel Church Road
from the Gore-Subligna Road,
.5 mile.
— Echols Road from Peren
nial Road to County Road 102,
.7 mile.
— Echols Road from Coun
ty Road 102 to the end of pave
ment, .47 mile.
— Tucker Road looping
from the Jamestown Road
back to that same road, .16
| semi-pros and college players.
| The local team wi{)l play
| against the championship Diz
| zy Dean Team of goynton. The
יָ 18-and-under team has won a
| number of championships and
; comi)eted in the Dizzy Dean
| World Series for the past three
| years.
The Summerville-Trion Op
timist Club will operate a con
| cession stand during the
| games.
The opening ceremonies will
| include the dedication of the
| new field plus several other im
‘ pressive events. The Rev.
Stanley Koonce, grandson of
t David Koonce, wil%rgive the in
| vocation. VFW Post 6688 will
¥resent the colors, using a new
lag pole purchased and
donated by the veterans’
organization.
Mayor Sewell Cash and
members of veterans organiza
tions will present a wreath in
memory of 47 deceased old
timers. A marble monument
which has been inscribed with
the names of the 47 deceased,
will be unveiled at that time.
The national anthem will be
sung by Alan Dean and Kay
Abbott, accompanied by Karen
Gaines.
All players are asked to be
at the ball field on Lyerly
Highway at noon Saturday to
see OLD TIMERS, page 9-A
will be ready by sometime in |
October, Hair added, saying |
that funds for the project have |
been made avajlagle.
The board approved the ex
penditure of SSOO for an ad in |
the Georgia Business Council
(formerly Georgia Chamber of
Commerce) publication,
“GOBIG,"” which will be sent
to developers nationwide. ן
SALARY HIKE
It also okayed an increase
in salarg of SIOO per month for |
Susan B. Spivey, Chamber ex- |
ecutive vice president. ]
July 25. .
Both Freeman and
Gilleland’s attorney, David Ar
cher, Cartersville, agreed to a
stipulation extending the
discovery time.
GilleYand filed the
$1.5-million lawsuit in
December, 1985, | against
Sheriff McConnell, charging
that the sherviff fired %\im
without justification last Oc
tober. Gil].leland also charged in
the suit that McConnefi had
alle%fidly slandered him follow
ing his dismissal.
Sheriff McConnell said last
fall he had first suspended and
then fired Gilleland for alleged
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1986
mile.
— Rawls Road from
Highway 114 to the dead end,
.91 mile.
— County Road 339 loop
from County Road 120 to
County RoaXl39. .57 mile.
MENLO WORK
And Law said the DOT has
approved two streets for base
and paving in Menlo, totaling
.43 miles at a cost of $7,365.80.
Those projects were approved
last May 19 under the DOT's
county contract program. The
Menlo streets incluge:
— Fifth Avenue from
Franklin Street to its dead end,
.10 mile.
— Morse Street from Sixth
Avenue to the end of pave
ment, .33 mile.
Five rodds totaling 8.13
miles of paving were included
in a $167,718 contract award
ed by the state to Headrick
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School Candidate Speaks
Gene Bottoms, Tucker, a candidate for state school
superintendent, spoke at the political forum sponsored
Tuesday night in Pennvilfiz by the Summerville
Business and Professional Women's Club. Bottoms and
Ed Deaton, another candidate for the post, participated
in the program, along with a representative of State
Sclllool Supt. Werner Rogers. (Staff photo by Tommy
Toles).
ְ Chamber board members
| also agreed to contract with
Aleta Kellett for S3OO per
month to do bookkeeping for
the Chamber and the Job
Training Partnership Act
(JTPA) program. She had been
doing the work on a volunteer
basis. Hair described the
system as increasingly
comé)lex.
. C. Pickle, public affairs
vice president, said the
Chamber's booster breakfast
was ‘‘a great success’ with
l more than 100 people in atten
| see NEW, page 9-A
ly misusing evidence in a
f%lony case. He denied
Gilleland's charges in his
res%onse to the lawsuit.
he case involves 8
Chevrolet Blazer. Gilleland
said in his lawsuit that the
vehicle, which was one of nine
vehicles stolen in Texas in
March, 1985, and then con
fiscated by authorities and im
rounded, was bought legally in
ate September, 1985 from the
Texas dealer that owned it
after the Blazer had been
released from impoundment by
Judge Murpelgf. gheriff McCon
nell disagreed with Gilleland's
account of the incident.
Lifeline Unit Ordered
See Page 2-4
Construction Co., Summerville, |
according to Law. Those pro- |
jects were authorized last April |
24. Plant mix resurfacing is |
planned for the following
roadways: ’
— Worsham Road from |
Highway .100 looped back |
around to Highway 100, 1.17 {
miles. i
— Clark Road from |
Hifhway 100, extending 3.36 |
miles (this project is divided in- }
to two sections). ן
— Sand Pit Road from the |
Lyerly-Holland Road to the |
end of paving, 1.37 miles. |
— Beeman Road from |
Subligna to its dead end, 1.66 |
miles. יֶ
— Stinnett 8080 from |
Gore-Subligna Road to the end ו
of paving, .57 miles. י
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ANOTHER CONTRACT |
Law said the DOT authoriz
ed an additional contract for |
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New Chattooga County Map
Will Hair (left), former president of the Chattooga Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce, and Huih Henderson, cur
rent president, disElay one side of the new county map
published by the Chamber. Some copies of the map have
arrived at Chamber offices and more are expected. (Staff
photo).
17.67 miles of paving at a cost
of 397,247 to Heagrick Con
struetion Co. on May 19 with
work beginning last month.
That project includes 8.44
miles in Chattooga County but
outside the limits of local
municipalities, .91 miles in
Meénlo, 2.09 miles in Trion and
6.23 miles in Summerville, Law
said.
The county projects
include:
— James H. *“‘Sloppy”
Floyd Lake Road from Marble
Springs Road to U. S. 27, 1.45
miles.
— Welcome Hill Road from
the Trion City limits extending
.86 mile.
— Filter Plant Road from
Hair Lake Road to Highway
48, 2.5 miles.
— Red Agnew Road from
state sign post 95t0 County
Road 7, .98 mile.
see MASSIVE PAVING, page 9-A
AT POLITICAL FORUM
Little Heat Produced
The ,?son's first political
forum in Chattooga County
Tugsdg night attracted a
-עאס weem full of, can
didates, their supporters and
local residents.
It was sponsored by the
Summerville %usiness and Pro
fessional Women's Club and
held at The Round Table, Penn
ville, following a 7 p.m. buffet
dinner.
Despite the heat and
humidity outside and bright,
warm television lights inside,
no fireworks erupted during
the sedate affair. The closest
thin to political heat
envefi)ped two of the four can
didates for state school
superintendent and their mild
jabs were aimed at the incum
bent, who had sent a represen
tative, and not at their fellow
challenger.
Eacfi candidate was given
four minutes for a statement
with the incumbent being
?iven “the last word.” Only a
ew questions, mostly from
supporters of candidates to
their candidate, punctuated the
closing minutes of the
program.
A candidate for the U.S.
Senate appeared, as did a
representative of the
Republican candidate for
%overnor. All three candidates
or District 5, Georgia House
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Maple Drive Paving Part Of Roadwork Program
An A. W. Headrick Construction Co. crew
is shown installing new plant mix on
Maple Drive in Summerlee this week.
The street is one of numerous roads and
of Representatives, spoke
briefly. One Chattooga Board
of Education challenger failed
to nsppeg{. : ,
- * 5868 טי 26 challenger !
David Hartline gledged to |
work to improve the highway
system ancF to seek a link bet- |
ween 1-59 and I-75 through the
area. Hartline also called for
improving James H. *Sloppy”’
Floyd State Park by provi(fing
a beach and swimming area
and perhaps cabins to attract
tourists.
“HAVE-NOTS"
Carl Morrison, another
Insurance Rating
Lowered In Menlo
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
Members of the Menlo City
Council learned Tuesdag; night
that the city had reached its
goal of lowering its fire in
surance ratings from class
eight to class seven in the city
and from class 10 to class 9/9
in the protected areas outside
the city limits.
According to a letter from
ISO Commercial Risk Services,
the new rating will mean a
decrease in fire insurance rates
in the Menlo area. The decrease
will be effective Aug. 1.
“In the city, the change
from 8 to 7 does not affect
rates for sprinklered proper
ties,”” the letter statecf “The
change will affect residential
occupancies issued under
Finster South’s Warhol?
According to The Wall Street Journal,
Pennville folk artist Howard Finster could
?e the Andy Warhol of tl:]e ISout}l_}. In a
ront page story appearing July 2, Finster
was pgaigsed by Ro%%it Bigho y director of
the Museum of American Folfi Art in New
York.
“There's rather a large groutp of young
people who view him as one of the great
20-century American native painters, and
he is,” said Bishca)fi.
*“He’s practically the Andy Warhol of
the South,” the Journal quotes Liza Kir
win, a collector for the Smithsonian’s Ar
chives of American Art. ‘“‘He’s a real
original. When you look at his work, you
know it's a Finster.”
According to collectors, Finster is most
often categorized as a ‘‘visionary,” or “‘out
sider artist.”” His admirers and patrons
range from Alan Jabbour, director of the
Library of Congress American Folk Art
Center, to the rocl;group, Talking Heads,
which commissioned a Finster album cover
Powell Holds Bids
See Page 5-A
State House candidate, said
Northwest Georgia, including
Chattooga County, is losing
; ulation because yo
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| employment in the area. 6
said he disagreed with Gov.
| Joe Frank Harris' assertion
that there aren't ‘‘two
Georgia's,”’ one affluent and
' urban and the other rural and
less affluent. ‘“There are the
haves and the have-nots, and
we're the have-nots,”” he said.
Incumbent Rep. Johnny
Crawford concentrated on
economic issues, saying he
homeowners-type policies
about 5 percent and will affect
dwelling-type policies about 21
percent. The cgange will affect
typical mercantile properties to
a degree, depending upon the
type of buiicfing construction,
the hazard of occupancy and
other rating factors. The
overall effect is usu;l)lg about
14.6 percent for w frame
buildings, 14.6 for masonry
buildings and 3.5 percent for
fire-resistive buildings.
In the protected area out
side Menlo, the change from 10
to 9/9 affects reduced rates
about 7 percent for sa?rinklered
properties, residential occupan
cies, dwelling type policies and
typical commercial properties.
- The Menlo protected area
includes properties with a need
ed water flow of 3,500 gallons
per minute within the city, and
to properties within 1,000 feet
streets authorized for work this year by
the Georgia Department of Transporta
tion. (Staff photo by Tommy Toles).
would continue to work for
widening U. S. 27 from Chat
tanot;ga. Tenn., to the Florida
| line. e said he favored exten-
Countys whiEE he saig וֶשׁ an
| issue in that area. The state’s
new Quality Basic Education
(QBE) Act should be 100 per
cent funded, Crawford said,
and adult education must be
imfiroved. More must be done
to help local people develop in
dustry, business and jobs in
Chattooga County, he
indicated.
see LITTLE HEAT, page 9-A
of a hydrant and five road
miles of the fire station.
DESTRUCTION
In other action, the Council
unanimously approved adver
tising for someone t¢ tear down
the old Menlo City Hall and
Library. The council voted to
work with the librarian,
Charlene Powell, on setting a
date for an open house at the
new City Hall. The Library will
open in its new location next
Monday.
The Council gave its ap
proval for an 80-foot retainix;fi
wall to be built on the city h
%roper;i' by Calvin Shipley.
he wall is necessary to pre
vent further erosion at the side
of the progerty, councilmen
said. The three-foot high wall
will be constructed of natural
rock, and will cost approx
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that has gained critical acclaim.
Finster characterizes himself as ‘‘a
stranger from another world.” He describ
ed one of his visionary journeys to the Wall
Street Journal:
“T left out @ here one day without
wings in a northeasterly direction. I was
in a twilight zone straight out from the sun,
and the feeling came to me that 1 was
halfway to heaven.”
“He is interested in everything that
happens in.the world, in the great ques
tions of good and evil, in the past, present
and future,” says Art Rosenbaum, a friend
and University of Georgia art professor.
“‘Howard sees himself as the incarna
tion of Noah, the last red.l]ifht before the
apocalypse,” added Randall Morris in the
Journal interview.
Morris is owner of the Cavin Morris
%allery in New York ,'נֹוֹיְ) where 150 of
inster's works are for sale at prices of up
to $2,500 each.