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Powell On
County Audit
Dear Editor:
Several questions have arisen concerning the budget for 1986.
The auditors are still working on the 1984 audit and the infor
mation needed from the 1984 budget so that we may com?lete
the 'B6 budget, according to information found on part of our
books during the year 1384.
Hendri & Bailey were paid above $75,000.00, then turned
around and sued the county because I refused to pai' an addi
tional $15,000.00 more. This particular case was settled by the
county attorney Ed Surles at a reduced rate. Then the State of
Georgia Audit Division refused to accept this audit. We then
emeployed Holland, Knowles and Peterson to finish the audit for
1984 and clear up some of the differences that were found in this
'B4 audit. The State again turned the audit down and made the
statement that we were not financially able to pay any additional
money for the same audit.
The State Auditors agreed to help us with some of the ex
penses, but as of now we are at a loss to know the exact amount
we owe on the 1984 audit as the State has not committed itself
to help we will receive for the county. ;
Since the State seems to be confused about the 1984 audit,
as of yet we have employed Finney & Moore, Qertlfled Public
Accounts of Rome, Georgia to do the 1985 audit. They are at
a standstill at the present time because of lack of information
that we needed from Hendri & Bailey and have not received same.
We are looking forward to the meeting of the Grand Jury in
the next few days so we might receive what information needed
to complete these audits and get all this behind us.
Sincerely,
Harry Powell, Commissioner
Chattooga County
Favors Hartline
Dear Editor,
I would like to voice my feelings for a man who cares for his
fellowman. I have known David Hartline all of his life. I can tru
ly say he is a hard worker and an honest man. He is one of 12
children and has had to work hard to educate himself. He has
never given up or let his family or friends down. He has worked
long and har(f for everything he has. I know we couldn’t elect
a better person to represent us. You can tell tgr the work he has
already Sone for this county that he is a hard worker, not just
a talker.
Charlie D. Slayton
116 McClain gt
Summerville
Falwell Rips Tutu
Dear Editor:
On Tuesday, July 22, Bishop Desmond Tutu responded to
President Re:san‘s speech on South Africa by saying “the West,
as represented by President Reagan, can go to hefi as far as |
am concerned.”
Bishop Tutu should return his Nobel Peace Prize and
apolos'ize to President Reagan and every member of the Western
World for consigning them to hell. It is hard to believe a man
of God, whose primary ministry should be to prevent people from
g}(])ing to hell, could wish hundreds of millions of peop?e to go
there.
It was enough for Bishop Tutu to declare himself a socialist
at the 1983 meeting of the World Council of Churches in Van
couver. It is sad that he has suggested on several occasions that
violence may be a necessary option for the non-whites of South
Africa. But it is tragic when t?xis man of God and Nobel Peace
Prize winner would wish people to suffer in hell forever. The
Bishop surely knows that the first principle of Christianity is
love and forgiveness.
If Jerry Falwell had publicly suggested that anyone go to hell,
the international media woul! have discredited me forever as a
minister of the gospel, and of love, and of peace — and the media
would have been absolutely correct in doing so.
I call upon Bishop Tutu to apolos'ize and ask for the
forgiveness of the many he has offended.
One year ago, when I said that BishoF Tutu was a phony if
he purported to speak for a majority of non-whites in South
Africa, there was a clamor from the media for an apology from
me. I extended it in a two-page telegram to the Bishop. If the
Bishop does not now apologize, then perhaps I should recall mine.
Jerry Falwell
Ice Cream Hunger
Ends With Jailing
A 59-year-old Summerville
man, John Hudgins, 113 E. 7th
St., has been charged with
burglary after police said they
found him eating ice cream in
side a residence Saturday.
Summerville Police Chief
Arlen Thomas and officer G
Ford said they received a (?z:fi
that someone had entered the
residence of Mary Ford, 413
State Ave. Upon arrival at the
scene, they said they found
Hud%ins sitting in a chair in
the living room, eating ice
cream. Several packs of meat
had been taken and stacked
atop a freezer, they reported.
Hudgins was still in the
Chattooga County Jail
Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Capt. Fred
Lawson reported a burglary at
the office of Bobby Lee Cook
Jr., 105 S. Commerce St. last
Thursday evening. Intruders
entered the building through a
window on the south side,
reports said. Listed as missing
were a SSOO stereo sg'stem, 100
99-cent stamps and a 12-inch
fan.
‘A purse owned by Brenda
Park, gummerville Rte. 4, was
reported stolen from the office
of Chattooga School
superintendent, said Officer
George Dean. Reports said Ms.
Park%eft the purse on a desk in
the office Monday and went to
another office and found it
missing when she returned
moments later. It contained
some S2O cash and papers, he
said.
Someone destroyed 18 feet
of chain-link fence and three
oles at the home of Charles
?iunter, 625-A Dowdy Dr. on
Saturday, said Officer Ford.
Twenty-nine-year-old
Harold Ray Bryan, QS
Commerce St., has been releas
ed from the Chattooga County
Jail on $2,500 bond after being
charged with disposing of mor
tgaged property.
Y sffic%r Bflane Jackson and
Sgt. James Pierce arrested
Bryan at a North Commerce
Street car wash Tuesday and
charged him with disorderly
conduct. The officers said Jim
my Duff, Northwest Congress
Street, also reported to them
that Bryan had wrecked his
van.
Vandals sprayed under
coating in the money slot at the
bill-changer at Broome's Car
Wash, 917 Highland Avenue,
the night of July 23 or morn
ing of July 24, said Officer
Monroe Mathis.
When Alan Mason, 104 Oak
St., arose to go to work on the
morning of July 24, said Sgt.
Pierce and officers Owens and
Bryant, he found a black man
with a flashlight looking in his
vehicle. The man, who was
wearin@iwhite shorts, no shirt
and a shower cap on his head,
fled down Bellah Avenue. A
search failed to turn up a
sus;S)ect.
omeone struck a fence at
the home of Murdel Thompson,
5 Givens St., last Friday night,
said Officer Ford, destroying
two to three feet of fence, a
post and a cactus plant.
from front page
Gilbert said. A lounge area
would be built for possible
future use, he indicated.
In response to questions,
Gilbert said he hoped construc
tion would begin in Sfiptember
and the facility should be com
pleted by May 1, 1987.
“You're the people who are
oing to make us or break us,”
éilbert told the assembled
group.
Summerville Mayor Sewell
Cash encouraged location of
the facility and pledged the ci
ty's cooperation in providing
utilities.
Gilbert, in outlining his
background, said he was
manager of the former
Sheraton President Inn in
Rome in 1981-82 and that he
was with Holiday Inns for
eight and one-half years.
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