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.. .The Summerville News, Thursday, August 14, 1986
14-A
Two Men Face Drug Rap
Two LaFayette men were
arrested on drug charges last
Sunday by the Chattooga
County Sheriff's Office.
They were identified as
Robert Jones, 28, Ray Dean
Chambers, 33, both of
LaFayette Rte. 4. They were
being held in the Chattooga
County Jail in lieu of $50,000
bond each on Wednesday.
Sheriff Gary McConnell
said he and deputies arrested
Jones and Chambers about
5:15 p.m. Sundtg on the park
ing lot of the Golden Gallon
north of Summerville. They
were charged with violatin
the Georgia Controllefi
Substances Act (GCSA).
A small amount of
suspected cocaine and drug
araphernalia were con
gscated. the sheriff said.
Meanwhile, a 22-year-old
Trion man, Lester F. Adams,
199 Deforest Ave., was being
held in the Chattooga Jail
Wednesday morning on
charges of violatinfi the GCSA
in connection with an arrest
Tuesday.
Some $250 in damage was
caused by vandals when they
ripped up the grass carpet on
the porch of Faith Baptist
Church, Menlo, last Friday,
said Sgt. Charles Latta.
FIRE PROBED
A fire last Thursday night
at a rental house owned by
Frank Stiles, Trion Rte. 2, is
being investigated, said In
vestigator Ron Turner. Owner
of the property suspected ar
son, reports said, and the
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Georfin'a Bureau of Investiga
tion has been notified.
A red chain saw with a
16-inch bar was stolen last Sun
day night from Milton Wood,
Dogwood Drive, Summerville,
said Sgt. Dan Young. It was
valued at $250.
Deg. Jerry Davenport had
some bad luck of his own last
Monday nifi:'\t. Someone broke
into his &jc p truck parked at
Ral%h utherland's Garage,
Highway 27, Trion, and stole a
stereo, two speakers and a
hydraulic jack, said In
vestigator Turner.
A .22 caliber revolver in a
brown holster was reported
stolen from the home o? Steve
Teems, Summerville Rte. 1,
last Monday, said Dep.
Richard Gifford.
GUNS STOLEN
A .30-.30 caliber rifle, a .22
caliber automatic rifle, six
albums and ?rescription
Motrin were stolen from the
home of Ruth Lively, 22
Dogwood Dr., Summerville,
saigvl,nvestigator Turner. The
theft occurred last Thursday,
reports indicated.
Radio speakers were stolen
from a car owned by Shirley
Ann Cooper, Summerville Rte.
1, Silver Hill community, last
Sunday, said Deputy Gifford.
The car was parked in the yard
at the time, the report said.
Someone tossed a pear
through the living room win
dow of Margaret Stowe, 103
Maffett St., Trion, last Sun
day, said Deputy Gifford.
Dep. Charles Latta said
Billie Moses, Summerville Rte.
1, reported possible vandalism
to his car engine late last week.
A motorist smashed into
the car of Karen Dodd, Menlo,
Tuesday, while she was in the
Red Food Store, Summerville,
and left after causing extensive
damage to the driver's side
door, said Deputg Gifford.
Sergeant oung in
vestigated a possible case of
vandalism or criminal damage
to proaerty at the home of
Franz Roth, Chestnut Street,
Menlo, on Sunday. Someone
shot at his swimming pool and
local juveniles have been
throwing rocks or cans over the
fence into his yard, reports
indicated.
ARRESTS
Among the arrests made b
the sheri%f’s office last weeK
were the following:
— Irene Bryant, 52, was
char‘fed with contributing to
the delinquency of a minor on
'l‘uesdag and sKe was released
on bond.
Arnold R. Smith, 33, was
charged by Summerville police
with disorderly conduct on
Monday. He was carried to
Chattooga County Hospital
and then releaseg on bond,
reports said.
— Phill Winston Trammell,
17, was charged Sunday with
criminal damage to property
and released on bond.
— Duncan Eric Shropshire,
27, Summerville Rte. 4, was ar
rested Sunday on a bench war
rant for simple battery. He
later paid fines of almost S6OO
and was released.
— Charles Anthony Kirk,
23, Trion Rte. 1, was charged
Sunday with writing a bad
check and released on SSOO
bond that same day.
— Hazel P. Womack, 25, 14
Woodland Ave., Summerville,
was charged last Friday with
writing a bad check. She was
released on bond that same
day.
— Laney Farmer, 31, 303
Fourth St., Summerville, was
charged with theft by taking
last Friday and released on
bond that same day.
— James Gilliland, 17,
Summerville Rte. 5, was charg
ed with cruelty to animals last
Thursday and released on
bond.
— Mark Dewitt Battles, 23,
303 N. Ramey St., Summer
ville, was charged last Thurs
day with :ggravated assault
and released that same day on
bond.
— Charlotte Hill Bradley,
36, LaFayette Rte. 5, was
charged with writing a bad
check last Thursday and she
was released on SI,OOO bond.
— Debbie K. Gante, 32, was
charged with motor vehicle
theft last Thursday and
transferred to the Floyd Coun
ty Jail the next day.
— Herbie Lenwell Lipps,
30, LaFayette, Rte. 5, was
charged with theft by taking
Cobb Inmates
Dislike Meals
from front page
in the last thirty days have we
had bacon. Eggs are served six
(6) out of seven (7) days, reliev
ed only on Sundays with two
(2) small gancakes.
“It is, however, the evening
meal that is most lacking in
quantity and basic nutritional
value.
“A typical evening meal
consists of approximately
seven (7) tablespoons of dried
beans or canned green beans, 4
or 5 tablespoons of creamed
corn, a scoce)E of mashed
potatoes, sliced tomatoes or
cole slaw with a small piece of
cornbread.
“*Sometimes okra or kernel
corn or canned beets are
substituted for the dried beans
or green beans. Thus, the meal
is high in starch with the only
fresh vegetables being the
tomatoes and the cabbage in
the cole slaw.
““We receive no other fresh
vegetables and only once in the
last thirty (30) days were we
given an apple.
‘‘Meat, at the evening meal,
is served on the average of
twice a week. It is usually a
32" x 3%" thin slab of deep
fried tasteless beef att{ or a
small dee?-fried cuge of fish;
neither of which has much
nutritional value. We have not
even had a piece of chicken in
the past month.
“Without milk, cheese,
fresh fruit, juices and practical
ly no fresh vegetables and the
remainder being high-starch
and deep-fried foods, these can
not be considered nutritional
meals.
‘““Add to_ that the
monotonous, unvarying menu
and small portions and it gives
us this cause which we bring to
you and ask relief.
“Most of the inmates at the
Chattooga County Jail appear
to be Cobb County Inmates
who have been ‘‘boarded-out”
due to over-crowded facilities
in Cobb County. Our fellow in
mates remaininiin Cobb Coun
ty facilities are being fed three
(3) meals per day with milk,
cheese, fruit, juices and fresh
vegetables in abundance and
meat is served at almost every
meal. We feel we deserve no
less.
“We would, respectfully, re
mind you that as inmates we
were given no say in whether
we were boarded out to Chat
tooga County or to remain in
Cobb County.
“If the Boor fare we are
receiving in Chattooga County
is due to insufficient compen
sation being paid b{l Cobb
County, then we ask that you
so inform the é)roper
authorities there and seek
redress in our behalf in this
matter.
“We thank you for your
kind attention in this matter so
important to our welfare.
Respectfully yours,
Duane McConnell
Roddy Sheffield
John D. Kennedy
Adrian Tanner
R. J. McGuire
Charles Beaver
Joe Burns
Willie Perryman 11
B. Dorsey
Johnny Holland
Lawrence Anthony
Jerry Wolfe
Ron Rankin
Tony Lush
Robert Johnson
James Chambley
DISCUSSED
Sheriff McConnell said he
had discussed the letter —
last Thursday and released the
next day on bond. Charlie
Sweet, 19, 506 Chattanooga
St., LaFayette, was charged
with being a party to a crime
and released on SSOO bond. The
arrests were made by Summer
ville police in connection with
an afigged “drive-off’ at the
Golden Gallon, Highway 114,
Summerville, without paying
for gasoline.
MAXIMUM ELIGIBILITY
STANDARDS
FOR FREE OR .
REDUCED PRICED
MEALS
This scale is effective July 1, 1986 - June 30, 1987.
The Chattooga Parent-Child Center announces the sponsor
ship of the United States Department of Agriculture Child Care
Food Program. Meals will be available at no separate charge to
enrolled children at the centers and homes listed below and
will be provided without regard to race, color, national origin,
sex, age, or handicap.
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1 9,916 821 19
2 13,394 1,1 258
3 16,872 1,406 325
4 20,350 1,696 392
5 23,828 1,986 459
6 21,306 2,216 526
1 30,184 2,566 592
8 34,262 2,856 659
Each
Additional
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which he received early this
week — with Charles Brooks of
Jim's Drive-In, Summerville,
which has a contract with the
count[\:l to grovide the meals.
While the inmates may be
correct in some areas of their
letter, thefv are wrong in others,
the sheritf indicateg. He feels
that they are mainly unh:lppy
with being served two meals at
the Chattooga facility when
they had been used to three
meals in Cobb County.
Each week's menu is mail
ed to the Georl.gia Legal Aid
Services every rida{. Sheriff
McConnell said, and he hasn't
received any complaints about
the food from that agency since
the food service was assumed
by Jim's Drive-In. He did
receive complaints about the
food when it was handled by
the county &üblic works camp
personnel, McConnell said.
The inmate letter is the
latest in a continuing saga over
jail food.
MENUS MAILED
The menus are mailed to
the legal aid agency as the
result of a 1981 lawsuit over
conditions at the old jail, a suit
that led to construction of the
present facility.
Until this spring, the meals
were provided by a local
restaurant for less than $2 per
meal. ’
Commissioner Harry
Powell decided in late April
and early May that the county
would providye the meals.
However, he advertised for
bids for the meals to be provid
ed f)rivately in late May and
early June following inmate
con(\iplaints about the county
food.
He awarded a contract to
Jim’s Drive-In through the end
of this year for the food service
at the jail.
Commissioner Powell could
not be reached Tuesday or
Wednesday but this office said
he had no knowledge of the let
ter or the inmates’ complaints.
Example
Of Food
°
At Jail
Here's a sample of the jail
menu on days picked at ran
dom by The News:
Aug. 1 — Gravy and
biscuits, eggs and sausage, jel
ly and butter for breakfast; cor
nbread, green beans, sliced
tomatoes, creamed potatoes,
steak patty and tea for the
afternoon meal.
Aug. 3 — Two eggs,
sausage, biscuits, grits and
avy, butter and jelly and cof
%ore for breakfast; fish patty,
green beans, French fries and
hush puppies for the afternoon
meal.
Aug. 6 — Grits and e(fgs,
bacon and toast, ceffee and jel
ly for breakfast; creamed
potatoes, pinto beans, slaw,
sliced tomatoes, cornbread and
butter for the afternoon meal.
Last Sunday — Cereal and
milk, bacon ang egfs, peaches,
toast for breakfast; fried
squash, sliced tomatoes, potato
salad, white beans, cornbread
and tea for the afternoon meal.
Tuesday — ngs and
sausa%;e, biscuits and gravy,
its, butter and jelly, coffee
gr breakfast; tea, tomatoes,
steak patty and gravy, green
peas, creamed ;})lotatoes and
cornbread for the afternoon
meal.
A course on medical ter
minology will be held from 7
until 9 p.m. next Monday and
Tuesday at Berry College.
Deadline for registering is Fri
day. The fee is $lO.
Powell Doubts Survival
from front page
1984 and $305,000 in 1983,
Powell indicated.
If the fourth revenue shar
ing payment this year is the
same as the third payment, the
county would get $241,028 in
1986, considerably less during
the last three years.
Powell said he has written
a letter urging Seventh
District Congressman Georfge
“Buddy” Darden to vote for
H. R. 1400, continuation of
General Revenue Sharing. The
Association County Cominis
sioners of Georgia listed
Darden as one of three Geor%ia
congressmen undecided on the
revenue sharing issue.
The revenue sharing budget
this year will amount to around
5 percent of the anticipated
total county budget, Commis
ON COUNTY RESIDEN TS
Charges May Be Levied
Summerville may have to
consider chargin%l fees to
residents outside the city for
use of the recreation depart
ment’s facilities and for fire
protection next year if Chat
tooga CountKldoesn‘t continue
to provide funding for those
K;ograms. said Summerville
aéor Sewell Cash.
hattoo‘ila Commissioner
Harry Powell committed some
$25,000 to the city's recreation
budget last year, as well as this
Kear. Cash said. In addition, he
as been providing some
$20,000 to the city for fire pro
tection costs. Be?t’)re 1985, the
county donated $12,000 for
recreation, Cash said.
The city's recreation
budget for 1986-87 amounts to
$168,484 and its fire depart
ment budget totals $98,332 for
the same period.
Mayor Cash said about 60
percent of the city's fire alarm
calls are answered to locations
outside the city limits with on
ly 40 percent being answered
within Summerville.
70 PERCENT
Around 70 percent of the
participants in the city's
recreation programs are coun
ty residents who live outside
tKe city limits, he added.
“We feel like it would be
justified for the county to bear
some of the cost’ for the two
programs, Cash said.
After the city received a let
ter from Commissioner Powell
saying that an end of federal
revenue sharing funds would
mean an end to county fun
ding, Mayor Cash sai(i, City
Manager Grady McCalmon
talked to Powell about the
matter.
“He said revenue sharing
would be reduced by 13 percent
in October and thought he still
might be able to help some, he
was not sure. And if he could
help down the road, he would.
What's going to hagpen. we
don't know,” Mayor Cash said.
Action on any possible fees
charged to county residents
would also be up to the Coun
cil, Cash said, but “If he just
cuts it out, I'm of the opinion
that the city couldn’t go on
fighting fires without some
kind of charge” outside the ci
ty limits.
FEES
The same situation would
apply to county residents using
city recreational facilities,
Mayor Cash speculated. “We'd
have to consider some type of
from page 7-A
would help bear the SIO,OOO
materials cost of the extension.
Even with residents picking up
the materials cost, the mayor
said, it would still cost the ci
ty some SIO,OOO to $15,000 in
labor, time and equipment.
COMPLAINT
The panel sg)ent around 45
minutes to an hour going over
a complaint by resident
Charles Elder about his water
bill. He appeared at last
month’s meeting. City officials
agreed to read his meter daily
in another effort to discover
the é)roblem.
ity Manzfer McCalmon
said the annu %re-le%islative
conference will be held Sept.
10-11 in Atlanta.
In other action, the Council:
— Tabled a request for
utilities to a mobile home park
in Burgess Subdivision since
Thomas Flood, who made the
application, was not present.
— Gave final approval to an
ordinance making North
Recreation Drive one-way from
Highway 100 west to Highway
114.
— Okayed Sept. 1 as a
Labor Day holiday for city
employees.
— Authorized Shirley Will
ingham, a city secretary, to at
tend a pension plan annual
meeting in Atlanta Aug. 27-28.
— Placed on first reading a
proposed ordinance that would
give the citgr more authority to
remove and clean up abandon
ed properties.
ZONING DELAY
— Delayed action on amen
ding a new zoning ordinance
since the proposed new city
see SUMMERVILLE, page 15-A
sioner Powell said.
“ ... 1f we have to raise
taxes to take care of this,
should it be that we have to —
and I wouldn't mind it a bit in
the world if we didn’t already
owe this debt that we're trying
to p?' off,”” Commissioner
Powell said. ‘‘But since we're
trying to pay this debt off, 1
don't want to mess with the
taxes and I don’t see how that
these different organizations
can survive on their own.”
SERVICE FEES
Summerville Mayor Sewell
Cash has already said the city
may have to look to service
fees to coun%y residents for
recreation and fire protection
services next year (see related
story) unless the county’s
payments to the city are
fee or charge to people out in
the county,” he added.
Commissioner Powell said
he would understand if the ci
gy instituted such charges, ad
ing, “We've got one of the
best recreation programs of
any county in the state, I
think . . . and it doesn’t mean
just one district. We support
every district that has an
organization in it.”
Referring to possible city
consideration of Eees for coun
ty residents, the commissioner
said, “I can't deny that and
that will hurt because our
money'’s been doing that down
there, don't you see, because
that . . . is a county recreation
program although it's spon
sored by the city; I mean, yes,
it's a county outfit that’s spon
sored by the city and we
cooperate and I help them,
don’t you see, and that's why
they can operate there and not
have to ’lgo up on their
taxes ... Trion, the same
thing.”
NO TAX HIKE
Mayor Cash said, “As long
as I'm mayor of Summerville,
taxes are not going to be rais
ed.” However, other means —
such .as fees to county
residents — may have to be
considered by the city to meet
expenses of the programs
which benefit more county
than city residents.
“I hope it (county funding
of recreation and fire protec
tion) doesn’t stop in 1987,”
Mayor Cash said. “If that’s the
In the Summer of
1861, Over 130 Men
From Chattooga County
Marched North to Fight
For Robert E. Lee’s Army
Of Northern Virginia . . .
Would You Like
To Experience
What It Was Like
To Be One of
Them?
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ORGANIZATIONAL
MEETING
Company B,
9th Georgia Infantry
to reactivate that unit for
participation in “living history”
encampments and battle
reenactments . . .
Saturday, Aug. 16
1:30 p.m.
105 Allen Street
Summerville, Ga.
For More Information
Call 857-2260 or 857-5404
continued.
Commissioner Powell went
on to praise the Chat.t.ooga
Library as “‘one of the nicest”
in the area and said ‘‘at Menlo
we've got a nice library.” He
also cited the city of Summer
ville recreation program and
added that the county had
tried to provide assistance to
each community in Chattooga
in past years.
Meanwhile, Commissioner
Powell said he will not be able
to adopt a final county budget
for 1986 until after thiesdyear’s
tax digest is completed later
this month or in September. A
tentative digest was ado?t,ed
early this year but a final
budget is not approved until
after the digest is completed.
case, maybe we can continue to
operate the way we are now.”
He expressed appreciation
to Commissioner Powell for the
previous and current funding
of the recreation and fire pro
tection programs but said the
county percentage was not ade
quate to take care of the
Eercentage of county residents
enefitting from Summerville's
programs.
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