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_merville News, Thursday, August 14, 1986
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[DEATHS
Jimmie |
Alexander |
Miss Jimmie Alexander, 73,
Espy Street, Summerville,
passed away last Fridalf' mor
ning at her residence following
an extended illness.
Miss Alexander was born
Jan. 14, 1913 in Chattooga
County, daughter of the late
Amos Soloman and Hattie |
Eubanks Alexander. Miss
Alexander was retired from the
Dixie Credit Company, and a
member of the gummerville |
First United Methodist |
Church. !
Surviving are her sister, |
Mrs. Helen A. Chandler, Sum- |
merville; several nieces, ;
nephews, great nieces and |
great nephews.
Funeral services were held |
at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Sum- |
merville First United |
Methodist Church with the |
Rev. Mike Cavin officiating. |
Interment was in Alex- |
ander Cemetery. “
Active pallbearers were Jim |
Woodard, g/like Woodard, Jon |
Payne, Frank Hendrix and |
Leonard Avery. |
Honorary pallbearers were |
the United glethodist Women
and Emma Jones. ‘
Hill Chapel of Lane Funeral |
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frances Cook
Mrs. Frances Dodd Cook,
90, Trion Road, Summerville,
passed away Sunday night in
a local nursing home.
Mrs. Cook was born in Bar
tow Count{ Feb. 4, 1896,
daughter of the late Daniel
Simpson and Irene Matilda
Black Dodd. She was a
member of the Summerville
First United Methodist Church
and was a retired store clerk.
Her husband, Thomas Andrew
Cook; and a son, Joseph Dodd
Cook Sr., died earlier.
Surviving are four grand
children, Joseph Dodd Cook
Jr., Sarasota, Fla., Meredith
Klank, Andrew Cook and Mar
tin Marion Cook, Atlanta; five
great-grandchildren; two
sisters, Miss Hu%}l\ Belle Dodd,
Rome and ¥s. Ruby
McWhorter, Trion; one
brother, Albert Dodd, Chat
tanooga; several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services were held
at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Hill
Chapel of Lane Funeral Home
with the Rev. Mike Cavin
officiating.
Interment was in Alpine
Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
Mike Woodard, Joseph Dodd
Cook Jr., Andrew Cook, Mar
tin Marion Cook, Michael
Klank and Tom T. Cooper.
Hill Chapel of Lane Funeral
Home had charge of
arrangements.
Ada Hudson
Mrs. Ada Conaway Hud
son, 71, Rome, passed away
Tuesday afternoon in a Rome
hospital.
Mrs. Hudson was born in
Chattooga County June 17,
1915, daughter of the late Jim
McGraw and Susie Stocks
McGraw. Before retirement,
she was employed with West
Point Pepperell and the Parrish
Bakery. She was a member of
the Cg]urch of God. Her first
husband, John W. Conaway,
died in 1954. Her second hus
band, James W. Hudson, died
in 1979.
Surviving are three
daughters, Mrs. Annie Crab
tree, Cedar Bluff, Ala., Mrs.
Virginia Fortune and Mrs.
Margaret Sue Scott, Rome; one
stepdaughter, Mrs. O.E.
Lucus, Rome; three sons, J. W.
Conaway and Gordon Con
away, Rome, Charles Conaway,
Ringgold; one sister, Mrs.
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Lucille Carmon, LaFayette;
one brother, Frank Mcéraw.
Summerville; 16 grandchildren;
12 great-grandchildren; several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
at 3 TP.m. today in the Chapel
of allt}a‘y Brothers Funeral
Home, Rome, with Dr. Tony
Weaver officiatinlf.
Interment will be in the
Fellowship Bal%tist Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be
nephews.
Erwin-Petitt Funeral Home
makes the announcement for
the family.
Eloise
Middleton
Mrs. Eloise Wood Mid
dleton, 51, Melba Drive, Trion,
passed awag Aug. 7 at 6:15
p.m. in Tri-County Hospital.
She was born in DeKalb
County, Ala., Oct. 16, 1934,
daughter of the late Carl Wood
and Nellie Ellen Poe Wood.
Mrs. Middleton was a textile
worker and a Baptist. Her hus
band, Charles Middleton Jr.,
died earlier.
Surviving are one son,
Charles Lowery, Calhoun;
three brothers, Roy Wood and
M. T. Wood, Summerville,
Richard Wood, Chickamauga;
two stepsons, Marty and Joe
Middleton, Summerville; and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
at 11 a.m. Aug. 9 in the chapel
of Erwin-Petitt Funeral Home
with the Rev. Wrathburn Cash
officiating.
Interment was in Chapel
Hill Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
Louie Woodall, Randall Smith,
Donnie Smith, Ricky Smith,
Jack Baggett and Mark Lane.
Erwin-Petitt Funeral Home
had charge of arrangements.
Mary Mitchell
Miss Mary Lou Mitchell,
79, LaFayette, passed away
last Sunday morning in a Fort
Oglethorpe hospital.
Surviving are six sisters,
Carrie Beairg, Pearl Craig, Em
ma Key, Essie Gilbreagl and
Mildred Fickey, LaFayette,
Eula Jackson, Savannah; three
brothers, Jess Mitchell, Sum
merville, Shelley Mitchell,
LaFayette and Ray Mitchell,
Fort 6glethorpe: several nieces
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Funeral services were held
at 3 p.m. 'l‘uesdtéy in the
LaFayette First Church of
Nazarene with the Revs.
Hubert Ledlow and Hartsell
Amburn officiating.
Interment was in
LaFayette Cemetery.
LaFayette Chagel of Lane
Funeral Home had charge of
| arrangements.
Rose Shumate
Mrs. Rose Farmer
Shumate, 98, Donelson, Tenn.,
a former resident of Chattooga
County passed away last
Thursday morning at her
residence. Mrs. Shumate was
born in Spartanburg, S. C., on
Nov. 13, 1887. Her husband,
John Henry Shumate, died in
1942,
Survivix;\f are two
daughters, Mrs. Milton Den
ton.%\lashville. Tenn., and Mrs.
Marshall Cantrell, Tallahassee,
Fla.
Graveside services were
held at 2 p.m. Saturday in
Summerville Cemetery with
the Rev. Mike Cavin
officiating.
Hill Cfiapel of Lane Funeral
Home had charge of
arrangements.
dna Thomas
Miss Edna Lee Thomas, 73,
106 South Commerce St., Sum
merville, passed awz(aiy Sunday
morning at her residence.
Miss Thomas was born in
Chattooga County July 28,
1913, daughter of the late John
N.andJ u%ia Johnson Thomas.
She was a member of the Sum
merville First Baptist Church
and was retired from the Mon
tgomery Knitting Mill.
Surviving are three sisters,
Mrs. Ed Hankins, Lake City,
Mrs. Leroy Day and Mrs. Rod
Hardeman, Summerville;
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Sum
merville First Baptist Church
with Dr. Jack Colwell
officiating.
Interment was in Summer
ville Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were
nephews. o »,
Honorary pallbearers were
the Philathia-Lydia Sunday
School Class of Summerville
First Baptist Church.
Hill C?lapel of Lane Funeral
Home had charge of
arrangements.
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Kidnap
Charge
Dropped
A 43-year-old Bainbridge
man was arrested on kidnapp
ing charges in Walker County
last Thursday in connection
with a Summerville incident
but the charges were later
dismissed by the district at
torney’s office.
Summerville Officer Duane
Jackson reported that he saw
a woman standing alone in
front of a service station on
Rome Boulevard last week and
asked if she needed assistance.
The woman related that she
and a male friend and her
3-year-old son were driving
from Bainbridge to Illinois
when the man %ecame angry
with her driving and told her he
wanted to drive. When she got
out of the car, he drove off with
her son and left her standing
alone on the roadside, Jackson
said he was told.
The woman refused to file
charges against the man and
walked out of the Chattooga
Sheriff's Office, Jackson said.
However, Jackson pressed kid
napping charges against the
man, who was arrested in
Walker County.
She later showed up in
LaFayette and the Walker
County Department of Family
and Children Services received
custody of her son, who was
with the man, reports said.
However, charges were
later dropped against the man
by the Lookout Judicial Circuit
district attorney’s office.
Meanwhile, sfficer Jackson
reported that someone broke
into P. O. Box 336 at the Sum
merville Post Office last Friday
night. Nothing appeared to
have been taken, reports said.
A bicycle valued at SIOB
was reported stolen from the
fiorch of Shirley Austin, 11
amey St., last Friday night,
said d,fficer Allen Bryant.
Officer Jackson also ar
rested two men on disorderly
conduct charges after a
fighting incident at the Huddle
House, Highway 114, Summer
ville, ear’Hl last Saturday, said
reports. They were identified as
Tl!n)(?mas T. May, Spartanburg,
S. C., and Dennis R. Brown, 39,
1102 Rose Cir., Trion.
SAYS FORMER COUNTY AUDITOR
Nothing Sinister
About Tax Figures
There's nothing sinister
about differences between
delinquent tax f;gures in two
1984 audits of Chattooga
Counz"s financial activities,
according to the auditor who
did the two reports.
The 1984 report dated July
31, 1985, shows $887,208 in un
collected taxes for the years
1973 through 1984, $20¥,951
listed as reserve for uncollecti
ble and $679,257 estimated as
collectible.
However, a 1984 report
dated March 4, 1986, Ests
$1,662,762 in uncollected
taxes, $434,435 listed as
reserve for uncollectible taxes
and $1,228,327 estimated col
lectible delinquent taxes for
those years.
Chattooga Commissioner
Harry Powell pointed out the
differences to The News last
week, saying that he had been
unable to gain an explanation
for the differences between the
two reports.
Robert Anderson of the
auditing firm, Holland,
Knowles and Peterson, Chat
tanooga, Tenn., said the reason
the figures are different is
because the firm had more in
formation at its disposal when
it did the second report.
DISMISSED
Commissioner Powell
dismissed the Dalton firm of
Hendry and Bailey in earl
1985 after it had started wori
on the 1984 audit. The firm in
June, 1985 sued the county for
back bills and refused to turn
over to the new count
auditing firm, Holland)t
Knowles and Peterson, its
“working papers,” until it was
f)aid by the county. The
awsuit was settled out of court
in December, 1985, and the
county paid the Dalton firm
some $14,600 of the $16,536 it
said it was owed. After that
point, Holland, Knowles and
Peterson was allowed to gain
access to the Dalton firm's
“working papers” on Chat
tooga County.
But when the first report
was done, Anderson said Tues
day, his firm didn’t have access
to those ‘‘working papers’’ and
the initial audit was done only
on the office of county commis
sioner and didn't include the
tax commissioner’s office.
However, after the lawsuit
was settled and the Chat
tanooga firm was able to ob
tain additional county
documents and papers, it did
an audit of the ofgces of tax
commissioner, clerk of court,
probate judge, ambulance ser
vice, revenue sharing budget,
jail bond fund, Water District
1 and the county's general
fund. Anderson said the
general fund included the
sheriff’s office.
The original audit didn’t in
clude the tax commissioner’s
office, Anderson said, and his
firm had to depend on only
records in the commissioner’s
office and the amount of taxes
collected after Dec. 31, 1984 to
project ‘‘backwards’’ the
estimated amount of delin
quent taxes for 1984.
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THANK‘“‘M”
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Even though | was not elected to
the Chattooga County School
Board, | deeply appreciate the many
voters who did support me. | thank
you for these votes and all the kind
ness and courtesies extended to
us. This new experience in local
politics strengthens my interest in
our county.
My opponent, Leon King, joined me
in making this a clean race, con
ducted in a gentleman-like manner.
The Chattooga County educational
system has my best wishes. If | can
ever be of assistance, please feel
free to call on me.
LETTER
After the 1984 audit report
dated July 31, 1985 was turn
ed in to the Georgia Depart
ment of Audits, Commissioner
Powell received a letter on Oct.
15, 1985 from Charles D.
Lunsford, director of the Per
formance, Medicaid and Local
Governments Audits Division,
Georgia Department of Audits.
It quoted the law regarding
local audits and said, **Attach
ed hereto is a copy of the
checklist used in our office
review. Categories checked in
dicate items in your audit
report which do not appear to
satisfy audit standartg and/or
generally accepted governmen
tal accounting principles. The
items should be addressed
before the submission of your
next audit report.
“If your future audits do
not meet the criteria establish
ed by generally acceg;ted ac
counting principles for local
government, the Georgia law
rg?]uires we inform you which
will necessitate corrective ac
tion on you, or your auditor’s
part, and resubmission of the
amended report or publication
of a newspaper notice for
failure to d 050..."
A copy of the letter and
both 19& audit reports were
provided to The News by Com
missioner Powell.
CHECKLIST
The checklist features 14
categorized deficiencies with
nine sub-categories checked.
The main prob%em with the Ju
ly 31 report seemed to be that
it did not include the tax com
missioner, probate judge, clerk
of court and sherii]f's office.
The state has said that it
was lenient toward all local
governments regarding their
1984 audits because a new
state law had just gone into ef
fect and many city and county
officials and accountants were
unfamiliar with its provisions.
No audits were actually ‘‘re
jected” for 1984, state of)f’icials
have said, although the state
ap‘pears to have asked for more
information for the offices not
audited in the July 31 report.
Even that report was not ‘‘re
jected,” state officials have
said, although they sought
more information on the offices
unaudited at that time.
ROME FIRM
The Rome firm of Finney
and Moore is currently work
ing on the county’s 1985 audit.
It was due June 30 but the
state has granted an extension
for its completion.
As did the Dalton firm
before it, Holland, Knowles
and Peterson has been
withholding its ‘‘working
papers’’ on the county’s 1984
audit reports until it is paid
$15,000 for the second report.
A workshop on “How to
talk so kids willi) listen" will be
held from 7 to 9 p.m. next
Tuesday at Berry College. The
fee is sls per person or S2O per
couple.
The state has said it will give
Chattooga County a grant for
$15,000 so that it may pay the
Chattanooga firm, freeing up
those papers.
Commissioner Powell has
signed the necessary papers
and was awaiting receipt of the
grant.
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Reunion
Members of the Chattooga
High School Class of 1976 are
reminded of their class reunion
Saturday, Aug. 30, beginning
at 11:30 a.m. with a family pic
nic at Chattooga High Sc¥\oo|_
All teachers who taught at
CHS between 1972-‘?6 are
invited.
The class will hold a reunion
dance at the Holiday Inn on
Turner-McCall Boulevard,
Rome, beginning at 8 p.m.,
Reservations are required
for this event at S2O ’lper couple
or $lO per fierson. hose w‘}),o
would still like to make reser
vations may contact Allison
Hawkins Fletcher at 843-5301
or 923-4099.
Classmates from across the
United States and as far away
as Central America will be ar
riving for the 10-year reunion,