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ESCAPEE ARNOLD AVANS (LEFT) REMOVED FROM PATROL CAR
By Summerville Lt. James Johnson, Who Aided In Manhunt
Three Escape,
Two Captured
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
A massive manhunt con
tinued Wednesday night in
Dry Valley for the only one of
three Tuesday night escapees
from the Chattooga County
Jail still at large. The other two
were captured Wednesday
afternoon.
Still at large early Wednes
day evening was James Keith
Goins, 20, of a rural Dade
County address. He was being
boarded at the Chattooga Jail
for Dade authorities and had
School Enrollment Down
The Trion City and Chat
tooga County school systems
opened the year with
enrollments slightly less than
in 1985-86, according to
preliminary figures.
* The Trion system reported
a total enrollment of 1,096 on
Monday, corgl_)&ared to 1,131
last lyear. e Chattooga
schools reported a Monday
enrollment of 3,085, compared
to 3,167 last year.
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Dawn Of A New Day, Twilight For The Old
Youngsters have passed through the por
tals of the school buildings on Rome
Boulevard for the last time. The halls are
empty, silent and dark. Blackboards have
been used for the last time and classrooms
will no longer echo with the chatter of
energetic students and the frustrated
voices of overworked teachers. The
buildings began their useful life as Sum
merville Consolidated High School in
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been charged with theft by
receiving.
Arrested following a
bloodhound and helicopter
assisted manhunt Wednesday
afternoon were Arnold Neal
Avans, 23, 1008 South
Highland Park, Chattanooga,
Tenn., and Raymond Jeffery
McGuire, 20, 317 Inman Rd.,
Fayetteville. Avans, was being
boarded for Dade on a proba
tion revocation charge, while
McGuire was being boarded for
Cobb County on a bench war
rant involving an aggravted
assault charge. McGuire was
one of several Cobb inmates
who signed a letter two weeks
ficials, the first day of school
last Friday and the second day
on Monday went well, with the
exception of heavy traffic
around most school {)uildings
during the morning and after
noon ‘‘rush hours.”
No one was injured in traf
fic accidents at any schools
although there was an auto ac
cident on Highway 114- at
Chattooga High School last
Friday morning. A county
schoolybus also backed into the
Schools were added to the student body
and when the new Chattooga High School
oFened on Lyerly Highway in 1965, the
old buildinEs became Summerville Junior
High. With the opening of Summerville
Middle School this fafl, they were no
longer needed. On Sept. 23, they are
scheduled to be auctioned. Odds are that
they may be demolished by the new
owners . .. and an era will have passed.
(Staff Photo by David Espy).
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1986
‘ao protesting food at the jail.
STORM
All three escaped Tuesday
night during a fierce lightning
storm that knocked out elec
trical power to the jail and
automatically opened jail
doors. It was the t‘i)rst time in
the modern facility’s history
that three prisoners had
escaped at one time.
Chattooga Sheriff Gary
McConnell said Wednesday
morning that inmates aren’t
allowed more than $lO each
while in jail and that the trio
couldn’t have had more than
see THREE ESCAPE, page 2-A
side of a car off Penn Street
during heavy traffic last Fri
da{. according to Summerville
police reports.
.Officers were busy at
strategic intersections last Fri
day directing traffic and at
tempting to keep cars and
buses flowing evenly.
FIRST YEAR
This was the first year for
the new Summerville Middle
see SCHOOL., page 5-A
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CHARGES HUGH DON HALL
Tax Report Misleading
Audit reports that show
$908,911 in collectible delin
quent 1984 taxes are
misleading because Chattooga
Count{ Commissioner Harry
Powell extended the 1984
deadline for paying taxes into
1985, awor£ng to Chattooga
Tax Commissioner Hugh Don
Hall.
The second audit report for
the county's 1984 finances was
completed in March, 1986 and
shows $981,620 in uncollected
1984 taxes with $908,911 of
that amount listed by auditors
as ‘‘estimated collectible.”
Commissioner Powell last
week said the names of delin
quent taxFayers may be
published if they don't pay
their taxes very soon. He said
last week and again this week
that he has not decided on who
to name as an attorney to
begin the collection process.
The August term Grand Jury
had recommended that the
county hire an attorne
specifically to collect bacK
taxes.
PROCESS BEGINS
“Mr. (Ed) Surles (county at
torney) pulled some of those fi
fas two or three weeks ago
before the Grand Jury talked
about someone to do it,”” Com
Ludy Jury
Weighing
Evidence
Jurors in the robbery and
burglary trial of Magnast Ludy
111 trial are scheduled to
resume their deliberations at 9
a.m. today in Chattooga Coun
ty Superior Court.
Judge Joseph Loggins at
6:10 p.m. Wednesday excused
the jurors for the night after
they said they had been unable
to reach a verdict and had
made no recent progress in the
case.
Although the judge advised
the foreman not to give an in
dication of whether the jury
was leaning toward conviction
or acquittal, the foreman said
the panel was leaning 8-4 in
favor of conviction in one case.
The judge issued his warning
once again and the foreman
said the jury was 1-11 in the
other case but did not indicate
whether that was for acquittal
or conviction.
Ludy is charged with
burglary and robbery at the
home ofy Mrs. Nell Taylor, Nor
thwest Congress Street, Sum
merville, on Nov. 13, 1984. He
is also facing identical charges
in connection with an incident
at the home of Mrs. Roy Pep
pers and the late Mr. Peppers,
401 State St., Summervi?lg, on
Nov. 19 that same year. Mr.
Peppers has died since the
see LUDY, page 13-A
Taylors Ridge
Bigfoot Found?
Has Bigfoot wandered into Chattooga County?
According to a Summerville man, he was faced with a
stranfif creature last Sunday morning on Taylor's Ridge
while he was digging ginsing.
David Andrew Brown, 44, Summerville Rte. 1, told
Chattooia County Sheriff's Deputy Randy Hill that he was
on a high point of Jenkins Gafi on Taylor’s Ridge at 9:30
a.m. last gunday when he looked up and was startled by
a hll{lge creature about 30 feet away.
e described it as being about 7Y% feet high and
weighing 350 to 400 pounds. Its arms hung down to its
knees and it had large eyes ‘like a cow,” a flat pug nose
and large lips with long, curved fingernails, Hill reported
he was t;olcfI by Brown. It also had thick, long black hair
over all its body and its head appeared to be pointed, the
report said.
After three or four minutes the creature turned and
walked away down the ridge, said Brown — who headed
up the ridge away from the creature.
Brown said he became ill and vomited because of the
smell of the creature, which he described as like ‘‘a wet
chicken or a washed-down dog.”
Ginsing, by the way, is a herb prized for its medicinal
qualities.
missioner Powell said Tuesday.
“It seems that the tax commis
sioner put all the blame on Mr.
Surles, that he (Hall) couldn’t
get any help.” He referred
questions on the status of the
collection efforts to Surles.
Powell said he wants an
collection process to be hand{
ed alphabetically rather than
picking out the largest delin
(gxeent ills first. Most lawyers,
the commissioner said, want to
start with the la'xigest bills first.
‘Surles said Tuesday after
noon the le%al process for col
mng tax bills is under way
several will likely be readly
to advertise by next week. If
the sale of property is rec‘tlllired
on mdv of the parcels, it likely
would be Oct. 7 —the first
Tuesday in October, Surles
added.
*The county attorney said he
is attempting to make sure
that none of the property has
a mortgage on it and if it does,
the counmill seek the taxes
from the or person holding
the mortgage, leaving it up to
the mofiage holder to obtain
his funds back from the
mortgage.
eFiog peag: i o
roperty vertised in
?tlgfif' gurhs said, indicating
that. the is being made to
cfimfifi i nt taxpayers
thit: the county is serious
SURLES’ FI FA
The tax commissioner’s ex
ecution docket in the office of
Clerk of Court shows that
Surles is listed as owing
$513.47 in back taxes for the
years 1977-79 and 1983-85.
Surles contended that he
doesn’t owe the taxes and that
there is an error in the billing.
The fi fa is a duplicate of a bfil
he has already paid, Surles
said, adding that he had not
had time to correct the matter
with the tax commissioner.
He said Hall may have got
ten irritated with him and
Powell and filed the fi fa.
Alfred Henderson, driver
for Commissioner Powell, is
also shown in the execution
docket as owing a total of
$2,292.46 in back taxes for
1979-85. il ;
However, Hall said no ef
fort was made to select Surles
or Henderson to be placed on
the execution docket in
response to any actions or com
ments bK Surles or Powell. Hall
said he had mentioned the bill
to Surles but when no effort
was made by Surles to check
on the bill, Hall said he filed the
fi fa.
EXTENSION
Meanwhile, Hall said
Powell extended the 1984 tax
deadline from Dec. 27 to Jan.
15, 1985 for paying 1984 taxes.
A check of past issues of The
News confirmed Hall's
comment.
That meant, Hall said, that
a significant amount of 1984’s
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CITY HALL DEDICATION
Lyerly Honors Jackson
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
Approximately 250 persons
attendped dedication of the new
Lyerly City Hall Tuesday
night. In an emotionally charaf
ed program, town officials
dedicated the new structure to
former Mayor Grover C.
Jackson Jr.
Jackson and Mayor Danny
Wyatt simultaneously cut the
wide red ribbon to officially
open the new 3,150 square foot
facility, which also houses the
cityl volllllmteer fif departmer}xlt.
n his s rior to the
ribbon-cut;l'.lxx):ige.c V&?yatt noted
that the new $60,000 city hall
opens its doors debt-free. ‘“The
City of Lyerly has no large
outstanding debts,”” Wyatt
said. “I think it is appropriate
that we dedicate this building
to Grover Jackson debt free,
because as mayor he led the
community out of a heavy in
debtedness.”
Wyatt emphasized that
former Mayor Jackson made
provisions for Lyerlfy’s future
%'rowth while in office from
966-74.
“The things he did in office
have made it possible for us to
build the new city hall,” Wyatt
said. “When he first came in of
fice in 1966, we were way
behind in our water payments
on our old system and we had
only a small amount of money
in our checking account. That
was all the city had. Mayor
Jackson led the city out of
debt. When he went out of of
fice, we were 10 years ahead in
our water payments and he had
placed $54,000 in a fund to
somedaf' build a sewer system
in Lyerly.”
Wyatt said that the fund
has grown from numerous con
tributions over the years.
“Our next goal is to obtain
our own source of water to
knock down the cost of pur
chasing water from Summer
ville, and then to use the extra
$1,200 to $3,000 per month to
build a sewer system.”
In a salute to Jackson,
Henry Watson spoke of
Jackson's spiritual leadership
in the community, as well as
his civic leadership. He is
presently a member of Lyerly
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United Methodist board of
stewards and is the former
owner of Jackson Brothers
Grocery, Lyerly.
Watson noted a number of
Jackson's accomplishments as
mayor, including securing fun
ding for the town water
system, extending water ser
vice to the east and south of
the town limits; purchase of a
new fire truck, and remodeling
of the old town hall in 1967.
During his term as mayor, all
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Lyerly Honors Grover Jackson
Some 250 persons attended the grand opening and
dedication of the new Lyerly City Hall Tuesday night.
The Lyerly City Council dedicated and named the
building in honor of former Mayor Grover C. Jackson
Jr. A ;lylaque was presented to Jackson by the City
Council and speaker Henry Watson who recounted
Jackson's accomplishments as mayor. Shown (from left)
are Mayor Danny Wyatt, Mrs. Rose Jackson, former
Mayor Jackson, and Henry Watson, Farmers and Mer
chants Bank. (Staff Photo by Kay Abbott).
PRICE 20c
streets in Lyerly were Baved.
Councilman Joe Pullen
recognized a number of special
%uests, including Rep. John
rawford, Lloyd Fraiser of
Coosa Valley Area Planning
and Development Commission;
Sheriff Gary McConnell, Sum
merville City Man;fer Gra(g
McCalmon, Trion Mayor J. C.
Woods; a regresentative of
Congressman eorge ‘“‘Buddy”’
Darden who presented a flag to
see LYERLY, page 11-A