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The Summerville News, October 16, 1986
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Lverly Harvest Festival
Students at Lyerly School are getting ready for their
annual harvest festival, scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. Satur
day. Sarah Crawford and Elizabeth Veatch display
some of the fall decorations. They are third grade
f{;ggents of Carolyn Crawford. (Staff Photo by Kay
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Lyerly Harvest Festival
Hundreds of residents are
expected to attend the annual
Lyerly Harvest Festival from
6-9 p.m. Saturday at Lyerly
Elementary School. The event
will feature a country store as
well as a variety of games,
entertainment and contests. A
13-inch color television set will
be given away during the
festival.
Events will include a king
and queen contest. Bingo.
Sgonge throw, basketball
shoot, a cake walk and fishing
booth.
Refreshments will be sold
at the concession booth. All
groceeds from the festival will
e used by the Lyerly Parent-
Teacher organization to buy
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other educational materials.
More than 400 persons attend
(}d“the 1985 Lyerly festival last
tall.
Other Side Of
Tort Reform
Lindsay Bennett, Rossville,
representing the Georgia Trial
Lawyers Assn., will address
the Summerville-Trion Op
timist Club at noon Friday on
the “other side of the issue of
tort reform.”
The meeting will be held at
The Round Table, Pennville.
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FIREMAN MIKE SALMON (FOREGROUND) APPROACHES HOUSE
Two Youngsters Die In Weekend Fire In Gore
Overall Taxes Drop
from front page
FACTOR
In 1985, the state tacked a
15 percent factor onto the
digest, forcing local officials to
lower their tax levies by a cor
responding amount, and caus
ing bills to be sent out later
than usual. Taxes for 1985
were not due until early
January, 1986, as a result. In
late 1984, then county
commissioner-elect Harry
Powell extended the deadline
for tax payments into early
1985.
Residents must be given 60
days to pay their property tax
bills an(? even if the state ap
proves the county's digest next
Wednesday, Hall said it would
be unlikely that the bills could
be prepared, printed and mail
ed in time to set the payment
deadline before the end of this
year.
Tax officials don't an
ticipate a factor being added to
this year's digest.
SCHOOL TAX
The Chattooga Board of
Education on Oct. 3 set its
1986 preliminary maintenance
and operation (M&O) tax rate
at 10 mills, down from 12.35
mills in 1985. It also set its
bond rate at .50 mills, down
from .67 mills in 1985. (A mill
is $1 tax on each SI,OOO worth
of taxable property).
Commissioner Powell late
last week set the county's
preliminary M&O rate at 14.50
mills for the incorporated areas
of the county, up 2.08 mills
from the 1985 figure of 12.45
mills. He also set the M&O rate
for the unincorporated areas at
14.50 mills but that was reduc
ed by a 2.32-mill rollback due
to a credit from the life in
surance premium tax. That
rollback made the net rate for
unincorporated areas 12.18
mills, an increase of 1.78 mills
over the net 1985 rate.
The bond tax rate was set
at .75 mills by Commissioner
Powell, the same as in 1985.
LEVY
This year's M&O levy is
designed to bring in $2,233,300
in revenue to the county’s cof
fers. The 1985 M&O levy was
designed to bring in $1,908,581
to the county's treasury. The
increased levy this year,
therefore, is supposed to gring
in $324,000 more than the 1985
anticipated property tax
revenue figure.
The increased levy may be
designed to hel maKe up for
the loss of fe(feral Revenue
Sharing funds, a program
which has not been renewed by
Congress. The county received
$304,757 in revenue sharing
money in 1985, according to
the 1985 county audit. The
Revenue Sharing office said
this week that the county had
received a total of $226,681
this year, $78,076 leess than in
1985. In 1987, the county
doesn't exiect to receive any
Revenue Sharing money.
Chattooga voters, however,
in June, 1985, voted for a
special purpose local option
sales tax for the county’s roads
and bridges. The county had
received $886,192.69 from that
source during the first nine
months of the year, the state
said. If the collection rate picks
up somewhat in November and
December —the Christmas
shopping season —the county
may receive more than
sl-million from that source in
1986.
DEBTS
Before the sales tax pro
posal passed, the commissioner
said, “‘We can take the money
that's levied for roads, bridges
and streets and use that money
for indebtedness and use this
one percent sales tax for roads,
bridges and streets.”
The county's recently
released 1985 audit showed
outstanding county loans or
debts payable of $922,577 at
the end of last year, but a
balance of $1,070,496 in the
county's general fund on Dec.
1.
The commissioner actually
received only around $61,573 |
by the end ofylast year from the
sales tax because of the in- |
herent delay in implementing
the tax and getting the funds
back to the county by the
state. However, the county’s
audit, which uses the accrual
system of bookkeeping, at
tributed an additional $182,364
in sales tax revenue to the 1985
calendar year, althou§h it was
not actually received by the
county until early this year.
The net 1986 tax digest us
ed to set the levy for incor
porated areas in the county
totals $74,684,734, or
$1,210,139 less than the 1985
digest of $75,894,873.
The 1986 net digest used to
set the unincorporated tax rate
is $94,449,844, or $1,683,482
more than the 1985 digest of
$92,766,362.
ERRORS
Tax officials said earlier
figures quoted for the digest
were initial printouts of the
digest and contained some
keypunch errors and valuation
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errors, which have since been
corrected.
Two of three companies
within incorporated areas of
the county have not appealed
their assessments and the
deadline for such appeals for
those two companies fias pass
ed. Tax officials had feared
that successful appeals might
drastically lower tfiis year's tax
digests.
The 1985 and 1986 fiEures
are not directly comparable in
the area of personal property,
which inclugees machinery and
equipment within industrial
plants, mainly because of the
15 percent factor added by the
state in 1985.
For example, if a piece of
equipment was assessed at
SIOO,OOO before the factor, its
assessed value was $115,000
after the factor.
While the actual assessed
value may have been only
SIOO,OOO in 1985, the state
does not allow different percen
tage factors to be tacked onto
di?ferent classes of property,
tax officials explained.
EQUIPMENT
Therefore, the SIOO,OOO
piece of equipment (but fac
tored to $115,000 in 1985) may
have been reported at a
depreciated value of $85,000
this year and, if no factor is
added, it will remain at
$85,000. That makes the
assessed value seem to drop by
$30,000 from last year to this
year, rather than by $15,000 as
would have been t¥|e case had
the factor not been added to
the total 1985 digest.
The main apparent decrease
in the 1986 incorporated areas
digest from 1985 is in the per
sonal property classification.
The factored 1985 personal
property digest was
$30,271,732. Deducting the 15
percent, factor, the digest
would have been $26,323,245.
Therefore, without considering
the factor for the personal pro
perty classification, this year's
digest actually would have
shown an increase from
$26,323,245 to approximately
$28,231,845.
Since the largest industrial
plant is locateg in an incor
porated area, the unincor
porated area digest this year
was not affecteg significantly
by last year's factored figures.
In fact, it showed an increase.
VEHICLES
In both categories, the
motor vehicles cfilssification
showed an increase of between
$1.3-million and $1.4-million.
The total tax rate this year
for unincorporated areas is as
follows: county M&O — 12.18
mills, county bonds — .75
mills, schooli/[&O — 10 mills,
school bonds — .50 mills and
state tax — .25 mills for a total
of 23.68, or .74 mills below the
total 1985 levy of 24.42 mills.
The incorporated area tax |
rate this year is as follows:
county Mio — 14.50 mills,
countf' bonds — .75 mills,
school M&O — 10 mills, school
bonds — .50 mills, and state
tax — .25 mills, for a total of
26 mills, or .47 mills below the
1985 levy of 26.47 mills.
September Cash Recovered
Some $9,300 in cash stolen
from an elderlg' Trion man in
late Sggtem er has been
recovered.
Ron Turner, investigator
for the Chattooga County
Sheriff's Office, said the
money, stolen Sept. 26, was
recovered last Saturday.
Reports at the time said the
money was in a billfold owned
by James R. Shro?shire. Trion
Rte. 1. The billfold was in
Shropshire’'s 1970 Chevrolet
and wrapped in a brown paper
bag with rubber bands around
it, reports said. It was under
the front seat of Shropshire's
car, reports said at the time.
TRUCK STOLEN
Thieves took a 1979 red
Silverado pickup truck from
the home of Harold Marshall,
Summerville Rte. 1, between
last Thursday and Friday, said
Dep. Lisa Anderson. The vehi
cle was valued at $4,000.
A red tool box and tools
valued at S3OO was reported
stolen from a barn at the back
of the residence of Marilyn
Tapp, 1103 Central Ave.,
Trion, last Sunday, said Chief
Dep. Sheriff Jadie Price.
Someone threw a rock and
broke the window in a 1977
Dod%iel van owned by Donald
M. Elliott, Summerville Rte. 2,
between last Friday and Mon
day, said Chief Price. Value of
the window was listed at $l5O.
A well pump valued at S2OO
was reported stolen from the
home of Junior Blevins,
Highway 157, Cloudland, bet
ween Sunday and Tuesday,
said Dep. Lisa Anderson.
DOG TAKEN
Someone entered a pen
behind the home of Charles
Slayton, Summerville Rte. 1,
last Thursday hight, Oct. 9,
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and stole a 4-month-old chow
Y{alfixed at $l5O, said Dep. P. R.
ill.
The back door of the
residence of Alfred Mosier,
Summerville Rte. 2, was pried
open Monday but nothing was
reported missing, said Chief
Price.
Investigator Turner said a
$1,200 check stolen from Pat
sy O. Elsberry, Summerville
Rte. 1, last July and cashed in
Atlanta, was reported last
Friday.
He said the check was
reportedly stolen from a
mailbox.
Tim Glenn, Trion Rte. 1,
said he was visiting with
friends on Mountain View
Sfiring Creek Road last Friday
when someone drove up, got
out of his vehicle and struck
Glenn's 1971 Coronet’s wind
shield. The vandal then got
back in his car and drove off,
Sft' Dan Young reported
Glenn as saying.
ARRESTS
Among the arrests made by
the sherifi’s department during
the past week were the
following:
— Terry Anthony, 30, Lyer
ly Rte. 1, was stilr in jail at
noon Wednesday on simple
battery charges involving an
incident at Trion. He was ar
rested that same day.
— John Hamilton Bailey,
42, 4 West Seventh St., Sum
merville, was also still in jail at
noon Wednesday on burglary
charges. He was arrested
Wednesday.
— Sherre Lynn Roach, 29,
1707 Linda Ln., Rossville, was
charged with four counts of
writing bad checks Tuesday.
She was released that same
day on $2,000 property bond.
— A 14-year-olt§) youth was
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arrested Monday on shoplif
ting charges. The juvenile was
turned over to custody of his
father,
— Berlin Ladon Ware, 18,
121 E. Sixth St., Summerville,
was charged with shoplifting
Monday. She was released on
3500 property bond that same
ay.
— William Christopher
Davis, 21, Summerville Rte. 1,
was charged with violating the
Georgia gontrolled Substances
Act and driving under the in
fluence of intoxicants Sunday.
He was released that same day
on $1,200 J)rogerty bond.
— Randolph Shropshire Jr.,
25, 16 Fourth St., Summerville,
was charged with first degree
forgery Saturday. He was
released on $5,000 bond,
— Shelia Dianne Blackmon,
27, 324 McCollum St., Trion,
was charged with shoplifting
Saturday. She was released on
SSOO %roperty bond.
— Robert Glenn Burton, 31,
Trion Rte. 1, Old Alabama
Road, was charged with simple
battery and criminal trespass
last Friday. He was released on
$2,000 bond.
— Marshall Price, 41, 810
Highland Ave., Summerville,
was charged with two counts of
theft by receiving last Friday.
He was releaseg on SIO,OOO
property bond.
Fiddler’s Meet
Buck's Pocket 17th annual
old-time Fiddler's Convention
will be held on Saturday, Nov.
1 at Macedonia Junior High
School, located between Sec
tion and Fyffe, Ala.
The event will be sponsored
by the Macedonia Sc?\ool and
Macedonia Fire Department.
Admission will be $3 for
adults and $2 for students.
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