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The Summerville News, Thursday, January 1, 1987
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Drought, Powell Controversies Top Headlines
from front page
weight room for the high
school.
*A ma; of proposed
districts for five commissioners
was published by The News.
MARCH
* Easements for a road to
serve a g)roposed new state
prison at Pennville were work
ed out with Ernest Klatt, who
owns a large tract of property
in the community.
* Menlo's City Council in
creased water rates.
* Tax Commissioner Hugh
Don Hall said he was
“hopeful’” that he would
receive legal help from the
county in collecting back coun-
Lty taxes.
* Commissioner Powell,
without taking bids, bought a
$21,000 ambu%ance. using the
county's “‘emergency’’ powers.
* e',hattoogas schoo?oboard
approved the middle school
concept for a new buildin% be
ing constructed on Bolling
Road.
* Jeff Greenway and Jamie
Russell were named STAR
Students for the county at a
meeting of the Summerville-
Trion Rotary Club.
* The Trion Board of
Education was told that it was
SIOO,OOO under budget in its
1985 capital outlay g:dget.
* Chattooga County receiv
ed $175,432 in beer and wine
tax revenue in 1985, it was
revealed.
* A temporary controversy
arose between the Summerville
City Council and Industrial
Development Authority over
whether the Authority should
charge the city interest on a
loan to help finance the city's
speculative building.
* American Legion Post
129 celebrated its 61st
anniversary.
* Wilson Mann Jr., Sum
merville, suffered serious in
juries in a fall inside a Walker
County cave.
* Hope Miller, Trion, was
crowned the new Miss Chat
tooga County.
* The Chattooga Board of
. ducation approved a new pro
gram for students with
behavior disorders.
APRIL
* Wyche Fowler, Fifth
District representative, visited
Chattooga County in his quest
to become Georgia's next U. S.
Senator.
* Trion resident Rick Camp
was cut by the Atlanta Braves.
* Trion Recorder Deck
Brewster resigned and the
Trion Council replaced him
with Ricky Bowers, who ran
Brewster a close race last
December.
* Federal officials gave
Chattooga County a “‘poor”
economic rating.
* Summerville Mayor
Sewell Cash said he would
refuse to act as city court
judge, despite being appointed
by the Council. Cash cited
At Farmers and Merchants Bank . ..
WE HAVE
NOT BANKING HOURS
BEGINNING JAN. 5, 1987
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
WILL BEGIN PEOPLE HOURS INSTEAD OF BANKING HOURS
OUR NEW HOURS WILL BE:
SUMMERVILLE OFFICE
Lobby:
Monday-Thursday
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Friday
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday — CLOSED
‘ Drive-In Windows:
Monday-Friday
7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday
7:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
MENLO OFFICE
: Monday-Tuesday
8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Thursday
8:30 a.m.-4:.00 p.m.
Friday
8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday & Saturday
CLOSED
With the Added Hours We Will Now Have 57 People Hours Per Week to
Service All Your Banking Needs.
Farmers & Merchants
®2 Bank e
JANUARY-JUNE, 1986 ROUNDUP
possible conflicts since the
court's decisions must be ap
gealed to the Mayor and
ouncil.
* Local Optimists aimed an
anti-drug program to area
youngsters.
* Commissioner Powell con
sidered contractinf with Tri-
County Hospital in Fort
Oglethorpe to run the county's
ambulance service. No action
was taken.
* Commissioner Powell said
he wanted to remove all the
county's garbafe dumßsters.
* Summerville and Depart
ment of Corrections officials
discussed utility service to a
groposed new state prison at
ennville, with the state pro
mising financial aid to the city
for those services.
* Chattooga County went
into the business of providing
meals to prisoners at the coun
ty jail.
- * Summerville attorney
Sam Finster was named city
court judge. o
* The Chattooga Chamber
Foundation askeg the Chat
tooga Board of Education to
donate several old Summerville
Junior High complex buildings
to the Foundation for use as
community facilities.
* Summerville Mayor
Sewell Cash said he expected a
one-mill reduction in pr(:})erty
taxes this year and an
estimated $4.5-million city
budget for the new fiscal year.
MAY
* In what was to prove to
be a lasting controversy, the
Trion Mayor and City Council
debated the city's policy over
expanding utility services to
proposed developments within
the city limits.
* Trion's Board of Educa
tion accepted an apparent low
bid of $153,000 for renovations
and air-conditioning of Trion
High School.
* A search began for An
nette Campbell %odd, who
disappeare(F from her home
April 20.
* The fifth annual Charlie
Lowry Rodeo was held.
* Water supplies in the
count{l were down due to a
drought, which was to last
through mid-autumn.
* The State Health Plann
ing Agency began its review of
a proposal that Oak View Nur
sing Home be expanded.
* Menlo's City Council held
its first meeting in its new ci
ty hall.
* A “drug dog’’ was used at
Chattooga County High
School. A small quantity of
drugs was found and no
charges were filed.
* Summerville officials
were shocked at estimates that
the city might have to pay as
much as $700,000 for
relocating utilities along U. S.
Highway 27 when it is
widened.
* Donnie Fowler, director of
the Chattooga County am-
bulance service, was arrested
and charged with eaves
dropping by taping a telephone
conversation between an am
bulance worker and a former
secretary of Commissioner
Powell.
* World War I 1 hero Duff
Matson, one of the ‘dirty
dozen," served as grand mar
shal of Chattooga County's
Armed Forces Weekend
parade.
* Arson was suspected in a
fire at the Lyerly Fertilizer
Plant.
* The Chattooga Board of
Education voted to sell the old
junior high complex to the
Chattooga Chamber
Foundation.
* The Chattooga County
Hospital Authority began con
sideration of installing a Life
Line program for the county.
* Trion Mayor J. C. Woods
said the city had not arrived at
a policy for serving recently
purchased land tracts within
the city with utilities.
* Rep. Johnny Crawford
seeks reelection and is (;gpos
ed bfinLyerly resident David
Hartline. Seventh District Rep.
George Darden announces he
will seek reelection.
* Seventy-one participated
in the annual fishing rocfiao at
James H. “Sloppy’’ Floyd
State Park, sponsored by VFW
Post 6688 and its Auxiliary
and the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources.
JUNE
* Summerville's City Coun
cil agreed to work with the
DOT to reduce the city's costs
of relocating utilities along
U.S. Highway 27 between
Summerville and Trion during
widening of the roadway.
* Commissioner Harry
Powell, reversing an earlier
decision, decidecf to bid out
food for inmates at the county
jail. He awarded the contract
to a Summerville restaurant.
Earlier in the year, Powell had
decided the county would
prepare jail food at the county
works camp.
* A hearing was held on
whether Oak View Nursing
Home should be expanded. No
oEposition was expressed at
the meeting. A Rome developer
also applied with the state to
build a new, private nursing
home in the county.
* Trion's City Council ap
proved subdivision
regulations.
* Miss Blanche Toles
retired at Menlo Elementary
School after 50 years of service.
* The annual Shriner's
telethon raised $41,307 in
Chattooga County.
* Summerville surveyor
Carl Morrison entered the
Fifth District refiresentative’s
race against Rep. Johnny
Crawford and challenger David
Hartline.
* Summerville police seized
gos_sible **crack’ cocaine from
eeing motorcyclist.
TRION OFFICE
Lobby:
Monday-Wednesday
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Thursday
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Friday
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday — CLOSED
Drive-In Windows:
Monday-Wednesday
7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Thursday
7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Friday
7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday
7:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
LYERLY OFFICE
Monday-Tuesday
8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Thursday
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Friday
8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday & Saturday
CLOSED
* J. P. Smith Lumber Co,
held an open house of new
facilities at Menlo.
* The Appalachian Georgia
Health Systems Agency
recommended that Oak View
Nursing Home's proposal to
expand its facilities be approv
ed over that of a Rome
developer.
* Views of Chattooga Bap
tists varied over results of the
Southern Baptist Convention,
* A Bartow County firm
was given the contract for
buiding the roadway to a new
proposed prison at Pennville,
* Michael Barbee was the
first Chattooga County
graduate of West Point. He
was appointed by the late Con
gressman Larry McDonald.
* The State Health Plann
ing Agency said it would con
sider the Oak View Nursing
Home proposal and that by a
Rome developer together and
issue a decision later in the
summer.
* State School Supt.
Werner Rogers said in Chat
tooga that the Quality Basic
Education Act will improve
education in Georgia.
* Chattooga Board of
Education Chairman Joel Cook
said the school board will roll
back taxes in 1986 due to ap
proval last year of a local op
tion school tax by the county's
voters.
* Life Line was approved
by the Chattooga Hospital
Authority. The emergency
notification system would pro
vide peace of mind for many
citizens, es¥ecially the elderly,
hosßital officials said.
Tommy Toles, a former
resident of é,hattooga County,
was named editor of The Sum
merville News, succeeding
James Budd, who joined a dai
ly newspaper in the Atlanta
area.
(Next: July through
December, 1986).
Slide Program
J. P. Smith, chairman of
Rotary information for the
Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club, presented a slide pro
gram on the history of the in
ternational organization and
its goals at Monday's monthly
meeting. The session was held
at The Tavern, Trion.
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once on Georgia Avenue between Cox
Street and South Commerce Street.
Waste was overflowing the sewer line and
flowing down the gutter to a storm sewer
recently. City officials said a problem ex
ists in the connection from nearby apart
ments to the city line. An agreement
Three Hurt In Wrecks
One person was killed and
three others injured in three
separate traffic accidents in
Chattooga County during the
?ast week, according to the
reorgia State Patrol.
The Patrol reported earlier
that 22-year-olc¥oJeff Mon
tgomery, Dalton, died in a one
car crash on Rome Boulevard
in Summerville during the ear
ly morning hours of Tuesday,
Dec. 23.
However, the fatality was
not counted in the Patrol's
statewide Christmas holiday
listing because it occurred prior
to the beginning of the period
at 6 p.m. Dec. 23.
Two people were also hurt
Waste Overflows Sewer Line
in a one-car crash about .3 mile
south of Menlo on Highway
337 at 10:15 p.m. Dec. 23, said
Trooper Charles Toles.
They were identified as the
driver, Kandy Edwards, 18,
Summerville; and a passenger,
Russell T. Ballew, 19, Talking
Rock.
Reports said the Edwards
car was traveling north on
Highway 337 when it went out
of control on the rain-slickened
roadway and struck a utility
pole on the east side of the
highway.
At least one person com
plained of injuries following a
truck mishap on Back Penn
Road at 7:45 p.m. Sunday, said
hasn't been reached over responsibility
for the problems, they indicated. The ci
t{' must bore out the line periodically to
clear the clog, officials said. Current
apartment management is seeking to im
prove the situation, they added. (Staff
Photo).
Sgt. Eddie Ivey. She was iden
ti%ied as Eliza\)';et,h Jones, 15,
Smyrna.
Reports said a vehicle
driven by Larry Lynn Wilson,
22, Trion, was traveling east on
the roadway when it met
another car on a hill crest and
the tires dropped off the road
way onto the shoulder, which
had construction work under
way. When the driver attemp
ted to pull the vehicle back on
to the roadway, it flipped over
on its right side, Sergeant Ivey
said.
Wilson was charged with
driving without insurance and
driving under the influence of
intoxicants, reports said.
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Money Paid
To Powell
Checks totaling $16,912.50
were turned over to Chattooga
County Commissioner Harry
Powel)l, in November and
December by Sheriff Gary
McConnell, according to
available records.
Those funds regresent the
amounts paid to the sheriff's
office by other cities, counties
or the state for boarding
risoners at the new Chattooga
gounty Jail.
Powell was sent a check for
$8,208.50 on Dec. 12 to pay for
boarding in November. gle was
sent a check for $8,704 on Nov.,
14 to pay for inmates boarded
at the jail in October.
Sheriff M¢Connell said this
week that a check will be writ
ten by the middle of January to
Powell to pay for the cost of
boarding prisoners at the jail
during December.
LARGER
The amount of the January
check is expected to be
significantly larger than the
November or December
checks, the sheriff said,
because Dade County has been
behind on its payments to
Chattooga for the service. That
deficit is expected to be made
up with a payment in January
from Dade, Ke indicated.
The November and
December checks reflect in
terest earned on the jail money
market account at First
Federal Savings and Loan
Assn., Summerville, McCon
nell said.
Commissioner Powell has
been involved in a controversy
with the sheriff over the last
few months over the account,
saying it shouldn’t have been
opened.
Register To
Vote Saturday
The Chattooga County
Board of Voter Registrars wih
be at Wal-Mart Discount City
from 9 a.m. until noon
Saturday.
Registrars also will be at
Super D, Trion, from 3 until 6
p:m. Friday, Jan. 9.
The voter registration office
in the courthouse also will be
open from 9 a.m. to noon Satur
day. Jan 17,