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CHATTOOGA HIGH TONIGHT
College Registration
Registration will be held at
6 p.m. today in the Chattooga
High library for college cret%t
courses offered by Shorter Col
le%e. Rome. All classes will be
held at Chattooga High, begin
ning next Monday.
horter operates on the
semester system.
CLASSES
Classes to be offered in
clude art, freshman English
102, developmental and e(fuca
tional psychology, college
algebra 103, health and
physical education for secon
dary teachers, and health and
physical education for elemen
tary school.
Country Music
Show Saturday
The Country Satisfaction
Band will provide entertain
ment for a countrf' music show
Saturday at Subligna.
The Subligna Volunteer
Fire Department will sponsor
the show at 7:30 p.m. at the fire
hall. The public is invited.
Chattooga Drug
Arrests Double
Chattooga County recorded
almost a 200 percent increase
in the number of drug arrests
in 1986 over 1985, Sheriff Gary
McConnell told the
Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club Monday.
The county's top law en
forcement officer discussed the
local drui problem as well as
the drunk driving situation,
during his address. It outlined
statistical information on ac
tivities of McConnell’s depart
ment last year.
A total of 51 drug-related
arrests was made last year, the
sheriff said, including 16 in
December alone in a roundu
that climaxed a six-montfi
undercover operation. There
were 26 drug-related arrests in
1985.
POT USE DOWN
The use of marijuana as the
drug of choice in Chattooga
County appears to be dropping
while the use of cocaine,
“crack” and hard drugs is in
creasing, McConnell said.
Of 23 drug buys involved in
the undercover investigation,
he said, 10 were for cocaine and
13 were for marijuana.
Chattooga has a drug pro
blem but it is not as serious as
found in other communities,
the sheriff said. Law enforce
ment can’t sto% the influx of
drugs without the cooperation
of parents and the community.
“Y}:)u can’t build enough jails
OLD LINOTYPE STILL OPERATING
Daily Use For Years
Introduction to art (Art
201) will be taught from 6 to
8:40 p.m, each Monday.
Freshman English (102) will
be taught from 5 to 7:40 p.m.
each Wednesday.
College algegra (math 103)
will be taught from 5 to 7:40
p.m. each Thursday.
These classes will run the
entire semester from next Mon
day to exams on Thursday,
May 7.
MINI-SEMESTERS
The educational psychology
and the two health-physical
education classes will run back
to-back as two mini-semesters.
From next Tuesday through
March 5, the health and
physical education courses
(HPE 313 and 314) will be
taught from 7 to 9:40 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursdays. From
March 10 to May 7, the
psHChology course (EDU 311)
will be taught at the same time
and place.
Jack Herring, principal of
the high school, also serves as
manager of the Shorter off
campus center at the school.
High school students who
have completed their junior
or have enough law enforce
ment to stop the drug pro
blem,” McConnell said.
“Crack’’ cocaine is highly
addictive, he said, and people
who have used it twice have
become addicted. “‘lt's here,
folks. It's in our schools, it's in
our community,” the sheriff
warned.
Without mentioning names,
he said one young Chattooga
resident had become addicted
to “crack’” and had spent
$17,000 in six months on the
habit. The individual is now off
the drug and seems to be doing
well, he revealed.
DRUG DOG
As a general rule, a drug
sniffing dog taken into any
sixth grade of 35 pupils in
Georgia will find enough drugs
to filf]a salad dressing bottle,
McConnell said. However, he
emphasized that may not
necessarily be the case in every
sixth grade in Chattooga
County.
Until 1986, most drug users
in the county preferreg mari
juana but they have started
moving into use of chemicals
rather than the illicit weed, the
sheriff continued.
DUI
Chattooga ranks 13th in
Georgia in arrests for driving
under the influence of intox
icants (DUI) among counties
see DRUG, page 2-B
year and have outstanding
academic records may be con
sidered for joint enrollment
status, according ‘to Jeff
Hyder, director of special pro
grams at Shorter. “‘For some
students, the chance to get a
head start on their collegiate
education is very appealing,”
he said.
The sls application fee will
be waived for any new student
entering the program.
Herring may be reached at
Chattooga High at 857-2402
and the Shorter admissions of
fice may be contacted at
291-2121.
Crawford
To Leave
For Capitol
Chattooga County Rep.
Johnny Crawford, who
represents District 5, will be in
Atlanta next Monday when the
Georgia General Assembl
convenes at the State Capito{
The 1987 session will con
vene at 10 a.m.
Crawford said earlier that
revisions to the Quality Basic
Education (QBE) Act and tort
reform will be among the ma
jor topics to be taken up by the '
legislature this year.
Crawford represents Chat
tooga, Dade and a tiny portion
of Walker County in the
General Assembly. He is a resi
dent of Lyerly.
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D. C. BROWN RECALLS “GOOD OLD DAYS”
Childhood Days At Simmons Flat
Thursday, January 8, 1987
END OF AN ERA
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
W. H. Smith Jr. is retirin% '
this week, closing the doors of |
the oldest continuous business
in Lyerly. ‘
Smiti; Printing Company |
opened in 1914, over 72 g'ears |
ago. Prior to that, W. H. Smith |
Sr. began printing small jobs in |
his father’'s sm(fitehouse just |
south of Lyerly. The site is now |
the Ralph Cook farm. I
BEGINNINGS
In 1916, W. H. Sr. and his
brother, L. C., began a printing
business in Lyerly known as
Smith Brothers f‘;rinting. In
the early 19205, L. C. moved to
Summerville and started his
own business, which he
operated until his death. W. H.
Sr. continued to operate the
Lyerly business, renamed
Smith Printing Co., until his
death in 1976. ilis son has car
ried on the Lyerly business
alone since that time.
Smith Printing grew with
Lyerly in its heyday and re
mained stable as other
businesses faltered. The firm
survived a fire in 1920 that
destroyed most of the business
district on Alabama Avenue.
The company was one of the
few to rebuild after the fire.
The firm has weathered the ups
and downs of Lyerly’s
economy as well. When the
Lyerly Bank failed in 1929, the
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Mabel Crouch of Summerville was in the
first grade at Simmons Flat when this
photo was made in 1916. Miss Crouch is
shown second from right on the back row.
Pictured in the front row, from left, are
Mr. Revis, teacher; John Ivy Alexander,
Carl Holland, Frank Crouch, Hammond
Westbrooks, Melvin Tyler, Myheart Hall,
BROWN RECALLS SCHOOLMATE’S PRANK
Myers School Memories Survive
By KAY ABBOTT |
- Staff Writer
The old Myers-Simmons
Flat school may be part of
history, but memories of the
Oldest Lyerly Firm Closes
Coca-Cola Company transfer
red its trademarfi wooden clock
to Smith Printing. The pen
dulum clock had been a fixture
in the bank lobby for many
wars. It still hangs where
/. H. Smith Sr. placed it near
ly 58 years ago.
TWO SONS
The printer raised two sons,
W. H. fi' who still owns the
business, and Lewis, who
recently retired as head of Prin
ting Services for Berry College.
Both grew up workin&lin their
father's print shop. W. H. Sr.
continued working in the shop
until his death in 1976.
“I can’t remember when I
started working there,” W. H.
Jr. said. I can’t remember not
working there."”
One of Smith's earliest
memories is pedaling the old
foot-powered letter press his
father had wused in the
smokehouse.
“When we first started, it
was before electricity came to
the area,” the second genera
tion printer recalls. “We had to
peda? that old press to make it
run. It was real slow, but we
grinted letterheads, church
ulletins and statements. My
older brother generally did the
printing and I had to pedal.”
LINOTYPE WORKS
A Linotype machine was
added in the early years of the
business. Smith operated the
machine almost daily until his
official retirement day last
Thursday. Offset presses were
Myers School In 1916
school and community are still |
vivid to many residents. }
Daniel C. Brown took his |
grandchildren to the site last |
weekend, and the visit brought |
mang' recollections of ‘‘the|
good old days'’ as he
remembers them. Brown \
entered first grade at Simmons |
Flat in 1922. 1
“I remember growing up |
with all those boys,”" Brown |
says wistfully of hisl
classmates. ‘‘We never did
have a fight or a falling out. .
Them was the good old days |
back then. Now there's so |
much stealing and killing and |
cutting going on.” f
Jogging his memory, [
Brown smifies as he recalls just |
one incident of ‘“‘falling out” }
with a classmate. The|
classmate’s prank almost caus- F
ed Brown to quit school. ;
MIRROR ON SHOE |
“There was this one boy,
and I won't mention his name
since he’'s still living,”" he said.
““He tied a mirror on his shoe
somewag', and when the sun
reflected on it, he would make
the light go all over the room.
Well, the teacher saw the light |
and couldn't tell who was do- |
ing it. He thought it was me, |
and I didn't know why. The
boy saw that the teacher was
coming and somehow, he had
flippeg the mirror over under
my seat. I didn't know it was
there. The teacher finally had
all of us stand up so he could
search the desks g)r the mirror.
When he found it under me, he
was mad. He said he was going
to whip me. I saw him coming i
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James Alexander, Hall Tyler, unknown
and “Goober” Williams. The two little
boys are not identified. Back row, Velma
Holland, Grace Wooten, Annie
Westbrooks, Virgie Tyler, unkown, Mat
tie Lee Hall, Elsie Hall, Foy Holland,
unknown, Addie Mae Ford, Lena Wooten,
unknown, Mabel Crouch and unknown.
purchased in the mid-19505.
Printing has carried over in
to the third generation of the
Smith family. Both W, H. Jr.
and Lewis have sons who are
printers in Rome.
Although the company's
biggest customers have been
local industries and govern
ment offices, %üblishing was
once a part of Smith Printing
as well.
“During the '2os Dad put
out a paper, ‘The Lyerly
Reporter,’ "' Smith recalls. "It
was about the size of the “Trion
Facts." He also printed the
‘Dickeyville Gazette' by
Preacher L. B. Harold."”
GATHERING PLACE
In the early years — as it
was today —the print shop
was a favorite gathering place
for neighbors. In addition to
printing, the senior Smith was
an insurance agent and sold the
first radio inaiyerly.
“It was in the 30s when
Dad made that first sale,”
Smith said. ‘‘He sold Atwater
Kent radios and the batteries,
because there was no electrici
ty in most places.”
*During the World Series,
the front porch would be full of
people who wanted to listen to
the game. We'd open the bi
front doors so they coulg
hear.”
The elder Smith quickly
developed a thriving radio
business in Northwest Georgia
and Northern Alabama.
see OLDEST, page 7-B
toward me and I saw the open
window by me. I shot out tflat
window.
“The teacher turned the
whole school out to catch me.
I outran all over them for over
three miles until I got home. I
told my father what had hap
pened and he said it would be
all right.”
“Before long, the teacher
came to our house. He lived
right across the road from us
and I used to work for him. I
told him I'd quit school. He
said to come on back to school,
Ll(\iag the boy who did it confess
ed.
Brown worked for the
teacher, who operated a small
dairy, each morning before
school.
3 A.M. WORK
“I'd get up at 3 a.m. and
churn butter and buttermilk,”
he said. ‘‘Then I'd wash all the
glass jars for the milk. Back
then, all the children in our
family had to work as soon as
they were old enough.”
Brown recalls his childhood
as a wonderful time, de(a:f)ite his
hard work at various odd jobs.
FISHING
“We were happy back
then,” he said. ‘‘When it would
come a little shower, we would
grab our fish hooks and run to
ind some little cane poles to
cut in the woods. We'd put
some sewing thread on our
poles and we’d go fishing.”
Looking back on his
childhood pasttimes, Brown
now realizes some were a bit
dangerous.
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Caught Finger In Paper Feed
Council To Name
2 IDA Members
Summerville's Mayor and
City Council are expected to
nare two new members tothe
Industrial Development
Authority Monday nigfit.
The new members will suc
ceed Jim Richie and Tim
Evans, who have moved out of
the city limits.
The Council's first meeting
of the new year will begin at 7
p.m. at city hall.
Business license renewals
for the coming year will be con
sidered by the panel.
TAX DEADLINE
And a reminder likely will
be issued that the deadline for
paying city taxes is 5 p.m. Fri
day, Jan. 16.
Councilmen are expected to
discuss and vote on once again
making Jan. 19 an official city
holiday in observance of the
birthday of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
Final action is also expected
to be taken on annexing pro-
ever done was when I went
swimming on Christmas Day
with Hoyt Tinney, John
Howard and my two brothers,"”
Brown said. *‘The winters were
a lot harder back then. We
broke the ice on the pond and
went in swimming. It didn't
make a one of us sick. Back
then there were big yellow eels
in the creeks and rivers here.
Now they're gone because of all
the dams that have been
built.”
| “SWINGERS" ‘
The favorite after school ac
tivity for the Simmons Flat |
- boys was to swing across the |
banks of the old grist mill
raceway by a rope. '
| “There was a big sweet |
- gum tree on the old mill race
150 feet south of the school,”
! Brown recalls. “We had a
" heavy rope tied way out on a
' limb over the mill race. My |
grandfather, Daniel Bandy,
worked at Riegel and he gave
us the ropes that would come
off bales of cloth. We could
swing off one bank and go out
mbe 50 or 60 feet over the
ill race. We'd swing way back
around and come out on the
other side.”
Brown helped out at the
grist mill run by Edgar
Holland in 1928, when he was
10 years old. ‘“When Mr.
Holland had to grind flour
ugstairs, he would have me run
the frist mill downstairs. You
would gour the grain into the
top and it would shake down
between two huge rocks that
turned to grind it into meal.
l see MYERS, page 3-B .
perty on Peach Orchard Road
owned by Brice Evans and
City officials may also con
sider buying a chlorine testing
kit for the wastewater treat
ment plant.
A request that the
Presbyterian Church, Summer
ville, be allowed to install steps
in front of the church on city
property also will be
considered.
LANDFILL?
Council members may also
discuss plans for a new landfill
site although the item was not
on the agenda as of early this
week. The Council decided not
to exercise its option on 40
acres of land on Penn Bridge
Road last Dec. 31 to expand
the current landfill adjacent to
the proposed new site. State of
ficials said much of the site was
not suitable for a landfill. The
current landfill is expected to
reach its capacity by mid-year.
Although it wasn't on the
agenda early this week, the
Council may also discuss how
well its subscription fire protec
tion plan has worked since it
went in effect on Jan. 1.
SUBSCRIPTION
The Council voted to go to
a subscription plan for non-city
residents and to make a sur
charge on county residents
served by city utilities at its
December meeting. The action
came after Harry Powell, Chat
tooga commissioner, refused to
make a commitment to provide
$50,000 to the city in 1987 for
fire protection services. The ci
see COUNCIL, page 3-B
New Teloga
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Fire Unit
Incorporates
The proposed Teloga Fire
Department has been incor
porated into a non-profit
organization.
Dorman Gilreath, Douglas
Shamblin and Robin Hunt are
the incorporators of the
“Teloga Vofimt,eer Fire Depart
ment Inc.”
The initial board of direc
tors includes Gilreath,
Shamblin, Hunt, Lloyd
Gilreath, Earl Smith, W. A.
Latta, Donnie Fletcher, John
Stubbs 111, Robert Dawson,
Mike Hunt and Frank Shaffer.
All reside on Summerville Rte.
3.
Dorman Gilreath is listed
as the registered agent for the
corg?ration.
on-city supported
volunteer degartments are
located at Subligna and
Cloudland. Menlo, Lyerly and
Trion also have volunteer
departments. Summerville has
a fulltime fire department
assisted by volunteers.