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The Summerville News, Thursday, January 8, 1987
8-A
from front page
* Summerville officials
mentioned the possibility of le
vying charges on county
residents for city services if the
county government fails to
continue its support of those
programs.
Chattooga County's Civil
War contribution, Company B,
was resurrected by attorney
Bobby Lee Cook Jr.
* Classes for the 1986-87
school year opened in Chat-
Loo§a and Trion schools.
Trion's Board of Educa
tion decided to pursue a pro-
Emsal to build five classrooms
or its elementary school.
* The State }{ealth Plann
ing Agency said it would delay
a decision on applications for a
nursing home expansion or a
new nursing home in Chat
tooga ounty until
mid-September.
* Commissioner Harrfi
Powell said he might publis
the names of delinquent tax
payers in the newspaper if the
didn't come across witK
payments.
* Chattooga's forest
rangers continued to work on
their new headquarters on the
Rome Road.
* A Lifepak V fund drive
reaches its goal, with big
boosts from Commissioner
Harry Powell and the City of
Summerville.
* Chattooga County finally
paid a Chattanooga, Tenn.,
auditing firm for work it did on
a second 1984 county audit.
The $15,000 payment came in
the form of a grant to the coun
ty from the state.
* Seventy Young Farmers
went on the annual farm tour.
* Summerville Mayor
Sewell Cash appointed a teen
pregnancy task force.
* Tax Commissioner Hugh
Don Hall said a 1984 county
audit showing more than
$900,000 in delinquent taxes
was misleading because the
deadline for paying 1984 taxes
was extended into 1985.
* Three prisoners escaped
from the Chattooga County
Jail, only to be captured one at
a time in the Teloga communi
ty within three days.
* A Summerville man
reported seeing a Bigfoot
creature on Taylor's Ridge.
* Lyerly's new city ha]f was
dedicated in honor of former
Mayor Grover C. Jackson.
* The News spotlighted
Linotype machines still in use
at the newspaper.
* Commissioner Harry
Powell rapped Oak View Nur
sing Home's plans for expan
ding in a letter to state of
ficials. Powell, instead, sup
ported a proposal put forth by
a private Rome developer.
SEPTEMBER
* Commissioner Harry
Powell refused to pay a body
shop repair bill on a sheriff's
department patrol car because
Powell said the car doesn't
belong to the county. It was
bought in May, 1986, by
Sheriff Gary McConnell from
the state surplus agency.
However, the commissioner in
mid-month paid the state for
that car and two more McCon
nell had bought at the same
time, and sent a check to
Wesson's Body Shop for one of
two body shop repair jobs.
* Powell also attacks Hugh
Don Hall, tax commissioner,
and the editor of The News, in
a letter to the newspaper.
* Powell was sued in
Superior Court for allegedl
failing to pave a county roa({
* Trion Mayor J. C. Woods
was called “‘a liar" over a utili
ty expansion issue in that city.
Meanwhile, the city’s engineer
estimated that it woulf take
$250,000 to run water and
sewer service to eight large
tracts within the city.
* More Bigfoot creatures
were spotted in Northwest
Georgia and Northeast
Alabama.
* Commissioner Powell
threatened to personally beat
up the editor of The News.
* Powell also published
what he said were expenses of
the sheriff's office during the
first six months of 1986,
resulting in a letter from the
sheriff pointing out what he
said were numerous errors in
the listing.
* Chattooga School Supt.
Don Hayes and the Chattooga
Board of Education become
embroiled in a battle over
payments to a maintenance
employee.
* Summerville lowered its
tax rate by one mill and pro
posed annexing another mile
around the city.
* Lyerly's city clerk resign
ed as did one Council member,
who later decided to remain on
the panel.
* Courthouse records sup
ported Shgriff Gary McCon
nell’s assertion that he didn’t
“fix'" a drunk driving ticket, as
alleged in a Georgia Bureau of
Investigation report on the
State Patrol. However, the
record wasn't clear on what
harpened ina speedinF case in
volving then-Braves player and
Trion resident Rick Camp.
* Powell said McConnell
“might go blind" before receiv
ing five new patrol cars as re
quested. The commissioner
Fire Protection, U.S. Highway 27 Widening
later bought two new cars
without a vert.isinfi for bids.
* Powell also changed his
mind overnight on whether a
procedure instituted by the
sheriff to collect and then pay
the countge for out-of-county
prisoners being boarded at the
jail was acceptable.
* The Chattooga Chamber
Foundation announced it
would host a ‘‘unity’ meeting
of county officials.
* The commissioner
apologized for words he ‘*had"
to use when threatenil&g to
beat up the editor of The News.
* A joint meeting of the
Trion Board of Education and
Trion City Council resulted in
approval of $200,000 for five
new classrooms for the city's
elementary school.
* Congressman George
“Buddy"%)arden praised area
veterans in a meeting at
Pennville.
* The Chattooga County
Hospital Authority received
arproval to proceed with its
plans to expand Oak View Nur
sing Home but action had to be
delayed for 30 days until the
appeal time on the State
Health Planning agency's deci
sion had expired.
* The old Summerville
Junior High School complex
was sold for $240,000, enging
an era in education.
* Summerville awarded a
contract for relocating utilities
along U. S. Highway 27 during
the widening project.
* Judge son B. Wood heard
a lawsuit filed against Commis
sioner Powell for allegedly not
paving a county road.
* Chattooga Countians
remembered the nation's
prisoners of war and missing in
action.
* The News’ opinion sampl
ing gave high marks to tge
library, Trion schools, gas and
water systems and WSAF
radio, but low marks to Powell,
local cable TV, Chattooga
Press, the hospital and health
care.
* Golden eagles continued
to soar over Lookout and
Pigeon Mountains as the
state's restockinf plan pro
ceeded on schedule.
OCTOBER
* The News ran a series all
month on the issue of a sole
commissioner versus a five
member board of commis
sioners for the county.
* Trion's City Council re
jected two proposals to expand
water services to large tracts of
land within the city.
* Robert Hamrick, director
of the Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation, told Summerville-
Trion Club members that the
*“‘crack’’ cocaine situation was
“out of hand" in the state.
* Commissioner Harry
Powell said he would refuse to
give any more news to The
News.
* An accountant told the
Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club that the nation’s new
*‘tax reform’’ law was ‘‘a con
fusing mix of fi)rovisions."
o geveral old graves were
inadvertantly unearthed on
Bolling Roadv by earth-movin
equipment widening the roa(f
way for turn lanes.
* Congressman George
“Buddy’® Darden voted
against the tax reform bill.
* Chattooga County’s 1985
audit revealeg the county had
a more than sl-million balance
at the end of last year, alon
with outstanding debts ang
loans of over $900,000.
* Chattooga County's
Board of Education approved
a 10-mill tax rate for 15&. 2.35
mills under the 1985 figure.
* Summerville's Recreation
Board decided to seek a
$90,000 matching grant from
the state for a new ballfield.
* Commissioner Powell
blasted The News about an ar
ticle the newspaper never ran.
* A residential fire at Gore
killed two youngsters, LaJuan
Etchison, 3, and Andrea
Dionne Shropshire, 16.
* More than 200 people told
the Summerville City gouncil
that they opposed its proposal
to annex another mile of pro
perty around the city.
* The Council voted to seek
$50,000 from Commissioner
Powell for fire protection ser
vices to the county. Powell call
ed citg officials “idiots."”
* Commissioner Powell
refused to discuss the county
auditor's recommendations for
improvements in his office,
damnix:f other county officials
who did discuss proposals for
their respective offices.
* Powell set the 1986 tax
rate higher than for 1985.
However, a reduction in the
coun:f' school tax gave a net
overall reduction in taxes for
the year.
* Powell blasted Sheriff
Gary McConnell for turning in
two stripped patrol cars for
two new cars, which Powell had
bought without advertising for
bids.
* Lyerly’s Council re‘jected
a proposal by the City of Sum
merville to buy its water
system.
* Former Sheriff's Dt’alpart
ment investigator ony
Gilleland, who was fired bg'
McConnell in the fall, 1985,
sought a court order forcing
the sheriff to respond to certain
auestions in a federal lawsuit
illeland had filed against
McConnell.
* Both Georgia Atty. Gen.
Mike Bowers and Lookout
Judicial Circuit Dist. Atty.
D. A. “Red" Lomenick deny
having received any com
munication from Commis
sioner Powell asking them to
investifiate McConnell's pro
cedure for paying the county
for boarding out-of-the-county
prisoners at the county jail.
* Summerville's Mayor and
Council aglproved a zoning
variance which should allow a
new shopping center to locate
on Lyerly Highway near Rome
Boulevard.
* Powell charged that cer
tain news coverage by The
News was inaccurate but the
newspaper said the facts don't
support the commissioner’s
claims.
* The Chattooga County
Board of Education discussed
building a new central office
facility on grounds of Summer
ville Midtfi; School, Bolling
Road.
* Soaking rains gave some
relief from the drougit and the
danger of forest fires.
* Oak View Nursing Home
finally received the go-ahead
for a 63-bed expansion.
* Eighty-five people show
ed up at a hearing on widening
U. S. Highway 27 from Floyd
County to Summerville and
from Trion to LaFayette. A
majority gave its okay to the
proposal.
* Menlo Mayor Theresa
Canada was announced as head
of the county’s Bicentennial
Commission on the U.S.
Constitution.
* Three newsmen who went
to Commissioner Powell’s of
fice for a routine bid-opening
were surgrised when they were
met by Summerville police —
called by the commissioner's
wife for an unknown reason.
Powell himself wasn't at his of
fice and the bid opening didn't
take place. Two bids had been
received. Bids were opened
later in the month by Powell,
after he readvertised the
progosals.
The News spotted a ballot
error on absentee ballots, forc
ing reprinting of the ballots.
The county’s regular election
day ballots hadn’t been printed
when the error was discovered.
* Trion's City Council ap
groved details of its plans to
uild five new elementary
school classrooms.
* State officials revealed
that the county hadn't filed a
landfill closure plan for its
Penn Bridge Road site. The
facility is expected to be clos
ed in mid-1987.
* Local textile workers were
honored in a series of events.
* Fire-fighting officials urg
ed %revention to halt fire
deaths and losses.
* An explosive device that
apparently had been at the
First National Bank of Sum
merville for several years was
discovered, causing evacuation
of the bank and a call to a
military bomb squad. The
device was taken back to Fort
Gillem near Atlanta.
* The editor of The News
was physically shoved and
grabbed by county workmen in
the presence of Commissioner
Powell while he was taking
fihotographs of State Line
oad atop Lookout Mountain.
» Gradsi;f work on the site
of a proposed prison near Penn
ville got under way this month.
* Gov. Joe Frank Harris of
fered a $2,000 reward for infor
mation leading to the convic
tion of persons responsible for
the disaf)pearance of Annette
Campbell Dodd, Summerville,
last April.
* Republican Joe Morecraft
and Democrat George ‘‘Bud
dy’’ Darden, the Seventh
District's congressmen, both
visited Chattooga County
before the Nov. 4 general
election.
* Chattooga County's
Hospital Authority discussed
financing for its planned addi
tion to Oak View Nursing
Home.
* A retirement center will
be built in Gore, according to
a Chattooga County coup%e.
NOVEMBER
* The five-member board of
commissioners proposal lost by
229 votes, 2,220 to 1,991.
Meanwhile, Rep. George ‘‘Bud
dy' Darden easily defeated
Republican challenger Joe
Morecraft. Fifth District Rep.
Wyche Fowler defeated incum
bent Republican Sen. Mack
Mattingly in Chattooga Coun
ty and statewide.
* Menlo approved a
preliminarKl budget of $56,362.
* The News began its ef
forts to obtain data on the ex
?enditure of sales tax revenue
or roads and bridges within
Chattooga County.
* The News revealed that
Commissioner Harry Powell
had rebuilt a bridge {ast sum
mer that the Georgia Depart
ment of Transportation had
planned to rebuild — at state
expense.
* The News also revealed
that had Powell followed
through with plans to obtain a
state contract for State Line
Road atop Lookout Mountain,
MADE HEADLINES IN 1986
it could have saved the coun
ty's taxpayers at least $58,000.
Instead, Li;e work was done at
countél expense.
* Summerville attorney
Bobby Lee Cook told county
officials at a ‘‘unity'’ meetin
that “‘we can have debate ang
we can have disagreement
without being disagreeable.”
Virtually all county officials at
tended the session.
*An agreement in principle
was reached to sell gigelow-
Sanford Corp. to Fieldcrest
Cannon Inc. Igigelow owns two
plants in Chattooga County,
one at Lyerly and one at
Summerville.
* The Chattooga County
Library Board named Linda
Floyd of Andalusia, Ala., as
the county's new librarian, ef
fective Jan. 1, 1987.
* Rome Boulevard resi
dents announced that they op
posed a five-lane highway
through their neighborhood
when U.S. Highway 27 is
widened. The Summerville Ci
ty Council voted to oppose the
five-lane proposal an(F to sup
port a four-lane highway within
existing rights-of-way.
* Summerville officials also
announced they will impose
fees for fire alarm calls
answered outside the city
limits in 1987 if Commissioner
Harry Powell doesn't agree by
Dec. 8 to pay the city $50,000
for fire protection services.
*A ?ireball seen over the
county and part of the
Southeast apparently was a
meteorite fal{)infg to earth, not
a crashing airplane.
* The Georgia Environmen
tal Protection Division said it
may impose a deadline for
Chattooga County submitting
a site closure plan to the state
for its landfilf o
* Several parents complain
ed about various matters at the
monthly Chattooga Board of
Education meeting.
* Lyerly's Council voted to
seek a new water source and to
improve the city's water
system.
* Historic Alpine Com
munity Church picked Tommy
Pledger, Summerville, as its
first fulltime minister.
* Plans for the county's
1988 sesquicentennial were
outlined to Summerville-Trion
Rotary Club members.
* Storage charges con
tinued to mount at Wesson
Body Shop, Teloga, on a
sheriff's patrol car. Commis
sioner Harry Powell had refus
ed to pay one of two body
repair bills on the vehicle.
Owner Larry Wesson also said
Powell owed him SBOO for work
on two new patrol cars that
Powell had Eought without
advertising for bids.
* Summerville Mayor
Sewell Cash said after a
meeting in Atlanta with Tom
Moreland, commissioner of the
Georgia Department of
Transportation, that he felt the
DOT chief would accommodate
the city's request that Rome
Boulevard be kept within four
lanes if possible.
* The News said county
records had revealed that
$513,948 in sales tax funds for
roads and bridges had been
spent as of mid-October by
Commissioner Powell. Addi
tional records were sought.
* Chattooga County
observed the “*Great American
Smokeout.”
* The county was among
the 11 in Georgia with the
lowest rates of growth in
nominal per capita personal in
come for 1983-84, according to
a college study.
* Ovelle Thomas was nam
ed president of the Friends of
the Library group.
* New central office plans
were approved by the Trion
Board 0? Education.
* The Georgia Environmen
tal Protection Division said
Chattooga County would be
given a %irm dead{ine for sub
mitting a closure plan on its
nearly full Penn Bridge Road
landfill.
* Chattooga and Trion
students did well on a
statewide test for 10th graders.
Trion was tops in the state for
186 school systems.
* Countians remembered
the day President John F. Ken
nedy was shot on Nov. 22,
1963.
* The number of unemploy
ment checks issued in the coun
ty increased in October, accor
ding to the Georgia Labor
Department.
* Bigelow-Sanford Corp.
employees were honored on
“Error-Free Day."”
s Summervifi]e lost its top
prospect for its speculative in
dustrial building. The firm
went to Cartersville, instead.
* The Mayor's Pregnancy
Task Force met. The group
hopes to reduce teen pregnan
cies and infant mortality in the
area.
* The Chattooga County
Interagency Council voted to
initiate a suicide prevention
pro§ram for area youth.
Work continued on widen
ing U. S. Highway 27 between
Trion and Summerville.
* The News revealed that
Chattooga County had more
than $433,000 in cash in its
sales tax account as of Nov. 18
with another SIOO,OOO ex
pected from the state during
the last week in the month, A
total of around $602,000 had
been spent from the account in
the county as of that same
date, county records indicated.
The money was being kept in
a non-interest-bearing bani ac
count, the newspaper revealed.
* Chattooga County's
Hospital Authority reviewed
preliminary plans for its Flann
ed 63-bed expansion of Oak
View Nursing ‘lzlome. Architect
M. G. Turner, Rome, said the
{)mpusal could be ready for
sids as early as late January or
early February. The Authority
was expected to seek federal
Farmers Home Administration
funding.
* Former Lyerly Mayor and
civic leader Grover C. Jackson
Jr.died op Nov. 24.
* A federal judge ruled that
(‘hultoo%a Sheriff Gary
McConnell could keep secret
the names of informants who
allegedly told him that former
investigator Tony Gilleland
was driving a Bronco that had
previously been involved in a
criminal case. Gilleland in late
1985 filed a $1.5-million lawsuit
against McConnell, saying he
had been dismissed ear[)i,er that
year by the sheriff without
justification and that he had
been slandered. »
* Local residents enjoyed
the Thanksgiving weekend
holiday while merchants began
big Christmas shopping sales
promotions.
* Around five inches of rain
fell on Chattooga County dur
ing the last week in the month,
swelling streams and
replenishing depleted water
supplies.
* A Lyerly man wanted
since June in connection with
alleged ‘‘crack’ cocaine traf
ficking was arrested in Pied
mont, Ala. Dewey Nolan All
mond, 27, was being held under
$75,000 bond during the last
week in the month. Allmond
was alleged to be the suspect
who fled on foot last summer
when stopped on a motorcycle
by Summerville police.
* The Summerville City
Police suspended an employee
for one day without pay and
placed him on six months pro
bation after work was alleged
ly performed at the residence of
a councilman during city work
hours.
* Commissioner Harry
Powell paid the remaining bifl
owed Chattooga Hospital for
medical care provided inmates
of the county jail.
* A controversy arose in
Trion between the Mayor and
Councii over a patrol car that
was supposed to have new tires
and police radio installed and
a paint job, and then turned
over to the city's police chief.
* Riegel Textile Corp. ex
ecutive Harold Peek said the
Trion plant of the firm was pro
ducing most of the profit for
the corporation during the first
five months of the 1986-87
fiscal year.
* Summerville indicated it
may apply for up to $400,000
in Community Development
Block Grant funds to expand
its sewerage system.
* A controversy between
the Chattooga Board of Educa
tion and school superintendent
over extra paK given a
maintenance worker may not
be resolved until the summer,
1987, school officials indicated,
when auditors go over the
system’s books.
* Menlo Mayor Theresa
Canada said the first meeting
of the Chattooga County
Bicentennial Commission may
not be until early 1987.
* Hugh Don Hall, tax com
missioner, indicated that
$195,000 had been collected in
1986 property taxes during the
first fullpweek of collections.
Taxpayers had until Jan. 16 to
pay their 1986 taxes.
* Around 300 attended
open house at Chattooga Coun
ty High School.
* A federal judge authoriz
ed insurance company lawyers
to inspect the medical records
of a Trion woman who had
sued a trucking company in
connection with a January,
1985 accident near Trion in
which she was injured.
DECEMBER
* Shoppers turned out in
satisfying numbers to seek
Christmas bargains at stores in
Chattooga County, according
to a survey of area merchants.
* The News revealed that
the Chattooga County Board
of Education apparently was
unaware of a letter written last
October to Chattooga School
Supt. Don Hayes by the State
Auditor’s Office saying the
auditors wouldn't settle a con
troversy between the board
and Hayes. It involved a pay
ment to a maintenance
employee authorized by Hayes
last spring but not approved in
advance by the boarg.
* The News learned that
Trion Mayor J. C. Woods had,
in November, ordered Trion
police Chief David Starkey not
to drive a city patrol car more
than 15 miles per week without
“a detailed explanation as to
the cause.” .
* Officials with the state
Environmental Protection
Division said they expected to
meet soon with Cflattooga
Commissioner Harry Powell to
discuss a closure plan for the
county's existing landfill,
which is expected to reach its
capacity in 1987.
* Summerville police Chief
Arlen Thomas an(f Chattooga
Sheriff Gary McConnell warn
ed merchants about the return
of the ‘‘shoplifting season”
during the holidays.
. ganta Claus officially ar
rived in the annual yule parade
in Summerville.
* Fire damaged a Lyerly
house but the structure was
saved by the Lyerly and Sum
merville Fire De?artments.
* Dep. Sheriff P. R. Hill
chased (fi)wn a suspect in Sum
merville Gardens during a
burglary investigation. The
suspect ‘‘dunked’” a video
cassette recorder in a dumpster
during the chase.
> '%he attorney for Teloga
body shop owner Larry
Wesson threatened to file suit
against Commissioner Harry
Powell unless he paid an
outstanding bill for repairs to
a sheriff's patrol car. The letter
was sent to Powell on Dec. 2.
* Menlo's Council discussed
cable television reception pro
blems at its December
meeting.
* Trion's 50-Yard Club fac
ed unexpected problems when
it tried to implement approval
by the City gouncil to open a
concession stand at the gym or
community center during home
basketbalrgames this season.
* Summerville merchants
were told that they had to work
together if positive change is to
occur in the downtown area.
The comments were made dur
ing the monthly meeting of the
merchants.
* Author of A Season To
Remember was identified as
Malcolm Nelson, LaFayette,
who used the pseudonym,
“Paul Treadaway." The fic
tional series was published in
The News during the fall foot
ball season.
* Pam Echols was named
Woman of the Year. Runner
sup were Miss Blanche Toles
and Mrs. Clory Brumbelow.
* The Chattooga County
Board of Education, saying
that School Supt. Don Hayes
had lied to it several times, ask
ed for his resignation at the
monthly meeting of the panel.
Hayes refused and said he
would fight the effort to oust
him.
* Summerville's Mayor and
Council decided to impose fire
protection service fees on non
city residents beginning in
January after Chattooga Coun
ty Commissioner Harry Powell
declined to provide a firm com
mitment on how much money
he would supply the city for the
service.
*A number of city
residents opposed a rezoning
proposal for the old junior high
school property between Rome
Boulevarcf) an(i, College Street.
The Council rezoned the Rome
Boulevard segment but
postponed until January a deci
sion on the back part.
* Local and state law en
forcement authorities began a
roundup of 16 people wanted
for allegedly selling cocaine
and marijuana. The arrests
culminated a six-month under
cover investigation in Chat
too§a County.
Most people who showed
up at a hearing on providing a
passing lane on Highway 48
west of Summerville favored
the Georgia Department of
Transportation proposal.
* After a delay of months,
Chattooga County in mid-
December began advertising
Er()fierty for sale to satisfy
ack taxes. The sales were
scheduled for early January.
* Summerville, Menlo and
Chattooga County all announc
ed they would seei,{ a Communi
ty Development Block Grant
for up to $400,000.
* Incumbent Councilman
1, Luther defeated
challenger William Long in
Menlo. Luther held the only
contested seat.
* Rome Junior Service
League officials told the
guarterly Chattooga County
hamber of Commerce booster
breakfast that the nation is fac
ed with a drug and alcohol
abuse ‘‘epidemic.”
* Commissioner Harry
Powell was quiet about
whether he planned to place
sales tax funds for roads and
bridges in an interest-bearing
account.
* Tax Commissioner Hugh
Don Hall said he had collected
$468,000 in 1986 property
taxes by early December. The
deadline for payment is Jan.
16.
* Aides to Sen. Sam Nunn
said in Summerville that a
trade bill may come before Con
gress in 1987 and include tex
tile import restrictions.
” Sfieriff Gary McConnell
asked Commissioner Harry
Powell to pay Chattooga
Hospital for providing required
X-rays to personnel in his
department.
* The Chattooga Board of
Education bought a diesel bus
chassis, plus heaters for the
new Summerville Middle
School.
* Several residents of the
Penn Bridge Road area ap
peared to protest e)if)ansion of
the existing landfill by Sum-
merville and Chattooga Coun
ty. They protested at the
regular Summerville Council
meeting in December. City of
ficials speculated about the ci
ty buying its own landfill and
letting the county buy its own
rather than continuing with
the current joint gf)eratlon.
* Lyerly officials announc
ed that they planned to seek
payment of fiack taxes from ci
ty residents.
* Chattooga Commissioner
Harry Powelf refused to pay
overtime for the sheriff's
department, according to
Sheriff Gary McConnell.
* Chattooga veterans
remembered Pearl Harbor Day
in s?ecial ceremonies.
A Summerville attorney
said he had been unable to ob
tain information on school
fund-raising projects from the
Chattooga Board of Education.
* The annual Christmas
garade through downtown
ummerville was proclaimed
as the best ever by officials of
the Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce, spon
sor of the event.
* Commissioner Harry
Powell used a racial slur during
an attack on a representative
of The News.
* The Chattooga Alcohol
Control Commission approved
renewal of licenses for 23 malt
beverage shops in the county.
* A planned motel for Sum
merville fell behind schedule,
according to a backer of the
progosal.
Commissioner Harry
Powell advertised for bids for
meals for inmates at the coun
ty jail to be opened on Jan. 13.
* Commissioner Powell
became angry at an opening of
insurance %li-ds for the county
when he was asked if he had
received all the bids he had
sought.
* Quinn Simpson was
honored as the Chattooga
Young Farmers *‘young farmer
of the year' at the group's an
nual (‘,Kristmas banquet. Keith
Thomas was the incoming
president.
~ * Former funeral home
owner J. D. Hill died.
* Bids were more than a
half-million dollars too high for
Menlo's proposed wastewater
treatment plant and sewer
system. City officials indicated
they planned to look for addi
lionuf)funding.
* Summerville announced
specific plans for implementing
a subscription fire service pro
gram for residents outside the
city after Chattooga Commis
sioner Harry Powell would not
provide a firm commitment on
helping the city with fire
department costs.
* Around $22,000 in federal
special education funds were
frozen for the Trion School
System because of the case of
a profoundly handicapped child
in the community.
* Three local governments
held public hearings on their
plans to seek Community
Development Block Grant
funds. Summerville wanted the
money for expanding its sewer
system. Menlo wanted the
money to help pay for its
sewerage system and Chat
tooga County wanted the
funds to provide water service
to Broomtown Valley.
* Summerville police ar
rested a shoplifting suspect
who used makeup and a change
of clothing to try to escape.
* A youth suicide study
committee was named by the
Chattooga County Interagency
Council.
* All but one of 1§ drug
susgects had been arrested
within a week of raids in the
county following a six-month
undercover investigation.
* Chattooga Commissioner
Harry Powell once again
blasted The News for coverage
of his administration.
* A Menlo resident was ar
rested after an episode involv-
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'ing a collision in the Cit{l and a
chase by a Chattooga sheriff's
'deputy atop Lookout
' Mountain.
* An all‘n}gator or crocodile
| was spotted in nearby Weiss
| Lake f))y two Chattooga Coun
|ty men.
: * A $2-million lawsuit by a
' Chattooga man was pending in
' U. S. District Court at Rome
'involving injuries he received
| from a steam valve at Dalton
'in August, 1985.
| *No further action was
‘ taken prior to Christmas by
' the Chattooga Board of Educa
| tion refarding its request that
' School Supt. Don Hayes
| resign.
' * Readers of The News in
' dicated that the old Myers
' School north of Trion may be
'older than first reported.
* The number of unemploy
ment checks written to ghat
tooga residents in November
dropped from the total in
()ctoger.
*The Joe Reed family,
Chattoogaville, was named
District Farm Family of the
Year and will compete in the
state finals in Albany in late
January.
* The Chattooga Depart
ment of Family and Chill:iren
Services said it was hitting
hard at welfare fraud.
* Summerville Fire Chief
John Echols and Chattooga
Sheriff issued safety tips for
the holidays.
* Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 6688 and American
Legion Post 129 made
Christmas happier for more
than 440 children with a party
at the Chattooga Memorial
Home.
* Trion High's 71rac
Searels was named to the al{
Southeastern Conference team
from Auburn University.
* Tom Moreland, commis
sioner of the Georgia Depart
ment of Transportation (DOT),
said the DOT was considering
three options for U.S.
Highway 27 at Summerville:
four-laning Rome Boulevard,
five-laning the stretch, or a
bypass northward from
Taylor's Ridge. He spoke to
the Summerville-Trion Op
timist Club.
* Trion's Mayor and City
Council became embroiled in
several controversies over the
operation of a concession stand
at Trion High basketball
games, a car for the police
chief, and a building permit.
Over Mayor J. C. Woods' ob
jections, the Council granted
permission for the high school
athletic department to operate
basketball game concessions
this season.
* Commissioner Harry
Powell changed his mind about
the sheriff's office rovidinF
him with bodyguar(f;. Sheriff
Gary McConnell also warned
Powell about taking the law in
his own hands.
* Commissioner Powell also
agparent]y changed his mind
about overtime for the sheriff’s
department, deciding to pay
overtime for September, Oc
tober and early November.
* Deps. Randy Hill and
Ralph Southerland were nam
ed officers of the year at the
Chattooga Sherifix s Depart
ment. T%ey were selected by
their fellow officers.
* Chattooga County and
the four cities within the coun
ty all received a total of some
$60,000 more in insurance
premium taxes from the state
this year than they did in 1985.
* A former Chattooga man,
who resided in Dalton, was kill
ed two days before Christmas
in a Rome Boulevard traffic ac
cident at Summerville.
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