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JOY FULLER LOOKS OVER THE NEWS
Thursday Activity Includes Discussion
Oak View Folks
Enjoy The News
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
RESIDENTS AT Oak View Nursing
Home look forward to each Thursday mor
ning because it means that “paper day"
and The Summerville News have arrived,
according to Oak View activities director
Lisa Hall.
The residents assemble in the dining
hall around 9:30 a.m. for a cup of coffee and
a chance to look over the latest edition of
The News.
“Some days we get a really good discus
sion going,” Ms. Hall said. *‘These people
have a lot of knowledge to share. They love
talking about the ‘good old days, but they
also keep up with ctirrent events."”
* *
THE ACTIVITY director reads aloud
for those who have trouble seeing to read.
“What do you want to hear first,” she
inquired Thursday morning.
“Let’s hear it all,” came j chorus of
replies.
The group decided to hear the obituary
notices first, as two residents of Oak View
had died during the week. The coffee cups
were still as the residents listened in
silence, remembering their late friends and
absorbing bits of information about the
family and funeral services.
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A BRIGHTER mood came over the
crowd as they heard a recounting about
classes at Myers School in Hall's Valley
during 1910.
“I went to school in a one-room school
house,” Mildred Huskey volunteered. ‘I
wore calico dresses, too."
“I remember wearing straw hats,”
another chimed in as the room buzzed with
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PAPER DAY A BIG EVENT FOR OAK VIEW RESIDENTS
Lisa Hall Reads Aloud For Group: See Story Page | B
excited accounts of trips to Hall's Valley,
the old grist mill near Myers, and school
days of long ago.
“For lunch we'd carry sausage, biscuits,
ham and eggs," recalled Bryant Ward, an
alert gentleman dressed in overalls. “We
had big old homemade biscuits. We didn't
know what loafbread was,” he added,
bringing a chuckle of recognition from his
friends.
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THE EXCHANGE continued as
residents discussed their memories of spell
ing lines at school and spring houses for
storing milk in the days before
refrigeration.
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“My mother asks every day
ifit’s paper day. She reads every
bit of that paper.”
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The audience was eager to keep up with
the current food prices, although they no
longer have to sfio for groceries. They
were amused as Ms, glall read the sale price
of $2.39 for a pound of coffee.
“Why I paid 45 cents for a great big
bag of coffee,”” one woman recalled. "I
remember when it was 15 cents,” another
former housewife added, pleased with the
chance to be heard.
Visiting family members and staff
agree that paper day is an important week
ly event for the majority of the residents
at Oak View.
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“MY MOTHER asks every day if it's
see OAK VIEW, page 7-B
Thursday, January 22, 1987
PROSPECTIVE JURORS DRAWN
Chattooga Grand Jury To Convene Feb. 2
Grand Jurors have been
drawn for the February term of
Chattooga County Superior
Court.
They will report at 9 a.m.
Monday, Feb. 2.
They include: David E. Tid
more, Star Route, Old Mentone
Road, Cloudland; Ruth Hazel
Grimes, 1210 Walker St.,
Trion; Carlton Lee Kitchens, 5
11th St., Trion; Wendell T.
Parker, 207 Hawkins Dr., Sum
merville; Pauline Hartline.
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Riegel Corp.
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Improving
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Trion Plant
The finishing plant at
Riegel Textile Corp., Trion, is
installing a pigment dye range
and an Argathen washer for
piece dyes and denim as part of
effforts to update the opera
tion, according to Mount Ver
non Mills, which owns Riegel.
“Riegel has a long-term
commitment to the denim
market in which it is one of the
largest domestic producers,”
according to Mount Vernon of
ficials. ““The denim plant is
modern throughout and had
400 wide shuttleless weaving
machines.”
The data about plans for
the Trion plant was contained
in a release from Mount Ver
non about its modernization
and expansion plans for the
current year. It plans to spend
some $32-million in 1987, in ad
dition to the $22-million spent
in 1986.
OTHER PLANTS
The Mount Vernon print
cloth plant in Williamston,
S.C., will complete a
$3.4-million project which in
cludes 80 air-jet weavin
machines, new winders, an§
new slashing equipment. This
plant has recently completed |
mstalling automated opening |
and carding operations for ap- |
proximately $2-million. The |
plant expects to replace all re- |
maining fly shuttle looms dur- |
ing the next couple of years.
The Mount Vernon Paper
Group division, a supplier of |
machine clothing to paper |
mills, has spent $10.5-million |
during the past four years. Cur- |
rent projects totaling approx
imately $lO-million include the l
completion of a new wet felt |
plant in Simpsonville, S.C., |
which will replace the old Knox
wet felt plant in Camden, I
Maine. The group is also pur- |
chasing new looms for its for- |
ming fabric and dryer felt '
mills.
ALTO
Riegel Textile is replacing
all fly shuttle looms in its Alto
plant with new shuttleless
weaving machines. This
$17.4-million project will in
crease the capacity of this
modern plant by approximate
ly 50 percent. The equipment
will continue to improve fabric
quality and enable Riegel to
strengthen its position in the
work clothing and basic sports
wear markets.
A 50 percent increase in
capacity is underway at the
open-end yarn plant in
Woodruff, S.C. When com
pleted, this will be one of the
world's lowest cost and highest
quality yarn mills.
LA FRANCE
Riegel's La France Divi
sion, a producer of plush and
decorative fabrics for the home
furnishings and transportation
markets 1s installing higher
speed weaving machines to
refilace older models and
achieve higher quality and ad
ditional capacity. Additional
warehouse space is also bein
added. 'l‘otalpexpendit,ures wifi
be $1.5-million. Significant ex
penditures are planned for the
next few years to maintain La
France's reputation for top
quality fabrics and market
innovation.
“Mount Vernon Mills and
Riegel Textile are committed
to being low cost producers of
quality textile products. We
will continue to spend on pro
jects geared to the long-range
strength of our Company. We
intend to be an important,
reliable supplier in the broad
based marl‘()ets that we serve,”
said J. L.. Jennings Jr., presi
dent of Mount Vernon Mills
Inc.
Insurance Aid
An investigator from the of
fice of Warren Evans, state in
surance commissioner, will be
at the Chattooga County
Courthouse from 9 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. next Tuesday. There is no
charge for the service, which is
designed to aid people having
insurance problems.
Route 2, Box 97, Summerville;
Antonia D. Mack, Summer
ville; Sarah Kathryn Chandler,
Route 1, Box 556, Summer
ville; and Michael Mills, Route
4, Summerville,
Martha Ellen Calhoun,
Route 1, Summerville; Carol L.
McCarley, Route 3, Summer
ville; Bifiie Burns Jennings,
258 Tavern Lane, Trion; H. B.
Gilreath, 382 Park Avenue,
Trion; John C. Johnson, Route
2, Box 166, Summerville; Jerry
High Money, Route 3, Sum
merville; Johnnie L. Lewis,
Summerville;, and Gene
Bentley, Menlo.
Lee Hendrix Owens, Route
1, Armuchee; Mary C. Welch,
Menlo; Joyce H. Hogg, Route
2, Summerville; Barry G.
Hegwood, Star Route,
Cloudland; Dennis F. McCary,
Route 4, Box 44, Summerville;
IN CHATTOOGA COUNTY
More Historical Markers Possible
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
Chattooga County has only
two historical markers but that
could change, according to a
state official.
Billy Townsend of the State
Parks and Historical Sites
Division, Georgia Department
of Natural Resources, said any
person or grouF could submit
an application for any site felt
to be of historic value in the
county.
“*We like to hear from peo
ple,” said Townsend. “We're
always glad to send applica
tions and information on the
process.’
According to Townsend's
records, only two markers have
been placed by the state in the
county, both in the mid-19505.
“The markers are, ‘The
Last Indian Agent at Alpine
Community Church, two miles
south of Menlo,” Townsend
said, ‘‘and '‘Chattooga County’
at Lhe COUrth()US(’ in Summer
ville.”
It's possible that other
organizations have placed
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‘Graduates
f Working
In Area
t Half the students who
graduated from Chattooga
County High School in 1986
found jobs within 50 miles of
Summerville and more than a
third found jobs within the
county.
That's according to a
survey conducted by the
Guidance and Vocational
Department at the high school.
A total of 150 students
graduated in 1986 and 78 went
to work thereafter. Twenty
three were employved outside
Chattooga and 55 inside the
county. Nine went to work in
LaFayette, five in Rome. three
in Dalton, two in Atlanta, one
in Calhoun, two in Chat
tanooga and four out-of-state,
the survey found. '
COLLEGE
Forty-two graduates
entered college in the fall, 1986.
Eight went to Shorter College,
seven to Floyd Junior College,
six to Berry College, five to
Jacksonville State University,
Ala., three to Hiawassee Junior
College, two each to Em
manuel, Georgia Tech and Lee,
and one each to Morris Brown,
Dalton Junior, David
Lipscomb, Edmondson Junior,
Huntington, University of
Alabama and West Georgia
College.
Five also entered
vocational-technical schools,
three in Walker County, one to
Associated Travel Schools and
one to Devry Institute.
MILITARY
Nine entered military ser
vice with six going in the Ar
my, two in the Navy and one
in the Marines.
Of those going to work, 31
were involved in manufactur
ing, 18 in retail sales, 15 in food
service, four each in
automotive and either banking,
insurance or real estate, two
each in construction and law
enforcement and one each in
agriculture, and health
services. |
Fifteen were unemployed at ‘
the time of the survey and one
graduate couldn’t be located %
see GRADUATES, page 2-B |
Second Front
Don Howell Bethune, 33 9th
St., Trion; and Weyman High,
Route 1, Box 343,
Summerville.
Clifford Posey, 503 E.
Washin%ton St., Summerville;
Kimberly D. Sprayberry,
Trion; Cynthia Fufion. Route
1, Box 648, Trion; Terry Ed
ward Sentell, Route 2, Box 562,
Summerville;, Edwin Bruce
Cordell, Route 3, Summerville;
and Patricia Ann Johnson, 5
Campbell Crescent Circle,
Summerville.
Hallie Martin, Route 3,
Summerville; David Allen Gar
mon, Menlo; Dorothy
Shankles, Route 2, Summer
ville; Hugh Don Tallent, Sum
merville; Richard D. Burdett,
252 Simmons St., Trion; Hamp
S. Mosley, Route 1, Box 392-A,
Summerville; and Ida Mitchell,
Route 4, Summerville.
markers in the county which
were not recorded by the DNR.
“Everybody in the world
puts up markers.” Townsend
said. “The old WPA (Works
Progress Administration) pro
gram %ut up markers in the
state, but we have no WPA
markers listed for Chattooga.”
Applications can be submit
ted for any historical subject,
person, place or event. The ap
plication is then reviewed by a
state committee of historians,
archaeologists or geologists.
““The review committee
determines if the subject is ap
propriate for a state historical
marker,”” Townsend said.
“*Next, they qualify how
valuable they think it is with a
written criteria of numbers. If
we vote to recommend the site,
then the numbers are used to
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ORIGIN OF CHATTOOGA COUNTY SHOWN BY MARKER
Located on Lawn Of Chattooga Courthouse
First Historical Society
Meeting Slated Feb. 1
An organizational meeting for the Chattooga County
HiSt,orica.lg Society will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 in the
fellowship hall of Summerville Presbyterian Church, West
Washington Avenue.
David Boyles, LaFayette, a Northwest Georgia historian,
will speak on the importance of preserving a community's local
heritage. Robert “Bob’™ Baker also will bzgm a series preview
ing his soon-to-be-published history of Chattooga &unty.
An informal committee has been working for several
months to lay the groundwork for the society. Tentative goals
include developing public interest in historical sites and
papers, working to preserve sites and items of historical value
and assisting individuals with an interest in genealogy.
The public is invited to the meeting.
determine where it is placed on
our priority list."”
The new markers are plac
ed on the same list with old
markers which have been
destroyed through vandalism
or auto accidents, Townsend
said.
‘A new marker could go to
the top or anywhere on the
list,” he added. *“We have new
markers on our list, but we
don’t have any money this year
for the program.”
Although no new markers
are pending from the county at
present, the state has replace
ment of the Alpine marker high
on its list of priorities.
Robert Baker, who works
with DNR, has compiled addi
tional information on the last
Indian agent at Alpine. Baker,
a Chattooga native, is writing,
A History of Chattooga Coun
ty.” to be released next year.
“Mr. Baker had some bet
ter information on the last In
dian agent due to his
research,” Townsend said. “We
don’t want to leave bad infor
mation up.”
The cast aluminum markers
| cost from $l,lOO to $1,200
each, said Townsend.
“The cost depends on the
size of the letters,” he said.
“‘The markers are finished with
baked-on enamel. It's cheaper
than bronze.”
Anyone who would like to
submit an application for a
historical marker may contact
Townsend at 656-7092 or write
him at Georgia State Parks
and Historical Sites, 205
- Butler St., S. E. Suite 1352,
~ Atlanta 30334.