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More Scenes Of Last Week’s Snowfall In Chattooga
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LOADING UP WITH PROVISIONS
Before Snowfall Last Week
Opening Of Jail
Meal Bids Today
Bids were scheduled to be
opened at 10 a.m. today for
meals at the Chattooga goun
ty Jail.
It will be the second time
bids have been opened this
month for the jail meals. Bids
were opened on Jan. 13 but
Commissioner Harry Powell
apparently decided not to ac
cept the proposals because of
the wording of the bid adver
tisement last Dec. 11 and 18.
Powell's office said last
week that those ads were
unclear. Powell placed a new ad
seeking bids in fast week's edi
tion of The News, as well as in
today’s edition of the
newspaper.
Four local restaurants sub
Chattooga Jurors
Drawn For Feb. 9
Jurors have been drawn for
the February term ‘of Chat
tooga County Sufi)erior Court.
Jurors scheduled to report
at 9 a.m. Monday, Feb. 9, in
clude the following: Mrs.
James Richie, Summerville;
Virginia S. Bullard, Summer
ville; Viekie L. Pruitt,
Cloudland; William R. Harr
ington, Trion; Jo E. Carpenter
Davis, Trion; Annie S.
McGraw McCain, Summer
ville; Barry Ellis Pless,
Cloudland; Wanda S. Lowry,
Summerville; Alma Shaw
Cleveland, Lyerly; and Edna
Earl Croy, Summerville.
John H. Silmon, Summer
ville; Mrs. Earl Copeland,
Menlo; Frank N. Favors, Sum
merville; Mary B. Bartnick,
Summerville; William Crisp,
Trion; Annajane Greeson,
Trion; and Elizabeth B. Crider,
Trion.
Jimmy E. Cleveland, Lyer
ly; Scottie C. Lewis, Summer
ville; Stephen B. Pepgers,
Lyerly; Viola Carol Price, Sum
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First €Computer Art
The Rev. Howard Finster received a new comFuter with
art programs from Lehigh University recently. Finster
learned to create and print his own drawings on a
similar computer while m_residence at the university
last fall. He displays his first two computer drawings
at his Pennville studio. (Staff Photo by Kay Abbott).
mitted bids on Jan. 13. They
were The Round Table; Jim's
Drive-In, the current contrac
tor; Wometco Food Services,
and R&M Cafeteria. The
Round Table was the apparent
low bidder earlier this month.
Apparently, the lack of
clarity in the December ads
dealt with whether the winning
contractor would have to pro
vide cups, eating utensils and
packets of salt and pepper for
each meal. The ad placed last
week and this weeE says the
bidders must supply those
items along with the food.
The situation with the jail
food is the latest in a series
dating back to the spring,
1986.
merville; Janet M. Tanner,
Trion; Pamela H. Maddux,
Summerville; Larry W. Kilgo,
Summerville; andlgcie Adams
Hudson, Menlo.
Maddine Chester, Trion;
Roy Glass, Summerville; Allie
Van Pelt, Summerville;
William G. Cook Jr., Lyerly;
Rebecca J. Dyer, Trion; Mrs.
Cayl €. Baker ' Irion;
Christoi)her Johnson, Lyerly;
Kimberly S. Langford, Sum
merville; and Blanche Battles,
Trion.
Stan A. Rosser, Trion; Dar
ryl J. Payton, Summerville;
William F. Bartlett, Summer
ville; Donnie Herod, Summer
ville; William H. Elrod, Lyerly;
Bobby D. Shaver, Summer
ville; Karen Lee Storey, Ar
muchee; and Kenneth E.
Williams, Trion.
Barbara Witt, Trion; Mary
Frances Adams, Lyerly; Mrs.
J. F. McCcnnell, Summerville;
Nina A. Colbert, Summerville;
Ruth C. Horton, Trion; James
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The faculty and staff of Lehigh Universi
ty, have presented a computer to the Rev.
Howard Finster in gratitude for his week
long artist-in-residence program last
September. While at the university,
Finster met with students in the religion
and art departments. He presented slides
TO ASSIST WITH HIS ART
Finster Receives Computer
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
Folk artist Howard Finster,
has come one step closer to his
dream of having “‘all the inven
tions of man" in his Pennville
art park. Lehigh University
has ushered the Rev. Finster
into the computer age with the
gift of an art capable computer
system.
Professors Norman Girar
dot and Ricardo Viera of
Lehigh presented the com
puter, printer and art software
to the artist recently in his
studio at Paradise Garden,
Pennville.
Rev. Finster was introduc
ed to drawing by computer
while in residence last
September at the university,
Bethlehem, Pa.
NEVER SEEN
“I never had seen one of
those thinfs before,”” Rev.
Finster said of his first brush
with modern technology. “I
just sat down to it at the
university and done three pain
tings and they made copies
from them. I can make a few
thousand copies just to give
Thursday, January 29, 1987
Lehigh Professors Visit
out to my friends who come in
here and in my galleries.”
Professor Girardot was en
thusiastic about helping
Finster gain a new technique of
artistic expression.
““When Howard visits
various universities, they
always try to get him to do
something he's never done
before,” Girardot explained.
“That was partly our basis for
having him use the computer in
the exhibition.”
ALL INVENTIONS
‘‘As you know, he wants to
have all the inventions of man
in his park. One day last year
when I was here doing research
for the exhibition catalog, we
started talking about com
puters. Howarg became very
excited and started telling me
about his visions, and how he
wanted to use all the inven
tions of man to tell his story.
“When I started thinking
about Howard's upcoming
visit to Lehi§h. it struck me
that a lot of studies at the
university had a lot to do with
computers. Lehigh has a lot of
computers and engineers. So it
seemed a unique and ap
propriate thing to set up a com
puter drawing program and see
what happened.”
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MARBLE SPRINGS ROAD SCENE
Brush At Edge Of Stream
of his Pennville studio and garden along
with an exhibit of over 100 works borrow
ed from private collections. Finster com
pletes a self-portrait while Lehigh pro
fessors Ricarci)o Viera and Norman Girar
dot observe. (Staff Photo by Kay Abbott).
Although the university
had not planned to give a com
puter to Rev. Finster, the facul
ty and administration were
soon caught up in the momen
tum of the artist’s visit.
INCREDIBLE ENERGY
““Howard is the kind of per
son with so much incredible
energy,”’ Prof. Viera added,
“that he wants to touch
everything and everybody with
his message."
“All o? us, especially the
Provost, David Sanchez, were
impressed at how quickly
Howard adapted to the com
puter and how he was so fully
absorbed in his work for hours
at a time.”
““The last night of his visit,
we had a reception in the
gallery,”” Girardot said.
“Howard was in such a good
mood — he had his banjo —
and everybody was really ex
cited about the whole evening.
Everybody felt so good about
Howard. There was this spirit
of ‘Gee, we've had this very
unique person with us and we
want to show an expression of
our gratitude.’ "’
As arule, universities don't
give away computers, Girardot
explained.
“We wanted him to have
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WATER, SEWER SERVICE
Trion Resolves
Expansion Issue
A water and sewer expan
sion problem that had plagued
the Town of Trion since the
first of 1986 was apparently
resolved last week wltfiout the
controversy that had marked
previous discussions of the
issue.
And while city officials
discussed the use of fire protec
tion and recreation services by
non-city residents, no action
was taken on implementing a
fee system for those programs.
Mayor Pro Tem Hoyt
Williams presented a recom
mendation to Trion’s Mayor
and Council last Thursday
night for resolving the water
sewer situation. The proposal
came at the first Council
meeting of 1987.
COMMITTEE
Williams headed a commit
tee agpointed by Mayor J. C.
Woods last September to
study the water-sewer issue.
Other members were Coun
cilman Henry Miller and
Woods.
The recommendations,
which was later approved on a
split Council vote, called for
developers to pay the entire
cost of water and sewer expan
sion on their property inside
the city limits. A second part
of Williams' proposal calles for
developers to agide by the ci
ty's subdivision and fland use
regulations or it wouldn't supp
ly the services to their
the computer, but neither my
religion department, nor Prof.
Viera's art department had the
funds. It was through the
generosity of the Provost and
his assistant, Patti Ota, that
the gift was possible.
ADD DIMENSION
“The computer won't
change him. You cannot
change Howard Finster, but
we felt we could add another
dimension to his work.”
Rev. Finster’'s visit to
Lehigh was coordinated with a
special semester-long course,
‘‘Religion and the Arts:
Religious Vision and Artistic
Creativity”’ as part of the
university's 31st annual Con
temporary American Arts Ex
hibition. Professor Girardot
was the course instructor. The
exhibit, coordinated by Pro
fessor Viera, was entitled, “‘The
World's Folk Art Church:
Reverend Howard Finster and
Family,” and featured the ar
tist in workshops, lectures and
a panel discussion.
“Rev. Finster’s visit was a
tremendous exgerience,” Girar
dot said. “‘For both the univer
sity and the overall Lehifih
Valley community, the exhibi
tion and residency allowed for
a rarely intimate exposure to
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CLOUDLAND ABOVE CLOUDS, BELOW SNOW
Mountain Passable By 10 a.m. Thursday
developments.
ALL COSTS?
Councilman Dwight Arden
asked if the city was %?ing to
run water and sewer lines to
the tracts needing the utilities
or whether the developers
would also have to bear that
cost.
Williams replied that he
thought the city would take
the utilities from the nearest
location to the tracts at city
expense.
The proposed policy will
stop development in a lot of
areas because it includes
ROTARIANS TOLD
Africans Suffer
Unusual Ailments
Many Africans suffer from
diseases Americans have never
heard of or which have been
virtually eliminated in this
country, former medical mis
sionary Lorne Brown told the
Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club Monday.
Brown, who left South Tan
zania in 1983, showed slides of
the prolific work and
charismatic personality of Rev.
Howard Finster — a preacher,
poet, musician and visual artist
regarded by many as a ‘living
legend of American folk art.’ ”
TRACTOR ENAMEL
Using tractor enamel paint,
found objects and sometimes
rusty bicycles to proclaim his
apocalyptic visions to the
world, Rev. Finster occasional
ly refers to his work as ‘‘nasty
art” because of its unorthodox
appearance. The self
proclaimed ‘‘Man of Visions”
works in a small studio in a cor
ner of his Paradise Garden
which now encompasses the en
tire block.
His efforts at painting are
typically interrupted many
times daily by journalists and
visiting art students from all
over the United States. The at
tention is sometimes over
whelming for the 70-year-old
artist.
‘‘People are just constantly
in here making stories,”” he
said. I can’t keep up with all
of them. They just keep me
drowned down.”
MAIL ORDER
A growing mail order opera
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sewera%f costs, said Coun
cilman Larry Stansell.
Miller said the city had to
‘“draw the line”’ somewhere on
use of septic tanks. Mayor
Woods later added that the ci
ty in a number of years in the
future would have septic tank
problems unless a firm policy
was adopted.
GRANTS?
Summerville has been
receiving grants for sewer ex
pansions, Stansell said. He ask
ed if Trion could obtain such
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medical facilities available in
Africa and examgles of some
diseases and problems on that
continent.
Medical problems include
scabies and impetigo, chronic
malaria, anemia, internal
parasites, bacterial infections,
skin diseases, hookworm,
leprosy, yaws, elephantiasis,
Kz;i;osi’s sarcoma and severe
malnutrition, Brown said.
Many of the problems
relate to the culture and tradi
tions, lack of sanitation and in
adequate diets among Africans
in the area where Brown serv
ed, he explained.
One gig effort he made
while in Africa was to help the
natives become involved in
stafi'ing well. Methods includ
ed helping churches in the area
set up dis?ensaries. which were
then staffed by area residents
trained to about the equivalent
of an American licensed prac
tical nurse. Many later set up
their own offices or
dispensaries.
Contaminated water causes
many health problems, he said,
and efforts were made to
educate natives in rudimentary
sanitation methods.
Many children are
malnourished because their
parents don’t provide any pro
tein because o? their traditions
and culture, Brown said. In the
latter weeks of starvation,
children don’'t want to eat,
become listless and suffer
edema of the brain, which
slows the thinking processes.
Mothers have to be taught to
feed their children a formula by
spoon and then cup until they
regain enough strength and ap
petite to eat on their own, he
explained.
Witch doctors are very
gopular and powerful in Africa,
e said. Most Africans live in
a world they feel is inhabited
by the spirits of their ancestors
and evil spirits, Brown added.
“They live in fear.”
In addition to medical ef
forts to img;ove the everyday
lives of Africans, they were
tapfht about Christ, Brown
said.