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VOLUME CII — NUMBEI%
40-50 NEW JOBS LIKELY
Cotton Mill Plans
Berryton Expansion
Harriet and Henderson Cot
ton Mills Inc. will double the
production capacitgr of its Ber
ryton plant and increase
employment at the facility by
40 to 50 new jobs by year’s
end.
That surprise announce
ment at Tuesday morning's
meeting of the Chattooga
County Chamber of Commerce
board of directors was some of
the best economic news the
Subscription Rate Hike
The Summerville News will increase its
newsstand price and mail subscription
rates March 1 for the first time since 1979.
The newsstand price will go from 20
cents to 25 cents, pfixs tax, eféctive with
the March 5 edition. Mail subscription
prices will go up on March 1 but The News
will offer subscriptions through Feb. 28 at
current rates for a maximum renewal
period of five years. w s
The current rate for Chattooga Coun
tians is $6.83, including tax. On fi'larch ¥,
the rate will increase to $8.93, including
tax.
The rates for other mailing zones will
go up accordingly. For example, a
newspaper sent to Zone 5 (the Midwest)
will rise from the current $lO to sl4, plus
tax.
Special rates will still be offered
military personnel. The current price is $9,
plus tax. The new rate will be sll, plus tax.
Mail subscribers in Chattooga County
CONCENSUS REACHED
Recreation Fees
Summerville’s Recreation
Board apparently reached a
concensus last week on fees to
be charged non-taxpayers star
ting April 1 but postponed of
ficial action on the measure un
til its next meeting when the
public will be asked to com
ment on the proposal.
The public hearing will be
held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March
3, at the Summerville Recrea
tion Center, Bolling Road.
At the urging of Guinn
Hankins, a Summerville city
councilman and Recreation
Board member, the panel
agreed informally to expand
SAYS CHATTOOGA CHIEF
Hospital Death Rate Study Invalid
A statistical report that in
dicated the death rate from
congestive heart failure was
much higher than expected at
Chattooga County Hospital in
1984 “‘has no validity,”” accor
dinfil to the executive director
of the facilitg.
The U.S. Health Care
Financing Administration
(HCFA) listed the Chattooga
hospital along with 26 more in
Georgia that had what the
agency termed higher than nor
mal death rates resulting from
certain illnesses or Erocedures
three f'ears ago. The list was
compiled as part of a nation
wide Medicare survey by
HCFA. '
Chattooga Hospital treated
four patients with congestive
heart failure in 1984, the
survey indicated, and two of
those died, giving the facility
a 50 percent mortality rate.
The HCFA said the
“predicted’’ death rate was 10
The Summerville News
community has received in
months.
The Berryton plant was
host for the board meeting
Tuesday and manager Roy
Brown, when called on to “‘say
a few words' before the
meeting, made the expansion
announcement.
WAREHOUSE
Plans are being drawn for a
finished goods warehouse to be
will be able to save $2.10 annually for a
maximum of five years under the new rate
if they subscrii‘;e by Feb. 28. Mail
subscribers will save $6.17 annually off the
new newsstand price if they obtain a
subscription or renew their current
subscription by the deadline.
“We regret the necessity of these in
cregses"v. sa%‘d Winston E. E:py. publishelr.
and Lk T, Espy. general-manager. "1t
is tfi?fifi' tin‘% since 1979 that our rates
have been increased. Since that time, there
have been numerous and significant in
creases in second class postage, newsprint,
ink, supplies and labor. However, we
wanted to give our faithful readers an op
portunity to subscribe by mail or to renew
their su{)scriptions at the current rate
before the increases go in effect. We shall
redouble our efforts to provide our readers
with the fairest, most complete coverage
of news in Chattooga County and the best
bargains available from our advertisers."”
the scope of the original pro
posal, which was to charge fees
to non-city residents.
PLAN CITED
The new measure would
also charge fees to city
residents who don't own pro
perty and pay city property
taxes. It also apparently would
allow a non-city residents who
owns property in Summerville
to participate in recreational
activities without paying a fee,
alonF with his immediate
family.
After a lengthy discussion
of the issue, Hankins proposed
percent.
NOT VALID
Betty Wollstein, executive
director of Chattooga Hospital,
said this week that survey im
plications that health care at
the facility was deficient in
1984 aren't valid.
She pulled the files of all
four 1984 patients, she said,
and found that one of the two
deaths reported was of a
motorist who had been in a
serious traffic accident two
years previously and had been
confined to Oak View Nursing
Home. Because of the accident
and other ailments, he was dy
ing and his family asked that
he be moved to the hospital
part of the complex, where he
died, she said.
Because the hospital
treated only four Medicare pa
tients with congestive heart
failure in 1984, it ~ouldn’t have
had less than a 25 percent mor
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1987
added to the existing plant,
Brown said later. That will be
the only addition to the present
plant buildings. Existing floor
space will be used for installa
tion of modern, high-speed pro
duction equipment, he
explained.
New equipment designed to
open and clean cotton bales will
be installed, alon%‘ with high
speed carding machines, equip
ment designed to draw cotton
an annual tee of $lO per person
ger organized event, such as
asketball, softball, baseball or
football. The charge would be
sls per event for each
houselgold if a family has two
or more children. In addition,
there would be a S2O per person
annual fee charged for use of
recreational facilities in
unorganized activities, such as
tennis and use of the basketball
court in the gymnasium.
Senior citizens would be ex
empt from paying the fees,
Hankins sai(?.
Hankins, who was elected
see RECREATION, page 8-A
tality rate if only one patient
had died, Mrs. Wollstein said.
That would have been 15 per
cent above the HCFA
“predicted”’ death rate, she
pointed out.
“APPREHENSIVE”
“It really has no validity to
it except two people did die and
four people were admitted with
cor:festive heart failure,”" she
said. But such reports do make
people ‘“‘apprehensive’’ about
the quality of care at Chat
tooga and the other 26
hospitals cited in the survey,
she acknowledged.
Most Medicare patients are
older and have more than one
medical problem when they are
admitted to a hospital, Mrs.
Wollstein said, but only the
main contributor to a death is
usually the one listed on the
death certificate.
Physicians admit patients
to hospitals, she sai(f and a
School Building Okayed
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out of the bales and 14 more
high-speed open end spinning
frames, Brown said.
The Berryton plant was in,
competition with Harriet and
Henderson's other four plants.
in Henderson, N. C., for the
expansion.
Installation of the new
equipment is expected to start
sometime in Mag and continue
through December.
JUNE HIRING
It will probably be
sometime in June before hiring
of new employees begins, he
said, and tlfe process will con
tinue through the rest of the
year as equipment goes on line.
The plant now has around 110
employees and 40 to 50 more
jobs will be added by the end
of December, Brown
estimated. Applications for
jobs should be filed with the
glant’s personnel department,
e indicated.
Value of the new invest
ment has not been disclosed.
Grady McCalmon, Sum
merville city manager and
chairman of the Chamber’s
economic development com
mittee, said the city is current
ly working with a good pro
spect for the city's speculative
industrial building on Bolling
Road.
In January, the city receiv
ed nine phone calls relating to
economic expansion in the
county, along with three per
sonal visits. There have been
two responses regarding the
speculative building and a re
quest for an economic profile of
the county, McCalmon said.
Nine city-county maps were
handed out last month, he said.
JTPA
In other economic news,
Evans Scoggins said the Jobs
Training Partnership Act
(JTPA) continues to record
successes. Last July, the Chat
tooga office, headed by Scog-
Eins, said it would graduate 40
ard-core unemployed people
from its school of job eligibili
ty and put 28 of that number
to work by year's end. So far,
26 are at work on jobs in Chat
tooga and six have gone on to
higher education at Walker
Tech, Coosa Valley Tech or
Floyd Junior College, he said.
The county's latest JTPA
proposal calls for graduating
15 people from its job eligibili
ty school, he said. Seven of that
anticipated number have
already completed the school
and three of that number are
already working, Scoggins
said.
Bill Kinzy, Chamber presi
see COTTON, page 7-A
doctor is likely to admit a pa
tient to a facility only where it
is felt quality care is available.
Referring to implications from
the HCFA survey, Mrs. Wolls
tein added, “"They're kind of
barking up the wrong tree.”
“INACCURATE”
Officials at other hospitals
have also complained that the
HCFA data is misleading and
sometimes ‘‘downright inac
curate,”” but federal officials
said there is “less than a five
gercent possibility”” that any
ospital is on the list of 27 by
chance.
The records of 19 Georgia
hospitals are already under
review b¥‘ the Georgia Medical
Care oundation. Tom
Williams, director of the Foun
dation, which operates the Pro
fessional Review Organization
(PRO), said the Foundation in
tends to eliminate 157 “un
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V ] For 58 Years!
My Valentine ... For ears!
Bob Kimbell, 80, gives his wife, Annie Mae, 75, a big
kiss in observance of their 58th wedding anniversary
this month — just in time for Valentine's Day Saturday.
The couple married on Feb. 4, 1929 in Centre, Ala. They
reside on Alpine Street, Lyerly, and attend the Lyerly
church of Christ. How did they manage to stay married
58 years during years of skyrocketing divorce rates?
PROPOSED BY GRAND JURY
Administrator Pushed
For Chattooga County
Chattooga County should
hire an administrator to set up
a computerized accountin
system and all county electeg
officials should meet at least
monthly to discuss governmen
tal operations, the Februar,
term Grand Jury recommencii
ed in its presentments last
week.
The panel also recommend
ed that all county emgloyees be
given an across-the-board pay
increase and that an attorney
be hired to proceed with the
collection of gelinquent county
taxes.
SUMMARY
In summary, the Jury also
recommended that:
— Budgets be submitted to
Harry Powell, Chattooga com
missioner, by each county
department head and that he
respond to those bud%ets in ac
cordance with state law.
— A written agreement be
:}fned between the county and
other governments involved
regarding the housing of
prisoners at the county jail.
— Legal action be taken
regarding a private garage that
appears to ge encroaching on
county property at the old
fairgrounds.
— All county funds be plac
ed in interest-bearing accounts.
— The Chattooga Board of
Education give the superinten
dent authority to spend up to
a designated amount without
obtaining prior board approval.
— Road signs should be
placed on all county roads as
quickly as possible.
— County emergency
vehicles be dispatched from a
central location.
— That all county facilities
be brought in compliance with
federal law regarding access by
the handicapped.
— That Superior Court
judges take appropriate action
to expedite the trial of
docketed cases, not to exclude
the calling of a special term.
SPECIAL SESSION
The panel also said it plans
to go back in session July 20 to
review the county’s 1986 audit
and make any special present
ments necessary.
Jurors said they considered
87 bills of indictment and hand
ed down 73 true bills and 14 no
bills during the term.
The panel said it had in
spected all county property but
declined to issue any specific
recommendations for repairs
and maintenance, saying it
asked each department Eead
*‘to communicate their respec
tive needs, in writing, to the
governing authority of the
county for his consideration.”
Powell is the county's lone
commissioner.
COMMUNICATION
Instead of issuing specific
recommendations for repairs,
the Jury said, ‘“We wSI at
tempt to address what we con
sider a much larger problem,
that being the overall com
Sure-Fire Key Finder
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““Hard work, I guess,” Mrs. Kimbell said. Staying mar
ried is evidently more than buying presents. ““If he was
to come in with a gift, I'd faint, I guess,” Mrs. Kimbell
said of her husband. For their anniversary, they went
to a Rome steakhouse with Bob's sister and brother-in
law. They have one son, Joe Frank Kimbell, Berryton.
(Staff Photo).
munication among the
separate branches of our coun
ty government.”
To help correct that pro
blem, the Jury added, “We
recommend that all the elected
officials of the county meet
each month. .. to discuss the
operation of their respective
units of county government
with the governing authority
of the county.”
The J ufo said it ‘‘strongly”’
recommended that a county
administrator be hired by
Powell to set up a computeriz
ed accounting system and
manage, ‘‘under the supervi
sion of the governing authori
ty, the very comrlex accoun
ting needs of our local govern
ment in accordance with
generally accepted accounting
principles and requirements of
state and federal law.”
BUDGETS
Each county elected official
should also submit proposed
budgets to Powell in accor
dance with Georgia law and the
commissioner should respond
to those budgets according to
law ‘‘in the time frames set
forth in the law,” the Jury said.
All funds of the county
should be placed ‘“‘in interest
bearing accounts, and . . . bids
be taken in order to obtain the
highest rates for the county,”
the Juerg' said. The News had
rgveal last Novearixber that
the county's special purpose
roads an! bri(f;ces sses tax
money was being kept in a non
interest-bearing account.
'PRICE 20c¢
PAY HIKE
A cost-of-living aYlay raise
was proposed for county
employees by the Jury “at a
percentage deemed fiscally
feasible by the governing
authority of the county, since
a majox’iti'l of these employees
have not had such an increase
in several years.”
The anel said it
understoocP that prOfiress had
been made on the collection of
delinquent county taxes.
Five tracts of progerty were
offered for sale by the county
in early January. Three of the
property owners *]lnaid the back
taxes prior to the sales date
but two tracts were sold at that
time.
SECOND JURY
The Februa.:ly term Jury
was the second straight to
recommend that the county
hire an attorney specifically to
handle collection of past due
taxes. A similar recommenda
tion was handed down by the
August term jmg last year and
Commissioner Powell said at
that time he was considerifig
several attorneys for the job.
However, no attorney was ever
hired and the commissioner
said Ed Surles, county at
torney, was proceeding with
collections.
But the February term
Jury recommended ‘‘the con
tracting of an attorney, at the
discretion of the governing
authority, to proeeefi with the
see ADMINISTRATOR, page 9-A